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[nickle730]

Aaaahhh, doubletrouble, our mum's must be friends!! My mother tells me that I am 'making a rod for my own back' when I pick Miss P up instead of letting her CIO. Yes, mum, but it is MY OWN back - not yours, so shush!

As for prams, I have a Bugaboo Cameleon I bought for this baby (I have two older kiddies, but I wanted a new pram). My DH likes to tell me I spent $1500 on a very expensive shopping trolley as I have to carry Miss P around while I push it!!

[JLeigh29]

I think just as the clinginess is about to end, the separation anxiety kicks in and you start all over again.... Having said that, DS is at an awesome age atm, and I love having him around me all day. The times I resent it and wish he'd let me put him down (and get on with housework etc), the worse it gets (and I think I spent way too much time doing that when he was a newborn - all those self-imposed expectations of having to be Supermum :shake head. When I just go with it and spend time with him, we have soooo much fun together. If the vacuuming doesn't get done, so what? If it takes 30 minutes to hang the washing out, so what? I have the most amazing little boy who teaches me so much more than a vacuum cleaner ever could.

Toilet tip - I'd take the bouncer in there and bounce it, plus sing and make faces and that would buy me just enough time to do what I needed to (with grizzles, but not full blown upset crying).

OP, you cracked me up with Klingon - DH calls the the 'remnants' on the toilet bowl Klingons (as in, "There's Klingons on the starboard bow"!!!!) ROFL

[luna moth]

Also, Jaycee, get a better sling. If yours is uncomfortable at 4 months, then it's a piece of junk. You won't know yourself when you can do back carries.

It's so good to read all this - I kinda thought it was normal and wondered how other mums get so much done. I've looked after plenty of other babies this age, but most were parented a little differently to what I have, so I pondered the connection. But it might just be my baby. And I don't mind. It's nice to be loved so much.

And as a friend says "When they're 15 they certainly won't want to climb into your bed in the night, or want cuddles ever, so just make the most of it while you can."