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

No sleep here either, and I've been vomited on, which is lovely when you've not got a change of clothes. Luckily I'd delayered earlier so could put my jumper on. Here's hoping no more as I've only my hoodie (my coat for all seasons) left >_

She's still writhing around and still no wind out...starting to get really annoyed now! Have watched one born every minute and two episodes of Real housewives of OC since going to bed. Going to see if I can sleep through the noises now and hope she doesn't puke...

( and I have no idea why either)

Hello! Husband brought minimopsy up to our room about half ten. She kept grizzling, so I put soother in which calmed her but she kept spitting it out and grizzling again. So I just kept sticking it back in again. This happened on repeat for at least half an hour but eventually she fell asleep and slept until ten past two. Now glugging again. Hoping she goes down easily after this feed!

Seems ds didn't get the memo about co-sleeping meaning more sleep for me. He grizzled for the last few hours but at least he is aving a 'pepper's feed now I've been arsed to get out of bed.

Hungry again and still have nothing to eat up here...

Oh buggery bollocks *proper feed not pepper feed.

And just read back through thread I meant lmf not pnd what a bloody auto correct error my phone made

Morning... Quick ? Before I catch up... LO is making snotty/blocked nose breathing sounds (very loud in sleep) but I can't see any snot. Have bought saline drops. Whilst he sleeps, should I drop some in, or will he then wake up and kick off for the rest of the night?

Have been up feeding since 3.15 he's been on me, had 170mls, been on me again and is still screaming for food. I've tried comforting him for over half an hour and he's still not tired and is crying he's now woken DH up waiting for another bottle to heat up .

Just thinking he's been like this for 3 days now just as we put him onto powder rather than the ready made cartons that can't be something to do with it can it? We making it up to normal instructions. Going to have to call HV about hungry baby milk don't want to give him it as already worried about constipation but he finishes every bottle he gets and already on 2 more a day than the guidelines for his weight.

Oh good he's just thrown up all over my dressing gown and then fallen asleep, well at least he's asleep!!

I could never have exclusively BFd this child he's a ravenous beast!!!

Well I may as well give up on sleeping tonighgt :( feel horrendous. Don't know how I'm going to cope with a sick DS too today :(

:( Sorry everyone had such bad nights!
DS is alseep next to me, on bed, still can't get my head around co-sleeping (fussy sleeper, so terrified of squashing/rolling onto him).

Figgy, sounds like how our DS was before we switched onto hungry baby. He's now on 6-7 feeds a day instead of 12 (HV fell off chair when we told her he was on 12).
We're also doing the old advice of making up feed in batches (3/4 bottles at 0600 & 1800hrs) as it's much easier than this new advice of making everything fresh! HV/MW/GP doesn't see the harm in it.

FYI; Astons & Parsons teething powder is currently like gold dust (£20 a packet on ebay) so if you see some, buy it! I've got 4 different people on the look out for some (using detinox teething gel atm, he seems to like that).

Morning...! didn't post at the 5.30am feed as semicomatose and couldnt focus on the phone screen... Sorry for those who's LOs are poorly.

Dh cheerfully informed menthat he'd had a totally undisturbed night and it felt marvellous. I would like an award of some kind for not braining him with a nearby pillow...

AWCH I do the same with bottles, make up a few at night and sometimes in morning too. Not so bothered in morning as not such a big deal to make up during the day ad at night, but way too much hassle in middle of night but I also thunk way more margin for error. My HV said make each up fresh but when
I asked for a proper scientific reason she couldn't give one really.I just make sure counter, hands, bottles etc all really clean. I sterilise my hands as well as bottles!

Minimopsy fell asleep at half three after another half hour of soother in/out shenanigans, then slept until seven. Wish I oils have her in thus cycle every night as I got 3.5 hours sleep twice. Sorry everyone with bad nights. It is hard work!

I'm making up the bottles too and keeping them in the fridge, only doing 3 at a time but makes a big difference having them ready when he is so unpredictable with when he's hysterically hungry.

Well it's snowing here today so think we are going to stay in finish criminal minds season 1 box set, need to get series 2 now love Mandy patinkin.

I've been watching the IT crowd and Morse, figgy. trying out Netflix for a couple of months so watching on there. It's quite good but not sure I will keep it on once we get into more of a routine. But right now is very useful when I am so tied to sofa.

