December 2012: Now they're all 1

[Barbeasty]

We needed a new thread!

Coffee, i'm sorry to hear that its hard when it affects your mental health but also to affect your relationship must of added an extra strain. I hope your feeling better now.

Nutella i have no idea why he chose that i'll ask him when i next see him and also hopefully he'll suggest something else that actually works. I couldn't get an appointment for today so will be trying again tomorrow.

Also Nutella i hope your nap helps. I remember the foggy brain of pregnancy.

WL i hope tonight is easier getting T to sleep.

Thanks for your messages, I've struggled with ante- and postnatal depression quite a bit. The thought of getting pregnant again and the decisions I'd have to make just fill me with horror. I'd rather be a good enough mum to one child than a detached, miserable mum to more.

Whatever is right for each person really. I admire those if you who are pregnant again or already have other children. You have a strength I couldn't even imagine!

On a plus note, F ate a family dinner with us last night, a proper grown up dinner of fish pie. I thought we'd be on jars of baby gloom for ever!!

Baby gloop, not gloom stupid phone

hales I hope you get some more info for H and I hope she is feeling better soon.

coffee DS will not eat any savoury jar/meal things can't say I blame him they are pretty odd but he usually eats what we eat for dinner. Albeit a carb heavy version he enjoyed risotto tonight but turned his nose up at the veggies we cooked to go with it.
But he regularly has fruit purée for pudding. He is a pooing champion and if I give him too much dairy that goes into overdrive! So we have the occasional yog to see how things are.

Weirdly he enjoyed a piece of pretty strong cheese the other day.

DH thinks I should see the dr about my cough. I don't want to because: - it will clear up (it's a left over from last weeks cold), -it's probably viral, -they won't give me anything anyway because I'm pregnant and I don't want to waste an hour sitting there to be told that!
Last year I was at the dr with a bit of a tummy bug and spent a lifetime in the waiting room just wanting to lay on the floor and die go to sleep to be told "well you can't rest because you have a tiny baby at home, we can't give you anything because you're breast feeding. Hope you feel better soon"

i give r adapted versions of what we're having. tonight he had a veggie sausage as finger food with mash and peas shovelled in. he likes fish fingers and chips and even makes an attempt at using a fork

Coffee that sounds tough but it sounds like you're doing the right thing for you and your family

Ds has diarrhoea he's drinking plenty though and fine otherwise

As long as you're happy then DS will be happy Coffee.

I'm sooooo tired, bone achingly tired. I got up at 4am and flew to brussels, worked all day then flew home just in time to make tea. the leffe and hoegarden I drank in the airport almost made up for it

DS was compliant though and self settled so I could have a boiling hot bath. I've been cold all day.

Did I mention I'm tired?

I think baby jar gloom is right coffee! You are absolutely right about each to their own.
hales hope you get to see a dr soon.
Poor baby spotty. Hope his bum isn't too sore.
Yep willyou work travel sounds glam but is in fact just exhausting, particularly if you have smalls.
T went to bed nicely tonight, sleepy but awake, no real fuss. We had fun last night as she accepted no boob as long as I cuddled her. Putting her down was met by blood curdling screams. In the end we compromised and I knelt by the cot and we cuddled over the bars - it actually was very cute. Eventually she let me lay her down and went to sleep. We're getting there slowly. I wore a dress to work today which confused her greatly - she always wants boob as soon as I walk through the door. She tried getting the top down and then the skirt up and got confused and cross as she had to wait a nano second while I changed. She did blow me kisses this morning when I left though, without prompting.

I think H might be feeling better her breathing doesn't sound as bad. I'm going to play it by what shes like today before taking her the Drs. She has attached herself like superglue to my dad today i don't think he's going to be able to go anywhere without her.

WL, slowly but surely always wins the race so if that's what T is doing she may be getting herself slowly there to sleep through.

Willyou i hope you managed a decent sleep last night.

Coffee yay for DS eating fish pie.

Nutella how nice of your DP to be concerned enough to want you to go the Drs. I hope your cough goes soon though.

Spotty i hope DS's Diarrhea has stopped now.

