June 2013 (2) - attempting to get into a routine!

[MrsBri]

New thread for us ladies. :-)

Anybody else got a disco baby ? put him down to sleep in the 'correct ' position within half an hour he is across his cot and then turns fully round so he is head down !

Yep, disco baby here too He shimmies round anything between 90 and 180 degrees.

We're doing our first overnight stay this weekend. The list of clobber to pack seems huge!

On my phone and can't remember who said what now but hope everyone's had/having a decent night and hurray, its the weekend! x

Just popping in, I hardly seem to have time to get on here these days - way too much to do.

Sounds like people are doing fairly well on the sleep thing. We're not doing too bad here, nights are good, day time napping seems very affected by what we're doing - she's very easily disturbed so if we're out and about tends to wake up. On the plus side, she's so smiley and vocal now, I love it!

Gave up on potty training ds by 10 am first morning . Think he's not ready yet. Sounds like you are doing well AmI. First morning ds peed 2 times on the potty and 6 times on the floor (well 1 of those was on grandad's lap!). That was even after sitting on the potty for 20 mins, no pee, take him off, pee on floor. I'm guessing we just need to wait a bit and try again. I'm always a bit worried about missing the boat but he's 2y5mo so maybe it's ok to wait.

Good luck with the packing Mrs. It's ridiculous how much stuff you end up taking!!!

I'm free on 16 Oct or did you mean that's the date you come back Oli? I work from home so fairly flexible in terms of schedule any other dates although every other Weds I have something I can't move. I am also totally normal

OH's Nan died this morning, so I am going to have to take Oscar to a funeral, not sure how that will work but OH wants me to go so I will have to take him with me. I guess I will just have to sit nearish a door so we can dissapear if he crys or wants feeding. We haven't seen or heard from any of the family other than his parents since having Oscar so I guess it's one way for them to meet him and might make for something a bit more pleasant afterwards.
What do you dress a baby in for a funeral

sorry to hear that curly. I would dress him normAl if it were me. I think they are small enough to have the cuteness factor and get away with being themselves. I guess if you have a dark coloured jumpwe and bottoms then fab, but they are so small and growing so fast it would be a shame to have to spend out for something fitting.
hope all goes as well as it can

Sorry to hear that curly. We took DS to a funeral when he was 2 weeks and I sat near the back and fed him while the service was happening. Would've been even better if he'd been asleep. Just dress him in whatever he normally wears or if he has a nice outfit then that. I don't think babies need to wear anything special. People will be too busy coping over him anyway =)

*cooing

Ah, curly, that's sad.

We went to my uncle's funeral last week and would have sat at the back so we could escape quickly if DD made a noise. However, a friend offered to sit her for us.

For the wake we just put her in a nice dress.

Thanks all, she was 90 and had not been well for a while but thankfully it seems it happened quite quickly.
As an insight into the inlaws her son (oh dad) was woken at 6 am with the news and just went back to bed, he laughed telling us

I will see if lo has something not too bright to wear as I have bought mainly bright things for his size now.

Just thinking I have nothing to wear I can bf in so I will need to buy something.

you know what maybe a bright bouncy little baby will be just what's needed.
have u got a black vest top, cardigan and trousers/skirt? May not be the best outfit there but easy to bf in and comfy. just a thought.

dp away tonight, dd just fallen asleep, hoping she sleeps better than last night!

talking of bf clothes I've been debating what to do as it gets cooler. dp sweetly brought me a jumper today, not stretchy enough to pull down so up and over. with a vest top on underneath it was ok. just not loving the thought of everything going up and over exposing a more than ample muffin top :/ but like to be warm. what are you going to be doing?!

I was thinking the same as it is so much cooler today, I have bought a chunky cardi from peacocks so far ! I guess I will end up with baggy jumpers with vests underneath ?

I'm in despair re wardrobe. Absolutely nothing fits and most of my autumn/winter clothes do not lend themselves to breastfeeding!

tis a nightmare and I'm stupidly sure I have put weight on since having dd so lots of staples don't fit. it's driving me crazy.
maybe we'll just hibernate over winter.

I'm going to stay in under the duvet as I have nothing to wear. Thank god I don't have to worry about BF too! :-/

duvet sounds good hh - even bloody pj 's don't fit the same. We'll all have a collective 'humph' and practice our grumpy faces.

Hmmm my problem is similar but opposite. Turns out Weight Watchers is quite succesful so all my clothes are too big. Ive bought a smaller pair of jeans but can barely do them up so i'm in the awful inbetween phase. Im too skint to replace my wardrobe so i'm going to get the sewing machine out to do some alterations of my dresses and skirts so i dont have to hold my kecks up as i walk.

Curly - we had to take DD to FIL's funeral when she was about 10 weeks old. She wore a lilac dress (lilac is a mourning colour too, along with black and white apparently). People afterwards said it was lovely to have had her there as it was something else to focus on, IYSWIM. Hopefully your DS will provide the same service! I also found that having DS1 with us when our other two triplets were cremated helped, as it's another focus (we left DD with a friend for the day). Babies at funerals are a good thing I think, with the added benefit that they don't remember anything about it.

I also have no clothes to wear. I've worn out my nicely fitting maternity jeans (which fit even when not pregnant, they were ace!) and my crop trousers too. Both now mostly holes rather than fabric. I have one pair of jeans which are a size bigger than I normally wear, which fit OK so I'll be wearing those. And presumably not washing them till I can fit in something else :o I have about 5 BF tops that are just rotating, I'm getting bored of them but can't really afford to go out and get anything new.

My weight isn't the issue, it's the round tummy my split abs has left me with :-/ My shape change is just too challenging / upsetting right now. Humph indeed!

My ribs seem to have expanded, and the massive boobs are also an issue...

Re the boob thing. I bought a lovely swimsuit from Bravissimo. At 9am it fits, at 3pm it gapes. These pneumatic boobs are a pain in the arse.

Oh and id happily stop washing my jeans so much if I didnt get puked on like a scene from the exorcist every fricking day. God i love reflux!

Waterproof trousers, Sunny?!

waterproof everything might work!

dp said when he was picking the jumper he got me he was stood there with his hands up the jumper testing boob room! he was worried about it being too tight across them and didn't want me unhappy with it. made me giggle.

bin bags aren't warm enough for winter are they?!

I have 6.5 weeks to stop eating rubbish and try and feel more positive before my best friends wedding, I'm bridesmaid.

hh have you asked your gp about physio for your tummy muscles, a good post natal physio should be able to help you out. Advice on the correct exercises and help get your core and pelvic floor right to help with it all too.

I mentioned what to do about the abs at my 6 week check and the GP said there wasn't anything I can do. Maybe they don't refer here? I'll maybe try again as it's very frustrating. :-/

DD is lying in bed loudly chewing her fist due to teething. Shut up, child!! I'm convinced we will have teeth soon.

Maybe you could wear those disposable ponchos you can buy over normal clothes? Could work! :-)