Feb 2011- a bit late, but we're finally in post natal!

[debka]

Welcome everyone!!

Hello ladies.can't believe how far along this thread is & I am only just getting round to posting

Welcome wobblybum I too have a son Nate (Nathaniel)...I hadn't heard of anyone else shortening it to Nate so feels weird seeing another on the thread

Jane saw your petition...will sign later this evening once Nate is down...he's been a wee weirdo past couple of days & now appears to be the incredible crying baby tonight

Would someone be kind enough to ad me to the stats...can't do it on stolons iPhone! Nate born 24/02/11 6lb 15oz.

Ta much

Cler - Corey 5/01/11 5lb 12oz.

ledkr: Girl- Delilah Ivy 27.1.11 7lbs 13oz

byronicheroine - Konstantinos 2/02/11 7lb 1

tadjennyp - Samuel Jude; 05.02.2011; 8lbs 8oz

Debka : Girl- Sabine; 08.02.2011 : 10.6

Tarlia - Zachary 09/02/11 6lb 6

wobblybumm - Nate 13/02/11 6lb 8oz

canoe Boy - Leo : 13.02.2011 8lb 2oz

ILovePonyo - Girl - Anya 14.02.2011 - 6lbs

americanexpat - Boy - Leo - 15.02.11 - 8lbs 4oz

wigglesrock Girl - Anna : 15.02.2011 8lbs 8

justonemoreplease : Boy- Archie: 16.2.2011: 7lb 7oz

Deliaskis - Girl - Claudia - 16.02.2011; 6lb 9oz

ElleB1980 Romilly, 17.02.2011, 8lb 11.

emski76 - Noah: 20.02.2011: 9lb

WanderingSheep Girl - Charlotte; 22.02.2011 : 8lbs 3.5 ozs

Hubbard86 Freya 24/2/11 8lb 1.

reastie: Girl - Alice; 25.02.2011 : 8.13

janedoe25 - Girl - Zoe 28.02.2011 - 7lbs 2oz xx for Zoe, a part of all of us and our babies, never forgotten

Cler - Corey 5/01/11 5lb 12oz.

ledkr: Girl- Delilah Ivy 27.1.11 7lbs 13oz

byronicheroine - Konstantinos 2/02/11 7lb 1

tadjennyp - Samuel Jude; 05.02.2011; 8lbs 8oz

Debka : Girl- Sabine; 08.02.2011 : 10.6

Tarlia - Zachary 09/02/11 6lb 6

wobblybumm - Nate 13/02/11 6lb 8oz

canoe Boy - Leo : 13.02.2011 8lb 2oz

ILovePonyo - Girl - Anya 14.02.2011 - 6lbs

americanexpat - Boy - Leo - 15.02.11 - 8lbs 4oz

wigglesrock Girl - Anna : 15.02.2011 8lbs 8

justonemoreplease : Boy- Archie: 16.2.2011: 7lb 7oz

Deliaskis - Girl - Claudia - 16.02.2011; 6lb 9oz

ElleB1980 Romilly, 17.02.2011, 8lb 11.

emski76 - Noah: 20.02.2011: 9lb

WanderingSheep Girl - Charlotte; 22.02.2011 : 8lbs 3.5 ozs

Hubbard86 Freya 24/2/11 8lb 1.

Grannyapple Nate 24/2/2011 6lb 15

reastie: Girl - Alice; 25.02.2011 : 8.13

janedoe25 - Girl - Zoe 28.02.2011 - 7lbs 2oz xx for Zoe, a part of all of us and our babies, never forgotten

My perfect (ish) little Bina has been a little nightmare this evening. I think (hope) she's just been overtired but she just cried and cried after her last nap- I ended up bathing her at 6.15 and putting her to bed at 6.45. She's gone to sleep and had a good feed but she didn't seem right, she was arching her back and pulling up her legs, and she's been sick a lot again today. BUT she had one good (ish) sleep this morning of 1.5hrs and the rest have been rubbish 45 minute jobs. So here's hoping it was just tiredness.

