July 2010 - The gang's all here, we're now getting started on our baby's first year.

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Starting our first post-natal thread since we are all over to the other side

Right [crosses mlic off people-i-consider-friends list] morning all!

I can't get the tyre fixed til Monday cos when I told the garage how big this bulge is they said that it would be dangerous to drive it so to get it there I should put the spare on. All well and good 'cept the one time both children are asleep so I can change it, I go out only to find that although I can get the car on the jack, I can't loosen the nuts to get the tyre off anyway...DH is back this evening so I'll have to get his muscle on it. I remember the last time I bought a new tyre was for my dad's 106, cost £45...those days are long gone!

dh ol' buddy of mine My gorgeous son fell asleep at 7.30, woke for a feed at midnight, then at 3.10 and from then on was up cos his guts were hurting. So I cuddled him in bed and fed him off and on and tried to stop him screaming in pain til 6.30 when he finally fell asleep and we slept til 7.30. Roll on the magical 12 weeks and (hopefully) an end to reflux otherwise this little boy's getting weaned early whether I like it or not...

Can the rest of you only tell us when your little one doesn' t sleep so I can gloat sympathise?

Stac- I've got nothing planned for this weekend. Although dh is going out for his Christmas night out tonight. As he's not drunk in ages he'll most probably come back plasterd and I'll spend tommorrow trying to keep a baby and a 3 year old quiet and occupied so as not to upset a "poorly" daddy.

Also as he's going out tonight really wish I hadn't read that wearwolf thread I will be crapping myself well and truely tonight.

Bethan went down at 8 was up at 2:30, 4:45 Dylan was up at 6 then bethan was up for the day at 7. That was a good night for us though I feel quite well rested. Although I am very jelous of all these babys that are sleeping all night!

Nice to meet you cakes you seem to get an amazing amount done in a day really wish I had your energy. If only you could bottle it and send it this way.

belated intro from me... im memphis or kim in rl, im 27,fron leicester, had 1st ds (lyndon) on 12th july, had awful pg and labour, luckily he is a fab baby and started sleeping through.
cakes and tsc lyndon is never dating!! ever, quite happy to buy him quad bike and motorbike before hes 5 so willing to throw him at danger but dating is a no no
stac have you heard from your cuz since? im paranoid about sending messages to the wrong person! i once sent my bf who is a bloke a dirty message also saying oooh are you a dark horse it says in paper that people called mark are in the top 5 peoples names who go swinging!! (dh's name) at the time my bf was in pub and read it out to everyone!!! so was humiliating when i went in for a pint!
we are ill today, lyndons got a cough, not sure what i can do to ease it and ive got a temp, shakes, sickness and generally feel like shit, had to take my blind gramdad to docs this morning and i had to throw up out the window!!! oh the shame, under my slanket now! dh got golf tomorrow thats all payed for but if he goes leaving me ill i will be annoyed, lets hope i pick up!!

Chulita - Elle might be sleeping through, but my two and half year old certainly isn't. I'm still exhausted and have very little grace left in me for his tears because he is not newborn and he used to sleep brilliantly.
had a fab morning out with him at a toddler group though, so hoping to get some peace whilst he naps now...

hello, i'm 30 and live innorth east london with my DH and DS, 10 weeks. he has got himself into a routine of sleep at 1-2am, feeds at approx 0430 and 0830, awake at midday. so we're only really just surfacing now. i want to bring it back a few hours but nothing seems to work! m just going to go with the flow for now.

gracie it's not easy when they're older is it?! DD still wakes up most nights and although she's usually very easy to re-settle I feel I shouldn't need to. Granted she's teething at the mo but when are they not? Hope he has a good long nap for you today!

memphis how crap :( you could try propping lyndon's bed/basket up a bit so he's not lying flat, sometimes that helps but other than that not much you can do I don't think. I hope you feel better soon, it's hard enough work looking after a baby without being sick!

dylthan I'm 28, got a DD who's 22 months and Sam who's 9 weeks tomorrow. DH is in the army so we're currently in dorset but moving next week. I'm on fb with a horrendous family photo everytime I see it I'm reminded of how much weight I have to lose [woefully shovels another nutella sarnie into gob]

mlic I hope for your sanity's sake that he does make a habit of it. Does W have reflux? or is he just generally unsettled for no reason?

DD's been in her room for an hour and she's still shouting away at the birds outside the window don't reckon there's much chance of a nap today...

Milc- dh works for a road work company and drives the gritting lorry in the winter. The rota starts next week so they'll be on call from then. The rota dosn't end until april so this is there last chance before then to all go out together.

The rota say's that he's on days christmas week so unless it's a very mild Christmas in the highlands of Scotland this year we won't see him Christmas day. (sad)

mlic - clue.. it's a different name to cakes, iyswim!

memphis i would say welcome IF your DS wasn't sleeping thru

chulita i think your suggestion is great. I do not want to hear about sleeping babies, only up-all-night ones.

oh and i have it crap all ways at the mo, ghastly teething toddler took an hour and a half to go down for a nap, he won't go to sleep on his own (since he went from cot to bed) so that was an hour and a half wasted. Even worse, dd was sound asleep the whole time and woke up 3 minutes after he finally went to sleep, when I'd optimistically just started running a bath.

cake I just ran a bath after having a toddler in bed for 90 mins, only for me it was to bath her after she wiped poo all over her sheets/bear/legs...it was even up her nostrils [boak] toddlers are absolutely gross!
So no nap for us today, S is down for a change but he's not fed for hours so I doubt it'll last. It's going to be a long afternoon, especially because bear is in the wash [sigh]

yeah - i'm trying to be incognito tho!

chulita that does actually make me feel better, thank you! Never put bear in the wash unless you have a spare!

Spare Bear is in the airing cupboard but I'm trying to teach DD not to play with poo...

Argh, gwen is so grizzly today. She slept for twelve hours last night. I woke up in hysterics this morning thinking she was dead. I know I should be so grateful that she sleeps so well at night, but I would gladly sacrifice a few hours at night if it meant I could get something done during the day. She wants to feed every two hours and it makes it so hard to do anything. This place is still filthy and after three weeks I've barely unpacked anything. she'll go go sleep in my arms. But wake up the minute I put her down. Does anyone have s similar problem?

yep, we do! I just fed S, he fell asleep, I put him down and he's awake. DD's going stir-crazy in the house too...

Wine? I'm sure I've heard of that... I've got a thrilling night of laundry ahead of me!
I have to stop baking at night. I Ate an entire banana bread today :-s

Tsc you getting ouy to the pub or house again?
Oh god so tired. Been flat out busy all day with hair and not a thing done in thw house so have to do all that now :-(( have to go collect ellie from her grannys first.
She's teething like mad. She soaked a bib in about 20 mins last night and was awake til 1 chewing like mad on her hand and eouldnt settle and then i woke at half 7 with her chewing again. The poor thing and i was jyst thinking of putting her into her own room next week as she goes the night.
Any plans for the weekend anyone?

This thread is moving really fast again now.

I went to town earlier, which was fine but I had the journey from HELL getting home, stuck in endless traffic jams, traffic lights, dickheads braking for no reason etc, Dylan screaming in the back, overtired probably but I was so frustrated and angry I was screaming at cars, tears streaming down my face. Seriously if someone offered me a fag then I would have smoked it. I know I sound dramatic as it was only traffic but when your own little baby is literally choking cos hes crying so much you want to tear your face off.

DP kindly made me a cuppa tea when I got home and put dinner on, a 20 min journey took an hour