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April 2008 - the one where Scorpio and Millie show us all the 'through the night' trick

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Scampmum · 18/06/2008 14:00

Sorry if someone else has already started one - couldn't find it!

Much better night last night, maybe due to gripe water?

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sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:06

That sounds good, VS. Depends when in August, as we might be n holiday.
I am also in London mid-July, so it'd be great to meet anyone who can come then.
Where's Scorpio today?

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:06

Oh, she's there!

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:07

i went out

lol

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:08

so sorry Scorpio...hope deli lunch and glam make-up cheers you up!

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:09

Didn't you go out for a drink last night? Or did I make that up...sorry can't be bothered to go through thread to find out.

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:10

oh its ok he was/is very sorry and we are friends but i wish he would sort his shit out, he is nearly 26 ffs

i think it was a lot of things just went wrong tbh

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:10

tuesday night; that was great!

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:11

I was thinking about you in the small hours, and thinking how impressive you are - three kids, in your 20s, just married...I was such a fuck-up in my 20s - I could never have done what you are doing.

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:15

im sure you could have, i fid it normal, what i want to do...plus i was pg at 16 so i went straight from teenager to adult bypassing that selfish stage

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:17

Well, the beauty of it is that you have the selfish stage to look forward to...
and judging by my potty training failures, I will still be changing nappies when I am getting my pension

VictorianSqualor · 26/06/2008 12:19

Get them trained.
DS1 keeps changing DS2's nappy when I'm out of the room

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:20

lol vs can i borrow him

jamie has to do the 'yellow bits'

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:21

tommorow i have bf for 10 weeks solid, i cannot believe it

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:29

We were late for nursery this morning as dd1 had to change the nappy of the imaginary crocodile that lives in the car

that's the best we can do at the moment!

sagitta · 26/06/2008 12:30

Well done Scorpio!

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 12:36

i didnt think i would do it at all, i remember how excited vs was that i tried it though, lol

VictorianSqualor · 26/06/2008 13:14

Ha, I know!
One of my friends from school has just messaged me on facebook actually asking me about BFing, bless her, she has a ten day old and thinks he isn't getting enough milk. She's read all her NCT stuff but still thinks it, why can't people explain things more to new mums?
It really annoys me!

soph28 · 26/06/2008 13:27

Robyn just woke herself up doing an enormouse poo- will have to go and change her in a minute!

Peachy- poor you! Whenever I was worried about any of mine being small the HV could hardly care less. Barely glanced at the baby and said, 'as longs as he/she's gaining it's fine'. Do you have to have him weighed? Can you not just leave it a few weeks before you go again. Speaking of small- is it normal that I put a 3-6mth outfit that Robyn got as a present on Chloe today. It was a t-shirt and what I assumed were 3/4length denim trousers but they were down to Chloe's ankles so maybe they were meant to be trousers? They didn't look like it though cos they were narrow at the bottom with a hem with 2 little buttons on just like 3/4 length. I'm sorry, Chloe is petite but not that tiny- does anyone have a baby that fits it's corresponding size in baby clothes?????

Scorpio- glad the electric pump is working better for you. It's easy to get stressed out over expressing.

Denny- yes I've got 3 at home all day every day! Yesterday was a day from hell- I went out to M&T group, then to cafe for lunch, then to ASDA which was mayhem with a buggy containing a crying Robyn who had done an explosive poo, Chloe who was overtired due to missing her nap, deciding it would be fun to rearrange all the shelves and Toby- well he wasn't too bad. When I got home (after changing nappy in car) I had a screaming, tired and hungry baby with soiled clothes, 2 hungry and overtired toddlers and no dh cos he was flying back from Birmingham and not due in till 11pm. Oh and did I mention that I was exhausted, hungry, thirsty, tearful...

Anyway they were all clean and fed and in bed by 7.15pm and today we are doing NOTHING!

I am going out mountain biking tonight with dh but can't be bothered!

anyway must do nappy change!

Sal22 · 26/06/2008 13:36

VS, I have to add, your advice on here have been invaluable to me as well.

To those of you with more than one child - please tell me I'm absolutely bonkers: DH and I had the talk, and we both want to start trying (or rather, not stop it from possibly happening) for our next one... Taking into account sleep get priority most of the time, it's unlikely to happen soon (hmm, we do have that romantic night out next weekend...), but still, I'm strangely excited!

