July 2009: Grinning, wolfing, rolling and puking! :)

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Hi thought I'd take the bull by the horns and start a new thread. Hope the weaning was covert enough! Fire away!

Hi all went swimming with all the dc's today, the twins loved it I was shattered afterwards though.

nappies having a nightmare at night with leaking nappies Stan's leaks ever night sometimes twice its driving me mad, as it takes ages for him to go back off after i've stripped him off.

period haven't had one yet but really not missing them.

Had dd2 6th birthday party yesterday and another party planned for sat, must be mad

miss was worried that dd2 was rejecting the bottle after all this time (well off dh, won't take one from me). Had a cold and stopped taking it, just screamed and screamed for 40 mins before going to sleep again! Now she's getting better she's started taking it again. I also did the same and went to EBM rather than mix of formula and EBM but still didn't tempt her. Seems more back on course again now. Think poorliness makes them hate it! Not the same as nuzzling mummy maybe!

Ok you've lost me, what the hell are shrinkles??? I was born in 1980 and never heard of them

I started christmas shopping today. I got a few bits for niece, nephew and Godchildren from Toys r us. I bought ds1 a Nintendo DSi and some games a few month ago so apart from a few more bits that's him sorted. I'm not buying Noah very much, maybe just clothes, because we've got hundreds of toys here that were ds1's so instead of wasting money we haven't really got buying more plastic tat we're giving Noah all those. He won't know and will be more interested in the paper anyway

Hope everyone is ok

I just noticed a 'Due July 2010' thread in active convos

MissP I was born in the early seventies, so you are not alone

AF Jetli sorry she found you so soon. Have not yet gotten mine, and it can stay away for all I care!! LOL. After DD2 it took me 10 months to get it, so I am hoping for the same or longer.

Seeing the July 2010 thread made me a little sad knowing that I will never be pregnant again. I'm not broody for more kids, just liked being preggy (for the most part).

Glass of red I am having the same nappy issues. Marco poops up to his armpits at least 2 times a day/night. I still have about 20 nappies left of this size, so I am trying to use them up before moving up to the next size. My hands are sooo dry from constantly scrubbing out the stains from his clothing. He is almost EBF so his poops are very runny and bright yellow. Ugh! I think I will start usuing the bigger size at night, and the smaller ones during the day. Maybe then I can avoid those late night disasters!

Shrinkles? Am a 1973 girl and never heard of them!

Love the new thread, great name. Talking about wolfing, Max had his first baby rice today and ate the lot...had a rather strange expression on his face but it went down!

We had a good break away apart from the car breaking down and having to be towed home from wales to sussex!! DH went in the tow truck and I took the 3 dc and the dog in a corsa!! It was a hell of a squeeze but we did it!

I feel sad about the July 2010 thread too.....don't know why though weird isn't it.

Anyway going to go and try to igonore the mess in the hous etill tomorrow as I am exhausted and want ot collapse on the sofa. Night all xx

AF wish she's blooming find me instead of having permanent PMT! Not sure which is worse!

shrinkles for all of you who know not what they are: website

cotton nappies used these loads with dd1. Dug them out today to try with DD2 and found she'd grown out of first 2 sizes already! Must have been being very lazy... anyone else finding they are drowning in washing despite doing loads and loads a day?

christmas shopping Trying to be organised. Got some stocking fillers (ours are full of stuff worth no more than a quid a piece) Got dd1's pressy the other day and money off for damaged box: bargain! Going to get dd2 a baby nest possibly but waiting for tesco vouchers to double up and use to buy.

btw managed to food poison myself today. Made soup out of 23p reduced veg from tesco. Oops. Must have been quite reduced! not such a bargain!

hi everyone,
my lil angel started sleeping ten hours aobut six weeks ago now. I've been getting very sleepy very early recently. ...the big symptom of my first pregnancy. dh and i did have a few ...erm tipsy unprotected romantic interludes... i've been ebf for 15 weeks now. its not possible....is it? i thought we were reasonably safe but with the ten hours at night thing? noooooo????!!! what do you reckon?

Hope everyone had a lovely Halloween. We were sooo busy the entire day! We got the house decorated, pumpkins carved (all 6!) and then had to tidy up the place because we always have company for Halloween dinner. I took the kids out Trick or Treating while DH answered the door dressed as a ghoul and scaring the pants off the younger kids. The weather was very windy here so poor Marco only made a short appearance to show off his costume!! My house looks like a bomb hit right now! Not looking forward to spending the day cleaning (although our clocks went back this morning so I get an EXTRA HOUR OF CLEANING today ) Will be posting my pics on FB sometime today if anyone wants a peek

laundry Yes... mine multiplies like rabbits. If I don't do a couple of loads a day, I am burried!! With 4 DCs, I can barely keep up!

shrinkles As a child, my mom wouldn't let me put anything in the oven that wasn't food. But I would go to a friends house and make them. They were lots of fun. I haven't seen them here in ages, although my older 2 DCs made them at school once for Fathers Day gifts once!

