August 2007 - milk, mash or puree - take your pick and take cover!

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James - sorry, couldn't wait any longer... hope my link works...

Leifmum you'll be fine! There's no reason why your workmates would suddenly not speak to you, I think after about a week of being back you'll feel like you never actually left. And don't worry about still being in maternity jeans, what do you think magic knickers are for woman?? Hope you get your part time work situation sorted.

I'm pretty worried about work at the moment. I was offered a job working for a website, doing what amounts to a bit of IT/web design. I started it, did two small assignments which took 4-5 hours, submitted them, and heard nothing for two days. So I emailed my boss and asked if he'd got my email, he messaged me back and claimed it had gone to his junk mail folder. Then said he was ultra busy at work and he'd get back to me shortly. Heard nothing for two more days so I've texted him, tried to sound breezy, I just said "hope the work I sent in was ok, any ideas when I can expect some more?" and I know he got it because my phone does delivery receipts. No reply.

If he doesn't get back to me by 4pm monday I'll have to phone him and ask if in fact I do have a job because my money runs out in 12 days and I can't afford to go without money (not entitled to jobseekers allowance either)

I'm so worried about it all as we don't have any savings, and I'm behind on the council tax again.

im on a role now with the assignment its health and social care.
im going to phone the health visitor tomorrow and sg put on the higher energy formula that you can only get on perscription its got alot more caleries in it, dont know why she didnt sugest it, ill put a pic on tomorrow of the wee man and you can let me know what you all think but i think he looks very out of proportion.
leifmum-everyone is nervous on their first day back, as soon as you get in there you will be fine. good luck.
at your boss james, i hope after spending all that time he doesn't let you down. have you tried ringing him? do you have the work you done saved anywhere?
ok off to do a little more work before bed.

o forgot, does anybody have any suggestions on what to do about KnickersOnMaHead in the wee thred on her own??

hope you all had good weekends

leifmum hope it's going well at work - i'm going in next week to find out what my options for work are and i feel exactlt like you!!! i'll need to take dd2 in with me though.

james that woman at the toddlers group sounds awful - but well done you for going and for speaking to many people. james is soooo cute! hope work gets sorted too - it does sound to me like it would be a crap company to work for if he can't get back to you! but money is money!

"knickersonmahead www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=2330&threadid=456408#9476992" link to lone aug mum! (i hope, as i'm not very good at them)

tasha so glad your little one is feeding better

ooooh did anyone watch Lost?? it was good!

i've forgotton everything else i was going to say and dd2 has just woken

Stop talking so much!!!!!!

Have just taken an age to catch up with everything - once again have forgotten it all again!

Lizziemum (i think!) - my dh would be pleased with once in 21 weeks. We aren't using anything - dh thinks he's too young for the snip, I can't motivate myself to go and get the coil. so we've found one condom that we're saving for a special occassion! Banana - you really need to sort something as it ounds like you actually need it!

leifmum - congrats on the house. We moved in June - would definately recommend getting in a packing service. It only cost slightly more and they did it all in a day (we did nothing at all other than unpack at the other end). Get a few quotes though as they wetre really different.

Am more relaxed about going to work (not back until sept) - but have found someone to have dd after school, she's a teaching asst at the school so dd knows her. And after big talk with dh he aggreed that made sense for me to work term time only. So will be doing 18 hours a week for 39 weeks a year. Hardly going to be there

got up thismorning to a really big dirty ds2 bum, the nappy had come apart at the sides and poo was all down his legs with near a full tin of sweetcorn in it, yuk why dont they chew it? then he went for a bit of sweetcorn!!!greedy gorb! was gonna atempt mums and tods today but chickened out i really really want to go too better go tidy up before lo starts grumpin

Morning all - nice and sunny here today. It's taken me ages to catch up on just a few days!

James - agree James looks just fine. I think my headaches are a mixture stress/tension, hormones, lack of sleep, broken sleep and busy life. I've seen several doctors and consultants about them and they just say there's nothing they can do about it.

