The 9th Broadly Gemini Bus - the one with first birthdays!

[Lorelei353]

Ooh Inge to start a new thread. So if the last one was the one where they don't sleep, then they'll start to sleep now, yes?

I go back to work next Weds Kitty. DS started properly today. Full day today, tomorrow and Friday. I've just done a lovely yoga class and am using the next few days to have lunches, get hair cut etc. miss DS though.

pear definitely want to hear all TTC details! I'm beginning to accept that I will do it all again but not yet!

Aww Frus we just don't think well when we're zombified exhausted. I always feel like a bad mum b/c I'll give M calpol more for my own benefit of not having to hear her moan rather than for her own comfort

LOL Pear! We all go through stages of doing better than other times. I scoffed a bunch of chocolate yesterday after eating pizza. I feel like I have a food hangover today so lesson learned.

So last night DS1 puked pizza chunks all over his bed, his bedroom door, and my bedroom door and floor (despite me telling him to puke in the bowl after he told me his tummy wasn't feeling well). So that was right as me and DH were....om....you know.... going to.... do adult activities. Way to keep the romance alive in this house, let me tell ya. I'm so ready to just rip the carpet out. So gross. I can't get the red stain out to save my life. YUCK.

Eeeewwwww bring! Hope he gets over it soon & no-one else gets sick! I'm terrified that the boys are going to vomit if/when they get the pox. They've both been a little out of sorts recently. Runt's got a cold & Calf had a complete meltdown because he needed to poo! Tried to get him to go on the toilet but he freaked out so put him back in his chair for pre-bed milk & he was begging to go to bed. Eventually I let him down & he ran into another room & whimpered while he did it! He shouldn't be particularly dehydrated or anything so no idea what that was about!

Runt's been quite unsettled when we put him to bed recently so we often give him calpol as a precaution - I'm not sure if he cries now when we don't give it to him because he expects it as part of his routine! Seems to have gone down ok tonight but is a bit restless so I can see him coming in with me at some point.

I was so exhausted today that I fell asleep on the sofa at 8. DH eventually managed to wake me at 11 & now I don't think I'll get back to sleep. No idea why he couldn't just leave me there. I had a blanket, I was comfortable, I was asleep. I'd have been fine if he'd just taken himself off to bed!

Love the image of pear as a tweets chocolate orange lol
I must be the only piggy then as I've put on half a stone diet for me
Are you not worried about giving too much calpol? I don't mean in terms of overdosing but just frequently? I can't remember what I read, I'm sure it's something my mums showed me to scare me from the daily mail no doubt but I do remember it talking about not using it too frequently for some reason

I don't think taking a lot/regular paracetamol is great for anyone's liver, but I don't know where the cut-off would be. We try to avoid giving it to DS too much but will always do it if we know he's in pain or has a raised temp. It has not been very often though. Probably could give it to him more at the moment as he's not sleeping well.

It's not paracetamol we use, it's ibuprofen & we only give it to him when he needs it. Recently it's just been one before bed or he'll wake up after 30 mins or so & scream for ages. He did that at his nap this afternoon & I finally felt the tooth has broken through so hopefully he'll be less distressed soon... Doesn't help the migraine I've got now though!

Yeah, it ain't pretty. He's still sick so he's home from school. I've got all 3 nippers running around and it's DH birthday. Should make for an interesting evening .

I hate when that happens agnu. It's so hard to get back to sleep!

Yeah, it's not great to use it frequently as it is taxing on little one's systems. but it works so damn well at making them stop whinging

I've deactivated my account on FB. Ya'lls can reach me on here. Too many people are pi**ing me off on there, it's just time to get the heck away from it.

