June 2007 - Nearly have our first new sib, come on Daisy!

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Hello

We've been having tantrums for months now - throws herself on the floor, bangs her head on the door, howling & yelling. I usually just leave her to it & next minute she's laughing or bringing me books to read. Their emotions are all over the place at this stage & I suppose they really just can't control them yet. However DD has tried to bite me a few times & also tries to slap me in the face or headbutt me (it must be the Glasgow in her) if I try to take something off her. Straight away she'll then give me a cuddle to apologise so she knows it's wrong but I am worried about how she'll be with the babies.

Norty - DD will not let me near her toenails either, they are a disgrace. It's mostly because she wants to play with the scissors so whenever I bring them near her feet she grabs then runs off with them & we have major tizzy when I try to get them off her. Sometimes I get one or two cut before the drama starts. So over the course of a couple of weeks we might eventually get there. Then I think is it really worth it? Have similar problems after her bath - she just will not let me dry her. Its Glasgow in Nov FFS she must be freezing but she'd rather run around dripping in the scud than let me near her with a towel. Sometimes you just have to pick your battles.

tah, i agree TOTALLY, ellen is exactly the same, she tries to hit and bit and headbutt me, she laughs and thinks its funny.
i just put her down and walk away, seems to work quite well lol!

bumper, I know you are really busy being a budding writer and all, but would you be able to spare some words of wisdom for a couple of my Nov buddies with thyroid problems who are trying to BF.

I'm really struggling with some of the advice being handed out on my PN thread. Should I dispel any common BFing myths being bandied about or just bite my tongue? I don't want to come over too evangelical about BFing, but the peer supporter in me feels I can't sit by and ignore bad advice

We were up feeding all night last night . I managed an hours kip from 12.30 till 1.30, then another snatched half hour twice whilst he was latched on, then finally handed him over to DH at 6.30 and slept till 10.30. I think because his mouth is now better he was just catching up, which is good, but I'm still very very sore as his latch is less than perfect. I resorted to nipple shields at 1.30 but he is even making me sore through the shields. Need to see someone and get his latch sorted.

MRR is writing to Gordon Brown this morning to invite him to our house for tea

daisy you should put what ur job is with ur advice, or direct the posters to some correct informaation on websites.. then they wont think ur being bossy

hello.

daisy I think you should mention your peer supporterness and link to sites and stuff, because if the wrong information is making things worse? You have never been over-evangelical on our thread (but then we are the best PN thread ever) And if you have in mind you mind that you don't want to come across as over-evangelical then you probably won't be.

Took DS1 to church this morning. Lovely service, our vicar that baptised baggis did the sermon too, which made sense for a change. There was uproar though, because "For those in peril on the sea" wasn't one of the hymns and we are costal. I like that Remembrance can't be modernised as there is no place for clapping!

Norty, I have an 11yo whith nail cutting issues!!! He cut his won toe nails for the first time ever the other night. He still appears to have the required number, there were no pools of blood either, and no squeling for the first time ever. I usually do baggins in the highchair and feel like I'm pulling his feet off, but it has to be done because he hates socks and shoes and his nails are always broken. Thanks for reminding me - am off to do DS2 now.

Going to Dnieces b'day tea soon.

Good luck with Gordon Brown as a guest - what are you giving him daisy??

Hi and bye everyone, might pop in tonight.

costal = COASTAL

they know about it already, and a couple have called on me for advice. I seem to have killed the thread today though.

Watching "From Here to Eternity", DD and DS2 asleep, DH and DS1 doing homework.....ahhhhh picture of a home life or what

DD just woken up and I thought it would be a good chance for us to have a wee cuddle since the little minnow is asleep......nooooooo she doesn't want me . As soon as I tried to cuddle her in she started crying for her daddy

Good afternoon

We have been out shopping and got this for jamlet for Xmas And had her feet checked again, seeing as it's now 4 months since we bought her shoes and she seems to have just had a growth spurt and she's only just gone up half a size (to a 3) and they recommended leaving it a bit longer before getting new shoes.

Daisy, I agree that you should give advice, especially if others are giving wrong advice, and yes you could state your position if/when you give advice.

