November 08 - Say it LOUD.......We're shades of GINGER and PROUD :0)

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vBAB it must be very hard to deal with. DD1 cut her liplast night and I just wanted to make it go away for her.

Yes we are meeting up some place near meadowhall, I think. That's just where I get the train to- bit like saying we're meeting in Manchester when actually we went to the trafford centre.. which is in ..err. Trafford ]/

Hello everyone

I never get chance to MN now so sorry that I haven't managed to catch up on everyone's news.

My LO has been suffering with eczema and nothing, either prescribed or not, seemed to work. That was until I tried Lush's Dream Cream. The eczema cleared up within 2 days and his skin is really soft now. I'm amazed and thought it might help someone who is also struggling to keep in under control. Plus it smells divine! Hope that helps someone.

xx

Hi Betti; good to "see" you

I just had a look on the Lush website and the reviews for the dream cream look pretty impressive. I think I'll pick some up when I'm in town tomorrow. Thanks for the recommendation

Oh guys how I adore the fact that we are all going through the same thing. Minirosa is a pain in the butt right now. She wants to feed then fall asleep in arms - Took me 20 mins to get her to sleep in her cot then she sleeps max 20 mins - We have tears bubble dribbles, right strops - Yesterday she fed every 2 hrs and never seemed satisfied Dh got home at 5pm and by 5.10 I was out the door in the pram for 1.5 hrs. It was effin cold ( she was fine). I even diddn't take dd to a carnival party for the fear that minirosa would be a nightmare and I wouldn't be able to watch dd1 properly ( and it turned out to be a great party !).

anyone there? ive only just managed to get back on to MN, flicked last few pages of thread so seen lots of dribbly, grumpy babies.

I admit that i have been struggling big time and at times wondered whether i had pnd or just sheer terror at not having a clue what im doing...however i now think sod it, im gonna hold screaming dd and find peace back on MN.

Will anyone still talk to me after 3 months away?

Brian, Brian, Brian. Oh I was thinking about you today. Thinking about how much I MISSED YOU. Wondering how you were. Was Literally JUSt about to post asking where you were. And others. Thinking mum2, where is she ?
who else are we missing ?

Hello Drswife, good to see you back - of course we will talk to you
Hello to Betti too

Hope all these babies with eczema clear up soon, DS1 had it so I know how awful it is

ahh bless you obs, missed everyone too. honestly, ive found it all so hard and just feel shit at parenting, she's always crying, im always crying and MN seemed like a bloody luxury and then i thought i'll have to let her cry on my lap!

i need my virtual friends xx

there are names on here i dont recognise, do we have newcomers or name changers?

Doctors wife...nice to see you again ( as Rosa types with minirosa in bouncer chair being rocked with foot!)

at Rosa being able to put minirosa in bouncy chair, i've got dd screaming on lap and im having to press my face against dummy to hold it in and type with spare hand ha ha.

drswife lovely to have you back! It's like a long lost friend returning!!!
I was Reading our old threads the other day and it was me,you,twinkle & sparkle all waiting for our late babies arriving!!
Sorry your not having an easy time tho, I post when I can but do lots of lurking and being reassured that everybody else us going through the same!

Was just about to look into the dream cream then read hanas post, we need to avoid peanuts as BIL has a severe allergy to them!

Trying to think who our 'newbies' are that Drswife may not recognise .......

londonboots
pinkglow
finger of fudge
sausagerolemodel = reluctant incubator, right ?
phee
Is that correct. Trying to think of people that joined the PN, that weren't on the AN.

pmsl at old threads with us being overdue, cant believe i was so anxious for this little terror to arrive, i'd gladly stuff her back through my c section scar today....at xmas we visited santa and i asked if he knew the stork so i could send her back

SEE, SEE, this is what I mean. I have posted this before. I worry when we don't hear from people. Fine if they are too busy enjoying their baby. But I do worry that people are struggling and thus have no time to MN, and yet that is the very time they should be supported.
Drswie proves my point.
Are you alright Drs ? anythin we can help with ?

Oh god Obs dont, ive been a right mess. i dont think its pnd, just absolute isolation.
my mum is 1.5 hrs away, Dh's family not interested at all, they've seen sophie 6 times in 3 months and live 2 streets away. i forced myself to mother and baby groups but everyone was really stilted. i have no friends here and no family. Sophie has to be held to fall asleep and just screams through overtiredness. Ive just spent weeks trying to sleep train her etc. this week i thought fuck it, hold her, get on MN and talk to people..rant over!

