FESH spa and creche: Is anyone thinking of the children yet?

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New Fred. Apologies for dullness of title - we need curly for witticisms.

lol@ pol & the every wipe!

Looking back it was rather grim Pone. This time though it will all be different - I will be giving birth in a pool with TG sieving out the poo. Lets hope it is a bit more solid this time.

Apparently 4 out of 5 poo.

boxer Am disappointed to hear you've not gone with TT (Titian Terror)! In your shoes, I'd ditch the racehorse and get something I really wanted.

Polly I'm a little worried about that arrangement. 3 years down the line you'll be "TG darling, can you load the dishwasher?" and there'll be stomping, slamming of doors and he'll disappear in to the night with "but I fished out your P.O.O!" resonating through the house...

Hmm... maybe it would be better if the midwife did the poo scooping - don't want to give him any more excuses to be a lazy git!

Pol now I know where your MN name comes from!

Right, I am having severe internet struggles (broadband has been down for 24 hours), but seem to have found a corner of the house where the shitty dongle gets enough signal for me to find out that Moo has not yet layed and to express my to those who managed to poo in labour. I had one stuck in there before, during, and after, which made everything that bit more cramped and painful. I'mm pretty sure its presence is recorded in my notes

Friend due same day as mummymoo has laid a little boy. He has the same name as hairymoo.

I'll be back when internet doesn't seem like it's being powered by the Chuckle Brothers on a hamster wheel

Hi ladies! Sorry am rubbish at posting, seem to get as far as reading the thread but not formulate a response let alone managing to post. Clint 5 weeks and suddenly huge. Cumulative tiredness is turning me loopy loopier.

Re poo - I believe there was some pushing out of poo before baby...in fact mws were telling me to push through my bottom. I was horrified beforehand of this idea. Now not so much.

Ooh and huge congrats to Silver and Switty! Now come on Honey!

We aren't doing routines of any type at the moment - Clint gets to eat and sleep when he wants (though I have to force naps sometimes). Feel terribly behind rest of NCT group (though he is the youngest). Still feel I don't know what I'm doing, and each day is different. When did you all do routines etc?

Also, did anyone suffer insomnia? I am finding I can't sleep when I get Clint back to his basket. Frustrating and tiring.

Morning all!

Little chick settled into a vague feeding routine at around 6 weeks (every 2-4 hours) but it took a bit longer to establish a sleeping routine. What really helped me was visiting the horse twice a day - DD was great at dozing off in the car & stayed asleep whilst I did chores.

We didn't even attempt a bedtime routine until 12 weeks - actually, it never occurred to us before

So, 5 weeks, no routine - I think you're doing just fine Vag...these ladies who have babies running like clockwork are either deluded or downright liars

Now, where's the MooMummy - she's gone suspiciously quiet....

vag artie is nearly 10 weeks and we still don't do a routine. I have started actively trying to get him to nap when i know he needs to, but that's all.

Nights are currently killing me. having no sucess at getting him to sleep anywhere but in our bed, and he's feeding every 2 hours. I know c-sleping not end of the world, but I'm getting aches and pains from having to work my position round him.

VAG I totally agree with Kate, they're fibbing or the types who are lying the baby on cold tiles to keep it awake because it's "not time for sleep". Yes, have read of such a think! :(

I figured at first that he's a tiny baby and he has no concept of anything except hunger and tired - so he dictated everything. Fine by me, that's what I signed up for. From around 12 weeks or so I have started to get him in to a 5x per day (not night) feeding routine, approx. every 3-3.5 hours. For the last 4 weeks I've been going for it night time wise, but again, he's a baby and if he doesn't get it "right", it's no big deal. :)

In the early days I tried to get me & him dressed, washing up done, washing done etc. by 10am just so that I felt that I was in a routine.

Have never been able to sleep when he does - have no idea what that is about. Function on very little sleep and am now at the stage of realistic nightmares. Bitten by an alien the other night. :(

He's in the cot right now having a "grumble" - not a full out scream, because he needs to sleep but he doesn't want to... am doing a bit of ignoring and a bit of comforting. Would not have done this with a tiddler.

curly That's shit. :( We had a very techie day yesterday, I finally got the wireless up & running - couldn't previously due to fuzzy-brained pregnancy + laziness. Jb also went out and bought an Android phone. He has relieved himself of parental duties for weeks days until he's bored with it.

honey should have her baby by now!

