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

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

I should clarify - two days after we came back from hospital i was trying everything at nap times and he did sleep on his side for a while but kept rolling onto his front where he slept soundly. So we stuck with it.

I think we may have the answer to yesterdays xcrankiness. Babymoo cold came out in middle of the night. Not too bad and still feeding ok, sounds worse really and kept him propped up beside me all night so I could hear him if he was struggling. On the good side just got him to self settle in his cot!! I put toys in there to look at and that seemed to distract him from me long enough for him to go off... Ace.

Still no tree. Apparently there is a shortage of big ones in the area. Uh oh.

moo there is plenty of space for another nutcase emotional new mother here. The door to the gin stash is always open.

Had a mixed day yesterday, swaddling is working a treat. Last night he slept 11pm - 4am, back to sleep at 5.15am, then up again at 7.45am. He would have slept longer, but my inconvienient choking and coughing to death woke him up. Think his cold may have come back. HI said our room got to 16deg last night and MB felt a bit too cool but I guess better than being too hot.

The downside to yesterday was my emotional meltdown. Triggered by HI calling to ask if I minded if he applied for a new job. A job that means he would be away from home even more and overnight. Of course he'd have to be successful in getting said job, but I told him he was selfish and I didnt sign up to be a single parent . Then MIL called up wanting to come round and I was still in tears.

So she came round and told me I am doing a brilliant job and started on blitzing the house, which was grand. Tho HI came home and unblitzed the kitchen in about 5mins flat - why are men so messy!

MIL had MB for 40mins whilst I walked the dawg. Bloody hell it felt weird not having MB with me! But also nice to be "normal".

HI also had a complete fit yesterday as he went Xmas tree shopping and came home empty handed. He was not pleased in the slighest.

Believe it or not MB is ASLEEP !!!!! Yes ASLEEP !!!!! in his bouncer and he is not swaddled and went off on his own accord.

I wonder if its cos he is not feeling so great with the snuffles and a cough. I am trying hard not to cough cos I kep waking him up! OOps.

More progress - we are both washed and dressed. Bed made. Animals fed.

Got some visitors due later so just need to do a bit of tidying up and we are good to go.

just lost a MASSIVE post. Grrr.

Silv glad you having a better day. We are too. good naps and a HUGE Xmas tree to decorate now. Woo hoo. We are giving Regent Street a run for its money.

Warning honey - have been reliably informed that xmas trees + lights = Baby Crack. You'll not get him to pay attention during feeds until Jan 5th!

I had a lovely day yesterday with my little champ - who got his leg over (pics on fb). Today we co-slept from 7-9 and it was lovely. I fall in love a bit more every day.

Quick Q for alps - are you getting any earmuffs for Bear for your ski trip? Have you found any from anywhere? I had a butchers and can only find ones for 2 yrs upwards and ones with hard plastic head bits.

when my little brother was 18 months, we had really heavy snow, and as he didn't have wellie boots, my Paddington Bear loaned him his so we could go sledging, as they were proper Dunlop wellies.

cunty Tbh I've not looked, he's got a couple of tuques which will do. It's not been above zero here for weeks and he's just been going out in "normal" winter clothes you know, tuque, hood from coat etc. I don't expect he'll be spending much time outside in Austria as the nanny is in the chalet.

lol@Paddington lending boots!

We had another disco kip this afternoon, again unswaddled tho the white noise may have persuaded him.

He is tired now (yawning/eye rubbing) but fighting any sleep. The white noise has eliminated the screams tho.

So I haz been reading that you should only swaddle for a max of ten hours continuous in one 24hr period. Frankly this is a bloody arse.

Please can someone tell me again about expressing. So I want to express, but only enough to feed the same day (not building a stock - yet). So the BF lady told me to introduce the bottle half way through a feed and to do it just once a day. She never told me how much tho. I guess after the bottle I could always offer a boob but that wont help if I am doing it so that HI can feed and I am bunking off elsewhere hopefully riding/dawg walking/relaxing.

alpy I too loves him a bit extra each day. However, I find I love him more on days that I am less tired.

i have been failing to introduce unswaddled sleep. It's less disco here and more pilled up raver. She just does not stop moving from head to toes. She managed to crab length of cot and bang head. Day had started well. Then came the distress. Now i'm thinking she can stay swaddled at least until her first teeth are in. And i choose not to hear that any more than 10 hours stuff silv. Right now i'll take whatever works.

When she's up, she's always wanting to be on her feet and has started putting one in front of the other. i foresee further exhausting times ahead. Hey ho... Can i make a toddler walk the dog?

Doc tomorrow. Then i really should start xmas plans, seeing as we are hosting.

Are any of my June and July chums still losing hair? Mine's going in clumps and has been for about two months. Not happy about it.

My little nutter cares not a jot about christmas tree. Dog got a bit excited though.

Silv Peppa takes about 100ml ATM and I am going to start increase to 110-120 and I think they are about same age. I give this at the 10.30pm feed and I don't boob it at this feed at all. I express around 10pm at night and I do have a stock in the freezer of about a weeks worth of milk (of 1 feed per day) but my 2 main reasons for expressing are 1) to get Peepa used to taking a bottle 2) to allow me to get rat arsed at some point over Christmas (prob NYE).

