April 2006 Babies - Spring has finally Sprung!

[Ponka]

Anyone want to join me here? Mrs. Q, Pachinofan, Spots, Anyone else?

My name is Ponka and I had a little boy (Luke Elliott) on the 7th April. We are doing well. I also have another DS age 22 months.

Please excuse me if I don't get back here very regularly for the moment, it's very busy here, as I'm sure it is with you, too! I thought there should be a thread though.

We are 8+2 & can't crack the sleeping longer in the night thing either. 3 hours max for us.

Haven't breastfed for over a day now - I guess that's it. Feel a bit guilty of course. Strange to see my boobs all tiddly again (I'm a aa cup at best!).
Christening tomorrow so loads of family descending on us. Including father in law who I can't bear.
Ah well at least it's sunny!

Been quiet here recently.
How did the christening go Tonton? We haven't even thought about that yet, not sure what we'll do.

Well since puting ds on a formula feed at bedtime he's getting close to cracking sleeping thru the nite. Didn't wake up till 6.00 this morning which was nice.
He's starting to be so much more responsive too, he's also bashing the things on his play gym and is getting better at entertaining himself more.
Has been a bit grumpy in the heat but not too bad and he will take water from a bottle which helps.

Hello everyone, looks like we've all still got our heads down getting the hang of the new baby thing.
DS2 is doing really well now, no projectile vomiting for a couple of weeks and he's been sleeping through as well - till 7.30 this morning! (though it was 5.15am yesterday - so not really consistent!).
He's caught the sun a bit yesterday, though it was cloudy and very windy here and he was quite covered up - he's got a healthy colour that makes him look quite bonny!
Hope everyone's well and the feeding and sleeping are settling down ok.

Yes it has been quiet, hasn't it? Sorry, I've just realised it's about a month since I posted!

We are doing well. DS is still a little angel but he is still a bit vomity. He has started rolling onto his front whenever he can. This slightly worries me because he has got to go into his cot soon. He's getting too small for a moses basket (which he obviously cannot roll in)and we can't fit a cot in our room so he's going to have to go in the nursery . If he constantly rolls onto his front I'm going to be constantly worried about cot death and checking him every 10 minutes!

Hello to everyone who has appeared since I last posted. Welcome.

He's getting too small for hi moses basket ponka?! He's growing in reverse

dd2 is fine - really lovely. Still not sleeping that long at night. Usually feed 11pm, 3am, 6am.

The birth is still on my mind a lot. It's like a horror movie playing in the back of my mind and it always makes me want to cry. Already take anti depressants (was on them whole pregnancy) so shouldn't get pnd, fingers crossed.

mmhmmm, I've got a puker too, she is sick after every feed without fail.

Not worried about it though as she is growing fine, Also DS was like this as a baby and it carried on with milk feeds right up to 11months! Oh the joys of the months to come!

DD is sleeping atleast 8hours at night which counts as sleeping through to me! lol

Mmmm yes. Too big, I mean. Can you tell that I'm deficient in sleep?

Sorry to hear you are playing back the birth a lot, Tonton. I had this with my first birth, which was a bit of a horror story (although haven't had depression). It's been 2 years now and it has got a lot better with time. I hope it does for you.

8 hours is fab, Xavielli. We are nearly there with sleeping through, I think. He wakes once now in the early hours of the morning (usually around 5).

wow - no messsages from anyone for ages. You're all as knackered as me!

DS is doing very well, although he doesn't sleep very much, if at all. Luckily this was the pattern with all his big sisters too so we are used to it. I really feel for those of us with sleepless first babies - at least I know that this will, eventually, pass. When it's your first you just have no idea if it ever will...

