Nov 2008 - because there was no thread space to think of a clever title!

[Yorky]

Had to be done soon, hope it works!

ah x-posts phee.

Poor A hope she is ok. I bet the little boy was quite scared by it, too.

Is anyone else finding that this thread is rendering a bit strangely? It is coming up in large bold text. v strange.

Hi all
yes pinky my text is very bold and odd.

Hi to DW wishing you all the best for your appointment. It's horrid when there's something looming like that.

lacks I admire your motivation at selling stuff on ebay. I've had things hanging round the house for ages and need to get round to selling them. Then I can stop moaning for a bit about how skint I am. In fact I'm so rubbish that as I type I am actually supposed to be labelling stuff for our NCT sale that is happening on Saturday. I have thrown a load of stuff all over the rug in our living room, but haven't put a label on anything yet.

ceebee glad all is going well at work too.
It must be so nice to get compliments about weight loss. I am trying to lose about a stone and a half, I have lost 5lbs so far, which is enough to keep me motivated but too soon for anyone to notice yet.

coolkat you do sound remarkably cool for someone taking risks I presume you would like a DC3?!

yorky welcome back - oh, you;ve gone again!!

tegan I don't have a walker or a talker. M is still not crawling, doesn't say anything apart from bah bah, has no teeth, still on purees . Not worried about any of it yet though. He is delightful though, really smiley and lovely.

Well, I was going to type our news (such as it is, not much really) but DH is going to have a headfit any sec if I don't do something with the piles of baby crap stuff all over the floor.

ta- ra for now all x

this explains the bold text thing

phee missed your bit about the redundancy (note to self; must read more than the first few lines ) but saw it on FB. I hope things work out for you both and that DH gets something else soonish.

I've been out singing again this evening; it's a pretty good stressbuster I have to say.

got my nappy thing tomorrow. It's not a demo exactly, but I'll be setting up my kit in the corner and chatting to anyone who wants to know about it. Am really nervous about it and worried that I will either come across as a nappy bore, or will get asked tricksy questions that I don't know the answers too....or worse that I'll come across as knowing nothing! Fingers crossed it will lead to some demos. Of course I should be in bed making sure I'm well rested......

Hello all
Sorry I haven't posted in ages but have been busy with work as usual. I've now decided to put E in nursery one day a week so that I can have some uninterrupted work time and she starts next week. Fitting work in when she's sleeping is really impossible these days. I've been getting so stressed lately when she's not been sleeping well and it's a vicious circle as she then picks up on my stress. I've also ended up working late into the night just to catch up on what I wasn't able to do during the day. My mum has also offered to look after her for a couple of hours a couple of afternoons a week which will also help. So I'm feeling a bit more in control now I'm also busy with preparations for her naming day on 1 November.
No walking here, not even close. She's still a bit wobbly on her legs when she's held in a standing position. However, she's extremely fast when crawling! Lots of babbling too, she doesn't stop. No real words as yet, just "mama" and "dada".
DW Good to "see" you again and hope it's nothing serious with DD's eye. Glad you've got an appt so quickly but I can imagine how worried you are. Do keep us posted.
Phee Sorry to hear about your redundancy Hope things work out with DH's job very soon.
Daisy Good luck with your nappy event today, hope it all goes well. I'm sure you'll do really well and get lots of people interested in cloth nappies
Ceebee Glad your first day back at work went well and that the other days have been just as easy!
Fudge Good luck with the NCT sale. I still haven't been to one There's one on here on 3 October so perhaps I should make an effort to go and see what bargains I can pick up.
Hello to everyone else

Daisy have a great time talking nappies looking forward to hearing how you get on

DD is very chatty, unusually she does a great mamamam but no dada that I've heard! She will walk to me holding my hands if I hold her at arms length, but can't pull herself up on the furniture yet so just bum shuffles slowly

Phee, sorry about the redundancy,but at least the decision you didn't want to make is taken out of your hands! Shame about your maternity pay though

How is everyone else doing overnight now? She spent the whole night in her bed last night although DH says he went to her twice - I didn't hear her but DS came into our room 3 times, who knows why?!

Sorry to anyone I've missed

Hello everyone, haven't been around much this week as I have been very ill with some nasty gastric bug thing. Horrible it started on Sunday night and hasn't stopped yet - On the plus side I am 5lbs lighter but I guess that will go straight back on!

DW good to see you on here, hope DDs appointment goes well for you and it is nothing serious.

