March 2013 - 6 months down, 210 to go!

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

Poor babysaurus and poor plonky. It may well just be that after several days of not much his system was a bit overwhelmed. You will obviously keep an eye on him and can always revert to the gp again if you're worried (and Betty can tell us if you should be more concerned no doubt ).

As for dp, can't he just think of it as an nappy before it's a nappy? But no, don't ltb (not now you have the invites sorted ). Middle of the night prob doesn't show any of us at our best and I'm sure he and you were just worried about DS. Hugs.

Oh plonk, rubbish. Are you working today as well? Lots of coffee needed. If it's any consolation, DH wakes me up in the night every time 'she's got her dummy but is still awake'. The ONLY thing he can do to settle her is stick a dummy back in. In the middle of the night, when I'm exhausted and trying to get her back to sleep while he snores, I think I might kill him. In the morning less so.

Argh had so much more to say but dd has suddenly discovered how to commando crawl at SPEED and seems to have disappeared...

Gerry what does he think you're going to do, leap out of bed and wave your magical sleeping wand around?

Pretty much stormy. (Found dd chasing the cat)

Thanks Pud you're right. Everything's worse in the middle of the night. Definitely overwhelmed DS's poor little tummy.

Gerry can I borrow this magic wand of yours? I'm not working today, I can't put him in nursery like this and i dont know anyone locally who could lend a hand for a day. I'm not 100% myself either so I'm going for a nap with DS.

This has gone on a bit too long for my liking, sorry to be so down in the dumps ladies. I'm having an eeyore day.

plonky you cant ltb. Think of all that wine you ordered for the wedding. On a serious note as pud has said everything is worse at night.I feel for you both. Just have a pj day at home. Hope you both get better soon.

For a while the only person who could settle ds at nights was dh. They cuddled asleep. It was like magic ds would fall straight to sleep. If i tried to do the way dh did, ds would get really irritated. There were times,not at night though where i would ask dh to settle him. Whatever i did just did not work. As always this was just a phase.

Gerry i have a picture in my head of the cat being chased by dd and you chasing dd.

Morning all. This weather is uninspiring and making me think about the winter ahead. We’ve not managed to have daylight walks these last two days. That can’t keep up or it’ll interfere with my karma! Thing is, if they are napping til four ish then you’re a bit screwed unless you hot foot it out there pre lunch. Guess I just need to embark on a different pattern to my days. Ecobaby is snottastic. I have given up on the not feeding in the night but trying instead to settle on the basis that a) she’s ill and it feels mean and b) it’s quicker to feed than have 2 hours of pick up put down on and off screaming/no sleeping. Rod for back la la la. I was discharged (excuse non pun) by gynaecology yesterday whoop whoop so in the not very sophisticated words of Goldie Lookin Chain ‘my front bum’s not wrecked’. Hurrah.

Hi Yummy, my coil is copper not Mirena and it’s only been in for 2 days so I’ll have to report back on it’s ups and downs. Betty might be able to shed some light and I think someone else had a Mirena? I know there’s lots of Mirena threads on MN so maybe take a look there for other people’s advice?

Plonky you are having your dose of bad luck all in one two week bundle. Get it out of the way and the rest of the winter will be trouble free and your gorgeous ds will resume his model baby status. It’s not been the return to work of your dreams has it? Remember when you feel frazzled that you are doing the work thing, you have a baby, an ill baby at that, you are tired and you are organising the wedding of the century. That’s a lot on a plate. As worse said, you are superwoman. Can I flirt with you too?

Betty how was your casserole and friends over thing? I did a sausage casserole in the slow cooker and ecobaby was demonic in her devouring of it. Perfect Guy Fawkes fodder.

Stormy mobile babies such as yours make me realise that I have a lot of work to do in baby proofing this house. Remind me when in the month your DD was born? Pulling up must require some serious strength. I can’t even do that.

Gerry is it too early to be feeling that burst of energy that people who had a healthy diet report? That must be a nice side effect of your new regime. You keep going girl! And as for your neighbours bedtime routine it makes me feel very very old but not quite as old as worse

Something I can’t remember how big your baby was? A whopper too? Having squeezed out 8lb 11oz I’m in awe of 9lb-ers. But 11lb? Yikes.

