March 2013 - time to wrap them all up in tinsel

[StormyBrid]

Old thread here.

worse we're like Plonky on the timings - we keep mealtimes and milktimes separate. I spotted something in Evil Baby Whisperer that suggested around this age milk should be at the time you'd give a snack. Thinking about it, that's pretty much what we do - milk at the crack of dawn, 11am, 3pm and bedtime, food at 9am, 1pm and 5pm. It seems to work, and Fartypants is definitely in the process of reducing milk herself. Those middle two feeds, she's having about four ounces now.

How is the worselet on mush? Does she show any preferences? If we were sticking with baby led weaning we'd be getting absolutely nowhere. Savoury mushes, she'll try a mouthful then get distracted by the cat. Fruit mushes, she practically inhales. For a reduced stress option, can I suggest getting yourself to Asda? They've a hell of a range of cheap fruity mushes, and then at least you're not having to throw away purees you've spent hours lovingly creating.

Incidentally, six month old Molly may love her porridge, but all that means is that Molly's a total weirdo - porridge is vile. It's weetabix all the way round here, with mashed banana in.

eco hang in there, it does get better. How long until 37 weeks for you?

I am thanking my heathen gods we don't have crawling yet. Nappy changes with rolling are bad enough. Especially when it's a particularly horrific one.

just dipping in to say that pisses me off too. No energy for eloquent ways of putting things! Thanks everyone for lovely support. You are such a great bunch.
Dh better. But after yesterday's solo parenting marathon and sleepless night and no eating and getting stressed am in bed, rewarded with migraine. So, enough phone, more later. When better.

Get better soon Eco and other poorlies.

Leni, there's a message for you on fb re slings which I hope is helpful.

Dh and I managed to have massive row about baby food today. # thingsIdidntanticipatewhenwegottogether

Forgot to say that's important to fight the good fight on 'babysitting' too! With dh having done a stint as ft sahd and now going pt to be main carer we get it slightly less but it still rankles!

Hmm. If I hadn't bee six days late getting this new pack of pills, the curse would've turned up five days ago. Could it be pee on a stick time?

I think it might be, Stormy....

While I wait for the chemist to open, I have a question. How in the name of buggery to I change DD's nappy? As soon as I put her down she rolls over. I return her to her back and she immediately rolls again. I've been pinning her with a spare foot but she's learning how to escape that. As for her feet... I have to hold both ankles in one hand to lift, but I only have midget hands and she won't stop kicking! Any suggestions before I break out the duct tape.

stormy give something in her hand to play with. Sometimes it works, even if it is your mobile. Desperate times, desperate measures and all that.

I thought I would never be in my bed at this time of the morning ever again since I had ds. Shame im starting work next month and it will be my turn to wake him up early.

Yummy very jealous. My baby woke at 6.55 but I pay awake from 6.30 in nervous anticipation.

Stormy I give him a toy, and put my legs either side. The most he can move then is on to his side, which is actually helpful for pooey nappies iyswim? While he's on his side slip nappy under then use BRUTE FORCE.

Leni I meant to add the other day, it sounds like you do a great job with DS. It's hard all the same, and I hope you feel better soon.

We didn't make it to nandos yesterday , even though it's officially a Jay Rayner approved eating establishment. I may have to recreate it at home. On the other hand we did our first full night in a cloth nappy. It was a roaring success and DS slept well. Despite going to bed looking like I'd stuck a pillow to his bum.

Used to give her something to play with. Unfortunately this has stopped working. Brute force is no good without enough arms to apply it! And it's not just rolling onto her side, Plonky, she's straight over and crawling off towards the fireplace. This morning she decided to wee while I was trying to corral her on the mat. I could have wept. Instead I left her wriggling around on the floor with her bare bum sticking up while I went for a clean vest.

Not a chance in hell of her getting my mobile to play with. I doubt touch screens are designed to withstand chewing.

Pud, tell us how you managed to have a row about baby food?

Also, belated happy birthday, Betty - don't think I got round to saying it on the day.

I asked if any babies have proper words yet, because the earliest talkers would be making themselves known right about now. Baba and dada probably doesn't count though. Certainly doesn't in this house, anyway. It's clearly just babbling, despite what other people (who've never studied the acquisition of language in children) keep telling me.

My views on travellers, if the conversation hasn't moved on too far... We had quite a few at my high school. It was apparent that they didn't have the most spectacular bathing facilities in the world. And not one of the girls made it through GCSEs, as they all got pregnant. One on one they were mostly just reasonable people though, it was only in big groups they were a bit scary (just like groups of any flavour of teenager are a bit scary).

One of these days, I'll get the hang of posting regularly when on my phone. Then I won't have a page and a half of posts to catch up on.

Right, time for a smoke, then to wake up Shoutypants, then we are off on an excursion to the chemist.

