May Babies... part 6! (keep up you April Mums... pfft!)

[GeorginaA]

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So who has got their period back? (Of the bf mums obv.) I haven't yet, and am so very happy - it's just one more benefit of bf.

Cat, liib, definatley up for a meet, as long as it's somewhere I can get to by train, so near the centre of Cambridge I suppose. I can do Monday or Tuesday daytimes with babies (given up doing social occasions with dd that are not centred around her) or an evening without.

Ish... sort of had heavy spotting after Mirena inserted and haven't had one since. Asked doc and she reckons that's my lot now for the next 5 years apart from the odd spotting every now and then

I am still bf in the mornings and evenings but my periods came back exactly a year after conception - as said before, efficient but annoying! and I must the only BF mum to gain weight after birth! was fine whilst pregnant

well, couldn't bf for very long - so go figure! "friends" are back already
that was for sure a nice thing about being prg
didn't really miss them...

good morning everybody!
had a bad night! nightfeed still not on the menu; fingers crossed! but i think we've cracked that one
been fed 9.30 and cried out at 2; but only twice or so and went back to sleep (if he was awake at all) - but at 3 he cried for me to turn him back over (will he ever learn to roll back alone!!!) - and he was aaaaaall wet grmpf so i had to change him completly and that woke him though he kept me awake till 4.30 (talking, singing, turning over every 5min, ...) - got up at 6.

wow i am impressed on the no night feedings susi. now tell me, do you think, if you were bf, you would have stuck him on just to make him fall back to sleep? wonder if i should just leave dd.

all this talk of dogs - dh wants a pup. desperately and has forever. i don't especially not with a baby to look after. it would be me doing all the walking, wiping, and i bet even the night wees. although he says he'll do the lot, i dont think so. i'm at home all day, he isn't. you are very brave cat, well done!

my friend and i (ooo grammar) used to lurve thinking of human names for pets. like pauline the hamster and margaret the goldfish. heeeee heeeeee, used to crack us up. whilst our other friend used to just look on rolling eyes and sighing. haw haw heee

not toooooooo bad last night, since i went to bed at 9. v v v v tired with my poor coldy nose. aaaaanyway, dd woke at 10.30 - eh?? had mediseded her, 2ish and 4ish, then woke this morning at 8.20, much better. need to go shopping too for a present for my grandad's 80th. we're off to norwich at the weekend for a bday meal. bless. just going to get him the obligatory framed pics of dd. of course.

if you are meeting up in cambridge.......i am not that far away......would like to meet???? ok it is a bit of a drive, but still would ?

oh and no period nooooooo. or af as we said in the oldern days

Having a horrible morning so far... ds2 is MISERABLE. Dosed him up with Calpol but not a happy chappy.

It's going to be a looooong day.

ooh dear. calpol may kick in soon...

going to have a long one too.....just started this bloody game of yours!!!!!!

stuck already!

Oops sorry

giggles at egypt - have fun with the game

re no night feed: don't know really. and i actually didn't plan excluding the night feed! (he had 1 around 4ish about 3oz) - when he was so sick with his cold i once wasn't quick enough with the bottle and put the dummy in instead. and he took and and turned around and slept till the morning. ever since i stopped offering milk and he is ok with it! - but i guess if i was bf i'd offer still. i do remember it was just so easy to take him to bed with me and we would both fall asleep while he was feeding

awwww georgina! hope medince will help quickly! and you'll get some rest and put your feet up

think I lost last nights message. So here goes again.

Georginaa I love you photos.
Susis my friend has one of those dogs its called Oden, which I think is a greek mythological god. We have 3 cats named Henry, Poppy and Cfor(as in C for cat)

Hmm last night wouldve been ok if I hadnt been so bloody minded. Woke DD and fed her at 11pm she only took 4ozs of formula though. She then woke at 4am but was only stirring so I went in and gave the dummy and patted her back, I did this each time for the next 1 and half hours. Then she woke up fully so I tried cuddling her but it didnt work, then I tried giving water but that also didnt work. She was half asleep but once I put her in the cot she would cry. So after 2hrs and all of that it was easier just to feed her. She then fell back to sleep. I know she wasnt hungry though as I had filled her full of solids and milk in the evening and she didnt wake until 10am this morning and didnt want a feed until 11am. I dont know what to do. Half of me thinks just feed her as at least I get back to sleep within 10 minutes rather than spending 2hrs awake like last night but the other half knows that its just a habit wake. My mum says to keep feeding at 4am until she stops of her own accord. In the what to expect book they mention setting the alarm for 10 minutes before they normally wake and feed them and then each morning gradually extend the time. That way they wait for you to wake them up and then before too long you dont wake them and they continue to sleep. Dont know if I should give that a go.

