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June mummies '05 thread 12 - the one where they aren't babies anymore!

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katzg · 21/09/2006 10:51

new thread!

Enjoy!

Congrats Jonah

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tribpot · 30/09/2006 14:20

Come on sfx, we need to know - dh will never find out!

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JonahB · 30/09/2006 19:29

.. your secret will be safe with us.....

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lummox · 30/09/2006 19:31

it's bad for pregnant ladies to be kept in suspense.

did it involve an answering maching?

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tribpot · 30/09/2006 19:45

Good point, lummox, the welfare of our babies-in-development is at stake, sfx must spill the beans.

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sfxmum · 30/09/2006 20:10

hello ladies anticlimax i am sorry

i have one of those bedside cots,a cheap rubbish one where the drop side never worked properly. we have never used it with side out because there is a wide gap between my mattress/ bed base cot mattress. so we just keep it low (iyswim)

but anyway yesterday pm i decided to take the side down and store it under the cot for day nap,it somehow got stuck.

in the meantime dd kept me busy and i forgot about it.

come bedtime i took dd to bed after her bath for bf and saw the cot, i then asked dh to fix it.
he was just coming out of the shower wrapped only in towel.
so he just came over to do it. i warned him it was stuck and all my earlier attempts had been unsuccessful

he gave a rare 'women ah' look and got to work starkers.
well dh is not the most patient of men neither is he one who takes defeat easily - bad combination

dd and i watched and laughed while he wrestled with the cot for nearly half an hr

"this is not natural how is it possible that it got stuck in this way"
"surely you have been taking it apart and glueing it back to try me" - he does take things personally
"no surely it must have been done in another dimension and dropped here just to drive me mad"

all these with assorted expletives - the child -sh*t- "not what daddy said honey"

finally there were tools - i feared for the possibility of future children...

but, dear reader, it all worked out in the end

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tribpot · 30/09/2006 20:13

It's so like a Jane Austen novel .. but not, isn't it?!

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lummox · 01/10/2006 09:46

wasn't it sherlock holmes who said that once you've tried something halfheartedly a couple of times and it doesn't work straight away, the only logical explanation is that it is impossible?

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2Happy · 01/10/2006 10:26

Lol! Reminds me of dh's attempts yesterday to sand a drawer that was sticking in a chest of drawers. Puce, sweaty, half an hour's sanding later witht eh drawer still sticking, and he thought maybe my suggestion (earlier rejected for being from a woman) of using a plane might have some merit.
And reader, that also worked!!

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muma3 · 01/10/2006 15:28

hi all

i have browsed through the posts . i just dont get it . i dont work, i am a full time mother and house wife and yet i still dont get time to catch up with you guys.

i have posted a few times on MN but this thread seems to go 100 times faster and i can never keep up .

things have been really shit to put it mildly.
upside down /back-to-front/to the end of the world/ cheese grated and now im left with a big piles of problems to encounter

dd1 has seen her dad after her nan told her a pack of lies ( dd1 hasnt wanted to see her dad since jan and he has made no contact). she said he wasnt drinking anymore and that he had changed and that he missed her badly. after convincing dd1 to go round one evening for tea dd1 now realises her nan is a liar and her dad still drinks. her nan took dd1 and her dad to the shop , brought him some beer . he then drank it in the car so his partner doesnt know and dd1 nan told him to just put it under her car seat so it couldnt be found !!! dd1 is so confused now. dd1 says she cant stand her nan's lies all the time and that she feels like her nan is trying to make her choice her dad over me and she doesnt want to see her nan now either .
i dont blame her . the are just fucking her head up and im fed up too .

i have told dd1's nan and dad that if they are missing her or want to show they care then they can come her to see her where she feels more comfortable . i am waiting for a response . her nan used to come to see her tues and thurs eve and take her to her house for dinner or to her great grans for dinner . i also found out that they have been going to her dad's and dd1 nan has made her lie about this.

dp has been very selfish recently and i have been feeling very invisible and uncared for . things are getting better but i wont hold my breath . his mum has come up and is staying with family friends . they have been czausing trouble by telling dp mum about our problems . she doesnt need the stress ( recovering from a stroke)they have also told her i have a problem with drink . that has really hurt me as i have lost my dad to alcoholism and my mother has a problem too leading to us not having contact . so im more then aware of the problems drink cause and i cant believe they could say such a thing

on a brighter note==

have completed my living room now and it is feeling very much like home . i have been here for 4 months and its just starting to take shape now .

dd3 is doing really well . her speech has slowed down but she can show us where her hair , nose and shoes are and loves to play peeka boo . its worring when she starts to wlak with her hands over her face and as for bruises she is covered . she is such a tom-boy and her dad is showing her how to kick a ball as she keeps picking it up and throwing it instead. dp has took her today to take his mum home to alton /hampshire so they will be gone for the rest of the eveing as he has to see his dad and siblings whilst he there too .

