November 2012 - Don't forget the tummy time

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1664696-November-2012-By-eck-we-can-talk

Stats list: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1485512-November-2012-Stats-List

No they did the initial home visit that was all. 6 week whatever it was supposed to be was at the clinic then they don't see us until a year. I can take him to any clinic I want whenever I want. Yesterday was the first time I'd been in 6 weeks. I'll probably go about that often to see what he weighs. But that's more for curiosity than anything. I'm not really worried about it. They were useful with his dry skin yesterday. I didn't get told off for him being too active yesterday either :)

I'm watching a couple on eBay!! Jumperoos that is. Because my house needs more plastic stuff....

My god, how far behind am I already
Off to catch up

I feel like crying when I look at my living room! It is no longer colour coordinated. Just... colour.

DP's computer is just gonna have to go. He needs a laptop. His computer is huge. Takes up a corner of the living room which we will need for a toy corner since Oscars room can't have any in, other than small stuff!

Before next christmas comes, it will have to go...! (YES!!!)

I really should go and get dressed while someone is napping.

Just read my first post so long ago.

My living room looks like Mothercare.

The girls are up to something. They have clubbed together to see how many stone I can lose today running up and down the stairs. They just wont settle and keep waking each other up! They are tired and want to sleep but can't seem to get into that deep sleep. They have tag teamed me since midnight!!!!!! I am going to wear out the stairs at this rate. Who needs a gym membership. So unlike them, they usually self settle & sleep well. Argh!

It is their 4 month old present to me.

feeling shattered today is it wrong to want dd to sleep all day I need to eat and need a nap! tried to get up bit earlier at 9am but think that's made us both grumpy!
used to be that in 1950's sleeping through was classed at 12-5
think with the lives people lead now means we expect more.
my dd is 8 weeks today and still cluster feeding for 5 hours every night used to be she would sleep 6 hrs so it felt worth it now only 3.5 (I'm sorry cos I know there are those out there getting less).
I would like to canvas opinion from the 7 and 10 club ...lucky ladies...when did you start getting longer sleeps? what ages what weight how did that correspond re days naps too?

I do believe there is a sleep regression at 4 months - this is what caused people in the past to think that weaning was the answer.

also sorry can't rem who asked the question re push chair ... am doing something wrong been using car seat as push chair since dd birth and always been in a semi sitting position!?

Zcos I have the HV coming out at the start of March but that may be because it's a rural area so harder to get to clinics. Babies need to lie flat or nearly flat most of the time for normal development so shouldn't be in a car seat, bouncer etc. for more than a couple of hours a day.

I hate to be miserable as I had an exersaucer (like a jumperoo) for dd. She loved it and it let me cook dinner... But, jumperoos, exersaucers and doorway bouncers are all crap for hip development (especially if hips are borderline to start with - and the clicky hips manipulation test is not good at picking this up). Even if you have had an ultrasound and know hips are fine our orthopaedic surgeon and physio say they aren't good for development. There is a good summary of the kind of arguments I've heard here

greenmommyblog.com/index.php/2010/09/28/-or-not/

Please ignore me if you want to - I don't want to tell you what / what not to do - but did want to pass on what I'd heard. I won't be using them - but am gutted as entertainment wise they are brilliant.

And as for baby walkers.....

I have two vomiting children and a very very hot and miserable baby.

Just had a look at the original thread. My first post started with 'gulp' Sad to see so many names that are no longer with us.

I thought that might be why bryzoan . its a shame cos babies love to bounce. will prob keep mine for short periods of play. you cannot beat a soft rug and floor play for getting them moving about

Just skimmed and caught up.
Just a few points from the last few pages, started writing notes but got bored as there's so much

Routine and sleep-wise we seem to be similar to Detective. We?re very lazy and I?m just going with the flow. M is normally asleep around 10:30/11pm, will some nights go straight through until 6ish or some nights have a feed about 3am. She then goes back down until 8:30, has some awake time and then back down until 11 or 12am. So quite lazy. However, we haven?t had much to do with the crappy weather so being lazy doesn?t matter. As we do more and get up earlier I suppose she might start going to sleep earlier on a night. Who knows? If her sleeping becomes a problem then we might look in to different techniques.
I don?t really want her to go to bed too early at the moment anyway as then DH wouldn?t get much time with her awake.

