Sneeze births please, and we'll BROOK NO ARGUMENT

[TheLittleFriend]

Over here Brookers. I'll stick a cake in the oven

Wow Fluff! You're even more hardcore than I thought! I take my hat off to you, well done for getting through all of that. I hope you're enjoying your well-earned newborn snuggles right now, she's absolutely gorgeous! No Brooking for a super speedy recovery for you!

Back from hols in lovely Wales, had a great time but back still very bad and it stopped us doing as much as we would normally. Hey ho, physio starts on Tue.

No wifi so missed fluff's news so massive congratulations to you and mr fluff! Will check out fb in a min.

Tock, sorry you have been through trauma with your pain but glad it's nothing to worry about. Hope DP is back soon chuck.

Need to catch up with rest of thread now...

Having lovely newborn cuddles, thankyou! I always thought new mums were exaggerating when they said they were so busy they only got their morning shower at lunchtime. I had mine at 5pm today

whims I laughed so hard at 'bobbins disease' that my stitches hurt, shame on you but it's lovely they're taking such good care of you. I bet you get tonnes of scans too

Well done on your successful physio appointment little. My spd and a friend's both improved considerably in tri3 so I hope it works that way too.

Thankyou for the kind words everyone, I've really appreciated all your support :) hope everyone is doing well :)

Thanks cakes it's nice to hear it's going well for you! I feel like my innards are rattling around in a tummy that's too cavernous for them, it's quite unpleasant. Did you have that and did it pass? My milk's not in yet either, despite dd's weight doing well. The local bf counsellor says the section might delay it but I'm panicking anyway :o

And i can't remember who said their 2nd birth was an entirely different story (am on my mobile ) but thankyou thankyou thankyou! I've been a bit worried about that because I'm mad

Wow fluff, I've only just caught up. You did brilliantly. You came through so much and you sound so together. Well blooming done!

It took 4 days for my milk to come in with DD (no section, but ended up in surgery afterwards) so I should hope that it will come in soon for you. You sound like you're doing great anyway, just don't push yourself to get back to normal too quickly. You've had major surgery, and need to let your DP and others look after you.

Seems like ages since I posted last, been tired in the evenings so they just seem to slip past unnoticed. I had a nap this afternoon, which is the only reason I'm still awake now.
Well, we went ahead and bought a new car. Lots of money, but very nice. It's a 2011 model Kia Ceed, with lots of useless added extras, like separate climate control for the passenger and driver! It's also got excellent safety ratings, and isofix for baby seat, as well as a 6yr warranty (which I'm hoping will mean it never breaks down! Am I a bit optimistic?).

Fluff that's quite a birth story! Your DD is beautiful though, and you have a very proud looking DH there! I hope you can get everything straight in your head, and process all that drama into some sense. Tiredness and pain can do funny things to you - I know it's nowhere near the same(!), but when I had appendicitis I ended up in a weird place mentally after a night of pain and no sleep. I vividly remember how logical my very illogical thoughts seemed, and how incapable I was of thinking straight. I still can't argue with the decisions I made at that time, because they were right at the time, even though they seem silly now. I'm not sure that's at all useful or relevant, but it took ages to type and will take almost as long to delete on the iPad. Just ignore it if you like :)

I've forgotten everything else I was going to say, and everything else I've read on the thread. Sigh.

Thanks so much smegs and stacks :) I just remember thinking that the staff were all amazing, and I needed to trust them to do their jobs because I was in no fit state to argue and DH was getting seriously worried by the time we'd progressed to theatre. But all's well that ends well, as they say - and that's the main thing even if it has put the fear of god into me over a potential no.2 :)

Your car sounds fab stacks! A 6yr warranty is pretty good going

Hellooo everyone, hope you're all having good weekends.

I'm exhausted, manic weekend with me & dp trying to decorate bathroom and get ready for dd's third birthday on Tuesday. I'm rather impressed with my first attempt at cake decorating though . Off to get more food shopping now - we are seriously leaking money atm, and I can't see that getting any better with Xmas and a new baby round the corner

Oh, and there's excitement on the ttc thread, hopefully we have a new grad....

Ooh, thanks for the warning little

< races off to TTC thread >

Oooh fluff that sounds so dramatic, sounds like you were an absolute trooper and I am so pleased feeling is going well. Can you add a pic to your profile when you have a moment as I am not on facebook?

Waves to all the other brookers :)

Congratulations to cake and fluff!! I agree with the others fluff totally normal that you need to process everything and allow yourself time to do that. I think it's the same for your brain as it is for your body, you've been through a lot and you need time to heal and get back to full flufftasticness I'm not on the FB group :( I want to see piccies!!! And know the name!! :)

I have been lingering but was so busy didn't have time to read everything properly and post. I've been in England for a few days visiting my family (last chance before baby arrives) and it was really lovely spending time with them. My nephew (10) and niece (6) both predict a boy. Niece also really wanted to feel the baby move and kept stroking the bump, DN did eventually wait long enough to feel baby and I think she generally is excited about there being a baby and one day the chance of being a bridesmaid (poor DP, as if there wasn't enough pressure already ).

