Disco Derail! - TTCAL/PAL Discussion and Support!

[NatoPMT]

Luce DEFO worth a look, every TK Maxx is grotty until you find an ace romper suit.

Vic, i read the other day that almost every single parent in the western world has their baby fall off either a sofa or a bed at some point. Its almost a rite of passage apparently. Dont be too hard on yourself

fucking photos have beaten me into submission. omg, 3 have attached. i am victorious!!

Spoiler

last pic the dress is from H&M and the romper from Gap but i bought them anyway

 

[heart tree]

Vicky, ugh. Listen honey, you aren't the worst parent in the world. This happens to many parents. I watched it happen with the lesbian couple I babysat for. One of them turned her head for a minute and the baby rolled off the bed and hit her head. It was awful. Then they went on vacation and it happened again! And these women are extremely great parents! It just happens sometimes. And who cares if you moan? Not me!

Nato, that's weird that you can't upload more than one pic at a time. After you uploaded one pic, you tried hitting browse again, finding another pic and then hitting upload? You should be able to keep doing that until you are done.

Regardless, I'm in love with these little outfits. Especially the one with the buildings on it. So, so, so cute!

 

[heart tree]

Oops, let me take that back, you did upload more than one! You are a computer genius!

I want to see a fashion show with Eloise posing in all of them.

 

[NatoPMT]

Vic you have to come here even if its to moan, we are the biggest moaners ever, and quite right too with our collectively history. There is no grumpy tax in disco threads

i am hearty, i am computer conqueror!! My favourite is the little checked one with darts and a baggy bum. and the buildings one. And the retro 70's red flower one. And the shorts. I least like the purple Ralph Lauren one, thats going back

 

[heart tree]

I love the retro one too! I can't wait to see her in all of them.

I just spent $100 on fabrics for my baby! I'm going to make a snuggly baby blanket and some framed fabric panels to hang on the wall. I have to make a blanket for a friend first, but then I'm going to make my own. This baby better be born now. It's my first purchase for it.

 

[LucyJ]

Nato fab outfits Eloise is going to look so gorgeous in them we definitely need pics I love the buildings one.

Vicky moan away aw poor hero but it doesnt make you a bad mummy.

Hearty thats lovely your going to make your baby a blanket I remember the one you made for megg and it waa beautiful.

 

[Jaymes]

I need to take a trip to TJ Maxx!!! Love the rompers!

Vicky- I accidentally dropped Chris from my shoulders onto a cement floor! He was sitting on my shoulders and decided to arch backward suddenly, I lost my grip. That sound will haunt me too! I probably cried more than he did. Good thing I'm only five feet tall!
Then when Bee was about one Chris was three he liked to unbuckle her car seat, so I would let him while I came around to that side to get her out. That day I stopped to switch the laundry, which was in the garage, and all of a sudden they were both crying. She fell out of her seat and split her forehead open. She needed a stitch. Poor baby. It was very traumatic for me. So it very well may be a right of passage!

 

[Allie84]

Call me crazy but I think I read that it's a bad omen if your baby DOESN'T hit their head or fall at some point. Or perhaps it's just made up, having been invented and perpetuated by guilt-ridden mothers to make themselves feel better. Either way, it happens to everyone in some fashion.

Alistair has started to enjoy being propped up in a sitting position. We have a sectional, so I have him sit by me or on me in the corner sometimes. Yesterday I propped him into the corner, stepped about 4 feet away and heard a whine the second I wasn't looking. He had somehow fallen onto his stomach, face first into the couch cushion! I felt so guilty! If I had actually left him there he coud have suffocated! I was feeling awful about it, and had to confess to Alex. And now to you.

So, Vicky, not worry. You're in good company.

 

[Allie84]

Roonsma, ta for the medication info! No one has mentioned that yet. I'll ask about it next week if Alistair hasn't gained any weight.

Thanks everyone else for the tips as well!

Round, I think you've been given great feedback from the girls...I'm so sorry you're in this situation. I too am frustrated at your MIL. It sounds like you've decided to just live with it, then?

Nato, loving the outfits!!! Girls clothes are sooooooooo adorable!

Dazed, I hope the green tea does the trick. Happy to hear you have copious CM.

Yogi, great to hear from you. How did you find a mom and baby group? Sounds fun.

Seems as though a lot of Disco babies go swimming. What is an appropriate age to take LOs in the pool for the first time?

 

[jenny25]

Morning girls how are we?

