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ThePenguinProject · 10/08/2008 11:40

Thought I'd start a new thread before we ran out of space! Couldn't remember the exact name suggestion so have paraphrased, the sentiment is still the same though...

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debinaustria · 07/09/2008 14:06

UDcake - can sympathise - our dishwasher is also broken, sorry to hear about the sickness reappearing
can't find those socks anywhere????

Amber - I've been given loads of baby clothes from people who aren't having any more - so I've hardly bought anything yet. Have you considered ebay for a bundle of boys stuff? Some looks realy good quality and at this age it's not worn out from crawling/toddling and doesn't come complete with irremoveable orange carrot stains from weaning.

PiggyPenguin · 07/09/2008 14:34

Is is just me or has it got significantly cooler this weekend? Am about to send dh into loft for cosytoes for pram (cue much swearing and bangs from above). Amber, that really is long! Jamie was 58cm at 9weeks and I don't think he has grown much since then. Just as well given his lack of hunger at the moment!

Should we start thinking about a new title then? Not many posts left to go.

debinaustria · 07/09/2008 14:41

Certainly cooler here Sybil, this week it's been 28-29 degrees, today it's 13!

I have no inspiration for a new title, unless it's something along the lines of "those that chat together stay together - June 08 continues"

poppy34 · 07/09/2008 14:57

parosympthaie as sore throat/cold too... got rugby on.

sybil yes it is defo cooler - having to wrap edie up and even dh said he was thinking about putting heating on (and he never feels the cold).

re thread titles not that inspired - june 2008 - where they all start sleeping through the night and eating through the day

hedgehog1979 · 07/09/2008 15:10

Afternoon all,

Been mega busy here, but Dad has gone home, mum is still here watching tennis and Isaac is asleep.
apologies to anyone I forget

re anniversary DH has an annual trip normally in June climbing with the boys. However they postponed it this year as it was the week Isaac was due, but the only other weekend that they could all do was this one. Haven't even heard from him yet and I dropped him at the airport at 4.45 yesterday am.

weather so rainy here, have to wrap isaac in lots of blankets in the pushchair and need to get him a waterproof/fleecy something so that I can take him out in the sling as his ankles get cold.

socks I have found that the best socks are primark ones (cheap too). Feel a bit bad ethically speaking but is soooo cheap

clothes I have all Isaacs 3 -6 stuff ready to go and keep thinking I will have to start putting him in it. He did wear a jacket yesterday but it was huge ane he couldn't get to his thumb which was a shame.

sleeping we bathe/change/feed him between 9.30 and 10 and find that he will sleep through til anywhere between 6 and 7.30, but haven't tried putting him down earlier yet. The one time I tried a dream feed he woke up once I put him down and demanded more

paro wedding venue looks fab, and a virtual hen night would be wicked too

No idea on the thread titles.....

hedgehog1979 · 07/09/2008 15:11

UDC sorry to hear about D starting the vomiting again, no solutions but wanted to send you some virtual hugs anyway

poppy34 · 07/09/2008 15:18

udc sympathies re vomiting.

hedgehog depressingly rainy here too...binned rugby trip yesterday as one thing taking madam out in sling if its cold but anythign more than a light drizzle she completely understandably kicks off if she is damp.

cheap socks definiltey the way forward as they never stay on -managed to pick up a bunch in gap sale bin

Parofleurmapu · 07/09/2008 16:19

thread titles uhm only one i can think of is

Some are sleeping, others weeping and some are just eating

something like that any how? not good with witty stuff!!!

sorry rain and cold its not to good here either if its any conolation

poppy34 · 07/09/2008 16:28

parathats a good one...

thegreenfairy · 07/09/2008 17:56

afternoon all. strange times here so probably not going to be able to catch up properly today.
instead, i have a question for neenz - now the DTs are sleeping through how often do you feed them during the day and what are their naps like?
storm has been sleeping through for increasingly long periods for the last two and a half weeks. At first it was just 9 to 4/5 but now it's more like 9 to 7 or 8. Obviously I'm not complaining , but it means the schedule she was on for the last month or so is out of the window and I just don't know when she should nap in the afternoon...
since she's slept through properly i've not been able to get her to settle easily in the afternoon. she's been going down for two hour naps in the morning, two to three hours after she wakes, when she is very tired, but then the afternoons are just a mystery. twice this afternoon she seemed tired but i couldn't get her to sleep using any of the usual "failproof" methods, including walking her for an hour in the pram!
she's 14 weeks old and 15lbs and we've just started weaning her onto solids as she's so big (her weight and height are average for a five month old!) - she gets a teeny bit of baby rice mixed with EBM at lunchtime, followed by a milk feed.
she's still taking five feeds a day but is faffing less...
can you help?

