November 2007 - None-day Morning Lay Ins!

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Hey ladies! Our thread was getting a bit long so i started a new one. Hope you dont mind!

Loopy - rest assured, once the firemen have been I will spill the beans. I think they are coming at the time I'm usually in the shower. I hope I don't have hurry down stairs to the door in my skimpy dressing gown as it never does up properly.

RG- So glad to hear that you have come to a decision about feeding. Hope Ds's job works out.

WHERE IS JARM ????

Jet - congrats to your mate. I agree, a shepherds pie would be a a top pressie.

Sparkly . Yay for Callum. what a super little bruiser.

RG- I'm so glad that you came to that conclusion. Not that formula would have been bad in any way and mixed feeding does work well for many people. (not really advised) Although it's better to mix feed if it works for the individual, than to totally give up b/f alltogether so swings in roundabouts!

I've been such a silly arse. I was preparing dp dinner yesterday evening. We were all out of food and the best i could offer him was a burger and chips. All the buns were frozen (didn't want to put it in microwave, soggy bun) So brain-wave (not). I go to cut the bun in half to toast it with a large serated chefs knife (very sharp) obviously slip and now have a whopping big cut, flapping skin and everything, along the length of my thumb down to the palm! Luckly dp's step mum is a nurse and came to patch me up with tape and badages! (dp didn't ever get the burger)

Today has been such a pain trying to dress ds, pick him up, dress and wash myself! All cack handed! grr! Positives i've got out of the washing up and ironing!

I've recently got a large wad of back-dated child tax credit tempting as a shopping spree is... i have decided to do this with ds and get the pictures at the end!

Sorry haven't been able to reply to all, but hope your all well.

LMB - I've got few freinds who do Waterbabies and they love it. Don't know if there's a baby swimmers in your area bit they do the same thing but it's a bit cheaper. EnjoyX
Hope the hand isn't too painful

Febes- Thanks for the L&P info. It had been bugging me for weeks.

Loopy - Where do live? I'm going to come round and do all your ironing for a month. The tip about giving formula instead of EBM in a bottle worked. I'd never even considered it so a huge thankyou. I'm so relieved.

Hi all hope you have had a good day. Have done nowt exciting today, just food shopping - yawn! It was DH's Granddad's funeral yesterday and glad I took DS, he cooed at the stained glass in the chapel then fell asleep and generally seemed to be a welcome distraction for everyone afterwards. Nearly fell out with FIL who made DS cry by invading his personal space then shouted across the pub "I can't comfort him because I haven't got any boobs!", when we all groaned he went on to explain himself in more detail I had to say whoa there, I don't want to talk breasts with my FIL! Muppet.

Aquababies sounds great! Enjoy. I am going to a different yoga session tomorrow, hopefully a little less barking than the other one I went too.

Hope your hand is better LMB.

Off for a bath now, DS has gone to sleep (for now) and DH has promised me a deluxe foot-rub after the football . Oh and there is a galaxy cake-bar with my name on it in the fridge. Small things...

Have a good evening/night everyone. x

Oh god I've killed the post-natal thread .

Seriously !

Hi don't worry sarah, I'm here too the others must be off having a life somewhere.

I have been out with friends today we all used to work together and now we all have kids. There were 5 kids- a 1,2,3, and 4 year old and Anabel and one of the girls is preggers again so it was very exciting. A little hectic though. We are going to other friends for dinner so DD is going to be completely over it. We'll just have a quiet day tomorrow with lots of naps.
I gave Anabel a taste of choc sauce today on my finger and she loved it. Hope its not too bad for her I've probably set her up for a life of obesity now .

LOL thank god for that, fancy having a life! Sounds like you have had a busy day. You'll never get Anabel to eat her veg now ! I am going to have to curb my biscuit munching once Adam is old enough to realise what a hypocrite mummy is!

Hi all, Thumb much better can move it now, so lifting and dressing ds is so much easier now!

MIL came over today and has taken ds out for a walk to give me a bit of a time out! So i'm mumsnetting and looking for a dress to wear to my old friend from Bristol 21st in May. It will be the first time leaving ds for a long period of time and plus a night away. dredding it a bit but also looking forward to letting my hair down for a night!

Weaning is still going wellish, some days are better than others. It was harder trying to get him to eat whith MIL watching. He became distracted and not really paying much attention to the yummy goodies his mum had prepared. I think the worst thing about BLW is all the wasted food. Hopefully in a month or so more will get eaten and less thrown, squished and dropped!

RG- how's Ellie coming on?

They said on GMTV that if mums eat cake during pregnacy that babies are over weight I Eat cake solidly for 5 months and DD was born under 6 pounds and under 25th percentile. Load of rubbish. Must stop eat cake now though

Evening all!

LMB - Ellie's ok thanx. She's wanting feeding every 2 1/2 hours at the moment which makes me wonder (a) she's having a growth spurt or (b) she wants something else other than milk.

Hope everyone is ok. Sorry i haven't been on today but i was actually off having a very boring life! MIL came round at lunchtime for a couple of hours and then i did the weekly shop in my beloved Asda. Before you know it, it's 7pm and i'm jsut about to dish up dinner!

Nothing else to report i'm afraid. Exciting life, eh?!!

Hi everyone

Loopy poor you!!! Glad you caught it early though. I have thus far been spared mastitis... I got a red patch once and massaged it away...

RG, I suspect you're at the growth spurt stage, but try food if you think she's up for it and you're ready to give it? Otherwise just keep feedin' away. I recommend lots of chocolate and sitting in front of the telly. That or going to Starbucks and having an enormous hot chocolate and a muffin and feeding away

Bliss glad your thumb is improving!!!

