November 2012 - Summertime, and the babies are sleeping (mostly with a few notable exceptions)

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1800961-November-2012-Is-is-too-early-for-birthday-plans

Jonas does seem advanced at ranting though - I changed his nappy when he was overtired and he full on lectured me. My sister was pissing herself. He was so cross and using proper ranty verbalisation!

Pennie have lots of tips. Remind me to PM you. Have loads of HK albums on my FB page if you want to nosy - there's so much to see and do. Am totally . Go and eat dim sum in Stanley for me

Would you all like to know what P's favourite toy is at the moment?

It's a sample bottle. From when I was pregnant. Unused I should add. She found it in my handbag and has been fondly nomming it ever since.

Let's just hope she doesn't get to attached we need to take it out with us!

I'm so fucking cross with DH right now. J has been, shall we say, difficult for the last two days and the general drooling and instant magic Calpol cure makes me suspect that first tooth is on its way out at last. But he's unputdownable and pretty hard work so I was waiting for DH to come home so that one of us could mind J while the other got dinner made. Anyway the arsehole only went and scheduled a fucking guitar lesson when he got home from work! With a random ten-year-old girl who's gran lives round the corner from us. He's not a guitar teacher, he's not even particularly good and no money has changed hands. Big fat waste of time. If I had spare time I'd be sorting my car insurance or deferring my student loan or, I don't know, making dinner for my family. Not messing about giving lessons. Twat.

Bought this for R, very funny!! PR will approve

The apparently offended friend is a passing acquaintance and I'm not bothered really, just find it odd that my choice not to have a 16-18 month gap is seen as a criticism of her 21 month gap she is a tad on the eccentric side...

George Alexander Louis. Lovely :)

I like the name a lot!

Ahem, if I can refer to an earlier post, I predicted a boy called George ignores fact it is O's cousins name so XSIL will be very smug

Very nice indeed. Alexander was on my short list for a boy (well, actually the only name on it hence I decided O needed to be a girl I had 2 names on the girls list.

L just laughed so much he snorted!!

George is was on our next baby's name list. That will be a no now then.

Benn on the go at work for over 12 hours, am fucking manic and a bit out of my depth and lacking in support because my boss is on hols (and this always happens) and my workshy, technically senior but otherwise a bit hopeless colleague is not helping me and actually managed to fall asleep at his desk today [RAGE]

Oh, and S has antibiotics AGAIN for his fucking cough, and DH has fucking gout

And DH the fucking baby whisperer put them both to bed like it was an actual piece of PISS and text me to say, why do I make out like solo bedtime is hard work?

And I will go home to sleeping babies (who I barely saw this morning) and do some more work. And come in early tomorrow, to do more work.

And in return for all this work I'm churning out, I will create more work for myself, and then when I try and raise a bill, get told my time costs are outrageous.

Thank FUCK it is sweary Wednesday. Fuck, fuck, arse, bollox and cuntsticks.

Just came on to vent. Back to, um, I don't know, maybe - work.

Will check in with the thread and read it properly at some stage. Hope everyone's day has been better than mine

MM my brother's wife is due in November and was going to call his sprog George after our grandfather. My dad and my brother both have George as a middle name so I reckon he's more entitled to use it than the royal family, after all they've had loads of Georges already

George just reminds me of the idiot Prince Regent from Blackadder.... come to think of it?! I like George for a girl but not a boy.

Jonas just ranted at his Dad too - DH and I were creased up. Poor little man is tired and grouchy but oh so funny when he's ranting 'a dab ba ga wa ba ddddd ewoooo bbbbb bah' and gesticulating wildly

He only had 2x 45 min naps in the pushchair as we were out and about - but the days he had 2x long cot naps I saw him at midnight and I'd rather he slept thru than napped for so long. I think the ideal for us is 1 cot nap and 1 pushchair nap a day.

Total fucking nightmare at bedtime today. Although it's less hot, it feels so much more humid. Poor F had a sweaty head and it took a good 45 minutes to settle her. Plus tooth number 3 is now visible, and putting her off feeding and making reflux worse. Fun all round then, really.

Pass glad P doesn't have an infection.

PR cunts.

Madam ((hugs))

Det hope the waterproof mascara held up!

