March 2013 time for shoes!

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New thread ladies...

We've been on one nap for a while now, prompted by a week of afternoon nap being a total fail and some resistance to morning nap too. It is a bugger when DD decides not to go back to sleep after 6am milk. Usually goes down about 11.30, sleeps until at least 1pm, often 2pm. Hell of an improvement, as two naps tended to be forty five minutes long - barely time for a cuppa and a fag.

As for how I'm doing, eh, not bad. Invited the man to stay for tea and EastEnders last night, which was nice. Told him I know he misses DD, and the nice house with cooked meals and clean socks, but I've seen no indication that he misses me. He said of course he does and why do I think he's been so miserable of late. Well. Surely being miserable is not automatically and necessarily because he misses me, rather than just the comfy life. Anyway, he got nostalgic about being woken up by DD in the night. I told him he was being nostalgic about a time when I was miserable. And I bloody knew he woke up when she did, but it was still me who always had to get up and deal with it while resenting him for rolling over and going back to sleep every damned time.

Anyway, rant over. Today is set to be a good day. Beautiful sunshine, and I'm leaving DD with the man this afternoon while my brother and I take my mum out for a meal. Looking forward to eating out without having to entertain a small person!

Pud sympathy. That sounds like hell. Poor DH, I hope he isn't too traumatised. Not to scare you or anything but Toddleworse is exactly the same just before I realise she is getting a bug, so you may well be due another bout of sickness. Fingers crossed not.

Gerry did breakfast stay down? Hope so. I know what you mean about paying for nothing. 3 weeks off nursery here but still paying full whack. It does grate a bit, but I guess her place can't be used for anyone else so fair enough.

Betty soft play are you insane? Enjoy!!!

Shattered we used to be one nap in the early days, but now she is going to bed at 8.30 - 9pm rather than 11pm she's taken to getting up at 6am, so naps mid morning as well. I've decided Toddleworse does things her way, which is different from everyone else's way. My mum says I was the same. Her father was worse. Still is. Her teenage years could be hellish interesting.

Right, I need to wake her up now and face the challenge of getting more antibiotic down her. Why oh why do they prescribe viscous banana sludge. Neat it makes her vomit, and although mixing it in milk works, getting her to drink milk 4 times a day is a challenge. Why can't they do capsules for babies? It would be very very easy to tip the contents of a capsule into something that doesn't taste revolting. I am convinced that them that design things for children have none themselves!

Ah. Turns out she has not recovered. And I'm not sure the floor of sainsburys ever will. What kind of bug just makes her puke every 24 hours? She are ok yesterday afternoon, although we kept it bland. Only wanted half a slice of toast for breakfast but had managed her whole bottle. Then out for lunch with my mum, she didn't want anything. Then after about an hour of happily sitting there with food in front of her but completely uninterested, she grabbed a chip off my mums plate, ate a tiny mouthful, then threw up what looked like cottage cheese and smelt like sour milk everywhere.

She's now happily playing after yet another bath.

Now what?!?

• ate ok not are ok

Gerry take a look at her throat if you can. When dd's is very sore and swollen she gags and vomits on purees and proper food, but can manage milk and crackers.

Hmmm. My throat is silly sore. I'll try to have a look, although she certainly doesn't seem to be in any pain, is almost normal apart from all the regurgitation and one particularly gross nappy this morning. Thanks though, you've reminded me that lurgies in babies can be easily misdiagnosed as symptoms transfer. I shall try to investigate further!

Evening All.

I survived my first week at work. First week back and i have a longish to do list, attended meetings and worked late.Leaving ds is so hard. He has only napped 15mins in the pushchair so by the evening he is exhausted and has an early bedtime of 6.30/7pm. I have an overfilled washing basked, dust gathering and ther chores to play catch up on. I was upset that I missed ds kicking a ball for the first time today. My poor dm is shattered and ds owes her a vase as he broke it. Dm has lots of sympathy for me because she now believes me ds loves exploring, hates toys and resists naps especially when he is not in his cot.

My head hurts from the information overload. I need sleep.

Hope all the poorly babies and mummies get better soon.

Gerry I wouldn't mind waking up next to you! (over familiar Friday so think I can get away with that). My Facebook is inundated with make up less selfies so I feel I can say you win! Lovely. I don't believe you work in a stressful job and have a child. Oh, hang on, I met the child..... But anyway, you looked most perksome and young

Plonky??? Speaking of young, where are you today? Catch up with work ok?

Shattered hello We're off to Bedfordshire on Tuesday for three weeks of house hunting so this week I've been meeting loads of people to say cheerio, and I've been out/had guests three nights and I've been working today. I've not yet metamorphosed into a supermum and so it's all been hectic! All is well though. If chaos is
your thing How was soft play? And you Betty? Survive? That is certainly a job for dh. Not enough daylight in those places for an earthy intolerant type like me. And generally a bit grubby? I need to get over myself don't I!?

