May Babies

[GeorginaA]

Have we got enough that I can officially open this thread yet?

How are your little ones doing prufrock, twiglett, snowbird?

I think mine is going down with jaundice. Dh isn't convinced, but it's either that or he's got a lovely tan sigh. I remember all the stress associated with that last time with ds1... hoping ds2 doesn't get it as badly.

He's still being a very sicky baby, about a couple of teaspoons a few hours after each feed (which is odd - I'd have thought if it was a reflux type thing it would happen immediately after the feed?) Midwife seems to think it'll settle after the milk comes in but if not then we'll look at some sort of baby gaviscon. Poor little mite, can't be comfortable for him... and we're sure getting through a lot of laundry!

Feel so bloody knackered at the moment, fed up of bits leaking and being sore, and it's only day 2! How long is it before you start feeling human again? Please tell me that it's sooner than the 2 week paternity leave dh gets!!

Sorry Twiglett, hate to admit it but im almost down to my original weight. But I do have a jelly belly that hangs over the tops of my trousers. I cant be bothered to do any exercise yet though. Hoping that time will get rid of it
hope everyones well

I'm SOOOOO not back to normal and everyone keeps telling me "ooo you've got your figure back" and it annoys the hell out of me!

The problem is, I am really slight normally, so people assume I'm back to my normal weight quickly even though I'm still 1.5 stone over my pre-pregnancy weight (actually... strictly speaking 2 stone over my pre-pregnancy weight as I'd lost weight due to the stress of moving house/having dh live apart during the process). I don't particularly want to lose all of it, but wouldn't mind losing 1 stone.

I'm not sure if I should mention what my pre-pregnancy weight was, because that's usually the point I get horrible comments along the lines of "what are you complaining about" and "are you anorexic?"

Anyway, before I go off on a completely different side rant, yes I would love to wear my wedding rings again, and fit into my old clothes, and have a tummy that wasn't saggy and folding in on itself (shudder). I am in jeans again, but only because I have borrowed a friend's pair which is 2 sizes bigger than my normal size! And even then I have a little roll of flab hanging over the top (yes, I know ... gross!)

I've started doing Callanetics (you know, that exercise that was fashionable before Pilates came along) twice a week from a video for the last couple of weeks and I'm starting to feel better for it (my back feels stronger and I can feel my stomach muscles working) - I don't particularly want to diet as I'm enjoying having a larger appetite and really appreciating food!

Last time around I lost the weight quite quickly, but then I think I was fairly depressed and stressed with a newborn (never diagnosed though) and didn't eat particularly well as a result.

I want to be healthy (hence the no diet rule) but still get some sort of shape back.

I am rapidly putting on all the weight I avoided gaining during pregnancy... appetite really reduced over the last trimester, and I was so glad to get it back! I am eating like an absolute HORSE now. Ravenous constantly, but often a bit bored around snacktime in the kitchen...My tummy snapped into place after DD was born but now starting to really feel a bit rectangular. Not sure I want to do anything about it quite yet, however... sounds perverse, but it seems part of the package and as such I quite relish the opportunity to make a pig of myself. Hope I can shake the habit later. That's the danger I suppose. Will read your thread in the hope that some of its intention does rub off on me!

you are going to hate me but I "think" I am less than my pre-preg size - purely because I am very poor at getting orgnised at with the eating thang and bf at the same time, plus I have discovered that if I weigh meself on the scales I am 12st 4, then I move 6 inches across the floor and Iam 11st 11! It isn't quite right methinks . . . . dunno what my size is!

I have a fantastic new buggy. Its bus friendly and everything, I love it! I am no longer taking out old ladies ankles as I waft past.

(ps: my night out wasn't much fun, I missed DS more than anything and he did too and apparently made it very clear to DP - only settled after 4 hours of crying after a snuggly cuddle from mum when she came home) plus I missed him so so much that I promptly burst into tears when my friend innocently asked how I was ... what a pillock.

However, I do have some fantastic stretch marks so that means I can never show my tummy to anyone again . was doing great until 37 weeks . . . .

My boobs have still to go down a bit more. I know that they might not but even so I still feel as though I have huge boobs. They did shrink once I stopped breastfeeding but I can't fit into my old bras so I'm wearing the maternity bra that I wore while pregnant. it's a bit to big in the cup size though and I know I should go get measured for a new bra but don't want to go yet and spend money then shrink more and find I need to go get another one, don't have that much money. I'm really hoping that my chest does shrink down a bit more as I can't fit into my favourite shirt it pulls across the chest.