ErnestTheBavarian · 07/09/2008 19:42

just quickie

UDC & Deb - no dishwasher major sympoathies - hope fixed soon.

hedgehog, grr at dh not getting in touch - that would really p me off.

at people needing cosey toes etc already! It's been rainy here today, but it's still really hot - 27 or so yesterday, too hot for me. Was better today as cool as well as rainy.

Adele starting to stick tongue out. cheeky mare.

night

oh and paro, congrats on wedding date

Amberc · 07/09/2008 19:55

Paro - maybe it should be some mummies are weeping!

Re clothes - I kinda like buying them TBH and already have an idea of Luke's winter wardrobe. Clearly I am not buying any clothes for myself and so get my pleasure buying him things.

Just bought a footmuff for the pram - £55!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!

poppy34 · 07/09/2008 20:01

I know amber ...its just ridiculous for what is basically a bit of fleece with holes in.

and we also need angel wings for paro's hen night

ernest wish it was 27 degrees here....

fungle · 07/09/2008 20:10

V quick skim of posts, It seems that the whole 'being ignored thing' has caused quite stir. I would just like to say that I agree with a lot that has been said. I know that i personally never set out for a reaction, and I hope folk dont think that. My beef was just with a couple of posts that where v personal to people, and may have just been missed.
Anyhow, on to what we are meant to be here for.....
Isla did a weird night last night. Woke at 10, I tried to feed her, she took 1/2 oz, then woke at 2, took 3 0z. Thinking, maybe she has stopped needing so much in the night?
But, i dont want to speak too soon....!
Only post I have to relate to today is whinegums, our babbys sound like twins!
Same feeding pattern and same weight,and same age!
Had reinds round for lunch today, hectic but nice.
How are folk doing in the shagging department??
We still havn't. There really is NO TIME with 2 kids. Any advice from those with more that one welcome!
Right, glass of wine then bed.....

Upsidedowncake · 07/09/2008 20:11

Thanks Debs, Hedgehog, Ernest, Poppy and Paro - vomiting is OK. I should be used to it by now, but just depressing because it's come back. Last night was particularly stressful, because she vommed at 11pm just after her dream feed, so I had to defrost 3 oz and feed her again.

DH, who has been really unsympathetic all the time and treated me like I was being hysterical, then said, 'Oh my God. I didn't realise it was that bad. I think we should take her to the hospital' Cue a massive row, and I didn't get to sleep till 2 am because I was so cross and stressed. Anyway, all is more cheerful today.

But much worse is the dishwasher! I called Wandsworth council out for a rodent operative the same day (snigger). He is coming at 10.30 am on Tuesday. So how come Bosch, a multinational that's German fgs, can't send someone till Friday, and then only 'between 9 and 5'!

Debs, how are you coping without a dishwasher? At least we aren't running a B&B! Do any of the self-catering bits have a dishwasher?

Paro, great thread title!

Socks, I think the Gap ones stay on best.

Hedgehog, sorry about your DH. Very naughty not to call you. Are 'the boys' his mates or are you a stepmum?

Sybil, agree with you about chilliness. I nearly put the heating on too!

Greenfairy, I'm not Neenz but I do have experience of a large baby having a funny sleeping schedule! DS was on the 85 centile and dropped his dream feed at about three months. I was pretty strict on him doing Gina in the morning (ie 30 mins and then 2 hours), but the afternoons were a disaster. He'd never fall asleep, but would get terribly over-tired and basically yell from about 4.30 till 5.30, and then I'd cluster feed him from 5.30 till 7.30 so he didn't have a chance to yell! not very helpful, I'm afraid.

poppy34 · 07/09/2008 20:20

can see why you're fed up when though it was fixed up Udc -hope you have a better nighte

Have started new thread using Paro's suggestion... going to turn in soon as feeling rubbish with stinking cold

whinegums · 07/09/2008 20:28

Hey Fungle - how strange that our babies are so similar - something cosmic p'raps?! Let's hope they start to drop the night feeds soon eh?

Thanks for everyone else's comments on sleep/colic. Spoke too soon though I think - the boy is having screaming ab dabs right now. DP trying to calm him down and we've given him more Dentinox. V distressing, but not much else we can do.

Poppy, hope you feel better soon.

Oh, just seen new thread started, might repost this on there too.

whinegums · 07/09/2008 20:33

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