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kittywits · 02/08/2007 17:17

ok, will thid do?

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eidsvold · 04/10/2007 22:51

neither link is working try this one.

made as a 2 piece day dress

Piffle · 04/10/2007 22:53

Lunar oh golly... what a dreadfuol puke filled day... hope Toby is ok and that ds1 settles down at school and in the abth running dept too

Now as to baths
Finn gets one a week, every Sunday in with his big sis, man he SPlASHES - the room is covered and dd her gentle little soul is quite terrified... actually today he hop/ crawled/lunged/propelled himself to the top an tail bowl when I dashed to the loo to help dd... and splashed like mad in there too... he is a water baby. Before you accuse me of being damned unhygienic he gets a thorough top n tail wash every night before bed as part of routine ish thing.

Also his poos since BLW (am spoon feeding him yoghurt though my nerves cannot stand him self feeding runny stuff yet) are only daily, and quite easy whereas before he was 3 x a day. Now the smell and texture is somewhat less pleasant but it does tend to be more manageable - Finn has a great love of mild lentil curry and southern fried chicken, he has quite a savoury tooth methinks.
Well must go am truly shattered Eids will retry your link in the morning, cannot get it atm

love and good sleep to all esp me LOL

Mossy · 05/10/2007 07:31

Thanks for the advice re: bathing; I will try every other day now.

Oh also can you give babies stuff with artificial sweetener in? I never use sugar (puts weight on me like nothing else) but I would imagine aspartame wouldn't be great for babies, and if I'm giving him stuff I'm having I suppose it had better be unsweetened?

Lunar you poor thing what an awful, awful day! Hope everything calms down today and that Toby is better soon, what exactly was causing him to throw up do you know?

Eids I can only see two of the three links; both dresses are fab but I especially love the one with the red birds on it!!

Piffle did Finn go 3x a day back when you were exclusively bfing? Bertie is about once a week... one fateful time he went eighteen days I was terrified and then... huge explosion up his back everything, he must just have been saving it up!!

Sazzy "Am I the only person who gives sick marks a cursory wipe with a damp cloth?" no, me too are we bad mothers?

BTW Although in rl I do get called mosschops there is another poster on here who is called mosschops and she isn't me... just thought I'd better check in case you thought she was!!

Right gonna have my porridge then sort out Bertie... we have a v busy day ahead! Hello to anyone I've missed and I'm sure I'll catch you on FB anyway!!

TheBlonde · 05/10/2007 07:40

Artificial sweetener gives rats cancer so I would avoid it!
Unsweetened will be fine

scarybee · 05/10/2007 07:42

mossy - ah that would explain it. Wondered where I'd conjured up mosschops from. And no I didn't think you were the same person. I don't think. Oh I'm all confused now . Moving swiftly on - no I don't think you are supposed to give them sweetener. I just give Elliot stewed fruit and chuck in a ripe pear or two to sweeten but you can use fruit juice I think. Does this mean you make your own puddings? [impressed emoticon]

Lunar - that sounds like the day from hell Did you have a better night last night?

eids - they are both gorgeous but I think I prefer the plain cream one (just to confuse the issue ). It looks cooler somehow. I'm very gratified to see that those original outfits are quite roomy. I'd always been convinced that all women in the 20s were skinny minnies!

Callie - yes I think teething makes them spotty. It comes and goes here.

Elliot woke me at 5 and I couldn't get back to sleep. He, of course, is still sleeping

Rosyspookily · 05/10/2007 08:47

Eids I love both the dresses, but prefer the more colourfull one if it was me. They are gorgeous.

I'm sitting here breast feeding and need to be getting everyone dressed and out the door. I have a massive headache. I'm out of medicine. I've taken calpol
Had a row with dh on the phone last night and I'm totally totally fed up of being on my own with the kids. But he is on a different planet.

Piffle I enjoyed our game descending into rude words! And I actually one a game! That's a first!

Must rush. That feed will have to do Hasan!

Rosyspookily · 05/10/2007 08:48

oops 'won' even...

Mossy · 05/10/2007 09:23

Rosy... surely you mean "pwn"?

TheBlonde I didn't know that, that's a bit scary! Will do unsweetened or use fruit sugar!

Sazzy... I have been known to make the odd bit of dessert... I can do pudding but when it comes to the main course I leave that mainly to dh!

Argh must dash have my LLL workshop today all very exciting but I have a semi-sleeping baby attached to my boob that I have to get out the door....

bethoo · 05/10/2007 10:24

Mossy - hsi name is Hayden.
i bath him every third day unless he gets so sticky a wipe just will not do! he loves his baths anyway prefering to lie on his front and half shuffle/swim to the plug end!

TheBlonde - recently started new job which is a walk from home and also as it is on an army camp my child minder lives across a sports field from my work, i can see the street where he is from my building which is reassuring. only work 5 hours a day finish at 2 so still have all the afternoon and evening with him and still feed him his breakfast.

i am loving motherhood and cant believe that before he came along i never wanted any!

