November 2012 - losing sleep and losing weight

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I hate growth spurts.

And the fact my tub of ben and jerrys is just out of reach on the coffee table

diet going well

My shoebox containing mass quantities of Christmas chocolates is entirely within reach. Sugar high? Yes please...

Training pants are also the pull-up nappies.

The walk was ok. Dogs loved it, chasing each other. Then Toby the terrier joined in!!! For once it was young dog not listening to the owner!!

Tits - ds been chewing and drooling from 7 weeks. Hv said it's him finding his hands but can also be a sign of teeth moving. Today he's chewed a lot. But also not wanted his dummy. He's now 10 weeks.

No idea about potty training!!

I'm really looking too going to the dr's. it's not the normal dr, but at lest I can get answers. I just don't want to be fobbed off. Any tips??

Evil

The ones we use at nursery are the huggies pull ups which are disposable.
Not for everyone but every child I met loved them and made it a lot less stressful for them clearing up any accidents.

Please dont let my sore boob be mastitis again. Please don't let my sore boob be mastitis again. :(

ditsy, Teddy is only 5 weeks so hasn't had jabs yet but ds1 never had any reactions to them. Also the process wasn't as bad as I'd feared, usually cried but only for a few seconds. A feed immediately afterwards did wonders. Hope Ted will be the same!

Had some poo success with ds1 finally, after a day of running to loo, poor Ted being dumped on floor mid-feed, and standing in toilet BFing while holding ds1's hand so he could squeeze it, all with no results. Finally mud-bath he realised poo was coming and got him on the potty to do it. Hoorah. Start all over again tomorrow...! Apart from the poo reluctance he is dry though, and although I'm sticking nappy on for naps and bedtime I think he's dry for those too. He's 2.3, so quite pleased. petite, I have at least 4 friends with little girls who were fully potty trained before they were 2, I think it might be easier with girls.

10 day course of flucanazole for me, I will beat this nipple thrush in to submission!

tits my DD is 11w and or the past week or so she had been chewing her hands a lot, drooling and mouthing anything she can, her gums in places at harder then others so I think she could be teething

Good luck tomorrow evil FC you get something sorted tomorrow

Damn I was going to say something but I can't remember for the life of me

Fluconazole cured my boobs of it! Some docs are loathe to prescribe but it's often the only thing to work.

Evil go in there confident and calm. State clearly that 1/5th of babies suffer with some degree of problematic reflux, state that you don't expect your baby not to cry (i.e. it's not as if you have unreasonable expectations) but that your infant is inconsolable and that this is a new development. Describe the symptoms and if you are dismissed ask for an immediate second opinion from another doctor at the practice (it's your legal right). Gaviscon is cheap for the NHS ask for them to prescribe it to see if it makes a difference?

ditsy DD1 never had any reactions to jabs. So far E has just been sleeping a lot after having hers this afternoon so quite a good reaction so far

The dr gave me gaviscon to see if that helps her stop being as sicky but I'm a bit loathe to give it to her as the peadiatrition wanted to wait till I see him again. The dr wants me to go back to her after I've had my next pead appointment. I don't see why I need to really as she's in the hands of the peads. I think it's the too many cooks scenario. She's now being monitored by the hv, peads and drs!

evil I got given gaviscon easily without asking or particularly wanting it so you should get it easily I would have thought. Failing that I have 15 sachets going spare

Dh rant alert :

ARRRRGGGHHH !!' So today I've done two sets of clothes washing , hung up, then into tumble drier, folded clothes , tidied kitchen, cooked dinner from scratch , made lunch for dh for 2mo, forever washing dishes , drying up, putting away, tidied lounge . All this whilst I have a temperature cause of mastitis . As well as usual baby stuff- bf, changing comforting.... She doesn't sleep for long so all the housework is done on super hardcore speed.

Dh comes home, given he baths her whilst I'm heating up dinner and then settles her In bouncer whilst we eat. I have a 15 min bath at which point LO is fussing as she's hungry... Can hear dh swearing saying why won't she settle ... She's been bloody asleep for the pass 1 1/2hr and now she's hungry a-hole! I jump out of bath and feed her.. Dh does remaining washing up and then comes up to tell me off for not putting away the salt?! Wtf???!!!! I am so angry and upset... I don't think men have a clue what's it like. When he looks after her he just sits in the lounge and does nothing else!! AAARRRGGGHHHHH

Rant over :(

Sympathies candypop inbetween appeasing the cluster feeding growth spurt monster I've done 2 loads of washing, written 50+ thank you cards and cooked dinner. DP comes home: "so what have you actually done today?"

