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November 2012 - the best post-natal quiche on MN

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StuntNun · 15/01/2013 16:56

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1655656-November-2012-sleeping-through-yet

The answer to the sleeping though question was a chorus of "no"s but there were a few resounding yesses and a lot more keeping quiet because the rest of us would be well jel.

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ChunkyChicken · 21/01/2013 06:00

missL I like your thinking!!

notso it will be one thing after another for a little while yet, because they develop at such a fast rate. More expensive nappies, bigger clothes, new toys to name but a few. However, if you think you might want another, anything you buy now will be reused. A baby monitor will be used for a long time yet anyway. My DD is now 2.9yo and we only stopped putting the monitor in her room a couple of weeks ago because we needed it for DS, using it twice a day (nap time & before we went to bed) despite knowing she usually gets up by herself for naps and can call out loudly if she needed us!! A breast pump is another wise investment - again, you might use it until this DC is a yr and then again with (an)others. If that doesn't happen and you invest wisely, you can usually sell a lot of those things on - people find babies v expensive and like to bargain hunt Wink

izzy we've been putting 10wo DS into bed in our room before us for just over a week I think. I should have written it down in his baby book, as something to remember!!! Anyway, with the monitor right by my ear close to hand, its okay for the couple of hours before we to bed. He self-settles so far and we get a couple of hours of adult time finally.

horsey ouch :(

rowing I assume he won't even sleep on you? That's hard. Will both DC nap? If so, you should too!! What about taking LO to bed with you in the day, giving a feed and then both of you sleeping in your bed?

Didn't give DS a dream feed because it was gone 10pm when he finished feeding and he had both boobs. He started snuffling and grunting at 5am so I woke up plus the leaking boobs didn't help, damn you Medela and your stupid degraded plastic and with of instructions, I coud have had a pint or something out by now!! but thought I'd leave him to see whether he was hungry. He is still asleep. I am not. Envy at his and everyone else in the house's sleeping.

PetiteRaleuse · 21/01/2013 06:07

Morning all. I swear when I catch up in the morning there are fewer and fewer posts. The most activity is now in the evenings

rowingdowntheriver · 21/01/2013 06:08

Hi chunky, Ds1 usually goes down for an hour and a bit after his lunch so I'll try to do the same with DS2 on me. I find it hard to sleep properly with him attached and snoozing at the breast but at least I'll get a bit of a doze.

dS1 was a much better sleeper than this, I wasn't prepared for it still to be this bad at 13 weeks. Certainly not helping the bonding process!

pikz · 21/01/2013 06:26

Projectile poo and then vomit. Full change for me and him. Ace. So tired.

CandyPop · 21/01/2013 06:40

Morning ladies! Hope this isn't insensitive to those who had bad nights but I had my fair share of them and last night was a good un and in fact a record breaker for us! I am well chuffed .

9pm feed - took half an hour to settle
2pm feed - settled straight away
6pm feed - ditto

Grin Grin Grin

AND I did the nighttime routine and the first feed all by myself as dh was at a family do and didnt get home till midnight!

Right I should catch another hr or so of sleep whilst she's still sleeping!!

GTbaby · 21/01/2013 06:58

So exhausted. Pissed off with H for not giving any early feeds for ages. He is either working early, nights or hung over.
I'm to exhausted to put LO bk in crib. Prob not good. He is ending up in our bed more n more often. But cos i am tiered bit cos he needs it. Hmm

Catbag · 21/01/2013 07:18

stunt the laptop spec looks great, but if the colour really upsets you try googling laptop decals and cover most of it up. For some reason pink stuff has good resale value gip

Catbag · 21/01/2013 07:23

Ffs, I meant something like

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StuntNun · 21/01/2013 08:17

Decals are a great idea Cat, I got them for the Xbox because the 'orrible beige colour looked awful with the black TV. My living room is orange so a pink laptop would stand out like a sore thumb.

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Dixiebell · 21/01/2013 08:41

6 1/4 hours + 2 1/2 hrs Grin

KissysUnderTheMisteltoe · 21/01/2013 08:55

2 projectile voms in a 12 hour period here! Once over daddy last night and once over mummy this morning Hmm poor little LO. She's only been sick like that a couple of times before, should I be worried do you think? She seems fine in herself, not sure what could be causing it Hmm she's very congested as usual so maybe its the snot causing it??

gardenpixies32 · 21/01/2013 08:57

kissy my dt1 vommed quite a bit after feeds when she had a cold. I think it is all the snot and mucous. I hope she feels better soon. So horrible when they are ill.

MadamGazelleIsMyMum · 21/01/2013 09:00

Sleep continues to go well here, but I think my section scar is infected. It's a bit sore and red. Bugger. Think I have been a bit slack in making sure it is dry after showers and baths as I always seem to be in such a hurry plus am a fatty so (TMI) it is tucked under a nice overhang doesn't exactly help.

Passmethecrisps · 21/01/2013 09:10

Morning.

stunt have you looked at laptops-direct.co.uk? They sell off last year's spec laptops so you can typically get high spec machines cheaply. HP are a good make and tend to be pretty tough so the one you have picked out should be absolutely fine for your family.

Is The Wire really lullaby stuff Gt? I had to watch the first series twice - second time with the subtitles on. Great programme though.

No plans for us today. There is snow here and we are set for more later today so I think we are going to bunker down and watch Africa.