I am still not too well with my liver probs following the hyperemesis. I never ever got to post a birth announcement either and I had really looked forward to that. Did anyone else get kind of overtaken by everything and never found time?

love to all, as don't know I'll get around to posting again (probably when I've dropped DS off at school on his first day )

No I'm not knackered!! Well... I am, obviously... but having an all right time last couple of nights. DD has only woken once for feeds. Marvellous. She s making us laugh a lot with her big wobbly head, and her googly eyes roving around looking (generally) for a feed or for something dangly. Or a chat, she loves a good chat. DD1 does a lot of 'I want to touch my baby!' and 'What's Theeee doing?' a good healthy curiosity there.

DH taking a couple of weeks off after the 6th which will be good. Not actual holiday stuff happenign but a bit of help. Did I say I wasn't knackered? I lied.

Hello guys, sorry I have been off for all this time, I have been potty-training ds1, and everytime I look at this thread, there seems to be more I have to write!

Ds2 is doing well, I haven't a clue what he weighs, but he looks well to me. He smiles and laughs, and slaps his toys about a bit, and ahh-gglllllsss. He can grasp, but he can't let go deliberately.

I haven't been very well, I've been quite depressed and I am being referred to a psychiatrist because my midwife thinks I have a mood disorder. We'll see.

Although I haven't added to this thread I have been reading it regularly, and I will try to post in a bit more often to get it going. We have always been the slowest thread around!

Sorry you've been low, Colditz. Really good to hear from you though. I can't think how hard it must be to parent when you're feeling awful.

Suspect all of us read this thread more often than we add to it! It is so hard to choose something to write that gives a true picture of what the babies are like at the moment.

our DD2 is... um... very tall and hungry, and loves nothing better than lying on her back on the changing table, chatting or being played with. Her mouth is a little Betty Boop mouth, tucked in between her round cheeks with no chin underneath! She is lovely to have around. I think DD1 thinks so too; she always says 'What's Thee doing? I want to touch her!' when she wakes up from a nap.

DH off on holiday but we still can't achieve anything at all during the day. No holidays planned apart from couple of days in a cottage up north. I would be quite happy to stay put here to be honest; everything takes so much energy.

Hi everyone, sorry you've been a bit low Colditz, hope the psychiatrist helps.
We're quite perky here, DS2 is just adorable, and he sleeps loads (DS1 did as well - I think we breed babies who sleep but only eat yoghurt and cake when they start weaning!) Some mornings I actually have to wake him up.....
We live near Farnborough and there's an air show next week so we already have planes practising overhead which DS1 loves, not sure DS2 will be so keen at the bit where the Red Arrows fly sideways down the garden - the noise is unbelievable.
I have to go back to the hospital next week for my post natal glucose tests for diabetes so I'll post wih the results.
Hope everyone else is well and enjoying the summer with lovely cuddly babies!

Colditz I am off to see psychiatrist next week! Hoping for some new medicatrion to keep me on an even keel.
I'm loving being off work. Back to being the main breadwinner this autumn though and am already feeling a bit anxious about big mortage and large childcare costs! Thought i was done with the latter.....
dd2 is wonderful, loving being a mither to her. Looking forward to the end of school term so will have both dds at home. Gorgeous girls!

Hi, it's nice to hear from everyone. Hope you work things out Colditz and Tonton.

It's going well here. DS2 is almost as loud at snoring as his daddy (and that's loud)!

I've been packing away some of DS2's newborn clothes today and I cried . Stupid thing to cry about but they grow up so fast and it feels like he hardly wore some of the clothes. DH is in danger of me wanting another when I promised I wouldn't!

Pachinofan. You still around?

Mrs. Q?

Hello!
Yes I am around... well sort of... haven't logged in for ages - mostly cos PC is in the sitting room at the moment and I don't really get a look in between CeeBeeBies if I turn it on infront of DS1 and in the evenings I'm just toooo exhausted!

