July 2013 - Part 1. Remember your pelvic floor exercises!

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Time to start the post-natal thread.

And start those PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES!

Thanks Nexus and Dinky for the advice.

Welcome Brie.

J is sleeping but I feel too tired to sleep.

Goodmorning,

Posted the above message last night but for some reason it didn't go thru and it's just been posted.

Hope all those in the awake club managed to get some sleep.

Cheese, glad you had a lovely day.

Awful mother emoticon needed. C wouldn't settle at all and I was sitting with him over my shoulder and nodded off for what was less than a minute during which time he wriggled or I let him go and now he has a graze on his head from the edge of the stool. It is right by the soft spot so I'm taking him to hospital which may be OTT but it looks awful. He is fine, have just fed him and now he is wide awake (still) and happy as anything but I think it is right to at least get it seen?

We are usually awake at least twice in the night I just can't wake myself enough to read anything. Sure Theo was going at least 4 hours sometimes but doesn't seem to do that very often at the mo!
waves hope C is ok, I've almost dropped theo several times by nodding off while feeding/winding!
12(+5)

waves (hugs)
Don't feel bad, I'm sure we have all drifted off holding baby at some point, I certainly have. I'm sure it will all be fine at hospital. Better to get him checked out now or you would just worry about it all day

abzs thanks, he's ok but it is a real worry now. I think they need to ground the fleet, however difficult that is re transport.

I'm just waiting for the 6 week growth spurt which must be coming soon. M did well last night, slept from 11 till 3.30. Then I couldn't get her to sleep and after an hour of trying she yawned so I put her down in Moses basket awake expecting her to cry...I woke at 7am when she woke up
I honestly don't remember ever putting a baby down awake at this age and it actually working!

Oh waves, hope you and LO ok, its good you're going to get him checked out, even just to gve you full peace of mind. In the first week I was so tired I was half asleep, I had to move something (cant even remember what I was doing now) and I stupidly put elka just on the couch whilst I did it, 2 seconds later she rolled off and although I grabbed her the shock for both of us made her scream. Lack of sleep can do crazy things/let things happen, dont beat yourself up about it. You are the best mum ever :)

we had the biggest poo ever this morning, front, back, sides it was bloody everywhere. Elka was pleased she was getting an extra bath! bloody thing.. I need to get the washing done ho hum.

6+4

C is absolutely fine. The doctor was lovely, he was properly checked over and I have calpol to give him just in case but only a tiny dose. Still feeling horribly guilty but reassured that he is very much ok. I was told to drink some strong tea to deal with the shock

On with packing now, me and all three DCs are off to the mainland tomorrow for a week. Hoping C copes well with the flight, and that the bigger two are super helpful. Fingers crossed!

Have fun waves and I hope it feels somewhat like a holiday... You absolutely deserve it!

Glad C is OK Waves - as Thinking said, we have all dozed off with babies at some point. Have a lovely holiday.

Took J for his first swim today - he was pretty brave but exhausted by it ( cried in changing room for as couple of minutes then out like a light)!

Glad to hear C is ok, waves. I hope the flight goes well and you enjoy your trip

Good to hear the wedding was a success, Cheese.

I often wake up in a panic, wondering what I've done with N, to discover she's fast asleep in her crib. Occasionally I've fallen asleep sitting up in the bed feeding her, but luckily haven't dropped her yet. It could happen so easily though.

There's not been much napping going on here today, so I'm bracing myself for a traumatic evening. DD1 didn't nap today either, which invariably leads to tears at bedtime....

I hope the swimming leads to a good nights sleep, dinky

Missed your post Cheese - glad the wedding went well. Enjoy kicking back and relaxing now with j.

Hello

Hope you're all having a good bank holiday. We've tried to make our first foray into DIY which has been a total disaster. We are only painting a wall but we were impatient and now it's so blistered - we could probably charge people to climb it. :) I think we need to realise that home improvements is not our forte

Nexus you asked earlier about a high pitched cry. When J cries like that we think it's either wind or sometimes frustration - though the latter might be a guess Prob different for every child, but giving him a good burp fixes it for us - he either clears his belly or falls asleep on my shoulder

Silver they will go down. Think drinking counter-intuitively helps water retention (i.e water/lemonade - rather than hitting the bottle!) movement and elevation

Good idea about adding the child's age - definitely puts posts into context

Cheese glad the wedding went well!

Waves glad C is ok. If it's any consolation my parents said when i was little they were so happy to have a child they walked along the pier swinging me in the moses basket in glee and i flipped right out the back of it. And like totally i often wake in the night clinging on to a bundled bit of duvet and think oh no i'm smothering the baby- then realise i've actually put him back in the moses basket with no recollection of it at all.

dinky. swimming sounds great. how does it work? Do you just hold them while they splash or can you get special buoyancy things? Hope he has a better night. Where abouts are you for your holiday?

