April 2007 - A new chapter begins, and an old friend says goodbye

[EllieK]

we'll miss you octo

and we already miss you MIAST

new chapter is mine by the way, finally moving on with my life

gmm - try out the funky slings website - they have some really beaut ones!

quiet night on here... the due in may 2008 thread has started!!

morning ladies

morning gmm - off to a lunchtime date with a mummy from the multiples thread and her 3 mth old (her twins are 8 )

We are having a mini scottish meet up this afternoon, WO, Bumble and a few other scottish mummies.

morning everyone
T is still in bed
Have had breakfast but could have also had a shower by now!

Morning!

Went to bed really early last night and DH had ds till he wanted fed at 2am so had a good sleep. He's rolling now so no more nice immobile baby, boo!

Have a nice time at the Scottish meet, GMM, WO & Bumble .

Aargh at the potty-training, Luce - so frustrating. Dd fairly hopeless too and got a text yesterday from a pal with a ds the same age as her to say he's dry day and night!! !

My mum is up today, which will be nice.

All enjoy your meet ups / seeing mum today!

Good luck for potty training (to everyone it applies to!)

Another one here having a meet up today, Leaky & I are going for coffee!!! Must start getting stuff ready while Erin is asleep - tho not sure that's gonna last long...I hear grumbling noises

Boo! Well, I've been to the train station, the play park and watched about four thousand episodes of Charlie & Lola already!! I was in the play park at 8am .... absolutely mental - felt strangely liberating though and was nice & quiet!

Ditto to the hair falling out by the handful too! Worries me a little because the women in my family don't go grey - they go bald!!!!!! Oh no! My granny is nearly 90 and still has a lot of her colour, but is v.thin on top - Argh!

{{{{{hugs}}}} to KHIN with the sleep trouble - I don't think I can really suggest anything that hasn't already been suggested except, if I can't sleep, I go for a little drive and go for a little walk by the sea or up on the hills - fresh air seems to help and I am feeling much more sleepy by the time I get home ..... not always a v.viable option though and sometimes just to knackered to be bothered. Hope it improves for you soon sweetie. xxxx

DH actually said yesterday that he wasn't 100% sure he wanted any more babies!!

Aaaarrrrrggggh, please excuse whinge coming on!

Hope everyone else's meet up plans go well. LOL at Dippy going to the play park at 8 am, was that the only thing that would keep your 3 little ones happy? I don't know how you cope, I'm going a little insane with just one here.

I've just arranged to go out and meet at least one of my post postnatal group, 4 year old and 7 month old in Muswell Hill. I was trying to get out every day to avoid me moping around, but I've decided it's now necessary to have a plan to take D out as well. In fact, it's more important - if he wasn't crying I could find plenty of things I'd like to do. I think while the weather holds I might start taking my breakfast and his mid morning bottle to the park. For crap weather the library might work as well. I would go to a cafe, but think I can't really afford to buy a coffee every morning especially if I'm meeting people later in cafes several days a week.

He's now napping but on my lap and I don't dare move him again, made a mistake of taking him for a walk, getting him to sleep and in total idiot moment, lifting him out of the pram. At least I can catch up on mumsnet for a few minutes.

Just popping in to say ARGGGH - I must have the most stubborn baby in the world! She really will not drink from a bottle, and would rather go 7 hours without a feed if a bottle is the only thing on offer. Last Thurs she drank 3oz and I thought we'd cracked it, but no luck since then. Have started weaning as she's going to the childminder on Tues and it was the only thing I could think of to do so she didn't starve there! So I will feed her when we get there, and then leave her with her solids for lunchtime and a bottle for the afternoon for the childminder to attempt, and see how we go!!

weeonion, I saw the May 2008 thread had started the other night - what made me giggle was that the due in 2008 starter was rapidly swamped by May 2007 ladies dropping by to congratulate her, but I imagine she's now getting quite a bit of company.

weeonion, I saw the May 2008 thread had started the other night - what made me giggle was that the due in 2008 starter was rapidly swamped by May 2007 ladies dropping by to congratulate her, but I imagine she's now getting quite a bit of company.

Awwww, Bramshott ....... nightmare for you, poor honey! I don't know what to say except that it won't last forever, I promise!! Perhaps going "cold turkey" at the CM will crack it? How's the weaning going? Does she like food?

