December 2007 - Oh what fun, they are almost ONE!

[Caz10]

OK here we are ladies!

Anyone else got a fussy eater at the moment? DS has been a nightmare since he had his tummy bug. Won't eat savoury except bread. Otherwise only eats grapes, blueberries, weetabix, cheerios, fromage frais, porridge. Oh and if you leave the room beware. DH had friends round today and left the room for a couple of mins to show them out and got back to find DS had stolen 4 digestives from the packet and had had a bite out of all of them! Any tips from anyone?

Have been trying to trick him into thinking his food is my food because he's always interested in what's on my plate.

BT - I hope you start to feel better soon, especially since you've handed in your notice, it will be a load off your mind!!

Caz - DS1 is such a good sleeper and that definatley helped me to decide to have Ethan so close to him, i don't think i would have been so keen if ds1 was a terrible sleeper!!!
Saying that, Ethan slept for a straight 14 hours the night before last!!!!

Wizz - No real advice but ds1 went through a phase at about 14 months where all he would eat was toast, yoghurts or mash potato. It went on for about 2 weeks and he gradually just started taking things from our plate if we tricked him and left them within his reach!

It's Ethans birthday on saturday so we are having a little tea party for him so i've got to go and buy all the bits for that tomorrow. I can't believe my baby is 1

I'm going out tomorrow night with work for our christmas meal and what would have been a big night in town but because ive got the party on saturday i'll be straight back home after my meal

Hope everyone else is ok??

Wizz - ds flatly refused some satsuma segments I offered him... then 5 mins later stole them off my plate!! He eats almost everything at nursery but not with me

AG - thanks for that, my friend said she was contacting her own union for advice and telling her dad to do the same. Apparently he has received a police caution but still waiting to hear from the school.

BT - does a police caution stay on your record for ages? Poor man, sounds like a nightmare. My SIL is a Unison rep I might ask her some advice.

I'm not sure to be honest Wizz, haven't as yet heard any more from my friend will try to call her over the weekend.

Oh and by the way, we have a little walker over here!

wizz - how exciting I can't wait for Toby to get walking, no advice on the eating front, I find the whole food thing very stressful, if I didn't have to feed my children we'd get on a lot better

childcare still stressing me out even though we have found a nursery, got to find money to pay childminder, money to pay nursery up front for Jan (payment due 2nd Jan) and I'm not getting paid at xmas if I'd know I needed to fork out £900ish at the beginning of Jan I would have saved for it, we pay our cm weekly so this is a big change in managing our finances, and then there's just the worry of sending them somewhere different... and now my husbands head gasket on car has gone, luckerly I can fix it so it won't cost us as much as if we had to take it to the garage but don't want to spend a day doing it just before I go back to work, had lovely chilled weekend planned - its typical it breaks the week we definitely need 2 cars... its very up and down in the spider household at the moment as baby scan was brilliant on Tuesday, keep looking at the photos to remind me its not all bad!

Insy - that's a bit steep for a surprise bill isn't it? Not easy when you can't budget for it. I suggest getting a dartboard and pinning your cm's face to it.

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to wish all the December babies very happy birthdays!

DD was 1 last Friday - where has the year gone?!!

Hi Insy - oh dear about your dh's car! Agree about the CM...
Wizz - about your walker! DS has only managed a step or 2 unaided and they have been quite absent-minded!

There were steps today!!! Couldn't do it on her BIIRTHDAY!! - Chose the day after, Grrrrr

wow you have been chatty in my absence

DH had his PhD viva yesterday and passed with minor corrections so he is over the moon. I am so proud of him, he has really suffered along the way but he's done it. I keep telling him I can now fulfill my lifetime ambition to be married to a doctor

well sounds like not very happy news all round.

BT I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's dad and that evetything is pretty crap at the moment. i second whoever said that a diagnosis can be a great thing because now you have a tangible problem that you can try to overcome. Hope the ADs start to have an effect soon and great to hear they won't interfere with BF.

insy - must be stressful all the changes with work/nursery. I agree that stumping up a month's nursery fees can be quite when you're not used to it. I will restrain myself from going off on a big rant about feminism and affordable childcare!

wizz - yaaaay, well done to walking Rory!

clairey - echo your about turning one. Milo is one tomorrow and I was saying to DH this morning, I have only just accepted that he is not a newborn anymore, let alone a toddler!!!

Skid - well done to your DH - give him a pat on the back from me!

Hello chatty ladies! Hope you are all having a nice Sunday, we have been putting the tree up today so now the house looks all
Christmassy! Evie is fascinated by the tree but keeps trying to pull the baubles off and eat the fairy lights...needless to say the tiny glass baubles are all up near the top! Just send DH out to find a plain bauble for me to decorate with DD's name, the DS's both have a bought one but can't find one with DD's name on. Mind you, he just phoned to say that everywhere local has sold out of Christmas stuff already, even the display stuff!

BT, just want to say that I am so pleased you have a diagnosis now and some ADs which allow you to continue BFing Daniel. Did I see that you have handed your notice in at work too? FWIW I think that is a great move for you as it seems to generate a lot of stress. I am sure that people at work have a lot of sympathy for you and no hard feelings at all, please keep in mind that low self esteem goes hand-in-hand with depression so it is easy to think bad things of yourself. I think you are a great Mum to Daniel and seem a really lovely person too.

