March 06 The Arrivals!

[Frizbe]

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

Friz, hope your weekend is ok.
Jackstini, my ds is woke at 11, 1, 3 and 5, then unsettled until 6.30 when I collapsed in tears and begged dh to take him away. I know how you feel hon. Its rubbish eh?

Off camping tonight for the weekend so must go and finish packing whilst the little people sleep (oh, how I long to join them). If you hear screaming in the night LL, that will be my DS (and then DH shouting at him )...we are camping near Chatsworth..

Enjoy the nice weather girls

oh, and forgot to say thanks for the thread LL, yes, I can identify too. Its hard to kow whats PND and whats just feeling like crap though huh? HV is coming on Monday to have a chat, hopefully she will be helpful.

Thanks Astrophe - just know you are not the only one helps so much.
I am away this weekend too - hopefully you will not hear my dd screaming all the way from Hastings!

BOY- what a tyke. I gave up on solids today after nearly 2 weesk of trying and getting nowhere with it, so what does he do with daddy while I'm out- eat half a biscuit. Ho Hum.
I really do think its spoons he has a problem with.
Creeping continues a pace. On the right floor he goes about a foot a minute.
Hope you Notts crowd have a good meet up.

ah we're defo going backwards here today, literally, can't leave the little lady anywhere without finding her backed up under something, mainly sofas, tables n chairs! she just squeaks when she's stuck she can just about sit up now, lasts for 3mins or so before keeling over

Uni well done on the biscuit typical boy waiting for his daddy eh!

Jackstini, she's at her home, miles from any relatives on either side that's why I'm twittering about her a bit......no news as of yet, so hoping no news is good news. I'm not going to phone or txt and pester her, as what ever it is, I'm sure she'll let family know in her own time.

just passing thru on my way to bed with f-ing mastitis.
what a miserable bunch we are eh?? rest assured girls that you are not doing anything wrong - having a baby around is tough at the best of times and I reckon we are all feeling the lack of sleep now.
here's to October and some very sleepy babies!
hope i can clear this boob before our flight....it's like having flu all down my left side.my boobs are, quite frankly crap.

Oh LL, lots of boob clearing thoughts your way hon {{{{Hugs}}}} try to enjoy Spain

LL- ouch, ssympathy. Just to make you feel better- I have a line of nappies a bleaching in teh sunshine and breze, a sight I'm sure you would like.

Grumpy boy today- hes tired. Tyke woke at 2ish for grub as usual then again at 5ish and boy was insitant and awake. fed, he was still awake, so i put him back to bed and tried to ignore the matress thumping and gargling
, after about 10 mins dh said " do you want to go to the other room" I left them to it. Then took a while to settle in spare room, but hey ho, Dh got up with boy at 7ish and I got another half hour before boy thumping the floor was too much to sleep through.many thanks to Dh , he doen't oftern make me that kind of offer, but it is nnice when he does.

Bless your dh Uni its always nice to be appreciated and get a break

Gor blimey. Thata been a difficult evening. Boy has been "in Bed" about and hour, most of which he has spent yelling and crying, I must have been in 8 or 9 times to calm him down. poor tyke didn;t have a bath and no daddy at bedtime either, teeth are bothering him and mums off form. I've been biten or stung right behind my knee, hurts like billy oh and made me all wobbly. Didn;t think bathing him when I wasn;t too steady was a good idea. I had to abandon teh bike and trailer at a friends house and ask their dh for a lift home I felt that wobbly.

Anyway enough of me whining on. Its over now. The rest of teh afternoon was fab, we had the relaunch party for our community hall. Basicly run by mums from mums and tots. LOADS of people came. Ed meet a very nice gentle well trained dog & I won 3 raffle prizes ( I did buy lots of tickets) including a term of yoga classes! will have to negociate with Dh when I take those up.
How was your weekend?

Hi all, we had a lovely weekend camping and did a walk in Lathkill Dale on Saturday...all th way to the Monyash pub (which I reccomend to you Derbyshire girls - lovely playground) where we had lunch, and back. This was our third campng trip in the uk now, and our first with our new tent, which was brilliant! Think next summer we will do a trip by ourselves as the friends we go with are a little uptight and get very stressed and grumpy when things don't go to plan, which is inevitable with 3 small kids between us! They are lovely, but need their sleep (like toddlers!)

DS slept ok th first night and was absolutely apalling last night - woke 5 times. Does anyone else find that those lovely hormones that help you sleep are goining now? I'm finding it much harder to get back to sleep than I did a couple of months ago - shame.

HV is coming tomorrow for a chat, so hopefully that will be helpful. 'Tis my 26th birthday on Wed but DH can't have the day off as he is on a course this week . DD is at nursery, so might see if I can rustle up a few mates to join me for coffee and cake at a nice cafe (does such a thing exist in Derby???)

