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

Hang in there Hawthers.

I'm having a bit of a bad day too (v teary). LO is so sleepy today and feeding less than normal. I'm also paranoid about weight gain from our start so trying to stop myself waking him every 4 hours on the dot! It's so hard to know what to do! I have so much respect for those of you with more than one DC! Can't ever see me coping with that at all at the moment!!

Marking place - need to add stats sorry not done it yet been a busy few days.

DP goes back to work Monday so will have a proper catchup and try and post an epic reply

figgy, the choccie-biccie-fuelled night feeds are practically mandatory . I have never eaten so much chocolate in my life... Mind you, it died off after the first couple of weeks. Bet the millionaires' shortbread was lush mopsy- my Nan always used to make it and I always think of her when I see it.

AWCH I don't know how you cope, you poor thing. It must be so stressful and upsetting, and the fact that you're still standing and managing to post here is immense. Even the good ol' 'this too shall pass' won't be of much use. Really hope it doesn't last for too many days. Delighted you've had a better time than of late seven.

YBR, you do need a haddock on standby, but only for those people who give you the '...but it's worth it in the end' line. It totally diminishes/ignores what you went through, and does nothing apart from making you feel - COMPLETELY unecessarily- guilty for 'complaining'. You can have a lovely baby and had a horrible birth experience, one does not cancel out the other. Aethel's advice is spot-on.

It sounds like you've had a pretty terrifying experience lmf, and after that things can only improve.

We've had a trip out to Bluewater to get OH a baby carrier, and a few other odds and sods, very successfully. I wore my old jeans, hurrah!

Reading back over your bf experience/advice, mimimopsy is never satisfied after only bf, be it a half hour or hours and hours. She won't settle after and will cry and cry until she gets a bottle and then she'll zonk out after that. She falls asleep AT the breast but not after!!!

Just been reading back over some advice and would just like to apologise for whinging quite so much on here. Seem to have already broken my ny resolution to be more positive.

Right another new leaf turned over.

R midnight feast I ave just spied a yard of jaffa cakes on top of Dh'a wardrobe and now just need to figure out how to reach them....

A yard of Jaffa cakes? What's that, like a super long packet? Yum! I want one. You don't strike me as being particularly whingey-this thread is for venting/asking advice/ranting and you respond to other peoples worries/stories/good days/bad days as well so don't be apologising! If we are on turning over new leaves though, I've been feeling guilty 'cos my posts are so me me me and self obsessed! Unwed to watch myself!

In poo news (!), minimopsy is feeding right now (one handed post) and her tummy is making the most ominous noises plus she keeps screwing up her little face and stopping sucking to grunt. A fragrant odour is suffusing the room. NOT looking forward to turnsole change-eek! Waiting until all face contortions/grunting is stopped, don't want an explosion mid change!!!!

'I need', not 'unwed'. Auto correct is so irritating!

And how did it get 'turnsole' out of 'next nappy'? The mind boggles!

Oooh do you know what I'd really love right now? A custard cream. Yum! But I can't buy them. I've no self restraint! I'd just eat ten in a row.

Aww man, I could eat some Jaffa cakes right now too

hawthers I don't think you've been whingy. We're all here to offer advice and support from experience and to do that we need to know what's on your mind

Right now, I'm wondering how it's possible for my botty and ladygarden to hurt so much I think this bit is worse than labour!!!!

It's painful alright MissRee! but it improves quite fast. After a week it felt much better and after two much much better! Now 4 weeks later can barely notice it. Hope yours feels better soon.

Plain chocolate digestives over here please!

Am so looking forward to my bed and hope I get a lump of sleep tonight: just tanking up DS and we'll see.

misree I have every sympathy for your sore bits. If younare constipated with it you can get lactulose from the chemist for a fiver a bottle (or ask your GP to prescribe it). 15ml twice a day with plenty of water will move things along in a few days.

Air and i made rice krispy cakes tonight so i'm munching on them and feeding Hope We even put mini eggs on top as we are practising for Easter

I had a letter reminding me of the first jab today - i thought they had them at 3 and 4 months but is it 2 and 4 months

Hope is 7 weeks today and its already going too fast. I want to enjoy every minute of her baby time as it just goes by so fast. She has been awake alot today and sat in the bouncy chair watching us play and Air has been so nice to her - its great.

I think both of them are a lot better now, so back to normal soon i hope.

