Fab Feb 2009: baby coos, stinky poos - three months on...

[dinkystinky]

so here we go again

Oh dear STW We've had a few days that hace started that early. I don't mind 6, I would obviously rather 10/11 but can manage 6am, not 5.

Going back to the doctors today because I still have this UTI. Last week they gave me a 3 day course of AB's but hasn't made the slightest bit of difference.

Morning all..... Bad night here. DS pood yesterday evening at about 11. So I changed him but woke him up. So fed him back to sleep only for him to poo again. So laid him down to change him and he was sick everywhere. By this time he was wide awake.

Fed him again but he didnt go back to sleep until 3 this mornig... DP woke me up at 4 when he got up for work, and DS woke for another feed. DD then woke up at 6. I let her come into my bed and told her we would have breakfast when owen woke up (He was asleep on my chest). I caught her poking him and trying to open his eyes while shouting "owen awake breakfast time"!!! Little monkey........

I am so tired that I really am going to bed at 7 with DD tonight....

DS has his first lot of jabs today (only 3 weeks late) I am dreading it....

Oh lardy That sounds like a truely awful night. Hopefully the jabs will leave ds a little out of it today and you can spend the day lounging on the sofa and leave dd with some toys and cbeebies.

Lardy - sorry you had a bad night last night. Similarly crappy one here - Danny awake and chundering left, right and centre half the night due to his bloody cold then wide awake and burbling the other half - even when brought into bed with us. He's asleep now, of course, but both DH (who has come back into our bedroom) and I are like zombies. Ho hum... Hope your DS is one of those babies who sleeps lots after jabs.

LBB, Pink - Danny does the headbutt thing too but only when really tired. I think he's trying to reach an unconscious state in the quickest possible way... otherwise he's just frothing at the mouth and chowing down on any hands he can get hold of. When DS1 was little and teething pre-crawling, he used to roll off his activity mat to try to chew on my toes - strange child...

LBB - such a sweet story about the buttons. You've got that boy well trained if he already knows that the way to a girl's heart is through chocolate

Hi all, thanks for all the advice, will study it again later I think. Had a rough evening after I posted but then he slept a bit and had a late evening but slightly earlier than normal feed when he woke up (probably about 10.30) then slept through to 6.30 when he woke up hungry and I woke up a little uncomfortable.

I do suspect he'll have some teeth soon, could be wrong but ds1 had 2 teeth at 4 months, 4 at 6 months.

horrible night here too, went ot bed late, alomost 1am, then at woke to find ds1 screaming in the hall, he wouldn't calm down so brought him in with us where he kicked and cried for ages, then aaron came in at 4am, dozed off for a while and woke up at 5.30 as ds1 had gone in and woken dd who had wet her bed so she stripped and climbed in with us and i herded ds1 back to his own bed, cats started causing havoc soon after and aaron and dd were in and out of conciousness causing mayhem, dozed off at 7.30 and woke at 8.30 to find dd had gone back into her own (wet) bed and fallen asleep and ds1 was conked so dp and i decided we were damned if we were waing them and dealing with 2 tired cranky monstors all day.

soooo shattered!

sorry others had a rotten one too, hope it goes better for us all tonight.

lbb.... aaawwwww my 2 do that if they're trying to suck up to me, unfortunately it's usually rice cakes so less exciting than buttons

Had a shocker of a night too - DS and DD were taking it in turns to wake up every hour. I'm sure it's a conspiracy!

PT sorry about the little kitten

Think Lilian has eczema on her arms and legs but not sure as DS or rest of family don't have it. She has lots of little scaly patches of dry skin. Have been rubbing Aveeno cream on it but it is getting worse so will take her to clinic tomorrow. It looks awful....

LBB - DS keeps all his chocolate buttons to himself

afternoon all,
PSL, all that food sounds yummy, so we know where the next meet up will be now!

STW(i think?) I took my laptop to bed too whilst F & F on and don't really know what happened, apart from a lot of cars racing around of course.

LBB, slap head, LOL

PT, lardy, calico and probably half of the rest of us, sorry you had bad nights last night and hope you get a bit more sleep tonight.

I had a pretty good night last night as in the spare room and had a good day so more relaxed. Sold lots of jewellery yesterday and today I got a phone call from the medical centre who'd heard I had some jewellery and wanted to see it so I sent DS who is on study leave down with it. He came back having sold to 4 nurses, the doctor, the clinic manager and a random patient and had made £175! Am running low on stock now and kicking myself for having not bought more when I was in Malaysia.

