The 6th Broadly Gemini Luxury Bus - this way ladies.

[FrussoHathor]

Welcome aboard our 6th bus ladies.

I feel like someone came into my bed with a baseball bat in the night. Every bone hurts So much for baby rice giving us a break...worst night in a long time!

Did you drink enough last night pear? I ache like hell when I haven't. A couple of ibruprofin and a pint of water sorts it out. ((Tender hugs))

Frus ~ I really can't remember. Weird theory though! I could always do with drinking more! I had put it down to tiredness and the amount of times I was rudely awoken from my beauty sleep

I'm meant to be going to a all singing all dancing baby group this morning but I'm slightly concerned what I might do if one of the 'perfect' mummies out there share how their precious angel is sleeping through the night How much damage can pitball balls really make?

A lot if you aim it for their eye. That really hurts.

Ooh I have a breastfeeding baby group I could go to this morning. It is Friday isn't it.

Hah hah! Knowing my luck I would probably miss and hit the teacher instead

I swear by my theory pear as long as I drink enough through the night I don't wake up feeling like someone has battered all my joints

Oh pear I thought of you at baby group. And the talk turned to sleep. although it sounded more like a competition as to who's baby was the worst sleeper. And which won't nap.
And then bedtime routines
And potty training
And sleep again
And then the perfect mummy started showing off with the my baby (toddler) can sign "milk" and how complicated it was to sign "milk to drink"
And I sat there and said nothing. although I did sign to ds that she had no idea and didn't know what she was talking about, and ds laughed. because he thinks its hilarious when I sign--

I don't think I'm cut out for baby groups.

Oh dear frus those are the worst. I always find myself doing mental eye rolls or perhaps a few actual ones when I come across one of those gals. She's probably got no one to brag to and I'm sure her partner doesn't give two shits about what their kid can do, she's gotta vent and impress somewhere

What happened to all of our great sleepers? M is waking several times a night now too.

They've gone bring they've all gone < shakes head in sadness> atleast we've all got each other to moan to!
The 4 month growth spurt has hit us with a vengence where's the banana, I will fill her up

Lol. She's only just turned 3 months. I've got a long way to go before weaning (kind of happy about that to be honest. Milk feeds are so much easier than busting out all the food when out and about).

So much to do, so little time. I would love to just have a mug of coffee, a newspaper and my cozy bed all to myself. Instead, I've got two little boys hanging on my arms, a little girl hanging from my boob and a tree surgeon hanging from my giant ash tree out the window cutting away the dead branches. Oh what a fun day.

I certainly dont bust out the food when out and about. And didn't give ds any food this morning.
I did try him with bit of blitzed mango earlier, and then went mmm mango yummy and ate a bit myself I hate mango. Why oh why did I do it?! bleugh.

Ds is asleep hanging off my boob (hes not eating, hes just holding it) after getting himself all worked up because he was tired and wouldn't admit it.

And I've send dd1 to bed. Because she seems to think she's 13 and can talk to me like crap was stroppy, and refused to do her homework and was complaining and fussing and doing the self pity thing. which I have no patience for and she doesn't behave like a brat at school. She's angelic and polite there saves all the gob for me well she can just wait until daddy gets home.

Oh dear Frus I know some of those braggers sadly!

Day 2 on baby rice went better then day 1 in consistency! No poo for 2 days now. A little worried about what's to come!

No I don't do food out and about, long way off that, we tried abit of banana with some sucsess, she had maybe 1/4 abit less but seemed to quite like it
Yes I think the sleep change happened for kitten around 3 months bring its been atleast 3 weeks or more and that's why it's developed into more of a habit as she was too young to feed, dd1 did the same but was 16wks so after 3 nights waking I started the baby rice and she never woke again but it was nipped in the bud early or I was lucky
Frus I love that wait till your dad gets home lol in my case it'd be the other way around though !!

Is it sad that I'm finding a glass of rosé mixed with watching baby Einstein quite relaxing? If I close my eyes it's just Mozart on the piano and I could be at a relaxing bar who am I kidding

pear I'm pretty sure we're on day 7! I'm beginning to wonder if we should call someone... or stick the hose up his bum!

AF seems to have returned.

bring I think you're right. They do the i dont work, we do the we don't have a TV thing because they can't afford one because DH doesn't earn enough and they dress their dds in Boden dress over leggings combo, and mainly ignore them except to show of their latest parlour trick of one baby sign sign and everyone has to drop what they're doing as say how clever/special their dd is. whilst secretly their DH ignores the dd and works every hour god sends to support her Boden addiction

I just felt like telling them my dd was profoundly deaf, and signing is not a parlour trick its the only way to communicate with a child who can't hear anything, and i have to drug her to get her to sleep at all. But I didn't. I did the internal slap with wet fish to remind myself not to go to that group again.

