Jan '07 Part 9: Bald Babies Rule The World......(and ones with a thatch aren't bad either)

[Wilkie]

Still feeling a tad bitter about yesterday.

But hey......I'm the first one on the brand shiny new thread

....every cloud....

Back again, HELLO WILKIE, it is quiet isn't it. Hmm, not sure I have anything interesting to say actually except I feel bloated from just stuffing chocolate florentines Nothing on tv either.

Sorry Wilkie I have no idea which teeth arrive and when. I actually have no idea when anything is meant to happen! Ellen could be teething and I'd have no idea. She has taken to eating her dresses now....

I drove to the M&P factory shop today to do some testing of how easy to fold they are and weight etc but by the time I'd looked through all the baby clothes I had heartburn and felt sick so drove home. What a waste of an hour! The gaviscon had to come out for the first time since I was pg...must have been the sausage buttie I wolfed before I went out.

DH and I have both been busy today so Ellen been sat in her bouncer or bumbo most of the time. She seemed to get bored so we had lots of screaming but she cheered up when she had some naked time before bath. She goes mental thrashing about when she's naked.

I was making a pud with double cream earlier and drank some straight of the tub - it was sooo nice!!! Then I licked the spatula and bowl, then I had a big portion of the pud itself. Greedy vino

don't say that to a dairy deprived carrot, vino!

hello sorry didnt reply to your msn wilkie having a shit day and spent most of the day bickering with 'd'h. We didnt have Ellie last night as she invited herself to stay at my parents and they said it was ok so I got up at 6am with Hattie at 7.30 just as I get on the sower he decides to go for a run, then all day I have had one or both of the kids I cant even have a wee in peace.

He is just such an idiot at times this is his only day off in 13 days and he is moany and pissing me off. Prepared everything to do sunday dinner and then he comes downstairs and says 'oh we're going to mum and dads for lunch cause everyones there' ffs why didnt you mention it beofre 11am phoned mil and she said to take potatos/veg to hers as she wasnt sure she had enough (a normal sunday lunch consists of 13 people il's,us,bil/sil,neice,nephew,dh grandad and nan and other nan !!!!)

Got there and he buggered off to talk to his dad/bil then because so many people there ellie plays up at dinner then dh grandad starts making unhelpful comments about her behaviour and I end up leaving the table with ellie 3 times to do naughty step whilst dh eats his fuckin dinner (saying I'll sort her in a minute cause thats helpful to me!!) then hattie starts screaming because shes due a feed and do you think one member of that family offer to help oh no they are eating dessert aaarrrrghhhhhhh. Then everyone decies to give me their advice to sort her out, she was moody cause she had a late night, has hayfever and where are we eating sunday dinner? In the garden full of pollen so her nose is treaming and eyes running and there are garden toys tempting her.

Then we ended up staying so did baths then ellie fell asleep on way home but woke up carrying her in she thougt it was a nap and has just settled after an hour of me doing rapid return and hattie has been a moody arse today and it appears the only person in the world that can stop her crying is me so I am pissed off and if 'd'h even breathes near me or says 'what' or 'whatever' (seems to be the only answer I have had all day) tonight I'll chop his balls off, although he has now gone to bed cause he is knackered (oor him!!)

God sorry what a rant

excuse all the typos hopefully you'll deceipher what I meant to say

Hellooo my loveliessss...

Lizz can I just give you huge hugs as you are lovely'
Not been on the thread as been having some family troubles[some of you may have seen elsewhere on MN] Dh and I are talking about splitting due to his attitude towards the children. He has 2 months to change how he is or he is out. Positive note is its now been a week and already things are changing for the better but there is still a long way to go!!
I also joined slimming world this week which is good as it is something I needed to tackle. Today I tried Chloe on some baby rice aswell as she has hardly drank any milk this week and am worried about her weight going lower. Anyway she gobbled it up and was getting super eager by flapping her arms at me and cooing..lol

Morning - well its a grey damp miserable day here so looks like a 'fun' indoors day.

UD where are you how did the picnic go any pics yet???

Nemo - sorry to hear about DH havent seen te other threads but good that things are improving and well done on slimming word

Ummmm cant remember the other posts but hello to all!!!!

OMG. It seems you all need a hug.

(that includes you hug haters btw - LTH no wriggling please)

Nemo - haven't seen the thread either. Will take a look, but so hope things get better for you.

EAH - you poor thing! That would make me soooo mad. That may well have been his first day off in 13 days, but when was your last day off? DH doesn't understand why I'd prefer him to go for a run when lo is asleep. At least he's now taken to running in his lunch hour rather than as soon as he gets home.

Wilkie - hello.