Ceebee glad work was OK.

phee hope DH finds something soon.

Daisy ebay is just great it gives me a buzz selling things - DH is much happier when I sell then when I buy!

J is doing well, his 2 top teeth seem to be coming through but aren't causing as many problems as his first 2 thankfully!
He hasn't had the confidence as yet to let go of the furniture but he is like greased lightening when he gets going. He has spent alot of time in baby jail his playpen this week as I just don't have the energy to chase him!
Hes says baba, dada, ta and hiya but laughs when you ask him to say mama!

Hi to everyone I have missed. Hope everyone is well.

Creeping back in again after being AWOL.....

Hello lovely ladies! Just bookmarking but promise to post more later

Hope everyone is OK
xxx

Finally get a computer from FIL and I cannot get access to the internet for 2 days! Gah!
It went great with friends DS. We planned to be tough on him if he had another accident, but she phoned her mum who said do not be hard on him!
So I was told to play it gently gently with him all the way.
It annoyed me a little cos it was implied that I had not been intending to be gentle with him if he needed a poo but as if I was going to be tough on him on the whole issue.
I was coached on how to gently encourage him to use the loo but not to make a huge fuss if he didn't.
As If I was going to start shouting at him from get go!??
I might have got cross if he had done another poo for me to clean up, but was told not to so I figured I would cross teh bridge if I came to it.
Anyway, I dealt with it as I had planned to and all went well. He did his poo and not even in my house but in my mums.
Yey! Well done friends DS!!

Yesterday was an awful day!
My DH, I don't know if any of you know or remember, anyway, he works on Wind Turbines and there was an accident yesterday where his collegue (and very good friend. DH got him the job) was killed
It has somewhat rocked our world a little.
Poor DH has been through so many emotions, from blaming himself for getting him the job, to just heartache for the loss, and fear of returning to the job.
He is being so brave though and has been informed by many work collegues that he handled himself amazingly when it came to all the organising afterward. I am V proud of him. My DH has his heart on his sleeve and a ready tear but he held himself together where others fell apart yesterday.
It is just so shocking to think this man is, no longer. He was only 27!

Am I dim or do I have the memory of a fish, phee are you pregnant??
daisy where are you doing your demo and why? Are you going to set up in business or just tell the world how fabbo real nappies are? And after you selling off so many cos you were going to stop using them too

That's terrible twinkling, love to you and your DH.
Nice to see you autumnlady

daisy you will do great on the nappy demo, you are a nappy guru not a bore.

twink that is really terrible news about your Dh's friend. Like you say its terrible when someone is only 27! This is exactly why I make sure Dh and I never ever part on an argument as life is so precious and taken so quick.

OMG twink . That is sooo about your friend. And so young. Does he have any children?

After selling off a load of nappies, and then realising that my bin was full to overflowing with used dispos I started using them again on bumble, and then thought about selling again. So I've signed up to Lollipop and also want to develop my own website selling other stuff as well. I have an idea that will be a bit unique and DH has a contact and is trying to secure us distribution rights for a product that we hope will revolutionise cloth nappies.

Didn't do a demo as such in the end, but chatted to a few mums who were converts already and handed out lots of leaflets; so the weekend will be spent making lists of organisations and people to approach regarding setting up proper demos.

bumble took a nosedive off the bed tonight (DH turned his back for a second and then THUMP) and has been really upset; to the point that he won't settle to sleep. DH and I are passing him between us like a parcel and he just keeps crying. I'm worried he is hurt more than the obvious bump to his forehead that we can see. There's nothing obvious though.

ohhh daisy your new idea for website sounds fab and intriguing. Poor bumble falling off the bed, maybe it was the shock of being hurt.

last week, two days before the eye business, DD took her tooth brush off edge of the bath and fell with it in her mouth. Cut a huge gash in the roof of her mouth, I knew she was really hurt when the face was screaming but no noise was coming out!! I just knew that when she caught her breath there would be an almighty screaming fit. She was clingy all day after that.

Oh God DW......that gap between hurt and crying is horrible isn't it? (Yorky described it very eloquently the other week, but I can't remember what she said). And the length of time is always in relation to the amount of hurt! I find that blowing in their faces makes them breathe.

come on yorky describe that moment for me...

