September 2011 babies are rolling into 2012

[ssmileWithFairylights]

Hello in new thread come over and chat part two from the September edd babies arriving thread.
Just watched strictly dancing final part one but can't keep eyes open for part two so off to bed now will watch.it tom. Sleep well.....zzzzz

Sarah you are not alone!

Here here with everyone comments... they certainly aren't instinctive and need to be told "I'm at my wit's end, please ... " (fill in the blanks for the appropriate situation!) And, yes, why are we the talkers and them the listeners?? (And, I have to say my OH is really good with LO and the kids etc, so I'm not complaining here... just agreeing with everyone though - they do need telling and spelling it all out!)

And, Contented Mummy??? Nah, we'll never fully achieve that, but it's fun trying

Feeling all your pain ladies - I did get the bug but haven't been sick - just feel terrible. Lo has it too and has mild temp and was up allnight with tummy pains. Did I get any help - despite the fact dh had this the day after he came back fromhis weeks snowboarding holiday and was so ill he had to go to bed, I did anight alone with poorly lo up allnight and then day with two ill kids plus managed to run the house and make a Tudor costume for dd1. They may be lovely but they are pretty useless - bit like a pencil without a sharpened (pointless !) anyway off to drink wine now as the nausea has passed !

at QRGM's DH having to be told three times. I think we might be sharing the same DH and he is leading a double, bigamous life Queen!

What I really can't wait for is when DS begins to be like this as well

Feral we'd better follow this up... Does your DH also take 20 minutes to go to the loo?

Typical exchange:
DH "I HEARD YOU THE FIRST BLOODY TIME!"
Me "WELL DAMN WELL ANSWER ME THEN!"
DH "YOUR STATEMENT DIDN'T REQUIRE AN ANSWER, YOU WERE JUST TELLING ME A STORY"
Me "BUT YOU SHOULD AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE ME, A SIMPLE 'WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?' WOULD BE NICE!"
DH "WELL YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME ANYWAY!"
Me "See DS, this is how you have a polite conversation between loved ones"

Yes yes to all of the above :o

I've had rough 12hrs and bit embarrassing but hopefully on mend now. Walking home from school I collapsed with tum pain and feeling vfaint on pavement. Nice lady called 999 and looked after my screaming babe and 4yr old. My BP vlow, paramedic gave me gas&air which made me very dizzy &feel sick. I didn't want it but he most insistent. Half hr later ambulance arrives two vnice ladies talked through my symptoms and I tried to calm babe by feeding her in ambulance. Agreed to take me home, DH eventuallly answered his phone 35mins after I called both mobiles several times. Two hours after medics gone start throwing up, not nice when trying to BF babe in middle of night had to drop her twice on the bed. By 6am tum pain gone, starting to feel better. Sounds like the bug you've had minkyj. Maybe its SW thing. Gosh things us mums have to go through to get a part day off in bed! DH taken both girls out for three hrs this morn. We keep trying to get babe to take formula in cup or bottle but she won't. I was SO worried my milk would dry up as it happened with first babe, but I've kept pint of water down now. This is also the bug my other DD had last sat&sun, just praying babe doesn't get it now. Really hoping that's the drama for this weekend over with now, I'm sure I will be school playground gossip next week :(

Ssmile, that must have been a bit scary, hope you and all the others feeling poorly (really effing lousy) get better soon.
Sounds like my DH fits into above description, he takes ages to reply to me and often needs prompting or at the end of what I have said says he wasn't listning and could I repeat it all. He is good with DS but has become really crap around the house even when he can see me rushing to get DS meal and ours ready for different times while sorting out bath and bed routine too, will help - if I ask - sometimes you just want them to do it of their own accord, he knows what the routine is FGS.
Picked up Baby Whisperer book - put it down 5min later as it said 'babies of 6m should be sleeping through by now' - erm NO!fed at 8pm,11pm,1am,3am,5am,6am last night and that was a good night. Really hope it improves soon but he is teething and then gets all stuffed up. He was making himself jump with loud snorts last night.
DH working again this weekend, great for money but makes me hate weekends as everyone with their families so you don't want to invade their space.
Hope you all have a nice WE and enjoy the sun.

