March 2010 - Six months in - will they ever sleep?

[Arcadie]

Welcome to the latest thread for mums of babies born in March ( and a few in Feb and one in April!).

Come on in. Find out who'll be pg next and who's weaning onto what.

Interesting the ones in the silicone trays worked better for me!! Maybe it was the large eggs. DH insists on large eggs clearly it matters to have a large egg on your bacon and egg sarnie!!

AAHHHHHH underwired bras.....!!!!! a dim and distant memory!

I'm back in underwired bras, having given up on expressing a few weeks back. Without wanting to bring the thread down, I'd trade them for the ability to BF any day. I'm in awe of all you ladies who have (and still are) exclusively BFing. Especially Pixie with the twins (by which I mean the babies, not your boobs).

will my boobs ever be the same again...!!!

whispers i did actually get this now bf is established but I know underwires are not a good thing really..

evening all
i've taken to adding an egg. always... Not sure why but it seems to work ok.
can't be long because DH is taking me to bed (not in that way, mind) but i'm not so great today, i just, don't know, just don't ahve the energy to fight any more. it's not like they've been awful, or anything, i just think perhaps i'm very very tired. completely lost my temper earlier at the smallest of things (choc cake fell to pieces as i put it in the tin) and next thing i know i'm seriously considering hurting myself just to stop it all aching. anyway. i didn't but the cake tin is now in the bin with a big hole in it. Elk came up afterwards and treated me like I was her dolly, she sort of put my head on her shoulder and patted me on the back. very sweet. DH and I also had something of a fall out last night but i think we are back on track again today. it helped that he came home to me in tears anyhoo.

rkd so sorry about your school mum. words yet again aren't enough and put many smaller issues in life massively into perspective. well done on the DVDness though!

right. bed. pixie hope you ok

Melk hope things feel better in the morning after an early night

siamese I would have bought some underwired nursing bras had I ever thought I would be BF this long....thank god i bought reuseable breast pads is all I can say. I would have been bankrupt by now with the disposable ones!

Och, underwired bras are fiiiiine (if well fitted and wire not digging in)

Jaffa cakes are even better and make no crumbs if put into cake hole mouth whole

Size 10 ?? 'Not massively skinny'??? Pixie, I am and and . Are you not the lady who had twins? At term?? AND you are still BFing them?

Hot news: Crieff Hydro was fab; it caters to a much better class of punter than Centreparcs (sadly, I am a snob ) and I went on a Segway - the most clever piece of kit ever! Go on, ask me what a Segway is!

Oh, and exercise DVDs, in fact exercise in any shape or form is/are evil

I hope that's not your professional opinion PD I won't gush too much, but exercise DVDs have helped me lose a fair bit of weight over the years, including roughly a stone in the last 4 months. Horses for courses though. Glad you enjoyed Crieff Hydro, and at you on a Segway!

Is Crieff Hydro on west coast? we stayed round there last year, didn't realise they had accomodation.

Oh, Melk, x-posted with you, I sooo know how you are feeling. I don't know what the answer is - I am in tears much more often than I have ever been, my PND score was higher last week than 6 weeks postnatally, and I just have no patience, little fun and am exhausted - mentally and physically (fighting with a 2.6 year old All The Time over Everything is just so wearing). Hope you have a good night with lots of sleep and a cuddle with DH - always a good thing, even if, or particularly if, it does not lead to anything...

And ARcadie, awful news about the mum you know . So sad and so unfair. I find these kind of things really hard to make sense of...

Right, I am going to stop talking to myself in a mo....

ignore me, just googled it, completely got wrong end of stick!!

Oh, I am not alone >

ang, Crieff is near Perth, kind of north of Stirling, not west coast. They have very nice self-catering lodges/cottages.

BMI, I am simply lazy in awe of anybody with any degree of self-discipline...

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2007/10/segway-mom.jpg&imgrefurl=www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/10/segway_mom_goes_around_in_style.html&usg=__KgbxmbfTJHGriaVm_nFAUOnrI8o=&h=311&w=468&sz=29&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=jjbU_b7kUse36M:&tbnh=131&tbnw=197&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsegway%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1436%26bih%3D671%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C335&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=1117&vpy=143&dur=3453&hovh=183&hovw=276&tx=242&ty=113&ei=Jp2jTMfrOI6UjAeQl-3-Ag&oei=Jp2jTMfrOI6UjAeQl-3-Ag&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:20,s:0&biw=1436&bih=671" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This is me - NOT! But it could be ....

I'm here PD - you're not talking to yourself.
Right I'm going to MN
then make sandwiches
then MN
athe wash up
then MN
then make up all 5 bottles for tomorrow.
Then MN and be told off for making up all 5 bottles right

And I know what a segway is. Do you know the guy who invented them has just died by driving one over a cliff? Sounds like the beginning to an awful pun joke but no - tis true.

Pacific when you mentioned it on here I thought you meant the hydro electic power place in Argyll and Bute! I was completely baffled that you could spend the weekend in a cabin near a hole in a mountain!! How stupid am I!!!

ang!

Yep, the instructor mentioned Mr Segway's demise halfway through the lesson ! His name is not 'Mr Segway, but YKWIM

Have to run, Joe is incandascent, and daddy just doesn't cut it

Auf weinerschnitzel PD

OK - I've made sandwiches. Who's here for the interim MNing?

MElk Hope you're currently snuggled up in bed with DH giving you a shoulder rub. Yo are NOT alone in the grumpy boat. I too have been irrationally snappy today. MUST get a grip of myself and not let it become habit. The grumpy boat is NOT my home.....

And yeah actually Pixie How can you possibly have snapped back to a size 10 after two full term babies up your jumper eh?????
If it's not too insensitive a question - I feel like I've missed an episode on Pixienders - why did DH have to go to Norwich? I'm guessing something Aviva related has kicked off??

lol at ang. Sometimes I consider camping near Sellafield..
I also bought washable breast pads but it turns out I never needed them - I have not leaked since week 3 or so. Which brings me to my http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/breast_and_bottle_feeding/1051813-Slow-let-down-at-night-after-6-months thread if anyone can help?

pacific / melk I am also less happy now. I was thinking of blaming the weather in part, and also the lack of anything to look forward to now Ive had my hols. Also Dh now working away makes days and nights seem endless. And then we fight when he gets home over something ridiculous..

grrr thread

Siamese been meaning to ask you, is your dd feeding more often at night since you started BLW? Ds is waking up for feeds when didn't before and am paranoid it's cos he's not eating enough solids?

I wouldnt say more feeds (difficult to measure when she seems to get another cold every week or so) but she only ever took one side at a feed until BLW now it is always both sides at night and sometimes during the day.