November 2012 - Guess what we were doing this time last year

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1680077-November-2012-More-group-hugs-and-moral-support-please

So Eliza she has gained 12 oz from her birth weight in what, 12 weeks? Is that right? If that's so then there really isn't any point weighing her weekly, her weight will fluctuate over the course of the day by several ounces. Obviously I'm no expert as my DSs just had slow weight gain issues, steadily dropping through the percentiles, but that is clearly not just a slow weight gain when you would expect her to gain 4 oz a week on average over that time. There must be some underlying cause, like Blonder said it could be something as simple as a tongue tie or something easily treated. If she is healthy and not actually losing weight then there wouldn't be any harm in waiting for the March appointment although you may want to consider getting the ball rolling sooner as some things can take a long time to diagnose, especially if it is a diagnosis of exclusion. If it is something more serious such as celiac disease then you want this diagnosed as soon as possible. I hope you get some answers from the consultant anyway. It's a hard position for you to be in.

Zcos I have to pump quite hard to get a good flow, just beyond what I can stand. If you aren't letting down you can get quite little which is why I try to express while feeding. If you're using a manual pump it can be tricky to find the right rhythm for pumping. Can you try expressing when at least one breast feels full of milk. It should be easy to get some then. Of course you can supplement with formula whenever you like. I liked this article about supplementation since it says your baby's gut pH changes in response to being given formula but will return to it's previous pH within a couple of weeks.

That's great to have clear and useful guidance YW. Now you know you're doing everything right. Nice to have the extra cash too. Will you spend or save?

I have been moaning today because J is so big. I am now very thankful that I do not have worries about his growth

This baby. Has fed. NON-STOP. For FOUR HOURS

I'm going to treat myself to two things c.£180 in total, lend some money to a dear friend who could really do with a break and some good luck and save the rest. The £270 a fortnight MA also means DH can save the money he has been giving me. Am so chuffed.

Hello new thread!

Have you seen the Ikea advert today? If you have a baby born 9 months from today you can claim a free cot! Wonder how many would do that?!

Right, I'll try to catch up now...must watch TWW at some point too...

Thanks stuntnun that's confused me even more! How do I know when my dds gut has closed ? says several weeks ... She is 10 weeks old ...
I use an electric pump which has worked before on half setting have turned it all the way to 11 but no more luck was trying for 30mins earlier. I also tried my manul again no luck but then dd feeds and is dribbling milk and spitting milk all over me!

My car goes for its MOT tomorrow too VQ, I'm also hoping it's not too expensive.

My NN comes from the TV show Flight of the Conchords. It's a song that they sing in it. If you've never seen the show you should look it up. They also did the music for The muppets latest movie. I have a t-shirt with my NN on that I bought at the live show.

zcos sorry, can't remember your new NN and I'm on an iPad, I express every morning with an electric pump after I've fed from one side. I find the other side is full at that time and I usually get around 4oz. I don't think about it, just attach it on a strong suction and eat my breakfast. If I ignore it my milk lets down and I'm usually done in 5 mins. For some reason I can only express a decent amount from my right breast.

It's great to see that everyone likes thankful Thursdays. We seem to have moaning Mondays, and swearing Wednesday.

My name, well I'm evil on the inside but I look peaceful and calm on the outside. Muhaha, plus I'm a witch. So suits.

N has been very good today, he is starting to hate shopping bless him. Ie been looking at oven as ours in on the way out, but DP thinks we should wait till it stops working. Infact it's getting a clean tomorrow, and I'm not cleaning it

Also I'm off to see a nursery tomorrow.
Evil

Oh sainsbury, had a offer where if you bought huggies nappies you got a box of free wipes!

Dectecive - how about a day where you teach him how to behave around a girl. Ie not to much aftershave, and gel. Why is there so much gel

Big- I hope things impove soon.

Evil I'm a pagan too and dabble in a built of witch craft it was lovely living on Orkney and taking part in rituals at the ring of Brodgar.

I can hardly express at all from the right side. So it's either the left side first thing when LO is feeding on the right, or after she's fed on the left, or last thing at night in a nice hot bath. Aaaah a bath - not something that's going to happen tonight

Oh... Sounds amazing. The room won't clear yellow, what path do you roughly follow?
I roughly follow Wicca, NOT the American verison.

I was almost 2 weeks pregant this time last year. Wow. What a change, and for the better.

Evil

God i'm late! It's been one of those days today :(

I am thankful for my little boy even though he's been a git today with his feeds and I am thankful for my DP who isn't perfect by any means but suits me and I love him much.

I am thankful today is nearly over and hope tomorrow isn't like today. It has been one comprising whinging, strange annoying feeding behaviour, not sleeping much at all, the breaking of his cot mobile (no idea what happened, it just broke!) And I've had a headache all day too. No fun! Hope tonight is alright!

