Start your runners (talk) and your new jars of Jam, 'tis the season-almost.

[Vagolajahooli]

Here we are ladies, time for all that talk of christmas table runners and chrissie deccy colour combos. And will we be getting some new Jam in this thread! Maybe not quite.

Enjoy the wine.

I too was a little unsure of your wet situation Vag, thanks for clarifying.

Am I tempting fate? DH not home until Sat but have decided to start packing a bag for the birthing unit. You guys will see me through wont you??

Good grief what's going on with all these leaky bits and the need for weather proofing?! Actually have read back and it all makes perfect sense!

Rubes hope you get to the gym but it's not sounding good for DHs bike!

Am worn out. Hate Thursdays as both DCs have swimming but DD is at 4.30 & DS at 5.30. It's too far for me to come home. So I'm just stuck in the changing room for half and hour. Then home and run about like an idiot making lunches for school and dinner!! I've gone past hunger just need a !

ditto kayz, I just cannot catch up with everyone! I lurk, think I'm about caught up to do a decent post later on and then by the time I come back to do it you are taking thongs and I'm list again .

arti hope the vomit leaves you alone for a bit. so pleased your ap is being fab.

On my phone so can't scroll back. hum. May come off the app and go on the mobile site instead so I can scroll back and attempt some sort of catch up. Back soon.

Hi Deids, I have that on a Wed at the moment. Drop both off at 840, dd at pre-school until 1pm - collect her - but her swimming not until 2 (home and swimming both 5 min away) so have to go home in between, then collect ds at 3.
DH home in about 10 mins - managed to get let on train before end of rush hour, but have abandoned gym especially since it closes in an hour. Think I might revisit dd's pre-school days.... again. Having M, T, W to get things done and gym is too squashed at the beginning of the week.... But can't decide if I move Tues morn session to Fri or Wed to Fri (which alleviates the 45 min filling in)

Deids I thought ds had school dinners - no? I get why people don't post for ages - that happens if I don't - get so far behind it's too hard to go back - then if I do keep up I tend to ramble too much case in point.

Nope mobile site also crap for catch up purposes. What I need is my laptop and a note pad.

But dh is downstairs with ds2 who is sort of improving on sleep but still won't go to bed. If he sees me though he fusses and yells and cries for me and won't sleep so I am banished until fh can get him off and in bed. Tis a hard life having an enforced lie down with mn or a book.

Rubs hope family stuff calls down.

Vag I'm not sure my pre baby pelvic floor could have coped with that mental workout and bouncing let alone my post baby one!

Got to say I'm a comfy shorties sort, no danger of anything slipping out here.

got to dress the big 2 as smurfs tomorrow. Should be fun!

Then must do work. Am in a funk about work so I keep starting at books but doing nothing. Must get a grip, find motivation and get back on top. less crap eating, more exercise and general feeling better about myself. Oh and less making an idiot out of myself crying at uni because of another girl pissing me off and pushing me just that little bit too far. More gin might come into it too. I need to drink more. That's a good resolution isn't it?

Much love. Shall be good and check in more. you'll get sick of me making lots of little comments to avoid falling behind again.

Monday is our mad night trying to pick up from childminder and get ds1 fed before beavers. Good job beavers is just a case of doing a drop kick from the door. I often leave dd at home alone and take ds1 to the hall with ds2 tucked under my arm looking very disgruntled as he was half way through dinner.

Other days vary according to what I'm doing with my hours. poor dh. He is very good really.

hey Indith.

Our maddest night is a Wednesday. I help at school in the afternoon, so before I go have to make sure packed up tea is ready. Then straight from school to golf for DS1 then 20 mins in-between while I dash to gymnastics for DS2. We get home around 6.30 then its chuck in the shower and straight to bed then I collapse. MOndays and Thursdays are pretty tricky too involving swimming and karate. Great day is Friday no after school activities just home watch a movie or play a game.

No DS has packed lunches. He's way too fussy for school dinners. He wouldn't eat anything! Having said that he's taken a liking to pears and raw carrots at snack time which is new. Guess he's just copying his pals.

mine don't get the choice, they have school dinners. ds1 can be an arse. thankfully dd eats everything under the sun.

or slow cooker is our saviour, there are so many times we have to chop everything the night before, chuck it in the show cooker in the morning so we can eat the moment we walk through the door in the evening. I really don't know where is be without my childminder and dh picking up the pieces when I'm on long shifts etc. If I'm on at the weekend dh ends up taking all 3dcs to rugby, coaching ds1s age group, dd goes to her session but has normally had enough about half hour before the end as she is the youngest so then she comes and hangs of his leg and ask the while he has the toddler to deal with. I might complain about him from time to time but I really shouldn't.

