June 2005 Mummies - the concise edition

[tribpot]

Okay, am starting a new thread for busy Junies to keep up with the main exploits of the gasbag Junie gang. Here's my summary report for week ending 1st October:

GOOD

• have had consultation with Welshie's sleep lady, ds sleeping well at night SO FAR
  
• have put ds on to Omneo Comfort at tea's suggestion, ds is now eating us out of house and home
  
  BAD
  
• sink has been leaking into downstairs neighbour's flat, potential insurance nightmare
  
• ds still hugely grumpy about going down for his naps in the day, poor old other downstairs neighbours who can hear everything
  
  BRIDGET JONES:
  
• number of eps of Sex and the City watched when up with ds at 530 in the morning: about 20

[tribpot]

And lummox's summary:

OK, so the summary for w/e 1st October 2005 (hmm, maybe am starting to miss work a little).

THE DOWNS:

• still not much sleep happening (although we got one four hour stretch last night - can hardly bear to type it as worried about jinx)
  
• teeth are really upsetting ds. getting through masses of French bonjela equivalent
  
  THE UPS:
  
  
• French bonjela-equivalent tastes delicious. dh and I fighting to give it to the baby.
  
• ds's Raspberry blowing going from strength to strengh
  
• Stove nearly put in (we have only had to sign three legally binding documents so far, but then it hasn't been fitted yet. French bureaucracy really is splendid, although you could freeze to death whilst waiting for the right forms).
  
• ds's liver OK (as far as we know)
  
  And now for the Bridget-Jones style bit:
  
  No. of people to mention that the baby's ears might be cold this week - 4.
  
  Looking forward to everyone else's contributions. Hope you all having a good weekend.

[lynny70]

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[katzguk]

Good bits
-Northern mummy's meet-up
-Visited the nursery DD2 will be going to in Jan and she loved it.
-Went to the Spa and had an afternoon of baby free time


Bad bits
-Sore boos again!
-DD2 still won't take a bottle, so had a stressful end to baby free afternoon!

Bridget Jones bit
-number of hours of Cbeebies DD1 watched when i've just had enough - 0 (but then we've been out a lot!)
-number of people who've said gosh isn't she big to DD2 - 3

[welshmum]

GOOD
Baby cinema and Goal!
Top Shop expedition
Ds and dd getting on very well
Sorted out our mortgage
Sent off ds' passport application

BAD
Dd playing up and wanting attention
Less sleep - more my insomnia than ds playing up

BRIDGET BIT
Percentage of knitting hours to fun hours 60 - 40

[LipstickMum]

GOOD BITS
Met a nice new mum expecting any day now, so my dd2 will have at least 1 friend.
Shopping, 2 great tops from Whistles and fab jeans from Gap.
Finally saw the last episodes of SATC last night.
Going for lunch today.
Dd1's conversation is growing daily.

BAD BITS
Dd2 has a bad blocked up nose after vax 2, sleeping ok as long as in bed with us.
I have a cold.
Visa bill.

BRIDGET MOMENTS
Glasses of wine: About 6
Take aways burgers: 1
Cigarettes: 0
Choccie bars: 3
Exercise: 0

[MrsWednesday]

GOOD:
My sister's fantastic wedding.
A lovely sunny walk in the countryside with all my boys.
DS2 only waking once a night for the last two nights (touch wood it stays that way).
Northern Junies meet-up.

BAD:
DS1 and his 'I don't like you mummy' and 'your mummy is dead' comments.
One of my oldest friends is leaving to go travelling for 6 months - how am I? VERY!
DS1 feeding DS1 ham and yoghurt.

Bridget Jones:
Number of pages of new book read: 0
Number of sections of last week's newspaper read: 1 and a half.
Number of trashy magazines read: 2

[berolina]

lovely idea trib!
good:
smiley happy active ds, playing so happily
ds' sickiness suddenly all but disappearing!

bad:
horribly stressed about work/excursion (aaaarrrggghhh - this time next week we'll be there!)
all 3 of us have colds (ds' first - though he doesn't seem bothered about it at all!)

bridget jones:
No. of baby winter clothes found in drawer sorted out this week that are already too small for ds: approx. 6

[mandymac]

Good:
3 nights out in a week!
DH's Birthday
DD being more fun by the day
Made 2 new mummy friends at baby massage
DD liking baby massage

Bad:
DD's evil farts (caused by mummies antibiotics)

Bridget:
Glasses of wine - at least 1 per day
Choc Chip shortbread Biccies - at least 5 per day

[PinkArjuna]

I like this new thread

good: DS is chirpy most days and getting off to sleep early and almost sleeping through.

bad: Early waking for college, general tiredness, DS's constipation and still being fat as a house with no sign of it budging.

