Feb 08 - Never mind my wrinkly tum, look what's come out of my baby's bum!

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done it

Morning all. In midst of cleaning marathon at mo but just checking in!

Alkar I too was at you waking up of your own accord at 6:30. I can't remember the last time I wasn't up by then .

All DCs gone to nursery today, fingers crossed nobody gets sent home...

Alkar DS1 had the little wooden trike with trailer from ELC for his first birthday, he spent months on it, he still uses it now (age 2.7) but it would not be suitable earlier than a year really.

I feel bad moaning that I was up so early when a lot of you are up at that time anyway. If it makes you feel any better I put DS to bed at 8.30 last night all fine until DH decided to go in his room 10 mins later. DH is not the quietist person ever and of course woke him up. I think DS then thought he'd had his nights seep and it was time to play. He then stayed up til 12.30 wide awake. I put him in bed with me and managed to get him to sleep til 4 when he woke up crying. Fed him then put him in his own room and listened to him cry for about 20 mins before he fell asleep. I feel sorry for the neighbours!

Thanks Alkar. Feel better now!

DH gets up for work at 6:10 so I don't mind if any DCs get up after that, but DS2 usually wakes ready to play some time between 5:30 and 6 (sometimes later though thank god).

I can't believe how good I usually have it then. I hope lasts nights performance was a one off

DS woke at 5.30 this morning and then went back to sleep just when i had to get up for work . have a good day. am at work so can't chat

I have late risers. Its not unknown for DD to sleep in until 9am. Generally she won't get up for nursery but is up at 7 at the weekends though. Why is that??

Am finding work really exhausting. I found it really hard to get up at my alarm of 6.30 this morning and then I didn't stop again until DD went to bed at 8pm. Its a long day, especially when DH is away. Am just popping in to say hello before I go off to bed. Am expecting a long day tomorrow but then its Wednesday and I can't wait for my day off. I think its worth the hassle but I am keeping an eye on my hours. If I do 5 days work in 4 I am going to ask for a pay increase lol.

I wanted to ask, do you guys worry about security etc on here? I am new to MN and find some of the other posts about trolls etc disturbing. Do you think I should remove my pictures?

Just a quick post for me. Im knackered and off to bed. Hope everyone ane their LOs are ok.

Henley has a lie in most mornings . DP gets up for work at 6:40am. Henley wakes and gets in bed with me. He'll then sleep until 9.30am - 10.00am. On the odd occasion hes even slept until 11am.

Nite, nite. Cant keep my eyes open any longer

waaa??? babies sleeping til 9am - 10am????? dd starts having a chatter about 6am but wth curtains opened and a quick hello is happy to talk to herself til half past. dh does morning shift cause he's always up then anyway. i could get a lie in til 8am but i'm usually awake properly by seven anyway.

strab and mammak v sorry to hear you both struggling a bit fitting everything into your days. sounds like you're both doing an ace job - this is always one of the hardest times of the year as days get shorter and xmas seems a long way off. strawb - i did not realise your dh went away a bit. wow - you are nails, no wonder you are tired.

hello egg its nice to cyber-see you again .

well i feel absolutley blardy awful. could be sick at any given moment. i really had an excellent first trimester last time - a bit of retching first thing in morning but gone within half hour of waking. sickness now gets worse and day gets longer. strangely dd's stinky nappies not a problem (despite my supersonic sense of smell, ii had forgotton that!) bur feeding her takes such a big effort. if i'd have known this, i would not have weaned her til a year....

Swotty (i was still being sick at christmas with toby! hope you don't go same way!). take care, gets lots of rest and try gingerbeer!

read strawberry's msg - what's a troll? Sorry to be so thick!!

Afternoon all,

Im really tired today. Henely was up every 45mins - 1hr lastnight. I dont kno what was wrong with him. Think it must be his teeth. I can see tooth number 6 just about to cut. I feel really bad coming on and moaning that im tired when some of you are getting up really early with your LOs.

I took him to be weighed this morning and he weighs a perfect 20lb 2oz.

The HV suggested that i take him to see the GP due to me having had the Salomella poisioning. He hasnt got any symptoms but they just want to have him checked over. She also checked his ears for me as he keeps sticking his fingers down the hole and really tugging at them. Ive already been told that he's got glue ear but i didnt know that it could cause him to have so mch pain. HV said that the GP my syringe his ears to get the trapped wax out.

Ive also changed his food due to him having really bad reflux. He was on the Hipp Organic range and was constantly throwing up. I ve now put him on the Mums Own and he loves it. Hasnt been sick once.

