June 10 babies have arrived. Now we are all sleep deprived!

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Welcome to 'the other side' ladies. Long may we all continue to post!

ARRIVALS
27/04 (due 23/06) - SunshineDay - Faye - 3lbs 2oz
16/05 (due 02/06) - Meggymegmegs - James (Jimmy) David, 7lb 1oz
19/05 (due 01/06) - whenwillisleepagain - Alice Emily, 8lb 7oz
21/05 (due 21/06) - Gizmo - Hester Rose - 6lbs
23/05 (due 9/06) - greensnail, Alice Elizabeth, 7lb 2oz
24/05 (due 8/06) - Saucepanman, Gabriel, 8lb 4oz
24/05 (due 31/05) - minimoonumber2, Sebastian Robin
26/05 (due 24/06) - GibberingGinger James Alexander, 5lb 13oz, & Douglas John, 5lb 15oz
28/05 (due 30/05) - GoodName, Fergus, 8lb
28/05 (due 31/05) - mampam, Tilly May, 9lb 11oz
28/05 (due 4/06) - jo807bump - Hannah May, 5lb 7.5oz
04/06 (due 07/06) - perkster - Sidney James Perkins Berner, 7lb 11oz
05/06 (due 31/05) - dinosaurinmybelly - Zoe Leila - 6lb 9oz
07/06 (due 02/06 ) - AlwaysHopeful - George, 7lb 13oz
07/06 (due 07/06) - MrsC09 - Rufus Jack
08/06 (due 01/06) - PogueMahone - Magnus Gabriel, 8lb 14.5oz
08/06 (due 11/06) - woofie - Laurence Elliot (Laurie) - 7lb 11oz
08/06 (due 21/06) - sunworshipper - Romola Ann Bettina, 5lb 15oz
09/06 (due 08/06) - LittleRobbo - Summer Dawn
09/06 (due 09/06) - Boobz - Constance Ella Reed,
11/06 (due 02/06) - Justbeme - 'Nobody' (boy) - 8lb 9oz
12/06 (due 02/06) - roundabout1 - Lauren - 8lb 14oz
13/06 (due 18/06) - Virgo1979 - nameless boy! 7lb 9oz
14/06 (due 30/06) - monthlymayhem - Hayden, 7lb
14/06 (due 08/06) - MrsAlwaysRight - Alice Rose, 9lb 7oz
14/06 (due 15/06) - Millymollymoo - boy
15/06 (due 31/05) - RnB - Artemis, 7lb 9oz
15/06 (due 29/06) - playftseforme - Rory 6lb 4oz, and Fergus 6lb 8oz
16/06 (due 17/06) - Chestnut100 - Daisy Belle 6lb 14oz
17/06 (due 01/06) - Madamfreckle - Emma 6lb 6oz
17/06 (due 30/06) - MonkeyMargot - Atticus Fox 7lb 8oz and Rafferty Bear 7lb 14oz
17/06 )due 04/06) - Suzy1975 - Samuel 7lb 14oz
18/06 (due 23/06) - earlyonemorning - Edgar William 7lb 8oz
18/06 (due 13/06) - sobloodystupid - Stella 8lb 8oz
19/06 (due 22/06) - Gaelicsheep - Robin 6lb 14oz
22/06 (due 14/06) - Fillybuster - Mia Rae 9lb 3oz
24/06 (due 16/06) - Nizzynoodles - Samuel James 10lb 10.5oz
24/06 (due 17/06) - summerhols - Lilly
25/06 (due 17/06) - Barbeasty - Ruth Damaris Rose, 9lb
26/06 (due 16/06) - JoKettle - James Lennox, 8lb 7oz
26/06 (due 29/06) - MrsDmamee - Elyssa, 8lb 5oz
28/06 (due 26/06) - imkeepingmum - girl, 7lb 11oz
28/06 (due 12/06) - Georgee - Anna Rose, 7lb 15.5oz
28/06 (due 12/06) - Elena67 - boy, 9lb 5oz
29/06 (due 17/06) - bluesnowfalcon - Corey, 8lb 11.75oz
29/06 (due 18/06) - theperfectbaguette - Clementine Jemima, 6lb
29/06 (due 26/06) - RubyReins - Luke Douglas, 7lb 14oz
29/06 (due 25/06) - Ilovemyterrier - Jeppe Sebastian Fagerlund, 7lb 6.5oz
01/07 (due 30/06)- LaTrucha - Daniel Timothy, 8lb 11oz
3/7 (due 29/06) - CantSleepWontSleep - Jeremy Francis, 9lb 4oz

hello. back from hospital. hurts to move/cough/live, but is better than yesterday, so hopefully I'll improve each day. Is v hard not being able to pick up and cuddle kids though and J gets upset when he sees me as he wants me to pick him up and i can't, so people are having to keep him away from me altogether. :(

sorry no personals at the mo.

Welcome back csws. Bet you're relieved it's all over. Hope the recovery is rapid and you can dispense cuddles asap.

A plague on all Health Visitors..! Firstly because we visited the HV for Pom's 8 month check up and her first action was to give him a toy to play with - to see what he did with it, I assume. WHat he did, of course, was shove it straight in his mouth and ingest a D&V bug from some previous child, which Pom dealt with in 24 hours without really turning a hair but nearly killed his dad and me - we're not as young as we were! Also she said to immediately pack in the 11pm feed as he doesn't need it (or any of his middle of the day bottles) and he immediately turned from a clockwork sleep-througher into a wake-at-3am merchant. I realise I've been spoilt but plague her nonetheless!

