MSE Parents Club Part 9

weezl74

BrunoM wrote: »

Poor Weezl have you tried everything? Horlicks, meditation, hot baths, 0% caffeine and sugar, I dunno... must be very hard!

hiya! Is that no sugar or have sugar?

Squishy

Good morning,

I'm getting a chance to catch up with threads a bit while Elena gets bosies from her granny and tries not to fall back to sleep

Weezl - hope you manage to get a nap this afternoon: it's not good that you were awake so early!

Right, away to catch up - have a nice morning all xx

BrunoM

Two possible approaches involving sugar! One, have none at all from late afternoon on, the other, deliberately have a very sugary thing at maybe early supper time, so that you get a bit of a peak-and-crash thing going on, leaving you exhausted at bedtime... that can help getting to sleep, but it wouldn't help with staying asleep later so probably not what you are after

weezl74

BrunoM wrote: »

Two possible approaches involving sugar! One, have none at all from late afternoon on, the other, deliberately have a very sugary thing at maybe early supper time, so that you get a bit of a peak-and-crash thing going on, leaving you exhausted at bedtime... that can help getting to sleep, but it wouldn't help with staying asleep later so probably not what you are after

thank you Bruno, I shall try the first one. I'm not a pudding person but I might also try a lower carb tea to see if that helps.

SugarSpun

Weezlie, what about turkey? It contains a lot of tryptophans which are supposed to put you to sleep.

:rotfl: at Sarah's DH and the sore back at antenatal. Husband was in charge of talking to people about the birth for the first few days after, and he was telling people how hard it was because I was in labour for 13 hours and then there was the C-section and he didn't get a chair and had to stand :rolleyes:

Happy birthday chopsticks!

Becles

Another great weekend morning

Has anyone got any ideas on how to keep three children and two dogs quiet on a morning?

Craig likes to sleep in until mid-morning on Sat and Sun, but I'm struggling to keep everyone quiet enough. This morning everyone was in the sitting room and I nipped up for a poo, but Charlotte and the dogs came thundering and giggling up the stairs while I was busy, then the other two followed "stage whispering" for them all to get back downstairs.

Nobody likes being contained in the sitting room. If I put the dogs out they bark in the garden to be back in, and if I shut them in rooms they whimper. Charlotte doesn't like being shut in rooms either and prefers to run around. It's noisy if I split everyone up and it's noisy when I have them all together. It's not really that noisy - just the usual you can expect from a houseful of lively children and dogs, but it's enough to wake him up.

He's got up in a foul mood and yelled at all the children and totally ignored me

I hate weekends.

weezl74

becles you are a much nicer person than me! I told DH that fatherhood meant the end of lie ins for about 14 years, and to not embark on it if there would be moaning :rotfl:.

Maybe if you each had a weekend morning when you tried to do it for the other one he would see how hard it is?

xxx

Becles

weezl74 wrote: »

Maybe if you each had a weekend morning when you tried to do it for the other one he would see how hard it is?

He works full time so he needs a lie in on weekend mornings. He wouldn't be happy if he had to get up and I stopped in bed.

weezl74

sorry becles perhaps I am wrongly in a grump with him because of my own tiredness. I guess I just feel protective of you and when you posted about his response my feeling is that you also work a more than full time job and you study as well. I always feel you work very hard.

I am not meaning to criticise Craig. I guess I just feel that during the week you are both working and at weekends you could maybe share the work/rest balance a bit more.

But sorry if that's not quite the right take on your situation, you are absolutely the expert!

Weezl x

SugarSpun

Becles, when do you get a lie in? Wrangling little ones and dogs is hardly a hobby ... I agree with Weezlie, the onset of parenthood means the end of lie-ins unless one parent is feeling exceptionally generous, in which case it's a treat and nothing to depend upon.