DECEMBER 2012: The start of crawling and the end of maternity leave

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Sounds like he's reverse cycling WillYou I know bf babies do it no reason why that nasty cold wouldn't have made J do it?

What's reverse cycling spotty ?

Where they feed as though night is day and day is night usually, I think, because they're too busy doing stuff during the day to want to feed

ispy I love a good adventure in the woods.

When DH gets back with the car I need to take T and dd2 to town to buy sleeping bags for our camping trip next week. I'm really quite (probably unnecessarily) worried about how hot its going to be.

Glad your boobs are better spotty

Is there anything I can do Spotty? I've given him a finger food breakfast instead if porridge to see if it will make him thirsty and hungry enough to drink a bottle. I'll also try feeding in a dark bedroom but that didn't work on Saturday.

I'll get googling

So it looks like the royal baby is on the way..

Not sure WillYou I would google too!

WL it's going to rain tomorrow and cool to the low 20s. Quite unsettled for the rest of the week I think with possible storms and I've even heard the words flash floods

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1806780-I-told-the-shower-curtain-to-fuck-off-today

so funny

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1806780-I-told-the-shower-curtain-to-fuck-off-today

Grrrr! Henry has hidden my door keys!!! Can't leave the house now and had a doctors app....noooooo!

Hope you found your keys emily.

Ds is being awful today. He's only had two half hour naps (he usually would have had at least three hours by now) and is crying if I try and put him down...

Emily, I hope you got out of the house!

:( Spotty - I hope he's gone down ok now. Is it the heat?

Glorious day today - my husband had a day off as we had tickets to the Ashes, but of course there was no day 5. Instead, we went to the Serpentine Lido at Hyde Park. Gorgeous! The paddling pool was out of order, but we lazed under the trees, took it in turns to swim, and then took baby C in too. She played nicely, napped eventually and has just gone down after an epic breastfeed - nearly an hour! She barely ate today after breakfast, so she was probably ravenous and thirsty. She slept well last night - 7pm-7am with a quick feed at 4.30am - and I feel rested for the first time in, oh, 7.5 months!

So nice to have my husband around. Only 1 month until he quits for good!

MaMa that sounds like a lovely day :) Yes, he went down fine thanks. I think it must be the heat it's just so humid, he drank lots of water today too

Sorry, been awol - running a music festival for my youth clubbers Friday and Saturday, up to the ILs Sunday and organising a new sling meet today! R has been fab especially being passed around a shedload of excited teens :o

He's still waking x2 per night, generally 1ish and 4ish then up at 6:30. He goes down nicely at 7 :) I'm so glad we're through the hell, fx it lasts!

Have had a crappy day trying to do too much and as a result everything going a bit wrong, everyone has been grumpy and now my alone time Monday night swim has been hijacked my mil AND fil!

Dump the baby on them and go out, WL!

Or are they the type you can't trust?

My mum's offered to have R one afternoon a week after looking after him for a couple of hours on Friday so i could set up the festival. Can't decide whether to have a hair cut or an eye test first but yay for finally getting some proper support, only 7 months since i actually desperately needed it..

Why can't you go out WL?

Ooh how interesting Pidj. And glad you've got some support, even if it is a bit late.

MiL will be picking up DS for his first abduction visit tomorrow. My house is an absolute tip so I'm going to clean up and she's only taking him in the pram so she may not be that long if the predicted storms hit. I trust her with him and if she'd gone about it in a less PA way I'd have been happy to let her take him.

We get up at 10:30 and 2:30 now generally. But he usually sleeps til 8! Trade off is he only goes down at 9:30-10 after 2 hours of arsing about and rubbing his eyes. It's fine by me though as I'm a late riser. Last night was hell, J was very unsettled all night. We slept in the spare room after the third hour-long wake up. Apologies if I already posted this, feeling a but scrambled.

Mama that sounds like a fantastic day. Everything's so much better in the sunshine! Will DP be quitting because if the move to aus?

We've been to baby sensory and then soft play today. They are a "baby friendly" centre with loads of stuff for the littlies. But they didn't sell any baby food and I ordered a kids pasta to cut up small and it was ridiculously salty . Ended up just giving him mainly pasta with teeny amount of the sauce.

Another 2 friends of friends announced pregnancies today and the royal baby stuff is making me itch for another one! I know it's just hormones though. I'd be better with a little bigger gap I think as I'm a bit disorganised/scatty already.

Huuuuuuge post

No keys! He hid them well the little scamp! Saved by DH! Came home early and with a key cut for me!......Grrr, missed my coil fitting though! Ffsb

Ffs I meant. Also, had nothin in to cook for him so had to give him broccoli, cheese and a hash brown (needed some carbs). He loved it

Don't worry emily, ds often has quavers and cheese for tea ds was conceived when I had a coil

Mama that sounds like a lush day out..

Willyou will it be awkward with the mil tomorrow?!

Pidj we've had one dinner out as a couple since ds was born. 1 night, in 7 months! And that was a friend babysitting. No offers from anyone else and I'm the sort of person that doesn't like to ask figuring if they were happy they would have offered?!

Maryland we haven't had dinner out once! Went out for the first time on Saturday evening to the wedding reception, can probably go out for dinner now DS is sleeping through

Maryland, we haven't even had that. Just to catch you up, R is 8 months old. 7 months ago is when dp had a stroke (2 days after Christmas)

Oh, and I'm still waiting for that phone call from the hv where she tells me what support she can offer...

You have master-thief on Your hands there Emily. DS' shoved together meal yesterday was rice cakes and spread cheese with broccoli and baby corn. he loved it.

We've been out in big groups (a wedding and my 30th) but not alone. It seems like a big thing to get a babysitter just to go out for tea/to the pictures but it's not really. We have so many people just dying to be asked to look after him.

Maryland nah things are always a bit awkward with her anyway. Let me tell you a little story of our most awkward encounter ever. DP and I moved in together one May and had our housewarming on my birthday in July. MiL/GMiL/BiL all turned up empty handed as DP hadn't told them it was also my birthday party. Thus they all had faces like smacked arses. MiL sank the best part of a bottle of gin and started sobbing about how she'd lost 24 yo DP to me and how she felt like she'd never get him back . It ended with her DM dragging her to the car saying you've had him for long enough, you moved out of my house at 18. My family and friends stood around looking like this

She barely speaks, not just to me, to anyone and I just blabber along to fill the silence. Her mum used to be the nice one but she's come into her own judgeypants since I had DS. I'll just stick a smile on and power through.

Willyou I've got to be honest she sounds like a nightmare!! It's bizarre how women get like this about grown up sons. Get a bloody grip! I hope it's ok tomorrow. Like you said it might piss it down (!!)

Oh Pidj that sounds horrendous. I hope your dp is recovered/ recovering? God no wonder you're saying you needed support months ago. I honestly don't know how single parents do it. I don't think I could cope. Never being able to switch off? I hate it when dh works away.. I'm so thankful that he's so helpful as I know not all dads are.

Ha I'll stop moaning about date nights then if do many others HAVEN'T had them! Sometimes though just an offer from parents to watch him while I go to the supermarket would be nice.. Online shopping is great but not when you need stuff now!