Jan 09' Dribbling, drooling, swaying and babbling...thats just the mamas....

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hi books :

sorry that ds is being stressful. my dd1 was like that @ one stage and kept doing naughty things luckily now she is fine. will be 4 end of aug then off 2 school suire he will get better as he gets older dd1 has.
i am very lucky with both my girls

oh no dog so sorry that must have been a shock !!!

Oh dog Are you ok?

And after the scary alarm too. Big virtual cuppa and hug.

dog that must be terribly shocking and very upsetting for you - my parents split up after 30 odd years together a while ago, and it was very difficult for the whole family, even though we were all 'grown up' and had left home etc. In fact, I have always felt that my first (& failed) marriage was a reaction, in a large part, to my family falling apart at that time.. hope you get a lot of support from siblings (do you have any?) and whatever happens, don't let either of them offload on you - they have friends, I am sure, to do that on.

tink you are always getting such nice things for your girls - lucky them. I just got LO a lamaze 'freddy firefly' which he loves. And ikea fish mobile is on the list for next visit!

LO grizzled all morning, then finally pooed, then was a complete angel for the rest of the day! No fresh air today though as was raining... boo.

oh dog - virtual wine it is. poor you. Poor mum!

sorry to hear about shit day and folks, dog - any possibility of a non-virtual bottle of wine? sounds deserved.

also, lenni, sorry it worked out that way with your dad. i know that must have been difficult for everybody involved - hopefully things are getting easier for people who wind up in those sorts of situations now - though i guess that's no consolation for you

tree - egg donation, it's a real sign of a hard ass

tink, lucky dd

on a happy weekend note, i have a glass of red wine to hand, c is asleep (was a right grouch getting there, my fault - i took her out today and she missed a nap), have dvd for later, dinner being cooked for me as we speak and about to look up hotels in venice on internet

also, sorry about ds acting up, books - and duct all better, cancelled doc

Dog how sad, sounds like it was a horrible shock. I'm not surprised it feels like a bereavement, I would feel the same. can you/ do you want to talk to your parents about it?
hope Isla is more herself soon, too..

books yep sounds like our ds's could be twins. Ds is 2.2years. I can relate to and in fact have experienced almost exactly the same toothbrushing scenario. Sometimes it feels those things are SO infuriating BECAUSE they are so small - kind of like - why can't even the tiniest things be straightforward??
I also seem to be leaving dd crying a lot, and feel horrible because often when she is quiet I'll leave her too, and try to give ds some attention, so dd is pretty neglected, and often only gets a cuddle when she is feeding. makes me feel very sad. though she is probably ok, and like millions of other 2nd/3rd/4thborn children..

tree donating an egg is incredibly generous! How did you first decide to do it? Does your partner feel the same way about it? Do you plan to tell your children? I guess I have lots of questions because reading your words about it has made me think about whether I could - on the surface I think I feel that it is 'just an egg' and would only be a baby I had a connection to if it were fertilised in my body... big things to think about though..

Lenni I've had periody feelings on and off over the last week too - not welcome here either - still bfing every 4 hours or so, hoping that like with labour, I am getting false alarms! Period are just such a pain in the arse, aren't they?? I got mine 4 months after having ds... really annoying when I was hoping for at least another year off!!

dog really sorry to hear that - it must be a shock .

book and spink - it must be triplets why s toothbrushing such a nightmare?

Make that quadruplets I have major issues with getting dressed, not being allowed to undo the car seat buckle (wtf!!!) and putting shoes on. The joys eh!

Dog - sorry to hear about parents. MissJ's advice sounds fab.

MissJ - you have done well to fit two marriages and a baby in before 35, I always see such experiences as character strengthening, they make for interesting stories too. Life is all about stories in my book.

Yay Stripey! And thank you for your sympathies, he was indeed a victim of the times. 20 years later I'm sure things would have been different.

FYM - might investigate mini pill, am thinking about implant but just not got round to sorting it out yet. Contraception still not in that great a demand!

Made the most divine chocolate brownies tonight, dark choc with amaretto liquor and vanilla. Heavenly. Shame about my waistline. My wii fit character is rather robust looking lately.

Ooo, where are you all tonight... I'm trying to work avoid!!

