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April 2009 - Chapter 5 - The one where no-one is allowed to feel guilty (except about all the chocolate...)

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Guimauve · 28/08/2009 14:23

There will be chocolate fines for the guilty!

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SpringySponge · 06/09/2009 10:13

Boff, we pretend George is a hat all the time & we're the grown-ups. How can it be resisted? George is always happiest when he's the tallest person in the room. With a 6'3 father, he may have to get over that particular ambition for a while.

Massive WRT nanny. I'm not sure I can be civil to you

Thank you, ginger. He is already quite the woman magnet, as DH has been finding out. I'd complain, but it means that George gets ferried around shops as bait whilst I get to be on my own. My priorities have changed since I became a mother!

Guimauve · 06/09/2009 10:14

My additions to parental wisdom for the day:

Father: He should be in his own bed by now.
Me: But then I'd be dead on my feet as he can wake up for something to eat 6 times a night. I couldn't get up, feed him whilst trying to stay awake, put him down and get him to sleep again that many times and still function in the day.
Father: He wouldn't wake up if he was in his own bed.

And my Mum gave him some lemon cake.
Okay, it was, literally, only a crumb, but I was very annoyed. Mainly because I want DH or myself to give him his first food!

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Guimauve · 06/09/2009 10:16

Hi Springy!

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Guimauve · 06/09/2009 10:17

The italicised emphasis on that I makes no sense. Hmmmm.

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Guimauve · 06/09/2009 10:18

Oh and Auld/ Maths, I corrected someone on a latin-based plural the other day. You'd have been so proud!

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SpringySponge · 06/09/2009 10:19

Careful he doesn't dribble into your hair!

& God, yes. 'It's probably you disturbing him!'

HOW? How is it POSSIBLY us disturbing him? He snores, talks in his sleep, thrashes around & wakes up for milk every few hours. & when he's properly asleep, no power on earth can disturb him anyway. As if it's us disturbing him

AuldAlliance · 06/09/2009 10:25

God, Ginger, a town-scale word asoociation session would reveal some truly scary things, I fear! Interesting idea, though... It's more boring: all the clubs have a stand and give info about their activities and you can register. There are an amazing number of clubs here. I had planned to join a gym group, but it doesn't fit in with work hours. Have resolved to swim once a week, cycle as much as possible and do sit-ups at home.

Springy, glad things are OK and you had a brief glimpse of how things are when it's just the 2 of you. Hope the swine flu stays away from George. Your analysis of life with 2 is pretty spot on.

Bicnod, good luck ignoring your mother. If it's any consolation my MIL keeps asking if A is sleeping through and then when I say not yet exclaiming, "oh! le coquin!" (the rascal!), as if he was being terribly naughty and doing it just to annoy...

major digression: that has brought a bit of rhyme into my mind, is it L. Carroll? "speak harshly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes; he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases"

Boff, the hat thing sounds fine, your sailor-suit fantasies are more worrying, IMVHO .

JumeirahJane · 06/09/2009 10:35

lol at
-Hat babies
-Middle of the night milk squirtings.
-Sex???? Remind me...
Gui - too at "He wouldn't wake up if he was in his own bed."

No news yet of Swali's DD? Wonder how she's getting on?

Night screechings galore last night, M learning dolphin I think, complete with clicking, most bizarre.

Can teething pain begin long before the teeth are visible, it's just M developing an especially heart-rending cry with no other outward signs (eating, sleeping as is normal for her)?

M now 5 months, and weight charted on 3rd centile at the clinic yesterday, wow we're really going up in the world

Happy Sunday all

bronze · 06/09/2009 10:48

Brett actually I will excuse myself Izy had been born on the 15th so was pretty tired

gingersarah · 06/09/2009 11:00

Auld - it's the duchess in Alice. (but I remember it as "roughly", not "harshly" - which is not to say it is, of course)

dawntigga · 06/09/2009 11:32

Hi all.

I'd love to say I read everything but I haven't

However, the Txylix[sp?] vapour fan thingy works VERY well. Sam actually managed to sleep last night

NotQuiteAsSnottyTiggaxx

dawntigga · 06/09/2009 11:51

I feel for those of you who have mothers/mil's who are controlling and interferring. Had my mother still been alive (and no, I'm not sad she's dead) she would have been one of those mothers. In fact it would have been her perfect victim moment. My mil however, wasn't at all interested in seeing us pre-Sam and now is over quite regularly. I don't mind that she sees Sam but it burns my bra that she couldn't be bothered to make the effort to see her son before that. And yes we use to make the effort to see her.

NotThatUpsetSheDoesn'tHaveASupportNetworkReallyTiggaxx

AuldAlliance · 06/09/2009 13:24

Ginger, you're right, it's "roughly", not "harshly".

brettgirl2 · 06/09/2009 17:53

Omg bronze I was far too wrapped up in myself to know that you had literally just had your baby .

