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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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Redtartanlass · 12/01/2006 22:06

Hi MB, gladdh has a new job, when was Jonny born. Baby is 12 weeks tomorow, still in newborn kit. Wee soul she's teeny weeny, camparedto my brooser boys!!

morningpaper · 12/01/2006 22:10

Weaning is a funny one, I'm definitely a late-weaner but that's really because I hate the pureeing cooking stage because it's sooo boring and messy. DD didn't really start taking solids until she was 13 MONTHS - you can imagine the fun I had with HVs and paeds. I'm hoping to wait for at LEAST 6 months and miss out the puree stage as much as possible. But we'll see!

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 12/01/2006 22:10

RTL - she is seriously still in newborn?! Bless her heart... Rebecca isnt heavy, just LONG!

Redtartanlass · 12/01/2006 22:14

Yup still in newborn....I haven't had her weighed for ages and ages so no idea what her weight is, but she is healthy enough.

However, I think she is on a mega growth spurt 'cos she's been taking 5oz of formla every 3 hours for the past 3 days!! Then breast at night!!

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 12/01/2006 22:26

bless her heart.

Becky is struggling with 5oz every 4-5 hrs.... im not complaining - less for me to do!

Meant to get her weighed today but forgot! Will get her weighed next week because im a bit worried she's lost a lot while she's been ill.

Redtartanlass · 12/01/2006 22:35

Right away to wake baby for 'dream feed' and off to bed. DP working tonight so spent all evening on mumsnet.....It was great

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 12/01/2006 22:36

it was good to hear from you x

mawbroon · 13/01/2006 06:46

Hi RTL. Johnny was born 21st Oct. He's now 11lbs 9oz and at last measurement was 58.5cm long. He's now in 3-6 months clothes but that is mostly to accommodate the cloth nappies which I have been using. He lost an awful lot of weight when he was born (he was 13oz below birth weight on day 10) so although he has been gaining fantastically at the rate of 10oz most weeks, he is still on the lean side.

Oh I can hear him crying. Gotta go......

MB

Elf1981 · 13/01/2006 08:33

RTL - The inlaws arent too bad, I just have to wash over the fact that some of them tend to prefer the other grandchildren. Step MIL always compars Evie to her other granddaughter who is nearly four. MIL has only seen Evie a few times, though she used to see her grandson (BIL's child) every week. Same as step FIL. FIL dotes on her and loves her to pieces. As for my parents, well, they make up for it totally. My mum is besotted, so is my dad. He's got three other grandchildren but we hardly see them, but when I pull up with Evie in the car, dad's waiting on the drive to steal her off me!

Elf1981 · 13/01/2006 08:35

Oh Evie is also quite long, with a pudgy belly though. I love it! I'm constantly kissing it, and our latest game (invented by DH and Evie goes wild) is to lick her tummy and then blow really hard on it. She goes wild, grinning and laughing away. Do it when she's in the bath as well and she splashes around everywhere!

As for car - I asked DH to go sort it out for me, it started first time for him!! So I may find another pretty outfit (wont be hard, she has more clothes than me!) and pop off to get her pic done today.

BigBumpBonnie · 13/01/2006 09:08

RTL, I can see why that thread annoyed you! I weaned both ds and dd1 at about 16 weeks and they're fine. Like you said, you know when your baby is ready. This time I really do want to delay for as long as possible. All that steaming and blending for dd1 is still fresh in my mind. It was hard work then and that was without a toddler to contend with. I'm dreading it tbh. Ruby's on bottles for as long as possible, but even though she's big she's happy enough at the moment.

You won't believe this, but I've actually been in the loft getting down 6 mth baby clothes already!! At this rate I will be passing clothes down from ruby to my 2 year old. She is so cute though, looks just like a little buddah when you sit her up

mummygow · 13/01/2006 10:33

Hi everyone Elf - lol at going on dole comment.

bbb thats whatI call Cameron buddah boy!!
(his dad calls him hercules)- he's a wee chunkka!!

