June '05 Mummies 5 - the one with lots of smiles, and lots of cuddles.

[katzguk]

one brand new shiney thread, title thanks to eym.

[tribpot]

Nice one Katz. I was going to start a new thread but couldn't think of a title!

Will just post a link to our meet up thread for people to peruse.

[LipstickMum]

Ola!



Good luck with your negotiations Welshie!!

Lynny - Nice to hear about some undiscovered cash, maybe I'll see you at Bicester Village this w/e ....

have good weekends all xxx

[tribpot]

I don't want to start the thread off on a downer but I've just found out a good friend of mine has cervical cancer Anyone with any insight, I have started a thread here

Have a good weekend one and all.

[foundintranslation]

hi all
trib sorry about your friend. afraid I've no insight to add.
lynny - one CAT coming soon, hopefully followed by one foundintranslation (or bero for short), one mr f.i.t (double meaning intended!) and one ds...

[MrsWednesday]

Blimey, I don't post for a few days and you all move thread!

Busy day here, DH is still at work so it's been a bit full-on. Both boys are fast asleep now though so I'm having a well-earned glass of red.

Hope the work thing went ok today Welshie. When are you going back? I need to do the same (go into work to talk hours/role etc), although this time round I feel quite at the thought of going back. Makes me want to cry actually, whereas with DS1 I was ready to start work 2 weeks after he was born

Trib, so sorry to read about your friend. One of my friends from my mothers and toddlers group has had this and was treated successfully. She hasn't managed to conceive her second child but this is less to do with the cervical cancer and more to do with some other more complicated issues. Sorry this sounds a bit vague - I didn't ask her many of the details as I don't know her very well really.

Have had a few very bad nights here with DS2 waking up loads in the night for feeds. He's 18 weeks on Sunday and I can't decide whether this is a sign he's ready for weaning, or just a growth spurt. Will give it a few more days and see how it goes. Katz and Lummox, has weaning improved things for you both (Lummox, I'm assuming not, given your other thread)?

Lynny, great news about the money, not so good about the insomnia. Have you (and Trib) ever tried valerian tea? It's an acquired taste (i.e. tastes disgusting) but it does work for me after an hour or so.

Right, I'm off to watch a bit of telly and drink my wine, feeling quite exhausted after a really busy week. Hope you all have a great night's sleep tonight.x

[hub2dee]

lynny: Chelsea thread is here . I'll let everyone know the theme / design for the garden when / if we get accepted (we get told yes / no at some point in November).

[lummox]

hi all,

Mrs W - weaning didn't help, so I stopped after three days. Not sure how much help that is to anyone else though, as I didn't really want to wean him so was just giving him 1 tablespoon of rather milky cereal each day. can't have made much difference if it is hunger that's the problem.

slightly better night last night - will update on other thread.

trib - sorry to hear about your friend.

f.i.t. have a great trip back to the UK.

[lynny70]

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[eastyorksmum]

morming mums hugssss

william second nite in cot, put down about 8pm slept till 2am which hes statrted waking up again for feed, then didnt wake till 6am not bad.

We were abit unsure about putting him upstairs in cot whilst we were in living room, but with a lot of popping in out room, think weve cracked it, william sleeps alot better without noise.

Katz is analise feeding with a bottle now? will she take the bottle? i was wondering how you were getting on hunny.

trib im so sorry to hear about your friend hugsssss i wish her well.

On that nite i havnt had any appoinments through for my breast screening or received a form of my history like all my other sisters have, i need to call them next week.

Apparently we now have an appoinment for william to see somone about his fluid on his testes, but there will a longer wait for his heart murmur how crap is that.

right of shopping today william has grown out of everything xxxxxxxxxx

[sfxmum]

morning all
had quick read but not time to answer but hugs all. nights still hard.
new thread will find some time for concise edition i think.

[lynny70]

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[eastyorksmum]

awwwww Lynny hunny did they give you some ointment?

matthew had exma when he was a baby not really bad, but it still upsets me to think about it, he also had very bad asthma.

Im sure your little poppet will be ok, big hugsss from Yorkie xxxxxxx

[tribpot]

lynny, you poor poor thing - just to send big Junie hugs to you and the little one. Take care xxx

[eastyorksmum]

Lynny i meant say balerium oil not ointmment have you got some of that? just bathe little jess in it it really does help.

Big hugsssssss from yorkie xxxxxxx

[lynny70]

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[welshmum]

Oh Lynny you poor old sausage. A very good friend's son had bad excema as a baby too - thye discovered it was brought on by dairy produce eventually - are the medics making any suggestions about allergies? Did the outbreak coincide with anything like that? New formula? Solids? Just wondering....thinking of you x

[tribpot]

Welshie, just to pick up for lynny, Jess had a v small amount of wheat yesterday, in a rusk. Now, I have no idea what 'normal' rules about wheat are as I have to be super-careful with it cos of dh's food intolerances, so I don't know what other people are doing with wheat? However, I will now be even more super-careful after poor little Jess' experiences. Lynny, glad she is doing better today.

Hair loss - I have picked up this theme from our concise thread. Glad it's not just me, assume we will not end up a bunch of baldies in a few months' time, if we do, however, we'll need a thread on fabulous hats.

