April 2009 - Episode 10 - Christmas time!! we can all drink wine, while children gurgle nursery rhymes, with logs in their nappies, and pee by the tree fun will be had by baby and me!!

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here we go then Merry Christmas One and all!! xxxxx

p.s. SS I love the nailpolish so much. It cheers me to see my lovely blue nails all the time. I keep stopping and thinking: oooooooh pretty!

john barrowman is a for me, I'm afraid. I've googled him and I'm still virtually none the wiser.

Doogie Howser I do remember, but have never particularly fancied.

I have found a box of chocolate covered shortbread. Auld take two or six m'dear. You need it.

Haha I am going to put the doogie howser box set on now! lol.

Sorry to here about all the poorly bubbas it really is horrible isnt it.

Can I ask a bit of advice.... Izzie is a little daredevil and her grobag does nothing to restrict her in her cot and she is VERY good at pulling herself up to standing by grabbing hold of the cot bars even if she is in her grobag. She looks to me like she is very soon gonna twig how to climb/fall out/over her cotbed rail. The matress is on the lowest setting and i think she is tooo small to use the cotbed with out the rail so i really dont know what to do?

They should sell lids for cotbeds, like lids for a hamster cage No advice sorry, except maybe put something soft next to the bed so if she does fall, she has a soft landing?

Ooooh chocolate covered shortbread, yummy!

ahhh yes soft landing that might help if she does escape!

Velcro pajamas

WFH - any news on your mum? How was the scan? Your app sounds fine btw.

Fei/Auld - any better sleep last night? O is still trying to push through his two top front teeth - they've been a teensy bit broken through since before Christmas and are causing him (and us) all sorts of hell at night

Fei - did you try the fire? I love trying to light fires but I am truly kak (sp?) at it and always have to be rescued by DH (which he loves of course, in a rolly eyed oh my wife is so inept kind of irritating way).

MrsG - ROFL at Enid Blyton reference - was that Malory Towers or St Clare's?! I'd forgotten about the fires in dorm rooms...

Bebe - are you away on your minibreak to DH? Any decisions on the babbit front? Only problem with showing him this thread is that he will then know about your secret bank account plans.

Snow snow snow.

I am gutted as the childminder I really wanted for O isn't likely to have any spaces til June/July on with the search. Don't want to leave my baby

p.s. John Barrowman bleeeeeeeeurgh. Doogie Howser - double triple bleeeeeeeeeeeurgh.

p.p.s. Boobs pretty much empty now. And sooooooo small I'm sure they can't have been this small before I got preggers - I look androgynous

Hello, hello, hello. Just popping in for a catch up - will hopefully manage to post something more interesting once I've caught up with the thread! (We have minus 18C today and lots of snow...brrrrrrr)

Hello - has everyone got snow today? Auld, what is the weather like in Provence?

DP back to work today, first day since Christmas so I am feeling very back-to-schooly and slightly nervous of going back myself, week after next.
Bicnod - sorry to hear about the childminder. It is such a fraught thing, but I am sure you can find someone lovely - they are nearly all good really, I thought, it just comes down to like or love in the end. (I HOPE)
I booked V in for her first 2 days at the childminder next week and go to work the week after. I have tried to assuage the anguish by booking a massage for one of those days. The last time I did anything like that was when I was heavily pg and booked some reflexology. Although I try to be wistful about the days when I could just go off and do anything in my own time, nothing can make me nostalgic for those awful days of pregnancy. (Sorry if that is not helping, Bebe!)

Guilt, guilt guilt - yesterday DP missed a work deadline because I left V with him while I went out for a couple of hours. In my defence, a. I did not know he had a deadline and b. I offered to take her with me (actually, assumed that I should take her with me). I only left her because DP said it would be fine, he could work around her, and otherwise she would have been in her pushchair or car seat for most of the day. I KNEW he would not get anything done with her in the house, but I am EVIL AND DID IT DELIBERATELY BECAUSE I WANT HIM TO KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE - I left her happily playing, sitting on the floor looking adorable, and he thought she would sit like that all afternoon while he was on the laptop! Then I was appalled when I got home and found he was supposed to have written something for 5.

