March 06 The Arrivals!

[Frizbe]

Hi ladies, have created this to start our postnatal thread, so fire away!

ooh friz bridgend eh! the valley's end of wales! lol.

me and Joey are going down to portsmouth for two weeks next sunday (so will more than likely not be on at all) to see my family as I think our mum will be nigh on suisidal if she doesn't see Joey again soon - and I know our nan will be! lol. so 2 weeks of shopping and family visitng for us! lol.

ooh glad u got ur welsh cakes as well - arn't they just yummy! lol, I had megas cravings when I was PG for them! lol.

Bank holiday w/e for unifamily brings another unicycle meet, this time a local one on dartmoor so we don't have to go for the whole w/e. I think dh will ride one day and play cricket the other, so I shall go and take Ed for a walk on dartmoor the day dh rides and meet up with the group for lunch.
Little chap has obliged me today by settling in for a 2 hour nap , hes still in the pram as that where he fell asleep and I'm leaving there as he needs his sleep, hes still knackered after the weekend.
Right, I must go and up-date the uni meet web page, must stop putting it off.

Sorry to crash ladies but if any of you are members of the Boots Parenting Club, please see \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1915&threadid=172712\my plea for a copy of this month's 0-3 month magazine} - little DD2 (now 8 months) is in it and I'd love a copy :)

Congratulations to you all. Enjoy

PS If any of you do have a copy, please CAT me or post on my 'wanted' thread rather than here, so that I don't have to lurk :)

We had a nice quiet day at home at chez uni today. raining, no errands that couldn't be put off and decided not to go to mums and tots. Bliss , ed snozed lots including a mega 3.5 hour nap and i had a few snozes and some chilling out on the sofa with a book. Must try and do days like that more often, its all to easy to get into a hectic round of stuff to do.
Just told dh that I want the car on a particular sunday in June to go to Bristol , only to find that he wants it as well to go and play cricket- in Bristol - happy coincidence of events mneans we will both get to do what we wanted to that day, his club only play one match a year in Bristol and its my college's 60th birthday re-union.

woohoo, Joey slept form 8pm last night till 7 am this morning - DH gave him a dream feed at 10.3 he only took 4 oz but he went thru - woohoo, and that was after a 4 hour nap from 12-4 in the afternoon! it would seem no naps for Joey after 4pm is working with bringing bed time forward from 8.30 to 7.30-8, might say no naps after 3.30?? althou reluctant to wake him up during a nap as he's a differnet boy when he wakes on his own.

Sorry I haven't posted for a while.

Welcome to the thread, Jelly. :) Dd doesn't really have a particular routine but sometimes a pattern starts to emerge - until it all changes again!

Dd is as slim as ever but is growing very loooooong. She's almost 9wks old and weighed just over 10lbs a couple of weeks ago but her feet are already at the ends of her 3-6mths sleepsuits. I think she's going to be tall like dh rather than a shortie like me. :o

She's going through a phase of sleeping most of the time, although she still wakes up to be fed at regular intervals. It's such a novelty atm to see her eyes open that ds1 comes running to tell me that she's awake. :)

The dreaded 8wk immunisations have been done. Apart from a scream as each needle went in :( dd hasn't had any reaction to them at all (touchwood!). It was a particularly scary time for us as ds1 stopped breathing after he had his. Ds2's were fine but I still worried about how dd would react. Phew! :)

I hope everyone else is okay. xx

dh is taking ds fro 8 wk jabs this week so hope all goes well. ds slept through one night only so hopeful he will do it again. Routine keeps changing depending on him and dd

Hi gothic and coppertop nice to 'see' you both!
Unisarah, I need a few days like that! feel like we've been in a dizzy run around since Fri, in fact will post more later, too knak'd off to feed n bed me thinks!

don't know if u gals remerb DHW - she had a still birth at 25 weeks last year, she fell again after 2 months - and has just had another at 16 weeks. it's so horrid. :(

after a terrible night with joey and probs with DH it's put things into perspective really.

Oh Munz, that's so for DHW, twice as well, how awful.....makes me realise how lucky we are.

What sad news about DHW .
We are being abandoned this weekend as DP on a 40th 'no kids' weekend in Scotland! However my friend and I are having a man free time with our girls and have lots of fun planned.
Enjoy yourselves everyone - Sarah I do believe that your whole family are quite batty!

oh no I saw the thread title poor DHW.
this mkes this seem really trivial
I came on to tell anyone going back to work soon that boots sell a recording rattle so you can record your voice for the baby. DS seems to like it altho dh sya if he's due a feed he hears it and makes his feeding face

Munzie: Thanks for posting about DHW. I feel so sad for her. Losing a baby is so awful and two in a row is beyond painful.

