August 2008: Coffee's On. Pull up a Chair and Chat a While.

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Morning everyone.
CC Moan away. Just don't know what to say. I must be so hard to haveto watch your sister slowly destroying herself. You've done everything you can to help. Unfortunately no-one can break her addiction for her.

no1 go give your sister a slap. With a fish.

Seb sems to be consistntly sleeping midnight till 10ish, so now I need to bring his bedtime gradually earlier. Anyone got any tips as to how I can do this?

Morning all

Pertelote - We only left DD last Friday for the first time and we have none of your worries! If will be good for you and DH to get sometime together being adult before the world of GOSH takes over for a while. MIL in the foyer is perfect as if you feel a little worried you can sneak out check on them and sneak back. When I first left DD with DH I made him sit in a cafe I could see from the gym window.

CC - Moan away you are allowed to you have alot on your plate having to deal with Dsis, Dniece and lack of sleep. {{{HUGS}}} Will keep you in our prayers.

No1 and HP - Enough there is nothing wrong with either of you.

DD waking so going to stuff a breat in her mouth and feed her rapidly before we leave for swimming in 10 mintues where did this morning go??

Lastly when sould I be worried about lack of poo?? DD hasn't poo'd since Saturday and she is usually a regular twice a day girl. She is having loads of water with her breakfast and also with ricecakes etc. Pear for breakfast so knowing my luck it will happen in the pool!

morning all. shocking night here. my husband is great. i get up to feed ds, and dh will usually lurch half asleep into his bedroom and offer to get me a glass of water. and, this morning, when we gave up on the night at 6am dh got up with ds and i had another hour in bed.

but on the up side we are having more good nights (2 wake ups, and occasionally only 1, and morning at 6 not 5) than bad nights (up every hour) - not a sudden switch, just overall a bit better than it was a couple of months ago.

thoughts to everyone, especially CC this morning.

oh, and oops (apologies if I have already told this story as it is one of my favourites). About three months ago ds went a few days without poo, and got upset and cry-y. My parents said that they would pray for him and he poo-ed four times in 24 hours and we had to tell them that he was better and that they could stop praying now, please

LOL VG. In a fit of post-partum randomness I decided that the shortened form of DD1's name should be spelt with a 'y' (as opposed to 'ie') so that she couldn't use hearts as an early adolescent.

sazzles lol i couch potato'd for a while

sorry one handed atm as toby 'helping'

vg also lol - ds1 is doing those circles above his 'i' already

toby missing his sibs - has m0oaned all morning and so i took him to local toddler group so he was happy - he was awake for 4 hours this am aaargh

dd up twice in the night as dh away double aaargh

Ta Da! Here I am and FULLY aged to 38.
Thank you for all your birthday wishes.

Crazy day yesterday. DD1 did NOT give me a break. She fussed for all of it minus the time she was in preschool. I'm beginning to wonder if she's not deathly ill with no real outward signs but WHINING/CRYING/SCREAMING. To give her credit this morning was better.

On the topic of baby poo: Reese's has now gone all clay like too.

On the topic of solids: I'm lazy so Reese is offered only baby purees and a few odds and ends from my plate. Worked for DD1 so .

On the topic of wanting another baby: Those of you wanting that next little pitter patter of feet might consider holding off a few years. Having a baby makes you feel young. Waiting until your mid to late thirties was a good thing for me. I'd recommend that to anyone. Now if someone would have just told me to have my first child when I was in my TWENTIES...oh, wait I think my mother did before she died. Serves me right I didn't even take her deathbed advice. Anyway spacing them out over your twenties and thirties gives you time to enjoy them individually as well as keeping you feeling youthful.

On the topic of dentists: I am so sad for all of you regarding your dentists. Mine texted me a happy birthday note. How cool is that!!!

On the topic of cold showers: PF I will SWEAR by them for turning a raving child lunatic into a calm ready to listen human being. At first I thought people might think it were child abuse but it is so much more effect than spanking (in our house at least). I think it works so well is because it resets their nervous system on a whole body level. Like shock therapy only without electricity.

hmmmm... that's all I can remember.

Hi TS! What a friendly dentist. Mine is nice but in a frazzled way - I would not hold my breath for birthday greetings from him

VG snap! Our theatre tonight is Tom Stoppard too - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. We lurve him... and this has the advantage of being nice and short for first-time-baby-deserters! Hope you have a great evening...

