Dec 08 mums - embuggerance to it all - sleep or no sleep we love our babes

[waitinggirl]

i hope people don't mind, i took the bull by the horns and did it. title a bit naff, but more important the thread exists rather than search for a better title. hope i haven't stolen anyone's thunder...

It only cost £100 in the end. He said that what he thought was wrong wasn't actually the problem!!

Oh that's a little better, still £100 though.

How to make breakfast (the DS way)

First wait until your mother is suitably distracted. feeding your baby sister is the best time. Find the largest mixing bowl in the kitchen and tip in the breakfast cereal. A good one to choose is the hideously expensive organic museli that your mother bought in an attempt to get you to eat anything other than weetabix. It is important that you have always turned your nose up at it before but that your sister loves it and is happily eating a large bowl of it for breakfast every day. Your mother should not have any other cereals suitable for said sister in the house and have not given her breakfast yet.
Remove the last of the milk from the fridge and pour all of in onto the museli. Make sure not to leave any for mummy's cup of tea (which she badly needs because between you and your sister she only had 3 hours sleep). Stir vigourously, to ensure that it is thoroughly mixed wave the spoon around enthusiastically. this may coat the entire kitchen, including the ceiling, but don't worry the staff (aka your mother) will clean it up.
eat 3 spoons of it and decide you don't like it. Complain to your mother that you are hungry despite having had 2 weetabix, a yoghurt and toast already this morning. Ensure that your mother feels guilty about being cross when you look up at her with big blue eyes and say "Milo helps Mamma make breakfast"

How long is it til bedtime?

Hahahahahahahaha that is so funny, but also so cute that he said he was helping you. I only wish I could give you some milk for your tea.

I was coming on to tell you about my talented boy who has just this morning pulled himself to standing in front of me on the couch (he's very pleased with himself). He did it for daddy first which is nice. But Spiggys DS's kitchen antics are much more impressive, a little Jamie Oliver. Still giggling about it.

Has anyone else's DC stopped crawling? DS2 has stopped crawling, we had about a week of crawling then for the past week to 10 days he hasn't crawled at all.

Its been so long since I've been on here, I feel like I need to reintroduce myself!

I'm a slightly over the hill mother of a 2 year old DD and DS born on 20 December.

Just started back at work full time last week and am feeling a little sad about it. The plus side is that I get more chance of coming on here than I do when I'm home with both.

I have been lurking occasionally to catch up with you, but way way too far behind.

Only one comment for Kayz - my DS isn't crawling yet, but what I've found with both kids is that they often learn a new trick, practice it a lot and they decide they don't want to do it for a while. Seems to be pretty normal. DS got the hang of rolling at 4 months, did it all the time for about a week, then not at all for about a month, when he decided it was fun after all. So I wouldn't worry too much about the crawling.

Had been killing myself laughing at Veggie's concern over Postman Pat and then read about Spiggy's breakfast scene and was in stitches!!!

And what about Bob the Builder? What kind of builder is neatly dressed, not a scratch on his hard hat gets on his mobile phone and has about a million men turn up in seconds, can tackle anything and get the job done on budget and on time every time?

And Kayz.... ds hasn't started crawling yet! Although he does try and get on all fours and also pulls himself to standing by using my arm, but very impressed with J veggie.

Veggie, cycling - nah we didn't see those - we were in the wrong area of the country then, but dh said he wanted to at the time.

can I just say - re: teething - that powder stuff from Boots is brilliant if anyone can't seems to get the gels to work

hello Invisible! Can't remember where you live?

spiggy that is hilarious!!!

DS can get on all fours rock about a bit but goes nowhere. Ans as for standing...the boy hasn't got a clue!!

Invisible hooray your back! So great to have you back how have you been how is work? I'm a little embarrassed that you have come back to find us complaining about childrens TV characters.

On that note. Lady I feel sorry for Jess she is the only one who knows what a waste of space Pat is. Mmmm...so Trace you were concerned about your mental state, I'm sure you are feeling a little better about it now, I'm now commenting on postman pats cat!

I'm so excited!! My new Ipod Touch has arrived. Well it's a 1st generation one from Ebay but still it's new to me!!

Kayz he might be working on something else, babies can only really do one thing at a time. For instance if they are learning to crawl they will stop using noises or their 'words' to talk to you. So he may have started learning to do something else. Also he may have just gotten a bit lazy or found that while moving about is fun he doesn't need to move that much (something that takes an aweful lot of energy) as either you or even DS1 gets everything he needs and provides him with enough entertainment where he is so doesn't have to move to it. When DS2 perfected rolling he just stopped not sure why but I think he just didn't need to.

Hooray for your itouch Kayz.

Am technically working not catching up but just wanted to advertise to the Northern lot (well spiggy in particular) that the Durham Protect Me Protect My Baby picnic is on 20th July on Palace Green from 12 til 3. There will be stuff about it on another thread but I'm just printing off posters so thought I'd make sure you knew about it! (and yes printing off posters is not the work I am supposed to be doing I am the queen of procrastination and am kicking myself up the arse as I type) Bye!

