Is there a September 2013 group yet?

[Gingerandlemon]

Just that really! I gave birth two weeks ago on 1st September and am so ready to start asking everyone if they're going through the same stuff as me!!

Thanks Batbear and Gerty for reassurance re exam at 6 week check. After induction over 4.5 days I have the fear of anyone going near my foof ever again and fear I would either cry or kick the Dr in the face in panic.

That's a good pattern Gerty my LO wake up times nearly identical last night but she woke herself up at 6.30am pooling! This seems to be the only fixed event in her day! So didn't go back to bed, but overall progress had been made. Mustn't get too excited - her patterns normally last all of two days!

Same here Roller, just when I think we're getting into a good routine it changes!

Oh how have I only just found this thread?! Hello and congratulations everyone!

Does anyone else have a little one who will not be put down? Dd is 5wks today and absolutely refuses. She is either feeding or in the sling. She cries in the buggy and car seat. At night she has to sleep cradled in my arms, she won't even sleep next to me in her co-sleeper crib with my hand on her, it's in my arms or tears!

I remember my DS1 was a clingy baby but not this extreme as he would sleep in his Moses at night for phases and happily in the car seat and buggy!!

Congrats wibbly. Just goes to show they're all different.

Crap nights have been:Saturday, Tuesday, Thurs, Fri and Saturday. I'm bloody knackered. Husband is lovely however and has done lots of baby duties where possible to keep me sane. I even got out for a bike ride today to try to grab back my Endorphins. ... kind of worked. Need to call drs first thing tomorrow to see if we can diagnose Reflux or something as Robin is getting increasingly gurgly, vomity and writhes around in discomfort after most his feeds but not all. I've been really Tearful the last few days with tiredness and frustration over not getting in able to help him like I feel I should be able to.

In other news her did the most ridiculous shart today and there was pooh everywhere. Even got under his toenails! proud mummy!

Hey Wibbly congratulations! Not beingavkrto put LO down sounds hard.

Fl0b0t has today been easier? Wow at poo under toenails!

LO been sleeping all day but when tried to get some sleep myself just now she woke up of course. Feeling emotional about it because DH not around next three nights. If I have bad nights worried I won't cope.

Hi Wibbly completely feel your pain! My lo is 8 weeks and will rarely allow us to put him down. I can't do anything that takes longer than a couple of minutes unless it can be done wearing a sling so cooking dinner is out of the question! The good news is past 2 nights we have managed to get him to sleep in his cot but I have been up past 3 hours tonight trying again! Coupled with him never sleeping more than 2 hours the sleep deprivation levels are high!!

Very jealous of some of the sleep patterns on here! Can I ask do you use a routine every night? I haven't managed to get into one yet & wonder if it will really help him sleep 5 hours like the books say or if I'm wishful thinking......

Frenchgin no routine here, but I try to notice patterns end get sleep where I can around them. Eg DD normally has a big sleep from around 6/7pm for up to 5 hours, so try to go to bed. BUT she didn't today so I've just had a frustrating evening trying to put her down. I do go for a walk about 5pm everyday to have a fixed point, not sure if it helps or not.

Anyone else struggling to get LO back to sleep in the night and / or put them down? It's like night isn't really night. I shouldn't complain though - I can normally put her down just not tonight!

Also I've been reading No Cry Sleep Solution (pre-empytively really as she too young). Prior to 4 months there doesn't seem to be much point in a routine but can guide them towards recognising difference betweb night and day by getting out in daylight, also put them down sleepy bit asleep (yeah right!), etc.

No real routine here! hard to have a bed time routine when he tends to cluster feed all evening!

Thankfully had s good night so far. Robin goes down better if I feed him wrapped in a blanket with a little bit under his head. Then when I transfer him to the mosses basket, he is earn and Smells like mummy so it's less distressing. Works on the whole unless he is having s fussy evening.

Rollermum- you'll be fine with dh away-sometimes it's nice to have space and quiet. Have you got visitors planed?

