April 2013 TTC girls, where we ALL get our babies!

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We quickly ran out of room on the old thread so here's a shiny new one

Cupcake, I brush DS's hair with a little soft baby brush and he loves it. It is quite thick I think for a little baby.

Ah well don't lulu's DH! :) that's great news Lulu. If I were u I'd take the year off, honestly, that 1st year is so important and they learn so much and have so many milestones. I'd take the year :)

Yayyy well done mr lulu! Great news.

Id agree with cupcake, take the whole year if you can. You could always keep working at your career when you return but you won't get this time back with ds

We're moving next weekend so not this Sunday but next. The removal company are doing all the packing on the Saturday, me and DD are going to go pickup the keys on the Friday before.

I haven't done much prep, any tips for moving with a baby? I think it shouldn't be too bad, we can fit the cats in and DD with our new car so hopefully we will only have to make one trip.

I am going to have a big think over the next few days.

DH tells me he deserves a celebratory DTD but is too tired so I owe him. I don't think it quite works like that DH.

Anyway, he says thank you for the congratulations. His view is we should have another baby asap and get it all done with at once. I don't think that is happening either.

Sairie, have you sold your house? Where are you moving to? I think moving is exciting.

We have been thinking about it but our house is paid off and in a great place so we are going to have some work done on the extension to remove an internal glass wall into the sun room bit and turn the whole space into one huge sitting room with a wall of ceiling to floor glass doors that open onto the patio and garden. The sitting room will be 33ft by 14ft then and we are going to have a cosy area where the fireplace, sofas and telly are and another area with new sofas and a more modern, lazy feel too it with the garden around it and all the glass. Thinking of an upstairs extension too, over the garage to get two more bedrooms and another bathroom but I don't think I could stand the mess and noise of builders for two months.

Hope everyone gets some sleep tonight.

Siarie I moved when DS was 10months so quite a bit older than ur DD is now but we just unpacked his toys 1st and sat him to play with them it was dry difficult I'm not going to lie but he was an active baby then. I'd imagine smaller babies it'd be less difficult as they can't move very far lol!
We made sure the kitchen and DS's bedroom was unpacked 1st as all his essentials were in those places.

Oo Lulu ur home sounds like it's going to be amazing! :) I love the glass door idea, will bring in lots of light in the summer.
I have patio doors in my lounge leading into the garden, it's nice because I've been opening them when it's been warm and DS can just go in and out the garden to play whilst I watch inside :)

I've got work today, haven't been since last Monday because I had that awful headache last week so had some time off then Monday I was due back it was closed due to bank holiday :) but I rele Cba as I know my work is going to be piled high due to me not being there I had 289 documents to process then I managed to get it down to 60 so went for a break for 10mins and came back to 211 documents! I'd been sent more whilst I'd been on a break. So can't imagine what I've got to get through

I have no idea siarie! Maybe take a bouncy chair with you or something so you can sit dd in it to keep her entertained for a few minutes? It must be difficult moving with a baby! I hated moving but loved unpacking!

Hope work isn't too stressful cupcake!

How soon was DH thinking of number 2 lulu? Youl have to make sure that the time is right so you can hVe more time off work! Although I have no idea how everything works with that. Would you just get a 2nd maternity leave straight away?

Well ds was much better last night! It most be thAt he got used to being held to sleep! He woke up at midnight and was whining so I gave him his dummy and he fell back to sleep, then he was up at 3 for his food then woke up at 4 whining which turned to crying (that's the point I usually spring out of bed and pick him up) but after a minute when he realised I wasn't getting up he just fell asleep again until 7.30.

We're renting at the moment, although at some point I think we will buy to let. DH is a contractor so we move where the contracts are and don't want to be tied down too long ideally. Though we have committed to a years tenancy this time.

We are just moving because I wanted to move to somewhere more family friendly, green and with three bedrooms and a garden. So we're off to Richmond, which will be very different to the city living apartment we are in at the moment.

Well done your your DH Lulu, great news

Hurraaah for Lulu's DH! Excellent news! Lulu, I have to say I'd take the full year too in your situation. My maternity allowance finishes in October when DS will only be 6 months and I'm gutted I won't have longer with him.
Glad DS has slept better Ducky.
Tori, that sounds like what both Siairie and I had - big baby and polyhydramnios. It's good they've spotted it - if it had been spotted with me I could have had a much less stressful and risky delivery.
Cupcake I hope not too much work has piled up for you. How are you feeling now? Has the ms passed? I'm so glad your mw appointment went well and very excited about your gender scan!! I think it's a girl
DS kept us awake quite a bit last night and we were so tired we were really tetchy with each other but we're alright now. DP had today and tomorrow off so we're spending some quality family time together. DS has been very smiley this morning he smiled at me for the first time last week when he was only 2 weeks old

