************DECEMBER 2006 - PART 3 ****************

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I was brave and started a new thread!

Jabber - We finally went out to celebrate our anniversary this week. It was this time last year that I found out that I was pg. I think I escaped the majority of morning sickness because of it.

dd2 was awake from 3-6am last night, I hope she won't be like this for the whole of the summer

Hi all

Hiding from the washing up mountain, DD1 has her first school trip tomorrow, feel stupid to feel so worried and I wish I was going to keep an eye on her, she is soooo excited, she volunteered to go to bed early as she wanted the morning to come quicker! She has been a ream mummys girl of late, she has always been a daddys girl from day 1 and used to cry when he left for work today she so wanted to help mummy that she helped me sort the washing into colours and whites....

Anyways DD2 has been a pain all day, too hot, teething like mad (anyone else feel like they actually have a dog?) slobbering on anything she can, tried to eat the plate my DH had his dinner on not really feeding properly just snacking on me all day.

BUT I had Pimms today for the first time this year, have realised we cant have anymore babies cause I dont think I can give it up again....

Asked DD2 if she was worth giving it up for, and she gave me the biggest grin and yabbaed away at me, so she obviously feels she was

suppose I'd better go do the washing up then... DH cooked, which means there is rather more cleaning up than usual, anyone else have this?

Yay, Margo! A real date - must have been fun. Dh and I are going to have to get out together sometime

Loads of washing up here too.

AQ - just when I thought we were doing really well with ds1 he had 2 poo accidents on Friday (did I post that already?) Anyway, no pants for him this morning and he made it to the potty for his poo and went outside for a wee, lol.

weirdbird. My DD1 has always been a daddy's girl but she is more into me these days

And yes, if my DH cooks the kitchen is 2 x as messy as when I cook

Margo - glad you got out for your anniversary.

Gloria42 - Yay for first tooth. We are still waiting. DD1 took over 8 months so I expect DD2 will be the same.

AQ - you sound stressed. We had a wet bed last nighgt so i have DD1s bedding, pyjamas etc as well as the normal mountain.

Have a good day everyone....

Hi all,

AQ, you sound stressed pet. I nearly fainted this morning too. I totally sympathise re grudgery. I feel like I'm drowning in it constantly. My solution is that my old cleaner is coming back to me for FOUR HOURS a week from next week. As my BIL just said, she will transform my life. I hope!

I've got one of those baby nests too that GS was talking about. They are great unless you have a baby like mine. I just put her in it turned my back for 30 seconds and she'd climbed out of it. What have I done to deserve such an active baby?

My mum just told me I might have to get a playpen for her and - shock horror - I think she might be right!

DD2 is so lovely and smiley but I just have to say this here - she is harder work than the other two put together. I just hope that once she's walking she calms down a bit

lol, castles. DD keeps trying to fling herself out of the playnest but so far it has kept her in. When she starts crawling I will get the travel cot out (in lieu of playpen). It means I can go to the loo and not worry what she's up to. DD1 wasnt that impressed but needs must imho

Brilliant idea about the travel cot GS. Will go and put it up now. Please don't let her decide to use it for standing practice

anyone elses dc not feeding so well in this heat? mine last fed properly at 11.30, half a feed at 4am, half a feed at 7.30, been offering every hour since but no joy. am rapidly trying to express now as desperately need to do a food shop! (don't particulrly want to feed in middle of Asda). might just be a bit off though as thought he had a temp as well - gave him 2 doses of calpol yesterday and both came back up with a feed - lots of clothes soaking in bath last night!
dh great cook but kitchen often a bombsite after too! but with the barbeque season I can send him out to do the cooking and clean up mess from marinades etc b4 we eat!

Oh and yes I think there is supposed to be a 6 month growth spurt, not looking forward to it (my sis had to do about 4-5 feeds a night and it lasted over a week for her!), but I thought that it eased once you introduce solids. The ones I remember reading about were 6 weeks, 3 months, 4 months and 6 months (can't remember any later than that as was reading it at about 6 weeks stage).

