September 2010 - we've met our little ones now!

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Or most of them at least - there are some late September ones still to come!

Thanks all! Well I've never spent my birthday before sitting in a baby change/feeding room in a shopping centre, but happy to do so this year...! We will hopefully get to some of the shops st some point too...!

Happy Birthday dixie.

I think I need to stick up for all us mums who find it hard to get out and about! :)
Some of us aren 't blessed with easy babies.........Jacob take a bow. I find it hard to relate to all the posts on routine and activities (much like beatitali with the bf) cos i'm exhausted and Jacob rarely goes to sleep bfore midnight and i'm feeding in the night and then i've got to get 3 kids up and out for a 20min school run drive every morning.
I quite like the idea of staying in and not getting dressed till 3pm, it sounds like heaven for me. I've just spent the last 4 hours driving around buying stone slabs for a fireplace and ordering plyboard and skirting board! I'm determined to be in this fecking house by xmas.

I hate to say it but im also struggling to get out and about. Grace is quite a difficult baby compared with what most say on here. Very fussy ALL THE TIME! Her arms and legs are always on the go and is very difficult to settle to sleep. However she is quite a good sleeper in the night once she has settled and more often than not will sleep through.

She gets very bored very easily and cries if she isn't constantly entertained. She doesn't like being held for long periods of time and certainly won't cuddle up on the couch unless it's on her terms.

She has also decided that she doesn't like it in the pram now and just screams when she's in it until she's exhausted and falls asleep.

Im feeling kind of trapped in the house if i'm honest, non of my close friends have kids and everyone works during the week so not really got anyone to help.

I'm hoping all of this will change when she gets a bit bigger and can do more for herself, please smeone tell me it will get better

She's 9 + 1

That's why I posted newmum to make those that are probably struggling and not posting cos they feel like crap cos they're not doing as well as others.
Don't worry, you can always rely on me to be the one who hasn't eaten all day (except crap) and hasn't brushed her hair (or teeth sometimes), who has to get crinkly babygrows from the ironing pile cos run out of ones in the drawer and (very) often just washes their hair and hands rather than bath/ toptail. :o
As my nan used to say ......'They're not catching any harm' :o

sassy, the fact that you even consider ironing babygrows puts you one level above me

Hahaha that is so me!!

So far today i've had a Philidelphia sandwich, a packet of crisps and some jaffa cakes, been living off freezer food for tea that would cause Jamie Oliver to have a serious breakdown and have a pile of (clean) clothes on my bedroom floor that has been there for way too long waiting to be put away. Also snap about hair washing!!

On the bright side at least im up to date with washing as the noise of the washing machine is one of the only things that lulls Grace to sleep, if only i could clean the rest of the house/get dressed/make a nice meal! Oh well (goes to the kitchen to get more jaffa cakes)

Having said that, I do try to get out of the house everyday. Often it's just for a walk, but I think it's good for Louis to get some fresh air, and it keeps me sane. newmum, I find it lonely sometimes too as almost all of my friends work/live far away - that's why it's so good you found us.. If Grace hates the pram, have you tried a sling? I have a Moby and use it to get things done around the house when Louis wont be put down, and out and about when it might not be pram-friendly. He often cries for a minute when I first put him in, but then falls happily asleep for up to an hour or so :o

And it WILL get better :)

11 weeks today

maplestrees Hooray, i'm not bottom! Ha.

I have just made my first drink of the day. I go out every morning to drop dd at school without breakfast, but cos i was running around like a blue arsed fly, i didn't manage to get any, so called at mc d's for large fries and a strawberry milkshake. Oh, and i got a whole nut choc bar when i went for petrol. Healthy me! I still haven't brushed my hair, teeth or washed face. Kids had bath last night, so yet to wash them. Been home an hour and a bit and i've fed them both, changed there nappies, put heating on and made cup of tea. Big pile of washing (it never goes down, i've tried!) big pile of washing up (ditto) big pile of ironing (ditto) Sat with Jacob on knee, grounded as usual. Isobel is asleep, if they would just sleep at the same time, i might be one step up from rubbish! ha.

mapletrees i have been thinking about getting a sling, even if it's just kept under the pram for emergencies as on quite a few occasions now Grace has kicked off in a major way and have had to take her out of the pram and carry her whilst trying to push the pram up a steep hill home.

So glad i found mumsnet, DP doesn't understand why i'm on here so much but it quite literally is my only adult company during the day, well this and Facebook but getting very bored of everyone else's seemingly perfect lives on there and pictures of very messy nights out etc, oh god do i need a messy night out!!

