Nov 2008: Spain, France, Leeds or Brum, wherever we are we're still mums

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Hope this works! I'm a techno-idiot!!

well maybe I can be persuaded to try one when in the UK . Here I use the buggy daily and it is a must for me - I tend to use the BBorn when flying as it is convenient but as you say the legs dangle down. On dd1 back pack carrier thing which she has since she was 15 mths it has a leg wedge / foot rest - but the thing is big and bulky in fact we use it for country walks and in the mountains.. shhh don't tell DH ....

bookmarking ... trying to read posts since Tues AM. PHEW! Catch yer later.

I think it's whatever you get used to doing, really. I really liked the wrap sling from the first day I got it, but not so keen on the mei tai type- DH prefers them and the ring sling. But I too love my Bee.

ellielou I'm glad I'm not the only one who got the itti bitti urge. I really like them. I never really liked the PUL cover AIO nappies- they seem so stiff compared to the tots and ME wrap, but these itis are lovely, and very absorbent. Have just bought some little smock tops for mimi to wear with them!

I need to ask, though, Daisy et al, where's the best place for me to sell my cute little size 1 nappies

Obs, that sounds so hard, at least I get a response from DS - eventually. His favourite came atm is winding me up!
And we live effectively on a gated estate so there is next to no traffic otherwise no way would I let him walk without his little life rucsac - Daisy, it is far more worth the money than a new pair of sandals.
We could be the itti appreciation thread! trying to resist the pink polka dots but we only have 2 of each size and she's growing out of the mediums as fast as she can!

Daisy I agree with Yorky- little life rucksack a neccessity, AFAIK. DD1 has the ladybird, but I've seen bumblebees on Amazon. Too cute.

Yorky I've got Mimi in the large now and they are loads bigger than the medium.

www.usednappies.co.uk is a good place to start.

I've also sold some on here before but it's getting a bit like the pram threads here now....with everyone swapping and no-one actually buying!!

OOH thanks Daisy .

Are they the rucksacks with reins in? If so, how long do you think my idealistic, first time mother, "my son won't need those" thoughts will last?? The dummy one lasted for about 2 weeks!!

I am resisting the blue polka dot Itti but I would join an Itti appreciation society! All the others are just too bulky.

hi
writing sideways with laptop boy on knee now stirring damn th
ese clickyclicky keys. all good up north but cant wait to get own place - noone up here likes me co-sleeping feel picked on!
am trying to catch up - hope vbab is ok, lovely lady.
was wondering about pelvic floor today- do you all exercise - how often? am really slack - haha pun!
not sure when i can get back on just wanted to send love really! will try to catch up!! xx

Choc, if you only have one child then you can probably do without reins at all; I never used them with DS....add another one into the mix though.....

Yay barbs, good to "see" you and I hope you're settling in OK and that we can meet up soon

Am with you on the sob at selling stuff Pinky!!

Thanks for the thoughts that things will get better (re: sleep) Lacka things are not that bad really, I know they could be so much worse but it is just so frustrating all this getting a bit more sleep and then it changing, changing back, getting a bit worse, a bit better. Aaargh! Just bloody sleep baby! Then when he doesn't get up at 2am Dh and I wake up with a start at 5am and worry about him! ..until 20 mins later when he starts his 'eheheh' noises.

Hi ChocO yes that is the ones... Haha depends on how busy the roads you walk beside are I think!

Will need to research itti - you could always start such an appreciation society on fb!

Hi Barbs!

lol Daisy- I think if I had only had DD1 I would still need them- she has always had a tendency to run everywhere- in the opposite direction

But choc, really, my DC really like them- they get much more freedom than holding your hand. You don't always need the rein bit- often I will just get hold of the handle bit on the top in an emergency.

I love my Mei Tai
Wrap it round the waist them hop babes into place, great!

Had a bad moment with DD today.
Normally (well for the past 7 weeks) she has loved Playgroup. I would just popped her in the door and she was off. Last week I had to holler 'goodbye DD' across the room
This week....Tears! Mega tears and I eventually just had to take her home cos she would really start to squeal with dismay if I said I would go. Even just to go away for 5 mins to feed J
I was asking the, what are they called? carers? anyway, I was asking them what I should do but even they were saying that she would just have to go home cos she was just so upset
So I worried myself to tears that it was cos she was jealous of J and that I have not been giving her enough attention. But that is simply not true, we spent the morning baking together! J slept, so it was just us and she was talking about going to playgroup later??
So I worried that is was cos I have been snapping at her recently. We really have not been having a good week and the poor love has been roared at a few times. I never normally do that, but J has been up so much (at night) and shouting so much in the day that I have been at the end of my tether, especially when DD squeals over something minimal too. Which she has been doing a lot recently, and the pretend tears
When they both kick off, I just lose it at poor DD

Or am I over analysisng everything and it is just a silly thing and next week she will be back to herself.
Mind you, last week, she got herself in a right old tiz when she needed to pee but didn't want to ask. They nearly called me to go get her, but when they figured out it was a pee she needed, she calmed down.