I started weaning dd at 17 weeks and it hasnt done her any harm - she's as fit as a fiddle and as bouncy as tigger!!

I got my postnatel test on Tuesday too susis

Glad you are all feeling better

Cameron slept until 6.15am - yeah

Elf1981 · 13/01/2006 15:44

Phew, just got back from doing the Pixie Photos. Had to go back for a second sitting as Evie was NOT happy in the first, so I fed her, let her sleep for a bit and tried again. Managed to get one of her in a basket, a plant pot, sitting up with a teddy bear (no interest in the bear, she was playing with her hands), sitting up by herself, lying down and a couple more. To get the whole cadbudle (which is a big print, four smaller ones and two smaller ones of each set of pics taken, so about 42 pics including 8 large prints) its £80.00. Thinking of getting the full set and dishing them out to family.
Oooh, cant wait to see them, get to see them in two weeks, on the same day that I go see my sisters wedding photographer with her, see the Vicar who is christening Evelyn on the 5th and get her next lots of jabs done so it will be a busy day!

Hope all are well. Got my meeting with my boss Monday and visits at some nurseries so I've got to find something suitable and fitting to wear!

mummygow · 13/01/2006 16:16

Elf I'm exhausted just listening to all you have do - need to be calling you ...................... supermum

Elf1981 · 13/01/2006 19:00

I rarely get a momenet to sit down! With being off work and a sucker, I tend to offer to do jobs for people too, such as my mums shopping (she does odd hours and often works til 11 at night) just so Evie and I get out of the house.

No doubt with baby number two I will become a hermit

Redtartanlass · 13/01/2006 22:22

MB our babies are the same age what time was Jonny born. My dd was born at 3pm exactly, she was 8lb 4oz!!

Elf glad your cars working.

bbb glad I'm not the only one, felt I was being paranoid. Ruby sounds a cutey.

Please can someone tell me about this PND test!!!

YOKEFLEET · 14/01/2006 07:22

rtl HV gave me a PND test on her final visit to our house which was when TJ was 4 weeks old, it was just a paper with 10 questions on it asking if you were more tearing and emotional etc, as it was so long ago TJ will be 15 weeks on Monday I can't really be more specific! my memory is still just mush now!!!
elf very busy lady!

mawbroon · 14/01/2006 07:37

RTL - Johnny was delivered at 11.15am (cs) He weighed 7lbs 10oz.

Elf - I was at a breastfeeding support group and this woman came in with her 14 week old DD called Evie. For a split second I thought "Hey this could be Elf" and then I remembered that you don't live here, and your name wasn't the same as hers. That's the first time I have had blurring of RL and MN

Johnny's just had one of starving nights. I went to bed at 9.30pm just after he did and I told DH to bring him to me in the bed if he woke up hungry. DH duly did so at around midnight. That feed only kept him going until 2am when I crawled into the sofa bed in Johnny's room to feed him. Then he was hungry again at 5am. At least I only have to wake for a few minutes as I can actually sleep right through him feeding.

Johnny seems to have inherited my stubbornness (oh dear). When he is utterly exhausted, he will fight to stay awake and he also gets very involved with things. He has a thing over the pram with dangly toys on it and can be happily occupied for an hour batting away at the toys. That seems to me like a long time for a 12 week old to remain occupied with no input from me. Perhaps not though, I have no idea.

Well, must get on with the day. Today is nappy washing day and I get to slop out the bucket and deal with shitey nappies. It must be true love that's all I can say!

