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April 2007 - feeling broody already? shoot me now ................

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EllieK · 16/06/2007 01:16

not feeling terribly imaginative but wanted to get a new thread going so i could send out the round-up

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AngeG · 17/06/2007 22:37

Night Ellie - Hope it's not too bad a night for you.

Hello Daisyboo - Congratulations. My DD is 10wks now and sleeping pretty well at night, not much during the day though can't have everything I suppose

nuttygirl · 17/06/2007 22:41

Right Erin's asleep now so will be off to bed! night all x

maveta · 18/06/2007 08:16

Morning! Late start for everyone today? Quick questions to start this lovely monday off:

  1. Do you wait until your baby cries in the night to feed, or do you do it as soon as you hear them waking? N can make waking up/ snuffly/ sucking noises for up to an hour before he properly demands, I mostly feed as soon as he wakes me up but am starting to wonder if he wouldn´t actually go longer if I just left him? The hard part with that, of course, is being able to sleep through his noises.

  2. Is anyone here doing, or thinking of doing, elimination communication? I thought it was nuts when I first heard of it but the more I think about it, it would be no big deal to stick him over the toilet/ a potty after every feed/ nap and just see if it saves me a nappy change. Opinions?

liath · 18/06/2007 09:06

Morning.

DH is on night shifts so I only get to see him for a few hours in the evenings and he spent all of it yesterday flicking between cricket and bloody formula one!! I let him off becuase he hadn't slept well (dd was in rampage mode and rather noisy). Think I'll try and take the kids out this morning to give him some peace then dd is in nursery this afternoon.

Maveta, ds will often start being noisy an hour before he's really awake and wanting fed - I've tried feeding him when he starts stirring and he's just fallen asleep on the boob.

Can't say I'm planning on EC, but if we ever get some decent summer weather up here (fat chance) he'll be in the garden in the buff. Probably something that's easier to do with your first and not with a toddler on the scene!

Oooggs, hope your feeling better.

Loving all the photos, what a gorgeous (and well dressed!) bunch of babies. Made me realise I haven't been taking many photos of ds, oops .

oooggs · 18/06/2007 09:39

Hi all, thanks Liath - feeling better today - has to have been the period and over tiredness

Octo - hope you sort out the expressing, I KNOW formula is expensive, I am feeding two of them on it .

Anyone know where the thread is of all our info?, the one where we said our ages, occupations and our other children & dh's.

Eddas · 18/06/2007 09:52

Do you mean this one oooggs?www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=2290&threadid=203207 &stamp=070411141415

Pesha · 18/06/2007 09:57

Nightmare morning - dd was 10mins late for school and ds 15mins late for playschool, and that was with me driving when normally we walk. But as i was carrying ds2 and its raining i put him in dd's (plain white, not pink!) snowsuit and he looked sooo cute If we hadn't been so late i'd have taken a pic!

Maveta - Dylan wakes and snuffles for a while but it only half wakes me, when he gets hungry he shouts at me a few times which wakes me up properly so I feed him then. And dont really know much about EC but as Liath said think its prob something that's easier for first timers.

oooggs · 18/06/2007 09:59

yes thanks eddas - I'm not even on it. I was just being nosey & trying to picture who I was chatting to!!

CaptainDippySuperBoobs · 18/06/2007 10:26

Morning - Just come back from Dr's for 6 week check - all ok with P; but he said I looked lovely, but completely knackered. My Dr is such a love, bless him. He said if he could phone up my PIL right now & tell them that the lack of help & support they aregiving me is appaulling, then he would (he is their Dr too!) He said he wished he could do more to help. Awwwwww!

Maveta - I only feed when full-on crying ...... & no, I wouldn't consider EC .... they'll potty train when they & their bodies are good & ready for it. Also I don't have enough time in my life for dangling a baby over a toilet while my other two horrors run around trashing everything!! I introduced both my DD's to the potty quite early on (about 1yr) & just sort of left it in their nursery etc and let them sit on it if they wanted to; but I never started potty training til I knew they were good & ready.

So there you go!!

Can't believe the Ellie & Joe Show is coming to me tomorrow!!!!! Speaking of which, I hope Joe settled ok for you in the end hon. xx

Katy44 · 18/06/2007 10:30

morning everyone

Pesha · 18/06/2007 10:34

Morning

Emmymummy · 18/06/2007 10:46

Morning all. Crikey it's taken me an age to catch up and don't have long as S is squeeking and snuffling and about to scream I think! Doesn't she know I need my MN fix?

Dippy - lovely photos. You look beautiful and the dress showcases the superboobs brilliantly.

Well had a non-eventful weekend, apart from Em behaving in quite a disgraceful way for most of it. She has been a right madam, lots of backchat, stroppiness, grumpiness etc etc. Probably totally typical for a 5 year old, but incredibly wearing none the less. She eventually drove me to tears yesterday evening as I knew she was lying to me about something she'd done, and I told her that if she continued behaving like she had been Mummy was going to walk out . Obviously not true, I would never do that, but it did the trick it seems, as she became very huggy, told me she loved me etc. So, valuable lesson learnt - threatening to remove toys does not work, emotional blackmail does . I'm not proud of myself.

