October 2005 Babies.....

[nervousmum]

....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

Gosh we won't be holidaying this year - DH wants to but I hate holidaying with babies, I don't see the point to be honest. I'm trying to encourage him to go somewhere by himself or with friends.

Went to the clinic today to get baby weighed (has not been done since 6 week check) and the Monday clinics have been closed indefinitely! You can go for an hour on Wednesdays but I can't make that time. So I've got no way of getting her weighed. I'm sure she's fine but I was very angry.

lol RTL, I know I'm lucky to have such a nice place to go to. She moved out there a year and a half ago and we've really had to save for the flights. Also it's hurricane season for most of the year so january is our best bet. She's got four children who I've missed like mad so am really looking forward to seeing them all (just a bonus I'll get to sit on the beach at the same time). It will be easier for us then as Ruby will be over a year and we won't need steriliser etc!

We went to see FIL yesterday and I couldn't believe it when he asked if he could give Ruby a jelly baby Bless him, but I won't be asking him to babysit anytime soon

mp, clinic times can be very restrictive and I haven't gone even half as many times as I did with dd1. I think you know yourself that they're ok and really don't need weighing every 5 mins.

Clinics here are held every thursday, and you can see the doctor as well with no appointment, we can just turn up between 1:00 and 2:30 and you'll get seen at some point by the baby doctor who is lovely.

had my meeting at work today, they're seeing whether they can sort out the hours I want to work (still full time but starting at eight rather than nine and finishing at four, not five fifteen). Hopefully there wont be a problem.

Like one of the nurseries, as a bonus they supply nappies, wipes and formula milk. Also use their own bottles, so if I do combind feeding as opposed to EBM then no faffing with making the milk up in the morning! (Boots nappies and wipes and SMA formula).

Still looking at a few more I think. This one is £120 and not too far from work which is a good thing.

oh and when I had my meeting at work (a whole day early, I got mixed up with my dates!!) Ashley looked after Evie and she took 5oz from her bottle... she usually just gums at it and then screams knowing it isn't me, so I'm sooooo proud of her!!!!

Elf hope you get the hours you would like and congrats to Evie for being a good girl fo her mummy!!!

Cameron did it again, he slept till 7.10am (I had to wake him) - could this be it??????????????

hello everyone, sorry its been sooo long since i posted, its so hard to find the time! im happy to report Jems dad has managed to persuade him that the bottle isnt the fount of all evil and actually does pretty much the same thing as a boob when the boobs not there! so i can go out! wooh! the secret for us wwas ditching the Avent colic-free nonsense teats and using an old fashioned soft one on an old fashioned glass bottle...he just prefers it.
glad to hear everyone seems to be settling into decent routines and getting a bit more sleep...dont know if it matters, but jem and i dont have much routine at all, cos i go out with him every day...do you think that will be detrimental in the end? he seems pretty happy to be out and about, but he's less happy to stay home all day now...hmmm.
anyway just wanted to report that motherhood finally seems to be the wonderful thing everyone says it should be, or at least, i can glimpse that! especially when he smiles at me or licks my nipples in that charming way of his, lol! im sure eveyone else feels the same about theirs.
love,
p x

here's a good website with some lovely baby food recipes, www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com (can't do links). We'll all be needing some soon

Joey had his third and final set of jabs this morning. No more now till the MMR nextyear

After a tricky bout of constipation, Joey has got this weaning thing cracked - greedy little thing hs just wolfed down some sweet potato and half a mashed banana! So much for babies only tking a fw spoonfuls - right from the word go, Joey has eaten everything i've given him (all washed down with boob, of course!)

Hope everyone's ok? NM x

Going back to the subject of holidays, I think that I agree with Morningpaper. Of course I haven't actually experienced going on holiday with a baby, but I can see that it is just going to be more work than being at home without the convenience of having all your own things handy. DH will probably want to go up to the Highlands during the summer. I'm NOT going in a tent!!!

Got Johnny weighed and measured this afternoon and he is doing just grand. He has his second set of jags tomorrow the wee lamb Last time he got more upset when I took him off the boob to turn him over to get the jag done in his other leg than he did with the actual injection. Hopefully he won't make too much of a fuss tomorrow.

MB

Evie has her third set of jabs a week on Thursday.
My car seems much better now so fingers crossed thats the end of the disasters.
Work have just approved my new working hours, woohoo. Well, woohoo that I wont be working til five fifteen. It means I can be home with Evie around four fifteen rather than six and have a good hour of playing before I have to start cooking dinner, and another hour after that before we start getting her ready for bed. Otherwise I'd only have half an hour with her, which is not good enough!
She's just done the most god awful poo, all down her leg, up her back and over her vest. Yummy!!

excellent Elf about your working hours

Cameron is getting his first set of jabs tomorrow - he is late because he was ill so calpol at the ready

hey ladies!
just the usual self to report really.
caitlin had her 2nd immunisation yday and was quite ok with it. 2 very loud screams when the needle went in but straight after smiley again!

won't wait till 6 months for weaning her though. just waiting till the 'push out reflex' gets less so she actually would keep something in
i can't wait to get rid of that terrible sterilisator! was so happy when i could put it away after ds and now we've got it out again

we are braving a holiday - with a 20month old and a 3 month old by car to austria for 2 weeks!! (1 week skiing and 1 week to see my family - they all are already very excited!)
gosh, you should see the list i've made so far

besides that caitlin is doing really well. had her weighed at 13 weeks (1 week ago). she was 13lb 1,5oz - nicely on the 50th centile

she is very very active and very observant and already a daddy girl - he just has to enter the room and she beams at him!
and ds is easing off and giving her some room now. he's getting quite sweet with her now. sits next to her, giving her all his favourite toys and talks to her to play with him - and gets over excited when she accidently hits one

Have been offline for a while as we unplugged the internet connection to decorate dd1's new room at the weekend. Hoping to move her into it tomorrow, then I can move Alice into the nursery and perhaps she won't wake up at 11 when we go to bed.

