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

It is properly reassuring Oi to know that there's another baby out there who's a day-time sleep refuser! Mine is still with the random feeding in the day and cluster feeding in the evening, so there's no point trying to get into any sort of routine with this.

Just hope it settles down soon... LMF I never thought my nipples would handle this 16 hours of feeding lark (especially as they were flat and hypersensitive before) but it's amazing what six weeks of fairly constant punishment will do .

I'm giving myself a small haddocking (sardine-ing?) over this. He sleeps during the night hours, and is only six weeks old, so I should stop worrying. If he didn't go all mad and hyperventilating/shouting at night with what is obviously over-tiredness I wouldn't be bothered.

mmmm, my LO always rolls to the side and squishes his face up in the Moses (on the rare occasions he deigns to go in the damn thing) which is rather disconcerting...but again he's getting long so won't fit soon. Where are you plannning to have your DD sleep during the day if not in the Moses, I've not got a clue....

Really glad the change in milk has helped Darcies.

Six week check was fine yesterday, all healing and well. Surprised to find myself back to pre-baby weight fully clothed and with enormous boobs so bf obviously working. AND- got the pill, that Cerazette (sp?) stuff, so will try recommencing activities in a week, wibble...

Have you made it out OK aethel?

We made it (just!) Fortunately DS finished feeding by 8.10 or so, and DDs were persuaded into clothes/shoes/coats without too much resistance. Got out of the door a littje later than usual but got there on time. We live a 5 min walk away from school so that def helps as don't need to allow time for seatbelts/parking. The moby wrap is also a total lifesaver as it puts DS to sleep providing he's not too hungry.

Now back home on boob number 4....

Aethel How many boobs have you got?! Lol

My son is so classy. He's feeding, grunting and filling his nappy at the same time. It's a glamorous life:/

Yup. It's when he tops it off with a huge, contented fart that I'm really feeling this swanky lifestyle...

I'm impressed with the school run co-ordination. I've been getting DS out for preschool, but that's only one mobile child (and a certain amount of shouting impatient nagging, I must admit).

Is anyone else with a girl finding nappy changing quite unnerving? There are so many folds, and I am terrified both of missing some poo (which might then fester) but also of cleaning in the sensitive bits which are tucked away for a reason, so my midwife assured me (yet poo has no qualms about invading those "private" spaces ). Nappy changing was so easy with a boy - all out in the open, so to speak!

Plu Just clean in the area gently

Seen the GP as he wanted to check her over - she's been given some lactulose to try and help her and said I'd done the right thing in changing her milk but to spk to the HV at clinic tomorrow (going to get Sky weighed) and check on what other forms of milk there are for easy digestion as if she doesn't agree with the C&G one then to try the next one and so on. other than that was quite happy

Plu with my girl it was easier to give her a dunk in a bowl of warm water than attempt to clean her after a particularly bad poosplosion >_

the score:
floor 4 potty 1 (and its only half time)

Everytime i put Hope down to clean up she wakes up and cries and then takes ages to settle again before it all starts again inbetween feeding and cleaning and shouting - use the potty.

Ah...so it looks like it's going to be a thundering defeat for the potty then Air. But that's only today, and you will get there. Full marks for perseverance and patience though.

Just had notification of child benefit, and two more congratulations cards today, amongst the other 'normal' post, so a good haul! At the moment, OH and I pay a proportionate amount of our pay into a joint account, from which all the bills are paid...but this is going to have to change. Not sure when- I'll be going onto half pay next month for a couple of months, and then after that OH will only be bringing in the SMP (as he's taking the second half of maternity leave) and then we don't know what our circumstances will be.

But it'll be time to sit down, and make the joint account a proper joint account.

And DS is on his second! second! sleep of the morning (now afternoon) in the Vallium wrap [bgrin]. Again, I whinge about his sleeping on MN and he goes and conks out- magick I tells you!

Back from the doctors...aaaaand I just know that when the evil HV sees that she has only put on 3oz this week (different scales though and she pooed 4 times this morning) she is going to start the hassle about topping up. Which is totally unnecessary as Miri is very obviously fine.

Floor 5 Pooty 1

Hope is sleeping in mosses basket yay its been me all day until now!

Anyone thinking about setting up a trust fund for their baby's? We have one for Air as the gov give out vouchers and i think its a good idea but now they dont do it, or have an approved list of companies i have no idea who to go with or what the best deal is - i just i will try to get it the same as Aarons!