Hello.

I NNNNNNNEEEEEEEEDDDDDDD a WEE! and I've got a man putting wires under the floor outside my bathroom.(Still no door!) DS2 is fast asleep in his room(YEP on a building site-a sleeper like his mummy!)so I can't even grab him to go to tesco's to use theirs. wish I done more pelvic floor exercises.I've also got hayfever and one sneeze too many and who knows......

Magnolia. Very of dishwasher. Everyone else very of ability to do any washing. utility room still not finished(OK OK i will have a utility room so i should shut up!)i've got a pile of clothes growing in various corners of my house ranging from the poo/milk/breakfast cereal coated ones soaking in bathroom to the "they might me ok to put back on ds1 if i run out" ones dotted everywhere else!

Calmriver. you and I can be lost together as i've also returned from my "travels".

that WAS the best wee of my life!!! sorry TMI

Margo..I'm with you with the delayed anniversary. dh got me a ballon trip for our first one. we got rained off first time. when we rebooked i was pg with ds2 and we're finally going to celebrate our first anniversay, 8 weeks before our third!

on the laundry front, not having a washing machine has made me realise how often i just throw things in for the sake of it. I'm not suggesting i'm going to wander around smelly. however i have been known to put a top on DS1. then discover that spiderman/sporticus/luke skywalker wants to wear a differant top 30mins later and end up washing it because top one ends up on floor of bedroom.
Must be more environmentally friendly in future!will also mean i don't feel so surrounded by more washing than drying space

anyone else on here not started weaning yet(I know Spinababy is one of the youngest) he's trying to wean himself though. Grabbed my chocolate coated finger yesterday and tried to ram it in his mouth,followed by a (baby)fistfull of lemon sorbet. i'm also at the stage where i'm too guilt ridden to eat in front of him because he's doing that drooling/puppydog eyes/licking his lips thing!

speaking of which, must eat some lunch before he wakes up.

AQ I order you to sit down with a cold drink and put your feet up saying sod the washing etc for an hour or so as soon as your boys are in bed tonight.

Ds is terrible about feeding in the heat too Sacha, he really doesn't seem to get on with sun! He just takes off the watery bit, yells until he gets the other side, takes the watery stuff off there too and yells again. Suppose he feels like I do right now but can't understand it. I know I'm hungry but have no desire to really eat.

Spina I've not weaned yet. Ds is the youngest 'December' baby and we've only just hit 5 months. He too keeps trying to steal my food, in another couple of weeks I'll consider letting him

There's a few of us waiting until 6 months. I give ds toys to play with at the table whilst I eat and over this weekend I gave him strips of raw food to play with - he preferred raw onion to the little bit of cooked potato I offered from my plate. But it is just playing, and I'm not giving him food he can actually get anything out of (apart from the cooked potato that he threw away!). In two weeks time I am really looking forward to giving him some steamed veg and to see how he reacts to this! I will try to eat the same as him and as finger food to start with (being the fine role model that I am ).
But he was trying to self feed himself the calpol spoon last night. He wasn't happy when I took it away.
Have decided he's definately not well and it's not just the heat. He went 6 hours this morning without milk - boobs not used to that! And he fretted for most of that time. Sleeping now at last!

Poor e thing Sacha being poorly in this heat.

I take it back, I have started weaning. I just had to fish bits of chewed envelope out of his mouth

Where did that e come from?

well spinababy has been weaned on brickdust and i went into his room yesterday (where he was playing on his playmat) and found he'd rolled himself across floor and was chewing on some unpainted skirting board

im thinking of getting annabel karmel and sarah beeny to collaborate on a little weaning idea i've got brewing...

milk feeding up the spout here too.

aq you shall sit down and have that cold drink.forgot to be bossy in previous posts.

