November 2012 - The weaning adventure continues

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1772925-November-2012-Adventurous-eaters-food-refusers-and-everything-in-between

Hi there, sorry for absence. Busy sorting a boy that now eats three times a day, and a birthday today for DD1. Had a few nasty flashbacks to the lead up to the birth ndcombined with PMT made for a grumpy VQ.

I missed the end of the last thread, but gather little miss Garcia slept? Wow and Yay!

Feeling sad as I should be meeting the lovely PR this weekend :-( but I know I made the right decision.

Oh, and I am a bit sore as I fell off a bench in MacDonalds whilst holding J. He was fine and DD2 did not take the opportunity to escape, so that was all I cared about. Apparently I made a noise resembling a constipated duck, and disappeared from view according to DH. Sadly everyone else had a good view. J did not make a noise and laughed afterwards, clearly wanting to do it again. It was a long table and sadly the benches were short. I just wriggled around to reach his bottle and started slipping into the gap, but could not stop myself due to J.

VQ Sorry, but a little at constipated duck. Courtesy of DH I presume?! At least you and J are fine though!

I get the flashbacks too. I understand. It makes you question yourself over and over too. It does get less - it has each year for me. This year (11) I finally stopped. I hope it won't reoccur next year.

YW We have a resuce golden hairyfucker lab. Well, she must be a cross with something, but we don't know what. She looks like a lab acts like a lab. She is perfect for O - her temperament is more human than dog . She entertains O better than anything else in the world! I swear he loves her more than me!

We had a cat when we got her. It didn't go down well. Cat fucked off sadly. We ended up with a homeless kitten though (MIL found her on the street mid winter, and with a dead kitten next to her - unable to find owners). This worked out better. The kitten grew up with the dog, and both accepted each other very quickly, and easily. They would sleep in the same dog bed together! The kitten died while I was pregnant, after eating a lily. We said we won't get another cat while O is so young. We will when he is 12-18 months though. And we would get a kitten to make the dog/cat thing easier. It just didn't work for my grown up cat. She was too set in her ways. I know others it has worked for though.

O did the same spirit level shit at bedtime.

Fuck.

We're in for a regression aren't we? He was fast asleep, but just wouldn't be put down. My boob hurts from the amount of grabbing and clinging on he did every time I tried putting him down.

VQ ouch. Hope it was only your dignity which has been hurt.

luis saw your post on another thread about men who use MN. Of course you've been accepted!

Sleep regressions - DS has just been getting steadily more shit at night time recently, almost as if he knows that I am back to work and on need of sleep. Thank ker-ryst that DH will do the very early mornings otherwise I don't know how I would function.

Det we've bought Oatly in Holland & Barrett, and Tesco.

I'm trying to ignore all you lot talking about the next sleep regression. No no no. Not in chateau pig. So far a better night, but ibuprofen has been dealt. Never given it to her before so sat next to her for ages afterwards to make sure she was ok.

VQ did you do a party in the end for dd? Hope she had a lovely day, constipated ducks and all

YW a dog sounds lovely. If we got one, with our cat, it would be the dog getting chased off.

Have just come across what I think is quite a good deal - £10 for a 30 minute family photoshoot with professional photographer, with 15 images on a CD at the end of it. We've been wanting to have a professional pic done for ages but couldn't afford it. Am quite excited, and no doubt dsd will be delighted with the prospect of glamming up for the morning.

Hope you are okay vq xxx

I have been promised another dog for the last 3 fucking years at the start of next year too. I want a gundog. Gordon setter by choice but a lab/spaniel mix is more likely.

Manchild has realised how serious I am on realising I am viewing a flat tomorrow morning. He has asked me what I will do about going back to uni next year (sept 2014) to do my postgrad if I dare leave him - being told I would get a lot more support (and not just financial) without him dragging me down was a bit of a low blow answer even for me . Still he is trying and I am tolerating.

And I really want another dog.

Is it still a regression when it's been going on for 2 months? R now takes 2 hours to settle for bed. He's tired and ready by the end of dinner, but too full to feed to sleep. Any attempt to get him to self settle results in hysteria and I'm happy to feed so long as it is feeding, not faffing. I'm exhausted to the point of tears, and we're off to the in laws tomorrow. SIL told the dn's we're coming, but they're with their dad till 5, so now i feel obliged to stay and see them. Which means travelling 7-9. Then 2 hours to settle R. 1st feed is usually 1:30. And i can barely see straight atm anyway. If she hadn't told them, we could have popped up for a few hours and snuck away when i was ready, but not seeing them will likely cause a meltdown for her so i feel i must stay i might just say we have to go and let her deal with it, is that really mean?

pidj would your in-laws understand if you told them what you have just told us? That you are completely exhausted and would need to leave earlier than 7?

