March 2007 - where the babies all get feisty and we "make rods for our own backs" or develop arms like a trucker!

[Mossy]

Couldn't help it!

Hey it took us a long time to fill up the old thread... remember way back when we were ante natal and we'd get through a thread a week?

Well done Mossy! How is your invalid husband then?

He ain't great... he has to have some scary dye test next week, he can't see very well, we have a huge TV and he has to sit right next to it, the other day he had to get me to read out the cricket scores to him.

Also the ADs are making him really tired (so he says) so he spends much of his time sleeping.

I veer between feeling sorry for him, and getting really wound up by him. He is trying to do a bit more around here though, but it takes me telling him, he doesn't just notice what needs doing, and sometimes it is like trying to tell a teenager (so I imagine) what to do, he does it but in a big huff with a sulk on his face iykwim.

Actually am tempted to get that book "how to talk so kids will listen" to use with reference to him!!

Sorry Ronnie is still grizzly too... although at least I know I'm not alone!! Bertie is dead skinny, he is now on 0.4th centile, but he feeds on demand and when he's not grizzling is happy social creature, can roll both ways so I'm not worried too much...

Girls, I am back! Hope you have had a good 2 weeks. I had a great time in spain. We ate and drank loads and went to some fantastic places. DD2 was cooed over by what felt like thousands of spanish grannies. DD1 ran amok and generally charmed everyone (except us when she was STILL awake at 11pm....)

I had a quick read of the old thread. Sorry to hear about your dog, Even. Mossy, how is DH at the moment? Are the ADs helping at all? Big hugs to you my love.

Kiwi, Foxy, other working ladies - how is it all going? Am dreading going back in 7 weeks.

Muppet, wedding sounds fabulous. I love italy.

Sazzy, I'll send you a text. Hope Mr E is on fine form.

Belated happy birthday to Piffle and Kitty.

Rosy, how are you my love? Is DH restored to full health now? Am dead jealous of you losing weight. I am fatter than ever. A diet of sherry and pork products does not a slim girl make.

Hello everyone else, hope you are all well.

I must be the last person in the world to start weaning. I had a look at some of the jars in Spain but they all had either sugar or additives or both in them, so DD2 had to make do with milk. I am going to buy some baby rice today and will mush up some carrots to do our inaugural meal. Blonde, like the idea of BLW but scared re choking and also bursery won't do it when she goes in 6 weeks time. DOyou think it's possible to do a bit of both, or am I asking for trouble?

Love to all XX

Girls, I am back! Hope you have had a good 2 weeks. I had a great time in spain. We ate and drank loads and went to some fantastic places. DD2 was cooed over by what felt like thousands of spanish grannies. DD1 ran amok and generally charmed everyone (except us when she was STILL awake at 11pm....)

I had a quick read of the old thread. Sorry to hear about your dog, Even. Mossy, how is DH at the moment? Are the ADs helping at all? Big hugs to you my love.

Kiwi, Foxy, other working ladies - how is it all going? Am dreading going back in 7 weeks.

Muppet, wedding sounds fabulous. I love italy.

Sazzy, I'll send you a text. Hope Mr E is on fine form.

Belated happy birthday to Piffle and Kitty.

Rosy, how are you my love? Is DH restored to full health now? Am dead jealous of you losing weight. I am fatter than ever. A diet of sherry and pork products does not a slim girl make.

Hello everyone else, hope you are all well.

I must be the last person in the world to start weaning. I had a look at some of the jars in Spain but they all had either sugar or additives or both in them, so DD2 had to make do with milk. I am going to buy some baby rice today and will mush up some carrots to do our inaugural meal. Blonde, like the idea of BLW but scared re choking and also bursery won't do it when she goes in 6 weeks time. DOyou think it's possible to do a bit of both, or am I asking for trouble?

Love to all XX

Welcome home dolly - glad you had lovely hols

I am doing blw here but Elliot has puree at nursery. He won't let me spoon feed him so 3 days a week he'll get food and the other 4 days he'll just chuck stuff around I guess. I suppose I ought to get them to only give him finger food at nursery but I know that all the other babies are having purees fed to them and they told me that he cries if he doesn't get any

rosy - I love the term babyled cleaning - so apt! I bought a big piece of plastic to go under the high chair and have to tip it out in the garden every day. And have discovered that weetabix is very stubborn and banana stains irreparably!

