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

Wow. Not one of my quickest baking experiments! tsc, monkey bread is this cool American pastry, lots of little sweet doughballs, covered in cinnamon butter syrup and baked in a bundt (ring shaped) tin. it's a kind of doughnutty, cinnamon danish sticky thing. It's called monkey bread because you're meant to pull the little balls apart with your fingers. it's very slow to make but quite relaxing, and very yummy. I can give you the recipe if you like.

Does anyone else's baby suckle in their sleep? Gwen smacks so loudly we can hear it over the baby radio!

Oh. my. goodness. :( got S to sleep at 9pm, DD woke up covered in vomit at 10pm, bathed her, washed her sheets/pjs/bear/carpet, she threw up 2 more times and fell asleep at 11, S was up 1 til 2, slept til 4 then was up screaming from then on. I couldn't settle him so DH had him and I went downstairs but only dozed cos I could still hear him, went back at 6 to try and feed him then finally had a cuppa at 7, DD woke up, had a bit of milk and threw it all up over the carpet and S is still awake now [sigh] We were going to go for a pub lunch with a good friend to say goodbye but with DD vomiting we can't really do it and I've had so little sleep but still obviously have a full day ahead...sorry for the whinge

mlic DH gave S some expressed milk last night and he only drank 3oz then didn't have anything again for over 5 hours. My boobs feel empty all the time and he feeds for about 6 mins at a time. He's just unsettled/crying most of the time and is obviously not a happy little boy but I have no idea how to help him :(

Im so tired, Dylan just doesnt sleep unless hes practically fused with me. I have to lay on my left ALL NIGHT so wake up v uncomfy so dont think Im really in a deep sleep, also getting more paranoid about sids.

DP has a week off work soon so Im planning on using that week to put Dylan back in his moses basket after every feed during the night and hopefully he will start to sleep better in it.

Not doing anything today except DP's dad and (new) stepmum coming over (feels strange to call her that!)

We've been talking more about our wedding, going to look at venues soon.
DP said 'I havent even proposed yet' and I basically told him he needs to get a move on then!

Afternoon all.

Chulita - you poor thing. Hope you get thru today ok.

Crap night again with teething ds plus baby decided to wake up twice. ds also seems to want to drop his nap. I'm so not having that as its the only way I can get thru the day at the mo! Had to give up today tho after dh and I took in turns for over a hour to settle him.

We're going to brave going to see toy story 3 with the dc this arvo. May involve me doing non-stop mercy feeds for dd and cramming popcorn or something into ds to keep him quiet! Wish us luck!

mlic I'm not sure on his weight gain, going to get him weighed again on wednesday hopefully.

DD's had a bite of toast and it's stayed down, might try the flat 7up tsc good idea.

chulita what a night for you hope dd is feeling a bit better.
dh by sound of your post saying weve talked about venues, then dp say i havent proposed yet, i take it you brought up the topic? do you think you will have a big dress or sleek? my mate got married other week her dress cost £1500 and she looked like something from my big fat gypsy wedding if anyone saw that?

regarding the smoking thing and parents, i made my mum give up, i told her she wouldn babysit if she didnt, but she would have i just thought it was kick up the arse she needed to finally quit, she had a nicotine patch in her purse and when i went into labour she put it on and hasnt had one since!
lyndon a lot better today, we went to coventry transport museum today got some brilliant pics

dh away all week and im dreading it

memphis - would you have been ok with your mum babysitting if she'd continued smoking just not when in the same room as lyndon?

I'm really not sure whether to say something to my mother or not (we're not that close so it's not easy to just mention it)

oh and the trip to the cinema was great! felix loved it and was glued to the screen all the way thru. madam just slept!

Evening all

Poor dd chulita how is she now? How you?

Rileighs having a snoozy day hope it doesnt mean a crappy night as i'm shattered. Rileigh seems to be fighting sleep at night or maybe its not wanting to sleep in the moses basket. We've just been putting her in anyway and leaving her to it but i am wondering if she is getting to big for it. Does anyone have lo in cotbed x

Oh god. I try so hard to be a domestic goddess, but the fates are always against me.
This afternoon I set aside to give Gwendolyn a bath, because, frankly she was starting to smell a little like stilton. She loves bathtime, so that wasn't a problem. Took her out, dried her off, powdered her, dressed her and took hereto the kitchen to see her daddy, all good. So, I put her down on her beanbag while I got started on dinner while her dad read the paper. Five Iminutes later I look over and the legs of her sleepsuit are completely yellow and she's sitting in a huge puddle of poo, with a massive grin on her face. Thwarted.