^
This is not aimed at anyone on here. You ladies are lovely. She wound me up by gushing how brill her HV was the crap one that failed dd so badly, and I will never forgive or forget, how badly that HV failed her and us

My local local one is better, they talk about the dishy teachers at school, and when their next night on the piss is, and they know all about dd.

Okay rant over. I'm not bitter I'll have dragged myself out of my self pity party by tomorrow.

agnu dd1 only pooed once a fortnight until she'd been on solids for a few weeks.

AF already?

Last time round I had a whole 4 weeks between postpartum bleeding & AF so this is definitely an improvement... I'm just jealous of my friend who didn't have a period at all while breastfeeding, only stopped to try for DC2, had 1 period & was pregnant again! She's had 2.5yrs already with just 1 period & her DC2 is only a few weeks older than Runt!

I'm not overly concerned about the lack of poo... It's got to come out sometime... Right?! What does concern me is the timing. With him going longer & longer & AF returning it worries me that he's still not getting enough milk. DH is just about to go shopping & is under strict instruction to actually buy formula this time! My plan is to force feed offer him a few extra oz after one or 2 feeds a day in the hope that he'll get more of an appetite or develop a wider-mouthed latch. He does seem to latch better if he's had a bottle recently!

Oh Agnu you could have literally described me! Apart from suffering 2 mc's I've only had one af since dd1 was born so over 2 years, I had to stop bf to get pregnant again but in away that was sad too
How is ds2 weight gain? I don't think the return of af is relevant to milk production as such as I know another girl who is super fertile, she bf and got her af back at 4 weeks like you and yet I must have only been producing 7/8oz aday at the end and still didn't, just different bodies, if he's having plenty of wet nappies that should be a good sign?
Still no harm in offering more or having the formula on hand
Frus sorry you had a rubbish baby group, my dd can't sign at all but she does tell me shed like chocolate on a regular basis, does that count?
I do however like to dress her up although Boden isn't my shop of choice to look well presented however she likes to put her wellies with everything at the moment and jump in puddles like peppa her hair is also a nightmare and she pulls out whatever I do straight away, I spend half my time trying to make her look nice and she manages to undo look like she's been dragged through a hedge by the time I've turned my back for a second!

DS has actually resumed previous sleep patterns the last two nihpghts - down around 9, then feed at 2.30 and 5.30, wake around 7.30 and feed at 8.30. Totally manageable after the nights where we were up every hour and a half!

I must be lucky with my baby groups. It's more a discussion on how tough breastfeeding is and how bad most of our babies sleep. The occasional bit of happiness at something achieved doesn't really come across as bragging and more like relief at something going well!

DS has developed a daily poo schedule. Every around 11am he sits in his bouncing chair and poos. He skips the odd day but not often.

Poo schedule.

kitty I just think this particular mum managed to push all my buttons today. Im not really bothered by the dressing up. i used to do it with dd1.(just tkmaxx rather than Boden) But with each of my dcs, I've gone to baby groups, and there's always one mum like this. lording it over everyone perhaps she is just insecure. And I'm grouchy and judgy pants and should head to aibu
The other mums didn't wind me up. And me and the girl next to me were working out where to put the cushions and cuddly toys to make it look like our dcs could sit up without slumping over.

kitty yup. Asking for chocolate is acceptable, and welcomed.

Agnu, a midwife I worked with put it brilliantly: Breastmilk is so perfectly designed for babies that sometimes they actually use all of it up so there's nothing left to poo out, hence the reason that bm fed babies often skip a few days between. If he's still having plenty of wet nappies, his soft spot on his head isn't shrunken and he's not lethargic, he's doing great and there shouldn't be any concern for dehydration or not getting enough milk.

That's wonderful news that baby Lor is getting back on track :)

Frus, it is so hard to be nice when some people just lose the plot in terms of what parenting really is. I'm so sorry to hear about your experience with the HV. After having to deal with them when Ds1 was young, I was so completely unimpressed with that whole system. All the ones I dealt with were just bossy and wanted to tell me everything they thought I was doing wrong. I'm sure there are some nice ones out there, but I'm sure they're far and few between.

Aahh dd2 won't go to sleep