No crawling here - sometimes I get a bit [worried] about it, especially today as there is a 5.5 month old at baby group who is just about to crawl, and a 4 month old who is merrily rolling all over the place. But then I look at F, who is puzzling over the intricacies of something the chair leg and am grateful I don't have to babyproof just yet, and she stays where I put her!

Evenin.

madam sorry to read about your work problems.
pass glad to read your LO are getting sorted out.
det your in laws are a bit thick!
chasing don't worry about the crawling, n is not wavering or talking yet.

n is having thick ready break or purred fruit for breakfast with 7oz of milk. Then my food for lunch, ie fish fingers chips peas, sometimes with 7oz of milk. Evening meal is a stage 2 meal from EK, with a dessert. He has snacks throughout the day, usally fruit, cheese or biscuts.

I'm so ashamed of N today!
Yes he put his fingering the eye of another child, not just any child but a disabled one yep that kid with the special helmet, and did that child scream.

Evil

Quiche fish slap required here please. I completely forgot that J's teething (big ropes of saliva like an overexercised Labrador) would have made his reflux worse. No wonder my iggle man has been having a rubbish couple of days with loads of vomming and back arching.

Evening all. Just as I boot the laptop up E is awake. I don't know what's up with him, he's barely eaten today and been really whingy, and not himself. No obvious signs of anything though that i've spotted so far anyway other than the fact he hasn't wanted to eat much.

ditsy everyone will tell you it's in my nature to be down on myself, it's just how I am :( generally because i'm busy messing things up or panicking i've messed things up. Like now, now i'm wondering what is wrong with my normally well sleeping happy chappy. I've broken him somehow, it must be something i've done but bugger knows what!

Grr det that would annoy me. I mean you're not even being a fussy parent and saying 'no xyz' just because, but he actually shouldn't have them for medical reasons. Grrr! E was the same with lumps for a bit, he eats finger foods fine but wouldn't eat lumpy puree. Now (except today and yesterday) he eats lumps just fine, I think he just had to get used to it.

hey pennie! That sounds fab! Bet you're looking forward to Hong Kong too!

I honestly did like the sound of BLW I just couldn't bring myself to do it completely. I like to think I give e the option, though, but was thinking of making either breakfast or lunch just finger food. He has a bottle before breakfast and a bottle after lunch so if he didn't eat much i might be more inclined not to worry about his intake iyswim?

We have had a breakthrough with crawling today and he has managed arms and legs for five 'steps'! He is so lazy and this felt a real achievement :) Good thing to come out of a thoroughly miserable day!

Ernest seems to be doing well :) I do worry that he's not quite right but it's hard to tell because baby birds are pretty wibbly wobbly anyway. He is still very hungry and eating and drinking with gusto and toiletting all over me like a trooper so i'm sure he is ok, or at least I hope so. He definitely likes being warm so the hot water bottle is renewed every 3-4 hours.

oooh stunt i hope you told dp off! I hope J is better soon too with his teething, poor mite

I like the name too, sounds lovely :) I've always liked the name George but prefer less used names so wouldn't use it anyway, but it is a lovely one :) One of my cats is called Louis :)

Oh madame that sounds like a fuckbuggering amount of work to be done! I hate it when dp swoops in like some sort of genius too with e. Why is it they manage to do that? fuckers. Hope tomorrow is better

pass glad p doesn't have an infection, has she settled well tonight?

bplp doesn't sound like much fun! E has been a handful too esp where feeding is concerned but I don't think he even has teething as an excuse. Hot weather will have to be his reason though i think he's just being awkward

E is back asleep now, didn't go into him and he went back off.

pass good news re the ear :)

gazelle sorry you've had a shitty day

kyz

stunt

pennie

Sweaty and miserable here. Een thou we had more storms and lots of rain I can't get the house cool. I stink.

I really need to do something about bed times and nap times. I am utterly exhausted. 6pm we started bedtime, she's been asleep 20 bloody minutes and ended up feeding to sleep in the end.
We're going camping next week so there's much point doing too much in case that knackers it up again but I need to break the feeding to sleep and late nights.

