The 7th Broadly Gemini Luxury Bus - Now with highchairs!

[AGnu]

Old thread here

Bibs at the ready, things are about to get very messy!

Calf has this monkey as his special toy. Unfortunately he was ill while staying with my parents this weekend so his stuff was rapidly packed up to bring him home early & Mwnci got left behind! Poor ill boy has been asking for him ever since! I told him that Granny was sad that Calf had had to come home early so Mwnci stayed to cheer her up. Apparently I'm now the kind of parent who makes up silly stories & lies to their child! He's making do with Charly Bear for now but does keep mentioning Mwnci.

Runt has a giraffe called Gnu which he likes to chew... Not sure I can really class it as his favourite - it's the only one we've given him!

I'm in a perpetually bad mood. I've been grumpy for about 2 weeks. Initially I thought it was depression coming back again but then I got my first semi-normal AF so thought it was perhaps PMDD because I felt normal again after a few days. Now I'm back to being grumpy & just wanting everyone to leave me alone. I'm clinging to the idea that it's just hormones & it'll settle down but I've got a horrible feeling I'm heading for ADs again!

I want cuddly ones to rock. Calf has never been cuddly & Runt seems to be following suit. I'd love one who just wanted to sit with me! Calf is more interested in impersonating a firework, even when he's ill! Fireworks are not cuddly!

Oh man, agnu I know the feeling of leaving a stuffed friend behind! Little white stories are totally fine IMO! If white lie=sanity, then it's a-ok.

I wonder what's going on with the bad moods? Sorry to hear you're having a hard time right now. I suffer from PMDD when I'm cycling as well and it's really difficult. It's gotten pretty bad in the past, so I'm dreading the pattern starting again. So far, no AF, I've had a few times when I thought it would be starting up again, but then it just never comes. Hopefully it holds off being regular for you for a while!

Agnu hope he gets reunited with his monkey soon
I can't offer any wisdom with depression of any kind , I am very lucky to have never been there and don't want to try and offer useless silly advice but I can offer
Ds may still become cuddly, my dd1 would never sit still for a second but now if she is watching something with me she will sit on my knee and cuddle and tells me to put kitten down so she can jump on, same when we are doing a jigsaw or drawing, she's gradually got more interested in calm activities thankgod
Bring, our plan was the bunny rotation too lol they are not fooled easily though are they ha ha I like the idea of kitty and his brother

Urgh, not snow AGAIN. We've only been snow-free for 5 months, this isn't fair! Plus it's threatening to ruin our bonfire night party! I'm ready to move to Bermuda.

Agnu. Sorry to hear you're down. I hope you're getting some support around you and if not maybe it is time to ask? It's so easy to plod along and not ask. I often do that Think it's my mummy pride! I love your Jelly Cat monkey. Cute

Bring...snow?! Already! We only have rain and wet leaves to contend with over here. I bet your community is more friendly and less guarded to make up for the extreme cold weather

Ha. Must be why they call it "Minnesota Nice"? Which then also results in everyone being very passive aggressive with each other.

Yep, had to cancel our bonfire night party. We are expecting the "wintery mix" to arrive this afternoon and drop off between 1-3 inches of snow, slush, and sludge. I'M NOT READY FOR THIS AGAIN.

In other completely unrelated news to anything that this thread is supposed to be about, I got a dreaded dry socket and had to have it packed this morning at the dentist's office. I was so good and followed all the directions! Why did I end up being the 2% that this happens to?

What's the dreaded dry socket bring?? It doesn't sound good
It's taken me 2 +hours to get the kids ready to go out to the supermarket and they've both fallen asleep on the way here I tried to get dd1 to have a nap early then it's just been a cycle pottys, nappys, milk, tidying.......

Dr. Google can tell you.

Oh jeeze. I hate when they fall asleep in the car! They are monsters b/c you had to wake them up but it's mother suicide to leave them in the car. Sorry kitty

Ouch!
Yes that shoping trip was....... Interesting
I'm reminded why not to go with two small children, the highlight leaving kitten with a till girl as I had a full trolley of shopping and dd1 needed a wee

LOL! Kitty, I may have had a stranger stand with a ds one or two times so we could go pee....!

Oh my life, I can't get over the cuteness of M finding her feet and growling at them. She makes me want to have 6 more babies, but only if they're all girls. I'm actually afraid to have another baby because it will most likely be a boy. bad mum playing favourites

Totally fed up. Another night of being up due to painful wind. Today I stupidly indulged in egg mayo and I think that's the evil culprit No amount of leg cycling, tummy massage or rocking seems to be helping tonight. Sigh Zzzzzzzzzxx

Oh man pear Hugs and lots of for you. I so want to just have the magic answer to give you so you and your little guy are feeling better! Do you think it was the eggs? Is that something you could cut from your diet? Perhaps dairy?

I know you're already trying to follow an elimination diet.... (I think they are evil and so hard. I've been there and done it with #2 so I'm not suggesting you start one!). I think the basic elimination diet is to cut pretty much everything and then slowly start introducing things one-by-one to see what triggers the symptoms.... But I just find one thing that I thought could have caused the symptoms and cut it from the diet and try it again in a week. A diary of foods and/or symptoms can also be helpful.... I'm sorry you guys had a rough night.

Evening all.
pear I have no idea what to suggest. just a query, what are you drinking?

Anyone like cute little rag dolls? I got this one for ds because it made him laugh. i think it's the hair I got him a pirate one too. But I think I might get a set for dd2 to play with for Christmas. They are just the right size for little hands. And totally adorable

bring ds has found his feet too. He likes to hold them and put them in his mouth and giggle as I try to change his nappy also something that he finds hilarious but then he finds everything funny and randomly giggles over nothing.

