MSE Parents Club Part 9

elle_gee

Going now.. honest! Had to sort the milk situation... milk in the fridge = lie in for mummy!

One last thing to say before I go...

elle_gee

:bdaycake::happylove_party_:dance::beer: Happy Birthday Chopsticks! :beer::dance:_party_:happylove:bdaycake:

weezl74

anyone awake?





alllll by myself............. don't wanna be.....Allllll by myseeeeeeeeeelf!


up since 3.10 :mad:

even read the bounty advice on insomnia. Pah! Apparently this is nature's way of preparing us to look forward to labour and the newborn phase, to be rid of these annoying symptoms.

Eh? Are we mental?! Is this not the same as looking forward to having my leg amputated so I won't have to have a lingering verruca? What madness the world of bounty inhabits :rotfl:

But it's the weekend so maybe lovely DH will let me have a nap this afternoon, and also I think it might mean I'll sleep ok before horrid work day on Monday


Catching up a bit: Squishy that's cute that Kester and Rhys were in your dream being gorgeous. I was thinking about Rhys a lot when I got to 30 weeks and realised Kester was the age Rhys was when born. Elle, I'm so amazed you had ANYTHING you needed, I have done so little prep!

Sami, Don't read the USDA thread (or subsequent mad 50p a day challenges), they are sooooooo long you'll never escape :rotfl:

BrunoM

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

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.