Still very croupy/snotty here. I cannot believe one baby can have so much snot in his little head. Where does it all go?!

Hi Dolly, glad you had a fabulous holiday. dieting on holiday would have been a bit dull!

Dh is attending the hospital twice a week for the next two months doing an excercise programme for heart attack people. He says it's all old men and him. Not sure when we'll see him. ds2 asked me 'do i have a daddy?' the other day so it's all a bit disastrous at the moment!

Kitty sent me a fortune cookie saying 'any rough times are behind you' so I'm hoping that will be true!

Much sympathy to you Mossy, know how you feel a bit.

Hi Scarybee

Rosy - sorry to hear your DH is still in Hossie - I think the fortune cookie must be right though! You'll probably have a fabulous year next year!

Scarey - I am sure Monti has croup too you know! Did your GP prescribe anything - I seem to remember you saying s/he didn't?

I am putting a wee bit of vicks on Monti at night and it helps a lot.

Dolly - glad you had a great holiday

I went back to work last week and it feel like a real treat - I get to sit down all day, go to the toilet on my own, get to finish my food/drinks, play on the computer, don't get vomited on and best of all, get paid for it. It feels as though I was captured and made to work as a slave for 7 months and now I am partially FREE!!!!

Monti lets me put him down, as long as he has some toys to play with, but he constantly makes a kind of whining noise which is as unnerving as a cry. He eats masses and BFs allthe time so is huge. In fact DH is beginning to suspect that Monti isn't his after all, but that the father might be the local Giant!

Another new thread!

Foxy and Sazzy how are the babies getting on at nursery? We just seem to have hit the really clingy phase. DD will not let me out of her sight and when another mum at Toddlers picked her up she screamed and screamed with her arms out to me until I took her back. I go back to work in January and I'm worried sick about leaving her.

Dolly I put a shirt on I haven't worn since just after I had DD and it is now too tight I'm putting on weight instead of losing it, but I'm hungry all the time.

As far as the weaning is going, DD will eat the odd chip , bread roll or piece of cucmber. She loves oranges, which I'm not sure whether she should even be having? She will eat jars but only fruit- not veg- and is now refusing anything banana!

did you not see my new thread

I started it when you lot were asleep but in my sleep deprived state forgot to post a link [d'oh]

dolly -dd3 is not really weaned that much - still mainly milk and just one bit of solid food a day - I pureed some pear or sweet potato and she probably has about a tablespoon and that is about it.

This is a treat though - linked it on the old thread - can stick some lovely fridge cooled/frozen fruit in and she gnaws away - I think it helps relieve her sore gums and it keeps her occupied.

here

Sorry Eids did not mean to start new thread when you'd started one already, but I didn't see yours!

Dolly I am only half-heartedly doing blw at the moment, just giving Bertie bits and pieces off my plate but not worrying too much whether they go in his mouth, or in his hair/ over his hands / on his face / all over his clothes / on the floor / in the dogs / in the cat. Sometimes he is interested, sometimes he just prefers milk.

I figure that when he is truly ready he will pick up food and start eating it properly. I think as long as he gets some bits of iron rich food my milk will last him for the rest of his nutrients for a little while yet.

Evenhope / Dolly, I too am putting on weight instead of losing it, I am trying to cut down on the crap I eat by constantly having lots of fruit in the house, so if I am fed up / needing to comfort eat / very hungry I can at least nibble on something healthy.

Also Evenhope Bertie is starting to do that, yesterday sil came round, sil is normally really really good with Bertie but he would just not let her pick him up and as soon as he went back to me he settled, I should find it flattering but actually it worries me.

Foxy... lol at local giant have you one then locally? I don't know what Bertie's excuse is, he too bf's constantly but is teeny tiny!

Rosy so to hear what your ds2 said, you seem to be coping admirably though always in good humour, or is it just a very good front?

Dolly I am to hear about your nice holiday and slightly too!!