My period came back! what a cheek since I'm excl bf. Oh well. I know it's random whether it comes back or not while you're bf... but it was very heavy to start with (sorry if TMI!)...

We had an October ladies meet up yesterday in York - six of us - I am on both threads as DD was due in October. It was so much fun. Shame we don't live closer on this thread!

Good news from here is Mini Marauder only woke up TWICE last night between 10 and 5!!! Before 10 she woke up a lot and after 5 she was up for good but imagine, there was such a long gap between wake ups that I was waking up and panicking! Maybe this is the beginning of something good... fingers crossed...

have a good day all!

Morning all!

Loopy - hope you get better soon! You've certainly had a bad run of things haven't you?

Choc - well done on the sleep thing! These days if DD wakes up twice i consider myself to be having a hard time! Glad your meet up went well.

As for periods, i've had mine for ages now I was well p1ssed off, i can tell you! Think i've had three now so my body seems quite ruthless when it comes to letting me off from having them!

One of my wednesday lunch mums is coming round today to give me a bag of clothes for DD and she is bringing fish and chips! Yummy!!!

Blimey, i keep getting interrupted and losing my train of thought!

Yes, i think DD is on a growth spurt thing. I am reluctant to feed her (well, more cowardly than anything really!) proper food so will just keep getting the jugs out instead.

Loopy - Would you mind putting in the link to the EBM thread you mentioned? Mine was often offish after being defrosted and I never could figure out why.

Poor old you with the mastitis. Glad it seems to be on the mend though.

Choc - Glad you had a sleep. Long may it continue. Your meet up sounds fun. Perhaps we should try to arrange something. There are quite a few of us up North.

LMB - Glad your hand is on the mend.

RG- T seems to feeding like fury at the mo too. I think he might want the comfort as I'm sure he's teething.

Febes - Your day out sounds like mayhem. I bet it was great fun. Don't feel bad about the choc sauce; a friend of mine gave her 8 month old a mini magnum which she adored. I was told that under no circumstances to tell MN! You know who you are...

Well the firemen came round. Ir was really boring. They installed smoke alarms and gave me some leaflets. No funny business at all

Baby group and a trip to work for us today. I haven't taken him in yet. I'm going in after lunch as we finish early on Fridays so there won't be hoardes of kids about

Thanks for that thread link. I haven't had a problem with my milk yet as DD takes it although it does look a bit funny sometimes DH just shakes it lots.
We just had another very positive viewing on our house. We had an offer last week but rejected it because it was a bit low. I was stressing and thinking maybe we should just take it because of doom in the news about house prices but we aren't in any rush and will have to rent for a while if we sell straight away because we want to leave in October but will happily rent if we get our price.

Hi all.
I had a huge meltdown on Weds when I discovered that DH hadn't bothered washing up on Tuesday evening and I came down to a filthy kitchen. He had spent 3 hours on the flippin playstation instead and I just lost it. I sent him a really stroppy text, and got one back as he was having a rubbish day at work. I've told him the lack of sleep is not doing me any good (William still wakes usually 2 or 3 times a night) and during the day it's none stop with William and DD. (I've plonked DD in front of cbeebies so I can catch up with you guys!)
I said I was really down because I don't get to pursue any of my hobbies because I'm either feeding W or too knackered to do anything, and was annoyed because he will spend hours playing computer games but won't do a bit of housework. i put all that in a text message! Later in the day I yelled at DD because she weed on the kitchen floor, then I broke down in tears, which upset DD who then tried to comfort me, which just made me cry more!
Anyway, we talked, though I'm still not convinced he gets it, though the kitchen was spotless this am! I don't think it helps that I'm back at work in just over a week and I'm really worried about the lack of sleep combined with my job.

no more whinging now, honest...

LMB - ouch!! Hope you're feeling a bit better now, though laying off any ironing for a while would be advisable

Loopy - hope you're feeling better too now.

Febes - you gotta love gmtv! I ate my bodyweight in cake when pregnant with DD and she weighed 5lbs 8oz at birth. Just think how little she would have been if I hadn't eaten the cake

Must go, DD wants a drink and I suppose I should feed us too!

I have done something I swore I would never do again... Callum has had formula again. I couldn;t keep up with his contant demands for milk. He isn't feeding properably and keeps pulling off and screaming.

LOM - yes DD is deffo teething too so perhaps they are both teething AND having a growth spurt! How boring about the fireman! How was your trip out?

Loopy - interesting thread re milk going off! I think (fingers crossed) that i am one of the lucky ones (so far anyway!) as my milk has been fine to date. Do you leave DD to cry herself to sleep even if she gets hysterical or was she just whinging about the change?

Jet - sorry you had a hard time with DP and the PS3 (COD4 was it?!). They are so sweet when they try and comfort you aren't they (the kiddies that is, not the DPs!). Hope you are feeling a bit better now. Sleep deprivation is a KILLER!!

LMB - HOpe your flappy bits are all less flappy now! Ouch!

Sparkly - I'm sure he'll be fine.

I've semi-decided that i'm going to join Weight Witches soon. I'm fed up with being fat now and think i need the extra support that going to a meeting would/could give me and one of my wednesday mums has lost 3 1/2 pounds in the last two weeks! I just hope it's not too restrictive or i might have a struggle.....

Is anyone's LO sitting yet? I have just spotted the Dec 07 postnatal club title and it says about sitting. Callum isn't sitting yet and the doctor said that he is too young to be sitting, so how are their babies sitting??