FESH Spa & Creche - Queue-jumpers accepted with open arms

[AlpinePony]

How exciting for a new thread - two FESHspring due shortly!

a light dusting here, which I really didn't expect.

cunty I did my own version of your heat suggestion. All our rads have individual thermostats, so i turned the majority right down, our bedroom up and knocked the controller thermostat down a few degrees from its daytime setting. we all had a warm night and Squeaks had a warner head, which was reassuring. hopefully we didn't use up too much oil either. i've just cleaned out sitting room fire place ready for this evening. i do love a roaring fire.

Bastard sainsbury's no longer stocking teething powders. Doubt I'll have much luck in our ickle Boots either...

that pic is amaze Honey!

Right off to clean before visitors arrive.

I can hardly see what I am typing on this new phone so hope makes sense.

your poor dad Alps!

haha curly - not really, he's from Aberdeenshire - just taking him back to his youth. He got home, had a cup of tea, walked back to town and then brought the car home. Brilliant planning really - mum put the 4WD in for a service yesterday. Doh!

MY CHILD IS ASLEEP!

right have set up laptop whilt feeding!!! left hand not that quick tho... Reasonable night from 11 thru til 2am and then 3 til 5 and did feeding in bed and lept til 8. Does this all sound to be expected? feeds last 30-50 mins. sort of thinking lucky not to be up more. this morning feed and nap gone well too so hopefully this afternoon/eve will be better than yest.

alpy - doggy moo is absolutely fine. sleeps with us and takes no major notice of crying. he wants to lick him hough which im thinking is not great when so tiny even tho HV said not to worry too much. when do u start putting on tummy? he has strong neck already.

okie glad not just me!! neighbour came round last night and he screamed non stop... i must hsve looked angst ridden as she said re member your the parent dont be scared!!!!

i am bad mutha. he has nappy rash eiher side of his bottom. putting on sudacrem... should i use barrier on top of that? had it for 2 days now...feel bad for not using it sooner now was using some natural stuff.

terrified of utiity bills. heating on 24/7 since we got home. holy cow its going to be bad.

must write thank u cards soon.

soz for spelling an sounded like english is my second language ha ha

Heating on here permanently too.

Well I had a bleeding bitch if a night. Not sure if own doing. I td HI to bring MB up for a feed at 1215 which he did. Well the little bugger angel screamed virtually til 5am. Apart from when he was performing torture on my nips. HI said MB was asleep and he had to wake him and that we should have left him to wake himself. My irrational theory was that he'd only had a 15 min feed at 9pm so would need feeding 3 hrs later.

I also noticed that the Infacol dropper ain't so good and is not delivering full doses so that may have something to do with it. Who knows.

We fed at 6 for 40mins. Ouch and then slept in til nearly 9ish when the mutt decided to bark it's head off. Lots of curse words and threats of violence did not shut the dog up. That's what sleep deprivation does to you. Turns you into a short tempered ol' hag who is still in her pjs, bed not made, kitchen a mess, clean laundry everywhere. Oh and in the night my left boob decided to let rip and my nightie was soaked luckily I had slept on a towel.

MB has been snoozing since 10am. Ah bless. Not. Am dead on my feet and HI is working again today.

Sudacrem will be fine. It's what we are using.

Oh beejeezus you should have seen the nappy he just produced - 5 days worth of stored up solids. It was like a war zone.

I can't bring myself to imagine the horror. It doesn't get easier then. Do they get used to nappy changes more? Babymoo hates it unless asleep or just fed. V stressful.

Silv so sorry about your night. You definitely were in the right. Gave just got metanium too so should hopefully clear up soon.

Rastus started out like that too until we realised that a crunchy piece of gift-wrap plastic (firmly attached to gift basket obv) just within his reach provided perfect distraction. Try a toy or mobile above the change mat?

Bear has always loved having his bits cleaned up and paid attention to.

cunty Is Rastus' mood better post-excavation? I won't let it go longer than 36 hours or so as his mood deteriorates rapidly. I vaseline up a thermometer and work it out!

ewww I don't think it was causing him any jip, he certainly doesn't seem much different maybe a smidge less grizzly. I can't tell you how well these solids are going down though - it was mash and apple today and it did not touch the sides. And there was loads of it too

alps you just reminded me of something I read when Squeaks was really bunged up: that many docs prefer not to manually stimulate the bum in case baby doesn't learn to go on its own or gets lazy. Not sure what merit there is in that view, but thought I'd put it out there. S has always been ok with nappies too. But hates when clothes go over her head. And getting dried. But we're getting past that with lots of rub a dub jiggling

Bitch of a night here too, and consequently v hard day as he hadn't slept enough so was getting irrational vv quickly once tired in day. It seems bland food in order for me from now on, he always has a bad night when have eaten something garlicky or hot. Also the little bugger has decided he is no longer happy to feed to sleep so have to do mucho swaying and rocking and shhhhing. Am looking on bright side and hoping it's the start of him trying to self settle. Please.

honey that sounds like a textbook night to me, exactly what can be expected.