Although have I told you that he decided to ignore the pins I left out for the dcs poppies, ignore the suggestion of sticky tape and decided instead that the best way of making sure they didn't lose their poppies was to poke a hole in their jumpers and stick the stalk through.

holes.

With a skewer.

2 ruined jumpers.

honestly I'd love to know what was going through his head!

Guess I'm lucky ds eats most, as I'm no good getting out the door in the morns - so not a morning person, but wish I was. And I feel quite spoilt actually as it's not an option to have school do lunch at most state schools back home. Will you switch him when they are free next year? DD won't eat most but like Summer, I'm still signing her up - she seems to eat when she's hungry

Must go dh back, and roast chicken ready.

DS1's clubs start next week. It's going to be chaos.

I saw GP about the ongoing 3 week period and I'm getting the depo jab 3 weeks early as that should stop it. It bloody better do. This is getting tedious. She said about taking regular ibruprofen for 2-3 weeks but it gives me heartburn. Being a man is so much easier.

3 weeks kayz flipping heck you poor thing. How the jab sorts it.

I'll blame you for stealing mine.

It's doing my head in. GP thinks it could be because DD only feeds overnight now. Considering completely stopping but not sure how to really.

Now I know that my anatomy and physiology will not be as good as the gp but I'm at a bit of a loss to see how her only feeding at night would make you bleed non stop.

vag?

I'm genuinely curious.

continuing to feed may mean you are not ovulating even though you are having periods. But I don't see the link to prolonged period.

It was to do with progesterone. I'm sure it was when you feed your progesterone level raises which stops you ovulating or something. So as she's not feeding as much as she was the progesterone levels have dropped.

She did explain it all. But I'm not sure if that's the right way round.

hmm I suppose you bleed when progesterone levels are low. (The placenta when pregnant makes progesterone, that's what stabilises everything and stops your uterus from contracting)

and prolactin is inhibited by progesterone. This if feeding lots at night and keeping prolactin up you are keeping progesterone down.

But if that followed that it brought on a period and didn't stop then all bf women would be constantly bleeding and we are not.

Quick little chuckle for you all.

After speaking to DH at tonight on facetime. DS1 asked if he could face time the Queen.

I don't know. All too confusing for me.

But to be honest I don't think even the experts quite know how periods and bf are related since they come back at different times for different women. Our can't half muck your cycle around though!

The drop in feeding would certainly make it more likely that your cycle would resume. I'm just confused as to why it would resume and not stop!

After my lovely skipped period I am now awaiting the next one, in day 29 or 30, I forget. Have had cramps and mood swings and everything in the right order, just lacking the period. normally when they come back after a child they go straight to a nice 28 day cycle and behave themselves. ism most miffed that they are not doing the same this time.

But to be honest I don't think even the experts quite know how periods and bf are related since they come back at different times for different women. Our can't half muck your cycle around though!

The drop in feeding would certainly make it more likely that your cycle would resume. I'm just confused as to why it would resume and not stop!

After my lovely skipped period I am now awaiting the next one, in day 29 or 30, I forget. Have had cramps and mood swings and everything in the right order, just lacking the period. normally when they come back after a child they go straight to a nice 28 day cycle and behave themselves. ism most miffed that they are not doing the same this time.

The doctor said hers came back at 5 months with her DC1 and she fed until 22 months and then 6 weeks with DC2 and she fed until 18 months.

I picked the depo jab as everyone said they had no periods at all on it. Not weeks of periods.

Jam, that's great

fickle things periods. 4 months, 9 months and 15 months here!

jam I missed that before. That's fab. Hey him to write and ask, see if he gets a response.

Yeah will defo sign him up if I'm not paying for school dinners. TBH he is getting better, but I think he'll be eating cheese panini every day

My cycle is every 24 days. It's a pain but I'm not going back on the pill even if it was longer.

I'm confused Indith & Kayz but the GP seems to say it with confidence. Right on that she was a longer term Bfer, all the female docs I knew stopped early, not really of their choosing but due to very unsocial hours. Anyhoo, I would have thought it would make period irregular but not a long bleed. But if that is a change that happened recently then it might be that. As far as stopping Kayz. With DS1 I stopped offering when he was only having one at bedtime & with DS2 I initiated the stop when he was having two a day, it was a couple of months shy of his third birthday.

We have to make school lunches. Generally its a sandwich or roll with ham, cheese & pesto or peanut butter and honey. Depending on how much of a rush we are in. Plus snacks. They also all have a carton of milk a day at school but DS2 prefers a yoghurt or kwark drink.

Friday is our busy day for activities. But if we're not having activities then we seem to have a troop of kids here for after school play.