March 2013 time for shoes!

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New thread ladies...

Eco those recommendations look perfect. No wonder you came away up duffed! We spent a week of our honeymoon in the UK too, and a week abroad. The UK won hands down.

Gerry well done! Poor head though, he must be feeling very disappointed. Keep his number, careers are built on contacts.

Ood I'm so glad you came back. Your ds was unwell when I first joined and I've had a niggling worry about him at the back of my mind ever since. I'm so glad he's well and thriving. How you are even alive however, dealing with 4 and work, is beyond me. Respect!

Limping through the day here so very grateful for the toddle's current nap. I'm totally wiped out by a chest infection and aching joints. As the doctor put it 'welcome to the world of a young mum'. I love him for the 'young'

MMR due tomorrow. I don't know whether we should go or not. The tiddler has an awful chesty cough still, and I don't think I can cope with her getting a fever on top of that. Poor little thing has had so much to deal with recently.

I err on the side of caution with jabs worse I'm always cancelling

worse our clinic doesn't do jabs when babies are ill so you may have to cancel.

Thanks guys, I'll cancel. The doctor said it was at my discretion, and I'm of the opinion we could both do with a day at home!

We've not even booked the mmr yet, it just seems mean when he has 4 days of antibiotics left.

I am dog tired. I can going for an after dinner bath but I think I'd fall asleep and drown. On the other hand I've just demolished a giant jacket spud with cheese and beans, so I've got that cosy sleepy feeling.

And there was cake at the office after all

Mini Farmer had his MMR etc done yesterday ,2 injections left leg , 1 injection right leg , 5 seconds of crying then all was well with the world again .

We had our mmr done last week and for me it was a lot harder this time round. Ds was trying to squirm his way out from my grip after the first injection. He then was tense and stung more. He was fine after a nap and dose of calpol.

My last day as a sahm. This time tomorrow I will be dropping ds off at dm.

Stil not had the letter from the doctor inviting DD to get stabbed. Might give them a ring today.

I'm ever so glad it all turned out well for TheTramp. Been vaguely worried for far too long!

This morning I discovered babies can't digest raisins. Yuck.

Stormy I have been terrified of raisins ever since my mum told me they can swell up inside babies and cause a blockage, so must be chopped up first. Given I have seen other people give their children raisins I imagine this is 1970s mumbo-jumbo as opposed to useful advice but the seed of doubt once planted....

Temp of 39 and an unbroken 3 hour coughing stint since 4am. Me not the toddle. Today I am officially ill enough for the man to take the day off work to help out. Well help out round his conference calls that is. I am praying those don't coincide with any over tired screamy meltdowns as I. Really. Can't. Cope.

Thank god he's staying home worse. Get thee back to bed forthwith!

Yummy good luck for tomorrow. You'll both be fine, just do lots of deep breathing.

Raisins don't scare me. Spinach scares me.

Enjoy today Yummy, tomorrow will be easier than you think!

I'm delaying MMR for a couple of weeks until she's settled into nursery. I hope I don't live to regret it but I don't want her to be even more unsettled than she needs to be at the beginning.

Wors take yourself to bed, go to sleep and let him deal with conference call and baby if you're too ill to do it. You'll feel the mummy guilt doing it but he'll have to juggle things in the same way you do and he'll be fine. Lovely of him to stay home for you, I know many that wouldn't!

We're having a severe regression from what was already crappy sleep, I'm not sure if it's wonder week, teething (I'm pretty sure I can feel the bump of a molar pushing through) or madam just being a pest but I'd love it to stop soon and go back to one feed and one other wake never thought that's what I'd be wishing for at 1yr plus while I'm wishing for things I'd like her to sleep past 6am again too!!

DS has just had his mmr, he was fine for the first needle then screamed for the second and third. He's started walking well now so we are off to Clark's in a bit

Stormy I have worked in a lab testing poo and there's lots babies can't digest!!

Enjoy your day yummy

Hope your feeling better soon worseter

Quiet on here today. Quiet here today too as you can imagine, and Betty agreed I am lucky DH was able to stay home. Unfortunately today is the only day he is able to do that, but I'll cope! Poor little toddleworse on the other hand is having a really miserable time of it. We went back to the dr about her cough, only to find last weeks antibiotics obviously didn't work as her throat is full infected pustules, and we've also been given a referral about a heart murmur. I know heart murmurs are very common, and usually nothing to worry about, and I know that in the grand scheme of things actually we are very lucky... but, I'm still a bit about it all. The whole guilt thing about sending her to nursery is kicking in big time. She's not going back any time soon, that's for certain.

So, anyone got any uplifting news to cheer us all up again after that little moan! Me, I'm off to bed for a cough. Apparently I am sleeping in the dusty dead fly zone that is the little round bedroom at the top of the house. This is so I don't wake anyone up! It could be worse. I could be in the shed

Oh Worse, hope you and lots of pillows had a better night. I found a 'tea' of a couple of slices of fresh ginger, a good slice of lemon and a dollop of honey very soothing when I was suffering a few weeks back.

