August 05 babies - all smiley and bright-eyed!

[Miaou]

A new thread for the August 05 crew - link to the old thread

C&Cmommy, you sound as if you're having a really rough time about now, is your DH or any family available to help out? I would help if I could, but I don't think I can afford the bus fare

Twiga, nice to here from you, poor you with your husband on nights and having a christening to organise. We're not thinking of that until well into the New Year, as I nearly had a nervous breakdown organising ds1's. Hope that your family are going to help out and not expect to be looked after.

Suzi2, I had SPD when I was pregnant and have some lingering problems in my pelvis, it's much worse this week with all the slipping around in the ice, especially as I couldn't get my car up the hill to my house yesterday and had to walk home in all the ice. Thankfully my physio is brilliant and is giving me lots of core stability exercises to hold it all together.

Wishing you all sleepy babies tonight...

C&C Mommy and suzi you guys need a break if you can possibly have one - poor poor you and your babies.

Suzi you only think you are a failure cos you are tired - I bet we all feel that way sometimes I know I do, have you read the no cry sleep solution it hasn't helped my ds to sleep through but it helped me to be a bit realistic about things. Your friends probably have their own versions of sleeping through or maybe their babies have only slept through once or twice, or maybe they are making it up - how can so many of us be having problems and they have all cracked it?!

I had a large episiotemy app ( I could see it happening even though I didnt feel much - swear the doc threw some of me away!) so thats quite interesting about the pain. It was really painful the other night but feel fine today

sorry you guys are still having a rough time of it, i hope you manage to get a break to restore some sanity.
I agree with pookey your not a failure your just tired.
Reading this im feeling very guilty cause i have a sleeping baby and i dont have any secrets, DD has slept all the way through from 6weeks, last night she went to bed just after 8.30 and is still asleep, I think the reason for this is though that I stopped bf at 6 weeks she feeds alot during the day to stock up as well, and really has maybe 3 20min naps, its not that ive cracked it its just they way she is my ds was the same and apparently i also was so maybe in my case its the genes.

did some feet painting last night to mark dd being 3months, ds got in on the act so have lots of little pink feet and big blue feet, i did it when ds was 3 months and its nice to look back and remember how small they were

thats interesting about the episiotemy, and lol pookey they through some away, after having 3rd degree with 1st adn 1st degree with 2nd i feel the same.
I dont have any pain like that but do have in my hip and lower back when lie on my side i took it everything haddnt clicked back into place

we are getting the joiner in today, replacing all the wood and doors in the house, wish me luck, i could kill dh and his crasy ideas, its only for they eye it doesnt need done pest that he is

hi girls, so sorry you are having tough times. me too (thats why I have been away) but its related to me because my severe PCOS has come back with extreme pain and its as much as I can do to play with Rachel and keep from curling up.

anyway, decided that its the 1st of Dec so I will think positive, her christening is just 2 weeks away and then its christmas

Hi all, it doesn't sound very happy on here at the moment does it. I've been feeling a bit down the past few day too. Both the boys are teething and I'm not sure how much more crying and whinging I can take, they're usually such sunny little boys that it's a real change. Yesterday, ds2 wouldn't settle for his nap and was vile all day. Seems a lot better today.

EmMUK74, sorry you're having such a bad time, is there anything that you can do?

Is anyone going bak to work soon? I was wondereing as ds2 is 18 weeks on Friday and I had to go back to work when DS1 was that age. Looking back I don't know how I did it, ds2 just seems so young and still needs me so much.

