April 2007 - Where sleep and time alone are just a dim and distant memory......

[EllieK]

Morning gorgeous mummies!!!!

The sun is shining - hurrah!

Well, after having half a glass of wine, I had a sodding hangover. Can you believe it??

Hope everyone is ok this a.m.

After a dodgy start to the evening, K had a couple more ounces of milk at 8.30 p.m. and slept until 7.00 a.m.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going to the zoo today - see if they need any more monkeys to add to the collection!

Catch up with you all later on. xx

Need some advice please

J has started waking up in the middle of the night, crying. Its not night terrors, as he's fully awake. If we don't go into to him, then he'll come into us, and tbh, if we're knackered, we'll just let him come into our bed, and we all get back to sleep. This is the first time, since he was a baby that he's ever wanted to come into our bed to sleep.

At first, we thought it was W waking him, and disrupting his sleep pattern. But for the past few nights, its J waking W up. Things have to a head this week, because dh has been away, so I've had to deal with both of them at night.

Its started to affect J during the day, and I'm getting to the end of my tether

hi everyone

have been lurking, but not much time to post.

Can you believe I have mastitis again Am totally gutted. Though i'd got through all the bf probs BUT I'm keeping going. Feeling like i don't want it to beat me.

eca - god but you are a brave woman! to be still going through 2nd bout of mastitis - i am in awe. take it easy tho babe - you must be feeling rubbishy with it. xoxoox

eca - hugs re mastisis. that's rea;;y bad luck. good on you for not letting it beat you though.

rh - could it be the disruption / general emotional upheaval of having a new sibling? subconscious attention seeking? not sure what you could do though. i know what it's like when you let them come into bed with you. you know it's a bad idea but you're too knackered to do anything else.

i'm in such a bad mood today. have been really short tempered with everyone. not sure why. DH has taken the kids down to the pool so i'm having half an hour's peace. rocking R's chair with my big toe to keep her in semi sleep state and enjoying the silence!

Hello - knackered, but ok - Got weirdly emotional this morning & cried all over DD's 1&2 - they were a little shocked to say the least, bless 'em! Friend is here, great to see her - off to cinema to see Pirates this evening, looking forward to it - though it is doubtful whether I'll actually stay awake through the whole thing - oh well!!

{{{{{hugs}}}} to runny on difficult DC's & {{{{{hugs}}}}} to Eca on the 2nd bout of Mastitis, you poor thing!

Best go & make sure dinner isn't burning ....

pleaseeee miss, can i be excused miss?

only, you see, miss, the thing is miss, i have mice miss................................................

in me *kitchen

so i shall be taking leave until my house is fully dettol'd

thanks for the encouragement girls. Good to see you weeonion. Hope you're doing better now. My sis was trying to get me to give up bf. She even argued that I'd be back to 'normal' for that frikin bridesmaids dress Had a day just resting up, popping the paracetamol and antibiotics and sleeping while dh helped look after T.

CD - very of you going to see pirates.

Ellen - at mice!!! Hope you manage to get rid.

CB - hope you're feeling more like yourself soon xx

Right, off to have a shower, am sweating buckets with this temperature.

eca, sorry you're feeling so bad. On the positive side, if you are managing to bf through your second bout of mastitis then nothing can stop you until you choose to!
Ellie, OK, permission granted, but I expect a letter from your mice next time you're in.
SOKL, pmsl at your hangover - you must try to cut down on your drinking, try a dribble of wine next time

just flying 1 handed type here as T refusing to settle - keeps drifting off to sleep on the boob, but awake as soon as down, more so than her usual eve cluster feeding..

useless GPs haven't sent me 6 week check up appt and as they only do a ring on the day booking in system I've no idea about organising childcare times etc.. esp as it's 7 weeks - or is it 8?

DH away again all weekend, from Fri actually so feeling like a 1 parent family and a bit 'cos even when DH comes home he'll insist in having a full nights sleep (well, not an early morning anyway) 'cos "he'll be useless otherwise" yeah and how much help is he normally? Raaaah in his absence. constant headache & flaring eczema & tendonitis just reminding me that although coping I am still stressing here. Respect to those of us coping with this every day - it's exhausting atm!

luckily my folks visiting for 3 days midweek 'raaay! MIL offering to take C for a week may well be taken up v shortly although am reluctant about aftermath of such 100% attention iyswim. Someone tell me I'm being as daft as I think I probably am!

right - about to check SE meet up thread then beddybyes for me,

WaspElly matthew is off for 16 days hols with his dad and i'm dreading the fallout from all that 100% attention, he was there last night and returned today in tears cos he wanted to stay with grandma

i figure tho that if i can't give him that devoted attention anymore it's only fair he get it elsewhere sometimes

i know i shouldn't be here but sat dwn to feed Joe and heard the mouse scuttlimg around in my cleaning cupboard

thankfully Skott is camping in my garden tonight (row with dad cos he said he wants to come live at mine so he's in the tent to get some space) so i rang his mobile and hissed at him to get down here now

he's filled holes and put poison down but no way am i going back in there tonight

so i'm back here

Oh Ellie - we had mice last year and I'm dreading discovering I've to start re-baiting the traps. Funnily enough I'd rather have dead bodies where I can see them/am expecting them and DH was totally squeamish in an amusing 6'2" and brawny type of wimpish way!
I'd spotted 16 days - just think of the lovely bonding time you can properly spend with the baby though! Can you tell I'm feeling guilty about the littlest one? She's a sweetie about being plonked as a sideshow to whatever Cameron & I are doing, and her most frequently presented toy would appear to be a small metal car in one form or another! Very educational!

