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The brookers post graduate thread

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hawthers · 16/03/2012 13:57

We've got so good at brooking no argument for no pregnancy complications and sneeze births, we're going for our Phds in big fat babies

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

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hawthers · 01/05/2012 20:16

Pack DS1 off to nursery and take DS2 with me to bed. Not managed to do it yet so who knows if it will work!

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Biscuitsandtea · 01/05/2012 20:53

Ah of course - nursery!! Oh, you asked if ds1 gets his finding yet - he does indeed and actually does a bit of time at nursery and 2 afternoons at pre-school (except of course while he's pox-ified) so that does give me some time when I can have one on one with ds2. Although then I find I'm desperately trying to get jobs done too but at least one demand on my time is out!

Biscuitsandtea · 01/05/2012 23:49

Dream - had you considered getting an au pair? I'm sure you have but the idea just crossed my mind this evening.

Hope you're ok and getting some
Rest xx

scarletfingernail · 02/05/2012 03:01

Goodness this is most unpleasant isn't it? I'd forgotten how hideous this is! BFing is going well but we've hit the day 2 constant requests.

I've also established that my supposed quiet side room has the staff room the other side. Currently they're eating cakes, gossiping and listening to the radio. Of course they should be able to make noise in their staff room, I'm just annoyed this is the room I've been put in when I asked for a quiet one and I'm paying for the privilege.

Every time I think DD's finished and try and put her down she wakes up and screams for more food.

In other news my painful trapped wind is no longer trapped. Good job we have a room to ourselves!

pommedechocolat · 02/05/2012 03:21

scarlet- that is utterly rubbish about the staff room. What a silly place to put a private room too. I'm sure your milk will come in soon if she's feeding lots and things will move on . No brooking babies appear to have a thing about being put down!

A fed at half ten and then slept till three! Four and a half hours without a feed! I thought she'd never do it. This happens every night now, right?

Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 04:10

Scarlet boo for being by the staff room - if you weren't hoping to be coming out today I'd say complain and ask to be moved (since you're paying for it). But hopefully you'll be home today anyway. I guess at least if dd keeps feeding your milk will come in sooner? Hope she let's you have a bit of rest though. Perhaps she's enjoying the radio and the gossip too much?

And yay for no longer trapped wind - I bet that was quite satisfying

And whoop whoop to A for a big long sleep Pomme - I reckon that's it every night now! Seriously though I'm noticing a general trend in DS2 sleeping gradually a little longer. So it used to be that it was mostly 3 hours with an occasional 4 hour-er thrown in (and the less occasional 2 hour-er) and gradually it's become mostly 4 hourly with occasional 5 or 3 hour gaps. So hopefully there will be more and more frequent 4 hour ones for you?

pommedechocolat · 02/05/2012 08:38

She then slept till half six! DD1 was up at 6 though being the whingey ill little person she currently is. She makes it hard to have sympathy for her tbh - yesterday she had a 15 minute tantrum because I put some water in a beaker for her..??

Brooking for A to adopt E's sleeping habits now!

Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 08:50

You put water in a beaker pomme?!?!?!?

what were you thinking?

Reminds me of that thread on MN about the cutted up pear (started by the original brooker Aubers) That made me laugh

Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 09:17

DS1: 'I don't want chicken pox anymore'

DreamingOfPeace · 02/05/2012 09:47

Just checking in. I have nothing positive to say now so i won't

pommedechocolat · 02/05/2012 09:51

Oh no dream - sounds like you, my dd1 and biscuit's ds1 could form a fed up club.

I remembered that thread too biscuits - i was wishing it was still around so I could write on it about the beaker.

A is getting MORE windy as she approaches the three month mark. Annoying!

PetWoman · 02/05/2012 09:58

Hello everyone! Thank you for your introductions. < Shakes hands all round >

Sending sympathy for poorly LOs and their tired mummies.

Hawthers hope you are relaxing in bed with a snuggly DS2 as I type.

Scarlet your released wind comment made me laugh! Hope your DD has a sleep soon. Could you listen to your own music loudly enough to block out the noisy midwives?

I'm getting one 3-hour sleep and one 2-hour sleep most nights, but the second one is usually upright on the sofa with DS curled up on my lap. I tried to put him in his pram last night and he was crying within half an hour. Somehow I seem to be functioning ok, but am looking forward to the night I get a 4-hour block with him in his pram!

Dream how do you know how much expressed milk to offer? I want to start expressing so my DH can do a feed, but not sure how much will be enough to satisfy 4-week old DS.

Got to go - expecting a friend and although I'm dressed, I didn't manage to comb my hair (and will have to detach DS from my boob if I intend to achieve this minor feat).

DreamingOfPeace · 02/05/2012 10:07

In fact, I should stop being ridiculous and accept there is no sleep with twins.

Poor ds1 biscuits, chicken pox is grim
. love the water in a beaker tantrum pomme, mine had a huge paddy about not being allowed to carry round and play with the nappy bag filled with her pooey nappy...

