Jan '07: Finally, we can reach to cut our toenails, see to groom our ladygardens, and have norks the size of norway. Shame we're too tired to give a damn!

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Hmmm, hope it's not too long a title!

i think zac slept so well in the day yesterday because i didn't bother getting him dressed - he spent the whole day in his sleepsuit!! not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just i think he associates being in that with the night time so slept all day! today i'm going to be harsh mumma and get him up and dressed by 9:30 at the latest! (she says, whilst sitting in her dressing gown with a cup of coffee...)

EAH - thinking of you too and hoping that things smooth themselves out so you are all happy. I know what you mean about typing it making you feel better. You posted abotu making choc crispies the other day and I keep thinking of it (must be my boc craving) and how I can't wait for dd to be old enough to do things like that. I love reading about e&h cos they both sound so sweet.

Wilkie - bummer about your pics. I would be as cross as your email sounded. I've been worrying about something like that happening cos our laptop is tempremental.

All this talk about sex makes me think I've been a bit slow getting back into it, am a bit scared of it now really esp after doing a 4 mile walk yesterday that made pelvis ache like it did when I was pg. I'm another undecided about contraception....maybe keep fingers crossed that BF and condoms will do the trick for the mo. Felt like I had been on the pill for years before I came off it to get pg and not sure I want to take it again plus the one you can take while bf has tobe taken at the same time every day and can't see that working for me!

Going to a friends for lunch today so excited about nice food and showing ellen off to her but am knackered as Ellen awake between 2and 4am just could not settle her after feed and nappy of course now she is fast asleep after most recent feed. We planned to move her into cot at the weekend but it wouldn;t fit through the bedroom door so still in moses basket but only just.

UD, you have absolutley nothing to about on the sleepsuit thing.
George is 6 weeks tomorrow and has only been dressing on 3 separate occasions.

He's so lovely and snuggly in his PJ's that I think he'll be starting school in them

I might get him dressed today, My Aunt and Uncle are coming to meet George so I think it might be nice.....but then again...

I know what you mean about leaving them in PJ's all day - it's so much easier and they look so comfy. The only reason I get ds dressed is to make sure he gets to wear some of the absurd amount of clothes he has before he grows out of them!

EAH - hope you get things sorted {{{hug}}}

Think I might brave the HV at the clinic later to find out how much weight this little chubster has put on over the last couple of weeks so expect a moaning post later on about the stupid things my HV has said this time ...... No doubt she'll be disappointed he's not sleeping for the 'expected' 8 hours a night now he's 6 weeks old

I have been putting clean things on Ellen to sleep in even though her day things are not dirty - am I just making washing for myself ?

Bathing her is not something that happens very often I have to admit....

baby Erin is 19 days old and never been bathed

Thanks for all the messages was talking to my best friend on line last night her dd and ellie are best friends as there is only 10 weeks difference between them and we see them at least once a week anyway she is currently 8 months pg and feeling rather knackered and fed up so was trying to cheer her up but ended up telling her about dh, she was so sweet and her dh is no angel all the time (in fact dh and her dh get on really well and probably encourage each other when hey go out or when we are on our holidays together)so she suggested that me E & H go to hers friday afternoon so the girls can play together and we are staying for tea and ellie having bathtime with her dd and we'll leave just before bedtime. This means I am not sitting at home stewing about the fact he is out and ellie gets to see her best friend.

Went on the relate website last night and printe off info about drinking and arguing and left it on the side. DH must have got up in the night (thought he would since he fell asleep so early) and read the info as got a text at 6.30 this morning (he'd gone to work at 5) saying he doesnt want to lose me or the dd's and he really wants to sort it out and try and sort out drinking and that he'd read what I had printed off and ants me to print off some other infor that was linked to the website but he needs to sort his head out and understand why he does it. Havent asked him what he is going to do about friday but if he wants to go I am going to suggest he just stays at his mums so I do not have to expect him home and can get a good nights sleep.

Feel so guilty for making Ellie upset yesterday as she came into our bed around 3 (think hattie had woken her when she was crying for her feed) and dh went to sort ellie and she was saying "no I want my mummy wheres my mummy" when I wnet back to bed after feeding hattie she snuggled up so close to me and slept the rest of the night holding my hand. Decided today was a play day so far we have done painting, magic painting and currently she has the play doh out and making me a snake normally shes lucky if I let erdo one of these things in a day let alone all of them and its not even 10 o clock.