Sorry I haven't caught up properly, will do when I can when I'm laid wide awake at midnight no doubt

kyz I'm with your mum on that one. There isn't anything you can do about E's sleep until if he starts waking up in the night and chances are he won't. DD1 was fully BLweaned and never woke in the night due to hunger. You have to learn to trust E. You cannot force feed babies, believe me I try reguarly with my E but it just won't work. You're doing marvellously. E is a fantastic height and weight, you really don't need to worry about him not getting enough.

yw I'm with you on that one. First nap in the cot and second nap out and about is what works best for us. Whether or not she actually gets that depends on what we are doing but that's my ideal napping routine.

madame Ouch! What a day.

pass Glad sweet little P is ok. The pee pot made me smile. E reguarly plays with her syringes and will often by pass toys to get to them.

bplp Sorry you had a shit bedtime. Hope F's sleeping peacefully now.

mm No crawling here too. She shuffles backwards and rolls about but no actual crawling. And long may that continue. Enjoy the lack of movement whilst you can. It won't be long before she's toddling everywhere and you'll be wanting these days back.

So we had our dietician appointment today. It's been decided that E will go onto a high calorie milk (can't remember what it's called) but we will get it on prescription. Once we get that (probably on Monday) the tube will then come out for 2 weeks. After the 2 week trial period we have another review to see how she is getting on and we will take it from there. So a positive step. She hasn't put on any weight for a month though so was a bit gutted about that but she has grown in length and is still on the 9th centile (just) so they were'nt too concerned about that. The main thing they were concerned about is making sure she drinks enough water. I was focusing so much on the milk that I forgot about that. Apparentley at this age they should be having around 800ml of water a day which seems a lot to me. It does take into a/c breast milk and water from foods like melon, cumcumber etc which helps I guess. So I've been told to watch for signs of dehydration and to call the dietician if I have any concerns but if I'm happy the tube can stay out for the full 2 weeks. So a hesitant woop from me!

Thanks peeps.

P nommed her bed bottle (with a full Peter rabbit break in the middle) and dozed off while having her face stroked. Went down at 7pm and not a peep since - watch me jinx it!

Are you home yet madam? That sounds thoroughly unpleasant. And to be frank I think your Dh was a bit mean. I hope you are home eating dinner prepared by Dh seeing as he had such an easy bedtime!

P is currently sporting horn like bruises on her forehead and one massive one on the back of her head. I thought they were supposed to be learning cause and effect - I bash the ball, the ball goes boing. So why not "I pull myself up on the sharp edged small table, it falls over and I bash my head on it. Hard. Better not to that again!"?

My dad is Alexander and I love it. We were going to use it as a middle name for a boy. Sister got there first though and our deal was first come, first dibs! We also wanted to use George but my SIL had a cat called George who got squashed. Felt a bit wrong.

800ml? Sounds loads eliza! Glad things are progressing though. P also loves hr syringes and will nom on them for ages. By the way, has that always been your name?

Sometimes I only read the first part of the name and I don't realise there is more

Have read thread. Twice. But not really been able to remember much of what has been said or what I wanted to say. I am struggling in the evenings at the moment. Lonely and sad.

How are the other Operation Naps going? YW O usually has naps 1 and 3 at home and nap 2 out and about in the pram/car seat. Nap wise, we had an improvement on yesterday. I realised that the common denominator in shit naps/bedtime is the bloody heat. When it is so hot in the bedroom that I am sweating, we have a hard time of it. Anyway, today being cooler we had nap 1 in cot, which I actually had to wake him for as we were off out and nap 2 in the pram as he was shattered from soft play. Nap 3 was better than yesterday. Went down with no transfer fails, woke up after 30mins so I went in, no eye contact or talking, picked him up and walked him back to sleep which took 5 mins and he then slept another 35 mins. Good bedtime here as well. Must remember that this is only day 2 of him napping in the cot after him napping on me for 8 months so I can't expect miracles.

I genuinely feel that the reason it seems to be working now is that he is just ready for it. I have tried before and it hasn't worked. I think he needed the comfort of sleeping on me. I have always tried to do things at O's pace and it seems to have worked for us so far.

Fuck, I've babbled. All about me. I lose the ability to think clearly come the evening for some reason. Too much time to think I guess and to miss having someone to share my nights with. Desperate for a cuddle.

Chasing ((hugs))

Evil