dh have you got your wedding planned out in your head? I swear I had mine sorted years before I even met dh. Made the shotgun wedding much easier to sort out!

memphis haha yeah we were all talking about it at my mums yesterday, I quite like sleek dresses but I know when I start trying them on Ill be spoilt for choice and unable to decide!

needle Ive got bits of it planned in my head, like guests and what my hair will be like but not the venue or dress. I wasnt that girl who had every last detail planned to perfection at the age of 12 lol.

cakes im not sure, my mum and dad arent together so he would be in sole care of my mum so if she had just had a smoke then he needed picking up i would have a problem with it, she would still have him but not as much as she does i dont think.
stac we bought a crib as the hospital expected him to be massive but he wasnt, so he would have more room for growing, i want him in his own room but dh still is reluctant, my friend has a 2 week old and he put on fb that she is already in her own room!!!!
dh you look tall so i reckon everything will look good on you! i call mark my dh but we arent married, dont really want to as i class him as my husband and ive been there before (i got married at 19 to a fraudster) and we had the biggest wedding ever, i resembled a doll with a bog roll under her dress!! so if we ever get married it will be in years and years just a shotgun one! but we are going shopping for my diamonds at the weekend! dont want to get hopes up as i have tiny fingers, they went smaller while i was pregnant too, so they will most probably have to order the ring in and i will be gutted having to leave without it!!

memphis rileigh will still be in our room as its not fair on ds having to share, wish we had went for a crib. My neice is getting a gorgeous one. Wow at you marrying a fraudster. Bet you cant wait to get your ring, i hate waiting too lol.

dh thats progress on the proposal, wonder if it will be soon.

mlic do you think he's ill? You must be totally knackered hun

needles rileigh has done that a few times an exploding nappy is a nightmare at tea time. The monkey bread sounds fab was it good?

stac we use a crib in our room for dd (we've got a moses in the sitting room that we just use down here). Really recommend cribs over moses baskets as they're longer and more stable so should last until 6m if your baby isn't huge (ds was fine in it til 7m but he was smallish)

MLIC that sounds like a terrible day, you poor thing. Did you say you don't know if its reflux? Does he have any signs of it? Maybe try anti-reflux things and see if that helps (keeping upright after feeds, raising head of cot up etc). Sorry if teaching you to suck eggs!

I'm so with you on the toddler-nap situation. I so can't bear ds to drop his and i don't know if it's just cos he's teething but he's so determined not to go down for it this week.

dd is 8 weeks and seems to be going thru another growth spurt. anyone else's dc had one around then?

also, if you have time, i'd be interested in comparing how you get thru the day routines.

i did the baby whisperer EASY thing with ds which was ok but i used to think i'd failed if he wanted a feed less than 3 hours the last one - pretty stupid considered i was bf him.

this time round i'm going with the flow more and letting dd settle into her own groove. i'm less stressed about when she feeds but it's harder to plan things at the mo as i'm not sure when she need a feed.

the last week it's starting to look something like this (all times v approximate):

7.30am wake and FEED

8.30am NAP

9.30 wake up (sometimes feeds again)

10.30 FEED

12.00 wake up and FEED

1.00 NAP

3.00 wake up and FEED

3.30 NAP

5.30 wake up and FEED (cluster feed 1)

6.30pm cluster FEED 2 (doesn't always have this one)

7.00pm cluster FEED 3 (long feed or 2 close together) then goes to sleep

11.30pm I wake her and FEED her

4.30am (later when I'm lucky!) feeds

Oh and she's 8 weeks (please say how old yours is)

the above post was to everyone btw

there's an alternative version which includes toddler which starts something like this:

7am toddler wakes up sprawled in our bed. climbs on both of us, randomly says the names of items in the room and then asks for milk. we hide under duvet and pray it's all a nightmare. i claim new mother rights and send dh down for milk.

7.30 dh leaves for work. dd wakes up. it all kicks off as dd wants to be fed as toddler needs a change (ridiculously stench-ridden nappy). decided to feed dd first so toddler is a leaking by the time i get to him. toddler tries to get up in the middle of the change. shit everywhere.

and so on. plus lots of swearing. and cake. sometimes tears (all three of us)

mlic - it's the worst seeing them in pain and not being able to help. dh never understands why i get SO upset but i think it's a mother thing. i really feel for you. i so hope you manage to figure out what's up and help him soon.