I've tried catching up on things but my tinterwebs is still wank not working. The only thing I can remember is nicknames... My siblings call me kyzordz or the zord, they have for years! They are 21, 17, 17, 15, 13, 10 and the last one due in may. I think of them as partly mine, I thoroughly enjoyed helping out when younger and feel really stupidly attached to them, which sounds incredibly soppy. And before you sympathise with my mothers fanjo, whilst I'm sure 5 soon to be 6 biological children causes 'the bucket effect', two of them are adopted, we just don't look at it that way, family is family even if we collected half of them :p

Anyway, I'm going to cry into a pot of something chocolatey, doubt I'll get back on tonight :( its not all that bad, ds hasn't been that bad just bloody frustrating with feeding mainly I just hate having such a Stoopid headache! Hope to catch up properly soon when tinterwebs is fixed!

Thankful that the test ovulation tests bit stillwas negative...

Thanks blonder that phrase is something I should say. I haven't tried the bottle for a while but I will just sterilised them all again ready to try later. And stunt yes, she's gained 12ozs on her birth weight. Not much and sounds worse when written like that. I think I've been guilty of being too relaxed about it as well. Just keep thinking how she seems such a calm happy baby it's hard to think something is wrong other than she's slow to put on weight. But obviously things aren't right. She doesn't seem hungry. Hardly ever cries for milk and quite happily sucks on the breast without actually drinking, as she's doing now! I'd never heard of celiac disease. I'm just not knowledgable about anything like this. I will definitely get more assertive and get this little goblin of mine eating properly and piling it on. Thanks for the advice x

PR question for you. Do they have aptamil in France? Also stupid question probably but pampers?

Pikz pampers yes; Aptamil I don't think so. LO is on Aptamil but I buy it in Luxembourg or Germany. I have never found it or its equivalent in France.

Evil I used to follow a vaguely Wiccan path during my early 20s. Paganism, or some parts of it, is the closest thing I can relate to spiritually, but I don't keep up with anything now at all. I'm considering going back to catholic church but that would be more for community reasons than spirituality. That said I find churches spiritually uplofting places, but not during mass.

kyzordz your family sounds amazing.

DD1 was mainly better during the day but her temp shot back up this evening to the point she is pretty delirious. Was sat on DH's knee and kept turning to me and asking where daddy is. Poor baby. Looked so confused when I said she was sitting on him. She's trying to sleep now but is waking up every few minutes.

Really heavy snow here. Several inches since this afternoon.

pikz there is a brand with a similar logo called milupa, and Si think that may be linked, but when I compared packets they didn't quite look the same, and since I wasn't 100% sure, and Lux is literally just round the corner I have stuck with what I know. Would you like me to try and find out about milupa?

Celiac disease doesn't present in babies? I don't think anyway. It's auto immune caused by gluten? Not sure. Perhaps those proteins get passed in breast milk? I'd be surprised.

Eliza - It sounds like she does need checking over though. Just to see. If she's happy and looks healthy though, why would you worry? If you werent getting her weighed would you be concerned that shes not growing?

I'm getting worried about weaning and messing it up!!! Seriously?!

pikz pp dixie I am in Bracknell so easy to get to M3. It takes me about 50 mins to get to Winchester so I assume that Hedge End isn't much further on?

We are in Ireland last week in Feb and last week in March but other than that I am free Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

detective what exactly do they don't fanjo physio?

yw evil what are room clears?

Little O has been doing carnage (word of the day) tonight. He usually is asleep by 7 only to be woken at 10 for milk. He was still awake at 9 tonight. That put pay to a Valentine shag, as did the damm period. was hoping it would miraculously finish just in time, but no. And had only been two weeks since the last one. Yet more carnage in the menstrual arena.

Am anticipating a 5 am wake up call due to the 9pm dream feed. So night night.

Xx

Evil I'm similar, kinda elemental stuff, bit of Wicca mixed with hedge witchcraft. I love collecting folklore and superstitions - especially weather lore.

PR sounds very similar to the bug we had. Very high fever for a few days then snot and cough. Bit of jippy tummy thrown in at the end for good luck. It is dreadful when they go delirious so I feel for you x

LO has finally fallen asleep. I'm too scared to move. I'm going to have cannonball boobs in the morning, aren't I?

horsey if I thought about it, weaning would worry scare the crap out of me too, but then, so did things like changing a nappy, feeding etc before LO was born - and look at us now! There's so much information to try to take in, it can get a bit overwhelming I think. You'll muddle through just fine I'm sure.

Sophia I was joking that the room would clear as we were discussing witch craft