January 2014 Thread 17 - and the final babies will be here any day now!

[Frizz1986]

Thought i would start up the last thread before we move over to postnatal thread.

Persephone does that staring thing felix, freaks me out. Probably doesn't help that DH says 'Percy sees dead people', like The Sixth Sense!

Similar night here toby, except Percy feeds every hour for 5 minutes but then cries when I move her away from the breast and latches back on when I offer it again. She's been like this for a couple of days and I'm so sore now that it hurts to have clothes touch my nipples. I think I'm going to buy some formula today because I'm worried that she's so hungry all the time because of my supply or something.

Anyway, Monday morning. Can only get better from here!

He he! I've never heard my name used like that!

It's a nickname I had/have based on my maiden name. I probably shouldn't use it on here in case someone knows me, but to be fair, I don't really care if someone I know reads what I write except a few moany threads or comments about MIL and SIL which I should probably get deleted.
I name change for any really controversial threads!!

felix I'm sure babies can see something we can't! We say it's fairies, which I prefer the thought of to dead people!!

Book is she hungry or just sucking for comfort? Have you tried a dummy or your pinky?

We too have the waking fora 5 min feed and them either falling asleep, or pulling off and crying until I latch her back on. I'm convinced it's when she's so tired she can't even feed. It's frustrating as she'll then wake an hour later hungry. Just wish she'd fill her boots so we can all sleep!
If she's not swaddled she 'll often frantically start sucking at her hands too and cry because she's not getting anything! Doh!!
It never ceases to amaze me just how useless babies are and just how dependent they are on us for EVERYTHING !!

Henry does the staring thing too!

child benefit went in today, as i only just sent the form for Henry away, it was for ds1. Then a direct debit which shouldn't go out until wed (when i get paid) and our amazon subscribe and save on nappies and wipes went out today too, even tho i say i don't want delivery until end of the month, so that should be wed too went out. So i have 71p. And we need baby formula.

I've emailed mom asking to borrow some money. Not nice.

DH's dad has won a far amount of money gambling. He's giving us some money to have a night out on him, which is lovely. Dunno how much, but £30 would more than cover movies (orange Wednesday) and a kfc or something. But we don't know when that would be transferred into our account.

Oh, and I've been up since 5.30 when DS had a coughing fit and then wanted his milk. He went back to sleep, Lara grunted and groaned but has been asleep since then too. DH alarm went of at 6am which is when I get up too.

I have managed to get showered, dressed with make up, had breakfast without children which was nice and dinner is cooking in the slow cooker. Now just got to get these 2 up so we can go to toddler group this morning, but feel very cheated on my sleep. If they are asleep so should I be!!

Thoughts are with those struggling with lack of sleep.

book we got the bednest which helped a bit but didn't solve all our problems so got the sleepyhead as well and the combination of the two works really well for us. There is a thread on the sleep board at the moment on cheaper alternatives to the bednest if you are interested. I'll see if I can find it and post a link.

So Dh just handed his notice in. Eek. There are some jobs out there he is interested in though so fx he can get something to start after he finishes this job.

In other news, does anyone watch Saturday Night Takeaway? The Supercomputer is in Liverpool and I'm really tempted to go!

Can't post link as on phone grr. But thread is called anyone recommend nct bednest so not too cryptic. Last post on the 22nd.

I should say I don't think the bednest was 100% successful for us because of our bedframe which means there is a gap between our mattress and the bednest mattress which I stuffed with towels, but something to be aware of depending on your frame.

Sleepyhead worked a dream though. Olivia sleeps really well in hers.

Ah, well in case it wasn't clear, Pidgy is a Pokémon. That's why DS gets his out on a regular basis :o

Well done for being so organised, Pidgy. I went back to sleep and have only just got up!

I really hope the formula helps, book. Are you going to carry on trying to bf too, or just draw a line under it? I don't think you could have tried much harder
At least the sun is out. Don't forget call if you need cake-- rescuing from being by yourself!

Ugh, frying, I hate it when that happens. Hope your mum can help you.

She dis, the love, transferred over more than enough which is fantastic.

dh's dad transferred over the money for our night out. Instead of going out we are going to get a take away and watch a movie once the kids are in bed. I'm not ready to leave Henry with my mil yet. She's lovely, but her husband (dh's step dad) is a putz. He constantly tries to undermine my parenting with ds1.

but am meeting mil alone in an hour

Good, that's a relief :)
Enjoy your takeaway!

I can hear DH downstairs singing to Meredith to the tune of Blackadder. She stands no chance of growing up normally, does she?

Frying glad you've got sorted. That really lovely if your FIL to fund a night out (or in!).

Pidgy you are super organised what have you got in your slow cooker?

Nature we have the same problem with our bed frame. It has a rim around the edge that sticks out loads (and bashes my shins constantly) so there's a gap with our bednest too. Sylvie is still sleeping in the cocoonababy but placed inside the bednest so the gap isn't a problem yet, but I think she will outgrow it soon so I'll have to plug the gap up too!

Got my postnatal check and Sylvie's 6 week check and also her immunisations today. DP has fixed the brake on my lovely silver cross pram so I'm going to attempt to get it down the steps at the front of the house and take her to the doctors in it today. I'm worried I won't even get it in the GP's room because it's bloody huge I'm dying to use it though.