Vinrouge we are making fairy cakes later and apparently according to ellie we are putting pink icing on them so I'll be thinking of you when we do them.
UD sorry you didnt have such a good night with Zac I have to say I do dress both dd's every day as it seems to work for Hattie that she knows after bath/sleepsuit comes milk then bed. Am trying to sell loads of ellies clothes that are the wrong season for hattie maanged to get rid of most of 9-12month stuff as frioends little girl was born in the ame month. Both dd's wardrobes are overflowing especially hatties as she has alot of ellies stuff plus all the stuff people have bought her and I can never resist something if I am shopping

Right I am being told to go and help with the playdoh !!!

Babygrows are much cuter than little outfits on babies, and they look more comfy too. We've started to bath DJ every other evening to try and get some kind of routine going (?! wtf!) He loves it though, and it really calms him down...hmm, may give him a bath now, he has been sceaming for the last 40 mins. (I changed his nappy, its awful, I am a bad mother, I should know he likes to sit in dirty nappies. Silly me!)

Hi all!

It's so hard to find time to get on MN nowadays. Can't believe ds is 6 weeks old today, although I can't actually remeber life before he arrived IYKWIM!

Sorry to hear about your dp EAH. Don't get me started onmen at the moment. Ok, so this is the beginning of a rant....Friday night, after I'd bathed, fed, changed ds and put him to bed as well as cleaning living room, washing dinner plates, tidying bathroom, feeding rabbit, etc etc, dp decided to go to bed (must have been tired from watching me do everything on my own). I took this as an opportunity to dye my hair so off I toddled to the bathroom - lucky I'd left the monitor on. Even though dp was lying 6 inches away from ds in his moses basket, I still had to go upstairs, mid hair dying, 7 times because I could hear ds crying. I wake up at the slightest snuffle from ds so how does dp not wake up to him bawling his head off? I ask you, men are useless. Rant over.

On a positive note, ds has been taking a last feed at 8pm and sleeping through till 7am for the last 2 weeks now, so I shouldn't complain too much!

Sleeping 8 till 7 - you lucky thing Harry!

harry i'm soooo tired right now! it was our appointment for the hearing clinic today but just as i was getting a nappy bag ready to go, Zac started to vomit spectacularly everywhere! it was gross - really smelled of sick, which it doesn't usually, and there was a bit of blood in it too. so i phoned the HV (trying not to panic whilst simultaneously trying to remember every single bit of information i've ever read in any book ever!) but i couldn't get through so phoned my mum who said to phone the surgery. i did manage to speak to the HV in the end and she said i might have mastitis. i had some fluey symptoms yesterday and a bit of a sore boob but felt fine this morning (apart from the lack of sleep!) so we're going to see the nurse this afternoon. i hate it when he's poorly or in pain - hurts me far more than him i'm sure!

oh, and my dh managed to "sleep through" Zac screaming at the top of his voice while he was in the same room as him, whereas i managed to hear him through two closed doors while in the bath. a friend of mine says that men can ignore a crying baby cause they know you'll go and sort it out. think she may have a point?

DH got a telling off at work last week for time-keeping and blamed it on the broken nights sleep caused by his new baby. I wouldn't mind but he's not been woken up once since ds was born!!!
DD sneaked into our bed on sat night, but come sunday morning and ds crying both dd and dh were still snoring away oblivious to it all. I'd got up, changed ds and fed him before either of them stirred.

Horrid walk this morning. Down a leafy surburban lane on the way to the park, two labradors with no collar and no owner in sight started following me, jumping up and jumping up at the pram. No matter which way I turned they wouldn't leave me alone. Some school boys tried to distract them but they came running back to me. Meanwhile they nearly got knocked over by running into the road, and I got shouted at for being a bad dog owner by passing motorists (as if they were mine I'd be telling them to f*k off). This went on for 15 minutes but felt like a lifetime, and I was really scared of them jumping up at the pram. Eventually, a really nice postlady helped me and another dog owner on the street came out with two leads and chained them to her fence so I could get away. By this time I was crying my eyes out, as I had visions of them pulling lo out of the pram. i'm so relieved they weren't rotweillers, and thankful there are some nice people out there. but what the f*k were they doing out on their own, and where was their owner.

rgee that sounds awful poor you

I am glad someone stopped to help you maybe worth ringing the dog warden at your local council so they have it on record. Hope you are feeling better now

Harry - 8 till 7 ????
how? what ae you feeding your LO? i am so jealous!

