Just Mumming Thread 7 - the grads grads cope with walking, own rooms and have little time for shagging

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Eurgh I HATE IT when he leaves me with mini all day and all night like this! I get so frazzled and then end up taking it out on mini

We all do that Popz, don't worry. You didn't even get a courtesy invite? Not on.

I realise that sounded a little ominous... I just meant having a strop on with him, not putting him in the washing machine or anything!

Nope, no invite. But it's ok, because we're going to the PILS caravan tomorrow! Whoopdee fucking doo!

#grump

I gave in, he's bouncing like a loon in his chair while I watch tv....

la what are you doing with your vista? Never had any trouble folding mine? It IS big though, as most full travel systems are, but I still luffs it, especially for walks from home or walks that are a bit off road. We have bought a much more foldable pram for holidays though as it takes up too much car space when we need to take all the baby luggage too!

Sorry I haven't been posting much, I am here and reading, just out a lot as H is much much easier to keep happy when we're out and about, being at home with mummy is obviously well boring. She did sign 'mummy' when she was in the bath last night and I came in to see her while daddy was washing her. Yay!

She's also still not sleeping through again, I think sleep regression may be bloody permanent!

We've started writing a list for things to take on holiday, is there anything that's not obvious, like cot, pram, clothes etc, that I might have forgotten or that you all found useful on holiday?

I'm so sorry for everyone having shitty times. fleur you know I said H and me like to be out and about? Want me to come to yours and have a word with DH? evil grin

Also, regarding the vista, it'll fit into my master plan of having another soon as it converts to a double! Poor DH hehehehe

Not that I'll be able to cope with 2.

Ok, I'll stop spamming

Ha I'm not commenting on your desire for another one zyla .
Things I always forget/forgot on holiday are: sleeping bag, sleeping aid (used to be musical mobile for Mini, now is white noise), sterilising stuff (for the baby who would actually take a bottle). Dummies? Toys? Can she sit up? Not that I imagine you have space on a cruise for a bouncer or portable chair.

Ah she's up for the second time since going to bed. Every night this happens. What's the reason please?

popz I'm home alone 2 while mrfurry has stayed at a BBQ with MY family I never get invited out with our friends anymore because I have a baby, it's started to piss me off now.

Hope your DH is following his baby bible fleur & finding out its total crap. Your very lucky to have a nice Gin drinking MIL

Hope the rest of you have nice sleeping babies or a good supply of biscuits ready for the night shift.

furry .... my friends went through a phase of inviting me to wildly inappropriate social activities when mini was first born. They don't bother so much now because I had to keep declining!! I'm not fussed though, I make an effort to keep in touch with the ones that matter and do family friendly stuff. I'm pretty annoyed with MrP about this though... he bought people tickets for this night out and THEN told me about it, so I couldn't then tell him not to go and let down all the others. Goit. I might get to go out again in 2037, what with my breastfeeding martyrdom...

This baby has the heaviest eyes I've ever seen!

Nope. Apparently still Not Tired. FFS.

I'm going out in a couple of weeks Popz. I figure she can eat porridge if she's hungry. Just go for it. Fuck sake, make that third wakening. What the arse is wrong with her?!

MiniP does that a lot Wil - gets up every hour or so until about 11/ 12 (when he actually fucking goes to bed that is). Someone sent me a link about "habitual waking" where they can't transition from one part of sleep cycle to the next without boob/ comfort/ help.... I don't know if it's BS or not. I'm kind of in denial about it myself!

It's not so much hungriness that worries me, it's the feeding to sleep bit. What would happen if I wasn't there? Only one way to find out I guess....

Yeah that's the same here. I just figure she'll catnap on MrWil on the sofa if he uses a bit of white noise and I'll just put her to bed when I come home. It's only one night.

I remember reading about that sleep transition bit with Mini as it used to annoy me she'd only ever nap for one sleep cycle. But how come they can do it in the middle of the night in that case?

H is also up!
Thanks for the holiday items wil, she's pretty much got the sitting up thing sorted, but no room for chair etc, I'll sit on the floor with her if needs be lol. I'd forgotten sleeping bag, thanks!

