February 2011 - still some left to pop, surely not...

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Took it upon myself to start a new thread. Everyone's popping right now!

PS: Sorry for the awful rhyme, it was all I could think of

It is always such a relief to hear that others feel as crap as I do sometimes, however selfish of me that is.
Jane, I think you've been coping so well and what a lovely way to mark Zoe's life by getting married this year. Congratulations
Expat I hope your ok.

That's such lovely news Jane. Many congratulations on your wedding plans. You're doing so well.

I hope everyone has had a better night with their little ones. We haven't even gone to bed yet. The clocks have gone forward an hour here so all routines are up the spout a bit. Dh is also travelling with business for 4 days so I am bit worried about how I will cope with all 3 at home on my own! Wish me luck.

I don't know about babies farting, but I'm a trooper. I had IBS for quite a while but thought I'd had it under control. It's like giving birth has irritated it all again. I hope it goes down when my stomach does, eventually!

Good Monday vibes everyone, hope we hear from knitta soon.

jane congratulations! on your plan to get married, that sounds lovely and I think having a bit of a pink theme for Zoe is a good idea from ledkr too. You and your dp deserve a beautiful wedding day full of happiness, and please don't feel guilty when you are having better days than others - it doesn't take away anything from your love for Zoe.

Sorry others are having a bad time of it, it makes me very grateful for my dp, I don't know how I'd cope if he was being unsupportive. I hope people get much needed support soon.

Oops posted too soon. ledkr my dd hates bath time - we only bath her once a week (and top and tail) because she screams so much when we bath her, she gets really upset. Hope this changes soon, I was looking forward to nice bathtimes but thats not happening!

Hope for some news from knitta soon!

Dd is making some noises now so got to go, will check back in later but sending out positive vibes to everyone xx

jane great news - congrats. I know what I went through was nothing compared to you as it was an early pg loss, but, I had a mc and DH and I were devastated and it was because of that that we decided to get engaged and we got married 3 months later. Having the wedding really helped give me something to look forward to, distract me and deal with my upset, and, by the time the wedding was over, time had helped the pain of loss and things were easier to cope with. I also believe in fate and things happening for a reason and sort of feel now like the baby I lost in my mc led me to get married which has given us great happiness and it just wasn't quite the right time for a baby then. I hope this doesn't come out wrong on the internet as it's hard to explain things not in person IYKWIM - I don't mean you wern't meant to be a mum yet, I just mean good things can come from bad.

knitta has been in my thoughts and have been shaking my mental pom poms

ledkr I admit to being lax about bathing LO too - she just cries and DH are all fingers and thumbs when we do it. I'm thinking of getting one of those things you put in the regular bath to hold baby so I can do it on my own when DH at work.

Had possibly the worst night yet last night - alice cried for hours - looked like she had tummy ache or colic or wind or something and NOTHING would stop her. Hardly got any sleep, and, of course, the second I give up on sleeping and turn laptop on she falls asleep! First day on my own today with her and a little nervous

angels you will be fine, just so long as you dont do anything else or expect to eat,wee,drink,wash,dress or wear make up

I also decided not to include baths in dd's eventual bedtime routine as its such a tie,i remember from the others,always having to bath them in case they dont sleep no matter if you are ill tired late or busy.Just cant be bothered,the evening is busy here and im on my own a lot if dh is on lates,Ella has lots of clubs and homework,then there is tea and packed lunches.Rod and back spring to mind so dirty baby it shall be.

angels hope your first day on your own with dd gors well. Hopefully she'll have lots of sleep seeing as she didn't last night - poor you! Its so horrible when they cry like they are in pain - I'm seeing my hv tomorrow and going to mention it, have you had it diagnosed as colic or anything?

FWIW my first day on my own with dd was horrific, she cried all day and I couldn't put her down, by the time dp got home I was completely strung out and the house was a mess. The second day was much better!

Oh, and this morning I changed dd's nappy, as soon as it was open she decided to have a big grunting poo - good god! It just didn't stop - I was stood for about 10 mins just holding her legs up whilst she grunted and the poo kept coming When I thought she was done I moved the nappy and she pissed everywhere

Iloveponyo we had a mid nappy change poo this morning too, poor Mr Wiggles has been caught out by it several times - he can't read the signs as well as me

I don't bath Anna very often either, twice a week, she isn't a sicky baby so no need, also with the three of them and being on my own most evenings - don't think so .... no Superwoman here Anna has gotten to that stage where she grabs my finger when she has her bottle, forgot dds did that too, very cute and a tad emotional.

jane lovely news re wedding, you have my permission to be a complete bridezilla, you can't be any worse than my sister. Apparently its everyones fault that it rains in Ireland at the end of March and why can't we control the weather It's going to be a long 2 weeks until its finally the big day!!!!

angels hope today goes ok xx

Must be the day for massive poos- S did one this morning so I thought it's be safe for her too have a bit of a kick with no nappy on. Tucked another under her bum in case but no, she wiggled off it then pooed all over it, her vest, babygrow AND sleeping bag. And me. Gross.

