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Our spanking new thread ladies!

banana that is so lovely of your SIL....she must really like you

saorise that is so sad,my sisters best friend is in a similar situation,shes 40,my DSIS actually gave them her eggs,but we still arent sure if shes pregnant.fingers crossed for you SIL's for next time.x

sassy im glad Arlo isnt the only one!! not sure if you've seen these we have one for DD and but my cousin who has twins said they were a life saver,once they started running in different directions
oh and id probably take her to the docs if its blistered and bleeding.

newmum im so sorry,what a crappy week

well last night the kiddos decided to tag team us through the night,meaning we slept for roughly 4hrs total...we tried to have a lazy day,but it backfired and DD went mental so we went out to a softplay to let her tantrum there run her batterys down a bit
then came back and madly cleaned the chaos she had created before we left,so she didnt get to bed until 2hrs after her bedtime
what.a.day.

on the plus side,i found a tenner in the road,and bought a copy of the mumsnet rules with it!!

Hi

Walking babies already, arrh!!!! Its all going to fast for me.

congrats chelle on your new job.

banana what an honour, to be asked to be Godmother and be named after you.

newmum sorry to hear about your Uncle and DPs father . Hugs x

comixminx I write the English part and DP writes the Spanish part. Im not bilingual in the sense DS and Maia are but I do speak Spanish fluently (not always gramatically correct, bit like my English tbh ). DP speaks English fluently, so we swap and change between the two all time. Although speaking with DS and Maia I keep it all in English.

newmum so sorry about your families bad fortune at the minute. x

im still up cos ive been talking on a thread with a mum of 3 under 5's whose husband is in the navy. she is not coping to well at the minute. definately know that feeling- although i havent got it now. anyway, the whole time the baby has been kicking away. only felt the 1st one a few days ago, it was that faint though, that i questioned whether i had really felt it. but can definately feel it now. awh. its so lovely.

Awhh,sassy,thats lovely i miss that feeling....although,its still feels so recent!
im sure Arlo's still a newborn,he cant be 9 months old already!

im getting a broody tingling feeling.....

awwhh babies

just wait another month or two when im moaning about not being able to put my shoes on, back ache and carpal tunnel syndrome, it will soon put you off frigg

Saoirse thats sad for your SIL we don't realise how lucky we all are!

Sassy Maia is 1 day younger than Olly but a whole school year behind!!! I still find that wierd!

Newmum sorry to here about your uncle & step fil. A horrible time for you all!

Crikey, I'm a little bit weepy today! nearly every post i've just read has made me well up!

Oh, I checked Ollys ear yesterday. no infection. I must just have a smelly baby! And on the subject of growing up fast, he's now in a forward facing car seat & I've stopped sterilising! where does the time go??!

I was also up late last night, a friend of mine has a 10 day old baby girl and has been having a really difficult time with her HV. Apparently she isn't gaining weight as quickly as they say she should be and her HV's are being very unsupportive. The baby sleeps 6 hours straight at night but not very well during the day as she seems very alert (I know that feeling) and the HV's have said that she has to wake her to feed regularly during the nigh. She's worried that if she does she will be exhausted as she has no oppertunity to catch up during the day. She's bf'ing and they've offered her no guidence or support. I felt so sorry for her! How quickly you forget how difficult it is in those very early days.

Sassy I miss that feeling sooo much. Although grace didn't kick so much as breakdance constantly. I swear it looked like I had an alien in there, my tummy morphed into the weirdest shapes! Should have known then that she'd be so bloody energetic!

newmum is there a BF Councillor in the area,a support group or something she could get to? i find that HV's are not always very supportive,also is the HV using the new weight chart or the older one? as the new one is designed for BF babys,and the other one will def show she isnt gaining 'enough' as it was set up for FF babies.
other than that,tell her to keep putting the baby to her breast,as often as possible,some babys dont cry for hunger as often as they should and subsequently,fail to gain weight.

