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November 2012 - sleeping through yet?

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StuntNun · 09/01/2013 23:03

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1647736-November-2012-losing-sleep-and-losing-weight

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CandyPop · 14/01/2013 04:30

vq they are really good times! Once my mastitis had all cleared I will try get LO to go for longer. At the moment if she murmurs just within 3 hrs I get her up for a feed to help empty the boobs. She's very obliging :)

Had a thought about the cnuting poster who criticise our name as she mistook the title . I guess we all know what it suppose to mean as a lot of us actually have been part of this thread since the pre-natal ones. That means for some of us we've know each other for nearly a year!

For me personally, I wasn't as active on the pre-natal threads but had always tracked it and had popped in and out of discussions (tbh those pre natal threads went way too fast for me to keep up!)

However I joined mn on the conception thread back last jan (I believe chunky and eliza was on the same 'bus' as me!) To think we conceived , carried and now given birth together.... Isn't that incredible?! Sharing all our experiences with essentially people we don't really know yet on the other hand people whom have given me some of the greatest support during some difficult times And sometimes more so than RL friends.

I think this is why that stupid poster has caused us all to be a bit defensive of our thread as they dont know us and are attacking our Internet family! Lol

Anyways rather than typing this soppy post I really should be going to sleep! LO and dh is sound asleep!!!

ChunkyChicken · 14/01/2013 04:40
Grin

DS has gone 6hrs tonight - yeh! :) Except DD wakes me up after about 1.5hrs sleep asking for a story & has a fever again.40.6 ffs!!! She's now back to 36.9 but I'm not impressed. At least DS gave me BIG smiles when he woke me up for a feed, so I can't be mad at either of them. Just got to get him back to sleep now....

ChunkyChicken · 14/01/2013 04:54

The Grin was @ Candypop's posts BTW.

ChunkyChicken · 14/01/2013 04:58

Oh dear, DS wants seconds.... Usually this is him being greedy & will result in vomit

Yet will he take a dummy??!! Will he heck as like. Mam newborns make him gag, tommee tippee get spat out. I try getting him to suck my knuckle during the day, which works, but I kinda need my hand...

GTbaby · 14/01/2013 05:29

See candy. That's so cute.

Seriously u guys r missing a very important point in all of this. We are a MN "gang" who are known n talked a about by other posters. We are famous! Haha.

N B£&tch pls. My LO is sleeping thro. So there. :p

Anyway im to exhausted to post need to sleep after the party. ( have been sleeping , however spotting the snow! Has excited me)

Right need to sleep before LO wake up time.

GTbaby · 14/01/2013 05:30

Ps LO wore a Ralph Lauren baby grow. Super duper cute. Ill put pic up on FB of sat and sun when I wake.

MissMummy1 · 14/01/2013 05:55

We have had 2 hours sleep. I want to cry. She is being a boob gremlin again and I have vom in my hair. Sad But hey, another hour and DP will be home! Just need to convince him to amuse her for a while...Hmm

kirrinIsland · 14/01/2013 06:11

Yay VQ Thats more like it :(

MM just hand her over and run. Especially if he's been asleep on the boat.

GT hope the party was good. RL babygro sounds very posh!

We've done 3.5 hours and then 2.5 hours (between feeds). That is about average at the moment. She was doing a 4-5 hour stretch at one point but seems to have dropped that for some reason :( It is really starting to catch up with me now - it's really hard to stay awake when feeding, and my eyes keep going funny, even during the day. I can't sit down anywhere for too long or i start dropping off! I would kill for a decent stretch of sleep.

Sophiathesnowfairy · 14/01/2013 06:56

Good job vq hope things start to look up.

blonder a bit of cooled boiled water and a warm ath should ell with constipation. Am sorry you are feeling down, s rubbish when things don't improve. Stick with it you are doing a great job.

We were ack to 11-6 today good old Olly. If I could just treat him out till 7 Confused

DH is snoring next to me, Olly asleep on my knee and DS1 I his cot watching chuggington on DHs iPad ( a bad habit we have got into sinceOlly arrived when DS gets oaken up by his shouting)

Ooo and a dusting of snow outside.

rowingdowntheriver · 14/01/2013 06:58

So our thread is famous then? That poster is just jealous! I've met someone recently who's DS was born on the same day as mine and he was sleeping through within 4 weeks. He literally gets put down at about 9 then sleeps to 8! Still doing it now at 12 weeks. Can't say the same for my DS though unfortunately.

Love horsey's post on it!

I've got my MIL here for a few days. She only arrived yesterday evening but is doing my head in already. Think the time she spent here helping after my CS has seriously damaged our relationship.

She is very controlling/dominating, trying to be some sort of matriarch figure or something, and also makes out that she was the perfect mother and that her kids had the perfect childhood. I'm always getting told how whatever I'm having to manage, she had to deal with but worse as she had 3 kids, 2 dogs and a cat and had no help from her DH (except the fact she never had to work, had a cleaner 3 times a week, a Gardner AND her kids went to boarding school really young so were never actually all around at the same time anyway). Gah.

She is also always tells me how she worries about DH - within a week of having a CS with D2 she was already telling me to make sure he eats properly, she worries that he does too much and that he needs to sleep for work. Her special way of telling me I needed to cook for him, do more round the house and with DS1, and not let him do the dream feed. Angry

Sorry for the mega rant, please feel free to ignore, just had to get it off my chest.

