October 2012 babies - over here nobbers!

[Smorgs]

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

[funchum8am]

firstbubba we are aiming for what you have. The issue is she is dropping off even in the bath. Once her afternoon nap begins she really thinks it is night. We are trying to keep her awake an extra 5 to 10 mins per eveni.g and got as far as bed at 7.30 the other night but it makes no difference (in fact this morning was even worse ). But I hope with a bit of patience / waiting it out, plus gentle encouragement, things will improve in the end.

[firstbubba]

funchum loosely basing our day on that Gina woman, but if we are ever up that early ( recommends getting up at 7am to start the day) as my oh is away working and it's just me we go back to bed! I' m v tired by the end of the three weeks but keen to maintain this when he is back for my sanity.

Out most of the day today melt down sale shopping but tried to get things back n track for evening settle down and bed. Only time will tell if been successful.

Btw screamed before the bath, during the bath and after it!!

[bella2012]

Ds1 loads better but now ds2 has chickenpox! My poor poor baby. And we are visiting the inlaws this week. Sigh.

[Cherrychopsticks]

Errr, I think that makes you the nobber, Midget!

Admire all of you studying etc. while doing this mum thing. I'm doing nothing else - the day goes by too quickly! It's good to hear from you Kyyria.

Sounds like a lovely day Squid. I'm pretty happy with my life at the moment, just making sure I get out the house every day and meet up with people a few times a week. Lie-in and family time at the weekend, and DS is a little star really, I can't complain. Also, starting to get the healthy eating and exercise back on track after Christmas.

Poor you Honey, hopefully if you persevere with the medicine it'll get better soon. Afraid I don't even know what Infacol is, so can't help you on that front.

Smile I just wash DS's hands in the bath every day, but it's really hard to get them open. I find all sorts of crap in there when I do, and before I cut his nails they are often black underneath (Our house is clean, honest!) I'm definitely in the building-up-immunity camp though. I always thought it was weird that bottles etc get sterilised til god knows what age, yet toys never do.

Waiting it out is a very interesting idea Funchum, but maybe easy for me to say as I haven't had to deal with colic or anything, touch wood.
@ a 4am start to the day!

Elpis, maybe you should keep her there til she's fully recovered - save on the cleaning? I couldn't handle the lack of food though.

Yomping, the playmat is the only place DS will entertain himself alone really, can't imagine him gazing serenely round in his pushchair, though I still have him lying flat on the infant wedge/insert thing. Have others moved to more upright/forward facing?
Saying that though, he did wake up and not instantly cry for food this morning, just cooing and playing with his hands for ages.

Poor DS2 Bella, and poor you. I hope it's not a bad case, and he recovers quickly. At least you've got it out the way.

It's a beautiful day here today, don't know what we'll get up to this afternoon though. DH did morning duties, so I'm still in PJs at nearly 12! Most productive thing I've done is to pump nearly 200mls from one boob.

[funchum8am]

Cherry sounds like motherhood really agrees with you, it is lovely!

babyfunch up at 2am again . DH took her downstairs so I slept til 4:30 feed which is still ongoing. 2am starts on consecutive nights doesn't make a routine, does it?! Will break this pattern if it kills me (and if I fail it will kill ne anyway!)

Hope everyone else is sleeping soundly if in the UK time zone

[Beeblebear]

Ds has fine hair. Hardly shows in picturesas it is so light so get teased a bitfor th mr clean baby.

Meeps. Ds hardly goes down before midnight. Tried a few times to get him down earlier but it is just so darn BORING for me to sit there for 3 hours. So i watch tv until he nodds off. Put him down flat on couch. If he wakes up agaib within 5 min he wasnt ready to go to bed. He basically lives on my boob from 8pm till midnight. However on the upside when i do get him down he jas been sleeping 7 or 8 hours the majority of nights for the last 3 weeks.

[YompingJo]

Quick Q for Huffle (or anyone else with a larger baby (91st centile plus) who sometimes gives a bottle of expressed bm) what is the average amount (in ml if possible) that your baby tales in a feed? Reason for asking is I'm still trying to figure out correct way to give Colief and it says in the FAQ that if baby is feeding frequently on demand and feed is around 50ml then to give fewer Colief drops. Having never given a bottle, how on earth would I know the volume of milk mini Yomping is taking in???

In other news - plugged duct since yesterday. Of course, we're due a new problem because feeding had just about got easier... FFS .

Looking forward today to a 2-hourly cycle of: remove cold compress / use hot compress / give Colief / feed while massaging / replace cold compress / prepare next few ml of milk with Colief / repeat. Buggers up my block feeding too so who knows what will happen to supply - how on earth do you break the cycle of oversupply => block feed to reduce => blocked duct or mastitis => feed more frequently on affected side to clear it => increased supply again => oversupply?

Mini yomping has manky hands and nails too. Today is cutting nails day! And don't mention what we find under her armpits when we give her her daily every two days twice weekly weekly bath...

[Londonmrss]

My stupid nobber of a e.g. just said,
'I'm going to have a bit of a lie in today because I have to start getting up early for work on Monday again and you don't have to.'