Shes also becomming clingy in the afternoons. In the morning I can put her down and she will play while I have breakfast etc but in the afternoons she wont and complains if I put her down. I have to hold her all the time but then if I give her a toy to hold she cries and starts throwing it about. No idea what thats all about. Its very tiring trying to keep her entertained.
What do you all do?

well done on the "night not feeding"!!! it won't work in just one night; so if you feel strong enough keep trying ... eventually she'll get it! but if you don't feel it's right atm wait a bit longer!
ds doesn't need a feed at night any more but he still wakes up. but i decided to wait till he's 6months. and then i'll get myself ready sigh

and agreed on the entertaining bit!!! same here. morning hours ds is easily entertained. but afternoon he wants to be carried about all the time and throughs around all the toys i offer.
there is only games jumping on my lap, rolling him around, sitting with him, standing with him, ... very active!!!
but he does love his door bouncer

yes, dd is much more clingy in the pms. door bouncer is a winner, but hate to leave her in in for long. i think its going to fall down all the time! i think i will just feed dd in the nights until she stops of her own accord. i think i may try and leave her longer when she wakes as she doesnt actually cry just shouts. she may go back to sleep. i figure that she is waking for something. even if they dont wake for food it may be for cuddles. as long as she needs that i'm ok with it, as long as its not for like, the rest of my life.

what's your novel on georgina?

Hello everyone

My blender blew up this afternoon!! i was blending kieras banana and it went bang, and filled up with smoke!! I had to push another banana through a sieve, not ideal but necessary, as kiera has now worked out loud noise in kitchen in middle of milk feed = bannana

Ooh ooh Egypt, yes of course you'd be welcome to join us cambridge folk! (speaking for myself here, but i am sure the others will agree as well!)

Georgina-poor you i hope your day has got better. Tell us about this novel then? is it about the lunatics on mumsnet?

Egypr and Susi-do you lo's actualy bpunce in the door bouncer? kiera just stands there looking bemused and making little cooing noises every so often.

Libb-Of course you must pop by to meet puppykins, but he/she will not be here untill next may....i have kiera you could cuddle in the meantime though

Spots-William Wegman....no i've not heard of him at all, worth a look at?

Oh the housework i'm not doing....we have dps parents and sister arriving on saterday...FOR A WEEK sob and i'm meeting my mother or Saterday breifly as well, as she flys to Australia on Sunday for 6 months.

Prufrock, Egypt and Libb (and anyone else who who would like to come!) my vote is for an evening meet, i don't mind meeting in the day, but i have not been out for an evening since before i was pregnant with kiera and i am seriously chomping at the bit now!!

Take care everyone

xxxxx

Day wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Ds2 was unsettled but we were distracted lots by oven cleaning person coming around (sparkly oven that looks new for £35!!!) and a friend popping over in the afternoon. So we survived.

I'm writing a 50,000 word novel in a month with NaNoWriMo . I wrote one last year (which I put up on my site here - don't know what you'd characterise it as... was about a woman who was pregnant by a married man... not fantastic prose but surprisingly not as crap as I expected it to be). This year I'm going to write a category romance, not put it up on the web and hopefully edit the end result properly to prepare it for submission . If I run out of plot, perhaps I should use mumsnetters as cameo roles, you're right cat82!

