Just mumming (viroids 1)

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So we don't scare the viroids on the antenatal thread with horror stories of no sleep, chomped boobs and endless laundry or make them envious with tales of cuteness....

I have a mix of bumgenious, tots bots and a few two parts for night time. Wish I had bought more tots bots than bumgenious as the material is much nicer.

frak as your little one is the eldest you will always be the first. I am sure we will all have bad mummy stories shorty. The only one I have so far is ds head butted my chest the other day and hit my collar bone. He screamed for what felt like an eternity. The worry and the guilt that comes with motherhood is overwhelming sometimes.

esk glad your little one settled when back with you. Ds only really does that if he has wind. He will be sleeping peacefully and suddenly scream in his sleep. Not nice at all.

It's a hard we life for them isn't it

Matchstick eyelids today as ds decided to be full of smiles and kicking about at 2am. He finally went back to sleep about half 4. Not sure how something so small can take up so much room in bed

BGs slim down hugely as you go up from folded down to the max to the first popper. Which inserts are you using with them? the big inserts folded over are hugely bulky - doubling the newborn insert can be better.

It's weird that even though Mis 6 months or so ahead in a couple of years that won't make any difference and they'll all be starting school at pretty much the same time etc.

Will try that with the newborn inserts...thanks .

You are right. It does seem like a huge gap at the moment, even a week seems to make a difference. The time is flying by. No idea where the last 7 weeks gave gone!

It's lovely having babies of different ages on this thread. I can't quite think of the words to explain why yet, but it'll come to me eventually (probably around the time DD goes back to sleeping through again).

Very sleep deprived here too. Ds woke every two hours last night. Was happy to let him sleep in with dh and I as he was so unsettled. He ended up with the majority of the bed and making lots of noises all night. Think he has a funny tummy. He keeps getting it every few days. Trying to work out if it's something I am eating. Mil said you shouldn't eat onions or too much dairy when breastfeeding?

Onions can give babies gas, dairy avoid only if baby's intolerant otherwise you really need it!

Citrus and caffeine can also cause funny tummies and cabbage, garlic, beans and pulses can make them windy.

I eat quite a balanced diet and don't drink caffeine. Will try and cut onions and garlic for a week to see if there is a difference. Will also switch to non citrus fruits. Poor wee thing has been exhausted today. Would hate to be contributing.

Just found an iPhone app called The Wonder Weeks. Gives you little updates on babies development. Very cute. Think it is also a book.

How is everyone else getting on? Hope you are enjoying the first few days oats. They seem like a blur when I think back now.

I think comparing babies, especially those within the same birth dates as our own is natural. Especially with first borns as we really have no idea what is normal!

Speaking of normal, DS had his 6 week check (a day shy of 7 weeks) and is official ginormasarus! 91st percentile for height, 75th for weight (11 lbs 4 ozs) and 50th for head circumference. I am surprised they didn't test me for steroids after that

Thanks for the saline spray tip COAWF - we are on our second bottle :) The Calpol one is better than Nasosal I have found as it shoots the spray right up - although in the middle of the night and in the dark DS has taken a nasal spray bath!

Disposables-wise it's such a personal preference isn't it. Pampers are my preference, although we are in Huggies at the mo as they were on offer, but I really dislike them as the Pampers just feel like they fit a bit better. Have used Tesco own too which are as good.

Esk I am impressed with the bumbo sitting! DS hold his head really well, too well some times, in that I forget he can't support it full time and he flops off to one side In bad mother stories I caught DS's head on the bannister the other day. Caused a cry from him (for about 30 seconds) and from me (about 30 hours). Spent the arvo prodding the bit I knocked to see if it was sore - of course he was fine but felt like a horrendous mother.

As with the odd night screams/cries, DS has started this too. I wonder if it them trying out their vocal cods and/or beginning to be able to settle themselves? Another bad mother/TMI story - was in the bathroom and heard DS begin to cry upstairs...mid shower so hurried through, crying getting worse, by the time I go out (5 mins later) he was asleep. Felt hideous that he had cried himself to sleep so woke him for a cuddle

Thanks for the iPhone app tip CC been looking for a good development one to obsess over monitor.

Oats I second the blur of newborn wonderfulness - although I look back now and didn't realise how much time I had to myself then with all the sleeping he did! Appreciate it as the sleep to wide awake ratio definitely skews! I can't believe that was only 7 weeks ago. The time has flown by yet seems like an eternity - if that makes any sense?!

We are just getting to the stage where DS is not quite so easy to keep out like a party animal. He is definitely needing to be a bit more settled and quite before he will sleep. We have been out a lot so glad we made the most of it. Once we are in the new house we have no money so probably for the best!

That said, next Saturday DH and I have our first night out. Dinner and theatre. Not wishing to sound like an alcoholic but any tips on being able to have several drinks and BF? We are not trying him with a bottle beforehand basing this on if he is hungry he will eat. I have 4 frozen bags of milk at the moment ranging from 110mls to 150mls. How much should DS have in a sitting? At what point can I start BFing again? Should i get DH to give him a bottle of expressed in the night and then start in the morning as normal? Almost not worth the extra wine.....almost

Alcohol is removed from BM at the same rate as blood. DS at 6mo only takes 150ml if hungry, at 2mo he was taking 2,5 oz or so.

