November 2012 - Are the LOs old enough for Mother's Day yet?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2023090-November-2012-Spring-is-here-time-to-get-our-babies-out-and-about?

Diagnostic or therapeutic apple?

Haven't posted in so long that the thread is not even on my list.

Oh fuck. Dinner guests have just left... There are red crayon marks all over carpet! HELP. HOW DO I GET it out?

Also a bit surprised at their two year old still awake at 1.30 because he napped until 6.30?

J had a good night in his big boy bed. Did not hear a peep from him and he woke happy, if a bit confused. Not looking forward to RR tonight, but we have had a good start. Pic on FB

Well done J.

GT no idea on crayons

Anyone got any experience of no period, and then getting a bfp a few days later after a negative on the day you are due. I feel rotten, like I did with L but tested yesterday evening and nothing.

Test in another couple of days Pikz? I have had a few chemical pregnancies and they all produced that 'convinced you're pregnant' feeling then AF arrived a few days later. But pregnancy can start out slow like that as well as tests are more of an art than a science. Are you trying for another?

Sorry pikz whenever I have had a negative at 28 days AF has come along with a smirk a few days later. But... You recently stopped contraception iirc so your cycle could be messing with you a little. You are stressed as well and that can have an impact.

Glad J had a good night vq

apple that is one of my fears too.

Pikz it is always best to test the first wee of the day as it will give the most accurate result. I have always tested positive on day AF was due, or indeed earlier, but we are all different.

Pikz I got a negative on the day my period was due and 2 days later still negative, and then got a BFP on 3 days overdue - resulted in the the little toddler who is currently empyting my dvd draws so you never know!

I watched an interesting new series yesterday. Well, the first episode. Masters of Sex, based on a true story. It's very rude but Michael Sheen rocks, as ever. Shame I can only see him as Tony Blair now. Kind of ruined it. Anyway, interesting. Not sure I'll bother with the rest though.

GT google it - there are lots of solutions. Crayola website would be good, if they are that brand. There are chemical removers which are less than ideal with small children, but ice cubes spring to mind as it makes it brittle so you can pick it off. It will be ok.

Not always obviously, otherwise I would have dozens of kids by now.

Thanks guys.

PR you are right. I'm not thinking I am preggers just want AF to show up so I can feel normal again. I think it might be stress. We've not been preventing things but not actively trying either. I have no idea when I got my bfp with L as I had had a hysteroscopy the previous month so it was a chance test taking.

If it's not shown by Thursday I'll take another

Hello lovelies!

Last day of holidays. Mil and FIL have taken p away to the park so DH and I can get packed. Getting packed has thus far consisted of DH snoozing and me catching up on MN. Better get a shifty on though.

Holiday has been lovely but I feel ready to go home. P hasn't slept fabulously and the arrival of the pil while lovely raises the tensions a little. Generally mil is massively supportive and helpful but everything is done at break neck speed and at full volume so is exhausting. Earlier we had nigh on a full battle about the need for sun cream. Apparently DH 'used to go a lovely colour as a bairn' which really means he was left to burn. Anyway . . .

pp your thread on classics made me giggle a lot.

And . . . Teeth brushing - p does hers in the morning and in the bath at night. She also has a bath every night with hair washing. The dentist was very firm about us doing p's teeth for her but I am afraid I let her do it mainly and I give a quick scrub. She does a pretty good job herself and she loves it so I feel at the moment that is more important.

There was something else I was going to mention now and I can't remember.

J still has a shaped silicone thing for his teeth as I have always been petrified of making him vom. He is tolerating, indeed enjoying it much more/better now he is off the formula.

Fabulous vq! So have you just cut formula / milk altogether?

The other thing was cleaning. DH is chief cook and bottle washer in our house and I think Mondays and Fridays are used for frantic cleaning. He hoovers upstairs and down at least once a week and the bathroom wc get done maybe once or twice. Our house is a total tip though. A clean tip

VQ fab news about J! Well done little man. We had 7-7.30 here but I still woke feeling and am back to work from midday. Flippin' night shifts.

I'm glad you have had a lovely time, Pass. V of the need for suncream discussions! hope you have a safe trip home.

GT good luck with that! We fortunately have darker carpets, which with the dog/cat/baby combo is a blessed relief. Is dread to think what horrors they are hiding.

Cleaning...am a bit obsessive. As a 3yr old, I tried to rebel and not put my toys away before bed one night. My mum woke in the dead of night to find me frantically tidying. Nothing has changed! I get cross when the house is a mess. F has similar neat freak tendencies The other day she went batshit over the corner of coat poking out from the understairs cupboard

floucy diagnostic. Are you are a radiographer?

pikz did you test first thing in the morning? I used to hate the time between testing and knowing it was negative and waiting around for af. It's still possible to get a bfp though so test again in a couple of days.

stunt you've kept very quiet about your birthday... how are you celebrating?

pikz between the boys I had one 44 day cycle (am usually 34 days on the dot, when I wake up in the morning) I felt awful and was so relieved when it happened. Last month I had a 40 day cylce and felt so rough and irritable etc . I think it is just your body settling down, and, in my case, stress. Which actually, as you have a lot on your plate at the mo could be the same for you. Can you have a soak I. A bubble bath later, take an hour out with a candle and a book and relax. And make sure you are eating healthily, not withstanding the pmt chocolate.

Day three working from home. My boss still has not initiated any contact. I have emailed him to say hi, he responded. And I then emailed him to say I would not be In The office till 23rd April and that I had not been able to organise flights ( cost/ Easter Hols) had no response.

I have had a pile of work handed over to me in the form of about 100 emails all lumped together and chucked into an email, which I have sifted through and binned over half of which were irrelevant meeting organisation and flight booking details for said meetings and are you coming out for dinner.

vq what is the silicone thing?

stunt

Also anyone shredding on YouTube have you managed to get level 2. Have to say I feel better on it and think is working but on a weight loss level only with a calorie controlled diet

bp that used to be me. My bedroom had/has to be tidy before I go to bed. However my ex DHs anal tidying/ cleaning was one of our big issues, I.e. It was his priority, more important than anything (he would come in and wipe his finger over stuff to see if there was dust and if I hadn't mopped and he decided to do it he would go on and on about the colour of the water which, of course I felt was saying to me how useless I was because I hadn't kept the floor clean) and so when I left him I vowed if ever it was spend time with the family or clean, family would come first. So I initiated "jobs in the week none at the weekend" from when the girls used to come every weekend and I pretty much stick to that. I keep on top of stuff as I go along because I am naturally tidy but big jobs get done on my Tuesdays or when the boys are In bed.

Morning all

Sophia the book came today, it's perfect thank you! Can't wait to give it to my friend