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

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barbeasty hope your boiler is sorted and you can warm up. Shuddering at the thought of being so cold!
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Glad jabs went ok pidj I'm dreading ours. Yey to sling snuggles. We are loving ours, I may have been naughty and ordered a Moby too, but it's so fab and now we have a spare when one is sicked all over!

Oh and very envious of everyone being back in their pre pregnancy jeans.. How are you doing this?! I've still got nearly 2 stone to lose?! Has anyone started exercising more than brisk walks? Starting to regret all those millionmince pies I ate whilst pregnant.. However I too have started a Creme egg diet.. Resisting the boxes of 6 onoffer is taking allll my will power!

Cookies it's all genetics, I was back in mine after a few days but I don't tend to put much on when pregnant and I think the stress of ds being in SCBU meant I lost it quickly.

Had a fairly crappy day. Took us three bloody hours to get to Southampton. Ds was screaming for food dd was crying because she wanted to get out of the car. Jabs went fine though. Might pass out from exhaustion!

Why did you have to come all that way, Spotty? We just popped down the surgery and the nurse did it!

Oh no Southampton was dd to see neurologist then jabs at drs surgery on the way home

Cookies you are doing well to resist. I have eaten a whole box every day for the last 3 days. I will start running when the snow has melted and I've got rid of my cold.

Dd now weighs 11lb 2oz which is 2lb up on birth weight putting her on the 75th centile. Although I don't focus too much on weight it's reassuring to know the feeding works especially as we're now going 5hrs between each one.

Dh is working late again so hoping to get the boys to bed in a bit and settle down for an early one

COD at five hours. Ds is just below 50th for corrected and 9th for actual I agree though it gives you a bit of a boost for breastfeeding especially if you're having a hard time

Think part of weightloss is def genetics, although also kept going to the gym then pool right up to overdue date in a foolish attempt to encourage him out on time. (fat lot of good that did, 12 days late..)

Tried my first attempt at fitness dvd by seizing the moments when he sleeps but i swear he can tell and is sabotaging me! Have done a third of it - in 5 minute batches. how am i expected to fit this in? Had to resort to doing crunches with him on my chest.

Also great news on weight gain for LOs! Sorry to hear about the road trip spotty, hopefully not one you need to make again for a while?

Next month! Argh!

Cookies, I think weightloss is a sheer fluke. I lost weight so fast I was very weirded out, and even though I have a pudgy tummy am back into all my own clothes. I eat quite healthily (probably better now than during the pregnancy) and with little C I often find it hard to have a good lunch - not an advisable way to lose weight! I try to walk as much as possible (long walk today despite feeling v tired) but haven't done anything formal.

Baby massage class this afternoon- C fell asleep, cried and wanted feeding, then fell asleep again! Given that you're not supposed to massage a crying or asleep baby, we didn't get much done! Still, it was nice to meet some other mums and admire their little ones - one smaller than C, and most of the others a few months older.

Off to see my consultant tomorrow for 6 7 week checkup. I hope he enjoyed his winter cruise that we paid for! I am a bit afraid I will get all teary when I see him - I liked him so much, and he was so great guiding my husband and I through a tricky labour. When I was in the midst of baby blues, the memory of him and the wonderful anaesthetist we had made me cry! Anyway, I'm sure he's used to women having strong emotional reactions to him, given that he's the person there at such an important moment.

OK, tell me straight - am I weird?

I'll tell you what IS weird - little C has been asleep for about 2 hours now. Is this a good way to mess up a bedtime routine? I'd like to bath her and put her to bed, but...

pmgkt they're just sooo good, I'm very close to breaking and buying a box they're so small (not we've gotten bigger!!)
COD that's fantastic weight gain and the reward for doing so well, does make you feel smug we get an odd 4-5 hour but with a zillion cluster feeds before and after!

