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!

Also, we have a christi on facebook! And we also have our third shared name. Christi and pud obviously have excellent taste.

Phew, that was a lot to catch up on!

Stormy I agree to pick your battles, but if the mans being an arse he needs to get over it and start enjoying his lovely daughter. Glad the check up went well, hope the hips/ribs are only minor issues.

any that note from the mice is a superb idea.

Eco I'm here! I work weds-fri so just think of me as being squashed under a mahoosive pallet of wine. But stamp gate is an ongoing saga (dp used to be a postie, you'd have thought he might know better but alas). And I agree, baby waking, refusal to feed and generally being a grumpy sod makes me very anxious.

Rainbow they can't suck and chew at the same time, hence your unscathed nips. But I've seen what DS can do to a bottle teat when he's not sucking...not pretty.

I think we're through the wonder week. Finally. DS now has three teeth and sleeping seems to have returned to normal. And yesterday he crawled backwards. I wasn't there, THANKS WORK. Dp is being a dick at the moment. Such is life! Must get back to work.

Big news here ... for the last 2 days mini farmer has been Walking !! Off course with me holding him .

Also 2 lower front teeth have came through !!

This has been a very productive time for mini farmer :-)

Awesome news on the walking! I remember when it was a novelty here. Now it's all DD ever wants to do. Say goodbye to your spine...

Good news on the man front: first thing he said when he got in from work was an apology for being an arse recently. I asked him to give DD her bath and he said "If you like," which is slightly less than ideal enthusiasm but not bad, and I can hear him talking to her and playing with her.

I think we're through the wonder week too. Twice today DD has been happy to sit and play with her toys, so happy that I actually managed to smoke an entire fag both times. It's been a while since that happened!

Just dropping by (at gone midnight because ecobaby has a cold and that makes self soothing by thumb sucking difficult to the point of not being able to breathe) to say: Gerry I believe it's the end of your first working week. I hope the Thursday flop feels great and that Friday is full of sweet times.

Thanks eco :)

This week has been up and down. Dd decided to stop sleeping this week, which made things much trickier. I had mainly lovely classes, and one year 11 'life skills' class that was more badly behaved than any class I have ever met. But my changed perspective since becoming a mum means I don't really care. Trying to teach them about managing their money, one says 'I'll spend it all on coke like my brother' and another says 'why do we need to know about tax miss, you don't pay it on the dole'. It has, overall, been lovely to be back. I need order to my day, and I need to be more than a mum. Let's see if I'm still saying this by Christmas...

I think dd may have been waking because she was cold, which makes me feel guilty... Talk to me about temps/clothing? DD's room has been 18 at bedtime, and she was in a long sleeved vest, babygro and 2.5 tog sleeping bag. Last night we upped the heating and put her in an extra babygro. Obvs still no heating overnight, but it was 20in there when the heating went off at 9. She's still asleep, so something has worked!

Morning all.

Well done mini-farmer! Another one walking - yay! We're still on super-speed rolling and the odd crawl here. The tiddler can stand if I hold her hands, but has yet to work out the concept of putting one foot in front of the other. That's like hard advanced baby stuff

Gerry glad you're surviving. It sounds like Gerry-baby was a bit cold, as we've had much better sleep here too since I moved the worselet into a warmer less draughty room. It's about 20 in there, and she's in a long sleeved vest and a 2.5 tog grobag. Previously I had her in that plus a onsie, but her hands were very cold, and she was restless from about 4am.

Stormy I hope dd's hips are ok. I have unusually prominent bottom ribs. Well rib actually, one side is normal. Aside from the fact it makes fitted tops an usual fashion choice it hasn't affected me in any way so hopefully you have nothing to worry about. An unprompted apology from the man sounds like major progress on that front. Hopefully he's turned a corner and grown up a bit.

Plonky have a good day, remember the customer is always right, even when they are wrong, don't kill DP, and with 3 teeth the tiddler could give you a right old nip if he felt like it. DD drew blood yesterday, when she 'mistook' my finger for a teething ring . Owwww.

