Mugabe Nights: sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your (sleep deprived) pain!

[mzzzf]

New thread ladies!
Buenos are still free, the bar tab is still open and you can leave your healthy living resolutions at the door!

Tonight can fuck off. Up every 30-45 mins. Just had to go into see DD as coughing so much and she'd coughed up phlegm over her pillow. Dealt with that and of course woken as soon as I'd laid down again. I'm getting so cross in the night. I know DS is teething and prob feeling uncomfortable but giving calpol is traumatic and anbesol isn't helping sleep. I just want two sodding hours consecutive sleep. Please.

Hear hear RRA last night can piss off!! URRRGHHHHH! And breaaAaaathe. Fatty excellent advice on nearly six months and we've survived so far so just got to keep rolling until the next half.

Mzzf - molls has never been a sickie baby but since teething likes to puke at least once a day, so I reckon could be something in it.

So sorry can't remember anything else right now xx

Morning ladies - I can hardly move this morning after Mumafit yesterday - did Metafit - The King of Beasts workout!! Instructor was fab - taught fitness for 15 years then had her family and decided to set up her own classes for mums. Children all sat at back of gym and all seemed mesmerised at their mummy's bouncing around like idiots!!! The other mums were smiley and chatty and I really enjoyed it - if being in agony and hardly able to breathe counts as enjoyment. I am going today to Hit and Ripped!! My problem is though that I think I should look amazing after one session and then I came home and ate loads!!!!

clstiw how was your first day at work - hope it went well?

slow my babyloves doesn't move much either but makes plenty of noise. How did your school meeting go? My DD2 is a late birthday and went to school early - I then realised this was a mistake - she is academically bright but struggles emotionally/socially - I have spent 2 years fighting to get her to be held back a year - finally got approval before New Year - you know your child best.

kbro I do agree with some if the sleep tips but it's hard when it's the middle of the night and you're shattered - easier to offer boob and get a sleep than refuse and don't know when you'll get back to sleep.

fatty I just love your stories about Nathan and his never ending quest for food

frolic lol at willy - my DS has never stopped playing with his since he discovered it as a baby - he is now 11

Good morning Augmums! Sorry for all having meltdowns. Sometimes it does just feel endless and so repetitive that it does get you down. It's a good job these babies are so cute! Went to rhyme time yesterday but totally misjudged DS's naps so he was about to drop off during the wheels on the bus poor man! Decided to get up when he gets up and follow nap times from there so have already been up since 6 joy! Going to visit a colleague and friend today near to London so am braving the train. Finally had to put the seat thing on the pram as DS's legs were hanging out of the bassinet. Hope you all have a good day it's almost the weekend!

clstow good luck!
What's everyone else's plans. Mine are to feel sorry for myself, and send DP to the pharmacy for buttercup syrup and pholcodine.
That's another thing for you. Remember buttercup syrup. Once these babies turn two, if they have a cough, the stuff works miracles.

Aww fatty hope you feel better soon. And good luck clstow!!

Yep last night can def fuck off. DS at one point wouldn't even settle in bed with me. Arrrrggggg.

Thanks Jokstar. As ever great advice. The trouble I have with the blame is during the night. During the day, even when exhusted, know we are doing great and not to blame for DS sleep. It's at 3am when he's already woken twice and nothing I do to settle him works I find myself in the cycle of why cant I do this / what am I doing wrong / will I be breast feeding an 8 year old to sleep. this is no helped by the fact that I feel everyone wants to talk about his sleep with me and offer endless suggestions about it. I know they mean well but don't think they realise that it starts to come across as 'this is what you are doing wrong'

Clstow how exciting. Have a great first day back. Hope it goes v well and your feeling ok.

Morning all! Another night of waking every three hours, something I never thought would feel like a luxury. He's letting me go downstairs in the evenings again, and I feel much more human for a bit of adult time. We are well into making a murderer on Netflix. Only 1/2 way in, but I would definitely recommend it so far. I felt very grown up last night for stopping and going to bed after one episode, instead of staying up for hours binge watching!
We were up for the day at 5:30 for the 3rd day in a row 😴

I hope last night was better for you after the sick mzzf. Ds has definitely been more sick on days when he's got major teething dribbles.

Wise words, as usual jockstar. Much appreciated. Phew about the car.

☕️☕️ rrra and fanby.

I'm exactly the same loves, I do one excersize class or one day without chocolate and expect to be a size 6!
I guess I have many years shead of telling him to stop playing with his willy then!

Have fun in the big smoke magrat.

Feel better fatty 💐

Ds is lying on the floor, completely mesmerised by Bing on CBeebies. I may get to finish this coffee in peace!

Frolic, you should totally try him on Welsh Bing!!!

