December 2011 - Worp speed 5 to sleeping and smiling

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FairyBayleaf DC1 EDD 6th Dec BORN 29th Sept Albert Elwyn 2lb 14oz
Tjuice DC2 EDD 21st November BORN 7th Nov Amaya Rose 3kg
Sevensevenseven DC2 EDD 20th Dec 25yo Southwold BORN 21st Nov Eva Rose 5lb 4oz
Girlwiththemouseyhair DC2 EDD 24th Nov Maggie Juliet BORN 25th Nov 8lb 9oz
YBR DC1 EDD 22nd Dec BORN 25th Nov (girl) 6lb 3.5oz
LittleBlueBoat(Cheeptrick) DC2 EDD 5th Dec 29yo S.Yorkshire BORN 26th Nov Hope Brynn Frances 8lb 9oz
Kri5ty DC1 EDD 13th Dec 26yo Manchester Boy BORN 29th Nov Saul Harrison 6lb 13oz
LauraSmurf DC1 EDD 3rd December Girl BORN 30th Nov
BeeMyBaby DC2 EDD 29th November 25yo Scotland BORN 1st Dec Safia Hawwa 7lb6oz
SoTiredOfTheWheelsOnTheBus DC2 EDD 7th December BORN 1st December Boy 8lbs5oz
Iggly DC2 EDD 2nd December South London BORN 2nd Dec (Girl) 8lb 1oz
Girlsyearapart DC4 EDD 6th December BORN 3rd Dec (Boy) 7lb 7oz
HoneyLovesCake DC1 EDD 2nd December Cornwall BORN 6th Dec Rocco Kaleb 8lb 14oz
Mmmmcheese DC2 EDD 25th December 32yo BORN 7th Dec (Girl) 7lb8oz
Itsybitsy08 DC2 EDD 6th December Boy BORN 9th Dec Kieran 8lb4oz
Msbuggywinkle DC3 EDD 13th December 27yo BORN 10th Dec Miranda 8lb6oz
OiMissus DC1 2 December, 39yo, Horwich, Bolton BORN 10th Dec (Boy) Alistair Jude 9lbs
jigglebum BORN 11 Dec Freya 7lbs
Pludophtherednosedreindeer (plupervert): DC2 EDD Dec 10 (Kent) BORN 12 Dec Helena 8lb 6oz (3.8kg)
NorthernChinchilla- EDD 19th December, BORN 12th Dec, Boy, 7lb 7oz
Jomouse DC1 EDD 2nd December 35yo London BORN 14 Dec (Girl) 5lb 8oz
Tyelperion DC1 EDD 3rd December 27yo Windsor BORN 14 Dec (boy) 9lb 8oz
KateM77: DC2 EDD Dec 10 34yo BORN 16 Dec Daniel James 8lb 6oz
BennyBenBear DC1 EDD 5th December Manchester/Bolton BORN 18 Dec Oliver Stephen Bolton 8lb 9oz
Kiteflying DC2 EDD 7 December 44yo Australia BORN 18 December (Girl) Lulu 8lb 14 oz
mopsytop DC1 EDD 25th December BORN 19 Dec 6lbs 11oz
AWomanCalledHorse DC1 EDD 22nd December BORN 21st December 7lbs 6oz (Boy)
Figgygal DC1 EDD 12 December 30yo Bath BORN 22 Dec Daniel James McMillan 9lb 4oz
Kitty5824 DC1 EDD 21st December 33 yo Manchester - Don't know BORN 23rd Dec, Boy, 7lb 14oz, Sebastian John
Aethelfleda DC3 EDD 27th December London BORN 3rd January, Albert Thomas William 8lb 10 oz
hawthers DC2 EDD 22nd December London 33yo BORN 28 December 7lb 4oz (boy)
LittleMissFlustered DC3 31st December BORN 6 Jan (boy)
hopeful1 BORN 6 Jan Noa Francie Kate 10lb 3oz
MissRee BORN 12 Jan 12 Freya Violet 7lb 7oz

Msbuggy Sky has to have some formula in a day to stop her sugars going down. but thank you for the reassurance

Thanks for messages of support! They mean a lot. Pirran is an great motivation to get back on my feet and every day will a little better (though totally relate to having to sit down on the supermarket floor so as not to faint - I have yet to take a shower yet for fear of falling/fainting and have been making do with cat baths in the sink.) I would not be surviving without my amazing family though, MIL and DH's aunt have left now, SIL leaves today but my mum is here indefinitely (100% helpful except when she drives me crazy...about par for the course!)

