PH Parents of 2012
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God today was hard, first time we took th twins out anywhere and we went to Knowsley safari park in our car with new seats and foster mum came two.
It was too easy pointing at Lions elephants et al then we stopped to look at giraffes where you get out to see them, could we get them back in the car, screaming, wailing and I didn't know where to put myself (they are 33 months) so out for a walk no problem, more animals cue cooing and happiness but back in the car not a chance.
Now remember foster mum is with us and were 1st time parents so its not obvious bu we decided to get them in the car regardless and cope with the screaming.
10 mins later were at the cafe, fair, loo out the car to the loo then the rides cue happy on little train but at the end more screaming, cafe - screaming from one eating from other.
Get t hem back to foster mums and put ice age on they climb on me, eat some garlic bread (!) and sit nicely watching tv all good and like different kids. We bathed them, dried them and put them to bed all without fuss but left before t hey dropped off. Little boy said night daddy (I melted) little girl ignored me mostly but kissed mrs dsl night.
What we learnt today - don't keep kids out for 6 hours, expect to be tested often, don't expect anything nice you do to be remembered.
Tomorrow petting farm and Sunday lunch in a restaurant - bricking it
It was too easy pointing at Lions elephants et al then we stopped to look at giraffes where you get out to see them, could we get them back in the car, screaming, wailing and I didn't know where to put myself (they are 33 months) so out for a walk no problem, more animals cue cooing and happiness but back in the car not a chance.
Now remember foster mum is with us and were 1st time parents so its not obvious bu we decided to get them in the car regardless and cope with the screaming.
10 mins later were at the cafe, fair, loo out the car to the loo then the rides cue happy on little train but at the end more screaming, cafe - screaming from one eating from other.
Get t hem back to foster mums and put ice age on they climb on me, eat some garlic bread (!) and sit nicely watching tv all good and like different kids. We bathed them, dried them and put them to bed all without fuss but left before t hey dropped off. Little boy said night daddy (I melted) little girl ignored me mostly but kissed mrs dsl night.
What we learnt today - don't keep kids out for 6 hours, expect to be tested often, don't expect anything nice you do to be remembered.
Tomorrow petting farm and Sunday lunch in a restaurant - bricking it
DSLiverpool said:
God today was hard, first time we took th twins out anywhere and we went to Knowsley safari park in our car with new seats and foster mum came two.
It was too easy pointing at Lions elephants et al then we stopped to look at giraffes where you get out to see them, could we get them back in the car, screaming, wailing and I didn't know where to put myself (they are 33 months) so out for a walk no problem, more animals cue cooing and happiness but back in the car not a chance.
Now remember foster mum is with us and were 1st time parents so its not obvious bu we decided to get them in the car regardless and cope with the screaming.
10 mins later were at the cafe, fair, loo out the car to the loo then the rides cue happy on little train but at the end more screaming, cafe - screaming from one eating from other.
Get t hem back to foster mums and put ice age on they climb on me, eat some garlic bread (!) and sit nicely watching tv all good and like different kids. We bathed them, dried them and put them to bed all without fuss but left before t hey dropped off. Little boy said night daddy (I melted) little girl ignored me mostly but kissed mrs dsl night.
What we learnt today - don't keep kids out for 6 hours, expect to be tested often, don't expect anything nice you do to be remembered.
Tomorrow petting farm and Sunday lunch in a restaurant - bricking it
If any consolation, a day out with ours (or any of the NCT group of the same age) could easily go the same way at every stage, including the being ignored bit at bedtime. My two year old is capable of astonishing feats of contortion if she doesn't fancy getting back in the car at Sainsburys, let alone something so exciting as a Safari Park.It was too easy pointing at Lions elephants et al then we stopped to look at giraffes where you get out to see them, could we get them back in the car, screaming, wailing and I didn't know where to put myself (they are 33 months) so out for a walk no problem, more animals cue cooing and happiness but back in the car not a chance.
Now remember foster mum is with us and were 1st time parents so its not obvious bu we decided to get them in the car regardless and cope with the screaming.
10 mins later were at the cafe, fair, loo out the car to the loo then the rides cue happy on little train but at the end more screaming, cafe - screaming from one eating from other.
Get t hem back to foster mums and put ice age on they climb on me, eat some garlic bread (!) and sit nicely watching tv all good and like different kids. We bathed them, dried them and put them to bed all without fuss but left before t hey dropped off. Little boy said night daddy (I melted) little girl ignored me mostly but kissed mrs dsl night.
What we learnt today - don't keep kids out for 6 hours, expect to be tested often, don't expect anything nice you do to be remembered.
Tomorrow petting farm and Sunday lunch in a restaurant - bricking it
It'll be alright. Marathon not a sprint, and all that.
Baby Florence was born this morning at 1:32. Mum had some difficulties after the birth and promptly scared the bejebus out of me, just kept saying "it's alright" when really I was bricking it and had no idea what was going on as 20 doctors gathered in the tiny room around my Mrs 
Fortunately all is well now, all that's left is to sleep (whilst I still can!)
Fortunately all is well now, all that's left is to sleep (whilst I still can!)
Three weeks after birth of twins and we are finding a routine but the days and especially nights are still hard. My wife let me sleep through on Sunday night and it was heaven. Back to the night shift today though. Did anybody hear BBC Schools programmes on the World Service at 3.30 this morning? Is that for the post-clubbing toddler crowd?
It's difficult handling somebody who only has three settings: Feeding, crying, and off. How are the autumn parents finding it?
It's difficult handling somebody who only has three settings: Feeding, crying, and off. How are the autumn parents finding it?
