April 2011; springtime arrivals - blackbird, song thrush, mistle thrush, nipple thrush, nappy thrush...

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Here we are, our new thread and this time we all have our babies !

I thought we were getting thrush again, but then realised I had let ds's latch get sloppy. He was constantly clicking and tutting at the breast but I was too distracted to notice.

Ds and I made butterfly cakes together this morning, ds got to choose the colour of the buttercream icing ..... It is a very lurid shade of pink and they are covered in sugar strands. You can never have enough sugar!

Depending on how old you are you may only have had the mr Lis. Mumps was added in about 1988? Personally I would get titre tested for immunity. Something may have shown up on bloodwork - that you're not immune to rubella for example - so in that case I'd get it done, but if not then I wouldn't.

M is wearing trourers

Any ideas on his to ger him down to bed earlier? At the moment it's 10.30 earliest and often not til 1am but he will now sleep reliably fir 5hours or so and today went back down for another 4 which meant he didn't 'get up' until gone 11. Part of the problem is DH coming back so late that bathtime is late and then he likes a good 2 hour feed which I have to juggle with dinner, and I know he's getting overstimulated so harder to settle, but I don't know how to solve it without potentially upsetting the applecart.

Thanks. I'll make an appt. S now weighs 10 1b 15.

Hmm! Thanks Frak! You really are a font of all knowledge!! I would have been 7 in '88. Mum can't remember if it was the mr or mmr I had. But if it was offered I would have had it!

Got the dentist this afternoon[yikes], need positive thoughts ladies as I have a major dentist phobia. Got to try not let B know though! Any tips??

my brain just retains useless info...

Further to M wearing trousers for the first time, he has pooed all over them, which made removal interesting. Now I remember why I didn't put him in them before. He did look very cute though!

Interested to know the answer to your question Frak! I have the same sort of problem with G. Has an evening sleep from say 9.00-11.00 then is wide awake until about 2.00 or 3.00am (3.30am last night) but then he will sleep on and off for about 12.00 hours if we aren't off doing something. Good sleeping but need to bring it forward by about 6 hours!!

I'd like to have the next one fairly soon too as my DP is a bit older than me so the sooner the better really in that sense but I'm so not ready to do it all again yet!! We were talking about contraception yesterday and I was expressing my horror at the thought of getting pregnant and he said 'it wouldn't be so bad though would it? If you said you wanted to try for the next one tomorrow I'd be up for it'. but to be honest I don't think it'll be too long before we start trying. It took nine months ttc last year so it may not happen straight away anyway. Feel like I was a bit hard on him complaining about him going to bed on Friday night - he's really pretty good, so

well Frak I was just about to post the B is in trousers quite a lot, but he never seems to poop out his nappy.....Guess whats just happened......

Out the top back and front, out both legs, all over the bouncer, all over me. Ended up just dunking him in a bath with his vest and nappy still on (vest was containing the bulk of the fall out) to rinse the worst off! He may only poo every 3 days, but when it comes it comes in waves :o!!

Moley took up 3 years TTC B, it may take another 3, but I am so not ready to take that risk yet!

He was in dungrees though today, but still a tentative extraction was required!

Frak - I would think the best way to try and alter M's bedtime is to bring his bedtime routine forward. Bath between 6-7 and if he's with you in the evening, having an earlier dinnertime as well. I find it best if all household activity is kept to a minimum. I guess this may be a pita fitting in with your dp, but sometimes you have to fit round your lo rather than the other way round.

I think trousers may be the way to go with I as he has such a long torso and even the 3-6 month stuff isn't that big on him. But I do love them in babygro's, dilemma dilemma.

Lis - I too wondered if your rubella immunity was low (it would have been tested when you were pg). They can't do anything about it when pg.

Lis I think they're trying to catch people who had the MR rather than the MMR, there was a big push when I was a fresher at uni so I had the MMR at 18 as most of us didn't know whether we had had all the jabs or not. Given that there are outbreaks of all three at the moment (a friends 9month old has just got over rubella) I'm quite glad I had it just in case!

Oh and I love the phrase "tentative extraction" from the dungarees, I know just what you mean!

We've had the morning from hell after S decided to scream and shout (not really cry) from 9am till finally crashing out at 12. He was really tired but would not sleep, in the end I had to leave him to shout himself out in his moses basket to save my own sanity, he was asleep in 10 mins. Typically the only time he stopped shouting was when I took his nappy off, I just know he's going to be a streaker toddler in the future!

We're off Oop North tomorrow so DH and I bracing ourselves for being shoved into seeing lots of relatives who want to meet S. Its times like this I wish I drove so we wouldn't have to go with MIL plans in order to get a lift somewhere. I'm hopefully going to make it along to the BF Flash Mob in Leeds on Friday which I'm thinking should be fun!

We've struggled with T being unsettled until really late as well. I am finding that he is taking less and less time to settle for bed as he gets a bit bigger, and we are going with feed, then half an hour of quiet cuddles and sometimes massage upstairs, boob-change-boob and then into bed. It is slowly coming a little earlier each night, we are now consistently midnight or just before, whereas 2 weeks ago it was more like 1am. T is 12 weeks.

He's had his 2nd jabs today and seems ok on them. Really hoping it won't upset his sleeping which has been great for the last week, we are getting 6.5-8.5 hour stretches at night every night atm.

I had heard there was a measles outbreak here. Maybe that's why? Anyway going to the docs next week for my check up will quiz him then.