News today is Pirran has grown out of all his 0-3 month clothing so we will be having a cull of his clothes. Already! He is only 5 weeks today!! He's a real string bean and everything is looking fetchingly 80s off the shoulder.

oi how are you doing? No one said the c-section caused the appendix to burst so don't think there was any connection - just mega bad luck. Just really keep an eye on the location of the pain if you still have it - they said appendicitis hits younger people hardest and they're also the ones who are more likely to be blasé about the symptoms.

" appendicitis hits younger people hardest and they're also the ones who are more likely to be blasé about the symptoms."

Too right tyel: when my appendix went grotty I was visiting my cousin in Reading and put it down to period pains/newish coil moving about, and drove the DDs home while wincing increasingly everybtime we went over a speed bump. When I got home I realised the pain was too bad for me to lift DD2's baby car seat out of the car, so I rang my dad to come over and 24 hours later was without appendix!!

So glad you're improving and that you've got support around the house tyel. I think apart from the necessary to avoid a DVT, you need to be a complete princess and be waited on hand and foot. The only bits of you that need to do anything are boobs and fingers (for posting here)!
We have the same issue with our LO, first clothes cull completed as he's a long 'un.

LO is now 10lbs 9oz, but I've no idea about centiles, etc as I forgot my red book . However, we made it into town together, me with DS in moby and went to Post Office then Health Centre, so that cherry is popped!

Sorry miri's out of sorts msb, hope she settles.

Ha ha so true! I was playing volleyball at lunchtime (very badly due to pain) and being rushed to hospital in an ambulance about three hours later! The pain went from bad to excrutiating pretty quickly though so it became clear when to ring a doctor. Hope your pain is improving Oi and Tyel glad you have some support.

Tyel - I've finally caught up with the thread and just wanted to send best wishes for a quick recovery.

MsB - a couple of days ago you mentioned making dinner from the river cafe veg cookbook - thanks for the reminder, I'd been looking at this before ds was born, but decided to wait to buy it until after Christmas. Had then completely forgotten about it, so I'll order this today as I've been getting stuck in a rut withmy usual vegetarian cookbooks. I seem to have maybe half a dozen recipes in each cookbook that I go back to again and again. Is there such a thing as a cookbook where you actually want to make every recipe?

Had another bad night with ds2. He fed constantly from 8pm until midnight (well fed, fellasleep, then when I tried to move him woke up and repeated), slept for 2.5 hours, then I fell asleep in the chair with him again until 5. He the fed/slept until moved until 7 when he settled in his moses basket. I was looking forward to going back to bed then, but dh overslept, so I had to get ds1 up and ready for school. Then ds2 woke up again and repeated. We went out at 11 just to go to the shops (treated myself to a large latte, he caffeine was definitely needed), but he fell asleep in the car seat on the way out (actally, he was asleep in it beforeI had even turned the engine on), and was still asleep at 1 when we came back. He's since had a feed and iscurrently asleep on my lap. I think I'll have to move him in a minute, just to make sure he doesn't sleep the day away and be awake all night.

I sympathise sotired basically had the same night with ds2 two nights ago. He was up from 10.30 until 2 doing the feed, fall asleep, wake when moved routine repeatedly. Dh took him until 4 then I started with him again. He seems to have completely gone off the Moses basket.

Last night we did the same until 12.30 when Dh went to the spare room as he is working today and ds2 and I took the kingsize. Have no idea how long he slept, when he fed or for how long. Feeling pretty crappy today and slightly dreading tonight. We've had the odd night when ds2 has fed and then gone straight to sleep in the Moses basket but have no idea how to replicate it every night. Brewers some sleep!

