April 2015 Thread 9: Let the chatting continue!

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Quick new thread as only 2 posts left on old one! Any newbies or lurkers please join us!

That's intetesting to hear london, we've got two cats who meow from 6:30am every day so I'm quite used to getting up and taking them out the room on the weekends (can't bare to chuck them out at night).
Also DH gets up at 6:30 in the week and gets ready in the bedroom, most days I go back to sleep and wake later. Took me a short time to block out those sounds but now I don't even notice them.

Might well be different with a newborn cry though and a maternal instinct. I live in hope!

siarie lie ins are more difficult because of what livvy says - your baby often will want one of you over the other and won't easily settle without that, plus personally whenever I can hear dd my brain simply wakes me up. It happens even now she is nearly 21 months, it's so frustrating. If dh lets me stay in bed and I doze off its only ever a bit of a doze not good quality sleep because I hear every little sad or whingey noise there is and wake up, even if she isn't yelling for me. I just can't stop myself listening out for her. For the sake reason I can't just enjoy reading a book or whatever for long. So I have pretty much just given up and nap when she does, but for the odd occasional attempt. Dh is much better at successfully lying in than me and doesn't have these issues though.

siarie When I was BF I had all the early starts but I more than made up for it once I stopped (Got very good at kicking DH out of bed and then rolling over and going back to sleep) DH got all the early mornings apart from when he could convince his parents to watch her whilst he came back to bed, and then he'd generally get kicked back out unless I was already asleep! More recently we're alternating, on the days we're both off we'll take it in turns to get up early, I take her at the weekends so DH can sleep in if he's off, and DH takes DD on the week days so I can get a lay in. I get the lions share of the lay ins in the grand scheme of things though, but I figured I'll more than make up for that if I successfully breastfeed this time round and am doing all the feeds.

Oh, was anyone wanting to try cheeky wipes? if you don't mind second hand wipes I have ahem a few going spare, DH laid them out in front of me as a testament to just how many I have there might be as many as 150 :S I have a mix of the standard terry material wipes in a mix of white pink and yellow (the yellow ones saw some Dylon), lilac soft for hands and faces wipes and then mixed colour terry on one side soft on the other wipes mostly green and blue.

I forgot to say that I just bought a bunch of stuff from m&s they are doing a 20% offer today only.

I just put an order in too Siarie. Just a couple of bits for the nursery - trying to resist buying any more clothes as we already seem to have quite a few and I'm sure we'll be given more. Did another wash today so that's all the up to 1 month and 0-3 things we have washed and ready for baby (or will be once I've ironed today's load ).

Not heard of cheeky wipes,what r they?

Oh no kismac you have my full sympathy! I hope it doesnt get worse.From your fellow vomiting buddy here I managed to go 5 whole days without being sick, was almost hopefully that maybe I was finally over it but it reared it's ugly head again on Friday dam it!!

I'm expecting the worst re sleep, I figure that way if I expect it to be awful anything less than that is a bonus.

Do DHs actually wake up? Our cat gets me up every morning for a snackette at around 4am and OH doesn't even stir! She walks over me and afterwards comes back to bed, purring loudly and sits on my head.
DHs have a filter for noise I think-women are lighter sleepers. I think pregnancy is going some way to preparing me for lack of sleep as it's generally "hour on one side-need the loo-hour on other side etc" iyswim?

Omg right now another 7 weeks before maternity leave feels like far too many... I am knackered!!! This is so much harder second time round with a toddler too, I'm just constantly exhausted!

chicken I'm definitely the lighter sleeper out of me and DH, he always gets up before me and when I come down the washing up is done, the dog is sorted and there is a brew made. I was chatting last night about breastfeeding and night feed and he said "man you women have it so hard, I don't envy you" and said even though he couldn't feed him he still wanted to wake up and suffer with me help, we'll see how that works in reality at 3 am lol

Ditto daholster I'm not sure I can go 9 more weeks. Hoping the iron tablets I'm getting on prescription will help. Hopefully they don't make me more sick.
The side effects are apparently , heartburn, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes diarrhea . They seem like pregnancy symptoms to me so not sure I'll notice the difference haha

I'm the heavier sleeper in our family - so bad I slept through the 87 hurricane in a tent(admittedly as a small child). I am sure my hormones will wake me up, but I am a but worried about how i'm going to face so little sleep! Ah the funs of parenting!