And poor toddleworse. I know exactly what you mean about heart murmurs, they are really common but I guess being told anything with the word heart in about your own little one feels different! Worth noting that's not nursery's fault though!

As for the never ending cough, DS has one. Keep trailing to the docs but nothing much to see so we keep on keeping on. Sadly no choice on not going to nursery here, and he really does enjoy it. Although I was joking yesterday that it was great to do a wed pickup without a temp being involved .

Best go and shower. Have good Thursdays everyone.

Very quiet on here! Oh well, it's Over-Familiar Friday tomorrow, so I expect things will pick up.

Worse I hope you had a good night's sleep, even if you did end up in the shed. Please don't feel guilty about putting DD in nursery. These things are shit, but they happen, and if they didn't happen at nursery then they'd likely happen in preschool. I hope the heart murmur is benign - DBIL has a benign murmur, and I believe they're pretty common.

Those who are back at work - how are you all finding it? It seems like such a precarious balance to me at the moment. Between housework, actual work, cooking, food shopping and spending my non-working days enjoying DS I feel like I'm pulled in lots of different directions and by 9pm I'm ready for bed. I don't mind though, it's all positive at the moment. But, I do wonder, have any of you discovered any miracle coping solutions?

We all overslept this morning and I had to to two nursery runs as I forgot DS's antibiotics. I got home to a rather messy house that needed a bit of squaring before I could concentrate, and my washing line has collapsed. First world problems, I know. Ho hum, best knuckle down and ignore my messy house so I can get things done.

Morning all!

It is indeed a bit quiet, Plonk that may be because nobody has quite figured out the balance yet. It's definitely a bit precarious here and all feels very 'fly by the seat of your pants', I'm hoping that when DD is settled in nursery it'll all feel a bit more organised. She starts in 2 weeks and I'm dreading it, I just hope we're luckier than Wors with the settling in bugs.

Last night was crappy. Usual bedtime routine but when I put her in the cot it was like she was being tortured. She just went crazy and was thrashing all over the place and then started standing up and throwing herself over and banging her head off the cot sides. I was just sat next to the cot trying to reassure her but it wasn't helping. I got really upset that something was wrong and I was ignoring her and went to get DH who I caught on an off moment and he told me he'd go in because I was a right state and no use to her. Lovely. I know he didn't mean it like that but I'm still fuming with him! I do feel a bit stupid for being so upset though, in the cold light of day I'm sure she was just having a tantrum.

I'm off for a very overdue visit to a friend and her now 3 month old baby so hopefully that'll be nice. DD isn't on the best form though so it may well be a cup of coffee and swift exit after a mega-tantrum!

Wors I hope you got some much needed rest last night, even if it was in the attic!

Yummy I hope today goes well!

Plonk I feel like we've got the balance as long as nothing comes along to mess things up (it normally does!) so this week my interview meant I was working all weekend, so the house feels in disarray and I feel like I'm playing catch up with the washing. The fact that both me and dd are now I'll isn't helping, and I anticipate it will take a couple of weeks to get back on track though. Sometimes we get a good few weeks where things feel like they're all just happening easily (usually if DH is away!)

With houseworky stuff, I've stopped trying to get it done in nap time (try to use naps for work/knitting/tv catch up/reading) I try to get things done with her and either treat it like a game or just natter away to her.

The thing I find most difficult is cooking her dinner! By that time of the day if I leave her to play she just strips, and if I take her into the kitchen she gets very cross that there is food around but that I'm not giving her any! So it tends to be the quickest possible food, or ready made baby grub.

Having been sent home from the childminder, dd has now been asleep for 3 hours. She's surely going to wake up famished as she brought up what looked like the last 24hrs worth of food this morning and has only managed 4oz milk since then.

Glad to know others are scrambling to make do with what they've got, whenever they can. Gerry and Betty your coping strategy sounds just like mine.

Everything goes out the window when he's poorly, the dust piles up, every towel is put to use to minimise the mess he's capable of causing...We've still got his birthday cards up, and I don't give two hoots. Gerry whenever DS has been sick like that I've not offered any food for at least a day, as anything I can offer is either rejected or comes back up anyway. Lots of cuddles, sips of water, and if she can manage it, a warm bath.

Betty how was it at your friends? I find it so strange meeting younger babies now. They look so easy in comparison! They just sit there, staring at you, and fall asleep every few hours like clockwork! Did DD perk up when out of the house? DS usually does, but it makes for uber-crankiness in the evening.

Yummy have you survived the transition to working mum?

I'm giving up on work early today (only to put in extra effort tonight, hmm) and going to spend what little I have on wine and a new washing line.

Gerry my DS is the same, he can't understand why I've got food and he's not eating, a piece of cheese usually helps

Bought DS first pair of shoes today and he's not walked a step in them yet!

I have to confess I wasn't looking forward to today, what with it being a 16hr shift home alone with an unwell toddleworse, but actually it's been lovely. You know how some days babies are little horrors and others they are just adorable? Well today we were on an adorable run. What dd wanted to do most in the whole world was wander about exploring the house holding my hand. I'm sure the novelty will wear off eventually, but for now... awww, so sweet.

