March 2013 - 6 months down, 210 to go!

[StormyBrid]

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Keep on rambling, ladies, we have a whole new thread to fill!

Happy happy birthday Worse!

Happy Birthday Worse, enjoy your annus mirabilis

SoYo you've out a big smile on my face. You berk!

Lovely doctor lady visited. Everything's fine, he's apparently well hydrated and responding to paracetamol, so I can relax a bit. Little bugger started gigging and wanting to play about half an hour before she got here! He's eaten half a biscuit and is asleep again though. Thank you ladies for all your kind wishes.

Happy birthday worse - hope you have a great day!

plonky hope your little one continues feeling better - sounds like good news from the docs.

I have finally decided to change my username. This time last year I was 20ish weeks pregnant with DD2, my wonderful rainbow baby and I could only hope that she would be born alive after the death of her sister at the beginning of last year. I had to hang on to that hope to get me through the grief and stress. I can't believe how much has changed now - even though DD1 will never be with us in person she has some become more alive through her sister. We visit her grave together a few times a week which would not have been possible for me to manage just a few weeks ago. DD2 bring me more joy and strength in that respect than I ever though possible. So I decided I am definitely surrounded by the beauty of all the colours of the rainbow now! Cheesy perhaps but nice to have the positive glow back in my life - something I thought I had lost forever after DD1 died.

soyo your tale made me chuckle. I have lost count of the number of times I have walked around with my top tucked up!

Good name change Rainbow & glad that having DD2 is making remembering DD1 a bit easier.

I am also often found with a tucked up top, half an undone bra or one wonderful day I had vest down, jumper up and just a nipple out for the postman. Lucky guy!

SoYo I missed that story. How could I possibly have missed that story?!! You're hilarious. I bet mini-yo could hardly show her face for the shame

As for the postman, you'll have made his day.

Rainbow sending you a big hug. I'm so glad you have come through such a difficult time, and DD2 has brought you such joy and love.

Plonky so relieved for you.

Thank you for all the birthday good wishes, I'm having a lovely time. It's such a special day - first birthday with a baby. I just feel so lucky. As for the sparkles, they came in the form of a beautiful little pendant - 7 interlinked diamonds in a hexagonal setting on a platinum chain. We've also a few days booked at Calcot Manor next weekend so it would be fair to say that I have been more than a little spoilt.

Worselet bath time beckons, my favourite time of day.

Ooh lovely Wors, you have had a good day! Is the Worselet going to Calcot too? I hear the spa is lovely!

Plonky glad there's good news for DS! Hope he keeps getting better.

That brief note to Plonk was done whilst bf in a service station. Classy. Now home. We set off and for the first half hour of the journey when I looked in the mirror that shows me Ecobaby's face all I could see were two aunt sally red cheeks and lots of ear pulling so we administered baby crack and the rest of the journey was peaceful. She's been a bit shouty tonight so I suspect it's more teeth action.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WORSE!! (Am singing that, not shouting). Diamonds and mini-break? Wooo-hooo for Mr Worse. He got that very right and it was lovely to hear your sheeny shiny words in your message. You have found your happy groove and long may that continue.

Plonky how is dear little babysaurus? Less post-midnight vom tonight I hope.
Rainbow it's great to hear that you are in a better place too right now. November is shaping up to be a good month evidently.

Soyo tee hee! It might have looked like a latte tash. More yummy mummy than sudocrem. In the early days of breast feeding I answered the door to a delivery (atypically around here a woman) with the baby latched on still. Obviously not in error, but amusing nevertheless.

Something I hope you are not reading this and enjoying your baby free evening to the max. Sounds blissful in many ways.

KFF, you never sound whiney to me. How are you feeling now evening has arrived? Hope you are taking the berocca and ready to fight the germs.

It's nice to be home. It was nice to see my dad/sister/BIl/nieces of course but the logistics of managing a baby who is still wobbly when sitting up and uphappy to be lain down in a stone floored house with a jack russell and fairly self-absorbed/not very proactive relatives are trying. Happy to be back with DH and have his help and support again. He missed us :-) Went to the church three times yesterday; once with Mum's best friend, once with Dad and once under the cover of darkness with my sister to deliver a pretty pumpkin to Mum. Her headstone looks simultaneously wrong and right. Seeing her name on a gravestone is so final and unsavoury but the words strike the right cord.

A weekend with not many plans lies ahead which delights me. We are takign ecobaby to a hannuka fair tomorrow. Starting her worldly education early.

Happy Friday everyone.

Plonky we've run out of choc eclairs. Rubbish.

Eco it sounds like your visit was trying but nice. I love that you laid a pumpkin, it seems more thoughtful that way. Bad time to run out of eclairs! Though when you run out to grab some, be a dear and drop one off in Derbyshire eh?