HTH???

Sorry Sassy I find Bepanthen is better then sudocreme and you can get it in wipes as well.

Newmum sorry to hear about your uncle and fil.
If your friend is willing to stand upto her HV then tell her to keep feeding every 2-3 hours during the day but to let her LO sleep during the night. Some babies are slow at putting weight on.

Lucy said her first word today. It was 'Rodyn', dd2's name. well it is Robyn but she struggles with her 'b' DP showed her a picture of Robin(batman&robin) and asked Robyn who it was, she sais rodyn then Lucy looked at her and said 'rodyn' as clear as anything. Me and dp just looked at her in a stunned silence.

She's got the number of a bf councillor in our area so she's going to ring them, I'll mention about keep oddering her feeds often. The HV said every 4 hours but if she's only putting weight on slowly surely she should be advising feeds more often then that?

She's got the number of a bf councillor in our area so she's going to ring them, I'll mention about keep oddering her feeds often. The HV said every 4 hours but if she's only putting weight on slowly surely she should be advising feeds more often then that?

newmum sorry to hear all your bad news, what a rubbish week!
As for your friend, I fell into the trap of listening to "advice" and I'm sure that's what made me fail at BFing. They refused to let us out of hospital because Orlaith had dropped from 6lb 14oz to 6lb in 2.5 days. Their solution to that wasn't to help me with BF but to give me formula! I was told after that by a BF counsellor that I shouldn't have given her anything because she needed to be desperate for milk IYSWIM. I still have a lot of guilt about not BFing and if I could go back I'd be much stronger about it all! I hope she gets the support she needs. And I agree with Debs she should be offering it more often than that, then she might even find she starts sleeping longer in the night, which would be nice and I wish Orlaith did 6 hours at night.

Debs and at Lucy saying Rodyn. That's so sweet. Orlaith copies a lot of noises but not much, especially if it's more than one syllable. DP thinks she's said dada loads but she's also said loads of things like mama, nana, gaga, baba... you get the idea. I keep sitting her infront of me and trying to get her to say mama to me but she thinks I'm an idiot. If you say "where's daddy" she'll look at DP, and "where's portia" she'll look at the dog, but nothing if you say "where's mummy".

When Luke had a tummy bug and poo'd every 10 minutes I just left his nappy off as often as I could and left him on a towel sassy34264, not so easy with a mobile baby! I have tried all creams as children I mind bring their own and I by far prefer sudocrem and you can use it for everything (sorry Debs75, funny how we all have such different experiences though!).

So sorry to hear your news newmum001, it must be hard for you all. Lots of hugs coming your way. As for your friend I would say just don't go and see the hv, I really hate the emphasis everyone puts on weight gain. If a baby is sleeping, waking, weeing and pooing and content between feeds for at lease some of the time then leave them alone!!! Both mine settled pretty much into a feed every 3hrs by themselves so 4hrs seems a bit longer and I was told with ds1 that if a very new baby sleeps more than 6 hours then you should wake them as they can get too weak to wake and won't feed but having a mum who's not a zombie is also good and she IS waking after that 6 hrs so she sounds fine to me.

Luke is the same saoirse86, he'll copy a lot of noises but as soon as I say mamama he just smiles at me!

Anyone want a 4 year old, free to a good home? I can't believe how grumpy, stroppy, argumentative, defiant and down right rude he was this morning!!! I don't know what to do, I never give in to him and his behaviour never gets him what he wants in fact he often loses things because of it but he still keeps pushing me. :( :( :( :(

Oopps... forgot to say. 2 of my mums have had babies (both of whom I will be minding in the future) plus my friends baby will be born tomorrow. Any thoughts on things you liked when you had your babies? As much as I love tiny clothes I know that some people get loads but I have no imagination!!

thanks debs never heard of it, but will look out for it. we've had a poo free night anyway, so its a lot better today. thanks.

