July 2006 babies - on the move???

[MaeWest]

May I take the liberty of starting a new thread ladies?

Bloss-it is this pool from Argos that DD1 got for her B'Day last July

Sleep-gggrrrhhhhh on your behalf.

xxx

Hi girls,

Bad Mummy... What Am I?????.....

..... I left the stairgate open.....

Kavya was downstairs playing with her toys in the front room.....

I went into the kitchen to start the cooking....

A few minutes later I heard Shuffling upstairs....

Well, considering there was only myself, Ds1 and Kavya in the house I started to wonder who was upstairs?????

I went into front room to investigate where the kids were....

DS1 Sitting quite calmly watching the box....

I looked around for Kavya ...

Shouted for her....

Heard shuffling upstairs...

Ran upstairs to find....

.....

Kavya Crawling around UPSTAIRS!!!!!

I couldn't belive it she'd managed to climb the stairs ALL the way to the TOP without falling or getting stuck and screaming... And I missed it all!!!!

I didn't know whether to be proud of her, or to tell her off!

BTW Aglach - Love the pics!!!

Algach - gorgeous photos - you and all your family looked fantastic!! What a wonderful day. Thanks for posting them, KZ.

Jeanie - so sorry you've been having such a rough time of it, of late. We're all thinking of you. Abbey is v cute! Hope you get a school sorted out for your son.

Finger's crossed for the job Sleep.

Hope the injections do help Annie.

Kamikayzed - how scary for you to think that your DS is getting vitiligo - really hope it isn't. Hope Roshi is better. Couldn't open the video.... I've got a Mac, so maybe it's something to do with that....?

Well done on the dress Pavlov. What a bargain! Hope you love it when it arrives and if not, it'll always do for fancy dress costumes for the kids....

Well my big quandary at the moment, which I think I've solved but thought I'd just check with you lovely ladies for your input is - DP is going to India for a month with work. His work has offered to pay for family to visit but a) Ryan's too wee to take and b) I couldn't bear to leave him with his grandparents that he hardly knows for a week. I know it's a great opportunity and it seems crazy to look a gift horse in the mouth but it would be really hard to enjoy while worrying about Ry. (Also it would be monsoon season, v hot and I know I'd get ill - I always do...)

Hugs to all. Impy x

Impy-if it was Spain I would jump at the chance but India (and I don't wish to offend anyone) don't fancy it with or without children. A month isn't too long hun.

skay- Little monkey! That is why I got a stairgate immediately DD1 started to crawl.

Now girls, Cows milk is curdling so what shall I buy to give to Sophie? Only have some SMA Gold in the cupboard left over from the early formula days-it should be OK until I get to Tescos on Wednesday. Honestly, all that lovely milk I had and she prefers milk that makes her sick!

xxx

KZ - good news about your DS, I hope it turns out to be the right diagnosis and he does not have Vitiligo fingers crossed for you.
Skay - what a clever DD you have LOL! that sounds just like my DD!, she can scoot along v quickly, and can almost climb out of her play pen. Did it this morning, looked funny/scary as she did a sort of adventurer manovuer, scrambled up the side, she got herself a way up, and pulled up on her arms so head was above the top .

I am feeling awful today regarding work. Had some great news, and some shite news. Unfortunately the shite news does not balancve up with the good news.

Firstly, I got another pay rise that I was not expecting, a reasonably good one. Woot!

Secondly - It is looking almost certain I will not be able to work from home. Apparantly, the organisation has to be able to demomonstrate that they are directing me to work from home as part of my role, that it is a 'requirement' of my job, and if this is the case, there are lots of legal and practical implications, esp given the nature of the work my org does. Therefore, it is unlikely that I would be 'required' to work from home. This screws up my plans for working, and means that any pay rise I would have been seeing will be gone. Not only that but if I do 3 days as I wanted, I will still be worse off financially, even with pay rise . Still if I did not have the pay rise, I would be really screwed, so should be looking at the positive .

It means I am probably going to have to work 3.5 days (3 long and one half) instead of the 3 v long days, at least for now. I feel like a not so good mummy as I wanted to do just 3 days. I feel like I have let her down. I feel bad that I had not sorted out my debts before now (we had a 5 year plan to do this, and we found out we were having DD 2 weeks into it!), as if we had, I could have worked 3 normal days. I have had lots of tears today.

Is this because I am back at work? Will I feel better about DD needing 1.5 days nursery each week? It wont be bad for her will it? She wont hate me will she?

Sorryfor the long post, but I just feel like I have let my DD down.