Great news about the pay rise pink! I'm really hoping dh and I get good pay rises this year. We can't afford a holiday but it will go some way to paying off our debt. Dh goes through phases of being a spendaholic and then tells me not to spend any money when we get to the end of the overdraft

Really of your work situation loler. It sounds great. I wish dh would pull his finger out and get a job to cover both our salaries. With his skills he could easily find one. I couldn't be a sahm as I would go mad but part time, term time only definitely appeals to me )

Tried ds on toast at the weekend. I gave him a couple of fingers and he seemed to enjoy sucking on it and only gagged a little bit. I think he actually swalled about half of it and the rest ended up as a soggy mess.

leifmum - I was nervous when I went back to work (although I was only at home for 4 months). After being back here for a day it was like I never left. Everything slotted back into place really quickly - like riding a bike.

Wow tasha. You must be v determined to be a full time mum to 3 and study. Lots of luck. what do you intend to do when you're qualified?

pink, kinki, sagpuss - ok for Bluewater on the Tuesday? I can probably get there 10am after dropping dd off at pre-school.

Losing track of the thread now too...

I've posted on knickersonmahead's thread with a couple of ideas to see if we can get here on here. If they don't work, we'll go chat on her thread as loler suggested, we'll be needing a new thread soon anyways!

tasha you said your mum has a three yr old, so why don't you get her to go along to mums n toddlers with you? It'll halve the work and give you a bit of support to begin with. I'm trying to motivate myself to go back to mine tomorrow.

That guy with the job still hasn't contacted me, think I'll have to ring him in a bit and just hope he doesn't think I'm being pushy.

Ooh freecycle just got me again! our hoover just died on us so we asked for one on freecycle and got offered a bissell liftoff, they're not cheap, about £145 on amazon.com and she said it was working but too heavy for her. We thought it was a stroke of luck! Got it home turned it on, it made an enormous screaming noise louder than an electric drill which scared us all to death and James was near hysterical for about five minutes. THEN the bloody thing blew all our electrics.

Why don't they just SAY "Look, this is broke but maybe someone clever can fix it" or "good for spares and repairs" instead of pretending things are perfect! Someone could have been electrocuted by the faulty hoover, stupid bloody woman. What makes me even more annoyed is that dp lost his own father at 7 months old when he was electrocuted, so we don't need any scares right now.

You're not being pushy James. You deserve to get feedback on your work or at the very least an email to say he's received it and will get back to you.

What a nightmare about the hoover. It doesn't bear thinking about what could have happened. Dd used to scream when we turned the hoover on so we either had to do it after she'd gone to bed or use the carpet sweeper.

Someone please motivate me to start my diet properly again. I'm ok at work. All I bring is a low calorie cereal bar, a sandwich and a banana. But when I get home I just can't be bothered to count the points. Yesterday it went completely up the wall. My dad made a lasagne and grated the best part of a block of cheese on the top and I had a quarter of it

I actually just called him Gill, he sounded slightly pissed off when I told him it was me (I rang using my landline, he only has my mobile no afaik) I asked him if he'd had a look at my work and what was happening, he said "yeah I'll definitely have a look and critique it, it's just been so busy here..."

He was pretty vague when I asked when I would be getting more work, so I explained that I wasn't trying to be pushy but that my maternity money was ending and I needed to know if I had a job or not because if not I needed to be looking for work and arranging childminders etc. He said "we'll let you know wednesday afternoon either way" (so it went from yeah you'll be getting more work, just don't know when, to "I'll let you know IF you have a job wednesday")

I'm not the pushy type but I can't afford to sit around waiting for them to make a decision when I have no money in the bank! I have James to think about.