Worse aren’t we allowed to do moany mini-wails? If not then I’d best stop posting altogether! Did you have a better night last night? Hoping so and that that in turn has made you feel more human. Was your emotional mood a good emotional mood or bad emotional mood? I quite like soppiness sometimes. Also, I am planning a crazy itinerary for ecobaby and I on our kent/sussex tour….is it the Scotney vicinity that would be good to meet up? I have meets in Goudhurst, TW, Bexhill and Eastbourne and just trying to piece it together. Excited! Those vj and worse babies look scrumdiddly.

Gah….the bloody baby only woke up. I’d best away. May the grey mists lift for you all

eco DS was 9lbs 13oz. It was quite the shock.

plonk you know I'm always around if you need someone to lend a hand?

Both DS and I have developed a serious case of the sniffles so today is a lazy day so that he can get better for his childminder taster day tomorrow. I hope she's prepared because he's started to walk the full length of the sofa now, so good luck to her. Is it wrong that I'm looking forward to having a couple of hours to clean the house and keep my mind off the fact that I'm going to miss DS too much

eco 8th, so we hit eight months on Friday. We also need to baby proof! Those of you on facebook with particularly eagle eyes for this sort of thing may have noticed the surround on our fireplace. Sooner or later DD is going to break her face on it. Anyone know where I can get hold of some pipe lagging? Would be ideal for it, and we've nothing else that will particularly require some sort of bumper.

11lbs of baby is making me cross my legs. DD was like three months old or something before she hit that weight although she does, generally speaking, suck when it comes to nourishment and growth.

Day going better than yesterday so far. Woke up at 7am on the dot, went down at 9.30 for a nap, woke up at 10.30, did zombie moans for a few minutes, went back to sleep. Going to get her up now, dressed, fed, and out to my dad's, just to break up the day. And I may take a packet of biscuits round - when I lost all that weight last year I kept a packet of chocolate caramel digestives there, so if I wanted a biscuit I had to walk a mile round trip for it.

Jeez there's a high percentage of very mobile babies in this little crew! I'm also going to need some baby proofing at some point but I'm hoping not quite yet.

My lovely little madam is back to her old sleeping tricks (well not quite but it's not as good as we were getting used to)! She still goes down like a dam but is awake for 1hr at 1, then again at 2.30 when I often give in and feed her then again at 5-6. I shouldn't be feeding her so early but I can't stand being up for 2hrs then ending up feeding her at 3.30 anyway! I had a moan at DH for not helping last night even though I didn't ask him to and he hadn't woken up. What a pest! I'm just hoping she'll naturally improve again or I can learn how to survive with no sleep again!

I've been fast running out of ideas of what to feed her as she's started rejecting veg in a big way and mostly just wants bread and cheese just like her mummy so I'm having a day if cooking all sorts of concoctions to try and sneak some goodies into her!

Wors a good moan on here is good for the soul! Complain away.

Ah the monster squeaks, best get her up and ready as she's accompanying me to the dentist in half an hour. Fun fun fun.

Afternoon all. Tis I worseletrules, reverted. I was kind of missing the slightly odd badly spelt me. So I came back

Boy am I glad it is today and not yesterday, as honestly, that was a bad one. I don't even have a sick baby, so have no excuse.... but seriously, when you have to shut yourself in the pantry for a little cry you know your day isn't quite going to plan. This is why DH had 'the face'. Apparently pantries are for storing food in not crying. Who'd have thought . But today, today is better, as dd has not only eaten, and napped, she has played, and smiled, and possibly even laughed. She did none of those things yesterday

Stormy pipe lagging is inspired. Reckon you'd get it at any ironmongers, or B&Q type place. Failing that befriend a local buildery type and you might get some off-cuts.

Something impressive walking! The worselet can't walk anywhere. This pleases me. Especially given her magnet like attraction to wood floors. I mean why would anyone stay on the carpet when wood makes such a great noise when you whack it especially with your head

Eco my emotional mood yesterday was off the scale wail! It turned a corner late on when my tenant rang up to say he was getting married. I have no idea why this was such a cheering event given I have not actually met him, or his wife to be, but for some reason it gave me the warm fuzzies. Love a wedding.

yummy I have similarly handy night settling DH. He's much better at it than I am. He needs to be because given his snoring keeps me awake more than the worselet he might otherwise be relegated to the shed.

