December 2011 "Mummymummymummymummy.... it's MINE!"

[NorthernChinchilla]

Combining our catchphrases...sigh...

Milk drunk girl, she's so dainty but with a big ol round head!

Day 3 of no nappies 2 accidents in 3 days including a trip today to my work Xmas kids party he managed to navigate soft play, bouncy castles, circus games, queues for face painting and balloon snowmen all without weeing. See how he goes with cm tomorrow

I'm full of cold it's horrible

Nice one figgy. It's great when they crack it. Minimopsy still has the odd accident but they're few and far between now. She's still in pull ups at night though and no sign of being dry overnight. She tends to drink a lot in the evenings though.

Going to bf support group at 1 today. Really hope I can get some good help with my latch... really want to crack bf this time.

Well done Figgyboy!!!
I'm very impressed!
Good luck Mopsy! It'd be fab if it all worked out - it sounds like it will.

Finger crossed, sounds like he will be fine figgy!

Hope the bf support goes well Mopsy!

DM is going home tomorrow, I think DH and I will be alright, the main things DM has been helping with is washing up and looking after DS/DD. I think we can manage the washing up and we will have to get used to managing to get stuff done with 2 instead of 1...

The timing has worked out quite well I think, dh will be working from home for a week and then by the time he's back at work, he will only be in the office for 5 days before his annual leave starts over the Christmas period. It will be in January that we get used to our new routine properly and DS will being going to nursery in the afternoons each day.

Hooray, well done figgyboy!

We have cleaned out B&M home bargains for sparkly tat new baubles for the tree. I thimk the polite term is "homely". It's nice with all the lights on though....

Day 4 no accidents since day 1 am very impressed with ds better get that plane ordered I think!!

Oh she's lovely LordJ, she really is! Utterly gorgeous.
And apologies if anyone else has posted a pic of their baby, but this is the first time in about two weeks I've been on the laptop, so haven't been able to see any if they were. Let me know and I'll go back and look!

That's brilliant news figster, well done to your DS. I can only hope mine does the same, as we're trying the first week of the new year whilst I'm off. By the way, is everyone's DCs who are potty trained still in pull ups at night? Just seeing what we'll have to get in stock.

'Homely' is the best way aethel. I have DS's Xmas hedgehog not at all a lump of grey clay with red glitter and four twigs sticking out of the top and it's my absolute favourite decoration . I am also loving the real tree this year mopsy, it's awesome.

Have been in a really, really stabby mood this evening, not helped by DS refusing to stay in his room. Am thinking of a bolt....

I though Boi had shook off his cold, but I picked him up from the GPS today with a raspy cough.
This got worse tonight. He woke up crying and raspy wheezy coughing, and then threw up phlegm and umscarr all down my top.
He seems to have settled again now. He stirs and coughs with little cry every now and again, but otherwise his snoring is shaking the battlements.
Temp seems ok.
I checked with the digital thermometer. It beeped LO! Then gave 34.4...?!?! He feels warm. I checked my forehead, 34.1 LO!!!
Ah. Perhaps it's not working.

We're going to get a real tree again this year, planning to take DS on Saturday - can't wait to see his face

DS was dry at night after 3/4 days if potty training. He's had about 4 accidents at night time since potty training, so we were asking him to wear a nappy just for night time and he was refusing to wee in it and waking up to ask to use the potty. Since bringing DD home he has refused to wear a nappy at night time, and accident free so far so fingers crossed!

I hope BOi's cold and cough goes soon! It's horrible when they're so bunged up!

Oi sorry to hear Boi has the lurgy. Coughs are so hard when they're trying to sleep. Glad to read all the updates on you and MrOi.

Squeee for all the new bablingtons. Loving all the pictures on here and FB. We, as a thread, make very cute offspring.

Well done figgyboy, hope he's OK at the childminders.

Good luck with the boobing mopsy.

I'm kind of feeling a bit...blue? I dunno. Like there are too many plates in the air at the minute, emotionally. DH is away at his grandad's funeral today/tomorrow, and he keeps saying he's fine but he's not. And then my dad calls to say my grandad (who has had one health issue after another this year) has been diagnosed with Hogkins Lymphoma and although they're going to give him a low dose of chemo, he's too ill for proper treatment and it's terminal. Saw my dad this weekend and I'm worried about him, he looks tired and the stress of his dad being ill and dying it taking it out of him. DS had a meltdown at drop off this morning, completely out of the blue, he was sobbing and asking me to take him home. He's not normally like this (he's got a cold and cough) and it's heartbreaking. And work is just draining at the minute because of infighting and politics. I just want to run away today, preferably back to bed. Blurgh.

I did put up the Christmas tree and get a new rug for the living room, which was nice.

northern DD is 4.5 and still wet at night, DS suddenly announced he wanted pants in sept and was dry day and night from the off. They're all different so not very easy to plan nappy purchases I'm afraid!

hop that sounds really tough, not surprised you're feeling blue. Virtual hugs coming your way

DS had his first visit to the pre-school room at nursery today and all went really well apparently. No tears or upset, which surprised me because he doesn't like change and has been saying for a while that he doesn't want to move rooms.

