July 2006-rolling, sitting, eating and maybe, just maybe, crawling!!!!!!!

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Thought I had better start a new thread as the old one was about to crash

Happy 30th B'Day kbaby Wish I was 30 again but then I suppose I wouldn't even be married let alone have a house to live in or my 2 precious children. Whoops-going all sentimental now, better go!

Taking DD1 to her dance class Christmas Party so got some sarnies to be getting on with.

Happy Sunday

xxx

Hi Girls

Welcome Pavlov I second everything that Ceebee just said (very eloquently). If you?ve read back a bit you may have seen that my DD has ?weight issues? too so can sympathise too re those!

Hi again Misty ? good to hear from you and sorry to hear that you?re feeling low. Are you able to get out and talk to other mums at all? It may be more useful to talk to them than your own family and friends as they will have more of a clue about what you are experiencing. What you said about the house, washing etc sounds so familiar, grrrr! It does feel like you?re drowning in stuff like that sometimes doesn?t it, but the demands of childcare are just so constant it?s hard to get on top of things especially if you are feeling low and tired. {{hugs}}

Us ? so glad the doc was reassuring, hope you?ve found some nice puddings for Zack! Don?t know if you are still interested in the bf counselling but yes I think your local NCT should have contacts, or you could try www.laleche.org.uk It?s something I have thought about doing before (as I have slow let down), I just never get round to it.

Lysettes ? glad you?re enjoying NZ, lovely to be there at this time of year and not here. That?s interesting about the NZ charts and attitude to weighing.

Pink ? wow! Sounds wicked, please please post a pic (even if it?s just from the back)!

Hi again Jom

Madness ? sorry to hear about your DD being unsettled at nursery, is she eating / drinking okay on the other days?

Ceebee ? lol re your cottage pie, my HV would be SO impressed if Emma had eaten some, she is obsessed with the health benefits of meat, fish and dairy products Bless her, she is actually very nice, not at all demented like some HVs seem to be!

I?m off work today with a cold lurgy. Emma?s still off her food (was sick again today after eating a bit of porridge) but is managing full bf?s again without puking thank god. Off to the doc?s tomorrow.

evening all.

Right first things first. Misty. SO sorry to hear about your nan. And I'm sure you are half expecting this, but are you sure you don't have PND? And you are a person with needs too, you cannot just soldier on when you are feeling so low. Yes I am sure your DH is stressed, but he would be more stressed to come home one day and find you cross legged on the floor in tears under a mountain of dirty washing!! Not that the hosuework matters a jot but you are bviously noticing it and it is making you feel worse/more useless/less able to cope. And same goes for your mum, imagine if things got so bad you had a nervous breakdown or somethng, and you had never talked to them about it, imagine how guilty they would feel....I hate the thought of you crying too much to post on MN, and I don't even know you, so I can only guess at how troubled it would make your nearest and dearest....F@F is right, find someone objective, I@m sure your BF 2 even though abroad would be happy to spend an hour on the phone one evening telling you how marvellous you are. And I am SURE you are.... give us a daily update honey, and fuck the washing up. Big kiss.

WELCOME PAVLOV! Gosh I'm so so sorry to hear about you Mum. I bet you miss her like mad. COngrats on your impending wedin, Algach on here is getting hitched soon, bit absent at the moment as she is probably gazing at herself in the mirror in her nuptial suit but I'm sure you can swap wedding stress stories....

Feel a bit bad telling you this when a few of your LOs are apparently "failing to thrive" (what an ATROCIOUS phrase, the mdeical profession has a lot to anser for) but had The Chunk aka Toby weighed today and he is 22 pounds at 28 weeks!

Pink. Hair. Photo. Now.

Hey Jom! [wave emoticon]

CeeBee, I know what you mean I need to cook some more for Tobes, but the HV said today that we can just puree up for him what we are having! He can pick up food from hi shigh chair and eat it, like banana, strawberries, and rusk, I am sure DS1 cook never do that at 6 months.

Right, off to carry on watching our box sets of 24, and there is frig all on telly. Bought series 1-6 from Asda the other weekend as they were in the sale, I lurve Keifer...

Love Bloss

xxx

soz about typing, tend to rush it a bit, hope you can decipher...

Evening ladies

Has taken me a while to catch up you chatty bunch!

Welcome to Pavlovthecat-what a tiny baby you had and what a difficult year you have had. So sorry to hear about your mum. I BF from day one topping up with FF then decided to exclusively BF-don't think Sophie would accept a bottle now either. Your DD sounds like my DD1 with her independence-and nearly walking.

pink-having a pink hairdo. How brave are you? Used to put blusher in my hair when I was at school so I could have pink hair. Can't wait to see a piccie.

misty-sad news about your nan hun. I agree with the others-please post a message on here every day so we know that you are OK. We are always here for you.