VictorianSqualor · 26/06/2008 13:42

DP wants us to as well, keeps mentioning it, I want to give my body at least 6 months though, especially with my scar, I want to try for a VBAC again next time, so the scar is best being at least a year old.
Saying that, I've just realised I have forgotten my pill
Might be sooner than later
Glad I can help btw Sal.
When we get onto weaning I'll give you all the science bit behind waiting to six months and the BLW info too, but then I'll have to stand back!
After that I have no knowledge

LadyBee · 26/06/2008 14:06

Hi all,
Am just sitting down to a sensible lunch (salami cheese tomato sandwich, yoghurt, apple) and MN with DS tucked up in bed - feel v smug [frantic knocking on wood emoticon]. Morning has gone like textbook, even managed to get some housework done. I realise this means it will all fall to pieces this afternoon, but I don't care because it's sunny and if I need to, I will put DS in his pram in the shed and potter about the vege patch decimating the carrot seedlings until it gets better.

I need to eat more fruit. I buy it, but don't eat it. Which is Stupid and Wasteful and I really need to get into a habit of picking it up instead of relying on toast/bread which is what I do at the moment. I just get so hungry, it feels like nothing will fill me enough unless it involves a couple of slices of bread. Any suggestions for sneaking it into my diet (by which i mean normal eating - not slimming attempt). Do solero's count?

Denny your meal out sounds bliss, congratulations. I really need to start thinking about finding a babysitter (how?)

TMP - rolling sounds like fun. DS makes 'I want to crawl' actions when he's on his playmat on his tum..it's really funny he tries so hard and sometimes gets enough traction with his feet to shove his back half forward a bit, but can't move the front so ends up more and more firmly faceplanted into the mat. He makes very determined noises and rests then has another go. I try not to rescue him too much but eventually it all gets too much for him & he gives a shout to be turned over again.

Meet up was great - Scampmum obviosly has heroes-cheerleader like regenerative powers because she looked fresher than most of us and had both DCs with her. All the babies were excellently behaved and so were we - no stabbing each other with our cake forks or flinging of eggs benedict ;)
BTW we have some money left over to go into the kitty for the next one. Picnic/park sounds like a good idea - off the top of my head, could use the green space next to the London Eye, just down from London Aquarium & on the river. That's probably still pretty easy to get to and has potential for more Day Out activities before or after for those travelling from further way.

Niceychops. You are Bonkers with a capital B. Good luck though. I am jealous. Plus you might actually have sex, of which I am also jealous but not enough to make any advances to OH who seems to think that morning sex is still on the menu..yes that exactly what I want after being up changing nappies, then breastfeeding, then expressing all before 6:30.

nope that rant isn't over...why does it not occur to him that just possibly if he came to bed a bit earlier, i.e. when I went to bed after settling DS, then we might get some sack action.. But no, he always stayed up watching crap or playing games on the PC and god forbid HIS daily schedule should shift slightly. I expect he thinks he's being sensitive waiting for me to make a move on him but he'll be waiting forever if he keeps staying up so late that I'm in the land of zz by the time he makes it up the stairs.

ok. I think I'm done now.

scorpio1 · 26/06/2008 14:13

Sal - it would be too early for me; and my body. I am thinking Xmas but DH needs to be persuaded a bit more....

I just have only finished being pg, it takes ALOT to do again; you have to do teething first, you don't even know what its like to have a moving one yet.

Why not give yourself a few months break and then try? I know i get very caught up in the romance of a small baby and i don't always look at it practically, but i have to for then next one. If DH lets me...

LadyBee · 26/06/2008 14:17

VS - so is a year the safe minimum to wait until the next birth? Someone told me 18 months and I've also heard 2! Is there anywhere I can go to learn about this? I've still got some 'issues' about my labour/c-section I probably need to try to deal with before I go much further

Sal22 · 26/06/2008 14:19

Hehehe, in Niceychops' defence, it's not her that's bonkers, I suspect it might be me... . I hope and pray that next "one" won't be twins though, because then I will run away!

Sal22 · 26/06/2008 14:31

Scorpio, true, I didn't actually think of the teething etc etc stages... Hmmmm. But they're so cute. Yeah, I know, that's not the only reason . Ok, maybe I should wait a month or two then and then reconsider... I'm cancelling my coil appointment def though, as the plan is obviously sooner rather than later. Will discuss with DH again tonight, I guess a month or two won't make the world's difference (if I rather wait a bit I mean). I know it's really sad, but I also miss work a little, and obviously another new baby next year will mean I won't be working again relatively soon, but then again, I'll do a couple of years full-time "babies" and then possibly part-time again after...