Oct 2007: This little piggie ate lots of Christmas turkey.... all by themselves!

[alicet]

Thought this was appropriate given latest discussion and thought I would start a new thread before this expires!!!!

Happy New Year!!

Hope everyone had a nice night. Ours was kind of dull to be honest but that is the life these days. Poor Dareh was woken up just after 12 by local fireworks which scared the bejeepers out of him. He then decided it was morning and we couldn't get him back to sleep for ages. Am very tired now!

Who has resolutions? Mine are:
Make healthy choices (in relation to everything really - food, excercise, emotions etc)
To Declutter my house! That will take at least a year!
I had another two last night but I have forgotten them which does not bode well for them being kept!!

Tles sorry you've been feeling down. Hope your mood has lifted now.

marly and sunny are either of you on FB? if so there are a few of us on and we have our own oct 07 mumsnet FB page, good for sharing photos etc

xx

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!!!

sunny -ooo you poor thing, wishing you a healthier new year!!

Marla - Am happy to meet in Newbury if you rather, you can then go down the A4 and miss out the motorway. Could meet in Camp Hopson's cafe which is on the top floor. If not am happy to go Reading (haven't done the visiting gp's grave for a while so could go and see if all is okay) let me know what you think my email is [email protected] or facebook me if you'd rather if you go to the oct page I am the one riding a child's bike.....(I got stuck and actually couldn't stop pedalling!!!)

Am feeling very hormonal today cue dh and I having an enormous fight! I think this one's a girl as I am very tearful and feeling a little low. Not sure whether to go back to the Drs or if it's a combination of worrying about asking for a c-section (consultants app 30th Jan to discuss me having had a large baby) both the boys being at home all the time and me feeling a little overwhelmed and in need of a bit of sapce or dh working increaingly long hours and us never seeing him. Anyway I just feel I'm not getting any jobs finished and the house is always a mess (one of my signals to watch is that I get incresingly agitated by mess) I found not exercising as much very hard as I was getting a natural high and feeling good about my little achievements but I can't do that now. I don't have any body issues but I did like the feeling I got after I'd exercised. I know I can take ad's whilst prgt (I was still on the when I became prgt with my mmc but came off them and was off them for Henry) but really don't want to. I'm hoping it's a combination of all of the above and that when Ollie goes back to school and Henry is at nursery I'll get my routine back (another thing that's stupidly important to me)

Anyway dh has taken Ollie to see madagascar 2 to give me a break so Henry had a nice no stress bath and we had a cuddle then he went to bed and I have news on his movements.....

HE BUM SHUFFLES NOW!!!!!!!!!!!#

He also pushes himself backwards whilst in crawling position and is still rolling everywhere. He tried to pull himself up on the coffee table (which is so heavy it's not going anywhere!) I am so chuffed!!! He loved the balloons and would bum shuffle to get them. He also keeps shaking his head when you say no which is very funny

Hope you're all well, I'll get dh to put some more photos on my profile when he gets back with Ollie

Love to all
xxx

I have just changed my profile picture on FB I am the one with the enormous child in a grey top (who is looking oh so serious -the child not me!)

muppet-sorry you're having a bad day-hopefully its the christmas period thats tired you out, and once everything gets back to normal you'll feel better mess makes me crazy too. have a

well we managed to con the kids... apart from dd1(it would be mine wouldn't it!)who insisted it just couldn't be midnight yet! and got them home for about 11 and i was brushing my teeth at the stroke of midnight then just went to bed.

had a day of visiting today, i'm in one of them moods where i just can't be bothered to do anything, i think you always get a bit of an anti-climax after all th partying has been done.

oh well, off to watch Eastenders that i've taped.

hAPPY nEW yEAR EVERYBODY! (OOPS, CAPS ON ...)

Had rather too good a night with the neighbours last night - didn't get to ed until 230am! and unsurprisingly have been feeling rather ropey today - I just can't drink like I used to!

Muppetgirl - I really hope that this is just a phase - don't forget that you went through down patches when pg with Henry too, and you dealt with those really well. The important thing is that you carry on telling us how you're feeling - that's what we're here for!
I'll have a look for you for info on requesting a C section: I think that some of the arguments I used for my vbac would come in useful here ... I shall help you all I can.

Marla & sunny - here is the October group on facebook! Come and join us! My profile pic is actually a shot of the back of my head (wearing a hat I made!) - one of my friends is a woman I work with, who keeps adding current students to her friends list ... I don't like doing that, hence the pic!

Right, off to eat some carbs ...

