Graduated Elderberries

[HazleNutt]

It's time to move to Post-Natal clubs.

janey we have Chicco Easy Sleep and no complaints. No particular reason for choosing that one, only that it's quite long and should last us for a while.

Yep, you were right, the time since Xmas has flown by. Its starting to drag a bit now tho

Janey I was given a gracco deluxe one and it's marvellous! It even vibrates and plays music/white noises! I love it and L seems to accept it better than her own cot!
Alex you hit the nail on the head. Think mil thinks my mum is having a lot more to do with baby even though she's abroad. She has said things like - she has had more time with L than me and I'm in the uk, and she is giving you everything for the nursery and there's nothing left for me to buy.
It is getting to me now and I'm coming close to saying something as won't like!!

merk 20 weeks to 40 weeks really flies. So excited to hear about mini merk!

except for those last few weeks that dragged like a snail

I'm there already Hazel!

Have to say merkin, the absolute best thing about blood pressure and pre eclampsia scares, and a transverse breech baby so rushed c section, was having M at 38+3. I can't imagine having to do another three weeks or so. I was sooo uncomfortable (particularly with his head in my ribs) so hats of to everyone else who suffered it! Hope it's not toooo much longer for you!

Yup, I can confirm that at 41+2 I was pretty damn miserable. I hope she hurries up for you Merk but make the most of these last few weeks of uninterrupted sleep.

I slept better after the baby, at least didn't have to pee every 5 minutes.

I really enjoyed the last bit of pregnancy but was lucky not to have any bad symptoms - now I wish I'd had longer lie ins though! Ahhh just the thought of a lie in...

By the way we've actually got Sophia sleeping downstairs since her bath and feed at 7.30. Felt a bit mean as we kept on putting her dummy back in but it's done the trick (is that mean?!) I do have the fear we'll have a worse night later because of the earlier bedtime but we'll find out I guess.

I'm also loving DH's silent celebration after his team west ham actually scored a goal. He did well to keep it quiet but it was like watching a crazy mime artist! Had no idea what he was doing at first as he has to watch it on mute on his laptop so I can watch tv!

Uninterrupted sleep, what's that?? Have not had more than 4 hours on a night in total for quite a few weeks. And even that is a good night and is interrupted by peeing every hour and heartburn every other hour!

Uninterrupted sleep, what's that?? Have not had more than 4 hours on a night in total for quite a few weeks. And even that is a good night and is interrupted by peeing every hour and heartburn every other hour!

merk, tbh it is all worth it just to not have to pee constantly, plus, now I'm not expressing and now my scar infection is gone I can sleep on my front again.....amazing!

I wasn't too uncomfy but H arrived at 40+1 and he never engaged more than 1/5 so I never had the bowling ball between the legs feeling. I was bloody impatient though! Just wanted him out, wish I'd chilled out more in hindsight!

2 nights of sleeping through and tonight I'm rewarded by him being up 4 times already. Why oh why is he so unpredictable! Yawn.

same here - a couple of good nights, I already start thinking that sleep is improving and ..I can't even tell you how many times he woke up last night, lost count. He ate loads yesterday, so could not have been hungry or anything, doesn't seem to be in pain from teething, nothing really bothering him. Just waking.

Possibly the worst night ever. L slept well but was in bed and attached to my boob for petty much the whole time so I could not move!!! She wasn't feeding much but obviously needed the comfort. Dh also had a nightmare while I was at Zumba last night and said she cried non stop. WW says this is a good period . Can anyone enlighten me on what's going on? I'm so tired I can't even think!

Alex your DH's silent goal celebrations made me laugh!

I feel bad now coming on here and saying we had a better night when you all had bad ones Mother, Hazle and Lol, but off the back of 5 consecutive nights of hell it was very much needed and might serve to delay me filling in the adoption papers.

E slept 7.50-01.30 and then 03.00-07.20 so normal service was resumed with 'only' (can't believe I'm saying that) a 1.5 hour wake up in the night.

Hazle E also (unusually) refused all solids yesterday, which is not great, but her solids really don't seem to affect her sleeping. Still no sign of a tooth.

Yay, glad you had a better one cav!!

What are ours up to hazel lol? He's ridicolously chipper this morning too, just to rub it in. I dared to hope too hazel, I dont know where he puts it all, he ate well yesterday so shouldnt have been starving overnight.

Great news you had a good night cav Sorry for the bad nights though, it really does seem like nights swing from good to bad for a long time! eek

S slept through from 7.30 to 12.30 (we carried her upstairs at 11). She then got fed and slept 1:30-4:30, then 5:30-7.15 but that last sleep was quiet restless/noisy.

According to gina ford I should have woken her for a dream feed when I went to bed but I didn't want to risk her kicking off?! It also meant I was up twice instead of the usual once. However it went better than I thought moving bedtime forward even if DH had to sit with her for a good while putting her dummy back in to get her to drift off

janey you were always waking for a feed when you went to bed weren't you? Still have no idea if it's the right thing to do though! (moving her bedtime forward I mean)

Oh yes, V was also squealing and laughing this morning, happy as a clam. Of course, he can nap all he wants.
Luckily work gives me enough reasons to be grumpy, so can pretend to be so justifiably and not because I would rather be sleeping.

I did wake and feed him yes. I think the idea is that they're not capable of going, say, six hours without food. Therefore if you feed when you go to bed at 10.30pm they don't wake again until 4.30am, rather than at 1am if you don't wake them after bed time at 7pm. It worked exactly like that, but cavort says it only bought her an extra hour so wasn't worth the effort. M used to resettle very quickly after so was no hassle for us really. I guess you never know unless you try it! Sounds like S did very well last night

Sorry to hear of all the bad nights everywhere.

Yeah Alex a DF didn't make much difference to E's sleeping, probably just the same as her solid food isn't making any difference now, but I think it works for lots of babies so perhaps worth a try. If it doesn't work or she won't settle of afterwards then at least you've ruled it out rather than wondering?

Morning all!

Sooo... think in hindsight H had a massive growth spurt two weeks ago when I was crippled by exhaustion. He seems to have grown out of all of his clothes almost overnight which has caught me by surprise a bit.

Verdict from the doctors is that I'm a bit anemic - HB levels not too bad but iron stores quite low.

Have no idea how that's happened as had quite low blood loss at birth, only had lochia for 2-3 weeks and no AF.

Anyway. Now have iron tablets to try and get down. Yuk. Amusingly, they now come with warnings not to have tea, coffee or milk between 1 hours before and 2 hours after taking tablets. Yes, cos that's realistic!

Hazle can't believe that guy said that to you. If anyone says the same to me when I go back I honestly don't know how I'll handle it without bursting into tears

Anyone heard from Purple lately? Hope she's not been caught up in the flooding...

Oh dear it appears we are too busy chatting about photos on fb to come on here!
It looks like L has decided she likes BLW and not purées. Today she was quite happy to suck on an apricot, then some pasta spirals with cream cheese, and finally a slice of omelette. I'm happy she is interested again even though not eating much. Think I will continue with this and see how I get on.
Oh and she took a bottle of bf with loads of porridge in it and slept from 7 till now IN HER OWN COT, had a quick feed and is asleep again. I won't hope to have a good night but at least I'm having a relaxing evening!