Glad your boy is asleep now sarah - its so exausting when they take ages to settle as you really count on that time for yourself don't you?

oh, and sarah, DS is regressing wth the eating too - the last few days he has flatly refused to have a spoon anywhere near him, unless its in his own hand. My DD was like this and we eventually gave up and waited until she could feed herself at 7/8 months. Its a pain though, I was just loving shovelling spoonfuls of purees into his gaping mouth - he was like a little baby birdy!

AND, our lad is starting to get up on his toes and knees ready for crawling (but happy if it takes him a few months to learn yet!) and can sit quite well now too, which I am very pleased about as he seems so much happier sitting.

Hurrah for clever 6 month old babies! Can you believe how fast they've grown?

hurrah for ds Astro its great watching them wobble on their knees isn't it dd2's spent the day on a picnic blanket rocking back and forth or heading backwards.....

Happy Birthday for Wed! good cafe's in Derby.... erm, do you know where the smoothie bar is? it's down towards Nandos, kinda next to the Assembly Rooms? well if you head for there, there's a few cafe's down the road opposite that aren't too bad, otherwise there's always Starbucks! or the book cafe in the Eagle Centre?? (how crap are my directions!)

Glad you had a great time camping haven't been to lathkill dale in ages, must go back soon! think it was with the girls last time, no kids anywhere between any of us then, yikes!

Uni, ouch, ouch and ouch, when did the little bugger manage to get you then??
Glad you had a good day tho cool re the yoga classes, I think I may try and go this Tue for a trial gotta do something, my belly is getting tooo wobbly.....

Great news re cousins ds, they've put a shunt in today, so hopefully he'll be on the mend now, fingers x'd.......

We've been picnicing, sunning and playing at Newstead Abbey today, dh was working, so I took the 3 kids and met up with two sets of friends and their kids, who match my two eldest in age, so lots of fun paddling in the stream, climbing trees/making mud pies, dependant on age! with dd2 spending the afternoon trying to crawl as above!

Thansk astro- for reassuring me I'm not alone with my spoon refusenik son. At teh mo, he will play with spoon, chew teh handle, wave it around, daddy can put empty spoon in boys mouth, but if there is ANY thing, even milk, on it he refuses. Daddy can feed him biscit a little bit at a time (and I gave him a pinch of cake at the party today!) . We are not pushing it, will try rice etc again in a while , till then biscuit crumbs it will be!

Uni, I don't want this to sound flippant, but try a chip, I know it sounds barking, but it seems to be a winner on the feb thread, mines very happy with homemade ones, but some people have done mc'd's with the salt sucked off, eeeekkkk....you can also try the give him a spoon to distract him method, whilst he's looking at that try shovelling a bit in, although this method usually works very well when they want to feed themselves, I'm sure it could work the other way as well for an interest thing. Off to bed now, so don't think I'm being ignorant if I don't reply.

Friz- was biten /stung by an ant I think in the garden at teh hall at end of party, when all the helpers were having a cuppa and congratulating ourselves. I was wearing shorts. bit of a bummer that trailer and bike are now at wrong house, need to work out when to go and get them. Thankfully said friend lives at teh top of the first hill on teh road way home from the hall. I can't take the bike and trailer teh short way through the park (downhill , uphill) as won;t get through kissing gates :-( have to go round 3 sides of park by road instead ( uphill, down hill, uphill).

Uni, on the one hand bummer, on the other think of the weight you will loose however I totally appreciate that it could be very painful still even attempting that with a bite/sting in such an akward place, ouch once again

Cousins lo is doing ok folkes! he's having more tests later, but so far, so good, phew....they're still not saying what's caused it tho ?

Friz - great news re your cousin - can almost feel your relief in your post bless you!
Uni - congrats on the yoga class win - cracking prize - hope Boy is good for his Daddy when you take them up. Ouch on having your knee nibbled/stung though, it can be so itchy and annoying.
We are wondering whether to go more with the baby led weaning. Friz, my dd agrees with your chip thing - that was the first food she grabbed off my plate at put in her mouth! I panicked at first but then again it's only potato really. She does do the 'baby bird' thing too Astrophe with purees so she has some of that then just a bit of what we are having occasionally if she wants it. Still always wants boob immediately after though.
We had a lovely weekend in Hastings for my auntie's 60th birthday although it was a long drive there one day and back the next. Broke the journey down on Saturday to go and watch some dragon boat racing at Bewl Water which was fun.
Friz you made me smile mentioning Newstead Abbey. I grew up in Ravenshead so used to walk/bike there most weekends with my friends as a child for picnics - vey happy memories

Friz, great news, am still praying for the LO.