Why, thank you for the compliment LL :-) batty will do just fine as a description. I keep being asked when Eds going to get his 1st unicycle "Not yet" is the answer but he does have a uni mobile, vest and bib.

bedtime feed tonight after running worked just fine, so I think it was just co-incidence that the boy got bad trapped wind after the first time I went running. My legs ache now, but its nice to get a bit of time to do something for me. I need to gradually get my fitness level up a bit, feel very saggy and unfit at the mo.
We now have some glorious tie dye pink muslins. funky.

cool muslins UniSarah, I'm aching too, went back to Aikido for the 1st time yesterday lunch, as dh got rained off work, so had a babysitter! and ouch I have stomache muscles somewhere because they're aching today
Caddy have you called the quack yet?
Dd1 is sooooo excited about camping this weekend, 1st thing she said today was, mummy we go camping now? and burst into tears when I said, no not till friday, 3 more sleeps....awwww....
went to 'Big shop' last night (horrible super Tescos) to see if they had any single airbeds for the dd's as dd1 outgrown travel cot, dd2 too small for it! but yep you've guessed it, sold out, as they're on special offer....typical....

back to yoga for me it does make you ache but it is nice to bend again. hope all you campers have fun i'm not brave enoughto try until the summer

friz - camping wiht a baby and a toddler - u are brave arn't u! lol.

at uni/friz for excersimg, althou I have started to wealk Joey in his pram around the park wiht the dogs. when we come back form p'mouth, we'll be off on a diet so trying to cram in as much choocy/muffins as I can! lol.

goth - was it a major boots u got it form? might be an idea to do it for DH as we're away for 2 weeks then he's away the whole of july, and I don't want Joey to forget him as it were.

had our 12 week jabs yesterday - not fun, Joey just would not settle, he finally went to slepe at 9pm (after being awake form 11am, he still decided it was time to get up at 6 as well. :() going to ask DH to stop up on friday night and give Joey a feed when he wants it in the spare room so I can have the first night in about 4 months as a full nights sleep. (that was the plan for last week but I was woken up at 2, 4 and 7 - not a happy bunny at all). I'm also having issues with feeding Joey, as much as I love doing it, and I don't mena this to sound horrid cos I love him to bits, it's just i'm starting to hate getting my boobs out - it seems to be the only time he'l have a nice cuddles with me. I don't know if it's cos i'm tired or what, I was planning on feeding for as long as I can - then I thought well if I get to 12 weeks i'll be happy, and i'm there thinking i'm ready to stop but i'm not sure I don't really want to yet, it doens't help we've had a bad weekend on the feeding lark as he doesn't like the position any more. is this something that will pass? I can't explain it properly, I was thinking to express the milk and only feed him morning and night, but then I feel guilty about giving him my milk in a bottle 90% of the time as opposed to only giving him one now.

anyhow best have a shower and get some hosue work done.

munz, I'd say to keep going a while and see how you feel in a few weeks. i stopped feeding Tilly at 8 months (we were mix feeding by then) as she had a spate of fussing at the boob and i was knackered with a new business. i regretted it as soon as my milk went! do try to get a night's sleep and a couple of evenings out with the girls though too.
well, kiah is proving a godsend to my social life as she goes from 7pm-2am with no feed. we went for a curry on Sat and niece babysat but had a phone call at 10.30pm as tilly screaming . At least we fininshed our grub!
i've moved kiah into the little bedroom across the landing as she is too noisy next to the bed. am sleeping much better as a result but she's still feeding at 2, 4 and 7. she's in a sleeping bag too as she kicks like crazy to get her trumps out.
first jabs today and 8 week check. think i may have mastisis so hope doc will have a prod of my boobs too!

Friz there is pots of talk on MN about a campimg sale at Lidl if you have one nearby....

lots not pots!!

Saffron has her jabs and 8 week check up today at 2.30, can't wait (not)!

She was awake evry 2 hours last night, i have put her on hungry baby milk and she seems to be realy sicky on it, now she's fast asleep and i will have to wake her up to go the doctors.

Munz, sod the house work, get some reast, put your feet up!

Hey Marne our babies were having simultaneous jabs!! Kiah made a right fuss but is fast asleep now after a bit of boob. Hope Saffron doing OK - is she a fatty with all this feeding? Kiah now 10lb 13.
Got some antibiotics so hopefully mastitis might go soon...

Saffron made a fuss for all of 5 seconds and then fell asleep, now she has woken up and grining, i think she has forgoton about it already, Did'nt get her weight done but she must be around 12lb, she was 10lb 13 3 weeks ago.