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November 2012 - They WERE sleeping, what happened?

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StuntNun · 26/02/2013 06:27

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1688444-November-2012-Forget-50-books-in-2013-well-have-50-threads

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ChunkyChicken · 03/03/2013 15:58

I think given my ample supple of hair, I'd have to shave it before the hairloss went unnoticed...Grin

Have a lovely boy asleep on my lap so can't do any more packing. If he wasn't sleeping peacefully after getting over-tired earlier (bloody DsMIL winding DD up to shout...Angry ) I'd have been going mad by now!!!

ValiumQueen · 03/03/2013 16:12

J asleep on my lap. He just would not sleep anywhere else. The wanderers have just returned.

blonderedhead · 03/03/2013 16:23

I have a baby asleep on my lap too! DH just took him for a loooong walk but he wouldn't drop off, two minutes on the breast and he's away. Daren't move now.

Kyzordz · 03/03/2013 16:43

I had LO asleep on my lap earlier, he's up and chirpy now, luckily he seems to be in quite a good mood though I am anticipating that will change as he has been up for almost 2 hours and he only manages that and stays in a good mood for that long with the rare exception!

Achievements... Erm... Well I've survived a weekend without DM to hand and I survived a trip out for a coffee. Didn't go brilliantly but survived it!! I am hoping to have achieved the putting away of the clothes this evening too! Ohohohohohoh a huge achievement.... I finished the octopus! I did the hat this week :D I will stuff it and sew it and then photograph it :)

applepieinthesky · 03/03/2013 16:46

I think I have to give 8 weeks notice too. Will speak to HR tomorrow as I'm in for another KIT day.

Anyone else seen the thread on AIBU about maternity leave? Angry It has made my blood boil.

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 16:57

Yes Apple I saw it, and thought, well. I can't repeat my thoughts.

They were BAD. Grin Twatting idiots some people

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 17:01

I was looking at my roots earlier. I have naturally blonde hair, but it has darkened over my adult years. I have dyed it to the blonde it once was. My roots are a dark blonde. I haven't had it done since last July. My hair has only grown 2 inches in that time! That is not like me at all! I can go 5/6 months without dying it, but it has grown around 4 inches in that time!

So I don't think I want to be losing all this hair! Being pregnant made it stop growing, and now I'm losing it waaaaaaaaaaaah!

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StuntNun · 03/03/2013 17:09

You can get a Jumperoo from Mothercare for £69 with free delivery by using the code RNLH at checkout.

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kirrinIsland · 03/03/2013 17:35

pr she's not to bad thanks. She's feels a little warm but she's not been sick again and she woke up wanting breakfast so she can't have felt too bad.

I've just been back to bed for a couple of hours so now I feel human again :)

Sorry to those having a bad day - it can all feel never ending at times can't it.

I'd best go and rescue DP - I can hear whining escalating!

Pikz · 03/03/2013 18:03

My lovely ladies... Can I ask your advice...

  1. Jumperoo- yes or no?
  1. Dream feeds?
horseylady · 03/03/2013 18:09

pikz I'm getting one from preloved for £45 will sell on at no loss if he doesn't like it

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 18:11

I'm going to get one for O. Fuck knows where it is going to go. My living room has been taken over. I've got a toybox, bumbo, 2 play mats, swing, bouncer, and a vtech walker. Fuckedy fuck. Spoilt. Damn it.

If he doesn't like it, it can go in the loft for the next one Grin.

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 18:18

Horsey do you have full membership on there? There is a new ad near me for one, and its £30 but I don't have full membership!

GRRRR!

gardenpixie32 · 03/03/2013 18:19

Pikz we bought one second hand and a friend gave us one. Can't wait to try the girls out in them, but will wait until they can sit up a bit better.

Dream feeds, we gave up on them at about 15 weeks then re-started them at 18 weeks, they are working well now. DP does them at 10pm.

We had a lovely day. DP and I took the girls for a long 2 hour walk, we went to the park and they had their first swing! It was one of those bucket swings and they were back to back on the same swing. They loved it! Both of them were smiling and laughing, it was adorable.

They both crashed out at 6pm and are fast asleep now. Fresh air can do amazing things.

Going to have shower, dinner and watch TV. I have only watched TV 4 times since they were born in September! Gone off tv and sex

TooManyDicksOnTheDancefloor · 03/03/2013 18:28

I don't bother dream feeding, I just feed her if she wakes at that time. Not waking her means we normally get a long stint from 7pm until 4 or 5am. I did dreamfeed dd1 though.

I've just had a lovely Sunday dinner, well, if you class Sunday dinner as a roast chicken with frozen potato croquettes, frozen peas and gravy. Do I win the prize for laziest mummy today? Oh, and dd1 is still in her pyjamas Blush

PetiteRaleuse · 03/03/2013 18:31

We do a dream feed at around 10. I don't know if she would wake during the night without one and I'm not willing to take the risk.

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 18:32

Toomany we're all in our pj's, except DP. Who went to the shop. We are having frozen beanburgers for tea. Lazy mummy here too! Weekends are my only chance to not need to leave the house! So I damn well make the most!!!!

PetiteRaleuse · 03/03/2013 18:32

We're eating duck tonight. Waddled waddled waddled.

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 18:42

Well, I will cook them, so they won't be frozen...

TheDetective · 03/03/2013 18:43

O sat in my arms. Happy as larry. I'm not even talking to him, but he doesn't care as long as he is on me and nothing else..... siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

gardenpixie32 · 03/03/2013 18:49

DP made sausage and mash, very nice.

We stopped the dream feed and they would go until 4/5am and a few times DT1 went until 7am! But now they go to bed at around 6:30pm, DP dream feeds at 10pm and they wake at 7/7:30am. I know I am lucky. Long forever may it last! This has been happening for the last 4 weeks. Means I can go to bed at 9pm and get a full nights sleep!

horseylady · 03/03/2013 18:53

Yes send me the link if you want? What do you want to find out?

sweetpea1112 · 03/03/2013 18:55

Some stupid questions about dream feeds:

  1. How does the baby not wake up?
  1. Do you wind them?
  1. Do you pick them up to feed?
  1. As I ff I am quite keen on making sure O regulates his own appetite - feeding on demand, not forcing him to finish bottles etc - does dream feeding go against this? As he wouldn't experience the being hungry - asking for food - hunger being satisfied routine. Or does this not really matter for one feed?
  1. Is 13.5 weeks too late to introduce this?

Sorry, I did warn you they were stupid questions. I am clueless about everything dreamfeeds Grin Blush

gardenpixie32 · 03/03/2013 18:59

I did dream feeds from when they came home at 2 weeks. Mine have dropped from 75th-25th centile & 50th-9th centile since birth so I don't want them to skip a feed.

I find they are hungry as they drink a full 7oz bottle and the most they drink in the day is 6oz. Mine don't stay asleep but are very drowsy and go back to sleep straight away.

I don't think it is too late to introduce it.

Not sure how you would force a baby to drink a bottle though!

gardenpixie32 · 03/03/2013 19:01

Sorry...your other questions....

Yes, they are picked up and few in DP's arms, we don't wind them anymore, they bring up their own winds now.