MrsW, sleep deprivation to the point of confusion and dizziness. I'm definitely on the way there - and sadly, this is my dh's normal state of being, his condition is basically characterised by non-restive sleep. At the mo we are ALL in the same boat though. Anyay, huge sympathies, please please try to get some sleep soon. The last few days, I have completely ignored dh's personal medical needs in favour of my own personal medical need not to die from lack of sleep. I feel guilty about it for several nanoseconds each morning, and then I just don't care any more. Please feel free to borrow from this attitude.

Who mentioned valerian, I think MrsW? I have taken it but more usually in a nice glass of red, rather than in tea Will def give it a try but at the mo am waiting until we've transferred dh's hypnotherapy tape to CD - I was nearly in a coma within 2 mins of starting it in the week.

Anyway, hope we are all doing well - I think this thread is a bit quieter just now cos we are more spread out on other threads, but the Junie spirit is alive and well!

[sfxmum]

evening all

lynny- goodness woman you poor thing. hope it gets better soon.

trib-sorry about your friend. this has been on my mind a lot lately. this was the cancer which took my mother and last month my youngest sister had an abnormal result requiring further investigation.she is an oncology nurse. what i know is that its a cancer with high rate of cure when caught reasonably early. my mothers had already spread and this was 21yrs ago.
help her keep her spirits up really warm positive thoughts to her and her family.

hairloss- joining the club...guess hormones aided by dd who just found out its fun to pull mummy hair.

had a nice weekend, which for me means i got to have a lie in, both mornings, untill outrageosly late, while dh was on baby duty.
found him exhausted on waking 'god she is so wriggly and constantly on the go how do you do it?' - yes well....

nights are not as settled as they were but i am going through an unusual positive phase and its not bothering me that much. maybe i am losing my mind who knows.

hope you all have good night along with all dd&ds

[welshmum]

We're regressing here in the Welshie household too. Ds's cough and cold are making him pretty restless, he wakes himself up with coughing and won't sleep again unless he is suckled.....hey ho
I know I'm busy making a rod for my own back but if he needs comfort in the night I can't refuse when he's ill.
I know it's always 2 steps forward and 1 back with the babes but the reality of it is so hard. I am committed to sleep training him as dd is SUCH a great sleeper 7-7 every night (apart from illness) am just putting it off for now - I might ring the sleep lady just for a chat (seeing as I've paid for it )
Commiserations to all others in the same boat.
My hair loss seems to be slowing down now.....

[lummox]

Morning all,

Sorry to hear about your ds welshy. Haven't had to deal with it yet, but I don't suppose the sleep training thing would even work when the baby was ill. That's even if you could bear not to try to comfort him.

Hair loss also slowing down here, thankfully.

Can we do a quick show of hands on who has started solids, and what they have gone for and how much they are giving?

Also, I remember that in one of the very early antenatal threads we all said where our Mumsnet user names came from. Since we've got some new folk since then (and I can't find the thread where we said before), how did everyone choose their username?

Lummox was what I said when I saw the pregnancy test was positive.

[lummox]

Oops, meant to post best wishes to Lynny and Jess. Really sorry to hear about the excema. Hope yesterday's improvement continues.

[lynny70]

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[welshmum]

So glad things are loooking up Lynny, dd had a real tendency to baby excema too but she has grown out of it....mostly - odd flare up behind her knees and ears.
Lummox - no solids here yet although ds is taking an interest in watching us all eat and has had a taste of homemade veggie soup on a finger and the same of yogurt - am aiming for the start of Nov - 24 weeks.
I'm not very imaginiative on the MN name, it's what it says on the tin - I'm Welsh and a mum

[mandymac]

Morning All.

Lynny, poor dd and poor you, glad its clearing up though! My sister had excema when she was younger and she grew out of it .

Trib - Very sorry to hear about your friend. From your next post - I am moulting too - yeuk - hair everywhere, started a few weeks ago, how long does it last I wonder? Hope you managed to catch up on some sleep too.

Mrs W - I've got to sort out the work thing too. I've only got a nursery place for DD 4 days a week at the moment, so need to see if I can do that at work until at least easter. I'm hoping they might let me treat it as a trial period and if it works make that permanent, so fingers crossed. Let me know how you get on.

Hub2dee - Good luck with Chelsea

EYM - hope you had a successful shop on Saturday, DD grew out of everything over the last month too, I've just had to put away my favourite little pretty striped sleepsuit ( what a soppy twit I am)

KVG - Glad you had a good break!

SFX & Welshie - With you on the two steps forward one step back scenario. We have got dd napping in her cot for 3 out of 4 daytime naps, and she was going down for most of them after 10 mins or so of low level crying. Now she has stopped crying, which is great, but mutters and whinges for 20 -25 mins before each nap, so even though she only gets about 45mins per nap, the whole thing takes over an hour. She has also decided that 6.30am is the time to wake up, just as it is getting darker and the clocks are going back - whats that all about?! Has anyone using the sleep ladies services asked her advice about coping with the clocks moving?

Lummox - no solids here (dd not even taking a bottle yet - grrrr. But she was a late junie, arriving on 22nd. I will probaly try and hold out until late nov/dec when she will be 5 months. My mn name is a very unimaginative shortened version of my name, I wish I had thought of something more anonymous and fun, but needed to post an urgent question when I signed up, so no time for inventiveness. Maybe I should change it soon - hummmmm? [pondering emoticon].