Had a skim through the thread - looks like most folk have been having a tricky time of it over the last couple of weeks . I hope everyone and their LOs are feeling much better soon. I was on antibiotics over new year due to sinus infection, but feeling much better today. Wish I could say the same about my tiredness .

A is still feeding like a milk monster at night and waking up loads...At the time it seems awful and I'm nearly in tears of frustration and knackeredness, but once I'm up for the day I seem to be functioning ok - I suppose your body gets used to it eventually. One thing that has sort of helped my psychologically is to say to myself that LOTS of babies wake up in the night and that doesn't mean that I'm doing anything wrong, it's just something that babies do

Have a bit of a dilemma at the mo', connected to this night feeding thing - A is so busy and distracted during the day that he's really cut down his day feeds and is making up for it at night time. Any tips for getting him to have decent feeds during the day????

Back to work on Monday but a tiny bit at having a break!

Gingersarah - try not to feel guilty. You offered to take her and he said he would manage, so it's not your fault he missed the deadline. It was probably good for him to actually see how much time and effort it takes to look after her?....evil Well, maybe it didn't turn out exactly as you planned, but never mind, these things happen.

I really miss my old boobs, Bicnod, and have practically forgotten what they were like! I'm getting a bit fed up of these saggy melons attached to my chest

Bored of bloomin' snow!!!!!! It's going to be here until well into February...I used to love snow when living in the UK because it was kind of a treat and it never really got that cold. Living in a country where winter is bloomin' freezing and snowy for up to 3 months can be a bit of a pain, though I do love those crispy mornings when the sky is all pink and everything is all glittery (and your nose hair freezes every time you breathe in )

Sorry to hear about so much illness among the babies, and such lack of sleep. It really is horrible when they are not well, or just uncomfortable - my sympathies to all of you.
Kali - remind me where you are again?

Does anyone fancy a meet up in SW London in the next 10 days before I am back at work? A snowy stomp around some common or park, or maybe just some hot chocolate?

Sending health vibes to all poorly babies and tired mothers...

No guilt Sarah, I think that was a good plan actually.

@ Bicnod for smally boobs.

Kali I am so with you on that one. I only stopped night feeds for DS1 about 3 months before Edmund arrived, so I have had no sleep for four years now. I seem to be surviving though lack of sleep makes you fat.

DS1 woke begging to make a snowman at 4am this morning. We were all done by quarter to nine not helped by me being so boring a playmate with Edmund strapped to my front so I couldn't bend down to do proper snow building.

I have eaten all the chocolate shortbread now and half a big packet of crisps. Am such a crabby old cow, I suspect it's my hormones. Sigh. My poor children.

Ginger - don't feel guilty... I would love DH to understand quite how hard being a full-time parent can be!

Definitely up for a SW London meet up... probably more up for hot chocolate than a snowy stomp, but then I'm a wuss and not a big fan of the cold (brrrrrrrrrr)

Kali - I think it's true that some babies are just better sleepers than others. There must be some way of getting A to feed more during the day though so you get more of a break at night. Can you reduce the amount he gets at night/replace some feeds with water? It might be hell for a few nights as he adjusts but then hopefully he would be hungry enough to make up for it during the day. We just stopped feeding O during the night as we thought it was habit more than hunger and he now doesn't expect to be fed even when he (inevitably) wakes because his teeth hurt/or he's cold/or he wants a cuddle.

Good morning. DH working from home today because there are no trains into London - all because of one inch of snow I can assure you this wouldn't happen on the continent

I wonder how he can work though with Hazel singing and screeching away.

All this talk of hot chocolate is making me want to have one.