Pavlov-I'm sorry to hear that work is not going to plan. Firstly, I can assure you that your DD will not be affected by you working in any way. You have certainly not let her down so please try and erase that thought from your mind. She might be picking up some sad vibes from you but at this age she will not remember any of it in the future. Admittedly I only went back for 2 days after having DD1 and I hated it so much, crying to work and most of the day too. I handed my notice in after 2 months then returned again when DD1 was just over 2. I also believe (if you are anything like me and DH ) that you probably wouldn't have paid all your debts off in 5 years so no need to feel guilty there either. Is there any chance you can look for a different job? Oh, and don't forget (well, of course you won't) you are getting married and planning that is enough to send you into a dark corner. . Sending you lots of virtual hugs because I really do understand what it is like to go back to work and be unhappy. (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX))))))))))))))))))))))))

Thank you ladies for the supportive words. I am hoping I can work some more long term things out with work, been sitting here going over and over it. For sure, to start with, I will have a lot of 'theory' to plow through, so whilst not part of contract, I can probably sneak of early some days to read. However, obviously cant add these to hours done.

On a positive, in the longer term, within next year, I will have stopped BF (although that is not positive itself), and means I can run two evening programmes, so may be able to do these as 'extra' sessions rather than part of my normal hours, and thus increase hours, and get unsociable hours pay too.
Also, got lots of training coming up, which means I am given travel time, so 5 days at 12 hours per day x 2 weeks means lots of flexi to claw back, plus 6 weeks leave. Its not all bad, just cant do the full time hours in the first place.
I am finding some bright sides!

KZ - I am sorry its not as positive as Dr made out, you obviously know more about it than GP as you have personal family experience, so go with instinct, but I do hope that chance of it not being is so.

Sorry for not being too involved in others posts, i promise I will be less selfish tomorrow.

Pavlov-no worries hun.

Hi Girls
Just a quick one tonight, as it?s nearly bedtime

Kayzed - so sorry you have this to worry about as well. Hope the paed dermo can reassure you, it really is early days to worry too much but I know you will anyway Congrats to Roshi on her crawling - I bet there will be no stopping her now Hope she?s better soon.

Emma had weird puking today and yesterday, halfway through both lunchtime feeds she just chucked the whole lot back up again, which she NEVER does. She also had a mini puke in her cot last night which I discovered this morning.

Pavlov - sorry to hear about work. Re nursery though, as long as it?s a good nursery and she settles well there, one and a half days might really be a positive experience for both of you. It?s not much out of the week really, and gives her a good opportunity to mix with other babies and adults and do new things. Emma really seems to benefit from it, in fact if I did ever give up work I would be sad that she couldn?t go there any more! You definitely won?t have let her down {{{hugs}}}

Well we had the paed appt today, she said it definitely looks like a cow?s milk allergy which is what I had thought from reading up about the symptoms. She said that she seems bright and healthy though, her height and head circumference were normal on the charts, it?s just her weight and actually that is going back up now that she is on solids, hurrah. She has suggested soya formula to start with, if that?s a problem too then the GP will prescribe hydrolysed formula (which isn?t so palatable). Her diet at the moment is fine, but I?m worried that the bf will start to decrease as she does seem less interested now, so supply may go down.

Well better get off to bed, will catch up properly soon, night allxxx

First-sounds like you are just about at the same stage as me. BF has stopped completely due to lack of interest but cows milk makes Sophie sick-it curdles. So I'm wondering what to give her.

xxx

Good night all, feeling a bit more positive, will be able to be more responsive to other needs tomorrow.
Take care and have a great sleep everyone. To all those with pukey babies, I hope they get better asap

Pav - glad you are feeling more positive about the work situation. Things will settle back into a routine - just a different one Also, I echo what F@F said that Josh enjoys nursery so much that I would feel bad if I had to stop taking him for any reason.

KZ - congrats to Roshi for crawling - time for stairgates I guess

Skay - lol at Kavya - how clever of her and how that you missed it eh?

morning girls.

Pav, that is bad news about your job circs. Please don't feel like you have let your daughter down, she really won't remember you working or feel hard done by, and you have to do what you have to do.

cheers for link HC, might get that!

KZ - hmm, generic GP reassurance ain't really all that is it? Especially if you know through experience, different. It must be a very hard prospect to contemplate, especially as C is so very gorgeous, hard for anyone to face in their children but when there is so much beauty there it is hard to imagine it marred.... I really do hope you get positive feedback from the specialist.....Congrats on Roshi crawling!

Woking on a little movie of the boys.......

Oh and i am tip of the day on the home page! fame at last!!