Due Feb '06 but they couldn't wait that long!!

[TicTac]

Come on Feb '06 girls....

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TicTac - due 3rd Feb '06, Peyia was born 23rd Jan '06

Just reading about pooey nappies, my ds only has one or sometimes two poo's a day should i be worried? He's bottle fed.

Cuffy, my DS has only 1 or 2 a poos a day too and he is also bottle fed. Although this week we had about 15 pooey ones a day during his tummy bug!!!!!

Bottle fed babies apparantly do only have one/two poos a day, sometimes less I'm told. Well, I am managing to go about 10hours before I have to feed off the breast again (rest of the time he is on bottle) so hoping milk supply is diminishing.

As for the dummy. I didn't want ds to have one either and the first few times we tried him with one he spat it out too. But now it seems he will settle really well with the dummy (I use it when he is rooting but has literally just fed) and take it back out when he is sleeping so he isn't too dependent on it - seems to work well so far and I will def get rid before he turns 6 months.

Glad to hear you had a good night Tabs

Evening all,

I agree that my ds also has pohy nappies at almost every change, but bottle fed babies tend to go alot less frequently.

I'm also fairly anti dummy, but did try one with dd2. I spent a week having to hold it in her mouth to settle her, and eventually gave up, and just accepted that she was a screamer. I truly believe that some children just don't like being babies! (She is the most loving child you could imagine now.)

Tabs - glad you feel better Where are you going on Thursday? I can't go, as I don't really do expressing milk, and will just take ds with me when I go out, or not go, for the next six months or so.

Fairly tired today - didn't get the lie in dp promised me (again), and have spent all day out. Did fun things with the girls this am, and took 3 hours to go to Mothercare, and Tescos with them all this pm. I did get everything I needed though, so feel quite satisfied.

Morning everyone!
3k - sorry to hear about the PND - the important thing is it has been recognised and treated - hopefully the meds and support will start working quickly. Hope your DS is on the mend - D&V in a tiny baby must be a nightmare.

Tabs - I hope Pippa has settled down a bit! I remember days like that (and nights) when I would be watching the clock for dh to get back from work so I could get a break. Remember sleep whenever she does - don't worry about the cleaning / cooking.

My 2 are great at night - only waking once between 9pm and 7am - usually about 2, but they will not settle in the evenings - I was on my own last night - dh at work until 9pm and they were playing "tag-team" screaming. I would settle one and put her down and then the other would start. They crashed out at about 8.45pm after a feed - thank goodness - so when dh came in they were sleeping peacefully and I was a bit of a wreck!

That's really good that your babies sleep mostly throught the night Jua, I actually got to bed early last night as was shattered, put Ben down at 10pm, got in bed just after and he slept to 3.45am which was really good. DH got up with him at 7am and I had a lay in till 10am which was good. I'm going to try and get him down at 10pm every night so at least I get a rest. Ben also is unsettled during the evenings and cluster feeds although it is settling down a bit now.

Should probably get dressed now so will speak later!!!!!

hi girls ...re poos ! think yourselves lucky - i must cgange eight stinky egg poos a day ...its awful - cannot bear the eggish aroma!

Hi all. Here's one of my very rare pop-ins to say hello and catch up! We are doing ok, although ds2 hasn't gained much weight since his initial drop.So we still have the midwife coming alot, which is a bit annoying as it means we have days where we're trapped at home waiting!
She has advised me to feed and express simultaneously, then top him upwith the expressed. But I just cant hold him, support my droopy chest into a good position for him, and hold a breast pump too!! And I can only do it when ds1 is in bed, because he mithers for a turn with the pump! So I'm expressing once a day, but also have given him one or two formuls top ups as I'm trying to freeze some of the EBM too.
I'm feeling very edgy now, as dh is back to work tomorrow, and I still dont know how I'm going to juggle 2 kids.My main worries are the logistics of getting up and going to bed... ds1 wakes up very early, and will want to come in bed but ds2 will prob be there too feeding, and I'm scared of him squishing him etc as he's very wriggly. And I dont want ds1's special time at bedtime to be lost, but what do I do if ds2 starts crying? I cant leave him for the whole length of a story!? I'm sure we'll muddle through in the end.Just wish I had some help!!

Tabs... there's not a bat in hells chance of me getting to the meet up Dh will be at work, so no babysitter even if he was willing to look after 2 kids at once, which he says he wont do till they're school age... Maybe the next daytime one though, if its somewhere on a bus route

Can I be awkward (just for a change ) and ask for a new thread with a complete stats thingy now that we're all finally here? Feel free to shoot me!

Long long day yesterday... Emrys was feeding pretty much hourly, and crying with wind when he wasn't feeding :( My milk wasn't getting much chance to catch up and it felt like he must have been trying to feed from empty breasts. I started nice red bleeding again (sorry if tmi) after having pretty much stopped... looked up what that meant, and it pretty much means to slow down and let my body recover . Started worrying then that it might not be a growth spurt, and just shoddy milk from doing too much, but my friend assures me that if they come off satisfied (even if only for a short time) then it is more likely a growth spurt. I took some iron, and had a decent dinner though.

Today is much better - body has caught up with the milk need, and he is sleeping between feeds and giving me more of a gap!

Gave in with the dummy last night (partly spurred on by your messages of "he/she rejected it anyway")... he sucked it for dear life , and finally fell asleep for an hour (the longest we'd had all day except for after a car journey) - so as much as I hate it, I think it will be helping with evening tears more often!!!

Tried the sling out of the house yesterday... once just me and him to buy some nappy wraps, and once me, him and DD round Asda - soooo good. I could put DD in the trolley (which you can't with the carseat trollies), hold her hand in the car park etc, and still have him . The very obvious baby strapped to me meant that the nice man packed my shopping for me too .

Yay for yours sleeping through fairly well Jua (less yay for the tag team though :()

Ixel - with mornings we have either gone with me setting the alarm to feed DS before DD wakes, or the other day we had him feeding whilst I read DD stories.. it seemed to work quite well. Evening... I have only done one alone so far, but we did bath with DS awake and me holding (DD plays by herself in the bath while I sit in there watching), and then he had a whinge in his carry cot while I did the actual washing (life will be easier when we get a bouncy seat). I then fed him, and he was asleep after that so we could do story and bed alone.

Sorry for the mammoth post

I was just daydreaming that I got here, and found you'd started a new thread this morning!

I've had a whole week of being on my own, and am finding the mornings much easier than I expected. I feed ds in bed, and leave him asleep while I get breakfast and clothes for the girls out, then they fend for themselves, with lots of encouragement from me, if I'm off with baby again. He goes to school in his night sleepsuit, and gets washed/changed when I get back (or lunchtime , after I've had a bath and a nap, if he goes to sleep!).

I'm finding tea time a struggle - it's when I get tired, he wants lots of feedingand cuddles, and the girls need my time. It only works if I've got tea ready in the morning, and it only needs heating.
Bed time also varies - they've gone to bed with no story once, as he started to scream, and I can't leave him. They've also had edited highlights of their stories a couple of times so I can get away quickly. DD1 will read to DD2 if I ask nicely, and then they get longer stories to make up for it when I can. So far it's working!

I got my lie in today

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