I got weighed at my 6 week check last week and I'm half a stone more than I was before I got pregnant but that's not bothering me too much as I can carry an extra half stone and look ok, at least I think I look ok. I'm back in nearly all of my clothes so I can't complain to much. I keep thinking I should cut down on what I'm eating then find some chocolate and think oh I'll try tomorrow I seem to have lost my willpower must look for it tomorrow probably hiding under the mess that is my house.

I did do some sit ups the other night I used to them every night before bed before I got pregnant. Haven't done them since though always too knackered before I go to bed. I have been doing my pelvic floor excercises religiously though.

Libb sorry to hear that your night out wasn't much fun.

Next time will be better I'm sure

Hey all

I seem to have a baby that falls asleep the INSTANT she's put in her car seat or pram which is a nightmare. Dp and i decided to go out for the day on Saturday hoping that, since dd is more alert now, she's stay awake and look around etc. She didn't. Slept for the whole day apart from feeds, and then of course refused to settle when she was put into her cot. She finaly went off around midnight, then woke up at 3.00am and 4.30, then 6.00
Amazingly, she is back in her routine now, but it makes going out so much harder trying to keep her awake. Anyone been/going through the same thing?
Libb, oh dear what a shame about your night out, next time will be b etter though!
Hope everyone's okay.
xx

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yes cat dd goes to sleep instanty in the car or pram. NOT in a still cot though!

Well, we had a lovely w/e in devon. took 5 hours to get therre and naturally dd slept all the way (except a feed). which meant, just like you cat, she didnt sleep that night. woke at 2,3,4,5,6 - every blinking hour. nightmare.

the saturday was the wedding and she loved the people, music, bustle and was wide awake all day - hence the same situation saturday night. sunday, she slept all the way home (5 hours) except a feed and then got to dh's mums. she screamed her head off there for 3 hours (in mil's arms - whilst i am squirming on the settee desperately wanting to take her off the woman, but not daring to hurt her feelings --grrrrr - another story). so again she was overtired last night and was awake 2am onwards everyhour.

looking forward to some normality again now. but the poor thing really is reluctant to sleep at all now in the house. think she is conditioned to the car. bum

my mum is coming to stay until friday, so that will be nice. going to pick her up from train station in a bit.

sandi, hope your ds is soon ok and that the flemy chest is the answer; you can get it sorted then. do tell us about your house.

It's good to know it's not just me!
Egypt, you're realy brave to go that far, dp and i are planning a trip to Liverpool to see his parents, and i'm really nervous. That's only a 3 hour drive (on a good day) though, so it might not be so bad. Did your dd sleep in a moses basket or travel cot? did she cope okay with it?
Twiglett, lol I would, but i prefer it if she sleeps at night! hmmm, perhaps we should start driving to Liverpool at her bedtime at 7.00pm- that could work....

btw to answer an earlier questikon- I think i'm just about back to my origanal size, just have very flabby tum and like you libb, loads of stretch marks I didn't have any until i actualy had her, then they suddenly arrived directly after the birth! I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact she was bron with ventouse?

Hi all, i'm the same as kbaby. The only thing I need to get rid of is my jelly belly..although would like my bust to go back to a 34? Any tips on how?

DS is much better now..no need to c the doc..sometimes i think these things clear up themselves..

ds1's last week at nursery..he's so grown up now..can't believe he'll b starting reception is sept..gotta go..gotta iron..bye

oh btw, went to a party yesterday afternoon.v.loud music and ds slept all the all way thro..then slept at night too..and is now sleep again..

catm yes she slept in a moses basket as usual. she didnt seem to realise we were somewhere else really! she actually went to sleep easier than at home! we didnt take the stand to the basket, thinking that we'd save space and put it on the floor. nearly broke my back lifting her out of it in the middle of the night.

might be good to drive at night and get her sleep pattern fixed to then! if you can bear to be awake!

Egypt glad you had a good time... all you holidaying pioneers...