ActivityApple - At this time last year I had no idea I was pg either. I started testing on my birthday (the 11th) but didnt get my BFP until the 18th! Speaking of which... Trixie have you done a test??? Wow... another July baby??? LOL

Oh... and I am of all you organized lot that are Christmas shopping! I used to be one of you!! LOL. My shopping started on Boxing Day and would normally be done by the end of the summer. With all these DCs now, I am lucky if I am done the week of!! LOL

trix the breast feeding counsellor told me that EBF only acts as a contraceptive if you are BF every 2-3 hours round the clock. oops better do that test (Alfie was a sort of shall we sharnt we lets take a risk but planned baby )

shrinkles wow that brings back memories - another child of the 80's

Well back to normal here as all kids back and bedlam returned good to have them back though.

I am about half way through my christmas shopping mostly thanks to internet purchases lol

hi all, have been away in manchester for the weekend. id like to say it was a welcome break but ithink im even more exhausted! find myself having to be sweet nice and polite all the time, which i know i should be but find myself having to think about it when there!

swaddling stopped working by thursday and he's now going mental again if i try it so im back to having no sleep, nice whilst it lasted though! i just keep telling myself he's my last baby and this wont last forever!

halloween my inlaws broughtthe kiddies cute little outfits to wear on the day. they live in quite a rough area of manchester and i was too scared to answer the door to the trick or treaters!

christmasshopping brought dd some books yesterday, not really sure what else to get her though as the only things she ever plays with are her colouring books/pencils/her reading books and kitchen. she doesnt seem interested in anything we ask if she'd like to put on her list from father xmas!
as for bill it'll only be small things as we kept everything from dd, she was so spoilt on her first xmas that there isnt actually anything left to get that she didnt get!

weaning have been doing it for ten days now and bill is on breakfast and tea, not sure whether to introduce lunch?? he loves his food so much, but still feel a bit guilty for having started weaning 10 days early (he's 17 weeks today!) how're you doing with weaning queenfee?? AF still no sign here for me thank god but i guess i am still constantly feeding day and night, despite him having some solids!

activity sorry to hear about arthritis and stomach bug but yay for the weight loss! im still struggling to lose (boo hiss!)

im also with you on the fymo, i used to get a set every year for xmas i loved the stuff!

hello to everyone else and hope you had good weekends, im off to stuff myself with cheese butties whilst the little monster sleeps!

Hi all
6lb weight loss Activity - can you lick a biscuit or sneeze on it or something and post it to me? I could do with that bug!!
Halloween - no trick or treaters here. We live in a very quiet cul de sac surrounded by old people. We were going to go to a local organised spooky walk, but the road got closed for some water-related digging up and so we were confined to barracks for the evening. Twas rubbish really.
Trixi - oooh let us know how the pregnancy test goes
Christmas Shopping - have done the square root of fuck all so far. Really must get my ass in gear. Am hoping to do the bulk of it on Tinterweb - don't fancy pushing buggerlugs around the shops with all the pig flu carriers.
Cold - poor baby has a rotten cold It's like sleeping next to Darth Vader. She's all rattly and snotty. So far I am using a saline nasal spray, baby Vicks vapour rub, and a snot sucker. No Calpol yet as she doesn't appear to have a temp. If anyone can recommend anything else to help, let me know. I'm cancelling tomorrow's 16 week vaccinations

Hi ladies sorry I haven't posted for a while been hectic dd and ds really ill I took dd to the doctors and just as we took her in to see him she started having difficulty breathing so he called an ambulance she is better now though.

we really enjoyed Halloween and my ds having the week off am I insane. I got about half my xmas shopping done saturday and I held a tarantula along with a 6 foot boa constrictor ds also held them and now wants a pet tarantula the jury is out on that one though.

DD is killing me she still bf but waking 3 times a night between 11 and 8. What is this swaddling you ladies speak of that helps them sleep? this is new to me.

Trixi I hope you get the result you are looking for.

activity must be hard having to deal with all that and a baby.

hi slushy your poor dd, glad she's better now! *swaddling is where you fold a blanket/sheet into a triangle, place it in an upside down triangle on the bed, (longest side at the top) then put baby in the centre of the top line and onside at a time wrap them up tightly in it. i usually put ds hands by his side. i feel for you though im still bf ds who has been waking nearly every hour again through the night! have just managed a kip on the sofa, for the first time ever dd and ds both napped at same time. dd will never go to bed now but i was desperate!

