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....

at the blocked ducts. I feel your pain (literally!)

Esk their must be something in the water, DS did 10:15-8:30! No dream feed, no nothing I have everything crossed this isn't a fluke. Like you though I woke up with a soaking duvet and sheet and boobs like absolute boulders!

Fingers crossed the snow doesn't spoil the dedication. Finally got round to organising DS's christening...first date available? 24th June

'their'?! I am appalled at myself

showing off about your sleeping babies

DD basically fed all night (i assume, I only woke up when she was grizzling to swap sides )
and then we both slept for about an hour from 7ish.
except we then had to get up, so I went to get up and DD cried and got all upset because she was asleep :(
So I put her in her chair (we've bought another one of the bouncy chairs, so now we've got one in the shop and one at home :)), and she cried while I got washed :( (real tears)
As soon as i went downstairs to her, she stopped.
and then had the cheek to smile and look cheerful for a bit while I dressed and had breakfast.
then she cried when I got her ready to come to work.
then she slept in the pram

I hope we can get earlier than 24th june!

problem is, the priest who normally does the baptisms, I don't want to do ours.
Nothing against him, he's lovely, but he is rather happy clappy (and he's really old, too, so he shouldn't be!), and I don't like it.

Esk, is a dedication like a naming ceremony? I still need to get organised for ds's!

No amazing sleep here . Ds was wide awake at 4am this morning.

Nickel, probably due to my catholic upbringing (very somber services!) I quite enjoy a happy clappy service. It is has to be done by the 'right' kind of person though or it seems odd. My wedding priest changed at the last minute and he made awful jokes.

Hurrah for sleepy babies. Am sure DS will get it soon, cc. Duct seems to have unblocked again with massaging, but my parents are here now so I can't do the warm flannel thing with dad sitting opposite me!

Dedication is more like a christening than anything else, the promises are much the same but there's no water involved, the idea being that the child is then able to make their own decision about faith when they're older and be baptised then. It's how the Baptist churches do things, and that's where we go so we're fitting in with their way of doing things. It is quite happy clappy though I rather like that!

LOL Esk go on...get the warm flannel out for a laugh

Nickel I know I am only saying this because the stage has past but I really, really miss DS being little in bed next to me and feeding all night....as I say, probably because this stage has passed. I am getting irrationally worried DS may be our only child and therefore as every stage ends I freak.

On my own tonight as DH is out. So I get to deal with the controlled crying solo. So far (body slamming every bit of wood available) he has woken once and settled immediately with a kiss and a stroke.

I think I am going to organise a naming ceremony. I would like ds to choose his faith when he is older, but think godparents are important. They have a different name for the ceremony, but a similar role.

Talking about being happy clappy has got the song 'walk in the light' stuck in my head. Love it!

I still have ds in our bed most nights, but he takes up loads of room and wriggles more now. I actually miss him sleeping on me. I used to complain about him dozing off and not being able to reach the remote.

Val do you know when you are going to have another round of treatment (apologies for poor wording, can't remember the cute name you had for them).

Not sure. We are hoping for a 'free' one but we may have to have sex to get one of those

We have two frosties () so we could hope they would defrost well and then hang in there, after that we are back to full on IVF. No idea where we would find the money from this time. So keeping everything crossed. Timing-wise I had originally said if nothing had happened by the time DS was 2 we would go back but my head/heart is now saying 18 months

Should have added I now have 'Shine Jesus Shine' going on....!

Know what you mean. Dh and I had a comedy/tired js on the 31st Jan as we didn't like the idea of a whole month having past without any action.

Ohhh I just realised I can ask you ladies ANYTHING and actually I am most interested in CC and Esk as our babies are similar ages...have your periods returned yet? Tell me to stop being so nosey...but you guys are my 'normal' if that makes sense? I have no idea if mine will return and if they are to when they will...!

Thanks xxx

No period or even signs of it returning. I thought expressing meant that it would return quicker, but nothing.

Nope, no ertd (that was the phrase right?) as yet. I keep thinking I'm getting cramps then nothing happens. I'm in no hurry to have them back yet, they never were v regular anyway. I want to be like my friend...pg with dc1 on the month she stopped taking the pill. Bf him for a year and had 1 period then pg with dc2 immediately so 19 month gap, bf him for 15 months before period returns. Actually would like a slightly bigger gap than that, more like 2 years. But dc 2 would mean js again. Still haven't managed it. I think I'm a bit damaged down below as a result of the v long labour, some minor prolapse going on I think, but I keep hoping it will magically disappear so I don't have to talk to the dr about it.

Thanks for getting songs stuck in my head!!