Time to get cracking. I have a friend coming round to raid the garden for xmas wreath supplies. I may have sworn blind we have holly berries. The birds may or may not have eaten them all. I'm hoping not.

Well done mini-farmer! Prepare to be exhausted

stormy it seems that we have to take what we can get with DPs. An "if you like" is something I would absolutely take as a positive! I usually get "can we do it together?". Last night, I asked DP to make up the bottles and gave him clear instructions as to which ones to fill as one is smaller than the other 2. Half 11 came, he was in bed, I went into the kitchen and the wrong bottles had been made up with the wrong level of water. So, I had to throw them all away and start again. AND! He got angry at ME for coming in to the bedroom to tell him when he was just settling down. The poor lamb...

Sorry, that turned into a longer rant than expected. I'm yet to have my morning cup of wine coffee!

gerry it sounds like you've had an interesting week. I think you now have a well deserved day off I've been worrying about the temp in DS's room too. He sleeps in a long sleeved vest, pjs and a 2.5 tog grobag. He gets cold hands though. It seems odd that only a few months ago we were talking about it being too hot in their rooms. I remember putting DS to bed in just a nappy some nights.

So, DS has some new tricks. Blowing bubbles, grinding his teeth, taking a mouthful of water or yogurt and spitting it back out, and waving. The waving is very cute, everything else is not so.

Its 20.1 in my room just now , mini farmer has a long sleeve bodysuit , pjamas and a 2.5 growbag ,

We've been away and without central heating if we're not here then there's no heating. Put oil rad on his room when we got back and it's now 16.8 in here (usually 19 ish). He's in sleepsuit and 2.5 grobag. Seems warm enough? You have me worried now...

Pud no need to worry if he's happy enough, if he's too cold he'll let you know! Clearly dd just likes it nice and warm, which is unexpected as we live in a pretty chilly house, and I HATE central heating. If DH would let me, I would have our room at about 12 degrees!

Talking of DH, he's a dick. That is all. Can't be bothered to go into why. Same old bollocks really.

quick dip in to say that I think there's something about Fridays when you have a baby gerry. we seem to be a bit gggrrrrr on a friday too. there must be a reason why because several other girlfriends experience this too. hope he's not being a dick anymore.
hope you all enjoyed your
I put white wine in our dinner, hope that counts.

Not yet been to sleep. Had friends round who didn't leave til midnightish, then just about to nod off and DS starts singing, which turns to shouting, which turns to crying. Still awake now. I'm knackered.

Oh no! The Friday night jinx has struck us all. Another one here with The Night from Hell. It's all go now, so I'd better run, but ducking in to send happy vibes to us all. Today is another day ladies. May it be a better one!!!!

It's the return of the magical, non-sleeping baby! 3 wakes in 2hrs already and I've hit a wall. I'm shattered!

I hope you're all having much better Saturdays.

I'm off to find the Baileys

wow, it's a crap time all round for us isn't it this weekend? I just wrote an in-laws themed rant of my own but deleted it! I shall away to bed and think of something jolly to say ready for morning. sunday is a fresh day full of potential :)

Ditto. Up 3 times last night after the 2 hour persuasion to sleep and i've had to resettle DD twice tonight already due to her getting up on all fours and then moaning about it.

Hello Marchers. Hello yummychoc - are you still out there and ok? Hope you're not in the midst of epic wonder week.
So, sanity has once again returned to our house. The in-laws have departerd. I like having dh's Mum here; she's easy going and cheerful and easily pleased. The rant last night that I deleted was however about MIL's boyfriend. Mainly because he walked into our house and a) put our heating on and b) walked to the remote and put the tv on. I had to simmer quietly but I'm over it now. Until the next time. Pah!