S has a bath every night with her big sister, she loves it. We have one of those baby holders, angels, it's GREAT and she loves it. DON'T buy one from rip off Mothercare though, get one from Argos for less than half the price!

Feeling a lot more perky today, S did 8-4 then back to sleep till 6. I have just adjusted my body clock I think since I've been going to bed just after the DCs!

Got the house cleaned up today, as DD1 is at toddler group with my mum, and about to look at doing my grocery shopping online. Always been a sainsbury's girl but I'm shocked at how expensive it's got, tell me where you think is best and cheapest to get your shopping delivered from?

jane good news about your wedding, do we all get invites? [grin}

lol at all the poo incidents - hope I don't get one of those today

so far so good on my own - DD has been sleeping all morning after the cries all night. Sadly, no sleep for me as mws are visiting today to weigh her and I don't want to have to dash to the door mid nap as I'll be all over the place.

ponyo we have (as naive parents) diagnosed it as colic as she does leg movements looking like she has tummy pain and often when she goes to the loo it makes it temporarily better. we've been using infacol for a week now but no massive difference. Tbh it might also be as we have taken away her bottle top ups all day except in the evening.

It's a bad move leaving me on my own with the internet though as have already ordered stuff from boots, amazon and play this morning and tried to order some fat big clothes to fit my flabby figure too but card got rejected and just had to speak to fraud dept at barclays as all the activity it had had this morning meant they thought someone was using my card fraudulantly . Nope, just me buying up the whole of the internet

jane - I think it's a normal part of grief to feel guilty when life starts to move on. It doesn't mean you love Zoe any less or are forgetting about her. Congrats on the wedding plans too! Something to focus on will help.

Last night was not good for us either. L was up frequently but too sleepy to feed - but wide awake the instant he was back in his cot. After my complaints about DH yesterday, he went to work late and took L so I could have more sleep. I tried a dummy last night but he doesn't seem to know what to do with it, just holds his mouth open until it falls out.

angels - good luck today. The first day DH was back at work, I was sobbing on the sofa when he came home. Can you possibly get out of the house today? I realised I need to get out every day, even if it's just a wander around Tesco with the pram.

Hello everyone - Can M join the poo club too? It was yesterday and required a bath to clean up!

How is it going angels? is there anything left on the Internet to buy or shall I not bother loggin on?

Jane congrats on the wedding plans, I think that's great. Something to focus on - I can understand why you feel guilty, but really there is no need to. You know how much Zoe means to you and nothing can ever take that away. You deserve to have something good happening in your life.

M doesn't have any sort of routine yet, just has to fit in with the rest of us! Poor boy

Jane massive congratulations on the wedding plans. Zoe will be in all of your thoughts on the day and I know you'll incorporate her in the day in a special way.

To all of those who's babies are starting to go longer over night and are bf are you having umm leakage issues? Archie has started (please let it last) going 5/6 hours on a night but I'm awake with the most massive full boobs. Don't want to express incase he then wakes and I'm empty and can't feed. Obviously not complaining about the sleep, but had to change the bed at 1am due to a flood of breast milk.....lovely.

So looking forward to hearing from knitta is she the last one on the stats to pop?

justonemore if you express can you not then feed that to your LO? (wouldn't worry about running out then?

Has anyone had thrush in their nipples/LO had thrush? Mw came for visit and thinks Alice has thrush as she has white dots all over her mouth. Have to see GP later this pm (so much for uneventful first day on my own!). So maybe that's why she was so miserable last night and why my nipples hurt so much

40 I've now brought up the entire internet - don't even bother looking for anything as I've brought it already

justonemore it should rectify itself in a day or two as your body will work out what it needs to supply, so hopefully the worst is over. If you express then your clever boobies will think they need to keep on providing that milk and your supply might stay up. That's what my mw or hv (can't remember which) told me with ds1. Hope you have a better night.

Just at the docs now waiting to see gp about chronic headache I have had all week. Hope they can help me!

40 thanks, hope it settles. Am terrified of expressing having had mastitis SO badly with two out of the other three dc's after expressing (I think I pumped too much as produced gallons). Hope you sort out the headache, how awful for you.

40 weeks if you don't mind can you let me know how your doc appt goes! I've had a desperate headache on and off for about a week and was contemplating giving GP a quick ring. Thanks

just realised we are reaching the end of the thread so will try and set up another one... will post link in min

new thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1171533-feb-2011-waving-those-pom-poms