November 2012 - all the babies have arrived

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He is six weeks horsey yes the dribble was phenomenal compared to no dribble before! I wondered if it was the growth spurt but he wasn't routing for food.

Fatima

Sophia your childrens centres sound much better than the ones round here. Ours do baby and toddler groups etc and you can just use their playroom but ...hot drinks are banned!! Who can stand being in a roomful of screaming kids without caffeine? Not me, that's for sure!!

Blue can you put it on the back of the tongue? It's much harder to spit it out then.

When do their belly buttons heal up? J is five weeks tomorrow and he still had a scab although it is getting smaller.

Re. smelly farts, my poor DS really cried wolf last night, he kept up this continual low rumble of stink but every time I changed him there was nothing there. Cut to 4am feed, more rumbling, I thought I am not falling for that again sunshine and we all went back to sleep. 8am I get up, go to change him & there is poo soaked through his sleepsuit and even worse a spot on my top so it must have been like that at 4am. Oh the guilt. Worst. Mummy. Ever.

It takes me about 3 minutes to give gripe water. I give it straight off the spoon in very small amounts, by the time he's had it all it only takes a couple more minutes for the burps to start. I love gripe water.

I too had failed transfers last night despite swaddling, so much for our previoud 2 good nights was secretly extremely glad that I had my monkey back sleeping on my chest.

Dixie it was me with the sore arse. I might try Lactulose to 'soften things up', is it safe to take when breast feeding?

Sweetpea Just make sure you get out to all the baby and toddler groups you can, try to get out everyday. Some can be crap and clicky, but there are always some lovely mums there. My best friend was my sons best friends mum, she was totally neurotic and over thought everything with her kids when I first met her my corruption and slattern ways have now rubbed off, but we used to chat things through. Also there was a bit of a gang of us who just met through our children, but only because we used to turn up at the same groups. When they were older we each had a day when we would pick them up from nursery and go back to one of our houses to have lunch. What I'm trying to say is you are not alone and now is a perfect opportunity to go out and make new friends with other new mums, you will be surprised how many have their own stories.

MIL's birthday today, what can I buy her? She is a massive dog lover and I do like her, I've left it too late haven't I? She's going to end up with flowers isn't she?

On ur marks. Get set. And rant!

She wants me to apologise n will not talk to me until I do. Part of me thing good. Other thinks just apologise. She is complaining that I always take LO to bed at 6-7 pm n stay in my room. N that I only come back down when they go to sleep. She finds this rude. I find this untrue. I have done this a hand full of times as I'm trying to get LO asleep in his cot. A majority of the time im helping with dinner n cleaning kitchen till 8. Then I go in to 2nd living room n watch tv. But what the hell is wrong with that? I don't want to watch their shows. I shouldn't have to sit with them n make chit chat whenever they r at home.

OH knows exactly how I feel. Yet he won't move out.
Rock n a hard place. I'm stuck in the middle.

GT I couldn't imagine anything worse than living with DPs mother. I would go stir crazy. You are a patient woman. Ignore her and do what is best for your family.

As Garden says, I couldn't even live with my own mother, never mind someone elses!

I wish we had baby and toddlers groups here. They don't exist in France except where there are big expat communities.

LO has gne back to her waking up for a quick feed once during the night routine.. Yay!

Shelly also my mil bday today. Sons n daughters will come visit later. I'm sure it will b so much fun... Not

I'm going on the pill I think while bfing then might go on something else. Have had the implant before but bled alot for weeks at a time. Don't want the injection/ coil so doesn't leave me with much choice!

I don't dare go on the pill again as that's what I was taking when I got pregnant so think we're going to stick with condoms horrible things

I have no idea what to do as I do want another and I'm worried about going on anything with hormones and ending up with adhesions etc again. Might be horrible condoms for us.

GT you are a saint. I am glad my mil live on the opposite side of the globe. I could not live with her. In fact I'm dreading the week I will have with her in jan.

Another one up half the night here, am shattered. LO is so noisy at night! Lots of grunting and snuffling from 2 til 5am.

I think she might be allergic to dairy, she's had green mucousy poo for about a week now, she always sounds congested even tho she doesn't have a cold and she's got reflux so it looks like I'm going to have to go dairy free which will be interesting as I eat loads of dairy! How's it going for you YW?

In better news I tried the saline drops and snot sucker on LO this morning, amazing what a difference it's made! She sounds so much clearer

Oh and I was thinking of trying the Mirena coil as don't want anymore DCs, not sure I will if it causes bleeding tho. Didn't get my period for 10 months when I breast fed DD1 tho, hope it stays away for that long this time!

I am so glad I have been sterilised. So glad. Shame I still have to have the sodding periods though. In theatre I was bleeding heavily as usual, and I suggested they just whip it all out as I was finished with it anyway. Sadly they did not.

In relation to hot drinks being banned at toddler groups, I am in total agreement having seen the damage that can be done. I was at work a while back and had a clinic at a community centre. I heard a blood-curdling scream of a mother, followed by a child screaming clearly in agony. The little lass had pulled a cup of coffee over her head and had to go to the burns hospital for skin grafts. She was 16 months old, the coffee was not freshly made, and had milk added, but even with immediate appropriate first aid the damage was horrendous. I will never forget the scream of the mother.

Kissy if you don't want anymore mirena was fab and I had 3 years of no periods... And 2 years of very light ones.

shelly, yes lactulose fine when BFing, I was prescribed it in the hospital. It's good stuff although it takes a couple of days to work, and I haven't been taking it consistently so think I'm not getting the full benefit.

Teddy has a mummy sleep detector today. Every time I lie down for a nap he wakes and starts screaming! Give me a break baby!

Mmm yes, I know what you mean about the ht drinks vq as I Was the victim of a badly placed cup of tea by my dad when I was about 18 months. Scarred for life, luckily only on my upper arm.

Howeve on the ther hand a cup of tea and a biscuit is lush. At our toddler group we have it restricted to a 20 minute period and we have signs up everywhere. O virus,y the children's centre have it on free flow in the family room.

vq was it you with the space saver cot?

I have the ultimate space saver cot. It is disassembled as the little rotter will not sleep in the wretched thing. I am glad he will not be talking for a while, as his first word would likely be fuck.

My friends son tipped a freshly made cuppa tea over himself when they were round, she wasn't watching him. God knows what she was doing she's a bit of an idiot tbh I don't see her anymore!

At our surestart centre they give us tea in child proof plastic cups, they have a lid with a small hole in and you can twist the lid so the hole is covered. Like a travel mug really.

Did you hear about that woman who went to have a hysterectomy and they removed a 14 week old fetus without telling her. She already had three girls and she was preg with a boy- horrendous.

We hate condoms, we didnt even use one the other night and dd is starting to sleep alot longer at night I'm a bit worried I've fucked up!

Not had a chance to catch up yet but need some advice. DD has milk spots all over her face and an angry red spotty rash on her back and shoulders. HV next door diagnosed it as heat rash. It flares up and then dies down again and has done over the past 48 hours. She's happy in herself (eating, sleeping, pooing). Any advice on how to keep her cool? I didnt put a vest on her today so she only has one layer on and it looks really awful

I'm back on the pill for a few more months until DH 's post snip check up. I wish they'd agreed to sterilise me. My ob gyn says I shouldn't have anymore anyway.

MM turn the heating down? That's all I can suggest.also avoid soap, creams and fabric conditioner.