The 8th Broadly Gemini Bus- The one where the babies refuse to sleep!

[bringonthetrumpets]

Numero 8!

Hoping for some actual sleep tonight!

agnu That sounds like a really stressful situation! If you are having thoughts like you've described, can you please please, please call a hotline and speak with someone. I looked this one up for you: 08457 909090 it's Samaritans.org. I'm really worried about you. I would totally get in my car and drive to your place to be with you, but I can't convert my car into a boat, so please find someone that you can speak with. Keep us updated. I will totally stalk your cute face on facebook if you don't report back!

Yes, to the tampons. It's just postpartum like frus described b/c of clotting and also because the cervix is still open and the uterus is more susceptible to infection that they strongly urge you not to use them. To piggyback on agnu suggestion with the mooncup. I have one, and oh man, it's fantastic. It's not as gross as it seems. I also thought tampons get stinky and the cup doesn't smell at all, I don't get cramps when I use it, where I majorly horrible ones when I use tampons, and if your flow is really light you can leave it in for up 12 hrs. So, those are reasons enough to keep me on using it!

I'm ok bring. I know it's just a phase & it'll go away eventually. I have no intention of harming myself anytime soon. I just have phases where it feels like I 'know' I will one day in the distant future. It's a choice though & no matter how dark I get I really can't imagine choosing not to see the DS's sweet smiles every day! The world is stuck with me for a while yet if I've got anything to do with it!

One thing this country does seem to have is people to talk to on the phone. Agnu ~ Maybe an outside person to chat to would be of some comfort to you?! I know you're feeling really lost right now. I'm wondering whether DH could give you 1-2 hours off today to take a bath or go for a walk alone to clear your head. I went to the hairdressers this weekend and my goodness did it help! Obviously I'm not suggesting time out would fix anything you're dealing with but it does help to have a break from time to time doesn't it Going back to the GP sounds like a sensible plan too. I hope you have a better day today!

Thank you for you all your soft toy comments. Day 3 and bpear continues to hold bear whilst falling asleep so I think we have a winner here. I think if he continues for a week I will buy another one. It's only £5 on Amazon so it will be worth it.

That's exciting that he's finally found a snuggle buddy, pear! Hopefully he keeps it up. DS1 still has his gross, ratty, "kitty" (snow leopard) and has to have it with him every. single. night. He will not accept the other 2 that we got for him to put into the rotation, as I think he had the original too long before we thought to get replacements. Now the original has a chipped eye and its very lumpy. .

Yes the world is stuck with you agnu! You're not going anywhere!

We are off to a home visit that is an hour's drive away. At least we are carpooling this time, more fun!

Also, it feels like I've moved back to the UK. It's been raining non-stop for the past 3 days and we are projected to keep having it rain for the rest of the week. Thank goodness I haven't planted the veg garden, or it'd all be in the neighbor's yard from being washed away!

where all my peeps at?

As sad as it is I am excited :-) I have ordered no2. However, he's got teething pain and will not go back to sleep...even with snuggle's help I guess snuggle is not a miracle cure!! DH is trying to settle him now

Haha frus ! 6 cup sizes is a lot. Vava-voom! Did you at least hand-express in the toilets? and spray milk all over the place My breastpump has become my new purse and goes everywhere with me b/c I never know when I'll be at a birth and the thought of sore leaky boobies while trying to concentrate on a birth makes me feel like crying.

I cannot believe it's going to be a year for these kiddos! I feel like I know all of you and we've been chatting online for over a whole year already! You all have a special place in my heart.

I need a slap. I need to stop being as and gloomy that bpear is going to be 1 and be joyful that he's blossomed into bpear, an adorable, witty koala with hamster cheeks who knows what he wants when he wants

Well bring, we did graduate from TTC threads (sept BFPs, even though I was technically an October bfp), into ante natal ones and then on to postnatal so it has been over a year!

Awww Frus that sounds so cute! I tried to get Runt to snuggle in bed with me last night. He just wanted to sit up & crawl all over the bed. He's showing less & less interest in bf-ing, unless he's fallen over or I'm paying more attention to Calf than to him!

I didn't join the TTC thread until a few days before I got my BFP. It seems like a lifetime ago now! I do miss giggling at Frus & Thunder 'symptom spotting' which involved much poking & running up & down stairs!

