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November 2012 - What are your New Year's resolutions for your baby?

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StuntNun · 27/12/2013 04:32

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1937565-November-2012-The-run-up-to-our-babies-first-proper-Christmas

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PetiteRaleuse · 28/12/2013 15:02

Have fun chasing

Me too stunt :o

fruitpastilles · 28/12/2013 15:08

Oooh chasing sounds fun! I've always fancied doing something like that but have never gotten round to it.

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 15:34

Fruit, after I had DD2 I swore blind I would never have any more. I think it is worth having the conversation with DH, but what we agreed was to leave it for a certain length of time then discuss again. Time changes things, even if his answer was true he may change his mind in the future. I did. I can imagine it is very hard when a couple cannot agree, want different things, but do try to enjoy the child you have without worrying about future siblings.

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 15:45

I have an interview. Gulp. 21st.

fruitpastilles · 28/12/2013 16:13

Yes vq you are right, he may well change his mind, I think because S is still so young he just can't see past the baby stage which he isn't very good at but in a few years who knows. He didn't want any at all and we have S who was very much planned and wanted so who knows.

fruitpastilles · 28/12/2013 16:13

Fab news with the interview vq you will walk it, I'm sure of it!

PetiteRaleuse · 28/12/2013 17:02

Brilliant news vq and plenty of time to prepare.

ChasingDaisy · 28/12/2013 17:11

Yay for interview VQ! I will be waving my pom-poms furiously for you on the 21st Grin

did I mention that this evening is a date? A first date? No? Well it is

HoLilyChristmas311 · 28/12/2013 18:04

Well done for interview vq.
Have a safe and fun date chasing, want details tomorrow.
pr oh, can't wait to hear the details.
bplp merry Xmas! it's today! isn't it?

Went swimming with my dad, it was good. O was having fun with my mum so everyone was a winner. Nothing else to report, my life is boring.

Sophiathemistletoefairy · 28/12/2013 18:35

Have fun chasing remember to journal him!!

vq will pray lots for you on 21st.

Christmas decs come down tomorrow, feel the need to get the house back to normal . Quite tired after this Christmas.

applepieinthesky · 28/12/2013 18:37

Have fun chasing

Good luck with the interview VQ. If they have any sense they will give it to you!

fruit I find lots of men say they don't want any more after the first. Usually they come round but perhaps it's worth a chat to see if he's saying no more for the forseeable or no more at all. For a while after C was born DP said he didn't want any more and would pull faces when I suggested we keep the clothes C has outgrown for next time. I didn't push it at all and he came round in his own time.

BigPigLittlePig · 28/12/2013 18:39

Well skydiving sounds much more thrilling than anything I get up to!

Crazy baby is currently running up and down the living room in red dressing gown and zebra PJs, looking a bit like Hugh Heffner. Had first blood incident earlier when she bit on a wire and her mouth bled - teeth imminent much?!

Trying to remember what haz been said...

VQ I'm glad things seemed to go ok with mil in the end. Hope sils table was ok. (Just discovered I can't do faces wtf?!)

Stunt what a joke. Thank goodness it's all over now, hopefully not to be repeated. It must be v hard to put up with that sort of behaviour without dh on board. My mil is currently being a right pita but dh has had words, otherwise I would be at my wits end. If icould offer flowers in brackets I would!

Love the monopoly idea for new years eve lily and chasing. Might have to dust the cobwebs off ours.

Also can't believe how many people are going to start ttc in the new year. I would like a 2 yr gap which does mean that ttc is a necessity, but am so shattered wih F's absent sleep that it still feels like having a newborn!

Kyz - nice to hear from you my lovely, hope e's tooth/teeth hurry up.

PR am waiting with bated breath for stories about the ILs...

PetiteRaleuse · 28/12/2013 18:57

But summary so far (in 26 hrs)

Clashed on:

  • sleeping too much and too little
  • eating too much and too little
  • crying it out
  • ability to speak and lack of
  • my cooking
  • last year's xmas presents
  • a long list of imaginary ailments re dc which is growing ever longer, but no concern over the actual current ailments
  • the weather ( found myself apologising for the rain)

BUT it is going far better than I expected.

PetiteRaleuse · 28/12/2013 19:04

Forgot to add, nothing is findable in my kitchen. I fully expect my kitchen to be reorganised over the next few days. Happens every time....

Passmethecrisps · 28/12/2013 19:12

Holy macaroni pr. I hope you have had a wee sherry. Keep us posted and may the force be with you!

