November 2012 - the birthplosion (thanks Peaky)

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Previous post-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1579907-November-2012-babies-are-here-at-last

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My ds never slept more than 45 mins at a time in his Whole Life! No matter how he went to sleep or where we were he would only sleep for 45 mins sometimes even less.
He's never been a great sleeper from day one and now 2.4 years later still comes in our bed during the night.

Right. Picked him up. He burped. Waited a few minutes. He stopped crying. I've put him down. He is awake. How do u check he is sleep without making eye contact. Oh dear he started crying again. I'm never going to get to write what I came here for

petite- my heart goes out to you. I wanna give you a big hug. My thoughts are with you.

Thanks for all the messages of support. I feel lots better after a cry, some sleep, and Indian curry. I was loads more worried than N was, infact he really didn't want bothered after the fall. He was upset that I/the paramedics kept waking him up.

He IS sleeping in his Moses basket, in HIS room weather he likes it or not. No buts!
Evil

Petite big hugs and fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Evil When my youngest daughter was 4 months old, she was sat on my knee and rocking forwards and backwards. As she rocked forward, I had just turned round to get something and she rocked straight off my knee and landed on her face right in the fireplace. All her top lip swelled up straight away and she had a cut above it as long as her lip, it had just exploded!

I phoned my hubby who was working down the road and we went straight to hospital, blood everywhere. I was devastated and thinking that SS would take her off me. The hospital didn't contact them, but I was in bits for ages after, 8 years on and she still has a scar there.

Things like this happen, the eldest rolled off our bed as a newborn when hubby was looking after her, he thought he had time to run in the bathroom to grab the wipes!

Don't beat yourself up about it Evil, these things really do happen to everyone at some point.

Thanks for your kind words everyone. Just called the hospital and she's sleepig, the fever is down with paracetamol and they said don't worry. Go to sleep. So am tucked up and hope to have a decent night. Early start tomorrow..

X-posted with you Evil :)

Good news Petite :)

Glad you are feeling a bit better evil good luck with the moses basket.

GT try to get to know his cries. Is it a wind cry? If so, burp and put down again. If they are just stirring they will cry but stop within a few mins, and it will not be a serious cry. If hungry they will get louder and louder as they mean business. If you know they are due a feed then get them up straight away. If not long fed, give them a chance to self settle. This does not work for everyone, and not every mummy can cope with it, but it worked for my eldest, and J seems to be quite similar.

Another thing to watch is your babys preferred sleeping position. If J has his hands in the 'I surrender' position, I can be pretty confident he will sleep a couple of hours.

Glad you are feeling better evil. Funnily enough just read an interview in some sleb mag with Michelle Heaton talking about her baby rolling off the bed ~ l have heard of it happen a lot. When my ds was young he had to go to a&e cos he tried. chewing a lump of glass! Think at least one. such incident is. a rite of passage as. a parent.

Am sat downstairs with baby H upstairs and asleep. This is a first and now, of course, l am missing him and fighting the urge to briing him down

This may be aa daft question, but what actually happens at a bf support group? There is a local one and l?d llu

Glad you are feeling better evil. Funnily enough just read an interview in some sleb mag with Michelle Heaton talking about her baby rolling off the bed ~ l have heard of it happen a lot. When my ds was young he had to go to a&e cos he tried. chewing a lump of glass! Think at least one. such incident is. a rite of passage as. a parent.

Am sat downstairs with baby H upstairs and asleep. This is a first and now, of course, l am missing him and fighting the urge to briing him down

This may be aa daft question, but what actually happens at a bf support group? There is a local one and l?d llu

Our BFing group basically is a tea / chit chat group where ladies can BF without worry and also share any questions / BF issues - it's lovely as experienced feeders are there to help newbies with latch issues etc and generally as moral support. It's a mothers meeting really

Petite tryto get a good nights sleep. I can only reiterate what everyone else has said, she is in the right place and it's important that she is there because small babies can deteriorate really quickly, but in the same vein they can bounce back really quickly. My DS was taken from me the day after he was born and tubed up on SCBU because he was chesty, they treated him for an infection whilest they tried to find out what is was. I was a wreck on the ward and couldn't speak to anyone without crying, the midwife said she would have been more worried if I wasn't crying!

My DS comes to light sleep after 45 mins. Unfortunately this evening at 45 mins stupid mummy goes into the room to prepare for a bath, wakes him up, whereupon he has a poonami, now he is totally up and wants food! My routine was brewing so nicely as well. We are trying to salvage it by giving him half a feed now and half a feed in an hour or so. < despondent emoticon>

Aargh, stupid phone! Mrant to say l?d like to meet other mums with small babies but not sure if u just go if you have a bf problem.

Hope you have a good nights sleep pr and everyone

VQ Jonas is the same - if he's sleeping with his arms above his head - you know you have a couple of hours to get stuff done. His most furious cry is when I'm changing him before a feed. He goes proper mumpy! His most heartbreaking is his wee squeaks from wind.

I just had a recollection of playing with my sister as a child. My brother and I had taken her to the top bunk bed (I will have been 5 maybe, brother 9 and sister maybe 1) to play pirates.