Bloody phone meant to say need some sleep.

Question for co sleepers. If you feed lying down when do you wind the wee one? I was dropping off last night in the process if feeding so don't know quite how to fit it in.

I was sort of wondering this myself hawthers, but the short answer is I don't.

That's probably wrong, but works out OK for us- however DS only has a couple of feeds and isn't a windy/sicky baby, he's all about the other end IYSWIM....

Certainly helps get me a half-way decent night each night, though God knows how we'll get him to go in the cot when I have to go back to work in 4 months.

Evening all' I ended up in hospital. typical that something would happen while DH was in Bournemouth - he couldn't have been further away!
I wasn't sick, so realised it wasn't food related. The pain got worse. It became unbearable, called ooh dr, he said call 999. Called 999, they said not life threatening, they'd get a dr to ring me to assess. I called mum and dad, they came over. Pain got worse. As we were setting off to a and e, the dr called, heard me and sent an ambulance.
The nice people gave me a lot of morphine. Alistair went home with mum and dad at 1:30 when I was admitted.
The pain didn't come back. They found nothing. They let me go home this morning. Have to go back for scan for gall stones...
So Ali had his first taste of formula.
Bizarre: he must've Been in sync with me. I was unable to care for him, and he slept for 8 hrs. 3pm -11pm when I insisted mum woke him to feed him formula. And he only woke once to be fed at mum's.
8hrs!!! He never sleeps for more than 4hrs max!
I feel fine now. The pain was excruciating! I hope it doesn't come back.

Btw: I manually expressed this morning in fear of supply drying up, and due to engorgement. Happy to report that Alistair is back on the breast, and we will eradicate the brown formula poo!

Sorry to hear that Oi hope it was just the one off and the pain does not come back. Wow 8h i'm impressed. Go Alistair.

We went swimming today - it was great fun watching Air jump in the water

HV was ment to be here to weight Hope at 2.30 pm so we stayed in but at 3.30pm she put a note thru door saying she had been and would call me - she did not knock or ring the door bell just put the card thru the door an hour late I guess she is not too bothered that Hope lost 4oz the last time she weighed her after she was ill. In Hospital on the Tuesday she weighted 9lb 4oz and then on the Friday HV weighted her and she was 9lb 0oz so a loss of 4oz in 3 days! Personally i think the HV weighed her wrong so i'm getting Hope weight tomoro to see what the difference is - if there is one.

Tomoro we are going to art and craft class and then Air is going to nursary and i'm taking Hope to the surestart centre to get weighted at the baby group.

Hope everyone had a good day xx

Tyel glad you're home. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Oi fingers crossed it was a one-off and you don't have to go through that again

We've found our nursery The one we saw yesterday was a bit ropey, but the one today was great and DD loved it on the visit. She went straight into the room and started playing, so we left her to it while I had the rest of the tour. Had to drag her out when it was time to go home! She's 21 months on Fri but they're going to put her in the 2-3's room straight away because they thought she was very confident, clever and communicated very well

I'm feeling so happy we've decided to this. It'll do DD a lot of good to have the extra stimulation and interaction again, I'll be able to rest a bit more on the days she's there, and spend time one-on-one with DS. I've booked him to start swimming classes from late Feb on one of the days DD will be at nursery

Glad you're home oi and hope the mystery pain buggers off entirely.

DS has been feeding keenly all day: I am having that "compulsory" home visit from the HV tomorrow, she said she wasnt going to weigh DS even though I will have to haul 3 miles across town on Friday purely to attend the midwife clinic to get DS weighed...it's damn lucky I have a car as otherwise I'd never get back to school to pick up the DDs on time... Do these lovely people think we only have one baby and then all the other DCs pop away into a box for easy keeping?

