May 09 - The Sleepless Babies Club, All Dubious Fashions Welcome

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Ladies.

cake update attempted to make mocha butterfly cakes. They were revolting! I think I messed up with the weights. Oh well, off to M and S I think.

dandy good luck with the book. Sounds fantastic. And I hope the redundancy thing works out for your DH

looby your poor thing. But it sounds like the residential care will be best for everyone. You;ll know she will be looked after.

younger I was kind of surprised at how the weekend went as I fully expected it to be awful but on Sat eve I realised that we had actually all had a nice day!

DS1 has poo issues again though. I think he is holding his poos in at school, although he had an accident at school today. We've noticed that at home in the afternoon he is spending a lot of time with his hand up his bottom and I think he's "checking" to see if the poo is coming out (sorry, this is gross!). He ends up with skidders in his pants as a result and then has to run to the toilet later to do one. I'm not quite sure how to deal with this. Any suggestions?

Looby Poor you and your mum. I'm sure SS would understand you being tearful, it is such a stressful thing to have to deal with. I used to work in a dementia ward in NZ when I was at uni. I think the most difficult part of the job was when the families would see their loved ones who just weren't themselves. Its a cruel disease.

Dandy The YA novel sounds good. at you having to tone down the raunch.

HtheH I'm a teacher too. My SIL is always saying I should write children's books but I wouldn't know where to start.

I am so sick of feeling like a slummy mummy. I have been through my clothes today and have put away all my shabby t-shirts and dug out some of my more dressy stuff. I might even wear some skirts as I found some black tights. I tend to wear a 'uniform' of jeans, top and cardi but most my jeasn are a bit baggy and yuck looking. I tried on some of my nicer tops but my boobs are so massive at the moment that I'm not sure if I would feel comfortable. I guess I need to break out of my comfort zone.

Headless It would seem he is a shy shitter . I think it is quite common for children to find poos at school difficult. Especially in reception as they are normally supervised by a TA (at my school anyway)

DS is not wanting to go to bed.. hoping this time he'll give in and stay put! he's worn out but stubborn. G bless her fell asleep no prob at 6pm & surprised ds's shenanigans haven't woken her.

looby big hugs & cry all you need x

dandy wow that's exciting about your novel! cutting that amount of words must be hard though.

uhoh ds's door again.. back soon!

headless- no advice on the pooing, just to say my DD is similar and she's been at school since Sept. She won't do a poo at school as she says she's worried about ending up with pooey pants even though we've encouraged her to wipe her own bum but doesn't have the confidence that she is doing it well enough. We also say it doesn't matter if her pants have a bit of a mark on them but she still holds it in and then struggles when she gets home. She also has had a handful of wee accidents.

HtheH- S seems much better tonight but his nappies still aren't quite "normal" so I am really unsure what to do. He had his appetite back at teatime which was a good sign. Noone else seems to have got it either. mmm what to do...

Pula I would send him unless he worsens. Its so hard to know what to do, isn't it.

febes I think you are right. He must be a shy shitter . Its reassuring to know he's not the only one too pula. I've explained to him that it will make him poorly if he holds it in, and also a bit smelly if he keeps putting his fingers up his bum. I wouldn't mind skidmarks if it was him trying, IYKWIM, but these I think are from him , ahem, pulling it back in.

pula I would also send S tomorrow unless he worsens. It sounds like there is improvement.

fi is DS in bed yet????

Evening all. Gonna be a short post. Because. I. am. exhausted. Work

Pula I personally would send him in

Looby hugs.

Fi is he in bed yet?

Dandy sounds like great news for you and DH. Hope it all works out. Oh, and at your creative talent. I have as much creative ability as a stone. At the bottom of the sea. Underneath lots of other stones.

Llare at size 12. Well done you.

Febes at shy shitter. Lol !

Forgot to say, I am happy cos I lost 4 more Ibs last week. Making a grand total of 12 since 4th Jan. Lots more to go though....

Feeling so flipping low about work. But I must work otherwise I will drive myself mad. It's just sooooooo crap.

headless I've heard about los holding their poo for hometime too. I presume as with all toiletting issues the best way to tackle this will be to be patient and not to critisize/tell off and it'll solve itself naturally.

dandy Woohoo for your book news. Must be difficult to cut down on the words though. The raunch shouldn't be too difficult, right

fi How's your ds?