Our nights have been a bit better, we went cold turkey again and leave H to cry if she wakes up before 6am. This is the third or fourth time we've been doing this sort of sleep boot camp, as she always reverts back to her old ways after a couple of weeks or so of being good. Odd child.

Ginger don't feel bad, it wasn't your fault that your dh missed his deadline.

Kali am of your snowy winters.

Yay for snowmen.

Bicnod how is little O apart from the teething?

With regard to boobs. If my experience is anything to go by, they'll never be as they were before children again. Mine were tiny after I stopped bfing DD1 and I was so happy to see them grow again when I got pg and now one reason why I want to keep bfing Hazel is that I quite like them as they are right now. Tis not the only reason you understand

here BA watchers..

I find boobs depressing
I would love to be the neat b/c cup I was pre kids but knowing my luck I'll go back down the that size but keep the excess skin stretched from having fed four kids. I hate having bigger boobs they get int he way but neither do I want golfballs in socks

I'm sorry, I will chat properly, honest, but this from BA is just too good! She is just unbelievable!

I know the thread, I'm on it (without even clicking your link)

Well, I was on the brink of despair, as I blew a fuse this morning plugging in an ancient heater the neighbour lent us. Since no one knows where the fusebox is, and we now only have power (and heat) in the living room and kitchen, this was a major blow. Especially following on from the previous blow, when the lorry came at 7am to deliver oil to get the boiler going, and the guy said he couldn't use the weird pipe the landlord had installed and therefore left again, leaving us high & dry (but cold). I have had to take A to the CM's on her day off.

However, BA's barmy thread has distracted me. Though it is scary. I no longer think she is a bored single mother in Dunkirk, I fear she is real, and dangerously neurotic. I hasten to add that I never have conversations about my weight with friends or colleagues. But I live in Provence, which is, as its name suggests, provincial.

Sarah, no snow here. It was v wet, but the sun is now shining, and temperatures are therefore dropping. Handy when you have a sick baby and no heating...oops, am getting gloomy again, off to re-read that thread about removing custody from parents who buy to much Abercromby & Fitch clothing for their offspring.

Oh I don't know, I think Anna has a point really

But thats assuming she weighed them just before they went away otherwise that weight could be over a period of time
so either
s/he weighed just before they went and just after they got back = loon
or they've put it on more gradually and shes only just noticed because they've just been weighed
either way 9 stone is a normal weight for a child of that age
I worry that she puts her weight issues onto them. they are sporty boys they shouldn't even be thinking about their weight

I don't know about the weight issue, depends on how tall they are, their build, their parents' builds etc ('jumbo', of course ), but it's more the way she writes, like she actually is completely incapable of seeing another POV. Her writing in that thread is so very troll-like, continuing to labour the same point without really answering questions. She just enjoys being provocative.

Anyway. Enough about Parisienne neuroses...

Auld, I can't believe the heating situation is getting worse and worse for you, you poor thing. What's the next step? Can you and A sleep in the living room if necessary?

Oh, sorry King - have only just scrolled back and realised you linkied BA before me. . For shame, Guimauve.

Re: sleeping - still co-sleeping, so still doing pretty well on actual hours of sleep, but still multiple night-time wakings/ side-changings/ feedings, and the very broken sleep leaves me a little drained, though it can't be anywhere near as bad as many of you are having to suffer. I never intended to co-sleep, but now I don't know what we'd have done without it, and I don't know what we'll do if and when we have a second DC. It would be very tempting to co-sleep again, but I suppose it depends on how well the next one sleeps to begin with.

Re: boobs - erm, not much to say really. Not massively bigger than ever before, but still unnecessarily leaky.

Re: Food - cheese on toast went down very well today!

Kali - it must be nice to have lots of snow, but in a country where they know how to deal with it! As Feier says, it is ridiculous that an inch of snow brings everything to a halt. At the risk of sounding ancient, I'm sure it didn't happen when I was little.

why has my profile vanished?