We have a (WOOP WOOP) bedtime! I put dd down in her pram at 8.30 and she slept! Why, why, why she won't do this during the day is beyond me, but this is the very beginning of our (whisper it) Routine. I will inch the Bedtime closer to 7 but for now it's no more Big Brother for the little one. It was too seedy for her anyway.

hope your (shhh) routine continues!

decided to put dd to bed later last night. she had a quick half hour nap about 8-8.30 would usually call this bedtime but would then end up going in room every few mins to calm her down. so, after 8.30, gave her a bath and cuddled her until she was dropping off. put her down. cried. picked up and did same. finally went to sleep. know shouldnt cuddle her to sleep, but so much easier at the mo that what we were doing - hysterics.

she woke at 10.30, 2am, 5am, stayed awake until 6.15 then fed again at 7.30. not too bad

anyone's else's d's wake for an hour or so in the night or early hours - when you'd still be calling it 'bedtime!'

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ow, ow, ow, ow! horrible, horrible, horrible!!! dd just had her jabs and she screamed the surgery down She seems content now though, but god, did i feel awful!
This was probably not helped by my enormous needle phobia
Oh well, best she has this now than gets sick later on.
xx

ahhhhh cat, bless. how is the little one now?

thanks twiglett. much prefer the cuddles.

Well as you know, I'm a GF fan, and I still cuddle ds2 to sleep as and when required (usually in the afternoon nap, when he's struggling). Some days he'll go down to sleep easily in a cot or pram, other days only a cuddle will do. Besides, there's something rather special about cooing over your baby who's cozily asleep in your arms As twiglett says, you can't spoil them... and even if you could, don't they deserve spoiling?!

I hated the injections too - ds2 had them yesterday. For some reason, because we're having Infanrix, the surgery are splitting up the vaccinations - he got Men C and Hib yesterday... will get DTaP and polio in a fortnight's time. So poor wee mite won't get 3 jab-related visits over the next few months... he'll get 6. It's enough to make us all surgery-phobic.

And that reminds me, I really need to make an appointment to discuss the Mirena too... sigh.

Egypt, dd now is a bit grizzly but no sign of a tempreture as yet. We've been advised to give calpol before bed if she starts to get one.
I'm also a big GF fan, and also love cuddling dd to sleep like you georgina, I totaly melt at her little peaceful face and knowing she's comfortable enough with me to do that {big gooey emicon] but I'm also absolutly terrified of having a baby that will not be put down because i'm always holding her, so i do tend to put her down when she's drowsy instead of asleep, so she goes off herself. Sometimes i do worry i don't cuddle her enough actualy. I know this makes me sound horrible but my Aunt refused to put her baby down at all when she was born and the baby had to be carried everywhere until she was about 2 years old, and screamed if seperated for more than a second. I had to help look after her, because my Aunt then started to break down because it was so stressful never having any time to herslef. This terrified me! Mind you perhaps the baby was just born like that.
I am in no way critisizing cuddling your babies to sleep btw, or carry them everywhere with you

cat82 - the best sleep to cuddle them throughout is the afternoon nap - it's only a short one anyway, and if you put them down "properly" at the other naps it doesn't seem to affect their ability to sleep on their own at all. Go on.. indulge yourself

that horrible time of the day again. Same for anybody else? Whingey tired baby slung on shoulder, toddler - pain in ass. DH happuily reports wont be home to help with bedtime. Dying for a bit of peacev !!!!

yes judd, this time of the day is the worst. have dd in a sling and i just know she will wake up for a feed in a mo. she's been wanting it every 2 hours today. cant be another growth spurt! dh is coming home soon and we are actually going out! wow. my mum is here and will feed dd - ebm (painstakingly e'd over 2 days - precious)

but dh often informs me he is not coming home. not late in the day, usually the night before but it is hard work, and i dont have a toddler. he would stay if i asked him too, but hate to think he'd resent us for it.

PHEW! Both in bed and asleep. AND DH has made it home in time to cook my tea - hoorah !!
Can I ask a GF question? How are you getting on with the lunchtime nap (hereby known as LTN) ? Somedays we are doing OK, just a few squawks and attempts to leave the swaddle at the 45 min mark...other times, like today, we make 1.5 hours and then scream the place down to be got up! Have read what she says about light and dark sleep kicking in at 8 weeks and leaving to settle, but tbh don't remember DD settling until she could get her thumb in her mouth around 3 months!
Apart from that, DS is doing fine. Started to make a crowing noise when he sees DD's Jake Tweenie doll playing peek a boo. Also getting heavily into dribbling and slurping on hand. Can't believe that 2 months have passed already!