August 2010 - new thread ladies!

[Chulita]

New thread cos we've nearly filled the last one!

Belly glad the baptism went well, is your LO the first of the babies to be baptised?

Alice hope F gets better soon. My T not only suffered the finger chopping incident but has also been plagued with a cold for days now. Isn't it awful when they are snuffling away and there's nothing much you can do with them. I can now hear a rattle in his chest so expect a night of coughing.

Kcoffin sorry to hear about your FIL, my sympathies for you and your DP.

Cazzy what B**stards, the reckless ruining of property for no reason. Hope they get caught, but what are the chances .

Well my T is loving his food. He eats banana, pear, oats with apple and he keeps on wanting more. When feeding him the oats (the banana and pear he feeds himself), he keeps opening his mouth and follows the spoon, I don't have to do any aeroplane or choo choo train for him to eat, just hope he stays like this. Not sure what to progress on to, he has eaten suede, carrot and potato, but only small amounts, might just try him on more of that.

Well I hope everyone is ok and sending out more sleep vibes and get well vibes to all of those needing them. Take care x

GYA that is really tough. Hope you get a break soon.

Cazzy if you ever need help eating cake, i don't mind helping out, i'm pretty selfless like that Your poor parents, and what complete nobheads those thieves were! Our Children's centre got broken into once, nothing was stolen, but they had smashed into every door twats.

Dog F really likes parsnip and potato mash, broccoli florets, butternut squash, and loves stewed apple. He doesn't really get on with puree, but goes mad for mashed stuff as i can put it on a spoon and he can hold the spoon himself without losing the food.

F is on the floor eating playing jigsaw puzzles with DD

I get so bloody hungry at this time of day. I can eat sensibly the rest of the day, but come about 4pm, i just need to scoff. DD gets hungry around this time too, so going to make some 'healthy' cakes - banana and raisin bread, carrot cake, apple cake etc.

crap about the burglary cazzy.

sorry about your fil kcoffin.

J isn't very well so i'm not giving him any solids today as he isn't really interested in milk even. feels a bit wrong though! he loves parsnip, it works really well as a finger food.

Urg meant to said a happy message about how well we're getting on with bedtime but S has cold/fever from hell and has been whimpering/all out crying all day :( and still up for the first time at this point in weeks. She also seems to want Daddy, not me, and milk is a no no! Oh bugger. Moan over.

KCoffin so sorry about your FIL. Hope you and your DH are doing OK.

Cazzy I'll have some cake. Like Alice I am bloody hungry in the evenings at the moment. Think it might be my body telling me I've used up all of my fat stores but I'm not a size ten yet!!!

Jesus is it me or is every single partner / husband on One Born Every Minute a total numpty this series so far?

Kcoffin- sorry about your fil hope your Dh is bearing up

Cazzy- what a pointless burglary! And on another note am impressed your parents have a wii dont think mine know what one is!

Alice- I'm with you on the late avo hunger I eat my dinner with the kids at 5 now and if I don't fill the evening doing some kind of exercise I get the need to eat around 8pm instead..

Lcr- haven't watched last nights obem but one of my friends posted on fb that one of the men was in her class at school!

lcr haven't watched it as 9pm is bathtime here. But I've seen the trails, if in pain i'd never get tired of punching that guy who'll give his last peanut m&m

Thanks for cake, have meringues to offer today as I'm very suggestible & that lovely model lady turned chef made meringue on 'baking made easy' last night.

hi girls

cazzy that's rubbish about the break-in swines.

girls you need cake and fast! sounds like your struggling - go easy on yourself. the housework can wait.

pample poor S but at using up all your fat stores. My body likes to prepare for feeding triplets and then doesn't get the message there's only 1 baby to feed

Day 2 of shred today, followed by baby yoga (with lots of mummy yoga too) so feeling in need of an afternoon snooze! no chance though - off to collect ds1 from school soon. in the drizzling rain. joy.

found this recipe for mini quiche and made them last night with chicken and sweetcorn - both boys practically inhaled them!

oh meringues! with lashings of cream and raspberries of course! [bsmile]

Hi everyone, gosh its been so long you might have all forgotten me! I have no excuse, I've just been really busy as I'm back at work part time and (like so many of you) I am struggling with a terrible sleeper. For the past 4 weeks we've generally had hourly wakes in the night.