Not read bridget jones so no after thoughts/ hope everyone is well

[mrsflowerpot]

Fabulous idea!

Good: Spent some time at my mum and dad's last week and got lots of help with ds and dd.
Flying kites on the beach and realising that we live here now and can do it any time we want.
DS behaving much better particularly around dd.
DD still a little star and sleeping really well.
MIL telling me I'd lost weight (when last time she saw me she looked me up and down and said 'do you think you'll actually lose the weight this time?')
Shopping for little girl's clothes after 4 years of the total lack of choice for boys (but bad news for the credit card).

Bad
Hair falling out! but at least this time round I know it is just normal post-preg hair loss.
DS still hasn't started school and he REALLY needs to - he has had nobody to play with for weeks now and it's starting to show.
My sister going back to Spain - won't see her till Christmas now.
DH's job is turning out to be enormously stressful, this is a major bad so am trying hard to concentrate on the 'goods' eg kite flying.

Not bad but a bit
DD out of moses basket and into big cot in her own room.

Bridget Jones moment:
Days dd went without a poo last week: 4
No of poos in 1 hour when she finally did it: 4
Monstrous cheese fondues consumed:1
Wine with cheese fondue: lost count
Length of post fondue hangover: 24 hours.

[bubbaloo]

Good:
Ds is wearing his boots and making no fuss about them.
Ds is laughing and squealing all the time.
2 different people yesterday asked me if i had lost weight!
Need to where a belt to hold my jeans up!
Might not be going back to work in December.


Bad:
Washing machine gave up the ghost yesterday,so have ordered a new one.
Washing machine leaked all over the floor.
My hair is also falling out-keep finding bits everywhere.

Bridget:
Had an indian last night-not too good for the diet,but was yummy all the same.

[eastyorksmum]

wow great thread lol

Good

got to spend all weekend wih my two best men

william sleeping well in low cot grrrr

just watching hubby and baby boy playing


Bad

thought about mum and how she would love Butlins

clubs were too noises for william so missed out on some entertainment.

Bridget

lol two glasses of malabu and lemonade

lovely meals straight on the bum lol

exceptionally good puds yum lol

[sfxmum]

BAD
-most nights this week i have not slept for more than 2hrs at a time
-dd has been a bit tearful and biting down desperatly on everything and anything
-general tiredness

GOOD
-saturday lie in, blessed DH

• seem to get used to lack of sleep
  
• couple of nights woken every 3hrs instead of every 2hrs
  -finished my second book since she was born, slow by my standards but hey..
  -visit to HV very positive, dd doing well.
  
  Bridget
  4 glasses of wine, not pub measure
  2 G&B dark choc
  2 brownies
  exexcise-100 crunches one day

[bubbaloo]

Good:

Went to my first mum and baby group(with a friend!)and really enjoyed it.
Went to an NCT sale today and bought lots of goodies.
Bought a fab new stroller last night,which folds down nice and small.
Spoke to my mum today and she's having a fab time on her birthday cruise.
Ds is now holding his bottle and virtually feeding himself-it's looks so cute.

Bad:

Still without a washing machine.Comet let us down and now the other company I've ordered it from are messing me around.Haven't even got a delivery date yet.
Wages have now gone down to SMP only-what a .
Dh is working all weekend.
My hair is still falling out at an alarming rate.My hairdresser thinks my iron levels are probably low!
Bought Ds a Bumbo,but can't use it quite yet as his head is still a tiny bit floppy!

Bridget:

Had a lovely slice of cheesecake at the NCT sale today and chinese takeaway tonight.Also had a few wine gums and done no exercise.

[welshmum]

Good:
Ds has discovered a love of fabric which keeps him occupied.
Dd had a great outing to the British Museum.
I bought a new pair of boots.
I went into work for a chat and it was fine.

Bad:
Ds has a cough and cold that just he can't shake off and it's disrupting his sleep.
I got serious insomnia

Bridget Bits
No of ds poos in a week - 2 in half an hour
No of beers a night - 1
No of Green and Blacks consumed - ermmm, 1 a night but shared with dh (mostly)
No of visits to baby cinema - 1 (Howl's Moving castle)

[lummox]

Morning all,

AND the ups:

• peekaboo still going strong (if we have a June mums' Olympics I'll take all comers in endurance peekaboo)
  
• sleep problem maybe a bit better, maybe
  
• ds has found his feet (only two months late according to the books, but hey). he spent a day or so looking at them as if they were anyone's feet but his ("what, my feet? no I don't think so") - although I may have been reading too much into his facial expressions .
  
