March 2013 - 6 months down, 210 to go!

[StormyBrid]

Old thread.

Keep on rambling, ladies, we have a whole new thread to fill!

stormy just read that article - the suggestion that I might be "reluctant to let go of those nighttime moments" certainly gave me a good chuckle - obviously sabotaging myself for those precious moments of sleep deprivation!

Hi all.

My post got eaten up this morning which annoyed me but im back.

soyo you are amazing. I have no idea what to suggest. Im sure you have discussed this before but is she taking the dummy? If not do you think that may help her to settle. Maybe its teething trouble thats keeping her awake. Meh what do i know we are not amy better. I was woken every 2hrs last night and today im a zombie and v emotional because im dreading nights now.

rainbow sorry to hear you are having night troubles too. Lets hope this phase is over.

stormy im with your dd on david cameron. You wanted funny things our lo's do. Ds is a washing machineholic. Thats my new baby sitter. He will happy crawl over and lay there watching it go round and round. Another one is when eating food he sneezes and food shoots everywhere. What does your dd do?

eco how is vegas? Any winnings yet?

Where is eig and leni? Hope you are both ok.

Im on page 11 on phone and cant go back to look at other posts. Sorry.

rainbow that was supposed to read lets hope that phase is over soon.

Sorry to hear there's a lot of non-sleeping going on here. Last night I am SO going to jinx things, putting this! DD actually stirred and self-settled a few times but otherwise went through till 7am I doubt it'll become the new reality though...

Baby signing was fun today. I did it with DS as it was the one activity I was happy to pay for and I'll always remember when he first signed 'tree' to me, as well as all the other signs he learnt. He was a very early speaker too but I'm not sure DD will be the same as she doesn't seem to have the sounds that DS did at this age. We shall see. It means my Thursday routine is going to get a bit complicated and I'll be driving all over the county for the groups I want to take DD to (and continue to go to once I'm back at work) but I think it'll be worth it.

I've been invited out with some mums tomorrow night - one of whom I know really well (a MNer) and her friends, most of whom I've only met once or not at all. Really looking forward to it, even though I've got to drive there because we live in the middle of nowhere so no drinking for me.

Ooh I forgot what I really wanted to ask you lot - nipple sensitivity! Probably more for the bfers but also for those who did bf and then stopped. I have been wearing breast pads for the past six months and then didn't put any in my bra this morning and I've been very - ahem - conscious of my nipples all day Happily, I didn't leak out of the other boob when feeding DD on one, which is basically the reason I've been continuing to wear the pads this long, so that's good. And I've also been wearing a bra with pads overnight this whole time and I'm going to try sleeping sans brassiere tonight, if I can ignore my nipples...

Anyway, has anyone else found increased sensitivity?

Fingers crossed for some better nights tonight. I have no advice other than if you find a routine that works, move heaven and earth to stick with it. Here that's bed no earlier than 9.30pm-10pm. Last night she was knackered so DH settled her at 8pm. Big mistake. Huge. She was up at 11pm ready to party, and then having started the night off kilter decided to stick with the programme and wake about 10 times between midnight and 5am. After that she slept like a log until 8.30am . Tonight bed was 10pm, and if she wakes I will cry.

Stormy David Cameron you say? You do realise what dd's teenage rebellion will be don't you? Conversion to a card carrying Tory . I personally have no political views on-line, but I did many moons ago (ok school) know his wife. She was one of those intrinsically nice people that it is impossible to dislike. She is also naturally blond.

The tiddler has just woken and had to be resettled 4 times since I started writing this. I'm not crying yet, but I am expecting a long night. .

Worse by your logic we're going to raise a guitar-hating, ukip voting, beard-shaving, possibly vegan pleasure dodger. DP will not be happy if ds rebels against rawk music, the first music he ever heard was sabbath while we were still in the delivery suite

And you know Sam Cam! I'm about as much of a Tory as Stormy, but she seems nice and rather harmless. The most famous person I know was a poster girl for right guard antiperspirant about 4 years ago. Must try harder.

One of my friends had a second baby last week. Me, broody? Never.

