I'm 37 too.
Sleep had just about fought its way back to 7 hours, took a week to get back there, then had a very unsettled night last night. Exactly 3 months old today so possible early 14 week madness?
Slings: tried Babybjorn today, so much more comfortable to wear than the stretchy Close Caboo. Think at 3 months that her hips are now developed enough for the Babybjorn to be OK?
Childcare: Total shock to me but we're aiming for me to be sahm. Never thought I'd want to. Under no illusion that it's the easy option but it just feels right. Teaching's not a job you can leave behind at the office door so I think even trying to do it part time would be very stressful and I'd feel I never had enough time for my job or my family. I also know that a lot of my energy and attention would be taken up by work, leaving not enough spare for DH or dd. I know I'll never regret time spent with them, whatever else we have to give up for a while in order to make this possible. We've spent January living on just DH's wage as an experiment and as long as we're sensible, eat cheaply etc, it is do-able with some sacrifices. Exciting, and I feel very lucky to be in this position with a DH who is also in agreement.
Mini yomping and I are off to a music group tomorrow, our first proper parent and baby group. We're a bit nervous!
I never reported back on the new parents session I went to... meh, really. It was about sleep and it pissed me off, all this bollocks about starting to enforce a routine, because of you're not careful, "baby will manipulate you". FFS. I find it hard to keep my mouth shut and not say anything rude!
Maybe sympathy to those suffering from sleep regression... having had a couple of nights of 7 hrs of sleep and then going straight back to waking every couple of hours, I can appreciate how hard it must be if you have had a good sleeper for a while and they then regress. I have discovered the MN live webchats, some of them are great to read through during night feeds. The High Grant one had me chuckling and the Steve Biddulph one got quite heated. Dan French one also good. They are [http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_live_events here].
Exercise wise, I'm trying to be sensible; I don't have the opportunity to do much since mini yomping is ebf and turns her nose up at a bottle so I can't be out for long anyway. Doing lots of walking with her in sling or stroller, trying to do the odd bit of Pilates here and there, and trying to get to post natal class at the gym once a week where we do arm weights then do squats and lunges using babies as weights (mini yomping is gigantor baby so I reckon I get a raw deal there!)
Sorry to hear of illnesses,Angelico, squid's boyfriend and Crazy's ds2 (hope I got that right, typing on kindle and will lose this post if I go back a page to check). Hope you/they feel better soon.
Mini yomping has dry patches of skin on the back of her thighs, could this be from lots of time in a sling? Anyone else's DC had this? Do you think it would be OK to put vaseline on, or would something else be better? She is also getting dry red cheeks again like she had at 4 weeks old as well, I suspect this is just from the cold and being outside in it - vaseline again?
Mickey, I'm so impressed you're going to be flying with bean - and with those who have already done it! We're planning a couple of nights in a B&B over Easter and I find the thought of that scary enough!
Right, time to eat lovely pasta bake dinner, would love to be all paleo but have a carb-obsessed DH and figure I need the energy for bf. It's just cool that he does the cooking... when I met him all he could cook was frozen pizza. He enjoys cooking so much now that I have put him in charge of weaning (we're not planning on starting yet but I have tasked him with researching blw, getting recipe books etc) and he is really excited about it, and about having something to do with dd that he is in charge of!
Have a good night, all.