May '09 Fine and DANDY vive la difference! 3 months on and our babies and lives are changing.

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Well Dandy!!!!!!! Just for you after an annoying night

saus just saw your photos of M on FB.

She's absolutely gorgeous!

bellies - DD1 keeps pulling up my t shirt, prodding my belly/muffin top/whatever she can find and saying 'big fat tummy'. Thanks!

Off to bed now, night all!

Good luck tomorrow Tummum

Does anyone else get ravenous about this time of night?

Llare I'm flipping starving and trying to ignore the KitKats in the cupboard as it's weigh in day tomorrow

Yes good luck Tummum

was it pula with the nuzzling pony baby?

llare I've eaten mounds of bread & butter and a pile of nutella-enrobed biscuits tonight . I'm a bit bored and so I started thinking about food.

Must.
Go.
To.
Bed.

Must.
Not
Think.
About.
Deliberate.
Odd.
Socks.

omg omg I missed a full stop there.
Must not dwell, must not dwell, must not dwell.

Night all!!

ah grumpy, making me smile - could you come back and organise my cupboards? and i do have a belly, just wore a baggy top with a pattern to create an illusion...

omg, what an awful broken night. H was up twice to feed. I don't know how I can get her tosleep through the night again. it was little or no effort with the other 2. she feeds regularly through the day. DD1&2 were also up twice: dd1 had to go to the toilet, dd2 then had to get changed, both yelling. then kept calling us back for lotion on eczema, extra blanket, etc.

belgian, have fun today.

tummum, good luck with Business Link today. I'm so in awe of you doing this and can't wait to hear how it goes.

llare, others, I get my munchies during the day and always grab rubbish things like crisps, cakes, etc. I really need to have more fruit in my life. I certainly have dairy with all that cheese .

pula, does dd start school today?

hope everyone has a good day.

morning all

we have had a few bad nights here. Last night and Sat night M was up every 2.5hrs for a feed she's not feeding properly during the day either - keeps pulling off the breast after 4/5 sucks so I am continuously trying to feed her, have tried a bottle of formula but she only managed about 2ozs then spits it out and refuses to take the bottle

could it be teething probs?

getting a bit concerned now as this is the 3rd day she has been like this

DH and I are sssooo tired and DH getting particularly grumpy about it - I think he thinks its my fault?

hope everyone has a good day and everyone's DC's have a good day at school

Looby I have no words of wisdom I'm afraid. Dh told me this morning that when I put the lamp on in the night(on dim)it disturbs him and I need to learn how to feed in the dark Ds2 has been awake squealing since about 5.30 this morning. Still I suppose it's better than 4am!

Good luck today Tummum, & Belgian Sausage I can understand your reservations about your mil, especially as your dp won't be around, but hopefully things will work out okay.

Momino my diet is also a bit rubbish and I wonder why I haven't lost weight!!

feed in the dark
my DH complains about that too - never mind the fact that he came to bed after I was asleep last night and then started groping me till I woke up then fell asleep and started to snore loudly (alcohol induced) waking both M and me up

he actually had the cheek to turn round to me this morning and tell me that when he gets back from work he's going back to bed!

sorry - rant over

I do feed in the dark, and it works well for us. DS2 sleeps in the bed and when he wants feeding he gives me little kicks. He latches on while I doze. We usually both fall asleep like that. As a result I get plenty of sleep, far more than I did with DS1 when I used to force myself to stay awake by sitting on a uncomfortable seat with the light on.

Off to do an exercise DVD now. DS1 has gone back to pre-school (hurrah) so fitting in some exercise around the school-run.

Morning everyone,

Momi looby Sorry to hear about your bad nights. I think there's not much you can do to encourage babies our age to sleep through. Once they're a bit older and you know for sure it's not hunger, but habit you can intervene a bit more easily.

Like llare, I also feed in the dark. The 1st few weeks I always need the light on as me and my babies are still learing, but now C knows what she's doing all I need to do is pick her up, put her in bed next to me and lift my top. She seems to just find her own way

We had a successful start of the new school year. The dcs were v. excited this morning and were ready and dressed an hour before we had to go. The nearly ran all the way, but once they saw all the other children they sort of stopped in their tracks and glued themselves to me. The school was really good though and took them into their new classrooms before all the other children to show them where everything is and to introduce them to the teachers. I wonder what stories they'll come back with this afternoon.