The complete family comments drive me crackers. Everyone assumes I'd never have another now which also irritates me. Plus someone, a complete stranger, looked at me and dh out with our three and said ' oh, you poor thing, rather you than me'. Well yes, indeed, f**k off and better me than you sprang to mind....

DreamingOfPeace · 02/05/2012 10:12

Expressed milk- my DT1 is 4 weeks today and can down 3 oz after a feed . So I'd want to leave something between 4 and 6 oz and tell dh to just start with 3 and go from there so as not to make up a big bottle and waste it. Tbh I wake when my babies do anyway, even when not in the room with them. Highly irritating, way too tuned into them... And i can't express enough between constant feeding to do it, I got 5 oz yesterday but so much effort...

DreamingOfPeace · 02/05/2012 10:13

Btw, I have no idea what actually appropriate for a 4 week old to have in a bottle, someone who ff might know?!

TooImmatureTurtleDoves · 02/05/2012 10:27

Morning! Have admitted defeat - I'm not going to get any more sleep and M is showing signs of wanting to be entertained. Oh, and filling her nappy. God, yesterday she was a poo machine! Every nappy was dirty and most were hugely full, and I'm talking every 2 hours or less. We had a day of clusterfeeding too. She just would not go down and stay down at all. And she threw up in my hair at lunchtime. I had to bung her in the swing on the bathroom floor while I showered.

Still, for the first time she did 2 good sleeps back to back - she slept from 10 to 2.30ish, then went back down at 3.45 and slept until 7.20! She did start gurning at about half past 4 but I jiggled her and then woke up 2 hours later with my arm still outstretched over the side of the bed in jiggling position. I tried to put her down for a third go at 9, but she woke up at 9.30 just as I had got properly to sleep. Actually, she seems to have dropped off again now, FX.

When do babies grow out of the sicky phase, anyone? Am fed up with being barfed on.

at Scarlet and the freed wind. I was just like that, and also v glad for the private room.

Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 10:42

too yay for 2 back to back good sleeps :)

No idea when the sick ends but I hope it's soon - I too am fed up of being barfed on

I think today is going to be a looooooong day. Ds1 has that look in his eye.... Can't blame him for going stir crazy but doesn't mean I want him to be a PITA.....

jaggythistle · 02/05/2012 10:55

we've just started the sick in the last few days, i got a proper full change of clothes coating yesterday.

dream/pet there is an ebm calculator thingie on Kellymom, but if i recall correctly it's not quite the same as ff as the amount to give doesn't keep going up as baby grows, it stays the same after a certain age. i guess because the milk changes instead. i think i offered 2 or 3 oz at that age?

will need to get the pump out in a few weeks myself, I'll be expressing again when i go back to work and we did a bottle a week or so to get ds1 used to it last time. when i went back at 6 months he was on bottles of 4-5 oz - depending on how much I'd squeezed out!

if i get time i will Google the info, DS2 is asleep in his crib (still can't get used to this, he's been there for over an hour - i feel like I'm neglecting him compared to DS1!) and DS1 is out at a class with DH.

i have other things to do like tidy up and sort washing...and maybe back to ironing.

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hawthers · 02/05/2012 11:28

Well at 18 weeks f still yacks in my hair, down my boobs, in my ear....

Can smell poo, better go.

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PetWoman · 02/05/2012 11:46

OMG nappy explosion!

DS didn't poo yesterday - he saved it all for just now. Cue baby in bath - couldn't face attempting cotton wool and water for that much poo. Now, can I salvage the sleepsuit?!

Dream and Jaggy thanks for the expressing advice. I'll see what I can produce...

Too glad you got a good sleep. Think we're just beginning the vomiting stage. Something else to look forward to.

Dream it's weird how everyone feels that they can comment or say random stuff to you when you have a small baby - but how rude of that woman! Unless maybe she meant it sympathetically? Either way, you are clearly looking after all your three brilliantly and couldn't be expected to be anything but grumpy with so little sleep!

Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 11:57

On that topic though, did I mention that ds1 was sick on Monday night and DH caught it in his hands - eugh!! Saved me washing all the bedding etc as he did a very thorough job of catching it all! As that lady Dream saw would say, rather him than me!

Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 12:11

I'm not ignoring Hawthers entirely - just when she makes stuff up about babies still being sick at 18 weeks, which obviously cannot be true.

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hawthers · 02/05/2012 12:25

Sorry sorry f actually is no longer sick, he sleeps through the night, does the washing up and changes his own nappy

That better biscuits

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Biscuitsandtea · 02/05/2012 12:31

See? I knew we'd get the truth out of you eventually Hawthers

I bet he mows the lawn too but you don't want to boast?

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hawthers · 02/05/2012 12:38

He's up the ladder cleaning the windows as I type. also I'm thinner than pre pg, hair is washed and roots done, manicured, pedicured and legs shaved too. In fact I look marvellous... Yep totally gorgeous

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