6+2

Swimming sounds great dinky. I remember how much my older 2 enjoyed it as babies. We just used to hold the babies in the water and do a bit of floating them on their backs, circle songs and a bit of front swimming.

We are all packed here and my alarm is set for 4.45am though doubtless C will have me up round then anyway. Off to Bristol for a night, then Brighton, then London so lots of travelling ahead. It will be lovely for DD and DS1 to have a bit of a trip before school starts, and most excitingly means that we can all see my sister and introduce her to her newest nephew.

have a safe trip waves enjoy your time with your sister

Can you claim its a lunar lasndscaspe themed feature wall Cheek? V annoying when diy goes awry!
We are in the Cotswolds in a water park (lots of lakes around us) which has a pool and spa on site. Dh has hired a bike with a little kids bike connected on the back for ds2 and we brought ds1s bike so they have been cycling lots and I have been pushing j in the pram in a different location to get him to go to sleep (had a good night death only 2 feeds and 1 chunder last night but it has just taken dh 40 minutes to shush him to sleep). Swimming was fun - I do what we did with ds1 and 2 to start with - a bit of cuddling him in the water while sprinkling water on his face, a bit of swooshing him around on his front band back in the water - only stayed in 15 mins as the water was a bit cold. Will start proper swim classes in late September hopefully once the older boys are east school.

Sounds like you are going to have a busy trip Waves - hope all goes smoothly.

Waves , glad Everything was all fine (i droped L when he was about 2wks he landed on his face!) have a fab holiday, sounds like you've got lots planned.

Dinky your holiday sounds great too.

Cheese glad wedding went well, sounds like you had a great day.

We went to country fair yesterday had great time, kids were happily exhausted by the end of the day. L slept from 9 to 4.30 !!! Then didn't wake again till 7.30!
Bad news is that torrential rain came in the flu and flooded our boiler, so we've had no hot water over the bank holiday

7+2

Sorry for the really daft question but which way round to you wear breast pads -sticky bit on boob or bra? I've tried both ways with different brands and i'm still sporting crop circles.

Wow - awesome sleeping by L there Sunday! Bugger about the rain knocking out your hot water though - hope you can get it fixed soon.

Cheek - sticky bits on bra for sure!

up,with jo,and reading the june post natal thread to keep me awake... it gets easier

N has got into a cycle of waking every 2 hours for a comfort feed and it's killing me! It started when she was sick and she just hasn't settled back into her old routine of only 2 feeds a night. If I get up to her she forces her way around to position herself to feed. DH is a bit useless trying to settle her TBH. He gives up really easily and tries to put her back in her crib before she's settled. He's just too impatient. He tried the other night but just kept waking me to feed her. It was before 11pm, so not even late! He has no stamina!
I think I'm going to tell him I'll be sleeping in the spare room at the weekend and I'm not to be disturbed unless its been 4 hours since the last feed.

Hello! Yet again I've been reading but not posting so just catching up. Welcome new arrivals Nexus and Briemonster.

Waves Glad that C is okay, but if it makes you feel any better I managed to burn Junior Panda's leg on a baking tray that I had recently taken out of the oven. He was fine (sleeping sounds within about 10 mins of it happening) and it has now healed without a mark, but I was completely horrified at myself and definitely learned a lesson in not mixing babies and ovens.

I'm impressed at all those off on adventures with their new arrivals. It feels like quite an epic adventure for me to get into town to go shopping, let alone go off for a holiday!

Dinky, swimming sounds fun. JP loves the bath, so will definitely be taking him along to the pool at some point.

Cheek, I love the idea of you reading the June PN thread for a vision of the future!

Sunday, hope that you have got your boiler sorted. Not a good time for any sort of domestic appliance failure. I have actual palpitations at the thought of our washing machine conking out.

Interesting to read other people's night experiences. JP seems to be gradually settling into a bit of a pattern, which I appreciate enormously. Generally he wakes at least twice in the night, at around 3am and 5am, for feeds, but we like others we have ended up co-sleeping a lot of the time. However, we went to sleep at midnight last night, he slept in his crib all nice and has only just woken for a feed at around 6am - it feels amazing to have had such a run of unbroken sleep for the first time since before I went into labour. However, such a run without feeding has left me with a new problem - boobs like rocks!!

My DH has been in New Zealand for the past week, so have had my mum down to visit/act as home help. She's been amazing but went home yesterday, so have been battling it alone since. Dad is coming tomorrow (and although he's likely to be significantly less help with the baby, he has volunteered to feed me and clean the house, which is not to be sniffed at).

Well JP seems to have gone back to sleep so I will try to do the same.

5 weeks here.

Cross posted with Totally - sorry to hear you're having such a round time. My DH is also a little useless at trying to settle the boy-child. He'll try for about 5 mins and then proclaim that the baby must be hungry despite the fact that I know he isn't as he's only just fed and hand him over to me. Some things are easier with him on the other side of the world...

Round? Rough