Piffle · 05/10/2007 10:35

mossy artificial sweeteners are evil IMO
I'm evangelical about avoiding them...
for me, the kids young and old...

we don't sweeten anything for Finn but he has etasted some of our stuff which has had sugar in, like porridge icecream etc

bethoo · 05/10/2007 11:09

Piffle - i agree, artificail sweeteners are worse for you than sugar. at least sugar is natural. i think it tastes too chemically. coke is better than the diet! still trying to wean myself off coke since my addiction began in pregnancy!

eidsvold · 05/10/2007 11:17

this is a godsend

dd3 had two pieces of honeydew melon and one of rockmelon today and just loved them

i have even put frozen pear wedges and she just gnaws away - loves it

thinks it soothes her sore gums - great part is she is occupied and I can get the other two sorted.

I can see I will run out of time and just wear good clothes with some sort of fascinator - leave the younguns to dress up [shuffles off with zimmerframe]

Mossy · 05/10/2007 21:00

Ooh you have all worried me now about artificial sweeteners! I have always had canderel etc. in my tea / coffee... are they bad for adults too? I might try to cut down... I could use fruit sugar I suppose.

Had a lovely day today, went to LLL "enrichment day" with key speaker Diane Weisinger who is a bf expert from New York state and it was really interesting and Bertie loved being passed around too (and it gives me a break).

But then in the later afternoon me and dh went to Wigan to meet his mate (who has kids btw) and he was wincing every time Bertie screamed (happy screams, that is, not sad ones) and kept looking away shiftily when I tried to feed him!

Wish I'd stayed home now!!

foxensteinscreature · 05/10/2007 22:42

Mossy was your DH worried what people would think? I mean, who gives a feck what they think? Once you've had kids you have no dignity left anyway, so what does it matter?

Lunar sorry about your mucho crappo day Sounds really horrible

Its true artificial sweeteners are carcinogenic - to be avoided by children and adults. they are added to almost all squash drinks - we only by fruit juice or Rocks organic juice - I would rather be fat with no teeth than have cancer!

Eids sorry you are all sick - DD here is sick too and Monti has a terrible cough. The CM thinks its croup - we have just put Vicks on him - should we be doing anything more?

I'm really enjoying work and feel as though I have escaped from the slave trade - its sooo nice to dress in grown up clothes, be with people over the age of 7 and go to the toilet on my own!! Am only in the office 3 days a week.

Getting DCs to the Cm this morning was a real nightmare though - one was vomitting, one hadn't done his homework - we had a wet bed, had to make sure pack lunches were done, ties tied, school bags complete, homework complete, school forms complete, expressed milk complete, CM instructions complete etc etc - Lordy!!!

I felt as though I had run a marathon before I even got in the car to drive to work!!

Monti is very mobile, eats like a horse and keeps me awake all night sniffing around for milk . I let him cry last night and he cried for 10 minutes then looked at me as though to say "OK I'll join you then" and wiggled across the bed, snuggled up and fell asleep!

LunarScream · 05/10/2007 23:02

I was tempting fate by saying that nothing else could go wrong wasn't I?

Now I have both ds's throwing up - and it's obviously the sort of bug which hits without warning because ds1 does know what to do, but hasn't made it to the loo (or even started in that direction) 3 times now. Chances of me escaping it are pretty minimal I should think.

Oh and something has gone wrong with the electrical circuits so the upstairs light circuit keeps tripping, and that keeps setting the house alarm off.

At least dh is due back from abroad tomorrow - though if he hears what state we're in he'll probably judge it safer to stay away.

Rosyspookily · 06/10/2007 08:02

Ahh poor you Lunar, I hope that bug passes quickly.
Foxy Well done for doing that marathon and making it to work and reaping the rewards too.
Mossy, that enrichment day sounds great. Pity about your hubby's mate but men are just weird. He was probably busting to stare at your bust! My pakistani sister in law...fierce breast feeder...is brilliant at feeding with a scarf over her body with zero visibility and staying in the middle of the conversation, I tend to scuttle off to feed because I don't want weirdos being weird about it. I get all self conscious.
Did you see the interview with Claire continuum method on here?

Bethoo weren't you really broody? Are you still? Did you know Jay and Shanks are pregnant again?

Hasan has a third tooth now. Two middle bottom ones and one side right top tooth.
He is so nearly crawling. Still taking next to no solids. Poos every other day at the moment.
I bath him probably twice a week. Have to bath him more now I'm offering him food and he pastes it all over himself -he's doing baby led weaning and I'm doing baby led cleaning

foxensteinscreature · 06/10/2007 08:53

Lunar poor you - hopefully the Vom bug will go after 24 hours. My DD has it too, although I've just felt nauseous I haven't been sick at all. You might escape the vomitting bit if you are lucky - let us know how you are

Rosy - LOL at the baby led cleaning - we have that here too...