Another plus, DH came home from work just now with a HUGE smile on his face and an invite to a very exclusive leaving dinner in the poshest house on our compound on wed night. Its a do for a very senior exec and 99% of the guests invited are very senior. DH and I are the only plebs and snotty cow is not invited. Will HAVE to force myself to talk to her at nursery tomorrow and ask what she is wearing

MoS - I now have an image of you in a Del-boy Trotter-esque coat flogging jewellery on the compound Glad that the malaysian jewellery is making you a nice tidy little profit - and that DS1 is being put to good work as your Rodney

Builder here today and almost all done with the work, hurrah! And the amazing non-sleeping baby has actually had a couple of naps today in his cot - fingers crossed he'll sleep tonight....

DH discovered a lump near his prostrate earlier this week - he has a doctor's appointment tonight to check it out. Am really hoping its benign..

Just back from a lovely few days in the New Forest. Our friends' place was on Grand Designs (and repeated a couple of weeks ago on Revisited) as they had a hideous fire in their cottage the week that she was due to give birth, they then went on to rebuild the cottage and did an amazing job. So that's where we stayed. It was just blissful and they've got a daughter a few months older than my DD so they played together giving us some proper grown up time too.

Ah well, back to normality and my big 4 0 tomorrow. Eek!

Haven't gone far back in the messages but sorry those that had a bad night last night, hope it's better tonight.

Dinky hope your DH is OK, let us know.

Good God Pink Sounds like a shocking night! I got a bit lost reading that too! Sounds like it was none stop.

Hope tonight's better for all of those that have been suffering with it.

MoS Wow on making £175, pretty good. Reading about your invite, I was going to ask if you are socially good enough to go...........you know
You'll have to let us know how that convo with the snob goes! Serves her right. I'd love to see her face. Take a picture and post it on fb
dinky Glad the work's nearly done. And hope dh's doctors goes ok and lump is nothing serious. Do let us know won't you? I'll check in this evening.

Went back to doc's myself earlier and have been given different AB's for this blasted UTI. I have to take 4 tablets a day.
Also got Luke weighed, 16lbs 2oz, so he has more than doubled his birth weight, but he keeps moving up the graph, where he was born on the 50th, then moved to 75th and now is on the 91st! The hv told me it was ok. I told her he's been feeding every 3 hours ish and she told me I should stretch it out to 4, but I said I was feeding to a 4 hour routine, but he was getting so miserable that I decided to switch to demand, and most days, he won't go longer than 3/3.5hrs, takes 5/6oz and isn't sick and doesn't struggle so he obviously wants it. She said I could continue how I am if I'm happy with it, which I'm not really, it does make it hard to do much else but feed, ut if that's what Luke wants atm, then that's what he shall get.

Hello ladies.

Dinky, I hope your DH is ok, my Dad has to have his tested every year, the wait can be horrid.

LBB, I hope it clears soon.

And just to add to the wee related stories, I wet myself today. How nice. I ran home from school this morning, baby bouncing about in the pram only to make it into my bathroom, unable to get my flies undone quick enough and I wee'd my pants. Just thought I'd share that with you all and on a public internet forum.

However, upon pondering my unfortunate piss disaster I figured it must be because the bp meds are getting out of my system and my kidney function is no longer being surpressed by the Atenolol.

And now I shall erase this from all your memories and you must think of me as the fabulous, glamorous and mysterious lady I once was...

Hmm, think you should name change to Watermarkstretch MS! Dont worry - happens to the best of us and I bet the jogging home didnt help matters any... Definitely a good prompt to go see your GP again about your meds though. Thanks for your best wishes for DH - keep telling myself that he's pretty young and pretty healthy on the whole so hopefully all will be ok.

MS Oh dear. I'm laughing . If it makes you feel any better, I've lost a few trickles too due to infection and extremely weak pelvic floor! Lets get clenching!
I find it gets worse the more I move. Sometimes I've stood in my living room with my hand between my legs thinking 'can't move yet, not yet.........ok go go go!!!!'

I've just had an hours nap. I don't feel much better for it, but I really need to stay up long enough to do this bloody ironing! I really don't know why I bother, it's not going to look any better.

I start pushy mums tomorrow. Quite excited. Must remember to get my trainers out of dp's car.

Dinky Got my fingers crossed for dh. Like you say, sure it's all fine, but still a massive worry, best he gets it checked though and you know either way.
Dp has a large mole on his back that's really dark and has scabbed over, I keep telling him it's not good and he should get it looked at because if it is anything, he can get treated and the sooner the better.

MS at least you've got a justifiable sounding reason, i've just got no pelvic floor. dd keeps wanting me to jump on a trampoline, run etc with her but it would just be puddles all the way at the moment!
another good reminder to clench/unclench but once every so often probably isn't quite enough is it?!

dinky, I hope all is ok with your DH and will be thinking of you both tonight. Very stressful. Hugs from KSA.
Had to chuckle about your del-boy comments as I'd said to DH earlier that DS was either Del boy or Rodders and we'd decided he was Rodders as tall and gangly. DH talks like Del boy though (probably why we don't get invited out much!)

