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Jan '07 Part 27: The one with the cr*p title because 2Happy has gone AWOL!

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Wilkiepedia · 06/08/2008 19:20

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eandh · 09/09/2008 15:20

last try!!

eandh · 09/09/2008 15:21

actually the second link on my post at 15:19 is a bargain reduced from £149.99 to £69!!

Lizzzombie · 09/09/2008 15:32

Hello everyone!
Just a quickie as I have a non sleeping child who needs some attention. Darn it!

Very amusing, DJ is in the throws of a Thomas obsession at the moment. However, his pronounciation is not too clear. (LTH don't take offence at this...)
He calls the Fat Controller a F*king C*t Its very funny, and very embarrassing! The girls at nursery were ROTFL at it!

Dragonhart · 09/09/2008 18:20

Sent mine EAH!

ladytophamhatt · 09/09/2008 18:24

LOL at DJ lizzz.

Hilarious.

Ds1 used to call him him The fat deedooodahhh.

Oh FFS....

Does anyone what a 9yr old???

I AM NOT ENJOYING BEING A MOTHER OF 4.

There, I said it.

Dragonhart · 09/09/2008 18:25

Lizz- PMSL! A word of warning. Thomas obsessions last for AGES! Luke is still obsessed and we have enough 'motor road and rail' track to cover our lounge twice. And hundreds of trains for it, books for all the different characters, dvds, tshirts ect. HIT must make a fortune!!!

Dragonhart · 09/09/2008 18:25

Lizz- PMSL! A word of warning. Thomas obsessions last for AGES! Luke is still obsessed and we have enough 'motor road and rail' track to cover our lounge twice. And hundreds of trains for it, books for all the different characters, dvds, tshirts ect. HIT must make a fortune!!!

Shimmer · 09/09/2008 18:32

AHHHHH Freddie has been driving me INSANE the last few days. He's suddenly become really fussy about EVERYTHING and is having tantrum after tantrum after tantrum and I just don't know what's going on with him!! Its like every single thing I try and get him to do - get dressed, change his nappy, have a meal (he will only eat pasta and fruit now. Any sort of meat or veg goes straight on the floor), get in the buggy, get out of the buggy, have a bath - ANYTHING, he's decided he's going to fight me to the death about. Is this just the "terrible twos"? There's absolutely no way Im going to be able to handle this for a whole year. I'm sure it's just cos he's got a cold at the moment and he's feeling a bit crap and is whinier than usual ... what happened to my beautiful smiley baby??

Now 3 weeks since he's had a bath.... We've developed a system where he stands on his step by the sink and plays with the basin full of water & soap and I just sponge him down there. It makes a HUGE mess on the floor usually, but at least he's getting bit clean. His hair really needs a proper wash. I'm gong to run the bath again tonight and see if I can get him to stand in it for a few minutes. Not sure whether forcing him into the bath will just make things worse and give him a proper pheobia of it, or whether it's going to be the only way to get him over this.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... and I haven't even got any wine

Shimmer · 09/09/2008 18:36

He has just learnt to say I love you mummy though, which almost makes up for everything else.........

Well, he actually says, I lub oo bobby.

Don't know why he calls me Bobby.. he can say other m words okay... I quite like it though

theSuburbanDryad · 09/09/2008 18:39

Shimmer - very quickly, before i go and put my own grubby monkey in the bath, when Z was going through a non-bath phase I started blowing bubbles for him which he LOVED. He now asks for "bubbles" onwards of about 5pm! Worked for us, anyway.

2Happy · 09/09/2008 19:30

ds2 doesn't want my milk any more

ladytophamhatt · 09/09/2008 20:05

Dhart.....Ummmm I have to say I think I win on the train track/thomas thing.

we have every train and track type know to mankind. From duplo to hornby we have every type imaginable.

And then of course I'm married to a train driver....

ladytophamhatt · 09/09/2008 20:06

forgot teh off the end of that...

theSuburbanDryad · 09/09/2008 20:17

2Happy - do you think it's self-weaning or a nursing strike? Has he gradually been weaning off or is it a sudden thing?

vinorouge · 09/09/2008 20:22

eah - I want to do secret santa tooo! don't leave me out

eandh · 09/09/2008 20:27

EandH
LTH
Rgee
Wilkie
Kw3K
Laughalot
PCF(?)
UD
2happy
lizz
shimmer
dragonhart
Vin (sorry not sure how I missed you )

LTH - absolutley no help re the ds's but sympathies!

Shimmer - have you tried shower, Hattie gets in shower with me in morning then I get out and she stays in (child is obsessed as she also has a bath every night!!) and we have tantrums over most things mainly because she doesnt want a nappy on or clothes on (future nudist on my hands)

DH- Rachel beautiful

Lizz - hope DJ better soon

2happy - how about another baby

UD - saw your facebook update hows the house sale going?

Ellie went back to preschool today, Eddas and I caught up wuth the younger ones and it was delightful they just played nicely and we drank tea and talked with minimal disruption plus Ellie went to bed with no fuss tonight

vinorouge · 10/09/2008 08:36

I went to see a friend with 5 week old dd yesterday who was very cute. I almost didn't go cos it was so wet but the bus journey is quite straightforward so I went and was glad I had done. Also met a nice spanish (I think) girl on the bus home who has a 15 month dd and lives in same place as me. hopefully she will come to a playgroup I am going to on thurs as sounded like she didn't get out much.

