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?

Evening. Glad M is ok fatima.

Thanks for the advice about nappies pidj . They areok round the legs but seem tight round the tummy. l got poppers but l think velcro would?ve been better. Teenyfits are a fab present. When l had H he was early and small and a friend took the time to research and buy me a selection of reusables for premmies. It was a lovely gift because l just didn?t have the time.

Chasing others will know a lot better than me but l think it is fairly normal for your emotions to be heightened after a big life event.

Doing a 13 mile sponsored bike ride with the youth group l run. Only tried bike l?m borrowing once for 20 yards. Other than that probably last time l rode l was 18. I am worried!

Poor m fatima :( Hope you are both ok.

VQ you really need a break - any chance?

chasing I'm no expert, but I suspect you may have been down for so long you've forgotten what up feels like.

Happiness is frightening when you haven't experienced it for a long time. It's a normal reaction. You are re-learning freedom, how to breathe (yes, I am repetitive).

Fatima as a baby dropper I can imagine how scared and useless in the face of crying you must have felt. A screaming reaction to a head bump though is a good thing. Really! Toddlerdom and all the headbumps that incurs is coming soon. I reckon you should all dowoad lists of concussion symptoms to make those a&e trips less stressful :)

I am trying and failing to wind down after a bbq with friends. Realised once they had gone that I had spent so much time with the girls or ensuring that everyone ate that I ate one breadstick myself and half a sausage. Currently gorging on the cheese plate and

they were people we used to live next door to. Ate at each others every week. Moved two villages away and went six months with very little contact. :(

They were the people I turned to when dd1 was in hospital over new year. It's sad we lost touch. Tonight was stilted. Not like before. Out of sight out of mind...

Night quiche. May Murray kick ass tomorrow. Plan to get up early, clear up bbq debris and take us all out before it gets too hot. Back in time for Wimbledon of course.

LO has just gone down after 12 hours awake. Not one to miss a party. I can also hear DD1 chattering away. Lie in tomorrow? Would be nice. If I dare sleep.

Wishing you sweet dreams PR

I'm wishing myself NO dreams x

eliza I get the Lions thing. :o

Two wake ups already?? Pretty please may there be a tooth by morning.....

VQ did you go and see the house?

I'm hoping MM is having a whale of a time at her grad ball.

In between wake ups DH and I have been watching the Impossible on blink box - he turned around to me (us both snivelling wrecks) and said with a shaky voice that we're not taking Jonas anywhere with a tsunami risk until he's grown. Soft man

Having a nightmare with James tonight. He has slept for two hours so far and now will not settle. He's been fed so DH is in attempting to get him back in cot and sleeping.

Sorry I have not read anything but need to use up some sweariness. We had a lovely lovely lovely evening but fucking SIL has ruined it. Needless to say she is the most incapable, rude waste of fucking space who is never having my daughter again. I want to go home right now but I am too fucking tired and angry to drive

MM, elaborate?

Nearly 5 hours again. That's two nights in a row...

What happened MM, sounds terrible?

Another disturbed night here. I attempted to skip the dream feed because I was so tired at bedtime but J had me up for an hour at 11:30. Then I was up three times for dummy stuff, DS2 crying in his sleep and next door driving off at high speed making me think my car had been stolen. Now I'm up again with J for his night feed. I was hoping DH would give him a bottle but he told me to stop whining about how tired I am. I told him I would swan off to a hotel for four nights so that I could tell him to stop whining about how tires he was. Then I hit him with a pillow. Seriously though there's no way he could cope, half an hour of J crying and he loses his temper with him.

MM that doesn't sound good. What on earth has happened. Good idea to not driving experience tired or angry.

stunt J was up for over an hour at last wake and only slept two hours when eventually put down. He's up again now and has been since 3.20am!so he's spent a grand total of 3hrs 50 mins in bed d tonight. Not fun, I feel your tiredness. DH was out Fri night, arrived home at 4am and slept on couch, all fine I hear you thinking. I was up with kids at 7 and we stayed upstairs til nearer 9 so that could sleep on a bit. I figured this way he might be more agreeable to me returning to bed for a nap. Went downstairs and he continued to sleep til 2pm!! This with DD playing around him and d's crying! Argh! I did go for a nap from 3pm tho!

