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pie · 12/10/2003 06:52

Not sure if anyone else is ready to join me here yet...bells, woodge???

Been up since 4am, please tell me that I'm not the only one!!!

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bluebear · 22/12/2003 18:28

Same as spod and mincepie - at least every 2 hours when she's awake. She has 2 long breaks; a three hour pm nap and an eight hour 'night' sleep (generally 10.30pm - 6.30am) but still cluster feeds between 7pm and 10.30pm so we don't have an evening but we do get peaceful nights (well, we would but ds is waking regularly at 2am and 4am due to a bad cold).

Hollymaiden · 23/12/2003 19:51

My baby has been feeling poorly today - I~ feel so sad for her.
Hope she is better tomorrow!

MincePie · 23/12/2003 19:51

Whats wrong?

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Hollymaiden · 23/12/2003 19:57

Nothing major I think - she just started getting very fussy overnight (very unlike her), and is hot, not really wanting to feed (but will if I stick it in her mouth - just not asking for it) and very sleepy and floppy, and crying a lot. Probably nothing much - I'm just a bit of a bleeding heart where my children are concerned.

I have been carrying her around all day - DO hope she is better tomorrow, cos we are off to my parents' for Christmas.

MincePie · 23/12/2003 20:34

Sorry to hear that oakie. I hope she isn't coming down with anything.

Hope you have a good Christmas if I don't see you around for a while

Hollymaiden · 24/12/2003 17:40

Merry Christmas everybody!

Spod · 02/01/2004 21:42

hello all, happy new year... hope you all had a good christmas with baby! we've not been up to much... thought I'd tell you about dd.... i thought i would try feeding her breast milk from a bottle... so that i can get out for a swim... was expecting her to refuse it and to have a nightmare getting her to take it. Not so! she took it first gulp no probs.... even put both hands round the bottle... couldnt get enough of it.... have given her at least one bottle a day since... she seems to not care a bit. Not sure if i feel really pleased or a little put out that she adapted so well!!! Still aint been for that swim though.... Putting myself on a seriously healthy eating plan now and want to get back to do some exercise.... loose those pregnancy flabby bits! where does one find the time though? How are you all??

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pie · 04/01/2004 13:59

Hi Spod, things sound like they're going really well for you, I'm so pleased! I know what you mean about the time, still I hoping things get better when DD1 starts Primary School on Wednesday. Did you have a good Xmas?

DD2 went in her tippitoes for the first time today, no immediate screaming, actually she was fine until DD1 decided to put a toy dog under her bottom. She is smiling loads in the day, but we still get 3/4 hours of colic screaming every night. And at the moment she is feeding every 2 hours again...I think she is having another growth spurt.

How are you doing bluebear? How is the Cranial Osteopathy Oakmaiden?

I'm going back to my doctor next week to ask about ADs again...been feeling suicidal and very low for 10 days or so now.

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Oakmaiden · 04/01/2004 18:59

Hiya all. The cranial osyeopathy has been fine - in fact so good I am cancelling my next appointment because Eleanor is so settled now that I no longer thnik we need it. Smiling a lot too - just makes my heart melt each time. Such an enormous gummy grin, bestowed on pretty much anything that looks as though it may be smiling at her! She has also discovered over the past couple of days that she can put her hands in her mouth and suck them, and she seems to think that is pretty good too. Still not holding her head up very securely, so no doorbouncer yet - although she was given one for Christmas. In general doing jolly well.

Incidentally, my husband is worried because Eleanor breathes REALLY noisily - quite a laboured sound. I feel that this is not unusual for babies - any opinions anyone?

bluebear · 05/01/2004 16:15

Oh Pie, sorry to hear your ADs aren't working. Citalopram has done wonders for me (although it obviously doesn't suit everyone), and although it is present in breast milk, studies show no effect on the babies (I'm also on half the normal dose but it has worked). LOL at the toy dog under the bottom.

Oakie - I'd have thought noisy breathing is totally normal for babies - dd snorts and snores all night yet manages to sleep so quietly during the daytime that dh keeps poking her to 'check she's not dead'.

Spod - Good to hear things are going well, and you are organised enough to express! I can't find the time, managed once when dd was a few weeks old and she took the bottle, tried again at the weekend and she refused bottle and screamed..
Am going to have to get her to take bottle as she will be in nursery from 6/7 months old, and I'll only be able to do bedtime bfeeds.

Dd is very cheerful and smiley, very determined about what she wants. Ds has started to calm down a bit so feeds are easier. All in all we're doing okay - if only I could get organised with the expressing!