PetiteRaleuse · 14/01/2013 07:22

Our thread is famous we are almost a quiche. If I've understood the right meaning of quiche. Yy to alternative thread titles from now on. Starting with there.s sth wrong if we'e not sleeping through, then school uniforms, and in a few months we can start with UCAS forms. Would be tempted to suggestthe next one be something like they'e three months old, time for weaning, but that would encourage all kinds of soh-lackers t come and lecture us. We don't want to be invaded.

Well I went to bed at half 8 last night and got up at 7. DH looked after LO for the evening shift. Apparently she went down at half 11 ish, woke up at about 3 but settled again very quickly with a dummy. She then got up at half 7. I make that to be 8 hours no feed. yay. I have spent 45 minutes catching up on here while she has been almost snorting her milk.

Re contraception. Can't wait for DH to get the snip in April. Until then I am on the Pill. Which I hate. Bt it's only for another 6 months or so.

TooManyDicksOnTheDancefloor · 14/01/2013 07:31

She sounds charming rowing, at least you're winning on words with friends! Wink

PetiteRaleuse · 14/01/2013 07:42

rowing she sounds fun. I deliberately never mention mine on here, but we'll just say I understand...

CandyPop · 14/01/2013 07:48

I think I'm missing out on the meaning of 'quiche'? What is it suppose to mean?!
I just know it as the food quiche .... And now I'm thinking i quite fancy a cheese and ham quiche right now ... I'm hungry... But just fed LO and she's asleep so I really should catch another hour or so of sleep!

Dixiebell · 14/01/2013 08:07

Hooray!! I have been trying to catch up for days, finally managed it! Can't remember anything to comment on tho....!

detective, thanks for eBay link to spotty babygro, I was tempted but Forgot to bid Blush. Anyway, I have my spotty bib so I'm sorted.

Snow here. DS1 wants to go out & play. Wish it was the weekend and DH was here to supervise, looks cold and I CBA to get Teddy all wrapped up!

Clarella · 14/01/2013 08:09

hi all another brief check in so sorry I'm not more frequent but for what it's worth I live reading this thread (though not the poorly baby sleep deprived mummy bits of course!)

oh rowing a MIL of the worst sort - thinks you don't look after her baby! grrr

MM sorry you're having it tough - I think you're a week or so ahead of us (ds 5 wks today) and I think we're entering growth spurt horror. which actually seems to be farting pooing issues waking him up in the night more than hunger (he nailed hunger during day) - could that be it? its annoying for him and me as a couple of weeks ago he was sometimes going 4 hours between feeds at night and im sure he wants to sleep longer as always nods off as soon as I pick him up and feed him.

in other news.... dh has bought a men's under eye dark circle roller thing.... Hmm

horseylady · 14/01/2013 08:17

Right last night we had two tiny tiny pin pricks of blood in ds nappy. This morning none so far.

Do I still go to the dr or wait till the next nappy change. If there is some go if not monitor. I'm wondering if he had a tiny scab which I can't see?

GTbaby · 14/01/2013 08:17

I think I may name change to GTBabyOfTheNov2012Gang. So ppl know who I am n I AM PART OF THE FAMOUS NOV 2012 mothers.

Feed done. Bk to sleep.

ValiumQueen · 14/01/2013 08:35

I would go horsey that way you can get advice on what to do if you find more, and reassurance hopefully. Hope all is well.

horseylady · 14/01/2013 08:38

Going. No more blood but still strongly smelling urine.

PetiteRaleuse · 14/01/2013 08:51

Don't have any advice for you horsey. Could it be iritated skin? Strong smelling wee could be a uti though.. Is he showing any signs of pain? Would be worth taking him in though.

ChunkyChicken · 14/01/2013 08:56

Good luck horsey.

I've just phoned my surgery. They've changed the system so you can only book on the day. Not sure if that's the same for 'non-urgent' things, like my DH booked in advance to get a skin condition dealt with a little while back, so they might have changed it v recently, but that really pisses me off. It's no better now than the Dr around the corner, walking distance, except its across town!! Or we can do the drop-in... Which we could do registered there or not. And she said it was quite quiet at the mo, but easier said than done with a toddler (still asleep) & infant in tow. Just me, I might have been there now, some 30mins after I called, but impossible with a grumpy baby and poorly tot.Angry The only advantage to being registered there is gone. Might as well register at the shit Dr locally. Don't have to drive there at least.

So not sure what to do now. DD is clearly poorly again, but bad enough to go & sit in the walk-in for 2hrs??!!!

horseylady · 14/01/2013 09:00

Ours the same chunky. Well emergencies are on the day!! Not sure how long the wait is for non emergencies!!

He seems well. But it only happened last night. I can't see anything looking rash or scab like. His skin looks ok! Anyway, well go and get him checked over!!

KissysUnderTheMisteltoe · 14/01/2013 09:05

Can't you just say its an emergency and get an appointment for later today chunky? That's what I do at our doctors, otherwise I'd be looking at an appointment in 2 weeks time which is no good when you've a little one who's poorly. Hope your DD is better soon

Good luck horsey

ValiumQueen · 14/01/2013 09:17

DS slept 7.5 hours in smaller chumks. Well done my son!