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

[AlpinePony]

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

I always always drop off when R's in for his 4am feed. If you are both on your sides there's little danger ofither of you moving. Actually falling asleep isn't great only because it traps me in a really awkward position, and where I have my arm slung above R's head, he sweats so much he looks like his head has been swimming

The postie (ringing the bell) woke us up this morning. At 9.30. I feel I may take the crown again (I'm looking at you moo) by, at the time, having Rastus in bed with me, under the yummy warm duvet, still in his winter-weight grobag. And AND I left him there to go downstairs to see postie. So THERE

He is still alive btw, in case you were wondering

You left him? But he could've been drinking bleach/shooting up/hanging out with hoodies in that time! Oh cunty. :( You'll never win PFB-martyr at this rate.

moo I wake MB and he has the snots too, as I NEED to sleep at night. The last couple of nights have been good, though a bit later, so going to bed about 1 and he wakes up at 5, goes back about 545 and wakes up again about 745.

We haz got NCT today, should MB wear his Christmas pudding baby gro or wear his lovely fleecey one that he has only worn once and will have grown out of it by next week? Cant believe how quickly they grow.

Yesterday at the check up, this one baby was screaming and the nurse told us that the baby only sleeps for 2hrs everyday and the appt was bang in the middle of those 2hrs. I so felt for the mother.

BTW - TOMATOES are wrong in every way. Official. I am all for anchovies.

Tues MB sweats like a little piggy when feeding too. Too much boob cushioning his chops.

MB coughed so hard yesterday morning he brought his breakfast up. So by 9am I had been puked and poo'd on. By the end of the day I had also been pee'd on. Motherhood is glamorous.

Got me Slumber Bear working now. MB is currently in his bouncer (was crying) listening to womb sounds et voila - sleeping baby. Tis magic non?

Well blow me down with a feather. Risotto woman laid a baybee - a month early - clearly that risotto had a negative effect! www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1105920-My-GORGEOUS-baby-boy-decided-to-surprise-me-4-weeks-early

I lied MB woke up screaming his fat face off.

Alps can you imagine the volume of threads now the baby is here????

Oh gid silv yes! I'm secretly looking forward to it.

'I have stairs in my house - should I install a lift?'

'Oh my god I've just realised I have sharp knives in my kitchen. AIBU to ask everyone to use safety scissors instead?'

My nylon nightie gives off terrible and dangerous static, will I electrocute my PFB?'

AIBU in wanting the cocking cinema to show ONE film which isn't a cocking kid's filme or a Dutch language film? We finally have a babysitter and I need a night off. WIBU to just go out and sink 12 mojitos instead?

12 ???? Lightweight!!

Morning all, just popping in to request champers on ice and buckets of brie please - Mas has had a show!

I am doing everything I can to catch her up. Last night, bouncing on ball and tweaking nips, today clary sage oil and pineapple. Actually, I wanted to ask Okes* about the clary sage - what exactly am I supposed to do with it? I have currently got it in oil burner but I am so full of cold still that I can barely smell it. Is it safe to rub directly onto skin? Any other hints laydeez? I may treat us to a curry tomorrow night and make mine extra hot.

I had a good ole rummage last night and felt my cervix - last week it was so high up I couldn't even reach it, so this is good news. Also, it is very very squishy, but firmly closed. Bah. I want this baybee out by Sunday which will only be 4 days early. Not too much to ask is it? I want to spend christmas on sofa with dog, Boo and baybee, being waited on by TG and visited by lots of friends and family bringing lots of pressies. Oh yes, and drinking port and champagne (not at same time obvs).

*Except the sex. TG is still annoying ill and I have no wish to be in the same room as him at mo.

I'd say 12 is perfectly reasonable Pone. Go for it. Will MIL be there to do the morning feeds too so you can have a lie-in?!

polly She is staying so can do the morning feeds - trouble is, I'm the one who sleeps the least of all of them. This morning I started work at 6:30 and she was trying to sleep. :( Gah - why do other people - or weaklings as I like to call them , need to sleep so long? Btw, carrots is your clary sage woman.

silv Oh if only, am such a lightweight these days that 2 will have me screeching in a raised voice thinking I'm hirarious.

yep cunty you beat us, but that's only because we had to get up to let the dog hair stylist in :). He has now been trimmed and blow dried and he looks FAB. She did subtly hint that next time we might be so kind to actually walk him before she comes. Oops.