We had an awesome night last night. Dummy return at about half past ten, she didn't wake for the dream feed, squeaked at half five but sorted herself out, and when I got her up at half seven, she was half asleep on her tummy and still had her dummy. First time in months I haven't had to go in at least once.

Ah, teenage rebellion! Unfortunately DD can't rebel by becoming a Tory because her dad is sort of one. If I had known this from the start I may have thought twice, but fortunately he's changing a lot of his views thanks to welfare reform. If she's going to successfully rebel against both of us, she's going to have to be politically apathetic. If she really wants to wind us up she'll go for believing in homeopathy and lizard people.

The funniest thing DD does at the moment is her stereotypical Red Indian impersonation. You know the sort of whooping war cries they do in old films? When she's chuntering after her bath, the man jiggles her torso and it sounds exactly like that. Has me (and her) in stitches every time.

Oh Jesus, Plonky, I didn't even think of veganism. Nope, it's not happening. I refuse to have a meat refuser in the house!

First music DD ever heard was Pink Floyd. We didn't know what to do with her that first night, and didn't have a night light so couldn't see her at all, so we put the laptop on, typed Pink Floyd into spotify, and just let it play all night.

And as for second babies... I may be broody but I definitely want a break, where I get decent sleep for a long period, before thinking about another. My cousin, whose son is one later this month, just announced she's expecting another in April. Madness!

Good morning all

We had an ok night. Dh couldnt sleep so he did the 1.30am and 6am feed. Not that i slept though.oppss. 7.30am and ds was still asleep. I got worried when i couldnt hear his usual mumbling and found he was sleeping. He slept until 7.45am which has been the longest lay in we have ever had.

Im not even thinking about teenage rebellion just in case he reads my mind. Teenage years make me quiver with fear.

I dont know anyone famous. How boring am i.

Hope soyo and rainbow had a better night.

Oh as for second babies, that will definitely break me. I need to wait for ds and i to sleep better.

When the worselet doesn't sleep she does it in style. Up every half an hour (or more often) all night. Right now she is looking pleased as punch with herself and I am mainlining peanut butter straight from the jar. Another night like this and I may die!

Catch up later, when I recover....

Worse - peanut butter on crumpets have saved me from becoming murderous. Straight from the jar is also good.

I still want my two and half ish year gap between kids. Why prolong years of pooey nappies and crap sleep? I'm not fussed about the closeness formed by being close in age as me and dp each have a good few years between us and our siblings. I just want my baby making done during my twenties I suppose.

Though my friends birth was slightly horrific. The baby got stuck after the head came out. Big shoulders

There's definitely something to be said for not prolonging the nappy stage! As we're unlikely to have more than two it's nice to think we could spend only five years or so doing nappies. Too close in age can backfire though. My brother was only fifteen months old when I was born, and it took about twenty years for him to forgive me for stealing his mummy's lap.

worse peanut butter from the jar sounds yummy along with some yummy chocolate.

plonky i forgot about my 3yr gap between ds and dc2.you make sense. I definitely want to have dc2 by the time im 30. However i will probably then be a stay at home for about 3yrs. My friend just found out shes pregnant. Her youngest is 7yrs. Shes shocked. I couldnt imagine going back to nappy changes and night feeds after soo many years.

Ds is awake i can hear him talk to himself. He now says babababa. Dh is happy. He thinks ds is calling for him.

KF my plan is the same really. Though my ideal gap may become closer together as we lose any assistance with childcare once Dp gets his next pay rise. By then I might losing out by going to work so the SAHM role will get foisted upon me at some point. May as well have dc2 then!! I'm adamant I only want two though.

Maybe DS will resent it a la Brother Stormy but I'm

Expecting him to resent me at some stage

Worse I think the snack you're looking for is a spoon of half peanut butter, half Nutella. It's sanity-saving stuff.

If we were to have another, which is by no means certain, I'd quite like to have then when DD is starting school. Prolonging the nappy stages I know but It would give me long enough back at work to try and do my exams before another break and would mean I'd have had plenty of time with just DD before it got even harder still!

Well, contrary to my expectations I am still alive, and largely still awake. The worselet is of course asleep . Votes for loudly yelling in her ear at 30 minute intervals for the next 8 hours???!!!

