Sept 08: The End of an Amazing year

[Pacita]

Here we are: the thread that will see our LO's first birhtday...

Wow the system around SNs sounds like a public sector minefield - but no surprise there eh? Sympathy to those going through it and I hope from what I know of you from here, you are brave & tough enough to see it through.
Keep on posting & venting here, if it helps.

Notcitrus YANBU (know what you mean about posting in AIBU - scares me too much to post, which is a shame really). On the positive side, at least they are your mum & dad so hopefully you can be honest with them? Unlike me who feels unable to say much to MIL for fear of upsetting her, and therefore she may refuse to look after C on Mondays.

We have a first here today - dropped C off at nursery and for the first time, she didn't cry when i left! To be honest, DP has been doing the drop offs lately as it's been too awful when I do them, she seemed to cry much less when DP does it. So I was dreading today but she was fine! A tiny whimper when her key worker took her off me but then we chatted a bit and I said bye and left and she was 100% happy.
So relieved.

Off for my first proper client meeting shortly - not done one for over a year!!

Ooh, and anyone's LO really dropping milk? We now struggle to get 10oz in C each day, and that includes adding it to her food. She just plays with her morning bottle and is looking like she's about to drop to one bottle a day. I'm persevering though.

She will also not drink anything but water from her cup. Tried her with formula and cow's milk but she just spits it out.
Gonna have a go with jersey gold top, as she did like the bit of double cream from the farm shop that I poured on her strawberries last night

T's been really off food and milk while he's been ill, but still takes about 15-20oz per day!

Am trying to work, but DP has the day off and is cleaning the house with much sighing, grunting and general noise and distraction. I'm sure I'm much quieter when I achieve things!

imo - thanks. I think I'm more feeling guilty that A's had a lot of disruption over the last few days and was clearly upset twice in one day. He's currently having lunch and nap at nursery and was fine when I left him (although he didn't like having his handprint taken and then cried when people laughed near him)

Back at work in 2 weeks with no idea what I'll be doing - some managers think 3 days would be OK but have to check with their bosses who are invariably on holiday. Met up with some old colleagues yesterday and they all slagged off the farcical allocation system - and my ex-manager offered to put in a word for me to a couple people. Argh.

at starlights near miss.

I tried to be a slattern and post on the good housekeeping thread as well as here, but I am so slatternly I couldn't keep up. I got confused having two lots of mn people to keep up with.

OMG Dsis is really close to making it through XF Bootcamp! She's down to the last 100 and is now waiting to find out if she's made the cut for Saturday's live show. My cousin has got a ticket for me so if she does go through I'm going to leave ds with dh and go see her!!!! Aaaaaaaaaargh!

Digi this is SO EXCITING!! I have been eagerly following your updates on Facebook, and hope she gets through!! With that kind of feedback from Simon Cowell, it sounds like she's already there, so fingers and everything else crossed.

When is it on telly???

starlight it sounds like you are really going throught the mill with trying to sort out ds. I wish I couod say it gets eaier but unfortunately it is just as hard when they are 10 or 20. SALT will prob tell you that they are full up so you will have to put up with miniscule amounts of therapy. They really expect you to provide the 30 mins a day you need after having 2-3 sessions, even if you are as stumped as ds is.
Keep trying and get as much info as you can on sn schoolss annd nurseries so you have an idea where he will go. DS's school take kids from 2 years. They start with 1 full day and gradually work up to 5 days.
Good luck with the meetings, we qre trying to get referred back to the consultant so we can try melatonin to help DS sleep and if that doesn't work risperadol (sp). have tried valleran when he was 4 but it didn't work.

We have all had the cold from Hell here, not quite bad enougyh to worry its swine flu but bad enough. Feel rubbish and dp has lost his voice with all the coughing.

Robyn has started really biting me. The worst is when she wants a nap so needs to feed to sleep, she gets so mad she just bites and chews on me. When I take her away she just laughs. Tried her with formula today then left her in her pram to cry whilst I calmed down. On the 5th attempt i managed to feed her to sleep without being bitten.
I don't want to give up bf just yet but have realised if i do then it will be a nightmare to get her to sleep.

Biting really winds me up and I really have to try and keep my cool. He hasn't bitten while feeding for a while, but he does try and have a nibble at any passing flesh - usually mine.

I've also noticed he does it a lot when he's tired. He doesn't have a bf at nap time, so I know my nipples are safe

debs75 - if you would like me to say how I stopped the feeding to sleep, I'll post it on here.

Go digi's sister. How amazing and exciting!

Starlight - we've had contraception malfunctions here too, ie dh hasn't been able to control himself. I was quite annoyed and then about a week ago I started to get pg symptoms. I FREAKED out, but the test was negative. I wouldn't have been the end of the world if I was pg, but we've decided to wait until next year before ttc as I DO NOT want to be pg over the summmer again.