Sorry folks, gonna have to shoot. Lo's just woken up (how incosiderate). Back later.

morning everyone, sorry haven't been about lately, have also been having 'd'h problems. do you think they are like the babies. and secretly communicate with each other to make our lives difficult?

so yesterday Zac was a nightmare to put to sleep too - was half 10 before he finally settled. dh went up to sort him and i said, "I think he needs a burp", so after 5 minutes of hearing Zac scream and scream - both down the stairs and down the baby monitor - i give up on my dinner and go upstairs and see what's up. is dh winding him? is he fuck. he just stood there, ineffectually cuddling him. "well he's upset." "Yes, he's upset because he needs to burp". then dh goes on about how he doesn't know how to settle Z because he doesn't spend as much time as i do with him, i pointed out that i told him what needed doing and he ignored me. i'm not sure our "marriage" is even worth saving tbh. i'm sick of him. we'd've split up ages ago if it wasn't for Zac.

i've decided i'm going to go back to work now, as i'm also sick of him pointing out how he pays for everything, and when i say "I could do with some new jeans" him saying "well get a job and you can have them" really aren't helping. and when i said i didn't want to move into another rented house, and that the next time we moved i'd like it to be a house we'd bought, he said, "what do you mean we?" i nearly punched him (luckily for him he was driving at the time). so i'm going to go back to work and try to regain my independence a bit. this is gonna make me sound like worst mum ever, but in some ways i wish i hadn't given it up in the first place, although i wouldn't change Z for the world.

on a more pleasant note, the picnic was great fun, i've just uploaded the pics onto the laptop, so will put them on my profile now.

have uploaded pics!!

Hi again.

UD - sorry to hear about your dh being an arse. Loved the piccies - pleased all went well and no arrests!

PCF - sounds like you have your hands full today. Hope DS1 gets better soon, but bless him for helping to wipe up!

Vino - was the heartburn anything to do with the cream and licking of the bowl? Must remember to ask you where the M&P factory shop is.

Wilkie - any news on your sister's bf? Were you bored this weekend? I thought the front bottom teeth came through first, but what do I know, since Pippa's "tooth" was actually a spot that she had for five weeks. It vanished over the weekend.

Carrot - any florentines left? i FANCY ONE WITH MY CUPPA. So much so, that I needed to shout that out obviously.

Had a good weekend here. Saturday got a lie in as DH got lo up. Generally lounged about all day. Watched a very dreary FA Cup final. Yesterday , I am sooo proud...I did a 5km race. Except I only ran for 1.5 km, and posted a time of 33 mins, but hey, first time I've run for a year so am not back to my can only run for 30 seconds level of fitness. Dh then did the 10km race following on from my 'fun run' and came 12th so he was pleased. LO was very excited propped up in her pram watching everyone race past. Then the in laws came over, and LO was charming. Which is great as they're babaysitting next Saturday as DH and I go out to the cricket. Sport, sport, sport.

Sun's shining here, and my second load of washing is on the line (Vino - hope there's some respect here!). It has been quiet here over the weekend. Hope the rest of you are ok.

Hello all.

UD/Nemo/EAH - sorry to hear about the DH troubles. Men are just overgrown babies methinks. What a pisser

UD - great photos - wish I could have made it. Which one is Lizz?? Always wondered what she looks like cos she doesn't have a pic on her profile...

RGee - hello my deary. My sister's BF gave birth to a healthy baby boy after 20hr labour, 8lb 12oz, all doing well.

Battery is about to run out on my laptop so I will have to go in a tick...

J slept well from 6pm-7am with a 3am feed. DH is off today so am having a lovely family day

rainy and miserable here too EAH. I've been waiting all morning for it to stop raining so i can take F out for a walk to the shops, but it's still pouring and we're both getting very bored and grumpy!

Sorry to hear about your troubles with dhs. I think its completely inexcusable to hold you not earning over your head UD! What, does he think you've just been kicking back and chilling for the last 5 months?!?I'm a bit worried about next month when my maternity pay stops as i'm not going back to work so we'll be completly relying on dp. He seems happy enough about that, but has already started joking about giving me weekly 'housekeeping money'

Ohhhh lots more to say but F's screaming.... better go and see what he wants i spose

Hi all - I've been lurking, just not got round to posting for a while!

I was supposed to be back at work today but there's some internal politics going on over who I'm supposed to be working for so I got a phone call from personnel last Friday telling me to stay at home today (being paid) while they decide!! Have just had a phone call telling me they've decided so (unfortunately) have to go in tomorrow - shame as I could get used to being paid for sitting at home

Took LO to see the GP today as his flat head on the right side is getting worse and he refuses to look at the left, regardless of what toys / who is over there. She has referred us to the pediatrician at the hospital, so will see what they say in 3 weeks time.