The only reason we didn't leave the house today is because the prat drove off with the pram in the car

Vodka n OJ. yummy

YellowWellies - I had to be v specific about what I wanted as I knew otherwise I'd be fobbed off with just the cream!

My dh can be the same 're housework - can't see what I have done, and only notices what I haven't!

Want sleep

Hope you are sleeping now Stunt!

DP requested that we have some 'us time' last night. DS1 was at his dads, my dad out at his friends.

What could go wrong?!

Well, it went something like this.... Made Raclette for tea (Swiss dish involving sitting around melting cheese under a grill at the table and pouring on potatoes. We also watched a film. Apt rather... 'friends with kids'. So. It started off Oscar asleep. Great. Spuds landed on the table, eyes go PING. So the entire meal consisted of me moving Oscar around his toys, as he got bored of the swinging chair, bored on the play mat, bored on the vibrating chair, bored with his dummy in, bored with his dummy out, then decides he is tired. I have to rock him to sleep. I've not finished my tea, still have 3 slices of cheese for melting (you do one at a time) but DP has. But he decides he has man flu and 'doesn't want Oscar to catch it'. So it is me who has to deal with him the whole evening.

After tea he is asleep in the vibrating chair. For 5 minutes. He then has a nappy change. Then he is then jiggled about for 10 minutes as he is still tired. He decides he is no longer tired. He gets fed. He gets another nappy change as discover wet clothing after 20 minutes of grump after his feed. This is why he is grumpy. Do full clothing change. Discover one solitary red dot on his groin. Panic. Press glass. Does not fade. Panic some more. Decide to be sensible and ring GP. GP calls back, 'just keep an eye on him'.

After all this, DP tells me what the jist of the film was. I think he enjoyed his 'us time'....... .

And after all that, I check him over on his next feed. The mark has gone. Disappeared. Completely. . I am glad I tried cleaning it off earlier, or I really would have thought I'd lost the plot. Was a bright red dot not raised on his skin, as if a felt tip has been dotted on there. Fucking weird.

Tonight is my turn for man flu I reckon.

Oh candy pop myv dh can be the same, although he does try most of the time. As boo gets older his doing less so "you have something to do apart from sitting on the sofa all day"!
As I took next to no maternity leave before my c-section, one day, his still used to doing his own thing. Which is actually very little other than watch day time tv and drink tea.
Will try not to laugh manicly when I eventually have to go back to work and he has to be responable for all the house work again and boo.

Trying not to resent the beautiful little baby sleeping in her basket. I will make myself greatful she's sleeping well... I will not be a nasty mummy; will not attempt to rouse her again for more of a feed.
She slept from 11 to 5, me wide awake at 3 expecting her to want a feed. Boobs ready to explode, whip her out of her bed, feeds for a couple of mins each side and is dead to the world again.
Will go jump in the shower quickly and attempt a couple more hours sleep and stop willing her to wake up again. I could have been sleeping but body is still in shock that it can sleep for over four hours at a time. Body clock slowly being rest... If she keeps this up in a few days time I may avtually manage six or seven hours myself.
I used to love my sleep, pregancy me kick that adiction giving into to power naps at night. Now boo is sleeping for longer I'd like it back please.

We went from 10:15 to 5:45

I'm so jealous of everyone getting long sleeps! B seems to be set to a 3 hour cycle, I get 4 hours if I'm lucky. She's 5 weeks today.

I went to bed at 7.30 last night to catch up on some sleep. DH stayed up until she woke for her next feed at 11. I ended up with 9 hours sleep in three blocks but I lost my evening with DH.

A question for breastfeeders, do you always offer both sides at a feed? When I had dd1 they recommended that you only offer I side.

Nervous . That's all.

dicks I would be happy with three hours at 10 weeks DS barely slept last night due to his breathing. I am yet again shattered.

toomany, Teddy is 5+4, we're still on 3-4 hour stints, but in last few days a bit more consistently 4. I think they're just still a bit young, hopefully a few more weeks will help. Also, I don't always offer both sides. Often Teddy feeds for so long on one side he just fills himself up or falls asleep, I never seem to 'drain' the boob in the sense that no more cones out. So prob about 50% of the time he only has one side. I just go with the flow, and don't bother offering if he's sated.