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June 07 - Over here!!!!!

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LackaDAISYcal · 24/01/2010 22:08

oops, didn't notice the thread was getting too big!

PMSL at the Burn's night smilies; I thought they were wearing earphones.

not sure I agree with them; as a proud Scot, I hate all that fucking tacky tartan crap that we get labelled with, tartan tammies and fake ginger hair more than most

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CharlottesClan · 25/01/2010 20:46

T - thomas is still in pull ups for night, though he rarely does anything in them. we call them his 'nappy pants' and ellen we will do the same. (tho she is in cloth at night atm)
for as long as he is happy to wear them i will put them on him, i find if i forget he wets the bed. trying to change a top bunk bed in the middle of the night is a nightmare (even tho its only been once in the last month, when we forgot to put the pull up on)

TALLULAHBELLE · 25/01/2010 21:07

Yep CC - really don't want to go there. Just not sure if we need to 'train' them as such or if it's something that they just develop awareness of or that the body does naturally iyswim.

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LackaDAISYcal · 25/01/2010 21:32

Jammy, our surgery is operating a policy of "if you think you need it, ask" rather than sending out letters...might be worth giving yours a call?

Ahah CC, that explains all.

arse about the too low offer foxy, but on the Jimmy Choos....link please, so we can all go ooohhhh aaahhh and
DD was out of night nappies, but she regressed a bit when she was really poorly with a bad cold before Christmas. she is back to being dry again but won't let go of the pull ups. We aren't buying any more when this lot are finished though; I thought about getting some bright bots training pants, but I'm not sure they would even hold one wee.....

need to do some sort of diet....i feel fat and frumpy and am popping out of my jeans that in the summer were falling off

just had a lovely snooze on the sofa...I do this every night after the DC are in bed these days; by the time Dh gets home from work I am a quivering lump of jelly. DD is challenging to say the least; she winds DS1 up constantly as soon as he gets in from school and doesn't stop till bedtime and today she seemed to have stepped it up a gear; DS1 just mooches about whinging about everything or shouting Raaaaaar in a really irritating fashion at bumble; bumble is usually tired and grumpy and since his MMR/this tummy bug (hoping they are not connected) has screamed himself silly every night for an hour before finally settling for bed.

And I'm meant to be working on the website of an evening and am getting nothing done

whinge whinge, moan moan.....hides self under rock.

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TALLULAHBELLE · 25/01/2010 21:38

Ah Daisy - come out!
Did you just stop putting a nappy on her when she'd been dry by herself a while or go through some sort of training process? What'll you do when the pack of pull ups is done?

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LackaDAISYcal · 25/01/2010 21:52

actually maybe they have already been invented.

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TALLULAHBELLE · 25/01/2010 21:58

Ah well - back to the drawing board Daisy. You'll have to make your fortune some other way.

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LackaDAISYcal · 25/01/2010 21:59

hey butterfly.....i forgot that you had got a dog....would love one here, but as I can't look after children properly, I have no chance of looking after a dog as well!

DD had been telling me she was needing a wee, and then doing a wee for a while T, so I decided to bite the bullet and give PTing a go. She was running around with either no pants on, or just pants and the first three days were a bit hit and miss with lots of wee accidents and a few poo accidents. by day four she was making the potty in time more often than not and no poo accidents and by day five I felt confident enough to take her out. She had a couple of weeks of maybe one accident a day and then after that has been OK. she is regressing a bit at the minute though, but I think because she is just too busy/involved in her games to go. I try and keep the potty downstairs, even if she does want to go upstairs all the time. she wants to go by herself as well, and I only get called on if she needs her bottom wiping, or the soap is out of reach. She quite often doesn't make it in time though, especially if she needs to put her seat on and climb up and is desperate. Sooooo glad of our newly tiled toilet floor I can tell you!

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TALLULAHBELLE · 25/01/2010 22:00

How come the biscuit doesn't work? I think it's cos it's not shortie. The tammie is protesting.

TALLULAHBELLE · 25/01/2010 22:02

I meant the overnight stuff stuff Daisy. DD is toilet trained during the day, just wondering how to make the leap.

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LackaDAISYcal · 25/01/2010 22:05

lol at it not being a shortbread biccy

the nighttime thing just sorted itself out T...within a couple of weeks of being reliably dry in the day she was also dry at night. She is now only wet maybe one night in 10, and again I think it's because she isn't getting to the toilet on time rather than wetting and not waking up.

DS1 on the other hand..... He is till soaking in the morning, and it's definately more than one wee he is doing .

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TALLULAHBELLE · 25/01/2010 22:11

Mmm that's what I wondered. A lot of mornings the nappy is bone dry, but otoh sometimes it's soaking. More dry days than wet so just keep putting nappy on & eventually no wet days or go for no nappy & risk wet bed?

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LackaDAISYcal · 25/01/2010 22:51

You can get washable waterproof pads that tuck in under the mattress, but over the sheet. We have one for DS that we use when staying away from home as he often outwees his PJ pants. It works well and sits better with my resueable self rather than throw away ones!

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LittleMissNorty · 26/01/2010 08:39

We have a waterproof side of the matress on DDs bed so I just went for it. Was having plenty of dry nappies in the mornings.....and save one of two little leakages, we've been fine. I have a potty in the bedroom and she gets out and wees if she needs to. At the beginning, I lifted her when I went to bed and made her do a wee which helped.