Worse it sounds a bit grim your end love. Forgive my ignorance, is a heart murmur an irregular heart beat of some sort? How did they detect it? Is it related to her having an infection at present? I have no medicine tricks I'm afraid. That banana medicine was what I lived off of when a sickly asthmatic chesty baby and that was decades ago. Practically centuries ago. You'd have thought they'd have solved that by now. Get better!

Puddlepops, strength to you. I think you and Mr pud win the 'most bugs' prize. Rubbish prize it is too. I can't picture your boy having a screamathon. Poor lamb.

yummy well done! You did it! And in a hard job too. Double hats off to you. I hope you now have and aren't contemplating the washing.

Stormy what did you lunch on and is now a good time to be interested in your weight loss? And you too Gerry? You told us to ask so as to motivate I think? Maybe you've reached your goals or maybe it's on hold for a while. I applaud either outcome.

Something wonder week sounds trying. I need to dig out the book and figure what this one's all about. We have random bursting into tears for no apparent reason that I can understand which I find mildly concerning.

I cleared out one of my two office bases today I have two more working days as employee. I am trying to gather the oomph I need to set up as a consultant. Bit scared of not being part of a machine.

dh did his last day at work on Wednesday and he's been house husband today and yesterday. That's been good for me. He starts new job on Monday. It's ecobaby birthday on Tuesday. She and I will drive down to lovely rural Bedfordshire (I'm trying to talk it up as a self fulfilling prophecy) on Tuesday so that he can see her for some birthday fun. We've hired a miniscule holiday cottage for a while (thanks worse for the idea) whilst we house hunt. Our offer on the sensible seventies box was pipped by cash buyers.

Ecobaby is choosing walk over crawl now and it's fun. Bit weird having a child walk over to you for milk. I never thought I'd be in that situation but here I am This weekend is project birthday so there's a suitably coloured card waiting to be made, a cake to construct, a kitchen to erect and house to clean (MIL arrives tomorrow!).

I'm in the bath but I've no wine. I'd better telepath a message through to dh so we can remedy that problem. Happy over familiar Friday you bunch of lovelies

My lovely early night has suddenly taken a turn for the vomitous. Was just about to lie down when a weird beige splodge on the duvet caught my attention. Bloody cat! I'm going to wrestle with a clean duvet cover for a while, then I'm turning her into a scarf.

Eversolovelyeco, you have made my evening. I think DH would be glad to lose his feverish spluttering bedfellow to you for the night. I'm 29 in a fortnight. How long do I get away with being young for?

The weight loss is going great guns. Or at least was. Until tonight. When I've had pizza. I don't even know why. It's pretty gross. I think I justified it by telling myself I've had a shitty couple of days. Which is a worry because I thought I'd broken the comfort eating cycle. Ah well, gym induction tomorrow so onwards and upwards. WIBU to write to the gym manager asking for free PT sessions as the weight loss/skydive is for charity? It's a big corporate gym (virgin active) so they might not be able to do it I guess. 3 months to go, 20lb left. Tell me that's doable? Because I've got about £600 sponsorship (not to mention £150 non refundable deposit paid) banking on me getting there... Shit.

Gerry Just 20lbs to go? That's incredible! More than doable in 3 months, absolutely. Can you still Worse's PT evil tyrant person? I hope the toddleGiraffe'sWife is much improved today, very impressive facebook status btw.

Stormy what's with these vomitous cats?! This is one of the many reasons why DP insists on closing our bedroom door. She's not ill, but she's sick at least once a week, and usually it's because she's licked a pan with chilli in it or eaten DS's baby junk food. Yack. How was the man? Do any active parenting or watch as she toddles headfirst into danger? I would have cried over his night-wakings comment.

Eco You think of me when you think of young? Firstly, thank you. Am I a particularly immature 'un? Shit. I bet you're secretly well pleased about the 70s box house, aren't you? I love that you can get the lie of the land before committing to something. Apart from the job, obviously. And yes, I managed to get an acceptable amount of work done after bathtime!

Yummy it honestly does get easier, you find a routine and make it all work. The housework will, sadly, always be there, but you find a way to manage. We do a wash a day (tbf twice a week that's nappies) and on days when I'm working we live on jacket potatoes and pasta and wine and it feels so much easier now than it did in October. DS will get there with his sleep too, but it's a steep learning curve for both of you. I hope you have a nice weekend and get chance to relax.

Puddlemonkey another bug? Bless you. And DH. You both deserve a medal.

Worse How are you this morning?

Betty soft play? You hero! I daren't enter those places without the promise of a big gin cake.

I hope I've not left anyone out! Ooh, Something we're out the other side of the WW now. At least we seem to be, DS is happyish again. It SUCKS doesn't it? Aldan and Shattered hello good to see you.