Springy I'm so glad that everything is much better, George has probably got a cold hopefully? I echo that it's great having some time just as a couple and we are trying really hard to go out once a week just the two of us.

In terms of sleeping Hannah started waking up this week (she normally sleeps well, sorry). HV was on about weaning and how it is a sign they are ready, so I very unsuccessfully tried introducing baby rice . She has slept much better since I bought her a thicker grobag what a bad mummy!!!!

She has discovered a new trick today - blowing raspberries. It's so cute but just slightly naughty

Bicnod · 06/09/2009 18:03

Springy - so glad things are getting better for you

Boff - how is the supernanny doing on her first day? Is she everything you hoped she would be? I've bought some of that plum baby porridge by the way, and Oscar LOVES it - far more than baby rice (can't say I blame him). So today he had mashed up carrot at lunchtime, baby porridge and a bit of mashed banana for dinner... he yummed it all down like a starving child (even though he had a milk feed half an hour prior to each meal)

LOL at hat babies

ginger - its so frustrating isn't it? Oneday we'll be dragging them out of bed by the scruff of their necks...

Gui - grrrr... that would have made me very cross indeed. Riiiiight, so as soon as he's in his own bed he'll sleep through? I sometimes wonder if my parents ever actually were parents to small babies or if I was brought up by fairies and delivered back to them once magically weaned and potty trained and sleeping 12 hours at night.

Tigga I second the txylix vapour fan - we used that for O when he had his suspectedbydocsbutneverconfirmedswineflu/nasty cold.

I think O is having a banana sugar rush... he's usually really grumpy at this time of day but is currently lying on his playmat flapping arms and legs wildly and screeching with delight at the fact he has covered his face with his puke cloth. Strange child.

Right. Bathtime.

Guimauve · 06/09/2009 19:03

So, after another failed formula attempt, I have to ask if anyone else has tasted the stuff, and does it taste fairly icky and strangely metallic to anyone else? I'm not surprised he's not keen.

Tried giving it as a cup feed after trying with a teat, and it wasn't going down that way either.

Will persevere.

Anyway, today we saw a steam train. They have a sort of 'Hop Pickers Express' each year, and as my Dad remembers well the age of steam, we strolled down to town to see it arrive. It's amazing how many train spotters there were there. I'd like to get the train one year, but at £85 for 'Spitfire Class' and £60 for 'Festival Class', we'll have to save that for a few years time. The rest of the festival was very nice. Good weather, loads of people, rather a lot of Morris Men. They were running out of the specially brewed Festival Ale by Saturday evening, with another day of festival still to go!

I've decided that having a baby is worth it solely to see the joy on my Dad's face when Hugo smiles at him

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kazkiss · 06/09/2009 19:30

I have had a lovely day but am now well and truley knackered!

We went to my DH nan's 92nd birthday lunch. The poor babies were passed around from pillar to post! It was lovely though and today made me realise just what special, happy and gorgeous babies I have! The delight on everyones faces when they smiled, laughed and blew rasberries just made all the tough times worth it. They looked soooo sweet too (imho!) and some pics will be on fb soon to show.

They met all there 2nd and 3rd cousins on MIL side. And they are all lovely. I just feel all warm family feelings now ahhhhh...

OOOHH and i am going on holiday to hastings tomorrow so even better!

bronze · 06/09/2009 21:34

Brett- I was the nutter online

Izy has just started waking more, going to give him an xtra blanker- good tip

WhatFreshHellIsThis · 07/09/2009 09:35

Where is everyone?

Guimauve · 07/09/2009 09:41

Was just about to say the same thing!

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bronze · 07/09/2009 09:43

I just took my lot to school/playgroup. Ds2s first day of school. 'I want to go home with you mummy' it was horrible

Guimauve · 07/09/2009 09:47

Hugo has developed a very pitiful, dainty little cough which sounds like he has a hair stuck at the back of his throat. Doesn't seem to bother him though.

Over the weekend he well and truly discovered his feet, and is very pleased about having an extra set of digits to pop in his mouth. He is not pleased about being plonked on his tummy, as try as he might he cannot flip himself over. He gets very annoyed about this

MrsG and other previous babywearers - what do you do in terms of keeping warm in winter. Sling over coat or under coat? Or open coat with many layers underneath? Have discovered these Bug in a Rug via the slings board, and very much want one.

Same question really for co-sleepers - how do you keep yourself warm in the winter, with no duvet/ quilt tucked up over you? Where, I ask you, is the Grobag for Mums, along with flip down breast holes?

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WhatFreshHellIsThis · 07/09/2009 09:48

oh bronze is that you're traumatised? don't worry, he'll be absolutely fine, just first day nerves. sending lots of hugs x

Guimauve · 07/09/2009 09:48

x-thread Bronze. Poor DS2, but I imagine it's worse for you than him! I bet he looked smart in his uniform!

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Guimauve · 07/09/2009 09:49

x-thread??? You know what I mean

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