October 2010 pregnancy thread - welcome to the other side....

[Hevster]

Well ladies, it's a bit in advance but here is the new thread, started especially early for Saartjie!

patsy so sorry to hear about that it sounds just awful. xx

Oh Patsy that sounds like an horrific ordeal to go through. I hope your DP is looking after you well. x

What a horrible rainy day!

I was planning to take DD to the farm (as the aquarium was such a success!) but we got rained off :(

And I feel like I've gone ten rounds with a pack of wolves! Got on the wrong side of some... Umm... Ladies :p over on the 'benefit bashing' thread. Jesus Christ they like a fight! Lol

Hope everyones having a good weekend! :)

Xx

Hi again

Thanks for all your symathies. I have been feeling a bit sorry for myself. It's just little things at the moment, like I've got Henry enrolled in waterbabies, but I can't go in the pool with him so my mum has to do it for me. I know it's not much in the grand scheme of things, but I feel like I'm missing out on doing exciting new things with him .

I have been v well looked after by DH, Mum and MIL, but it really has knocked my self confidence. My body had changed enough through pregnancy and giving birth without having one boob like a shrivelled prune and the other like a watermelon! Hopefully it will settle down when I stop BFing...

I've been reading back over the thread and I think it's lovely you're all sharing details. My name's Petrina, though Patsy for short. We live in a rural area of south Cheshire. You also all sound as though you're doing some lovely activities with your LOs. Our options are fairly limited round here given the nearest town is a 20 min drive away, but we do mums and tots groups on a monday and wednesday, swimming on tuesday and baby massage on a thursday. MIL and FIL come down every Monday afternoon now to look after DS while I get my jobs done and we also see my Mum and Dad one afternoon, so that pretty much fills the week. We try to keep weekends free for just the 3 of us, or to catch up with friends, and we've been going out for some lovely walks on a Saturday. We're churchgoers, so we do that on a Sunday morning too.

Will hopefully be able to join in a bit more again now I'm feeling better again, so look forward to keeping up with the thread again.

P xxx

OMG he just will not go to sleeeeeeep! Is there some sort of mad four month old phase????

Glad to hear you are better Patsy :)

hey Patsy sorry you have had such a dreadful time, really hope you are starting to feel better

Kath hope he went to sleep in the end

Kath, I can sympathise. DS will go to sleep , but has taken to waking every 2 hours in the night again screaming hungry. Is his insatiable appetite another growth spurt? Is there a 4 month growth spurt? Or is this the legendary 4 month sleep regression?!

Had a bit of a week anyway. I've now got mastitis in the other breast, so back on antibiotics. :( Yesterday I was expressing the last milk off after a feed and there was blood in it, so dreading that it will all go horribly wrong again. Can anyone tell me they have come through mastitis without all the trauma I had last time?

off for and now to cheer myself up. Have got Fox's chocolate covered crinkle crunch. Think they are the perfect biscuit!

patsy I've been reading other threads and apparently they go through a growth spurt 19 weeks from their due date so it's probably a growth spurt, I'm sure it'll pass soon. No advice to offer with bf I'm afraid, have you tried posting on the bf/ff forums?

I think it is a growth spurt...my LO is a bit better this week and I have started to get a bit stricter at night about not feeding him straight away as 50% of the time it was a comfort suck.

Off swimming next week with him! Need to find him a wee pair of trunks!

Am cooking for all eight of us in the house tonight so better stop MNetting!

Yup we've switched to stage 2 milk here, and size 3 teats on the bottles; he wasn't getting enough out and so was just taking enough to only just satisfy him at each feed. So he was starving long before he was due a feed.

DS is throwing the milk down but still only weighed 13lbs 13oz last week

Hey all, just marking my place, will be back soon to post properly, hope all well. xx

It's been a bit quiet on here lately so thought I'd break the drought!

DS is now sampling solids - what a messy business that is!! Seems to like everything I throw at him, except baby rice - it makes him gag. I've even mixed it with fruit purees, but he won't touch it.