Morning everyone
Well, taking T to meet his great Grandma today. She has Alzheimer's disease and is in a home. She has almost no short term memory and is confused as to who we all are - it's been amazing that she has remembered "the baby" throughout my pregnancy, and it's been the only thing to excite her. It's lovely. Plus, she wanted a boy, when we all thought he was a girl, she said girls are "nothing but trouble" - the woman has no boys in her family (until now of course), just 2 daughters and 3 granddaughters

Morning lovelies.

Runny, really sorry you are having a tough time with J. I seem to recall B being like that for a week or so when she was 2. Would wake in the night crying and be awake for 2 hours. We used controlled crying, and never let her in our bed. We are such strict parents!

WaspeElly, all credit to you for having 2 on your own at the weekend. I hope dh appreciates it! All credit to anyone managing on their own.

Katy, I shall be drinking a thimble full of wine next time!! I think the answer is that I just need to have a drink every day to build up my tolerance!
Hope you have a lovely day with T's great grandma. K is yet to meet hers - need to arrange it soon.

Ellie, hope you get rid of he mice. Do you want to borrow my cats??

Hope everyone else is ok.

Lots of love xx

Morning - runny, we had a period when Em was about 2.5 where she'd wake in the night, every night. think that was more the night terrors though (starting to have dreams) so prob not what your lo is having. i'm sure you'll get it sorted though and things will settle back down again.

SOKL - yes you obviously do need to build up your tolerance to alcohol. I have been doing that since S was born....whoops! Going to a christening shortly, so no doubt all my practicing will set me in good stead for the party afterwards. the church & venue afterward are within walking distance of home so means me and dh can have a couple. we'll be the ones snoring in the corner by 3pm!

apols for crap typing - S on boob & trying to down coffee all at once.

Popping in quick - juat got back from church and about to make pizzas and head off down the beach .... hurrah!

Feeling exhausted - P slept from 7pm til 4.30am - v.nice; but then fed at half 4 til 5.15 ish and then proceeded to chuck the entire lot up - all over herself, the bed, me, DH, pillows, duvet - everything - Nightmare!! By the time it was cleaned up & she had fed again, the other two were up - Sigh.

Yuk to mice Eliie, hope yon rid yourself of them soon!

Awwww, love that your G'ma remembered the baby, katy - hope she enjoys your visit lots.

Gotta buzz .....

(i'm not really here)

have emptied kitchen crockery cupboards into dishwasher, dettol'd them and now waiting for dishwasher to finish so i can restock!

Joe is with Cath, Matthew with daddy's family, so i'm cleaning

Katy, it's lovely that your nan remembers 'the baby', my Gramps used to forget who everyone was, and mix up generations, but always knew Matthew, even if he did try to teach him to play crib! (Gramps died aged 100 when Matthew was 18mths)

hi folks - a quick visit before dp's faterh and step mum arrive. gulp. v v v nervous. they can eba real handful and this is the first tiem they have ever come to visit us in our flat (we have been here 3 yrs!!). caoimhe is all spruced and dressed up looking cute but she is havign a total on the boob day so i may not see much of them (phew..)
we took her to see her great gran 4 weeks ago. gran is 101 and despite being blind and deaf, once c was put in her arms - she started to rock her. we all wept. it was a really lovely moment.

Afternoon all

Glad to know that we're not alone with J sleeping problem. Dh got up to him last night, before the crying turned to full on screaming, just led on his bed with him for about half an hour, and he went back to sleep - result! When he woke up this morning, he played with his musical books to wake us up
Dh thinks that it probably IS night terrors, but because he's crying so much, it wakes him up iyswim.
sokl I hate him coming into our bed (such a nasty mummy) a cuddle in the morning is fine (and about my limit!)

ellie at mice. Its bad enough when our cats bring them in as presents!

[big ahhh emoticon] to great grandparents. I don't really have a lot to do with my grandparents (v v long story) but dh are lovely.

ummm did have more to say but have forgot

love to all
x

ps - has anyone heard from miam?

Runny, I emailed MIAST the other day as she hadn't been on for an age. She is fine, just busy with the 2 lo's.

Hope everyone has had a lovely day today. We had a lovely pub lunch with a friend and his dd and I had another glass of wine! All in the interests of building up tolerance!

really must read posts more carefully, just read and thought SOKL had said
"his dd and I had another glass of wine"
getting small children to drink alongside you doesn't make it ok

has been quiet on here today - just popping in, dt2 asleep at the mo so will he sleep tonight????? dt1 awake but not complaining - makes a change

Went shopping today to exchange baby gifts, had £45 of newborn stuff to return to one shop and bought 3-6 mths, how did people think that the twins would be wearing anything otherthan baby gros for the first 6 weeks..I DIDN'T HAVE TIME to put on nicey clothes and pretty dresses, only enough time to feed them and ds1.

Oogs, I know what you mean. K was in sleepsuits for the first 4 weeks as they are so easy. Also, does anyone else hate bodysuits. Trying to get them on over a wobbly baby is bloody impossible, and if their nappy leaks and goes all over the bodysuit, when you take it off it goes all over them too!