Can those of you who ff advise me? I'm ffing at night because DS drinks quicker from a bottle (each bf takes him nearly an hour because he keeps falling asleep!) and we've been buying those 200ml bottles of ready made formula because it's quick and easy and we store whatever's left in the fridge for the next feed. I'd rather make up the formula from the powder because it's much cheaper but I find it quite time consuming because you've got to boil the kettle and then wait for the water to cool a bit but you can't do it in advance if the feed because you have to use it pretty much straight away But if you wait for baby to be hungry then he's crying while you make it up, but if you do it in advance then he might not want it when it's ready and you can't save it!! What do you guys do? Is there a faster way of making up formula from the powder?

Lil, tbh if ds isn't drinking much it worked out for us atthe start to buy the ready made stuff as you can store it for 48 hours and you can get the small or large cartons for £2 something.

When he started drinking more, I would make as I go along and try and calm him with a dummy.

For the night I would make in advance, cool it quickly and store it in the fridge, it's ok in there for 48 hours.

Alternatively you can get the perfect prep? saves so much time and faffing about!

Yay for the first smiles

And tori, I think they say things like that just so your prepared for every thing that could happen. Like with me they told me to have my hospital bags packed by 26 weeks and have them ready at every appointment and there was loads as if there was any problem they would send me straight for a c section turns out ds was quite happy where he was!

My waters with dd went just before she was born, with ds they broke them for me. just try not to slip

Lil Me and Ducky have the Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep Machine. So literally it takes us maybe a minute to make a bottle drink ready temp? Possible two minutes.

I don't know if it's worth it for you if you aren't FF that often but I find it very simple to use and I would be a bit lost without it to be honest.

Haha Tori if your waters go you will want to go find a bucket and pop it under you that will be your first thought. Floods I tell you, FLOODS.

Lill what I did is I put water in the kettle and boiled it. Then when DS needed a bottle the water had already been boiled and it was cold. So I'd poor him a bottle then refill and boil kettle and pop bottle in a jug of boiling water and the bottle warmed up in about a minute. That was my way of doing it.
As long as the water in the kettle has been boiled at some point then it's sterilised.

Yay for ur DS sleeping ducky!

Work wasn't too bad tbh! I got everything done :) and Lill I'm feeling much better and Ms has gone finally! :) I'm pretty sure I'm having a boy lol

Gosh Tori they said to call an ambulance if ur waters break? I've been told I have to come immediately to the hospital as soon as I think I'm having contractions, and that I'm not allowed to stay at home to wait till they are 5 mins apart because my uterus might rupture so I need monitoring ASAP.

Ducky I've also been told to have my hospital bag packed early I have to have it pack by 30 weeks, Incase to early labour again.

Well they are being honest, they said the same thing to me in the hospital. But the important thing is they have picked it up Tori and everything will be fine.

Worse case scenario you end up with an emergency c section. It's not so bad.

Lil - Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep machine is great. We take ours upstairs at night and it is so easy if he needs feeding during the night or early in the morning- don't have to go downstairs and boil kettles! Really worth the money.

I am sitting with my feet up and a glass of white wine and some tortilla chips, ready for the election. DH has some beer. We love watching the results come in. Hoping for a Labour win.

DS came with me to vote this morning, then I pushed him along the seafront for 4 miles and then back again. I need my feet up tonight! He is sitting in his baby chair shouting at the moment. He likes to shout.

Sairie, Richmond is lovely, it will be very nice living there.

Cupcake, that is a huuuge amount of emails!

Duckey - hope you get some sleep.

Lil they often have the prep machine on sale somewhere for around £60ish. Well worth it I think, even if it's just for the night feeds.

Lulu I'm jealous of the wine! Maybe DH will get his celebratory DTD tonight?!

I don't mind who gets in as long as it's not conservative or ukip! They come in quite late don't they though lulu? About 1am I thought?

We have a tv we need to put in the bedroom so I could flick it on when doing the night feeds/putting ds to bed but need to get the wall thingy to hold it TVs been in the loft the last 3 years

Duckey- we are sitting here in despair at the exit polls. Looks like a massive unexpected swing to Tories. How could we have voted the bastards back in after everything they have done to protect the rich and attack the most vulnerable.
DH has just suggested we go to bed! So miserable.

I know lulu just seen it. How depressing.

I'm dreading the news tomorrow

Fingers tightly tightly crossed it's wrong

DH has gone to bed as he has to be up for work. I am sitting here by myself wanting to smack Michael Gove one - smug liitle man.

Awful if it goes as they seem certain it will. Poor DS will start school under a Tory government.