I went up to see my new nephew at the weekend. He is lovely. So cute. I realised how big my baby actually is when i saw them both together. Sis is finding it hard her DS1 who will be 3 in Dec is really playing up. Hes gone from being a pleasent happy child into a complete monster. He keeps driving his car into the baby seat whilst the baby is in it and hitting Henley. Ive had to shout at him so many times over the weekend. I feel relly sorry for my sis. Dont know how shes going to cope when her DP goes back to work.

strawberrycornetto sorry to hear your finding getting up for work a struggle at the moment. Hope your feeling better soon.

oh dear miss Henly, i hope your sis has lots of support, maybe her DS1 is feeling a little left out??? It def hits the siblings quite hard when a new arrival enters the family,

Took Rosie to be weighed today too, she is 33 weeks 4days and weight 20lb exactly, thay are very ppleased with her, (although have no idea why they need to be pleased)

picked up some lovely clothes for dd in half price sale at Asda yesterday, thay have some really nice stuff in,

We are off to have some family portrait pics taken on sat and cannot wait, were hoping to frame a few as xmas gifts for dgp etc!!!

back at work after a break so am tired today but we have had a good day on the whole up until the last hour-

bad mummy alert*

we went to a local soft play for a couple of hours with a friend and her ds (same age), when we left i asked DS not to go out the door why i signed us out of the register thingy, turned round and he was outside playing around 2 parked cars with his friend, i called him back again and again and he ran off into the road!!!!! i panicked and grabbed him and smacked his leg!!! i am so cross with him for not listening and putting himself in danger like that he knows its wrong and is pretty good by the road, but i am so angry at myself for smacking him, we came home and he has his pj's on and no tv- i am just really cross atm!!!! - we have this daily when leaving pre- school Harry and said boy are out of the door before i and his mummy can fight our way thru with DD her ds and pushchairs, we have had time out in the middle of footpath so many times people look at me like i am mad- (however it works for a while)

sorry bout that rant,

must cook dinner before work xxxxx

Misnat - I agree with sarah. Don't be too hard on your nephew - he's still just little and it is really hard on older siblings when babies arrive. Your sis should just try to give him as much attention as possible because he probably is feeling it after being the center of attention for so long. That is a difficult age too - a lot of us on this thread have found that our 3 year olds have been 'challenging' since the babies arrived. It is funny when you see a newborn isn't it - you realise how big our babies are.

Schools and nurseries on 2 week holidays here atm so it's a bit busy!

hello all, checking in quickly before ds wakes from his nap.

Sarah, don't be too hard on yourself about getting cross with ds - and give him time out wherever. Me and ds went to look at a cathedral on holiday in Wales, and there was a mum there having a stand off with her 3 year old ds in the church yard - dd refusing to move, and mummy laying down the law. Me and dh were really impressed that the mum was seeing things through even though in full public - hard to be a parent isn't it?

Swotty - hope you're okay - sending you a virtual ginger biscuit for the nausea.

Hope all you working mums are doing okay.

Missnat - I laughted at your description of little henley zooming off up the stairs - can't believe some of our babies are on the move!

I have got sciatica and am hobbling around like a granny, but I must go out with ds this morning or I'll go bonkers. I think I've done too much baby wearing - he is getting a big boy and I walked miles with him in the sling last week - now paying the price.

Ds is very sweet at the minute - he has started to mimic the cats meowing with a little squeek, and also enjoys growling

ty mitfords. impressed you're still carrying your ds around. even before i found out about no. 2 i'd knocked the slinging on the head as dd just so big now. touch wood the sciatica will sort itself out sooner rather than later..

sarah - my parents are such woolied liberals you;d think they'd been knitted out of lentils and i was on the receiving ends of quite a few smacks as a little one.

missnatlie i am very impressed at the prospect of a third tooth - we have a the first two making a stumpy appearance but you;d only know if you took a good look at exactly the right moment.

rozzy - i am sending you coping-with-three-kids-for-a-fortnight-vibes!

Thanks SB - how are you doing? How many weeks are you now? I still use the sling occasionally for things like model railway exhibitions - can you tell I have a houseful of boys? They are off to another one this weekend but I'm hitting the shops instead!!

rozzy will the shopping trip be that first proper time to yourself you mentioned you were going to get a week or so back? i have just come into a bonus £70 and been googling winter boots . model railway exhibitions sound quite fun but i guess the novelty may wear off after the first one. feel really bad today. not been out but like mitfords am going to force myself for both dd and my own sake. i swear i can feel the oestrogen coursing thru me its like being on some horrible drug

Afternoo everyone,

Ive been back to the docs today as am feeling a bit yack again. Guess what. Ive still got the salmonella poisioning. I took a stool sample in last week and the results show that the bug is still there. Docs given me some anti-biotics so hopefully it will shift soon.

Henley officially has 6 teeth. 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. It must of cut over night.

I thnk i do need to be a little more paitent with my nephew. He was the only baby of the family for 2 yrs. This yr he had a new cousin and brother. Think ill spoil him next week when i go up.

