Graduated elderberries - 30+ and looking forward to DC1! (Thread 6)

[HazleNutt]

Oh, looks like I wrote the last post! So new thread here where we will see more berry babies and hopefully loads more graduates as well.

Aw merkin that's amazing!! How many weeks are you measuring????
Janey I really hope its just a glitch. Whatever happens you have done it for 5 weeks which is pretty good going. Have you tried expressing?
How did it go cavort??
I had my 5 day check today and Lara put on 30g from her birth weight. I got praised for good milk as they were expecting her weight to go down! I'm pleased about that.
Will attempt a car journey tomorrow. DH wants to travel to his parents. God helps us!!

Measuring just under 6 and should be 6+1 however she was not worried in the slightest

merkin I thought you didn't know your dates or have I got that wrong? How do you know it should be 6+1?

I'm pretty sure my dating scan is 3 days out as I know exactly when we conceived but I don't think it matters - unless I go overdue and need to be induced, then I'll explain to them!

Oh and a question for the berry mummies - what are you doing with regards to Moses basket/cosleepers/cot beds? Trying to decide what to buy. Saw a cotbed for around 100 on john Lewis and you buy a mattress for it. All the cosleeper type beds I've found seem expensive considering how long they're in it for?

6+1 is based on 266 days from o (which I know)

Sorry posted too soon. She said ovulation wasn't a perfect indicator of dates and implantation can take place over quite a wide time scale

Yes it can take a couple of days I think. My dates are still wrong though as I hadn't even ovulated yet by their dates! (I saw it the follicle on a screen with the egg about to pop out!)

Well you couldn't have better proof could you? (Unless of course you had magic sperm that swam into your ovary and fertilised the egg before you even ovulated )

I'm sure DH would love the idea of his magic powerful Olympic sperm but no I don't think that was the case

Aww congratulations on your scan Merkin! I remember not really believing it until I saw an actual baby then it suddenly feels exciting all over again like you just found out (or maybe I'm just dozy)

Re: beds, we've got a cot bed but obviously it's absolutely massive and a newborn would be totally lost in it so we borrowed a Moses basket which is sitting in the cot bed. For all of that, she prefers to sleep like a starfish in the middle of our bed!

Great news Merk That magic heartbeat makes all the difference.

Alex she sleeps in a moses basket and when she grows out of that we will bring the cot into our bedroom for a few months, which is luckily quite a big room as cots aren't exactly small!

alex for night time, I have this co-sleeper www.amazon.de/FabiMax-Beistellbett-Babymax-Matratze-PROTECT/dp/B009WQFPJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375421596&sr=8-1&keywords=fabimax
and it's really great, baby can sleep in his own bed, but I can just grab him for feeding and put back without waking him. For daytime naps, we have Amby hammock and Vic loves it.
Have a moses basket too, but baby does not seem to like it for some reason.

HUGE congrats Merk, its so amazing isnt it!!!! Really thrilled for u!

We have a cot for the room but I am hoping to use the moses basket-esk bit from the pram, will obviously check it is suitable when I get the pram but I figure it is basically the same thing and saves having both in the house. Plus then I can put him in the pram in the front room or kitchen and wheel him back and forth if he wont settle and he will be already used to sleeping in it. Thats the plan anyway

I have a cot bed which I have not assembled yet and a Moses basket in my room. Although like cavort's, Lara only seems to want to sleep in our bed!
We were given a pram and have it downstairs for daytime naps. She also seems to prefer napping on someone's lap though.
From everything I have, her favourite seems to be a bouncy chair. In think it has something to do with the fact that is vibrates gently. It's the one place we manage to get her to settle for longer. Plus it's incredibly cute

ohhh we have a boucey chair, fingers crossed ours loves it too

We have a swinging/rocking chair (swings on its own with batteries, has music too) it's a hand me down, can't wait to use it - wonder if it does the same job or we should invest in a bouncy chair too?!