God alone knows how I'm going to cope with her over the summer holidays. DH is convinced we are going to kill one another.....so am about to ring up a summer-holiday club to book her in for a day a week, so we at least have a breather from each other. What's she gonna be like when she's a teenager?

CaptainDippySuperBoobs · 18/06/2007 10:56

Hi EM - Feeling much the same about my DD1 atm and she is only 3 1/2 - she has been a grumpy little goat recently - refusing to do things, screaming, crying blah, blah, blah ....finding her extremely hard to cope with atm .... keep loosing my temper with her as well, which isn't helping things. Bloomin' little madams, eh!!? I'm dreading the Summer Hols too - no Pre-School! Summer Holiday Club sounds like a fab idea, EM - she'll enjoy herself & you'll get a break from her ... it'll be good for both of you! Wish I could book K into something like that ....

Pre-Schoolers are a PITA; but ultimately lovely, beautiful & v.cute!

elkiedee · 18/06/2007 10:57

I was never on that stats thread either, interesting reading as it's the first time I've found that I'm not quite the oldest on the thread, even among those who are still around. Though I'm probably the most ancient first timer.

Overslept until 7 am (!) this morning but fortunately dp had no meetings he needed to rush out of the house for so was ok to hang around until about 8.45. But Danny seems to have evolved a pattern of only falling asleep, instantly, when fed and/or taken out of the house. His feeds get spread out over the 3 hour intervals that they're supposed to take place over, especially at nights and in mornings - he tends to be hungrier early evenings and suddenly take a feed in a short time and demand more. A way of making me worry about him?

Any of the other London posters on that stats thread still around?

elkiedee · 18/06/2007 10:59

Dippy, where do I find the photos of you in your dress? Was it an email or a link?

CaptainDippySuperBoobs · 18/06/2007 11:00

T'was an email - happy to email it to you too if you furnish me with your info!!

Emmymummy · 18/06/2007 11:06

Elkie - S is like that with respect to sleep. That's why I go out so much as it's the only way I can guarantee she gets some sleep during the day.

CD - yes, when Em is good she is very, very good, and when she is bad she is horrid (just like the rhyme). And funnily enough she is a little girl with a little curl . Am keeping my fingers crossed that S is going to be much more laid back.

Do you find that K behaves better for DH? I think with us its a female/female thing, as she plays up DH much less.

Katy44 · 18/06/2007 11:07

Can I be bothered to go into work this afternoon to find out details of reorganisation? I should do...

Emmymummy · 18/06/2007 11:07

Work Katy? What's that?

Katy44 · 18/06/2007 11:08

Right, shower!

Katy44 · 18/06/2007 11:08

Emmymummy, it's the place I pass on the way back from Bumps n Babies on a Tuesday morning.
I think

Emmymummy · 18/06/2007 11:11

Don't do it Katy. It'll only worry you and, let's face it, there's bugger-all you can do about it anyway. I just tend to let stuff like that wash over me as I don't go back until November and it'll be a done-deal by then.

Katy44 · 18/06/2007 11:13

No actually I know what's going on with my job, and the dept I'm in is fairly stable, it's more to find out the gossip, which is why I'm even considering it!

Pesha · 18/06/2007 11:14

Sympathise completely emmy, dd is being pita lately. Her lying drives me mad and its over such stupid things. Yesterdasy in car had an organix bar said she had had enough to eat after a mouthful, i said dont you like it, she said she was just full cos she'd had too much party food and felt abit sick. 2 mins later - mummy can i have these choc buttons! But she's 6.7 fgs and its all the time about everyhing and driving me mad. I cant stand lying but nothing i say stops her so now i just cant believe anything she says

Am getting quite stressed just thinking about it Think i def need a break, am getting fed up with the lot of them and feel myself on the verge of a bit of a melt down. We have bookcase at top of stairs for dcs' books, they both take the books out, especially ds1, and just leave them lying around. ALL my time is spent bfing and doing essential jobs like washing, cooking, hoovering. Have no time for picking up all their stuff everyday (nevermind anytime for myself) and dp doesnt even seem to notice, just steps over it. Yesterday morning ended up leaving ds2 screaming while i put all the books away, crying, and really just wanted to chuck the whole lot out. Last night ds1 was supposed to be going to sleep but was in fact getting piles of books out again and scattering them around upstairs and even chucked some down the stairs for good measure Not sure why i f#ing bother. I wanna go round the house with black sacks and chuck everything except the furniture out. Seriously!

Sorry for huge self pitying rant but need to moan to someone.

Katy44 · 18/06/2007 11:19

Oh pesha
Can you leave your dp with them for just a couple of hours tonight and get out of the house?