LOL at not enough pelvic floors, Spina! I've started doing them again as I've been caught out a few times lately.
Must go, ds2 has woken after 3rd 20 min nap today (why bother, really?).
I'll consider the cold drink tonight, girls!

BAck again, he went back to sleep Feeding mad here too, and he seems sooooo hot despite one of those shade a babe's on his pushchair. Poor lamb.
Got a bit stressed last night, sorry for rant, just cos I'm worried about returning to work. So went in today and did some work whilst ds asleep in the office, weird.
awake again grrr.

Hannah has been really upset by this heat as well, she had a good feed this afternoon after fretting on and off all morning and then promptly threw it all up again 20 min later, its very strange, DD1 was getting over her reflux by this stage, but Hannah seems to be getting worse again now she can move around so much...

Yes, she is starting to crawl ahhhhhh

I would say we average a speed of 1metre every 5 min at the moment, but she can get further by rolling. Went in to get her up this morning and she was the other way round and on top of her sheet, than when I put her down.

Ds is in bed. I keep hearing rustling from his cot toys though. Don't think will be a good night, past few have been pretty poor and with the lack of feeding today I can't help but think he will make up for it when it is cooler tonight. May try giving him a dream feed later. Not worked whenever I've tried before but i can only hope

On the plus side he hasn't been up for the day til around 7.30, sometimes after 8 for ages!

I have rediscovered the bottom of my washing basket. No doubt it will mysteriously have filled up again by morning.

I realised the other day that much as ds loves standing and holds his own very well when he finds something the right hight that is solid I can count on one hand the number of times he has rolled over. And that is just front to back. Lazy little thing. Maybe he can just tell that rolling over our wooden floors would not be a good idea

Blimey you lot are chatterboxes today

Ds1 is feeding more than usual Not sure how that is posible He doesn't like tthe heat either.

He has been solids for a while now so I thought I would move on from the basic veg/fruit and try something else. So I did Aubergine,tomato's with mushroom and some herbs from garden. He hated it!!!! Little toad wolfed down a yoghurt though

I can't remember what you lot have said today but I have read it all I promise xxxxx

DS asleep now - hopefully for the night rather than just a nap (well until 11). Total of 4 half feeds today rather than 4 full feeds and another half. Really hope my boobs don't get affected too soon by this! Have washed expressing kit - haven't really had time to do any in day with lots of hugs and crying, plus didn't want to express and then have him suddenly regain appetite and not be able to get enough from me (to give the added comfort factor rather than from the bottle). Will be harsher tomorrow and make sure I express in the knowledge he can always have some from a bottle.
It's supposed to be cooler here today but the monitor is flashing 'HIGH' at me - I KNOW it's warm, it tells me the actual temperature, I really don't need the machine flashing at me as well!
Magnolia, sounds nice, can I have some please?
WB, How old is Hannah? We have just spent the weekend starting our 'childproofing' - getting cabinets with doors on rather than open bookcases in the lounge.

Lord, we'll all back again!
Arrived at mum's with both lo's in tow tonight (ds1 staying the night) and all 3 of us in floods of tears five minutes later on the couch, neither of them would go with my sister or mum, just huddled on my lap with my tears dropping on them.
Poor little ds2 had jabs but wouldn't sleep grumpy and red eyed until his little beautiful smelling head (ahhh, so sweet, such soft hair!) collapsed on my shoulder at 7.30. Now I've dyed my hair so I look presentable for baby massage and I'm having a cold glass of sauvignon blanc!
Castles, a cleaner WILL change your life! yippee for you
I'm marvelling at the amazing crawling babies, ds2 can turn himself around and has quite good reach but no way do i want him doing more than that for several months!
Poor Magnolia, back to veg it is then! I tried ds with banana & peach (alright, I'll admit, it was in a jar, couldn't find any fresh peaches at the supermarket) & he screwed his face up at it over and over again (only had veg to that point) until he managed to finish the jar. Hmmm.