December 2012 - Smiles all round!

[SpottyTeacakes]

And the one where Spotty's gang gets some sleep

Major wee incident means O is now up, changed and wide awake, currently chatting away to my boob in the dark.

What do people do about night time changes? I try to avoid it cause it wakes him up; does that make me a bad lazy mother?

eggs I don't think they stop you doing anything on the coil, but say you might get cramps/spotting like a period at first so whatever you'd be fine to do in those circumstances.

Utopian, I avoid changes too, but that's. come back to bite me the last 2 nights as C leaked all the way through her clothes. Bad mum!

We're entering day 4 of no poo. She was miserable yesterday but has slept ok (waking at 2 and 5.15) although she didn't go down until about 10. Going to the clinic today for weighing so I can ask about the poo issue too.

Oh, nice one little C. Just changed her nappy and the pooing has begun.

Hooray mamapo I hope she's more comfortable now!

I tend not to change at night unless there's poo, but there's always at least one. When I went to the postnatal group a mum asked if she needed to change at night, the nurse suggested 2 nappies one on top of the other, with holes in the nappy underneath so the extra wee can leak through!

unless D is crying because of a full nappy we just tend to change his nappy when he wakes for a feed and if it wakes him a bit the feed calms him down again.

Have to change F in the night else he doesn't settle back down. He had done a massive poo on his last change. Only slept an hour since his last feed, and that lasted 1hr20min, it's a fussy morning for us. And the batteries died on Ewan :( cue annoying beeps!

I don't change in the night unless he's pooed and I realise he's pooed or he's leaked and I realise he's leaked I don't think it's lazy, I think it's sensible. No point in waking them up loads when you're trying to teach them night time is for sleeping.

Bad night last night, no idea of timings but he woke 5 times! I popped downstairs this morning to check the boiler as I was cold when feeding, and found our front door open! thankfully all the kids and all our stuff is still here. I think DH must have not quite clicked it shut when he came home from work. If it had been open at bedtime I'm pretty sure we would have noticed. Going to have to invest in a bolt for overnight, my initial thought is that one of the kids must have gone out.

I don't change ds either except on the rare occasion he won't settle after a fees.

Whoops IsThat! Glad no one burgled you!

False alarm - one tiny poo and C has been miserable, grunting and crying in her sleep, since 5. I haven't slept since then. My cold now feels even worse.

Sounds like I need to put on the brave hat and remove automatic changing from his routine, it's probably why he takes at least an hour to feed and get back to sleep!

Oh isthat, that's creepy! DH leaves the front/back door unlocked all the time, it creeps me out!

Seymore, he will get 5 more scans, but they are just ultrasound ones like we had when pregnant. The brace holds their legs in the right position and although its a brace that is used elsewhere. The purpose of the trial is to see if all breech babies should have this and if that reduced the number of future problems rather than testing the effectiveness of the brace as such. It just happens that it may help solve his problem at the same time, if that makes sense.

Definately woke me up at 5.30am I couldn't have been less bothered once I checked the kids were all here and there was no one in the house. DH got up to check that the car was still on the drive. I hadn't even thought about that

Might go to a toddler group today I should be working but Ds2 is fidgety and I got a lot done last night so should still finish to deadline. Dcs are at school until 4.30 anyway and go out again at 6 so I can always work late if needed.

Mama have you tried tummy massage and leg rolling, both gets poo moving

Talking crap latch spotty dd has taken to literally only taking in the nipple most of the time then flicking it with her Tongue, all whilst smiling at me. She only ever takes it well during the night when she must be super hungry.

We,ve stopped changing at night unless seeping shit necessitates. Getting him back to sleep is much easier now.

We don't change at night unless there is a leak or a poo. N tends not to poo at night now anyway more than makes up for it during the day though.

N's off for his first day at work with me, well couple of hours really. I said I'd pop in to help out with something I was doing just before I went on maternity leave. As it's not client-facing there's no problem with him coming in with me today, but won't normally be the case. It's fantastic that you can take your LO with you Monster - I'm just hoping N is as well behaved!

Yes, pmgkt, I've been doing a massage course and so we've been massaging daily, plus ad hoc leg squishes to tummy (which have worked before). She's getting quite a lot of (really stinky) farts out, but probably won't feel much better until she has a decent poo! Poor wee thing.

Chloe I've always had problems getting ds to open his mouth wide enough and he's gone back to being lazy mainly at night! Probably me a bit too as I can't be bothered to sort it out when I'm tired

Hi smellsof, I'm 30 mins drive from Geneva! I live in Bellegarde in France.

I never change nappies at night unless I suspect a poo. It def doubles the time I'm up and touch wood we seems to be moving in the right direction with nights.

I change Isla at 22:00 with last feed and then don't change her till 10:00am when she gets up! Obviously if there's leakage I'd change her but daren't wake her in case she doesn't go back down!

I change H with before every feed when she 1st wakes up otherwise she leaks through by the end of the feed. I think she wee's an extreme amount and i go through about 10-12 nappies (sometimes more) a day.

We had our 2 month check up yesterday. How time flies! DD is 10.95 lb and 57cm. I'm feeling a bit smug because the MIL is visiting tomorrow and the last time we saw her she kept saying that LO's crying was because I wasn't producing enough milk (she's EBF). She was 7lb65 at birth, so it seems like a good weight gain to me.
The MIL also kept saying that I'm eating too much and I wont lose the weight. Why do people say that you are eating for two during pregnancy, but critisise you for eating too much when you are breast feeding? Grrr..

I'm not doing very well at all at going out on my own with the LO. Actually I haven't. I really should make the effort.

Well done Pidge on the hat making! I'm dying to start a little craft project but have a very clingy baby at the mo. She's been slightly better since yesterday so hopefully it'll last.