North of the border: the all-new bumps and bairns thread

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We've now vacated the pregnancy threads - hope everyone can find us here!

Ok, what about 10.30 at The Winter Gardens then? I'll hopefully be there if ds gets a decent night's sleep tonight.

I think it would only be you, gmm, midnight (if childcare works out) and me (if ds well). I'm going to bed now but will check this tomorrow morning before heading out.

Crap night here - off back to bed, so I dont think I'll be up for te meet-up today. Have fun girls

Ok, ds is a bit snuffly but well today so we'll head over to the Winter Gardens for 10.30 and see who shows up!

WO - Ive emailed you my mobile number. Could you let me know if today is off, or youre meeting somewhere else?

Soooorry guys!

Internet has been down and in the excitement of ds1's 2nd birthday yesterday, I forgot all about the meet-up . Hope you had a good time anyway.

Am now relegated to role of pushing ds1 in his new push-along bike roundandroundandround the park until I drop. Unfortunately he hasn't mastered the art of steering yet, so spend most of my time trying to avoid ending up in ditches.

Happy birthday midnight's ds1!

It's ds's first birthday a week tomorrow. I'm going to have to bake a cake and everything

bookthief, I remember I made a lovely carrot cake for ds1's 1st birthday (we gave up healthy principles this year and went for the chocolate option), and all he did was smear the frosting all over my dress. Hope ds and you have a lovely day though. One of my friends celebrated her son's 1st birthday by drinking a bottle of champagne with her dh 'to congratulate ourselves that we'd managed to keep him alive for a whole year'.

Trixy - glad the cat is doing a bit better, poor sausage.

Hi there

been a while I had been at the day monitoring at QM and then was taken in a for a C Sectionon the 26th October. I had a beautiful girl called Lily Louise. She was 6lbs 2 and is putting on the weight gradually. Just settling back in at home and getting to grips with feeding, sleepless nights and having a baby around, but it is great.

And wierd coincidence, I was in hosp the same time as you luna, i think just two rooms down. the midwives used to tell me about your twins and at one time the midwife was in my room putting lily on my boob before coming back to you to help you with the twins, think your hubby was changing nappies

Congratulations clu. Welcome Lily Louise!

great news clu! would love to see a wee pic??

Congratulations clu and lunachick! Lovely news.

Congratulations Clu!

Ahhh, it's great to hear news of new arrivals. Makes me all broody again. Hope to meet dd and you soon.

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Thanks for the congrats, I have uploaded some pics onto my profile, hope you can see them. I hope we meet you all too, unfortunately at the mo our main waking hours seem to be between 2am - 6am. Lily is wide awake and delighted to meet anyone else who is around

Im sure soon she will realise the real daytime I now feel about 54 rather than 34.

Welcome to my world Clu . It does get better, honest.

She's gorgeous though, so I dare say you forgive her.

I realise this may be a stupid question...but just a bit of reassurance needed. Lily is the most contented baby during the day, feed, change sleep. She stays awake for a while but then falls into her deep sleep after her "fix" of booby milk. (I swear she does a good impression of a junkie)!

But during the night no matter what i do she will not settle, I do exactly the same as during the day but she just keeps crying every time she is put down. Last night I just reached physical exhaustion and guess need to know this is normal. And why is it that what works during the day does not work at night?

Lovely pictures, clu - she's gorgeous.

FWIW ds was hopeless at settling at night so I just gave in and co-slept until he was ready to go into his cot (which wasn't until he was 5 months old.....).

Hi clu - this sounds very familiar. Ds had a very antisocial time between about 7 and 9 in the early days (which was stressful but useful for getting rid of visitors ) and he also was very reluctant to sleep on his own at night.

I ended up having him sleeping on my chest to ensure I got a little shut eye which progressed to him sleeping beside me. He graduated to his cot fulltime at about 8 weeks though.

I would strongly advise you to do whatever gets you through at this stage. Please don't worry about bad habits whatever anyone says.

Another thing that I used to do to clock up the hours of sleep (for me!) if he'd had a restless night was in the morning feed him, take him to bed with me where we'd both sleep for a couple of hours, feed him again and on and on (with some nappy changes thrown in) until I felt ready to face the day. Which was rarely before 1pm

I know some people feel the need to be up, showered and dressed in the morning to feel human though. However that wasn't me even in my post-baby days...

Lovely pics btw. She's an absolute sweetheart!

post-baby? Pre-baby even.

Thanks, glad to know its not just my baby. TBH I am gradually giving up on seeing the morning,and do feel a bit better if I sleep during the morning although have the health visitor tomorrow at 10.30am.. I am always so scared of falling asleep with her in the bed, incase I crush her.

clu, have a look at this leaflet from the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative.

Studys have actually shown that breastfeeding mothers are especially aware of where their babies are in relation to them, making it very unlikely that you would roll onto her. I would say that I was in a deep doze rather than a sound sleep at that point anyway.

thanks that is really interesting, I believe in theory there is absoloutely nothing wrong with sleeping with your baby, and if she was bigger I think i would find it easier.

You know when you think something is a great idea in theory but when it actually comes to dropping off I wake up in a panic imagining her suffocating!

you can buy something which is like a big shoe box with the end cut off with supports inside that fits in your bed. Means she is protected but still with you? God i.m not describing it very well am i? I'd never heard of them but someone was selling one on here a while back?

I know the ones you mean GMM, I've seen them in Jojomamanbebe catalogues.

jojomamanbebe.co.uk/detailfash.php?type=FASH&code=A7423&branch=IF&category=GST72

Thats the fella!! Well donen L!!!

It doesnt really look much like a shoe box does it.....