Oh dear, is she just too young and not really ready for it all, at all??
(2yrs and 8.5 mo)

I just remembered that, as we went in the door, another girl was crying, with her mummy calming her and obviously staying for the duration, I wondered if that was what had set DD off but when she would not calm down....??

Barbs my pelvic floor is more of a pelvic basement sob...

I do try to do a few exercises tho, nightly if I remember.. (but that was more at the start)

Oh dear Twinkling that sounds rough but familiar.. Ds1 started at nursery when he was 11 months old and goes on and off the idea of going to this day (he will be 3 in Aug). Normal I think... In fact recently he has taken against going again until today when he cried when I had to remind him he wasn't going this morning??!!??!!

Don't know how to break it to him that he will be stopping going altogether next month until I find a new job... He may not be as pleased as he would have been last week!

The folk there said I might have to stay with her for a couple of sessions, but I think that would not be a good idea?
I think she either stays and enjoys or she goes home.
Playgroup is not for mummies.

Pelvic floor? don't got one.
Excersises?
Nah!
haha

lol pinky....as witnessed at the forst meet up!

twinkling, perhaps she is just going through an extra clingly pahse? iirc my DS1 whi had previously been a reall outgoing and independant wee boy went through a real clingy phase when he was three/four. He is back to his usual oputgoing self now though.

My DD is going through it at the minute as well; she only wants me and goes nuts if DH tried to take her up to bed, put her in the chair, change a nappy, and it's me she is shouting for in the morning, where it was all DH before.

well yes, Daisy! I had forgotten about that!

Twinks coincidentaly I was chatting with friend today about nursery (day care) and she said her eldest had a hard time settling. Friend stayed with her for gradually shorter periods until she was happy to be left. Whole process took two weeks.

re clingy little ones. I may sound crazy but I wonder if it's linked to the babies growing up. DS went through abit of a regression around the time I was weaning DD1, and it seemsthe same with my girls now, and much of it is centered around mealtimes. I remember at one point I had to feed DD1 whilst cooking DS's tea so I could sit one to one with him. It only lasted a couple of weeks. I dunno, it's just a thought that popped into my head.

It's a good thought Pinky. DD has been doing a fair old bit of regression recently and has stopped asking for things, just points and grunts, and she wants me to feed her bumble's food (especially the Ella's house fruity pouches!) and wants lids on cups and even asked for a bottle of milk. she's also stopped telling us when she has a soggy or pooey nappy!

Right, I was planning on an early night and here I am still online.
I've been virtual bathroom shopping though!

Another fecking 5am start (4.57 to be precise which seems worse somehow).

He is wired, WTF am I going wrong here?????!!!!!!?????????!!! {Yawn]

Morning

Just popping in trying to pack up ready for coming home, have been keeping up with the chat on phone it's hard to post from it though!
Sparkle, we are also reguarly up at 5, makes for a loooong day doesn't it!?
Pelvic floor! Yes try to do exercises when I remember! I did think it would be back to normal by now but sadly not.

Will catch up properly when I'm home.

Morning.
Sounds hard twinkling. but not unusual either. I guess it is just a very frustrating time for her ?

Haey Chocgal!!

Tinytoes now zonked in his buggy out in the fresh air, lovely day here again. He had Oatibix for breakfast today for first time and loved it...

Have decided to try a rethink of my own routine and go to bed earlier again to see if it makes it easier to cope with the early ams.

Probably not but worth a try no?

Am sat here waiting for my boss to ring me back about the changes at work (have already had a sneak preview from my colleague this morning) - whichever option I choose is going to involve more travelling which is exactly what I don't want but I guess I should be grateful that a job is a job at the moment.

Sparks how on earth do you manage looking after 2 littlies and such early starts?? I am in complete awe of you Your DS1 will qualify for the govt vouchers in September won't he? So only another couple of months....

Chocorange reins - absolutely dependent on the child tbh. We had to use them for DS1 even when he was an only child just because he refused point blank to hold our hands and was likely to bolt at any moment. Although he is getting slightly better, walks with him are still a risky business (hence why I push him to nursery in a stroller even though he is nearly 3 )

Chocgal glad E enjoyed his first holiday -was it the Penrith one you went to?

I got an admissions form for DS1 to put him on the waiting list for school today - I can't believe in just over a year, he will be going to school