July 2008 - Anyone tried dressing an Octopuss?

[JODIEwantsanewname]

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Evening, am a bit blue here, think it is 'just' a combination of PMT (I'm sure that's getting worse as I get older and WHO started that big fat lie about periods being easier post-children??! Ha!), P teething and DH having tonsilitis so for the last week it's been like having three children. Last night DS woke up just after I'd dropped off at about midnight (v unusual) then P woke at 5.40 absolutely howling for milk. NOT ENOUGH SLEEP!! So days like today although I am feeling broody too (does anyone watch Brothers and Sisters, wept waaay too much at the ickle-but-clearly-NOT-newborn baby in that) I really question how I would cope with three. We'll see, on the one hand I don't feel like our family is 'complete' but on the other I HATE being pregnant and I'm not sure if I can do that again.

Worst thing this week is that DH and I have been quite bickery, what with him being ill and me being knackered it just feels like we don't even have a civil conversation any more. Last week it really felt like we were back on track, a 'team' again and it's just all gone.. still, I know I just can't see any further than the here-and-now and it WILL get better. Has to!!

Well done SK on the running thing, I have been doing the couch-potato-to-5K plan, going ok so far. I'd say it's about 50-50 as to whether I actually enjoy going for a run, but the sense of achievement at the end is what keeps me going. That and the fact I still need to lose half a stone.. have plateaued of late and it would be sooo easy just to stick... must get some willpower...

Off to have a pizza with some bacon

Abbie fully recovered now but it was quite a time there....ds4 got it and was sick all over nursery on thurs...then I was up all night thurs being sick and had to travel by train on Friday to hull to watch ds3 play ice hockey luckilly I felt better by lunchtime.

Had a great weekend away and kids were good for dh I slept from 10.30pm sat night till 9.35am yesterday in hotel....bliss back to reality now though...Abbie was up for 3 hours during the night and we've been up again since 5.30am..ds4 and A are grizzly and clingy....probably missed me and making me suffer for daring to leave them

Good to hear A is better minipink and the idea of 11hrs sleep sounds heaven! Hope the rest of yr day isn't too stressful.

Hope everyone enjoyed the bank holiday. We had a cold barbeque with some friends, but sent the men out to cook while my friend and I sat indoors drinking pina coladas and pretending to supervise the children.

Minipink, hope your littlies are better for you tonight. Bryony has got a bug - she was sick just after I put her to bed last night then had terrible diarrhoea in the middle of the night. I could smell it from outside her room when I went to check on her before I went to bed but amazingly she was still asleep! I had to wake her, bath her and completely change all her clothes and bedding, but fortunately she went back to sleep until 6am so at least I got some sleep.

SK, I tried your trick of singing to Bryony when I was changing her today and it did seem to help. I'm not sure why I've never tried it before, I think it's because I am concentrating on restraining her, I tend to be silent.

Wrote this big message but then got kicked off net before I could send it glad Abbie is better minipink and hope everyone else had a good bank hol.

Hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday and had at least some reasonable weather.

Bebe- Good idea dying the babygrows. Customised clothes!

Jodie- Glad you feel better for chatting to the Dr. Dont let everything get on top of you

SK- Good for you to signing up for the race. Gives you a goal to work towards. Hope the training goes well.
Hope sleeping improves for you. I hate it when they sleep in the car like that. Abigail will do that then be really grumpy cause shes still tired but refuses to go back off!
6am has become morning for us lately too. Ive got used to it but would love an extra hour!

Minnie- you are feeling down. Hope things improve for you. Dont you hate times like that.

Mini- Glad Abbie is finally feeling better!
Your weekend sounds fab!!

Ponto- Oh no, poor Bryony!

Bank holiday's been good here. Sat was busy putting up stairgates and gardening. Got a though at my neighbour gardening in his Thong!! It was all most see through too and NOT a pretty sight at all!!
Sun the PIL's came for Tea and today my sis BF and bubba came for lunch. Was lovely seeing Abigail and her Cousin properly playing together. I cant believe Tiffany is 1 at the end of the month!
DH was fab today and let me have a lay in. Abigail woke at 6 as usual. He got up and took her downstairs letting me stay in bed. I woke at 8.45 when DH was making breakfast Bliss!

went to work today and discovered I'm being compulsory transfered!!! I can't believe it......our numbers have fallen and school is no longer entitled to PT so of course council doesn't want pay at another school for a new PT when all they need to do is move me.....trouble is it could be anywhere in Fife....so instead of travelling for less than 10 mins it could be up to an hour or more And I was just settling down after going back.

minipink - nightmare so you are going to have to move and out up with it?

pigley - you have to take pic of neighbour and post on FB Is that Abigail and her cousin on FB, lovely pictures.

ponto - singing works, I can play at peekaboo and Twinkle Twinkle favourites in our house, complete with actions which usually involve me pretending to eat her all this to get her to stay on her back to change a nappy. She is such an odd baby though, hates cuddles but loves the rough stuff, being thrown up in the air etc the rougher you are with her the more she giggles at you, real hearty giggles

minniemummy - how are you feeling now?