Wow GT I didn?t get my BFP until 12th March, and I tested early. You must be one of the earliest?
Ahhh, just seen your post saying it was Feb not Jan
Detective I was 3+3 when I tested but then tested everyday for a week as I wasn?t sure if it was left over hormones from my injections. By 3+5 (my birthday) the line got darker so I knew it was a BFP. I?ve got some photos of all the tests lined up with the lines getting darker

VQ and Detective and those of you whose Los are in 3-6months already, how big are they? M isn?t small, she?s between 50th and 75th percentile for weight, she?s being weighed on Friday and I?m guessing she?ll be 12lb7oz+ but she?s only gone in to her 0-3month this last week or so. She still fits in her Next up to 1month, though they?re snug so for bedtime only now. She fits in Next upto 3 months but there?s plenty of wear in them. Her Mothercare Newborn is starting to get snug but her Mothercare 0-3month babygrows are absolutely huge. She?s 10 weeks on Friday and I cant see her being in 3-6months in 3 weeks

Back to today, Ms had a cold the last few days, as a result she slept really well two nights and not as well last night. Today though she's hardly been awake, just enough for a quick play, nappy change, feed, look around and then back to sleep. She's currently asleep in her bouncy chair and has been for at least 1.5hrs. Might wake her up shortly.

My boobs have suddenly started hurting again, like they did when M was tiny. I wake up in a morning and they're huge. I thought supply was supposed to settle as you go on?

Tomorrow I have an appointment with a Continence physio to inspect my pelvic floor post 3rd degree tear. Wonder what they'll think to my bucket fanny. That means I'll have to shave my legs and do my bikini line for the first time since I was 37 weeks pregnant, so just a mere 3 months then

phew stunt I don't go out all day with baby in buggy who does? I thought it may be that they always have to be flat in pram for some reason.
had fab day today not so much as per my earlier post would love to know re longer night sleeps yest was such a good day but today dd so grumpy and so am I anyone else cry their eyes out when their lo cries I can't help it ... shattered though and hungry microwaved food bout an hour ago but not been able to go and get it!

hang in there VQ. You deserve a medal after the last twelve weeks.

Fatima how old is your lo? I tried the getting up earlier today dh really thinks its the answer but its obviously all gone wrong!! I have tried going up to bed to cluster feed much earlier too but that isn't working and means I spend even less time with dh ... how do you mummies with 2 cope!?

zcos she's 9.5weeks. She likes to feed in the evenings, not as much as when she was new. If she doses off at 9 she wakes back up and wants more boob so at the moment there's no point putting her down earlier.

Just had to wake her up, she's been asleep ages. She's just had some boob and a huge poo, took some doing. She looks sleepy still. Wonder if she's sleeping the remnants of her cold off?
I could have got loads done but didn't think she'd be asleep long so ended up just MNing, ah well

Do I have a weird child? When sucking his thumb he pulls his hair with other hand. Really weird.

gt DD1 used to do that. One day she got her hair wound round her finger so much and couldn't get it off, her finger turned blue. Was a scissors job!

zcos we started to sleep through from a feed at 10:30 till maybe 06:30 around 8 weeks, with a little hiccup around jabs time. Then he just got better and better and now he goes down at 18:45 I get him up at 10:00, nappy change, dosey feed and we go to bed around 10:30. He wakes up then at around 06:45.

A Velcro baby this afternoon has turned into a happy baby now he has had another green poonami. Yacky yak yak

I cut the hair not the finger!

I did that as a baby GT and still fiddle with my hair when I need to self-settle although gave up on the thumb-sucking when I was eleven.

My DS2 loved sleeping in the car seat Zcos, if it wasn't bad for them I'd have left him in there all night!

I think it's all about the proportions Fatima. All my three have long bodies and short little leggies. My older two wear clothes for their age on top but trousers for a year or two younger which makes buying pyjamas tricksy. Certainly J needed the 3-6M bodysuits first, then sleepsuits and the trousers are only just fitting him now.

YW I also have a baby with a changing mat obsession. He will happily lie on it for hours and hours!

Fatima we ended up in 3-6 at 8 weeks. He's just too long for everything but not fat enough!! He's about 13.5lb at 9 weeks.

I had health visitor til 6 weeks because of csection. Once I could drive it was off to clinic. Though I've not taken him yet. Will for next week as its 4 weeks since she came.

I want a jumperoo! Didn't realise he could have one soon! Off to stalk eBay!

GT DD2 does that too, and has also had blue fingers. Lots and lots of kids do it so he is not weird. It is just self comforting.

This is not a happy household. I am not sure how much more of this I can take tbh. J is breaking my heart. He is a lot bigger now than when he was in hospital, so a lot stronger hopefully. I know it will be several days before I get anything resembling sleep. I will likely be on the floor in his room tonight. I am thinking of strapping DD2 in her carseat overnight to help with the coughing. DH is downstairs and helping and I have dispatched grandma for calpol and Brufen.

The only thing in our house with a changing mat obsession is the cat
We had the HV until about 6 weeks, I think she would have carried on coming out to weigh LO due to her small-ness at birth but as I'm weighing her at baby clinic she isn't anymore.

Fatima little pig has just grown into newborn clothes, at 9 weeks; she's on the 50th centile for weight but the 9th for length.

Is there any truth about nights becoming better once a baby has doubled its birth weight?

Fatima (again) fwiw I know how you feel about body hair. Was shocked to find armpit hair the other day. Am usually quite vigilant about it. Good job I spotted it before dh otherwise a divorce would have been threatened