Yeah because it's not like I get up at half 5 to look after our wakeful baby every morning so that he can sleep longer before work. I just lie in till noon on my chaise longue while my boy slaves feed me grapes.

Nobber.

[Londonmrss]

DH not e.g.

nobber predictive text.

[Londonmrss]

yomping I have the same cycle of blocked duct and oversupply. The thing that seems to help is after the last feed of the evening, I completely empty both boobs while massaging, using pump. I do this every night. it doesn't seem to affect supply because she feeds a lot in the evening ago there's usually only an excess of 50ml or so, but it keeps the blockages away. The only time I stopped this was over Xmas when we were away and blockages came back immediately. Ouch. Sympathy. Oversupply is a bugger too.

[Mikyahrose]

6 pages! How is there 6 pages already? In never gonna get to write anything and join in at this rate. :(
Think I'm gonna get a little pad so I can name check properly. And not be all me me me.
But just for a quickie catch up about me as I haven't posted for months.
Oli had his 12 week jabs this week, he pretty much slept through them, woke, cried then went back to sleep.
On the next baby front - we're cracking on with it ASAP.
Baby groups - I go to them all! I find the days I'm out and about much easier than the days I'm at home. I currently go to groups 4 days a week.
Ooo ooo. We had rolls this week. I'm trying to uploa the video to the group. But it's not working. :/
Clothes wise. We're in big boy clothes in the day. Which consist of joggers and a top or a smart onesie or dungarees. If we're not going out though, he keeps his bedtime clothes on. For me it's all part of the routine. He gets 'dressed' in the morning, then we bath and put bedtime (babygrow) clothes on at night.
Sleeps a bit inconsistent. We have really good nights with one wake and feed and straight back to sleep. Then we have other nights with 3 wakes and crying and taking ages to settle. I'm still trying to work out what we do different on the good nights. :/
Right that's me done for now. I'll try not to leave it so long next time.

[londonlivvy]

yomping my DD is about 10lb and she takes about 5oz at a normal feed. sometimes if she's ravenous it ends around 7oz.

hope that helps.

[Orenishii]

I typed a bit long reply to a lot of people and it's all gone! Grrrr!

Can't remember any of it except yomping re tongue tie- take heart, they wouldn't have done it if they didn't think it needed to be done. And they certainly don't do it for future potential problems such as speech. If they did it, it's because your DD needed it :) Hope it's getting better, and by doing it you've enabled your daughter to feed from you for so much longer.

Does anyone want to go into business with me? Love what i do but not where i work and i don't want to go back I want my own business but i've no idea what - guess i should sort that out

[squidkid]

Hey orenishi,

me and my mate (the famous jess!) are exhausted with medicine and midwifery respectively and have decided we should open our own baby cafe for tired stressed postnatal women (know any of them? ) It will have lots of books, toys, people to take your baby for a while, little exercise classes while people hold your baby, I'm going to do the cooking (less cake, more nutritious colourful dazzling food to give you long lasting energy), she's going to provide the free massage... how does that sound!? I'm sure there's summat you can throw into the mix!

You'll have to move to yorkshire though (she's in london currently but wants to leave and says she prefers the men up here anyway, haha)

:)

[Katla]

Meepsmum I have tried the getting DD to bed earlier thing and like you end up in bedroom for hours - so now we start bedtime at 8:30pm and she's normally asleep between 9:30 but can be by 11pm, she seems to find the tv v overstimulating and our sitting room gets so hot by the evening cos of the log burner I don't think that helps. Once down she'll sleep til 9am so trying to gradually bring bedtime earlier to get eves back. However long lie can be good or else chance for some peace to have a leisurely breakfast or shower.

yomping poor you, I have no suggestions but sympathy - your boobs really are troublesome.

Erin's snotty nose has gone but she's now got a bad cough and must have a sore throat or ribs as the coughing makes her really cry. Poor thing. She was quite chatty before but has lost her voice (apart from crying) for now. She is also gnawing on her hands and toys a lot. I wash her grubby little hands night and morning with a cloth as they collect fluff inbetween her fingers and she has black nails too. We probably bath her twice a week or second day all over.

I've been struggling with Erin the last few days when she's been ill as we've been stuck in house - normally I least go out to my mum's or meet someone, go to supermarket. She's been so clingy and grouchy with illness (like her father!!) that by nighttime when she's screaming I've been crying too. DH takes her for a bit but then normally reappears and says 'are you sure she isn't hungry?!' He also complains how heavy she is - yeah as if I don't know as I'm smaller with more spindly arms than you!!

Sorry moan over!!

[Orenishii]

Hey squid - I'm a chartered digital marketer and web manager extraordinare. I can get you online, yo! Hahaha

Funny, you now, I'm from Lancashire, half my family is from Yorkshire...my great, great granddad was the mayor of Sheffield. If I would persuade DH to move up North that would be awesome

[smileyhappymummy]

Well, I survived being at work, mega quick change of clothes immediately before leaving house ensured I wasn't wearing baby sick and I didn't leak through breast pads and leave damp patches on my jumper. So I counted that as a triumph. V glad I'd left stocks of frozen breast milk as well because apparently she wolfed down the first bottle ofmilk I'd left her but then promptly threw it all up again and screamed for more food. But overall we did ok.