Oh b*gger, grumpy pants cross patch baby has returned and is cross. I had better go....

Probably good you've reverted Worse as I kept reading the alternative as Worsell-trools which sounds skandiwegiantastic (wasn't she the witch in the moomins ) but wasn't what you meant .

I have the place to myself as dh out and DS asleep. Catch up with strictly only about 3 weeks behind and spaghetti Bol in my pjs, who says having children stops you having a life.

Ah phew.

Something you're a diamond. I'm sure I shall certainly be calling on you at some stage - on the strict basis that this friend supporty thing works both ways.

Stormy any chance of just strapping the baby in lots of wadding? Like that incredibly cosy looking martial art?

Worse sounds like you had a shit day. Hugz n solidarity sister.

Eco we weren't already flirting?!

Pud enjoy your evening! I don't watch strictly, but if I did you might sounds like heaven.

The 11lb baby makes me sad. I'm sorry to say its entirely down to the mother overeating. She was bigger at 29 weeks than I was at 41 - I know, not fair to compare, but the baby doesn't stand a chance of growing up healthy. She was badly wanted too, and the parents had received fertility treatment in order to conceive.

Right, I'm off to turn my lounge into a wedding invitation assembly line.

Well, I was somewhat looking forward to having a couple of hours to get the house in order while DS goes to the CM but due to having a blocked, stuffy head, the second day of my period on the copper coil which basically renders me unable to move for the pain and the fact that I have to be out all this evening and tomorrow evening because my theatre company is putting a show on that I don't really actually care about, I'm just going to get into bed until it's time to pick him up. Plus, he's being extra cute today, it's like he knows he's ABANDONING me. I'm feeling sorry for myself having a whiney day.

But I don't really mean it...much...

Throw self on tummy. Scream about being on tummy. Be picked up. Throw self on tummy. Scream about being on tummy. Be picked up. Throw self on tummy. Scream about being on tummy. Be picked up. Repeat for an hour. This baby is failing to understand basic logic. If you don't want to be on your tummy, then it's simple: just don't throw yourself on your tummy! But no. Throw self on tummy. Scream about being on tummy. I am starting to worry she may be a little bit mentally retarded.

Trial and mainly error, Stormy?

Sonething you need a gret big bag of maltesers. He'll give you huge smiles when you fetch him.

Really must stop typing in a regional accent.

I reckon she's testing to see how many times I'll sit her up again before I snap and throw her out the window. And then we had nap fail! Oh, the shouting and whining down the baby monitor! I nearly threw that out the window too. Really seriously need to fast forward time. Get this bloody wonder week out the way already.

Something it seems we have snot and a copper coil in common. Sorry you are feeling rubbish. I wonder how this little copper blighter will affect my periods. Maybe things will calm down for you after a few months. How was the CM trial in the end?

Betty how did the concoctions go down? They say that faddy eating when babies is ok. I need inspiration on the food front too actually…..

So, ladies, can I ask today, what have you offered your LO today? I am hoping to steal some of your ideas for our own repertoire. We have had a bowl of porridge with half an apple finely grated in it and the other half given as a lump. Lunch was a bit random eclectic we had steamed carrot sticks and hummous, eggy wholemeal bread and tinned peaches for pudding. Dinner is going to be a chicken tikka masala (chicken, tinned toms, fresh toms, yoghurt, spices, onion and red pepper) with rice and some fruit mush for pudding. It’s breakfasts and lunches on the hoof that I want to get better at.

Welcome back Worsetershire! I hope there’s been less pantry action today? Maybe, like Stormy, you are having wonder week craziness.

Pud I’m behind on strictly too. I will catch up soon. So far, Abbey gets on my nerves but is an excellent dancer and I like the look of the hollyoaks man. The Geordie actor makes me laugh….his MC Hammer Cha Cha was brilliant. It is making me resolve to get back to dancing properly rather than going once in a blue moon because I tell myself I’m too tired come Monday evening.