Last week he did start sleeping through the night (bed at 6.30pm-ish, dream feed at 11, then wakes at 7am), but has now got a cold, so waking in the night again. Do you think it would be OK to try to fob him off with water when he wakes in the night??

Other than that, the novelty of rolling over has gone as he doesn't know what to do once he gets onto his front!

My search for a childminder continues - can't believe I'll be back at work soon

Hope you're all doing OK and your LOs are keeping you busy!

Hi Jelly

Have not started on the weaning yet but bought a high chair on eBay , we are waiting a little bit longer (Cormac is four months and two weeks)

He is definitely NOT sleeping longer than 4 hours but I am ok with that as he has rosy red cheeks so I think he is teething. Not managed a full roll but almost there, I just dangle a nipple and he tries his best!

not much else to report...off up to Edinburgh to try and see what is left of my job.....!

Henry's also 4 1/2 months and I'm trying to hold out to 5 months to wean him. He's back to waking at least every 2 hour in the night and we've no idea why. Not partiucularly hungry, but of course needs a suck on the boob to get him back to sleep. It seems to be almost habit now, but I don't know what to do to break it.

Hi all... Tilly was sleeping a lovely 10-12 hours a night but the last few she has been waking up 2/3 times just absolutely screaming...

I think it's teething. She's a dribble monster & her cheeks are bright red.

I'm tired!

I have to get up now and behave like a normal person & not a zombie at gymboree.

Can't decide about work... DH has said I can stay home, but I think I will miss my job. I've put in an application for flexible working 1 day a week so will see how that goes down.

Lol at Kath 'dangling a nipple'!!

I had presumed all others were sleeping through the night and it was just Liam waking in the night for more boob action. I'll relax about his nights then knowing that I'm not alone.

Patsy I'm the same, worrying that using a boob to get back to sleep is just a habit, but it is so effective...

Same here anything! We have gone from good nights to terrible ones the last 2 nights. I'm now thinking of starting weaning although not really convinced it's hunger that's the problem.

DD now on prescribed lactose free formula after weeks of upset tummy and blood in nappies (not nice!).

Am shattered!

anything working one day a week sounds perfect! Hope your application gets accepted you lucky thing. I don't really have a choice but to go back to work to pay the bills. Hopefully I'll be able to drop to 3 days next year, but our work doesn't really allow any less than that as my clients would get shirty that I wasn't there to deal with their queries etc

Got the health visitor coming today to give me my weaning talk, so will see what she has to say about Henry waking 5 or 6 times a night. I guess it will be that weaning makes no difference, but we'll wait and see. The only longer stretch of sleep he does is from 7pm to 10pm but I don't get to sleep then as I have to catch up on all my jobs etc. Tried moving that a bit later, but he's soooo tired at 7 that it's not worth another hour of grumpy tired screaming baby.

Relieved to hear I'm not the only one with the sleep probs though.

Jackster glad to hear your poor DD is improving. Blood in nappies must be horrible. Did you see the articles this week about how we're still evolving and one of our main changes recently (meaning the last few thousand years!) has been to allow us to digest lactose? It's still not particularly natural to us apparently hence quite a high proprtion of babies having intolerances. Not that that helps you much, but quite interesting I thought.

Ah...not just me with the "magic boobs" solution to every waking! Cormac also does well 7pm - 10/11pm but then its 3 hours max until 7am...not sure what the answer is but I can cope at the moment as I reckon he is too litte for much sleep "training" but when he hits six months that's it I am getting stricter....he has reached the magic one stone mark today!

Omg - is anyone else following the AIBU thread about having sex while breastfeeding?

Ew.

Some people are very very odd.

Yup. Gross. Think I was just a bit sick in my mouth.

{scurries off to have a look intrigued..}

kath it takes bfing to a whole new level. There's bf/shag etiquette, apparently

I am still in shock..........