Spod · 08/01/2004 18:42

bluebear.... I'm not that organised, expressing is a bit random! what has helped though is a microwave steriliser that does the job in 5 mins... makes organsing a little easier and can fit pump and bottle in at same time. sorry your dd is refusing bottle, apparently its easier if you find a teat to match the shape of your nipple...whats shes used to.... i didnt have to bother so dont know if this is true. Incidently, altho shes happy to drink from bottle, only if its me holding it!, dh tried and she wasnt interested, no screaming, but she would suck! I guess expressing and freezing would be good for you if nursery is needed?
Oakie, noisy breathing normal here too... and quiet breathing... we get a mixture.
Pie... so sorry to hear that you're feeling bad. Can you try a different anti-depress? I dont know much about them but i know that they work differentially for different people. Can you get back to your GP? Whats a tippitoes by the way?

Spod · 08/01/2004 18:43

should read 'she wouldnt suck'

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pie · 09/01/2004 19:19

Oh spod!!! Just seen your comment about non of having sex yet over on Oakie's thread...have you learnt nothing about me???? Ok, I am probably in a minority of one on that count anyway.

BTW a tippitoes is a door bouncer.

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Oakmaiden · 09/01/2004 20:23

Just thought I would report that Eleanor laughed today!!! Well, chuckled, anyway....

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pie · 09/01/2004 20:29

Hi Oakie, Anastacia has tried to laugh too, but threw her head back so far that she scared herself instead.

I hope my comments about depression weren't out of order or anything, paranoid as no one responded.

Are you feeling any better today? I've had my anti depressants increased.

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pupuce · 09/01/2004 20:46

Oakmaiden - did you see my reply to your doula question?

Oakmaiden · 09/01/2004 20:48

Yes - it was fine, Pie. I'm sure I commenteed in passing, didn't I?

Pupuce - I hadn't, but I will go and look now.

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pie · 09/01/2004 20:52

Arrgghhh...must turn brain on when reading. Yes you did mention it Oakie, sorry!

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Jimjams · 09/01/2004 21:50

Came in here by mistake I don't have an October baby. Pie I responded agreeing with you but then didn't post as it didn't sound quite right. Agreed with you though, don't get paranoid

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pie · 10/01/2004 11:46

Thanks Jimjams

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Oakmaiden · 10/01/2004 19:48

Pie - I wanted to email you, but of course can't. Are you OK? Did you get to see the Dr yesterday?

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pie · 10/01/2004 20:29

Hi Oakie, I'm up and down, round and round. I'm increasing my AD medication slowly. More blood tests, GP has agreed to re-refer me for my Thyroid problems. A few other suggestions thrown my way which I'm exploring.

How are you at the moment?

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Oakmaiden · 10/01/2004 20:56

Not so bad - had a cr*p day today though. My own fault - I had promised my son pears for breakfast, and then forgotten to buy them. So we had tantrums this morning, and I promised toget him some for lunch. Which meant we had to go out shopping, just me and the children cos dh is working nights, and this meant that Eleanor's bum didn't hit the cot at 12:30 precisely (since we didn't get home til 13:00). And because she had not been put down at the right time, she was just a git all afternoon - too tired to feed, too hungry to sleep, but not to hungry to yell furiously if I stopped rocking and patting her. Which was a problem cos husband was asleep and would NOT appreciate being woken. So it was stressful and I got to do nothing except fuss over baby.

Typically enough she fell asleep about 5pm and is STILL asleep - so no sleep tonight, I expect. Im mjust have been a terrible person in a past life.

Sorry you are feeling so rough still. Thinking about you.

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pie · 10/01/2004 21:00

oh oakie Its pants when you have a baby that really likes routine. DD1 was a sleep anywhere any time kind of baby. DD2 is proving to be the exact opposite. She will only sleep at home or maybe in the pushchair but you have to keep moving it. She won't nap at my mums for example, she is very easily excited. If she misses a nap her whole day goes out the window. Its very hard with an older child isn't it? They don't get it at all!

I am beginning to agree with those that say 1 to 2 is harder then no children to 1 iykwim.

Hey if you were terrible in your past life I must have been a ghastly person

Thank you for your continued support though. It means a lot to me xx

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Oakmaiden · 10/01/2004 21:30

Yes - it is strange. My son was the most ghastly baby - really unhappy and screamed for England - BUT he would cheer up if we went out and about and liked to see new things and new people. Eleanor is COMPLETELY diferent - in fact I have decided that I am not going to leave the house at all (other than to take my son to school) until after Eleanor's lunchtime nap (12:30 - 14:30) unless it is a real emergency, so that the day won't get messed up. She doesn't nap too much after that, generally, so it should be OK. Althought actually no pears WAS a real emergency for my son.