March 2013 - gurgles, giggles and going on holiday (for some of us at least!)

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Any - he took photos with my phone - about 5 of them!

I personally wouldn't mind sharing my BM (maybe only from a spoon or something!) but think OH might have minded Seems ironic that RB was all over the idea of BM whereas OH is repulsed by the thought of any leaking near him. No matter how pervy it may have seemed, kudos to RB for loving women of all shapes/sizes/states of post-natal-ness!

So poonamis - for the past week DS has started only pooing once a day, and every single one is so huge it squirts up past the top of the nappy and requires a bath in the sink because he always gets it on his hands etc.

Does a nappy exist that copes with this? Does it calm down?

SoYo thank you for the reminder that I'm lucky really - a few days of newborn style sleep is bad enough, so kudos to you for still being able to string a sentence together after three months of it. It's a bit of a shock to the system when you're not used to it though.

As for cleaning, that's also easier when you have a baby that sleeps and is happy to be put down. We got up at 7.30 today, and did breakfast and playing until 9. She went for a nap, I did the washing up and sorted out the end of the counter where we keep the tobacco (as the man is incapable of rolling a cigarette without scattering half a pouch all over the damn place and one of these days I'm going to kill him for it). After the nap, fed her, then stuck her in the bouncy chair, where she happily spent an hour and a half chewing a muslin and shouting at Jeremy Clarkson, leaving me free to whizz round with the hoover, have breakfast, and so on.

Hang on, pud, are we supposed to clean windows too? Arse. I need a cleaner!

eco we have trouble with wonky waking times throwing the feeding schedule out too. Trying to go back to a bottle every three hours during the day. The first this morning was at 6.30 rather than 7, so I was prepared to feed as early as 9.30, but she wasn't shouting so I waited until 10 and she actually drank the lot. It's when she wakes at around 5.30 that it really goes all over the place. When she does that it ends up being six bottles at two and a half hour intervals so the last one's at 7pm still. On the plus side, once we're weaning the bottle schedule isn't so important, is it?

Anyone else on bottles finding they can pour the right amount of water into the bottle just by the way it sounds?

I think I need to read up on teething, because we've got a lot of chewing and dribbling going on here. What are the signs to look out for?

No advice on the poonamis, leni. I assume you've tried putting the nappy on a bit tighter, and a bit higher up the back?

Leni that's bloody hilarious! What a glamorous life you lead, I can't say I've been asked for any of my breastmilk while wandering around Yorkshire recently!

What size nappies are you using? I'm using pampers baby dry size 3 and haven't had a leak since I moved up to them.

Hello leni nice story!
Quick word on nappies. At risk of sounding like a hippy again you could try little lamb bamboo with bomb proof cover. There's a great offer on these at present if you go to little lamb website and click on offers. We've been happy with Them and at nappucino the consensus is that they really are bomb proof. You have to wash them though. I think you're in flat so that might not be practical on the drying front.
Just about to embark on baby massage first class and then three hour solo drive to dads as dh reluctantly gone to Spain :-(

Leni I second Eco's suggestion and can go one better - I currently have 10 little lamb pocket nappies that need a home. They're amazing for poonamis, I'm just too lazy to stay on top of washing them. Should last up to 20lbs.

Oh that Russell Brand, he is a one!

Stormy I'm still crap with bottles and managed to scald myself yesterday. And I've not cleaned my windows since I was desperately trying to induce labour in mid February (to no avail mind). And yep, ds's new sleep schedule has thrown all bottle times off kilter but amazingly he still demands the last one at 7. Interesting wee creatures, these babies.

Eco solo parenting is easier than you think. I mean it can be relentless and there's the distinct feeling that something's missing, but you've been a mum for long enough that you'll sail through it now. I secretly relish dp going away with work so I can just do things my way, and the smiles he gets from DS when he returns are always worth it.

And if what I've just said turns out to be a pile of crap you can come on here and rant back at me

leni very impressive.