DS has just finished feeding again so I will attempt transfer number 2372 of tonight!

Fucking idiots outside my house shouting and swearing and being generally unreasonable! Someone called leeann is getting shouted at a lot!

Right ds back in cot, leeann and tow have fucked off, I am going to attempt more sleep. Supposed to be going to church this morning but cannot see it far enough. Didn't go last week as was at hen doo on sat night. Worried minister will be all judge if we don't go two weeks in a row!

Stunt

Izzy we live just off a pub route, so i feel your pain telling them to fuck off isn't helpful oh no no

2nd wake up

Izzy, i make it once a month. They're just happy to see us livens up the sermon whenR joins in

Oh no mm what has happened?

Sorry for the poo night stunt,izzy and yw

chasing like the others say i am sure you afe ok. However I do empathise as I did think that about myself after I left my ex. I could go from ecstatic for having got the old me back, like pikz to really low missing my girls in the week. Still I have super highs as I am so happy in my life, but I have the odd bout of the blues missing the girls. I am sure emotional changes are normal. Anyway, you deserve a high!

izzy I am not making it to church this week either because of pox and potty training, would just be too stressful. I didn't go last week because I was dropping the girls and won't be there next week either. they sorry of expect it coming into the summer months I think. Is a big church anyway no one will realise till the next On my way! I go!

*Till the next time I go.

Can I have title of Quiche Sausage Fingers please Luis

Sophia - I'll fight you for it. I think I usually am the worst for that .

Stunt and izzy, what shamboloc half excuses for husbands do you have? I am sure they must have their plus points, but still. You two and vq have been having to cope with way more than is healthy. Time for some serious discussions on how you can get some relief - though stunt I can see that can't involve overnight. Izzy - wgat denomination are you? You seem really worried about your minister - i remember your concern about maybe gaving to move the baptism visit to take lo to the docs. Is he really that oppressive that he'd begrudge sleep in your situation? My mum is a minister and she would be packing you back to bed faster than you could blink!

Yw I am sorry for your crap night too.

Mm I hope m is ok and am so sorry you had a horrid end to your night.

R's party yesterday was really lovely. She and all the other kids were very happy and excited. My highlight was. Her face when I brought the cake out and she was so excited and tried to blow out the candles. I also loved the way she said 'oooooo' unwrapping her presents, and the joy she got dancing on her feet to the hokey cokey. G loved it too - especially the sweetcorn rings.

Ok I wasn't just trying to proove a point there re sausage fingers - promise!

Oh - and chasing. Quice fish to you. You are just happy. Enjoy it .

stunt . Seriously? Does he have no idea how much you have been coping with?!

MM I hope you and M are ok. What happened?

Thank you all for the reassurance, pikz and Sophia it is helpful to know that you have felt the same way. Saturdays are my 'wobble' day as it is when XP has O, and I saw XBIL yesterday too as he picked them up. He actually only lives 5mins away from my dad but luckily I haven't bumped into him yet.

O slept through from 7-5.30 and then was wide awake trying to pick the moles off my arm Got him back down at 6.30 and about to wake him now.

bry glad the party was good, R sounds like she had a great time. I have never been brave enough to do a party but DD would love all that, so maybe I'll take some inspiration for next year.

eliza totally get it too.

YW I positively howled during the trailer for that film. In the cinema. DH made me leave to compose myself. It was under 2 months after DS was born, and I just couldn't get the image of knowledge of the wave coming, but knowing you are not close enough to your kids to grab them and at least try and protect them. Fuck me, am welling up now.

MM hope all ok. Vent away.

fatima hugs. Hope M fine this morning to reassure you.

PR my plans for the day sound remarkably similar.

DD wouldn't go to sleep last night so I brought her in with me. Totally worth it as I got my very first, unprompted, "I love you Mummy". My heart is still a puddle on the floor.

Yo.

Been reading. Will post later.

Coffee everyone?

Oh and stunt WTAF?