Do they weigh LOs at their 6wk check? Just because i can't be bothered to trek out in the cold I'm fat and lazy to the HV when I have the check a few days later?? Clinic is no longer at surgery and right out the other side of town

pmgkt great news on the weight gain! Did you increase formula top ups in the end? That's what we did.

Eggs are you possibly having a growth spurt?? When Heidi is angry at the boob, i swaddle her and it seems to calm her to feed well.

And don't want to make anyone jealous but i'm a size smaller in clothes and 1.5stone lighter than pre-pregnancy. Granted thats due to severe hyperemesis in my pregnancy. Those that are fitting into their jeans but weigh abit more could it be your breasts weighing more?

Fab weight gain pmgkt.

Cookies - N has got his 6 week check on Thursday, and the appt letter said to take him to be weighed the day before. It was easier when DS1 had his as the hv used to be at the surgery at the same time so it could all be done in one go. Yet another thing that varies from area to area I'd imagine. Agree it's a PITA if you have to do it separately esp in this weather.

Yay to the lo's weight gain - that's immense! Also v jealous of mummies weight loss - I'm still wearing mostly mat clothes and have about a stone and a half to lose! I was at my heaviest ever when I got pg and then ate an awful lot of maltesers! Am planning to walk to baby clinic tom which is quite a way to balance out the box of milk tray my pal bought me yesterday when she came to meet T. When t has a proper bedtime I'll have to start doing a DVD and get the weighted hula hoop out - prob best not before the 6 week check though (excuses excuses!)

Ds got weighed at his six week check. The dr just popped into the HV office and pinched the scales.

hales im also a size smaller and 1.5 stone lighter than pre pregnancy and think its down to gestational diabetes I am still overweight though and would like to loose about2 stone I am trying to eat well and plan to follow slimming world and start walking and exercise dvds in 2 weeks

Ds is 4 1/2 weeks today and ive started bleeding heavier again red fresh blood surely this cant be a period can it?

Had my 6 wk check all good and bloods done to check my sugar levels. Here they don't check babies until 8 wks and do their jabs straight after. So I'm taking Ethan to be weighed at some point this week to check my milk is doing him some good.

Suddenly very tired. Sometimes these night wakings catch up with me.

I've had to do mine separately also, Hv came today then gp
tomorrow. Guess I'd better book jabs in tomorrow

E has been screaming for hours and will only really stop if DP bounces him around, apparently tonight I don't have the bouncing about magic touch. When we've fed him today he's not drunk it yet cried when we've taken the bottle away. He's being a pain. DP is now entertaining him in another room to give me a break. I've been so glad he's been off work today because of the snow or he'd have come home to a sobbing wreck.
I've not braved pre pregnancy clothes yet but I'm so fed up of leggings I might have to give it a go, or go and buy some cheap bottoms to tide me over. I did discover that coffee now tastes rubbish so I'm not stuffing myself on coffee and cake all the time like I planned for my maternity leave so maybe it'll all be okay. Or at least means I can spend the saved money on trousers.

Baby traitor here - DH got the biggest and most prolonged smile tonight - all I've had today is sick in my face! Who does all the work? Who gets all the glory? Hmmm.

Ellie and hales not at all of your weight! I wish wish wish i could be the same. As much as I'm glad I had no sickness or GD, I think I would have given the choice if it meant fitting into my old old size 12 jeans!! I couldnt get any of mine on but managed to tuck my jelly belly in a size 16 so reluctantly bought them, as I couldn't face another day in leggings. Even too fat for my maternity jeans! Band cuts into flab.
Bought the 30 day shred and it came today .. (despite the weather!) however I have discovered a load of Christmas chocolate so have eaten the lot whilst wtching trashy TV instead. This is why my old jeans are a distant dream.

Thanks for info on 6 week check ups.. I don't think DD1 was weighed but then I forgot my red book.. What a useless mum I am..

WLmum that is poo!! They always swoop in and get the good bits!! The 'fun one' title as well as they get older aren't they!