"Its life Jim but not as we know it"

Roll on summer!

Jeez msb- you'd think wouldn't you, that the fact that baby is gaining weight would be enough if they were obviously well-cared for, thriving, etc. What is this obsession with ensuring babies are fattened calves fgs?
Gaining slowly is still gaining, and as a HV she should know that NOT ALL BABIES ARE THE SAME. And so will not put on weight in the same way.

One of the jobs for me is to open a savings account for LO air. Just going to do it with my local bank...which I would have done today had OH not left for work without getting the damn pram out [bangry].

Bee we figured that since she can lift and hold her head already, she was safe for some tummy time and she loves it

With you lot on opening accounts...that and putting Miri on the organ donor register are my jobs for this afternoon! Feels a bit rubbish that the other two got £250 from the government but Miri doesn't...although I did think that the voucher was slightly bonkers. Happily we're better off now though so we can make it fair. We use the Children's Mutual.

All four of us are on the register too:)

We've not made it out today, really could do with hitting the air at some point. Trying to get the kids to round up their library books, a half hour wander there will blow the cobwebs and allow me to acquire cat biscuits at the same time.

Air Well done to you for staying patient over the potty training. Stick with it....and you may make me be brave enough to start it properly! We've just been pre-training so far - sitting on the potty fully clothed etc. The training pants and trackie bottoms have just arrived in the post so I'm now fully equipped to start. Think I'll hold off until DD is settled at nursery though. She starts next week :)

So sorry to hear about all the rubbish HV's, think I must be very lucky. 6 week check today and DS is now 11lb 10oz. He's dropped down a bit from 91st percentile but HV wasn't in the least bit concerned.

GP appointment tomorrow. Along with rhyme time, Mums and tots group at village school and DD's first haircut. It's going to be a busy day!

msb if you'd like to borrow my resisting-unnecessary-topups knuckledusters you are very welcome...

I must confess that after the grotty midwife encounter I indulged in a little retail therapy and bought one of these breastfeeding bingo mugs . It's a collection of typical things people say when you're breastfeeding. DH laughed like a drain when he saw ti and said if I had the same midwife again I had to offer her a
Cuppa in that mug.

Anyway, stick to yer guns and good luck!

Air, you're doing fine: keep going if you have the Will/time/washing, and if it gets all too much just leave it 3 months and try again later.there is no rush and in a few months Hope will be a little easier and the weather warmer!

aethel ooooo...I am buying the extended bfing one as well for DP, he gets quizzed about me bfing more than i do! I may have also bought a new winter coat for myself. Erm...and some books for the DDs. Blasted retail therapy!

lmf tis important to me, my cousin was saved by someone donating their child's organs...she had a kidney transplant when she was little.

Air you are doing just fine

I'm home in the warm. Sky is asleep, Darcie's playing on IPad and I'm sat watching my Take That Progress Tour DVD - brilliant day down at Wembley that was

Thanks for the answers about nappy changing. I'll just continue being neurotic careful.

Sorry about the potty training troubles, AirOfHope. DS is having difficulties (again) now, so I have reverted to chocolate buttons: one for wee, one for poo, and one for telling me, so he can "earn" more if he thinks about it. That's the way we did it last winter, and it got him thinking, and gave us a way to praise him (so no need to be "disappointed" at accidents.). it's a shame we are having to use it again, though - guess it's just the baby's arrival!

Our little ones are eligible for Children's ISAs, aren't they? I gather that, with the ending of the Child Trust Funds, the existing ones are going to get to be worse and worse value (), whereas there should be some healthy competition for the ISA business, so hopefully, they will be offering good rates. MoneySavingExpert has a guide to them, here. MSE has guides to other children's accounts, too.

This story will appeal to those getting cross about weight-gain interference: when I took DD to be weighed a couple of weeks ago, the person wrote down the weight (4.05kg), yet plotted on her chart a weight of 4.5kg, so I got lots of pleased blather about how well she was gaining!

P.S. I forgot to ask how one puts a child on the organ donor register (I think I am already). It's a beautiful thing to do.

Haddocks and knuckledusters needed.over here for mw

F weighed today and only gained 20g in last 10 days. But apparently had gained 250g in between the previos 2 weigh ons. Started chat about expressing after feeding and the giving that in s bottle. Sadly they were unable to explain how that is physically possible to do with a toddler.

Dh earned his d back by jumping in amazon to throw money at the problem and get our own set of scales as f has been weighed on s diff set each tome.

Totally pissed off again