December 2011 (drop-in) - The Trouble With Dribbles

[LittleMissFlustered]

She did look a wee bit bumsore tonight but I always put sudocreme on for her night nappy. She almost never poops in the night which is great - I think this morning was the first time she's woken with a poopy one!

I know ultimately I'm going back to work for the good of the family but I'd at least like to have the choice iykwim? I don't think I could be a sahm forever, I'd have to at least work part-time.

I know what you mean missree, SMP is tight when you , I have to sit down and do some big scale calculating with our ingoings/outgoings, I'm on my last half pay month and down to SMP from now on: thanks to low interest rates we're OK but we have to budget for this planned move which will take 20K of expense according to the mortgage advisor we spoke to, plus have to work out the real actual childcare cost in the holidays (I'm tweaking hours a little so that the majority of them are during school time, but 13 weeks a year will be holidays). All our childcare is paid-for, so if we use my very reasonable ex-childminder for holiday care it will cost £50 per day per child (£150/day- yowch! That's more than a nanny...)
In the longer term I want to keep my career going part-time and suspect nanny care may be more practical but it feels like a big leap to take to become an employer especialy when I am part-time. In the shorter term I realised that the six weeks of summer hols would not make me any money if it all went straight on childcare....

Thanks for the heads-up LMF, i heard some big tescos sell reuseables but I have a complete set now so really shouldn't buy more: now that DS is out of his newborn ones and I've worked out what shape suits his pointy bum and little legs, I have mostly cotton Motherease onesize and some Itti Tuttos, I try to avoid bamboo nappies generally as we have no longer and bamboo amd hemp take ages to dry on the line/airer. I am currently trying to avoid buying a really cute limited edition Flip nappy called the Albert (it's black
With Albert Einstein maths equations on it. Nnnnngggg....)
Did I mention cloth nappies are habit forming?

I've a few friends who 'cloth bottom' so have seen the evidence on Facebook of the impulse buys:o

Four hour gap just now for octoboy, alas I was only in bed for two of them!

Arg, post eaten.

(might've accidentally ordered the nappy. cute, though, it appealed to my geekery...)

Another three hours, I think he could have gone four but my other boy turned up wanting a hug.

That is a rather funky nappy:o

Haddocks, big fat rotting haddocks

Wassup hawthers?

H issues. Still again more grrr

aelthel - I have nappy envy! I've got some birth to potty reusables but they're very bulky, and with DS2 being long anyway they push him into the next clothes size.

Extra haddock hawthers?

I've (ssh) so far had a 3hr gap, a 3hr gap and a 3.5hr gap. If he now goes back to sleep til, say, 7, I think I may be functional for the day ahead. Best nights sleep in ages.

2 and a half hours sleep sob

Hawthers , I'm out of but have a pavket of < fishfingers> to tide you over....

Yep mimsy, birth to potty nappies tend to be bigger: I start with sized
Ones when baby is tiny and move to onesize ones at about 11 lb. there are sliimmer cut nappies but a lot of them hve less absorbancy and DS pees a LOT!! Plus it's costly to buy too many new ones ( and the newest ones aren't in the preloved section yet).. Still cheaper than disposables in long run but my DH is gently when yet another nappy turns up...

this had better bloody well be the four month growth spurt. dH is sooo getting bottle-attempt-duty later (DS completely refused an EBM bottle from My v experiencd SIL yesterday...)

The worst night ever

Eventually gave up and brought DS2 into bed with me at 5 ish.

Will be advancing onto the cans of tuna to be lobbed forcefully at DH's head if the Haddock worthy behaviour continues.

Shit DS2 is exactly four months old today. Please say last night was a one off and not a sign of things to come....

I have sippy cup and tudes and spoons in dishwasher then im going to sterilies breast pump and attemp to give hope a ebm top up from the sippy cup

i have apples ready to cook and mush up. I have organixs baby rice but i read an artical saying not to use it so i migjt not use it!

Sympathies to all on the night shift, as I was there in sympathy with you last night. Whereas DS had been fine all week, DP neglected to get his last bottle down him yesterday, so he was a good 150ml down on the day.
I think this may be connected to the fact that after his half 10 dream feed, he woke at half one (dummy) half three (the unmistakeable sound of child sucking own fist through sleeve of onesie, but hey, it knocked him out!) half four (feed) and then awake on the dot of 6.45, as per.

I then got to feed him in bed and coo/kiss/snuggle for 3/4 of an hour, which was luuurvely.

I knew you'd break instantly aethel when I read your half ten post!

I take it you DP wasn't too helpful in the night then hawthers? Crap sleep and haddockable hubbie do not a good combination make.

Plans for the weekend....?

We're off into town- the place we live in is grim, but just over the bridge is a wonderful historic town, and the High Street is very unusual in that it has buildings from every period over the past 1 000 years, Norman to the present day, and also (bar banks) not a single chain store, all indes.