I only manage to get out the house by ignoring the household chores
Lucy likes her pram so we try to go out once a day to the shops and to walk dog.
However i never iron or vacumn, I leave the pots until dp sees them and i am always behind on washing.
Like sassy I don't bath Lucy much as there is a family history of excema so water is not my friend

I only manage to get out the house by ignoring the household chores
Lucy likes her pram so we try to go out once a day to the shops and to walk dog.
However i never iron or vacumn, I leave the pots until dp sees them and i am always behind on washing.
Like sassy I don't bath Lucy much as there is a family history of excema so water is not my friend

See how exhausted I am? I had a bloody shower this morning! Totally forgot. Made dd watch babies while i jumped in quickly......really needed to, cos not had one since sat! So i did wash face and brush hair after all! How good am I? (Beams with pride - tries to foget about teeth)

Gosh... it's so not easy even if you have a good baby! I also didn't eat a thing today until 2pm and then it was two choccy bars before toast and houmous. AND I've NEVER been tidy! So the house work is always the last thing on my mind and the only thing in this house that seems an iron is the back of the cupboard where it lives!
I just got back from my neighbours house having had to abandon my cuppa only to have Jack do 2 Krakatoa style trumps as soon as we got home... so now he's happy! What a numpty!
I know that I've been lucky sharing the night feeds with DH as we're ffing but I'd swap all that to still be breast feeding.
For those who have more than one...... I just don't know how you do it! I'm stressed at the best of times with loads of help and a good baby.
Oh...... got my dressing gown on over my clothes right now and am hiding from my unfinished tax return!

sassy now all I'm doing is dreaming of a soak in the bath! Anyone else clock watch till Dh/Dp comes home?

Yep clock watching as we speak, 50 minutes and counting!

Happy birthday Dixie! Hope you managed to get out of the baby changing room and into the actual shops, if only for a short while

Sassy, sleepsuits have no business being in an ironing pile!!!

I've just bathed the girls so am awarding myself Mum Of the Year award. Poor things, they usually only get a proper bath once a week. But they still HATE baths so I don't feel too guilty.

Saoirse, I actually quite like all the twins comments when we're out and about with the double buggy. But I'm another one who doesn't get out much - logistically it's a pain in the arse with the side-by-side buggy not fitting through doorways or even on our town's stupidly narrow pavements sometimes. I'm fully intending to hibernate at home this winter until the girls can both go in the other twin buggy (which only has one "newborn" seat).

I second/third/fourth the point re it not being easy. I've just got back from the shops after not being out of the house since Sunday....shame on me. (Pushing a pram and carrying a basket is an art!!) But I did spent most of yesterday in tears having had a nightmare day with Olly! He literally cried ALL DAY! Then of course DP gets home and he stops, does a humoungous burp, pukes and goes to sleep....just to make me look like an idiot!!

Sometimes though I just don't want to go out. Maybe through fear of a screaming fit from Oll - although he is usually very well behaved! Or maybe I'm just happier cocooned up in my PJ's with my baba!

Apparently we are going to have a bad winter like last year...! Anyone else dreading the ice and snow?! I am! Am clumsy at the best of times. Ice turns me in to Bambi!!

Oh - whoever mentioned weight at this age - Olly was 7lb 12oz at birth and was 10lb 7oz at 4 weeks. Not being weighed again until the 24th but I reckon he is a good 12lb now.

Olly - 7+3

I think it's the fear of a screaming fit thats stopping me going out so much although it has only happened once before and although she does cry when i first put her in the pram she does usually go to sleep after a while. She just doesn't like being strapped in, can't say i blame her. But it's people staring while she's screaming that i can't handle, makes me feel like a crap mum. I was in Tesco last week (Grace was at home with her dad) and there was a woman in there pushing a crying baby in a pram and it actually cheered me up that i'm not the only one!

My excuse for not going out today was that the rain cover still hasn't arrived for the pram although it was only spitting slightly and the bus stop is right outside my house.

I am deffinately going into town tomorrow i have decided and if she cries she cries, not a lot i can do about it, and i shall not tollerate anyone who stares!!! I shall however leg it to the nearest baby change and lock the door till she's stopped crying

saoirse sorry i forgot about your twins comment. It depends what mood i'm in tbh. If i'm tired and not chatty, i tend to look straight ahead and don't give eye contact and they leave me alone (mostly). I don't mind it generally, but hate when they look like they're gonna touch them (no one has so far, but they have pulled down coat collar to get a better look).

Unfortunately my counting down the hours is weekly and not daily. Twins and no dp for 5 days a week......i must be fecking mad! Roll on friday. :)

I also here clock watching for DP to get home, It's not easy at all, and I'm finding it such a totally different experience 2nd time round. First time round my DD was chilled and I was physically well and up and about a few days after the birth so yes was out and about quite a bit.

This time have had really long recovery from the birth, only been comfortably mobile last couple of weeks, have a lively nearly 3 year old to entertain and a very colicky baby.

Our spare bed is laden with clothes I've washed but have never had a chance to put away.

I've felt emotionally knocked to smithereens and devastated at realising my relationship as it was with my DD is gone and then feeling sooooooo guilty at not feeling bonded with the Flynn.
God am rambling now sorry everyone!

newmum where are you in the country? Are any of us near by?

sassy I bow down to you I don't know how you do it!!

Im in Stalybridge - Greater Manchester. I think my problem is that i've never been around babies much so not too sure whats "normal" if thats the right word to use. It's taken me quite a while to settle into it and build my confidence up but i'm getting there. I've found it so much easier these last couple of weeks. And to be fair she's been an angel this week, she's really getting to grips with sleeping although she does need a lot of help.

I'm not far from you newmum and I used to work at Tameside college.

Thanks mellymooks, I don't feel like i am doing it.....just scraping by and not very well at that! ha.

Not a million miles from me either sassy and newmum
I'm the first of all my friends to have a baby and they keep asking me advice as they're ALL pregnant..... they must be mad! All I really know is that they all like milk, sleep and staring at the strangest things on the wall!
Jack has been a royal pain in the bum today........ over tired I think. More crying so byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee