April 2009 - Chapter 8 - "Come to mine, I've got stacks of tampons..."

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12 Feb: Skiingone: MARIANNA 4lb 4oz
20 Feb: Glaskham: RUBY MARIE 4lb 3oz
04 Mar: Barbarella: ESTELLA, ROSANNA, OTIS
05 Mar: Kazkiss: ISABELLE FLORENCE 4lb 6oz & OLIVER THOMAS 3lb 7oz
15 Mar: Babypringle: OSCAR WILLIAM 7lb 2oz
28 Mar: Claireykitten: VIOLET ROSE 7lb 9oz
29 Mar: WhatFreshHell: FELIX DEVLIN ALEXANDER 10lb 5.5oz
31 Mar: Mumblemum: ORSON XERXES
02 Apr: Oddeyes: ELEANOR 9lb 8oz
03 Apr: Bleuravin: MEGAN LILLIAN CONSTANCE
03 Apr: Bumpalump: JACOB 8lb
04 Apr: BabyBolat: KARAHAN 6lb 5oz
05 Apr: Mrsfossil: ISLA LILIAN 7lb 10oz
05 Apr: JumeirahJane: MILLICENT ROSE 5lb 15oz
06 Apr: BoffinMum: FELIX DAVID GORDON 7lb 9oz
08 Apr: girlylala0807 JAMES EUAN
11 Apr: SpringySunshine: GEORGE NATHAN 8lb 15oz
11 Apr: RachelinScotland: CLEMENT JAMES 8lb 14oz
11 Apr: Lou031205: ISLA SOPHIA 7lb 9oz
11 Apr: Electra: ISABELLA CAROLINE 6lb 3oz
11 Apr: AuldAlliance: ALEXANDRE 7lb 6oz
12 Apr: Phdlife: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 3oz
12 Apr: BethDivine: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 9oz
13 Apr: MathsMummy27: AMELIA CHARLOTTE
14 Apr: Purlease: ADAM 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Juwesm: HUGO GEORGE 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Bronze: ISAAC JOHN 7lb 14oz
15 Apr: HeidiT: HEIDI
15 Apr: Kalikaroo: Name TBA BOY 8lb
15 Apr: Minush: ZAFIRAH ROSA 7lb 12oz
15 Apr: FatandFedup: EMILIA ROSE 7lb 6oz
16 Apr: PuzzleRocks: HOLLY ELIZABETH 8lb
16 Apr: Brettgirl: HANNAH GRACE 6lb 15oz
16 Apr: ReallyTired: Name TBA GIRL
17 Apr: DungunGirl: ADEN LEE 9lb 4oz
18 Apr: Staryeyed: Name TBA BOY 7lb 11oz
18 Apr: Dawntigga: SAMUAL 5lb 11oz
20 Apr: LuLuBai: SEBASTIAN 9lb
20 Apr: Swaliswan: BETH 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Kittycatisgettingfat: GABRIELLA AUDREY BIANCA
21 Apr: B52s: SAM MARTIN 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Schulte: HAZEL LOIS 7lb 9 oz
21 Apr: Mrsgboring: EDMUND 8lb 12oz
23 Apr: Tristaleejac: LEWIN 8lb 4oz
23 Apr: NuttyTaff: TIAHNA SKYE 8lb 8oz
23 Apr: Purplemonkeydishwasher: ISLA ELIZABETH 8lb 14oz
24 Apr: Soon2befamilyof4: TALIA 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Carameli: THEO LAURENCE 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Surprisenumber3: EVIE ANNE 8lb 2oz
26 Apr: Bicnod: OSCAR MATTHEW 8lb 1oz
27 Apr: Lauren61: OLIVER STEPHEN 7lb 7oz
27 Apr: Gingersarah: VERONICA ROISIN 9lb 1oz
30 Apr: MegBusset: ARCHIE 8lb 15oz
30 Apr: Elpis: ISLA JESSICA 8lb 11oz
01 May: Satheresitting: Name TBA BOY
03 May: Conkertree: Name ANGUS ANDREW 8lbs 8oz
06 May: Frekkles: HARRIS MERLIN 8lb 5.5oz
07 May: TarteTatin: ALBERT JOHN
10 May: Ilovesummer: Name TBA BOY

Morning! Gui don't cry ((hugs)) and don't feel guilty for bfing! Yes photos please. Can't believe the penis size comparing??!! They are babies!

Kaz a lady with twins used to come to my Gymboree class and the teacher would always have one of them so I am sure a massage class will be fine too. When I took DD1 to baby massage she was the only baby that weed, pooed AND was sick all over the mat

How is the clock changing going for everyone? H was quite happy to sleep a bit longer than usual but DD1 was up at 6am (new time)!