AND Imy played up as well, threw her pudding and fork at me so I smacked her hand , she then cried until she went to bed.

tad 12 sounds like a lot of feeds- hope he fits most of them in during the day not at night! Sabine manages on 7 or 8 most days.

wobbly welcome, everyone is very nice on here- you've got to be quick to keep up though! Not quite sure why we stayed on antenatal for so long, we were waiting for knitta I think.

reastie fireWOMAN what a bitter disappointment that must have been

Debka funny enough Anna has been a little monkey today, no sleeping but she was in great form, and has been asleep for the past 30 mins, Sofia on the other hand has been a cheeky cat, she almost felt my hand on the back of her legs earlier See I'm turning into my mother [sob, sob]

I was just about to ask why I was at the bottom of the stats list when I realised it had been converted to date of birth order

DH gone to bed already . Think he's suffering with the lurgy I inflicted this household with . He put, I exagerate not, 20 drops of olbas oil on a tissue to sniff. The whole upstairs stinks of the olbas factory . I got him to saturate another tissue with slightly less to take to bed but it still stinks - have had to open my bedroom window and it's freezing (he's in the spare room and will have alice for the night later if it sounds confusing). Olbas instructions say only one drop for babies to inhale - does anyone know if it's OK for alice to be in with him all night with that stink? I'm feeling quite nervous/first time parent worried about it

wiggles can you be in charge of anna on the aeroplane trip and mr w draw the short straw with potentially more work look after olivia and sofia?

debka have a big

Thanks reastie

Right since ledkr's not about to get plastered with, I'm off to bed.

wobblybum No sod off you cant join. Im the old bully of the group btw.
I used to steal bandage and stuff,always had awell stocked first aid box.
Thanks for the entusiasm re the trip,all we need now is about ten grand!!
and at elles 2 bowels well done elles.

bowels?! yuk

deb dd has been a little fusspot this evening too, screaming when tried to feed her then fell asleep after she wore herself out, hope it won't affect her sleep tonight. Hope things are better for you tomo :)

jane have signed petition and linked to my fb page.

love the pics tarlia and ledkr, I know its been said before but we certainly do make cute babies on this thread :)

Taking dd to be weighed tomo, its been a couple of weeks since the last time and am really looking forward to it like a saddo

Ledkr I too had a bit of a , re the number of Elles bowels, if that's what the diet does to you, I'm sticking to my Hobnob diet!!

Aww reastie did you think you'd been bumped? I decided to do the babies chronologically , apparently it became vitally important to me, obsessed about it a bit I'm such a good mummy that all the girls want to sit on top beside me on planes, think its because I control the chocolate.

tad I love sticker books, they have been my saviour on many a day out/ trip. I usually end up wearing most of the stickers and having an indepth discussion as to why George doesn't seem to be growing at the same rate as Olivia. She started to watch Peppa a few years ago and is quite perturbed that he now seems "like a baby" A piece of advice be careful what you wish for when hoping for a chatty child!!

I've decided to do a few Keeping In Touch days for work - going to do about 5 shifts over the next couple of weeks, need the holiday money, those forgiving maxi dresses aren't going to buy themselves and Mr W isn't quite stepping up to the plate

Doh! Clearly bowls, not bowels...It's true what they say about babies eating your brain! Steak for dinner here - no more soup bowels for me :)

:( to those of you with weirdo babies. R has been a grizzly monster this afternoon, but she's also been napping so I'm blaming the jabs yesterday. I handed her straight to DP when he got home, then followed them around. I should have gone and had a nice shower instead.

Welcome to wobblybum. They're all bonkers on here. Tis only me that's sane, honest.

