Jan 2010: Weaning, sleeping crawling too...at least we've moved on from discussing poo

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Roll up roll up - let's get chatting...

Im glad im not alone very! Weird eh.
They are the generation where most woman breastfed so I don't know why she acts like ive arrived naked and done a rain dance.

wmdo - you do make me laugh with your rants and the fact you took on your gran. It reminds me of happy slapping but happy arguments. I'll watch this space for a link to it on YouTube

Ctofn - I'm glad that Olivias christening went well and that everyone enjoyed it. It was indeed my birthday but everyone on here has so much else going on that it seemed very insignificant in comparison. How is crumpette doing? I'm at my sisters at the moment so if she needs anything tomorrow let me know and I will hop on a train to London

ali how is Jacob doing?

super- it is definitely only the one that you're having right? ! I just wonder with you saying you're getting big Already.
very - your ds sounds like an inspiration being so motivated and likewise with you yangy. It's easy to complain about things that go on in daily life but I'm truly grateful that my ds is happy and healthy

Sorry if I have missed anyone out, my brain is on a go slow. I hope everyone is well though

Hey all

new I certainly bloody hope so, but it is a lot bigger than when i had erin, its not just me, my dh thinks so too, I wanted to wait until 12wk scan but it is just too obvious although dd 2&3 don't know yet, I will take some pics and post them with when I was having erin and you can decide

very I have posted some more pics, but unfortunately they are all separate, I hardly have any of us all together because its very rare that we are. everyone says ds, dd1 and dd3 are like me, and dd2 and erin are like dh, but they all have very similar mannerisms and ds is pulling faces that are so like his dad its scary.

Thx for the kind words about erin, she is super cute but I'm biased i know

Hope everyone is well

OMG, that should read 'I certainly bloody hope NOT'

Hi guys, not been able to get on here for a while, not sure why, I'd love to say I had better more interesting things to do but no. T's currently chattering to himself in his cot instead of having an afternoon nap. Not good, he's still in his Hammock at night but he's rapidly outgrowing it, if I can't get him to sleep in the cot at some point I'll be back on here asking how to co sleep.

Not got proper crawling yet, more kind of circles that veer off the rug he plays on...put the washing out to come back in to find his head sticking out from under the sofa! So I though I'll get a stairgate and start the baby proofing, won stairgate of ebay, sent DH to go collect only to be told by the seller that someone had turned up 2 hrs earlier to pick it up... somwhat peed off by obvious lies and not sure what to do about it.

OOh crying LO now, best run
Hope alls well with the rest of you.

Somewhat - you need to report the ebay seller for fraud. Buy winning the bid, you had officially entered into a contract with them. I'd be mightly peed off too!

On the active topics, Olivia is also all over the place. Cannot leave her in the room now on her own. Have on several occasions walked into kitchen to make bottle or some such and come back to find her at the other end of the room, happily playing. It's a very large distance to move which she manages to do by a series of roles and shuffles rather than crawling - but still!!!

OK - I'm off again as more mummy and stepmum duties to attend to. I need a holiday!!

All these movers and shakers.
Olivia is just a bit of a roll and a bum bounce then 'ah forget it, your not worth it remote control, I have feet to play with'.

My hair has just came out in a clump in my hand . I know hair thins after a baby but ive never had clumps coming away.

Im secretly hoping my thyroid has swung to over active now and in the next few weeks I will get really thin. My hairs shit anyway!

DH as been off all day with an eye injury. He hit himself in eye with the toggle on his jacket (stop laughing you lot) months ago and it keeps flaring up.
This time it's infected and he needs to take 3 different antibiotic drops in his eye alternativley every hour. Looks painful.

I lost sympathy about an hour ago. He is so hands on with the kids, im lucky but it means when he can't help Im in a muddle!

Trying to get hyper DS and DD fed, bathed, tea made, washings done, toys, kitchen cleared etc on my own was a wee sock!!
I want to poke the other eye now.

Im joking of course. A bit worried about his eye TBH.

On the subject of hyper DS - Grrrrr.
He is doing my head in.
All mums who have/had boys of 3 please be honest, is the following normal or is he sounding a bit more, um, colourful....

He runs arond ALL DAY doing impressions (loud ones) of racing cars, trains, diggers, fire engines and roaring tigers.

He does it in peoples faces constantly even when they are trying to talk to him and runs around like a total loon.

