April chat for locals

[mellow2]

New thread for new month!

mellow order of preference is 6, 13, 21 I hate you

steppie liking dump the relative and run routine, I always like seeing the portion of my family I actually get along with, but it is ever so stressful

Hello

Hope you're all having a nice day. We're having fun & games on the house. Dh called this morning and said after a sleepless night (he was freaked out by yesterday price fall headlines) he started having doubts about the price. Anyway we ended up pulling our offer But agent has been chasing us all day with a new offer (does make you wonder about other bidder ). DH coming home tonight so we can discuss face to face...
Anyway had a good day so far & got my top from Kingston so at least wedding outfit sorted. Ds enjoyed meeting a clown, well he was bit scared st same time

Sfx - thanks for remembering about eggfree, v. kind of you, sounds yum! Will see if I can get the car otherwise it will have to be the elusive R68

Foxie - glad all smoothed over with lodger

Steppie -what are you having done on your house?

sfx the babe and i loved our kew walk with you and your fabbie DD. omg she is too cute - i love how she loved my "HUGE tummy" (aka my DS in a sling). please thank her again for my present.

ros sorry we missed you maybe next week?! hope your feeling good with the pregnancy!

kew are you feeling better today?

lau did you end up going to your mums?

hi 2under2 - i'm a bit new to this site too - my DS is a little over 5 months old. and loves to be held by new people like sfx ;) (actually he's a bit mommy-oriented)

Hi again, for whoever it was that asked the age of my dc, I have a crazy bear of a 15.5 month old son and a newborn (1 week!!_ gorgeous brand new little daughter. Oh my god, are we in for a ride of a lifetime dealing with sleep deprivation and these two little darlings - there are simply not enough hours in the day!

Had my first blurry week of breastfeeding and little sleep - all a blur - and memory starting to go - and all those lovely familiar feelings willing to hang yourself out on the washing line. Please remind me this is short lived!!

Am actually considering putting dd onto formula throughout the day to eleviate the time spent on the breast in order to maintain some semblence of control and routine with my littel boy - has anyone tried mixed feeding in this way?

OK so having decided that I will live to see the weekend I am planning to take DS to see the animals at Kew on Saturday. Anyone else want to meet - Sushi - you said you might be going?

Still sick but AB's seemd to kick in oday and so I just feel ill rather than like death (IYKWIM)

SJ you are welcome, dd wants to do that tomorrow so we might all pitch in, think I have enough wooden spoons
about the house sounds like you need to take it easy and consider your options.

2under2 I have no experience of what you are going through but remember clearly the fog that those first few weeks were, you have my sympathy,
regarding breast feeding if you plan to continue it might be worth persevering until it is well established, because mix feeding will interfere with your supply. maybe also think about expressing. but you know best what suits you - do you have any help?

KC glad you are feeling a bit better it does sounds awful as you hardly ever complain. about Saturday I will be doing my thing in the morning but think dh will work in the afternoon, if weather ok might go to KG

Gaelsmama barely a week here and you are already developing an English sense of humour thanks for comments on dd she is a very entertaining little monkey.
It was lovely to hold your little one, so cute

paddle intriguing FB comments

2under2,
My experience with mixed feeding is that it doesn't really work. Dd did not want to bf anymore as it was much more easier sucking on the bottle. So I had to drop the bottle, starve her for a day before she would go back on the breast.

sfx,
I'll bring all 3. You can pick out the one you like.

foxie,
I meant to say I'm glad your friends liked their bags.

Kew we may head over Kew gardens on Saturday , it just depends on wether i get a new car battery in time as dh is playing golf on Sat and we only have one working car atm. Since we got our new car the other one only gets used once a week or so and the battery flattens after a couple of days, so we need to get a new one.

Hello all! We went to Bushy Park, and it turned out, so did half the world and their dogs and cars. Now the kids are de-sandified and asleep, and the house is all sandy, and the cleaner had just been this morning ... Oh well, sandy house for two weeks then!

2under2 - I stuck to bf with ds2. Couldn't bear the thought of sterilising bottles!

Slng I've always found that in the holidays if it is nice weatherBushy Park is heaving by 10.30am (no chance of finding parking much after that).

SJ - pull the offer you made or the one you received on yours??

tell us more 2morrow!!

QC - yes, count me in. What time are you thinking?

Had a leaflet from BNP through the post.

BNP!? The nerve! Sometimes I wish these cowards would at least have the courage to turn up at doorstep so that one could have the satisfaction of slamming the door in their ugly faces!