Hello again jom me old mucker

kosh having a trim and edge too and I went to the hairdressers yesterday so won't we all look dapper!

us-so pleased you got to see a nice Dr. Plenty of yummy rice pudding and semolina.

First-hope you feel better soon. Today is the first time in 5 weeks I have felt human.

My friend from work came round this afternoon-she finishes her contract (covering my maternity leave) next month and can't wait. Anyway, ahe is trying to become a Weight Watchers leader so will have advice on tap. She said she will rope me in as a helper to keep me in check. She did say my Manager has been talking about me. Time is ticking closer towards me making a decision about going back.

Right girls-took Sophie to be weighed yesterday and she is now 15lb 12oz at 34 weeks and still under the 9th centile but hasn't dropped which is good news. And I mentioned the small head circumference problem and she measured again and surprise, surprise it is now 42cm! There is no way her head has grown 2 cm in 3 weeks! So she is now under the 2nd centile in the shaded area as she has dropped from the 25th but at least she is not off the scale. Hurrah! There was a lady in the clinic with twin boys and when a nurse came out for a look she burst into tears on the nurse. Made me want to cry too as I so remember those difficult early days and raging hormones. There was also a 4 week old boy and seeing him made me all emotional too-had to slap myself round the head a few times. He was crying and his mouth was quivering like Sophie's did when she was born.

Bless Sophie, she was so tired tonight that when I went to run a bath I returned to find she had fallen asleep in her highchair.

Better go as this is turning into an epic like War and Peace.

Catch y'as later.

xxx

misty - sorry to hear that you're feeling down, sounds like you have a lot to deal with at the moment.

pavlov - welcome to Mumsnet and to this thread, I warn you, some of these women are EXTREMELY chatty (mentioning no names ).

All's well here, the boy is asleep (for now). We have mostly been trying out breakfast. Yesterday he ate a few micro spoonfuls of weetabix and slavered over a piece of banana. This morning's brekkie was our first experiment with toast. He stuffed it all in his mouth and chewed for ages, but finally swallowed the toasty goop. I'm not enjoying the weaning poo tho...

Here, here Bloss ! Said perfectly hun.

xxx

P.S. The Tobester at 22 lb. DD1 was 18lb at this age and weighed what Sophie weighs now at 4 months.

Bloss - OMG what a huge baby! My Dp and I took our LO to USA to meet her cousin 3 months younger than her, he was two pounds heavier than her then, he was Uber, she was Ickle, and together it was very weird to see, he was called 'meatball' as he did nothing but lie there, she was all over the place trying to get mobile, smaller than him! He is around the same as yours now. Well done you!!!

Maewest - having been doing toast and scrambled egg for a couple of weeks, I am sorry to say, the poo does not get better. We had a first 'proper' poo nappy a couple of days ago. It STANK. Sorry, if your eating, but it was awful. My DP has been great at changing nappies, he says, they are not that bad really are they? He changed a smelly one, and said 'never again hun'.

I would like to say, my LO is asleep. It is unusual recently for this to be so due to teething, but so far so good (i am on the 'sleep is for the weak thread' too).

However, the night gets better. I have just been presented with a really really tasty sheperds pie! (with veggie mince as dont do mince, and with some beans so not really sheperds pie but bloody loverly none the less!)

MY LOL just awoke for a top up feed. And bit me with her new little sharp as teeth. Twice. OUCH OUCH.

Oo-er missus. Sophie's teeth have only just come through so I have got used to it......so far so good. Sophie will no doubt wake for a top up at 3am!

Humphry, mine will wake up at least at 3am. Fingers crossed just once, but lets not count chickens etc! My DD has two lil teeth at the bottom, one came through 2.5 weeks ago, and one 1 week ago, she bit once the other day after finishing a feed, but nothing since. I hope it is a one off, as this is the fastest route to the bottle that I know of!!

Yep, am dreading the top teeth coming through. Four times ouch! My friend BF through the pain and said it was actually OK Incidently, my DD1 was bottle fed and never woke for feeds once weaned. Don't mind though as I get to have another cuddle.

Epic moan alert-

Weve had a bad couple of nights this week. Tuesday night DS went to bed at 8pm and woke at 11pm but was wide awake and just wanted playing. After trying everything possible to get him to sleep we gave up and took him downstairs to play until 3am. Last night wasn?t much better either, he went to bed as normal woke at 11pm and after several attempts eventually went down at 1 only to wake back up at 2am. I don?t understand why I mean he goes down for bedtime and his naps awake and puts himself to sleep but if he wakes in the night he will only take cuddling and most of the time that doesn?t work so he ends up in bed with me.