Well, after weeks and weeks of terrible nights and 5 wake ups the night before last, our DS slept for 12 1/2 hours straight last night!!!! It was completely shocking, and I actually felt sick all day from tiredness - I think it just reminded my body how sleep deprived I am (I'm not complaining really !)..so I know he can do it - now lets see how tonight goes hey?

The HV came today and was very kind. She told me a million times what a good Mum I am and how lovely the children are, which was nice to hear, even though its her job to say it. The friend we went camping with often says quite negative things about DDs behaviour which I find very hurtful and it makes me very anxious, so it was good to hear that her pushing, snatching etc is completely normal for a 2.3 year old (she really is such a sweet girl).

HV also did a questionaire thing with me and apparently my answers scored 14, and over 11 is an indicator for possible depression, so I have to go see the GP now. Don't even know my GP, so that could be good or bad.

After HV left had a fairly rotten arvo, feeling overwhelmed by all the camping stuff that needs unpacking, piles of washing, screaming kids, DS refusing to eat, DD throwing tantrums...ended up shouting at DD and giving her a smack (yes, a smack - I know its no. 1 of the 7 sins on MN), then felt dreadful and had a big cry until DH came home and rescued me.

Sorry, rant over. I feel better to have it out.
Tomorrow we are out at toddlers group, and DH has said he CAN take wed off for my b'day afterall, so the rest of the week will be better I'm sure.

Hello all,

I am glad everything is getting better for you all,
I am back at work and Uni now so I will be limiting MN time -

Ds is a brilliant roller now (and get to everything on th efloor he decides he wants usual dd's toys.
Feeding is going well although he is more interesed in our plates than his food so have taken to feeding him first and then givinghim finger food after whilst we eat -
Take care of yourselves and your families I will no doubt be checking in from time to time and it seemd somehow rude not to post and let you know what was happenning

Crikey Gothic, your one busy lady keep dropping by when you can

Uni, I tried out Yoga today, have found a class with a creche, hurrah! liked it so much I'm going again next week, although I'm starting to feel bits begining to ache

Astro, your dd most certainly is normal, silly friend christ she'd think my eldest was a monster.....
Glad you had chat with HV today and are off to docs to get sorted, if you want to chat to someone locally about it, a friend of mine is going thru it too and is on the ad's at the mo, I can pop you in touch if you like, for the shared experience thing?
Personally I think your wonderful (don't blub) I don't think I'd have managed as well as you, with moving country, having a baby and no one whom you know that well locally, you deserve a huge {{{{{{HUG}}}}}}}}

LL, hope the hols are going great!

Jackstini, Ravenshead eh! very posh We actually have friends who've moved onto the Newstead estate recently, so its really nice visiting them when the crowds have gone home too

Oh yes Friz - I am a posh chick! Not as posh as your friends though - wooooo! Would love to live in Newstead Abbey estate but unless the lottery is favourable I am thinking not going to happen...
Astrophe - hope you are feeling much better & had a lovely birthday yesterday hun. let us know what you did with dh and the los. Have you got an appointment with your GP yet? Hope you get the help you need - I too think you are coping brilliantly considering everything you have to deal with. Ignore the friend who is making nasty comments about dd, or, see if you are brave enough to take a deep breath & tell her you do not find it helpful and would appreciate this being a subject not up for discussion. Might shock her into silence
Gothic - it's hard being back at work isn't it - especially as dd is still not sleeping thru and I am bf-ing upto 3 x a night [half asleep emoticon!] Hope you still get chance to come on here occasionally. Only MN keeps me sane during work hours sometimes!
dd was sick for first time yesterday - started during her sleep and the noise scared me to death - thought she was choking. Poor little girl looked so bewildered, just didn't understand what was happening to her Happened again 2 hours later but seems to have been ok for past 24 hours so fingers crossed

Jackstini re the sick, hope things still ok?
LL thinking of you sunning yourself!
Astro, Happy Birthday for yest!
Uni, Rom, Caddy, Munz, Gothic etc hello!!
Funeral here tomorrow

hi all. sorry i've been so stuck into the weaning books and pureeing and shopping that i havent been near a computer! i know you will all understand

happy belated bday astro! my birthday next week too. and yes, hurrah for our clever little six month old babes - where has the last 6 months gone???? i love this age, they are fabulously cute and funny. and so enthusiastic about everything.

friz - about the funeral. hope all is going great for you otherwise hon.

Friz - hope everything has gone ok today with the funeral
dd has not been sick again and seems much better, although nursery have now warned us chicken pox is going round.....!
Yep Rom - know just how you feel