Fab Feb 2009: too sleep deprived to think of a new thread title

[dinkystinky]

'nuff said

LBB! Little monkey! Bet you're glad the postman was there!

Where is everyone???????
Weren't at park long as it started to rain so decided best to all go home and try another day. A mum from our friday group who is heavily pregnant with her 3rd came along. She's really nice, we had a good old chin-wag which was nice.
Ds1 found himself a little girlfriend at the park, him and this girl of a similar age just kept kissing on the lips! They were both puckering up, it was the cutest thing. At one point, she was standing on the steps to the slide and ds1 was laying on the platform and they were kissing like that! The old stud........

Just going to start dinner. Dp goes on nights tonight, so we're all going to eat together. Spag bol, nice and simple.

Hope everyone's ok and had a good day

MS I know!!!!!! The thing that gets me, is, he had to get out from behind a child proof gate, and press disabled access buttons twice to get out of 2 seperate doors...........God knows how he managed it, and that quickly, it was a matter of minutes, if that!
I wanted to kiss the postman's feet! Imagine what could have happened? But it didn't so not worth worrying about now, I'll just have to be extra careful with him!
Lol about you getting a buggy to match your outfit

MS - PMSL at your co-ordinated buggy and outfit for the wedding. Now that is what I call attention to detail lady

LBB - its amazing how toddlers can be mini-houdinis when they want to be. I swear they could break out of Fort Knox if they put their minds to it. Glad your DS1 was found quickly and is ok. DS1 goes to a playgroup in a church hall which is on 2 levels - the play group is on the ground floor and they have a lift at one end which they block off with a piano, though there is always one child who manages to breach the piano defences and get themselves into the lift and off to the upper level every single time...

dinky It's always mine that finds the only way out. Of every group. Do you think he's trying to tell me something?!
The group we go to on friday's have now put a gate up because they got fed up of ds opening the doors and taking all the children outside!

MS I'm very jealous of the new pushchair - what colour is it? and the outfit!!!

Hi all - finally back home for good. Lilian has been discharged from hospital as the last set of blood results were clear of infection. It's been a bit of a marathon - especially as hospital is not close - so I'm v glad she doesn't have to go back. Poor little mite is covered in bruises as they had difficulty getting a line in her, but she seems to have forgiven us as she was smiling all the way home. It's such a relief

Thanks everyone for all your lovely messages.

Only managed to catch up this page....

LBB at your little runaway!

MS I like the fact you color coordinate your outfit with your buggy .

PSL so sorry to hear you are suffering with your back - poor you.

I am wearing white linen trousers, a pink tunic top with a ruffle down the front, silk flower in hair (which I wore for my wedding), silver sparkly heels and MASSIVE control pants to hold in the flab.

Calico- so glad to hear L is ok

Fab news that Lilian is home Calico - hope you guys all have a nice peaceful time recovering from your ordeal now.

So MS, outfit sounds lovely - is the maclaren white silver and pink then?

Builder finally turned up at 2 - he's still bloody here turning my hallway into a splinter filled deathtrap for toddlers while replacing our front door with a new one. Thank god both my boys appear to be able to sleep through Armageddon occurring....

Dinky he can't be a proper builder if he's working past 4pm!

Calico glad to hear you're all home now.

PSL hope your back gets better soon. Are you getting any treatmentfor it?

LBB DS1 never actually escaped from playgroup but the church hall had lots of corridors and little rooms and I swear he had a cloaking device as I'd be looking at him one minute and literally blink and he'd have vanished, causing much panic. One day a little one did escape and started to crawl across the zebra crossing outside...

I resisted the urge to drink tea and watch crap tv whilst DS1 was at nursery this afternoon and I went to my allotment and did digging and weeding. Feeling very virtuous!

MS am impressed at buggy/outfit co-ordination but will F be matching (or at least toning) with you?

Does anyone else have trouble downloading this page off MN? I have it as a shortcut (but have tried just going in off IExplorer) and the heading and sidebars etc comes up but then I have to wait for the text to come through. Only happens on this page - it's v.weird.

We were just sitting here watching telly and DD suddenly started screaming really loudly from upstairs. She went down at 6.30 and has been really quiet (not unsettled through the monitor) so went from that to loud screaming. DH and I ran upstairs and she seemed really perturbed about something. I got her some more formula in case she was hungry and she guzzled the lot and then went out like a light again. That means she took 9oz between 5 and 7.30 when she usually has about 5-6oz betweeen 5 and 6.30 (she then usually sleeps til 10ish). Maybe she's having a growth spurt ? It was weird....It was almost like she was having a bad dream and as she is usually pretty chilled out it took us a bit by surprise. I think the spurts happen now at 3 and 4 months (she's 14 weeks on Friday).

Like the sound of the outfit MS. I'm at a wedding in a couple of weeks so need to go and invest in some Spanx...I still need to make a bit of effort to get into my bridesmaid dress in July - apparently it's arrived and I need to be fitted in it .

