Postgraduate brookers - Brooking No Argument for happy, healthy and sleeping DCs..

[musicalmrs]

New thread time!

Why, oh why are babies so contrary? Last night when my dad, stepmother and the kids were here and panting to play with her M fell asleep at 6.45 and slept properly, just getting up for feeds at 9.30, 12.30 and 4. Since about an hour after they left this afternoon she has been grumpy and so, so sick. I have been thrown up on about a million times and she's currently barfing all over DH. She is also refusing to go to bed. Whenever I try to feed her to sleep she howls. I gave up trying to feed her and she promptly went into adorable cooing baby phase, squeaking with excitement when we look at her. She threw up over DH's side and started to grump so he turned her around to face him and she promptly started cooing and grinning. Why couldn't she have done this last night when there were plenty of people for her to play with, and slept tonight?

The flipflops sound adorable, Wants! How sweet of DS1.

In fact, I would, except I have no idea where I put them. I tried letting her suck my finger while she lay in the basket but she just chomped on it for a bit, choked, then howled. Might have to resort to Dream's feeding-while-leaning-over-the-cot thing at this rate.

Hawthers, how petrifying that must have been! So glad DS1 was okay.

Biscuits, I have read that you're supposed to start cleaning their teeth and then not feeding them again before bed. How is that supposed to work? Tonight excepted, M usually feeds to sleep. How do I make her clean her teeth and then not eat anymore?

cleaning teeth as soon as they appear yes, but don't worry about bfing to sleep or during the night. it's totally different from bottles and formula for teeth. i can't link on my phone but there have been threads about bfing and teeth on the bf/ff boards.

I have 2 bald patches! I know I asked about hair loss before and you all agrred that huge hair loss is normal, but is bald patches? On either side of my head along my hairline as if receding. I thought the other day that it looked a bit different, you can't usually see any alabaster white scalp, but today they look even bigger, very obvious. On one side it's reached back almost in line with my ear.

((hugs)) for Scarlet. I'm sure you see the difference far more clearly than anyone else would. I bet no one else would even notice the change in your hairline. Plus I think your hair goes back to normal once your hormones stabilise. Try not to focus on it hun easier said than done it will resolve itself I'm sure.

I'm having a not too dissimilar freakout over here. DD is 15 weeks today and I can't fit into my "fat" wedding (guest) dress :( I have a pretty size 12 dress from Coast which I bought for a wedding the year before last when I got too plump for my smaller wedding (guest) dresses. Now this dress just about zips up to my ribcage, so at least I can cram my wobbly belly into it, but there's absolutely no hope of doing it up over my boobs. The most distressing thing about this is my boobs are empty! I deliberately tried this dress on immediately post-feed. So this is how my boobs might be even when I've stopped bfing! Floppy but still too big to fit into size 12 clothing!!! We're going to a wedding on Sat so I have to go and buy an even fatter fat wedding (guest) dress now.

Did anyone else's 15 week old get LOUD by the way?! DD started chatting in a really cute way a couple of weeks ago. However for the last couple of days she's gotten very strident in her tone! She's almost yelling, despite being happy. It's a little incessant and driving me slightly insane... Is this normal?! Does it pass?!

Too DD is just the opposite. When it is just us she is happy and smiley, talking to us lots. When we have visitors or take her out to see people she cries and cries. We are forever being told to give her a bottle as that will settle her. It drives me crazy as I am not going to give her a bottle! At least people think you have a nice, happy baby where everyone thinks that mine never stops crying

Scarlet I'm sure it looks worse to you. My Gran dropped something on her sink and made a small dent, none of us had noticed until she pointed it out and then we couldn't help but see it every time. You notice more when you are aware of something.

I'm sure everyone else is right Scarlet that it probably seems worse to you because you notice it more, but if you're at all worried get it checked out. I have to confess I would probably be freaking out and get it checked at the docs. My dad had alapicea (no idea how to spell that!) in his 20s so I'd just want it checking. Better to be sure it's nothing than stress about it I think. Brooking its nothing at all though and just hormones being all over the place

Oh, and I wish my fat dress was a 12! My dream dream dream would be to get back into a 12 as a regular size. At the moment a 14 is a pipe dream . All my own fault of course as no one else has eaten the chocolate so I just need to fix it. But trust me I'll be on here a whooping when I'm just a 14 .

On the dress thing though Scream often it's just that your shape changes after babies so you could still probably fit in a 12 of a different style. As you say it almost does up so you're only really a 12 (at most) - just need something that has a bit more give around the bustage?

DD has really mastered moving around. She's been moving around her crib for a few weeks now but has now improved on that. I put her down on her gym while I went to butter my toast. When I come back in the room, she is no longer on the mat but on the carpet, moving towards the door If she is this mobile at 10 weeks, I dread to think how quickly she'll get around when she starts crawling

Hiii! I am still alive, honest.. I've been a bit lost in a blur of lots of family visits, work deadlines (only doing bits and bobs in Iz's naps, but there are still deadlines!) and teething :( I've been catching up with the thread during the night shift though.

Yes, teething. :( Why so early? She's been gnawing and drooling for a couple of weeks, and many a wise soul watched her grab and gnaw on my fingers/muslins told me "Oo, that's teething", but I was in denial. Over the past 3/4 days the gnawing has increased (constant fists in mouth), drool is over everything, we have rosy red cheeks and misery all through late morning/afternoon :( At least it's not all day though, and thankfully she's still sleeping ok. She's such a chilled baby though, it's so sad to see her so unhappy :(

I too am suffering from the tummy/muffin top problem a couple of you have mentioned. I'm not too much bigger than I was pre-pregnancy - very lucky! - but the tummy doesn't seem to be shifting. Any tips? Will it be there forever? (should I be thinking of cunning ways to disguise it?!).

