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October 2005 Babies.....

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nervousmum · 30/09/2005 15:58

....thought i'd better start a thread as there are currently 4 of us, with several more to follow!

Joey is now 4 days old (where did the time go?!?), and is doing really well. He actually managed to sleep through with just one feed last night, though i must confess i cheated and had him in bed with me (at my MW's recommendation!) as he was so fretful the night before.

Looking forward in the coming days and weeks to welcoming the other members of the Oct 05 antenatal group to this post-natal club, so i won't feel like Billy No-Mates, talking to myself

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elclose · 09/12/2005 10:53

Hi again just been reading some of the thread and wondered what exactly is the gina ford routine for a five week old i mean the sleep feed bit , was thinking of getting book xx

Jockey · 09/12/2005 11:52

PITA most definitely applies to ds2 at the moment. He's decided that he's not bothering to use the loo anymore and will NOT be going to playgroup - SO THERE! Probably a protest at the amount of time I'm spending with a baby stuck to my boob.

Those books sound interesting - it's just finding time to read them!

morningpaper · 09/12/2005 12:27

Hello all! I can't believe our babies are nearly 2 months old! ARGH only four months of maternity pay left!

We're doing ok here - I'd REALLY recommend a three year gap!! Big sis is a wonderful help and things have settled down really nicely. I know I sound v. smug. Colic is still horrific though - screaming in the evenings which upsets the 3 year old a lot too. But it should be over soon. Baby still sleeps LOADS though during the day, I can't really believe how much she sleeps for!

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 09/12/2005 13:11

MP - can we swap?! Jeez... Becky is a NIGHTMARE at the moment... think its a growth spurt thing but she eats, cries, stares at you, 10 min sleep and it all starts again- DAY AND NIGHT!

Roll on them being able to move.... i much prefer them when they are mobile - especially with Jess being so "active" at the moment!

Redtartanlass · 09/12/2005 13:26

Baby sat in her chair for 10 minutes today. Yipeeeeee does anyone else have a babywill needs carried 97% of the day. However at least she sleeps in her crib at night!

Thank goodness ds2, a bit 'nicer' today, he may see it to his 2nd birthday!

to all of you with a decent routine, when do they start sleeping through? Mind you ds2 still doesn't sleep through, for about 3 nights out of 7!!!

mrow · 09/12/2005 15:56

Hi everyone, finally having success at night time. Heidi now 5 weeks old and last night slept between midnight and 6 this morning! She has really settled down and is only crying when she really needs something.

However, I have switched to bottle feeding as she never seemed full or content after breast feeding during the last few weeks and although I was eating all around me I have lost a huge amount of weight. I also wasnt really enjoying her as I felt so run down. Feel guilty though for not breastfeeding longer.

Has anyone else a very big baby?? People keep thinking she is a 3 month old and she has already outgrown most of her 0-3 months clothes.

TherewasnoMOOMattheINn · 09/12/2005 16:03

mrow- try not to beat yourself up about stopping the breastfeeding - sounds like it was wearing you out, which is no good for you or baby.

redtartanlass - i'm with you on the clingy baby stakes - i usually have to wear dd2 as a brooch much of the day unless she's in her pram and on the move, in which case she sleeps like the dead. she slept from 10.30 til 5.45 last night, but is still in with me so i can't help thinking i'm cheating, but hey!

she's MUCH clingier than dd1 ever was and we can't put her in her moses unless she's completely whacked out - and even then she'll wake half way through the night and complain until she's nice and snuggly next to me.

triceroastingonanopenfire · 09/12/2005 17:23

I just dressed baby and ds in matching reindeer outfits and photographed them for the christmas cards. They looked so cute.

Dh thinks that it is in poor taste to send photos of the kids in the christmas cards but if someone can see this photo without smiling they are not the sort of person I want to send a card to anyway.

wishing you all a peaceful night.

BigBumpBonnie · 09/12/2005 19:49

mrow, my baby is very big as well. She's in all dd1's 3 - 6 month clothes now. She's coming up for a stone in weight . She really doesn't stop drinking but I think her being big has helped us loads with the night sleeping. As she can take so much milk on board during the day she sleeps for 7-8 hours at night which is great! She's much bigger than dd1 was at her stage but just as cute We've nicknamed her chunk!

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nervousmum · 09/12/2005 20:25

BBB- Joey weighed in at a stone last Monday. I dread to think what he weighs now!

Well, we just got back from our first holiday with a baby in tow, and it was lovely. Joey was really good all week, sleeping properly and feeding well (i think it was all the fresh air), and he loved going in the swimming pool. Very relaxing for me too - i left Joey with his dad a couple of times while i had a massage and spa session - just what the doctor ordered!

Just got to get organised for christmas now. Is everybody else sorted already?

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Redtartanlass · 09/12/2005 20:42

Yes nervousmum I?m sorted, got my holiday booked

Hey bigbum ? 8 hours sleep

Trice ? with you on the Christmas cards, wanted to do that as wel, bought a santa dress for ds but haven?t got round to it.

Moomin ? lol ? brooch, and I wouldn?t call the fact she slept for over 7 hours cheating , bl88dy hell, good for you.

Mrow ? I?m still breastfeeding, but think I?ll stop soon as well, but there?s nothing to feel guilty of. You have to do what?s best for you both. Wish I could loose loads of weight thought

Redtartanlass · 09/12/2005 20:47

OMG

bigbumpbonnie did not mean to call you bigbum!!!!