We have a loose routine of bottle, bath, little rub down with oil, story and bed. Tends to work a treat and he sleeps for five hours, wakes up for a bottle and has another five hours. Saying that we missed out bath time last night as his bottle was quite late and he slept just as well. I think the routine is more for us at this point but don't think it's a bad habit to get into!

'Us' is DP and I - should have specified!

Fl0b0t thanks no, no visitors planned. Am just hunkering down to get through it. So tired already...

Gerty wow, envy! How old is your LO? Are you expressing or FF? And what time do you start your routine? Sorry for all the questions, just keen to hear what others are doing.

Phew frenchgin I'm glad I'm not alone! How have you managed to start the cot sleeping? Still not able to put madam down for more than a few minutes at a time. She won't even settle in for a cuddle with DH which makes me feel awful as he is desperate to spend some time with her. He also is getting the hump at not being able to cuddle or be close to me!

The only relief I have is that the nights are not too bad (if I just let her sleep in the crook of my arm!) We don't really have a set routine but she has developed this for herself: She will cluster feed from half 7 to about 11pm. Then conk out in my arm until 2am. So I get a good chunk of sleep to help me cope with the 45min nap/feed rotation we have thereafter. She always seems ready to have a good old sleep at 7.30am/8am but then DS1 is up and jumping on the bed and she has no hope of snoozing till she is snuggled back in the sling.

Rollermum DS is 7 weeks tomorrow and ff - unfortunately gave up breastfeeding after five days of blood, sweat and tears. Inverted, extremely sensitive nipples and a VERY hungry baby (he's on 8oz already!) were not a good combination. I still feel very sad about it but know it was the best decision for us.

I'm very lucky that he sleeps so well at night, and not so bad in the day, though most of the time he likes to fight it. He's a very advanced.baby according to the health visitor, he was proper smiling at four weeks and is so very strong - he now weighs 14lb8oz!

We start whenever he wants his evening bottle, usually somewhere between 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Of course it doesn't always go to plan but it's nice to have something to aim towards.

gerty wow nice big baby!
So we Finally had the ok night last night which was great but I've totslly over done it today and I feel stupid and tired and sore. Walked to buggy fit (new instructor) walked back, explosive baby vomit over everything, walled to bumps and babies group, walked back. .... and thankfully my bou is asleep still. Replaced sugars, got a hot water bottle, had a short nap and popped some paracetamol.

But worried as I feel flu-ey and got one sore Boob. .. fingers crossed he just needs a huge feed. Don't want to express and he will wake any second. .... fx is not a problem!

fl0b0t fingers crossed it's nothing to worry about.

I think I'll get a shock whenever baby no. 2 comes along, we've been spoilt with how good DS is ... feeding him now after a 7 hour stretch and 6 hours sleep! Tremendous!

Sounds like we are all coping ok - Roller my DH works shifts including nights - when he's away at night I go to bed as early as humanly possible (when DS1 goes to sleep) so that I can make use of DS2's early nap. It is possible, just be kind to yourself!
fl0b0t - hope you are ok - it all sounded exhausting! I'm still not doing the groups I'd hoped to. Still not quite in a routine.

Sleep here is generally ok - usually up twice, much better than DS1! Although we have had some occasions where he is wide awake and gurgling and smiling at 2am - which is cute but I'd rather sleep and chat with him in the morning!
Next stop - jabs - all booked for Monday along with his check!

