November 2012 - Forget 50 books in 2013, we'll have 50 threads

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Morning all. Good night sleep here for everyone but me. Don't know why as ly fever has gone.

LO now at 36 hours of temperature. Breathing ok. Going to leave it til tomorrow evening then take her in on Thursday if no improvement. I've followed DD1's flu cycle completely so far, and DH had something similar just before xmas. Will obvs take her in before if she starts seeming really ill.

I'm feeling quite a lot better but knackered. A shower helped.

Detective you'd freak if you saw the bottle making up guidelines over here. Nowhere is 70 degrees mentioned.

detective A voms when we put him in the car seat. Always. I've changed what I eat a little (no fizzy drinks for example) and he still voms in his car seat. I've assumed its because his tummy is kinda squashed in that position. He possets less now though. He is always in a damp bin though, despite having 12 Funky Giraffe bibs that are excellent, as he dribbled All. The. Time. As for night feeds, let DP do it. As long as he makes up the feeds properly etc the rest O will learn to cope with in a Mummy does this, Daddy does this way...

We had a relatively good night.1 feed just before 4. Fed laying down so didn't transfer him until nearly 5.30 but he slept until gone 7 when DD came in shouting & banging about . The only time he displayed the waking for the dummy thing of the last few nights was when he woke as we were going to bed. Even then he mainly stayed quiet, laying in his cot. If the last few nights weren't sleep regression/growth spurting, I don't know what they were, but I hope they don't return any time soon!!

I have 1 MASSIVE boob due to not feeding since nearly 9pm last night. Have tried feeding him, he's pulled off as soon as the milk started (think he wants his dummy as he's tired), covered us both in milk, so slightly less huge, but still a cup or 2 bigger than the other one!! This is what you get for feeding twice as often as normal yesterday....

J pukes all the time as well Detective, we have muslins stashed all over the house and my older boys are used to being sent running for tissues. Fortunately the sofa is leather but I have resigned myself to buying new cushions. I always feed J on a towel but still end up getting soaked sometimes. J is officially banned from going anywhere near the feather duvet.

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Good morning.

Nice day here.

That is all.

J did another 4 hours so 10 hours with a 15 min feed thrown in. He is nearly 18 weeks.

Those with babies waking and feeding frequently, they are only doing what they have to do. You are doing nothing wrong. They are doing nothing wrong. They have only just learned how to breathe and feed and focus and smile and move their limbs. They are also growing at an incredibly fast rate.

Wise words VQ its hard to remember when they wake you many times a night that they're not doing it on purpose to piss us off. Which I can only say calmly after a good night! Which ours was despite an hour of squawking in the middle which Daddy dealt with. There seems no rhyme or reason here to differentiate between a good night and a bad night in terms of what we do - the only dead certs for us are swaddling and not getting wound up about it.

Detective nooooo him helping you with night feeds was your main reason for ditching BF - don't let him get away with ditching his night time share of the work! Share the load.

Mr and Mrs VQ diggitty diggitty.... that is all

Gorgeous sunny day here too. Baby massage and weigh in for him then a trip to my sister's for tea and a natter for me (his conversation skills aren't scintillating yet!)

Thanks detective we should be ok with the supply we've found and hopefully it'll be sorted soon!
vq that made me cry in my sleep deprived and feeling like a rubbish mummy state, thank you for your wise words x

detective sma stay down was going to be my next feed if gaviscon didn't work. I've heard good things about it.

Snotty, clingy baby here :( poor chap :( mummy cuddles I'm sure will make it all better for him!!

Have good days all

Right I'll let him carry on then! Grin and bare it!

YW it wasn't the reason I gave up lol! It was the feeds taking over an hour and being unable to do anything for DS1 as I was constantly feeding! I was beginning to resent O and every time he cried I prayed it wasn't for a feed! The problem with having more children is you always feel like you are giving one half a job iykwim! Well, I do anyway!!

It was more the day feeds I needed him for!

Velcro baby to the max today!!

The staydown appears to be living up to it's name! We are still on the same babygrow and muslin!

Had one small possett this morning an hour after he woke, but I was being quite active with him to see how he was. It was thicker when it came back up, so did not wet his dribble bib as it just sat on his chin and bib in a couple of blobs!

I'm off to read up more about it. I hope I'm doing the right thing.