I love my baby with all my heart but ive had days where i think i'll drive off then i picture her crying for me and it makes me cry that i could think of leaving.

nothing anyone can help with, i just have to persevere at these groups and get some mates in this town!

In which case welcome back. tell us more, specifically, and we'll see what we CAN do. not much re the isolation. but re crying etc we can help.

i told dh how loving he was towards ds2. drs you won't have seen this, but M hardly slept at all for first 3 months, at night, that was. and dh said he regretted having him. mind you, @i felt the same.
dh said he loved him so much now and felt so guilty about what he had said back then. he felt his love for m was even stronger, because of, the guilt, of how he felt.

and i posted on another thread, in my height of desperation, and cargirl , a mn'er, came to visit me. and I have seen her twice since. she is lovely.see the same could be done for yuo. would you like that ?

hey DW . Good to have you back in the fold! I've been in my loved up valentine's guise, but changed back today.

Blardy hell, that's a turn around from the inlaws isn't it? from practically wanting to deliver your baby and now not bothered. they truly are oddballs. for you, and that your mum isn't closer. My sisters and brother are all in Scotland so none of them have even met bumble yet. It makes me very , but with five of us now to put up and my mum no longer with us, it's not easy for us to visit them anymore....and they would never think to come and visit here

please don't abandon us again . We might not be real friends in the "real" (ie there) sense of the word, but the support on here is invaluable I think.

off to meet dh for swimming. been 4 times in last week. dozy another benefit of dh working local and finishing at 5pm. see ya later guys.

DrsWife where do you live?You might have told the thread already, but towards the end of the AN thread, I stopped posting as I just couldn't keep up! Just wondered if you are close enough to join in any of the meet-ups, there are lots of London ladies who meet and also lots of Northern ladies - the next meet up is planned for somewhere near Meadowhall, Sheffield.

I know what you mean about this motherhood lark being isolating - I've joined loads of different things, just so I've got lots to do out of the house. So could you maybe look into things like baby swimming, baby massage, baby signing, sensor classes (someone posted a link for this a couple of weeks ago), mother and baby cinema screenings....

Daisy, how is poop patrol going? I just nipped out to Jacksons and there was loads as usual, it's horrible!

right, regarding Sophie's "problems"...she sleeps a dream at night, bath at 6.30pm, boob at 7pm, asleep (swaddled n dummy) by 7.30pm. wakes at 4am for feed and then 7am awake for the day.

however, she has to be held to fall asleep and in the daytime she just cannot nap. i hold her then i try to lay her down she goes mental. screaming isnt the word for it. everyone tells me to do gina ford/baby whisperer but no pick up or put down works and controlled crying is just not for me.

i cant work on first yawn, rubbing eyes tired cues as the second she's tired she screams. i have to swaddle her or hold her tight clutching her hand to get her to calm down, but because she gets overtired it goes on all afternoon. pram/car all work but the second the motion stops, the screaming begins.

the only way i can deal with it is to think there are worse problems than your baby needing a cuddle to sleep.

daisy in laws are too busy with other grandaughter to bother with us. they still have her 3 times a week and so they say havent had time to visit.

i had c section and not one single person called to see if i even needed a pint of milk yet they take dh's niece three times a week and cooked SIL casseroles!

im smack bang in midlands so not close enough for meet ups. currently i do mother and baby twice a week and wriggly readers at library. we start water babies on the 7th. thing is no-one meets outside of these groups either that or they are on 2nd babies and formed cliques already.

keep persevering with the groups DW. I think the more your face is seen, the more likely people are to start saying hello. My friend put it in terms of people not wanting to invest too much time/energy in someone that might be here today gone tomorrow. Sounds harsh, but I suppose she has a point. Although as I'm of the "talk to it if it doesn't move" school of thought I hadn't really thought of it that way.

lol jaunita, we saw Mr pooooooodle this morning again and me and another couple of mums stood and eyeballed him as he went by and had a bitch about him as well. His ears must have been burning. I'm not the first person to tell him to clean up his act apparently.

you're def right.. i think i got put off by the 22yr old beauty who resembled catherine zeta jones, she was telling me how she was still a size 8, showed me her post birth photos on her digicamera (still zeta jones glowing) and then swept out of the room telling me she had to dash as baby was going to creche whilst she went to the gym. i looked down at Soph and she had puked my hard earned breast milk all down my jeans. i felt quite shite!

i'm gonna add photos of my angel to my profile now as i do love her really and she's def worth it!

Just checking in quickly - great to have you back DrsW - please don't disappear again that things are hard for you at the moment - just looked at your photos and had to laugh at the 'mardy face' one - that is the exact look Sam has most of the time

Will post more later