Plonky did you manage to keep your DS away from the assembly line? I have to restrict those sorts of activities for when ecobaby is far far away.

Stormy, don’t throw her out of the window. No. Strap a hedgehog to her tummy instead.

We went to weigh lump today. She is just shy of 20lb. All that yanky food must have done some good. One the weighing table next door was a baby who was also 7mo and had hair you could put in a pony tail. Made ecobaby look like a baldy baby (writing that made me want to comment upon baby girl headbands….before I do can I ask if any of you are fans?) . We’re just off for another walk as the sun is out and we feel like we need to make hay.

Eco the concoctions did not go well. I made a tomato sauce with some veggies whizzed in & didn't with some pasta. She refused it point blank. I'm trying the sauce again later but with lentils. Inseam she ad puréed chicken casserole which she liked.

Recent hits have been cheese omelette. Cheese & courgette muffins. Anything on a crumpet. Bread sticks. Eggy bread. Anything sweet she can get her cheeky little mits on.

She used to eat chunks of veg & fruit beautifully but now turns her nose up at them. Hopefully it's just a short phase.

I'll also bite on the headband question! I too have a baldy baby & I'm sure a headband would stop everyone thinking she's a boy but they're not for me, in the same way pink, frilly and character laden things aren't basically I think I'm a baby clothes snob

stormy sorry you are having a tough time. Im thinking these stages of ww gets harder as they get older.

something get well soon. Chocolate should help. You would think we had gone through enough with pregnancy birth newborn stage without having to deal post birth periods.

worse welcome back. Hope you are having a better day today.

eco im in need of inspiration too. Tonight its chicken potatoes and veg. I resorted to jar food for lunch. Ds loves natural yoghurt he would have that breakfast lunch dinner if he could. Generally for lunch ds would have left overs from the meal night before. Past couple of days ds has had meatballs in tomato sauce, lasagne, macaroni cheese, stewed haricot beans.

eco I'm not a fan - the pink headband is merely an identification device for mothers who are fed up with hearing 'isn't he handsome' and as a substitute for hair. They should do baby wigs.

Also, am running out of lunchtime and breakfast inspiration too. Today was bitesize shredded wheat then marmite crumpet and banana for lunch. It's omelette for dinner. Woo hoo.

baby-bangs.com/index2.php

Holy crap

any just checking in to say what the fricking hell is that? A wig for a baldy baby? Every princesses dream. I'm sold. I'm ordering a brunette and a blonde.

Food today for Fartypants: buttered bread and a bit of banana for breakfast, also managed to get one spoonful of mango mush down her before she started whining. Nothing for lunch as we were at the shops, because if I'd stayed in and listened to her complaining for much longer I was going to have a meltdown myself. Haven't a clue about tea. She hasn't the teeth to handle meat, she doesn't know what to do with vegetables, twice she's gagged and been sick with pasta so that's out, she'll take a maximum of five spoonfuls of mush (and that's on a good day) so jars are out too. If she won't take a spoon and she can't manage to feed herself, what exactly am I supposed to give her?

Those baby bangs look a bit frightening. Thank goodness ds is a boy and short hair is totally expected. However, people did used to mistake him for a girl when he was younger. I nearly bought him one of these to clear up any confusion. I wish had now, but I probably just bought wine instead.

And definitely not a fan of a headband on a baby. Just let the baby be a baby.

Eco 20lbs eh? Good going! I thought you made a fine dancer on the short clip from your beautiful wedding invitation. I wish I was gooder at dancing, but I grew up as a tom boy. Is expressed my interest in learning to dance as teenager but was met with a chorus of 'what, you?', so I sulked and listened to Metallica as expected. I'm making some headway with the cutting ad sticking, but yes the baby has to be well away before I can sit down properly to it.

Food...well before the bout of illness ds was offered everything. He wouldn't touch fish and struggled with meat unless it was either blended very fine or in a big chunk he could pick up and gum. So generally he has our food but mashed quite fine, or whatever's to hand if he wants to feed himself. At nursery he gets all kinds of yummy treats, last week it was moussaka then rice pudding. Lucky bugger. This week he's on stage one pouches because hes still coughing too much to handle lumps. And I couldn't be frigged to make them myself.