August 2008 - 8 months and still not sleeping though the night....

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you'd think after 33 threads we'd have all the answers by now.

Morning all

Our very exhausted girl slept 7-1 then 1-6 then into bed with us and 6-8. So good sleeping all around.

We have a very busy day ahead Sing and sign then swimming then hopefully DD will collapse and I can plant the rest of my potatoes.

Expectant - I love the fact that there is cat food on your list.

Expectant - hope you have your blockage sorted.

Porridge and fruit here as I am trying to cut my calories and hopefully lose a bit of my middle which is refusing to go anywhere.

Morning all,
Good sleeping oops
We had another great night here too,
dd 8-8
ds 6.30-8
Ok I went in to him around midnight, his nappy had leaked for some reason so had to change him, I topped him up too.he didnt wake throughout all this, just whimpered a little.

Had a great day yesterday, lovely sunshine.
Went out in am to buy dcs sunhats.
Me and dh played with dcs in the garden.
Then me and dd went for a walk with dog on her trike, whilst dh did some bonding with ds.
DD was an absolute dream yesterday, sazzles could be the sunshine
good luck with dd1 appointment today.
cc I am so sorry for your friend, and If it was my friend I would probably feel like you do too, when we have children we know what they are missing out on iykwim. Praying she has an outcome like ts poppy your girls are beautiful, what lovely pictures.
buckets sounds like a lovely day for you too, well done on kurts weigh in, and servicing your man.
Nothing happening here still My mum had to say that its just not normal and we need to make an effort to get them things on track,as its important not to lose that side of the relationship etc....

miamla hope the little robin is ok.
cyteen I hope you had a good night, and he didnt wake too often.
ts you also have so much energy we could bottle yours too
expectant not long now for your trip over here, I also love the fact that sheba is on the list
lwfh hope the blocked duct is sorted.
steaky laughter in the houshold sounds great. Hope you are ok. Thinking of you

did I miss anyone????????????
Hi if so..
Oh pf I hope the nappies have cleared up and its nothing more sinister. My dh looks at me like this when I look on nhs direct or in fact if any of them are ill he knows I am about to google
ts which holiday destination are you looking at today.

One more sorry{blush]

My dh booked us a holiday the other night when he was at work. Bless him.

I can't do links but we are going to Kellingheath in Norfolk. You could google if you fancy a nosey.
We go on the 1st of June so will be away for our anniversary on the 2nd.
Don't like the thought of flying with these two just yet.

That was supposed to be LWFH - about blockage!

morning No1

Someone give me a kick up the bum please - I am feeling really sorry for myself. I have piles, a sore back, and my stomach is so big I look about 4 months pregnant and I am utterly utterly sick of it.

I need tops that are very fitted around the top and bust as I am small there but then disguise my stomach. I keep looking at the Boden catalogue but everything is just designed for slim women this season. Empire line doesn't work on me as I look pregnant. I am so fed up. NOTHING in my wardrobe fits as I used to wear fitted stuff.

See told you I need a kick up the bum.

Sounds more like you need a hug pf ((()))

I'll leave one of the official thread FISGs to help you out as am in no fit state to attempt style. Joe wet through everything at around midnight so into bed with us he came, then got up for the day, as is his fancy at the moment, at 5.30am We need thicker curtains!

Off to baby group now, sorry to post and run. Have good days all

PF - No mkicks only sympathy - I can't find clothes either - my big bust means I havr to buy s size 18/20 the the rest of the size 14 me looks like i've melted or am pregnant! trouser wise my 14's give me a muffintop and the 16's are too big. have you tried Mistral online? they do funky stuff and have some nice tops in. here

the models are skinhy but the look good on the average woman.

cyteen - we have a baa baa blind we stick it up every night and it more than does the job - best £30 ever spent!

cyteen thanks I appreciate the hug

I have some spare standard size blackout lining if you'd like it (clips to normal curtains). I still haven't photographed the tops for Poppy and know I'm not good at sending stuff out quickly but I will do it if you want them as long as not an emergency!

Hi pf - yes still v. interested in the tops, whenever you get a chance. Amazed you get the chance to do anything tbh. I have this top in navy blue and it's pretty good at hiding the muffin top and nice and long.

Thanks for all the lovely comments about my girls. I think they're rather lovely too.

Really couldn't live without our black-out blinds. We're getting to the time of year when it gets light shortly after it gets dark . Lovely when you're young and can stay up all night. Not so good with young children who need to sleep.... We just have cheap Homebase ones, but they work just fine.

Glad the cat is now free miamla

Yay for the no1 hol. Know what you mean about not wanting to fly with such small people. We have no choice being so far away from any sort of heat. Tbh I find it easier though than the long drive down south. 4 weeks til the next one.