Sorry to hear about your DH troubles UD and Nemo - fingers crossed you get things sorted.

Apologies for no more personals, I'll have plenty of time to catch up on those and post more when I'm back at work

Afternoon, all.

and at all these selfish men! I haven't seen your thread, Nemo, hope he pulls himself together. UD at the attitude of your dh - either you work, and spend the majority of your income on childcare, or one of you doesn't work...that's the choice parents face, that's life. dh works bloody hard and I feel sorry for him - this weekend he saw ds2 awake for literally 10mins the whole weekend, and I probably don't appreciate how hard that is for him; but like you E&H I get right pissed off when dh has a day off and is knackered and just wants to rest...because when was the last time I had a day off? He was too tired last night to help - but fails to notice that as well as being woken up when he's woken up by calls, I have then also been up with ds2 in between so in actual fact, though I haven't been "working" I have had less sleep than he has. And his blooming parents are over this afternoon so I've spent all morning cooking for them, and no doubt will be left with all the washing up to do tomorrow. Sometimes I wish I wasn't bfing because that would be the only way dh would ever get to experience what life is relly like for me, and the only way I would ever get to have more than a couple of hours off here and there, lol!

Anyhow, glad the bfathon went well, UD, glad no-one was arrested! Did any of the press take an interest?

Wilks - I don't know about every other child, but ds1 got bottom 2 incisors, then top 2 incisors then canines then pre-molars. He's had none more since (and they were last summer....methinks we're overdue some mega-teething). Hope your family day's going well.

Hattie - sorry to hear about your lo's worries, hope the paed appointment goes ok.

Lovely and sunny here so I ought to take advantage of both dses being asleep and do some gardening, frankly can't be arsed (no doubt all the dh's round there would take that as confirmation of my laziness, but I have so far today done a load of washing, emptied dishwasher, cleaned bathroom, cleaned kitchen, cooked stew, cooked lunch for me and dsis and her dd, made pastry for tonight's flan, tidied up after ds and dniece, saved beastie from cats, entertained ds and dniece, oh and mumsnetted...).

Just wonder how you gals were getting your babies bathed these days? Freddie is becoming a bit of a nightmare in his little baby bath at the moment - he loves splashing and throws himself around everywhere so he's impossible to hold on to and completely soaks everything!

Thinking about buying one of these baby bath seat Have any of you used one?

we've never used babybath for hattie just used a support in the bath, however, now she sits up and I hold her she seems to prefer it that way just lay her back if i need to wash her her. MIL has one of those seats and swears by it Ellie use to love going in that but when she was about a year MIL still putting her in it and she flung herself back and it unstuck so she ended up backwards in the bath in it (not sure why she was still squeezing her into it when she could sit up in the bath fine !)

Havnt heard from DH today do assume he has the hump men huh! Met my mum in town and had coffee and did some shopping (got some photo albums so I can actually put hatties 300+ photos away ) got home and then friend popped in then my dad finished work early cause of the weather and he popped in and finally my brother came round, so what I thougt was going to be boring day has been quite good.

UD sorry to hear about dh, are you going back p/t will your mum look after Z for you?

Damn...just seen today's tip of the day and wish I'd seen it before ds2 was born!!!

Very quick one - Shimmer. We haven't used a baby bath since J was about 8 weeks old. We just have a non slip mat, fill the bath so it just covers his ears when he is laid flat on his back and let him kick away. He ADORES his baths!!!!!!!!! We also have a baby bath seat but prob won't use it as he is very happy this way as he can kick and flail his arms to his hearts content.

BAck later.............. xx

P.S. New thread 2Happy?????

Hello everyone hope you all had a fairly good weekend sorry to hear about those who are having dh trouble maybe we should all become lesbians life might be easier JOKE !!!!! beofre you all start calling me laughalot lesbo !!!

Well iv been busy today went a walk to post dd passport form off did a bit of shopping then came home and started on the cleaning up. I have had break through with my ds he would not do a number 2 on the potty a wee wee fine but if he needed a poo he would ask for a nappy this has been going on since last august then on saturday I was really nasty and when he asked for the nappy I said no he needs to go on the potty it took him about 3 hours to part with it but he did do it. Yesterday he dident have one all day and today he has done 2 I cant beleive how worked up and stressed iv been getting and finally he has done it.

Lauren decided to have a extra long sleep I had to wake her up at 7.30 she went to bed at 8 .

Thanks for the invite ladies for the meetup but its just to far for me im afraid wilks thanks for the offer of getting to your place but my dh is at work, I promise wilks we shall arrange to meetup though.

Hey Nemo/UD - you've made it onto a thread here

I've been thinking about it all afternoon, Wilkie - here's the fruit of my contemplations!