November 2012 - The lurker amnesty fred for our quiche

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1710755-November-2012-Will-the-Easter-Bunny-visit-our-babies

Any remaining lurkers, would you like to de-lurk and announce yourselves? We won't bite!

MM What YW said.

The man needs to see what he is doing is wrong x

Thank you ladies

VQ P started sleeping 8 hours when on her new formula. Might have been a coincidence. Maybe. Maybe not. I have all of my fingers and toes crossed that J discovers the joy of sleeping a looooooong time

Viva la formula!

Bad me.

aw pass you worried me until I got to the end of the story dd has liked standing up from a very young age its one of her fave things especially when dd kinda dances with her I would say same as det that its for at least an hour over the whole day.
dh is away on stag do this weekend...I can only imagine the carnage!

Thank you to everyone for the welcome last night. Sorry to be brief. I have to say I've lots of respect for the folk on this thread. Coping well with so much life on top of having a new baby. Thankfully we just have the new baby to contend with. DS2 is 20 weeks, DD is 8 and DS1 is 6. Just slotting all the pieces together, trying to keep everyone clean and fed and wondering where all the green poos are coming from...

It counts as tummy time!

What she said Mm If my Dh had been gone so long with no word I would have been frantic.

In other news my parents were all set to visit tomorrow but can't because of stupid snow. Stupid snow. There is none here at all but they are totally snowed in. Arse.

pass I was abroad at my mils with ds1 pottering around in a walker at a party having a whale of a time and got told by a woman there that I would be affecting his hips and it could affect him walking. she said all this with her baby asleep in a car seat covered in blankets in 20 degree heat. a complete overheating nightmare. women can be stupid bints!

oh and Mrsj most often no naps here either dd up from 9 til 9 tried everything ...giving up trying has made me a happier mummy this week ... apparently I didn't nap when young and spent 12 hours asleep from 6 weeks ... dd categorically does not and is in fact waking more often every noght

Hello to all the delurkers. I feel like a lurker at the moment.

Can't remember who said what but M is also super drooly and loves to chew fingers and fists, she also likes to blow bubble in we drool until she has a bubble goatee.

We're also waiting til 6 months but the 23rd May we're away camping so ill leave it until we get back I think.
Tonight I have made a list of what I need from ikea.

yoko and yw yay to Fellow Oxonians. I went to Wadham and matriculated in 2004. I miss Oxford, I think we'll take M for a weekend in the summer.

msJJ Interested in your picturing posters, do you picture me as a Fatima Whitbread look-a-like? Nap time wise, I just wing it. For the last week I've just put M in her basket if I think she's getting tired. If she's not going to nap she tends to cry differently so I get her back out.

We now have a new boiler and a toasty warm house and a lot less money in the bank. I think we'll be snowed in tomorrow.

M is determined to be on the move, after escaping the bouncy chair an the change mat she's now "crawled" off her Lottie Ladybird. She was having tummy time fully on Lottie, looking in the mirror an managed to keep digging her feet in and pushing herself forward until she was no longer on the mat going to have to keep an eye on her

I knew I could rely on you ladies! I knew there was no issue with it as doc and HV have both seen her boinging about and have only commented positively. Amazing how one person can make you feel daft though. She made me totally doubt myself even though I knew it was ok.

I should have mentioned it here before. Would have made me feel less daft than asking doc. He said they need to learn how to use their legs eventually and she was just a strong baby. Like contra and det's babies she has always liked standing - I used to hold her up after a bottle as it eased her reflux. Actually, a fuxxing doc told me to do that.

Evening all,

B naps for around 90mins in every three hour cycle. She wakes at 6am for a feed but goes straight back down until 8am when the three hour cycles start. She usually has four naps a day, the last nap is shorter, around 30mins.

On radio 2 tonight they were talking to a guy who had designed a baby blanket with handles to make lifting and transferring babies between things easier. It looks ace, I wish i'd seen it three months ago. It would make the arms to cot transfer easier.

www.snugglebundl.co.

Try again!

www.snugglebundl.co.

Pass DD1 liked to stand on my legs but had no walker or jumparoo. She walked on her own at 15 months and tbh I was happy with that. Once she nailed it, she nailed it with very few falls. And was running a couple of weeks later. Plus it gave me extra months to not worry about her getting up ti too much mischief. She'll be walking fir another 90 years - a few months at the beginning won't make any difference to her life.

She also missed every other milestone. Rolling, hand eye co-ordination, crawling, first words, teeth etc. Except in a few rare cases it really doesn't matter.

And if LO can be just as slow I'll be happy coz I'm not looking forward to both of them running around. means I'd have to heave my ass up off the sofa more often

Not working for some reason, just google snuggle bundl.

Pass funnily enough O is the opposite - his insistence on staanding or sitting on ones knee brings on the vomit.

I have been trying to follow the 45min rule for both napping and awake times (multiples thereof). When it works he seems in better humour. But of course he doesn't always want to, or the way the day pans out means it doesn't work. ie if we go for a walk he will fall asleep for ages.

A good day is:

7am-8.30 wake & bf+ff (DH takes him)
8.30-9.15 nap (back in cot)
9.15-10.45 chatting & bf
10.45-11.30 nap (on Mummy)
11.30-1pm playing & bf+ff
1pm-4pm nap while Mummy does yoga/housework/coffee
4-5.30pm bf & watching quiz shows
5.30-6.15 nap (on Daddy)
6.15-8.30 ebm+ff & watch M&D eating; bath/wash & change into night clothes
8.30-9.15 sleep (on Daddy) - haven't worked out if this is nap or beginning of bedtime...
9.15 sleepy bf upstairs & into cot
3am bf & straight back to sleep
7am start again!

DS doesn't seem to have read this plan though and seems to think there are some other entries between 9.15, 3am and 7am...

Wow. Almost identical to us with sleep and feed times. Right down to the 3 hour afternoon nap!

M also loves to stand, she has done from very early on

dicks that's a fab idea but £40!!! wah

pass Jonas has similar meerkat tendencies - he loves to stand.

I know, expensive! Wish I'd had one though, would have been great after the c section.

wow mrsjj that sounds fab ... I just spend my whole day faffing quite often takes me 30 mins to an hour as I end up chatting away to her some bf take hours...I really should try to plan my time better but am so tired all the time I find it hard.

sorry should have read 30 mins ti an hour to change a nappy.

Can take ages changing nappies here. O likes bare bum time, and then he likes to roll side to side for a bit 45 minutes! sometimes.