Have put jamlet down for a nap, but not sounding like she's going to settle Shame, because I wanted to make teh Xmas cake

Sorted daisy, not much advice on the thyroid front but I did the bfing evangelising for you so they can hate me for interfering rather than you!

ok, i just fell asleep on the sofa with both kids i NEVER sleep during the day, just woke up both kids still sleeping. not even started dinner. goodness me! not like me at all

It's that crushing first trimester fatigue Natty; much worse with two little ones to look after.

Thanks bumper, that was a very balanced and helpful post .

live birth thread if anyone is interested

that's a lovely prezzie jammy. I'm thinking I should probbly take baggins to get his feet measured (and hopefully he will fit the stash of shoes I have), I just ever seem to go to town (in town). Am thinking I might if DH is determined to go to this funeral I think he shouldn't go to... (he can drop me off and pick me up after, or is thay wrong? I'm just thinking if he is driving that far I need some benefit out of it)

Been home from Dsis's about an hour. Am a bit . Need to see DM for a de-brief to see if there was something wrong. She was really uptight and told DS1 off for playing with a toy and said "it'll be £5 if you break it", which I though was a bit unnecessary, and bollocked me for nicking a couple of chocolate buttons off the cake (I only ate one myself, the others were for baggins). She also gave me a top (the usual "too big for me") but I would have thought it was just right for her. Aaargh, sometimes it's lovely and then others...

Bad Mummy alert. DD fell off my bed tonight, she is always wanting up to play on it & I was sitting there with her. I got off the bed, bent down to pick up her dirty T- shirt from the floor & pop it in the laundry basket & heard almighty thump & there she was flat on the floor. Literally turned my back for a second. She has big purple bruise right in centre of her forehead.DH will be home in 3 days by which time it should be a pretty shade of yellow.. Think I know how your DH must have felt after roundabout incident Jammy.

my Dad had his jumper on inside out too, I don't think any one noticed before I got him to change it(strike us down with bad luck - go on!) Can't believe DM missed it at home

Meant to say Jammy I bought that fire station for DN's birthday earlier in the year. It looks like great fun.

poor DD Tbelle. It's so easy to let accidents happen just by not thinking. And the feeling afterwards is .

Have you seen the Boots xmas catalogue. There is a gift pack for man-flu, and it says "does not include a medal for being a brave boy"

PPhhwoargh, Austin Healy is wearing that outfit again. His rhumba did it for me whatever the judges said.

I didn't mean that to sound the way it did. I can't remember if it was DS2 or baggins that fell off a bed - I just hadn't thought it would happen, iyswim. I am ridiculously over-protective and uptight/anxious about possible dangers etc, but you just just can't imagine every situation they can get themselves into, no matter how many you do get yourself in a tizz over. does that clarify what I meant?

IKWYM Ria. She is always on my bed & I am always worried about her falling off, I just got distracted by the T shirt, took my eyes off her for a second & bang.

Jamlet fell off a table in the summer when i turned away for a moment, so I know how you feel Tallulah . It is an awful feeling (she had a black eye for days). So maybe I should have gone easy on DH yesterday? Well tbh I think I did, compared to how I was feeling.

OK, I should go. I am not meant to be here after complaining to DH that we don't seem to do anything together anymore. NIght all.

ooh, poor DD tallulah, I hope she is OK. Have you got nay arnica cream? that'll take the worst of it out before DH gets back!....maybe she will have learned from it and stay off the bed in future? (anything like my DD and that will be a NO)

DS pushed himself off the changing table when he was a few months old......thankfully it was next to a wardrobe and that broke his fall but he slithered down between the table and the wardrobe. I was mortified.

Nah Daisy - she was asking to get back up there within minutes. Then insisted on standing up in the bath & dancing. Must have a self-destructive streak.

Both mine fell off the bed a couple of times . They're at that age I think when they're totally heedless, Baby Sputnik was narrowly rescued today from plumetting down an embankment. He had a fatal attraction to slopes of all kinds, I think he has inherited the mountain climbing gene from my Dad, who is still climbing in his 70s. He also grabs a tray every time he goes into the kitchen and tries to kind of surf with it, he falls over every time but keeps going back (the baby this is not my Dad)

lol sputnik, DD has got DHs mountain climbing gene too! she will knock socks off MRR when she is old enough to go down the climbing wall with them!!

and good for your Dad still climbing at his age!

A friend came over this afternoon and brought me a little food parcel with some seafood cocktail, smelly brie, pate, smoked salmon, oatcakes and a wee bottle of Cava. What a star