MAY 07 Post natal - This time a year ago it was all just beginning, look at us now...........................

[Mrsjaffabiffa]

Morning........

She's definitely teething, hence the out of control slobbering. She is not waking up in any distress, just jabbering and chatting away, which gradually gets louder and louder and turns into whinging.

She's never ben a very hungry baby and doesn't feed between 11pm and 7am any more.

Am I expecting too much from a 20 week baba?

Could be anything Pink, some babies just wake up. There is nothing you can do sometimes, like SOH says once you have checked the obvious just ride it out. Taking her in bed with you is fine if you dont mind. If you want her in her own bed then best not to confuse her iyswim.

I vanished yesterday as dh came home from work early so i had to quickly hoover and spruce the place up The day ended in disaster though The --fucking- nightmare car has broken down again. I was once again in the school car park with the kids waiting for the recovery truck. Luckily dh had B and H at home. So it has gone off to the garage...

I feel i may have picked a dud

B is poorly too, prore snotty when i got back and general whimpering. He was hot too so i gave him a medised dose. He fed on and of most of the night (tricky cos he couldnt breathe) so consequently im shagged tired this morning.

Im phoning round the schools in the immediate area too as im so sick of the school drive. I want to be able to walk and if the car dies it is no big deal. I had to swap school runs this morning, i took a friends kiddies to the one just round the corner from me and she drove my 4. Blardy ridiculous.

Oh and i was so depressed last night i drank too much Gin and now i still have a headache. Bad mood today, no?

Should have been fucking car but i hate it so much i may leave the fucking in all it's glory

LG&T, you should change your name to 'MothersRuin'.

Bad news on the car. PILs had a Toyota Space Cruiser (this) as they also had a brood of children. Lasted them a whopping 13yrs of constant use up and down the country. Tis ugly as sin I know but it did the job magnificently. I'm sure there's a newer and more beautiful make but I know FIL recommends this to anybody with a big family. Okay, quick search reveals this is the modern version.

PMSL SOH that is exactly what we have

I quite like 'Mothersruin' as a name though, hmmmm. Was trying to think of a scary one, not doing well though.

What about this? Not scary enough really is it?

That's a bugger. Theirs was excellent.

I was ShowOfBloodyAndSeveredHands last year, need something a bit more imaginative. Any ideas? Mathilda just nicked my cheese roll and shoved it in her mouth. Maybe she's hinting.

Pink - Willow was a wakeful baby - she would often wake a 2,3, 4 am and be up for hours happy as larry

LGT what a pita about the car!! hope it gets sorted soon, i remember the too much gin headaches - very cloudy, but worth it

SOH I think you daughter is trying to tell you something

I have 2 at home today, Willow had me up at 4am coughing so badly she was nearly sick, her wheezing was quite bad and she was bit stressed out - so day off, thank god that arlen is a good sleeper, put them both to bed at 7.30 and managed an hours sleep, poor A had only been awake half hour bless him, have called friend and asked her to drop her medised round after school as i cant get out today - i had such a lovely day planned, was going for a walk with one friend after harvest assembly then going to meet another one for lunch, am now stuck in playing camps an watching my little ponies

Hope ev1 else is well {weeps as it looks so lovely outside} have a great day all xx

did anyone see the thread on swops about the bayamo - i only looked as i have one, check out some of the photos - pmsl, it has got rather out of hand but well worth a giggle

Bayamo thread was tres funny.

Have posted some pics of Mathilda. Not very recent but slightly more recent than her little pictures.

Check out the chubbiest baby in all the land...

Thread was truly pant wetting.... Thanks for the 'nod' Lups.

The little M is so adorable, i simply must have a cuddle soon. She has the most gorgeous little legs i want to squidge them, NOW!

Will take a pic of Beau, i expect Hugs will be in it, never one to shy away from the lime light.

SOH - M is so gorgeous, what a little smiler.

We've just been continuing our North West tour of Starbucks but are now back home where L is working on the biggest poo ever.

Must be the apple and banana. Fun.

Oh no biggest poo ever was done here this morning. All over nappy, legs, back, stomach, hands, feet, pyjamas, sleeping bag, sheet and mattress. Really I should have just torched the room and run screaming. At least it's bf poo though so non-smelly. Can't imagine what apple and banana comes out as. Don't want to.

There's a thread title in active convos that actually just made me burst into tears. Pathetic really.

Posted that last one too quickly, didn't mean to leave on the poo point. Anyhoo, have posted a pic of Lexie as have been inspired by SOH.

She is watching her weight today, not taking her bottles without a battle, preferring to roll them around on her tongue and make a noise that sounds like golly golly golly.

What fun it is.

SOH - I'm assuming it wasn't the 'do you think all women are gay' one, and is the c-section one.

