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

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ah, reading through posts, think Miri may be teething. she has red cheeks and is not feeding well, hence keeps waking up as she is hungry but then only does a few sucks...poor little thing. i did get her some nelson's granules. Judo is eating for england, he has been drinking all her undrunk boobs! they are both asleep now, phew.

ds1 is ok, black eye, but he is quite used to cuts and scrapes. he already looks like a little boxer!

daisy, i love spinach! nice when it is cooked with other things eg. prawn curry, spinach omelette or even just butter and nutmeg. it is a bit slimy on its own! can sympathise with all the getting up, though last night was only 5x and they both did go off to sleep every time after.

minxy, glad you feel better and have a lovely therapist.

lola, thanks for reminding me that this is when we found our BFP's, you're right, i remember the excitement! it's a good reminder. a whole year has gone by. wow!

monkeym, LOL at dh's migraine due to mum. ha ha ha. we should market a medication for that one. glad you had a nice party. i like 'come dine with me' too and is about all i watch as it is on continually on one of those channels (more 4 i think).
i love planning my menu if i were on it! what would yours be?

ceebee, one day at a time is great advice. i do it all the time and i have never been an alcoholic!

vbab sorry for all your runny botties and vomit. hope your washing machine survives! does sound like a food intolerance though, glad you stamped feet and made them listen. am beginning to realise nhs is so stretched that you have to stamp feet to get anything...

...i finally after stamping feet (in a nice way ie. repeating myself 7x to the doctor) got seen by a physio. tummy muscles 3 fingers apart. think i mentioned that before...sorry to repeat self. reminds me: must do exercises.

anyway long post. must go and put a wash on. oh joy!

hi all
have had a busy few days with E's christening yesterday.
will be back to catch up later.
at a due Nov 09 thread!!

hi all - sorry its been a while - just ben catching up. so about LB trial sep. obs car crash, vbabs
lo's illness and rude coffee comment made by dh under duress. (if its any consolation vbab, my dh yelled at me the other day that because i had not hoovered i was lazy and had a disgusting filthy house. to be fair i hate housework and would much rather do something creative likecook or bake than clean, so the housework slides A LOT. i have even posted a thread begging for help in good housekeeping - having said that, dh was having a go in general - he picked that to have a go about vecause he knew it would wind me up. we are b oth tired andstressed and just got in a mahoosive tax bill to boot. things are not good chez sausage). Having a little baby is tough tough TOUGH.

daisy - have you got any nice low fat recipes dh has high cholesterol and family histry of young heart attacks so i want to make some healthy but tasty stuff we can gorge on without worrying.

tegan - did you have any success with alternative milk delivery systems? we have same prob - Wee T did take bottles initially but then we had a break from expressing for a couple of weeks while we were away visiting rellies and now she wont take any bottles - we tried avent and medela and even special teats designed for babies with special needs but she just wont suck. i eventually had a bit of success with a tommy tippee mug for much older babies/toddlers which does not have a valve, so dribbles out with gravity. have not managed a whole feed from it though - very slow going.

its a pain though - she has been cluster feeding like crazy and i really really need a break from her. I love her to pieces but i am beginning to feel so worn down by being constantly on demand.

oooh my come dine with me menu would be prawn cocktail, beef pie with roast beetroot carpacchio and cheesecake to finish - last week i got given the best cheesecake recipe ever - i posted it in recipe section of forum if you wsnt to have a look)

i love planning my menu if i were on it! what would yours be?

anyway long post. must go and put a wash on. oh joy!

Hi all

I'm Back!!!!

Missed you all so much and so much to catch up on.

Ladybuzz - sorry to hear of your problems, you should have messaged me! I can sympathise as you know.

For all others - just to update you that I'm getting divorced. All crap but am better off without him and my adorable boy James is fantastic.

will catch up more soon but am trying to do some work

xx

welcome back autumnlady about breakup but if you are happier.

right off to put christening pics on facebook

Morning.
Have read everything. But can't remember anything.
So you will just have to suffice with a big hello and a big hug to everyone.
Can't believe it has been a year, since our conceptions. and the duenov 09 thread. god !
pinkglow LOVE H as elf. Now I know what your Jumperoo is. It looks not dissimilar to a walker in principal. We got our walker out a few weeks ago. And m has been in it a couple of times and seems to like it. Mind you he is nearly 5 months, so I guess thta is normal.
Talking of which, he is 19 weeks, thus 20 wks = 5 months next week. So I am assuming I should expect another growth spurt, yes?
This week he has been very unsettled. Very sicky. And has woken up 5 times during the night. Whereas for weeks now he has either been sleeping through 7-7, or only having one feed. so this 5 times, is a bit tough.
Mind you not as tough as some others have it. All those cluster feedig have my sympathy. and vbab and merrym. in fact lots if you have it 'all going on'= tough times. autumnlady, buzz, twinkling, lots of others. love to you guys especially.

Hey Autumnlady, good to have you back with us, but sorry to hear about the divorce . I hope you are OK.

It's nice that lots of posters are back with us this week...feels like the old team is being reunited

Bumble will only take the tommee tippee closer to nature bottles, not sure if you have tried them sausage?

I need to get lots of milk stored up. I really struggled to feed bumble yesterday when in the grip of my attack. DH had the scissors ready to snip the corner off the formula carton, but I forced myself to feed him inspite of the pain. I know it's daft, but I really don't want him to have formula unless it's completely unavoidable. I was so determined to feed him exclusively after compromising on feeding with the older two and given my MH I don't want to do anything that will tip me over the edge again and I'm worried that "failing" re BFing exclusively will do that. Sounds stupid I know, as he won't know the difference and the odd formula feed at this stage won't hurt breastfeeding overall, but.....oh fgs, someone give me a slap!

