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

Oh Lordy, talk about our LOs being sick, have Made you all queasy with my softness?
Haha! But I know you all feel exactly the same about your LOs. (our babies are lucky to have such devoted mums)

Hi all. Well minimopsy slept for over two hours after sick incident and seems fine and is now up to her usual antics, falling asleep on my boob!

T.I.R.E.D. !!!

plu, thanks for words of support re: ff. If only my irrational side wd listen to my rational side. I too was ff and am healthy and never had any problems, same for two of my siblings. In fact, half of us were bf and half ff and there is no way you could tell who was which as no discernible differences between us. Yet I still feel guilty that minimopsy is mainly on formula. Well, I bf for half an hr at every feed I give her (but husband does one or two a day) and she gets at least 120ml ebm a day. But I can't keep it up. It takes too much time. I said I'd persevere for six weeks, thinking I would see some improvement and that we'd have more success at bf but unfortunately that hasn't happened :( think am going to have to more or less stop next week at six weeks :( will try to keep up a morning and evening bf but she always needs a bottle top up. But just for the emotional closeness more than anything. My supply mighn't keep up but can only try. Certainly can't keep up the bf/top up w bottle/express routine and have any sort of life so the decision is sort of being made for me, which will help with the guilt. I was sure if we kept trying things wd improve. Everyone says they will and I've worked so hard. But it isn't true. It doesn't work for everyone even if you try your best. At least we live in an era of clean water and formula-in an earlier era I wd just have had a very hungry baby who might not have survived!

P.s.Oi, I am as besotted as you. Am a complete fool over minimopsy! Spent most of my time yest when not feeding taking pics of her on my phone andcsending them to my sister!!!

Haven't got birds singing this end, just DH farting in an attempt at germ warfare.

DS has decided tonight he's bored of the two course meal approach and prefers tapas. Als nipple cheeing seems to be in vogue :(

Hi aethel, no birds here either. Just a sleepybaby who is taking ages to feed!

Question: earlier when I put her soother in, that's when she started coughing, choking and sicking up. I noticed that happen once before. Could the soother cause a gag reflex or something?

Head is thumping and one of the older two has spirited my bottle of water away so I can't take painkillers yet >_

Oh dear lmf, you poor thing. Nothing worse than a pounding head and no means of relieving the pain.

I made a dash for my other son's room and recaptured my drink. Ibuprofen ahoy:)

Nice one :) my husband just came downstairs to get some painkillers and scared the bejeezus out of me!!

Soother thing, if the teat on it is long enough to interfere with the back of her mouth it could certainly cause gagging. Sometimes though they just don't like then and use all the weaponry in their arsenal to defeat the invader >_

Must be a day for feeling pants. I'm sat in bed wondering dawn has a pause button as I am exhausted and not at all ready to start gearing up for the school battles:/

Hmmm not a v long teat. Maybe if she is already sicky it just aggravates things. Only use a soother now and again at night as s'times if she is grizzling it calms her down to sleep. Usually it's ok.

Ugh this bf/top up/express session will have taken almost three hours by the time I'm done. Ridiculous. She is such a slow feeder anyway, even on the bottle, which doesn't help! Longing for my pillow ...

Oh dear, she just projectile posseted and it all landed back on her face. The poor little thing! Not too much this time thank goodness and I just managed to get her to do a fine big burp so I hope that's it for the moment!

Morning all

I'm going to start bringing bedtime forward as so far LO has been put down between 10 and 11 depending on when he can wait for his last feed and the last 3 nights he's slept until 5ish in fact this morning I've had to get him up. Obviously Not knocking it DH just gave him his bottle and is now off to watch the England test.

On the weight loss I put on 3 stone and have lost over 2, want to lose another 1 and am recommencingg zumba start of February at 6 weeks, hopefully my pelvic floor will have recovered enough by then to support my leaping about.

Mopsy I think you've done fab and am still in same boat I'm also thinking of dropping the day feeds and expressing. I've given up on my expensive pump and just hand express though still nit even able to get an ounce out with either. He's now on 150ml top ups of formula though I try to put him on me at every feed sometimes he will indulge for an hour sometimes only a few minutes (like this morning hence why DH did the ff). Think the more he rejects the breast the worse it's making the supply issue so the decision might get made for me anyway which may be easier.

lots of night time posting!

DH went off to DD1's room for the second morning in a row to finish his sleep as he can't stand the noise for DD2's 6am extra noisy/slurpy feed. So another H who doesn't seem to understand that whats worse than listening to a feed is actually having to stay up to give a feed.

honey DD2 has a really blocked nose since she was about a week old and had a cough for a couple of weeks, and I took her to the dr who just checked her chest sounds were clear - still don't regret taking her as better safe than sorry.

missree sounds like Freya is doing really well! DD2 has only been managing lifting her head during tummy time since she was about 6 weeks so it sounds like she is very strong. Have you started to do tummy time already?

Just a quick one: The change in milk has def helped Sky. She went 8pm to 2am, 2am to 5am 5am to now. Winded well and not screamed in pain at all so my intuition so far is right

Just heard mumsnet cursed on BBC breakfast re olympics & breastfeeding!

Aarg, it's 7.40 and ds has only just started feeding due to an extra night feed delaying wakeup. School run timing going to be interesting...

mopsy you've done brilliantly with expressing, so make your plan an enjoy your increased freedom!! Seriously, I am in awe of how well you've done, but you need a life too, and a few mins to relax and enjoy minimopsy...

Absolutely agree with aethel: mopsy and figgy you have to get your lives back. You've sacrificed enough.
darcies glad your instincts were right and that sky is doing better.
We're going into work today - I took him in when he was about a week old, so I wonder what they'll make of my little giant now. I suppose I'd better get up...

Thanks all! Poor husband in bed with splitting headache. Didn't get too much sleep last night but wd rather be tired than migrainey. Hope he is better soon as it is horrid when your head is so bad you have to stay in bed. On that note, LMF hope the ibuprofen works and head is better. aethel hope you manage the school rub ok. Oi hope you enjoy the Alistairvadoratiob at work! Figgy like me, if the decision ismaking itself, the guilt is a bit less, isn't it?

Morning! We have Miri's six week check today, DDs are not enthusiastic so getting them out of the house is going to be interesting. I'm not looking forward to justifying charting for contraception, HCPs seem to think it is nonsense but it has worked for me for seven years so far! Anyway, DP is having the snip (he is terrified, but considers it right that he gets sterilised as I did the giving birth!) as soon as possible.

Sounds like lots of you had a very disturbed night...if I could send you some of Miri's sleeping ability I would!

darcies great that Sky is more comfortable!

mopsy joining in in thinking you are amazing, I remember how it felt when I was doing it with DD1. Don't feel like you are failing, you'll look back on it and wonder how you managed to do it for so long! Keeping going for six weeks with the feed-top up-express routine is something to be proud of.

Gah bloody autocorrect! Alistair adoration I meant!!!!

Oh bloody hell I think my periods have started either that or the lochia is back. I'm trying to bf so thought that would hold them off. LO is 5 wks old tomorrow and had tummy pains when did the night feed so thinking it is the dreaded monthly visitor gah!!!

Arrrrrr

Aaron has pushed the potty training issues again. He spotted the new potty and so we have started today and so far we had one wee and one poo on the floor and one poo in the potty.

Hope was cluster feeding from 4pm yeastewrday till 10pm and was up two times last night. Aaron got up at 7am.

I'm tired, i need to watch Aaron like a hawk and i have to do the washing and clean the kitchen before the FSW comes round at 3pm!

Could i call her and tell her not to come? But what reason could i give?

off to get another coffee