Gill cheese isn't so bad, yeah it's fattening but you benefit from the calcium, and some studies on weightloss suggest that people lose weight faster when they have plenty of dairy products such as yoghurt, milk and cheese in their diets. You're making an effort for the first half of the day, which is great, as long as you aren't eating masses of cake in the evenings then you're probably doing fine, just have a small portion of whatever naughty thing you can't be bothered to calorie count, and bulk it out with veg/salad. You've done o well though, remind me how much you've lost so far?

here is the pic of the wee man. do you think he looks out of proportion?

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hope it works ill catch up soon.

Gill - this thread is a friendly bunch of losers!. Mostly but not all doing ww points diet. vERY GOOD AT MOTIVATING to get back on track. Pink also appears on it.

James - sounds very dodgy job - hope you can find something that suits you better. i.e. that actually pays you!

took me that long to do that as mum rang that i missed the posts. Gill im sure it wont matter like james says its good to have dairy and your being good for the most of the day
james-what a wanker! id just start looking else where to keep yourself safe. its just a shame you spent so long doing the work you done for him. my mum isnt into the mums and tods thing and my brother has started nursery as his shcool has 2 years of nursery. he will still be in the same year as ds1 though. i took a walk up the town and it wasn't as bad as i thought so quite proud of myself
couldnt phone hv today cause i have no credit in my phone.

Tasha - how cute! He does look like tiny to me but I have a full term mini budda so it makes it difficult to compare. I would think as long as he is weeing and pooing regularly he should be OK. But the high calorie milk won't do any harm while he finds it hard to feed.

yeah i thought so, thanks. hes feeding up to his normal again but not as much as hv wanted him to eat.

Hey well done for going by yourself Tasha, how was it?

Ds3 doesn't look out of proportion to me although he does look slim (but then so are you) I bet he's no slimmer than a lot of babies who have never had surgery or feeding difficulties, but who just choose to have less milk. But see what your hv says.

James has it in for my laptop. I normally have it balanced on the arm of the sofa, he now swipes/kicks at it whenever we sit near it. Plus today he nicked half a plum (it was intended for him, just hadn't given it to him yet) which was on a plate on the sofa. I'd only looked away for a sec and he stretched and got it, clever little sod! Must be more careful, I'm always leaving earrings, bobbles etc about.

i didnt go to mums and tods just a walk up the town and got ds1 and 2 a peppa pig book between them as ds1 can read his book from memory as ive read them that often to him but its a start. its just cause im used to having chubby babies so he looks alot thiner. i bought some jared purees think im gonna try him with a little soon and if he doesnt take to it ill leave it another while. gonna find out about the higher caloerie milk though

hey guys! thanks for all your messages telling me not to be so daft! work went ok. was nice in some ways to be me again. bit strange when i went over to section to see the people i normally work with, kind of felt like i didn't belong. not so good news on the job front. i'm hoping a new admin post will be created for me and although all my bosses agree it's needed, they won't free up the money.

think i'm going to have to ask for a job share but if they can't find someone to work the other i'll have to go back full time until i find something else. can't put into words how much i don't want that.

going to drown my sorows in a glass of wine then kick myself up the backside

tasha - dd2 has just spent 10 min patting the screen and 'talking' to your ds3!

leifmum - st least they recognise the job is needed maybe they will find the money with the end of the (tax/budget) year coming up??? fingers crossed.

lizziemum - how was the birthday party? did dd get lots of nice presents?

james - unfortunately it sounds to me like your bosds has used you and sorry to hear about the hoover

dd2's way of getting my attention (when i'm typing) is to grab my hair and and shake it and it's bloody sore!

i can't remember who was asking for sleeping tips but can anyone give me some as i can't seem to sleep either - i'm off to get some nightol (?sp) to see if that works.

and any ideas on how to stop dd2 waking up each morning with dreadlocks - her hair is so long and she keeps rubbing her head on the mattress

Myweegirls

Lizzie party's (dd1) were good (one for family andone for her freinds). And yes she got loads of nice presents. I just noe need to find room to put them away at night so i can't see them.

