mad mad mummy

Cause I am looking at having my second, I have been thinking lately about the best gap between siblings. And this afternoon, I had a little bit of a preview when I picked up my nephew from school, who is just over three years older than Charley.

Now I am not sure if it is just because they are cousins and don’t live together, but they get along really well and he is 6 and she ...

Does anyone wrestle with their toddler to give them medication? I almost had to put Charley in a headlock this morning to give her Nurofen and her antibiotics after the "special drink" trick saw her turn her nose up with an "I don’t like it". So I had to go in military style  - I wonder if anyone else has any suggestions?

Mumspace.net is about to launch - and yes I know that I have said that before to no avail, but this time I am really serious.

Since my last prediction we have been through: a server shutdown, Christmas, New Year, a bout of gastro, two year molars and the giving up of the afternoon sleep, so, as mothers, I know you understand!

At present we are putting the finishing touches on the admin parts of the mumspaces, ...

I am beginning to understand why the terrible twos are so terrible.

For the last week or so, I have told Charley to do or not to do something, and has ignored me, said no, or started laughing at me while continuing to not to do what I say. I am disciplining her, putting her in the naughty corner etc, but she thinks it is a game.

So, while risking a bit of a serious post, I ...

I am in mourning. I don’t know what to do with myself. How will I go on. I am so scared that it’s gone. Gone, never to come back into my life again. At least not with this child.

I am talking about the afternoon sleep.

It was everything to me. My 1-2 hours of blissful peace, where I can get some work done, or watch at least two episodes of Sex and the City, and fall ...

When she was a newborn, I simply could not wait until Charley slept through the night, and then at four months she did, and continued to, unless she was sick or something similar. Lately, however, it is a bit of a different story.

For the past couple of weeks, she has been waking up four, five times a night, sometimes inconsolable with what appears to be fear. Sometimes she wakes up completely, others she is still ...