Yes, I'm nuts. Please kick me off if you see me posting here in November.

ooo, i'm going to read your novel georgina. have begun.

nooooo, if you go in the eve i wont be able to some. cambridge is actually about 2 hours away from me! and i want to see all your d's anyway. but dont let me stop you. if your plans suit i'll come, if not, no probs. (pressure pressure pressure)

dd does bounce in the doorway, yes. she loves her feet, always has. bounces on your lap if you hold her upright. think it's just one of those things, some do it from early on, some take time to discover, wouldn't worry about it though. seriously. would kind of be easier if she didnt bounce as i wouldnt be so paranoid that she's going to fling into the side of the door.

havent really got into that game yet. did the first screen then couldnt get the disk out of the box, - presume thats what you have to do - and my impatience made me give up and go shopping.

dd didnt go down too well tonight. she woke after 15-20 mins and wouldnt go back until 45 mins later. grrrr.

off to parents tomorrow. thats sad that your mum is off to australia for 6 months cat. who is she visiting?
and il's for a week? arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh

finally a minute!

how unreasonable can men be??????
left dp alone with ds for an hour to go shopping. when i came back dp was almost in tears and wouldn't talk to ds!!! nor hold him! nothing ds related!! he just ignored him
we had a big well discussion after that. and we are sort of allright again. but that was quite upsetting for me...
well, he obviously needed some time out (works not too brilliant for him neither, and some other stuff nag him too) so i guess probably just the last drop that made the barrell overflow...
can only get better

ds loves bouncer!!!!! he jumps all the time and is really good at it - legs really high and jumpey jumpey jumpey ... can't get enough of it!
but it took him some time to realize what to do.
maybe it was when dp was jumping in front of him that he knew what to do

a shame that i am so far away. would love to meet up!

thats dreadful susi. was ds winding him up? would he really not speak to him?

now i am stuck on the rat one. oh gaaaaawwwwwwwwwwdddddddd

DD was rubbish in the door bouncer until I put the hairy doormat under her feet! DS is a pro at it and can even pirouette 360 degrees followed by a whirl of dribble .

OK I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and suggest a long-term plan for a May meet-up. I know we're all over the place but if we planned it enough in advance who'd be up for it? Because I just found myself wondering if I might fit in a visit to my Essex grandma that coincided with your Cambridge meet-up.

Sheila the dentist took DD for a walk in a howling gale today so that I could get some work done, and MIL coming tomorrow for same reason. Am I not a lucky lucky lady? DD was very good and came back all rosy cheeked. Unless that was the excema...

You are very lucky Spots. We went to the soft play this afternoon and were the only ones there! Luckily I'd taken DS's bouncy chair with us - which may have made me look like a bit of a poncy arse - but meant that I could leave him there whilst I whizzed down the helter skelter into the ball pond with DD.
Just been mushing peas through a sieve. Surely the most unrewarding weaning-type exercise ever? You do a whole pan and end up with one icecube full of puree (and it takes ages when you get caught on the phone and burn the first lot!). Roll on 6 months so that the dietary floodgates can open........

SusiS - have you any idea what brought it on? Sounds like he's battling some sort of depression?!

spots - sounds a great idea... how about making it pretty long term and say May? Babes will be a year then and it'd be quite fun having a "birthday" meet

Arf arf Judd, am sure you didn't look like a poncy arse in DS's bouncy chair.

Yay Georgina...

Spots, that sounds like a brilliant idea too - what would be a good central point?

I want a whirling dribbly baby too, that sounds funny! I think DS is getting bored with his bouncy chair, he kicks so hard he will no doubt fly out soon - he stood for a good moment this afternoon whilst leaning against me so I reckon he is learning how to understand where his legs are! his little face was so determined too . . . however the rolling is non existent (as far as my now limited knowledge goes) and when he sits he tends to slump forward big time! I have no idea about crawling - the downside of working full time I guess. She is taking him to the cinema for the first time next week as it is half term and her other kiddies want to go. That should be one of my "firsts" too. I suppose this is how it is going to be?

I still haven't attempted weaning - am I lagging? we are still bf morning/night and then formulating during the day . . . I did sample some cottage pie mix on him as a tester and he was quaffing for England - but I am going to wait for my books to come through.

Our sleep pattern has gone down hill for the last few says but so much has happened that it is a matter of elimination - is it the new routine?, new "mummy"?, teething? or the stinking cold? Even Medised does nowt - if one more person at work comments on my eye bags then I will . . . weep quietly into the court results (some of which can set me off anyway).

Going to bed now, sorry for rambling.