Today is the dreaded giving up bf/expressing day. Still feel guilty though :( but trying to be rational.

Oh i love Mandy Patinkin. Have you seen a programme called "Dead like me"? He is fab in it

Morning everyone xx

No sleep here either, and I've been vomited on, which is lovely when you've not got a change of clothes. Luckily I'd delayered earlier so could put my jumper on. Here's hoping no more as I've only my hoodie (my coat for all seasons) left >_

Ok, my phone ate my real post, and gave you last night's effort instead >_< Mondays!

I'll update properly later, when my phone has had time to recover from whatever has infested it:)

Hey AWCH, sorry to hear of the untimely death of the laptop, hope it sorts out soon.

Good news on the potty stuff air, you're winning.

I'm amazed delighted that there's another Poirot-watcher out there YBR, it's one of my guilty pleasures, and it's one of the big pluses of maternity leave. Your DH sounds marvellous- can we swap?! Glad all's healing well, but you're right, the last thing you need is for him to keel over through kindness.

Snap figgy- our LO started with his fussing last night, pulling off the boob and yelling, and then (aaargh) got himself worked up into total colic style screaming. Thankfully, although the whole period is about two hours, the real screaming was only for about 10 minutes, at which point I jiggled him twice and he conked out.
It's bloody hard itsn't it?

And then it taking an hour to get him settled to sleep lying next to him, and having a couple of hours awake last night meant our worst night ever, after a truly lovely, chilled day with him sleeping, and just lying contentedly on his mat whilst we ate.

Of course, he's now just fallen asleep on his changing mat, without a feed, and looking like Mr Cutie-Pants...sigh...

Sounds like we all had a good night the previous night and a totally pants one last night. This too shall pass....

hawthers you have the best/worst auto correct going... Have you checked out the website 'damn you autocorrect'? They posted some on here a while ago, and I swear I have not laughed so much in ages.

Well done aethel - I know how you feel. A golden haddock to you for your reserve!

And mopsy, you have done incredibly to get this far, and you have managed to give LO six weeks of milk which actually very few do (and I'm sure that many would want to). Allow yourself to feel however you need to for a day or two, but keep giving yourself the rational talk- hopefully you'll start to feel better about it when ff/bottle feeding had become the normal way of feeding minimopsy.

Hope all LOs are on the mend.

Right, dressing and off to bf group, see how that goes...

Morning Ladies.

Sky let me get at least 6hrs sleep last night

I'm taking Sky to her first baby group this morning and I look like my normal done up self this morning so all good in the Terry household.

Aethel I swear by Ashton & Parsons such a shame they are hard to come by. I' currently using Teetha granules & they are not that bad tbh.
Also can't get hold of the normal gripe water am using Boots own stuff.

mopsy we like The Baby Book: How to Enjoy Year One by Rachel Waddilove - it talks about flexible routine which works for us.

Not had the best night - each time the LO wakes us up we're trying to decide which of her poor parents is more ill and can go back to sleep! This too will pass.

Bah, just lost my post.

To summarise. Lots of snot from elder 2. Miri growth spurt. Spent lots of money on new glasses for DP and me. Tired now!

Morning. Sorry everyone had such a rubbish night.

Why is Ashton and Parsons so expensive at the moment? I never tried it with DS. I used bonjela which I found much better than the calpol version. If its particularly bad Anbesol liquid is brilliant. It's only available over the counter as it contains alcohol so I only used it when nothing else seemed to be helping.

I also make bottles in advance, much easier, especially when we're out just heating up with a flask of hot water. The LF milk only comes as powder. The MW said it's the WHO advice to make fresh each time and in some places they aren't able to refrigerate pre-made feeds. Just make sure you cool the bottles in cold water before you put them in the fridge, I think it's what broke our last fridge when DS was little.

New tread title suggestion:

This too will pass (especially with imaginary wooly mammoth help).

Not very witty I know, though in my defence I last slept on Thursday night

I'm off in search of a as I need the warmth, sugar and caffeine. We should be being shipped from PASSU to the children's ward proper today. If there's room. They're deep cleaning The six and four bed rooms here today as its so quiet. There are only two in, so we've got a side room to ourself at the minute.