March '13 - The One With The Babax

[Plonkysaurus]

New thread , and I can assure you all, it'll be a corker.

Fancy a big cuddle worse? I hope this though time passes swiftly (but that you also get to spend a bit of time enjoying Babax while he's still so little).

Would it be at all possible to get the Worselet in nursery for another day a week? It's about the only thing I can think of to perhaps give you a bit of time to see a physio. It sounds like you're firefighting and really need something to give, so I hope it does. And I bet your fabulous nanny is more than accustomed to snotface mums sniffling all over her.

Stormy cbt referral aside your gp sounds like a prick. What an awful thing to make you feel, how irresponsible.
When I was feeling at my lowest my Dr suggested an online form of cbt. It's not the same as talking therapy but it's a really useful day to day toolkit and might get there a bit quicker. it's an Australian experimental study called MoodGym that is free to participants. May be worth a Google?

I think I need to go to bed before my blogs boils over watching this debate.

Worse, when nanny goes, I second either more nursery (or even an au pair or similar longer term?) to help with the toddle and leave you to handle babax more. A couple of full days will be great for worselet - she'll really run some energy off and be properly ready for bed, and you can have your newborn snuggles. Might that work?

Stormy at your twunt gp. But well done for going, I hope the clouds lift again soon. I'm feeling a bit more together again, which is good.

Love to all (the tax year is over ).

Hugs all round it sounds like...

Stormy I have PTSD and I've never been to war (other than with toddle!). Do you have any sort of medical insurance, or is it NHS?

Worse I'm in awe of how you're managing having two, meltdowns are a good way to just release the stress I imagine. I wouldn't mind a sniff of a newborn head myself, have felt really broody lately, and really enjoying doing things with Albatoddle, like today's easter egg hunt with our neighbour's little one. It's only recently I've started to emerge from the PND, it's been pretty stubborn.

Dummies now sleep in bed until night time, and naps are non-existent! DP seems to have unknowingly programmed toddle to only respond to any instructions related to getting in the buggy, putting his coat on etc if there are gingerbread men biscuits available. I wheeled a screaming child around Waitrose yesterday and got some very disapproving looks (and a few sympathetic ones).

Yay for the end of the tax year, and I'll second the hugs as it's overfamiliar Friday. My dole budget doesn't leave much spare for medical insurance, so lengthy wait for NHS CBT it is.

Everyone having a fun Easter weekend? I bring you a timely comedy mispronunciation: though Fartypants is well able to say bounce, for some reason when attached to hopping rabbits it is pronounced bonk. She is currently jumping around the living room with Bunny DogMouse shouting, "Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!"

These toddles are comedy gold aren't they? Yesterday DS stared at me and DH, completely slack jawed, and went "aw no, man!" Clearly following our carefully set example.

We're having a weekend of diy interspersed by meals with various family members. At the moment we're waiting for the PILs to show up with fish and chips, and I've got a bathroom to finish painting this afternoon.

Hope everyone else is enjoying their long chocolatey weekend.

Mmm, chocolate. Plonk I seem to recall you're currently winning the MN-Unapproved Foods award with DS's fruit shoots. In a bid to steal your title (and in the hope of persuading the child to eat something - anything - that isn't sausages or toast) yesterday I presented FP with her own name written in probably mechanically recovered and grim beyond words turkey in breadcrumbs. She loved it.

Ds is saying "fook" but I don't know what he means. Its not fork because he doesn't say it in context of eating.

This weekend is borrriiinnggg. Weather is miserable, dh is working and if I want to lose weight I can't eat chocolate. Booooo.

stormy ds loves pot noodles. Freshly cooked food is not yummy as sugar laden processed food apparently.

Happy easter times to you all. I am just back home after the yurt erections in terrible storms and a trip to the south coast (worse I was very close to calling you and begging to cuddle DS but I thought with all else you had on you could do without an Internet random showing up!). Nice to be home. Thank you everyone for your sharing about tantrums and how you deal with behaviour. It's all gone into the melting pot and I'm mulling it over. I've really been paying attention to how I respond to her this last week or so, and also to how other parents react to their children. Very enlightening. Big thank you to rainbow. I bought toddler calm book and I'm really enjoying it. I can tell I'm going to like it.....it's not pissed me off yet and it's making reference to research. It's just what I wanted right now. Happy to loan to anyone else who may be interested once I'm done.