Dog, sorry to hear about your parents splitting up. My parents split up when I was a baby so I don't remember that but I remember the seocnd marriages breaking up.

dog sorry for your parents... 30 years is a long time

missj ds is on day 5 of no poo... he screamed last night (which is why I couldn't be bothered to post ) -no squirming today... but no poo either

DD left nursery today... I have been blarting this evening.... they made her the most gorgeous book filled with photos of her time there, with her friends, and with the staff. The staff have written lovely messages to her too... it was really moving. Feels odd though... but dd seems unmoved by it all

Lenni I can think of somewhere to put the 3rd tattoo.... would be symmetrical too! (plus he wouldn't need to use it again once you had 3...

EPPM - I'll suggest it in fact I think I'll make it a condition, might put him off sufficiently! WOuld be a shame for the child though - "So Daddy, where is my tattoo?" "Erm..."

eppm, sorry to hear about tardy poo, hope it's made an appearance by now. and re lenni's dh!

dog, venice not till next year so even if she's a bit on the lazy side (i wasn't bothered walking myself till quite late) will definitely have to get her one of those baby-leads (already had a slight shuddery thought about canals and wondered about baby life jackets, neurotic mum style). dp has conference there in april 2010, it's a big conference so we think we had better book hotel asap. interestingly, though, you can't book a hotel more than a year before an event online.

gorgeous day in dublin, hope it's nice where you are

Hello folks.

EachPeach - is Monday the day then? Oh lordy. It'll be virtual vallium for me in September, I have some around here somewhere if you need them.

Stripey - Venice. Would love to go. When I off load the children into their teenage years, and they are too coll, I am off around Europe with a back pack and dh if he like. I never did it and it is a ssemi regret. I will go though - adn freak out all the youngsters in hostels. He heeee.

Dog - fingers crossed for your ma and da. You must be gutted. Have a lovely day at park.

Cold and windy here, cooler on the coast etc. Ooohhhhh I miss the shelter of the city. And the large supermarkets and choice of shops. Tut.

I have a bit of a problemo.

Have a turkish baths hen do in Harrogate tommorow. Not going to meal etc cos of bf duties and the general high needs nature of my child. Have I mentioned her colic at all? So last week, and several times previously, she has had expressd milk from a bottle. Tried it yesterday. Not a bit of it, went mental. And last night too.

She'll have to go 4 hours without a feed if she wont tolerate a bottle. Am worried. No phones alowed in baths and mum will be 3/4 hour aay anyway.
Should be fun. Just when you thought you might get a couple of hours guilt free head space......

stripey it is beautiful here today too!
we have been at the park this am enjoying the sunshine.
tree ha! I remember taking dd to a hen day when she was wee... she would never take a bottle at all. we didn;t stay very long she decided to scream the place down...

DS had a poo at 5am it was copious, shall we say. He slept very deeply afterwards, bless him

Oh lenni- I meant his chest of course! why wouldn't he show that to a child?

tree - c won't do the bottle thing either, but on the one occasion i went out briefly (cirque de soleil, tickets bought before she arrived, assumed all would well by 10 weeks, ha) my sister did manage to get most of a bottle into her

c eating, sleeping and grumping. wish this growth spurt would end

DS the same Stripey - he fed 5 times in the night and awake plenty more, then he's been fed every 1-2hrs all day and grumping or cat napping in between. No more than 20 mins sleep at a time. It's doing me in now. DD is cranky and DH has gone out til the morning. Argh! Had a blow out with him earlier too. Am fed up of all the long hours working during the week plus me working evenings (and I've done two 7pm-3am shifts for him this week) and then him buggering off out at the weekend. Don't think I'm being unreasonable to expect some return on the childcare front for the hours work I do for him. Considering nursery for DD, before it all puts me in a wooden box (I want to be buried in a cardboard one but ykwim!)

EPPM - glad about poo but not about timing and of course you meant that [evil cackle]

Tree funnily enough DS refused a bottle yesterday but after much complaining he finally took it. Go and enjoy yourself and don't take your phone. Lord knows you need it lady. When she's 18 and colic free she is not going to hold against you the time you went out for a few hours and she had to drink milk out of a bottle And you've had 12wks of screaming, let someone else cover a few hours.

dog - sorry to hear that isla has been fussy bracken has been since 2nd lot of injections on wed! keeps being fussy on the bottle!

lenni - i had implant fitted beginning of march. have had sex once since.
chocolate brownies sound great

eachpeach - it must be a shock leaving nursery. dd1 finishs nursery july 18th
lol @ tattoo

stripey - venice sounds good

tree - hen do sounds good

had a good day today

decided to move rooms around. bracken is now in her own room our old room and we have moved our mattress down into study.
it is great to think that they will have there own rooms