I totally forgot about that - thanks rrra 🙂

Kbro I am exactly the same. I may get frustrated in the day but on the whole have a positive outlook. When I've been woken 3 times before midnight after going to bed at 9.30 I lose all perspective and lose the plot. I was throwing my cushions around last night. And snapped at H who offered to take him. Have apologised and so did he, for not being much help.

Decided to give up on solo napping today and am watching silent witness while DS has a snooze on my lap. I have to get my car to a garage for 8.30 tomorrow morning. I've only been getting up at 8!! Dreading it, but going to treat myself to coffee and croissant in patisserie Valerie! Small things.

Oh, another whinge. My DH has been diagnosed with high cholesterol and so need to keep bad things out of the house. So no treats. Gah! Might buy a stash and hide them!!

Ffs. Forget the buttercup syrup advice. Apparently you're only allowed it at 12 now! Don't know why though. Fucks sake.

Rrra - just because I used to do cardiac rehab. The best best BEST medicine and most effective treatment is exercise, daily. Boring but true! Statins can make you feel lik crap but totes worth that rather than something scary!

Will write more later folks. Slightly better night, got 2hes in a row!

Ola!
So after the mammoth puke and super long settle she slept until past 1am, fed then back to bed and she slept in 2hr chunks so not that bad 😀 So ridiculous that two hours is good ffs!!

Joskar - please write a baby book!!

Kbro - same! Daytime is good, I feel comfortable and can handle her even if she's in the shittest mood - good progress! But at nighttime, it's that situation of being alone in the dark with nothing but your own brain and those bastarding anxiety monkeys!!! We can do this, we are doing this and we'll get there!!

Thanks for the support yesterday lovely lady mummas. I needed some back up in the emotional boxing ring that is parenting. Ding ding, round 25!!!

DH is away until Friday night so I'm flying solo and already planning a 'dirty' dinner! 😁

Morning! Ds managed the night without calpol seemed much happier and slept from 7.30 to 11.30 then 11.50 to 3.30 then to 6. Not bad but wish he would drop that 11.30 feed as I have usually just fallen asleep.

Frolic I congratulated myself on only watching one making a murderer. I blame the lack of sleep for making me so sensible. Have you seen the police interview Brandon yet? Heartbreaking😦
Ds1 discovered his willy again when we were potty training. I remember him shouting 'mummy look my willys gone big' i'll remember to bring that story up when he's older

I've had the health visitor out this morning and that's us signed off until development checks at 27 months. She did another pnd test and I was fine but came out a bit higher than last time but I am putting that down to illness and lack of sleep. Also I am bloody fed up of the weather.

Clstow I hope your first day at work goes ok.

Fatty the stories about your little ones food adventures are hilarious

Thanks for the sleep tips. I am taking not stressing about cot naps from that list.

Sorry if I've missed anything I've been writing this post since 8am!

Afternoon all! Ventured out to baby cinema this morning. Even though the film was not what I'd usually go to see, it felt so nice to do something grown-up for a change.

J has just had a monster nap on me this afternoon - it seems to be one of the few ways I can get him to nap during the day, so am sticking with it for now.

Mzzzf, glad I'm not the only one who has dirty meals when I'm home alone - what do you have planned?

Think we might have reached the end of our 4 month sleep regression - J has settled much easier these past 2 nights. I'm at my dance class tonight, so DH is in charge of bedtime tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed it goes smoothly

Yay!! That's great tindel. You deserve a break!

DS regression has been going on for so long now I think it's time to accept is not regression and just how he now sleeps.

Mzzzf and rrra I don't know what to do to stop it. Middle of the night is such a dark lonely place with a baby you can't settle. My worst moment each night is first time he wakes and I look at clock hoping it starts with a 2 or 3 (have given up hope of 4) and it will be 12:20 and he's only done an hour. That just makes my heart sink like nothing else.

Jokstar I would 100% buy your baby book!!!

Mzzzf Good luck flying solo and most importantly enjoy your dirty tea!

Ola mugabeans. Sorry I have been absent. Would start reading then run out of time.to post then I'd have to read some more so I got a bit behind. I would never leave u though. Just find it much harder to keep up like I used to

Mzzzf I'm sorry u were crying in the dark. Don't ever feel guilty about posting about that. You would never upset anybody on here. My lovely dd does not sleep through anymore. Granted she does better than most but I do miss those full nights sleep.

That was interesting about the sleep talk. I must say I'm quite relaxed in the day about naps. She fall asleep when she falls asleep. I don't really pay attention to what she's doing. I've been told by my new mummy friends though that i come across as quite a relaxed chilled out mummy although I don't always feel like that inside when she's freaking out over breatfeeding. Bf has definitely been my nemesis when it comes to what problems people find the hardest. The temper tantrums over me force feeding her my boob are hard to deal with sometimes and I get upset over it because I'm doing it for her own good but she doesn't seem to appreciate it haha. She had a terrible night for refusing boob but then the rest of the day she's been fine. I just don't know why causes her to change her mind all the time.