If you ever look for an ap, know that they are like busses. Nothing for ages and ages and ages and then today 3 potential candidates pop up, of which 2 are Dutch even though we've opened up our search to other nationalities too But hopefully we'll have someone soon. With a bit of luck she'll be here in time for the meet in London and then we can get her to entertain the toddlers

Compare the meerkat Still my fave advert and this is what happens when you try it

evening all. just sat in front of gavin & STcey with a bit o' haggis and neeps. though not a drop of scottish blood in me, i love haggis and have it at least on burns' night each year.

tumm, sorry work is bringing you down but excellent news about the weight loss, that's impressive!

shy shitter, , febes, that's a great term for it! I can't remember wanting to poo when i was in primary school though (well, maybe I can't remember back that far).

dandy, great news about the novel. I would love to read it but WITH the sex scenes . about your DH's job, sounds like it will work out for the best (hoping it does, anyway).

looby, I don't know what to say about your situation with your mum but sending you hugs anyway.

HtheH, after your post, I will definately scrutinise my DDs' poos before sending them to nursery/school, but do admit taht my heart sank every time I had to forgo work because dd was unwell. that sounds terrible, doesn't it? i've changed my mind a bit now and I'm much more flexible now that I work from home.

Pula, not sure what you should do. I know when I was working in an office, I sent dd2 in similar circumstances as there was so much pressure at work I felt guilty whichever choice I was going to make. Glad he's feeling better anyway.

belgina, good luck with the AP. hope you find one soon so you can relax about the situation.

everyone else... hi!

Right, DS is asleep and I've had left over roast pork. Just time to post before I go to bed as I'm exhausted (and I'm not back at work yet!)

Belgina - I like that advert too. Always makes me smile eventhough I'm sure it will start to irritate me soon
Hope the ap candidates produce a good one.

Tummum - great going on the weight loss!
Sorry work is so crap. Is it a year you're planning on doing?

Febes - I'm also in the process of trying to makeover my wardrobe. Trying to rediscover some old(er) items that fit and look ok as it's less expensive but I do plan on treating myself to some new bits too.
Oh, and yes - I do like waht you did with "poogate"

Dandy - wow! I'm v impressed! I've always though I'd love to write a book but don't really have it in me.

LadyH - sorry for poo issues. I'm not looking forward to toilet training! It's bad enough with a puppy!

Puppy - Megan is lovely and cute and playful BUT doing my head in with chewing my books, DVDs and today a puppy pad (for toilet training) got shredded into what must have been about a thousand pieces, spread across 3 rooms!

x-posted! Hello Momino

Hi ses! get ye some sleep .

Thanks - just going!
Night night all

Sorry to leave you all hanging there...YES! he's asleep i've been finishing chores & watching glee

Mondays are very exciting as he not only has pre school but a mad dash to swim class after. I also treated us to lunch out after so by the time we got home at 2pm ish he was tired and happy to sit in front of cbeebies unitl DH came home early from work and he got all revved up again! I think he thought if he went to bed he'd be missing out.. All I wanted to do was to catch up on the chores (more dishwasher un/loading & laundry here too), put my feet up, have a hot cuppa & MN for a while!

off to catch up now

just in time for you all to head off to bed!

I'm here Fi! Been reading, but too tired now for namechecking, sorry.

DD1 hasn't eaten much today, but seems totally better in herself, and hasn't been sick since about 7am. Another of those WWYD things though - coffee morning tomorrow or not?!

I just thought i'd share this with you as I think it's quite sweet and DD seems quite happy about the attention. She has a special friend at school and after school club who seems very keen on her and she likes him too. Last week he wrote a love note that was meant to be from her to him saying she loved him. Then today he wrote one which said "IlooveysomuchDD IamgunmarryyoufromT" . I thought it was very sweet and also very good writing for a just turned 5 year old.

fingers crossed belgina you get a good ap appearing soon.

ses poogate did make me lol... and i have a feeling it was accomplished by flinging puppies do the weirdest things i hope megan is dissuaded from your shoes. Our douglas had a thing for dirty socks but his half brother had a thing for my shoes not my dh's just mine and especially of course any particular favourites of mine... somehow he decided that chewing pairs was not necessary and that just one of each pair was the done thing... i was really relieved when we stopped him chewing them the end!

awww pula that's so cute! I think ds has an admirer at pre school... suddenly last week i noticed he was being chased around outside by one of the girls (as we were coming out of pre school) and he knew her name (i've forgotten already ... there was a lot of giggling

glad to hear dd1 is feeling better flippin... why don't you see how she is in the am?

fi - I was wondering more about the cantagiousness thing, especially after the conversation on here today! I don't know why she was ill, but I'm not convinced it was a bug.

Off to bed now. A woke, but DH has gone up to settle her. I'll need to sneak in now!

FFS. Just figured out that work have paid me a full time rate for January. Am half tempted to keep it because the hours I am working are kinda full time when you take into account the stuff I do in the evening. fuckwits.