Jodie - hope you feel better soon xx
(btw you are cetainly not fat and frumpy, you are very lovely and gorgeous.)

just been chatting to disney on facebook; she says hi to everyone. Sam has more ops in 2 weeks time.

nothing to report here; Poppy likes being chucked about and dangled upside down SK; perhaps 3rd babies are fearless. DH has buggered off to the pub and I am stuck home alone. As usual. Should be doing something useful but can't stop playing bejeweled blitz on fb.

hey all. sorry for long absence, Louis was just getting over an ear infection when I last posted but then it came back. He then got a stomach bug that lasted 5 days and then a viral ear/throat infection that affected his bowels too and lasted another week so so I've been elbow deep in poo sick and snot for ages and haven't had a chance to post! Numerous trips to the dr's and one to the hospital on gp's advice but thankfully nowt serious just sticky

Sorry for all the news I have missed. Hope you and your tiddlers are all well.

Am now busy fantasising over new decorating schemes for both boys bedrooms, spurred on by your success pigley! Etsy.com is going to get a big chunk I think. It was TJuice who mentioned it on here ages and ages ago and I have been hooked ever since. Sort of a faded red/white/blue look for Louis and vintage racing cars for Tobes, I am getting so carried away! Great fun. It's Kirsty Allsops tv prog that's got me going, I bloody love that woman. Even her clothes! Always have.

Well must be off to bed, Loukins is still a shit sleeper and I am up 3/4 times a night. Or would be if I didn't keep falling asleep in the feeding chair and waking up with cold crampy legs but a warm lapful of baby 3 hours later! Have been reading "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" and although it makes sense, it doesn't tell you on the cover that although your baby won't cry, it takes blimmin ages to implement the ideas it contains and therefore you will be the one shedding tears when you realise your darling baby has not afforded you the luxury of more than 3 hours sleep at a time since birth. Yawn.

P is a fan of the rough throwing about play too! At which daddy is best! She gigggles & giggles & screeches when she is being thrown about. Although she does have her moments where she is cuddly too...usually so she can get close enough to pinch my face and pull my glasses off!

Had to take P to doctors again for a rash on her bottom that was getting worse Have been given some cream to help it, poor little thing it looks so sore. I am sure it is down to her teething, she has never really had nappy rash at all (except for when she was on antibiotics). Let her have a good hour no nappy this evening and after I had removed nappy & whipped changing mat away she wee'd all over the towel & laughed her head off!! little bugger thought it was hilarious!

Got the next stage car seat for P yesterday am dead chuffed with it! We are waiting for her to be weighed next week at her 9 month check to make sure she is over the min weight before we start to use it. Fingers crossed!

I have hospital appt 2moro with a specialist nurse for my MS. Am a bit nervous, don't really know why, just fear of the unknown, it's not like I am going for a diagnosis!! Appointment at 9am, so should be a riot getting into Gloucester in time, especially since we have to take P with us, everything takes twice as long with a baby in tow!

red - I tried NCSS with DD2 and gave up with it after about a month the gradual withdrawal technique just made her scream and get angry. I eventually had to go full boob cold turkey. Always worth a try thats what I say, not going to hurt is it? Oh poor wee Louis he has been in the wars, hope he is fully recovered now. And the boys' bedrooms sound lovely.

Isaidno - must be third borns, B actually pulls your hand away from her if you try to cuddle or stroke her

bebejones - good luck for tomorrow, I am waiting until B's first birthday to change car seats as 1) the longer they are rear facing the safer they are and 2) I need DD2 to vacate the next stage car seat although I do have DD1's up the loft, the car always feels much roomier once you have got rid of the rear facing seat.

Hello all, I am feeling better thanks although nothing has changed!! DH had a brief spell of almost-back-to-normal-ness yesterday but then this morning his throat is so swollen you can see the lump outside so it was back to the doctor for him and voila, 10 days of antibiotics. I think this will be the longest he's been off the beer since I've known him!!
DS being cheeky monkey PITA all bloomin afternoon and tonight it took me until 9.45 to finally get P down, very unusual, thought I was going to have to resort to driving her around in the car til she fell asleep. I think it is 'only' teething but tonight she got herself so wound up she was doing that almost hiccupy screaming with shuddery breaths in between, the type where they don't stop when you pick them up and you start to panic there's something seriously wrong... gaahhhh. Seriously, does anybody know anything that actually works for teething??
Bah, humbug, etc... P flipping like a pancake during changing as well, on your advice I tried singing, helps a bit but only for a few seconds.

Good luck for tomorrow Bebe!

Oh Minnie hope your DH feels better soon

Poor P the only thing that I find that works is a spoonful of Calpol before bedtime, those Teetha powders supposed to be good though.

I find with the singing full on actions must be done at the same time.

Sk- Yeah thats Abigails Cousin Tiffany in the pics. The both look so grown up now although a few people have commented that Abigail looks the older of the 2.

Minipink - Thats awful I hope they find you somewhere close.

Red- Poor little Loius... Lets hope hes had his lot for a while now.
The bedrooms sound fab! Im currently painting the dining room now. Just finished painting the chimney breast in the lounge in a biscuity colour suede paint.
Abigails sleeping is still rather crappy... waking at 2am and being wide awake for a few hours!

bebe- Hope the hospital appointment goes well tomorrow.