• we have a lovely new stove
  
  AND the downs:
  
  
• sleep still pretty bad
  
• more jabs to come this week
  
  
  and so to Bridget:
  
  no. of times I have managed to retain my sense of humour when woken up in the night - 2 (one up on last week)
  

[Cooperoo]

Good - Fabulous holiday with lovely Dad and stepmum helping to look after the dd's

• Lots and lots of good food mostly eaten out therefore avoiding washing up.
  
• Swimming
  
• DD2 getting a real grip on this rolling over malarky
  
• Both dd's falling asleep in buggy for us to enjoy a whole four course meal together at the BEST resaturant last night.
  
• Reading a book
  
• Discovering Sudoku.
  
  Bad - DD2 hating the travel cot and sleeping in my bed most of the night for most of the week
  
• Total loss of all routine for all of us.
  
• Having to leave the villa (and my parents) today.
  
• DD2 rolling over the minute I try to put her to sleep in her cot and waking as soon as I try to make her sleep on her back.
  
  More on big thread later I hope

[tribpot]

GOOD

• ds sleeping well, huzzah for sleep lady
  
• realised how far we'd come after speaking to a friend with a newborn in Poland, still on issues like "how to give a bath without baby going berserk"
  
• got my Maternity Allowance just in time to pay the deposit on my house in Leeds (Poss not the intended purpose of the benefit)
  
  BAD
  
• a friend has found out (1 month after her wedding) that she has cervical cancer
  
• downstairs neighbours had a party til 4 a.m. last night, precise time Toby decided to wake up to feed
  
• amount of stuff still to get done before we move in early November.
  
  BRIDGET:
  
• number of bags of mini Jaffa cakes consumed to fight sleep deprivation: at least one per day

[MrsWednesday]

GOOD
Some lovely days with both DSs, where DS2 has been full of smiles and DS1 has been very well-behaved.
Watching DS1 kiss DS2 with no prompting from anyone.
Errrrrrrm.
Oh yes, one of my best friends having her second DS on Monday (yippee, I am so pleased for her, and also that I don't have a brand-new baby again!)

BAD
DS2 is suddenly back to waking 4 times a night (I knew I'd bloody curse it when I said last week it was only once a night )
My hair is also falling out in handfuls, clogging the shower, the sink and the hairbrush.
Strange and scary freak-out at 4am today, on my way back to putting DS2 back to bed after his third feed of the night, where I went all dizzy, couldn't remember where I was and nearly dropped DS2. I'm so tired......
DH always managing to be more tired than me (or so he says).

I'll stop before this turns into a not-so-concise rant from me.

BRIDGET MOMENTS:
Number of bars of G&B caramel chocolate consumed: 1 (but only because it was the last one in the shop).

[mandymac]

Good
Lovely New Jeans Purchased and DH paying for them
Had friends round for Dinner
DD loving baby massage every day

Bad
DD thinking 6.30am is time to get up
Best friend getting job in Bristol (too far away )
V.Tired after having friends round for Dinner

Bridget
Large Chocolate Bars consumed - errr lost count

[katzguk]

Good

DD1's third birthday, fairy castle cake and all
DD2 seems to love babyrice
Have decided to turn study into playroom to get toys out of living room
DD only waking 3 times in night reduced from 5

Bad

Have to smash walls out to be able to move study!
DD still waking 3 times in night

Bridget Jones bit
4 pieces of birthday cake
1 glass one wine

[mrsflowerpot]

OK, the last two weeks or so up to 14 October:

Good:
DS has finally started school and it seems to be going OK so far
I have more time with DD since he is at school
House is nearly sold - signed contracts this week and expect to exchange in next fortnight. Then we can start looking for a house here which hopefully will be the fun bit.

Bad:
DH still v stressed and working long hours - taking some getting used to after having him work from home for so long.
Getting out of the house for school! am a screaming red faced banshee by 8.30am.
My hair. Still falling out and has lost all style. Toni & Guy for me next week I think (that should go in the good bit really).

Bridget:
Amount of self-control exercised wrt a Nigella clementine cake: zero (had to throw the remaining third in the bin in self-disgust when I realised I was the only one eating it and it was vanishing fast).
Gyms joined: one
Wine drunk: not enough this week.

[lua]

bad:

ds continues to wake up every hour or two

Good:

Humm...
Brasil has qualified for the world cup?!

Bridget:

of sit-ups planned: 50 a day

of sit-ups done: zero!

of chocolates decided I must eat: zero

eaten: two bars/day!

[tribpot]

GOOD

• feel like I've got quite a lot sorted for our move
  
• ds still sleeping pretty well
  
  BAD
  
• I am not sleeping pretty well
  
• ds going for world record in puking
  
• friend with cervical cancer has had some more scans but now has a 2 week wait for results
  
  BRIDGET
  
• wine consumed: lots
  
• Choc consumed: mountains.
  
• Times on the elliptical trainer: zero.