Morning lovely ladies
Had the morning 'off' yesterday. Left DP with some EBM and went shopping, it was lovely, but felt slightly strange and even though it was only for a few hours felt like ages. Noah made up for my absence in the evening and cried every time he was put down. Seemed like he wanted to 'cluster feed' so we are going to forget trying to put him down in the evening at this early stage and I am going to set myself up on the sofa in my PJ's and feed as he wants. We are also going to start cooking our meal separately so we can both eat hot food.
Have found the last couple of days quite stressful but have decided it's because I'm putting far too much pressure on me (and Noah) to behave in a certain way. I need to 'tune out' the stories of other babies and just go with what works for us. Once we bought Noah downstairs and just got on with our evening with me cuddling him, he had a lovely feed and conked out on my lap - far less stressful than trying to settle him upstairs and battling with a crying, fussing baby. Despite all this he is still vv gorgeous and really am happy to sit for hours staring at him.
Right, now that's off my chest, how are you all?
Lola So lovely to have you back, seemed like you were away for ages. How was your hol? Are you lovely and tanned? Did you manage to relax at all? Hope your anniversary passed in the way you hoped, was thinking of you.
Fruity WOW- that's marvellous news about your holiday. Makes your lost £190 mat grant seem like small fry, doesn't it? Well done to your DP for bothering to fill out the survey, I always assume things like that are a con. How are the wedding plans coming? Hope you are coming to terms with your BF problems, I know what you mean about not wanting to moan about anything when you are a beautiful, healthy baby (and btw seen your latest Jack pictures on FB and he is beautiful) but don't feel you have to put a brave face on it here. This is real life and I think everyone understands that the challenges don't stop once the baby arrives. Please post, it may make the hard days a little easier.
Piper Like Bella I am fascinated by your twins, the scans are AMAZING. Lots of details all the way through please as am so interested. Hope the sickness is more bearable but then I guess with twins there are double the hormones!
Sparkly Helllooooooo, where are you? Hope you quietness means lots of work not lots of wobbling.
Cricri Have a great break, let us know how the journey goes with Elise. Was hoping you were going to provide good news about sleeping in the evenings so am a little concerned that you are still struggling through. Have you had a look at the sleep topics on MN, they are quite useful, too early for lots of the ideas for us but now that Elise is a bit older there are some good suggestions.
Bella You're right, there is an assumption that BF is easy and it isn't, but I've been lucky and it actually isn't as hard as I thought. It's just a little restricting, but I'm sure once I feel more comfortable feeding anywhere it will be better. When you do have a good feed it is lovely and as long as you have a drink and a snack and something good on the tele there are really worse things than sitting on the sofa with your baba. I shouldn't complain, I've had it easy compared to poor Fruity. If you're worried get as much info as you can before hand (I was and so did and think it has helped) and ask for help if you need it after - I found the midwives in hospital and at home great. There are videos on YouTube that explain and demonstrate holds which look quite good, espec if you are giving NCT classes a miss.
OMG- Sorry for the mammouth post, Noah is asleep so I have time to catch up but if you get to the end of it you deserve a medal.
Hello to all the busy busy lurkers (Georgie I will forgive your absence but don't forget those photos - or shall I just but House & Garden magazine to see your project unveiled - wouldn't that be cool!)