Its a bit like PT during the day....you just gotta go for it. I remember not wanting to go out of the house, but when I did, she was fine.

I have to say now I look back, that PT is hard work! And I'm told boys aren't as easy!

Sputnik · 26/01/2010 09:15

I remember DD was in nappies at night for a while after being dry in the day, then one night DH just forgot to put one and she was fine. I think she had been using it in the mrning IYSWIM. Come to think of it, if we get up early enough DS is often dry too. I am leaving the whole thing til the summer though, I am too lazy to be faffing about with accidents etc! With DD we waited til she was nearly 3 and the whole thing was pretty painless.

CharlottesClan · 26/01/2010 18:13

much better day at creche, put her in a pull up, so she had one less thing to worry about. she screamed when i left and i hung around outside until she stopped crying. when i picked her up they said she hadnt cried again, and she told me she liked creche now and had done me a painting

back home into pants and no accidents today .. err yet anyway

we are going to visit my rellys on saturday, dh wants to put her in a pull up, but i want to take her in knickers and the travel potty (so its there we dont need to find loos)
what do you guys think?

JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 26/01/2010 19:59

Glad things went better at the creche today CC

One wee in the potty and two accidents today. Some might think it was worse than none in the potty and one on the floor, but I'm better pleased as it shows she IS going. With her amazing capacity to go hours without a wee I was getting worried about witholding and infections.

And she had her wash fairly happily tonight - a couple of weeks ago she started freaking out about the bath so we have had to switch to strip washes. At first she would only stand on the mat, but now she stands in the bath and giggles as I wash her. She even had a bit of a play afterwards, trying to wash me Hopefully I can start introducing toys into the bath and one day she migth sit down again? She won't tell me what she doesn't like, starts crying if I try to ask her

LittleMissNorty · 26/01/2010 20:07

strange about the bath Jammy but sounds like you're getting there....who knows how the mind of a 2 year old works

I would definately do pants and travel potty CC (ours was fab and well used)....you either go for it....or you don't. It was all or nothing here. She wore a nappy one day and then never again ....it was pretty hair-raising sometimes, but I found it was me that needed to be brave...not her!

CharlottesClan · 26/01/2010 20:11

aww jammy sounds poor mite. scared of the plug? has she slipped over b4?
thomas went thru a thing with baths, just being stubborn tho not actually upset about it.

thanks for linking the pants daisy have ordered two pairs, hoping they will be here b4 saturday!

CharlottesClan · 26/01/2010 20:13

thank you norty! i seem to have most people agreeing with me, so will go for it. think im going to pack a pull up jjust in case, and if she gets thru all five pairs of jeans then i will put it on her to save the last change of clothes!

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LackaDAISYcal · 26/01/2010 20:22

that makes sense CC....always save the pull up for the last change!

good news on the PTing though for ellen and the jamlet. but odd about the bath thing jammy. DD went through a phase of going beserk about getting her hair washed where before she had been just fine. It passed as quickly as it came though so I think it was probably more to do with control and her wanting to do things herself. Sounds like she is calming down though and may just have slipped and frightened herself, it might even have been something and nothing as far as you were concerned, but enough to freak her out?

spoke to my MIL today and she was wittering on, as is her wont, about going for a family weekend away and how great it would be. I said it would and we should get something organised sometime. They have just called and it's all booked . so we're off to the Lakes with them and BIL and his brood in March. It's their golden wedding anniversary this year and they were going to go abroad, but MIL felt a family weekend would be much better. Her sister has been really poorly and I think she is just thinking about families a lot. Who knows, DH and I may even be able to slope off for a bit....we are all in different appartments, but the baby monitor should reach . Can't wait

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JammyQueenOfTheSewers · 26/01/2010 20:40

That sounds good Daisy. Hope you have fun and that you and DH do get to go off by yourselves.

I have wondered if it's the hair washing that she doesn't like - despite never having ahd a problem with it before. I'm letting her hair go a bit dirty at the moment, only washing her hair twice a week, concentrating on getting her back into the bath and having fun first.

TALLULAHBELLE · 26/01/2010 21:10

Evening.
Jammy - DD hates having her hair washed, screams the place down. BUT happily let my friend's 10 year old DD wash it for her without so much as a squeak. Go figure. Will Jamlet stand/sit in the bath whilst you have a shower? I often do that anyway, all 3 skiddling in a few inches of water whilst I get my shower without worrying what they're up to & hoping the suds rinsing by will pass as a wash.

thistimeIknowitstheRiathing · 26/01/2010 22:50

phew, have read and forgotten the lot. sorry. Bloody laptop crashed last night and DH blames me I did fix the keyboard though.

well done on potty training.

DS1 does that shouting thing too daisy. Is V annoying.

DS1s parents evening tonight. am quite proud (nearly hugged his history teacher) though he still needs to pull his finger out, and the dyslexia thing is still very much lingering in my mind.

I didn't mention friend being gay more than once when she first had the affair before the divorce as I didn't want to out myself in RL (or have my crossness with the way she was treating people being mistaken for homophobia)

was fancying a trip to Temple Newsham at half term daisy.

thistimeIknowitstheRiathing · 26/01/2010 22:51

please link shoes foxy.