I bath Monti twice a week generally - he is very chesty so I don't like getting him wet too often

Is the Claire thread about the woman on the telly who recommends putting newborns in a seperate room? Very dangerous IMHO, specially for the first 3 months - there has been so much research now on SIDS hasn't there?

Rosyspookily · 06/10/2007 09:34

It was Clare Scott, the lovely one who recommends the continuum method, gathering a tribe, wearing baby etc, she was so good at answering everyone. She disagrees strongly with Clare Verity...who is getting everyone upset with her cold treatment of the babies.
this is it

Rosyspookily · 06/10/2007 09:35

oops Claire Scott (get it right Rosy)

foxensteinscreature · 06/10/2007 10:48

Thanks for that link Rosy - what a lovely woman isn't she?

muppetrickortreat · 06/10/2007 11:45

claire scott hit the nail on the head with me when she said we've strayed from our own continuum... so we turn to gurus and books to fill the gaps left by our own insecurities/worries/paranoias etc. We should all listen to our instincts more!

I am truly happiest when i follow my own instincts but it's so hard to do your own thing when people are forever telling you about this or that method which is foolproof/fantastic/best for baby etc.

Mossy · 06/10/2007 12:36

Foxy I don't think dh was that uncomfortable, more uncomfortable because his mate was cringing and didn't know where to look, so for dh it was an awkward situation. Iyswim. I'm now so used to my pendulous norks hanging out left right and centre that it really doesn't bother me!

I hope things in the Lunar household improve quickly, you poor sickly bunch. {{{hugs}}}

Rosy pmsl @ baby led cleaning! Bertie isn't that interested in solids except he gums bits and pieces here and there (the other day, a bit of steak, a bit of carrot and a mushroom... miniscule bits were swallowed). I was getting a bit worried but had a chat with one of the ladies at the enrichment day about it... about all babies being different and how some don't really want solids until they're seven even eight months' old and some quite a bit earlier than the six month mark...

I thought Claire Scott was very good in that interview she gave on here... in the TV programme she comes across as a bit of a wet lentil weaver hippy type, whereas on here she explained herself much better and a lot of what she was saying made sense...

... although I only have a tribe of two really, me and ds, so I have to temper everything with a bit of common sense!

I also love that big baby book by the Drs. Sears, I especially like the stuff they say about some babies having "high needs" it makes me feel a bit more comfortable about Bertie being so bloody feisty, especially when you see some babies who are lovely and calm and placid and I get all ... he says it like it is a good thing to have a "difficult" one and I feel a bit less like it's my fault iyswim.

Sorry, bit of a diversion there, just recently have felt myself getting a bit defensive, not on here but in rl, about how I have to carry Bertie around a lot and how he doesn't much like being put down, and especially now that programme is on people think I'm the weird tribe lady with the sling and that I'm a bit mad... so it was nice to read the chat with her, and nice to read that Sears book too... does that make sense? I'm ranting at no one on here!! Just a few rl people.

Foxy I'm glad you're enjoying paid work again, I got a message from my Dad recently who asked me when I was going to go back to work for a rest!

Rosy that is right actually I remember Bethoo was broody... are you still broody Bethoo?

Muppet ikwym about following your instincts, we talked about that on the "enrichment day" yesterday. (Have to put in quotation marks as it does sound very poncey!) About how people used to follow their own instincts but your own instincts also are part of following what people around you do... if everyone around you is feeding their babies on a routine etc. then you feel that is instinct when it might not be...

I'm really not explaining that well.

God I'm wittering. I'm slightly losing it being driven slowly mad with a constantly sleepy (ADs?) dh at home all the time.

ARRRGH!

foxensteinscreature · 06/10/2007 12:51

Mossy - sorry I thought it was your DH cringing 'cos you were Bf in public!!

My DH said yesterday "well, we can always put him on formula"

Mossy Monti is very demanding and feisty too and so was my DS1 - tempted to say its a boy thing as DD is very undemanding and lovely I quite like feisty babies though - shows they are bright and developing well. Not that calm babies are not IYKWIM, but its quite reassuting when your baby demands attention etc as it shows he needs stimulation.

Has your Dad been in contact much? At least he is thinking about you and acknowledges what hard work it is being a Mum?

eidsvold · 06/10/2007 13:07

so foxy - who is going to win the rugby

[sings waltzing matilda with John Williamson]

Then finishes with...

could it be a dream
My father's son that's me
Humbled by the truth
Iam a golden wallaby

And I will seize the day
Cause it belongs to me
I have a number on my back
I am a wallaby

foxensteinscreature · 06/10/2007 18:50

Eids - I know nothing about sport LOL - all I know is that England generally lose when they play