We three have come home with colds and headaches and weary eyes following a pretty wakeful night last night due to tickly coughs and snot. Just as well we have a house full of choc and three days of holiday ahead of us (Tuesday with child minder on duty). That's not a bad place to be in.
Sending love to you all. Spring has sprung and all the little bunnies and birdies are following plonky's fecund path

oh, and, we did a nappy change today that went thus: Ecotod pulls dirty nappy as soon as we've unhooked the sides, nappy lands on her chest face down and poo lands on her startled face (a big chunk of poo....not a dribble.....the main event). We were both attending her at the time and we all laughed hysterically and I fear now our child will think poo on face = good.

Yay, finally I have an explanation. I'm not cracking up. I'm not 'not coping'. I've actually been pretty bl**dy ill . I wonder how often 'ill' gets a ! Had to call the doctor out today because I felt awful, ached everywhere, and was passing out. Long story short, retained products = nasty infection = lots of bleeding = low blood pressure etc. Oh and not having managed to get antibiotics for a chest infection due to the bank holiday wasn't helping. It is so nice to know I'm not just too old to cope with two at or under two I was beginning to wonder

Eco next time drop by, we'd love to see you! Given we are all coughing, spluttering and generally germ infested you probably did well not to this time.

Yummy fook you say? Book maybe?

Goodness me Worse, how you manage to carry on to the point of passing out is beyond me. You're made of stern stuff, aren't you?! Blimey. I hope you're feeling better now you've actually had done medical attention and that it can stay getting more cope-able now.

eco after the first mention of the book I had a shufty on amazon and am now 11% through it on my kindle. One day ds will be pleased that I stopped reading Pratchett to learn about his development. Fascinating stuff. I did psychology at a level and had forgotten a lot of the child development stuff, even though it was the only module I was interested in. So thanks to you and Rainbow for bringing it to my attention.

Your time away sounds like good old blustery fun. The yurts look fab, is happily pay to stay in them for a few nights.

yummy fook!! Hehe!! we've had cock bitches on the thread but ds calls them cock dicks. hilarious the other day when something gave him a rich tea and he called her a dick.

Stormy ds is partial to a fruitshoot if we're out and I've forgotten his cup, but it's a rare treat. He does easy olives and hummus regularly though, so his middle class credentials are safe.

Eco excellent fun filled nappy change! Poor pooey dd. Today ds whipped his nappy off in front of all and sundry and decided to show his 90 year old great grandad his willy. Then sat his bare cheeked arse on his auntie. Not as shocking as your story but these little boys don't leave their willies alone! He was trying so hard to get a closer look at his chap that he actually fell over.

I'm now in bed with a miniature Lindt bunny. Night all

Worse, glad you're ill (erm... We'll sort of). Hope can stop being ill and feel better soon.

Happy Easter everyone. We're at the zoo. We're at the zoo sitting in the car park waiting for the breakdown people to arrive and change my wheel as shortly after parking my tyre valve blew off giving me a flat and I cannot manage my locking wheelnut

Not quite the day out I had planned...

Hi all

Sorry for the recent silence, it's so bloody busy! Worse I hope you're on the mend.

Eco thanks for the book recommendation, I might just give it a whirl!

We're off on holiday for a week so I can be bridesmaid at a wedding. It's costing us a small fortune but hopefully it'll be nice weather and a nice family time too!

Happy Easter everyone. Hope you're all belly deep in chocolate by now!

Yummy is it frog?

Worse, you are basically some kind of hero I could never be. I've struggled with one night alone with one child who sleeps through from 7pm without a fight.

So here's a question - are they still supposed to nap?

