Jan 2013: Part Six. Part SIX!

[Angielka]

As I so frivolously finished the last thread, I thought I'd better start a new one. Go!

cupcakes as you know we've also only just had reflux diagnosed. Gaviscon didn't really help. I asked for ranitidine and tinkered with the dose (naughty) myself. I give her 1.5 ml (dr prescribed 1ml 2x a day and that's a low dose, but find she only needs it at night), and generally she is sleeping better).

I have been where you are. Dr, young lady, on Monday, and get that boy some ranitidine.

It is hard. I also felt like having her so close was perhaps not my best plan when she's not sleeping. But the smiles banish the thoughts mostly love to you, pet, it's awful.

Cupcakes I'm sorry your having a shit time, defo agree with the doctors on Monday and get some stronger reflux meds
Also you seriously need to spell it out to your DH, tell him that if he needs to get of his arse and pull his finger out and help you, give you a break, it's not fair to go through this alone whilst he is out with his mates!

Cupcakes when I feel at the end of my rope I dont give dp a choice. I say your looking after him now I cant do it and walk off. He cant complain because its his baby too.

By the way its only taken a year and a half to dtd again here....?!?! :-D

Oh cupcakes poor you. As others have said your dp really needs to pull his finger out. I have been known to ge dp up (nightworker) then announce he has the kids i'm off and just go! Though tbf when ds1 was little it took a while for him to 'get' how much i needed a break..and ds1 was relatively easy. Hope you got some sleeplast night

Hope everyone else ok. Keep falling behind with the thread as i seem to be constantly ferrrying kids about.

ivy slept all night. 7-6.30 then slept til 8.30 after a bf! Have had a couple of rough nights due to her ongoing cold so yay :)

She stood yesterday for ages without holding on well she was holding a packet of babywipes but thats novl support

Ds1 has gone dr who mad..

Meant to add this

He is nursing again! I did the candlelit bath things as suggested by Bunty. Thank you all for the support :)

octane that is brilliant x

Yay octane!

And well don't Danny & Ivy with the standing.

I'm joining you in the whispering apple. 7-6 last night. She only slept an hour in the car yesterday, and had hardly any bf either so no idea how she managed it. Although my nephew did drop a toy car on her head so that could've been it.

I'm officially broody again. I really really really want a little tiny one again.

Well done*

And cupcakes, he's being an arse. I totally know the feeling though because so is mine most of the time. I think he's starting to realise that it's bloody hard work now, hopefully yours will soon too

Ivy is currently interrpting a game of table football! She looks so serious as she grabs at things and tries to ca

Arrgh! That should be tries to catch the ball and ends up stopping ds1 goals :)

octane yay. Glad hes nursing again, frankly we have the opposite here, Ivy is off and on and has discovered my nips as a toy Sometimes she unlatches just to have a look..

creepy nooo tis madness here although they are scrmmy when teeny

In other news washing machine was finally fixed yesterday..i have washed 6 loads since then and have a few more to go! Had to stop as i ran out of drying space :)

Well done for persevering octane

Joining in with the whispers 8-8 so I got to watch the in peace I think its cos the worst of his colds out the way.

Any remedies for making his hair soft again its all rough and horrible at the back :( certainly no broodiness here either you crazy woman im waiting to make sure ive grown this one up right before I think about it :-D

Oh cupcakes so sorry. and hope you have managed a chat with DH that gets it through how urgently you need a break. Like glirious said, no excuses. I think Apple's tactic of not giving the option at all is a fantastic one .

Glad you're back on track octane. It's scary when they change the rules like that.

Lots of standing in sleeping bags here too. Actually, I was thinking of getting the 18 month plus bags out to see if they wouldn't swamp Molly - she looks a bit snug in the 6-18 month ones

pascha Molly hasn't stood alone as long as Dan did, but she did kind of let go/forget to hold on a couple of days ago and as soon as she realised, sat down very quickly! I love this bit when they're figuring out what they're almost capable of although I also miss having a little baby in my arms creepy

Seen two pregnant friends in two days. Anyone else feel there is this massive gap wth friends who don't have children andtherefore don't udnerstand the chaos that now reigns?

Oh and apple Molly also stops mid-feed and inspects the nipple and ussually finishes off a feed by coming half off and blowing a raspberry. Charming.

Angie yes I know what you mean. To the extent that most of my non-baby friends have dumped me!

I have nipple inspections too, followed by a very slow and careful poke of said nipple with one forefinger.

Things I have taught him:

1. To high five (he LOVES this and laughs when he slaps my palm)
2. What "no" means. He usually cries when I say no and then I feel really mean....

angie yes i know what you mean. I was pg with ds1 in last year at uni and he actually came to our graduation when he was 6 weeks old. My 'friends' couldn't get away fast enough. But part of that was that they wete all moving on to law school, jobs and other exciting things whilst i was changing nappies and leaking milk. Even my bff didn't get it til she had her own 5 years later and even then we were still on different pages as ds1 wss starting school and ds2 was mad-- 3

octane thats so cute! Ivy puts her hand out for high fives in her pram. We're trying to teach her to blow kisses now. Its so lovely when you see them learning.

Hmm not sure what i did there

Im training him to hive five at the min. He shakes his head when we say no but dont think he gets what it means yet

We seem to be getting somewhere with the sleep then it all goes tits up. 3 horrendous nights in a row here, feels like we're back at square one. Saturday night she didn't go to sleep until 11:30. Tonight she was 8:45, and was then up at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30 and I've been up since 2:30. She's still not bloody sleeping.

I don't understand how hcp can let this go on when I've literally begged both Gp and hv for help. Sleep is such a basic thing. She is not getting what she needs are neither are we. I don't sign up to 'some babies need less sleep'.

I think they get to an overtired point and then you're fucked.

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Oh bollocks. Sorry for random posts.

That was going to be AARGH. I've accidentally washed my angora mix cardigan on a 40 degree wash. It feels horrid now. I am exceptionally upset. :(

Aw bunty you poor thing. . Afraid I don't have any advice but I hope your day gets better than it started.

I need some advice as X has had a bad cough and cold for about a month now. She had a day or two when it seemed to have gone so this could be another one. But her chest sounds awful. Last time I took her to the doctors though they said she doesn't need anything as if she seems well in herself and is eating then nothing they can do. But surely there gets to a point where she must need something? She coughs on and off all night :(

She just drank from her cup on her own though so am a bit excited as have kept wondering when I should try and teach her. She was getting angry with me doing it for her and just grabbed it :)

Bunty that sounds horrible hope you manage to catch up on some sleep today?

Cupcakes how you doing now has anything improved? Hope you managed to get a doctors appt

Birdies I would maybe get her back to the doctors if her chest sounds bad, also, put some Vicks on her feet at night it should help with the cough.
YAY on the cup!

DD took her first step!! She was stood against the sofa and took 2 steps to me! Her face was a picture

Baby's cold has succumbed to conjunctivitis. So now I am cruel mother torturing her with eye drops. Oh the pitious howls!

I try not to be over whelmed with guilt everytime I get her in a head lock and wrestle with her eyelids.