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

[MaMaPo]

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Just taken 2 hours to get D to bed. Ughhhh. Apparently it takes 2 weeks for them to learn the routine... My new mantra '2 weeks 2 weeks'

Goodnight everyone! I'm inbed with earplugs, hoping that my husband will do the next feed, I don't wake up and she goes hours until the next one. I can only hope!

Good sleepy wishes to all the babies. Cut your mums some slack!

Night Mama

Cookies DP and I have just watched biggest loser USA while eating Ferrero rocher.

I'm one of the GDers and am pre pregnancy weight now but the rate im working through this chocolate not for long. I can wear my skinny jeans but they make my womb hurt. Don't think it's shrunk all the way back yet.

Got a very playful little boy tonight. He keeps licking my face

I'm also in all my old clothes but still have 8lb to lose, very strange how that works! I was going to start to shift it today but then went and made a huge trifle so will try harder tomorrow.

We've cracked the bedtime with the dummy! Dd will now go down in her basket at about 10ish and sleep through til about 3:30ish, wahoo! We still co-sleep after that until 7ish but I get to go to bed with dh again and feel as if I've actually had proper sleep.

Really hope everyone gets some decent sleep tonight.

Haha Cookie i'm not even a size 12 now i'm down a dress size. Thats my next target, but for now i'm just going to enjoy food for a week or so more. Is anybody else craving and i mean REALLY REALLY craving chocolate or anything sweet. I'm practically living off the stuff its all i want.

Ellie i was the same i was bleeding then stopping, then starting heavily again. The starting again always happened when i was stressed though.

WL i'm that your DP gets up of a night. My DP took a week off work to help, and has had loads of daytime naps n keeps me awake when its his turn to put H down.

Sorry meant i'm of Mama, i forgot who it was (stupid pregnancy brain still).

Yey DP fixed the crying, turns out the teet on the bottle we were using was blocked and not letting anything out. Poor guy has been hungry for hours and we just thought he was being fussy. We feel so bad since he doesn't usually scream for no reason, although he's now getting special daddy cuddles and putting away lots of milk.
mama hope you get some decent sleep.

hales all I want is sweet stuff too!! And cups of tea. There must be zero nutrients in my milk.

I think I've been told the extra blood is a sign you're doing too much? If there's a smell then possibly an infection worth asking a doc about? But my bleeding has done that too. Put your feet up and take it easy

Good luck fellow mums

Edward was just starting to stir so I went to heat his bottle. Walked into the kitchen to be hit by a strong smell. One of the dogs has got the shits and its all over the floor, chairs , dog bed and dog. Cue doing poo wipe up, mop floor, put on washing of bedding, and bath dog. Luckily Edward wasn't stirring for feed, just being a wriggle so now I have a clean kitchen, warm bottle, and am awake, but he is still sleeping. Just as well he takes his bottle cold as it will be at this rate.

It was a great excuse for a creme egg as a reward though

I too am craving sweet things. It's hard work getting DH to allow me pudding every evening, we never usually have it. I'm almost pre pg weight, but not the same shape - fatter thighs and tummy :(

I've been eating fruit bread by the loaf, it's the perfect thing to have with tea all through the day. Yum.

Its weird isn't it no-one has ever mentioned to me that i might crave stuff afterwards. I didn't crave anything during my pregnancy and haha i'm that bad about it i refuse to share, and god help anyone who touches my stash.

Having a night where H won't get off my boob!

I'm eating enough to feed an army. It explains how I'm not back to pre-pregnancy size or weight though! Lol only a stone over this time though, better than 4 with my first pregnancy!

Hales, I am lucky! My husband is a bit if a night owl, so I have started to go to bed around 10 or so and he stays up and gives a feed if she stirs before 12.30am. So I woke briefly when they came to bed but otherwise got a good stretch until 3. It works for us!

I also crave sweet things, just like in pregnancy. I just have a sweet tooth.

The return of the nightfeed. Just sitting here listening to J fart himself to sleep. I'm sure I must have the fartiest baby in Britain. Them again if I drank 8 bottles of milk a day I imagine I'd be quite farty too.