KHIN - just seen your post about insomnia and wanted to echo - me too!! Maybe it's hormonal (I'm hoping!). I am trying everything - glass of milk before bed; not going to bed too early; and crucially Neals Yard Remedy to Roll for Nightime slathered all over my pillow! If it's a really bad night I also reach for the Bach Rescue Remedy, and then plug in my little radio with headphones and listen to the World Service. I find the crucial thing is to have confidence that you will go to sleep - if I start thinking "I can't sleep, I need to sleep, How will I cope if I can't sleep?" then I just get into a spiral of not being able to relax. I have also turned the alarm clock to the wall because I usually feel much better if I can't obsess about how late it is and how little sleep I'm getting! Good luck - it's crap isn't it! I'm hoping it's either the heat or post-pregnancy hormones and that it will sort itself out soon!

Thanks CD! She seems to like the solids, although it's still early days so I'd don't know how much she is swallowing. She is a tubby little being though, so I don't think she'll starve (well if she was starving, she'd drink the formula wouldn't she?!?). I am trying to relax about it - I just hope the childminder takes the same attitude!

That's it .... just relax - she is not goingto starve, don't you worry!! She'll live off that tub before she starves!! Is this a new CM or one you've already used? How many yrs experience has she got?

aargh
having supply problems, thought I'd managed to avoid it by a miracle
have posted in feeding but just wanted a winge

heeeellllooooo!!!!!

Back from a mad weekend end at a festival (but we stayed in a hotel rather than on site!)

Very tired baby, even tireder mummy. Reality hit when I had to got out to work at 10pm last night and was answering e-mails at 1am. youthwork = unsociable hours!

Not caught up, but assume from the title I missed octo's last day

Hope you're all ok. Got to dash.

Just to say as well Ellie T & I can make Joe's bash still. Can you e-mail me times/where etc. Looking forward to it!

I suspect my mn time will be less coz of work at the mo. At least until I work out how I can squeeze it in!

Love to you all
x

Poor katy - {{{{hugs}}} to you!

Argh, so manic .... so much to do - Friend's just blown me out for this PM, DD1 will be gutted, she was looking forward to it. Gotta think of something else to do now. Humph.

The CM is new to us, but she's lovely, and previously worked at DD's nursery. She's got a lot of experience and has been a nanny so I think it'll be fine. Settling in day tomorrow so I will fill her in then on how it's been going!!

She'll be fine, it's not like she hasn't looked after lots of babies before!

Katy - Stop MNing and go to bed with T

Bramshott - am sure things will go fine with bottle feeding at the CM.

CD - shame your friend cancelled. Hope you find something to do.

rant alert - well actually I think I just need a kick up the backside

For anyone who doesn't already know, I left my last job cos I started having panic attacks. They then got worse and lots of things I don't do in case I have a panic attack (phoning people, meeting people & the shops across the road being 3 of those things). Anyway, I got a bit of a kick up the arse last week and realised I could take a bit more control. Since then I have phoned up and ordered a coursebook (with the idea of going back to work with higher qualifications eventually). I've arranged to meet Leaky today and some other people on Friday. On Monday, for the first time in ages, I went to the corner shop to pick up a parcel...it wasn't available BUT I managed to go back yesterday morning AND also go to the sandwich shop (which I haven't done in the almost 2 years since I moved here). I've also started sorting out refresher driving lessons so that I can get back into my driving and be more independant. I have felt completely in control too which is the best bit.

Anyway, dh has been a pita...he's been really dismissive of it all and he doesn't seem to show any interest in me going out meeting friends...to the point that he's a bit offish about it. I'm just a bit and that he can't be a bit more encouraging and pleased about it.

I know I just need to forget about his reaction and get on with it...so can you all just tell me to stop being so silly about it...

Nutty, you're not being silly, but I'm upset for you that you're not getting more support from dh. If you suffer from panic attacks, you've taken huge steps in getting over it already. You got in touch and arranged to meet up with me? You've made contact with Leaky and Pinions and had Ellie (& J & M) to stay. You go out to baby group/baby massage. You've sent me supportive messages off thread. And now you're looking at going back to study. All that takes much courage, congratulations on getting this far, you know you've got support here, and I look forward to hearing about how you get on with getting on to another course.