December 2011: Smiles and giggles and coffee and truffles.....

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Voila, a new positive thinking thread for us!

Onward and upward, ladies. Do come on and post if you're a lurker or want to join our merry band, all welcome!!

Am so shit on my phone! I meant oi not po

Off to hospital for an octopus shaped follow-up appointment.

Been a rough few weeks.

Positive of the day: nobody died on the school run:o

Just to clarify, not rough for anything other than sleep-deprivation and my head not working well.

Happy Monday all:)

Hey lmf we missed you! Take care of yourself and glad to hear the school run was casualty free

Hello Cherry- are you a namechanger, or a lurker, or a previous poster? Good to have you on board!

And hello LMF... sounds like you've had a grim time, but hopefully are on the up? Delighted that everyone is still alive and well, and Happy Monday to you too!

Today's exciting tasks are getting the house back in order and sorting out rail tickets. You know when you've been away, it seems to take hours to get the unpacking, re-assembling, washing, etc done, and basically stop the house looking like a jumble sale?

Also going to get a Family and Friends railcard; although under 5s travel free, it's actually cheaper to buy discounted tickets for me and DS to go up North - truly crappy pricing system we have for public transport in this country, sigh...

Good to see no one died on the school run lol.

All my housework is done just need to sort the washing once it's dried.

Just bleaching my kitchen bin too and then will give that a good scrub: I do it every week.

I def think Sky is teething, dribbling loads, constantly trying to eat her hand or anything she can get hold of tbh, can be grizzly at times so using Teetha granules until Ashton & Parsons come in.

Aims of the week: Continue changing the accessory colours in my living room and then start on our room! As we already have cream & chocolate brown in our room thinking Splashes of red will do nicely

Definitely good to know there were no homicides into school lmf. let's hope the rest of the day is as fortuitous!
determined you put me to shame!

Hi all!! Still up at nights (still more or less on the 11:30pm, 5:00am, 08:00am cycle. But away at mil's for the w/e and only found out the password for the wifi now!! Oops! Hope all had good weekends, we'd a lovely time. Minimopsy met her great granny! This is on my husband's side, my grandparents wd all be over 100 if alive, in fact my dad's dad would be 112!!!

Only off back home today.

Oi In what sense?

Morning.

Lots of dribbles here too. dsm is Ashton & Pats

Grr.

Is Ashton & Parsons any good? I've used teetha before but I found it didn't help with pain but was good when it was making DS grizzly.

Good to have you back lmf.

DH was meant to take Eva's prescription in on the way to work but forgot, so now a 2 mile trip is required. We'll probably go to the park as well to make it worthwhile, then going to friends house for lunch later.

Morning!

Miri has decided that 6pm is bedtime, for the last three days anyway! Tis lovely, I have had a few hours with the bigger ones.

DD2's birthday tomorrow, so I am spending today sneaking off to the kitchen to faff with her cake when she is busy!

Seven I swear by A&P teething powder: very hard to come by tho - I have to keep asking boots to look for when they get a delivery as they only get about 9-10 packs and go like wildfire! I can't stand the gels as by time you rub it on, baby has licked it off!

Morning All

Tyel glad to hear you're on the mend; can't believe what bad luck you've had...hopefully you've got it all out of your system now

Rocco is napping beside me on the sofa; surrounded by cushions so maybe he thinks I'm still holding him. Really don't want to jinx it but he doesn't seem to be waking the instant I put him down every time, it's about 50/50 but I will keep trying. That being said, he had 2x2hr naps last week & then had a really restless night so maybe that's too much for him? How long do you aim for your LOs to nap? 9-11 & 3-4 seem to work well for us.

Another question; how often are you nursing? My friend with the twins asked me last week & I guessed, as I don't watch the clock, at every 3-4 hours but when I actually noted down feeding times they were every 1-2hours! Longest he went was 2hrs 30 because I had a bath, cleaned the kitchen & made myself lunch but he was not a happy bunny. Will he always want to nurse this often? He's barely cluster feeding now & is nursing more frequently at night than ever. I suppose I should be glad it feels like 3-4hours even if it's not!

Northern Do you have dribble bibs DS has a couple on rotation every day now; they dry quite quickly so I just swap them over every couple of hours.

Going to try Sky with her water in her cup today. She has water in between feeds as she can get quite thirsty and helps with her constipation. Darcie was weaned off a bottle by 12 mths old.

Sky goes roughly 3-4hrs between feeds. However, she is FF.

BabyYBR is normally 4 hours between (the starts of) feeds. Bf then formula most feeds so it can take some time. Bear in mind she's one of the older ones here.

just a quick one will catch up properly later - but honey ds (a day or two younger than Rocco I think) feeds more or less constantly - every 1 / 2 hours. sometimes every 20 mins / 30 mins! he is a horace i dont mind. he does a stretch at night, usually from 9 til 1/2 ish and then can be up every 1 / 2 hours again.

Honey I BF DS. He used to feed very frequently but has settled down now, and very roughly feeds 8am, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, 7pm, 3.30am. As for naps in the daytime, they're very variable mostly because he gets dragged around with me and DD. On more settled days during the daytime he'll wake up, feed, be awake for approx 2 hours, sleep for up to an hour, feed again.

My/DS's routine is almost exactly the same as Kate's Honey; feed (about 20 mins), then awake for about 1.5 hours, then sleep for about 45 mins, BF as well. That's when we're at home, but again, if we're out and about it can vary.

I've been saying I must get those dribble bibs...

It's great isn't it MsB when you suddenly get an evening, and then another, and then another! Hope the cake goes well, sure it'll be fabulous . How's the chicken with the prolapse?

And not to the level of supermum DSM, but I too am on a cleaning-fest. I have two friends coming round this week, both of whom are 'perfect homes' types (partly down to the fact that one is retired and lives on her own, and the other is from a very wealthy family). Now I know they won't mind in the slightest, and are coming to see me and DS, but I'm determined that the house will be presentable and clean.

I'm even dusting

Off to scrub!

Thanks for the answers...yet again I get to see just how different every baby is! itsy glad I'm not the only one; I don't mind at all either but it's not what I expected. Wish he'd drop some of the night feeds but they're not really that bad as we're co-sleeping. At least I get to eat lots of cake & biscuits guilt-free

Chook with prolapse is loads better, she laid this morning and yesterday without it coming out again.

Miri nurses at least once an hour, usually for ten or fifteen minutes. She never sleeps longer than half an hour during the day. All of mine have been very frequent feeders until they were eating quite a lot.

Icing for the cake is made, hoping to manage to bake the cake while she has her tea later, then assemble once she is asleep. It is a very ott chocolate cake, chocolate sponge, chocolate buttercream in the middle and all over, covered in chocolate buttons. The girl is a big fan of chocolate!

So interesting to see how much everyone else is feeding. I got conned first time around thinking everyone was doing it 'like the books said it should be done' and I was the only one doing anything different. So much easier to relax this time.

DS2 feeds every 1-2 hours during the day and 3 hours at night but that is because I wake him to do so. Lord only knows what his natural rhythm is.

Hope asleep in cot upstrairs alone. For 10 mins now (shock)

Air kept waking her up down here.

First post on new phone yay

DS has no natural rhythm with feeds. Sometimes every hour, sometimes he will go for a 2-3 hour break but not often and certainly not "normal" for a 3 hour gap. At night he's doing one 4-5 hour gap and then wakes 2-3 hourly til morning. Vaguest suggestion of a 9am and 1pm nap, but often only dozes for 45 mins.

Northern How is the scrubbing going?

Air Congrats on posting using your phone