Worse good haul! Here's to a great year. So pleased you're happy, you dh seems to have pulled his socks up,

Rainbow you too. It's so easy to dwell on what we don't have, good on yer for having the strength to focus on your blessings.

Sonething I trust you're having a wonderful baby free night.

Tried DS with a little milk. Stayed down for over an hour! That's good for today. He perked up a bit during Have I Got News For You so we played with some teddies for ten mins. He's now asleep on me again, hopefully a good long stretch will sort him. Our weekend plans have gone up the spout though as I don't think this is the best time to have dp's best friend to stay. Though none of his friends know we've set a date and dp was fm going to ask this particular friend to be best man.

Oh well, another time. I'm going to bury my nose in a book until sleep/DS starts howling.

Eco I'm glad you got your visit and bringing your Mum a pumpkin is just lovely, I used to do that at my brothers grave when I lived at home. So much nicer than yet another bunch of flowers!

We had a rough night last night, I was up most hours with madam and fed her twice. DH went off to his extra work morning this morning and was supposed to be back to take us for lunch but guess what, it ran late. Madam refused her nap this morning so by the time he was supposed to be home she was a tired mess, I walked her around for 35mins in the rain to get her to sleep and he's just home now so the whole day is gone. I've had a mardy and flounced off to bed. I'm afraid I just haven't got your sense Wors. I'm just sick of feeling like I'm somewhere towards the end of his priority list.

eco im feeling much better thank you. I think im just run down. Taking a pumpkin to your mothers grave is a lovely idea.

plonky how was your night with poorly ds? Is he better today?

soyo big hugs to you. I think you have the right to flounce. Agreeing to work on a saturday is annoying enough without him not coming back on time as promised. Maybe he will make it up to both of you tomorrow.

We also had a rough night. I stupidly gave him 2 bottles thinking he was hungry but i just ruined his appetite in time for breakfast. We still have no teeth despite weeks of crying at night. Im supposed to be going to fireworks display with ds tonight. This is a rubbish idea isnt it?!

Kf any chance DS will nap in his pram and you can just transfer him when you get in?

SoYo I would be as upset as you, definitely. I have no suggestions, being a relationship arse myself. You do have lots of my sympathy though.

DS is meandering on his way to feeling better. He's sleeping a lot and having the odd bit of milk. Me though? I have caught this delightful vomiting bug. It SUUUUUCKS and I most definitely want my mum.

I stopped flouncing just in time to realise I was BU and he took us to my favourite restaurant for an early dinner. DD was a little star, ate a huge amount of everything we had and enjoyed getting plenty of attention. All in all, he saved the day from disaster.

I'd have been pi55ed off too SoYo, so flounce not entirely unjustified. If he promised to meet you, he shouldn't have left you hanging around with no idea when he'd be home. That's just rubbish. I'm glad you guys turned it around and had a lovely evening.

If it's any consolation my DH has been getting right up my nose too this evening. He has this theory that the worselet cannot possibly under any circumstances go to bed for an hour after her last bottle, because if she does she will get a bad stomach and wake up again. This is a good theory, and holds true for the most part, but seriously, he's so inflexible. 50mins, she's knackered, and crying..... but guess what, we have to wait.... I guess this is what I get for marrying a man runs his life by spreadsheets .

KFF how were the fireworks? I have to confess we passed on the village display this year. It's always amazing, the local guy who does the display also does the fireworks at Glastonbury festival every year, so you can imagine the standard. Not quite amazing enough to tempt me, plus worselet plus pram out in the cold though.

Small amount of progress on the weaning front today. Home made mush was deemed acceptable, and eaten, with minimal fuss. I'd like to say enjoyed, but I fear that might be pushing it.

SoYo our weekend away absolutely includes the worselet. In fact it is completely planned around her. I'd never heard of Calcot, being more of a holiday cottage type person myself, but I came across it in a baby magazine, where it got top rating for having a cot/steriliser and changing mat in all the rooms, a creche and baby friendly menu. Couldn't be more perfect.

Night all. Here's hoping the minis all sleep through mine especially

Yay soyo - glad your DH saved the day.

I too have crap DH syndrome. Just said to mine that we should visit his DM tomorrow and he gave me that old favourite 'but it's my day off and i've got stuff to do'. I replied with 'my heart bleeds' and he retorted 'you go to work then'. I await the phonecall from his mother telling me when I must go round, accusing me of not seeing her for months (saw her last Sunday) and saying everything twice, really loudly, as she refuses to wear her hearing aid. DH has a choice. i, it seems, do not. One of these days I will send him round to his mum's, on his own with DD. That should be fun...

Hello to all and hope you are soynd proofed against the constant fireworks so the little ones don't wake up

Oh, and worse I think your DH is confusing sleeping with swimming, and it's half an hour

Any I'll let you tell him that

His theory didn't hold true tonight though, as despite a full 60 mins she has just woken up with a bad stomach.... Hey ho and off I go.

