DECEMBER 2012: The start of crawling and the end of maternity leave

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Not too bad thanks Seymore just feeling bruised and sick. I can't eat anything which isn't helping. Ds just slept for two hours forty though!

Good night for us thank goodness. J slept 9:30-4:30, then 5:00-8:00 . we went to the trafford centre to get my birthday present (a watch) last night and J screamed in rage the whole way home.

C has just gone down for her nap (fingers crossed, I mean - the shouting has stopped) and she's had a grand total of 3.5 hours sleep since midnight. Completely ridiculous. I went to my local bfing group this morning which is a nice bunch of people. It's the first conversation I've had with someone apart from my husband since Sunday. This week has been horribly isolating.

Stacks, good god, that's an awful night. Is there any revision of reflux meds that you could ask for? That doesn't sound sustainable for you.

Spotty, I hope things are feeling better bit by bit. I know it was horribly inconvenient for you but I am jealous of your sleep (you too, willyou). We could swap babies for a bit? C would feed all day and night at the moment if you let her.

Mamapo I will swap you a nights sleep for feeling this ill for an hour! I'm sure he won't do it again.

I appear to have no milk anyway. He's fussy both sides and not satisfied after feeds I feel really sick and I need to sort their tea out...

Spotty hope you feel better soon. I hope you managed to eat something, and that DS naps well today giving you a bit of a break.

Mama it's hard when you end up feeling isolated. Lots of our baby groups have ended for the summer beak, so I'm a bit trapped too. Can you arrange some things in advance for the next few days/week? Any idea what's causing such bad sleep for you? It's awful when the birds start up before you've slept. Luckily there's not many birds by us or I'd have shot them this morning.

Willyou Happy Birthday. Sorry I missed it, found it really hard to keep up with the thread recently. Glad you had a good night.

Seymour fingers crossed there's no illness coming. Grumpy baby here too. I managed to get him to be quiet for about 20 minutes... by feeding him Oreo cookies. Oops, bad mummy. He did actually eat it though, rather than suck it and throw away.

Beasty wow, molars! We still just have gummy smiles here.

Hales did your night improve?

Ginger welcome.

ISpy I'd live to go see despicable me 2. I wonder if its on in our baby cinema, and if I still qualify with T.

Spotty can you call LLL or someone for some bf advice? You should still have milk, though I think it can taste salty if you have mastitis infection, so they don't like it as much. I wish I could help, I have no experience though. {hugs}

I know I don't understand it even the good side seems to be lacking he's really fussy and doing about 20 sucks before he swallows. I'm not too worried about re establishing my supply more worried about poor ds being hungry and keeping me up all night

Stacks - if you've got an Odeon near you see if they do "newbie" screenings. They are aimed at parents with babies, so the volume is quieter than usual and it doesn't get quite as dark. No-one stresses if the babies start crying, need to be fed or taken out etc. Only took DS1 as it was a film I knew he'd love. There were lots of people with just babies there too.

Welcome ginger
spotty hope ds sleeps that well again - amazing! And that you feel better soon. Drink lots and eat lots of honey - supposedly it sweetens your milk!
We've been to visit a friend today who helpfully lives miles away - round the m25. T was v good and slept all the way there but only about half an hour on the way back before she screamed. I had to pull off and feed her although she wasn't really hungry. Luckily my mum was with me so she sat in the back and desperately pulled things from our bags for T to play with. While we were at friends though T had her first sighting of a cat - it was hilarious - she didn't know whether to be scared or excited and then we had forward movement to reach it. I really think she'll be crawling soon. Got some baby proofing to do!

I can't eat anything I feel so ill and ds won't settle I think he's hungry

Spotty it sounds like you really need to get some antibiotics.

I've got some FoD

Evening all,
I've lurked for a while mainly due to negativity from others on a pregnancy board.. But your conversations paint you as a lovely bunch of mums and I've found the threads helpful so I'm hoping I might be able to contribute too..

DS was born Dec 19th. Doing really well and a happy little chap!

Are most of you based down south? Anyone around the Manchester area?

Oh good Spotty - I must have missed that :)

Hi Maryland and welcome.

Stacks we're still gummy, but so much looking as though it's on the way. I could see the top front teeth moving down, barely covered by gum months ago.

We had a call from nursery today, because A wasn't happy, but he slept all afternoon and has been ok since we got home. Fingers crossed for a much better night.

Welcome maryland, sorry to hear about negativity - leave them and come hang out with us! I'm south but I think some are up your way.

spotty I know it must be hideous but you must keep your fluid (and calorie) intake up if possible. Chocolate milk? Ribena? Anything at all you think you could stomach?

Teething is just a nightmare isn't it? We have 2 bottom teeth but constant drooling and eating EVERYTHING and screeching if there's nothing to chew. We use the teetha powders which seem to work, DS loves them!!
Someone told me a good way to check in their mouths is to turn them upside down (!)

Welcome Maryland

WL I've just managed half a yoghurt and half a packet of French fries (took me half an hour to eat them )

Had to give ds a bottle as he was screaming and screaming from hunger

Happy Birthday Willyou

Spotty i really hope your feeling better soon and that the antibiotics kick in soon.

Welcome Maryland, i'm from the northwest inbetween Liverpool and Manchester. Theres a few of us from up here. We don't do negativity here

Stacks H eventually went to sleep at 2:30 this morning but then slept well. We decided to move her cot around today though so that she can't see us, hopefully it might work. She has vomited a few times today though. I hope you get a better sleep tonight.

Mama i also hope you get a better sleep tonight.

We use to use the teetha powders maryland then i went to boots and their own brand teething powders are made by the same company and were cheaper. I rub in directly into H's gums and pray she doesn't bite me at the same time haha.

Well done spotty. Don't worry about giving him a bottle, best he gets fed so you can rest a bit while you get well.

Spotty - another one sending you hugs and hoping that the ABs kick in soon. Really don't stress about the bottle, just do whatever you need to do to get you both through this.

Welcome Maryland. I'm in Wigan so not far from you either.

Welcome to all the other newbies too. I'm not the best contributor to the thread atm due to the mobile site not working on my phone anymore, but do try to pop on of an evening if I can.

Welcome aboard ginger and maryland

Spotty. Nowt wrong with a fed baby, no matter the delivery!

I had work tonight. Came home to a baby asleep in his cot and dp watching the apprentice. Very proud mummy!

Bollocks did long msg n lost it!

Spotty a bottle to get you all a food nights rest and recovery sounds like a good plan to me

I'm in wigan too Maryland

hales and stacks it's on Saturday. Three days til the big three oh!

Mammoth napping by j today. 2h45m I then dropped him off at my mums n went out for a huge Thai set meal with an old work colleague. Gave myself dreadful stomach ache wind.

Fingers crossed for good nights all round

DS is ill again! Hardly any sleep last night because his nose was so blocked. Baby vicks does nothing and you can't get karvol here. Are those nasal aspirators any good? Roll on summer!

Is everyone doing daytime naps in a darkened room now? He's still managing 30 minutes at the most, I'm clutching at straws really!

pidj That's brilliant, well done dp!

Welcome Maryland! I'm in Sydney. I used to love those teething sachets, I've not found anything similar here though.

willyou How are you going to celebrate??

Spotty Have a I hope the antibiotics kick in soon. When I had bacterial mastitis my supply dropped for a few days afterwards and DS was fussy. My supply built up again quite quickly though and I was back to demand feeding. DS has a bottle of formula before bed and for the dream feed every day now, just because I want DH to be able to feed him if I go to bed at 6pm