newmum it makes you wonder whether they are that bothered about b/f or whether its more important that all their boxes are ticked. it might not be as quickly as they like, but she is gaining weight- i think 4 hours is too long as well. i was told not to leave it longer than 3 cos mine where premature.
saoirse i had to fight to give mine breast milk. they wanted them on formula on day 2 cos their blood sugar levels were too low. luckily i knew that they had appointed 2 breast feeding coordinators on the ward only the week before and i got them to back me up. i think i wouldnt have suceeded other wise.
its same now with my vbac, im gonna have to fight for that as the registrar has already told me that the consultant might not 'let' me. unless the say the baby is distressed and i need an emergency csection they can bugger off. or unless i think bloody hell this is painful- give me a c section any day!

sassy may i point you in the direction of this book
it helped me sooo much with my second labour,and she covers vbac,in there too,its really just a book of birth stories,interspersed with comments from gaskin.i thought it might be a bit too wooooo for me,but actually its a fantasticaly empowering book

oh also,Arlo can now climb STAIRS!!

Eek! FriggFRIGG don't envy you!

So pissed off!! Was supposed to be borrowing my stepdads car to babysit but when I got there they were out so borrowed my neighbours car. When I got there no-one was in, I phoned and they had booked a babysitter in London but sitters had booked them one at their home!! Rushed around, used petrol and all for nothing!!!!

WOW Cinnamon that is a massive pain in the arse!

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newmum, I guess it never rains but it pours - with family being so ill and your friend also needing help too. I also have a friend who's been finding the first few weeks very hard, especially with the feeding, and it's so difficult to help as opposed to being just another person with opinions, like the bloomin' HVs - only of course the HVs have got "authority" on their side and none of us wants to risk our baby's health, even if we think what they're saying isn't really right...

Aphra is babbling a lot and says "dadada" but not with any specific intention - I think she's said "nananan" or similar when meaning me, but I won't take it as a full-blown "mama" just yet.

My chicken smells!! Its best before date is today. It looks fine, but it smells a bit pooey! would you use it??????

i wouldnt banana but then i am a bit cautious with meat, not having had much experience at cooking it.
frigg we were at my mums a week a two ago and her stairs are in her front room and she had put some things on the 2nd step, ready to go upstairs. next minute isobel was up the 1st one and had reached them. so my mum moved them up 4 and stood behind her and she was off. luckily she would have to get rhrough 2 rooms with doors to get to mine , so no need for a gate yet. we have french doors separating our living room and dining room and we pull the playpen in between the gap and leave the playpen door open for them. its annoying having to keep climbing over though. definately need to buy a gate.
im doing nothing today. going to play, eat, watch telly and snooze. bliss.

Sassy we're having a lazy day too! So far i've been on here, fb, skinned the smelly chicken & put it in the slow cooker (although I don't think we'll be eating it!) caught up on last weeks corrie & read books! I love days like this!

umph. mines already back fired! some of the sockets in the kitchen arent working- including the boiler, washing machine and dish washer. going to have to phone electrician and go round house checking all the sockets. boo.

Awww... talk of new babies! [love-it] though not sure i'm ready to start all over again yet.

Cinnamon I have one of these and love love love it! it would be a really nice pressie but perhaps a little expensive??? I did get it in here tho so not sure why it only seems available on line in the US

Also every baby I know has been so in love with these

On the subject of HV.... got a horrid one coming tomorrow for Jack's under 1 check. I actually can't stand her and it's like she's reading from a script all the time so never quite gets to her point or answers a question. Ahhhh well

Jack's naming day this weekend so will be thinking of all his little mn friends during his party and wishing they could all be playing together.

Visited a nursery today....... really not ready for it but we need money. Might broach the subject with my Mum and see how she feels about Jacksitting. She's as ex head mistress and early years specialist so is wonderful with lo's

Lots of love to newmum and big BIG UPS to chelle for your new job