Just looking through the stats list and concluding we have some lovely baby names on here. And looking at the pics, they're all cute too! Will try and get actual laptop out at some point and you can all admire Romilly appropriately :)

fuck fuck fuck did a big post and once again lost it,thats happening a lot at the mo,dont know if its the site or my netbook. D hasnt slept at all today again,no probs just AWAKE,couldnt even do my shred,had to watch it.
Put her to bed at 6.45 in the end was aiming for 7 but she cried in the bath.Has been farting alot today too.She has been a monkey settling at bedtime for last few days,she normally feeds to sleep in my arms while i watch the soaps then i take her to bed and she jsut goes down,last few nights she's zinged awake as soon as hits her basket then dh has taken over cos im ranting like mad woman fed up. Tonight i fed her in the bedroom and she went down better.Stil had to do that stupid lowering her inch by inch into the cot tho. Have to go as watching pans labrynth and its subtitled,me and dh speak a bit of spanish so watch spanish films to be prententious but dont understand a word

Well the early night was ok,she woke at 6.40 with a little help from dh creeping around the bedroom getting everything ready for work grrrr,he never gets anything ready the night before,he gets up at 6.15 but then irons shirt packs lunch and gets clothes all from different places,i swear the world would end if run by men and we are all on here blamig our rows on he new babies when it is actually THEM!!!

ledkr same thing happens to me re: lost messages - that's 3 woppers of messages you're all rather glad devastated to miss out on of mine

am shattered today - hardly any sleep - alice couldn't settle with her stuffy nose and since DH is worse hit than me I took over the night time. Ended out co sleeping with her as only way I could settle her out quickly and easily- couldn't stop worrying I've hit her in my sleep or pull the duvet over her head or something so didn't really get any sleep

Did write a message last night to comment on things but got lost and can't remember what i said

morning girls! My DF is driving me insane too, although i think i am the one with the problem. He is so suffocating just now, but i know he is just worried about me. angels I will be joining you today in Zombie land, i am so tired. i think i would be getting more sleep if Zoe was here! I can't sleep and when i do i have the most horrible nightmares.

ledkr the only subtitled films i have seen are the batale royale ones [bllush], and they are not cultured at all!

Jane,again,understandable. Must be horrible,i have nothing to compare it with but i remember when i was in the early stages of having cancer and very scared,i used to have weird dreams and sometimes woke up feeling really good for a moment and then the awfull reality would hit me and my whole body would sink.I think your resistance to pain and anxiety is at its lowest from the early hours of the morning,i remember a dr telling me that,he said the sooner you get up and moving the better. the only thing that you can be sure of is that it will become easier to live with over time.

Good morning girls, sorry to hear about your rubbish nights reastie and jane - :( about you having nightmares jane how horrible for you.

ledkr my dp is the same, most mornings he comes running downstairs in a towel looking for pants/socks/tops I'll do his washing but refuse to put his clothes away for him, he can do that himself. But doesn't. I love Pans Labrynth, cry every time I watch it

wiggles I have seen some quite nice looking maxi dresses on boohoo.com for £15, could be worth a look?

Elle I did smile when you said you gave your lo to dp then followed them round thats exactly what I do :) Just sort of hover in the background not really helping

Right I am going to apply for a job today which needs to be in tomorrow, wish me luck getting them form done.

Oh, and a bit of a WWYD, we have a 'do' next fri for dps mate, but it doesn't start until 7.30pm and its not here where we live (we'd have to get a hotel) - don't know what to do re: baby as she'd usually be asleep by 8pm and gets very grumpy when tired, its not like we can keep her awake a bit later. I don't know whether to risk it and take her and let her sleep in her carry cot, but then she might just grump the whole time. Any ideas? Thanks :)

Well we did that with Dilly on holiday,sometimes she slept in pram and sometimes she just sat on our laps looking around.We just went with the flow and fedher and put her to bed when we got back to the caravan.I wouldnt say she was brilliant but it wasnt too bad either iyswim.I followed the whole bedtime routine ie bath at before we went out.One night shouldnt affect her.
Grr first time ever D went back to sleep in my bed and i had to get up for school.

