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March 2007 - can't keep up

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eidsvold · 18/06/2007 08:06

Hi all -miss a few days due to nightmare things happening at home and I can't keep up now - so started a new thread. Perhaps thought we could remind each other when babes were born - I have lost track at who is the oldest etc.

Been busy here. Prac nanny is okay but hard work - feel like I can't totally relax in my own home etc. She is not sure how to deal with /take dd1 - making it hard. Dd1 had major meltdown after swimming the other day and then at hospital appt, then nanny took eyes from her for a second and she is finally found out on the footpath beside a major road and a sensible and lovely man brought her back. Unlike hospital volunteer who managed to stop dd1 taking a lift anywhere but when she could not get dd1 to hold her hand - she just left her It is clear the minute you speak to dd1 she has special needs FGS. poor nanny student was beside herself.

Saturday dh was gone all day on training exercise and dds only wanted daddy - long day. I managed to get out to a trivia night - MY TEAM WON - i found the questions very easy and answered most of them ( not bragging- just surprised my brain still functioned) I took dd3 - she would not go to sleep - come 11pm still wide awake and beyond over tired... got her home - to see dd2 in bed with dh cause she had an explosive puke that covered everything in her room. She was still up at 1am puking and I had dd3 still crying as she was exhausted.

so long rant - long few days - I am wrecked!!

dd3 - 12 weeks old.

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TransfiguratingLily · 13/07/2007 09:48

Jay it's so brilliant to see you back and I can't believe your news! brilliant.
How are you now? Are things still difficult?
Last time you were on I thought you were swearing never again! Famous last words eh?
Are you feeling sick?

Piffle · 13/07/2007 09:51

OMG Jay Are you ok? Congrats bloody hell I wish it was me but my body cannot take anymore

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kittywits · 13/07/2007 09:55

Jay things must be improving for you then? I'm still getting over the shock

Jaysthird · 13/07/2007 09:56

hiya, things are still difficult, DS is a pain in thr bum, still feeds three times a night so i have had no sleep for what seems like years, he is on 3 diff types of meds for his gastro reflux and i am going to start weenung him at 17 weeks..... next weekend, to see if it helps with his problems. I am under the paedetrician and have to go back fortnightly, although saying that hes putting weight on all over the place, almost 18lbs now...:O
We are just getting used ot the news , and TBH we werent sure what our decision was going to be when we first found out, but after talking things through we have decided to go for it!

Very happy, very scared and a bit subdued all at the same time!

Have to dash right now but will BBL to fill in any gaps! xxx

kiwibella · 13/07/2007 09:58

that is absolutely brilliant news Jay - good luck with the weaning for ds. Take care of you too!!!

kittywits · 13/07/2007 10:36

Well Jay, it can't have been the immaculate conception You're doing better than me. I can't work out how I managed to have so many

divastrop · 13/07/2007 11:14

jay-congratualtions!!

your babies will have a similar age gap to my eldest 2.ds1 was a bad sleeper up untill the age of 4,but thankfully dd1 slept through the night from 6 weeks.im sure no.3 will be a little angel for you

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 13:38

Jay wahey! Go girl! Just get all your sleepless-ness out the way in one go that's what i say!!!

I'm up with samuel at least 3 times a night... bloody nightmare isn't it! Are the meds working for Jensen?

Oh.... and you know there's a chance babies get bigger consecutively???!!!

Jaysthird · 13/07/2007 16:08

ahem... dont think i want a bigger baby than Jensen!!! The doc has already said it will be 'monitored'

Thanks for all your congratulations ladies very well received! We havnt told anyone other than my Mum just yet, and she is still in shock i think!
Jensens meds do seem to be having a poitive effect on him, he seems to be less in pain now with a reduction in the squirming and writhing he had, he does however have issues with bowels, in that it can take him an hour or more of - pushing, crying, bringing his knees up, grunting, jerking before anything happens, then when it does you would expect him to be constipated... nope quite the opposite! Anyway we think it is the meds that are affecting him, so we have sometihng to try and combat that now... time will tell.

So when the new baby is born i will have a DD of 23 mths DS 11months and then the newborn..... its going to be hell!

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 16:50

Jay think you might need a helping hand or two!

TransfiguratingLily · 13/07/2007 16:51

Jay it's going to be mad! here

kittywits · 13/07/2007 16:55

I could do with one of those

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 16:57

Or this

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 17:00

Get one of these too

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 17:01

this just gets better and better!

divastrop · 13/07/2007 17:06

and this

divastrop · 13/07/2007 17:08

omg 6 seater?!pushing a double buggy is bad enough,you would need your own pony to pull that thing along

i think i have pissed a northern person off on another thread

Callieco · 13/07/2007 18:06

Jay - CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! And - good luck to you both... Wow - three children under the age of two, now that is some achievement. Am also bit of your blue line. So you've just missed the March 2008 thread by a whisper then.

Muppet - I loved that six-seater. You're obviously on a roll with that stuff - getting ideas??????

Glad you liked the vid girlies .

Have had a lovely day despite the incessant rain. Met one of my premmie mums in the park, or rather the cafe in the park cos it was so wet and had a good catch up. Then went into a primary school with DP to show them the video we made with the kids last week - did I tell you about that, can't remember. They loved it. Then ended up in another cafe waiting in vain for the rain to stop. I felt really happy and serene about life and being a mother, and still do, despite DS just having a crying jag for the past hour which has only just ended in sleep now. It's so funny - yesterday he slept for Britain during the day but today he's just had v short naps, so is massively overtired now I think. Hopefully it means he will sleep through until 7.30 tomorrow, rather than the 6am he is favouring at present. Apologies to all those still getting up three times a night for moaning about that!

kittywits · 13/07/2007 18:08

where diva ? I am well in a moody today

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 18:14

here kitty kitty kitty

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 18:16

'cept i'm not going on it cos she who must not be named is on it...

foxcub · 13/07/2007 18:16

Jay - congratulations - wow!!!! Our first PG post natal Mum!!

Is DH pleased?

muppethasakitten · 13/07/2007 20:06

You know bumbos... well is it worth me getting one for Samuel?

What i am concerned about is will he fit in one for long? Was someone on this thread saying they had difficulties fitting their baby into one?

kittywits · 13/07/2007 20:33

Muppet I think they are usful for a couple of months say between 4-6 months when the baby wants to sit up but can't but hates lying down. I was leant one for dd3 and she fitted in and she is VERY large. She enjoyed it. I'll have to see if i can borrow it again soon.

divastrop · 13/07/2007 20:41

muppet- it hink that particlar poster has had it in fot me since i started my very first thread on here and reffered to this town as 'the last refuge of the damned',and she thought i was refering to the whole north of England.

thing is,even the 2 MNers local to me agree this town isn't exactly the nicest place in the world.