Ah ssmile that sounds horrible, you seem to have handled it a lot better than I would though! There seems to be so many bugs about! Hope you're feeling better now and have been able to rest up.

Xx

Hanging out of window to get signal (can see the sea from here!)...

Lots of empathy to DH isshooos.

Sad face at ill mums and babies :( get better soon all.

I also wanted to share success with sleeping on hols - I had expected disrupted sleeping due to new place/cot etc but DS slept really well and I put much of that success down to blackout blinds. Going to install at home also now - fab. He also had a far better lunchtime nap as all dark and quiet. We have been hugely lucky that DS is a good & enthusiastic sleeper but as a result of the routine we also find he is less 'trabsferable' than other babies who are used to sleeping in different places/different times. Anyway, dark is good & I recommend travel blackout blinds if you don't already have them.

Weaning going well 1 week in - I am going back to previous posts several pages back to catch up in advice! First orange (carrot) poo was a shock for us both!

Happy weekends all :)

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Oh no Ssmile, that sounds awful, poor poor you Hope you're feeling better now.

Queen and Candr. DH tends not to take 20 mins in the loo but you can GUARANTEE that the minute that a nappy needs changing, dinner needs to be served up, washing needs hanging out or any other 5 minute job requires doing he will need the loo. And unless I ask him what he's doing upstairs, he'll drift into the study and start arsing around with the computer instead of doing Important Stuff.

And what is it with the lack of active listening ffs? Do men not realise that making eye contact is how normal people demonstrate that they're part of a conversation? In fact I know that DH does this with everyone else he talks to apart from me, he constantly gets customer service awards from work so he clearly demonstrates that he can be a good listener to complete strangers

TP I was a major blackout blind addict with DS and I swore that I would try to get DD to sleep without relying on them but I have relented this week as it's been so sunny and also because it's light at 6am here now. I think it does make a difference and I sleep much better in the pitch dark too.

YY to at the new poo. I kind of miss the BF poo now

Sorry to hear we are having a few teething for a few people :( Poor little things. We still have none!

Yep, I too get fed up with hearing how LOs should be sleeping through by now, well meaning comments by some people! Yes yes, all babies are very different, it's great if you are lucky to get a sleeping baby, but some just don't do things by the book! And mine is certainly one for not sleeping through!

Sorry again to hear some people are having partner thoughtlessness issues :( I am very lucky, but having been with someone in the past who didn't seem to take an interest in me or what I was doing I do empathise.

TP have a good holiday, and glad LO has slept well while away :)

Oh man, I've not been on for what feels like ages! I don't know where the past few days have gone.

LO was 6 months yesterday, so we started weaning then :) After doing 6 months of EBF :) Whoop, feeling quite proud of myself. :)

It's BLW here, so lots of finger foods and things like that.

And so far it seems that the tie snip has helped, feeding feels better but it's a weird feeling at the moment, almost tingly when she's feeding.

And I've got another bloody headache :( Gah.

Sorry it's all short from me now, I'm trying to do a million catch up internet things in one go while I can.

Hey all

at fainting, poorly mums and Los, teething pains and not sleeping through. My lo isn't teething yet, but also not sleeping through. I asked the paediatrician about this on Thursday when we had a checkup and he didn't see it as a problem. My old NCT mentor used to remind us that by one, 70% would sleep through, which means almost a third wouldn't!

Oops lo has woken...

Well done 100 for six months ebf, such a great achievement! And happy 6 month birthday to your lo, i did think of you on Friday. Hope the weaning is going well, so much fun!

Hope you're all having lovely weekends, the weather is super here and makes everything feel great!

Yay 100!

Is your lo bf more since you've started? Mine is, almost like he's worried I'm going to stop.

at Loves' LO worrying about no more BF. Now that we're into week 3 or weaning, DD's beginning to get the hang of it and is actually chewing and swallowing food occasionally rather than just tasting and playing and I think is beginning to take a bit less milk. We're BLW as well, mainly just because DD really doesn't like being spoon fed.