Right whos swapped my nap fighting ds with a sleepyhead. Hes been 'napping' for 3 and half hours!!! Dont worry he is alive i have been checking on him regularly.

KFF - i've had the same 'problem' today. 1.5 hours this morning and 2 this afternoon. Thrown me a bit as I am giving DD her last feed now, after giving the bath already. Otherwise i'd have to try another nap and get her to bed late
She's not happy as she's been fussing on the boob but hopefully she won't realise it's an hour earlier than normal... Dinner will be mullered.

Aaaaaaand she's just gone to sleep. Turns out her bedtime is 8.30pm, no matter what. Splendid. FFS. She'd better sleep until 8am. And she wouldn't be put down in her cot tonight, despite spending most of her day there without protest. Grrr.

Well I think I win the award for most useless OH. Was just plating up dinner, making a salad, and He came into the kitchen to say 'don't use that tesco lettuce, it's really tough. I used it the other night when you didn't cook and its horrible, really bitter.' I was a bit confused so asked him to show me this lettuce. It was a bloody cabbage.

Haha plonko!

leni Sorry though, I'm not a RB fan anyway and now I'm even less of a fan!

Plonko that is hilarious but yours is definitely not the most useless. I've just been telling mine what a shitty night we had last night with 3 hour long wakes & difficult transfers & that I nealy had to wake him up for help. He listened, we chatted about something else and then he decided to tell me he's going to sleep in the spare room tonight so his sleep isn't disturbed. Supportive hey?

Soyo, what time is he in the other room til and when does he take over from you? Thought he was supposed to be helping with transfers...?

SoYo I'd be tempted to lock him in!

I've just gone in and had a pop at him and it turns out he fell asleep driving home tonight, hit the bumps going onto the hard shoulder and woke up but scared the shit out of himself so thought he'd better get a rest, why he couldn't have said that in the first place is beyond me! I've said that's completely reasonable but I will wake him up if I'm struggling. Fingers crossed for a good night for all and then tomorrow night he can do a bit more after he's fully rested!!!

LOL plonko

Hmmm SoYo. That makes more sense but make sure you get some time even if it means going to bed at 8pm. Hugs.

Had a very good night here ds slept from 11pm until now. He briefly woke up at 3am but dh gave him his dummy and slept until now. Maybe he knows the hv is visiting today and wants me to give her a glowing report of him.

Yesterday i went to my workplace to show off ds. It made me realise i dont miss work.

soyo hope you got some rest. Its scary what happened to your dh but goes to show that us mummies are supermums.

"plonko*

Plonko, do the little lambs not get a bit warm in this weather?

Wing - he's a bit marmite

We're still waking at 3am and 5.30am but not wanting to eat... He's wearing the Gummee Glove and seems to like it, bit worried he'll end up with less fine motor skills if he wears it too much, but the hand chewing was making his fingers swollen.

Sorry to hear OH's are being useless again, I woke after OH took over for his only hour of sole care of the day, heard DS wailing and came in to find OH spark out on the sofa. I know working nights messes with sleep, but I'm never getting more than 4 hours at a time and they're all over the place! He always gets at least 6 hours straight and that's even on the 5 days he doesn't work. Maybe I'm just better at coping with broken up sleep because it's some sort of evolutionary thing. Still, I don't know anyone who comes home from work and can't stay up for at least a couple of hours.

Expecting a mortgage update later - exciting but very nerve wracking

SoYo scary for your DH and obviously he does need rest but make sure you are also able to get enough rest to function because it would be even more scary if it happened to you with little one in the car. Its abour finding a middle ground to share the sleep deprivation burden between you both.

soyo my OH has slept in the spare room for the past two nights for the same reason. Last night me and DS slept 11 hours and OH overslept after going to bed late. Should have come to bed with us and he'd have had a great night!

leni that is brilliant, I adore Russell Brand. He hooks me in with the way he speaks. I bet it was so fun!