Sazzy sorry to hear the croup hasn't cleared up yet. Hope little E is better soon.

I just walked the dogs with Bertie tied to my back and it was only when I got back home I realised I'd forgotten to put a bra on, my boobs were round my stomach, I hope no one saw me!

You really do lose your sense of dignity, don't you?

no biggy mossy

Mossy, I can see in my hol pictures that when DD2 is feeding, my tits are so low that she looks as though she is just lying on my lap . To be fair, I had a low slung bosom before I had children but now they are disastrous. still, a good bra will sort them out. I am loathe to buy anything til I have lost a bit of weight though and my old ones don't have BF access. I must try one of those kits you suggested to see if that could hoick my bosoms up to sea level.

I don't know how much DD2 weighs but I am guessing that she would be about a stone and a few pounds. As she is outgrowing her clothes, I am not that bothered. She is long but quite slim, with very fat little legs though.

Rosy, I really admire you for how you cope when DH is away. What a woman

Off to look at your other thread now Eids.

Eids, they sell them in Jojo over here. If you think they are good, I will invest. I remember DD1 liked sucking fruit but it quite often slipped out of her hands and onto the floor before she got her teeth into it....

Mossy LOL at your bralessness

What is worse is when you go out somewhere and realise when you get home several hours later that one of the feeding cups on your bra is undone with your nork flapping freely and the other one is done up, so you've had this one-sided floppy look- very attractive I must say

Oh yes, I do the one-sided look often . Even worse, I was sitting in the caff (on Hampstead Heath of all places) with my sister and finished feeding Elliot, carried on chatting and then suggested we leave. My sister delicately pointed out that my boob was still hanging out and I might like to put it away before we went outside

Nursery seems fine - he seems very happy there. He hasn't officially started but they have a very long settling-in period which was a bit of a pita at first but now it's great because it means I get a bit of a practice at organising myself and by the time I go back to work in a week's time (eek) I will have had a few goes at sorting myself out. Also means I will hopefully not worry about him during the day. He barely looks up when I go to collect him - other kids seem much more interested in me! I think it's quite good for him as we don't do any mother and baby stuff so he does spend a lot of time stuck at home with just me to entertain him.

fox - no the doctor didn't give me anything, just told me to keep an eye on his breathing and put him in a steamy environment. For me of course that means just leaving him in the kitchen when I leave the tap running . I've been sprinkling some olbas on a mussie and tying it to his cot and also rub his back and chest with baby vapour rub stuff.

rosy - you do indeed sound very cheery considering. Sorry it's all still so rough for you. You're a bit of a saint I think.

mossy - you sound really professional on that bfing thread - I am very impressed! Me and Sharon Trotter (I signed up) were talking about how fab and great you were the other day

adding myself to this thread and will post later

Mossy - reading what you've put on that other thred - had you ever thought about (re)training to become a bfc? You've prpbably learnt more about bf in the last 6 months than most mums do in a lifetime.

I second that- you came over as very "professional" on that other thread

got your email covenhope - thanks again for that.

Mossy you are a talented lady.

I plonked Hasan on the floor in the living room with dd and a toy, came out to the hallway with my cup of tea to read the thread, heard some kerfuffling behind me and there he was looking very pleased with himself! Yep, he can come and find me now

I have so much going for me in life that it's not hard to stay positive and hopefull. I was miserable all weekend about dh though. But I think we all generally have something to struggle with at any given time.

Covenhope Hasan loves oranges too.

I've cancelled going to the take that concert next week because I'm not ready to leave Hasan for an evening.

Much sympathy to everyone having to leave their cherubs and go to work apart from Foxy who is loving it

big love to you Rosy. I don't do hugs (well, not virtual ones anyway ) so have a hearty pat pn the shoulder.

I do {hugs} Rosy !!

Mossy - I bet the eighbours just though - there isthat hippy Mum with her sling and no bra and all!!

Eids/Moss - mut find your threads

DD got smashed into this morning by a big boy who was runing and bashed her head really hard on the ground in the playground. Takig her to Gps - she's just recovering from vom bug too, poor wee thing