So anyway, the inevitable happened and wee sister fell from the top bunk! Poor mum came racing through to see us on the bunk and her baby screaming and crying on the floor.

In hindsight I have no idea what we were supposed to be doing with her. We probably promised to play nicely on the floor.

My all night feed-a-thon started half an hour ago, as well as this I also express 125ml out of my right boob. Hubby can't believe how much milk these boobs can hold

I was interested in the weight thing after giving birth. Not because I'm bothered, but it's interesting to see. The day after giving birth I'd lost 9lb, Tommy was 7lb 3oz. The day after that (day 2) it was 11lb and today (day 8) it's 1 stone. I've no idea where this weight loss will now take me because already I'm 4lb under my pre-pregnancy weight (was a lard arse before). Tried some pants on before, but the size is missing out of them. They did up anyway so I think I fit in a 12 so far which is loosely what I squeezed myself into before. Am staying in my comfy maternity pants for another week or so though to avoid the red welts

Penelope does a funny 'ugg ugg ugg' sound when she is really upset. That's when you know she is cheesed off. She now only does this when I am changing her. She hates being changed and I am such a fumbler with her it takes far longer than it really should.

Is it weird that I am sort of looking forward to a sleepless night trying to breast feed? Previously this evening I had her on for an hour then have her a top-up of expressed. It was quite a big top up so I don't think she is getting much. Doesn't really matter though as long as she is happy trying.

I now fancy joining a breast feeding group. I think I would benefit from getting out the house and the support of other, more experienced people. If you guys all actually were in my living room then it would be awesome.

I have had a right tearful day! Started with an SSPCA advert which showed lots of abandoned and abused animals all to the tune of Silent Night. Then of course the midwife caught it. Then the channel 4 news featured a dreadful story about the death of a newborn. DH came running through from the kitchen saying 'don't cry, passme!' To which I could only snuffle 'too late!' He then admitted that he was crying a bit too. Sitting here crying just thinking about crying!

So back at home. My parents drop me off. N while I am in kitchen mil asks my DM why I'm not breast feeding, (and the but I heard) its a waste of time pumping then washing up. Like it creates FUCKING work for her. It is none of her business. But to bring up the topic infront of my dad and fil. I live with my pil = traditional. I was mortified that she asked infront of the guys. Or asked at all. I was here 3 weeks before I went to my mums. She knew I was expressing so y ask now. It's like she has stewed over it for two weeks n wanted to embarrass me. N now I can't stop crying over it. Shit situation.

Pass my friend and I recreated a scene from neighbours when we were about 6 and my sister would have been three. She ended up with a door on her head. And down some stairs. She recalls it better than I do lol.

Dh sitting with ds. Ds wriggling lots. Dh just said 'that's right you make yourself comfy, don't you worry about me'. Apparently an elbow was going into his ribs!!

Aw pass you soft mushy bird! I too snivelled at that story and also ended up a bit snivelly last night whilst up night feeding Jonas - which I'm coming to really enjoy (nuts eh?) when I suddenly thought of all of the Mummas in Gaza trying to BF their babies in the middle of a warzone. It proper had me in bits that thought :(

Oh gt that sucks! :(

That is really off GT. Does she really think you would be creating that work for yourself if you didn't have to? What a strange way to behave.

Hi everyone, joining you all on here! :)
Lotta Beatrice was born at home on Friday at 2.10am after the most wonderful birth experience!
It was just as I'd hoped it would be.
She's 3 days now and a real boobie monster. She also doesn't like being in her Moses basket and prefers to be in bed with me.
DH is going back to work on Thursday, so we're trying to get in a routine in the morning to bring DD1 to school... She absolutely adores her little sister.

Pass - I'd have loved ds to have suddenly got bf!! Like you I'd have been looking forward to the sleepiness night!! Alas he doesn't do it, now I dread him not sleeping lol!!

I need to occupy my brain. I'm going nuts at home.

Hello everyone and many congrats on all your lovely babies!

I'm only getting round to joining now - baby G is 19 days old, birthweight 7lb 14, breastfeeding and back to birthweight at day 12 so happy with that.

My 2 main current queries are: (and sorry if they have been discussed on thread before but it's sooo long!)

Baby G is covered in erythema toxicum/newborn rash/baby acne and it just looks so horrid, real pussy teenage like spots on face, neck, top of back. I know it's such a trivial problem but please tell me it fades without a trace in a reasonable time. It's just really bugging me but as I said, I know a lot worse could happen.

Her belly button clip fell off early on day 4 and at first I thought it would just dry up and the skin grow over area but when I change her nappy I notice that sometimes there is crusty blood there and sometimes not. Apparently this is normal...anyone experiencing this? Also area above belly button looks a little bluish like the skin is very thin there??

In terms of feeding, she is feeding about 2.5-3 hourly and am worried that sometimes I'm putting her to breast when she is just fussing as she's gassy. So this pm I made a good effort to wind her (most times she does at least 1 burp post feed) using lots of different positions and she ended up doing a massive Vom which is only the third Vom since birth. Feel like I can't win .

Anyway, feel we have been very lucky And blessed with her but it's so nice to be able to discuss the little worries with people in same boat