October 2012 babies - over here nobbers!

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This really will be the thread where all our babies start sleeping through the night... right?!

Fanjeaux also made me howl snigger for a few minutes

Been meaning to ask everyone...

Has anyone else got a sweaty baby? I read somewhere before she was born that babies weren't supposed to sweat but baby Fjord sweats profusely on her head when feeding and if she gets over hot, has felt a bit damp under her arms, on her back and behind her knees. Haven't heard anyone else mentioning sweaty babies so I'm beginning to get paranoid that she has malfunctioning sweat glands or too many of my hormones still lurking around!?

crazy - I'm sending empathy with the not sleeping. Here I am with a great night-sleeper but the stress of having 2 young teenagers around for nearly 2 weeks (they went yesterday) has taken its toll & I was sudoku-ing at 3am, writing comments in my iPhone notes app from this feed, to upload today, and listening to DP snore and DD purr...maybe it's something to do with the hormonal change too? Didn't you say your periods were back? Mine too... (apologies if I've mixed you up with someone else...was 7 pages of reading...) Added smpathy for the ouch-worthy feeding of baby-paving. I really wish we had a bath. Haven't had one since I was 3 months pregnant visiting London. I could really do with a relaxing soak right now...

zara - yes! Know what you mean about the body. I've seemed to permanently have symptoms of UTI or thrush. Belly feels mildly tender all over the lower half and always a bit hard & bloated. Your weight goals sound totally reasonable. I was aiming for a sustained 2lb a week loss over 7 months but then I have around 5 stone (30kg) to lose & have the same final weight goal as you pretty much (not sure how realistic that is - I've never had this much weight to lose before...never more than a couple of stone). Your monthly goal sounds very achievable if you are exercising well! :)

Off to eat some jelly and drink a load of water (I live dangerously...) then bath and bed baby Fjord. Early-ish night tonight as health sister and 3 month baby check/batch of vaccinations tomorrow morning and we have a record of always being hideously late to the baby clinic, even though it's virtually just around the corner/10 minutes on foot. Hoping baby Fjord will pass muster. Feeling more confident that I come across as a good mother as nearly everyone I meet now and most acquaintances who have met baby Fjord say she is the happiest and smiliest baby they have ever met (which makes me glow with pride inside :)). I finally have an appointment for my own 6-week post-birth check on Monday; at nearly 15 weeks post birth. Doh!

Today's good news: After taking the DCs to the National Gallery (DD thrilled by allegorical painting showing busty goddess squirting milk into a cherub's mouth a couple of away from her breast - I explained that, no, that wasn't a game we'd be playing with DS) I cooked a three-course vegetarian dinner, despite burning rather than sweating some leeks while DS guzzled.

Today's less good news: DD has acquired a pair of spectacles from the front of a magazine. They are a sparkly turquoise with star-shaped frames: very Elton John. I took my glasses off after dinner and tried them on. 'That's peculiar,' I said. 'Even though they haven't got lenses, they make everything look very blurred.'

'That's because you've taken your own glasses off,' replied DH.

I haven't even touched alcohol for nearly a week because it doesn't mix with my migraine meds.

Glad uppababy question answered! We not actually in stroller yet. Tried few weeks back and straps too loose on body. But will try affin now as he refuses bassinet! Too nosy! What footmuff anyone using? Refuse to pay price for uppababy one after price of bloody pram!!

So tired. Brain melted by work. Brief read only. In awe of babies being put down to sleep..... DS not too bad to get to sleep but must be by either feeding or motion. Have visions of rocking a four year old to sleep.......

Who said going back to work end Feb to leave SAHD and hope to express?? Me too. And not expressed over one month due to thrush. But got new ameda lactiline today. Hope upon hope I succeed this time!!

Cannot do more. Well done fjord on epic catch ups. I often wonder how u getting on with step girls.

Baby massage tmrw!! Yay!!

Sleep......... Zzzzzzzzzzx

DS isn't sweaty, but I do have to clean the creases in his thighs because they accumulate grot. Does anyone else do this? Or is he just ridiculously fat?

elpis my DH was at the National Gallery day on a course. If you saw a deeply sleep deprived looking chap, in rumpled clothes, possibly with a splodge of baby vom on one shoulder, that was him

About to wake babyfunch to give her her first dream feed without boob....hope it goes ok.

Do others wake their babies for a feed at this kind of time or do you only feed them if they wake and seem to be hungry?

huffle it is me going back to work and expressing. Would love to discuss - shall I pm you? Trial run today - expressing in the disabled loo is my plan as right by my office but it needs a chair putting in!

my idiotic tit of a husband just broke our washing machine. I'm so annoyed. he decided to take it apart to clean and in doing so completely broke it. now I have to find spare parts and someone to fix it before the next poonami.

and on top of that now he's in a mood with me because HE cocked up. why so men do that? bad atmosphere in our house right now. what a unbelievable moron.

i usually only feed if she wakes up and appears hungry funch.. she tends to just throw up if i feed her when she doesnt want it.

fjord my sisters friend was also a sweaty baby. dont sweat it i thought it was normal for babies to sweat right?