I'm getting pretty dry nappies in the day which is rather disconcerting. Think I'm starving her. She has an 8oz bottle at 7 ish then dream feed at 10 ish which she normally takes about 6oz. It's not like she's crying for food though in the day. Her weigh gain has always been good and not taken her for a while so think I'll take her next week and check she's ok.

I'm a 'rock her to a drowsy state then transfer to cot' kind of person. Sometimes she has a cry when I put her down so then i rock a bit more than transfer again. Seems to work for us so far. But once she wakes up in the night it's hard to get her back off so I've ended up Co sleeping for the rest of the night. Think she likes sleeping next to me and feeling me with her hand. She fed at 2 4 and 7:30 last night which wasn't too bad apart from the tantrums in between.

First day at work was ace! Everyone was super nice to me, and I remembered how much I love my job. And after 3 days of being mega grouchy DS decided to be a dream baby for DP so we both feel like we're loving shared parental leave so far.

Yes yes yes to Joskar's baby book. Although I feel like it would be a very short book. "Do what works until it doesn't anymore then do something else" has become my mantra since you taught it to me.

I monstered Making A Murderer last week. Totally agree about Brandon's interviews. So so heartbreaking.

Good to have you back Dozy.

Nolonger are you out there?! We miss you!

Gotta run but hope everyone has a good night. Mugabe to all.

Oh my god. DS fell asleep on his own after his bedtime story and DP WOKE HIM UP to hand to me to feed. He's still on the boob an hour later. Facepalming so hard.

Evening mugabeans!!

Sorry for the radio silence the wifi saga continues and I ran out of allowance on my phone so been MIA! Off to go catch up on 5 pages but hope everyone's doing ok back soon x

dozy !!! Great to have you back! Sorry bf continues to be a bugbear, you're doing amazingly.

Sian wtf was your dp thinking! He'd better have had a big bag of maltesers and hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows waiting for you downstairs after his massive schoolboy error!

tindel I hope the improved sleeping continues for you

Afm day two of solids, were ten days from six months old. So far tried sweet potato mashed with ebf, baby not impressed, had maybe a tiny teaspoon in total. Also tried puréed pear, she was slightly more impressed but I ended up eating most of it. This evening we tried puréed carrot and baby pulled a face like I was trying to poison her each time she asks for bf and not keen on solids so I'm almost tempted to stop solids for a couple of weeks. Dd1 started solids at 27 weeks and was more keen. What do the other babies like eating? I'm going to give her some finger food too I think. She just loves bf bless her. At least it's burning some calories for me

Quiet night at the bar I hope...

Love - so glad you enjoyed mumafit - hurrah for going back for more - go you!!

Rra - silent witness and pat val are two of my fave things. Hope your DP is ok

Mzzf - what was on the menu for your dirty dinner?

Tindel - awesome news on the zzzz's . What did you see at the cinema?

Clstow - so glad first day back went well!

Siani - DOH!!!!!!

I'm on about Ep 5 of making of a murderer - OMG is all I can say!!!

Off to Brighton for a long weekend tomorrow, can't wait! x

Giraffes - molls isn't too keen either. We started on Sunday and today has been the first day she's swallowed a proper mouthful - she's had carrot, broccoli, carrot, peas, sweet potato all purees but with some battons or florets too to play with at the same time. She also really liked the baby gem lettuce in the pub...

Evening all! Ds has been intermittently happy then grumpy and grizzly most of the day. I'm worn out and feel like I'm coming down with yet another fucking cold. If I was a dog they would have put me down by now.
Poo's have been normal, so I suspect Ds may be feeling grotty too. Utter crapola.

mzzf, tell those anxiety monkeys to do one. You're doing a grand job.
I love a dirty dinner! What did you have?

Making a murderer is so good and very 😮 clstow, fanby and everything - let's not say any more in case of spoilers for others. We managed 1/2 an episode tonight.

Yay tindel. I hope this is a turning point.

Welcome back dozy and lily.

Well done for surviving work clstow. So pleased it feels good for you all.

You would totally get away with killing him for doing that siani! Wtf was he thinking?

I'm only giving Ds little tastes giraffes as he is only 21 weeks. But he bloody loves it. Every time I put him in his bouncy chair he opens his mouth like a little baby bird. He gets super excited when he sees the spoon. Puréed carrots and mashed avocado have been winners so far. I'm not going to bother making my own fruit purée and he has loved every single pouch we've tried so far. Annabel karmel blueberry had him squealing.

Right, sleep while they sleep and all that ......
I hope I don't see any of you propping up the bar tonight 🙂