Gerry same problem here. The small person gets absolutely apoplectic with rage should I dare prep food when she is hungry. My solution is to freeze a lot of food for her, and give her those little puffed snacks that don't fill her up while she is waiting.

I hope Toddlegerry isn't too sick, and you're feeling ok too. There are so many bugs going round at the moment it is ridiculous. The local pharmacy actually ran out of baby antibiotics last week, and that never happens.

Yummy hope it went well.

Betty if I were you I'd do the MMR before you start nursery, as once she starts you will have back to back colds for weeks and you'll end up endlessly deferring. From speaking to others I don't think Toddleworse has been particularly unlucky, everyone says the first 6 months is miserable and then the immune system catches up and things improve.

Night all. I managed to avoid the attic last night. The spare room with all the doors closed was deemed quiet enough. I figure I'll get away with the same tonight, and then hopefully sometime in the near future I will stop coughing. It's knackering. My non-existent stomach muscles feel like they've done a marathon work out.

Well, I'm not sure what this morning's massive puke (from her not me!) was about, but apart from sleeping for 4.5 hrs in total today (still on 2 naps here) the tiny one has seemed pretty chirpy. I am quietly resentful that she was sent home and I still have to pay for the whole day (despite knowing it's completely reasonable). I've still got this horrid sore throat painful ears thing. Which is not fun. My temp seems under control now though and I haven't been chucked out of the marital bed like poor worse so I can't really complain.

Worse I meant to say, I've got at least 3 friends whose kids have heart murmurs. So seldom an actual problem that it actually surprises doctors when it is one I think. Another friend of mine had one diagnosed herself when she was about 21. Then it disappeared. Seems it just comes back when she's ill, so maybe toddleworse's is only a temporary thing.

Right. I'm an emotional wreck having watched davina mccall's challenge on tv just now. Time to rest my weary eyes and hope I don't wake up every 3 hours when the painkillers wear off, and have to lie there waiting an hour until I can take more. Because that was so much fun last night!

Well. Yesterday was fun. Not.

Poor dh texted at lunch to say it had all gone wrong... Nothing was right, nothing was eaten. Not much milk was drunk. Much crying was done. Tea was a similar story - half the kitchen emptied, a few bites taken, apoplectic screaming (and actual foot stamping) the result. Bath was good, bed was bad.

That's when I got home, to an ashen dh staring at the baby monitor which was glowing orange to say that NOISE was coming from his room. He was thrashing and hurling himself about in his cot, screaming. Dh had had to take a minute for himself. I went up. The good thing is he really does have Mama weighed off. The bad thing is he just screamed and grabbed for me, until I picked him up when he'd scream and thrash and hit me til I put him down again. Eventually after and hour and a half he had some milk and calmed a little. I went to leave him to go to sleep - he screamed. Sat down next to him - calm. Get up to leave - screamed. I stayed 30 mins then left him to it when it got a bit half hearted. God it was tough though.

And of course he woke for milk at 2:30am.

Tgi overfamiliar Friday lovely ladies!

Ah Puddy overfamiliar it's crappy isn't it. It sounds exactly like us the night before. It obviously took a while for the badness to travel south!

Lovely Wors, the murmur is very likely to be completely benign and never affect DD in any way. Most of them are completely gone by childhood. Difficult not to worry I know but hopefully it'll just be a reassurance visit. I hope you have another lovely day today.

Hugs all round for overfamiliar friday!

Stormy how are you getting on?

Yummy how was work?

That's all I can remember with my addled brain on a phone having been awake for 2hrs already and contemplating the horror of soft play later!!

betty there's no place better to go when one's had no sleep. Curl up in the ball pit!

Oh puddles nicknames are fun that sounds so tough. I hope today is better for you all. It might be overfamiliar Friday, but it doesn't mean can't get involved!

worse your adorable day sounds lovely. Long may it continue!

gerry I hope DD is better now and can go back to nursery I got grumpy about having to pay for DS when we went on holiday. I understand why but I still resent it!

So, I told plonk that the wonder week didn't seem to be affecting us. I obviously jinxed it. These mood swings are killers. DS can now produce real tears on demand at very sad things like not being able to play with mummy's make up or daddy's playstation controller. He also has tantrums by throwing himself on the floor when things don't go his way. Apparently DP was the same as a baby. His MMR is booked for the 31st so he'll probably get even more stroppy then.

However, he is pretty much walking now and is very proud of himself if the big smile he has with every step is anything to go by.

Right, seeing as I'm at work, I should probably get back to it (by going to buy breakfast and perhaps do some internet window shopping)

Hi all
Sorry for the radio silence, been blindsided by work/bugs etcetc. Hope poorly babies on the mend. eco you've gone quiet, how's the house hunting?

Who has switched to one nap? We aren't quite there yet (DS is an early riser!) but wondered who had made the switch and what prompted it. I don't think we are far off tbh.

Well hugs for all on over familiar Friday, Betty hope soft play is ok- we are also off there today but always seek to pick up a bug which isn't ideal!! for later ladies