I couldn't bear to even lurk on this thread because I was sure I would be the only one. In RL all my friends with similar aged babies are either woken once or twice or are getting 8-10 hours without waking! Most are formula feeding now whilst I'm still BFing (I have started weaning though), but it was really depressing me. I thought I was the only one and that I was doing it all wrong. I am sorry that so many of you are going through the same but OMG it was such a relief to realise that its not just us!!

Alex is such a happy baby and perfect in every way other than his apparent hatred of sleep!!

Anyway, I have genuinely missed you all and now I can see that I won't be the odd one out on here like I am at all the baby groups I'll be sure to check in much more often!

xx

Always a pleasure to feel like that vix isnt it!
I think people don't necessarily tell the truth anyway. Like 'oh yeah my baby sleeps through' can be translated as the baby sleeping from 12-5 or something which I wouldn't count as sleeping through.

The peanut m and m man was the one who went to school with my friend! She said he wasn't that bad at school ..

Morning

Hey Vix, nice to have you back. Don't worry, i think about 90% of us have babies that are not so great on the old sleeping thing. Who needs sleep anyway

Shocker of a night here. F is coughing badly and keeps waking himself up, so even when he wants to sleep he is unable to

On the plus side, he will now take a bottle, so starting to give him a bottle of ebm before dinner. This means that DH can give it to him while i do dinner, F doesn't get so manic at dinner time, and hopefully gets more milk in. He has started getting really distracted during daytime bfeeds now, so getting hungrier for solids, which although good in the long run, i don't think he needs that much solid food yet iyswim?

Going to try to get him down for a nap, wish me luck....

I hardly dare show my face on here today - S slept through until 7am the last two mornings. I don't know if it's a coincidence that he started solids on Saturday, but whatever it is, I'm happy! To be fair, he did still wake up both nights at 4.30am, but one night he chattered to himself and then went back to sleep, and last night I just had to pop his dummy back in and he went off again.

I'm also beginning to drop the dream feed. Went down to 4oz last night, which didn't seem to bother him (though he was very hungry this morning - unlike the day before, when he wouldn't touch his milk until 8.30am .

Incidentally, those of you already weaning, how well does your baby take breakfast? S has his milk at about 7am, then some baby rice at about 8am, but he just doesn't seem that interested in it. Yesterday he was far more interested in the sweet potato at lunch time, but I don't know if that's because he's hungrier then, or if he just prefers sweet potato. I don't really want to cut back on the morning milk feed, especially as I'm going to drop the dream feed. Maybe I'll try some fruit tomorrow and see if that goes down better.

Vix, it's lovely to have you back. Sorry your having rough nights. My problems are the other way round - nights are good, but daytime sleep is a bit of a shocker. How are you finding it being back at work?

That's fab elusive my dd1 slept through 7-5/530 from 9 weeks and I remember complaining at postnatal group and being stared down!!

Tilly has a bottle made up which I use to give her porridge at about 8am then drinks the rest or most of it by about 930.
Then another bottle around 1
One or two courses of mush at about 4/430
Bottle at 630/7

Got an e mail from discount vouchers today about spa deals from lastminute. Com for £20 some fab deals on there if anyone feels like a spa day...

Elusive F likes breakfast, but not too bothered about lunch, then goes mad for dinner.

Taken F to the Dr, has been prescribed an inhaler for his wheezing, but Dr doesn't think it is actually asthma and not an infection, just snot on his chest really and the inhaler should help dissolve it.

Much as i'm glad we have these drugs to make our babies more comfortable, i do feel like i'm always giving him something or other, teething gel, calpol, cough medicine etc.

alice if he's got a chesty cough would a humidifier help?

welcome back vix, we're having 1 1/2 hourly wakes here at the mo. Grim.

I've just discovered that you can buy Pampers nappies from Amazon cheaper than the supermarkets.