I need to stock up on work clothes, so am going to cruise the charity shops. However, the weather is all kinds of shite so we'll need the weather shield, umbrellas, boots, big coats.....

We're full of colds here ( Ali n me)
We had plans to see friends but I've just cancelled. I think today will be spent snuggling, playing and tidying. --and getting DH to bring us toffees, drinks, cake, and other things to help battle the lurgy.
Is this the result of nursery?
We were v naughty last night. We didn't even try to put him in his crib. He slept in the middle of us and snatched, grabbed and scratched our faces all night. Aw!
After his 11pm bedtime feed, he woke at 2:20, 4:30, and 6:45.
...I'll just get him thru this cold then we'll make more of am effort to drop feeds.
I might try him on some carrot today...

Well after yesterday's morning as a demon child he was quite charming last night and stayed up until 9 with a dose of calpol as I still thought he had a temp. I checked on him at 2am heard him chunter at 5 and then it was 7.45 and I had to wake him up. Was worried he was really ill but he's eaten like a horse had a bath and apart from some coughing is fine. That's def the longest he's ever gone.

Dh has a cold and it's raining here so think extent of my day will be going out for petrol, some shopping and maybe a film later. On days like this would normally go off to cinema ah those were the days. Need to get a sitter so can go see the avengers/perv over Thor

Morning. Had a lie-in until 9.30 while DH managed to get an ounce of EBM into DS by cunningly letting him wail, then doze, then feeding him half asleep. It may not sound like much but 1 oz is a breakthrough: and what I'll do next is keep trying him with little bits of formula when we get into weaning sonthat he will get used to the taste and DH/grandad give him EBM a few times a week as I want to get him easier with taking a bottle when needed.
In my defence I do plan to ebay some stuff to counteract the nappy habit!

And lots of for those of you suffering broken nights too.

And if you go out, don't forget your umbrella, there's a drought on...

It took over 2 hours to settle Rocco last night >_< but at least he slept pretty well, still nursing frequently but he didn't wake to do so & didn't wake crying. :) Unfortunately I struggled to fall asleep, woke frequently & eventually gave up trying around 5am :( So unfair, I could have had a decent sleep if wasn't for stupid bloody stress induced insomnia!

He is now alternating between whining & cooing on his play mat because he's tired but can't fall asleep & I'm trying something different as it took an excruciating 90mins of rocking him in which he did his best impression of the screaming baby they use to torture suspected terrorists at guantanamo to get him to nap yesterday.

I think I've hit my wall & my OH is worse than useless. I asked him for help as soon as he got through the door last night & he said he had to go wash the car so I waited until he came in, he held DS for 5 mins & then said "what shall I do with him, I have to go & lift weights" By 8pm DS & I were both crying so DP asks "what's the matter"...I really can't decide if he's mean & lazy or just bloody stupid. Anyway, he offers to give it a go once he's finished eating his dinner (which would be nice because I'm kinda hungry too) but of course DS finally manages to fall asleep before he's done Weirdly I'm too tired to be genuinely angry, it's pretty hilarious that he grumbled about me not leaving him a slice of my pizza after eating a giant dish of spag bol & that he complained of being so tired this morning after choosing to stay up & watch snooker...hahaahahaha.

Sorry for the loooong rant...got it out of my system now Took so long to write DS is fast asleep :)

Oi & Figgy I hope your LOs are better soon.

LMF & aethel thanks for the confirmation; I've asked my OH to bring home some metanium as DS has a very raw spotty bottom :(

My plan for the day is to catch up on the cleaning & washing & maybe go for a walk this afternoon but I have to wait for the high chair I bought on ebay last night to be delivered; hopefully sooner rather than later. I'm getting very jealous of all the weaning, not sure I can hold out for another month.

Interesting read about sleep regressions. Not helpful really but I like to understand why I'm being dragged through hell what he's going through.

BabyYBR (about 13lb) has size 3 nappies although most of the time she's in BumGenius nappies. Disposables are for when we're out for more than one nappy change, but recently also when there's bad nappy rash. BumGenius say not to use with barrier creams - I take it that the cream doesn't wash off and they get waterproof? She's defo been pooing differently recently and it seems to be more irritating for her skin too. Teething, I assume.

I'm going down with Man-flu and LO is reeling in my short fuse. She's taking several goes to get down at night which hasn't been the case for months, plus the morning feed was a bit (repeat constantly). I rather think she's got the cold too.

Finances are just weird here. I didn't do any detailed budgeting, but just roughly worked out I could afford 6 months off if DH didn't find a job (he hasn't), and how much he's have to earn to cover day care. Bizarrely there seems to be more in the current account than I expected (even taking having not taken into account his JSA and Redundancy pay) so I'm wondering which bills I've not yet seen.

Sippy cup and apple are go. She is sucking on cup and has eaten 7 spoonful of apple

But i only managed to express 20ml this morning after her feed.