November 2012 - Poor sleep-deprived mummies (and daddy)

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Or lives even

Jacob has all the Beatrix Potter characters in his nursery. The proper fucking expensive soft toys. He loves looking at them. I am only missing Cottontail. Ok, I admit they are mine and will never be played with by grubby mitts, but make a lovely addition to a Nursery.

What vq says!! About byways.

There's no rush, we won't be thinking about it for another year, it's just really knocked me. I was prepared to feel this at a year but some random time?!

pr I give blood. I used to give platelets. Ill give my next pint in a couple of weeks for you x

Horsey - nothing as bad as you, but every so often, out of the blue, a memory of, say, crowning, or pushing and pushing with no effect and panicking about impending forceps mercifully avoided hits me, and takes the wind right out of my sails. Lately, thoughts of tearing, and the feeling that my wee pipe was going to be severed/shredded, keep popping into my brain. It makes me feel sick for a few minutes.

On that thought, am going to go to bed.
Thanks for flyovers! please fly twice over chateau pig

VQ just catching up on your news. The doctor sounds awful but thank goodness the dietician is being helpful and it sounds like you are getting somewhere at last. Are you going to give up dairy as well? How often are you still bf?

Madam it is good to hear your news, welcome back. I think lots of us have felt like that and not posted for a while. But always happy to hear about others' woes - we're all in it together!

Horsey I am sorry you are having flashbacks, that sounds like something you should talk to someone about. I do think about L's birth quite a lot and it does bother me but to have something like a panic attack is more worrying.

I've been looking out the window for the sleepy dust... Hope it blows this way!

I think I want another baby, quick someone slap me with a wet fish!
Evil

I'm feeling a bit broody too. My best friend had a little girl today, I've never seen so much hair on a newborn, brought it all back when I went to visit her in the hospital this evening. She had an ELCS after an EMCS with her first.

Thanks catbag
I love my baby! Even when he's screaming.
Evil

That's cos he's awesome evil, and extremely good looking :)

Wow lots of posts! I daren't use the app so here goes with shit I remember....

vq glad dietician is being helpful at least! Hope j is ok bless him, I often think of you and him, and hope he isn't too uncomfortable

chasing your post about your half chinese son and stash of formula made me laugh, just the way you wrote it!

pass hope p feels better when back on her meds, does it work instantly?

evil hope your friend is ok

horsey nothing useful to say, just hugs

Oh come the fuck on brain...

Hi madame!

Erm

Fuck it, will write about the zordz house and then see what I've forgotten and probably reply again If I don't fall asleep

I totally do not deserve any praise from the quiche and urge you all to take back the lovely things you said the other day. Today Eric was on the footstool, and decided to roll over, off it :( he has a bruised little nose and was so upset for a couple of minutes but I think he is ok. I feel like a big steaming pile of crap for it. I was RIGHT there, how the hell didn't I catch him?! He just flung sideways and me and dp both nearly got him but not quite. He didn't hit his head, just his nose, but he screamed and only me singing calmed him. What a way to show me his skills eh? I had a house full of people too. The one day... Fuck. I just feel so guilty, I'm sure I couldn't have reacted quicker and hadn't left him unattended, I was stroking his head and he just chucked himself! I gave him calprofen and millions of cuddles.

He's been off today as it is. Sleeping lots, whinging, again pulling an ear, no temperature and feeding fine ESP compared to recent feeding anyway. He does chew the teat halfway through and I have to give him a break for a bit, so i assumed teeth, probably wrongly. He just hasn't been himself but hasn't seemed overly poorly or anything, and it's hard to tell now what is a result of the tumble and what isn't. Oh also he has slept on his side all day for naps, and he is asleep on his side now in his cot, do I need to turn him on his back? He is sleeping on the opposite ear to the one he is pulling I'm 99% sure he is anyway

I hope you all get a good night tonight!

Oh also, last night e woke up and water didn't sate him but cuddles did. So today I wanted to offer more milk, but I am finding it hard to fit five bottles in during the day. The one at about 6:30 before his bath he is tired for so has taken 4oz for 3 days then stopped. Two days I gave him another 4oz just before bed so it was like being given the rest of that 8oz bottle. Today I gave him the 4 at 6:30 then offered him a full bottle of 8 at bed time of which he took 7, so that's 11oz within 2 hours. Is that ok? I figured it was a bit like tanking up before bed. It won't hurt him will it? He won't take it if he doesn't want/need it will he?

Will try and get back tomorrow and haz proper chats. Going to bed now as babies been giving me a hard time for the last couple of days. Speaking of which... sounds like S is stirring AGAIN :(

I don't want another baby. Someone called me a sexy lady today . my life. I is getting it back just with four extra hangers on and a much earlier bedtime the broodyness I will leave to you guys.

