November 2012 - The Adventure Continues

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1787896-November-2012-Crawling-Already-Uh-oh

This thread's topic is what size of nappies are your babies in? And how are the cloth bum babies doing?

Just flying in for 5 mins!

Gogeous house vq - or at least could be after you have waved your personal touch over it!

Quiche baby - LOL

I graduated yesterday. Gorgeous day. M was a star turn. Lots of lovely photos but all on my camera so wont be able to upload any until we are home on Monday.

Off to an open air pool this morning. And Matilda has discovered sofa cruising

Congratulations mm1

stunt even if you were made redundant it doesn't necessarily mean you can't work there again the future. I worked briefly in a bank here and just after I left they did a huge cull. Sacked something like 40% of staff. Three years later they rehired half of them as business picked up.

Open air pool? All the way up there?

The words you are all making are giving me sentences on WWF. Today I've got "The Royal We".

Yesterday I had "Hey, ya turd"

Have a shitty hand this game luis though I hope won't end like last time's thrashing. In case anyone has any doubt, I got thrashed.

I don't know PR, they really treated me like shit. From the way they acted you'd have thought I was being fired for something, not made redundant. Could be that HR are just arseholes though.

Very possible that they are. I think HR have to be. Though am reserving judgement til end of today.

Congratulations MM, can't wait to see pictures of you and M in your lovely dresses. Enjoy the pool.

Evil I hope today goes ok.

Stunt I'm like madam, in that the decision was out of my hands - either back full time or abandon your career. Full time it is then. Tricky to know how to balance everything, and keep your sanity at the same time.

Off out to collect F from MIL - shall see how she has got on....then it's off to Nursery 1 with dh. On paper, we should pick Nursery 2. But the old gut...well...it does like number 1. Forget who said about a nursery where they had "family groups" with kids of different ages who share the same key worker - they do that there too which is another tick in the positive column. Anyway stop waffling piggy.

Enjoy the sunshine.

Congratulations mm

Yest I had a non napping child, today she doesn't want to be awake. My parents are coming for dinner and my oven decided to break down, the chicken is half roasted. Grrrrrr.

Agh. Can't concentrate on anything and keep snapping at the poor children though if they would have their nap my mood would improve a tad

Still waiting for an answer godammit.

PR may not be any consolation but I am also having a fucking awful day with fucking cunting work. Tried to phone in sick for Monday. Should not be this hard to get hold of someone. Anyone. Ended up phoning HR and bursting into tears. Made a right tit of myself.

Lily sorry about the chicken. Cannot really get away with half cooked chicken. Hope LO is ok. J is sleeping a lot, and it is worrying when it is out of character for them. He fell asleep on the Jumperoo while I was on the phone. I took a pic and will put it on FB in a while.

PR we do have sun up here sometimes you know

Evil, hope you are getting on ok

Stunt I also have no option but to work. Had a message from the Lottery, got all excited. £10. Woo.

bry I have a 6cm gap between my abs. Hosp appt on Tues. will update then.

pig was me that said about family groups. DD1's nursery has them and it's lovely as DD2 will be with her all the time once she goes plus the toddlers get to play real life babies and the babies get loads of attention. All supervised of course.

If your heart says that's the nursery for you then go for it. Peace of mind is worth a lot.

Glad you had fun mm. Fingers crossed pr. Get well soon the vq and p.

Lovely day innit?

Lessons learned for today:

It is best to only shake a medicine bottle when the lid is actually on it.

It is possible to change a baby's nappy and end up with poo on your cheek.

It is possible to use an entire pack of baby wipes on one nappy change.

Congratulations MM
LOL At poo on cheek sorry VQ
PR I too find baby jake hideously facinating and watch with deep burrowed frown on my face

vq oops. Cloth wipes?

It was too hideous for cloth wipes. I would have had to throw them away. The Nutrimigen is utterly horrid, add in antibiotics and it is even worse. I have a pretty strong stomach, but that was beyond a joke. Poor mite.

DD2 cannot understand why J doesn't talk like baby Jake.

Amoxycillin poos vq ?

Oh poor thing. Yes anti bs are sods for messing up the bowels. Maybe get some baby probiotics?

Just researching fleece wraps for nights as LO has a giant bum like her mum and am having leaks which I never had with DD1.

Yes. Amoxicillin.

I will look into probiotics, but probably will contain dairy. Will look in a mo.

Fleece wraps are ace, but kinda damp smelling and can wick if baby sits in them for a length of time. They can be used more than once but I washed them after each use. They dry so quickly too. I love them. I was going to branch into woollens and longies before trouble struck Valium Palace, but PP is very expert in these.

I used size 3 bamboo LLs with DD2, with extra boosting, and a fleece wrap. Bum the size of a small planet but no leaks ever. No cuddles until it was off though, and a good wash, if not bath before facing the day.

Think those ones are ok?

Good to know fleece worked. I have Holden's landings and minki huggles for nights but generally use Motherease wraps. Thing is giant girl has a very high bum crack(!!) so wee pours out. Didn't happen with DD1 so going to try stacinator wraps like shorts with a fleece edge. Was your DD damp to feel in the morning? Can't quite get my head around it. Tried wool once.

Have to go to pharmacy to pick up probiotics for DD1. Smething to do with replacing bile? Ddn't quite understand what the paed said. She said it would kind of reset her bowels? Reducing the milk has really helped already, even though she is compensating with more yoghurt and cheese. So it isn't a dairy intolerance, just too much milk instead of food.

Oh VQ As if you and J haven't gone through enough.

So my news today is that I feel happy. Properly happy. I feel free and that a world of opportunity has opened up before me. Am going to learn to drive in the new year - my dad is getting me my provisional licence for Christmas. I am so excited to build a life full of love and fun for me and Oscar.

Had a lovely day in the sun today - me and Oscar are now resting indoors while he naps and nanny and grandad are in the garden building O a swing

Everything contains fucking dairy VQ! I picked up Boots own brand teething powder and it had pissing lactose in it!

Beautiful day out there! Hope the quiche mummies, daddies and babies are getting to enjoy it!

Walked to a brand new soft play that had opened by our house today. It's fabulous! Really good for babies! For the crawlers for definite. And rollers! I'll put some pics up this evening on Facebook :).

MM watch out haha! O crawled/pulled self up at the same time pretty much! Get some eyes in the back of your head ordered!

O had his first try of a ready made dinner today. It was an EK one. Pork dinner or some such. He hated it! Oh dear. He doesn't refuse much! DP tasted it and said it was awful though so I'll give him a try with another. Was hoping to be able to use them for eating lunc out as it is such a faff taking homemade ones out as they need defrosting/heating and a lot of his have chicken in which needs heating really hot and cooling.

Pfffft. Awkward child!