April 2007 - It's a minefield out there, nipple tassles on every corner......

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ha ha ha ha ha

this and this

both on GMM's christmas list

Ooh more teeth! Where is it? Are the first ones always the bottom?

Sorry you had such a rough night, Maveta. I think it must be developmental as so many of us have had insomniac babies lately. Ds has been a lot better this week I think because he's over his wheezy cough.

Any Northerners lost for something to do on 16th Decmeber - I'm going to do the Santa Run with dd and ds www.thesantarun.org.uk/index.html. Should be alaugh (if it's not lashing rain or one of the kids is sick.....).

Maveta sorry you and lots of other are having sleep troubles. It might be a boy thing too, rather than bf/ff. Shall we do a poll of sleep ok/nightmare, bf/ff, boy/girl and see what comes up?

sol, good idea about the stocking for ds. But i'm the same as NL and love stockings. We always had one when we were little and I know ds won't have the faintest clue this year but I feel I need to give him one too

Hi all.
sorry can't be bothered to read the thread and catch up with you all.
I have 4 dc all at home with colds and am full of cold myself.
Hope you are all faring better than me!!

just popping in to groan at you all about teething, waking at 4am , and GCSE still being in his £@*!! screeching phase...

oh yeah, and am I the only one that feels a bit odd when I see the "Due in April 08 " thread?

no cazboldy, every time I see it I jump and think, "ooh, that's me!" before I remember...

No, cazboldy I do too, a little

PHD, the joys of a 7 month old tbh I'd rather have that then dd's(3 1/2yo) constant wittering. At least ds does nap. I have her on at me for 12 HOURS

BUT, i'm back to work on thursday never thought i'd be so pleased. I am back 3 afternoons a week and CANNOT WAIT. I need to feel like a person in my own right rather than the woman who feeds everyone and generally gets to do everything for everyone else and not much for me

ASk me how I feel in a few weeks though

Sorry you've had such a rough night Maveta. Not wishing to discourage the bfing at all, but S miraculously stopped waking in the night as soon as I introduced a bottle in the night. Might be worth a try to save your sanity?

Dippy - I know this goes back a couple of days but you are a totally wonderful and lovely lady and a completely fabulous mummy and your girls and dh and very very lucky to have you around. We all love you to bits, so please try not to feel so down about yourself. As Pesha said earlier, the reason you're having trouble finding work is because you are such a great mummy and you have to fit it all around your dds and dh's day, it's got nothing to do with you lacking skills or being unemployable. Keep strong and positive and something will turn up.

I on the other hand am feeling all sort of meh and blergh today, and fed up with house hunting and crappy weather. Can someone please explain how a house in another part of Surrey which is virtually identical to mine (except having one more bedroom & an en suite) can be worth £155k more than mine? Am sick to death of these over-inflated house prices. Am going to move oop north with Zazas as it's obviously much better up there.

[green] at eddas working

I'm back 2hrs a week - with commuting I am leaving ds with dh for 4hrs

been 7 weeks now and gcse is down to 1hr screaming at his dad [sigh]

would be willing to trade an afternoon of screeching for listening to your dd. grass being greener and all that

lol at [green] - that's what those 4am starts do to you, lol lol lol

, obviously

pmsl! go on then come to mine and leave ds, you can take dd. Can guarantee you'll be back with her in about 2 hours

Thanks all - SPB no offence taken, you are right of course.. and I know giving formula may make no difference, maybe it´s more that if it was formula dh could also help more in settling him. As it is dh does try but N goes mad because he just wants me, or more to the point, my boobs!

NL - it´s pretty regular.. 10pm, 1am, 3am, 5am.. sometimes more sometimes less, often he goes straight back down but someawfultimes he is harder to settle (like last night)

Cazboldy sympathies re. the house full of cold, hope you all feel better soon.

Eddas - great news about going back to work - enjoy! It does me wonders.

cannot possibly imagine what I would DO for 2hrs that did not involve nappies or baby-feeding!

and can I just say I had The. Most. Horrid. Nappy experience this arv - and out of kindness I am not even going to share it with you

if you took dd for 2 hours all you would do is answer questions. NON STOP

couldn't I just feed her peanut butter sandwiches and toffees?

lol gcse has rolled across floor to bite my toes! will concede 7m has its moments...

idoc - do you mean as the last feed or a during-the-night feed? I guess why I´ve held off on trying that is that I have always thought that when I stopped bf-ing in the day I still might still keep doing a first thing in the morning and last thing at night feed with him for a bit longer, iykwim? And also maybe because I doubt it really will make a difference. When we were in Madrid mum had him overnight and gave him bottles and it made no difference. In fact she was up 3 times with him and each time had to make him a bottle to settle him again even though he fell asleep half way through each one. And she would certainly normally try to settle him with cuddles etc. before getting the bottle out.. So I worry that starting the hassle of bottles will actually just make life more difficult because instead of just getting ´em out I´d have to get up, make up bottle/heat up bottle, put up with him faffing around with the bottle etc etc.

Hello all

Been at work today, so haven't had a chance to catch up fully, but noticed that many of us are having problems with sleep, just wanted to add that Izzy is still bf and generally sleeps through from between 8 and 10pm to between 7 and 9am. I'm not saying that you shouldn't try formula to see if it helps and so DH/DP can help out more, but wanted to give a positive story of a bf baby sleeping through.

before she gets kicked off for having a sleeping baby

By the way - does anyone else's baby smell of compost?? Since weaning ds he has been quite (erm) aromatic - like rotting cabbage. It does seem linked to poo but when I go into his room at night it's quite pungent even if he's not pooped (maybe it's his nappies fermenting).

Or maybe I should wash him more.....

Caz - 4 sick children and a cold yourself sounds GRIM, you have my sympathies.

only with a fruit shoot and sausage roll plus copious amounts of sweets

How much 'solid' food is N having now Maveta?

pmsl at compost smelling baby

Liath, no compost smells here either lol!

Maveta - it was the middle of the night feed, as I was getting sick of it just being me doing it after weeks and weeks of it only being me up in the night, so thought if she had a bottle at least dh could help. Anyway, as I said, she had one bottle and obviously thought 'stuff this, not worth waking if I'm not getting booby', and that was it, she just slept through after that. Of course you could try the old trick of offering a bottle with water in the night, then he might think it's really not worth waking up?