Morning girls

Gui - don't cry - I went to a baby massage class and everyone loved the ickle-est baby boy, he was by far the cutest baby there. And the babies didn't have to get their kit off. I get upset in the other direction - I get embarrassed by how enormous O is, especially when bf in public. I assume people think I'm overfeeding him.

So my night out was a disaster and I'm never leaving O again. Never ever ever ever ever

I had a lovely birthdayish morning hanging out with some local mummies, babies and cake. DH had done a night shift so came home at 8am and spent the morning in bed. My friend came over late morning and we went out for lunch - O was an angel and fell asleep beautifully in his buggy while we were eating. DH stayed in bed. We came home and hung out for a bit in the afternoon then went for a walk. DH still in bed. Then my brother came over. DH finally got up in time for O's bathtime I gave O his final feed/put to bed and left friend with strict instructions to call me straight away if he woke up. Not to bother trying to give him formula as it just upsets him more. DH, brother and I went to the pub (DH being a bit off with me as my bro coming to the pub was a bit of a last minute thing - but I don't get to see my bro much and it was my birthday after all). Sat in pub with DH being a bit off with me. Played a game of pool. DH's phone starts ringing and its friend saying please come home O won't stop crying. I sprinted home dodging traffic as I ran. Didn't have keys so spent agonising 20 seconds stood outside front door hopping from one foot to the other listening to O screaming as waited for friend to come down and let me in. Took me 10 minutes to calm O down - I've never seen him so upset in his life - she had tried formula, then texted DH who hadn't been listening for his phone, then rang 5 mins after that - so my little boy had been screaming his head off for about 15 mins. When I eventually got him to calm down and feed I couldn't stop crying. I wish I hadn't gone. He woke every couple of hours in the night after that and came in with me for a cuddle for an hour at 4am which seemed to help a bit - he slept after that. DH and I had a row at 5am.

Feeling really angry with DH for being an arse on my birthday, and pissed off with friend for not calling me as soon as he woke up and for trying him with formula.

I know it doesn't physically harm babies to cry, but the thought of my little boy screaming for me, not knowing if I was ever coming back makes me feel sick and guilty and like a terrible horrible mummy

And DH lying in bed at 4am saying 'the only reason he won't settle is because you're stressed out' made me so bloody angry. No, actually, the reason he wouldn't settle is because he had been more upset than he'd ever been before in his life.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I don't want to even look at DH today I'm so angry with him.

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sorry have not been on much

but can i just say

WE ONLY HAVE 8!!!!! PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN THE SECRET SANTA SO FAR.

IN ONE WAY IT SEEMS HARDLY WORTH DOING FOR THAT SMALL AN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE CONSIDERING WE HAVE OVER 50 LADIES ON THIS THREAD.!!!

THE DEADLINE IS 31ST OCTOBER (NEXT WEEK)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE PLEASE CAN YOU EMAIL ME YOUR ADDRESS NAME AND MN NAME

OTHERWISE WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE AN EXECUTIVE DECISION AS TO WEATHER IT GOES AHEAD OR NOT.

MANY THANKS
love Nutty xxx

my email is [email protected]!!!!!!

Bicnod, what an arse your DH was. I hope you're feeling a better now. I won't cry if you won't! Acting like a child is one thing, doing it on your birthday, in front of your DB is another. As for the friend, I just don't understand why she would try formula when you had explicity said not to bother. She must have thought she knew better. Grrrrrrrrrs all round.

We shall have a virtual birthday party for you today. Where would you like it to take place? I shall bring champagne and cakes. I have got lots of balloons, though I got a bit light-headed from blowing them all up. What would you like as a present? I'll make a start on the other party food, unless you'd prefer to go for a curry?

I am very that no-one wants to Secret Santa. Look - it's made Nutty shout - that never happens!

My SIL has just been round for a visit, and brought with her 2 type of cake!

I can't afford to secret santa

Gui, what a lovely post. I am having a glass of white wine to celebrate Bicnod's birthday (and the fact the girls have gone to bed ) as we speak. Bicnod, I completely understand how you feel - leaving precise instructions for a babysitter only for them to be ignored is incredibly infuriating. Mummy knows best, fact. Even if your friend meant well, which she probably did. As for your DH, don't know what to say I hope at least he gave you a lovely birthday present! x

So how are all the babies coping with winter time? I put Hazel to bed half an hour later than usual (or half an hour earlier according to new time) and she was so tired she screamed during the nappy change. Poor thing.

Secret Santa - if there's eight of us I think we should still do it, non?

thank you for my birthday party Gui tis fabulous

hurrah for your SIL with two types of cake... i think all visitors should arrive with two types of cake - it should be the law.

feeling much better now - DH is cooking me pizza as we speak and i have Ben and Jerry's phish food in the freezer for afters...