I wish you'd stop beating yourself up. No one could have tried harder than you to have a natural birth. Some of these MNers really piss me off.

With respect, obviously. I loved my c-section. What a terrible mother I am.

Aw I love the quizzical look in the top one. It's an 'I'm in charge y'know' face. And that's a fairly attractive man you've got there too. I lurve the name Lexie, think that every time you post. It's so pretty.

Yes twas the cs one. I'm a prat. The mention of it makes me sob. I just feel such a failure every time I think of it. I need to stop thinking 'what if' and just be thankful that she's well, happy and the NHS exists or neither of us would be here. Now how the hell do I do that?

I do know what you mean, I never say 'gave birth' because I suppose that conjurs up an image of 'natural' labour. But the alternative, especially in your situation, just doesn't even bear thinking about.

When people ask me about childbirth, I always say, 'I had a section, it was great.' Kind of stops that conversation dead! Haha.

Who cares anyway, you're such a brilliant mum, so natural and thoughtful, Lexie wishes she had a mummy that didn't feed her apple and banana out of a jar!

HDWP - i had a home birth planned too, i had got my pool blown up, got my candles and music ready and listened religously to me hypno cd - however it was not to be, my bp was too high and G's head was 'bouncy' on cervix - whatever that means - but risk of cord round neck. i feel a little bad about it, maybe in the same way as i feel sad about not still breastfeeding. Being a mummy is bloody hard, especially when we want to be in control! anyway heavy stuff over, here have some gingerbread....

Evening where is everyone this tonight?

lg&t you sound like you've had a shite day, that bloomin car has given you some jip.

SOH, Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease stop beating your self up. Mathilda is a perfect healthy tank baby. How she enetered the world will not matter to her in the slightest. She's not going to remember it and certainly will not be affected by it. After saying I couldn't get it I saw some gingerbread today It was covered in dark chocolate though.

J seems better today, much more settled than the lsat few days, her nappies have started exploding with poo too, which I normally find means they need the next size up so maybe it was a growth spurt.

I hope you have a lovely weeknd all. I'm out early in the morning to take M to her lets swing her from the ceiling, throw her off the highest block and loose her in a giant pit full of foam cola cubes. Oh sorry I mean gymnastics.

I'm here Hubble - glad J is bit more settled. L becomes more and more unsettled by the day. It's highly frustrating, took about an hour to settle her tonight, and in the end my mum took over as we are just so tired, after having next to no sleep for two nights.

Have had an horrendous couple of days diet wise, after feeling poorly at the beginning of the week. Tonight for dinner we had a KFC boneless bucket (between two of us!) and a piece of chocolate fudge cake. We said we were celebrating dh now being on holiday for a week, any bloody excuse to stuff my face.

My target was to be in my own jeans by Xmas Day, fear may need to have my jaw wired to achieve that now.

I'm the same, jeaus I just can't stop eating!!!!!! Oh KFC how yummy! I did go for another run today though, taken two days for my legs to recover from the last one.

Poor L, It's so annoying, you think you've cracked it and have got a god routine going and then they decide to test you a bit more. oh the joys of motherood. Then we do it again and again and sometimes again and in lg&t's case again and again.

ITs such a rollercoaster. Was just reading back over my first few posts after L was born. It was really emotional reading back about how scared I was, and how upset I got over everything. Also the harness palaver too!

Amazing to see how far you come in 20 short weeks, and how much life has changed and been enriched by this wonderful little miracle. Even if she does make no sense at all some of the time, I guess that its always going to be something, and the most important thing is that she is happy and healthy, and knows how much her mummy and daddy love her.

But... maybe I do need to be slightly less of a pushover!

LG&T, hope you are knocking a few back tonight in honour of your rubbish day Sorry about the car...

SOH I can only echo what MrsJB says, i too felt I had failed first time with an emergency section, and felt very low about it until being pg a second time, but a failed VBAC second time round and an vvv honest registrar third time round made me realise I should be grateful for having 3 adorable children and be less hung up on the way they arrived into the world. Easily said I know, but if its still upsetting you maybe you can contact someone to talk it through. BTW the chubster J is now clocking in at 19.5lbs and his fiancee is looking sooooo cute, when do we start talking bride price?

Mum2 any news on whether you will have to move again or not?

Dh is back later on tonight and will launch himself into full scale advanced childcare tomorrow morning as I go to an NCT sale - anyone want anything? SOH can I get you a grobag? And amazingly enough we have a viewing for tomorrow so I have been tidying up a little bit, but can't really be bothered I wonder how Scoot is getting on in her new home...

MrsJB, I'm glad J is a bit more lively today. And do stop running, you are tiring me out.

oooh i am going to have such a hangover in the mornong!!!!!!!!!!!!!