Now it's just C and me I can go and explore the area a little more today. That's going to be my plan for today. DH isn't home either he's going for a meeting this am and then (oh what a hard life) he's going to play football at lunch and for rowing practice in the afternoon! And there I was thinking he was going to work all day

My house is very quiet... DD1 at school, DD2 at pre-school, DS gurgling in bouncing chair and Nanny not in this morning. After wishing for this moment for a while (about 7 weeks!) I don't know what to do with myself now. Can't be bothered to clean the tip house ! Maybe I'll just have a cuppa.

belgian I hope your kids have agreat first day
tummum good luck !
I wonder how sausage is getting on? I wouldn't be impressed if I was put in that situation. Sausage I feel your pain

Jake a bit moany today- I forsee a day of entertaining him with the OmNom game where I pretend to munch his neck and arms whilst growling 'om nom nom nom'

llaregub I bought a postnatal exercise dvd and put it on yesterday - have to admit I didn't get any further than the introduction where the presenter waffled on earnestly about loving myself and 'giving myself the gift of rehabbing my body!?'.
I decided listening to the introduction had worn me out and that I better have a lie down before doing the actual exercise... maybe I will summon up the strength to move on to one of the routines today

tummum i'm also having a cuppa before summoning up the drive to do the hoovering.. missed chance for a bath this am so will go for that first i think. got ds to pre school this am.. can't believe he's now going all 5 am's a week!

i feed g by the light of her mobile it is just enough for me to see her aiming for the right area!

sophietom I do the om nom nom game too

hope today goes ok sausage

Hi All,

A is amazingly asleep in the pram so I am going to attempt a catch up!

First of all grumpy wow at your new place. We'll definitely pop in to say hi if we do a French trip next summer.

Fi your plans sound totally amazing, go for it! A good friend of ours married a canadian last summer and loves it over there.

Belgian glad you are happy in new place Hope the DC's have a great first day

saus feeling your MIL pain I can't really trust mine with A yet except if I'm there. Lush new pics of M by the way.

loobs sorry about your bad nights. I would see a Dr if you are worried about M's feeding.

In awe of your exercising llare how do you fit it in? I am trying to walk as briskly as poss when out with A in the pram and that's about it

This talk of weaning made me had our first meeting about new mum's group last week and it was about weaning. No babies over 13 weeks there

Jennster absolutely love the odd socks, they're my kind of thing. I used to enjoy wearing my day of the week pant on the wrong day as a child [running cackles at the horror on Grumpy and others' faces]. Yesterday I dressed A in stripy tights and a flowery dress and my designer DH said she looked like a mismatched hippy child... totally the look I was going for

Hi to everyone else, hope all is well.

A has been dribbling for britain this weekend and everything is going in her mouth. Her top gums feel a bit more bumpy than usual too...

I'm feeling pretty down atm as I realised two of my oldest friends (and bridesmaids at my wedding) have barely been in touch since I had A I realise that my life and theirs are completely different now as they're both single Londoners but I would have thought that they might have at least tried to arrange to come and say hello as they seemed so excited about me having a baby. In fact you guys know more about what I'm up to that they do atm so a big mushy thanks from me for being here I think it doesn't help that although I've been making a real effort to go to groups and things, all the Mums I meet seem to be in friendship groups already from their NCT /antenatal classes and I find it v difficult to know what to say.

Sorry for the me me me, its partly why I haven't been on much as I don't like to whinge - I wonder if I'm a bit hormonal?

Runningmonkey I think what you are experiencing with your friends is fairly common. I experienced the same thing with my friends who really didn't understand why I couldn't leave DS1 when he was a few weeks old to go on a hen weekend. We drifted apart for a few years but our lives are now converging again as they are both pregnant! One of them has even apologised to me. It has been very funny.

I didn't do the NCT classes but over a period of time I managed to become friends with an established group and now I am an honorary member. I'm also shameless about talking to people at the park and have met a few people that way. Most new mothers, I've found, are pleased to be invited for coffee, particularly when you have babies the same age. I'm pathetically grateful to be asked, anyway. Really, it just happens over time and 3 years after having DS1 I've made some great new friends.

My first one come via the Health Visitor, and it remains the single most useful thing she ever did for me. I asked her if there was anyone she knew with a baby the same age as mine who needed to get out more (like me) and she passed on my number.

