December 2012 - so, do we all know what we're doing yet?

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I am water baby always loved water my dad taught me and sis to swim so don't think lessons necessary when children are older. I can't wait to take d swimming though will have to be with DH though cant drive.
Re poos my d usually does one every four days a mega poo!

Am up with fussy d but that's a normal night expect her to stay down in mosses once I detach from boob anywhere between 11.30 and 2.30. Baby roulette!

I'm sorry to hear about the fussy non-sleepers! Yunior is napping now, but seems to be getting better at settling down at night. It could be because I am reading to him and that droning makes him sleepy! (it knocks Dh right out too!)

My grandma has given me the ugliest pink and white knitted shawl to wear whilst I am up in the night breast feeding. I got so chilly last night that all I can think of is how useful it will be. The Mister is disgusted that he will be sharing a bed with me whilst I am wearing it!!

FoD lol at the shawl...sounds lovely.

Popped into weight clinic today and DS is now 10lb4...another 11ozs in 7 days. Read somewhere that babies shouldn't repeatedly gain this much every week, but HV was reassuring it was absolutely fine.

Started expressing today as DS will eventually need to take bottle when I go back to work. How much do you guys give in a bottle and do LOs still stop of their own accord when full? On HVs advice, we offered 2oz after evening feed, which he guzzled before wanting breast again!

Hope people get a good night's rest. DS wriggling and resisting sleep ATM

I must have been v wicked today! No rest dd still fussy tried putting her down thirty mins ago left her to grizzle but it just built and built so had to boob her again!

Ps equimum I would like to know this too planning two days/ nights out at the end of the month so d would be bottle fed expressed milk for 24 hours not sure how much I need to build up to give the grannies who will be taking charge.

Shawl sounds great too gets cold in my terrace but I have just been putting heating on lots ... Bill was 250 quid for gas and electric last month. Dreading this month as it has been on even more wish this cold snap would end for good.

Thank you for the advice spotty and bella. After a couple of hours of H screaming in agony (and a bottle of water and also water with sugar in) she managed to cry herself to sleep, but woke if i stopped singing the same nursery rhyme over and over again. While she was asleep i massaged her stomach after another half hour she woke up BF and managed a small poo. But it seems to have taken the pain away and shes a tiny bit happier (not screaming). H normally poos all 6-7 times a day and its always loose is that because shes BF? Shes never done a hard poo.

And wow £18 for swimming, where i live they offer family swimming passes for free so you can go on a monday between 10am-12am.

Hales yeah always runny more like creamy with bf apparently like paste for ff
What nursery rhyme by the way.

Guessing everyone else is blissfully in land of nodd

Not me. Baby's asleep but I'm wide awake

Oh no just put mine down again hope she drops off this time nipples v sore... Being on here prob not the best thing to induce sleep keep thinking I will read instead but MN is getting kind of addictive.

Thankful for that though until I recently discovered it I would be on eBay buying things got addicted to it got lots of bargains but have spent loads too!! And now have packages arriving every morning to wake me up or lead to me needing to de boob d to answer the door. Would consider not deboobing but one day I did this it wasn't the postman but one of my husbands friends - a man!

What's keeping you from sleeping anyway will you?

Im pissed off with DP. He's working overtime at the minute 6am-whenever. He's held J for an hour since he came in, on his chest facing away at the telly. Then wondered why J was squalling - he wants a bit if bloody interaction. He volunteered to feed him then fucked off in the shower leaving me with a screaming baby to calm. Then he did the next feed but I had to wash, sterilise and make the bottles. He just propped J up on the dude if his leg and after 1oz said oh he doesn't want it. Meaning I had to take him and h

Hold him up/stroke his cheek to make him suck etc. he's normally a hands on dad but tonight it's like he couldn't be arsed at all. Which really isn't an option.

I'm the one who had been up from 2:30 2 days running and I've done all washing, and the asda shop today so it's not like I've sat on my arse. I have told him now but I'm still wide awake while he snored his head off.

Grrr I'm mad just hearing that! I hate when my DH turns dd towards telly or pops off to make food or something without saying he will be gone for a while especially as I have waited for him to get in to have a break!

I'm sitting up with lo listening to the radio with dim lights hoping he will.drift off. He's been very windy and had a bubbly belly today. Gave his belly a massage at last nappy change - hope it helps.

that's really unfair willyou but good for you telling him straight off. That time when a dp gets in is so precious, you should be able to take yourself away from lo and do have a bath/uninterrupted meal/prepare for next day etc

It looks silly and like I'm being selfish as he's at work but then he should maximise the little time he gets as a family. I feel like he's going to miss out on J as a baby and you can't get it back. Hmm may be slightly hormonal!

Windy baby here too 2blessed it's a shame to see their discomfort but funny when they eventually do a huge fart

Zcos i sang hush little baby on repeat for what felt like hours. The crying in pain obviously took it out of her last night, shes only woke up for 10 minute periods and as soon as shes BF shes gone back to sleep. Shes even done 2 sleep feeds. Her poo has always been runny, shes never done a creamy one, i'm wondering now if thats not normal.

Willyou, hope your ok, its annoying when they do that. My DP does it as well or when i give H to him as she just settled he holds her for all of 5 minutes then she goes into her bouncer/swing or gets given to my dad (who lives with us as i'm his carer).

Those with older babies, iz there a 4-week growth spurt (or around now..)? O spent from 8 till 3 yesterday asleep in stints and then awake for mega feeds, then 4pm till 11.30pm feeding and awake more or less. Made himself really over tired and I'm pretty sure almost totally exhausted my supply but we finally got him to sleep after an hour swinging in the car seat, and he then slept till now with a short break at 1.30am so think supply is back, phew.

Have also just remembered washing from yesterday is still in the machine, argh. This means no footmuff for the pram and low on nappies too as I'll need to rewash and hang out this morning. Stupid woman.

I'm forever forgetting iv loaded the washing machine and tumble drier, such a scatter brain!!!

Thank god for formula! We were about to have a repeat of last night, slept initially for 4hrs, then only 45mins. Got another big bottle of feed ready and he has just slept for another 3hrs. Hopefully that has sorted his body clock and he will sleep better tonight. Not doing anything this morning, so no panic to get ready, and DH said he would take F after his morning feed so I could have a lay in!

Bf babies always have runny poo.

Well ds was every three hours last night not too bad. But dp and I woke up because our water pipes were vibrating really loudly it even woke dd up who has been known to sleep through dp drilling.. And ds woke after two hours just now because dd came in and we didn't hear her bit woke to find her leaning over the Moses basket probably poking ds

Anyway I'm getting my hair done today very excited! Although I will probably fall asleep! Hot cross buns for breakfast!