Kate100 im looking at going back to work probably the end of Feb,though i really really dont want to go back at all,its sad to say but its the pension thats keeping me there at the moment. I have been trying to get work organised so that i can go back on a job share under the flexi working first spoke to them 4weeks ago and yesterday is the first they have finally got the ball rolling only to tell me if granted it would be impossible to have it in place for me returning think i will be living on bean and crumb unpaid leave until they do im really annoyed and deflated - i was only part time and went full time to help them out cover maternity and couldnt return to part time due to restructure wish i had never helped them out now.

its very quiet on here hope that means that eveyone is managing to catch up on sleep and not that babies are still grumpy

I took ds for his second set of jags yesterday, and spoke to the gp about getting him referred as I think he may have a squint . He was very good, just cried a little bit when the needle went in, but was almost smiling again by the time we left the surgery! The hv was there as well, and was very pleased to hear that ds is still fully breastfed and I'm not planning to wean him yet - although his weight gain is levelling off slightly he is still a little chubster and quite content. So nice to have support! The gp (who is quite young) was totally fascinated by the washable nappies - apparently ds is the only baby he has seen wearing them - and he said how good they are for babies' hips. Brownie points all round!

Ds seems to have gone back to one night feed - thank God - two feeds was a bit crippling!!

hi all

typing with baby, josey i am going back to work around march. i have told my boss i want to work pt and she said to tell her again in new year! quite looking forward to it as ds will only have 2 days in nursery 4 1/2 with me and 1/2 with my mum so not sooooo bad.

MIstletAOU what a lovely trip to gps! was thinking about tots bots when preggers but disposables have been too easy esp as moved house in sep. would it be worth starting now so he can get used to being wet for potty training? hmmm dp wouldnt be impressed thinks i have hairbrained ideas and just want to spend money on things i wont use!

oh MIstletAOU didnt see about the squint, so not all good at gp, would it be something he would grow out of, my ds winks sometimes? my dp is blind so a bit paranoid about eye stuff, prob my ds winking is my imagination!

Miaou, my GP used washable nappies and that's what we spent most of my 6 week check talking about, that and the fact he was relieved I'd given my boys such nice names, 'not like Apple'. Glad that you have such good support. The nursery nurse attatched to our gp's rang the other day to encourage me to keep going with holding off weaning ds2, especially as he's so big. It's nice that people are supportive, when lots of people are diagreeing.

pookey I'm not too surprised/worried yet about the squint thing, as dd1 had one that we didn't catch early enough and it has seriously affected her eyesight, so I'm just being overcautious really

Cant be too careful miaou, its not going to hurt to have it looked into.

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. DS2 is fine but still refuses to take the bottle. I've tried a variety of types and different formula but he just doesn't want to know, even if DH does it. I'm so annoyed I didn't introduce a daily bottle early on, but I didn't manage to express and didn't want him to have formula up to now. Sleeping also seems to have got worse. After the best night ever Monday night he's back to two wakings per night (around 12.30am and 4.30am), although does now go back to sleep after the second feed. So, not doing terribly well, really.

I'm still doing two nightly feeds as well - it's a killer, isn't it? I can't believe I'm thinking of having another one - I must be insane...

Ds still has absolutely no routine - as I write he has been asleep for 4.5 hours and hasn't had a feed since 3pm (having not had any sleep between 10.30am and 4pm). I have rock boobs and bet he won't sleep tonight now - argh!

Glad I'm not the only one with absolutely no routine - and I know what you mean by rock-hard boobs. I would love to have just one night of uninterrupted sleep. Yesterday I was very irritable with DH over something relatively minor and I hate being such a misery.

Azure why weren't you able to express, do you mean by hand cos i could never do that but its ok with a pump if you look at picture of baby and do it when you are full - takes a bit of practice? Your baby might be more likely to take expressed milk as tastes better. I have tasted sma and cant blame my little noah for always throwing it up as it is minging, cow and gate readymade is ok though!My baba hasn't slept through and ususally wakes twice aswell. Dp got him up this morning so I stayed in bed till 8:30 which was nice. Am feeling quite fed up at the mo not sure why but prob cos I am also a bit tired and grumpy.

I tried Gina Ford it didnt really help but the one thing we always have stuck to is bath at 6, feed, then bed and so far he nearly always grumbles a bit then sleeps by himself or can be fed to sleep. day time is comp unstructured though. With next baby (fingers crossed we will still want one!) it might be harder to stick to this though.

