March 2007-Today our babies will mostly be eating.............

[KITTYmaspudding]

ok, new thread, old one full!!

aww Muppet... I hope that your sister gets some good advice and will have a successful pregnancy. It is lovely that she is so appreciated by your family!!

How is your dd doing Piffle?? She is such a trooper suffering with all her recent illnesses. I hope that you find some remedy with a homeopath.

Have a great time down south Rosy . Hope that you and your dh got everything aired. Same for you Mossy... hope your dh has gotten over things!!

Kate is waking like Bertie - wide awake for a couple of hours during the night and not interested in going back to sleep / breast / playing even. We have spent several nights on the sofa now and I discovered last night that she likes to sleep on her side or belly. This isn't possible in her hammock so we went to Mothercare and got a cot today. Can't believe it but we have put it together and it is missing the metal rods - so she is sleeping in it without one side on!! So, it will be another night on the sofa atleast with her cot pushed up against it.

Snoo... I have one of those awful pre-teens too . Kate has been off her bottle for a couple of days now but she is taking breastmilk ok. She isn't eating regular meals either but I'm not concerned since I read Mossy's advice about the calories in bm on another thread!!

Hi everyone. Still here! Dh went down south without me.
I dithered so much, it takes me ages to get ready to go and big long journey then dh is away working the whole time so it doesn't seem worth the effort. We are a disaster.

I am without car too. The engine was falling out
This house is a hectic mess. I worked really hard yesterday on it and this morning it seems worse than ever.

I'm in a total mood.

{{ hugs}} to you Rosy

rosy-i cleaned the house totally on monday and it now looks like a bomb site.i want the kids to feck off back to school cos the weather is miserable and i have PMT.
do you have PMT or are you feeling a bit depressed?things seem to be getting to you at the mo it seems.((((hugs))))

i cant stop eating,i have put on half a stone and dh thinks i dont like him anymore as i keep narking at him and i dont want to do intimate stuff-he deosnt understand that i have no sex drive when i feel fat as i cant relax when i can feel everything wobbling

Rosy

DD hasn't slept at night since Xmas Eve. I didn't have a clock while we were away so didn't know how often she was waking but last night I did.... 30- 60 minutes between feeds All night. Yet she slept 3 1/2 hours solid on the journey home (or is that why she didn't sleep at night?)

I don't want to start trying to put her in her cot at this stage because I'm going back to work on 8th Jan. She is still so clingy I'm dreading leaving her for 8 hours (x3 days) so to abandon her at night at the same time seems too cruel. She is still bfeeding many times during the day so I expect to be feeding several times at night... just not quite so often as every 1/2 hour

She's also biting, pinching and scratching. Sometimes I'm frightened of her- is that mad? She leaned across me in bed last night, smiled, and sank her teeth into my cheek. It really hurt. I squealed, she laughed. She then wanted to feed and I was petrified she was going to bite down, but she didn't. None of my others did this. Is she evil?

Snoo, I managed to get away with pmt again this month , at least I think I did. I had no bloating or narky moods, well I had narky moods but not pmt related . I've been taking starflower oil capsules, don't know if that helps or not. Got af at the mo.

Evenhope, poor you. I know what you mean about the scratching, Ronnie does that whilst feeding, I'm constantly filing his nails as I'm covered in scratches
I've now turned the monitor off between his bedroom and mine as I can't cope with being woken any more. He doesn't need feeding and he needs to sleep. I need to sleep or else I will have a breakdown .
So if he wakes and screams he wakes and screams.
I'm also giving top ups of formula during the day as I can't cope with his constant sucking demands.
It's affecting my sanity and interfering with my relationship with the other children.

I am also putting him down for a nap morning and afternoon whether he likes it or not, he screams, but for increasingly shorter periods of time.

Of course you baby isn't evil, a monkey perhaps?

Thanks for your kind words everyone, Luther colour test says I am warding off depression and exhaustion by keeping busy.
I don't feel depressed just a bit grumpy but my sense of humour is still functioning and sense of proportion...ie everything is ticking along okay really.
Just gets hard going at times for all of us I think.

It is hard to rise above the humdrum and difficult practicalities of life to reach that level of inspiration and creativeness that I would like to be able to reach....

Our house is a tip too - its overwhelming!!

Rosy - glad you stayed around to talk online

Even - Monti keeps biting me too. He finds it hilarious. You might find it a comfort having her in your bed when you return to work - to get your "fix" of being near to her, so to speak. Maybe she is having a little growth spurt?

Snoo IKWYM about sex and wobbly bits!

Hi Kitty - how was Christmas then? Did your Mum come over?

Hi Foxy My mum cam over yesterday as did some of dp's family. Mum helped out and that was fine.
I had 'words' with dp this morning as neither he nor any of his family helped me at all. At one point I had Ronnie in a sling 'cos he was fussing and I was washing up (dishwasher broken), tidying up etc and still no bugger helped .
Then I said to dp "you didn't even say 'thankyou' for everything I did" he said he did by saying I'd done a great job. That's not actually saying "thankyou" though is it?
Of course he still had man flu so was also not even being a decent host .