Twinkling that is terrible news about your DH's friend. I can't begin to imagine how you must all be feeling, sending lots of love. And yes, I'm pregnant (just over 17 weeks)

Daisy I'm also intrigued by your idea, you'll have to keep us up to date as it progresses. I hope Bumble is ok, maybe it was the shock as DrsWife suggested. Loving the phrase 'oompa loompa baby' btw. I often wish we had used reusables with A as I originally planned. We would have them all ready for the next baby now instead of having to buy loads of disposables again. If I ever switch I know where to come for advice.

A has really bad nappy rash at the moment. It's pretty much the first time she's had it so I know we've been lucky but it looks so red, poor thing. I've had her nappy-free most of today, she only did two poos on the floor, wouldn't have been too bad if they weren't so runny

Went to look at a new pram today with A, my sister and my neice (5mo) and the woman in the shop said Ava was obviously a little boy in disguise as she was into everything (she let the brakes off a few prams lol).

X posts there. DW Yorky said "He did that horrible silent whole body tense thing when they don't know where to put themselves to get away from the pain" Not sure if that is what you were thinking of Daisy It does seem to describe it very well

Twinks that is such sad news, so young.

Daisy well done you! It sounds like you are really motoring with your business plans- you go girl!!

Well I practiced some of the things I read in the book I was talking about and it has really helped with my anxiety when the children are being boisterous, so this afternoon and bedtime went really well I think, which is a big relief.

I am really working on things at the moment- going through a lot of issues, so I'm sorry I'm not really with it on this thread.

I just wanted to say to those experiencing sleep problems to take heart, because 11 months is often the golden month for sleep throughsand we are nearly there!

Lovely to see DRSwife, phee and cricri on here.

x

Oh lordy you can tell I've had a glass of wine-- I do hope Bumble is ok. May sound silly but maybe it has given him a headache?

That is a great way of putting it! Makes you wonder though, if pain is often considered psychosomatic how do babies feel it? I read so many books about natural birth and how the pain avoidable and then yeeeoooooooooowwwwwwwwwww DD spent two days trying to get out and that was not imagined pain!!

So do all the babies on here not sleep then? Sophie has slept through the night about 4 times since birth. I still feel as physically drained and tired as the day I came home from the hospital!

That was the quote phee

Good news on bedtime pinky. You always seem so calm and in control with your DC though, I can't imagine you getting anxious about their boisterousness . I might have to check the book out, because DD's behaviour is getting worse here and I am really struggling to deal with her at times. Even my calm and collected friend who takes everything in her stride and isn't phased by over exuberant children remarked yesterday that she was getting to be much harder work and she could see why I was coming undone slightly round the edges.

Daisy I always say that DD1 is going to be fab when shee's a bit older but boy can she be hard work sometimes! I am only recently able to trust walkng down the street with her without her just flitting into the road! DS can be such a typical boy- fiddles with everrything all the time. The book is really good, it talks about creative, playful ways of connecting with your children, diffusing difficult behaviour with humour. A really good one is how to 'play' at being cross when you feel yourself getting angry- it really works. I just feel that lots of people have all this to draw upon from theor own childhoods- mine was defintely not like that. DH is quite comfortable with being stern at times but I am so scared of going too far and I need to diffuse my panic- does that make sense?

that makes perfect sense Pinky . I often worry that I'm turning into my mother when it comes to discipline and shoutiness and that's something I vowed I'd never do.

oh, and yes to the humourous crossness; I do that a lot and it does work to diffuse a situation.

Pinky That book sounds very interesting, which one is it? I think I may have missed it when you metioned it before

DrsWife A has had a few nights of sleeping through, maybe about 10 in total but most nights she wakes at least once or twice

I was thinking about the pain thing today as I found the hypnobirthing CD I had before A was born (although I fell asleep everytime I listened to it). It was a very quick birth and the pain was not as bad as I was expecting but I think I may just have been very lucky (I do remember saying on the way to the hospital "that f***g CD doesn't work but I would have been fully dilated by then). I've been ordered this time to go to the hospital as soon as my contractions become regular, that is if I don't get the homebirth I want. If I had listened to the labour ward last time, A would have been born at home! I think if it had been more difficult last time, I wouldn't have contemplated a second baby so soon. I do realise that I have jinxed myself and will probably be in labour for many days now

DH has just texted me to ask (again) if I think he should cut his hair before his interview tomorrow. The job is for a delivery driver so I think he should be fine, so long as it's clean and tidy but I'm not 100% sure (it's down to his shoulders and usually back in a ponytail). If he asks me one more time I may just shave it all off though

He could use some Just for Men on it though as he's going very grey