Poppy the other advantage of the 'y' ending is that your DD won't be able to decide aged 11 to drop the 'e', as I did. I can't imagine spelling my name any other way now but I get the occasional flash of self-awareness in which I wonder whether names ending in 'i' are really as befitting to an adult woman as I thought back then

Reese has just lunched on a baby puree of sweet potatoes, apricots, brown rice and chicken. It was totally organic and kosher. And my cat cleaned up any of the left overs from the jar. WIN-WIN

I let Reese chase her lunch down with an apple juice / carrot juice blend. Given to her in a SIPPY CUP. She'd take a drink then shake like it had a kick to it. Very funny.

On the sitting topic: Reese has not master sitting unaided yet. I give her loads of practice in the Bumbo or in her Boppy or just holding her slightly while on the floor. She'll have down soon I'm sure. Then I might invest in a highchair.

VG enjoy the theatre tonight, and pertelote too when you go. Ooh, hark at you all with your culture

Sleep still as crap as ever here. My left arm (the Joe-bearing arm) is killing me, elbow and wrist are aching like mad. If only I could get a decent stretch of sleep here and there it would fade away, but young master has other ideas. Got very stressed again last night as I just don't know what is going on with him, why he's waking, which of the many different things it could be - which means I don't know what to do with him apart from mutter 'gobacktosleep' and feel melodramatic.

He's very pukey this afternoon, think his teeth must be playing up. It might be time for Captain Calpol to pay a preventative visit at bedtime...

Oh blah blah blah how I do go on.

Cavey please ignore all my bollocking on above and pretend it says something incredibly wise and supportive, like wot I would have written if I had any brain/tact at all.

lol cyteen

Thanks so much for your sympathies/hugs etc, it really does mean a lot.

Re. not drinking from a bottle/cup/whatever, I would like to say I'm too tired to care but it is really getting me down, to the point where I am starting to dread feeding him - like real resentment. So confused.....

somebody slap me

vg am back to work tomorrow for a 5 hr taster (I owe them 5 hours so I said I'd do it tomorrow whilst O is in nursery). Back for proper next monday . Ds1 is in after school club for the first time today, in preparation for my return to work. Am going to pick him up shortly. It's been odd not seeing him from school at 3.30.

cyteen Have you tried counting to 100 when he starts moaning and seeing if he goes off to sleep again? I did that twice last night and didn't even have to go in to his room (didn't get to 100 either time). His top front teeth are bothering him so I suspect that was what was waking him up - could be Joe is the same.

Am knackered this evening so you have my sympathies. I sleep really really badly when dh is away plus them actually getting up.

cc You are exhausted. I'm not going to slap you as I'm in the same position (although self inflicted here). I don't think there is much practical help possible once they are this old so I think the only way to think about it is that it is such a short time in the scheme of things. And he will take a cup eventually even if just with water or juice in it (or drinking yoghurt when a bit bigger as ds1 did when he gave up milk at 18 months!) so he will at least get fluids from elsewhere at some stage soon.

Have to go and clean kitchen, make packed lunch and heat up dinner (yawn) back later

WE have poo and it smells like a farmyard in here now - gotta go change her now! She waited until she was in bed sleeping!

Ahhh thats better. I believe truly in the power of prayer, and my lovely ladies on the prayer thread have been working overtime for me. I tried Oliver with a bottle at 3pm and he had about 1oz (half of it went over him though, lol).
Left dh with him and a bottle to try whilst I picked ds1 up from after school club, and by the time I came back dh had managed to spill the whole bottle (claims I didn't put the bottle together properly!), so O was squawking with hunger. Dh had made another bottle which was cooling. Anyway, I tried him with it, whilst he was in his bouncer, and LO! he drained the whole 3oz and was sucking away for more .
Tried again at bedtime but I think because I was cuddling him he just wasn't having any of it. Still. HE TOOK FORMULA! and relax.....

Oh yeah, new pic of Oliver on profile

Awww cc he reminds me of Toby - same level of cheekiness!

Right you lot - weaning advice please

I am currently giving Toby a fair amount of puree once a day at about 4.30/5pm ish. He seems happy and is waking up less at night. I have no idea what he weighs but he looks fine and is happy! So...

Can I have a quick straw poll of those doing purees of how often they are feeding their los (Toby is almost 6 months) - I have no idea when to start trying to do another meal. No idea HOW to fit another one into the day either. But that is another story. Am I supposed just to relax about it? I have always struggled with this stage...

OLIVER IS SO HANDSOME!!!!