I was going to settle in to do a nice long catch up now whilst DS1 is at pre-school but the builders drill-hammers (we're in week 1 of an extension at the noise already!) have just finally proved too much for gorgeous DS2 and woken him up so have to go already. All ok here, if you count being woken up 3 times a night every night for the last 3 and a half months ok!!

my dd2 was born 24th April weighing 7lb 5 i also have a 5 year old daughter who did initially take really well to her but in the last week or so has became clingy. (but we have had to move in my mams due to a burst sewage pipe - ugggh) im not breast feeding - did for the first 24 hours but found it intensly painful, after being checked by every midwife going who said she was latched on perfectly i gave in. (BF my first daughter for 10 days and ended up having problems bonding due to pain) DD2 is fab and areally settled baby. Though still gets up once during the night - is this normal at 11 weeks, my last one slept through from 5 weeks?

Hi spugs - my dd1 is 6 but seems to be enjoying having a little sister.
dd2 goes from about 11.30pm to 5.30-6amish now. She is 13 weeks I think.
Hasd my first big night out last night - a hen night. Bar followed by restaurant followed by club...followed by me walking from leicester square to hyde park corner in high heels at 1am looking for a cab!

havent had a proper night out in ages. going to a wedding in a couple of weeks though so my sisters having them all night which will be heaven. dd2 managed to roll over yesterday but think it may have been a fluke as shes only 12 weeks. shes been rolling onto her side when shes on the changing mat for a couple of weeks but yesterday she made it all the way!! how old are they supposed to be when they do this?

I'm another one who reads this quite a lot but don't post much. Just back from 2 weeks in Scotland which was good, ds behaved really well, lots and lots of smiles for all the hundreds (well seemed like hundreds anyway) of relations. We were pleasantly surprised to find that he slept just as well in his travel cot as he does at home.

Ds is 12 weeks old and is sleeping through most nights now, usually from about 11.15pm ish to about 7.00am, has a small feed then goes back to sleep till about 10.00am. Its good to get a long lie but I know eventually it would be better if he slept in the evening (only sleeps for an hour at the most from 9.30ish) rather than in the morning. Sometimes wakes up at about 4.30 but isn't hungry, must just be habit I guess.
He's still not very good at sleeping in his cot during the day, tends to only have a few half hour naps but I figure that as he usually sleeps so well at night he's probably fine.

He's grabbing everything he can and has started putting things in his mouth, including his whole hand which he then gags on! he's holding his head up well and is always laughing and smiling. Not showing any inclination to roll over yet, just likes to spend hours under his play gym.

Pepperrabbit- we live in Farnborough, at the end of the runway! So it will be interesting to see what ds is like with all the planes this week. Thankfully we've missed all the practising so just have to put up with it for this week.

Hi all,

Spugs we seem to be following each other around at the moment - AND our DDs share the same DOB.

Well I was going to have a nice positive post -BFing was going much better, but things have gone rocketing downhill. She was just getting slower & slower feeding. I was just starting to debate whether to stop before or after our holiday (ready to go back to work) when DD3 had a raging fever (the really hot W/E a couple of weeks ago) as a result of an ear infection & a few crackles on the chest. The antibiotics gave her diarrhea (sp). I then had to go for a DVT scan as my ankles are still swollen. DTDs are now on holiday from school & arguing like mad & to top it all off my father died last week. The latter is not really a probem as I did not get on with my father so I don't expect any sympathy, but it means I am tied up with the practical arrangements & have 'stuff to deal with' emotionally IYSWIM. The stress of all of the above means that I am not getting a good letdown, feeds are getting slower & I need to be spending my time elsewhere so I am giving up. My target was 3-4 months so at 12wks I am not far off that & DD3 is actually more content. SHe sleeps for longer at a time during the day (probably cos she is not sleeping when she should be feeding!), which helps me out no end. At the mo I am still doing the last feed (or express at that time as I am uncomfortable), a night feed if necessary & the first feed of the day. I can't seem to move on from that though as I get too uncomfortable not to feed at night & morning & it is more convenient to BF in the middle of the night. Still I have got to this position in 6 days, which is much quicker than I had planned. Once I had decided though I just wanted to get it over & done with. She is also going to be staying with MIL for 3 days whilst I go to funeral & empty the house - where I won't be in a position to express hygenically. I will be around in the evening & through the night though so I guess the current pattern fits that anyway.