Have now stopped BFing DD but too. She does not seem too bothered and last night drank her milk from a cup with no fuss, am so glad I kept feeding her until she was happy to stop although she didn't want to snuggle for her milk last night and I will miss that. No engorgement either but think that is because I cut down very gradually.

Ooh, and well done to your DH Skid!!!

Just got together with my NCT friends - first time we have had all 6 boys in the room together! Daniel did me proud, we had all 6 of them on the sofa, took 10mins to settle them as all of them except Daniel were crying or trying to climb down but he just sat there grinning his head off! Can't wait to see the pics!
Am gearing up for my meeting tomorrow afternoon with my boss.

Hi BT, glad to hear you are feeling a little better, I hope you sort things out at work. I saw my NCT friends today as well - but now we all have two children so we have to meet in a hall as 5 three-year-olds, one 18-month-old, one 12-month and three babies just don't work in someone's front room!

Hi everyone else. Not much to report here, just feeling a bit down again, can't put my finger on it but things just seem a little bleak at the moment. Possibly due to months of interuppted sleep or some such thing.

Skid - did you manage to find somewhere to live in Oxford? Will you be working there? Do you have to find a pre-school for dd1? And childcare for ds? When are you moving?

Well DS slept throught last night from 7.30pm - 4.30am BUT after I fed him, put him in his cot drowsy but awake and he went back to sleep until 6.10am!!

The previous 3 nights he has slept through to between 4.30am - 5.30am but would not go back to sleep after I fed him, so this is progress!

And he drank some moo juice this morning from his doidy cup Previously he has been spitting it out!!

BT I'm glad things are progressing with daniels sleeping and using his cup.

I'm currently trying to potty train ds1, we tried a couple of months ago but didnt really go too well, tried again yesterday and he used his potty a few times and has had no napy on since 8 am and used his potty once, but he actually asked for it and had a wee, hasnt had any accidents yet so fingers crossed we might make some progress this week.

We are all still loaded with cold and ive now got a nasty chest infection...im always bad at xmas

Clara - I'm sorry you're feeling low. It is a bit bleak anyway this time of year with the cold and darkness but I'm sure it's worse if you're feeling down. Hope you feel better soon.

BT, How are you feeling? Glad you're getting a bit of improved sleep, let's hope it gets better and better. And well done on the cows' milk. I gave Rory some last week, and he didn't seem to mind the difference, but I have since switched back to formula because it seemed to upset his poo a bit. I think I gave too much too quickly. He seemed to like it so drank loads. I thought half and half for a while would be better.

Good luck with your meeting by the way.

Fifi - poor you in snotsville. Glad to report we seem to be ok at the moment apart from residual coughs. Please Lord let us be healthy for Christmas. I am sick of all these bugs and I want a break.

Skid - pressed the button before adding you, sorry. Congrats to your DH!

skid - well done to yur dh. I tell mine it it is a disappointment not to be married to a real doctor...he did say he would get a white coat.

evie was 1 yesterday ... where has that year gone? sigh...I am not broody I am not broody

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hello all,
Congrats to your dh skid! How's your writing up going?

BT i feel for you. But, every day is a day fewer to suffer from this. Well done on keeping up with bf- i was relieved to give up TBH.

DD has had diarrhoea for 8 days now. Apparently they can become temporarily lactose intolerant when they have a tummy bug, so we will have a go at soya milk formula. Very embarassing- went up to scotland this weekend and she had diarrhoea on descent both going and coming back. I saw it appearing in her socks and felt it thorough my jeans. Nice

Suey - dd2 became lactose intolerant after a bout of gastro entiritis last summer. She was basically on soya milk until now, when she is almost completely on normal cows milk. We were told that soya is as good as normal formula and as it was the same price as normal formula in Pakistan we kept her on it. She seems to be coping with the transition to cows milk though.

Anyone else got molars? She has three or four coming at the same time. Up until now I thought we would get away with it as the only way it seemed to affect her was spending all day with her fingers in her mouth. But last night she was awake about 7 times.....

Feeling slightly better today. Sunday is always bad, as I face that long week ahead.... I think a more-successful-than-expected trip to Tescos this morning (ie we found a parking space and the two girls didn't kill each other in the trolley) cheered me up a little.

Hope everyone else ok. Wizz, I think you are right, this is always a difficult time of the year. Bt, congrats to your ds on sleeping so well. Bet those nights of being up every couple of hours to feed seem like a distant memory by now (distant enough to think about another??? It was when my dd1 was about this age that we started thinking about trying for number two....)

Hi everyone,
Had a great weekend at my friend's wedding, couldn't stop crying though and was very because I was doing those really noisy chokey sobs when she walked in. I did successfully make her dh cry too though so am quite proud of that!

Boobs survived with twice daily pumpings, left one got quite engorged but right one didn't although I got just as much out of it when I expressed, wonder how that can happen?

Am just waiting for my babies to come home now so will let you know how they got on, do you reckon ds is sleeping through yet?????