Feel for you with the mess and the kids Dinky. A friend of mine had her whole kitchen living room extended through her DD's first year (had an inquisitive 3 year old too) and it was pretty stressful. We've had an offer on our rental house today so we're weighing up whether to take it or not. If we go ahead with our works, we'll have to do them at some point...the thought of the mess and destruction fills me with dread. I'm hoping I can persuade DH to move out for 6 months and put our stuff in storage. I just think it would be less disruptive all round.

hey there.
just thought I'd pop in let you know that I've been trying to express some milk all evening and just had a massive WHOOSH when I logged into mn

Have to leave Stan for the first time tomorrow and want to make sure he doesn't go hungry - haven't given him formula yet (he's 12 weeks) and want to avoid it if possible. Being a proper lentil weaver and keeping up with the cloth nappies, though I'm scared to use a sling after trouble with the C-section scar a few weeks ago.

On the sleep front, we're doing OK. I'm not really into routines, but have managed to get Stan to go down in the evenings from about 7:30ish. He usually sleeps until about 2am, wakes for a feed and then goes straight back to sleep until 5/6am, which is A LOT better than his elder brother.

He was getting very grumpy in the evenings and making it hard to eat/watch TV/talk, so I decided to put him in his cot. He now settles pretty fast - about 10 mins of squawking and then he conks out. I feel like a monster leaving him to cry for more than 10 seconds, but it's definitely improved his sleep, which can only be a good thing.

Healthwise, he seems fine, though he's had a rather a nasty bout of milk spots this week. Have any of the other babies had this - it looks gross, but fortunately doesn't seem to bother him too much.

LBB. Have been reading your posts and wanted to say that you musn't feel bad about taking ADs if you need them. I took them 10 years ago when I was very depressed and they really helped me.

Dinky. Are you doing Pushy Mums next week as I'm toying with going to the Parliament Hill session on 8th?

hey there.
just thought I'd pop in let you know that I've been trying to express some milk all evening and just had a massive WHOOSH when I logged into mn

Have to leave Stan for the first time tomorrow and want to make sure he doesn't go hungry - haven't given him formula yet (he's 12 weeks) and want to avoid it if possible. Being a proper lentil weaver and keeping up with the cloth nappies, though I'm scared to use a sling after trouble with the C-section scar a few weeks ago.

On the sleep front, we're doing OK. I'm not really into routines, but have managed to get Stan to go down in the evenings from about 7:30ish. He usually sleeps until about 2am, wakes for a feed and then goes straight back to sleep until 5/6am, which is A LOT better than his elder brother.

He was getting very grumpy in the evenings and making it hard to eat/watch TV/talk, so I decided to put him in his cot. He now settles pretty fast - about 10 mins of squawking and then he conks out. I feel like a monster leaving him to cry for more than 10 seconds, but it's definitely improved his sleep, which can only be a good thing.

Healthwise, he seems fine, though he's had a rather a nasty bout of milk spots this week. Have any of the other babies had this - it looks gross, but fortunately doesn't seem to bother him too much.

LBB. Have been reading your posts and wanted to say that you musn't feel bad about taking ADs if you need them. I took them 10 years ago when I was very depressed and they really helped me.

Dinky. Are you doing Pushy Mums next week as I'm toying with going to the Parliament Hill session on 8th?

didn't mean to post that twice - oops.
perils of one handed typing.

puts down breast pump and breathes sigh of relief

Calico What a relief. So pleased.
MS Sounds like you'll look lovely
thom Doesn't bare thinking about what could happen when they get out, t that lo crawling across road. I assume he was ok? This is the 2nd time I've found ds1 outside at this group. Either I am the worst mother in the world or I have an incredibly quick, sneaky, adventurous boy! I should think it's the second option there, and next time I shall remember that when he is standing by a gate or door looking all inocent and cute, it probably means he's planning something! He does have a very cheeky 'I'm gonna make a run for it' face, I see it all the time at the park.......I should def know it now
QK Poor little Alex having to go through that Like you say though, the best outcome really compared to what it could have been, hope he's ok.
Good news about the bedtime routine.

We took Luke to the hospital this evening. We were all having dinner about 5ish and he was in his bouncer, of course the minute I sit down to eat, he starts crying!! So I give him a quick hug and kiss, put him down and rock the bouncer with my foot whilst I scoff dinner like a wild boar! Anyway, the get him on floor to change his stinky nappy and notice a red pinprick like rash all over his face. It wasn'tthere 10 minutes ago. Checked his temp which was 36.6 so calming down a bit, I figure anything majorly serious, he'd have high temp (?), so I call gp surgery to see if the nurse is still there as I'm wondering if it could be a result of jab this morning. Receptionist tells me nurse isn't there, so I explain the situation to her, and tell her I'm going to bring him in to get looked at. She told me, there was 1 doc in clinic, she had 5 patients in the waiting room and they closed in 20 minutes so the doc wouldn't have time to see the baby I told her, I thought if I showed up with a baby especially with a rash, he'd take priority over anyone in the waiting room and would have to be seen straight away, she just said ermm, we are busy, so I told her to forget it and I'd take him to the hospital. She then said no need for that, the doctor will call you back. What good's that?
Anyway got to hospital and they said it's just dry skin. It seems to have calmed down a bit now, but it did appear very quickly. They said to put E-45 cream on it 3 times a day and that it could develop into excema, which I don't think it will, we shall see. I hope not.