Today i am going to a new bfding group our HVs have set up, might as well see what its like and see if anyone there can use the breastpads and lansinoh I no longer need. And before I start introducing FF. S slept from 10pm-3am last night so I didn't feel quite as foggy when I was feeding her!

Shimmer - can't help with bath as E loves it and never wants to get out. She had her first shower with me at the weekend and loved that too so maybe worth giving it a try - she loves playing in the shower too.

Katw3kitts · 10/09/2008 11:04

2Happy ... got anything you need to tell us

No ... sorry, its aleays worse when they decide to stop rather than when we choose.

I still have a thing about DS1 self weaning and that was over 7 years ago.. you'd have thought I'd have forgotton about it by now

2Happy · 10/09/2008 19:02

kw3 - no definitely not . Actually I did say to dh I should get pg again, but he just looked at me.
UD - no, I think it's more of a sibling-hero-worship thing - ds1 gets stories with daddy, ds2 has milk, then they go to sleep. Now ds2 wants to sit with big brother and have big boy's story time. He just doesn't want milk. I asked him again tonight and he totally scowled at me, then ran to the stairs and said "BYE!!!!" and waved me away. I think the message is pretty clear. I dread to think what my boobs're going to b like though, I don't really remember what they were like pre-ds1, and every post-bfing friend I speak to say theirs are much smaller and flatter and, well, droopier . I shall be asking Lizz for advice anon!!
DH - the photos are so cute, beautiful
Shimmer - don't know what to suggest. ds1 loves the bath, ds2 is ok, but hates getting his face wet, so (suckers) we got one of these. But that's not much help if he won't even go into the bath. lol at bobby though!
eandh - playschool is soooo handy for knackering them! Peace and quiet (well, until it starts all over tomorrow again!)
eandh - thanks for the iron links, I'm going to show dh and see what he reckons (TBH if he's going to bloody insist I iron his fecking pants, he can buy me a decent iron!!!)
Lizz - PMSL at the fat controller!
LTH - someone told me (probably one of you lot!) that kids keep their worst behaviour for their mum, which is cold comfort but true. How can they be total angels for everyone, and understand how to behave, whiat's right and wrong, but then think it's acceptable to be totally vile towards the woman who gave them life and loves them more than anyone else. Ah, put them in the hutch and bring the chickens into the house

theSuburbanDryad · 10/09/2008 20:10

@Happy - do you want to carry on nursing ds2? To be honest, i'd be pretty happy if Z self weaned at this point. It sounds like a nursing strike to me and there can be ways round it, but it's your call.

Has he been dropping feeds gradually or is this a sudden thing? Just asking because if it has been a sudden thing you may want to express a little bit each day and gradually reduce it, so you don't end up with a blocked duct.

Am I the last weirdo bf-er on the Jan '07 thread then?

2Happy · 10/09/2008 20:24

UD I think you win that prize

He has dropped a few feeds in a shortish period of time, but seemed relatively happy with his nighttime feed until last night. TBH I know that I could rearrange things, try and persuade him, keep it going, really try... but sad as I am that it's all over, I always said I wanted weaning to be his decision. This way, it is, he has control. He's 19m, I'm really proud of every single day I managed to bfeed (in fact, in the beginning with ds1 I was happy to get through a minute at a time it was so hard) and I guess I'm happy (in a miserable way!!) for it to end now. It's his choice, he's 19m, I think he's just growing up!

Lizzzombie · 10/09/2008 21:16

2Happy, get yourself to Bravissimo in Newcastle. Have a day out shopping there and they'll soon sort you out.

My tits are totally saggy and I only BF for 6/7 months - they've maybe gone down ONE size since giving up BF and thats still THREE cup sizes larger than before. Gulp!

Sorry, favourite subject!

  • Did anyone see the extended bf programme on CH4 last night? There is a huge thread on it on here, but its mainly people sniping at each other for having an opinion either way...as usual!
One of the women on the programme said that the world wide average for BFing was 4.5 years old. I want to know which/ if any 'western' type countries are more accepting of longer, extended BFing....UD - any ideas?
Guadalupe · 10/09/2008 21:20

Not quite, UD.

theSuburbanDryad · 10/09/2008 21:30

@ MrsC.

Lizzz - that is an oft-quoted thing, that worldwide weaning age. I've looked and looked, but I can find no evidence for it at all.

Lizzzombie · 10/09/2008 21:46

Obv, Africa and Asia would have a higher BF rate, as they can't nip to the shop to buy formula in the desert etc (HUGE generalisation here, but bear with me)
But, I am interested in knowing if say Denmark, or Canada are more open towards it. You sort of imagine some countries not really giving a monkies about it. Like The Netherlands or Belgium, or Germany. They are so blase about getting their bits out anyway, I can't help thinking they wouldn't care about 4 year olds being nursed still.
I don't mean to come across making assumptions about nations here at all!!!