The 5th Gemini luxury bus - the one with babies!

[FrustratedSycamoresRocks]

As we have all our gorgeous babies now, welcome aboad the 5th Gemini bus.

Drinks and previously banned foods supplied in bulk, Car seats installed, slings and prams at the ready, as we head into parenthood, and all the excitement, and sleepless nights our little ones will bring along the way.

Morning night shifters. I just had 11-3.

Pear he will know the difference the little buggars are clever but my dd will the take the bottle from dh no problem, when its me she fusses with it and messes and try's to get the nipple so I do think it helps if they can't smell/sence your milk! Dd has only just started this this last week but its the same when I try to settle her and know she doesn't need feeding, she bobs around like a wood pecker while when dh picks her up she goes oh yes I just need to sleep
I hope the blisters improve quickly and they are the kind bring mentions that should just go, the needle sounds v nasty but I imagine like when you pop it on your foot or hand, it sounds like it will hurt but doesn't, fx atleast it's just one side to express but its another complication you don't need!
( pear look away now)
Dd was a little star last night 7:30-4:30 felt so good to get that straight patch of sleep, the funny thing is she still woke up again just after 7 so doesn't lie in any longer but hopefully just means she will drop it soon and just wake at 6/7 ( pear I promise I didn't have it this easy with the first! It was at wk8 I was crying on the phone to dh telling him to come home from work as I couldn't take it anymore after 8hrs of crying, this bit does get easier!)

Pear no mine stays clear, it's the avent one but I don't think mine is the best, I just bought it at the baby show as it was on offer, I do like seeing how much comes out though your right lol

Oh and lol at bring and telling dh about thunder I did the same and he just looked at me like so a women you don't know is pregnant.... And???
Men just don't get it

I told my DH too: "Oh wow! So anyway..." Pff. Men!

Thunder got her BFP!!!. I couldn't be happier if someone I knew in real life told me they were having a baby... We need some new blood in the bus.

Well I'm having another day of laundry and dabbing my nips in sidium bicarbonate. I'm going to nuke this thrush once and for all. I feel well fortified tho cos DH went into work late today so slung N from 6 to 9 so I got an amazing lie in. Also it was our first night of 3 in a bed and it was lovely!

Lib ~ I really feel for you. Must be really challenging to cope with in this. Heat! Lovely that you all got to sleep in one bedroom again, I can't wait for that day so I know how happy that must be making you feel

I'm meant to be meeting friends for lunch but I've got a koala stuck on my left and a pump stuck on my right. We're not going anywhere...sigh

We went swimming just before lunch. It knocked him out; he's only just woken up.

Humph I posted a note earlier and it's disappeared!

Just to say thank you so much for all your lovely words! I'm not getting excited or anything yet- just one moment at a time for me.

I never received the FB group invitation- would love to come and say hi.

And ouch to nipple blisters!!

My friend has just been to visit with her 3 and 5 year old. They are enormous next to my tiny daughter, and very loud. N, to her credit, fed then slept through the whole visit.

thunder amazing news! I'm so happy for you and so glad you came to tell us.

Right Thunder, either I've just friend-ed you or there's more than one person with your name in your area & I'm friend-ing completely random people!

Hey Thunder you can pm me your email address and I can add you on our fb group (it's secret) or if Jo has added the correct RL Thunder then she can invite you as well.

Have you considered taking apple cider vinegar internally Lib? It's supposed to help with systemic yeast (therefore leading to recurrent thrush). It's like a shot glass worth 2x per day. You can mix it with water or just down the shot. It has to be the cloudy, unfiltered kind though to be the most effective (none of that fancy distilled kind). It helps to balance your body's pH and yeast can't survive in vinegar. It sound worse than it is .

Om, yeah, so I think I've got a plugged duct. I have one of those "sleeping nursing bras" that just pull to one side or the other and I think a duct got blocked off last night. So ow. Also, temp outside is 90 degrees already at 12 noon and the heat index is supposed to reach 95 today with all of the humidity. It's so muggy outside that it's not even considered safe to be out there.... but the boys are driving me so bonkers today that they're getting tossed outside with a sprinkler.

Bring you are such a font of knowledge!
Dd1 has driven me crazy today, thank god I'd had decent sleep last night! Please tell me it is the terrible twos a month early and not my parenting skills or I might cry, why would she try to be naughty all the time

bring you said that last time!

Well done jojo, excellent stalking skills. Ahhh look at all those squishy babies! And beautiful mums too - you're a gorgeous bunch x x

jojo is an amazing cyber stalker.

OMG it is 30oC in my bedroom. Maybe this is why I've had such a bad day :-(

What is a private group on FB?

So sorry Thunder! I know I added you by email last time....so not sure if it didn't work? I've just tried it again (ALthough I've just seen that Jo may have beat me to it :) Excellent stalking skills!).

Pear It's a group that only the ladies from the Luxury Bus are on, and no one else can see who we are or what we post without being part of the group. Wanna join? I guess I suck at adding people for some reason, so maybe one of the more experienced stalkers could add pear if she wants to join?

Def the the 2's kitty. Ds1 picked them up very early!

Invite only. And only visible to members.

32oC in my living room dread to know what it is in my bedroom

32.3 in my room, 33.8oC in dds rooms. Ugh. Melting

Right. M will NOT let me put her down at all today. It's way too hot to put on a sling or wrap so we're planted on the couch (which is leather and therefore I'm sticking to it) with her on my chest. We've resorted to watching Mulan and I'm alternating between mn, fb and twitter. Is it really only tuesday?

Oh yes it's only Tuesday.
I don't know how hot it is here but I know it's grumpy-making and I've been regretting the leather sofa for days.

I just thought it was funny to make the baby fart in the bath...until the cute little bubbles turned to rivers of poo. I just bathed in poo!

Thanks for the cider vinegar tip Bring, I'll try that tomorrow, your other suggestions have worked well for me so happy to try it xxx

Lol! At least it's dissolvable in water.... .

lib how do you make a baby fart? Serious question to deflect and distract from my laughter at "I just bathed in poo".

It's Wednesday tomorrow bring Cartoon or film?