Yeah that's what I thought. Plus, he doesn't do it every night. Plus plus, their solution to the problem was apparently to wake them up!? Er. No.

This bloody child. He just fell asleep in the bouncer. I took him to bed. Screaming. Even though he is exhausted and won't be fed. I've just left him. Feel a total shit.

He'll be fine, take some time to calm down and go back in if needs be. Sometimes they just get so tired that you only end up overstimulating them by picking up etc.

Wake them up?? pfft not happening.

Yeah, don't feel bad about the screaming popz, H only really has mad screaming fits when she's either scared (she's petrified of hand driers in public loos, they're sudden and loud and scary and she screams and gets herself in a state bless her!) or when she's overly tired but can't/wont sleep. She had a meltdown yesterday morning and when I was walking her about trying to soothe her whilst she was screaming, after refusing boob, I saw someone outside look up at the window as if I was torturing her or something! She yelled and screamed and then conked out and slept. There's sometimes nothing else you can do for them, it's so silly of them.

Sunhat and baby sun cream? A picnic blanket (good for rolling around on wherever you are). Given how B was on this past holiday I'd recommend teethers and teething powders/baby narcotic of choice too Zyla. She wasn't too bad really but is gumming everything she can lay her chubby little hands on. So if everything a baby puts in their mouth has to be sterile, why can't teethers be sterilised? Fucking stupid After killing one in the microwave steriliser, I have just started wiping hers with a Milton wipe instead. She's started chewing her feet but I've drawn the line at trying to sterilise those.

I'm going out next weekend. Some friends are coming to visit to see B and are taking me out for cocktails. MrPis will be in charge. Can't wait!

He cried himself to sleep In about 2 minutes maximum though... stupid arse.

I second the mam bottle suggestion la we had about 6 different bottles and that's the o ku one E would take (till we I didn't bottle feed her for a few days and bought her a whole set of the stupid things argh!!)

I found with the ww app E is half way between her due date and actual birth date.

Argh really starting to resent DH, he has all the tools at his disposal to bottle feed E (and has noticeably stopped saying "oh I'd take her but I can't feed her, nothing I can do, sorry") but actively goes out of his way not to do it, he sat surfing the internet again this evening whilst I was trapped under E who wasn't even really feeding, she just didn't want putting down. I just need an hour or so where I'm not being touched! Is that too much to ask? For him to take her and deal with her for like an hour and I can just be left alone? I'm reaching this point where I just want to shove the next person who touches me regardless of whether it's poor E or A who don't understand or bloody DH grabbing at my crotch in this deluded idea it will get him somewhere

E had been doing really well but just won't bloody sleep tonight and I'm so tired I want to break things. Mr Boo is of course snoring next to me. In the middle of the bed. I don't want to go and sleep in the floor downstairs on principle but I suspect that's the only way I'm getting sleep tonight.

Right, someone has broken my child and I want answers.
For the umpteenth night on the trot I'm up and down more time than a hookers kecks.
I've been sent downstairs so I can sleep and Mr min is Co sleeping with her.

I'd let her cio but she's not crying, just shouting.

End of tether fastly approaching

Sending hugs to those having bad nights

We've discovered white noise app works - downside is I can't use my phone!!!

Yeah I had that problem La. On the tablet, the sound sleeper one runs in background so you can still use tablet. Maybe search for that one and see if it's the same on phone?

Boo they have to be told. Just hand E over and say you're going to do x for an hour, use a bottle if she needs fed. There's no way they're going to offer out of the goodness of their hearts.

So Mini decided that 4.50 am was an appropriate time to get up for the day. I'd only got back to bed at 3.30 after feeding the little one. Thankfully MrWil dealt with her but I only managed about an hour of sleep after that. We're all shattered and MrWil is back at work tomorrow so if she keeps doing it, it'll be me who has to deal. I only get a maximum of five hour in a night as it is. What the hell do I do people? It's not even light when she's getting up.

Min can you just leave her shouting if she's not crying? Am sure it won't be loud enough to bother neighbours. Put some toys in her cot and let her bash on?

Mini used to wake up and have big chats with herself for ages and then just go back to sleep.