********** December 2006 PART 2 **************

[castlesintheair]

Will this do?

i moved when 6 months pregnant with dd1 and it was awful

Hi all

Can I join your thread? I have a 12 week old DD born 23rd December. I'm new to mumsnet, although have been lurking for a while - tons of good advice on here for clueless 1st time mum.

On the subject of moving houses we put our flat on the market when I was 36 weeks pregnant, moved out when DD was 5 weeks old and DH and I have all our stuff in storage and have been staying with my parents until we move into our new place in a couple of weeks. Would NOT recommend doing the same!

Hello Wellieboot - even us 2nd time mums feel clueless sometimes!

I will start up a new moving thread once we get viewings so I won't have to bore you all on this thread.

We put our house up when dd1 was 4 mths old - Jan 2005

Had offer in Feb and was close to exchange the our buyer said the survey report showed we had a crack on the chimney stack and there was a gas leak. I was really shocked the surveyor never mentioned the smell of gas - we could have died!

but it was all fiction, the woman was mad, we didn't even have a chimney! it was then that the estate agent told us she had been trouble from the start. and the survey was fine

we gave up selling after 6 months so 2 years down the line we're trying again.

There's something about having a new baby which makes your house look so small....

Morning all

my dd2 is still ill after a week and now it has moved down to her chest and her eye is all puffy. as she's only 3 1/2 months old i cant really leave it any longer so we're off to the Drs this morning.

hope you guys have a good day

morning all ..

glassslippers- hope yr bub gets better soon ..

Full house at home but blooming noisy !..ds1 is poorly ,she got a bad cough , dh has the flu and is non stop sneezing,ds2 is making squealing noises !..washing machine on the go ( dd wet her bedsheet & ds threw up on his bedsheet last night!)...hoping for a calming afternoon later !....

Got my court case this arvo and feel more nervous than I did before having a c-section!

Hi Wellieboot

Hope doc fixes your LO Glassy. There must be a prescription drug they can give her?

DS off school again today (and y'day). Roll on summer and an end to all these bugs!

I do wish I could predict when DD2 will wake and sleep. For about a week she shunned the daytime nap, and got really grumpy and crotchety as a result. We are now into day 2 of a sleep-feed-play for 20minutes- sleep cycle. Bizarre.

Obviously, I sound completely OK about this. Inside I am not panicking that something is about to go wrong, or that she's ill, or that I've banged her head somehow without noticing, or anything. Oh no.

hi all.

dr gave me some eye drops for dd2 but said her chest sounded ok so we just have to wait for the cough to go by itself

babypowder. i find dd goes about 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 hours and then her thumb goes in her mouth and we then encourage her to sleep - either put her in bed or go out for a walk or something. she seems able to soother herself so we are lucky. but i try to not let her be awake for more than about 2 hours. she then doesnt seem to get grumpy..

castles. i must be missing something. what court case?

Babypowder - mine has also changed her nap patterns in the past couple of days, gone from catnapping for 30-40 mins to sleeping 2-ish hours at a time. Not sure why.

Funny really, I've spent the last few weeks wishing she would nap more in the day so she's not screamingly overtired and I can have 5 mins to myself...now she is I'm worried something is wrong!

A shiny new thread

Ds2 is good about doing a 2ish hour nap in the morning. Afternoon not quite as long. Just wish we could settle the nighttime a bit better. He was up after two hours for big feed and change, then wanted to snack about every hour and a half after that until 6:30 then up for big morning feed.

yawnnnnnn

Yawning with you Jabber - dd seems to be on a sort of nightly drip-feed atm, and dd1 had a sort of nightmare/tantrum thing in the middle of the night last night which finished me off.

Sorry to see so many cold-y babes today - dd2 is congested, and not feeding/napping as she normally does, but have no idea if its a cold, or early teething?? Red cheeks at times, increase in slobber, fists in mouth, and grumpy....

And I seem to have been hit by hayfever, does anyone know about antihistamines whilst BFing?? Are there any ok one?

Castles, if its not too late (you're probably finished by now) good luck good luck good luck! Am sure I'd be nerve-wracked too. xx

Thanks Eli. We won!!! I basically had to take my old landlord to court over getting the deposit back (over £2k) on our old flat (moved in September ). I had my speech prepared and the judge didn't ask me one question just settled the whole lot in my favour plus costs Landlord didn't even bother to turn up. I feel like such a weight has been lifted.

I'm holding my breath a bit but so far DD2 hasn't got the lurgy. DS & DD1 seem to have one thing after another. Weird. Is it the bf'ing stopping DD2 catching stuff??

Eli, I took Chlorphenamine (prescription) when pregnant so guess you can take with bf'ing. Warning though: they knock you out. Maybe what you need? Just sleep through all those night wakings!

A new thread - how exciting, Hi everyone, Hi Glassy and Welli - have we got a foot fetish on this thread, where's satin? .

Have been lurking a bit and posted once or wice on other threads, but time on PC has been limited.

I feel really guilty, I started buy reuseable etc, but ave not managed to start with them. And I am also doing 3 loads of washing around every 3 days! Must admit I ove hanging washing on the line, last week was great - this week it'll just freeze!