Cas use the Christmas hosting opportunity to get plenty of rest and spend plenty of time with SFF!

OK laydez, I need your opinions re presents under the tree. Mr C and I had a huge row difference of opinion today which stemed from childhood Christmases. Of course, I want our family Christmases to be like mine and he wants them to be like his. Now, my question is would you put any presents under the tree before the day itself or would you put them all there on Christmas Eve so when your little ones come down stairs and see them all there they really believe that Santa brought them all on Christmas Eve? Believe it or not it is turning into a bit of an issue chez cokie.

Losing the odd hair here and there more than normal still but it has settled down a bit. I imagine your hair is a lot thicker than mine though so you notice it more perhaps?

hokie we had a compromise when I was growing up - all the pressies from rellies and siblings were under the tree for about 3 or 4 days before xmas (mind we never put the tree up till the last weekend before xmas EVER), and Santa always delivered the big pressie (i.e. the one from mum and dad)overnight on xmas eve. Of course Santa could never deliver all the pressies at once. So perhaps say that some of them are from you and Mr C and let Santa deliver the biggie?

okie, my presents are already there. I always loved watching the pile grow as a kid as we received each one from family and friends, until they were flooding into the room. santa's always appeared overnight though. Stupidly, i never got anything from my parents...

Cunts, mine's actually v thin. It's all an illusion due to volume. Now extra thin with balding hairline. Freak that i am.

We're not putting anything under the tree this year because we got brokened into innit. No point advertising our sumptuous wealth which was cunningly hidden from the would-be thieves by the thick veneer of dust and Trebusness

Okie - we too had friends and relics pressies under the tree in the lead up to Xmas and then Santa's big presents appeared overnight. To be honest, my parents failed in ever hiding anythng from me as I have a severe and pathological inability to wait for anything in life and always ruin surprises for myself. Looking forward to hearing how this one turns out!

What are you all doing for NYE? I can't decide whether we should try and do something or pretend it's not happening.

sweet FA honey. He's working. I'll be home with child and dog.

Moo I used to hunt through parents wardrobe and find what they got me for Christmas. I even tried on the clothes they bought me and then stuff them back - I was useless at waitng. However, I am thinking of that age when the littlies are young enough to believe Santa brings the presents down the chimney when they wonder on Christmas morning if "he has been"..

We are off to friends out of town for NYE and staying over. We are not going out, just having a "big night in" although I have come to realise that 1 of you always has to stay relatively sober/responsible when the kids are also in the house and that usually ends up being the the female - men just don't have that parental responsability gene when there is beer, peer pressure and an occasion to celebrate.

Presents from relatives and stuff for mum & dad went under the tree. Childrens presents magically arrived overnight. Until we were about 3 and saw through this veneer of bullshit.

curly My hair has temporarily stopped falling out (I thought a lot came out about 8 weeks ago) - maybe this is something to do with never ever having had thick sumptuous hair anyway.

silver I'm sorry I didn't say anything yesterday but I was really happy to read of your lovely day with MB. Dare we hope this is the 6 week corner you're turning?

Hi all,
Quick post as I hear the first sounds of waking...

We used to have stockings (actually my father's ordinary black socks) at the end of our beds. Santa would come and fill them and bring presents too. Unfortunately he has lost track of me since I moved here.

Actually, this will be my first year not going home for Christmas. Very about that.

Okie I discovered last night that your description of projectile vomiting was exactly spot on. Scary awful stuff. Any idea what could trigger it? Missy is very windy at the moment (think she is gulping in air at the start due to oversupply and trying to keep up with the flow)and latching off and kicking a lot. I was trying to burp her thoroughly and put her on her tum for a bit about 20 mins after feeding. This was shortly followed by The Incident.

Swaddling is the biz alright! We do it just at night now, but I find it hard to imagine any end to it right now. She won't go down otherwise.

OK - I hear my call...

Presents went under the tree, the only thing FC delivered was my stocking which had a few bits in. TGO's family all presents from parent were actually from FC. Think we will do a mixture of that - don't want Artie to think we don't buy him anything

Also re the putting them down awake, it's all very well to say that, but new members, please be aware that for some babies this doesn't work. I can put Artie down half asleep and shattered, but sllep does not result. If your baby is one like this, please do not spend the first 3 months of his life feeling like a total failure like I have, you are not doing it all wrong, some babies just can't do it yet. He did it for the first time ever on Saturday night. It hasn't been repeated yet!

Totally agree with Cossie. Please don't compare your babies to fictional ones in books or what any of the other FESHes are doing. Each and every one of us have to come to our own semblance of normality with our offspring. Do whatever the hell it is you need to do to get you all through the day alive and moderately happy. If your baybee will only sleep hanging from the ceiling like a bat and wearing deely-boppers - who is GF to say otherwise?

We haven't made any attempt to teach self settling yet either (C is 10 weeks). He has dropped off by himself twice. Sure it will come in time, am just not too worried about it atm. (Poss just too lazy to implement...)

Have not had Santa related thoughts yet, but have already converted TSF to the proper order of Xmas Day, vis opening pressies in the morning, not after lunch which is clearly Wrong (simply cos we never did....)

AIBU to now require Mum and Baby deely boppers in order to be truly happy?