Hi Marla - I had ds 1 who was plb 1oz and ds 2 was 1/2 oz off 10lbs. !st birth was induced, very long, and ended in ventouse as ds was distressed. I then developed severe PND which meant I had to leave my job. I saw a psychologist for over a year and she saw me through Henry's birth and for 6 months after. Henry's birth wasn't great, he was big all thoughout the prgcy - I had growth scans every 4 weeks- and it went exactly how I thought. He got stuck early on and I ended up in theatre havng forceps with an ec on the cards should that not have worked. I had a 3rd degree tear which has since caused me problems. But have been clear of PND which has meant I have really enjoyed Henry.

Crochet/J20 - I think it just a down day just really couldn't see the woods for the trees today and it has been brewing for a while. I am so stressed about his consultants app. I wake at night having flashbacks to Henry's birth which hasn't happened before. I just keep wondering what to do if they say not to me asking for a c-section??? Dh says we can use savings but I don't want to plus it would mean I would feel so guilty using money for this.
It's funny I have booked for a gtt already as I had a baby over 4.5kgs and the consultants app was for the same reason though it has now become to discuss an elctive c-section. I just feel it's all going round my head...

(I know, I know, take my own advice and write it all down -where is that bloody book I used to use?????)

9lb 1oz sorry

Hi everyone
Marla, Tles, Muppet - sorry you guys are feeling low. It must be contagious as i too am feeling pretty crap recently. Once i left my job things were pretty great but DS has started to really become a handful and i just find the world is getting on top of me again. Dh is working so hard recently that i hardly see him. he is working a later shift the last couple of weeks which means that i have been dealing with DS on my own for a while and its just really getting too much. I never have any time for myself.
I love them more than i can ever say but sometimes i just wish i could be somewhere else and just be normal again.
I am sooo tired.

Marla - my DS is also regressing to terrible sleep patterns. This is not like him at all. The other night he woke up at 10pm and wouldn't go back to sleep until 2am I'm hoping he is going through a growth spurt again and that things will settle soon.

Sunny - your dinner story sounds like it was eventful! Don;lt you hate it when you slave over a lovely dinner then it gets ruined. They time it just so !

Muppet - Yay to Henry getting on the move!! He is starting to become more and more mobile by the sounds of it.

Glad everyone had a nice NYE. Mine was great, if not tiring!
We had great food, company and lots of chatter with mum, dad sister and in laws. Eren was too excited by what was going on around him to sleep so he stayed up and fell asleep in the car on the way home at 12.30!

Now i am off to make myself a huge cup of tea and watch the Krypton factor i Sky+ earlier

Happy New Year to everyone! i know it's a bit late in the day, but I hope 2009 is a great year for us all.
DH went to the pub last night with friends, I felt too rough and DS is such a mucus monster too that we stayed at home, and I watched the Sex in the City movie in bed while eating Ben & Jerry's icecream. So not an exciting NYE for me!
Sunny - hope the sickness goes soon
Marla - fingers crossed that Elliot sleeps ok tonight
Muppet - Sorry that the forthcoming consultants appointment is getting you down. I think it's a good idea to write everything down, so that you know what you want to say and why you want to say it. I am keeping my fingers crossed that you see an enlightened doc and get your c-section booked
Hello to everyone else! I am off to raid the icecream stash (as you can see, i haven't made a resolution to eat less of the stuff )

hey i don't know who everyone is on the little piggies group so i have posted a discusion thing here so we can all work out who everyone is :-)

Just a quickie...

thanks to my MN secret santa - whoever you are - for my lovely hat gloves and scarf and the balloons and bubbles for the boys! A lovely treat to get back to today - Christmas day was more about the boys than us really so it was nice to have a pressie to open tonight at my leisure!

Muppet sorry to hear you are struggling. I have to say I would be very very surprised if they didn't agree to a section - and ev en if the worst happens you have plenty of time to ask for a second opinion. If you want to chat on the phone about it send me an email and I will mail you my phone number. Sending you big hugs xxx

Sleep sorry to hear that dd (must remember not to 'out' her name ) is still not sleeping and hope the carpet picnic went well.

Lisa ben sounds like Adam has been for the last few months. At times we have been driven demented by his clingyness and tantrum like behaviour then he will be a lovely happy boy for a few weeks. We were on the verve of going to see a doc to make sure we weren't missing anything but have made a concious effor tto explain stuff to him more which I think we did really well with Sam but haven't so much with Adam. just over the last few days it has made a massive difference - could be a coincidence but we'll see...

Happy New Year to everyone else and sorry i can#t remember all you have posted...

Well our NYE didn't quite turn out as planned. Mum has been having problems with an ulcer on her leg since she fell through the floor not once but twice while they were renovating their house. She has been getting it dressed regularly by the practice nurse but it's been getting worse so she was awaiting a hospital appointment. However she came back from the GP's at lunchtime yesterday having been referred in to be admitted for antibiotics and surgery to clean it up. So Dad and I were at the hospital with her from just after 2 until after 9. We had dinner at KFC (only place that was open) while Mum went for an xray and then headed back to watch telly and play cards. dh went to bed at 11 too. Oh well - nice to be with my sis.