On xmas eve my dad, stepmum and stepbrother came .
now SM did all the work admittedly, BBUT she needs to, she won;t stop. I'm sure she had a wanky time, she acted throughly pissed off the entire time and barely spoke to me. So I'm fuming about that.

I hate christmas.
Did you have a goof time, any arguments?

oh yes Hasan is scratching and biting me too. I try really hard not to react so he will think it is boring and stop doing it!

Snoo I feel much saucier when I'm feeling slim too, I'm sure you will soon be feeling attractive again, your dh's enthusiasm will help you.
My dh and I are each pretending to be more nonchalant than the other....

I had a goof time

Yes, well 2007 will be a year in which I have had no sauciness whatsoever

me too kitty

hey, then 2008 is going to be the year for us
I might need to advertise

i should add that i have put on half a stone in fat weight rather than just the usual PMT water retention.maybe i should start a new fatties thread-'my baby will be 1 in a couple of months so why do i weigh the same as when i was 7 months pregnant?'

Elsie has taken to whacking dh accross the face and trying to pull his nose off but she never does it to me.that could be cos i dont often pick her up though.

kitty-@ everyone leaving you to it and letting you struggle.i have been in similar situations at home myself and when i've complained to dh/my mother i get'well,you didnt ask for any help'.

i will try starflower oil,they are quite cheap arent they?i will try anything to stop feeling like this,although PMT is sometimes useful,like the other day when i saw the snobby cow who banned ds2 from the PND 'support' group and she had the cheek to say hello to me.i replied 'don't f*ing speak to me,bitch!'

Hi all

Blimey - sounds like some of you are having a rough time with ill DCs and lazy rellies. I really, really hate it when people come over and don't lift a finger. I'd be livid if I were you kitty

My flat's a total tip but at least it's only me and Elliot who've made the mess. It's why I never have anyone over - then I can't get cross it's anyone else's fault

We had a good xmas - no rows but I suspect that's because I don't have a DP and my whole family were all only together for about five hours.

On boxing day we went to some friends and got drunk and played silly games which was great . I'm lucky that I can keep the family stuff minimal and don't have ILs to deal with I think

kitty - I slept in another room last night for the first time since Elliot was ill (over a month ago) and turned the monitor down so I could only hear him if he was really yelling as we've been sleeping together and he's been waking up every 2 hours. So I got 6 hours last night - bliss. I thought he'd be ravenous when he woke up this morning but he only had 1/2 a bottle.

rosy - I'd be very impressed if you managed to muster up enough time/energy to be creative. I don't seem to be able to do it and I've only got one baby.

Don't even talk to me about wobbly bits - I'm one big lump of xmas lard. Time to listen to Paul McKenna. Will it be a miracle solution? I bloody hope so. I need a miracle

Hope the ill babies pick up soon - I know how bloody knackering they are when they're ill - the anxiety and the whining drove me a bit insane. And the scratching and biting! Last night Elliot leaned forward for what I thought was going to be a kiss and bit me really, really hard on the lip. I did think he was a bit evil

So - is anyone going out for new year?

Sazzy - going out?

...for new year?

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha aharrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!

We are due to go out for NYE but we are taking the kids with us
God only knows how that is going to work but we will see, I think it will involve me driving and not drinking

going out???! last year was pregnant like you all so stayed in and ate, so this year looks pretty much the same. only without the stretchy trousers

I'm going to a dance on NYE with DS2

(it's at our ballroom dancing school- we do the Hokey Cokey )

Weeeeeeeell dp and I are supposed to be going to a party. We were supposed to be going to 2 pre christmas parties but were too knackered to go. I think it will be the same for new year.
I want to want iykwim but I feel completely cudgeled by christmas and the fact that we have all had illnesss since the end of NOV.
MY hair is shite, thin and wispy and in dire need of a cut, I've got shopping bags under my eyes and somehow don't feel like donning a party frock.
I'm almost incapeable of stringing a sentence together or listening to anyone else so socialising would be tricky!
Actually the main thing for me is that the thought that I will have to stay up past midnight sends me cold
Oh how far I have fallen

Well last year the neighbours opposite (whose party we have just returned from now actually - it was fab) had a New Years Eve party. I was really looking forward to it, but fell asleep into a pregnant stupor at 11.30pm so missed it

No new year party plans here either. I have weird hair, short hairs sticking up at my parting

Dh went and did the shop at sainsbury the other night as I am car-less. He was like the cat that got the cream my fridge is bunged...

3 bags parsnips 10p
6 punnets cherry tomatoes 10p
3 bags apples 10p
3 bags sprouts 10p
3 bags carrots 10p
3 punnets (tasteless) apricots 10p
3 bags watercress and spinach 10p
2 packets pancakes 20p
1 punnet cranberries 10p

most of that the kids won't eat!

12 litres of full fat milk
1 loaf brown bread
4 cartons of pure juices
1 packet basic cheddar
2 packets of chicken breast
2 bags of size 4 nappies
10 bananas
2 bags oranges

And he thinks I won't have to go shopping for a week. Yeah right- he didn't buy any biscuits, cake, chocolate of potatoes! Ooh I bet there were loads of reduced christmas goodies and he walked past them.

Anyone know what I can do with all the apricots?

make a morrocan style stew! (obviously you will need more ingredients than apricots, otherwise it will just be apricot stew)...