Hi all

Sorry, haven't been on here for a while. Ds4 is still throwing up all the time he managed to projectile vomit all over DH tonight though, which I found quite amusing

Pookey and Azure, are you still up for a baby meet?? Sounds like we all need it!! Lets make a date. Ealing for definate. My best day is a Thurs followed by a Fri (don't know if Fri will be busier though)?? Do you want to do before or after Christmas?? If it is before, I can do up till 15th Dec and after xmas I can do after 5th Jan (when DS1 and DS2 go back to school)!!!

hi
sorry to hear you guys are having a rough time of it, I dont have much of a routine i just follow dd really she wakes around 8-8.30 although sat morning she slept till 9.30 and that was going down at half 8 (sorry) she then feeds every 3 hours and has started taking a nap about an hour and half after each feed for around half and hour to an hour, we bath a bit later at 7 as when go back to work would have to break the rountine of 6 oclock bathtime. she is on sma i know what you mean i havent tasted it but the smell. she also is a sicky baby no longer projectile vomits but lets mouthfulls go all the time, and the longer it gets after feeds it looks like cottage cheese sorry tmi
my mum came down on Friday to see ds before his bday she hadnt seen dd for about 6 weeks and she screamed when she said hello to her and wouldnt stop i was so upset, then my gran decided that mum had to spend all her time with her instead of her grandchildern so i have spent most of the weekend being angry with a little old lady!!!!
im supposed to be dropping dd off at mil so i can go xmas shopping, but i have to wait for the joiner who said he would be here by 8.30 dont think the house will be finished by xmas at this rate just as well he getting paid for the job not by the hour

Josey what is your secret?

Dazedandconfused mum I was thinking the same thing, I am free when you have said so lets see whens good for Azure? By the way Azure sorry I said 'why weren't you able to express' reading back it sounds really awful to say that, I didnt mean it how it might sound. I keep saying things wrong at the moment no wonder arguments break out on mn.

Ealing sounds good for a meet - as long as it's in the A-Z and has parking. After Christmas may be better now as DS1 breaks up from school December 15th and I'm pretty busy before then. By the way, I suspect I'm nearer your mums' ages than your own!

Pookey - don't worry, I didn't take your comment badly. I appreciate any thoughts. I have a hand pump which worked well enough; however, my main problem was finding the time. DS2 seemed to be feeding so often that I could never manage expressing as well, and my milk supply didn't increase as a result. Having said that I have tried with expressed milk and it's the same problem as with formula.

Azure my Dp is 10 years older than me and still manages to act younger than me sometimes - I am not exactly 'where the kids are at' anyway!!

Have seen stuff on here about giving babies cups to lap from rather than bottles on threads - Miaou might know more about it, maybe he doesnt like the rubbery taste of the teat. My prime expressing time is around 10pm when he has been asleep for a couple of hours and hopefully will continue to sleep for a few more!

After Christmas is fine by me to meet, I think the shopping centre on the high street would be the best place for you to park. I would like to pay for coffee as an expense free journey for me .

sorry pookey i dont have a secret ds was exactly the same infact he slept nearly all day and night he was the lasiest baby ever!! he still likes 12 hours and he will be 6 on Friday argh!!!!
the only thing i can think of is im guilty of liking alot of sleep and did the same as a baby so maybe its the genes?! DH blames me anyway but i told him he would rather they slept

I agree with Josey, I don't have a secret either, both my boys slept through from nine weeks, but I slept through from birth!!! DH and I both love to sleep and I guess so do our boys.

Had a lovely weekend, it was DH's christmas party and it was nice to spend an evening in the company of adults!! I even bought a new dress and it didn't have dribble or baby sick on it, but my feet were killing me, motherhood doesn't really require heels

kate100 sounds fab glad you had a good night, i have a girlie xmas night out on Sat really looking forward to it though hope i dont show myself up think i will make up for the drink free xmas and new year i had last year, its hard to believe this time last year i didnt even know i was pregs

Oh lucky Kate and Josey I am desp to get glammed up! I am the sleepiest person ever, guess DS takes after his annoying early bird daddy

Talking of DS I have put a piccie of him in his christmas outfit on the member profile section