[Midgetm]

cherry is right I am the nobber. bella poor ds2 and poor you. Is he poorly or just spotty? Master midge has a cough and is slightly less cheerful than normal but mustn't grumble, he is still good natured, just sleeps a bit more if that is possible

I've always put midge down when I give him his last feed but moved it to straight after bath time last night and seemed to make no difference and he slept till gone 8 (with a couple of feeds) so may stick to that for now. I wonder if all the wine I've had has made him sleepier. I don't get drunk ever but have had quite a lot of festive sherry and as I read pumping and dumping only necessary if you get drunk I have been feeding as normal. Time will tell After twelfth night if he becomes more wakeful. And hand washing - we never but he does have a bath most days.

And on trying again. No bloody way, I am quitting whilst I am ahead. Two lovely children enough for me and the thought of two under two makes me want to vomit!

And he has teeth coming through. He didn't get the memo it's too early. My poor boobs. Another here with blocked ducts regularly and mastitis so lets throw teeth I to the mix

London nobber indeed.

[HoneyMumandSon]

People who have used infant gaviscon? How the hell do you keep it in them? We're bf so tried making it up with water and using syringe but he spat it out. Ideas thinking about mixing it with ebm but it says you have to mix with a full feed. I'm utterly flummoxed.

[Katla]

When I got Erin out of her bed this morning she tried to latch onto my cheek - like a lovely sucky kiss!!

Mikya - I have a video of Erin 'chatting' to my mum. It's so sweet. We've showed it to her and she's fascinated as if saying 'hey that baby's speaking my language!'.

I know it's been asked before but I was trying to find the Facebook group - have tried to search but no luck - can anyone help?

[Katla]

London that's not fair is it? Maybe tell him it's your turn tomorrow/next week?

My DH is also a nobber - he was two hours late home from work last night (that's a record) - he got caught up with customers. But he was out to work at 1pm and had an "early start" today - at 9:30am... He repeatedly tells me he's 'not a morning person' as if I hadn't noticed He says 'do you have any idea what I've done today?' in an incredulous tone when I suggest it would be helpful if he could be on time - but then he's always been late for all the time I've known him I guess. Such a little thing but lateness is so irritating not that I've been late trying to get out the house sometimes with Erin filling nappies, wanting fed or being sick just as heading out door

Erin woke to have a feed and is now sleeping again. She's been so sleepy last few days when she's been off colour. I guess she's healing - spread out like a starfish on the bed beside me - so cute.

[firstbubba]

Facebook group is now secret, and wont be found I think. Jamie is over 16.5lbs and on 6oz bottles sorry 180ml yomping.

Taking medicine, top tip i was given was to put it to the side ie in the cheeks and not straight in mouth, so they cant spit out, works a treat.

[hufflepuffle]

Katla it is now a secret group as we were too easy to find for one random person.......! This means that you have to be invited to join or request to join but sadly I am a nobber and have no idea how........! If Kyrria about she can either turn status to closed for short time so you can find it or tell you how to join

Sorry! 'twas me flagged up the secret bit, but we respect our privacy, especially where our babies are concerned!!

Yomping I've not expressed in over a month due to thrush. But DS was previously taking over 5 oz, is that 200ml?? No idea, no bottles about.....(lazy, they are in spare room) But if 50ml is relevant, is most certainly over 50ml each time. New pump due to Be delivered any time, it better but frickin crack me!!! So so sorry about your cycle of plugging, how totally shite. So so relieved you don't have thrush too after all as it is another crsppy cycle to contend with. Well done you, the stubbornness in persevering is admirable beyond belief!!!

Hav not really read properly. Crap mood this morn. DH said last night he would go out on bike this morn if weather good. I said no, he must spend time with DS at weekend. He was speechless! I was v calm and matter of fact. And if I can't have time alone, neither can he! (childish emoticon)

[squidkid]

Taking a feeding break from my spring cleaning day where me and boyfriend take turns holding/entertaining jess -

So I have packed all my maternity clothes away. I don't know why I was keeping them out, I kept thinking I might need them but haven't worn them since jess was a week old. It was strangely satisfying!! Remembering all the things I did whilst pregnant... my favourite red and blue stripey dress, a posh lacey frock I wore out to dinner, some maternity tops I went hiking in....

Also been trying on my pre-preg clothes and sorting through them and ok I'm not exactly the same size but it's not made me cry today at least!! I am nearly there in truth. But can mums really wear things like leather shorts.... (probably quite practical for wiping vomit off!)

[squidkid]

huffle quite agree, parenthood a joint bloody venture. The best bit of my insistence on splitting everything half and half with boyfriend is when my dad is around he starts looking a bit shamefaced and recently I have heard him and my mum having arguments/apologies about changing my brother's nappies! (now 34!)