And eyeing up little old ladies on the bus today too, aided by me us having a lazy day so he had a hand knitted (not by me) cardi over a sleepsuit. Old ladies seem to love the hand knits. But you've got such a short space of time with boys and hand knits, you've got loads longer with girls.

he sounds really happy and giggly, which I guess he is when he isn't grissling, which is whenever I disconnect my nipple from his mouth put him down, or he's hungry or tired which is most of the day, and all of the evening.

bring how's the tooth, or should I say lack of tooth today? Could it have been your hormones that caused the dry socket? Do you have to keep getting the packing changed too?

It actually feels pretty good when it's packed. I have to get it taken out/replaced tomorrow. It could definitely be from hormones dr google says so or just b/c it's a tooth that was there for a long time. Doc wasn't too worried, so I guess I can't be either. I hope the damn thing heals...

Pear: I read THIS and it immediately made me think of little pear There's someone else out there with a rough sleeper! I know it doesn't really help but it's nice to know others are out there.

Oh wow. Bring!! That lady has it much worse I don't have repeated nights of waking every hour. I couldn't even produce enough milk to nurse every hour! Yes, it was definitely the eggs. I totally forgot and I just indulged because I've missed them so much and his reflux had been getting better. Dumb dumb me :) I'm still avoiding things. Still can't eat garlic, onions, fresh tomatoes (tomato on pizza is OK), eggs, large quantities of milk, butter, red wine, fizzy drinks, ham, curry, chilli and too much chocolate

Frus ~ I drink water and squash. White wine at the weekend The rag doll is adorable. Love it. Such a good price too

So, we've now done a few nights must be at least a week where we've not brought him downstairs after 7pm. He's still waking up at 7:45 and 9:30 but hey ho. Yesterday it dawned on me that because of this he's dropped the 10:30 feed which is probably why he's waking at 1:30?! So I gave him his first ever dream feed at 11:20 last night and he slept until 3 when he woke up in pain. DH rocked him back to sleep and he woke up at 4am for food. Then went back down until 8. Hallelujah! So I'm feeling more human today! FX we can continue with dream feed. On another note the reason why the dream feed was so late was because I fell asleep in the bath for nearly 2 hours! DH said I could run a bath whilst he was rocking. Then I fell straight asleep in bath. DH woke me up at 11:10. I've never slept in a bath before in my life. What was DH thinking letting me sleep? He just said oh I thought that's what you wanted. I didn't even get time to wash as it was stone cold when I woke. These DH's are so helpful

LOL oh my goodness! Wouldn't he have noticed that you were gone for 2 hrs? And he hadn't heard the bath being re-filled or drained...? I can't stop shaking my head and laughing over here... Glad the dream feed worked for you! Horray for feeling like a human again! Damn eggs. So good but so bad for some babies.

I love the ragdoll Frus! Yeah, boy clothes just aren't the same. I think we managed to keep DSs in cute sweaters and the like until they were about 2? or started rubbing dirt into everything and becoming obsessed with LFC like their papa

Last night was a bit hellish. I don't know about you, but I can only remember having a fever 1 or 2 times in my adult life and last night just bumped that # up. Little boys shits keep coughing in my face and it finally caught up with me. I was having delusions about cloth nappies and kept waking every 30 mins Then when it finally broke I was in a freaking flood of sweat. URGH. The sickness needs to leave our house! Now I'm coughing all over and praying M doesn't catch it. I get scared when tiny, tiny people have fevers and coughs.

Bring...that's the scary thing! DH knew I had fallen asleep but thought that he shouldn't disturb me Honestly, since having a baby his brain has turned to mush!! He used to be so switched on Sorry you're poorly I hope you can take medicine for it whilst bf? Last thing you needed on top of what you've been through with the dentist I can highly recommend the vaporiser plug in for coughs. It really helps keep the chest clear in the night wish I had used one before baby arrived!

Ahhh he probably thought he was being kind pear, atleast you survived lol you must have been very tired!
Bring I'd hate kitten to get a cold aswel, luckily dd1 is quite robust and touches wood we havnt had illness for along time, girls clothes are cute but I have to tell you girls can be I've heard are worse about dictating what they want, my dd1 is only 2 but I have a daily fight with her about not wearing her monsters inc tshirt or tigger p j's every single bloody day!!! She loves boys clothes and picked out 2 pairs of boys trainers when we went to get her measured last week it was me staring longingly at the lelli Kelli's and patent shoes

Yes Kitty he tries his best! Ahh aww to patent shoes

But little girls can actually look really cute in boy's clothes. I'll enjoy the very girly attire I can current get M to wear and not think about when she wants wear her older bro's dumptruck shirt.

I will look into that pear bad mum should have gotten it for the boys when they were this poorly

I may or may not have taken one of my remaining narcotics last night but it worked like a dream, presto! no more headache and I was out like a light

Bring don't feel bad for drugs, man we've stayed off them for long enough and from what I read what you have is pretty painful!
I do like some boys stuff, we bought her a superman jumper in blue as we thought shed look cool and the pink ones are very naff but pj's all day every day! No not a good luck and we have a beautiful wardrobe too I now shop through my girls

< groan > I have a fever of 102, again. it's totally pneumonia like what ds2 had a week ago. FML (and I almost never use that word). Yay for another doc visit. Thanks for letting me vent. I think dh is getting sick of me being needy and sick.

Oh no

Can I just say that this week I've got my act together and my bottle of weekend wine is sitting in the kitchen ready and waiting!