November 2012 - The last few first birthdays then we're on to Christmas

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1906769-November-2012-Isnt-age-one-a-lot-of-fun

LO did a poo on the potty. Don't think I'm mad and toilet training already. She was constipated and really straining and I remembered the paed had said the potty was an ideal poo position. Popped her on it and out it came. Thought I'd pass on the tip.

Rocking the P look Pass Indeed. He is a fat P.

R is at his granny's. Dp is out on the razz with a mate. I feel weird.

I bet you do PP

pidj I have been thinking over your comment earlier. Would you not like to retrain and do something else that you enjoy later on?

PP big hug.

Hope the hangovers improve pass and Eliza.

Work starts tomorrow!! Eeeeeeek!!

laptop now booted but still no references written. I'll regret this!

I am actually not hungover. Deserve to be but have been fine. looked back through a certain facebook conversation I was having last night and found it a useful document of the latter part of the evening!

A colleague at work asked me if I put p on the potty - in that "you'll put P on the potty, aye?" kind of way which presumes a positive. When I looked stunned and said she wasn't yet a year old the lady told me that she put hers on the potty as soon as they could sit upright themselves. I laughed at the idea of P sitting still - she would just take off taking her pee and poo with her!

actually, just trying to type this is taking an eternity as it keeps hanging. talks self into not doing work

It is very odd being sans baby pp. I can't get used to how quiet the place is. I have had the telly on all day to fill the space

good luck with work tomorrow pikz! do you have any plans for tonight?

PR we're on the bones of our arses financially. I have a few grand left in savings legacy from my gran, i was hoping for a wedding and my music therapy training from it and i don't know how long that needs to last. Dp is not up to being a sahp, if R had a solid 2 hour nap every day then he could rest but he doesn't and i childcare would take such a chunk of anything could earn that it's completely pointless. I've got a degree and an NVQ3, you'd think that would be enough but I'm overqualified for anything that pays now while not being suitability qualified to get a decent job. Dp isn't disabled enough to get dla.

Pass am currently say on the bed eating chocolate snowballs impressed I fit in my suits trousers that I haven't worn in nearly two years!!!

Got comments from MIL from DD1's first birthday onwards. She was furious I left toilet training til after her 2nd birthday. I will leave it as long for LO but this was a desperate attempt at getting her to poo. And worked. She didn't run away because she had cramps I think :(

Pass I don't know what conversation you could mean?!

Pikz Good luck for tomorrow!

O is on fine form today. Little sproglet just managed to get the credits up on Superbad. If you haven't seen Superbad - the credits consist of some porn type music, complete with endless drawings of penis' in varying states . O just sat gawping while we tried to grapple the remote off him! Ooops!

He's also enjoying being flung and rolled around the room in his tunnel. He thinks this is hilarrrrrrious.

DP is not on fine form however. I am about to start my 4 night shifts, so he went to do the food shopping. He came home all pleased about how little he spent. I put the shopping away, and discovered he had forgotten 12 items. 12 FFS! And one of them he'd bought half the amount required - despite the list stating the exact quantity required. . And that was dinner - and it was 4.30pm, and how many corner shops sell parmesan ffs!

Bloody men! Half a fecking job!

Right, time to get ready for work.

Oh - pillows. I tried one last night, as he is snotty, and figured elevation would help. He slept through . Well, he did wake, but when he woke, he self settled quickly. Much relief! And he didn't use it as a weapon, or climbing materiel this morning either! We got 7.45-8 out of him. :)

poor wee soul. I suppose when P needs a poo she stays still until she is all done so theoretically she might sit on a potty. Glad she is feeling better though.

Potty training - my mum will wax lyrical to anyone who will listen about how I was trained at 1. She said I would take my nappy off, refuse to wear it and go to the potty instead.

She found it ridiculous that DS1 was 2yrs 5 months. I think that's pretty early for a boy to be honest!

DS1 trained himself also - as I just caught him casually piddling in to the loo one day, and that was it - day and night straight away ignoring the occasional poo accident .

I don't see any rush, other than finances - if you have another, having 2 in nappies can be a PITA. But then so can having a toilet trained toddler.... .

My mum won't have O til at least 2 (regularly) purely because she doesn't want to do nappies.

detective i have had a pillow for LO since her first cold a year ago but it is under the bedsheet iyswim.

DD1 was quite easy to train after the first couple of days. Is a huge saving on nappies. There was a regression a couple of weeks in but it's been about 6 months accident free. Her nappies are dry at night but she insists on wearing them anyway at night.

My nappies for the next one will be free

PP I wish a career's guidance teacher had said to me whilst I was filling in my UCAS form for my first degree "errrr archaeology you do realise you'll be on the minimum wage forever" in some fields you can have all the qualifications in the world, they're just poorly paid. I ranted and railed about it for a while after I graduated and realised how far (or not) my wages went in the real world (which was entirely out of whack with my naive graduates view that I should be living a vair grown up life with naice things in a posh area because I was a graduate dontcha know!) but that wasn't going to change anything so I retrained and ok, it took six years to pay off my MSc and graduate loan but it's totally worth it now. I hope you and DH get some luck on your side and calm water so that you can retrain too if you want.

Isles awesome work on the room. But won't a landlord go mumpy about stickers on a wall if he has to redecorate after you eventually move out? Or is the deposit Ps!!! Don't you start your new job this week? Good luck. And happy birthday to M for (is it tomo?)

We've had another day of hillwalking. Was lush. Off the lead Betsy didn't do her Tigger bounce at anyone providing I yelled at her in advance so everyone thought I had Tourettes. Then we ordered the Christmas meat. Tree next weekend.

Oh I forgot, break a leg isles

Hill walking sounds great yw

We do lots and lots of 'life mapping' work nowadays so that kids know what to expect. When you are 17 you generally have no concept of what money is actually worth or you are so pious as to think that you are beyond the financial! I would never dissuade anyone from something but talking about future prospects is a big thing. However, sadly no one can tell the future.

1 ref written. Not for archaeology.

Potty training, scary beast. F has found dsds old potty in the airing cupboard, and thinks it is a great "thing" to put things into and take things out of. Things being toys, not poos.

Det am at sleeping-through-when-ill baby.

I try not to dwell on the £ of nappies. It is terrifying. I do remember in the early days, when F would do poo after poo after poo, in the space of quarter of an hour, and I would think to myself, that's £xx in the bin.

Det dh offered to do our main Christmas shop today when we were tlaking about it. I said to him, well what things do you think are important to get? He was all, "turkey, biscuits, um, chocolates...". Anything to go with the turkey, dh!?

Thanks ladies. Yes I do start tomorrow, feeling a bit nervous now the reality is starting to sink in. and really sick, but I think that has been more due to my all day hangover

YW wall stickers should - in theory - be easily removed without leaving a mark. I used to use them in the classroom without causing any damage. (We also didn't pay a deposit for this place....)

I started my degree doing biomedicine. And then Neuropsychology. And then Educational Psychology. And then I somehow wound up with a teaching degree . And worse than that, I start a new job working in finance tomorrow morning!

We have wall stickers, they're reusable or peelable or something like that. Presume isles has something similar?

7th or 8th billion wake up in 90 mins, am off to bed myself with the sleep dodger, who has generously shared the love and given me her cold.

Cross post isles - good luck for tomorrow xx

J has a fever. The lack of hair should help cool him down. Perhaps he caught a chill? But he has not been out since the close shave. I see a long night ahead of me.

I am going to get him a pillow. He uses me as a pillow when we co-sleep so he will probably love it. I am going to treat the girls to a new pillow each too. Memory foam ones. I have one and I love it.