We only got a leaflet from Ken ...

hello all good morning

at the weekend dh got home with leaflets from the 3 main candidates, apparently they were being handed out together in Sheen. I wish the BNP turned up so I could be really grown up about it and say 'bet it eats you up I can vote nananana

can I just say rubbish runner that I am managed to do 3 miles this morning, still had a minute walk here and there but so very chuffed when I got back dh asked if the bus had taken a detour today - how very dare he

foxie hope peace has broken at yours and it is all lovely

I always vote - stands to reason that it's my turn to meddle with the politics of this country after it has its turn with mine!

Morning all
good effort on jog SFx - put me to shame as I couldn't be bothered going to gym last night . Anyway have just emailed you, can you reply please before 10am, thanks!

Will give you house update later, turning into bit of a saga. Need to wake lazy bones up & get some brekky and get out of the house now (he was up half the night but at least made up the extra sleep)

KC - glad you're feeling better. We're away this wkend so will have to see animals another time

SJ just emailed

Got it! Will set off in about 10mins

Ok, so for those of you who were kind enough to reply to my mixed feeding question - I gave darling daughter her first formula bottle when she asked for food last thing last night - and she woofed it down in literally minutes - (it would have taken me ages to provide that milk.. gutting) ,.. she subsequently slept for 3 gorgeous hours before waking every hour thereafter for more of mummies milk - which having banked those hours felt better to provide. DS only woke up twice; so all in all a better night. I was planning on introducing this last night formula bottle of a regular basis to give myself and DH a chance of retaining our sanity over the coming weeks. DS is finally coming round to the idea of having a sister, and has given up wielding weapons in the form of toy cars in favour of a good pinch instead - oh the joys!!

Anyone else out there enjoying the thrills and many spills of newborn-ness? Hard to remember why we thought this was good idea.. seems suddenly so easy with one!

twounder2 - my ds is 1 week old as well (plus I have 3 yr old dd) - and I can only sympathise as I am going through exactly the same thing! BF really is a full-time job, certainly in the first few weeks and is exhausting. My ds has been up for most of the night for the last 3 nights and I have only just finished a marathon 2 hour feed here! As much as I, too, would love to cave in and introduce a bottle, I'm going to try and hold out in case it affects my supply. Easier said than done, eh? Perhaps we should be talking about this on another board - there is a breast and bottle feeding forum, maybe see you on there?

Sushi was planning sometime between 10-11am but I can be flexible.

Twounder2 - I steer well clear of bf vs ff debates as DS was adopted and therefore ff from birth and despite being 14 weeks prem he is thriving. I was always sad that he never got the choice of bf but in the end there is a whole lifetime of choices you make for your child some of which will have a bigger effect than whether you bf or not and some when added up together will also have a bigger cumulative effect (eating habits, playing sport, reading books etc).

My sister has 3 teenagers and they were bf for decreasing amounts of time (unusually ratehr than increasing) ending with about 3 weeks for number 3 I recall. All her children are slim fit and healthy, very active and sporty and doing well in school/university and have no allergies/asthma etc. Perhaps the fact that she was obsessive about getting them into sport and watching what they ate like a hawk offset the lack of bf advantages. Maybe they just have sturdy genes. Maybe it was luck. Who knows.

Make the best choices that you are able to - IMHO parents who worry about these kind of things tend on average to have an overall sensible approach to child-rearing which beneifts their children whatever actual decisions they make (IYSWIM).

sushi - BNP not so smart on their targetting then! Would love from them to turn up and be able to introduce my benefit-loving imigrant child to them. I doubt Kew is fertile ground for them.

sneaks in quickly>>>>>

Kew is Well! Thank god for ABs!

Hello everyone else, sorry to have been so absent. Work is crazy and I am so busy it's not funny.

I'm around Sunday but off to view property near the GPs tomorrow and Saturday.

yes glad to hear you're ok KC - agree completely about the bf/ff. DD1 - bf for 3 weeks; dd2 bf for 5m (lactose intollerant) ds1 bf for 10m (asthma). My df bf all of 3 of hers and has horrendoubs probs with allergies/asthma. Everyone's genetic make-up is different.

bunyan - I would give anything to go back to sleepless nights (yes I really said that!). ds started sleeping through from 9m and now he sleeps for England (from 6pm until 7am). I do miss that closeness of just me and him awake in the early hours of the night.

pc - good luck with the search - dh keeps on mentioning our impending move every time we speak now so we're be checking out areas soon.

2under2 - glad to hear you had some form of sleep last night. dh once tried the last bottle ff with ds and he screamed all night. In fact I went out for a mumsnet meet up and came back and knew instantly he'd given him ff instead of EBM. He didn't do that again. Instead, I used to time my nights out, I fed at 8pm, sneaked out, and he awoke at 11pm, just by the time I'd got home.

sfx - congrats on the essay (and the jog!).

re sleepless nights - MrsR you're mad!!!