I even see other kids looking like they need a Gin & Tonic after 30 mins of DS in their faces.

From about 4pm until bed time he runs from the lounge, through the hall and kitchen and back again stopping only once or twice to jump from the footstool all whilst squealing, screatching, tooting, roaring.

Then there's the constant talking, repeating of course. Especially if other adults are talking, god forbid, he raises his voice 20 decibells.

Tonight I snapped. I used 'shut up', 'all this crap' and >drum roll......

FUCK.

Luckily he seemed to only pick up crap, oh and bugger but that was earlier when I jammed my finger in the buggy board clip.

He doesn't get sweets or juice at all. He gets the odd bit of chocolate or cake if we are out but not daily. He sleeps 7-7 so WTF??

He was a brilliant toddler. This new beast in him is a shock. Im worried he goes to nursery and nobody likes him .
He can be lovely and very cute too but increasingly a pain in the ass.

Any thoughts?

Stupid stupid stupid hospital I am so so so pissed off went to dd's appointment expecting to see her rhumatologist only to be told she is on holiday and she's just having a blood test I told them I wasn't happy and I was told they were upping her medication but the nurses can't do it without the say so of rhumatologist so now got to wait until next week

Jacob is (touch wood) doing okay still very wheezy and sick whenever he eats but we getting used to it.
Think he is the lazy baby as he doesn't move he is able to sit up but not enough for me to move. He doesn't roll just enjoys playing with his toes.

wmdo Ds2 is now 5 but I can remeber when he changed from this lovely cuddly boy to a monster at about the same age he has calmed down again but I used to tear my hair out.
Also worked with 3-5 and the change in children at this age is unbelievable e will love nursery and will have loads of little friends

new nothing is ever more important than a birthday hope you had a lovely day.

Oooooooooooohh wonder if we going to have Jan 11 twinnies

ctofn do you ever stop

Hi all- just wrote and it was lost due to lo pressing a button!!!!
oh well - so the linkup has been delayed that fine,im preparing for DD15 - sweet 16 on friday!!!!!!!! with so much going on leave alot of the prep late and she doesnt allow me to go out without her so hard to get her anything!its lovely having her around went to nail shop got nails done while she looked after her lil bro! now he is a real mover and does the "worm move" and is getting quicker with it which proves that leaving him on any chair without a watchful eye will just be foolish! so in buggy or on floor which is safe!he is also enjoying food more and had so lovely strawberries!
Hi Crumpette- Big Hug xxx
CTOFN- glad the christening was a lovely family affair!
Super- hope you are well and wow you r big already, do you think it may be down to the fact you may not of lost the previous babyweight?? that what happened to my friend got pregnant very soon after having her lo and has now had another lo on sunday!!!!
LL- hows the twins whilst your travelling?
Oh and im still BF for lo aint taking the bottle but im trying to wean him with bottle and hope to express real soon! watch this space

Useless feckers ali, thats shocking.
I hope this doesn't effect her healing process or knock things back a stage.

Obviously DH's eye probelm not same but he has had awful service too.

They have given him all the wrong antibiotics, missed the fact the wound was infected and cells were attacking the eye and the wrong treatment has left him in a real mess.

I hope you DD is ok.

Oh god, so will he be like this for 2 years then?

wmdo lol lol hope not for your sake he will calm down loads when he starts nursery

I was so angry I never get cross but I'm sick of waiting its horrible Dd was scratching her legs really hard earlier and said it makes her feel better and less worried I want to wrap her up and keep her safe forever

Why make a god damn appointment for someone and then not be available, I swear the nhs is run by morons, I really hope dd isn't too upset, but its hard not to be.[hugs emotion]

wmdo I was NOT sniggering, honestly I wasn't, re; toogle in the eye, although now I feel bad that its got worse, hope its doesn't do any permanent damage.
Your story about ds, really makes me wantthis one to be another girl, boys are just naughty, even at 17, it never changes its just different naughty. At least my ds isn't running all over the house making car noises lol.

mama hi hope your ok, I think my stomach muscle and packed up and gone on extended leave, never to be seen again, I'm probably just fat because the baby is only the size of a coffe bean so its definately not the baby

Noooooooo super stop it. Im going with ali, he will go to nursery and calm down.

nervous twitch

wmdo you are not alone, ds3 is hideous at the moment. They do calm down, then I remember 4 being particularly crap too.