Londonmrss

Got to ask: isn't a washing machine the last thing that needs cleaning? Or am I being facetious? I suppose the drawer gets a bit revolting but it has never occurred to me to clean any other part of it... God, how awful to be without it. Can you use a neighbour's?

Yes sweaty baby here - he gets especially sweaty when he cries! That combined with the NZ heat and the fact he's a messy eater means DS gets a bath every night! I use J&J Top To Toe Baby Wash and clean his hair, face, chest, and use a small muslin to clean the fat rolls folds on his neck, arms and legs. I moisturise him all over with Burt's Bees Baby Bee afterwards.

smile it must just be all the beautiful people on holiday in Tauranga!! Heaven knows what it'll be like in Auckland next week

Just had a massive poonami - up the front and all in his crotch folds! Argh! Many baby wipes were used...

Massive props to those using reusable nappies. I always thought I'd use them but reality has dictated otherwise. It's hilarious, before I had DS I fancied myself as eco-friendly embarrassingly I've realised I'm very much the opposite! Disposable nappies and wipes? Gimme. Natural remedies for baby ailments? Hell no - give me something that's been clinically trialled, made in the lab by a pharma co and prescribed by a doctor. Natural childbirth? Fuck right off, and while you're at it give me the number of a good plastic surgeon to repair all this damage. Is it ok if I acknowledge that I have double standards?

elpis, he's just a tit. He likes to be thorough. Like he vacuums about once a month, but he literally moves every bit of furniture and starts vacuuming the lamp shades and the curtains like a crazy person. Me, I vacuum every week but I only do the bits of the carpet I can see. In fact id rather just buy more rugs so I can see less carpet.

And now he's broken the sodding washing machine. Honestly he's a lovely man and I adore him, but sometimes he's a proper nobber.

Well today must be sleep day... DD asleep 8am-11am(after being awake 1.5hrs) and now 12.30-2.30 and stil zzzzzzing. Regularly stirs to relocate boob and gets frantic when it's not there. Not as good as it sounds though as she is sleeping on me so I'm not getting much done(suppossed to be writing case report ) but we are out later and no chance she will sleep in house full of noisy toddlers, so I'm too scared to wake her up!

Oh yeah we get that yukky gunk in thigh creases too elpis .
And she's also a little sweatty betty... babies are pretty disgusting creatures really ay

orenishii wow they do weekly weight checks in the UK? That's crazy! We had a weigh in at 10 weeks (we were 2 weeks late) and next is about 16.

Still no 6week check here either... MW told me at 5w she'd see me the next week to check stitches and stuff and heard no more!

Funchum, Is it my imagination or were you 4 am??? Does this reflect changing sleep pattern?? Pm'd you.

6hrs and now asleep again post feed!! That's 2nd nightin row. Please please let things be improving again..............

wow. 7 and a half hours straight!! dd can keep this up!!

Haha hurled I haven't name changed if that is what you mean! Must be some other poor mner out there who sounds as stressed and sleepless as I do! Will check pm in a mo.

Babyfunch had another crap night so I feel like death warmed up but I stuck to my guns and have only bottle fed ebm, and she took a dummy! So managed a bit of sleep on and off between 3:15 and 6:45 as DH kindly took over....the benefits of sticking to bottle feeding being that he can feed her so can have her for longer periods of time before needing me. That sounds obvious but it is soooo wonderful when it actually happens!

Hope most people had great nights of sleep!

Would anyone like a 6 year old? Going free to a good home. Very affectionate but little brain.

Can he make tea, change nappies, entertain baby and get poo stains out of clothes?? If so I'll have him!

First, no check up here! Said it was unnecessary if I was up to date on smear! So yours was more detailed than mine!!

Now who had 3 month consultant apt for 3c tear?? Im not looking forward to that next week.

One of my pet calves has just got out onto the road and been killed I know it's only a calf and would've been eaten anyway, but they're lovely all the same
and bubba will not let me put her down to sleep so looking like a terrible night all round.

Smile Am so sorry, that sounds awful.

Firsttme Same here on the check, was a bit bemused. Although she did tell me to book a smear without telling me to wait until 12 weeks. Turned up yesterday and nurse said you can have it but might have to have another one. Because that's something you want to do twice for no reason!

Give me strength...I'm having a shit day.
DS has been whingeing all day. He didn't have his 2 hour morning nap, which he's had, like clockwork, since he came home from hospital.
He won't play on his playmat, which usually gives me up to an hour.
I had a 2 second shower, because he started yelling and he's scratched his face really badly. Didn't have breakfast til 11.
He nearly fell asleep whilst whingeing on his playmat, so I rocked him to sleep and put him down, but he woke up crying a few minutes later.
He only likes it when I walk around with him on my shoulder, but that kills my back. I just spent ages walking him to sleep, he was sleeping on me so I started to post here, but he's already awake and crying and struggling.
He doesn't have a temp. doesn't look like in pain. Fed at least every 90 mins. Clean and dry. Never likes just snuggling with me, but I can't put him down.
He might as well be crying it out the amount of good I'm doing. So useless

Sorry Huffle I'm afraid he was not blessed with common sense, love him.