With nutella you say SoYo? Is that good? Nutella on its own doesn't do it for me, but perhaps diluted down? Crumpets are a dirty secret of mine Plonko. I eat them straight from the freezer with a thick layer of unsalted butter . DH has never seen me do this and he never will

Ah don't you all start talking babies on me or I will cluck. It's that newborn head smell. Irresistible. For all you youngsters out there, don't underestimate the last minute shout from the ovaries. Lots of people I know 'finished' their families and then had a surprise 10 years later. Or put another way according to my GP the vast majority of unplanned pregnancies she sees are middle class women in their 40s. It is rather easy to get so caught up in the message that post 35 the ovaries shrivel up and die, that you cease to worry. Take it from me, they don't.

There better not be any babyshaped surprises for me at forty. Mainly because the man will be fifty four by then, which is a bit old to be dealing with broken sleep and so on. One more then he can have the snip, then my ovaries can clamour all they like to no avail.

My DM had my DSis when she was 22 and then I rocked up when she was 37. I was somewhat of a 'ahem' surprise. Although I have a fantastic relationship with DSis, I won't be waiting that long to have another. I'm also thinking school age, so about a 4 or 5 year gap I think for us.

It's been all go at chez-Something. We're having a new carpet in the living room as the previous owners were arseholes the kind to never hoover, or clean, and thought that a carpet was the best place for their dog to repeatedly urinate, so we decided to completely redecorate too. The walls weren't straight, thousands of holes, etc, so it's been a big job. But! The carpet is being put in tomorrow so we should have our room back. Poor DS has been forced to play with all his toys in a small corner of the dining room.

I hope tonight is a better night for all the broken sleepers out there, and if not, there's always the wine, right?

Hello all, just caught up! Big hugs to those with non sleeping babies.

All ok here, back to work has been ok, little one still not drinking much milk in the day so I am feeding morning and night , giving porridge with follow on milk mid morning and I woke her mid week nights for a dream feed at 11. Didnt bother last night as know I will be here to feed her today. Pumping at work hilarious! Must be busy has haven't caught up with downtown yet.

We have a 3.5 year gap here, seems to be ok. My big dilemma is what school for ds. The mental exhaustion of work is also tough. I am exhausted today.

Something was your redecorating begun by you just peeling paper off your walls at midnight? sounds like you've been busy!

Eig good to see you! Expressing at work sounds interesting.hopefully it won't take too long for you to get into a routine and have it all working like clockwork.

Worse I've been meaning to ask, how's the low GI diet going? Very true what you say about the 'surprise! You thought you couldn't conceive' baby. My mum was always secretly wishing for that to happen haha. And my dad and his younger brother are both proof that it does. But no, I don't fancy a teenager and a newborn in the same house.

Went out for an indulgent shopping and lanch trip yesterday. DS was a joy, decided to say mama and dada all day (unintentionally, of course. As far as he's concerned he may well be saying zoology or eggs) and then kind of crawl/shuffled backwards.

Supposed to be staying with the MIL tonight. I'm dreading it.

Best go rescue my handbag, he's trying to eat the strap.

She slept!!! The worselet slept!!! Words cannot not convey the sheer joy that 9 hours unbroken shut eye can bring. The solution to all our woes came in a form of a small nondescript looking bottle from the chemist. Lactulose. For those suffering the sleep depriving effects of babies with really bad constipation lactulose is your answer. It's safe, just softens, but be warned, the resultant nappy will require a full change, bath, and changing station deep clean.

Eig I have no idea how you manage to pump at work. It must take hours of plotting and planning to fit that round your diary. The only person I know who managed it was a librarian, in an office that frankly did not need a librarian. To say she had time on her hands would be an understatement.

Plonky Low GI - piece of cake. Well perhaps not! It's fine though, enjoyable even... and is a bit of incentive to break out of the boredom bracket food wise. Buckwheat pasta for example is a revelation. It has a taste. Some might say it is an acquired taste, but at least it is different.

Right, I need to go and help. DH has had the tiddler all morning and I'm missing her.

Eig it's good to hear from you, glad you're surviving the working/feeding/sleeping/playing combination, I hope it starts getting easier soon.

Sorry for short post but today is about surviving so I'm off to make coffee. Have a good weekend everyone.