...O was clingy this morning but more chilled out this afternoon and is currently in bed asleep. i think he was far less traumatised by the whole affair than i was.

still feeling a bit narked with DH and friend but moving on.

fei - i agree... secret santa yep yep yep

right. i smell garlic bread... off to pig out

Buggy brolly - how cool?!. Not compatible with bloody Stokke though [hgrr]

Oh yes, angry, not grr!

Ach. I'd rather get wet than look as ridiculous as the woman in that photo!

It is a little on the large side . I'm with you about not minding getting wet. Plus, I have a fab waterproof jacket, and police issue waterproof over-trousers if the urge to go walking in a deluge takes me!

Have you seen the gloves? Gloves which stay holding the buggy handle so that you can remove and replace your hands easily!

Bicnod if it's any consolation E cried for far longer than that last night - okay I was right there with him, but I was blatantly ignoring his screams to get up out of the bed and kept trying to shut him up with milk.

Am a zombie. Hideous night with E but determined to stay up for Doc Martin which is just about to start.

Gui the mei tai may well allow you to sneak a carrier onto a sleeping H.

Telly calls

I keep forgetting to email Nutty abt Secret Santa... will do it now.

There finally did it though still took me ages. I'm a silly woman sometimes.

How were the weekends?

Dh was supposed to get the Halloween stuff out of the loft for me this weekend and kept putting it off and so now it's not down...Do I try to go up there myself (with the knowledge that something bad always seems to happen to me when I go up/try to go up in the loft)? Or do I just buy new Halloween things??

Bicnod not the lovely Birthday one envisioned.
Gui I hope you've freed yourself of some of your worries abt you itty bitty (hugs)

On a similar note I've been having nightmares... Usually it starts off as a normal dream where I'm in the middle of an adventure of some sort and then I suddenly realise that I don't have Moo. (This is usually because in my dreams I am not actually 'me' but some sort of character in the story that the dream is telling me.)
Then it mutates into not only do I not have her but some how or another I've left her in some precarious position -balanced on a ledge of some sort, or next to an open fire, or alone in a tub or the ocean- and because I have done this, either she's fallen, or become ill or someone else has rescued her or it has decided by someone else I know/love that I do not deserve to be near Moo any more. I've awoken crying so many times I cannot say. I do not know how to get rid of the dreams mainly because I cannot figure out why I'm having them. I'm not going off to work like some of you, indeed I do not spend hardly any time away from Moo. (Could this in itself be the problem I wonder?)

Happy Birthday I believe Auld!?!

hello all!
ZombieBoo, that is scary! How did you know? I am old today. Officially old, tired and wrinkly.
My mum is here because DS1 has 10 days school holiday while I have none. So they are flying off to Edinburgh together tomorrow, and A and I are flying out on Friday to bring DS1 back, with a nice little stopoff at the Hôtel Boff en route. Not overly confident about my ability to handle A during 2 flights and a connection at Gatwick on Friday, but am trying to be positive!

A is sleeping less and less well at night.

Bicnod, sorry to hear it all went wrong, it is so annoying when people ignore your orders recommendations for how best to deal with your baby. Hope you have kissed and made up with both DH and O now.

re secret santa, if it helps my partner I can give a UK address so overseas postage is not an issue.

I can't do a proper catch up, as I really have too much work to do for tomorrow. Will try and catch up later on...

One of those little old French witches must have put a little curse on you Auld- so you look in the mirror and see old and wrinkley and feel tired...Isn't there a fairytale like that? Really you're a young and spritely character . Have a little fun today to prove it

Wow a great adventure planned. Exciting and scary all at once. I'll be curious to hear how it goes for when Boo and I head to America.

p.s. not so scarey; I believe you mentioned it a while back And it's on facebook I'm not a witchy wonder able to read minds hundreds of miles away. (Don't tell Dh tho)

Auld, Happy Birthday. You'll be fine. Babies are easy to fly with, it's the toddler I would worry about.

Bebe, what horrible dreams. I have only had one similar dream, I think it's natural that you worry, even in your sleep? Don't know what to advise, except it will pass!

Caught H mid fall last night as she was rolling off DD1's bed! Phew.

I always forget about facebook as I hardly use it!
How nice that you remembered.
Will try and have fun, though actually the thing I am most excited about is that -although I can't afford it- I have found a cleaner to come for three hours a week and she is starting this afternoon.

re the nightmares, I think they are part and parcel of the general anxiety of motherhood. The shift from being responsible only for your personal survival and well-being to suddenly having to protect and nurture a highly vulnerable baby is enormous. Maybe spending so much time with her does reinforce your sense of huge responsibility, who knows.
That's not much help for avoiding them, though, is it?
Must shut this screen and get back to work, sorry...