I did some more nursery yesterday, and am aching a bit today for it. We decided on a colour to paint - a very nice sky blue. I was originally going to do 2 colours, but have decided on just one, with some murals painted by DSIL to break it up a bit. Also built the first bit of furniture - some chest of drawers. This week I'll maybe wash things and put them away, but I'm not sure. Surely if I wash them and put them in new Ikea drawers they're just going to smell like that new wood smell? I might just put everything in them for storage, and wash them closer to the time.
Given that we've just bought a car, and a new kitchen, I'm not sure what other furniture we're going to bother with just now. We're not really going to need a cot for a while right? I might look online for a (cheap, second hand) changing station, and maybe a rocking chair for feeding - again, second hand.
What's it like having a new born though? Am I going to go into the nursery specially to feed/dress/change baby, or is it more likely I'll just do it all on my bed beside the crib?

I wonder who our TTC graduate will be? If I get a chance later I'll go spy and see.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

stacks I did use the nursery for changing and dressing dd and somewhere to sit when needing a change of scene with her! I'm sure others do it all in the parents room to start with

I used the baby's room lots really stacks, for changing, feeding so I could look out of a different window, playing with all the little clothes...

Our bedroom wasn't very big, so there was only room for an extra moses basket and nothing else and the stinking nappy buckets were in the baby's room

Also, I'd put them in their moses basket in the cot for naps and things, and actually moved them out of our room quite quickly (noisy blighters) at 3, 6 and 10 weeks. The baby's room was only across the corridor, so hardly far away, but it meant i could actually sleep for the (short) time between feeds rather than lying awake enduring snuffling.

Tentatively marking place lurking for now!!

Hehe whim. I thought the snuffling was meant to be wonderful and endearing, not something to be "endured"

First post from iPhone 5 using mumsnet app. It's easier on a computer!

Grats Sparkle! Hope you get some confidence soon and start chatting :)

I was the same whims, couldn't have dd in with us past 9 weeks as it was like having a little pig snuffling away in the moses basket next to us!

Yup, we moved DD out of our room quite quickly too, less than three months in anyway, and everyone slept a lot better! I also did what Whim did and put the Moses inside the cot for naps so she would get used to the room and I think that probably made the transition from Moses to cot go more smoothly than it would have otherwise (at least for me, if not for her).

I didn't think I'd use a changing station stacks but having had a section i think one would've been super handy! Her room's just a glorified storage room at the moment though I must admit - though I'd give my left arm for a comfy feeding chair (something else i thought i wouldn't need, but the sofa's not really cutting the mustard).

I'll pop a photo up tomorrow - I can't really put the name on MN though as it'll stand out a mile for anyone that knows me irl!

Hope everyone's ok. We're trying infacol this evening after some very late nights / early mornings and gurgly tums. Wish us luck!

4 months of DS in our bed nearly finished me off. Would actually have moved next door if I could have at that point. How can such a tiny creature take over the entire kingsize bed and sound like a herd of wild boar on the rampage you ask? Well Stacks you are about to find out. Our tiny nursery was a godsend. Next DC will suffer short shrift poor child. I blame DS entirely; he has blazed an unforgettable trail.

Wanted to ask Smegs if she's had any luck with her sproglet changing position?

Little, feel like we are bleeding money too. I think the prospect of 2 has panicked me a little. But am also going mad with house repairs, paranoia?

Nuts; so sweet about your DNs.

Xxxx

Im another one who couldn't bear the snuffling! DS went into his own room at 5 weeks so that I could at least get a tiny amount of sleep! I didn't have a nursing chair last time but I have just purchased one off Ebay for this time round as I really
struggled with back pain whilst breast feeding in an armchair last time the huge size of DS may have also contributed to this too

There's a little photo of DD here :)

(I'll probably delete them in a day or two, so get em while they're hot :o )

Hullo. Lovely photos fluff - have to admit to having a squizz at your FB photos too, can't get enough pics of your beautiful DD!

tock I genuinely don't know if DC2 has turned yet - I'm getting kicked in all sorts of bizarre places, I'm starting to think I'll be giving birth to a giant spider . MW cancelled on me yesterday as she was attending an HB, so I'm really in the dark until we can reschedule.

DD was in with us for 4 months, then in her own room off and on until 6 months when she moved in properly. TBH I wanted her in there after the first couple of weeks, she was the noisiest sleeper ever! Besides the snuffling and grunting she shouted in her sleep, which always made me laugh as it was accompanied by 'rave arms', but not so good for me getting some rest.

I couldn't co-sleep with her, sadly. I intended to, but the after the third time of her punching me in the face I realised that it just wasn't to be