(((Hugs))) for hop, that sounds like a lot of crap to deal with. Sympathy.

Hugs for hop. Sorry to hear that it's all a bit shit. Hope things soon get better. X

That does sound hard going Hop, I hope things get better soon for you. At least with the work stuff you'll have a bit of a break from it over Christmas.

Glad the room change went well Faffin!

Thank goodness for MN whilst I'm doing the night feeds! DD has had half a bottle and is sound asleep....time to wake her up with a nappy change I think and see if she will have the rest of the milk

She seems to be feeding every 3 hours now, last feed started at 12:00am and this feed started at 3:15am. If the next feed starts at 6:00 I think I won't be a complete zombie

Sorry to hear things are tough hop

Happy birthday boi his rocket looked awesome!! Ds getting a rocket from MIL at Christmas but it is in no way as flash as that one

Mopsy how's feeding going? Good to hear dd getting into the swing of things chip

Sorry to hear about your various woes hop these things seem to all come at once don't they and just before Christmas too

DS is on half day at cm today as she has the afternoon off so I am taking him to his last stay and play session at preschool he has 2 friends there today so I'm sure he will enjoy it. Then we need to do a brief shop as I still have minimal Christmas presents need to get to the post office which I expect will take for ever to buy some stamps and then might take into the garden centre to look at all the twinkly bits. Planning toilet stops in between all of this I think May be quite stressful.

Up and down figgy ... had one great session yesterday which didn't hurt at all. Then feeding just now I was bawling crying with the pain

Had to take him into the children's yesterday as well to be examined as he had lost 11% of birth weight. Down from only 5.5% on Friday . Going to see bf counsellor again this afternoon and have him weighed again tomorrow. Feeding as much as I can in between. Why does it have to be so hard? I feel like you have to martyr yourself before it works

Mopsy think back to How you felt when you'd given up last time knowing you'd tried and then maybe a little after that when you could see a thriving happy baby who was perfectly fine in formula with a bit of distance you can have perspective (not saying you don't have any now). I tortured both myself and ds for 8 weeks before switching and I will never do that again if it's not working again. Hope he improves soon we were back in hospital at 12% weight loss at 6 days old hope you can avoid that.

We were in hospital yesterday figgy but the doctor said she was happy for me to continue bf and have him weighed again in 2 days. Saw bf counsellor today and she said my latch is fine and I'm doing all the right things. So I feel more confident. Feeding now and it is okay. My left boob has three very sore spots sort of under the skin on aureole/nipple which I think is actually causing the pain but I fed on that breast earlier and was in years the whole time, whereas am feeding now and it is sore but not unbearable. So I'm hoping very very hard that we are turning a corner. Fingers crossed ...

But yesfiggy ... if it gets crazy like last time and he isn't gaining I'm just going to top him up with formula. Not getting into that awful, life-sapping feed - express - top up treadmill like last time. Just not going down the expressing route. I think that's mainly what made it so hard last time.

Well hop, I totally agree, we do all produce immensely cute babies/children

How are you feeling today, has it improved any? Clearly all the medical/family stuff is going to be hard, and probably worse this time of year. Hope the funeral went as well as can be expected and your DH is back safe.

Thanks all ref the potty training, we'll just give it a go and see what happens. Will invest in pull ups for night, and lots of new pants. I've got the bottom sheet and the trackie bottoms.

mopsy, I gave DS a bottle a day from the start. He was a very grumpy baby until the milk came in, but a bottle a day meant I got some rest, DP got to feed him, and kept him sated, especially in the first week or two. Please don't think it any sort of failure, it's practical and has benefits for everyone. Hope the pain does start to reduce.

Been a knackering few days here- yesterday was a joke, I got up extra early to make it into work early for a committee meeting, waited nearly an hour at the bus stop in sub zero temperatures and nothing turned up. They're meant to be every 8-9 minutes, but various roadworks and crashes just gridlocked the town. Me and a colleague then walked the 2.5 miles to get in. Was late for my meeting and the day just got worse....

But am now committee free til 2015, so can prep for DS's birthday and really get into the Xmas spirit!

He lost weight again . Been advised to top up w formula at each feed. Weigh-in again on Sat. Still going to continue to bf though. I'm happy to combination feed also. Just don't want to drop the breast, esp after all my hard work and we are finally getting there (apart from him not getting enough milk)... latch is sorted now I think and nipples are healing ... very disappointed that he lost again

Mopsy, is he awake and alert, doing wet and dirty nappies as you would expect? If so. I'd not worry overly.

No poo in 9 days! Lots of wet nappies. He is totally fine in himself.

Actually was advised to top up with expressed breast milk at each feed but I can't go down that route again. It made me crazy with Minimopsy and nearly tipped me over into postnatal depression. So I'm choosing to feed as normal on the breast but top up with 30ml formula each time until Saturday. Then if he has put on weight I'll continue doing that for a while and then gradually drop the formula if possible (except for one feed a day in the evening so I get some sleep)