Thanks for the tip marzipan the waking will get better, it's hard going though isn't it?! S is 26 weeks and is waking about every 3 hours -ish although last night was a cracker with only 1 wake up in 12 hours (before you get jealous L woke up 8 times between 10 and 5 :( so if it's not the baby keeping me up, the toddler will do it)

elusive good for S! I hope he keeps sleeping well for you.

alice S got an inhaler too just before christmas after he got a horrible chesty cough and was struggling to breathe.

vix you are sooooo not alone! S is (last night excepted) an awful sleeper, come back and commiserate with us :)

Any tips for clingy toddlers? L's got really, really mumsy and I'm off to a group tomorrow morning that needs her to stay in a creche...eek!

OMG the inhaler was amazing! Completely stopped F getting wheezy, didn't cough at all over night and slept from 7.30pm til 5.45am of course DD had me up i swear they tag team!

Chulita no idea i'm afraid

I tried to post twice yesterday and both vanished
vix, sorry to hear about your nights, that's rubbish.
elusive I'm really happy someone's getting sleep, don't feel bad rejoicing about it, let's share the happiness as well as the pain.
alice sorry F is poorly but glad the inhaler worked so well - although a shame you didn't get any zzzs
marzi how's the putting down awake technique going?

Over at belly towers, the night wakings are definitely dropping but going down is just so totally random. We've had a couple of good evenings, where she's been asleep before 8pm, but when she does that will often wake a couple more times before we go to bed and I almost always end up feeding her again. Went out to a pub quiz on Tuesday and left her still awake with DH and she didn't go to sleep til 10.30pm (altho he did manage to settle her which did his confidence wonders and then she only woke once between then and 8.30am, so did 5 hours twice. Last night not so good, asleep for 20 mins at 7.30pm, then not really asleep again til 9pm when she slept for 45 mins, then another feed at 9.45pm and slept from 10.15m, woke at 2.15am (not too bad), 5.15am(not so good) and then 6.45am when DH got up to go to work.

Gosh, that's a long post. I'm still trying to work out how to get her to self-settle but not really getting anywhere

Hello ladies, just wanted to post to say hi and to officially bow out of the thread. My two girls are keeping me so busy that I just don't have time to keep up. Hopefully I'll see you around the site from time to time

It's been a real pleasure to go through pregnancy and these first months with you. You're all absolutely amazing - and doing a fantastic job - and I wish you and your beautiful babies good luck and happiness now and for the future.

Take care, cakey xx

hi belly, it's going pretty well in that he'll often go to sleep without crying or just crying a little bit but he's still waking loads at night and generally wanting feeding (not sure if genuinely hungry every time but he gets cross if you just cuddle and don't feed!)
It sounds like you're making progress. Hopefully it'll keep going in the right direction :)

Thanks for the welcome backs! Elusive - I'm only back part time and I take Alex in with me so it's not too bad. I pick my hours and fit them around the numerous baby groups I've signed up for. I've made so many new friends I'm almost too busy for work lol

Vix I often think of you cos you are the one who was going straight back to work in your buisiness, right? Glad things are going OK despite the bad nights. Did you start with the resuable nappies?

Cakey - it's hard to find the time isn't it. Good luck with everything.

It;s about week 3 of weaning here and sleep has improved massively. He is going down earlier in the evening, not 10 or 11pm, and then waking at about 5am or going right through till morning . It was the same with the twins - as soon as they started on food sleep improved massively.

Yes neenz that was me, although with the awful labour ( big haemorrhage ) and then house move 2 weeks after alex was born, I managed 6 weeks totally off. I only do 3 half days a week so it's really not much at all.

After 3 weeks how much are you giving? Alex has breakfast (one spoonful of baby porridge mixed with three if water) and tea at about 6pm (same size portion - various Pureed or mashed veg). His sleep is still impossibly bad. Tonight I've not yet even had 1 hour out of him, and it's 5 am.

Also, every morning around 4-5 without fail he will wake and be absolutely manic for at least an hour. He kicks, punches, pulls my hair, scratches and squeals. He's not upset but incredibly excited. It's so hard because 4 is just too early to get up (especially after a night like I've just had) so I just lie here getting bruised and often (tbh) silently in a rage :(

I've cut out caffeine but that doesn't seem to have done anything after a week. Not fun at all, I have to do our vat accounts tomorrow and I feel like my brain has been turned to jelly!

Oh and ps sorry I forgot. The totsbots nappies have Bern in full use since 4 weeks and are amazing! I love them :)