Fingers crossed

detective hope the sma stay down milk works - if O is anything like D she hates being mauled while getting dressed/undressed and if it works will save you a fortune on washing powder - luckily D is not very sicky - only 2/3 times a day and its very little, thick and slimy cottage cheese

contra can you get a card sent via moon pig? Write him a voucher for a pamper night?? Massage, bath, manicure?? My dh loves his pampering lol

vq you say such wise lovely words - watching Dottie in awe of holding her hands together and moving them around made me realise just how much these little people have to not only grow but learn - it must be like going to university and learning quantum physics lol

Well I sent dh a text yesterday explaining why I was upset and I didn't get any response all day and then he came in from work as normal and when we went to bed usual chat time away from radar ears that is ds & dd1 but he wasn't forthcoming in talking about it! I've got enough in my plate that the temptation to just let it slide and carry on regardless dh's solution to everything is pretend nothing is wrong but I spose we should sort it out!! Stunt - we have plenty of foreplay to the point he said he was v close, which makes me think the foreplay is better than the deed. Contraception isn't an issue now I have the implant and I've never had pain - I do think everything is a bit slack down

If anyone is short of milk and can't get it online please let us know and I'm sure we can find supplies - don't change milk especially if its for reflux and you've got it under control!!!

I feel a bit rubbish today - got a really "ill" headache - those ones you get when you have flu or any other bad illness - at work for next 2 days so can't be ill!! Dose up and Dottie cuddles will hopefully get me through!!

Hope everyone has a good Tuesday x

I have 3 very lazy, very untidy children and I have Tommy. I am currently fuming with the other 3 as they are so bone-idle but still love the little gets to death.

Just thought I'd share this with you.

Oh, and I'm on strike. No more tidying upstairs for me, yay, they can all do it (this does not include my bedroom).

Ditto Shelly! DS1 is a lazy git these days. Will do anything for me when it's just us, but if DP or anyone else is around he has morphed into a lazy little git. Grrrrrrrrrr.

Someone has taken M and replaced her with a winge bag.
She used to spend weekday mornings in bed with me dozing, then eating, then bit of a chatter, then eating then sleeping again. Was good as I could catch up on sleep.
But oh no, she's decided she doesn't want to do that. She just wants to be awake. Bar a bit of boob when she woke at 7 she doesn't want anymore dispite moaning and crying. She won't go back to sleep.
So it seems mornings are now going to consist of getting up for the day at 7. Joy!

He thinks he is all grown up. Year 6itis as I call it. Can't wait for year 7 when he gets slapped back down . he won't know what has hit him when he gets to high school!

He saunters around the house like a fully grown man, in joggers, sometimes adding a football shirt. Decided he was going to drink tea, and had been helping himself to the kettle. I had no idea he just did it. He's started thinking he can sleep til 1 in the afternoon! And has a strop at his 8.30 bedtime! He can't drag himself out of his pit at 7.30 so there's no way he is going to bed later!

He thinks he is Mr Cool with his Justin Beiber hair don't ever say that to him or massive strop ensues!! in his skinny jeans and high tops.

Problem is his dad encourages all of the above and I'm in a losing battle against it. I'm all for him growing up, but not with a shitty attitude towards everything!

He was never like this so I don't know what happened. Grrrrr.

Fatima O and M had similar sleep patterns didn't they? He has changed his too, now waking at 7.30-8. He was going to sleep earlier too but that seems to have fucked off somewhere the last few days. He went to sleep after his 10pm feed last night, waking at 8.20 for the day.

And yes, he was happy to lie there and play for up to an hour in the morning. Not now.

The nappies and bottles are still upstairs from last night, I'm on the sofa with the Velcro sleeping baby, and the beds are unmade and I''m starving. No breakfast yet.

Question for ff ladies. LO gone from several poos a day to one nappy over spilling one. Did you get this?

She asleep!! I bloody knew she was tired but she wouldn't give in.
I propped her up on DHs pillows to look around while I sort things out and she's bloody fallen asleep watchin homes under the hammer

I suppose it's good her waking earlier, we've a hospital appointment at 10am tomorrow, HV coming at 10 on Thurs an jabs at 10am on Friday. I just wanted one last lazy day

Right off bra shopping...:( will probably cry...but maternity bras now too big and old ones too small...

WHO STOLE ALL THE SLEEPY DUST???

Anniversary yesterday, so thought I might make like vq and get some "alone time" (wink wink nudge nudge) with dh only never alone as LO in corner of room but needs must So for weeks LO has settled at 9.30, not woken until 5 etc. But last night, oooh no, terrorist baby intercepted attempts at dtd by farting and waking herself up, then demanding feeding at 11, 2, 4, 5.30 and 7. WTAF?!

so if you could just hand me back the sleepy dust nicely...

Oh and detective - am in PJs eating pop tarts about a gazillion caleries on the sofa and catching up on MN, including the pooing-whilst-dp-in-bath thread

pikz despite bfing, DS does that!! As long as he is pooing & its not too hard, I would say its ok.

Ahhh fair enough Detective thought it was the night feeds - just make sure you make use of him!!!!