Think I had a period (ish) at 6 months, but I am on Cerazette and it screws around with your bleeding and you don't get a period. I did have pant snot two weeks before so I am thinking I'm fertile again.

Great work sleeping babies. Isobel! Sleep! Sleep! I thought she was falling into a new (doable) pattern of midnight, 4am, 5.30am feeds. Then DH said 'no, you were just so knackered you didn't wake up when she was crying in between, and I went and rocked her to sleep'). Oh.

val, we weaned Isobel from 20 weeks. She was a bit dubious with all the fruit purees, etc, and then at 23 or 24 weeks threw her face into a mince pie I was eating, grabbed all the stuffing and shoved it in, crumbled all the pastry and shoved that in I figured she had broken all the rules by then, so I just gave her anything - meat, fish, dairy, nuts, wheat. It's only a very cautionary thing about allergies, and loads of babies are still weaned at 4 months and have all this stuff. If your DS doesn't seem susceptible to allergies, I'd go for it just introduce things one day at a time.

vodka (love the name - DH and I have taken to having a hot chocolate wth a vodka shot in it some most evenings. Naughty us.) - who is katee on FB? Is she on the June group?

nickel - yes, babies are completely mad Some days they feed like crazy, some days they're not interested at all. Same as us, I suppose. Unless it persists for several days, I wouldn't worry. Also, when DD was 10 weeks and had a horrendous (utterly, utterly horrendous!) stomach infection, she wouldn't feed properly for about a month afterwards because of acid reflux and a learned fear of feeding as painful. So I had to feed her when she was half asleep or just waking up - you could try that if it comes to it.

I have a dodgy tummy. Four weeks of nursery and we've had two tummy bugs, croup, conjunctivitis, and two colds between us...

Esk, get yourself to the doctors pronto! It really is the case that the sooner you get seen the better the outcome. Not just so you can js, but for future labours, risk of incontinence and general self confidence.

I hope everyone is doing pelvic floor and pelvic exercises. Girls should be taught this when they are given the puberty talk at school.

vallinna get that awful song out of your head!
i feel like the religion chat thread has overflowed into the JSing thread! i'm so cunfused !

ttl hav epmd you.
:)

or "have pmd you" - dd is asleep on my shoulder.

same as us?
i'm hungry every day

How has everyones weekend been? We had a rough Sat night with hourly feeds. Thought ds would have been shattered from swimming and starting weaning. .

CC I'm very very that you didn't want a month to pass action free. By the time my coil is in and we're even thinking of anything a whole year will have passed!!! i really miss sex.The daft thing is, once we can, I know we still won't due to tiredness, baby in the bed ....

That's a lot of info isn't it...

Nope Nickel I'm still here, so this can't be a religion thread

TTL it wasn't me who has Katee on fb. s~orry you and DD have been sick so much. If it helps, DD and I have had a cold for 3 weeks. DS first bought it home from nursery, but it's me who is suffering the most. Now DS has chicken pox, so I can't even leave the house (which is actually donng my cold good as I'm resting more). Must be worse for you though as you don't get to stay home all day.

Right time to see if I can get this little girl to sleep finally.

DD is being a bit odd this morning.
We had a lovely cuddly sleep before it was time to get up.
She was mithering after DH left, so I fed her, once on each side, and when she was on the RHS, we both fell asleep. Then she kept moving, so I thought she was trying to latch back on, but she wasn't, she was just sighing and sleeping. It was lovely, because at one point, she put her hand on my shoulder, so it felt like she was tying to cuddle me!

this morning, she's gone in cycles from wide awake, contentedly awake, crying for something (not food!), eating, sleeping, laughing.
nice, though.

Sounds like a lovely morning Nickel. Despite two hourly feeds from 7pm last night we have had a nice morning too. Both ds and I are still in pjs.

Day three of weaning and it seems to be going well. Blw, so just letting ds have a play with food at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Doing fruit for breakfast and savoury for lunch and dinner. The biggest hit at breakfast so far has been steamed apple. Nearly gave sil a heart attack yesterday at family lunch though. Ds was demolishing a baby sweet corn (which I actually just thought he would suck) and he coughed a bit forward to re-chew. 'He's choking!' was shouted across the table, which made us all jump, but he was fine. She didn't seem very impressed that we are doing a different method.

Stupid question, but do you have to offer a 'pudding' with lunch and dinner? I have noticed friends out and about with jars always offer a savoury one followed by a sweet one.

On the js front, they have been tired but good 'quickies'. Dh annoys me less when we js regularly . We have both been trying to make more effort to kiss and cuddle (without it necessarily leading to anything) as we were being a little like passing ships in the night.