November 2012 - More group hugs and moral support please

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1676013-November-2012-We-want-rattles-and-we-want-them-now

I am a lifelong vegetarian, as are all the DCs. We love cheese. Eat a metric f**ktonne of it weekly. When I go to Subway and they ask which cheese I would like, I respond "All the cheeses please". They look a bit I guess it is not a usual request

J slept 2.5 hours so 7.5 hours but split into 4 parts. He does not want to be awake. I do not want to be awake. I used to sleep better when on a night duty! (I was a coiled spring always ready for action)

catbag same here, I love cheese. I buy tonnes of it and put it in nearly everything I cook.

detective Hope he is better soon, poor thing.

DS slept from 11.30 until 5.30 then again until 8.30. Not bad but several nights recently he has slept for 8 hours straight so I was expecting it again last night and it didn't happen. Boo.

Yawn.......

I could easily live on cereal. I have a bowl as a snack every most days.

N seems to be getting the hang of sleeping in the evening, though she won't let me put her down. Still, it's an improvement and we can work on that.
She also stirred at 6 this morning, but I ignored her and she went back off to sleep until now! I feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel - albeit very far away.

I drove back from Dads yesterday, it was surprisingly easy. Took 5 hours including a stop and both girls slept pretty much all the way.

DD1 and I are both full of cold again. We've only just got over the last one. I hate winter :(

Sorry vq, it sounds like we have been bad in a previous life and must be punished :( Every morning, between 4am and 5am, I think that I do not want to be awake. I want to be snoring peacefully like DH. But by the time it gets to about 5:40am, I think that I might as well get up and take advantage of the fact that they will lie here for about 15-20 minutes before kickng off, and go and do something useful. Or have a cup of tea. Just be away, and not lying miserable in bed.

This morning, for instance I got up, ran to kitchen and put on kettle, ran upstairs for wee, came back to kitchen, made tea. Remembered had some roasted mediterranean veg in freezer, threw it into stock pot and cooked with stupid amounts of garlic, added 6 tins of chopped tomatoes. Filled another saucepan with water, added 3 or 4 coarsely chopped garlic cloves, a big chunk of ginger, myriad herbs, tabasco with chipotle and put on to heat up and use as stock. Hey presto, roast veg and tomato soup for dinner. All actions above took 12 minutes. I also put the washing machine on. Stuff like this makes me feel like I am winning, even though I feel half-dead. Keeps me sane. I AM IN CONTROL! Really though, I am! It's not just in my head!

Good meowning,

Snotty, sneezy, coughing baby and snotty, sneezy, coughing husband. Duvet day in crisp towers.

Detective if you got enough iron when pregnant then baby is born with enough iron for the first six months then needs to start getting iron from food. The same goes for vitamin D, that's why they recommend vitamin drops from 4-6 months. Iron deficiency in babies is reasonably common hence the recent interest in delayed cord cutting to maximise baby's iron stores.

Thanks for the bedtime tips Detective. J wakes up between 6 and 7 but he's not great at daytime naps so I think he's overtired by nighttime. He was going to sleep between 10 and 10:30 which was okay but it's been getting later. I think DH isn't speaking to him after last night's three-hour grumbling/crying sesh. Tonight I'm going to get DH to take him out for a walk with the dog (dog is crippled so walks don't take long) while I run the bath. Then he can have a good long bath to wear him out. Then into his sleeping bag and into bed for a feed. If that doesn't knock him out then he can go in the swing (in his sleeping bag) with a dummy. I'm not convinced it will work but if we start to do it every night then maybe he will develop sleep associations. Should I add a bedtime story in there somewhere as well?

The constant puking possetting is really starting to get me down. He's had three sets of clothes on today already and we only got up at 8 (although one of those was as a result of poonami.) He's sick up to five times after each feed and I don't always manage to 'catch' it in a bib or muslin. I thought my 12 weeks that would be getting better. He also seems to have intermittent intestinal pain. Please tell me I don't have to cut out dairy.

Stunt - did you see what the dr told me? I was going through exactly that. Infant gaviscon has made a significant difference to us!!! His screaming (which wasn't much) has reduced, there is reduced sickness. Honestly we were both changing 3-4 times a day. His started about 13 weeks

Stunt we've done a bed time routine pretty much from the day he came home. No idea if he'd just quickly anyway but I do think he knows what order things happen in. Hes a very routiney type baby. Or appears to be!! I am as well.