I think my wedding dress is waiting for me in the Royal Mail depot. I think we may have also sorted out the cheapest honeymoon possible. In that it's free, ds can come and we're not going to have to sit in a dark hotel room in silence from 7pm each evening. There may even be a babysitter thrown into the bargain. And we bought cake stands yesterday. Need to find a photographer though. Once DP gets his bonus next week we can go ring shopping.
Other than that I'm very much looking forward to DS finishing his antibiotics, and me getting a coil fitted on Tuesday. MMR booked for April 2nd here, which means another day of trying to work from home with a potential poorly baby. Or he'll be a total monkey and I'll be entertaining him all day - I just can't find it in me to drop him off at nursery after jabs. Has anyone heard about the meningitis B jab? Anyone (betty) know if our babies will be getting it?

It looks like a nice day here, but I expect that will all change as it's supposed to be winter again this weekend. We're meeting an old friend for lunch and hoping for a peaceful weekend. Ha!

Is it Silent Saturday?

He had to do active parenting, Plonk - I wasn't there! As for these cats... The little cat has never thrown up in her life. The neurotic cat does it maybe once a month. Some cats just seem to have iron stomachs. Other cats, not so much.

No idea where I'm at with weight loss. All was going so well, and then my dad went and had a heart attack. Triggered a massive attack of carbs. Still not got it under control. Haven't stepped on the scales in a while...

They won't get the men B vaccine unless we pay. Will be 2/3/4 months and babies in that cycle.
We are getting private ones for my 4 don't even mention the cost

stormy how is your dad now? Did ss do an assessment?

stormy how is your dad now? Did ss do an assessment?

Evening all, just wanted to reassure you that we survived soft play and DD chose the spongy floor as a good place to walk away from me for the first time. She's so cute toddling around!

I'm at my parents, they've gone out for the evening, I've just ordered a Chinese....what's the likelihood DD wakes up either just before it arrives or to the sound of the dog barking at the doorbell?

Plonk so exciting about the arrival of THE DRESS and all the other prep coming together.

Stormy I'm not surprised you've temporarily binned the diet, it's been a bloody tough few months for you and nothing comforts like carbs!

Pud, Wors & Gerry any improvement in health in your houses?

Eco I hope Bedfordshire is much better than you think it's going to be! I'm sure you'll settle much quicker than you fear, having a baby is a great ice breaker for meeting people and gives you a reason to get out exploring more than you might otherwise not that you usually have a problem in that area!

I hope everyone's having a lovely weekend.

Cantturn I don't know if you're still keeping an eye in here but I hope you're all getting on ok.

Trying an early night again. No sick this time. Yay! DD's been shredding kitchen roll on my bedroom floor again though. She finds it endlessly fascinating, and rips it into so many teeny tiny pieces. Which I now have to pick up. Bugger.

So. Molars. DD has two, one on each side at the top. The outer edge of each came through first. Then the inner edge of one of them. Now the middle bit's trying to bludgeon its way out. DD isn't enjoying it much. I've taken to calling her the Grumposaurus Rex. How many more of these little buggers are there still to go?

Molars sound like a pita. We have stupidly lumpy gums but the same six teeth we've had since November. He must be due a new one, surely?!

I'm pleased to say that sensible sleep has returned to this house. Ok so we still had to get up three times for a bit of 'there there' but he didn't want to get up at 5. I'm taking that as a win.

Maybe we need some , could liven us up a bit?

hello tumbleweed! hello everyone!

Gerry thanks for sharing operation jump out of plane update. You're doing great. Less than a baby to go now! You can do it!

Plonky I think of you as a wise young owl. You are young! It's all relative and when you're up against people knocking on the 40 door you can see why you are the young one. Am jealous of your youth. And your wrinkle free face and the leisurely pace you can take with planning the rest of your family. So I say young in a positive way And how does the dress look? I'm guessing you've tried it for size? Happy? Did you go for legs out? And has that bonus bought you a rock yet?

Betty did toddleBetty allow you time and peace to enjoy that Chinese food?

We have mil and great mil here this weekend and until Tuesday. They are staying in a local b and b and come to the house after breakfast and leave after dinnera It's working well. The ironing pile has been removed and myself and dh given the time we needed to pack for our stint down in beautiful Bedfordshire. I have been grilled about still feeding ecobaby and her car seat 'does she really need your milk still?' and 'why have you still got her facing back, she'd have more to see the other way'. Times like these I feel very much like a crazy hippy, even though most of mumsnet would out hippy me in a nanosecond and I'm in fact quite mainstream. I take a deep breath vent at dh in private and think of the ironing pile :-) They have been lovely to have around actually and ecobaby loves playing with them. Lucky girl to have nan and great nan to play with.

The birthday cake is in the oven and I'm about to crystallise some primrose's for the top. Never done it before so best get on. I just wanted to stop that darn tumbleweed in its tracks! Night all.

I don't get the tumbleweed thing

Thanks for the nap update ladies.
eco yes just think of the ironing, it's mandatory for rellies to voice opinions we don't agree with...!

gerry how's toddle gerry?
yummy hope mini yummy sleeps better this week..

plonk good news on The Dress!!

Did the sport relief mile today. Kind of got stuck with the buggy so I lost the others and ended up running the mile and pushing the buggy on my own