Ladies, I have an announcement to make....

We now have a garden! It looks fantastic!

Well, what did you think I was going to say...?

I am actually quite pissed off that my AF arrived. I had even convinced myself last week that I had morning sickness!! (But it clearly isn't morning sickness when you feel queasy AND your period has already arrived. ) Crap. Not that we're actually trying or anything... But there is a bright side. When we were trying for DD my cycles were 45 days long. Now they appear to be 32. That means I am ovulating more frequently so there are more chances to get preggers!

Go starlight!

Go digi's dsis!

imo DD is definitely NOT dropping milk. I think she's drinking even more and won't let up.. She has 5 x 180 ml bottles per day! (She doesn't always finish them though.) For example, for lunch today I tried to fill her up with food and water but she just kept taking little mouthfuls then getting angry with me, refused any more, and yelled until I gave her a bottle which she drained and was then happy. She just keeps demanding more bottles, and isn't happy until I give it to her. I was treating it a bit like BF on demand / BLW, i.e. she must know what she needs, but a friend said the other day that they should be off the bottle by the time they are one. Really? I don't think that's going to happen!

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt I would very much like to hear how you stopped BFing to sleep, because I am doing it on a regular basis. It works amazingly well, but if ever his dad has to put him to sleep, I wonder how that'll go down... At the same time, and as I think Star used to say, they un-develop habits as quickly as they develop them, so I'm not overly worried.

We still have only one tooth, so no biting here. However a friend came round with her baby, who is one week younger than Diego. She is an adorable little girl, who today, grabbed me by the hair, face to face, for what I thought was going to be and affectionate kiss, but instead bit me HARD on the cheek. Her hands were firmly gripping my hair, so I could not get her off, and did not want to scream and beg her mum to get her off me, but that's what I ended up doing. It remind me of the rat in the cage in room 101 scene in 1984. Freaky.

Ponymum, dead jealous about your garden. I wish I could magic one somewhere in my flat.

pacita on your telly in September.

So she made it through to the final 50 and will be performing tomorrow as part of her new girl group, yet to confirm a band name. But the producers are really toying with her emotions in order to get some drama out of this. It's really really stressful. Camera crews are loving her as she's so volatile with her emotions.

DS woke at 5 this morning. Even though he slept through I am knackered. Another tooth is popping through. But he's eating very well so that's something. Oh and he's exactly 11 months today!

starlight Genuine groups have entered the comp so she'll be up against people that have been performing together for years. Bit unfair really, but they've engineered this for this for the drama. I just hope she rises to the challenge and puts on a killer performance tomorrow.

But yeah she was 'made' to form this group. It was that or go home.

Ooh, how exciting! This is so much better than having vaguely known someone who was one britain's got talent.

Ponymum congrats on the garden, commiserations on AF. I have to confess to a teeny bit of disappointment when mine arrived yesterday, despite the fact it would practically have had to be an immaculate conception! I think (we abandoned the conversation in order to be rude about other motorway drivers) we are going to vaguely TTC, but not in any kind of serious way. Ideally we'd like a 2 year-ish age gap, and I don't want to bank on the same instant conception as last time!

T has repeatedly bitten his tongue with his new front teeth, so has been whinging lots about it today. I am hoping he learns where his teeth start and his tongue stops sooner rather than later...

It doesn't matter that there are no new babies on the way just yet.... we have all the excitement of dg's sister to keep us on tenterhooks! I hope the fact that the group has been put together on the show is a good omen, ie: they will be exactly what Mr Cowell is looking for.

I think my family are at the end of their tether's with changing dd's nappy. She is impossible to pin down and even forbidden toys aren't working anymore. She see's it as a gross infringement on her human rights that she should stay still for 60 seconds while her nappy is changed. My mum hasn't sworn yet, but I think even she is on the verge of using bad language about it . Such a shame I can't do nappy changes while I'm recovering .

Great news about your garden ponymum

Good luck to all those TTC, I hope it happens at just the right time .

Today we heard that dad does have prostate cancer. Not sure how far it's spread but he will have an MRI scan soon to see whats going on. He thinks he's screwed, and TBH he has lost a lot of weight recently, but I'm being positive until we know the result of the scan. We're in a bit of a no mans land until then.

meglet sorry to hear about your father.

Am standing in the queue for the show. Ds is at the park with DH. I can't believe how guilty I felt leaving him.

Dsis got a standing ovation! Everyone absolutely loved them, especially her! So pleased I went to see her. Am now on my way back and should get home in time to give ds his bedtime feed.

So sorry to hear about your dad Meglet, my fingers are crossed for successful treatment.

Hurrah digi's sister

Digi's sister is GO!!!!