Hmmmm you are lucky i've got 4 of the feckers!

super my teen boys are utterly doing my head in at the mo, especially ds1 who is soon to be 17, went off camping last night with no tent, no sleeping bag and the clothes on his back.... was back at 22.55 and in bed! Argh.

Ah yes, three to four. Too big to be a toddler, not old enough to be at school. It was a trying time, but does pass. Nursery did sort them both out, they got nice and tired and would veg out infront of cbeebies for a bit.

Hello everyone!

very mine hsa lost 6 keys in as many months and so doesn't have key at the mo, but that doesn't stop him not coming home until 11.30 - midnight everynight saying he missed bus etc. and of course I'm up because I have to let him in so he doesn't wake everybody and lock up behind him. He isn't as bad as some If I'm honest, but I just think he doesn't think about anyone else. He's great with the baby though helps me alot during the day, as he dropped out of college (another issue) but he's going to start at new college in september so I think he'll come good.

How old are your others, and I'll see your 4 boys and raise you four girls, I'll be very haggered and grey before long, but at least I'll have someone to look after me in my old age

wmdo didn't mean to scare you, he will calm down (unless he gets in with the bad crowd of 3 yr olds) I'M ONLY JOKING!!!!!

Hi sock how you doing, I'm all for vegging in frontof cebeebies, trying to get erin into peppa pig, not working though

DH being kept in hospital for 4 days as his eye is now damaged .

They fucked about all week and didn't look properly, gave him wrong antibiotics and now he will at least be left with impaired vision in one eye if not loose most of it .

He actually broke down on the phone which was awful.

Been up seeing him tonight and he cheered up a bit with my 'wall eye' jokes and 'oh sorry are you looking at me' gags .
(it's ok, he's used to me)
Just feel so sorry for him and angry at just how bad the hospital have been.

super olivia loves squigglet, try that. She squeals and laughs whenever there's a close up of him!

OMG when thats awful, like your sense of humour though, thats what will get you through, hope he is ok and not too much damage done.

What is squigglet and where do I find it [bad mummys emotion] sitting our children in front of the telly sometimes its my only sanity.

Well I flick so much between Milkshake on 5 and Cbeebies I can't be sure !!

Im pretty sure he is on Cbeebies. Big red and orange teddy thing that draws pictures and I think he's on around 10ish/11ish.

DS never saw TV until just before he turned 2! I was always up and out with him every day. Then as PG got further on and I got lazy, we discovered the wonders of TV.

Now I regulary get the box in the corner to babysit one or both of them.

How did people in the 1940's get anything done I ask you?!

Where are us modern age mothers going wrong eh?

I have tv on downstairs and sit her in bouncy chair in front of it while i mumsnet get on with stuff. then if i go upstairs i put on tv and lie her on bed, while i sleep tidy etc.

When i look back i feel terrible, i have loads of scrap books I did with ds, pictures, cards, practice writing, stuff from playgroup etc, then with dd it was A scrap book, and the last three don't even know what a scrapbook is . I think after i leave work in december i will get loads of time to play with erin, but when baby turns up it will all go t88s up!!

I know what you mean.
We poured loads of time into DS and by the time he was Olivia's age I felt like Id already done loads with him and lots had happened.
Sometimes I look at Olivia sitting in her bouncy seat or baby einstein and she is staring at the TV and I get a pang of guilt.
Where has that time gone.

Anyway, need to get to bed.

Usually while im in the shower in the morning my lovely DH has got DS up, washed teeth brushed and sat eating breakie and DD has had her nappy changed in her bouncy seat having had her reflux meds ready for me to take over. Oh and there's a coffee waiting for me - I know, spoilt.

Im going to be in a state tomorrow morning. Have set alarm for 6am - wish me luck. night. x

WMDO That's rubbish about your poor DH's eye. Is there some sort of action you can take against the hospital? Hope they manage to sort it out.
You joke about bad 3YOs, but there were kids at DSs nursery who would swear at teachers

Ah yes the neglected subsiquent children. My favourite MN quote was "they remove the placenta and insert the guilt". I guess the more babies you have, the more guilt gets inserted. Although more hands off parenting can have it's advantages. eg.
DS1, cuddled and carried constantly = didn't walk till 18months
DS2, abandoned left on floor to play = walking at 11 months.
At this rate DD will be walking in a couple of weeks