I'm not so much feeling broody but I am feeling sad that M isn't tiny anymore and she's growing so fast. Some days I feel sad that we won't have those early days again but I think that's just my anxiety rearing it's head a bit.

Tonight I can't be arsed with night feeds, I just want to curl up and sleep. I've asked DH if he'll borrow a boob so he can do them

O still seems pretty tiny to me! Feels like a fucking newborn anyway!!

He's surprised me today. He has taken 29 oz, 2 of which were 8oz bottles, and he completely drained them!!!! This is the child who has been taking 3oz at half his feeds, and 5oz at other feeds. .

Honestly, contrary little fuckers they are! I'm hoping we can say goodbye to two night feeds, and endless wakings.

He has now been on Ranitidine 4 weeks I think and this is when it is supposed to be working to its best. Fingers crossed!

LOL Fatima.

Just sneaking in to say that at every milestone DD had, I felt a bit nostalgic and didn't want her to grow up as fast at all. I felt quite :( on her 1st birthday that her 'baby' year was gone.

However, I'm enjoying every phase of A's life & not feeling too nostalgic. I think I'm aware that every stage has its pros & cons, & that there is still more to come, plus DS is so much bigger than DD was, so I feel he is older than he is iyswim. It doesn't stop me wondering where the time has gone (5mths today)!!!

Also. Feeling I've been v lucky getting my lovely 2 dc and having a 3rd might tempt fate if that makes sense. Recently I know DH has felt dissatisfied with our sex life because he's anxious about me getting pg again. I am getting close to saying our family is complete, which is v bittersweet.

Watching Sex Clinic on channel 4. V interesting

Chunky I would cry when DS1 was little, at how fast he was changing, I remember having a spectacular wobble at around 10 weeks!

This time, much more relaxed about it! Still don't want him to grow quickly, but I am much more aware of all the fun that is still ahead!

I meant to say what monitor did toy get izzy?

Sophia you are a very beautiful lady indeed.

I am not fucking giving up dairy! if they had taken me seriously at 8 weeks I would have done as much as I could to have helped him. At this stage it is just too late. I am top tired and he is nearly 6 months old, indeed he had started on solids. Besides dairy is about one of the only pleasures I have left. Although YW is a walking advert for dairy free if ever I saw one.

I am really looking forward to Jacob growing up and not having to pay so much child care I can see his little personality already and he is a delight. He will be a mummy's boy and has a sense of humour too. I think he will be the peace keeper in my little tribe.

Hello! horsey do they have a birth afterthoughts service at your hospital? I plan to use the one here. Basically you can talk through the birth with a midwife/counsellor and your notes. It might help...?

vq sorry to hear about the gp but glad the dietician is helping. It's so hard this reflux/cmpi business. In the end I got ranitidine by calling the duty doctor and begging. Then my gp referred us to a paed who we will see in early May. Can't come soon enough as despite ranitidine and no dairy or soy LO is back to vomming lots and crying and clinging, poor darling. Any advice yw? Sorry, that was meant to be supportive of vq and ended up being about me.

kyz everyone drops/ 'lets' their LO fall off something at some point. (Hugs)

mm good thinking re will. Must do ours.

Apologies to those I've missed.
Mx

luis in idle moments, I have wondered what flavour quiche this is.

VQ I love the fact that DS seems to adore DD. He grins when he sees her, loves it when she kisses him, follows her with his eyes. He's been sharing the bath with her and kicking like mad, enjoying her squeals as she gets splashed. His little eyes light up! :)

((hugs)) horsey No advice I'm afraid, except to be sure to seek help if you need it. And that you don't need to decide about having another. One day the time will feel right. Or it won't. Either is fine.

VQ The GP sounds rubbish. Thank goodness for the dietician.

kyzordz I think babies rolling off things is some sort of rite of passage? Along with banging their little newborn head on the doorframe as you walk through it twice Glad he's ok.

N has had 2 half hour naps today and that's it. She is currently wide awake and laughing in the face of my attempts to make her feel sleepy. Think it's going to be a long night no change there then

vq So glad you are getting support from the dietician. I have to say when I was in hospital I felt the dieticians were the only ones listening to me and helping me to get home and deal with E's weight problems. Since I've got out I have had regular contact with them whereas have had bugger all from the consultants. I think dieticians do marvellous work and before all this I didn't even know such a thing insisted! In fact my DH laughed when I said E had a dietician. He said babies only have milk, what on earth can they need a dietician for!

chunky Check out fb for details of a meet at bluewater. And any others that are interested of course.