This may seem like an odd q, butare your babies ever still? Artie is just always on the move, we are dreading when he becomes mobile!

When he sleeps yes, sometimes I need to rest my hand on his chest to check he's still breathing. But I fear I have a wriggler on my hands. Hence we are currently house-hunting so that I can stick him in the garden.

lol, I'm sure that's one of the reasons Artie doesn't sleep that well, he wakes himself up with all his wriggling!

I think a garden when you have a v active toddler will be an essential.

Yep, this morning when I lay him down he beat his little fists off the mattress and banged his feet. I will swaddle him during the day where I can see him but am paranoid about doing it if he's in the cot...

Oooh exciting! Looks as though the lovely reggie may be joining soon! She's lost her plug and has been having severe BH - am wondering if BH were actual real contractions? (Don't know, didn't 'ave any of this stuff.)

You lot need a new fred - a nice new shiny one for all us iminent FESH's That Reggie is a bit careless losing her plug non?

I was like you Alps needed to be up, showered and make up on before 9.30 am to make me feel human and in some kind of routine. I could never be one of these who staying in PJs all day although I envy those who could. I also used to wonder what was an acceptable time to have a glass of wine. I used to get to about 2pm and think I deserved one but would generally try and wait until post 6pm.

Well that was 2 days of fun. :( LG was miserable all day Monday and on Tuesday I was initially pleased that he slept a lot after the grumpiness of the day before. Around about teatime I started to get worried when he hadn't been interested in feeding, and when I picked him up to see if I could coax him to have a little nurse he shrieked with pain. Immediately after the shrieking he rolled his eyes up and went straight back to sleep. He needed his nappy changing, and strated to scream again, so I called the doctor. They told me to go the the hospital. After a merry run around where it turns out they had told me the wrong farking hospital, the hospital I WAS at took one look at LG, who by this time was white as a sheet with red eyes and huffing and puffing and got a doctor. He was admitted to the paediatric ward with a dangerously high temperature (which I hadn't noticed because his extremities were stone cold - which apparently is an even worse sign!) and a rash, and I got to stay on a really uncomfortable camp bed beside him. Lovely.

He had to have a lumbar puncture to check for meningitis, which thankfully it wasn't, and was put immediately on antibiotics, which, because he is a baby, have to be given intravenously. They say they start treatment for the worst case scenario straight away with babies this young and back off once they have reassurance it is nothing sinister.

Anyway, next morning LG was seen by the consultant, and was looking nothing at all like a poorly baby. He was smiling and cooing, his test results had come back clear for meningitis but with elevated white blood cells and something else suggesting an infection of some kind, but the full results won't be back till tomorrow morning and it is possible we'll never know what caused the high temperature. So the consultant switched us over to once a day antibiotics. They have the advantage that we have been able to come home and just go back for the next couple of days for his dose, but unfortunately they sting going in the IV line. So he's not impressed with that. :( He has to keep his cannula in, and keeps whacking himself in the face with it.

On the plus side, they weighed him to get the correct drug dose, and he is a hefty 6.32 kilos - a smidgen short of 14lbs! No wonder my right arm aches from carrying that around all the time.

Ski actually, I WILL change it to TT. I like that better! Don't tell Clucky, but I'm going to see 2 nice cobs tomorrow, after hospital, of course.

What a worry box. Glad it wans't the dreaded M though. Fuck me that is the 3rd baby I have known in the last 2 or 3 months who has been through what you have. At least the hossie acted quickly. I reckon you should buy a new hoss for compensation for all that stress..

My god boxer - what a horrible, horrible day for you. :( I'm glad he got the all clear on the meningitis though. He is feckin' 'uge! Bear was only 6.4kg 2 weeks ago!

New hoss, new hoss, new hoss! Clucky won't mind - buy two - then you've each got one!

Hell Boxer, so sorry to hear of all you've been through in the last few days, must have been truly awful. Very glad to hear tho that LG is hopefully on the mend now, thank god it wasn't meningitis.

auntyB I hear ya and promise to be better and not beat myself up for not doing shiz. pony is right that people offer to help but they mean with the baby not doing the chores or walking mutt.

Sorry to hear LG has been poorly poorly. Thank heavens you acted quick and that he is ok.

V exciting about the nag shopping!

Oooh exciting - reggie's "Braxton Hicks" are actually real contractions and she's in real labour and is already 2cm! Double-hard-bastard badge should be awarded for not even realising she was in labour. Bet she was shopping instead!