"I feel like I know all of you and we've been chatting online for over a whole year already! You all have a special place in my heart."

^^ What bring said!

I've got my GP appointment about my depression tomorrow. I may work up the courage to discuss an ASD referral. I probably won't. DH has been working overtime so he can go in late tomorrow & come with me for moral support/child-wrangling/just to make sure I don't 'forget'! I might turn off all alarms once he's asleep so we all oversleep & miss the appt!

Oh, in other news... We've had a mouse in the house a few times recently. Cue me freaking out about the DC playing on a wee-soaked floor with wee-covered toys. I've calmed down a bit now. Mostly because we've identified the hole, plugged it with peppermint-soaked cotton wool & steel wool, screwed plywood over it & set a snap-trap in front of it just in case. We've also got an ultrasonic plug-in thing coming tomorrow. I may have gone slightly overboard... Better that than spend another day sobbing quietly to myself because I can't face taking them out anywhere but can't even provide them with a clean/safe environment to play in at home!

LOL!!! Agnu your mouse trap had me seriously giggling! That'll stop 'em!
Glad you were able to get into see your GP again. Hoping for you that'll go well and that you can develop a plan that will work for you.

I can't remember when I joined you all. I do remember typing out a post the day after I found out while I was at a birth, so I must have joined the chatter before then. Hmmm...

Ugh. Feverish and sweaty baby wanting to pin you down in the middle of the night. My favorite way to sleep.

Please don't be sad that you'll have a 1 year old, pear ! They just get so fun and silly at this age! They start talking, which is hilarious, they start running around and doing really silly things, it's just a super fun age (well, all the ages are pretty cool in their own ways).

M was in daycare allllllllllll day long today and I came home to such a sweet and happy little girl. It felt so nice to just be ME for a change today. Also checked on a very overdue mama. I don't think a homebirth is gonna happen for her We're gonna have to transfer into hospital as we just cannot get her into labor and she's way too far over for it to be safe anymore for our care. It's really sad as she's quite heartbroken.

Weve got poorly babies again just all of us over a cold ( I ended up on anti b's to get over cough as it was getting worse after 10 days ) just as that ends kitten vomits all over me and we've had dioreah for the next 3 days sigh tiger also seems to be not right in the poo department , when will it end
On getting older though I find it so sweet and shocking the new developments, kitten is still a cuddly koala and when my dad tried to take her last night and said come to grandad she shook her head at him, she did it atleast 5 times so not a fluke, you wouldn't think they'd understand yet would you but she has been shaking her head at a few things like if I try to give her water in anything remotely baby like, it needs to be a fruit shoot bottle or canister drink like tiger ( it can be water just has to look like big girl things)
Glad to hear you've got a doctors app Agnu, if it helps I'm going to be controversial and say if you can get better medicine I would stop bf, I know you'd be sad but if he's allready not really bothered in sure he's rather have a happy mum and you would get over it while being sad for abit. Your health is paramount, I hope dh has sorted himself out abit too, that post about poor calf being so tired like a caged animal just made me feel so sad, I hope it's gotten through to him how important it is for him to go to sleep at a decent time when he's dropped his nap, I can't believe he was messing about for so long!
How is everyone else? Are we all back at work now those that are going to anyway?
Mines going ok, I did right phasing in slowly as the kids have been ok with the transition so far I'm hoping going up a day in a few weeks won't hit them too hard

Feeling really shaken up. Bpear fell out of cot tonight My heart literally stopped. Our cot has a few heights and it was on second to last. The last is pretty much floor level. We thought it was safe but he just went right over. I watched it all on the monitor as I was checking he wasn't hurting himself whilst he tried to settle

Frus he was in his sleeping bag. Recently he's been hanging over the edge throwing his bear over and when I looked at the monitor he just dived over somehow, landed on his head and did some sort of rolley poley. DH spent ages moving the level down to the last notch whilst I checked him over, calmed him down and let him play so that I could make sure he was OK. Everything seemed fine. An angel was looking over him I managed to settle him back to sleep at 9:30pm.

When I say hanging over, it only his hands that can hang over the rail. I had no idea he could launch himself over too