Really how long you need to not feed for depends how much you've had!

You'll need to pump and dump though.

Thanks! Useful re: pump and dump as I had read that was a myth (was going to any way, just in case!)

Eeep! DD just rolled over on her changing table. I'd put her on her front whilst I picked a nappy up from the shelf underneath the table, as she does like it that way up. Next thing I know she pushes herself up on her forearms really high and rolls. So glad I was there (not that I would leave her up high but still..). She repeated it 3 more times on the floor before getting hysterical. Now I've got to be hyper-vigillant as I don't know when she's going to do it the other way

That's the best way first esk otherwise she might roll back to front in tge night and get stuck!

val you don't need to pump and dump because the milk would remain boozy but to keep the supply up if you're skipping a feed.

I, now, would be able to go out after bedtime, drink a bit and then do the 3am feed no worries as long as I stopped drinking by 11ish as he doesn't need feeding between. Usually.

If only they could be so predictable

I had a glass of wine with a meal when ds was on his 7pm-10pm stretch of sleep. Has some milk in the fridge incase he woke up though. Good advice from Frak re: keeping up supply. I was told not to bother as it was a myth. Think the reasoning has been lost along the way.

Agreed Val, that it isn't as easy to be out all the time now. Ds much prefers being at home for his naps.

We had a tough night last night with ds screaming inconsolably on/off for and hour. Going to go back to doctors if happens again as I think his stomach is still bothering him. Dh and I were really upset as he never normally cries beyond me offering him a feed. We both felt pretty useless. Slept fine during the night though and is full of smiles this morning.

Sorry for your nights sleep :(

We still have no routine whatsoever Feed and sleep on demand...

Just realised my post made it sound like we have a routine. Just meant that if he is going to sleep it is more likely to happen at home. Only routined thing I try to do is bath at 6pm each night as it helps his wind. Tonight though he has slept from 5pm and is still sound. I don't wake him anymore.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Anybody doing anything more exciting than watching Xfactor?

Well, I had 2.5 hours away from DH and DS and loved every second I had a massage and my eyelashes tinted. My shoulder was so sore from bad posture holding and feeding the ginormous baby Felt terrible as I didn't really want to go home. Guess I was a little in need of me time. DH has this week off work so hopefully sharing the baby load and having lots of adult conversation will be better.

I'm so jealous. Could really do with some pampering

I have my mum staying to 'help'. Just had to bath ds as he was reeking of her perfume! He does like her though and gives her plenty of smiles.

LOL CC my DS ends up smelling of my Mum's perfume and covered in glittery eye make up. Not sure how

I have made my mum sound a little drag queen...she really isn't

Hi everyone,

Glad you got some me time val, sounds like you were in need of it. I think I would probably just sleep! Good news is we have an appointment with the consultant tomorrow, for DS's tongue tie, so hopefully we'll be able to put the pump away for a bit. This week has not been fun.

Did anyone watch the world cup final this morning?

I had a whole afternoon to myself this week Val and also didn't want to go home so don't feel bad. No pampering though (apart from ogling baby toys at John Lewis, don't have one here), was sitting the Life in the UK test. Such fun, such fun.

I did MO (watch the rugby). Am a very happy ex-pat Kiwi today . Although watching the haka for the first time ever, DS was more interested to know why the men in white were holding hands!

Am taking DD to baby and toddler group for the first time tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Hope the consultant appt goes well MO. A couple of the June mums had their LO's tt's snipped with no problems what so ever.

Well, we've survived our first long distance journey with DD - 200 miles up north to see my family. DD was a star, sleeping the whole way there apart from our feeding stop and most of the way back too. She did cry quite a lot during the day but then there were lots of people all wanting to see her and getting right in her face or taking endless photos with flash so she was all dazed and confused. Still, the weekend went off far better than I expected.

We watched the rugby this morning, though I'm not particularly a fan and don't understand it at all. My brother had DD joining in with the haka bouncing on his knee, which both seemed to find fairly amusing.

Would love an evening off. My knitting group is meetiing soon so perhaps I'll try to get along to that. DH bought me a voucher for a spa day with a friend (her DH did the same when her DS was born 3 months earlier than DD) so I'm looking forward to that when I can leave DD for an afternoon.

Oats you're doing a fab job. I hope the consultant gets DS sorted easily.

DD has her first set of injections tomorrow. I wonder who will cry most!

Oh Esk virtual hand hold as we are off for our jabs tomorrow too!

Had our jabs today. Ds is fine, just sleepy. His cry made me cry though.

We survived the jabs. I was really cross though as we were waiting nearly 1/2 an hour past our appointment time for no apparent reason - there was no one else there to see the nurse so it's not like she was running late. I had to ask at the desk what was going on but there was no explanation or apology from anyone
DD is contrary though, rather than being sleepy I think she slept for a grand total of 20 mins yesterday, even after being dosed up with calpol.

Hope DS gets on ok val.