jane poor you re: dreams. Must be terrible. Hope your mindees arn't too full on today so you can rest (is that even possible?!)

ponyo if it were me I prob wouldn't go. But that's only as I'm an anti sociable old moo who gets tired in the evening so puts on slippers and cocoa and goes to bed early . But, if it were somethning I did want to go to I think I'd prob take LO with me and fond somewhere quiet to put her in her cot to sleep. Having said that - will it be a noisy do (ie would you be able to hear her cry if she did)? It also depends on your LO and whether you think they'd settle in that environment. I think yuo'd have to be very strict about people there not overexciting her too (which they are bound to try and do). Would she go to sleep earlier than usual in the car and then you could bring her in already asleep so people wouldn't try and excite her? I see ledkr has a much more relaxed approach to me - you can tell she's done this quite a few times before whereas I'm nervous first timer gd luck with the job ap btw.

Which reminds me - one of my qs I put last night before my message was deleted was when the first person is back at work from this thread (other than KIT days)? Just nosing really. I'm back in december but wish I was only working one day a week - think I would be able to do a good job and prepare well for teaching and manage to mark etc well and still feel like I'm a mummy most of the time IYKWIM. When I'm back to work alice will be 9 months - erm, people who have bf before - how many feeds a day do you do at 9 months? . A friend of mine has a 9 mo and she has a bottle in morning, early afternoon and evening. Not sure how I could bf early afternoon when working [cofused]

Morning all!

Bit of an early start here as DP had to get a very early train to London. I'm now wondering what to do with all the hours until he gets home? Does anyone else find themselves pretty lonely? Have Baby Sensory today so I might have to try and convince some other mum's to be my friend. I have a couple of friends here with lo's but my very good friends have both just gone back to work after their maternity leave and I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself :(

Jane so sorry to hear about your bad nights. I always find lack of sleep breeds lack of sleep, it's so hard to break.

ponyo You should definitely go. These things always seem like a nightmare but so far with R they've worked quite well. We do as ledkr does and do bedtime routine first if possible, even if it's a bit early.R has always just slept through all the noise (in fact she seems to sleep better when we're in the pub?!). You can get black out cover things for the pram if that will help.

reastie I'm not back at work until November. Just booked R's nursery place and waiting for it to be confirmed. I'm going in to work tomorrow to discuss with my manager as my mat cover has got a permanent job within the company and also another girl in the team will be going off on mat leave. I don't really want to go back to my old role as it is and have my eye on picking up some other work. If I'm going back to my old role there's no way I'm doing full time - 4 days at most. I'm actually already looking forward to going back. I don't think I was meant to be a SAHM.

ledkr typical that she settles in your bed when you need to get up anyway!
jane sorry to hear you are having nightmares, must be horrid. Not sure if doc could help with sleep probs? Even more of a pain being knackered when you have to look after mindees, don't know how you do it.
ponyo I would def go if I were you, but agree its a bit scary to change their routine even for a night, however often I find that in really noisy places eg parties, babies just shut down and sleep really soundly so one night shouldnt affect anything fingers crossed!
reastie are you looking forward to going back?
I haven't decided what to do re: work yet, I was working in a deli for a year before I had Cass because I wanted to get experience with working in a kitchen etc - I have made the odd wedding/birthday cake so needed to get food hygiene cert to be able to 'officially' sell them from home.However that job is a no go as it pays rubbish money, so I think I may need to either go back to office work or get something part time in the evenings so there won't be any nursery fees to pay. Its all so confusing and times ticking, wish I could just stay home but if I do that will mean no holidays or nice things.
elle for what its worth I think everyone must get a bit lonely, it can feel like there are a lot of hours to fill sometimes cant it? and I dont like pestering the same people to do stuff all the time - of my friends only 4 or 5 are SAHMs so I dont want them to get sick of me if that makes sense!
Right, off to feed Cassia before venturing out into the horrid grey weather!