Sleeping issues all round with OHs then. Our plan last night was he'd do the dream feed, I'd do the middle of the night feed, and he'd do breakfast - he gets the unbroken stretch and I get the lie in. Guess who had to get up and wake him up at 7.30 this morning? And then had to deal with him stamping about being a grumpy arse because a) he's tired (so am I!) and b) he's obviously got some sort of tooth infection, and has been refusing to go to the dentist for the past week and a half. Sigh.

leni I don't think it's that women are better at coping with broken sleep. I think it's that we just get on with it, rather than expecting someone else to do all the work while we have a snooze. Whether they realise they're doing it or not, I suspect a lot of these men have it in the back of their minds that we'll always be there to pick up the slack, as it were, and it never occurs to them that no one's extending us the same courtesy.

plonko I take it yours isn't into coleslaw then? Raw cabbage can be lovely.

leni ta for the reminder, have just ordered a gummee glove thing. Should be more interesting to chew than a muslin, and easier to get into her mouth than Bunny. (We are getting a lot of shouting at the moment, because she's annoyed about not being able to fit Bunny's entire head in her mouth).

SoYo talk to me about pampers. What's the difference between all the different sorts? We have babydry for night times and have only ever had one leak (and my God that was a shit and a half, I could've stuck the nappy on with duct tape and it still would've exploded), but they feel a bit chunky for daytime so we're on active fit ones then. And there seem to be half a dozen other types too. Most confusing!

Weighing today. Last time was two ounces shy of eleven pounds, if memory serves, and was sixteen days ago. Reckon she'll have hit 12lbs?

Also, been meaning to ask what noises everyone's babies make. Everything is "abooboo" in this house at the moment. She says it so much me and the man have accidentally had a few conversations consisting solely of "abooboo".

SoYo I second what Rainbow said. Clearly if he's driving on the motorway he needs some proper sleep, but so do you! Do you get 'time off' at the weekends?

Leni I must confess I've not used them in this heat. I think it'd ok because they're natural fibres so breathable? All guesswork though.

Stormy agree on coleslaw. However last time I lovingly prepared coleslaw from scratch (with homemade burgers night I add!) the idiot turned his nose up. Well that'll learn him to puss me off so much that I refuse to cook. Also would I be right in thinking that your number one parenting tip is invest in duct tape?

Conversations with DS also consist of ahbooboo type noises, lots of raspberries and ohhhhh noises. He's figured out how to play Shouting With Daddy now too.

On nappies again - we use pampers baby dry size 3 same as SoYo (I think?). No wee leaks yet, but these morning poo explosions just seem to have a strange way of not filling up the pouchy part where there's room, but to somehow shoot up over his bits (for those with DS's you know how hard those bits are to clean! And OH refuses to do it because he says it's weird, erm, what?!) and past the top of the nappy, no matter how tight or high it is.

Leni it's counterintuitive but is there any possibility you're doing them up too tight? And sorry to be crass (but we are discussing poo after all), but how would your dh like it if he had shit all over his bits? Totally know what you mean about it coming forward. Was not expecting that.

Hey all. Mini eig has the shits. My baby connect app tells be she has done more poos in last 24 hours than in last two months! From once every 5 days to every 3 hours! Doc says it will pass and have to say she is very happy! We are about to move to size 3 baby dry for nights and active fit for days. Love the active fit ones really suited my little boy and hardly any leaks! Given all the poo I am still waking and feeding at 11 and 3. Told my oh off for not helping last night. He said, how did little one get to you at 3 am? Did she get up from cot and walk over to the bed and latch on? I thought and said good point all I remember is feeding her and putting her down. Indeed he said as I got up changed her nappy and gave her to you but you were half asleep. I woke up during feeding ( noticed dh asleep) and the put her down ... Division on labour without even a chat, been together 11 years and married 8, clearly don't need words!