Just back from the dentist. I was very brave. No sticker though! and nothing needing done thankfully.

It's been pissing down here all day. So much for the solstice, sun hasn't bothered to turn up.

B has gone 4 plus hours between feeds today instead of 3. Normal?

lis s varies. He went every 4 hours in the beginning with longer on the boob. Now he goes every 3 but less time on the boob.

H has been in dungarees since week 4 they're just so cute! He's got various pairs in various sizes, gorgeous!

Did loads of housework AND made pizza dough today [smug] Took two goes on the dough though, totally misread the bloody scales for the flour, oops.

H is really awake today, only a couple of micro naps since he woke completely up at 9am, hmmmm.

Sound stressful Dairy, but you're not the only one with a streaker, H loves being naked!

M loves being naked too.

I've also been baking - bath buns in the breadmaker. well, the dough was mixed there.

Dairybeetle where's the breastfeeding flash mob happening in Leeds and at what time. I live near Leeds.

L has four pairs of dungarees and she looks so cute in them. I just love choosing her outfits everyday!

B has so many pairs of dungers! All gifts, I've even taken some back because he got so many. But I know why, its all the shops have for newborns just now!

I went way overboard baking at the weekend. Scones, flapjack, lemon drizzle cake and fudge!

I need new bras again. What was the name of that online shop?

Www.nursingbra-shop.co.uk

I give you website, you send me fudge or at least the recipe!!!

I would send it but it would melt in the post!

It's cheat fudge but it tastes damn good - google microwave fudge for engineers I'd link but I'm on silly Android thing instead of iPhone and I don't know how to get square brackets.

Frak that list has me drooling, I need to make up for not eating over the weekend!

Sassy 2pm Friday at Leeds Station, in the main bit where the departures boards are, by WH Smiths. Details are here: www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_210941008942703&ap=1 Hope you can make it, I've managed to persuade a couple of old friends to come too

Cycle Glad I'm not the only one with a streaker!

S has loads of dungarees but they're all just slightly too big for him at the moment, I'm hoping to get them out in a week or so. He also has a faux 'Bike Rally' t-shirt with a silhouette of a motorbike on which I love, doesn't quite match the dedication of my parents who had me at a bike rally at 14days old...I just buy the t-shirts!

FraK R has a similarly late routine to M at the moment it's bath at 9.30, feed at around 10 and bed by 11. It's not ideal but she sleeps through usually to about 5 or 6 then feeds and goes back down again til about 9. I asked HV about getting it earler and she basically said once she is consistently sleeping til 6 or longer then I could start moving bathtime earlier by 10 mins each night til bed time is about 9pm but didn't recommend making it any earlier than that as she would likely start waking earlier again.

R had her first jabs today. Didn't bother her much at the time but she has been a bit grouchy this afternoon. Hoping it won't disturb her routine tonight!! Dr said she might not feed as well but weirdly she has done the opposite and has been taking good amounts - better than usual in fact!!

Got my prescription for pill today too! In a bizarre twist I would quite like to be the first one to have DC2! DP is most certainly not up for it though, in fact he has said he doesn't want anymore ever, he's happy as he has one of each. It has been the cause of an argument or two over the last week :( Do you think it's a bit early to push the issue? If he really won't budge on the matter I don't know what to do, not having another one really isn't an option for me!

Good evening ladies,

Have just spent ages catching up on the thread.

LisMcA, so sorry to hear about your FIL :( x

Finn is now just over 12wks and weighs about 15lbs. He is in 3-6mth clothes, although some of the vest tops are getting a bit snug! On the whole is very good. He gets left to cry for much longer than the other 3 but then it is hard to be dealing with a 6yo, 4yo and 21mth old all at the same time. I would say that he only wakes once a night, sometimes twice. He goes to bed between 7.30 & 8 and can go to about 3/3.30 then wake again about 6.30.

He is very smiley and has a cute little laugh. Baby eczema is not too bad and comes in fits and starts. I have some doublebase gel that works wonders along with a 0.5% steriod cream.

Am now 3lbs off my pre-preg weight with another 13lbs to shift (if i can be arsed) to get to pre-children weight.

Been soo busy of late as I am the vice chair of our local carnival committee and we only have 2.5wks until the event with till lots to do! Also been battling builders since Feb as we have had a loft conversion which thankfully finished last week.

So nice to hear about all the babies and what they are doing and weighing in at. Just think its almost a year ago that our precious bundles were conceived :)

We are done on the baby front in Meadow Towers, as 4 is most definately enough!

Dairy typical it clashes with L's first swimbabes class or would have definitely gone along. Good luck with it all, I bet it will be a laugh as well as getting a serious message across.

Frak MrsW L too has a late bedtime, normally going down sometime after 11pm. I'm trying to make it a bit earlier each night.

April - good to hear all is well

T is asleep, this is early for him! He has fed ALL afternoon and evening, I am guessing a combination of jabs and it being really warm here.
Hope everyone gets a good night

Right, any advice gratefully recieved..! I am trying to get G to self-settle in his bedside crib instead of being fed to sleep, and then sleeping in the crook of my arm, so 2 things at the same time. We came upstairs at 11.30 and I lay him in his bedside crib. I am sitting on the bed with next to him and have been the whole time with the lights out, all quiet and just the glow from my laptop. He's got a dummy which falls out approximately every 10 seconds which I keep putting back in..

Two hours later and he still hasn't fallen asleep.. but he hasn't cried either.. (though i think he would do if I didn't keep putting the dummy back in).

Any ideas what to do from here???