Have painted the bedroom pink, it looked fine on a small tester patch but is quite overwhelming covering the whole room! With 2 girls, pink is one colour I'm already seeing quite enough of, what was I thinking??

Breastfeeding is going well, planning to wait until 6 months to start weaning as I did with dd1 - she was sitting up in her high chair by that time. I remember it making no difference at all to her sleep patterns - continued to wake in the night despite 3 meals a day plus breastfeeds! Not looking forward to all that cooking and pureeing again. Alice might just have to have our meals mashed up I think.

Just going to have late night snack before going to bed - need the energy to get through the night feeds.

Morning all.
ELF great news about work
Advice please ladies, does your baby already sleep in their own room and if not when do you plan on moving them out of your room? we were planning to have ds in with us until the 6 month mark but as we are moving house soon when he will be just over 4 months am considering putting him straight in there when we move, what do you all think?

Evie is still in our room in her crib, but we've promised to lend the crib to my sisters friend and her baby is due at the end of March. We're planning on putting Evie in her own room at the beginning of March, she'll be five months old, plus my DH thinks its better to move her to her own room before I go back to work. Though I'm really sad about it!

Yokefleet - Joey is still in our room, and will be until he's hit the golden 6 months old (WHO and FSID Organisation recommendations). I'm going to miss him when we eventually do put him in his room, and i'm sure i won't sleep as well as i'll be permanantly listening out for every little noise on the baby monitor....!

Having said that, if he started getting disturbed by us, i'd move him over earlier, and at 4.5 months old, i'm sure your little one will be fine if you want to put him straight in there when you move. Hope the house move goes ok, NM x

I put Johnny in his own room at around 4 weeks. The room is right next to ours and if I keep the door open, I can hear the crying, but not every last little snuffle and wiggle that he does.

His room used to be the spare bedroom, so we have a sofabed in there. Often, I end up co sleeping with him in the sofabed rather then sit up in the cold feeding him.

Johnny got his second round of injections today and the screaming didn't last long at all. He was more interested in getting back on my boob as soon as poss!!

MB

Yokefleet, my dd1 was in her own room at 3 mths. she'd grown out of the moses basket and we couldn't fit her cot in at the time. I used to go to bed with the monitor up next to me full blast at first, but she was fine and slept much better. 6 mths might be the ideal but it's not always practical. It was such a relief when she was in her own room as we didn't have to worry about every little noise waking her up!

I put Jess in when she was 6 weeks and Cameron when he was 5 weeks and I found that they slept better in their big comfy cot rather than those moses baskets!

I felt soooooooooo tired yesterday and even worse today, its the first time I have felt real tiredness since Cameron was born and he's now 12 weeks. But what I dont understand is that he has slept through for the last 4 nights - so why has this tiredness hit me?

Sorry girls - how are all of you???

Mummygow I think you're tired because your bod readjusts to the shift in sleep pattern again. My DS is now 13 wks and has started sleeping for 7hrs (hooray!) but I don't feel any less tired at the moment. Hope this changes. On the subject of own rooms I'm a bit nervous about leaving DS in her own room as HV said she should sleep in our room til 6months. Is this because of SIDs?

6 months is the 'official' line now and yes, it's to try to cut down cot deaths. Incidence of cot deaths fall drastically after 6m. but lots of people make the decision to move their babies out before this due to other circumstances. do what you feel is good for you and your baby.

god am so knackered today. dd1 is driving me mental and dd2 is wanting to feed every 2 hrs then falling asleep on the bottle after 2oz. she's soooo tired and miserable AND SO AM I!!!!! trying to write my CV at same time as make a headress for dd1 to her exacting specifications (ie it HAS to have pipecleaners radiating out from a hairband with pom poms on the end of each one FFS!) and keep dd2 from wingeing herself blue in the face. can't WAIT for dh's return in approx i hour and 15 mins!

also read my thread about being overpaid maternity pay - found out I owe about £2K potentially - just because i've been too dim to check my pay slips DER. will sell dd1 on eBay to raise cash if i have to the way today's going

Moomin -pour yourself a big glass of vino as soon as dh walks in -that tends to be my antedote to a shite day.

Ditto on the shite day......

Away for glass of wine...

I think I could cry for Scotland tonight, I'm too old for this

sorry everyone's had such a crappy day today. Everything is so much worse when you're tired. Ruby's started waking every 2 hours at night and drinking loads of milk. I'm trying her on a different milk and if that doesn't work she's having baby rice!

Oh, I've been on the vino since they went to bed

BBB - moved onto the vodka now!!! First in about 2 years!!!