December 2011 - Worp speed 5 to sleeping and smiling

[BeeMyBaby]

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

mmm sorry to hear your ds is waking with nightmares and that only daddy will do. Telling myself things will get better and it won't be like this forever....

Jealous Oi have now been feeding for two hours forty five minutes. feeling incredibly frustrated. and tired obviously.

mopsy no advice, sorry, but just to say hi and let you know you are not the only one awake :) my DS is making sure if that (yawns) also doing a mammoth feed here, on off in basket grunt fart whinge scream back out of basket!
Hoping to get him settled before DD wakes up and I need to start rushing around on the school run plus dp has a job interview timmorow that I have to drop him off at (fingers crossed, as he was laid off on Monday) but I have to iron his suit too and I bloody hate ironing. He has managed to loose his only tie so will also be rushing round town to buy on in time.

itsy v relieved this is my first as don't think wd be getting any sleep otherwise. Good luck with all your tasks, sounds manic!

Oi Alistair sounds fab - can he have a word with all the other babies about how these night feeds should be done please?

Mmm and hawthers Dd has also said similar to me on occasion and yes it hurts and makes you feel rubbish, bit of course they don't mean it at all.

Have just noticed DS's eye - it had been a tad watery today but it now looks all sticky and crusted up. Looking like a trip to docs is on the cards too now? Best to get to get it checked do we think?

Try squeezing some breast milk into it. Works really well for me for clearing up sticky eyes and easier than boiling and cooking water to clean it.

thanks mopsy :) I think its amazing how people cope and the punishment our bodies take but every one just keeps on going. And how these nights will soon seem a dark and distant past when we are waving the kids off to uni before we know it! DD was 4 last Monday, and I literally can not understand where the time has gone and what it has done with my baby girl?!

Thanks for that tip, does it really? Oooh will definitely give that a try. Bless him.

I know, it is not forever! Right now feel like crying with tiredness, however. Not much sleep last night either and second night in a row makes it harder. But I guess I should just be grateful I got a couple of okay nights this week!

She now appears to have stopped feeding (3 hours later) but is grunting, crying, kicking and writhing about. I guess a poo explosion is brewing ...

Yes my midwife told me about it. She said it doesn't bother baby at all and certainly it never appears to bother minimopsy andcreally clears up the goo. I try and drip it into the inner corner if her eye so it then runs down into the ret of the eye but it takes some manoeuvring of the breast :) I generally end up spraying her face as well!!!

Hiya have been up for 30 mins but DS keeps falling off boob so not able to type when feeding 2 handed!! Also DS seems to have pocked up a snuffle so he's been a job to settle.

, hope MM has let yoi get some sleep now: we're in the 3 week growth spurt over here, maybe that's why MM is so hungry?

Anyone else still up?

DD had a few bouts of watery then sticky eye and breastmilk cleared it up really well. I think aethel said its fine not to take them to the GP unless the eye is also bloodshot. I think its blocked tearducts?

Woke up feeling really sick and got worried about this V and D thing going around but tummy just rumbled so think I am just hungry

Me! Was just talking about you aethel!

For a simple blockednduct (sticky eye)Breastmilk or booled cooled water with gentle cotton bud on the eyelid (not the white bit of eye!) is a good frst step. If stickyness very peristant, or white of eye goes red,or eye becomes swollen, or you're worried, then GP.

Arg, DS has just fed to sleep then done what sounds like worlds biggest poo. Squelch. Arg.

Nappy changed, DS back on boob, operation feed-into-lala-land commencing.

Grr DD all settled then as soon as I lie down and get comfortable she wakes up. She's full but seems to need boob to sleep then has too much and is sick so wakes up and it all starts again. Here we go..

And voila....shoulder decorated as predicted

This is why I want her to take a dummy!

Ooh I know. DD2 used to do that all the time.

I spoke too soon, of course. He then spent an hour grunting and writhing about - generally sounding like Marge Simpson. Unsettled but asleep.
Gave him another feed (10 mins or so til he totally lost interest), changed nappy, put back down... Silence... Grunty grunty grunty. He's just a bit snotty I guess.
Oh well.
More z z z's please.
Good luck ladies. X

Aarg, failure to go down in basket followed by another feed with a side dish of minir blocked nose snuffle (I'm feeling for you, oi!)

30 minutes sleep and she is off again. how can she still be hungry! Hello to all you other bleary eyed people!!

Morning ladies.

Hawthers Keep Darcie says she hates me at least once a week, I just say ok now. At first uses to upset me but I've grown a thick skin when it comes to her behaviour!

Sky slept from about 9-2am in her Moses basket and settles back into it afterwards. The change in milk has def helped. She also sounds like Marg Simpson due to having the snuffles.

Spoke to my HV last night and she said what I was doing wrt changing her milk was fab and def thinks will help her & the fact I'm already giving her water in the day is great. Says I'm doing fine and she wouldn't of advised any different

Plan for the day:
Get dressed for school run
Get breakfast
Get Darcie & Sky ready
School run
Clinic for Sky to be weighed.
Come back and have a nice bath with Sky.
Hoover & Polish
Nip to my nans for a cuppa.
School run
Entertain Darcie
Eat
Sleep

Score for day one: Floor 10 potty 3

Hope did not sleep last night and i caved and give her to DH to rock to sleep at night when i went to bed. I took phone up so he could call me when to change over but i was so asleep that i didn't hare it five times when i did wake up i took her to bed and put her in cot and she sleeped.

She is sleeping on and off now in my arms!

Plan today:
carry on potty training
Get Aaron ready for nursary and send with GP's
Do clothes washing
Clean/tidy kitchen
Pick Aaron up from nursary
Take DH clothes back to primart and get size 30 and not 28 so he has clothes for dress down on friday
Make shopping list
Clean bathroom
Get DH to put clothes away

I should take Hope to get weighted today but i was obssessed with Aaron's weight gain and went every week for a year and it got to the point where the hv asked me not to go every week So as i got her weighted last week and i know she is feeding and ok i'm going to go every two weeks and try to relax more about it

Morning!

Solidarity with the night shift! Although I have been beyond lucky with DDs2&3, I remember it well with DD1. It occurs to me that I may have spent too much time in the Occupy squat lately, I am picking up the jargon.

Plan for the day...

Not much as the big DDs have horrible coughs.
Washing
Crochet as I have something that needs finishing
Ring the people who are building my new chicken run
Artfully strew educational stuff around the living room for DD1 to do when she feels like it.

Just added a couple of pics of Freya to my profile