DH and I are arguing yet again. This time because I got a bank charge for going overdrawn. Ive had been on SMP for 3 months and he gave me £300 per month which had to cover all my outgoings which are approx £800.00 without any spending money. My overdraft is now £1500 which I have to pay back. I feel that ive been penalised for being off work. We have completely separate bank accs and both pay certain bills but it just doesn?t seem fair that im the one that?s taken the pay cut while hes still spending.
At the moment I could quite easily walk out and found myself in asda car park tonight crying. All we do is bicker and neither of us can be bothered to speak to each other.

Beadmum- Yes it is 5 cubes of food. He does like his solids, hates yogurt though

Us- im glad the gp you saw was useful, you sound much more positive now and zack sounds so active. Ds hates tummy time and will moan after a few minutes of just being stuck there and even though he can roll he refuses to do so and when he does sit up DD thinks its fun to push him over, grghh.. I also found out that the reason why best friends are are ignoring us is because they think DD is too boisterous with their precious 16 month old, they don?t take her to playgroup because of all the germs from the other children. I know DD is a bit energetic but it?s hardly a reason to drop your friends.

Misty- Big hugs for you and I second what iam blos has said, she said it so well.

Pav- hello and welcome. Sorry about your mum.

Just spotted you here pavlov - are you doing OK? And your lovely sister? I can't read this thread, I am an old biddy, my youngest is 10!

stleger - shall i bump the old thread? Doing ok I guess...sister - not talking right now...

stleger - thanks for asking after me, let me know what thread you are on...

I am off to bed guys, thanks for the chats today, great getting to know some of you, try to get on tomorrow...
Stleger - if you wanna mail me then do so [email protected] - I cant figure out how to get old thread back up!!
Night all, hope all your LOs sleep well.

So much for my early night.... I was all organised for bed and thought I'd just have a quick look on MN ....45 mins later - don't you hate that!
Thanks for all your lovely welcome backs ladies

Welcome Pavlovscat

Misty - thinking of you - keep checking in here and let us know how you are.

Amelia weighed today and is still sticking to her 25% line so happy about that.

Just wondering what you other bf mums are putting on your LOs cereal. I have been buying formula as cant really be faffed with expressing but ended up throwing out half a tin as I didnt use it within the 28 day period. HV says I can use cows milk but not really sure what to do....

Sorry, meant Pavlovthecat

jom, as you are not using very much formula, you can buy ready made cartons around 7oz each, can be stored in the fridge for two days...

welcome pavlovthecat! sorry to hear the sad news about your mum

misty- like bloss said, i think you do need to speak to someone about the way you're feeling, im sure your husband will understand. {{{hugs}}}

regarding housework, i feel like giving up everyday! looking arpund now, ive a whole pile of ironing to do, but im so tired of doing these same stuff everyday! it feels never ending and in the evening i just feel like sitting down in one spot and not moving! just keep posting here when you feel low and unable to speak to some in rl. sorry to hear about your nan too{{(hugs}}}

well juniors attempts to crawl are very funny!! he still ends up pushing himself backwards and gets caught between furniture and starts howling! but rolling coming along very well now, he rolled over to me in our bed!

no teeth here yet!! he loves to chew on my chin though and we had another break through, managed to get couple of spoonful of jarred food today!! yippee! lets hope it only gets better!

gonna get off now, set my bath with my book and copy maewest with taking a mug of tea in aswell goodnight ladies! x

welcome back jom know about forgetting the time whilst on mumsnet! im gonna drag my self to the bathroom after this post!

kbaby- lots of {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}} hope you and dh can resolve the issues soon {{{{more hgs}}}

Dear me, I'll never catch up with all your posts. Welcome to the newcomers by the way .

kbaby - DH and I aren't getting on too well either, though it's for slightly different reasons. Although he's doing really well being a SAHD the money issue keeps rearing its ugly head. The problem is we can only just manage on my salary and I have to give him money to pay his bills and for day to day expenses until he can find suitable part-time work. He's really uncomfortable with that and I'm desperately trying not to be judgmental over some of things he spends it on, whilst I have no spending money of my own at all. It's horrible how money issues can affect your whole relationship. We bicker a lot too, we haven't "done the deed" since DS was born and I don't think he's that happy tbh. So what I'm saying in a longwinded way is you have my sympathies and I hope you can work things out. Oh and thanks for your response on my weaning thread.

Sorry for not responding to any of the other posts on here. Will try to do better

thanks girls.
am still here - not disappeared under washing or up my own a$$. Not chatty tho.
Have a good day girls.