I have just started taking 'Quite Life' as my PMT is VERY bad . I'm hoping now i finished taking the pill i will be more calm and stop wanting to kill DH because he is breathing . Also hoping it they will also help me sleep.

Lizzie has long hair so i platt every night so it doesn't get tangles in.

Leifman a glad yesterday went ok and i hope they find a position for your.

lol my2weegirls, how cute unfortunatley no tips for little girls hair, although ds2's is getting quite long
lizziemuns sounds good idea with platts.
think im gonna adventure out today again! id have to say lo is the gurniest out of the 3 without a dought. ive give his dummy back to him now thank god! oh near forgot i tried ds3 with a jar of sweetcorn and chicken and he just swirled it about in his mouth and ds2 sat beside me barking at me to give it to him everytime i loaded a spoonful was surprised he didnt gag!

it's my 6mo dd that has the dreadlocks every morning - whilst it's long it's not yet long enough to pleat , though some of the side bits are down below her shoulders.

lizzie - i hate it sometimes when dp breathes too - or eating, he seems to save his noisiest eating for when i'm crabbitt!!!!

have fun going out tasha

Gosh this thread is moving like a grand prix, and i think i'm in the vintage race. Where do i start.

JB - hope boss is just busy, and has not been cold on purpose. That job sounds a lot better than the tesco checkout, you were talking about before. It can be great to work from home, as you can claim expenses, and save on travel. how annoying about the vacuum cleaner, people should just put these things in the bin, if they are that bad.

Leif- glad your job fears got left behind. i remember those same fears. It is strange how much a baby changes our perspectives.

Tasha - glad to hear baby ds is on the mend. Pluck up the courage and go to the playgroup. bumpi love mine, we have been on 6 weeks holidays from ours and we have all missed it. there are all sorts of people there, and only one of them is completly un- berable. mainly because she snubs us all, don't know why she comes.

I've had one of those everything going, a bit wrong weeks. Everything is breaking, sick or wasting my time. Started with my engagement ring breaking, and trying to get it fixed, nightmare rude jewelers, my new friend and i having a kinda fight, the cat getting ring worm, ds C getting ring worm(yuck)
ds charging into me, and me spilling my coffee all over the bed, carpet, sheets, window.My new mobile, not working....shall I go on, probably not, although it does make me feel less stressed. Oh and just now my ebay idea, has flopped and my handmade beautiful bunnykins mosaic frame, just sold for about 4 pounds, a total loss.

Ah well life eh?

Oh been meaning to say LL has a habit of bumping/pulling his dummy out, so i put mittens on him to go to sleep. It feels kinda strange to do that, but he is very happy like this. Is it weird?

He is very cute ATM- instantly smiles if anyone smiles at him, I wish that would last forever.

James - he sounds like an a**e. I agree you should definitely keep looking for work. Even if he says you've got a job he doesn't sound very reliable.

Tasha - I think he looks just fine. Dd has never had an ounce of fat on her. Even at nearly 3 she can wear a 6-9 months skirt. At 5 months she was wearing 0-3 months clothes. I'll see if I can dig out a picture of her for comparison with your lo.

I think I've lost about 17lb since ds was born, not sure how much since starting ww. I don't really eat cake and biscuits, mainly cos we don't buy them. I think it's portion size that's the issue and having 'something and chips' when dh works late. Thanks for the thread loler. I've added a post.

Glad work was ok leifmum. Hope they sort out that part time position for you. When does your mat leave end?

Not sure what to suggest about the dreadlocks my2weegirls. I used to get dd's hair cut really short - she looked so cute IMO. Ds's hair was getting quite matted at night. He doesn't have thick hair though so I just cut it out when it knots.

uki - sorry to hear you're having a bad time at the moment. Why does everything always happen at the same time? Ds pulls his dummy out all the time too. He sucks his hands though so mittens would get soaked. I often go up to check on him to find a big wet patch under his head (he sleeps on his tummy).