Elderberries no 2 - all old and new berry babies welcome!

[HazleNutt]

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I had a fun night out as well, we went to see the local Chippendales, Le Body Exciting! How come when women take their clothes off, it's sexy, but when men do it, it's bloody hilarious. I haven't laughed so much in ages.

As V is used to a dream feed, but won't take bottles, I was expecting some issues. But no, he woke up for evening feed, but was totally fine drinking from Doidy cup and fell asleep again, no problems, great to know.

alex thats what I had in the week, H was up from 12.45 - 3.....it was bloody awful! If it makes you feel better I struggled to get to sleep as I'd had a couple of jaggerbombs (too much redbull) and my OH woke me as 5 as the low battery alarm was going on the monitor and H was up at 7.30 and is now in our bed being a punching kicking menace!

Haha its funny you should say that hazel, we were talking last night about going to adonis caberet in Brighton, stripping men is totally hilarious! All that baby oil, shaved skin and thrusting can't not be funny

That doesn't make me feel better mother, it makes me feel bad for you as you deserved a solid night, damn that redbull!!

Right, I need a night out to a male strip club! Never been but sounds hilarious!

Ahh bless you alex, I'll be fine, hope you manage to get some sleep today! Was my own fault, I knew jaggers were a bad idea but they tasted so good.

Do it alex, I saw a ropey rip of chipendales act before and my face actually hurt from laughing so much! Although they are horribly well endowed, it freaked me out!

Alex you go! Just not with me on my hen do!

I had the misery pleasure of a visit from my Mum over the weekend and she was at her passive aggressive best when it comes to her being such a better parent than I currently am. In fact at one point I had to hold myself back from exclaiming out loud "What a load of bollocks!" as jellyfish after jellyfish appeared (like in Bridget Jones).

She was/is such a fantastic Mother that both of her prodigy now view her as a toxic thorn in their side and are both pretty much estranged from her.

According to my Mum, at E's age I was walking, talking and out of nappies. Who knew I was such a genius? All down to her encouragement and parenting abilities of course.

Strangely enough my (completely normal and lovely) Dad tells a different story.

My Mum is a perfect example of how not to parent time warps your memory of the facts and gives the sometimes hellish baby years a rose-tinted glow.

Thank fuck I won't have to put up with her again for at least a couple of months, hopefully longer.

ouch cav that sounds tough! I bet every time she tells the story, you will start walking and talking earlier and earlier, and will soon end up as an extremely talented fetus
Sad though that she can't be a supportive grandma and is instead making it into some kind of a parenting competition.

My parents and aunt and uncle are coming over for a week tomorrow. Luckily they are more or less normal and I can manage most of the help with "Yes, but nowadays/research/over here/my doctor.."

Yes I forgot to mention I also slept like a doormouse as well. The fact that E is still up in the night is also because i'm doing it wrong. She thinks she is being supportive by telling me everything I am doing wrong so I can start doing things her way instead which just shows how little she knows me as there is more chance of finding rocking horse shit on the moon.

You have a team of babysitters coming over for a week? I would love that!

Hm more like a tourist group expecting entertainment..
Not that I mind and as said, they're nice and all, but I don't expect that I can just leave V with them for a week and bugger off myself

Hello ladies,

Just wanted to poke my head in and say I am still here. I have been hiding out due to the most fucking awful painful tension headache that just won't shift. Really starting to get me down now

Will be back with a smile soon I hope....

Aww thunder that sucks, hope u feel better soon!

Oh blimey Cav that sounds like a fucking ordeal.

So over here, we are experiencing strange emotional meltdowns from W. She's gone from being so chilled out to having these hysterical crying fits for no apparent reason, often when DP is dealing with her. It's weird, she goes from beaming smiles to proper crying in seconds. She calms down eventually if I give her cuddles but it will often involve a comfort feed that she continues to whimper through. She is pretty clingy at the mo - even moving her from sitting on my lap to sitting on the picnic blanket between my legs caused the whimpering to start today. I am hoping it is a wonder weeks thing - on my app we are right in the middle of a black cloud. Have any of you had this? Poor DP is not having a lot of fun with her at the moment.

How old is w now quod? Sounds pretty normal to me!
Cav that is painful. Is your mum still married to your dad? They seem so different!!! Well hopefully being the daughter of a genius E will pick up soon and start reading?
Over here this tooth is driving L crazy. It has cut through but not come out completely so she is grizzly beyond belief. She is asleep now but on my leg.

