August 2008: Crap, how did THAT happen?

[CrispyTheCrisp]

Sympathy on the tantrums poppy. Dd1 was outside the back door this week screaming 'I hate this family' Apparently we're lovely again now.

No need for rumours thanks Crispy!!

Been to hosp and had wierdo German MW who freaked at sugar in my wee and wanted GTT - Saw my lovely consultant who said I would have had Hectorina by the time results came back! I said I had been worried yesterday as she had been very quiet and I didn't feel her lots and hadn't slept too much sleep trying to poke her every few hours. So Consultant measured me, poke baby and no response so snuck me into the day unit for a quick CTG and hey presto one wriggly baby! She is an amazing woman who knows me by name remembers DD's name and DH too without having to look at notes she asked if she was on the ward when I was due to deliver if she could do it. Thyroid docs don't want to see me now unless I get symmptoms post delivery so no more meds.

Dh and DD met me in town post appointment and we had coffee and DH went to work, DD and I went to music. He rang 5 minutes ago to say DD hadn't napped that would explain the child who collapsed and fell off the potty where she was reading a book.

Off to see what else you have all been upto today.

oops sounds like your consultant's really lovely. What is it about you and your ability to find the weird MWs though?!

HELP feeling so escapist today, wish they'd all stop following me around and asking annoying questions / talking gibberish! Just want to read my book or knit without getting into a fight. 1hr til bedtime, 1hr til bedtime, 1hr til bedtime.

Don't you start the trouble again tonight MrsDizzy!!

Miamla - I think I have a special wierdo MW code on my notes!

i've been counting down to bedtime this afternoon too! I was actually wondering earlier whether 5pm was too early. Decided against it because i didn't fancy seeing silly o'clock tomorrow morning!

just remember, they want to be with you because they love you (although DS hasn't exactly proven his love to me today unless you count being screamed at and hit!)

52mins now ...almost there Glads

[meep]

50mins here - my sister is here and tried to take DD for a while so I could nap but DD saw me escape so yelled until I came down again considering when I got home she cried because I put her in my car not with her beloved Papa. Their love affair is getting ridiculous! I have had tears 3 times today for him and apparently only he can peel a banana right!

DS evidently decided that the piece of paper i gave him was too good to draw on...he now has a bright orange chin

you alright there dizz? oops DS has spent all day searching the house for 'daD-deeeeee'. so i thought i'd do the next best thing and get him on the phone. nope, cue huge tantrum!

oh mw phoned...i've got her next available appt.....next friday!! she recommended i got onto ebay to buy a support belt in the meantime but that actually getting a referral from my GP would be a quicker route. so i phoned docs and i've got an appt at 7.30am next Tuesday . 7.30!!!! craziness! but actually it means DH can have DS when i go but still...7.30 am!!!!

just taking a telling from Oops and putting myself in my place Miamla

7.30 to someone like me who works shifts would be brilliant if it were offered at our surgery but I can't understand why you're a touch

Miamla - I am impressed your GP knows what 7.30am looks like - mine often drags himself in at 8.35 for an 8.30 appointment! Phoning causes tantrums here too - because it's not him apparently. Well I dialled his number asked to speak to him was definitely him who I spoke to so not sure what happened in the 3 seconds it took for her to take the phone. I resorted to Skype eventually and then had stroppies when DH signed off!! No win situation here!

ah ha, that's ok then! i thought i was writing directly after glads, so missed your offer of a bucket of wine!

i thought they opened at 8 so thought she meant 7.30pm! which is still a bit

i specifically requested to see my school-friend GP so with any luck referral will be speedier than speedy speedy

i've just dug out my old support belt from end of DS's pg. it quite scarily fits and seems to be helping

coq au vin and jackets cooking here tonight...the smell from the kitchen is divine!

VG - how are you getting on with your new lady?

QofD - hope you're feeling better

longway and singapore - am never very sure of what time it is for you but fingers crossed for you both it is a restful time and they boys (and girl) are behaving themselves

To quote the book, Peace At Last. Except it's not because DH is recording some guitar in the kitchen loudly but I have made a little red fleece dress for Barbie (from some fleece I nicked at the DIY sanpro night) and am off to forage for a bucket of delicious oil-soaked and overseasoned poultry. Then the wine gets opened and we have a double date with Gene and Alex.

Miamla Our NCT branch has a Yahoo group you can do offered and wanted ads on - anything similar where you are?

Will try and catch up tomorrow (pointless questions, baffling nonsense and being whacked with robots notwithstanding). Wishing a night of good sleep to all.

Okay, so what is the correct tactic to use when your toddler deliberately throws his comfort objects out of the cot during sleep refusal? I know it's just a phase/developmental spurt blah blah but it is so frustrating. DS used to go to sleep so well for us, but this week we've had every delaying tactic under the sun - he screams like a banshee the minute we leave the room, chucks his dummy and monkey over the side and then screams cos he can't get them back - but if we stay in the room he just buggers about and has now started throwing the stuff on the floor while we're in there.

He was going down awake and going off to sleep on his own, it was soooooo nice [wail]

Cyteen - I think you need to just go in give back monkey/dummy no eye contact, lie him down then leave the room - repeat ad infinitum until he gets the hint. For DD it happens every 6 or so week and the first night it is 15 mins then 5 then not even twice then we have peace for the next 6 weeks .

aah fish and chips have arrived

just let DD2 try some chicken korma and she was NOT best pleased - she's such a wee minnie the moocher I couldn't resist - needless to say I've had a row for laughing

you think my kids need to toughen up their taste buds a bit

cyteen - Oops gives some good advice, remember he is safe, warm, fed, SAFE and knows he is loved - he is also frustrated and tired and doesn't know how to self soothe just yet. its hard but it will happen

zzzzzzz evening all , extra tired here this evening...just off to put ds1 to bed then will be back to chat, with my glass of wine in hand

Dizz DD's were weaned on curry & chilli from about 8 months. I now get asked, is it very spicy, how much chilli has it got in?

Cyteen i think Oops has it spot on. Repetitive and dull with a small firm gesture to show that you love him, but equally mean it when you say it is bedtime. Hope he is settled now

Dizzy DD love curry/chilli and anything with a strong flavour. She had calamari with sweet chilii sauce tonight with her beans

F&C too much tonight so didn't eat much now it is staring at me disaprovingly.

Aha, but he does know how to self-settle. He's been doing it for weeks!

You are right, of course, about the kind but firm approach - that is what we're doing but could be moreso, iyswim. I guess we'd just got used to thinking of him as easygoing and pliable...he's just like my brother, you know. All sweetness and light and cheery smiles and silly fun, until he digs his heels in over something and then you are truly up against an immoveable object.

Anyway he's conked out now after an impressive tantrumming performance Refused his sleeping bag too, for the first time, so he's spending his first night on top of under a blanket.

I'm afraid mine haven't - I have pathetic taste buds due to my mother thinking that mince was the meal that lasted for a week - nothing spicy and nothing with something as exotic as a chilli! korma is a step in the right direction for me and tbh the DDs have a better palate than I do

cyteen, sorry for crap advice as usual, if it makes you feel any better at all poor D is miserable, has a horrible barking coughs and running eyes and nose - going to be a long night here too