Both me and my DP are night workers, but suddenly all he needs is sleep, all day (at his dads so its not interrupted, if he's at work) and if he's off, he's catching up (because its hard work running around to see me and H and stay at his dads and work). Solution would not to be so feckin selfish and stay here! What i would do for uninterrupted sleep! His week off and he's as helpful as a chocolate fire guard!! Can you tell i'm sleep deprived? She finally looks as if shes going to sleep lets hope its for longer than a hour. I'm gonna have a toffee crisp then sleep.

fandango your post just made me laugh out loud! (in the dark. To myself.) thinking of farting, I am so much worse than i was, even in pregnancy; is anyone else suffering from this?

Am also craving sweet stuff. Trying not to continue as went to town on Christmas chocolate/gingerbread, but willpower is low. Used to snack on ham/carrots before getting pg, so am mounting major effort to revert to this now am coming up to 4 weeks, plus exercise dvd. Need to train O to sleep just for half an hour without me holding him so i can fit some better exercise in. Unless anyone can recommend a way to do a velcro baby workout?

willyou I thought Ethan was the fartiest baby in Britain. His farts would make a full grown man proud. No one believes me when I say it was him. He's so loud! I'm going on the mantra 'better out than in' at least if he's farting the wind out he's not getting tummy pain with it!

We finally got D down and then when DH and i crept to bed we finally lay down and snuggled up at which point D let out the loudest, longest fart known to man and we both collapsed into fits of giggles for 5 mins. i have come to these conclusions - 1) sleep deprivation reduces us to a pair of 5 year olds 2)fandango J has competition for fartiest baby.

utopian me and my mum found some clips of exercise videos using babies as weights. Would work for Velcro babies.
I'm glad the farts are now just loud than smelly. The first week they would clear a room, we were checking nappies because we didn't think anything could smell so bad without poo. Still confused how something so small makes so much bum noise though.

Just pinning my eyes open to mark a spot, haven't posted but keeping up

Well apart from the random couple of hours of ds being wide awake last night was ok. Ds has started going 2 1/2 hours instead of two. Must be because he had to go three hours a couple of times yesterday when we were driving I don't recommend it he was very sad

Feel bad for writing this post, since everyone seems in a good mood and this is such a me me me downer!

Turned out F wasn't screaming out of temper :( it got worse through the evening, he was stiffening up, throwing his head right back and even refusing the comfort of bf. We reached breaking point at 7 and went to il's for a break (best il's ever!) they gave him a bottle, and he vomited huge amounts. Tried to get some sleep while there, but could still hear his screaming. Called the duty GP who agreed to see him at 01.30. Got him in the car at midnight and he finally fell asleep. GP diagnosed reflux and oral thrush, got him home and he continued to sleep solidly until 06.00, gave him a feed and he fell back to sleep. Poor lad is exhausted from lack of sleep the last few days, glad he has been able to settle and catch up, I'll try get a bit more sleep later on.

Feel terrible for not noticing his pain earlier, and even when I noticed his white tongue, I just put it down to vomit. Also the amount he had been sick was completely out of proportions, we had changed his clothes and gone through countless muslins the last few days, I should have noticed then :(

Must pull myself together now, no point in feeling sorry for myself. Just expressed 4oz of one of the basketballs, waiting for him to wake up to feed again then going to the pharmacy to collect his meds and hopefully drain a bit more milk off.

Oh eggs sorry to hear that, but at least it sounds like F is happier now and I'm sure it's impossible for us to diagnose these things ourselves every time! O has a white tongue quite often, I wouldn't assume it's anything more sinister than normal spew. (should i?)

Sending hugs to you both.

Eggs - . Hope F is better soon. Don't beat yourself up. It's so hard to know whether they're just being grumpy or if it's something more. He's got his medicine now, and I'm sure he'll be back to his old self soon.

Well, N didn't get the message about sleeping well last night. Co-sleeping I can do, but having to sleep upright at a certain angle with what must be getting on for a stone of baby across my chest was quite a challenge. Then had to have words with DH (who slept in the spare room) for whinging that he 'had so much to do' because he had to hold N and get DS1 a yogurt out of the fridge while I dared to have a shower. FFS.

I'm definitely craving tons of sweet stuff too, so much so that it really cannot be good for me. Back in pre-preg jeans though and pinning my hopes on the fact that exactly the same thing happened last time and I ended up going down a dress size without doing any exercise.