How annoying cav what sort of things does she think you should be doing? CIO etc? Seems to me that babies are all different and like to do things at their own pace so it was mostly down to you if you were some kind of record breaking baby genius!

I actually don't believe it - S slept through last night apart from one short wake up feed at 3am!! I'd honestly started to lose the will to live feel a bit run down and not like myself at all, feel like a new woman after a decent night! And the sun is out!

quod was just thinking about W, do you think she's napping enough? Sometimes S is perfectly happy, then rapidly gets cranky/cries and over time I'm thinking it's when she's tired - so it just happened and I've moved her into her sleepyhead with her dummy and comfort muslin to suck on and she seems to be drifting off for her first nap (I aim for 9am for her first nap anyway Gina ford nap recommendation, don't judge me! )

Although having said that I guess crying meltdowns do just seem pretty normal and I have also noticed S is sometimes more emotional than she is on other days without an obvious reason.

Alex I think you are right and tiredness is a big part of the problem - we are trying to be a bit more 'on it' with naps. Yesterday's morning meltdown was definitely due to over tiredness. But she's also doing it when she can't be tired - this morning first thing DP got her out of her cot to change her, like he has every morning of her life, and was met with screaming habdabs before he'd got a fresh nappy on. Very odd.

Saw the paediatrician yesterday, she asked me lots of questions to which I said 'umm, I don't know, I haven't bought her any' like:

'Does she scribble?'
'Umm, I don't know, I haven't bought her any crayons or anything, she'd probably just eat them?'
'Does she build with blocks/post shapes through the holes?'
'Umm, I don't know, I haven't bought her any toys like that'

So I'm clearly a terrible parent, she then says they're happy to discharge her as she's 'clearly very advanced and her low weight isn't affecting her'

So either all of your children are also 'very advanced' or the lovely paediatrician lady is talking utter rubbish. I'm afraid as special as all of our pfbs are I know which I think it must be! I wonder if she said it to make me feel better about my poor parenting

Lilly hooray for L the child genius! Good news on her getting discharged. I also wouldn't know those answers. I am going to give E a crayon and see what she does though as I am now curious. She hasn't got blocks but she can't stack the cups yet so I can't see her being a block building genius. My Sister was telling me some of the questions you get asked at the 1 year check (which they do at 11 months round here so should be called the 11 month check) and I won't know the answer to half of those either so we are going to have to swot up on them so both of us don't look like idiots.

No Lol, my Dad had the good sense to jump ship years ago lucky him, i'm stuck with her for life. Alex I don't think she thinks I should actually do anything different. It just gives her a sense of smugness that her babies did things earlier than mine is, which is probably just her warped memory anyway and I probably did things at a normal rate. From what I can tell, E is a pretty average 9 month old and my Mum is a moron so I am not worried in the slightest.

Frustrating as it is Quod, it does sound normal. I gave up trying to find rhyme or reason for things months ago.

Thunder have you been to the Doctor? As if having a newborn isn't hard enough already.

All this lovely glorious sunshine and both E and me have stinking colds. E has had a few sniffles since birth but this is her first proper cold and she's really grumpy and whingey. She's just gone down for a nap so I can enjoy a chocolate Hobnob hot honey and lemon in peace.

That's like my MIL - DH came out walking on the day he was born, had a steak for dinner and slept through without a peep

cav I pity your and E's life sentence sounds far from fun! Do you get time off for good behaviour

quod H went through a period of being hugely clingy with me, my OH was upset as he would just scream until passed back to me. Thankfully it lasted days, maybe a week tops. Hope W is back to her old self soon. Wonder Weeks has always been a bit off for H, is that unusual? He never really fits with what they say.

Miles doesn't fit wonder weeks, either with due date or birth date. I haven't looked at it for months...

Mother that's interesting, good to hear it didn't last long too.

Night at the in laws. Seriously, jellyfish chucked at me left, right and centre tonight.

And the most frustrating thing is they criticise bf, why isn't S sleeping through the night, shouldn't be feeding her at night, I should be putting baby rice in her milk as of 3 months, her cousins slept through at 3 months etc etc but I've had to wake up S at 11pm when she was fast asleep to bring her home which is totally interrupting her sleep?! And now I can't get her back off to sleep! Apparently I shouldn't be happy with her one wake up at 3am last night.