Still got a snotgoblin here with ecobaby but she's cheerful during the day so we've been having plenty of walks and the old saying of 'feed a cold, starve a fever' seems to be very true. MIL was like this at how much food she put away. She was also a bit about still BF at 8m, BLW and no tv/sugar. I have high hopes though; I expect to be able to make any decisions (that are not harmful in any way of course) regarding DD and to have no one comment. Unrealistic! Anyhow.....
I went to a 2 hour pelvic floor yoga workshop yesterday. 80% of women who have had babies vaginally end up with prolapse sooner or (usually much) later. Squeeze those muscles ladies. Your vagina hanging out isn't a look I want us to be moaning about in 10+ years time on this thread which I hope is still going.
Pud, I did the nappy strip wash. Our washing machine nearly choked at beign asked to do so much, the first one is currently on ecobaby's bum so I shall report back on efficacy soon. Thanks for hot tip.

Does anyone have their LO in the room next to their bedroom and NOT use a monitor overnight? I know one of you does this but can't remember who. I guess it cuts the chuntering and squeaks out and enables better sleep?
I hope the crappy Fridays turned into lovely weekends for everyone? What did everyone get up to?

I'm off to curl up with a book called 'the ugly sister' (extended family always referred to me as 'the clever one' which is a euphemism for the book title I think so I thought it'd be an interesting read!) whilst DH does manly football stuff and DD is asleep.

eco we have DD in the next room with no monitor. If she actually needs me, she can wake me easily enough by shouting. We don't need to hear every squawk and chunter, because she wakes me often enough as it is.

We've had an alright weekend. The Shirebrook posse descended once more, so DD has two new cardigans and a lovely new hat which stays in the same place every time she turns her head. I had to stop to readjust it so she could see half a dozen times on the half mile walk home from my dad's, where we've just been for lunch. My day off yesterday didn't really happen though. We both got a break during naptimes, but during awake times, DD kept walking over to me and patting my knees and trying to get me to walk her around, despite having a perfectly mobile daddy right behind her waiting with his thumbs out. Next day off, I'm taking the laptop and hiding upstairs!

at this time of night, after dinner, we often have a dance to our music, dd, dh and I
tonight I was asked what I fancied music-wise from the laptop. I uttered the words "what's that one by goldie looking chain with the fun baby friendly bounce? doooo-do-do do-do" mistake! My memory isn't evidently reliable about specific song content. We're now, much to 'down with the kids' dh, sticking to michael jackson's best of. ecobaby seems to like rockin robin.....

Evening all.

Did someone mention pelvic floor? Oh why did they have to do that.?! I'm going to spend the rest of the evening pulling funny faces now

I had a day off too Stormy, the plan being to have an entire day to myself to buy some much needed clothes that fit, and generally arse about. The reality was I found everything I needed in the first shop I went into and was done in 20 mins flat. Well I say 'I found', but actually the very helpful sales person was responsible for that. Why is it other people can see what suits me, whereas I carefully pick out every single item in the shop that is going to look really terrible.

Eco DH does evening dance time too! Endless fun although his taste in music really sucks. The tiddler gets very excited and kicks her legs so much she has now been renamed the 'beeeetle'. Cos beetles kick their legs about when you turn them over. Yeah? Oh ok...

Snotty here too. I had the calpol methol plug-ins recommended to me, so I'll report back if they are any good. Here's hoping. DD not only sounded like she was about to choke last night, she compounded this by choosing to sleep on her face. Yes, actually flat on her face. This scares me.

As for MIL's bf. What a prize t*55er. I had some London friends like that. The operative word here is 'had'. When invited for lunch they turned up at 5pm, not even slightly apologetic, complained the house was cold, fed their baby mush all over the sofa, and generally behaved like entitled brats. Friends are easier to casually lose touch with than families, so I don't envy you that one.

Time to go play mummy now as DH has been in charge all day and is beginning to flag. I get the night shift, which given she hasn't eaten or drunk anything like enough today should be fun. If you're up at 2am wave to me.

I ended up singing Mmmbop of all thing to ds earlier. He bloody loved it.

Eco I just clicked on that link . I hope you covered dd's ears

Plonky! Of course! Why on earth had Hanson not occurred to me when I had run out of songs to sing? Thanks for the inspiration wish I was being sarcastic but I'm not

Where is everyone? I killed it by admitting I loved Hanson didn't I? Bollocks.

Anyway, after a long day at work I rely on you ladies to keep me entertained in the evenings. Nothing has happened here for nearly 24hrs! I feel let down!