Only 2 bad momments today:

1. I was on sofa, Hope in mosses basket and Air in livingroom. Air was on sofa with me and i must have fell asleep as the next momment he is shouting me from across the room butt naked and pointing to where he had wee on the floor. He had taken off his top and his pull up pants and i didn't notice. The potty was in the room but he chose not to us it - so i'm starting potty training again next week. I also feel bad for falling asleep even thou the room is fully baby proofed and son is safe and DH was upstairs putting clothes away

2. At lunch time i give Aaron a bottle of cloudy lemon drink in a bottle but put it in a cup as he still needs to practice in drinking from a normal cup. He did really well and didn't spil any down himself. I then was seeing to hjope in the same room so put cap back on bottle of juice and Aaron took the lid of him slef and poured the whole contence into his cup and it over filled and went everywhere. I did not know he could unscrew bottle caps until today, so thats something new he learned today

My little baby is growing into a big boy - he starts pre-school in September

Bleurgh. I've been awake since 12.30 and feeling fed up. DD very unsettled, been feeding on and off, asleep now but grunting and squirming really loudly so I can't sleep. Wonder if she's affected by the antibiotics I'm taking. Thought we were getting somewhere with the whole sleeping thing! Grrrrrrr

Hiya mmmm, I'm feeding DS who just gave me a shock by nit screaning the place down during a naopy change ( usually he wakes DH with his wails if he needs a bum change!) hopefully its just the antibiotic residues and mini-mmmm will settle once they are all finished.

Sound like you're doing really well, airofhope, 2 year old curiosity always doescstuff like that!!

Nnng, cone on baby, feed so i can get back to sleep!!!

Me too aethel! she just lay quietly while I changed her. Normally she screams her little head off! Maybe it is because I've the heater on and put the changing mat near it. I'm so tired but husband has been sleeping really badly so I am reluctant to wake him. Will have a late lie on instead while he minds her. Consoling myself with thought that I have to express anyway so wd have to get up in any case.

mmm, minimopsy does that grunty squirming thing too. Is it wind do you think? Or is it them learning how to settle? I can't sleep throuGh it either. Never sure whether to leave her to it or pick her up. Ii tend to leave her but sometimes then it turns into full on crying. Sometimes though she settles herself. What do you do? Wish I could read her cues better but I guess that just takes time!

Octopus boy is laid on my knee being squirmy. I have had no sleep as yet. He thinks nights are for cluster feeding >_

I think he might sleep now. That or my nipples are going to fall off >_

Morning! Pretty rubbish night here...nothing to do with Miri though, me having nightmares about the Health Visitor again and couldn't get back to sleep. DP has said he is going to work from home on Monday morning to give me support so I don't stress too much about it.

Right...on to breakfast which will be a virtuous fruit smoothie.

Sorry to hear you're stressed about the HV, mrsB, good that your DP is being supportive. Do they just give you grief because you homeschool? Seems a bit unnecessary...

Wow Hope slept from 12 midnight (i went to bed at 1am) wake up at 5am for a 20 min feed then slept til 8am - go Hope

Have a good day everyone

Yep, lots of grief because we Home ed and this particular HV has a bee in her bonnet about bed sharing. It matters not that I do all of my Home ed legal stuff with the LEA apparently. This is the last home visit I'll tolerate I think, I'll just go to the clinic I know this HV doesn't work at instead!

Sometimes HVs can be judgemental (with a silent "judge")... Excellent idea to find a clinic where you like one better and wave bye-bye to the other one. Then you're in control and the barmy one has no grounds for objection.

Hope everyone has a good Sunday: my plans are to tidy up a bit, and hopefully get visited by my lovely SIL who's not yet seen Albert.

Morning all, I have a very grunty Alistair here. :( I think he must have a bit of a cold as his breathing is grunty in his sleep, but during the day he's fine.)
It was SILs surprise 40th birthday party last night. At first we decided we wouldn't go - because of possible cold. Then we agreed to go, but just for an hour or so, and we would stick to the strict rule of NOT passing the baby about - no one would be allowed to hold him, then he wouldn't be exposed to more germs, - especially as EVERYONE in DH's family smokes (apart from DH).
oh dear.
well, I took him out of the car seat to go and stand for the Surprise bit, and Grandma tried to take him from me (he slept the whole time). I said, No, sorry, we're not passing him around, he's got a cold. She said, OK come on, and tried to take him from me again, I repeated, no, we're not letting anyone hold him - and you're full of smoke (she stank). so she said, oh ok, that's ok.
I don't think she was very happy. I can't blame her. It's her grandson...
But then DH made it worse when SIL came and said, I want a cuddle before you leave, and DH agreed. What's worse is I had to pass Alistair to her - in front of Grandma.
I feel awful now. I've asked DH to call his mum and explain.
(But I really hate it that they all smoke!)
Question: how do you know when to move to boob 2? I have the stage where it's squirting out and DC is lapping it up and drowning in it, then it all calms down and he gets a bit sleepy and relaxed about it. After 20 mins, I might unlatch him,... if I then squeeze my nipple, a small drip will appear. I assume that he is more efficient at it than me, and so still have milk. But I know other people work to 10 minutes each side... I worry that he feeds and then stays on the same breast just nursing without getting the nutrients he needs. I've started swapping more... (daft really, he's growing at a rate of feet per second! Yesterday a few people thought he was more like 3 months old rather than 5 weeks.)