Love your co sleeper hazle - shame it's not UK amazon as seems like a good price! Tricky to know whether to try a Moses basked first or go ahead and buy co sleeper now as sounds like some babies (like cavorts) don't mind the Moses basket all the time!

alex German amazon delivers that co-sleeper to UK for 14 eur. You can also buy 4th side and use it as a stand-alone cot later.

Thanks hazle that might be worth it as I'm not finding much better on eBay (to be fair I've only looked once!) There's another on there for just 69 euros. Only prob is I can't remember a word of German (how did I get that GCSE A grade!) so need to find a German speaking person to sit with me and order it! Or be cost effective and see how I get on with a Moses first.

www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B002IJBJ6K/ref=aw_2nd_sims_2?pi=SL500_SS115

I can't wait to get to the stage when I can start buying baby things!
I signed up for a random baby club and they have sent me a free ginger and camomile tea bag. If this takes the sickness away I think I will send them a lot of money!!!

Alex I think Google Translate may be your friend here.

We haven't had any moses basket sleeping issues (we have got a teddy which plays womb-like sounds in it which probably helps,) but I thought I would try the cheaper option first before buying a dearer cosleeper if she didn't take to the basket. She sleeps in the pram carrycot for daytime naps but is not currently a fan of the vibrating bouncy chair, although she will tolerate it for 5 mins if I need to pop to the loo.

First night following TT division and she slept from 12.00-5.15 and 6.00-9.00 so I am a happy Mummy today. She is undoubtedly feeding better and longer but she is sucking way too strong (presumably as she previously struggled to get a good seal with the TT,) so she is taking too much milk in a short time which results in projectile vomit. There is always something! Hopefully she will self-regulate this once she realises she doesn't have to work as hard now. Either that or DH and I will spend the next year covered in milk.

Sounds like a great night cavort , really glad the TT helped! You had a better night sleep than me! I got up early as we have suspected rising damp/mould on some walls downstairs despite DH having that all done and totally replastered when he moved in (as you can imagine we are not happy with the company!) so I had the guy round to inject chemicals into the wall and now we have to try and take it from there with letters, second opinions etc. What was worrying is the guy said damp/mould causes all sorts of health probs and really not good for a new baby. So if anyone else has an old house, keep an eye out!

See mine LOVES the bouncy chair so just goes to show they're all different (which is why it's so hard to know what to buy!)

Wow, that's pretty good going on the sleeping Cavort! ()

I am almost annoyed that she slept so well as DH is off today and had offered to get up and give her expressed bottles so I could have a good sleep. I was sneakily hoping she'd have a really fussy night like all the ones I've had to do while he snored. He got up with her at 5.15 but my boobs were like rocks by then so I fed her to get some relief.

I keep sneaking her into the bouncy chair when she's asleep but she just looks grumpy when she wakes up.

That made me laugh cavort about you sneaking her into the bouncy chair! She's onto you!

Nice work Elodie!!! Let mummy sleep more although if you could stop projectile vomiting on her I'm sure she would appreciate it So glad the TT snip seems to have helped.

I had an awful night last night, so so hot, actually got up at 1am and put my feet under the shower as they were hot and throbbing, my OHs mint tingle shower gel certainly came into its own and helped to cool them and me down. Slept the rest of the night under a single sheet as was baking! I think the lack of sleep is why I couldn't find the word for 'carrycot' in my head this morning.....damn foggy baby brain!

On a different note we bought a used kitchen off of someone near us who is replacing theirs, got heaps of units plus a fridge freezer, washing machine and dishwasher for £300. Also it looks like you can buy extra bits from B&Q reasonably. It's only a simple maple one but it's nice as it means that doing the kitchen becomes a possibility, we want to do a few other bits i.e remove a couple of built in cupboards, move where the door to the garden is etc, but we thought all the work would cost about £3.5/£4k (as my brother and OH can do it) but having the kitchen bits means the cost is much lower. No idea when it will actually be done though, 12th of never knowing my OH!!