When I feed him lying down his head actually lies on my arm - on his side if you see what I mean. So he's not lying flat. Will I damage my baybee? he doesn't mind and we sleep. but your right neither of us move. and as no one else in the bed that helps. laydees does your OH sleep with you or spare room?

shed.

alas, with me

Pol re the clary sage rub a bit directly on your tum tum, don't drink it.

T'other half and I share a bed, other than when he has been on the lash then he is in spare room as he snores and smells.

Alps go out and get ratted

Polly Oooh I'm so excited for you. Enjoy that curry. I couldn't - heartburn was crippling. And you can see why now with Babymoo's massive barnet.

IME I would only recommend having a bloody good sweep followed by a long walk and a stomp up and particularly DOWN the stairs. I did this in the hospital after 2nd sweep, and walking down 5 flights of stairs is what I think did it. I thought my entire pelvic floor was going to break and it definitely did something... We then went for a lovely long steak and frites lunch with a large glass of wine and hey presto baybee!!!! I did have reflexology a couple of days earlier but I'm not convinced it did much other than relax me.

Will be brilliant to have you in the FESH bar!!

okie do you have an especially big bed? MAybe I should force mr moo back in. In a way I think he is getting off lightly particularly when he asks me what I have just done today (bastard - where were you at 2,4 and 6am).

Silv when you say you wake MB what do you mean? What does everyone else do in the late afternoons/evening?

Moo just a normal king size but remember we slept separately for about 5 months during pregnancy as I was sleeping lightly and too uncomfortable to share. On the rare occasion Peppa does a poo during the night I get Mr C to change her but generally he gets uninterrupted sleep.

Pol I would recommend eating a whole pineapple and going shopping, that's what did it for me (I think!)

Shall I wrap Christmas presents or go out?

Believe me, I can't wait to get in here MooMa! I get heartburn every night without fail so can't see the curry will make it worse... Thanks for the tips all. I will put clary sage on tum tonight whilst bouncing on ball and tweaking, eat whole pineapple for breakfast, then go shopping while Boo is at preschool, and have hot curry for dinner. If that lot does not work, we will have to do the secks at the weekend. It was the last thing for us to try with Boo - thankfully my plug fell out the morning we'd planned to have the secks. I don't think either of us was really relishing the idea.

Okes if it is raining, I'd stay home, drink baileys/port/drambuie/mulled wine/whatever your choice of christmas tipple, eat mince pies and wrap pressies. If it is nice, I'd go out. Are you due snow over the weekend? You might want to go out today if so!

moo ref late afternoon/evening - Rastus goes down from a nap at 3 and is usually awake for 4. He has a feed, then we play until about 5.30 when I sit him in his bouncer in front of the telly and go and make dinner whilst he watches Chuggington and Big Dave's Story Bus (or woteva it's called). Daddy comes home roughly at the end of Waybuloo. He then has a play with Daddy, whilst I serve up dinner. Then he gets into his jimjams (Rastus) and Hom throws him around a bit so he's nice and lively just in time for bedtime boob no.1 which is downstairs, Boob no.2 is always upstairs snuggled up tight under the duvet. Then burp, then straight to bed, no messing about.

Did you want that much detail?!

That is very useful actually! So what time is he in bed by? Babymoo has just gone down now after being awake for approx just over an hour (inc feed). The child pooed and weed 5 TIMES during nappy change so no wonder he was tired. I can't believe how much poo I just cleaned up. (btw is poo supposed to be soup consistency? you can't tell inside nappy but it does seem very runny and thick). Normally babymoo can't stay awake nicely for more than hour and a half so would need to alter above a bit.

I'm hoping he'll stay down until 5 and then do feed, bath, play, feed, bed. This has worked in the past so who knows, maybe I will be lucky.

Not sure TV is ok for 5 week olds???? VERY tempting to stick the little rascal in front of it whilst I do stuff surf on mumsnet. When did you stick Rastus in front?

okie did you go out? I STILL haven't bought a single Xmas present for my family. oops.

Also can I just ask if any of you have one boob that is slightly bigger and tends towards engorged? My right one seems get harder and the right side of it near the armpit doesn't always drain completely. I'm guessing this means I have more milk in this boob? Should I therefore feed slightly less from this one? Any ideas?

Is it too early to open a bottle of wine?

Well he's only been 'watching' telly for around a fortnight, but he's always shown an interest in the moving images from being tiny. Government guidance is don't let them watch telly till they're 2. Hahhahahahahaha!! There's no harm in it as long as it doesn't become an all-day thing as far as I am concerned. It's become part of Rastus's bedtime routine as we do the sing-song at the end of the CBeebies broadcast.

Yes poo is fine - I believe it was alps that described it as 'mango puree'