Interesting discussion on medicine. The most I give is 5ml Calpol and 2.5 Nurofen both once at bedtime but he has been known to need this for days in a row when the teething is bad...sometimes it's so hard to tell If he needs it or not. Since learning from you lot that Nurofen is better for the liver I try and just stick with that if need be! I am off to the cinema with my mum tonight. Just feeding Bpear before rushing off to pick her up

Bring ~ I bet you feel great for it. I've thought about deactivating for so many months! Can't believe your pizza + shagging story...sounds Hope your little boy feels better soon

Oh, also, I never give him a full dose unless he's got a fever. The one we use states the dosage as 5ml for 1-4yos so I figure if it's enough to have an effect on a 4yo then an 18mo doesn't need as much! I've given up trying to settle them tonight. DH still isn't home, Calf is humping the floor in his room & Runt is charging round the living room falling all over the place while laughing hysterically & bringing Calf's t-shirt for me the throw at him... Right now I'm happy to lob clothing at him so long as it holds off the screaming! I just want to be lying down in a dark room.

Oh Agnu, you had me at "humping the floor". I gave a very hearty chuckle at that one! I'm sorry. Those kinds of nights you just have to laugh, give up and work on wearing them out instead of muscling them into bed. Two boys are just insane sometimes. I don't know how our house is still somehow standing with those psychopaths running around. I've lost count on how many times I've said things like "leave your penis alone", "don't put your penis on that chair", "stop grabbing your penis", "stop touching your penis behind the chair" (DS1 is in the exploratory stage). Le Sigh. You have so much to look forward to Agnu!

YES! It feels amazeballs. Take that stupid ol FB! that I've been on since it was created in 2004

At the penis phrases
I don't think girls escape it, I've found dd playing with her bits on more then one occasion, legs wide apart! She also put her teddy between her legs a few days ago and told me it was her willy

Oh yeah, M has totally been all up in that too. She loves bath time

LOL! Oh young people making such strong observations. I mean, what do you even say in something like that? Hats off to the mums and dads who can be completely frank and not bat an eyelid at telling kids the way it is. I try... but DS1 is SO inquisitive and asks about 2342381 zillion more questions than I think the average child does that I just try to avoid topics like that or we'd be talking about it all day on the bus, in the store, in front of my parents, in front of DS's friends' parents

I am mega peed off with Mother Nature today!!!!!! AF has arrived 1 week early which now means the next time I ovulate it will still be a August baby. Soooooo annoyed I guess my cycles are shortening but still...

Boo pear but was ds early / on time/ late if you go over ( I think second pregnancys do lol) then would they not be September? A east you won't have to wait so long till next try, a shorter cycle is so much butter when TTC!! Uh are mine now though, once a year would suit me fine

Contractions started the day before due date but DS wasn't born until the day after due date thanks to the fantastic hospital being full and delaying labour

Due date could be 30th August. So close!!!!!

Lol tiger is the 31st! How's that for close, she was due 21st sept!!

Kitty ~ that is close and you say it really doesn't matter too (and that you wouldn't have it any other way). I guess I feel responsible and torn over this whole stupid starting school age still... I know I can't control but I also feel I have some power over it!

Random question...those of you with two or more DC... Has anyone experienced receiving some sort of extra help/support from their hospital before the birth of DC2 after having what felt like a horrific birth to you?

I was just wondering whether I could visit the hospital to talk through what happened with birth no1? I'm still so haunted by it and now petrified for the future. I don't want to feel like this my whole entire pregnancy My gp midwife was always so busy...I can't imagine she will have much time to discuss the past!

Aww that stinks pear. Sorry to hear that. Maybe you'll ovulate a bit later than usual this cycle and then you could have a Sept baby? I ovulated yesterday and was this close to just giving it a go and seeing what happens. But.... pulling the ol' coil out is kinda permanent and there's no going back after it's out (except back to the GP, no thank you). So, it feels a wee bit sad, it could have potentially been an Aug 10th baby. But onwards and upwards and trying to be optimistic about applying and hopefully getting accepted into nursing school. Nothing wrong with attempting to control this type of thing, IMO!

It would be a really really good idea to speak with the midwife who attended your birth and to process it. Try to book an appointment, it may be a nice change of pace out of her normal day and it would be really smart for you to get another perspective of what happened (what happened btw, you ok?). It so healthy to work through this especially before you get pregnant with number 2. It's easy to combine the experience with number with number two but it's a different person and a totally different birth. Second babies are a whole different thing just in general!