Anyway for the positive. SHe is growing but it feels as though she is going to be in newborn clothers for ever (still only 9lb11oz). She needs more outfits for holiday but I am reluctant to buy loads more newborn stuff & 0-3months is still quite big in most brands. We can see she is developing too. she is rolling to her side, starting to bat her gym, bring her hands together, but probably the most significant thing is that she has developed a tumb sucking habit which is becoming quite refined. She is also starting to settle herself to sleep when she is very tired.

I do feel quite guilty sometimes cos it seems that she spends so much time 'dumped' under her play gym which she loves. She doesn't like her bouncy chair & I just need the time to do other things sometimes. I can't remember what I did with DTDs at this age. What is everyone else doing for entertainment?

Anyway sorry for the mammoth post. Have been trying to post for a couple of weeks but every time I try I get distracted.

Hi everyone
2plus2plus1 I wouldn't worry about lack of sophisticated entertainment - with twins around there should be more than enough activity going on! DS2 also gets dumped in his chair with a play arch or on his playmat, I gree, there's just so much other stuff that needs doing constantly. With DS1 i seemed to have loads of time to do stimulating play etc but we'd live in squalor under a sea of Bob the Builder toys if that's all I did this time!
DS2 adores DS1 and smiles and kicks and gets really excited as he hurtles past - though I turned my back for about a minute yesterday, and when I came back DS2 seemed to have a Dizzy and a Travis the Tractor parked on his head! DS1 said he'd had nothing to do with it.......
We've booked our first holiday in 3 years for September, so I'm already panicking about travelling with 2 little ones, sterilising abroad, foreign car seats.... I reckon we'll need so much stuff DH will only have room for one pair of swimshorts and I'll have to travel in my bikini and flipflops.
Actually, just the thought of putting on a bikini is quite scary
I'm wittering now, i'll get my coat.
DebitheScot, enjoy the airshow!

Hi everyone, this is the first time I've posted on this thread, though you may remember me from the antenatal one! DD is exactly 3 months today, so the "missing trimester" is officially over and I'm expecting great improvements... She's still not sleeping too well though, usually only manages a few 30-minute naps during the day, and wakes up for a feed every 3 hours or so during the night. Not great, but I seem to manage OK on the sleep I'm getting, and she's obviously thriving - her 3-6 months clothes are already getting a bit tight !

She too gets dumped in her bouncer all the time, but like pepper I think she gets enough entertainment from watching the rest of the family! DS was recently diagnosed with autism (which we had been suspecting for a long time), so now I spend every free minute researching therapies or just playing with him. Unfortunately, with all the housework that needs doing and DD sleeping so little this doesn't happen a lot at the moment.

After being intensely jealous and anxious for the first 2 months, DS is now finally coming round to the idea that "bibiii", as he calls her, is actually quite interesting. He avidly helps me change her nappy and keeps trying to put things into her hand - a bit scary now that she's trying to put everything into her mouth! Obviously I can't leave the two of them alone for a second, so I keep lugging DD around the house in her bouncer. I really look forward to her being able to sit unsupported!

Nice to hear from you Homsa. DS2 does a lot of sitting in his rocking chair and watching us here, too. I do feel badly about it but he's a happy soul.

wish my bloody baby would do that, chance would be a fine thing.

DD2 hs turned out to be a mega-thumb-sucker! Not s7re how I fel about this. DD1 used dummies until abut 18 months or so.
I know it's great she calms herself and as she's bottle fed she ptobably needs a good suck. But i do worry about the develoment of her jaw/teeth/speech etc. Can anyone reassure me?!
Or should I be trying to switch her back to dummies so i can remove them at a later date?