December 2012 Babies Half a year already and still kind of sane.

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Well last night I got a sum total of 4hrs broken sleep >yawn< and today he's feeding every 45mins and has slept 2x20 mins total. I think he's trying to break me!

Oh is that - ouch!
hales poor little H, hope she feels better soon.
willyou I really don't think they can change the terms of your mat leave whilst you're on leave. Double check your contract and maternity paperwork. For a definitive legal answer phone acas.

Skittles IsThat?

I have stripped j to his nappy and bathed him in the washing up bowl and now we're going to walk and walk. I think it's a bit of separation anxiety too, he wants to be on me at all times but also able to get around freely. It's driving me batty.

Thanks WL I will. I am seriously pissed off

Yes please willyou I have already eaten a whole bar if dark chocolate I hope J is giving you a bit of a break. We're having a 45 min (and counting) nap! :) lovely. Wish I could get my head down and not work

I've walked until he slept and then a couple of extra laps when he woke up twice as soon as I stopped I have no idea what's wrong but he's properly on one today! He's learned how to get his arms out of his obviously too loose pram harness and was trying to climb out using his parasol as a frame. Someone needs to tell these babies that they're only 5 months old!

Argh I feel completely brain dead and I need to finish the first module of this diploma in ten days. I swear having a baby makes you lose brain cells!

Ds just had 3oz of formula so I'm feeling less worried about him taking a bottle now.

Sorry you're having a tough day WillYou.

Take away tonight!

I got back from shopping this morning and both DC were asleep in their car seats. So made a cup of tea and sat in the car with that and a biscuit. I was there for an hour.

WillYou, that doesn't sound right at all. Were you planning on going back or is there a risk you wouldn't make it through 9 months?

I think my boss hasn't let HR know I'm going back next week, so that will be fun to sort out when I'm there. At least I have 4 weeks until I'm hopefully paid.

Hope baby Hales makes a speedy recovery now you have the antibiotics. Good luck giving them....

No wonder my boobs are lumpy. The Little Mister has fed for less than 40 minutes so far today?

Oh FoD! Have you been out and about? DS hardly feeds at all when out anymore and makes up for it overnight

Oh Hales I hope h recovers quickly.

FoD ds might feed every two hours but it's never more than 5/10 minutes, we've been out all day and he's hardly fed at all I've been really engorged

I think his solid food has increased and he has a horrid cold so I suspect those two things have reduced his milk feeds. I guess he might make up for it tonight though!

I was always planning on going back Beasty and was planning on getting pregnant again before moving jobs so 9 months really won't be a problem But it's the underhand way that they're trying to pull a fast one. According to the ladies over in employment issues this is not legal. I accepted the money under 3 month notice period so they can't change it to a 9 month one after the fact. All they've done is make me think I won't go back there after the next baby as the extra money I'd get is only ~£2000. Not worth working for arseholes for another 9 months for that amount IMO.

Ps he's still up and still being a PITA, but DP's on duty for the moment and I've got a San Miguel

Yes, agree it's shitty WillYou. I'd be tempted to go back just pregnant, so you know you can do 9 months (would your next maternity leave count towards the 9 months? That would be fun) and quit at the last possible moment so that they have to pay the statutory pay 2nd time around.

A is still awake & feeding. Waiting for DH to come home with the Chinese.

Not if I quit just before it Barbeasty but I could hack 9 months knowing I was screwing them over right back.

Still getting DS to sleep as I was out for a run at bedtime and he doesn't go to sleep on the bottle like he does a boob. But he filled himself up so then wasn't hungry enough to feed to sleep. After some vigorous rocking and loud shushing he's just gone off, but he's still on me. I'll try and move him soon

Oh and FoD our feeds are never more than 5 minutes anymore except when feeding to sleep at bedtime. Although if you're feeling lumpy he probably hasn't eaten as much as normal. Fx he doesn't have you up loads overnight!

First night in his own room not sure if it's permanent but it's too hot at the minute with all 3 of us in our room.

Good luck Willyou, its 6 months since Heidi was born today and i know i should move her into her own room but she wakes if i leave the room now so i can't do it yet.

H's chest sounds awful, DP is at his looking after his other daughter. Dads in bed not well so i'm sat here worrying wondering if i should stay at home or take her the hospital but feel like i'm being abit pfb Shes taken her antibiotics well though think she likes the banana taste.

DS is 6 mo today and stating in my room until he sleeps through. I cba to get up in the night!

Wow. The Little Mister has been asleep for over 5 hours. I haven't fed off my right boob since 6.30pm and I currently look like Jordan. It's rock hard and painful - wake soon baby!

Ahhhhh bliss!

DS woke at 11:40 but I couldn't be arsed getting him a bottle as he'd only had one 2 h before. Picked him up straight back to sleep til now. But I still feel like eyes r welded shut.

Happy 1/2 birthdays mini Hales and Isthat

Ds woke at 10:30 then 3:30. It appears he now thinks it's time to get up

Well DS woke at 2 and just now, which would be great of he hasn't stayed awake between 2-4!! So tired.

Yay for sleep FoD but yeah it only takes a few hours to have comedy boobs!