And obviously I bought DD a santa dress NOT ds!!

Started on the Baileys!!

TherewasnoMOOMattheINn · 09/12/2005 21:13

pmsl redtartanlass!!!! thought i'd missed a new recruit!

TherewasnoMOOMattheINn · 09/12/2005 21:20

forgot to post in all the excitement of a bigbum! dd2 has hardly slept ALL DAY and has cried from about 12 noon until now with just 2 naps of 10 and 20 mins - i'm bloody frazzled. whats all this about? feeding ok, no temperature, poos have been as normal, doesn't seem in pain as such, just CRYING CRYING CRYING and can't get comfy enough to drop off.

and dd1 has been like graham norton on speed all day - had her nativity this morning and was hyped up beyond belief in her fairy dress, driving me bloody mad. baby screaming right into my ear as i type, will just go to bed with her and see if that does the trick. wake me up for christmas day

Redtartanlass · 09/12/2005 21:25

oh moomin good luck!!

yingers74 · 09/12/2005 21:30

Is it too late to join this thread?

Had dd2 on 23rd october, she is now coming up to 7 weeks and it has been a tough week sleep wise. I have finally realised that you can not follow something as strict as the GF routine with a baby when you also have a toddler. Also while dd1 seemed to 'fit' the routine, dd2 seems to have other ideas!!! A friend is going to lend me the baby whisper, anyone tried her ideas?

Anyway, hope that all of us have good nights tonight!

Redtartanlass · 09/12/2005 21:43

hi yingers, think I've talked to you on another thread. My dd is on the 21st October, but haven't got any sort of routine but a couple of others onthis thread are trying Gina and the baby whisperer.

SusiS · 09/12/2005 21:58

hey ladies!
we've got sort of a routine me thinks - but it gets changed every day
well, can't complain really. dd is VERY quiet and will sit in her chair/carseat for hours untill she gets hungry or wet. - in the evenings she tends to get a bit more active and wants more feeding but that's about it - very strange!
nighttimes are allright too, she goes down at 8pm and sleeps till 4am - then till 7am
the wind seem to get better; tried some gripewater on her today because she wouldn't stop crying, so not her! and first she gave me a big shudder and an even bigger cry but soon she relaxed and was all happy again!
and i think the teeth are troubling her already.
i do not hope so

sizewise she is very slim but sooo long! she's just 2 months but had to get out the 3-6mths clothes - they are way too big but her feet don't get sqashed

i personally don't like gina ford, i think it's way too strict; but i've got the baby whisperer and she's got some good tips and tricks. her EASY method does help me to get through the day: eat (feed the baby) activity (let the baby move about and give attention) sleep (obvious) you (woheyy, finally)

just a shame everything is so much harder with a toddler around. and oh boy, how much harder! and it doesn't help that he's teething really badly and that the seperation anxiety has kicked in big time - 'mummy mummy' all day long!

SusiS · 09/12/2005 21:59

where are you all taking your babies on holiday? need some ideas

morningpaper · 09/12/2005 22:03

I really don't know how ANYONE does a routine with another child in tow. ALL my attention is always on the older child - if she's happy, everything's fine. I don't even know whether the baby has any kind of regular sleep or feed pattern to be honest - she just seems to sleep a lot!

TherewasnoMOOMattheINn · 09/12/2005 22:10

blimey, mumsnet seems to have done the trick - shes asleep at last!!! perched on my (dead) arm like a little sack of king edwards but fast asleep...

does anyone still keep their bab with them until they go up to bed? dd2 just dozes on either of us until we go up - bad idea? can't for the life of me remember what we did with dd1, i know that sounds mental but it's just a blank

morningpaper · 09/12/2005 22:16

Moomin Mine's often with us until we (I!) go to bed but that's usually because she's still AWAKE. She doesn't go to sleep on her own but I'm just not expecting that sort of thing. At the mo she is swaddled on my bed but if I get 10 minute chunks of sleep out of her at this time of night then that's fine by me. DD1 - I can't remember a damn thing either but I'm sure it was ages before she had any sort of proper evening sleep routine.

Redtartanlass · 09/12/2005 22:19

moomin, baby is asleep in her seat right beside me!! As I sip my 2nd glass of Baileys!!! I want to go to bed now, but baby is due a feed aboout 11ish, can't decide whether to wake her up and hope she feeds now or just wait it out!

susis - I wish my baby would sit more than 10 mins in her seat, mind you she is a great baby, only cries if she is hungry, uncomfortable or wants picking up!!

BigBumpBonnie · 09/12/2005 22:37

RTL... Bigbum!! How did you know?? thinking of changing my name to that now as my bum is def bigger than my bump!

Ruby won't sit in any kind of chair for long either. She does like looking at herself in the mirror of the baby gym though, I think she thinks there's another baby there!

With dd1 I used to put her to bed at about 8pm but with ruby she stays up with us until about 11pm when I feed her and put her down and that's when she sleeps for the night.

Don't fancy putting her up earlier as I'm quite happy with the sleep I'm getting and don't want to ruin it, plus she might wake up dd1! It is so much harder with a toddler and ruby has just had to fit in. She's a good baby though and that's helped.

Here's to a good nights sleep for everyone

yingers74 · 09/12/2005 23:25

I try to put my dd1 down for 7pm so I can sort out my dd1 for bed by 8.15ish. This of course does not always work! If dd2 cries I tend to bring her downstairs although it all depends on how tired I am!!!