Who knows what fook means. Will keep a listen out again when he says it. Ds has learnt 3, 2, 1 blast off. So cute.

wotta I am useless with cars and have waited at sainsbury's before with a flat tyre. Did you enjoy the zoo? How is the single parenting this weekend? Hope ds is on his best behaviour for you.

alba some toddlers naturally phase out napping unless it is a developmental leap and he may go back to napping in a couple of days. I think it was just before Christmas ds refused naps and I thought he didn't want to nap any more but he was just going through a developmental leap.

betty enjoy the wedding and holiday.

worse you poor thing. I really hope dh has been treating you like a princess if he has been back home this weekend.

eco your nappy story made me chuckle. Dd will love to hear that story when she's a teenager in front of all her mates.

Our Easter has been disappointingly relaxing. Dh has been working and weather has been miserable to plan anything fun outdoors. We have had nice family time relaxing at home today so all is not bad.

As I recall quite a few of these toddles were being awkward about naps around Christmas. We persisted, but now she only has a sleeping nap maybe fifty per cent of the time. Other days are either nap fail but at least she gets a rest, or no attempt at nap and an early bedtime. Seems to work. I'll be intrigued to see whether nursery can persuade her to nap.

The littlest niece is here at the moment. I've had to remove the toddler chairs for the time being. They're both obsessed with standing on then. By the time you sit one down the other's stood up. It's like playing whack-a-mole.

stormy you will be surprised with how much toddlers do at nursery that they will not do at home. Ds eats well, naps without a dummy and listens to the nursery workers instructions. He is a different child.

We had a trip to the park which was great until ds hit another child. It wasn't just one hit it was pushing too. We took him away from the slide and he had a massive tantrum. Yes he was tired but me and dh felt so bad. We said sorry to the parents but they did not look impressed. Parks are a bit of a nightmare at the toddle age.

Yummy I had to Do Discipline in front of the nursery staff this morning. Ds marched right up to a little girl who was about to get on a seesaw, declared "Deedaw!" and acted like she wasn't there. My explanation that it wasn't nice to barge in, and they must take turns or have no turns at all went down well. Shame I didn't realise I was wearing a George Pig sticker at the time.

Stormy I'm with yummy, toddles know how to slot into the system and do all sorts of wonderful things when there's a bit of peer pressure. Ds eats green beans at nursery. Here they are only for nasal excavation purposes. He also naps on a big communal cot mat thing with all the other kids. Here it is buggy or bust. I figure this is likely to be due to the fact that when for adults are looking after 12+ kids they can't respond to every little thing, so benign undesirable behaviours simply aren't acknowledged in the way they would be at home.

Betty hope you're having fun! Are you somewhere beautiful and warm?

I have solved our cat food dilemma. Cat is allergic to cat food. I now get the fun job of dicing up ox heart and mackerel fillets of a morning. On the other hand the sun is out and I've got quite a bit of gardening to do too.

Has anyone seen Spring? I'm sure it was here yesterday but today it appears to have been replaced by SUMMER!

Glorious in't it Stormy? I've just taken a break from work to sew some grass seed (the boring kind), 3 strawberry plants and a dahlia. Would've been rude not to. I suspect the weather has something to do with how quiet it is around here...

Sadly I must now get back to work.

Was that an autocorrect fail or are you actually sewing grass seeds together with a needle? We spent the morning at my dad's. He's got a long garden fully enclosed with high fences, so Fartypants was allowed out to do laps of the lawn while we had a nice cup of tea and a sit down. And now I'm chilling on the living room because she's dragged the man out to play in the front yard.

Work has got in the way of mn. From today onwards I can enjoy the good weather.

Note to self must shave legs now spring is here

Sadly I can't blame it on autocorrect Stormy. Just plain stupidity.

Yummy are you on countdown yet? Hopefully the notice period will just fly by.

Some great news here - my sister's upduffed again and we're all very excited. Except she's completely convinced that she'll lose this baby too, which I guess is understandable. I know it's not likely that she'll spend the next 7 months basking in the soft fuzzy nausea loveliness, but I do hope she can enjoy it just a tiny bit. Oh and because she'll be offered a section/induction at 37 weeks her due date is 3 days after mine. Pretty sure Mum's going to crap herself.