Then we had to come back today afterall as had forgotten that the car needs it's MOT tomorrow (actually expires tomorrow so we would have been stuffed if we had forgotten!). Boo hiss.

So not the last few days I had expected with my sis but life goes on. Mum is doing OK - just waiting for an op to clean her ulcer up which can't be done at the mo as she has been poorly with flu over Christmas and they're concerned about her chest. I just hope she gets out before Sophie goes home but have a horrible feeling she may not - these sort of things often drag on and on...

Anyway off to bed now as I'm totally shattered. Chat soon xxx

lovely to have you back Alie - sorry to hear about your mum - hope she gets better soon!

Am feeling more virtuous now, have just spent 35 minutes on wii fit ... now about to wreck it all by eating my body weight in chocolate!

Bed after that for me, I think!

HI all

Henry said 'Mama' when I walked into his room this morning and when I got stupidly excited he giggled which was sooooooooo cute!!!!!! Okay tommorow I'll be 'oooowww' or 'ahhhh' but for today I am 'Mama!'

Alice/Crochet - thanks for your advice I think I am just having ahuge panic about things and I do think I have a really good case. It's not as if it's my first and I just don't fancy a vaginal delivery! Crochet, if you could dig out those justifications that would be fab and I'll have my app first and then chat to you Alice if they say no.
You're lovely you two xxxxxx

Marla that's so sad, Floria is in the same boat as Alex will be her only due to circumstance so she'd be great to chat too about how you feel (Hope you don't mind me recommending you Floria x)

Alice - your poor mum and poor you lot, you've had a bit of a time of it over this Christmas with one things or another. I hope she gets better enough to have the cleaning op. It must be so hard for her....

When I was prgt with Henry I had a lot of consultants app. They said they would induce me as he was big then changed thier minds and when I expressed concern due to PND they said that giving birth has no relation to whether you get PND or not (????) I get the feeling it's very much the opinion of your consultant that counts not any sort of written guidlines as I've heard on mnet of mums being induced early for big babies, mums having c-sections because their bump 'looks' big etc etc. Anyway, today looks like a better day -hurrah!

speak later
xx

Morning all

Yesterday dp and I cooled for 9 people, 10 with Zachary included.

We had a huge capon, sweet potatoe, swede, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels, roast potatoes, sausage meat, paxo, yorkshires, and gravvy followed by a selection of mini cream cakes (52 of them) and a strawberry gateu. I drank the best part of 3 bottles of wine ooppss

But we all had fun playing on my christmas present which was singstar for the ps3 and singstar disney which is crap lol.

The best part of the day was the fact that my Uncle was here and he never goes anywhere after being on his own so long he has got more than used to his own company. He is my fav person in my family and also my best drinking partner lol. When i was 15 he and I went on a pub crawl lol.....he is a pensioner now and still has the ability to have a good laugh...SOZ am feeling all soppy today as that was the first big meal we have all had together since dad died 5 yrs ago. I thought it was about time we got back to how we used to be!!!

I went to bed at 11 absoloutly knackered.

Anyway am off to get dp up he is knackered as he was driving everyone around yesterday as well as us cooking the dinner and cleaning it all up....... next year i am running away lol not really.

Speak to you all later oh and I have added photos to FB.

ooppss we cooked not cooled lol

Sounds amazing Tles! Glad to hear that everyone got together, it's really nice when you get great family times like that.

That is great news muppet - Dareh still calls me Daddy much to my annoyance!

So sorry to hear about your mum Alice. How is she now?

Marla I have a night weaning issue too. I had done it, then when he started to teeth he started again and I just don't want to go through any crying and I don't think DH would get up in the night to help - he's a very heavy sleeper. It's hard to know what to do.

I have another dilemma that I would love all your advice on! I help to moderate a community message board for survivors of sexual violence - have been doing it for a few years now. They are going to be having a retreat in America in October and the president (it's a registered charity now) has asked me if I would be able to come if they covered the cost of the plane ticket. I would love to go to get the opportunity to meet with everyone and obviously going to America would be exciting too! Also being part of the retreat would be great because it's a huge step in the development of the message board. My concerns are that it would mean being away from DS for just under a week and what if he is still breast feeding? DH and I want to start TTC - what if I am pregnant by then? And also if I had some kind of job by then - it's in school time. Lots of unknowns if you see what I mean but it's a once in a life time opportunity at the same time! What woudl you guys do??

would not woudl!

Stefka I would be totally honest with the people organising it in what you've said to us. No one knows what the future holds and all or none of the below could have happened. I think, taking everything out of the equation, you need to figure out what you want to do and then see if you can work towards it happening x