Jan 07 Part 19: This time last year we were cooking our own little xmas puddings!

[Lizzzombie]

TA DAAAAH

Brand new and shiney, just like all those xmas presents which have already been wrapped up () and are underneath the colour co-ordinated tree!

[walkinginaWILKIEwonderland]

Welcome love2! Birth story please...

Snacks - PERFECT snack is Cheerios! J LOVES them. They are healthy and I give him a bowl of dry Cheerios and raisins which keeps him quiet for HOURS!

EAH - fabulous pics.

RGee - sympathies. Hate being ill

Has anyone elses LO started tantrumming? J screams the place down if I take anything off him or say NO. Nightmare! I just ignore him until he stops

[theUrbanDryad]

Z has mad tantrums sometimes, but he's been really clingy today. i think he's still not feeling very well. he totally freaked out today in Freespirit because of the fountain! when i say NO to him now though he just looks back at me with a cheeky little grin. he's such a monkey!

[2Happy]

Heaven knows I'm miserable now, RGee.

[MrsCarrot]

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour... well, cup of tea and a bit of berry cake anyway.

[2Happy]

UD - so This Charming Man's letting you go, huh? Frankly, Mr Shankly UD, I'm sure you'll cope with Z. Have fun, UD.
Lal - There Is Light That Never Goes Out - it's the candles on your cake (no offence - just trying to continue the theme - ha! Bigmouth Strikes Again )
And Loosh, I have to mention you as it's the only way to get William, It Was Really Nothing into a post!

What a saddo I am!!

[2Happy]

Oh yay! I'm not the only saddo! Never Had No One Ever who was as sad as me!!!

[theUrbanDryad]

arrrgh! i'm gonna have the Smiths stuck in my head all night now!!

just had a bad vomit (code white) so we've got to change the sheets on our bed. then to top it all off i burned Z's hand in the bath

it looks like he's allergic to penicillin, does anyone know whether i should carry on giving them to finish the course? i'm gonna phone nhs direct i think...

[bunnyhunny]

hi everyone!
MRS C - you made me laugh with the cot with a lid idea, and you lo loving the loobrush. S loves the loo too -I'm sure it's because I don't let him play with it. He'd probably try to eat it or kiss it through!
LAL - happy birthday. hope you had a good day.
L2D - welcome to the thread. happy lurking!
Wilkie - S loves cheerios too. I had a bit of a funny turn about them cos they arent organic, sugar free etc etc, but he stuffs them, so I don't mind anymore.
ud - we have a mattress on the floor too. the bed frame broke , and it seemed so spacious without it! makes co-sleeping with a mobile baby much safer too.

Well... I can't remember when i last had a period! I used to track them, cos they are highly irregular (i.e. frequent and light), but as I've only been off the pill for a couple of months I didn;t bother. I had a day with very light spotting last week or so, and I think I was on my period when I got a repeat presciption of the pill (just in case I bottled again), but I cant remember when that was. Feels like ages ago...

[vinorouge]

I inadvertently posted on the ld thread last night. Dippy vino.

Better give lo her brek, she is sitting quietly in her highchair at the mo.

Off to see my brother for the weekend with mum so not really around til mon night/tues.

[Lizzzombie]

Bunny - have you done a test? Its weird to think that we could all have had another baby by now! (just)

Ok - enough of the Smiths and Morrissey. I hate it. DP plays it alot and its soooo depressing. If I lived in London I'd be panicking etc etc etc...just off to slit wrists!

[Lizzzombie]

can you imagine having a 10 month old and a new born ?!?! Nightmare!

[theUrbanDryad]

Liz - ask Nemo what it's like!! and tell dp that if he keeps playing the Smiths you'll hang the dj!

[Love2dance]

Morning all and thanks for the warm welcome,
Urban, you're right, I rememeber you too. In my former life I wasn't really a raver but very fond of funky house. Now the only dancing I get to do is with DS when that telly programme with the dancing kiddies is on about 8am.

Birth story in a nutshell: complications last 6 weeks (low amniotic fluid) and breech position meant I had to reluctantly have a C-section. Drs rried to get me to have it early but I went for week 38. DS Gabriel Louis (tho' I call him Louis most of the time) born on 3rd January weighing 7lb 2oz. Suckled more or less straight away. I took a few weeks to get used to breasfeeding (titties in agony at first then toughened up) but enjoyed it after that.

Hospital experience ok but not brilliant. One of the night midwives was a right bossy boots. Demanded to know in cross sounding voice:
"whose baby is that crying?!"
"Mine" I said, feeling like I was in infant school.
"Why is your baby crying? He must be hungry"
Explained I'd just been b'feeding so I didn't think so.
"And you rocking him like that isn't going to do any good I can tell you!"
I dared to say: "well, babies do cry."
She then said: "Don't get me wrong, I like a feisty mother, but..." then proceeded to lecture me about how sometimes if breast milk isn't enough the baby should be given a bottle. I was speechless. So much for encouraging women to breastfeed.

I saw her do worse to other new mums. i think she had been in the job too long and had lost any ability she may have had to empathise. Also suspect she was on a bit of a power trip. Was very glad to leave hospital.