SLAP

Not got a chance to read the posts at the moment but just had a quick glance.

Autumnlady how great to have you back We have missed you too. about your divorce but I had guessed from something on FB last night.

Will catch up properly later - am supposed to be ordering some new crockery from Argos

me again, just to explain why it looks like i am channeling the spirit of merrymarigold - i must have accidentally cut and pasted the last two lines of her post and they got stuck on the end of mine, How odd!

Thanks guys for your nice thoughts and I really am doing OK. Still trying to catch up on all the other posts, so much going on!
xx

oh and daisy, you are doing incredibly well! BFing is such a massive commitment and you've been doing it all by yourself for months now. Well done on resisting the forumula even when you were in pain - very brave, but if you do let bumble have some don't beat yourself up. You've given him an entire immune system and seen him through the most vulnerable period when he had very few antibodies of his own. Now he is making his own. Obviously continuing to breast feed helps supplement that, but formula isnt a failure! You cant fail because you've already succeeded!

Sausage well said .....
Autum Lady sorry about your break up - hope things work out well for you all .
cOngrats to baby Lola - M rosa arches back beautifully and cranes her neck but we are not rolling yet !!

autumnlady Yay!!! Welcome back!!! Glad you are so upbeat about what happened,you know what my feelings are regarding your soon to be Ex DH (or can we use TH, for Twatty Husband)

Really have missed you on here!!!

ALso, lots to catch up on, too much in fact, I really need to be reading a few times a day to catch up, which in fact I do, but mostly just lurking now unless I have something to help/contribute.

Daisy you are doing so well, can you have stirfrys? They are v.v.v.good as low fat and tasty - also for you coolkat looking for low fat recipes.

pinky How are you doing today? I am very much in awe of you, doing what you are doing, it must be very hard but they fact that you recognise that your M damaged you and you are trying to correct that is applaudable. As others have said, I am sure it will get worse before it gets better, but am very glad you are trying to correct what happened for you. keep talking and smiling, you are amazing!

hello to everyone else xxx

I found a website showing what I should avoid in the way of food. link here if anyone is interested. How bloody depressing . I have had plain boiled rice and peas for lunch today, and now I find out I should avoid peas as well

Oh, and thanks sausage for those words . You've really cheered me up about it.

Hello everyone.

Autumnlady thanks will message you on FB good to see you posting again.

Daisy hope you are feeling better

Good to see all of these old faces again Hi to everyone

I think Jay is teething too, Bright red cheeks, dribbling like a monster, horrific nappies (Vbab I feel your pain we are on outfit 5 today!). Poor little man is really out of sorts he seems to have had this tummy bug too bless him.

Anyone ever sen and teething devices that go on like gloves???
Jay rams his fists in his mouth ALL of the time but won't have a teether, maybe there is a gap in the market

Hope everyone else is OK.

Pinxy hows things?

Hugs to everyone else having issues.

This thread is the best!!

sounds like a good idea LB. get it patented quick

who asked about teething beads? do you mean the plastic fluid filled ones that you can put in the fridge?

DS1 had a bell shaker thing from ELC that he used to gnaw on. I think he liked the cold metal against his gums. DD sucked on a muslin square and that seemed to help her. After spending loads on various teething things, they both just found their own way.

at your HV hana. Some of the rubbish peddled by some HVs never fails to amaze me. I would have challenged the fact that she was going against NHS guidelines as well as those of the WHO.

It horrifies me that if it weren't for MN, I would probably listen to stuff like that and take it as gospel, thinking as I used to do that health professionals should know what they are talking about. Thankfully my HV team are really good.

Is anyone else's baby really noisy? I think bumble has realised that he can make noises because he wants to rather than just because he is upset. He sits and shouts all day; he's not upset, just being shouty. Does my head in!

LOL daisy I have a shouty baby too! I think he likes the sound of his own voice!

I have been invited to a weaning talk so will go and see what they are saying but my HV has said to try to wait until 6 months. A sensible one at least!!

hana we had 40 people at our christening yesterday, was a nice number actually to get round everybody!

Those were really nice words to daisy sausage I really want to read it again and again so I can quote it should the need arise.
I can totally see where you are coming from daisy. I refused to even buy the stuff, with DD, even though my cracked nips/mastitis was horredously painful. But WOW to your commitment if you were in all sorts of shapes to get him fed. Hanging over the couch, mad, but commendable!!

Well, that is J jabbed. Poor love shouted the odds. But the nurse was impressed cos, although he was kicking up a stink, there were no tears.
A feed later and he has been asleep since. 1435 to 1545 and counting.
Poor love has just been wheeled into the hall and left to sleep.

So, really, I ought to be having some special time with DD, but no, here I am on MN Bad Mummy.
Best go for now.

I have been stressing all weekend as O won't take a bottle and i think you are all right that i shouldn't need him to have a bottle if i am happy bf.

So rang hv this morning and saw her this afternoon to discuss, she said many things i thought were mental but mainly i came form there after being told i had an "unhealthy attachment" to O. amongst other things she said "you do realise you won't be able to bf O at the school gates on his first day" and "don't you ever want a life away from having O attached to you're chest?"

These are supposed to be the professionals you have faith in to help you, bullshit!!

tegan that is shocking!!!

OMFG tegan . I think you need to report her, that is an absolutely unacceptable thing to say to a new mum . He's a three and half month old baby ffs, not a four year old, although if you wanted to BF him until he self weans and that wasn't till he was four, what business is it of hers anyway?