He was feeding like clockwork every 3 hours day and night but since I've got him into a routine of :

5pm-6.30pm playtime
6.30pm Change nappy
7pm Bath time/pj's on
7.30pm Feed
8pm Up to bed

he seems far more settled and sleeps right through. It's as if he's far more contented with a routine in place. He does have a monster feed in the morning though!

RGee how horrible for you!! i don't particularly like big dogs either, or small dogs, or any dogs actually!! hope you're feeling a bit better now...

i went to the nurse - i don't appear to have mastitis, and they can't figure out what's making Zac puke either.but at least i don't have mastitis!!

Rgee - I would have totally panicked as HATE dogs so really felt for you

EAH - hope the pink iced fairy cakes turned out well, am sure a few have been enjoyed by now! Plus its positive about your dh finding the relate info and saying he wants to try and sort things out.

Think I am going to have to try and start some sort of routine for bedtimes, perhaps now is the time to finally open my baby monitor.

Vinrouge we made 24and I think theres 20 in the tin now the icing was very pink because i let ellie put the food colouring in

we have a routine for hattie because shes fitted into ellies

ellie dinner at 5pm hattie sits with me whilst i help ellie

5.45 bath for ellie do her eczema cream and pj's (hattie in bouncy chair in bathroom or in her cot watching her ceiling lightshow)

6ish hattie bath pj's

6.15 hattie milk/ellie hot drink

6.30 hattie sits with me whilst i do ellies story

6.45 ellie to bed hattie normally on her v shaped cushion on sofa whilst i take ellie up

7-7.30 cuddle with me/dh and then up to cot in her own room by 7.30 latest and normally put down whilst shes awake as shes quite happy to settle herself

9.30ish dreamfeed/nappy

somewhere between 3-4am feed but takes it so quickly bottle and nappy doen in 15mins and shes hapy to lay in cot

6.30ish awake (normally woken by ellie!)feed stays awake till 10 has another feed and sleeps from10-1.30pm

2.00 -feed and then if noone visiting normally in pram and out for walk so ellie gets some fresh air

4pm-5pm naps

and then it all starts again i think ellie was sleeping 7pm to 7am by about 12 weeks and dropped her dremfeed around 16/18 weeks and from aboyt 12 weeks she would wake at 7 then go back for a nap at 9-11 and then afternoon nap 2-3.30 so hoping hattie will do something similar in time.

today however we are running a both have had their baths alredy

running early one handed typing

How on earth do you all get time to post so often!?!?

I just never seem to get a minute to myself.

Things have got a bit better since we managed to find a dummy that DS would take as otherwise I felt like i was spending the whole time with him attached to me. was beginning to think I wasn't producing enough milk.

Am very at all those sleeping babies, DS was up pretty much solidly from 1.30am to 7.30am the other night sleeping only about half an hour at a time, I was exhausted. I wouldn't mind if he slept during the day, but he just seems to be permanently awake!!

anybody got any tips to make him sleep? Please!!!

have been trying to read all the posts, but just too many, so have given up.

Sorry to hear you are having a rubbish time EAH. I hope you get things sorted out.

thanks for the mention 2happy!!

i have the laptop on constantly in the day and refresh this thread and post when hattie asleep and ellie playing (well sometimes i just ignore ellie and post here if shes throwing a paddy)

Am I mad to not be worried about George being in a routine??

He feeds every 4 or so hours but sleeps whenever/wherever during the day. I never put him up to bed at night, he just goes up when I do.
As you know he hasn't been dressed much, he's only has a bath once a week(he's not out playing in the mud yet so I think thats ok!!)

YOu all seem so much more organised than me....

Rgee, I know exactly how you felt. When ds3 was little a staffordshire bull terrior ran up to us to play/investigate/annoy our dog. It took a instant dislike to our little cross breed mut and pinned her to the floor by the neck. I was trying deparately to get away from it with Ds3 in the buggy...God it was awful. I remember hearing this strange noise and then realised it was me letting out this mad primeval scream.
bloody scary isn't it.

EAH, I hope dp sorts it al out, it hard work when they don't realise how hard it is being with childen all day. Working 50 hr per week is bugger all to what we do IMO.

Ud, is Zac still being sick?

Ok, how come my LO is basically a piglet with an alarm clock attached internally. Every 3 hours on the dot he wants a feed. I am keeping my fingers crossed for this 16/18 week turning point!