mizk same thing here re: if not back to work then no nice things. I do love my job, it just seems to far away from me at the min. The prob with teaching is it's not a 9-5 job that you can go home and forget about - there's always things to do outside school (planning/marking etc etc) and I'm a bit of an obsessional organiser and can't do my job unless I spend ages getting everything just so - so when I go back I'll either get super stressed from not doing things well enough imo or by trying to get time every day when at home to do work. I do toy with things like setting up my own little business teaching children to cook for fun at week ends etc (I teach cooking at secondary for a job) but not sure how it'd work. That would be good from the point of view that DH could look after alice so no MIL looking after her, but we'd hardly get any time together as a family . But, I would admit to quite enjoying organising things on my own for my own business like that and fitting things around us as a family.....maybe I could try doing some kiddies cooking classes from a village hall at week ends......wonder how much I could earn...

Morning all.
Sorry to hear about your nightmares jane :(

ponyo we have a wedding this weekend which starts at the church at 1pm, apparently the meal part finishes at 12am!? I'm planning to try and be relaxed and see it as a one off so not stress. You might find Anya surprises you and doesn't get grumpy until later as there is lots to look at. Since yours is just an evening I'd be tempted to try and get her to nap more in the day in prep for a late night.

restie alot would depend on how weaning is going, for example if Alice (I so want to say turtle :D) was enjoying weaning and you were going down the "normal route" purees then those feds are perfect. You could breastfeed the morning and evening and who ever looks after her give formula (or you could pump at lunchtime....) around 3pm ish, or to complicate matters formula from a cup at 10am and 3pm with snack. Babies doing baby led weaning usually tend to need more milk as not so much food goes in.

My maternity leave finishes Dec 28th, so I'll be returning to work beg jan, though I'll be working from home.

elle it can be lonely with a baby, when i had Ella i went to 3 toddler groups a week and met a couple of friends is still see now. You have to find someone you gel with havent you. I often get talking to nice genteel women at goups and whilst they are very nice i could never see we could be friends iyswim.
I do get a bit bored but i see dil and gs a few times and with school runs the day is fairly short tbh.
It is scary messing up their routines but they are normally ok and go back to it quickly.
I am off until 31.1 if i want to but obviously with no pay.I dont like my job and it has also relocated 15 miles away which is annoying with c care.i have worked for socail services for 16 yrs so am reluctant to leave due to good salary and pension so am hoping to get a transfer back to child protection. Was going to try and work when dh is off or get dil to babysit.My biggest chellenge in Ellas activities,she goes dancing 3x a week and browniesx1 and is starting drama in sept,but if i dont work she will have to give it all up.

Got so fed up with losing messages last night almost bucked the laptop out the window

Ledkr When Mr W has days (he gets up at 5.30am), he leaves all his clothes outside the bedroom door, gets up, quickly showers, then gets dressed in the landing! He does all his ironing on one day for his rotation. When he decided to change our lives forever serve the community I told him I wouldn't do any ironing at all for him, I hate ironing, he now is a complete whizz at it.

Reastie Hope Alice and you are feeling a bit better. I'm going back to work beginning of Nov, but I only do 19 hours a week anyway.

Ponyo Go, go, go, Anya can sleep in her pram and if it all gets a bit much you have the perfect excuse to go back to the room. Anna sleeps better with noise as well, well that's my story for Ibiza and I'm sticking to it

jane Nightmares are horrible things, I never think you can shake them for a while. I know it's a bit cliched but its just your brain processing all your pain, you are also thinking about the wedding and conceiving again so your mind is just throwing up all the horrible things that can happen. Mr W is also a bloody nightmare when he's worried about me - I just want to hiss "would you ever feck away off and stop patting me!!" xxx