I'm the slackest I know! But i think lately this whole baby thing has got the better of me! I found myself admitting to DH the other night that I am overwhelmed.....the cause of this is Hurricane Violet tearing apart my house on a daily basis! And i don't quite know how to deal with it. I try to pick up after her but she just pulls eveything down again. Because she always wants to be with me showers have become a nightmare event as she trys to get in with me, so my shower consists of me holding one leg out trying to keep the door closed and the other furiously scrubbing. Then we move to the WIR where she pulls everything down off the shelves, shes in the drawers. She migrated into the bathroom the other day and i heard banging....she had finally made it into the shower and the door had shut and she was stuck in there, sopping wet in her pj's but looking mighty proud!
Anyway, Im sure you all know what i am talking about I just am not used to feeling completely overwhelmed. And at the end of the day all i want to do is go to bed, not stay up to 11pm cleaning the horrendously dirty wooden floors and doing the neverending pile of ironing.
I am trying to figure this out because how on earth do you manage when you have more than 1 child? I am trying not to let my DH think i am completely incompetent and can't have more!
Taurean - you are having a rough trot with Miss I arent you. Damn those teeth. How long does it take for thier teeth to comethrough? This doesn't continue for years does it? I asked for pain stop and I got knocked back too! I wanted it to knock her out so she would sleep - the ended up giving me just straight Phenergan which worked like a treat. I gave it to her for about 4 nights but i was still having ****ty sleeps cause i was worried it would knock off her breathing all together!
I don't know if V is teething at the moment but she had the strangest day of just wanting me to cuddle her and watch TV together - she hates me cuddling her normally so it was nice! Yeah for the ladybug theme party! Does she have an outfit all ready to go? I bought V's the other day - not the norm a black tutu skirt with a cute white singlet. My sister said she will look like an Emo! Big hugs Renee, just think - it can't last forever!
I really enjoyed everyones posts about what they are doing with feed amounts and times ect...i am still a bit clueless about all that. I am still offering her 4 bottles but she only drinks 100mls at a time, eatings hit and miss.
The big news on our end though.................NO I am not pregnant (bet some of you wondered though!) hahahah no Violet is finally sleeping through the night which has given me a huge sense of relief and I am not dog tired everyday. It is so strange though because i am not sure what happened. I did go to the library and get out the Dr Ferber book which i quite enjoyed and liked his methods of 'control crying'. So one afternoon I tried his method and she did cry for 45 mins, but i was in every so often to check on her. And she finally went to sleep and slept for about 30mins so i was cursing bloody man Dr Ferber fornot knowing a damn thing, and that night i put her to bed and did the Ferber and she cried for about 5mins and low and behold she slept from 7-5. And every night since (about 3.5 weeks ago now) she has done the same. I know! Amazing. But he did make points about having to break the sleep association which for Violet was Sleep = Lots of Boobie! So i could kiss old man Ferber!
Anyway I must go to bed now, sorry for prattling on about nothing but myself! I have read all your posts......wouldn't it be great to actually be able to all get together one day!
Anyway love to all bubs..........i'll have to go back and see what order the bubs came out......whose birthday is first?
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