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sunshine_1988 wrote: »

She may surprise you, when we first stopped over at my mums for a new year party he slept all night in the travel cot and I was convinced he would hate it!

X

I hope so! Obviously I'd love the extra sleep but I really can do without my mums helpful 'advice' about making her realise she isn't the boss and how she had us all sleeping through from 8 weeks with a strict routine and by being tough. She last did it all 27 years ago but really can't accept I'm not going to be the tough old Irish matriarch that she was *sigh*

Gillyx

Lola888 wrote: »

I'm so tired!! I really hate work at the moment, luckily I only have 40 shifts left until I go off on maternity.

I have noticed that my LO is a bully!! Took her to a big toddler play area yesterday she doesn't know how to share and has taken to slapping or pushing other kids out the way. I was chatting to another mum she has a 20 mth old, my LO is 16 almost 17 mths and she just pushed the other kid out the way, she was quite a bit bigger as well!!

I grabbed hold of my LO and got down to her level and told her how naughty it was and she went to slap me!! I told her a bit more sternly she pouted and then ran off laughing. It wasn't just the once either. I told my mother and she told me I have to keep telling her off, but at least I know she wouldn't be bullied in school! Thanks mum really helpful. I hope she stops as I can see other mums looking at me :doh:

I think she is hitting the terrbile twos early, she was a complete pain when I took her to the park- wanted to be carried then walking on her own, then carried, walking, carried etc. Then to top it off she decided to sit down and no matter what I said or did she was content sitting there playing with a muslin cloth!!

I picked her up and she began screaming and wouldn't sit in her pram, but wouldn't walk or be carried!! :mad:

I got her home and promptly dumped her with DH and said you sort her out! She then turned into a complete angel!!! :A:doh:

I can relate to all of this, the no picking up, but won't walk, or go in the pram, just tempers and screaming. The hitting of other children, throwing things at them, hitting me, no sharing. It is exhausting, I don't envy you doing it while pregnant, it is exhausting. I think A is very similar to your LO though and sleeps well and eats well, so maybe it's a character trait?

Lola888

Gillyx she's lucky she sleeps and eats well otherwise I'd have been tempted to throw her in the lake we were walking around. I'm wondering if it is because she doesn't have that much interaction with other children. When I'm not in work I try and take her to groups and to places where she can interact, but DH is a lazy so and so and just takes her to see his family or sits on his bum watching tv as she's the queen of the castle and doesn't have to share.

I've told him on Wed he has to take her to Rhyme Time haha we'll see how he likes the singing and doing the song actions!:rotfl:

lazywife

Lola888 sounds like hard work!
DDB hopefully your Mum doesn't overpower you too much. The thing I try and do is let Granny do whatever she wants for the few days you see them. It won't damage LO's routine too much and then back to your normality when you get home... easier for less arguments.
MrsH, have a great time at the christening.
x

Aimless

I went to my first baby group last week, god I hated it! I picked music tots thinking it'd be making music, but it was all singing and prancing round like an idiot. He ignored it all totally and ran off to play, leaving me the only one doing it with no child! I didn't know most of the songs, and everyone else knew each other. They had a music man visitor after that was just what I was after, shame he didn't run the group! Lots of instruments and noise, no-one knew him so it broke the cliquey feeling, and songs like yellow submarine instead of damn nursery rhymes

Weaning, we took ages before it clicked here! We didn't take to blw, he wouldn't move on from the purees to the more lumpy stuff, I despaired. Not sure when it finally fell into place, but probably around a year? He still hates the sort of toddler meals you get on the shelf, but will eat food I cook, or polish off a whole M&S kids curry.

Aimless

Oh, baby clothes, I find Next and H&M tend to be bigger, and Debenhams incredibly small. I've just had to put away an 18-24 shirt of theirs while he still fits in 12-18 Next or H&M. Tesco are all over the place, so only pick them up in charity shops, particularly after they were very snotty when I tried to take something back for being ridiculously small.

Been up since just before 5.30 again, can I have my baby who used to have milk in the night then go off to sleep back please? Thank goodness for Beebies.

Lola888

I agree with you Aimless Debenhams are really hit and miss especially some of the designer by Debenhams stuff. I had a Jasper Conran outfit bought for us as a gift aged 9-12, she was 8 mths and it was already tight! My LO is a chunky monkey, but now she's almost 17 mths she can still fit in some 9-12 stuff from Next, but is also growing out of some 12-18 stuff!! I don't know some shops are tiny others are huge. I find the Disney stuff at Asda is massive I have a Minnie Mouse outfit- jeans and a top aged 6-9 and it's still too big for her, but it's starting to get a bit short, but I can't let her wear it as she gets builder's bum and then they fall down and that's with a huge cloth bum?!

Aimless

I complained to Asda too about their clothes, when I had a 6-9 way too small, a 9-12 that was huge, and a 12-18 jumper that barely went round him.

Cake4brains

Hope everyone is ok and all the poorly LOs are better. Amelia is back to her usual happy self thank goodness. No idea what caused it all but glad she's over it.

How do you make the flapjacks Gilly and Sunshine if you don't mind sharing the recipe? TIA

It was my 37th birthday yesterday. I'm getting so close to 40 now its like a huge wall looming in the distance :rotfl: We had a 'few' drinks in the house with some family round on Thursday night. Was supposed to be a quiet night with few drinks but everyone ended up going home at 2am :rotfl: We put the girls to bed at 8 and they woke up at 2 as I was going to bed. I just shushed them and went to bed and didn't hear from them again until 9am :T How considerate are my babies giving me a lie-in on my birthday?!

We were planning on going to the coast for the day but as we were all late up we just visited some relatives and are going to the coast on OHs next day off.

Regarding tempers and strops, Mollie is so headstrong. She throws tantrums if she doesn't like something and I can only see it getting worse :cool:. She is so quiet the rest of the time, its Amelia that is the verbal one and refuses to share!

Candlewax, hugs x Know where you're coming from when you say you have lost yourself as a person. Its like the LOs take over our identity We all need to take some time-out as a mum every now and again and just have some me time

I've just found out I'm going to be an Auntie again. I'm so excited :j. I did feel a teeny jealous twinge though when I heard the news

This message was supposed to have been posted yesterday morning but just turned my laptop on and it was still sat waiting to be posted :rotfl:

lazywife

Glad you had a nice birthday cake (day before yesterday?) and very considerate girls!
Quiet weekend for us. T just wriggling away on playmat while I watch a bit of Sunday brunch. DH still in bed. It's almost like how Sunday mornings used to be (other than the 6am wake up)
L.xxx