Chinese people I'm a hound. Fairly accurate description of my personality. Apparently I'm wary of dragons. Mmmmmmmm

I suppose I shouldn't complain. 9.30pm-1.45-7.30am-9.30 and asleep until 9am (in our bed as I fed him laying down at 7.30). But he was going SO much longer than 4-5hrs. The feed at 1.45 was v short so I was back in bed by 2.15 at the latest, inc a loo visit & checking on DD. Perhaps I should have tried a dummy but that might not have been quicker for me iyswim. Babies are truly a law unto themselves!!!

DD didn't stir for 12hrs (late to bed, 9.30).

stunt we've got frequent posseting then at times more 'forceful' vomiting that continues a while after a feed on occassion. DD did the same iirc. DD spent about the first 4-5mths of her life with her head on a muslin, perhaps that's why her comforter is now a soft piece of muslin??! Either way, DS always wears a bib (catches dribble & puke!) and we have about 6 muslins on the go at any one time. I have no answer other than that really!!

catbag

stunt I know I and others have bemoaned the constipating effects of gaviscon, BUT - I haven't been able to express for a few days and LO has therefore not had any. She was previously having 1 sachet a day at bedtime (placebo saxhet?? ). Since having none, she is in possetting hell and has the most dreadful hiccups. It might be worth giving it a go at a low dose. Have just typed all that and then read what horsey wrote.

We had Canadian breakfast this morning (not sure if it's actually from Canada) - pancakes, bacon, sausages & maple syrup - yum.
Feeds at 11, 2.30 and 7.30 last night, with a mini play session at 2.30 as posset-induced change required then slept in our bed

Milk, I used to love the taste. I recall how the cream used to separate in the bottle. Hm.....nice. But now it's more water than anything.

VQ you have really had it rough.

Horsey I'm glad you got the gavision.

Decteive- I hope things improve soon.

Evil

Also a cock :o

R did 8:30-4:15 then 4:30-5:45 however, he's on his second nap of the day (first was 30 mins or so, so not long, but he rarely sleeps during daylight hours and if he does it's a mammoth one around lunchtime) and i have a stinking cold which appears to have bypassed him so now I'm worried. Calpol is on standby...

He'll be 12 weeks tomorrow, maybe he's getting ready to grow?

Went to a party last night and didn't get home until 11:45. M went back to sleep after feed etc at 12:30 and didn't wake up until 9am!!!
My boobs were huge and one had leak all over my top and duvet but 8.5hrs

We're also having a canadian breakfast just now! Sorry detective but without sausages BPLP . I am however sipping freshly squeezed oj - DP is doing good!

Okish night here. The better nights seem to be when DP is not here, ie when he is working nights or sleeping in the spare room as I was in an arsey mood last night. He flinches to every wee noise she makes whereas I seem to sleep until she is actually awake and wanting fed. Bad mum (or is it an evolutionary thing?)

Mmm eggy bread...

I like milk on cereal & in tea but don't tend to drink it alone. Hate yukky cheese and not keen on cream/yog etc. Am wondering whether to cut out dairy but L didn't have all this pain when we were ebf so maybe it's too slight to matter. It would mainly be in porridge and a couple of cups of (non- decaf) tea.

I seem to have developed a sleep problem. Last few weeks L has had a small chunk of sleep and then been wakeful the rest of the night. This week it's improved but I'm still lying awake waiting for him to snort/cry/cough. Can't drop off. Driving me crazy, I feel like I'm losing my grip. More so than when he was waking me. I even put Ewan on for myself - didn't work.

I had porridge made with water because the little darlings had used all the milk this morning
I have had some mega milk cravings over the past 2-3 days, wtf is that about?!

We had Canadian breakfast too! Is it because of Shrove Tuesday approaching so we're all thinking about pancakes or is this becoming less of a quiche and more of a cult?

Thanks for all your info on reflux, I think I'll keep a closer eye on when the possetting is happening and try and keep him upright more. DH did the 'Jimmy Shimmy' with him just after his last feed and guess what, he was sick. I might try block feeding him again as I'm having problems with oversupply at the moment.

Right off to study, my exam dates came through last week so I'd better get working.

My tossing boiler has packed in again in the night, third time in 3 days, they come, fix and the leave and it promptly breaks again, I might go hang out in the car, at least it's warm in there.

Oh, no tits!

LO has hiccups again.

Evil

The stupid god damned woman in boots has seriously annoyed me!!!! Thankfully for her I've got a christening to sort.....

Good luck wih the christening horsey! Take some pics of E in his tweed for us please.

Been hearing about a girl I went to school with dying in her sleep on Friday night. She has an 8 month old baby. Very sad.

tits That's not porridge, that's gruel!

Oh pass, how awful :(