Pidj not selfish or mean - make your (totally valid) excuses and go. It also cannot be safe for either you or dh to be driving at that time of night when post-stroke/sleep deprived either (provided you are travelling by car). F has the same ishoos with feeding to sleep at the mo. She has a bath after tea, which distracts her for 30-40 minutes. Then we might get 5-10 minutes of rolling around the lounge floor. If she still can't feed, I put her in her cot with a dummy to chill her out, then try to feed her again. Failng all that, I rock her through the hysteria and eventually she flakes out. It's a bit shit, innit?

Good to see you chasing missed you [loser emoticon]

Bedtime started 3 fucking hours ago. Fecking teeth

O has a tooth just under the surface now. He is dosed up on calpol and teething gel but I'm anticipating a bad one.

Hi-5 pig

I was feeling ever so lost and confused so decided to withdraw from the quiche. I now realise this was wrong.

Had another good day. N was ok behaved, I'm guessing he's going to save all the bad behaviour for tomorrow at the Father's Day meal.

p is getting on my nerve, apparently he's got a cold. Well there is no snot, or a stuffy nose. He's just sneezing, grr... "cause I can't help with N cause I'm ill". the thing is he never really helps anyway. The worst of it, is his snoring!!!! It's so loud, I'm tempted to pop the pillow over his head.

Got my work trousers trousers today, £6 from tesco.

Now to catch up on the thread.
Evil

Yes, but i cba to explain it. SIL surely knows, after 2 dc, that travelling with babies at that time of the evening is a complete pita? And not to fucking well promise stuff to her dc that i then have to deliver again ?! It doesn't help that i feel like they compare R to BILs ds who is a month older. Although I'm quite sure they make R sound perfect to them, and their ds sound perfect to us. I get really antsy if MILs on the phone and R is grotting though and i like my ILs, must be hell on earth to have shit ones!

So l start reading after trying to settle H for 2 hours and deciding to just let him sleep on me, only to find everyone else having the same problem. Sort of reassuring but so don?t want it to be some wweird nearly~9~month regression.

Speaking of weird, some one l am friendly with (woulddn?t say l know her well enogh to be a friend) has just texted asking if dh (who she has spoken to may be 4/5 times) will be her sons godfather (he is same agge as ds). We aren?t sure what to say really.

Y sounds like he?s doing brilliantly brockle, l couldn?t manage up til 3 anymore madam. You must have a lot of energy!

Sorry to read about all the teething problems, and the regression too.

Huge hugs and all around.
Evil

vq I am trying to pack so much into this trip that meeting up with quiche members was, to be honest, an unrealistic hope, I now realise. The days are flying by, LO Is a little unsettled..

I'm fairly sure our paths will cross at some point anyway.

Oh pants yw I completely forgt about the soy thing and in my no dairy experiment Ds1 has had 5 Yoghurt sized tubs of an Alpro soy custard thing ( he loves it with fruit) over the last two weeks. If I dn't give him anymore will I have still dAmaged him?

Sophia he may not have an issue with soy - how has he been in himself since stopping dairy?

Chasing does this mean that F has beaten O to something for the first time!? So far she's been asleep, contentedly, for 3 hours. This is unheard of lately. Not sure if it's attributable to ibuprofen, or the fact that the 2 razor blades teeth have finally broken the surface.

PR hope you're continuing to enjoy your hols, rain and all!

you're joking about the 8 month regression right?! I don't think I can cope with another regression. And we seem to be having a 2.5 year regression in this house at the moment.

ouch VQ Hope you're ok?

Pidj I think you should just explain to them. You have enough on your plate without having to people please at your own expense.

Thank you, MadamGazelle

Had a really busy day. Not long got in from a BBQ (in the rain) which was fun but am shattered now. Just marking place and will catch up properly tomorrow. Night.

Looks like regression. Feels like regression. Smells like regression.

Fuck fuck fuck.

Sophia only 40% CMPI babies have an issue with soy - he could be one of the 60%. Am hoping DS is - I could cope sans dairy if I could have a Chinese.

Just watched the last episode of the Fall on iPlayer. What a let down of an ending to an amazeballs series. Gutted!!!!!! I wanted them to catch the bastard!

Right bed. DH has sleep in for Fathers Day am hoping J got the memo and sleeps in til 9 again like Friday.....