Passmethecrisps · 21/01/2013 09:16

Sorry stunt that link should be www.laptopsdirect.co.uk

ValiumQueen · 21/01/2013 09:24

It is impossible to watch the wire once and understand it.

kissy it will likely be the mucus shifting. So long as LO remains hydrated and happy, I would not worry. PITA though.

madame unlikely infected at this stage. Could it be just sore from dampness? Or fungal type thing? Having a similar rubenesque figure I sympathise.

As for my night, two lots of two hours. If he were my first child, he would be my last. After sitting him on my knee at 5.40 asking him what the fuck he wanted, and saying I would send him back and swap him for a baby that slept, I figured it was time to take him to bed. Three minutes later and he was sleeping and I was crying with guilt. I do not want to send him back, I am just very tired.

Ok guys, what should I do? Lets have a vote!

Continue trying to get him to sleep in his cot in his room.

Or

Revert to co-sleeping.

or start bottle feeding and get DH to share the burden

glendathegoodwitch · 21/01/2013 09:25

Morning ladies

mm & eliza let me know how you get on with the starlike swing - I've been watching them on eBay and tossing up weather to pay £30 for a 2nd hand one or get the one in the asda baby sale for £38??? I'm desperate for one now and pinning all my hopes on it being a miracle cure for Dottie's insomnia

I am so glad yesterday is over - I t was the shittest day ever and I spent the majority of it crying and begging Dottie to go the fuck to sleep :(

Rubbish night before as she has a watery bum and every time she went she cried as it hurt her sore bottom so did umpteen changes so yesterday thought we would have a lazy day and catch up on some zzzz's when she did - yeah right she does not bloody sleep!!!!! She didnt know what the hell she wanted, didn't want boob, didn't want cuddles, didn't want sleep, didn't want to play, didn't want anything!!!!

3 times yesterday I handed her to dh for him to hand her back within 2 minutes saying he needed the loo wtf?? I had my gormless 15 yr old ss sit there while the dog trashed the kitchen pulling all the rubbish out - then in the evening dh pisses off upstairs and leaves me to it - should be a single parent!!!! If it wasn't for ds who really helped me by taking Dottie off my hands while I was sobbing I might just have got dressed and walked out!!!!

I am looking for sleep cues but she will not go to sleep anywhere and has never self settled can one of your well behaved babies please come and give her a talking to and no matter what time I try and get her bedtime routine started she will not go down until after midnight!!!! As awful as this sounds I'm looking forward to going to uni in march - will look forward to seeing her and feeding her etc... Then instead of having day after day like yesterday and getting stressed out with her. She's nothing like my other 2 - when I here people say if I'd have had my third child first they would've been an only child - Im understanding now!!!!

glendathegoodwitch · 21/01/2013 09:29

Lol crossed posts vq all day every day I am torn with adoring and being so thankful for having our very much longed for/waited for/wanted 3rd dc to wishing she could talk and tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong to feeling immense guilt for swearing at her and wishing she would just got to fucking sleep - like we don't have it hard enough we have to wrestle with all these emotions and feelings!!!!

BigPigLittlePig · 21/01/2013 09:29

Izzy 18lbs!! LO has just grown into newborn clothes at 8 weeks?

Thanks garden - interesting about the BLW, I?d hoped to do that too. I guess we?ll have to see what happens

Candy welcome to the poonami club Grin

I seem to have the same problem as a few of you, in as much as little pig will only settle on me, and gets upset quite quickly on other people (including dh, poor thing). She will also only sleep in the day on me?I?m hoping it?s something they grow out of

ValiumQueen · 21/01/2013 09:30

glenda I thought number three would be easier too. Big hugs!

ChunkyChicken · 21/01/2013 09:32

DS tends to have more forceful vomit in the mornings. I think its because he's a snotty herbert - even without a cold, he seems to get mucous on his chest from laying flat on his back all night (the basket is tilted slightly, but even still). He has inherited the snot gene from me unfortunately. I blow my nose more regularly without a cold than some people with... The vom can be a bit 'sticky' and slimy, presumably from the snot. He's on his 4th or 5th babygro this morning as a result.

rowing glad you can get some rest - hopefully some sleep.

BigPigLittlePig · 21/01/2013 09:33

VQ on dhs insistence last night I tried to get LO to sleep in her crib - she managed 2hrs initially, then woke for a feed/bum change at 1. She finally went back to sleep at 3.30 only to wake 45mins later. If she'd come into our bed we would have had 4 or 5 hours Sad

gardenpixies32 · 21/01/2013 09:34

VQ I hope you don't mind me saying...FF and share the burden! You have given J a fab start.

PurplePidjin · 21/01/2013 09:36

VQ - CO SLEEP

He obviously needs to be close to you, he will grow out of it - or you can sleep train when he's old enough to have the requisite neurological functioning. Your sanity is far more important at the moment Brew

Glenda, I'd have hit the roof! How did you not start shouting?

Nappy fail this morning. Dp did a pooey change so i could doze. Except i hadn't stuffed the nappies, so dp's beautifully put on clean nappy consisted of a waterproof layer, and a fleece layer, nothing absorbent! Best way to learn, i guess

Kyzordz · 21/01/2013 09:43

Will catch up shortly, am v sleepy, in future am feeding at 10ish cos prefer that to a 4am feed lol! I couldn't imagine surviving on how little sleep some of you get, you truly are stars! Will read rest of thread later when I get another random five mins x