MIL is causing havoc trying to out-do poor DN with illness, when DN has tumour that will be op'd on within 4-6 weeks

We do have chicken pox, albeit DD only has 1 spot that appeared this afternoon - what's that, a chicken pok?? A friend suggested a warm bath to bring them out so we'll see if I have a spotty DD in the morning. But it explains why she has had a temperature and been so tired and off her food for the last week. DS is also now more tired than usual, but is still my little guzzler and now on 2 meals aday (14 wks today). rice based cereal for brekkie and a Rusk in formula followed by a petie filous around lunch time. Also still managing around 30fl oz of formula a day

Can't wait to see what he weighs on Friday (as long as he's not spotty)

Milkshake, I keep bumping into your posts while lurking and I love you for your brave posts, you're my contraversial friend! (Think Fruit shoots)

Well I never saw myself as contraversial Margo ! But they (fruitshoots) do help. Even my GP said to give them to DD if she'll drink them where all else has failed!

Hello girls, feels very strange to have been away for so long and as you're all doing your usual amount of chatting there's no way I can catch up with anything .

Anyway, holiday was fab, flights were pretty okay considering we spent 13 hours each way with 3 small children (even had comments about how well behaved they were [proud]!) and it was great to have my dad and stepmum to help with the dcs. They live in a condominium with a huge pool area so we spent hours in the pool - ds1 has developed gills, I swear. Apart from the jet lag I feel so much better for having a real break.

The house move isn't going so well. (Margo, start a thread and we can moan together!) 24 hours after we arrived in Singapore the estate agent rang to say that our buyers had pulled out for the crappiest reason, on the day they were supposed to sign their contracts . Cue frantic phone calls home to various friends and family to get the house tidied and cleaned as we'd started preparing to move already. Luckily we had another offer the day after it went back on the market but I'm not feeling very positive about it at the moment! I keep thinking about our new house and all the extra space we'll have and having the PILs around the corner and it makes me hate being in this house even more. I'm just marking time now til the move, whenever that may be. Gah, sorry, won't moan anymore!

Glassy, think I've worked out who you are! Took some other clues from the others though - dur!

Castles, good news about the courtcase, will that ease some of the stress and pressure on you a bit?

Confession time: I gave ds2 a bit of medised when his nose was really badly bunged up. Only 1.5mls but it helped a bit, didn't make him sleep any longer though, unfortunately!

Talking about sleeping, is anyone else co sleeping? I'm starting to feel like ds2 is actually sleeping worse (sorry, appalling grammar, can't work out the right expression!) from being in with us. For the last week or so he's been really fussy and fidgety from 2am, constantly latching on and not really settling into a deep sleep. I'm torn between putting him in his cot but having to get out of bed to feed or leaving him in with us and resigning myself to a restless few hours. Any thoughts, please?

Going to go now, think I've rambled enough for one night!

hi all,

castles - great news!

milkshake - welcome back what's this about fruitshoots? i hate things but DD loves them and as it is all some places seem to seel i give them to her. does that make me an irresponsible mother?

disposables here havent the energy to even think about reusables.

dd2 still poorly. olihan - i have given dd2 calopol and medised this week. dont fret.

bit of a hormonal day here. been feeling pretty useless at everything hope tomorrow is better.

I posted on a fruitshoot hating thread that I found them really good for getting D to drink to reduce a temperature when poorly - killed the thread actually

Going to be contraversial again here..ooer
DS has 5ml of Medised every night at the moment in anticipation of chicken pox, as DD was so miserable last week. It's great because he is sleping through - but am dreading when it's no longer needed as he'll probably start waking at 2am again.

Olihan
have started a thread here

Oh Heck

DD has been really restless tonight so have just administered medised after 3rd trip to see a crying face. She says she is scared by pictures when she clses her eyes.

Anyway must have left the gate open as she has just come down Have rapidly had to turn off my Starship Troopers DVD and put Tinypop on with Carebears

Must try and get her back off to bed before DH comes home from squash!

Hello Oli! Glad you had a good holiday.

I should never have even let the though that my nights were improving cross my mind, back to squealing when put back down and waking between feeds.

Welcome back Olihan. Glad you had a good holiday. I've been to Singapore 4 times and love it but then I just love SE Asia. Good luck with the house move. Fingers crossed for you.

Up all night with poorly DD1 but DD2 still sleeping through and just fine, so far ...

Hope the 'mones have settled Glassy. I usually swallow a few pills (vitamins, herbal remedies nothing stronger ) when I'm like that, which is most days.

Thanks castles.
Last night was terrible. DD2 was up 3 x. an for long sretches to. She's 3 1/2 months so i'm wondering if it is he 4 month growth spurt come early. Or if she's jst catcing up from having had this cold.

I wanted to say hi to everyone - to explain if anyone remembers me I used to be Lubella and was a regular here through PG and Post although I had a bit of a tough time following the birth of DD and had some time "away".

I am feeling much better now and have a new lease of life so I thought I would change my name and, if you will have me after such a long absence, come back and start posting whenever I can.
Glad to see everyone is doing well and the LOs growing and developing at such a rapid rate! Lots of love xx