Hope you're recovering well csws and are managing some cuddles now.

goodname much sympathy over the hoover fear. DD1 was like that and it was a complete nightmare. She's only recently overcome this and its such a pleasure to be able to just switch on the hoover when I need to and get on with it. Chocolate bribery used to work quite well with her when I really needed to hoover with her around.
For lunch we tend to have pasta or something on toast most days.

We eat alot of soup / stew type things so we can all join in, but Daniel we're not doing BLW, but purees and finger foods. Mainly because DD is very funny about textures of food, so it's easier.

I'm trying to get out in the garden to plant some seeds but haven't a clue what to do with Daniel. It's cold enough for a snowsuit, but he can't sit up in it, or I'd put him in the garden on our waterproof mat.

Anyone managed anything of the sort?

Welcome back CSWS

I've found that Mia is happy to sit on a waterproof picnic rug, all bundled up, for a bit whilst i'm planting. Otherwise I bundle her up in her buggy, walk her until she falls asleep then park her in the garden whilst I plant...

No time for personals, have two 3 year olds playdoing in the kitchen!!

Warm enough for Alice to be out in the garden without her coat here in sunny devon . Before she was sitting up I used to sometimes bring her rocker chair into the garden and she could sit in that in a snowsuit, or just lie her down on a mat - she loves lying under the washing line.

J was out in the garden yest just crawling around the grass in his normal clothes.

Recovery here going v well. Maternity nurse/ nanny that I have in this week (a friend) has been fab, and we did a bit of cc with j, and he slept through last night!!!

CSWS that's great news about the sleeping through the night - you deserve it after your recent ordeal.

I must invest in a waterproof rug or something for Alice when she's in the garden. Usually I put her in her buggy and she watches, or sits in her high chair just inside the kitchen doors.

We are nowhere near sleeping through the night, and I know I'm putting off tackling it, but as the woman who wrote No Cry Sleep Solution would say 'Mom has to be ready'.

Alice had d&v bug last week, doubtless caught during settling in at nursery, so of course she hardly went back for another week and DS got it as well. Bug seems to have a throat and sinus element to it, which DH and I are currently enjoying. I have slightly overcommitted myself with some freelance work, but although I feel really torn about leaving Alice at nursery (she's doing about 2 days per week in shorter sessions IYSWIM), it's bliss to be feeling slightly like a professional version of myself, albeit with bits of BLW remains on my clothes and a squidgy turtle instead of a biro.

CSWS - Glad you're recovering well and nights are looking up!
wwisa - Hope you're all better soon!

Our nights are still a bit rubbish as I think Emma is getting most of her calories between midnight and 7am . Which then means she has virtually no appetite for proper food in the day. We have been trying to persevere with BLW as she is still refusing anything off a spoon but still very little actually goes in.

Is this normal with BLW or after 3 months of her doing it should she actually be consuming quite a bit??
Not really on the move yet but if I'm not watching she can cross a room on her bottom. I have never actually witnessed how she achieves this though! She quite often does the lurching-forward thing to grab things and lands on her face.

I'm feeling a bit pants as have had a cough and cold throughout February (lack of sleep?) and now it has resulted in sinus probs and I have a totally blocked ear and irritating tinnitus which I just can't get rid of. Any ideas?

Madamefreckle, IME some babies just eat more than others. If you don't have any other concerns, I'd let her take her time.

CSWS - I hope your recovery is going well. I'd be interested in a few more details of the CC particularly with regard to what the other children do. I was considering it, but our problem isn't getting him to sleep: he is asleep in DH's arms practically while he's getting his pyjamas put on. He has periods of extremely good, deep sleep but murderous ones where he half wakes every ten minutes. He has a cold and is teething so we're not taking any action yet, but we are thinking of the future and nights are awful here (although not for me: DH wrestles Daniel most of the night).

IT's very strange for me that Daniel is hungry for solid foods. I swear DD still isn't at 3 and two months. Sometimes I forget he might be hungry and wonder why he yelps. Then I give him a snack and he's happy. Three meals (though not massive ones) and a snack! It won't be long before he's eating more than DD - in fact he did tonight but that's because DD said, 'I don't want anyfing' and meant it

laT both our boys eat more than our DD - I think it's a boy thing.

CSWS hoorah for speedy recovery from your op and better sleep. you certainly do deserve it.

laT we also have days where Alice is eating more than DD1. I think in our case its just that Alice is growing that much faster than she is so needs more. I also have a sneaky suspicion that there are days that DD1 gets more milk than Alice, so that won't be helping either. DD1 ate loads as a baby though - she could out-eat me when I was pregnant

CSWS Great news on the sleeping, hope he's continuing to sleep well.

We're making slow but steady progress on the sleeping front at the moment, vaguely doing the no cry sleep solution. I think the thing that has made the most difference is getting Alice in a better routine for daytime naps.

Ladies, we have an urgent need for a new thread before this one breaks!

How about "crawling and walking, they'll soon be talking"???

Ah see, MrsAR sought discussion and approval for her thread title, whereas I just went ahead and started a new thread .
I did base the title on your previous suggestion though filly :).

NEW THREAD HERE