MB

mawbroon · 14/01/2006 07:42

Oh and I got a PND test too in the first few days of getting home from hospital. Same as Yokefleet - just some questions where you have to choose from four graded answers eg:

I am able to laugh at things:

As much as before
A little less than before
A lot less than before
Never

That kind of thing. I did a couple of them during my pregnancy too. One at booking in and then one around the 30 week mark. They also ask about family history of depression etc and then decide if you are at risk or not. Nobody has mentioned them to me since I filled them in so they must have decided that I wasn't high risk.

mummygow · 14/01/2006 08:27

redtartanlass I got it when cameron was 11 weeks they give you a score, my hv said I got 7 and told me that it was a slightly higher score than when I had dd. I was an emotional wreck after her and went into a strange way of thinking but I think it was just so overwhelming for me - I told my mum one day that I didnt love her, my dad or Craig they way that I loved Jessica and I used sit at night watching her terrified anything would happen and think that if anything ever happened to her I would sit in a room and never talk to anyone again - she was only a couple of weeks old. I would cry when things went wrong, panick if there was so much as even a dirty cup in the sink - the house had to be spotless and when I did silly things I woul worry and cry about them for days when they didt bother me before.

But with Cameron I have been totally different dont know if it is because I am more confident and am now aware that its only natural for your brain to turn to mush and not panick when I do feel weepy as its just my hormones getting back to normal - and its not been so much of a shock to my system.

MB Cameron plays under his playgym for an hour at a time.

Have posted photograph of jess and cameron on members profile, mucked it up so there are 2 threads - 1 for each of them!

But

BigBumpBonnie · 14/01/2006 09:06

gosh it definately is harder to get out of the house with two. I wanted to go out yesterday so got us all ready (which seems to take forever) dd1 is at the age where she wants to get herself dressed, this is fine but as she's only two and everything goes on back to front, upside down etc, then she has a major tantrum if I try to correct it. Anyway we were finally all dressed, ruby was happily smiling away but as soon as I put her coat on and got her in her car seat she got really upset. She had her hat and gloves on and where she was crying she got hot so I then had to take them all off. By this time dd1 had managed to take off her coat and shoes as well so I just gave up!!! Going to try again today. It is too easy to stay in and not make the effort. Also my two just don't like the car. Everyone else's children seem to love the car, but not mine! Does anyone else find baby coats are too bulky for them? Ruby's got a couple of baby coats but she always looks really uncomfortable when she's in her car seat. I've got a really thick cardigan for her and I think I'll start using that and a blanket instead.

Anyway have a nice weekend everyone, I'm off to brave another day!

Elf1981 · 14/01/2006 09:06

Mawbroon - at the real life / mumsnet mix up. Also, sorry to hear that you had a bad night feed wise. Evie is currently bleeting like a lamb as DH tries to give her a bottle of EMB, it's not going too well.

Postnatal test - flipping heck! I think we get ours at babies 18-24 week review. Though if I'd been asked questions like that so close after Evie's birth, I'd have been certified. I cried for ages because I wrote the wrong thing in the wrong space in Evie's baby record book!!

Oh, Mummygow, just looked at your piccies of your angels, they're beautiful!!

Just brought a lovely outfit to wear to Evie's christening. Not sure how it will look on as it's fron Next online but I'm hoping it will pass!

Think I am going to have to rescue Evie in a minute. I've no willpower!

Elf1981 · 14/01/2006 09:08

BigBumpBonnie - Evie has a few baby coats (families went into overdrive buying them). They kind of make her look like Maggie Simpson fro The Simpsons, a bit like a starfish and unable to put arms to the side
I rarely put her in a coat. I've got a thick cardi with a hood on it so I tend to put her in that.
As for the car, Evie likes it but she can be fussy in the car seat before we get the car moving.

morningpaper · 14/01/2006 10:08

BBB my baby HATES the car too, screams as soon as I strap her in and scream all through driving even up the motorway. It's so awful!

Jockey · 14/01/2006 15:06

BBB, my mum was horrified the other day when I put Sophie in a very thin jacket just so she would fit comfortably in her car seat! Well, it works for me! It is a newborn size, and a bit too small but it makes it so much easier. The car is pretty warm anyway. Mum probably thinks I can't afford anything better, as she's given me 50 quid to spend on her!

Not had that PND test yet. I wonder if anyone will ask later? Just as well as my moods are all over the place at the moment - must be a full moon . Probably just sleep deprivation.