Weirdness. DD is perfectly happy, but has blood in her mouth...

Stormy changing nappies here can get pretty comical too. I tried the leg on either side thing. She foiled that at the first attempt. Sometimes giving her cotton wool to chew works. This is probably not a HV recommended course of action.

I'm too distracted by the POAS situation to write anything else. Please put us out of our misery!

Stormy I'm waiting in nervous anticipation for the POAS!

I'm doing a KIT day at work tomorrow for the first time and I'm nervous! I've got to be out of the house by 6.20 and have no bloody idea how I'm going to manage that. If DD has a wake & feed before 5 she wouldn't be awake before I left so I'll have to wake her up & feed her again but then she'll never get back to sleep & it takes ages to feed her at the moment! Fingers crossed she wakes at 5, I feed her, she goes back to sleep & then I can get ready and leave her asleep! Hmmm.

Not upduffed.

Ah stormy . Were you secretly hoping?
Hope you're ok.

Was very much hoping.

Oh Stormy, I'm so sorry. Do you think now that you know how much you want it it's the time for further discussion with DP?

Maybe have a nice large glass of something and half a pack of fags in commiseration?

Oh Stormy. Just checking in and sorry that you're sad. Betty's plan sounds a good one - for starters.

stormy sorry your upset about it. As Betty suggests have a talk with dp. This is probably very unreasonable but tell him you think you might be pregnant and see what his reaction is. I say this because dh always wanted dc but when I told him I was pregnant he was shocked and couldn't process it even though we were planning.

betty 6.20! sorry that is not helpful. Try getting everything ready night before eg what you are going to wear, baby stuff etc. Who is looking after dd?

stormy we introduced a potty to nappy change time which really helps. We sit DD on it mid change and have chat and play for a few mins and then put her down on mat to put nappy on - it seems to calm her wriggling with the added bonus that she now goes in the potty about 70 per cent of the time. Of course she can't signal when she needs to go so it's just when we pop her on but it makes nappy change more of an activity so DD doesn't resist it as much.

stormy we introduced a potty to nappy change time which really helps. We sit DD on it mid change and have chat and play for a few mins and then put her down on mat to put nappy on - it seems to calm her wriggling with the added bonus that she now goes in the potty about 70 per cent of the time. Of course she can't signal when she needs to go so it's just when we pop her on but it makes nappy change more of an activity so DD doesn't resist it as much.

Apologies for double post. Meant to say sorry you are disappointed stormy but least you know how strongly you feel about having a second. If it were even a teeny risk for me I would be sobbing in the corner!

Aw Stormy, I think a nice chat with MrBrid, a few beers and a cuddle will go a long way.

I'd love another baby, and can't wait to add to our lovely little family. But there's plenty of time for that. In the meantime I've compiled a very handy list of sanity-keeping thoughts that I like to remind myself of whenever the uber-broodiness hits:

1. Meconium.
2. Newborn sleep, and basically becoming nocturnal for a number of weeks.
3. The isolation that accompanies being nocturnal. And daytime telly, it's shit.
4. Cleaning the entire house, and then needing to do it all over again the next day.
5. Laundry.
6. Sterilising EVERYTHING.
7. All the wonder weeks that have passed that I'm just not ready to go through again.
8. Wanting DS to have my attention as much as possible before giving him a sibling to torment play with lovingly.
9. The expense. Ok we technically already have everything we need, but staying at home is not cheaper than going to work.

10. Having to buy a double buggy/work out how to not break my back pushing a pram up a STUPID FECKING HILL whilst wearing a sling. 11. When your friends ask what you've been up to, and all you can think of is feeding, sleeping, and cleaning. 12. Dummy returns. 13. Hair pulling. 14. Poonamis. 15. The possibility of once again needing stitches in my vagina.

16. Teething
17. Whining
18. Trapped wind ( baby not the mother)
19. Having to carry a big changing bag even though only going local.
20. The annoying inbetweeny stage when baby wants to sit but can't, wants to crawl but can't. 21.pregnancy including all day morning sickness

22. Having TWO little people to run you ragged.... and doing everything you currently do now, twice... including nappies.

23. Bugs (particularly D&V type bugs) affecting 2 children, both still in nappies
24. Having one of those constantly feeding newborns with a toddler who doesn't understand why someone else is getting all the cuddles
25. Baby wakes up toddler. Toddler wakes up baby. Rinse and repeat

I would still have another one now if we could afford it though...

Decided not to go for the jobs. I just can't face going full time, and mine is not the sort of job where you can go in asking for part time when it's advertised as full time. Well I could ask but it wouldn't be possible.

Shattered- it was plonky who is 11st ish. I am at 15 at the moment, was 17 in November, need to be 13 for my skydive, and hope to eventually be 10-11 st. God knows what I'd look like at 10st, last time was 12 years ago, age 16!!