We've had a lovely day today... We are all at home this week, (DS on half term, DH is freelance/consulting/extended self-funded paternity leave so is at home almost all the time, and I am taking 6m maternity leave) and we started the day on a massive mission to clean the house in advance of my entire family coming this weekend for the double christening of our two. Got a pretty good job done between us on the kitchen and bathroom while baby had her morning nap (has become pretty reliable, about two hours from 9am). Then we noticed it was sunny so we headed out for a pub lunch and a visit to a local outdoor museum. She fed at the pub, then snoozed as we walked around in the crisp air, fed a bit in the tea rooms, snoozed on the drive home

Back home, she had some more boob and a bit of interacting with big brother, walking around in the crook of my arm as I unpacked the dishwasher etc etc., then I put her in the bouncy chair and got on with putting a pizza in the oven preparing dinner for me and DS, and shooing DH out of the door with a sandwich, he's off to a client meeting this evening. She seemed to like being occasionally tickled by DS and listening to me singing along with the radio. After a while I look over thinking you're going to get demanding just at the moment I want to eat aren't you... And she has settled herself into a snooze slumped to the side in the bouncer! We got through our salad and most of the pizza before she snuffled and wriggled enough for me to notice she wanted feeding again.

So it's going rather too well at the moment, between now and when DH gets back I am sure there will be some disaster, most likely a poosplosion as she hasn't done a #2 yet today... DS is being angelic, the worst he'll give me is toothbrushing refusal.

Flobot keep an eye on those symptoms, make sure you're massaging those boobs in the shower if you get the slightest hot or lumpy feeling.

I feel all in a tizzy! seems most people are getting more sleep than me! On a good night we are getting up to 7 hours in 2 to three hour bits. But we've only had one good night in the last seven and the rest of the time is more like three or four hours.

There seems to be so little pattern. Only guarantee is that if he is fed and changed he will sleep in the buggy or sling if I go for a walk.

Dr prescribed gaviscon for Reflux but I have since Googled baby's Green pooh and the Internet tells me his latch might be poor and hence he only gets foremilk and less hind milk this may lead to short and unsatisfying feeds, windiness and not sleeping well which all sound about right.

I think it's laziness in terms of how I hold him when feeding and I need to pay more attention!

10 Things I Have Learned About Babies

1. They are all different
2. What is true today is not necessarily true tomorrow
3. Sleep is precious but not essential
4. There are no answers nor are there reasons
5. Nothing "works" or at least not three times
6. There's no such thing as a "good" baby
7. There's no such thing as a "bad" baby
8. No one else is doing any better than you
9. Your baby is much more forgiving of you than you are
10. Your baby really is better looking than all the other babies

Keep the faith, ladies. This too shall pass. In the meantime there is cake.

:) Cheers!

We had the most amazing poo explosion yesterday. DH and I took the 2 boys to the shopping centre as we needed a few things. Things had been going swimmingly and we'd had some lunch and changed nappies etc.

DS2 got a bit cross in M&S and wanted to be held so DH carried him and commented that he seemed to be a bit farty - as we were heading to the checkout I said I'd pay and then we could go and change him again.

There was no queue so whilst I was paying DH came over and asked for muslin - thinking he'd been sick I asked how bad it was "really bad" he said. I paid and followed him round the corner where I saw the baby with poo coming down his leg (he was in dungarees), DH had a lovely bright yellow patch on his trousers and as I watched a little blob landed on the floor!

DH was given the changing stuff and a new set of clothes and hurried up the escalator to the changing room. Dodging some grannies who were cooing over him.

I grabbed the pushchair, DS1 and wiped the floor before heading to the changing room to help. He was all being cleaned almost from head to toe!

Really revolting and totally hilarious for DS1 - I can't imaging where it all came from!

DH was amazing and when we emerged from the changing room with a changed baby - you'd have never guessed!

Oh dear, I'm really behind again, will try and catch up today!

Anyone having weird growth rates? DD has only put on 2oz in 2 weeks! Dropping from 75th to 50th percentile. Should I worry? Seeing HV today!

Fl0b0t sounds very familiar sleep pattern! Except for last night when she slept 5 then 4 hours! Difference was DH is away and we co slept. Such a difference, I think I need to think about doing it more, though I'd rather do it with a side car cot.

Joskar all v true! Espec no 2.

Batbear wow! DH sounds like he handled it with aplomb!

Purple Hope your HV can help. I think weight gain is not generally linear?

Phew glad it's not only me (in a nice way). Dh wad in the spare room last night and we did sleep a bit better...