Ive also been to boots today for some of the 3 for 2 xmas pressies. I got a bargin for my sis. A St Tropez gift set reduced from £45 to £22.50 and it was on 3 for 2. Think the offer is on until Thurs.

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lol at model railway exhibitions rozzy - is this a future I can look forward to when ds is old enough to say 'twain'?

I've upgraded the old slingamy and now have a patapum, which is like an ergo but cheaper (always on the hunt for a bargain me).

Speaking of which, missnat - you are very organised to be onto Xmas already - I aim to follow your example as I want everything done before going back to the evil work in November.

Swotty, at the parents knitted from lentils, very funny. I remember those wierd hormone surges of pregnancy - just think, you'll have that lovely bloom to your skin again soon though (scrabbles around for silver linings).

Winter boots ladies - I ended up getting a pair of second hand 80s midcalf slouchy ones - they are comfy enough and a little bit glamourous. I want an orange cardigan now.

6 teeth misnat - ds has a total of ............. 0! Think 1 is almost through though.

Winter boots sb - are you remembering you won't be able to bend over for much longer. I'll have ds3 with me at the shops on Sat - still waiting for that elusive 'time to myself'.

I'm quite organised for xmas too.

mitfords... repeat after me... there is NO SUCH THING as too much babywearing. At LOs christening I held him for longer than I normally would (ie normally he would have been in the sling) and it gave me really bad tendinitis in the wrist!!

Hows the patapum? I recently discovered how to carry LO in a back carry in a mei tai. Only problem is I cannot persuade him to go to sleep in it, because he insists on having his arms out so it does not provide enough support to his neck and arms.

BACK TO WORK ON MON.... arrrghghh dreading it.

Im feeling so sad and confused today. I think that mine and DP relationship may be over .

Its my fault really. Ive suffered with PND since having Henley and cant bear to be away from him. I used to go to a councellor about it but that all stopped a few weeks before my my holiday. He said that im like this with Henely as ive had many losses in my life and im scared of loosing him.

I moved down to Wolves to be with DP and i hate it. I am so miserable. I have no family down here and not even a single friend im so unhappy.

I dont get on with DPs mum anymore. She's always interfearng when it comes to Henley. At one point she was calling herself his mummy . Shes done loads of things that piss me off.

I dont get on with DPs dad but i have a valid reason not to. Heres a thread i did a while back about it www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=relationships&threadid=270606-cant-stand-my-boyfriends-dad#54124 93

DP and i are arguing all the time and im sick of it. The arguments are always over family or Henley. I know im very protective of him but i cant help it. I thought i was alot better than i used to be, but apparently not. I feel like ive got to the point where ive got no more energy left to put into the relationship. Ive given up so much for DP (my friends, family and career up north) and i know he wouldnt do it for me. Weve talked about moving back up north so many times but nothing ever comes of it. His family will fall out wiht him if we move up there too. Im just so fed up. Fed up of arguing and fed up of crying. I just dont know what to do

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=relationships&threadid=270606-cant-stand-my-boyfriends-dad#5412493"

Hi miss nat,
So sorry you feeling sad i understand where u are coming from with your mil,you not the only one my dh is an only child mil has always been nasty and never invited me to her house we live 4hrs away maybe better that way, since i had my son she has interfered on every visit she wont let me hold him or do anything until she lives when she has gone he is cranky and when she is around he does not sleep at night, my dh says she will never change she is always right and her hubby defends her-my dh says since they have been married for 37 years they must be doing something right, he feels i should let everything wash over me that will not happen, she hurt my feelings when my father died she did not call me just sent a card-you do that to a person whom you do not know-after i complained to dh she called and said its becoz 2 weeks ago you did not reply my text to say i had arrived home safely i thought how petty is that right now iam fumming still over that i have tried to be kind--the worst of it is every time she has been around and gone i have questioned my marriage and have had terrible rows i know i have not helped you but i want you to know that there are people out there who can cause us pain. dh says its her second chance at being a mother thats is why he treats my son like her baby. i send hugs

hey missnatalie sorry to hear you're feeling so low. cant be nice to have been so ill for so long as well. i know how hard it is being in a new area where you dont know anyone - am feeling v sorry for myself today for the same reason.

you;re a mum - of course you're protective of your son. i don't think the word overprotective has any useful meaning when talking about a little eight month old . is it possible your DP feels left out - i know a lot of men say that about first baby. also, and i know this is true of me and DH now that i feel a bit isolated i think there is a lot more pressure on our relationship. it feels like he's all i've got so even the smallest thing can be blown out of all proportion. if i had more friends nearby i know half the time i would just laugh things off with them rather than mull them over on my own...

off to read your thread re your DPs dad

Hi swottybetty you changed your name u naughty girl as i have been away it took me a little while to discover it was you-i like it.