food isnt such a problem , dd3 will eat anything and everything but does get bored and does throw it everywhere too . i dont feed her anymore i just giver her whatever we eating and she gets on ith it . she has 1 nap a day between 12 and 3pm and goes down at 7.30 with her sisters .

hope the blooming junies are doin well and all the litlle junies (and mummies ) are all good too

i will try to keep up now but it has veen a little more then hectic here

all my love xxxxxxxxxxx

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giddy1 · 01/10/2006 19:25

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mandymac · 01/10/2006 19:46

Hello Again

Just speed read the thread to try and keep up. We had DH's 40th birthday this weekend. I stayed up till 2.30am and we stayed in a hotel in town. First time we have left DD overnight and she was fine (my mum and sister stayed at ours to look after her). I am now exhausted though! And I have got conjunctivitis .
DD is still being a bit of a madam with food - which I am now blaming on teething (when will it end ?) She is back to breastfeeding loads too. I had got her down to twice a day - first thing and at bedtime and now she is asking again mid morning and afternoon (when I say asking, I mean shouting and pulling my top down from the neckline ) since she was ill our routine has all gone to pot and I am just too tired to sort it out.
Ooops dinner ready - got to go - sorry for the moan!

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sfxmum · 01/10/2006 20:15

hi muma so sorry that you are having a hard time. that nan does not have your child's best interests at heart, but it explains a lot about her son imo

  • sort her out, well done on your dd poor kid being stuck in the middle.

btwd job on the house are you being miMN project?
interferencebtw i found it easier to keep up with mn when i had an office and no toddler interferance

speaking of child she has been trying to say her name she has gone from alala to alila , while pointing at herself,which is nearer to Olivia. i guess we could have given her an easier name
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sfxmum · 01/10/2006 20:17

no idea to what happen there splice post

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giddy1 · 01/10/2006 21:12

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sfxmum · 02/10/2006 15:52

hello all
dd had her first trauma today, a little terrier jumped up to her buggy and licked her hand cue much screamingoh well it was bound to happen

hope you all well

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sfxmum · 02/10/2006 15:53

meant to say her first dog trauma poor child has the 2 of us for parents that ought to have been a shock

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mandymac · 02/10/2006 15:59

Giddy - You are a very norty lady! Unfortunately (or fortunately as I was exhausted), DH just passed out!

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2Happy · 02/10/2006 20:16

Hey, Muma, good to hear from you, sorry things aren't going better. FWIW I agree with sfx - dd's nan behaving like that explains a lot about the wat her son is! Silly woman, but your poor confused dd not fair. More stress on you, like you need it. Are you getting any time to look after yourself?
Hope the conjunctivitis is improving, mandymac
Sfx - hope dd has recovered from the shock!
Giddy - not even 2 and already beating boys off with a stick!

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2Happy · 02/10/2006 20:17

I'm sorry, that meant to read "the way her son is" - wat made it look like a typo for a whole different (though probably perfectly appropriate!) word...

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sfxmum · 03/10/2006 16:45

hello all, hope you are well

manymac - hope your eye is better its so unconfortable.

dd eating better today but not sleeping that well yet, her teeth seem to have decided to show up one after the other, guess better get that misery over and done with, lets hope i survive.

she seems recovered from the dog licks, now seems to only be weary of small dogs

in good sahm tradition i am starting an open university degree, oh dear! too long since i have studied [panic emoticon]

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2MwahHaHaHappy · 03/10/2006 17:03

Here's my Halloween name!
Bubbs - I like yours too

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katzg · 03/10/2006 20:19

hi all back from Nantes the conference was great but ebing away from the girls and DH wasn't, plus i camer back to DD2 throwing up, followed by DD1 and DH and they have very kidnly givne it to me too!

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sfxmum · 04/10/2006 09:49

hi good morning

2happy - is that eeeevil world domination you?

katzg - that is awful what a reception!hope you all recover well

i have a question hope someone can help, thought about starting a thread but maybe later.

dd woke up screaming the last couple of nights and was inconsolableshe screamed in quite a frantic way and it took ages to settle - no idea what happened
she was sleeeping with us and spent ages crying (a loud scream) while sleeping tossing and turning.

any ideas? its not the teeth i dont think, at least very different from the ususal
baby dreams? tia

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bubbaOOOOOOO · 04/10/2006 11:11

Sfx-Oscar has done exactly the same and woken with a really high pitched scream which I haven't heard before,last night and the night before.
I am putting his down to teeth though as I know his top back ones are through so I reckon the ones on the other side must be on their way also.

Maybe it was a little nightmare she was having.

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sfxmum · 04/10/2006 11:30

yes could well be dreams, i have been talking to some people on another board and lots of mums seem to ghave the same experience. i am now looking at articles on it and it is very interesting.

i was just realy frazzled after a couple of weeks without much sleep that frantic screaming just about brought me to tears

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