Hope all goes well for DD1 today and you get some answers/lotions and potions sazzles.

How's the building work going dizzy?

V. impressed by expressing at all, let alone all that time! Haven't expressed for ages and don't expect to ever again .

Good luck with the packing expectant. Not long now!

building work was going fine until the heavens opened on top of all my furniture sitting out the back/new skirting wood waiting to get fitted and lovely new doors fecking scottish weather - was SUPPOSED to be nice until Thurs

can't stay lots to do - poppy will text you

PF - how about looking for something that is bias cut empire - it will be mluch more flattering as the tummy panel will have a bit of stretch but also a bit of skim.

Something a bit likethis I know you said no Boden, but just to give you an idea.

Or maybe a wrap top - this on is pretty

Or this from white stuff - not to full under the bust.

Thanks for that link to the Baa baa blind, I think DH will be buying one without knowing it in a minute as a very nautily liberated his cc this morning.

As for us and the Drs.
I'm not sure what to think really.

For me - he said no ADs as I was breastfeeding, that he didn't know any bi-lingual counsellors so all that left me with was going back to the UK for a bit. I'm all for a holiday, but I don't think that will help with giving us strategies to cope. He asked what I wanted, and I said for the PND to stop, but what I should have said was to be on enough of an even keel to be able to deal more effectivley with the major stressors.

Turns out we had missed Izzy's 4 month jabs -doh. But no real problem she will have them next week.
DH wanted him to check out Izzy and ask advice on sleeping.
Dr is another "bedtime is cultural and variable" and said that 8pm was fine and but what can you do?
He also said we should feed her before bedtime so she doesn't wake in the night so much.
He also said, and I thought this was rather odd, that I should not breastfeed more than 5 times in the day (about what I do now - sometimes big, sometimes small) and I should look to cut back.

He also said that after 9 months I have to take supplements/increase my diet as to continue to BF will not benefit me.

Then he weighed Izzy and she has gone from 75th to 50th centile since he saw her in January. And told me that if she dropped anymore then I would have to increase her solids. Again, surely easier to increase BF.

Anyway his chart was an all baby chart and I have a miriam stoppard, BF girls chart and Izzy is bang on the 50th throughout.

So DH has interpretted all this as reasons for me to stop BFing and we should go to formula. He also said that BFing was the reason I never went out (forgetting I go to french class twice a week and M&B group too)
I pointed out that I had bfed in 4 airports, on 4 planes, at a trainstation, on a train, in parked cars, on the side of the road in the snow, at my grandmothers wake and any number of other places so actually BFing was pretty portable.

GAH

Add to that a 1am wake up and the baby not settling till 3.30 then all a bit frazzled this morning.

He wants me to start doing purees with the baby. more GAH

I'll stop now as I'm rambling, but not feeling too good this morning.

Bums and double bums.

One good thing, I am back to pre-baby weight, but then the Dr told me I looked thin. FFS - I'm 5 ft 7 and 7 1/2 stone, have been since I was 16, of course I'm blardy thin.

Poppy I meant to say yesterday that your girls look fabulous.

poppy I agree too, gorgeous girls indeed

steaky am so sorry that the GP wasn't more helpful. I forget how easy it is to access services living in England, I can't imagine what it must be like to try and access a foreign health system? And I agree to the doctors 'advice' on bfing! Stupid arse.

Weather is ger-lorious today (sorry dizzy, not rubbing it in!). Glad I'm finishing early for school pick up, I may actually get to enjoy some sunshine later! Yay.

sazz hoping dd1 gets on ok

buckets how did you get on with the sex everynight challenge you did back in Feb? You are quite inspirational you know .

Still broody btw

omg VG you must be psychic - I was just thinking about you!

CC well it is better than in Spain. To be fair the dr is good, and he isn't anti BF, but he said it was very unusual for anyone to make it to 6 months and after that benefits drop off. I'm a bit annoyed at DH as I had gone through it all with him the other day and made him look at the WHO website, but he seemed to just take everything the Dr said as gospel.
So now it seems like I am being stubborn for the sake of it.

I just think these charts are another thing used to make mothers feel bad about themselves. I understand statistics, what it means is that in a line up of 100 babies Izzy used to be 75th heaviest and now she would be 50th heaviest - hardly starving now is it?

VG we are in the Hautes Alpes, we are in the regional capital so not exactly a back water.

Thanks VG, life IS good

Am trying to persuade dh to get to the docs and have a lump in his testicle looked at. He reckons it was just a spot that is now getting smaller . I said he should go just to be on the safe side but I'm not convincing him so far....Off to google testicle lumps to find evidence that may persuade him to go....