Hello!

pmk - I'm a north Londoner...

veggie - complaining about kids programmes makes perfect sense to me. I have a personal obession with an episode of curious george that my DD watches, lots of stuff comes out of 4 boxes, but I am sure that it doesn't go back into the right ones! And don't get me started on the ridiculous plot...

Summers are always a bit dull at work. I guess its handy to be a bit quiet, but I also am getting a bit fed up doing nothing at my desk when DCs would quite like me home. Must remember the paycheck, must remember the paycheck...

ah five minutes peace. DS is sat in front of his "History of Steam" DVD and all is required of me is to say "mmm it's like Thomas/Gordon/Chuggington" at suitable intervals.

Hello Invisible- I'm new so we haven't met before. I live in the NE with DP, DS(2 1/2) and DD who was born 27th Dec. I've just gone back to work as well, 4 days a week. Today is my day off (although actually I think work is much easier than dealing with children) What work do you do?

Do you think I could hire Bob to renovate our new house? I could do with a builder who gets the job done quickly and in budget. Personally I have always had grave concerns about the railway safety on the Island of Sodor as there seems to be an accident every day. And DP is obsessed with how Big Cook, Little Cook will manage in the recession as they seem to spend an awful lot of time and energy on cooking but only have one customer a day who doesn't even pay in cash.

arti- I meant to say earlier that the trip to the house your Dad lived in sounds lovely, I'd definitely do that if ever the house my grandparents had came up for sale. You should be careful though. 4 months ago me and DP went to view a house we weren't intending to buy (too expensive but DP had always wanted to see inside) and we fell in love with it. We are now buying it and will be living on beans on toast for the next few years. Sometimes common sence goes out the window....

common sense even..

indith, sounds good. I usually work mondays so will have to see if I can get time off or swap days with DP.

Hi Spiggy, nice to meet you! I totally agree that work is easier than children, I just feel bad about upsetting the children for something that doesn't always seem that worthwhile! FWIW, I'm a solicitor working full time in the city, so not the most child friendly of occupations. DH works from home though, so if around a fair amount.

LadyT How horrible of your employers. I hope you manage to sort it out and and that everything else gets better soon

spot N learnt how to roll over in his cot as well and I managed to stop him by placing towels either side, probably not SIDS friendly but they are quite old now and I felt close to death myself. After a few nights he realised that he couldn't roll over anymore and gave up. Having said that he can now roll over both ways and sometimes wakes up for a rollathon, but happily goes back off to sleep.

veggie setting up a breastfeeding suport group sounds brilliant. I wish there was one around here.

kayzr the cakes look just wonderful and have made me hungry - I want one! Oh and my son also learns something and then gets bored and won't do it again for ages, I think he just moves onto something else, he rolled over at 3 months, did it for a week and then stopped for 6 weeks - I thought I had dreamt the whole thing!

mom N has also statred sleeping on his side - he looks so cute that way! And have a wonderful holiday.

arti Thanks for your summary of your sleep consultant's tricks. N slept through one night but woke up for a feed the next night and I fed him, have I ruined everything? But he hadn't eaten much in the day and I felt bad - it's all too hard to know what to do properly - I think you almost need someone else to stick to everything.

daisy I hope you feel better soon, and of course you are not a bad mum, you're just having a bad time at the moment.

trace N goes on feeding strikes in the day when his teeth hurt and makes up for it by waking extra in the night, once that bit passes he is fine again and goes back to proper day feeding. It's hard not to worry, and it's even worse at night because if they don't feed you know you'll be woken up multiple times - can you dream feed?

pmk glad you had a great time in Paris - sounds wonderful, I'm very jealous!

phew! I'm going to post this so it isn't lost and then post an update on me afterwards!

oh and hi invisblehand!

Aarrgghhh...fecking DH has just come home for lunch as he is working late and is giving it 'Can DD have some sweets now?'

'No' I replied not till after tea, if she behaves at toddler group this afternoon

'Oh go on' he says. All this in front of her. So I gave him my best glare, and he shut up. DD wasn't that fussed and it seemed to go over her head but our chat last night seems to have fallen on deaf ears again! Does anyone know of a book on how to speak to your significant other so they listen??? Never mind one getting DD to listen.

Hello invisiblehand

So after 2 weeks of constant teething it suddenly stopped and N started to chuck back the solids with gusto and even slept through twice - hurrah! However since Monday the teething has started again and he is back on solids and milk strike. The poor thing has been waking up at 5:30am screaming with his teeth. The calgel does nothing (plus I can't see it very well in the dark so I've been giving him calpol as he has been so distressed. However by the time it has kicked in he is fully awake and the day has to start, and he is tired and grumpy all day. I've just remembered we have the teething granules so will try them tonight instead. However on the plus side, if I get him to open his mouth really wide (by blowing raspberries on his tummy), for long enough and hold him the correct light I can see a tiny dot where the tooth has started to break through, so hopefully there is end at the light of the tunnel and once it comes through properly we can get back on track with sleep.