Right, need a quick blitz of the living room so that HV doesn't think we have a chaotic lifestyle (TM)....

oi that is strange it sounds so similar to what happened to me. Called ooh dr who told me to dial 999, went to A and E in excruciating pain, was really busy so had to wait 3 hrs (!!) To be seen by dr by which time the pain was a bit better. First dr I saw said classic appendicitis symptoms but not bad enough to need surgery but that he would get the surgeon in to check. Surgeon said didn't think it was appendicitis and to go home with painkillers. Pain much better by this point but lasted a few days. Still no idea what it was. Was in my lower right side too. Was 2 weeks after my EMCS so I do wonder if there was any connection.

aethel and air boo for annoying HVs!

kate glad you've found a nursery you're happy with. I felt guilty at first leaving DS with the childmindet 3 days a week (let alone that it will absorb all of my maternity pay) but now I have no idea how I would be coping otherwise and DS is also better off as he can get more attention and fun/educational things to do there than I can manage when dealing with DD as weLl.

Had a good night last night and DD settled in her moses pretty well. But in the day she wants to be held all the time and its so hard to get anything done with DS at all unless I put her in the sling but she always sleeps in the sling and it makes me worry she then won't sleep at night! Hopefully it will get better soon. I just have to keep telling myself that!

God, I hope it's not gallstones Oi- they are excruciating and you don't need a repeat performance of that.

We're doing so well on this thread for unpleasant episodes post-birth, dread to think who's next with what...

It's true that there's an automatic assumption of a car aethel, and family, friends, etc where other children can be left, which is bloody annoying, especially if the appointment isn't vital.

Well the tidy-up was thwarted by DS wanting more boob again... He'd better be piling on the ounces with all this!... He's now lying on me asleep in that Move-me-a-millimetre-and-I'll-wake-up kind of way. This cute newborn bit passes so quickly though, I don't want to move him! Hormones, we loves 'em....

Seven meant to say yesterday I am loving iplayer, itv net player and 4 od on the iPad. We don't have a tv upstairs so I can sit in the nursery or in bed and find something to watch while feeding him. Still to explore the rest of the app store for other inspiration

Hi everyone. I was so tired this evening was practically in tears. Went up to bed at half eight (my husband takes her til midnight so I can get a few hrs, then I do night shift so he gets a full night) and when I woke up it was after two! He'd stayed down with baba so I cd get a proPer sleep. Seeing as I woke up, I went down and sent him up to bed but wasn't that so lovely? He us super busy at work so really needs his sleep too. If I hadn't woken up I am sure he'd have let me sleep through.

In spite of five whole hours in a row, still feel pretty tired though! Wonder how long it would take to properly catch up?

I see I am alone on here for the moment. We just bf for forty minutes but she is now guzzling a bottle as though she'd nevercseen food ! Wish cd get the proper hang of bf as I love it when she feeds. It is so snuggly and close. Trying giving her less top up and then putting her back on breast if she is not satisfied then to see if that will help. It has been four and a half weeks now. Everyone says if you persevere it gets better but I am trying so hard and nothing is improving :( my nipples are sore from expressing. Feeds take forever as breast for at least thirty mins, then bottle, then expressing. When is this mythical improvement going to happen? Sorry for me me me moan post but I just feel really despondent. I just want to be able to bf my baby!

Hey mopsy you are not alone.

DS2 can feed like mad on one side, pull away, allow himself to be burped and then very happily go on the other boob for 30 mins.

Sooooo tired

mopsy I just wanted to say you are doing amazingly well to keep persevering as you are. I'm sorry to say I gave up doing the same after less than a week as I just couldn't cope with the lack of sleep and spent two whole days in floods of tears so took the really tough decision to stop bf as my supply wasn't increasing and me being a mess wasn't helping anyone let alone LO! I continued to express to 4 weeks so half of feeds was BM but now down to once a day a week later. I still feel terrible about it as I really wanted to succeed but the guilt is slowly starting to ease!

So well done and I really hope it starts to pay off for you soon.

Been in bed since eight, feeding almost constantly. Really starting to wear me down now. No sleep tonight do far and need to be up with the other two in an hour:(

Benny I have shed many tears!!! I have given myself until 6 weeks then will reassess. Cannot keep this up indefinitely. Hate the horrible guilt though. Rationally I know is ridiculous but finding it hard to listen to my rational self. Bf is so tied up with emotions.