And yes, evenings are notoriously hard, mix of cluster feeding and overtired screaming. It does get better honest!

re nappy rash, Metanium is the dogs for clearing it up,

cos if you find he can't/won't self-settle are you prepared to try some managed crying? I changed Rastus's routine from feed-to-sleep, to wake-to-feed and with two days of about 10 mins moaning and wailing in his cot when he was put down, he cracked settling himself to sleep. Obviously this doesn't apply to the night time feed though.

The trick is to observe closely your kid at play (which 'should' immediately precede a nap), as soon as the seven yard stare happens it's up to bed PDQ, quick bedtime routine (draw curtains, cuddles, kisses, 'mummy loves you') and away. Then feed when he wakes. Once that routine was in place it freed me up massively from the very frequent feeding to settle/calm him down. It doesn't always work, particularly if he's over-tired, but it's helped get my sanity back...

I'd not heard that curly. He does poo most days tbh, but if he doesn't - I suppose like us, it gets more compacted in the colon and his mood is "low". Will have to read about it I suppose.

I think I'm raising a Gizmo. During the day he makes cute squeaks and chirrups. Feed him after midnight and all hell breaks loose. :(

Me and my big mouth, my child was asleep for an hour and now he is inconsolable. He keeps getting himself tangled up in his sheet now he can roll over so is constantly disturbing himself

The joys of parenthood ! As if!

I haz just broken another "rule". Haz co-slept for 3.5 hours. :)

JB finally at around 4:15am said "this has got to stop" (me getting up every 15 minutes to comfort him) - so I said "OK, well in that case we have to let him settle himself and it might take a few minutes". At 4:30 he stomped out of the bedroom in a hissy fit. I fed Bear and then took him to bed with me whilst jb went off to work. He's in a fould mood, we started a new diet on weds and he's moaning that he's hungry. Well the stupid twat won't eat anything (enough) - because he doesn't like anything which doesn't come without a shelf-life of 30 years or can't be squeezed out of a jar. Is this my fault? I'm getting very fed up but trying not to cause a row. I'm working full-time AND looking after the baby 7 days a week - I'm tired too. :( I only made it in to the office once last week because his lordship is "too tired" to look after the baby (he works part-time). So I turn on the laptop at half six when they're still sleeping and am still going at 6pm.

Beautiful crisp & clear day today but murderously cold so am going to wrap him up in his ski suit and take the dogs out. Am going riding later, it will be "frisky" I'm sure.

Oh and am doing all the washing/stripping of beds/washing up/cooking/food shopping too. But pushing a hoover around once a week negates all of that. I asked him to do the shopping last week and asked for sugar-snap peas. He came back with chives. Twat.

Pony We co-slept from birth until aged 2 as an informed choice - it is nothing, I repeat nothing, to feel guilty about. I have ten million links on the benefits of it if you'd like to see them? (Can email you them on t'other place if no other FESH is interested) (Ten million is, of course, an exaggeration :o)

Oh and a sympathetic drop kick to JB on your behalf too. Write a list of all the chores that need doing and who does them. Then show him. Yours will be about 3 pages longer by the sounds of things. Tsk.

Don't worry boo, around these parts we don't give a flying fuck about "rules" - it's more a case of who can break the most!

He's come home and apologised.

I am going to post link anyway. because some of it is vairgood.com. here!

Demand a foot massage :o

We co slept from midnight until 1 last night and from 5am. Babymoo sleeps in his cot the rest of the time so I can't see how we are damaging his ability to settle on his own the odd time... your sleep and sanity is important as well. Mr Moo is not keen but sometimes I just NEED to sleep. It does scare me how quickly I fall asleep with him on the boob tho. I'm fairly sure I don't move though and his little head rests on my arm, so he's not exactly lying flat. Do you think that's ok?

So last night was a bit annoying after a really good day of doing exactly what he's supposed to every 3 hours. Last feed at 10pm he had 2 boobs , nappy change and then tried to give him bottle of EBM. Would he take it? Would he fuck. It was a new tomee tippee bottle apparently better for wind/colic but he just screamed after about 20ml. So not sure what to do tonight - go back to old ones which give him wind and he cries like mad, or keep trying other ones... I'm sure he would have gone longer than 2am had he taken the 100ml I had and therefore wouldn't have woken at 5am. So annoying.

MrMoo let me sleep first thing this morning though bless him so feeling bit more lively now.

Roasty chick chick today and just had cooked breakfast thanks to my dad. Yum.

PRincess how did you sleep with your baby in the bed? With him or her close to you feeding or sort of in the middle? I'm worried I'm doing it all wrong and will hurt him if I carry on.