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November 2012 - What is going on with these babies?

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StuntNun · 30/01/2014 21:55

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1968333-November-2012-Diet-plans-and-love-bubbles

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Sophiathestormfairy · 05/02/2014 16:19

That sounds like a great way to celebrate chasing go you.

Do not be fooled I am sacred.

Thanks for the info ywi will check out the link.

ChasingDaisy · 05/02/2014 16:28

We already know you're sacred Sophia Wink

ChasingDaisy · 05/02/2014 16:45

This weather is horrid. Are our south/SW contingent okay? Pig? Evil? Zamboni? Pidj? Luis?

Sophiathestormfairy · 05/02/2014 16:46

Now that typo takes the Biscuit sorry. Blush

Zamboni · 05/02/2014 16:48

Well done chasing

Interesting chat. Can't add a anything to freelancing stuff as am an employee with no desire or scope to change that!

My BFF has just had her longed for IVF baby. Am so excited and thrilled. Sadly she lives 4+ hours away so no dashing for newborn cuddles. But present buying of cute newborn outfits I can do!

Things are ok here. DH on best behaviour. First session counselling booked for Monday. Am not convinced its actually necessary but I want to maintain the fear.

Busy at work so this is all a bit fleeting.

ChasingDaisy · 05/02/2014 16:53

O is obviously on a mission to be as cute as possible today: he has just learned how to clap finally and is applauding himself and laughing after every mouthful of dinner Grin

Zamboni · 05/02/2014 16:57

Weather has been scary. DD woke up crying saying she was scared of the storm. Wind was very loud and I shared her fear tbh. Coastal railway line between inlaws and us has collapsed so MIL not able to do her usual trip tomorrow. Their town is taking a battering (on Coast). Heavy rain predicted for tomorrow. FX we will be ok as long as flood defences hold. Things by BPLP look v wet, hope they are not flooded.

Zamboni · 05/02/2014 16:59

Although the bus I am presently on has just had a message from depot saying "the river is rising" - a river this bus needs to cross and which is level with my house if the defences are breached.

PetiteRaleuse · 05/02/2014 17:17

Hope you don't get flooded there is an MNetter in my French FB group in Brittany whose was flooded for weeks at xmas. It's been bad ib Brittany this week again. I don't ever remember such a bad winter for rain and wind (though in this area it hasn't been too bad).

YellowWellies · 05/02/2014 17:50

Soph your typos are the best ever!

GT I was forced into freelancing by our move to Orkney and I was terrified. That annual income assumes I'm busy all year - at present I've got contracts until August / September so I could make half that! I am quite ballsy in contract negotiations Smile

Wah to the floods Sad Sad Sad Sad . As a climate scientist bod I have been raging whenever government excuse merchants come on the telly - this is exactly what the science has been projecting for years dredging and cutting Environment Agency funding are not the right answers Sad

PurplePidjin · 05/02/2014 17:55

Me to Chasing i went to a friend's today with several mums with similar aged babies and they were talking about business trips and john lewis appliances. I just kept schtum, everything i own is second hand apart from clothes which are mostly supermarket Hmm

V windy and waterlogged here but i think I'm safe enough in my eyrie

Screamy bedtime tonight. He wouldn't feed to sleep, think it was the noise of the bath running. Has to be done, i need to wash and a shower would be worse, but SadAngry aaargh

Lily311 · 05/02/2014 18:06

I earned a reasonable salary but worked over 50 hours a week. I don't wish it back. I thought I wanted a good job but I don't anymore. I want something that fulfills me and I only want to work 4-6 hours a day and keeps us afloat financially. Is it possible? Not sure.

Well done to mini chasing.
sophia you will rock.
pidj everything I have is from Ikea. Haven't bought clothes for years for myself. O is in hand me downs.

YellowWellies · 05/02/2014 19:17

Lily I'm the same 9-5 five days a week now scares me! I am lucky that I've found something I'm passionate about - mitigating and adapting to climate change and I've carved out a niche that pays well. I do believe that if you do what you love the money tends to sort itself out in one way or another. But equally one day I'm sure I'll want more security - we don't need my income for the mortgage but if we did it would be tricky without a god awful interest rate.

Pidj most of J's clothes are supermarket - they're good quality and given how messy he is he's not getting anything posher! Smile I hope R gets used to your ablutions. It's so hard to fit a shower into the day with a small person. I'm considering putting him in a swim nappy to join me as he loves the shower at swimming Smile .