Vic don't worry aarron has had many accidents your not a bad parent children do these things xxx

 

[prgirl_cesca]

I love romper suits. Like ADORE them. I have no idea what i'll dress Luca in this summer as last summer he was a teeny baby and lived in gorgeous romper suits *sigh*

 

[prgirl_cesca]

Oh and vicky, Luca decided he wanted to do his first roll to the left when he was 4 months old and on our bed whilst I checked his bath water. I saw him falling as I came into the room and the noise when he hit the floor was terrible. He landed right on his back and back of his head. My husband came running upstairs (he heard me scream and thought i'd left him in the bath alone and he'd drowned!) and had such a go at me, but later admitted it could've happened to either of us.

Happens to every parent at one point so don't beat yourself up about it. I rang the out of hours doc and they were like "did he cry?" "is he alert still" and as the answer was yes to both they weren't bothered.

 

[vickyd]

Thanks so much girls! I must admit that Im really struggling at the moment and the only thing ive been feeling lately is guilt. Im working really long hours and really dont have the energy to play productively with Hero when im home. My eyes are always closing and i loose my patience with her very easily. I feel guilty that im sometimes happier and more relaxed when shes at my mom's and when i read facebook statuses of how upset mothers are when they are away from their babies i plunge into guilty mode even deeper. Also the fact that Greece is pretty much done for makes me feel guilty that im not packing up and leaving for her sake. I want to leave but i also want to be near my family and im sure that my dad would die of a broken heart if we took her away from him. So many negative thoughts on my mind these days....
Also if i read one more time in the international press about how lazy we are im gonna commit a mass murder or something! I see working mothers here struggle to get even a couple months off work and all of us working 10-12 hour days and getting paid half of what our international counterparts get! This whole situation is infuriating! The media is trying to get public opinion to hate the greeks for living off the rest of the EU when in reality most of us have had it much harder for years. Anyway rant over for now!

Nato love the outfits girl!
Cesca last summer Hero was in diapers all day as it was too hot for even a romper suit lol! It was brilliant, no laundry and we saved a fortune!

Hearty i love how maternal you are! Its adorable that you will be sewing her first blankets and clothing. Your LO will be born and will be truely blessed to have you as a mom!

 

[prgirl_cesca]

Vicky you need to think of you, your husband and Hero and making a life for the three of you, NOT your family. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions but if Greece is going to the shitter and you're not making enough money to justify the stress and being away from her for 12 hours a day then you have to make a change. Of course your family will be sad but there is something to be said about making a life better for Hero...

 

[vickyd]

Cesca youre right I know.... Im thinking of waiting to see what happens in Greece the next month and then having the conversation with my parents and my boss. I want to be honest with him as hes helped me out tons in the past.
I found a job opening in a big company based in Conneticut NY, maybe ill be a suberbia mom in the future lol!

 

[NatoPMT]

Vic, i do miss Eloise when she's not here, but i need some time alone and my wednesdays when she's at her grandparents are really precious to me (even if i just look at photos of her) - and she's not even a challenging baby.

My friend had a VERY challenging boy, she even went a bit mental from all the crying and shoplifted and thought the police were surveilling her house. She confided in me that she didnt know what to say to the baby and often had to shut the kitchen door to keep her sanity. Her boy is now 2 and has a massive vocabulary and huge imagination. We can only do our best, and part of our best is keeping a roof over their head so you HAVE to work espec in your current climate. You are doing well, the perfect parenting is just an ideal that smug people would have you believe is achievable, just cos you dont tick every box every day doesnt mean youre bad, it means you are good enough and thats all any of us can hope to be

 

[jenny25]

Vicky everywhere is having a rough time with money it's shit how they are making out greese to be bad etc I feel for you guys Greece is such a pretty place I love it there the media always tend to blow things out of proportion I think we all could do with abit of help to get out of this rough spot x

 

[NatoPMT]

maybe cos i swore in that post??? is anyone else being moderated?

edt just got moderated again!!! just the same post which i copied and pasted. grrr

edt again: Vic can you see my above post? i tried to sneak the moderated post in as an edit but the text is a different colour than it should be. Im confused.

 

[NatoPMT]

my post just got deleted???? i am getting mad now. why are they moderating me. i feel picked on.

there was another post before the one above and it got deleted, and my original post was sent for moderation. bastwerds.

 

[NatoPMT]

nope got sent for moderation again. what a load of toss.