I went back to work mid-Sept and DS is with a childminder. Has telly on all the time which I don't like but she has 20 years experience and he is happy there. Louis just finishing his 2nd course of antibiotics for a nasty chest infection (anyone else had it?) and is teething but is otherwise a cheerful little boy.

Not sure I can cope with another but my feeling is I'd like to. My best friend got preggers again when her ds was 7m!! She'd had trouble TTC the first time and is 41 so...I really admire her and anyone who goes for it. She is now a stay at home mum.

Will pop in later but must stop gassing and do some work . Tat ta for now.

[bunnyhunny]

Lizz - thanks for stopping all the morrissey quotes! I was feeling the same way!

Havent done a test. I probably should do, but I don't really want to know either way!

love2dance - I love the name gabriel! We were discussing potential names, and that was the favourite. it would go really well with Saul as well!

bloody lost my dog on the heath this morning. he just buggered off! So I was wandering round for about an hour pushing the buggy, stressed and knackered. He had gone back to the doctors surgery apparently. Good boy!
Now he is whining outside the door and I wonder why I didnt just leave him

[2Happy]

Killjoys!

[MrsCarrot]

yeah, spoilsports.

actually, I'm not really a Morrissey fan, sorry, 2happy, but I like to sing along.

[RGee]

Hi all.
Well, today's not been so bad. Still a hacking cough / tiredness / clingy / not eating very much, but she seems to be happier, so I am hoping she is on the mend.
DH out tonight. Am concerned as there is free booze. He has tomorrow off, originally to lay in bed with a hangover, but as I've had a lot of time off work this week, I'm off to work tomorrow morning so he will have lo (regardless of how bad his hangover is).

Wonder if I'm coming down with something now / again. My stomache has been giving me gip all day and I've only had a bowl of shreddies.

[eandh]

Just a quick post I am off out for the night my works xmas do yiee I have full slap on my face hair done, heels on and am out in 10mins bye xxx

[RGee]

Have a great evening EaH

[RGee]

Has no-one really posted since last night, or are you all avoiding me??

[eandh]

I have just got in from work Hattie fell asleep on way home in car (well she was awake from 3am to 4.30am grrrr) ellie nodding off next to me, once shes in bed I need to shower then sort some washing.

Am in a grumpy mood as DH just told me is working again tomorrow so I have to cancel my hairdressers appt look after e and h all day and then he'll come home, get showered and chnaged and be out for hi poxy work piss up night out where he reckons he is getting smashed not drinking much

[2Happy]

Sympathies, eah, I hope dh isn't too rough on sunday. How was your do last night?
Had a nice day today. dh had a totally random day off so we went to the farm trail up the road - it was pouring with rain by the afternoon, but still a great day. It's just nice to spend time with dh - sometimes feels like I just never see him. Then spent the afternoon/evening cleaning we're off to a wedding tomorrow so ILs are babysitting, got to get the place shipshape!! Don't know what's going to happen with ds2, though. We'll leave after his lunch milk, but won't be back until wee small hours. And last couple of times he's been tried he's refused EBM. So, er, not sure what'll happen. I'm sure he'll be fine, just hope the Ils aren't put off ever babysitting again . Looking forward to a night off, though! What's everyone else up to this weekend??

[walkinginaWILKIEwonderland]

Ola.

Feeling really low (again). Had review of my ADs today and she suggested taking Evening Primrose Oil alongside them to try and combat the anger I get when I have PMT. Still haven't come on. Keep having spits and spots but no real period to speak of.

J has been an angel all day and is now walking properly all the time. Very cute.

Nothing to report

xx

[eandh]

work do was okay food was lovely but got a banging headache half way through, then dh text to say ellie was having another nightmare and screaming the place down (hmm now what the fuck wa I meant to do cause if I text him that tomorrow night he wouldnt even read it) got home and hattie up at 1am then the 1.5hours between3 and 4.30 and dh was up for work in the middle of all thta.

DH truly pissing me off at the m working every saturday we don't need the money and I feel he does it so he doesnt have to look after e and h (he admits he finds it hard - mmm so do I!) Tonight he got home before us and he is in the loft getting xmas decs down- ffs why he isnt here tomorrow to help and he'll be hungover and miserable Sunday. Ellie wont let him put her to bed as she doesnt like him doing it but rather than just trying with her he gives up so I have to do it. He mentioned getting a chinese tonight I put Ellie t bed at 6.45 and had a bath and came down expecting chinese delivered and he hadnt even flippin ordered it aaarghhhhhhhhhhh just had a massive strop at him and told him not to bother coming home tomorrow night as cant be arsed to deal with him drunk/hungover and its easier just to do stuff on my own.

Am now cooking myself chips to have a chip butty then I am going to bed before I murder/conflict harm argue any more.

[eandh]

oh poop strike thrus didnt work and I started that message at 7.20 so missed yours wilks ((hug)) is there no other combination of ad's they could try you on, have a big shoulder here if you fancy a cry xxxxxx

Well done J for his proper walking we I have to go to town tomorrow to take ellies clarkes shoes back as they have made a huge sore on her ankle where the buckle is and going to get Hattie her 1st pair of 'proper' shoes (we ar leaving at 8.30am doing shoe shop and coming home again I hate town on saturday especially near xmas)