Toby much better than what dp insists on singing to Cal. "we built this baby…on not enough sex" (to the tune of "we built this city on rock and roll"). Blackadder is semi educational at least.

frying glad you've got some help. Enjoy your takeaway.

pidgy I'm in awe of your efficiency.

We've been house sitting for DPs parents for the weekend, and today's the last day, thank God. They have a gorgeous, big country living style house which is lovely but I hate looking after it. It is also cold as fuck, drafty, with a aga which always goes out. They have 2 dogs and 3 cats who cannot be left alone. Dps collie has ishoos and goes completely neurotic when left alone and she got into bed with us at 3am last night. One of the cats also goes a bit mental and decides to shit everywhere but her tray. Cat number 2 is a clumsy wildcard, also hates dps parents going away, also got into bed with us. With Cal insisting on co sleeping on dp, cat on my head, dog on my feet, nobody slept particularly well. Except DS1 who loves it here and woke up full of the joys of spring.

Between the dogs, cats, kids and stove I am knackered and can't wait to get back to my modern, centrally heated home.

felix is it a balmoral type silver cross? Or a modern one? I love looking at Parma [sad basket case emoticon]

Best of luck to you and Sylvie

Parma?? Prams - bloody autocorrect

Good luck, Felix and Sylvie!

We built this baby on not enough sex :o

The house sounds lovely, if hard work, enormouse.

Enormouse it's a Kensington coach built one so the old style. It's beautiful and shiny

Hey all -i'm also in the club with a crazy baby wanting to be latched on then falling asleep a few minutes later - repeat at intervals maximally annoying for just falling asleep and no more after say about 4am
Little puggle was a pest most of the night - after the exciting success of 2hrs in bed nest hurray/boo. To compound it all, he then decided to be megatired and screamy at 9:15 when i'm usually enjoying wanted down under so I had to get the stretchy wrap on and start walking....Ah the delight of complaining you're too tired when you should have slept properly at night in the first place - grrrrrr
Humpty sounds like you're doing a great job

Felix that's the same sleeping arrangement we have. You don't have the Ikea Malm bed by any chance do you?? The shin hitting sounds familiar!

I'm in the club too, why can't the babies just fill their boots then sleep for a few hours? Ia this a bf thing or do formula fed babies do the same. I think about switching to formula about 10 times a day at the moment, struggling a bit with the demands of bf'ing.

Xander seems to be starting with reflux just to add to the joy, like he needs any more reasons to cry.

We'll look back at this time in a couple of years and miss it, right?

I found expressing much more reassuring than bf as I can see how much he gets. Still can't get Henry to bf properly anyway so don't have much choice. Did buy nipple shields yesterday but Henry doesn't seem to suck strong enough for them to work? I express in morning and bedtime and get about 200ml a time then top up with formula. Henry seems happy with this

Nature we don't but we almost bought that one!!! Ours is a stupid one from argos and it pisses me off on a regular basis!

Merry we are formula feeding and don't seem to have much problem with her sleeping, but I know it's a common misconception that ff babies will sleep better. I read a long thread about it on here a few weeks ago! I think it's just luck really.

If it helps Olivia is bf and sleeps well so I think it just depends on the baby.

Completely forgot I had a hv visit today! Opps. Living room was a bit of a mess as the dog had scattered her toys every where! Oh well at least I was dressed!

Annoyingly the car battery seems to have died. So if I want to go into town I'd have to get the train!

merry I am so with you on that front. I hate the late night/early morning cluster feeding. But I'm going to persevere with bfing as I know hope this stage doesn't last long and I quite enjoy it all the other times that aren't late at night. I also have a lot of atopic conditions (eczema, childhood asthma and allergies) that bfing should help with Cal not developing.

Cal does sleep well when not cluster feeding but his brother was bf and slept badly. Though he was fine when moved into his own room and has slept through ever since. It depends on the child, I think.

I've ordered a better breastpump and some other expressing paraphernalia so hopefully dp can do the odd feed for me.

We're in the cluster feeding not sleeping club too. Saturday night and Sunday where very painful as Alice feed every hour day or night and screamed a lot. Last night was better we had 3 and a half hours and two hours forty mins so I felt more human this morning . Sadly she's been awake since 11am and is now over tired and crying / velcro baby again.

Luckily I'm on the sofa with a 30 day free trial of lovefilm so catching up on greys anatomy but need some lunch!

I haven't made it to any baby groups yet and we had been moving so I didn't do nct so am feeling a bit isolated. Need to make an effort to meet up with others with babies before I go insane...

I know what you mean about needing to make an effort to meet people, fly. Me too.

Those thinking about giving up breastfeeding...I know it's tough and demanding, but it does get easier! Honest! And I found it a whole lot simpler in the end as you can't forget it if you go out, nothing to sterilise or heat up and it helps with the weight loss I found. In fact, I never dieted and ate cake etc and still managed to get back to pre-baby weight with DS.

Also, just a word of caution with expressing. Two girls in my Nct were doing this 100% (ie. baby never breastfeed from them) and their supply decreased really fast. I think they said something about actually needing the baby latched on to get the hormones to keep up the supply.
I think it's fine for one or two feeds per day though and know a lot of people who did this.

Like the sound of your pram felix

enormouse your sleeping arrangement sounds cozy! I've got allergies to cats so wouldn't work for me!!

frying enjoy your date night. We had one Saturday but only watched half a film before we were both tired! Had a lovely curry tho. Mmmmm!

Think I was too efficient this morning. I'm knackered now. Just ate a load of chocolates tho to regain strength.