I was a BLW purist - no spoons at all - with DS and I said this time I'd do some and some to get her eating properly a bit quicker, therefore possibly sleeping better and less reliant on BF before I go back to work so I won't have to express every lunch-time. However she's got different ideas and really won't have food off the spoon unless she's holding it which makes yoghurt a real mission!

And Candr, I meant to say in my last post, a big POO to the Baby Whisperer and sleeping through at 6m. I honestly thought that DD would be as she was so good for the first three months. I am beginning to get a little bit worried though, I'm going back to work mid-April and she was up twice last night for an hour each time. How am I going to teach full time with that little sleep?

Well done 100 hope your Lo enjoys weaning.

Ooh feralgirl at going back to work in April. I had to do that with my first I very clearly remember sitting in important meeting on my first day back and I'd had 3hrs sleep, I just smiled and nodded in the right places :o sorry that doesn't help much when your a teacher, other than getting your DH to take it in turns overnight which is what we had to do.

Well our Lo has yet another green nose and green eye...grrr why did I go swimming last week I ended up with tummy bug she has yet another cold thing. Still its made her have longer nap& she been eating more last two days. Definitely getting the hang of it more, but stubborn when its not fruit. Her fav by far is blueberry &apple mush on bread sticks so she can feed herself. I tried hard boiled egg yest which she liked but the yoke bit crumbled everywhere so I mashed in some creamcheese then smeared on toast finger which she liked.

I'm feeling much better today, making the most of having break from my diet and will start again tom.

Geekmum, glad the paed didn't have a problem with LO's sleeping, glad not all health professionals say they should be sleeping through :) How is your foot now, can't remember if you have mentioned it since the sprain.

Sarah, thanks, seems to be going well so far :) We've had evidence of food eaten! From her very first offerings no less :)

Loves, she was a milk monster anyway, so I've not really noticed a huge difference, only that she was awake LOADS last night :( Bum

Yay for others doing BLW. feral I have offered LO a loaded spoon a couple of times, she's ace with that, straight in her mouth, but then she plays with it. Nice to know about people a bit further on. Gosh I can't even think about work yet, brings me out in cold sweats. Although I know if we have another on, I won't be able to take a full year off then.

Thanks ssmile. Hope the cold passes soon for her. I made blueberry mush to go on toast for my LO yesterday, she seemed to like it and made a right mess with it :)

I think I can hear the pumpkin on the monitor, I may be going to bed after this, so tired and felt like I fed every hour last night.

Oh I put LO in the baby bath yesterday while I was having a wee, (empty obviously) she was sat in it then leant forward, held onto the end and stood up! OMG, she did it again today and tried to lean even further forwards which then resulted in a tipping up incident - no baby was harmed in the making of this paragraph - so now the bath won't be used for anything, pah, too clever. I know she loves standing and given your hands she stands easily, but it's the first time she's used something to help her up. She also does a walking motion now if you are standing holding her hands, it's very funny seeing this teeny tiny person moving like this. She's only just over 14lbs.

Sorry to everyone with teething, sleeping, fainting and feeling ill problems. We had a bad night too last night - I think teething - she cried for about one hour and in the end, we put her in her bouncy chair and she went straight off to sleep. Let her sleep in it for a while, and then tentatively transferred her to our bed, and managed to keep her asleep. Calpol didn't seem to even take the edge off, poor thing. Pesky teeth, they cause such trouble :( We were lucky though, as she fed at 6ish, and then managed to go back to sleep until 8.30 - so we had a lie in and it was much much needed :)

Well done 100 - that's some milestone. My LO is six months next Friday ... can't quite believe it! Enjoy the weaning - I know what you mean with the tingly feeling - I weaned mine about 4 weeks ago, but I still feel so proud of her when she finishes her food and when she's looking like she loves her food too! Her favourite so far is apple and parsnip! Going to introduce new foods after the six month milestone, as she's just on fruit and veg so far. But loving it all... milk is getting much more boring to her! Not doing the BLW - she's happy taking food from the spoon, but will start to introduce finger foods soon too. Must do some more cooking as my frozen stores are nearly depleted - I spent all last Sunday cooking and it's lasted one week!