PetiteRaleuse · 05/02/2014 19:25

A swim nappy only holds in poos. Just pop him in with no nappy and keep your fingers crossed :o

I'm quite well paid but desperate to be able to leave my industry and carve out a probably pitifully paid life freelancing.

YellowWellies · 05/02/2014 19:34

I'm a tight arse I reuse swim nappies until we get a code brown though actually have a reusable swim nappy he could wear. I should put him in naked but after picking up dog shit everyday and years of cleaning out the cat box (am still off that duty thanks to extended BF Grin Grin Grin ) the thought of picking up yet more faeces is Envy .

ValiumQueen · 05/02/2014 19:52

I dream of being near the higher tax threshold, and that is as a couple. Well done YW Grin

There is an opportunity at work to do a very nice therapy course that could be my ticket to freelancing, or The Priory.

Kyz · 05/02/2014 20:05

Drags self onto fred

Hi guys... missed me?

For those who don't use facebook E was in hospital overnight the other night, and he since has a stable temperature but is very much hard work. Getting food or fluids into him is very tricky and he is sleeping 18 hours out of 24 atm, and that's if I'm lucky. I am checking him through the night because I am worried and I don't feel so hot myself.

Having said that, he's ok, i'm ok, everybody fed (well, the willing) nobody dead.

Love you all, will try to keep up now, I just honeslty haven't had the energy to post, and he has been a velcro baby, which I have never had before.

YellowWellies · 05/02/2014 20:10

Oh Kyz you're amazing xxxx

ChasingDaisy · 05/02/2014 20:14

Oh kyz, sending huge hugs and love your way. You're awesome xxx

Lily311 · 05/02/2014 20:14

kyz hugs! you are doing wwll

Pikz · 05/02/2014 20:19

Kzy huge hugs

PetiteRaleuse · 05/02/2014 20:25

kyz (((hugs))) it's so hard when they are ill.

vq do it.

We're having some interesting developmental leaps here. DD1, after a good 18 months of accompanying me to the loo and 9 months potty trained has decided that she wants to go to the loo on her own. The phrase she uses is "je veux faire pipi tranquil" which means basically I just want to pee on my own. Which is what we say. Frequently. So good, no more potty, leaving room for LO who...

... Is obsessed with watching us on the loo. AND has decided that she No Longer Goes In The Pram (until she is so knackered she just stops walking and flops face first into the mud. Like today. )

The dog is unamused at the suddenly slow walks.

Other developmental leap is feeding herself. I know you guys encourage feeding self quite early with your blw stuff. We do too, for finger food, but here the preference is to spoon or fork feed non finger food til they get it. And that has happened this week. Am giving the high chair to the red cross next week and LO is being brought to table to eat with us in a booster chair. Whoop. More space in the house. The playpen and highchair in my tiny living/dining/kitchen area was getting to be a tad too much.

Last thing. LO refers to both me and DH as 'Maman' but with different tones of voice. My tone is for demands and serious urgent cuddles. DH is for play Hmm

Reading a French parenting mag - was free - an article about how to get babies used to cheese. They don't mention dairy intolerance but they do talk about introducing too much dairy at once re protein. They say cheese, yoghurt , meat and eggs adds up to too much protein and >>> tummy troubles >>> sleeping issues.

Elizadoesdolittle · 05/02/2014 20:27

I've never thought of reusing disposable swim nappies! Might give it a go.

kyz It's scary shit when the little ones are really poorly. You're coping brilliantly. I'm sure it won't be long till E is back to his usual chirpy self. Look after yourself too (or make sure someones looking after you!)

zamboni Hope the floods stay at bay (well more than they are at the moment). Am sick of bloody rain! Glad DH is behaving. I think the counselling session will do you both good, even if you feel it's no longer needed.

ValiumQueen · 05/02/2014 20:28

Hugs Kyz x and wee E, and Daddy too x

Passmethecrisps · 05/02/2014 20:29

Lovely to see you kyz! I really hope wee e feels very much better soon.

I've gone and hurt my already sore wrist by showing p how to do a forward roll. Daft bugger.

pikz what's all this about POAS?

I wear dresses to work pretty much every day. Pair of tights, a frock and voila!

Think p might be weaning herself off her night bottle. She is offered 8 oz but the last few nights she has taken 3. She has been off her food completely though. She is right as rain though. Must be teeth.

The weather is absolutely horrendous in some parts. We have been very lucky here in haggis land as we have got off very lightly indeed. Fingers crossed that rover stops rising zamboni!