LBB, wow at Luke's growth,thats fab. I finally got H weighed a couple of days ago and he is now just over 5k (I think around 11lb) so not yet up to double although he has a chubby little face bless him. Think some teeth are not far off, wonder which one of them will have teeth first?
Your DP MUST go to have his mole checked out. If he doesn't want to then you book him the appointment (easier said than done I would imagine at your surgery)

MS, oh poor you, shouldn't laugh but as dinky says, it happens to the best of us

Am still very chuffed with my jewellery sales and am even contemplating a trip to purchase some more although not sure I want to take the risk of shelling out for a flight and not making the money back. As it stands now, if/when I sell it all I'll be around £750 up. Not bad on a £200 investment. Think I'll give up law when I come home and open a market stall

I keep thinking we have lost a lot of girls over the last few months, hope its just because they are busy?
Where have TBM and Herby gone and all the others?

katieblirdsnest - I saw that Grand Designs!!

Dinky - hope your hubby is ok, we had that with john last year. Very nail bitting...

lardy et all - hope you get a better night's sleep tonight. Lardy, you going to the music group tomorrow?

Yes, I'm going to have to look at dp's work rota and make him the appointment. These things are easily treated, I had a mole removed from my back when I was about 11 because it moved.

Evening all. Thanks for your kind wishes for DH - clearly paid off as the doctor said he thinks its a benign cyst but is referring DH for further investigation to find out for sure, so quite relieved all in all.

Katieblirdsnest - wow at staying in a grand designs house! Have a lovely birthday day tomorrow. Sending you virtual champers and flowers in advance and hoping that DD and Ivor let you have a nice lie in to honour the occasion.

LBB - hope you'll have fun at pushy mums tomorrow; remember that with your double buggy you'll be working out twice as hard as other mums so you can eat double the chocolate and drink double the wine afterwards I agree with the others - definitely make sure your DP's mole gets checked out; its really easy to get it sorted.

MoS - I was thinking that a few weeks back and then lots of people popped back online - I guess people are generally quite busy or losing us over here in postnatal (at least that was Spotty's excuse when I facebooked her to tell her stop ironing and get on MN as we miss her)or lurking. I think TBM has checked in a couple of weeks ago but she's mid move. And is Herbgarden on holiday now? Am sure they'll check back in with us at some point when life gets a little less busy.

Heard some really lovely news today - my ex room mate from work (the one who I was sharing with when I got pregnant who had lost her twins last year) who went back to Australia had a little girl yesterday - 8 lbs 9 oz (and from her latest pregnancy photos the mum looked tiny, god knows where she was hiding all of that baby). Am so pleased for her and her husband and hope its the start of lots of good things for them now.

dinky Re your dh, sounds good. Do you know when his appointment for the refferal will be or do you have to wait to hear? Keep us posted.

There is another mum doing the pushchair thing with a double, she said her oldest (18m) won't stay in the pushchair for an hour so her dd will have to e free to run around, but she said it's ok ecause she can play with Jacob. Not a chance is that boy getting out, I told her he can scream bloody murder, not a chance he's getting out and be allowed to roam free, he's be off like a shot!
I still can't believe I'm going to do it. I am not a big fan of any form of exercise

That is good news about your work friend.

[shudders at excercise talk]

katie.... wow! i saw that house and it was truely beautiful. is the man still in business helping others do the same? funnily enough we were all talking about that house at the do we went to last week, the reed thatch has us all deeply

dinky glad your dh's appointment went as well as could be hoped, hope he gets the final all clear soon.

so pleased for your friend too, what a fab outcome after the horrible time she's had

mos... you clever clogs you! that's some return on your money, takes the sting out of credit card free exuistance for the time being i'll bet! and i'm with lbb, you simply must take a pic of nasty cow's face tomorrow when you 'happen' to mention the swanky do. so what are you wearing?

MS, have faith, it really does happen to us all... i had a bad uti last year and felt like a toilet training toddler with damp knickers all day every day

PSL I will be at music tots tomorrow, so hope to see you there...

DS has had his jabs today and didn't like them one little bit... Poor little mite.

I am going to bed now as I am a so tired...

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Morning.
I have a lump on the bottom of my foot. It's under the skin and doesn't hurt, but when I walk, it doesn't feel like my foot is on the floor. Is most odd............

What a horrid night.

DS has a stinking cold and was choking on phlegm and I have woken up with a terrible UTI (that'll be why I wet myself then!) and my kidneys are aching. We've been up since 4.45am.

Off to the walk in centre

Oh MS You poor thing. Hope AB's work straight away. Horrid when it travels to kidney's.