Gorgeous day - we went to Betws y Coed and bought a baby carrier - the rucksack framed ones that you carry LO on your back. Then OH carried her for her first walk in it - and she promptly fell asleep happy! She also had her first proper Al Fresco meal!! (It was so sunny, we could eat in the park on a park bench... lovely!) OH is now really happy we can start proper walking again - must admit, I'm looking forward to getting back out there too. We've done lots of shorter more local walks, but we used to do at least one long walk every weekend before I was pregnant, so it'll be nice to get out again.

AND... wedding date booked!! YIKES! Friday 8th June - so less than three months away! I've sent out my email invites (very eco friendly I thought!) - it's a small affair - only 30ish. God, really really need to lose some weight - six pounds is not enough! (Oh, and Ssmile - have you really lost 18lbs - that's brilliant!! Well done you ) Won't go dress shopping yet as want to lose more weight - knowing me, and my "laid back style" I'll probably get a dress the weekend before...!! My friends go mad at me, but I'm a last minute kind of gal!

Crossed posts there - at the standing in the bath incident 100 - glad LO was ok too!!

Oh sebs, that's great news on the wedding date :) Yay great stuff. :) So when would you like your virtual hen do then? How would the 19th May be for you? We could have a virtual spa day, so people could pop in and out of the thread in between treatments, and then have a few drinks in the evening. We are possibly getting one of those rucksack things, we have a friend who might be selling theirs off, so that would be cool, especially good as it will me OH will carry LO occasionally instead of me all the time (in the sling) :( for the teething issues for you too.

Not much time but popping by to say at standing in bath and at wedding date!

Also lo slept from 8-6 last night! Think it was a one off though but I'm

Oh and thanks for asking, ankle not bad, can walk without hobbling too much now! Going to give it another week before running.

Yes I know, it was a bit of a shock to see her stand up on something. I think she'd go for the settee but we have laminate floor, so this may delay things. And don't rush back to it too fast, take it from someone who has been on and off the injury step, take your time with it :)

Wow 100 at standing up, watch out the funs about to really kick off :o
sebs Fab news on wedding date hope it all goes smoothly, I tried very hard to keep our wedding vlow key, 25 guests BBQ in garden, photos on beach still ended up getting very frustrated tense with my mum near the date, who I really thought that having two daughters she would get at least one big flouncy wedding but no we both had very low key. Yes I've lost 19lbs now since Xmas. Slow and steady 1-2lbs a week, using My fitness pal app to log food, exercise shred dvd 3-4xs week, walk daily 3miles+ I've been eating mostly my normal food, but swapped biscuits &cakes for fruit, snack a jacks, and odd crunchie bar as a treat. For first two weeks I weighed out all my foods to get portion sizes right which had been steadily creeping up. It's been relatively easy as its long term change I want to make and lose 3stone in total so I can go snowboarding for my forty birthday next Feb :)
queengeek glad ankle on the mend.

Well Lo woke with one eye green gunked closed, she has 4th cold in 6mths poor little mite. I did try an experiment with her last night that worked, after she had had 3good meals of solid food yest. She woke 11pm and I fed her then she woke 1am and I thought No I'm going to see if she will resettle easily. I gave her snuggle bunny comforter (which she now has for naps) and patted her tum whispered sleepy time. Then rolled onto the otherside of our bed away from her cot and waited. She made lots of "going to sleep" noises but didn't start crying properly and was chewing bunny, went back to sleep in 25mins and slept till 4am! So she went 11pm-4am with out feed her longest stretch for weeks! After collapsing from that bug& exhaustion I thought I would try, but now she has a cold properly all go out the window tonight, but I'm hopeful now that sleep can improve.......:) after weeks of every 2-3hrs feeding its got too for my sanity.