C.A.R. said:
Baby Florence was born this morning at 1:32. Mum had some difficulties after the birth and promptly scared the bejebus out of me, just kept saying "it's alright" when really I was bricking it and had no idea what was going on as 20 doctors gathered in the tiny room around my Mrs
Fortunately all is well now, all that's left is to sleep (whilst I still can!)
Many congrats mate....hope the sleep arrives soon! Fortunately all is well now, all that's left is to sleep (whilst I still can!)
We're currently in hospital, and they've just this minute given Mrs C the in-juicy (!) thing.....it's only a bit of string ith some chemical on it....was expecting a bit more than that! Anyways, the nurse said that we now have to wait 6 or 7 hours to see what happens.
Not a contraction in sight though!
Not a contraction in sight though!
Baby Isla Lily Walsh, Born Oct 13th, 9lb1, its all a bit daunting being a first time dad and the lack of sleep is a complete PITA but worth every single penny and minute of it.
Labour was long and started Wed night and finished Sat afternoon. Here she is at 1 day old, bit of bruising from the giant metal salad tongs they used to get her out
. Kudos to the Leeds General Infirmary staff who were brilliant despite difficult labour although they could have got me a comfier chair I didn't dare ask for one for fear of being clubbed to death with the gas and air tube from the Mrs. (seriously it was like sitting on a school chair for the guts of 4 days)
Labour was long and started Wed night and finished Sat afternoon. Here she is at 1 day old, bit of bruising from the giant metal salad tongs they used to get her out
. Kudos to the Leeds General Infirmary staff who were brilliant despite difficult labour although they could have got me a comfier chair I didn't dare ask for one for fear of being clubbed to death with the gas and air tube from the Mrs. (seriously it was like sitting on a school chair for the guts of 4 days)Edited by dazwalsh on Wednesday 24th October 00:09
nsa said:
Three weeks after birth of twins and we are finding a routine but the days and especially nights are still hard. My wife let me sleep through on Sunday night and it was heaven. Back to the night shift today though. Did anybody hear BBC Schools programmes on the World Service at 3.30 this morning? Is that for the post-clubbing toddler crowd?
It's difficult handling somebody who only has three settings: Feeding, crying, and off. How are the autumn parents finding it?
Hard work and not very rewarding so far!It's difficult handling somebody who only has three settings: Feeding, crying, and off. How are the autumn parents finding it?
How are you managing to get into a routine? We are demand feeding at the moment, and in fact the only way to keep Ella quiet seems to be to get her on the boob as 9 times out of 10 that's what she's after. Not a whole lot I can do about that which is quite frustrating as I can't give my wife a break. (Although I can sleep through a bit more!
) We are trying to be quiet at night and use low lights, but not much more than that really...Nicol@ said:
Congrats to the latest parents.
Who is left?
Who is left?
Due 21st Nov. She's starting to get to the "immobile" stage now where going places and moving around is more of an effort. Up to about 7.5 months, it's not had much of an effect. Now it's starting to get harder work.
(Plus she's snoring like an Elephant Seal in bed.)
NiceCupOfTea said:
Hard work and not very rewarding so far!
How are you managing to get into a routine? We are demand feeding at the moment, and in fact the only way to keep Ella quiet seems to be to get her on the boob as 9 times out of 10 that's what she's after. Not a whole lot I can do about that which is quite frustrating as I can't give my wife a break. (Although I can sleep through a bit more!) We are trying to be quiet at night and use low lights, but not much more than that really...
Noah is 12 weeks on Sunday and we seem to be going backwards with night time as he spends more time awake than asleep. It's a real killer and hoping he gets back to how he has been in the last 2 weeks as I go back to work in January and getting up anything from every 10 minutes to every hour will not help.How are you managing to get into a routine? We are demand feeding at the moment, and in fact the only way to keep Ella quiet seems to be to get her on the boob as 9 times out of 10 that's what she's after. Not a whole lot I can do about that which is quite frustrating as I can't give my wife a break. (Although I can sleep through a bit more!
) We are trying to be quiet at night and use low lights, but not much more than that really...He seems very active and alert and hoping he hasn't the ADHD that runs in my OH's family. Night time TV is rubbish as well, all teleshopping. I stick to quiet, dark and boring
Granville - if you can (or want to), get out swimming! Did the second week of five on the first level today and so far he seems to enjoy it. Plus it completely zonks them out.
From the start we were told not to be quiet around them when they are sleeping to get them used to noises. TV, vacuum, anything to ensure you can have something of a normal life! Seems to work so far, it's the getting him to sleep during the day that's hard - he fights it so much by screaming. Fine at night though :S
From the start we were told not to be quiet around them when they are sleeping to get them used to noises. TV, vacuum, anything to ensure you can have something of a normal life! Seems to work so far, it's the getting him to sleep during the day that's hard - he fights it so much by screaming. Fine at night though :S
do they need to wait for their second jabs to go swimming? Noah has the second set next week and with having meningitis at 1 week old I'm a tad cautious to not go too soon with him.
Usual noise during the day, definitely do not tip toe around him, he cat naps a couple of times during the day but is very active and alert. Don't know where he gets all his energy from
Hoping having the solids on top of all his milk will start to fill his tummy and be a bit more content through the night. The only thing is he hates a wet nappy and pee's for England so often the waking at night is for nappy change.
Ordered the Sensational Baby Sleep Plan to see if there's any tips we can use to get him asleep and more importantly staying asleep at night
Usual noise during the day, definitely do not tip toe around him, he cat naps a couple of times during the day but is very active and alert. Don't know where he gets all his energy from
Hoping having the solids on top of all his milk will start to fill his tummy and be a bit more content through the night. The only thing is he hates a wet nappy and pee's for England so often the waking at night is for nappy change.
Ordered the Sensational Baby Sleep Plan to see if there's any tips we can use to get him asleep and more importantly staying asleep at night
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