I was just thinking the same daholster although it must be even harder with a toddler (it just tried to autocorrect to tiddler ). Do you have to get the train?
I took most of this year's leave to go off at the end of Feb but I might end up taking some of the leave and say working 2 days until I expire. Not sure-I hate to be bored at home.
Hiding this iron malarkey is not fun. TMI but they can make you constipated one minute, next minute it's falling out Lol. Your DH sounds very organised but yes he will not want to get up in sympathy I don't think!

That's crazy Firaffe. Also crazy that you didn't blow away! My mum and I woke; my Dad and bro didn't. Bloody oblivious!
I want to sleep on the train but I'm scared of snoring.

I'm a really heavy sleeper so half expecting that DH will need to give me a nudge to get up and do night feeds.

Jealous of you potentially finishing in February Chicken - so soon! I'm working until April, still got 9 weeks to get through. I feel ok at the moment but can see it becoming a real effort before too long.

Hiding - my DH used to get up with me when I was BFing DD too and just sit with me. HV got and gave us a very stern look and basically said what a waste of energy, not a sensible way to share the load and she was right of course!

Siarie now that DD is 3 and I'm preggo I get most of the lie-ins although as I'm at work two days a week (on tube now) and then taking DD to nursery for 9am on my at home days a lie-in basically means still up at 730 and a cup of tea brought up to me. Once DH starts his new job end of Feb that will go out of the window so I am making the most of it while I can. At weekends I tend to stay in bed until 8. The thing is once you're used to getting up every day for children it gets harder and harder to lie in for ages - I rarely make it past 830 on a sat or sun. At weekends it's invariably DH who takes DD downstairs, does her breakfast and then he gets on with some work on his laptop while she watches octonauts on her iPad which I'm sure makes us dreadful parents but there we go.

I will say that when we go to stay with the rents because there are suddenly two extra adults we do sometimes send her to knock for them to do her porridge for her

Oh God Banana that's hard, April. Will u be catching public transport? I'm due at the very beginning and good chance of CS so could be March. Still, I don't mind my job so part of me wants to laze around/snore and part of me wants to carry on. Getting further and further away from pedals in the car tho!!!!

My DH would get up and change the baby's nappy then bring him to me in bed for breastfeeding. I would take him back to his cot when he had finished feeding unless it was in the first few weeks after my sections. If you're bottle feeding then IMO the best way to share the night feeds/waking is to have shifts so e.g. the mum does any feeds between bedtime and 2 and the dad does any feeds from 2 a.m. That way both parents get at least a chunk of each night when they don't have to get up.

Hi all

I'm a newbie here. Just wanted to say hello. Ftm due 22nd April.
Just on tram and signal is rubbish so looking forward to sitting down with a cuppa (decaf of course!) And reading the thread later.
Hope everyone is doing well. I feel pretty good at the moment, just some niggly back pain. well I just jinxed that didn't I!

That sucks Squidge14, hope it all moves quickly for you!

Good you're getting it sorted Hidingthefear, you hopefully feel better soon!

We lie in now Sairie, the boys just take themselves downstairs but other than the odd occasion when I was so tired I fell back to sleep and dh took charge I find once they're awake so am I.

My dh is a much lighter sleeper than me ChickenMe so he wakes up easily with cats, dogs kids etc.

I have good and bad days daholster, sorry you're feeling so tired.

Had a horrible 2.5hr Governors meeting last night with unprofessional behaviour which I didn't challenge for fear I'd cry at everyone!!!!

ow ow ow ow sleeping after the whooping cough jab was tough... had a terrible night...

if i lay on my left it hurt, if i lay on my right i felt guilty as you are supposed to lay on the left... wahhhhhhh yawn

Cinnamon that sounds stressful, hope it's not going to impact you too much?

Welcome Archer. No reason why your preg should be anything other than trouble free save for the odd niggle, hang on in there!

Welcome Archer.

Chicken yes I get the tube but almost always get a seat so it's not too bad. I'm working up til April 1st but not due til the 20th so hopefully it won't be too awful at the end. I just want all the time I can get after baby arrives as I can't afford to take any unpaid leave.

Welcome Archer

I'm at work until 2nd April, so feels like ages to go but not due until 24th. I am starting to have the "too short legs, too big a bump" problem. I have to drive to work so I might have to finish earlier if it gets any worse!