Hi...when this changed over I forgot my user and password...so have changed from Mum2Willie to LilsJula...
Cass - Soph has just started taking more at each feed in the last couple of days.
Thanks QB
Feijoa Mum - Had a beer straight my last feed last night and luved it!! Definitely a sanity saver!!
Thanks for feedback on that all!
Thrilled - Glad you had a brilliant mother's day and what a gr8 pres! Re clothes sizes - Bonds is definitely smaller - no doubt about it...Soph is wearing 00 Bonds wondersuits and Bonds onsies. She is wearing some 00 Target and Big W shirts, but 000 pants.
Re clothes sizes - this is what I learnt from my son who was born on March 19 2008 - He wore 0000 for 1 week (Soph was a couple of weeks). He wore 000 til 8 weeks ( Soph is moving sizes). He spent most of winter in 00 but I had to scrounge around at the end of winter for 0 which was hard as summer stock was in...so I think pick up some 0 stuff and you can always take it back. Will spent most of summer in 0. He wore size 1 tops at the end of summer but still size 0 bottoms (he has some size 0 bottoms he still wears and he is 2). In winter he wore size 1 (with some size 0 bottoms). His size 1 bottoms still fit this year...but he is mostly size 2 on top. So size 1 stuff lasts forever - 12 months and size 0 for the entire summer!!! Hope that helps!
Jandals - You poor thing re the poo explosion! I have found baby wipes are great straight away for all carpet disasters! Hope your two are feeling better...it is shocking feeling housebound! I have vac'ed Soph as per the schedule. My question is about my toddler and Soph for the swine flu vac??? What others doing??? I go with the vacs - as I work in a school - I see all the diseases that come up (alot not divulged due to privacy reasons) and so I went with the vacs.
I had a very strange weekend. Toddler got sicker - taking him to doctor today. He has had this cold and cough now for 10 weeks!! Got it while I was in hospital having Soph! Got better and worse three times now and this is the worst. The coughing at night is awful! This is the third docs visit and I am really going to push for antibiotics this time..poor little bugger.
Below is a massive vent - re problems I am having with DH - read or don't read...just need to get it off my chest!
Sunday was my DH's birthday. He told me his Mum really wanted to go out for mother's day to lunch. I said I would rather not, unless he wanted to for his birthday lunch (or suggested going another day when not so busy). Admist the sick kid craziness in the week - I repeatedly asked what he wanted to do for his birthday...and he kept saying he didn't know.
I got to shops to get his pressie with two sick kids in tow - but didn't make the cake I had wanted and hadn't organised anything as he hadn't told me what he wanted to do...
Sunday came! When we all got up ( I got a gift voucher for a shop that I wanted some clothes from and we gave him his birthday press) - he said he wanted to go surfing. Aok! No probs. So off he goes to go surfing and buy his Mum a mother's day pressie. Meanwhile I make brekkie for me and toddler and do jobs like washing...Gets home a couple of hours later (still haven't had shower as kids both whining as sick...house a shocker). Tells me his Mum coming around for a visit in about 45mins. So quickly tidy house with Soph in baby bjorn and ask him to mind Soph so I can jump in shower. When I get out of shower, Soph crying - so have to feed her. He gets in shower. I haven't cleaned teeth etc...hair sopping wet. When he hops out of shower - putting Soph to sleep after feed -he asks if I can wrap pressie soon as Mum be here soon...so put Soph in baby bjorn and do that...and he sits at computer...Yes - I get huffy!!! Soph crying - I am a mess! Toddler whinging! He then comes in and says do you want me to take Soph for a walk around the block in pram (nice offer) but Soph won't go to sleep in pram! She falls to sleep in baby bjorn! and I brush hair and teeth and inlaws arrive and stay for two hours. MIL has dig about not being taken for lunch! She does have two daughters - one with kids (aged 12 and ten) and another without who live close by.
Then it is lunch time and DH asks if I want a burger and chips as he doesn't want lunch..I ask why not and he says he wanted to go out for lunch but I wouldn't go...It is true I did say didn't want to go when he said his mother really wanted to go (as it doesn't always have to be about her!!) but later thought about it and said we could do whatever he wanted for his birthday - just not go to really super busy place. He doesn't remember this bit!!!
I said there is still time to go...he didn't respond..toddler started whinging and Soph crying and he gets the sh*** as I haven't answered what I want for lunch and all hell breaks loose and we have massive fight. I go out with kids for afternoon - do grocery shopping, get petrol in car etc. It was quiet out!!
He says I am crazy at the minute. That I am always mean to him on the weekends. It is true that he p***** me off. I have told him I am jealous of the freedom he has - (the only three times I have been away from Soph were three ten minute trips to pick something up from the shops). I know this is the sacrifice that I have to make and fully expected it but it does get to me at times... I have told him all I look forward to on the weekend is to have a peaceful shower at a reasonable time in the morning. Last weekend, I said that if he could tell me if he was going surfing in morning (which I do like him to do) to tell me and I will get up before he goes and have a shower...didn't do it this weekend...leaves me both mornings with kids for a few hours and he gets home and I am crabby!
I really don't know what to do...He holds Soph for about 1 hour in total (broken into 15min slots) each day on the weekend. I get no break at all. He takes toddler down backyard for 1 hour on 1 day.
I actually feel trapped when he is home on the weekend. I can't plan anything and end up getting stuck at home all day. I know I should just do what I want...and perhaps this is how I need to operate from now on...
Sorry for the massive vent! I am frustrated with sick kids, sick of being on my own (can't visit friends as the kids are sick), toddler not been able to go to kindy as he is sick so no break there!
Sorry for being a sook! Also a bit scared PND may be rearing its head again (as it was pretty bad after my son). Don't feel like I know what is real (as my hubby tells me how I am but I can't see it that way).
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