Hello everyone! Just like Reggiee, I'm sidling in for my fortnightly update.
It's been lovely catching up with you all again, and also reassuring as ever to know that F, DH and I are not alone in any of the issues that have faced us!
F has two teeth - middle bottom. He got them when he was 5.5 months. His eating routine sounds very similar to that of several others but I'm trying to move his breakfast and lunch earlier ready for nursery. I'm also trying to cut down on breastfeeding and mix feed him but as soon as I started, my milk supply just disappeared in one boob and is much reduced in the other so the poor thing is having more formula than planned, which I feel a bit about. He has definitely cut down his milk feeds since he started BLW.
Anyway, routine:
Wake up between 6am and 7am. Have BM feed. Breakfast (today, a pear, a satsuma and half a crumpet) at about 8am - 9am. Play until 11am and then have a 7oz FF. Nap for 1-2 hours. Lunch today at 1.30pm which was cheese and beans on toast and a petit filou.
Play until 4pm ish and have another FF. Nap from 4.30pm - 5.30pm ish (he is tricky to put down for this one). Dinner about 6pm - 7pm and then bath, BM feed and bed for 7.45pm at the latest.
He's just getting over a dreadful cold so has been waking up every couple of hours at night for the last week or so... before that I had [whispers] managed to give up his 11pm dream feed and he was sleeping 7.45pm - 6.15am ish. Fingers crossed he settles back into that when he feels better.
We have lots of snow - fab - but have been marooned in the house since Monday. DH's car is stupid rear wheel drive and we took mine up the hill to my M&D's for Sunday dinner and had to abandon it in their drive. Fortunately they have a Disco so have been able to bring us home and do Christmas supermarket shopping.... but we really need to be able to get out tomorrow or I'll have no presents as DH has of course left everything until the last minute!!
In fact, presents might be thin on the ground altogether this year (unlike the snow, ho ho ho) (wow, multiple punniness!) as no deliveries are getting either to us or my M&D. Oh well, we have plenty of champagne so who cares?!
Ses I really feel for you re work. Something similar has happened to me and I was in tears on the phone to my boss yesterday. Tidings of comfort and joy and all that. I hope you get it sorted out or at least come to terms with a 4 day week. I was told that the job I'd been hoping for was home-based as promised BUT with a minimum 3 days' travel each week - primary locations being Newcastle, Manchester and Nottingham. It would mean DH doing the brunt of the nursery runs and dog walking so lots of pressure on him plus I'd only really see F 4 days a week and for me that's just not enough. Oh well, am challenging it and we'll see. I do need a job, after all but I don't want one working in those circumstances.
Jael, sorry to hear about your poorly DD but I understand she's feeling better now so hopefully she'll make a full recovery for Christmas.
Fi your day sounds great. I so miss my NCT friends. We should have had a reunion on Sat but the snow was so bad on the M61 we turned back - 140 miles each way in the snow with more forecast felt a bit risky.
Flippin, I agree with Fi. Wait until the last minute but act and plan like you're going (otherwise you won't!). Good luck!
Momi, you crazy lady! I am constantly in awe of how much you do and how hard you work. I too think you are supermum. Stop being so darned hard on yourself - I think that perhaps sometimes you are hyper-critical of yourself, especially of your parenting skills - and having met you and been to your fab house (and eaten your amazing carrot cake), I can categorically state that you are a fantastic, super cool uber Mum. So there!
right, epic over, better dash. Hello and un-mumsnetty Christmas hugs to all those of you I haven't mentioned.