Hi well did the test this afternoon and I got the not preggers display. Thats ok because we hadn't planned on getting pregnant for another few months, dd is only 15 weeks old. At the same time a little itty bitty teeny weeny part of me was disappointed which i suppose is normal now I know haw amazing thay are (after the torture of labour that is I HAVE NOT forgotten that!!!) But all good I get to enjoy my lil girl and go on that holiday to thailand in february and hopefully give her a brother and sister with a slightly saner age gap...if there is one....

lydia every hour my god poor you and it is so much harder to have a nap with two or more dc isn't it.

Thanks for the swaddling tip might give it a try and hopefully get a good night sleep.

trixie glad you got the result you wanted I must admit to a tiny pang of when I read about it initially! Perhaps I am ready for no 4 after all

slushy sorry you little one was so poorly x

night feeds we are having lots at the mo due to colds and siblings waking - very annoying! Anyone got any good tips on getting them to BF when their little nose is full of snot?

swaddling all my DCs fought their arms free from swaddling (However they all slept better on their fronts

lydia feel for you it is hard to catch a kip when you have older DCs weaning is going very well still muches food down no bother and gets stroppy if I stop! Still just giving him 1 lot at about 4.30. He takes a good lot then though (about a jar full I suppose if I was using them) When did you introduce the second meal?

Queenfee - for BF with a cold, I'm squirting the saline stuff up her nose, and then sucking the saline and snot mixture out after a minute of so, and then feeding her. That seems to work OK. The saline must liquify the snot enough to allow the snot-sucker to work. Squirting breast milk up their snotty noses is meant to help too, but I haven't quite mastered that

Jetli lol at the square root of fuck all!! Same here. made a list last night and felt slightly anxious!

Trixie Just think of that lovely holiday and like you say a slightly saner age gap! Can't imagine being preggers now.

Have started weaning Max and it is going ok. Started on the baby rice and he loved it, but tried apple and pear today mixed to make the apple less potent and he lated it...the expression on his face was hilarious. Spat it all out, so I gave up and gave him baby rice at 5pm which he hoovered up! THe other 2 dc hated baby rice and went straight onto purees, but once again, Max is proving himself to be different! Will try making some sweet potato tomorrow as the other 2 loved it.

I took him for his first swimming lesson today! Soooooo cute. He screamed with fear when we got in, but after a few minutes was the life and soul of the party! Bless him! The water was like a bath so it was lovely.

I am starting fit mums tomorrow which will be interesting, one of these groups where you exercise with the buggy! Worth a go.

Hope you are all ok, hope all the poorly babies get better soon xx

hated, not lated! Duh!

Evening all.
DH still at work so I am on my lonesome killing time til the next feed.

BF woes Tristan is waking again twice a night! WHY?!?! I try and give him more bf during the day but he pulls off if he is not hungry. I am very close to giving a ff at night as my older DC's had. They both slept from about 10 weeks from 11pm - 6am. To top it off, we have a posh cocktail party to attend on Sat which I was looking foward to until Tristan started waking again. Looks like I may just show my face and go home very very early. Lydia I think you are a star dealing with bf so frequently at this stage.

Trixie I am sure you will get your next BFP when the time comes. Funny, I get broody during the day and sad I have had my last baby. But in the middle of the night, tbh, I think thank god I won't be doing this again.

Slushy I hope all is ok.

Activity pls send some germs over. Nearly half a stone weight loss? I want some of that.

Babyblue your Halloween sounded fun. We did some cupcakes for DC's and friends and passed them out (as well as trick or treating). I was a bit heavy handed with the green food colouring and both older DC's (and their friends) had green poo's. Oops.

QF I can't believe you already are thinking about no 4. U definitely are a chilled lady. I am swimming in laundry, school work etc and trying to find my way out with just 3.

Xmas I usually finish my shopping by end of Nov but I have yet to start. I am crap. I have done my cake though. That's got to count for something.

Enough rambling - evening girls.
x

Thanks to all wishing my dd well what really annoyed me is I have asked SIL not to come up if her little boy has a cold as ds has asthma and a little cold to her quickly turns into a hospital visit with a bad chest infection for ds.

But she came up anyway as it was not a bad cold and ds was really borderline and poor dd has been ill for 2 weeks with a little cold that put her in hospital. I know I cant protect them from all germs but she could surely respect my wishes when I have a baby so young. She is still a little snuffle but much better poor thing dropped a centile as well.

I am impressed at those thinking of another this soon but I was set on two and yet I just can't seem to let go of the possibility of no 3 (even started thinking of when would be a good time much to dp horror )so I get where you are coming from.

When are most of you ladies weaning I weaned ds at 6 months but I am not so sure I can wait that long with dd as poor ds is not getting much attention.

Hi slushy - glad all are on the mend. My sis is in a bit of a huff with me at the moment as I banned her from visiting last week when her yungest was barking like a seal
Ah well, can't be helped.