Scarlet, I'm sure you notice the difference, but nobody else can tell :)

My task for the afternoon is to research some of the local childminders, and pick out some (and some nurseries) to call. Seems mad when it's 5 months until I go back to work...! I've been meaning to do it for the last few days, but keep being distracted by the Olympics... but now the girlie has finally gone to sleep (napping was problematic before, but teething has made it nigh on impossible) I can't move for a while, so child minder researching seems a sensible way to spend my time...

I'm sure my tummy wasn't this bad last time.. it's wobbly as anything. can't find time for exercise though. i did get to a 12 for the first time in years when DS1 was about 1. this was partly due to me having to walk miles at work to express, i used to go really fast so i wasn't out long! then as DS1 bf less i forgot to cut down the cake and was between a 12 and 14 when i got pg again. can fit into the 14s now.

i am defo a funny shape now.

i am going to demand that we do lots of big walks once the garden is done. the bulk of it should be done this week, yay!

i really want to take DS1 out to the zoo or something. maybe go to Edinburgh and visit the pandas. i think he'd love butterfly world too.

hope the weather stays nice to enjoy it now. the (hopefully) toddler proof gates are being installed today...maybe this weekend i can sit out with a beer in the afternoon and watch DS1 run about daft.

my soft structured carrier is here!

we got this one and DS2 is snoozing in it alredy. soooo comfy.

it was expensive, but my mum and dad gave us money for DS2 when he was born so it's now spent..

Your carrier looks lovely jaggy!

What do you mean about walking miles to express..? Do you mean in terms of walking to a place where you could express? I initially thought you meant expressing while walking!

I'm worried about expressing when back at work - mainly because I won't be able to.. :(

yeah it's a huge workplace - about 5 mins each way i did!

:( Is there no way to fit it in? i considered sitting in my car if i didn't get a room

Yikes, that's quite a trek if you're doing it several times a day!

No car sadly as I'll be commuting in. On one day I might not have much free time other than the travel between schools. If I'm really lucky I might get 10 mins during lunch, but no break. On the other, I might get 20 mins at break time and 20 mins at lunch, if I'm lucky - can perhaps ask them for a room I can express in! Difficult when you're just popping in and out of schools though.

i did it twice a day at first :)

I used to make up rolls or sandwiches for lunch an multi task! hope there's a signal so i can MN on my phone this time!

Sounds like hassle for you though. :(

Thought you were talking about TTC for a mo there Jaggster

Flipping heck. I thought I'd outsource ds's child are to watching Cars this afternoon (granted not my best parenting) but he is just keeping up a constant stream of 'what's happening? What's going on? What did the red car say? Why did the red car want to take the blue car out for dinner? Why does he not want to take her out any more? What did the other car do?' Gah!

This happened with Toy Story too - should I be concerned that he asks so many questions when everyone else's children just watch these things? My friends little boy is just 2 and was happily transfixed by Icr Age the other day but I bet DS would be full of friggin questions

DH would be happy with twice a year right now biscuits. or ever

Same here

Same here :)

Well, nothing, but nothing would make DT1 sleep in his cot last night. What can I do?!!?
His waking times from cot after 8pm bedtime- 8:30, 8:50, 9:30, 10pm (cue running up and down stairs like a headless chicken), 12, 1, 3- spend ages trying to put him down, back in my bed where he's been since midnight, back asleep at 4, up at 5:25 for ages... Then t'others up. Plus fed DT2 1am too. It's totally ridiculous. He sleeps like a newborn, still. Screams the minute he hits the cot and it does disturb his brother. I am at my wits end with his sleeping... Any suggestions? We do bedtime routine involving naked kicking, bath, milk, cot. He wears a sleeping bag. They have a white noise cd playing. It's dark ish, kind of, in their room. He does not do laying quietly in his cot without screaming. He wouldn't have the dummy at all last night, gagging trying to get it out. Help!!!

I will post something more interesting when i feel a bit more human :(

Still, TTC took ages - surely that offsets some of my current negligence?

Nice carrier Musical

Sounds like DD's well on the move Jen I can remember once leaving DS on his back on the floor thinking he was unable to get anywhere. I went to collect the post from the hall and went back in to him to find him still on his back but in a different place soaking wet with a vase of flowers on top of him. The house is already baby proofed this time.

at the questions Biscuits. My DS just gets that glazed, engrossed look when watching tv typical man. It's great your DS makes it an interactive activity.

So, Mum and DH agree that the bald patches are pretty noticable. It's only because I've had my hair tied up today, usually I wear it down which is probably why I've not noticed before now how bad it was getting. I'm going to see what happens over the next few days but may pay the GP a visit next week if it gets worse. DS pulled my ponytail earlier and for a terrifying moment I had a vision of the whole thing coming off in his hand

i honestly want to be interested in dtd, but i just can't summon up the energy at the end of the day.

now that DH will not be garden building full time there is some hope, as long as DS1 keeps having a nap. it's made it worse in some ways that it's been so long, as I'd naturally be a bit nervous anyway to see how the repair job is after DS2's birth. I'd like to get it over with tbh!

DS2 is so hungry, i guess it must be a growth spurt indeed. he went mental when i tried to put him back in the new carrier and is now falling asleep and feeding.

Hey, Dream, just a quick post as in middle of baths, but could you have a crib or Moses basket in your room for S so that it wouldn't disturb B? (I think they're in their own room?) maybe you could fit just one of them in your room? Don't know quite how that would help with the sleeping . Would it be worth seeing a sleep consultant? Or a cranial osteopath? Do you think it's just sleep or is it reflux / colic related still? Could it be lactose intolerance type of thing?

Are you still seeing the CO Pomme? How's it going?