My hormones are still over the place, trust me! As for exercising, I didn't fit in any after DS1 was born, I was too knackered and too busy trying to keep on top of things. We're far more into the swing of things now and I just grab time when I have it. DS2 is a much easier baby than DS1 ever was, so I am lucky I think. I also need to keep on top of my weight loss as I have now ebayed all of my bigger clothes so can't afford to put on the weight I've lost.

Right, break over. Have to go and dry my hair before DS2 wakes up.

Oh, and sausage good luck with the studying. I now adopt the ostrich approach with the inlaws and it has done my sanity the world of good!

Morning all!

Bad night here too. A had terrible terrible wind, and was obviously really uncomfortable - she woke and 11 and didn't really go back to sleep properly until gone 1, poor thing. She was writhing and arching her back, crying, and farting loads, and the only thing that calmed her down was holding her on her tummy along my forearm rocking her. We tried gripe water but that didn't help much. Reckon she'll poo today! At least I hope so, would struggle with another night like last night as DH is away now for the week so I'll have to get up early with DD1.

looby - sorry to hear about M's feeding stuff. It could be teeth, a minor bug, who knows? You could try talking to your HV if she's nice (not all are helpful!). Actually, scrap that, if you're going to to BF group ask the counsellor/peer supporter if they have any thoughts.

running - ikwym about friends (old ones and finding new ones). It's hard. It's only now 2.5 years after DD1 was born that I feel like I've got a proper group of friends where I live...to begin with you meet all sorts of people (well, mums and babies) but after a while I've got quite a small group of proper friends and a bigger circle of acquaitances, and both have their place. Keep sounding off here though, we'll listen! And if you are worried about hormones (or maybe PND? I don't know) then do talk to someone.

I feed in the dark too. With DD1 I used to be able to change her nappy in the dark as well, but haven't mastered that one yet with A, she wriggles too much and curls her legs up!

We don't do OmNom, A likes the YugYugYug game where I go...well, you guessed it...and tickle her tummy. She laughs loads, very cute!

Talking of rubbish food, I'm sat herdrinking tea and eating custard creams . I'm supposed to be getting food organised for most of the week so that I'm not in a rush trying to get DD1's and my tea with A being grumpy and no DH to help me, but I've been sat here for over an hour while A is asleep!

Belgian (and anyone else interested!) - meant to tell you last week that I bought two new slings - both are Girasol wraps, but different colours and lengths. They're fab!

Morning!

Belgian - hope the DC have a good first day. Your day sounds so exciting, exploring the new area Kent (I think that's where you are now?) is soo beautiful though.

O has his third lot of jabs this afternoon. I'm not looking forward to it. The nurse commented last time on the particularly evil look he gave her after the first injection. 3 today I guess no one particularly enjoys jabs though so we'll get through it and I've got the Calpol standing by!

To make up for it, we start Jo Jingles classes tomorrow

He's currently having great fun on his bouncy chair. I got him a hanging toy with a chime in it and he loves it - bashing away at it with really good aim!

Re feeding in the dark, we have a bedside lamp with a dimmer on it so each night I put it on as low as I think I can get away with and then leave it on all night Probably not v green but it works and means not having to get out of bed as I don't have a bedside table my side as O's cot is there.

Om nom nom nom here too (may have to try the Yug Yug Yug too). We also do the 'tickee tickee tickee' (tickle). However I generally just sing nonsense/whatever I happen to be doing. Have just been singing 'Who's a smelly bear? Who's a smiley bear? Who's a smelly smiley smelly smiley smelly bear?' Then realised the window is wiiiiiiiiide open.

Still, they're all French so won't have a clue.

Who did the (to the tune of Informer) 'I wipe your bum-bum down'? Come on, own up. I sing that at nappy changes now!

DD2 screamed and sobbed and clung when I took her to school. Apparently her teacher shouts . However she shouts at naughty people so I told DD2 she'd be fine. Hey-ho!

I am buying many bon-bons this aft to bribe for good behaviour. DH not due back until this weekend at the earliest.

running I had the same problem friend-wise . They could never understand why I couldn't just drop everything to go to the pub . And about mis-use of days of the week pants. For shame young lady!

Nightfeeds? I have to have a light on, S is waaaaay to lazy to find her own way .

Loobs at your DH.

Check out my over-use of the smileys

Just answered the door to salesman who looked at me and then asked me whether my mum or dad was home

Ha ha ha ha ha! What an ego boost sophietom