It's 5:20 in the morning. I give up and now we're all up. Great. Votes please, who thinks it's gonna be one of those bloody days?
Horrible night, dp been working, he said he's got no money on him so can't even bring me in some chocolate. Who goes out without any money? Idiot.

Hi LBB, definitely one of those days. I'm really pissed off with my DH as it was my turn to sleep last night but was woken around 5am by him pacing up and down outside the bedroom door with a squawking baby and then acted surprised when he woke me. What the hell did he expect! Why not just come and wake me properly if he needed help rather than 'hint'
he then buggered off to work just before 6am even though he starts at 7am and it is a 5 min drive to work. I then come downstairs and find that some food I'd cooked last night and which he said he'd put in the fridge had miraculously found its way back out onto the work surface. Needless to say, he 'thought' he'd put it in

My DH is also an idiot in that he often goes out without money.
On the brightside, the shopping bus goes to the local mall today, my lovely neighbour has posted out my new cashpoint card and my god am I going to test it this morning

Hope you manage to get a bit of rest today. Not had a proper chance to catch up on all the other messages but good luck today PSL with M's hospital appt.
Will do more personals later after my retail therapy.

Mos Mine does stuff like that too, leaves extra portions for dinner out, leaves me thinking why do I bother asking him to do the simplist of tasks when clearly I should just do everything myself.
On the rare occasion that I try to lay in, he'll open the bedroom door and let ds1 wander in and out trying to get me up. I never do that for him. I keep the door closed and keep ds1 away from it as best I can.
He got in from work about an hour ago, I told him they've both been awake on and off all night and in the end we got up at 5, and he's gone staright to bed. I want to cry. He said I could wake him about 1 so I could go back to bed for a few hours this afternoon, but he knows we were planning on going out later, so think he just offered that knowing I'd say no, whereas he could have let me go back now and he could have slept while we're out, but fuck it, not even gonna get dressed today, so he can have a day of trying to sleep while these 2 are grumpy coz they've had little sleep and he can sing for his dinner.

MsLucy/dinkystinky, I'd also be interested in knowing if you are going to go to Pushy Mums next Friday - or future ones, as I might have to take Conor for jabs on the 8th. I think going out further afield, doing something slightly different and the exercise would all do me good - I'm getting a bit mopey and tearful the last few days.

Conor has had a lot of milk spots too though looking at him now his face looks a bit clearwe.

Hey guys at least you get a turn at a lie in!....I have not had one unbroken night / lie in past 5.30 since L was born. DH says that as I am on mat leave it is my 'job' to do the night shift every night. Don't mind with DD but DS too?? DH sleeps in the attic room so that he gets a full night's sleep every night and lie-ins every weekend

QK nice to see you back but sorry your little one has been poorly. It's awful seeing them in pain isn't it.

LBB sorry you had a fright with the rash last night. I always think it is better to be safe then sorry with tiny babies - can't believe your GP's practice was so dismissive!

Beautiful day here so I am heading off to the allotment to do some digging (need to get rid of the mummy tummy somehow).

Terrible night here too! ahhhh

Thinking Baby (called Penelope) has silent (and sometimes not very silent) reflux as another night of clearing throat, chokey noises etc - no sleep.

we are going to a cranial osteopath today - and if that doesn't work i am going to (sob) cut out dairy and my daily coffee and, i suppose, chocolate. I really hope the osteopath works!

Sorry to hear of the hospital trips, ill health - how distressing - and annoying DHs!

It is clearly going to be one of those days.

Calico - that is INSANE re. your DH. Am really sorry for you - it isn't fair.

Surely you both work in the day (him at work, you at home with kiddies) and then you share the nights because you are both then "at work" with the children.

aaron is hibernating

he slept from 2-6pm yesterday (other mother visiting with her non sleeping 4 month old dd was very ) then had a feed at 6.30 and was trying to fall asleep in his bath at just gone 7... put him in his crib while i got the others to bed and he dozed off and slept til almost 1am! (had fortgotton how weird it is listening to them over the monitor and jumping every time there's a noise... dp and i prefer it when he's down here i think!) he had a quick feed and slept again til just gone 7am, and he fell asleep again at 8.30 and is still dozing wtf?!

PT lucky you

nadsss - yes, I feel a bit hard done by.....DH is great in many other respects and does his share of housework etc
(including ironing!) but doesn't do sleepless nights - though to be honest I cope with it ok and if he has a sleepless night he is impossibly moody for the whole day afterwards so it is (almost) worth it. L has reflux though not the silent type! Infant Gaviscon has helped and she is no longer sick and uncomfortable every feed - ask your HV if it is appropriate for your DD.

DH was 'helping out' with housework at the weekend when L and I were in hospital - his idea of washing clothes is to through anything at all into the machine regardless of colour - so I have found a pile of grey babygros, socks and vests which were once sparkling white....idiot