It's an interesting thing isn't it the old "do we have another" debate. Right now at this precise minute I don't know but the last few weeks I have been pretty certain I want a number two in the next year. DH started off being very keen for number two but now seems unsure. Who knows? However, what I do know is that I always answer that I don't what more if anyone asks. I don't know why but the question makes me squirm. I used to get very defensive when people asked when DH and I were going to have kids as I just think it is such a massively personal issue and you shouldn't have to justify yourself to anyone else. We had one set of pals who asked so often that DH actually said to him "how do you know we haven't been trying and can't?" And the guy just laughed it off. So, my point is I suppose what others have said is that a conversation needs to happen fruit but whatever comes of it I hope you can work it out.

P has developed an obsession with attempting to stack everything. Peas on her plate, bottles in the bathroom and today's challenge was a stacking cup on aging pussy. Aging pussy took it very well I must say.

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 19:12

PR and the in laws. Better than any soap opera Grin

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 19:13

I can do emoticons. What have you done BP? Have you been using offensive language again?

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 19:19

Pass, J can stack blocks. He stacked 4 which is pretty good going I reckon.

Thank you for the kind words about the interview. I have only read the date so far. I guess I best read what the presentation is on.

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 19:21

Hmm. A different title. The bastards! Grin A more interesting title. One I can get really excited about. Yes. Pleased. Hmm.

Passmethecrisps · 28/12/2013 19:28

It's great you get the presentation title vq. I also think that it is better that it is different to last time.

P can't actually stack anything yet - she gets bloody furious when the biggest cup won't go into the smallest one. She does love to pile shit up though!

I love my inlaws but even three nights was pushing it for us. I can't imagine what it must be like when there is no love lost.

ReindeerIsles · 28/12/2013 19:39

Will catch up when M is in bed (soon please!) but in short, my landlord is a prick. Angry

ReindeerIsles · 28/12/2013 19:53

Okay, that was a short teary disaster. We are cuddling and watching grey's anatomy... Hmm

chasing your date sounds so much fun, enjoy!

How did today go stunt?

Glad you survived the visit vq and woop woop on your interview! You'll walk it Grin

(D)P wants another baby. Desperately. I do not. Desperately. most days It is a long way off my thought process for now.

PR you are a better person than me.

Today I saw a house in a location I love but was a bit hmm about the house. Then saw a house that I loved but was a bit hmm about the location. The latter was 20k cheaper and quite a bit bigger. When did I grow up and have to start thinking about school catchment areas and mortgage rates and shit?

Oh and my landlord issues. He is a prick. I have known this for a long time. But it has never been directed at us. Until now, when basically he has run out of people to make hate him and is now directing it all at us. Without giving too much away online, he is wrongly accusing us of causing him to lose a work contract nothing to do with his dodgy, unqualified employees Hmm. We actually did have nothing to do with it, but I can see why he would automatically think it was us. That and he was prepared to leave us without heating for 10 days over Christmas when we thought the heating system was fucked it is but was fixable on that occasion and is refusing to replace the dodgy boiler. He is a prick. Angry

ReindeerIsles · 28/12/2013 19:54

Although still is yet to take the award from my last landlord as worst landlord ever. Our friendship is definitely over though.

ValiumQueen · 28/12/2013 19:59

I agree Pass that it is better to have a new title. I will give myself a few days to recover from the trip, then tackle it with vigour!

Property Porn on FB please Isles x

PetiteRaleuse · 28/12/2013 20:05

Ooh can't wait to hear about presentation vq

Mil f'd orf to bed at 6. Currently am getting slightly pissed with dh and fil (who is lovely despite the racist jokes Hmm )

Have been waiting for her to wake up to do dinner but she won't until I have cooked dinner and tidied away. She'll get up at midnight, just as I am falling asleep and piss about keeping me awake with her muttered swearing and general clattering about all night. At about 5 she'll get itchy and start hoovering.

Then when I come out all bleary eyed with two grumpy kids she'll say oh no, did I wake you up - The children don't sleep properly. Then at 3pm tomorrow she'll fall asleep after a shitload of criticism and around we go.

She's a night owl.

Am going to gp on Monday anyway and will take both girls so they can be (imaginably) checked over and declared to be fine. Will ask gp to prescribe them both paracetamol so it looks like I've done my job (am running out anyway) and that should tide her over til they leave.

Ugh.

But the girls are really enjoying them. Though not sure how much mil will enjoy them tomorrow once she realises DD1 has drawn all over her make up bag. Ooops.

Possible flounce ahead. Or may be sweet and forgiving and hold it against me for the next few years