I like your optimism hales but I don't think she'd ever get there by herself. I'm just pushing from stage to stage rather than one big hit. So glad H is feeling a bit better.

Ds slept over three hours today in one go!

> spotty I would be over the moon if F slept that long!

willyou have you had any rest today after your jet setting?

I'm attempting to put T to bed an hour early so DH and I can go out. She hasn't slept all arvo so hopefully she's tired enough to go down well and stay there til we get back.

WL I hope she goes down and gives you and DH a wonderful night of restful sleep! You never know, keeping her up and putting her down earlier might work wonders... I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

spotty Is DS a bit better this afternoon? Do you oh think his amazing mammoth sleep was what he needed!?

hales you're right. He is a total sweetheart and he makes me feel like a very lucky lady that I found him (completely by luck or fate) and that he picked me. I do love him very much. Thank you for making a very good point.

We had a lovely day. My international ladies group here is full of pregnant ladies due to pop over the course of the he next few days to four weeks or so. This morning I met one friend to chat about nappies and we had a late breakfast which was lovely without any smalls to chase after. Then in the afternoon I picked DS up from the CM and took him to our next appointment. We were three very pregnant mummies, me and one not pregnant mummy. The smalls all ran around and caused mayhem while we ate delicious waffles and drank tea/coffee/water.
We did tidy up before we left and I have to say that we were awesome guests leaving it tidier than when we arrived!

Nutella do any of them have nice midwives? Or have you sorted that now?

Spotty I wish A would eat like that. Yesterday he had a bowl of rice crispies, 1 cm slice of banana, one bite of a slice of quiche, 1/10th slice of cheese on toast, 3 teaspoons of baked beans and half a custard cream.

And lots of milk.

And I'm happy MIL had him for today's nappy!!

Wow Spotty i am very jealous of that nap. I would be able to get loads done if H ever slept like that.

Nutella, that sounds like a lovely day.

WL i hope it works and T sleeps better than ever for you.

Thanks all, back from our night out and t was a good girl and hasn't woken yet - normally it's around 3 but she would have given mil a hard time if she'd woken.

Bless you nutella. We used to very gooey but nearly 18 years on we're a bit more functional. One of my goals for this year is to get 'us' back a bit after years of just being parents. It was going well til the sleep set back which is another reason to put my foot down!

Hope the poorlies are feeling better.

That's sweet Nutella. Dp and I are a bit like you WL, so busy living our lives and running around doing day to day things we forget about 'us'

Hales unfortunately I was at work for lost of the nap!

Ds is still having bad nappies. Not diarrhoea but worse than teething nappies he's not bothered though...

spotty I'm wondering what on earth can be worse than teething nappies (don't answer that btw)

nutella that sounds like a wonderful day out, waffles are then best, especially proper ones from the continent, not the crappy offerings we have here!

wl glad your night out went well. Did you manage to switch off from your little one or we're you still worrying about her? I still have half my mind still in F on the rare nights DH and I go out by ourselves

Ds is kissing dd's dolly again

Aw spotty that's cute!

spotty DS often gives any dolly he comes across a good snogging too!

coffee the lady that hosted and made waffles is French so of course they were tasty :)

Beasty two of the ladies live in the wrong part of town, their midwives wouldn't come out to me because it would be too far. The other two I already tried their midwives with no luck.
I think the midwives must all book their holiday together in some kind of massive midwife camp that takes place end of July - beginning of August

Poor DS had a super sore bottoms this morning :( I don't really know how. It was fine last night, a little touch sore but this morning was probably the worst I've ever seen it.

Nutella, i hope DS's bum is better soon.

This morning i was making H's toast when i stupidly left the cutlery drawer open. I didn't hear H rummaging inside it or sneaking up behind me, so i was quite shocked when i turned around and she stabbed a fork into my lady parts.

Hales, I'm so sorry but that really made me laugh! I was expecting H to have been injured in some way, thank goodness she wasn't. I hope you and your bits weren't too badly assaulted by the fork.

How often do your LOs poo? DS averages about 5 times a day! I'm starting to think it can't be normal....