Fireworks didnt happen. Ds screamed and screamed before it even started so i came home. Me and dm in hysterics that an 8mth old is ruling us. It seems ds just wants to be at home and appreciates the routine he has. Although he doesnt appreciate the routine when im at home though. So im still on 4pm curfew. Please tell me ds will grow out of this and i can have a life again.

soyo very glad dh saved the day. You probably heard worse in your head with her wise words.

any hope mil is easy on you at your visit. I think you need to teach dd to cause havoc when she gets there so mil is reluctant for you to visit in the future.

Pass us some sleeping pills please stormy.

Kf we too are bound by a baby's routine, completely sucks but we've kind of just given in to it.

Worse a full hour?!? My goodness. I take it that'll be because she doesn't sleep in a cot but a runaway train.

We've had such a crappy night. All three of us have d&v now. I can officially claim to have vommed after changing a nappy. Dp is determined to get some food into DS today (has being having the odd few flozzes here and there, some have stayed down and others have ended up everywhere). I'm not so sure.

This parenting thing is a minefield.

KF he'll grow out of it eventually, don't worry. Some kids are just very into the familiarity of routine. DD's similar in that she won't nap anywhere except her own cot, so we have to time excursions to fit round that. Can't pass you any sleeping pills though, the last doctor I saw said there's nothing wrong with being on them long term but we should try to wean me off them (God knows why) so I'm only getting a good night's sleep one night in three.

We are still lost in the murky depths of the pre-wonder week grumpfest. Can we fast forward time three weeks please?

hello plonky. just wanted to duck in and send good wishes your way. it sounds incredibly trying your end. hopefully it's in its way out.

Morning all. Was here to complain about rubbish night and useless husband but realised that others have it far worse! Plonky you poor lot, anyone you can get to come and entertain DS when he inevitably starts feeling better while you and oh succumb to the vom?

We've had a lovely week in Suffolk, sad to be leaving. That's probably why dd, most unusually for her, refused to sleep unless in my arms from 2.20-6.30. She is obviously, very selflessly, making me long for my own bed and a return to routine. I think we have a nascent tooth- I can see a little white dot on her bottom gum. Tooth experts, from this stage how long until it emerges?

I think I've missed a few posts, have we heard anything from leni? Hope she's ok.

I really want a name change but I lack imagination. Any ideas?!?

I need coffee. Happy Sunday everyone.

Thanks everybody :) I'm pleased to say we're all on the mend now. DS had kept down 8oz so far today and weve even had a just wet nappy. Hes just very sleepy, but is startibg to be like his old self. I woke up at 12 desperate for a can of coke (grim) and a doughnut, so I must be getting better.

One turn up for the books is that he seems to have weaned himself odd dunmies. Threw up twice with a funny in, and since just will not entertain it going near him even although we cleaned it grin so lets hope this continues.

Vj no nickname suggestions (to me we'd all have nicknames on a dinosaur theme, clearly) but hope you get a better night.

Stormy is your dr concerned that you'll be dependent on the pills to sleep? Very helpful considering the alternative is to just not sleep...

Plonky you are absolutely right. That is the exact place we use for sleeping. Works a treat, but don't tell social services .

Glad things are marginally less projectile at yours and the family plonk are on the mend.

VJ Suffolk sounds lovely, so glad you enjoyed your break. Teeth take ages, or at least they do here. The tiddler is proudly displaying a proper set of rodent gnashers on her lower gum, but it has taken her frankly weeks to get from starting knobble to finished tooth. Rest assure mini-vj will keep you appraised of progress by cunningly biting you very hard every time you let your guard down. DH leapt 2 foot into the air when this happened yesterday. How we laughed.... I have trained the worselet well

Nicknames, there you've got me. I ended up with my slightly odd appellation after every single clever amusing witty option I had chosen came back as 'unavailable'. In desperation I took a look at the Worcestershire sauce bottle sitting on the table, combined that with the fact I was having the very worst year of my life, and worsestershire was born. The result, everyone thinks I am slightly odd and can't spell. Not such a bad assessment. What I'm getting at here, in a rather verbose way, is don't ask me. My choice will be cr*p.

KFF shame about the fireworks. I think we're all at the life is a victim of routine stage of parenthood. I believe it improves. I hope it improves .

Speaking of routine, dd has just yelled to remind me of my bath running obligations.

Right- rather a drastic nc, I was far too identifiable. Couldn't come up with anything interesting that was linked to the old one, so I've gone for an adapted version of my fave childhood book. Feel free to still call me vj (or whatever you please!)

Love it 'Gerry'.

DH made up for his shortcomings today by treating us to a carvery dinner tonight, where we bumped into Kirsty off of Eastenders! She's TINY. I, however, after my dinner, am not. (Oh, and I got out of going to the MIL's.... At least it'll be warm in hell)