MinnieMum- No advice here on teething as we still have no teeth with no signs of any coming either!
Abigail lays still if given something to play with- anything really. She currently likes to hold her fresh nappy but kicks off when I take off her to put on her. Think ill have to try having 2 nappies out... one to wear and one to play with!

Got the plumber coming tomorrow to start on the new boiler.

OMG Pigley, I can't believe your Niece is 1 soon, how quickly does time go! Your pics are ace, (as always) Our birthdays are going to roll around very soon, in fact Peanut's Charlie is 1 at some point this month, and Twinkle's Twins!! Then I know we had a couple of June bubbas!

did have a lot m ore to say, but will say it later as I'm being crawled all over

Louis slept through last night...
asleep in bed at 7.20 next woke at 5...shhhh

Hi all
Need to post to keep this on my 'Threads I'm on'. Feeling really blue about going back to work - I know it's not till July, and I'm lucky to have had so long but I don't want to go back at all. I've never had this problem before - I was fine going back after the other 2 (well, OK anyway). I know I'm spoiling some of my remaining time by being so depressed about it, but I can't shake the feeling.
Sorry for the me me me post, but Orlaith has just filled her nappy next to me, so I better go clean up.

hiya all..came back on riday, it was fab..the weather was average 40-45 was soo hot..leah done well... eatign and drinkin loads..airline was shite, they didnt give us neting to put her in, had a fight as they sed u have to hold her in the plane, not strap her to a seatbelt...they provided no food, and took the pushchair off me!!! ARGHHHHH

so wat did i miss?
im 26 weeks, and good old heartburn kicked in today...-

stil no crawlin here..but she calls her dad and asks for food... hmmm

Poledra I feel the same about going back - I know I will be fine when it's all established, and I did feel similar last time and then it wasn't a problem, but right now I'm thinking I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK!!
Is Orlaith your last baby? Maybe that's why it feels harder?

Evening all - M2L glad you had a nice break, can't believe how hot it was...way too hot for me!

Pigley - V cute pics of A with her cousin!

Had a really rubbish day TBH. Hospital was a waste of time & has made me feel really low & awful about the MS. I thought he was going to give me advice on how to manage symptoms etc but instead told me I have a 85% chance of developing secondary progressive MS but 'don't panic that won't be for about 10-20 years'!!!! I'm only 26 FFS 20 years puts me mid 40's & with teenage kids most likely! There was more depressing stuff too but I just don't want to think about it coz every time I do I burst into tears. I know I am relatively well with it all & that there are so many people far worse off than me but I feel so cheated of any 'normal' future I might have had. I have a 60% chance of another severe relapse within the next couple of years. It just feels so unfair for Phoebe, I have no idea how I will be because there are no certainties just statistics & 'guesses' it's like living under a giant black cloud waiting for it to rain!! DH just thinks it's all worst case scenarios but I feel really rubbish about the whole thing. I have been putting a brave face on it all for everyone. I feel completely sick of being asked how I am, & I know people are only being nice! All I ever say is that I'm fine when I want to shout & scream & cry about poor me & how awful it is, but that is just so selfish. Sorry to be so me me me just feeling really crap & self pitying!

poor bebe; it must be very hard, you don't have to be brave here xx The only positive thing I can say is that in 10 / 20 years there will probably be loads of new treatments and stuff to help you. And the worst might not even happen anyway x

redsalamander - poor Louis, no wonder he slept through, poor guy must be knackered after all that poorliness.

m2l - 26 weeks already - wow.

minipink - rubbish news on the work front, hope you don't end up too far away. I am sooo glad I'm not going back to work. I'm too busy for a job!

Talking of jobs... Jodie have you thought about doing something like mini iq parties? I only thought of it because I am having one on Friday. The leaflet sounds pretty enticing - 25% of all sales plus bonuses. Mini IQ sell children's books, and some toys. website here if you want to look.

Been offered position at a school about half an hour away so not too bad...big school so more security but more challenges. The trouble is it's not long since I wnet back and still have PND issues and still on meds...feeling very irritable and weepy [mini takes deeps breaths and tries not to be a baby]........feel like you poledra don't want to work at all and would be a FANTASTIC stay at home mummy

Sorry for being self obsessed & depressing last night, feeling a bit better today. Have decided not to think about it at all.

Minipink & Poledra - I am still signed off sick but I am dreading starting work too. I am still unsure what to do. I want to work for DH's new company from home but I would have to be self employed which is not ideal & it isn't off the ground yet. I could go back to old job but don't want to work full time. I could work evenings & weekends part time but there is nothing suitable locally at all! I just don't want to leave P, the very thought of it is just horrid & scary for me (sounds so dramatic!) I completely understand where you are both coming from.

need sum advice guys..while on holiday leah beaker was reali grabby..and it was jus gone dirty, we brought the same one, same colour..but she is refuisin to use it, been a few days no..wil drink from a cup, has she outgrown the beaker? its a tommee tippee easy flow one i tink