October 2014 // thread 3 // Maybe we'll get some sleep soon.

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Last thread is full so here's a shiny new one

Sorry for duplicate post. First one didn't create link

Pebble - I'm sure he did read the letter. Sounds to me like he's still mourning his old life. He wants the new one with baby but he's desperately holding onto his old one (benders, alone time, xbox). I went through this last year with my man. It was very tough though.
I hope he comes right soon. He'd be an idiot not too xx

Thanks gun for the sleepyhead tip off! I've just ordered one. Will still have to be resourceful with the truth when it comes to telling DH how much it cost, even with a discount!

Do you guys have savings accounts for your kids? Or isas?

What are the best options?

goats we've set up the kids regular saver account, the interest rate is v good and we've just set up a direct debit for a monthly amount to save, as well as depositing the money DS has had from relatives. I'll try posting the link www.halifax.co.uk/savings/accounts/branch-accounts/

Pregnant I am sorry to hear about your Uncle. I hope you are OK.

I can't believe this, but had definite rumblings all day... my period has just started. Furious! 6 week check tomorrow morning, and was looking forward to a week of shagging. Boo.

Thanks for ££ suggestions. Boyfriend's granny wants us to set up an isa and has given us a cheque. She's fine for us to do our own research though and do something different with it.

Meanwhile, boyfriend has gone away for the night and pip is super chilled - no obsessive feeding, no shouting or screaming. I even left her on the play mat for 15 minutes on her own. Normally it's stressful in our house from 6 - 10. Weird.

I am also interested in people's thoughts about how much to give in an expressed bottle. He drank 120 ml today (six weeks almost) and then wanted boob as well and had a good boob feed! He only had two small feeds in the last six hours before the bottle though. Thoughts anyone? The calculator seemed to think 100 ml tops!

Thanks so much guys.

It's been a weird old day. Today is dps birthday so I've tried to be as upbeat as I can for daddy's birthday party lunch. My mum is staying with my aunt who lives about an hour away, she's been there on and off for the last two weeks. It's made me realise how much she's been helping me just little things like she will watch the little ones while I take my eldest to the tutor. I've really missed her! Dd2 has problems with her teeth and has an appointment for a filling on Tuesday have no idea how I'm going to manage a hysterical 4 year old, a kamikaze 14 month old and a newborn in a tiny dentists!

Boo to periods. I couldn't believe it when mine came back after 3 months last time. I fed every 2-3 hours through night until she was nearly a year! Surely the least I could have got in return was no period? Have a feeling it's round the corner already this time - feeling very hormonal and weepy. That could just be having a young baby though.

Can anyone recommend me a good book?

I'm sending myself crazy living and breathing baby and need something to take my mind off it during night feeds etc. As lovely and supportive as you lot are I sometimes feel like I should spend at least some time thinking about something else!

Oh.my.god.

because he's away, I came to bed at 8 with my book. Obviously brought Pip with me. Fed her, chatted with her... sunny lovely child. She fell asleep on my chest after dropping off a boob, so I waited until she was floppy asleep then moved her into the sleepyhead. It's 2 hours earlier than normal, but the process was the same. Turned out lights and tucked myself down inyo hef.

10 minutes later HUGE screaming from crib. Ear piercing screams that actually hurt. She does 4 of these screams - never heard them before and she never screams in her crib/when she wakes up. Our bedtime stuff is normally really calm.

She's on the boob noe, dropping off again, but those screams - it was like she was in pain, or had a nightmare. Really upsetting to hear.

Do babies have nightmares?

Meant to post this for those going through the 6 week growth spurt, I love this blog - this piece got me through the 6 week growth spurt last time:

nurshable.com/2012/05/27/six-week-growth-spurt/

To whoever (sorry my kids have stolen my brain) asked how to tell the difference between comfort feeding and a growth spurt. Its nigh on impossible! If its going on for longer than 10-12 days I'd say comfort feeding. But that's just based on personal experience. Also with comfort feeding they seem to be in pain (think high pitched pain cry) whereas with a growth spurt they're more cross -as the blogger above says they're like angry squirrels bobbing between breasts!

Sorry to hear about periods returning - that's rubbish

Goats oh poor poppet! I think dreaming comes later but how science can tell that I don't know. High pitched is usually pain - maybe trapped wind?

Pebble am I wrong to wish your DH a few poonamis to deal with?

bump glad not just me, also going out in a couple of weeks with DH and leaving him with mum. Any experienced bf and expressing mums out there? Could just express masses but then maybe he would just keep eating?!! Midwife said you can't over feed even with expresed breast milk but is this true?!

Heidi has done this before too Goats, proper heartbroken wailey screams out of nowhere that sometimes wake her out of sleep but sometimes don't! I assumed it was maybe a sore bit of wind though maybe it is a nightmare? It can happen when she is asleep upright on my chest or on her bouncy chair as well.

Captain what kind of books do you like usually? The last couple of books I enjoyed were Making History by Stephen Fry and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

Yeah goats im guessing wind ?

I have bloody horredous trapped wind right now, so feel sorry for babies who are suffering its not nice! I have hardly passed wind since c/sec? I can hear it in my stomach but its not coming out im bloody sick of my period already, its flaring up the spd and its so heavy !! Im fed up of wearing pads, god im such a whinging winny

Yes Cloud Atlas was a book I really enjoyed. I guess nothing too heavy but I also can't be bothered with anything too trashy, e.g. popular holiday fiction etc. - it has to have a bit of substance iyswim.

Lying awake with period pain

Oh God Stigz no passed wind since CS? Im at the other end of the scale in that I have been a terrible fartypants, wondered what it it was a side effect of, labour/forceps deliverydelivery/episiotomy?? As I wasnt so flatulent in pregnancy?

KirstiI'm v farty post CS - walking up a hill today I was farting like a carthorse .

I've really enjoyed JK Rowling's detective novels writing as Robert Galbraith (just finished the Silkworm), and am finally getting round to Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies.

Captain anything by Douglas Kennedy is awesome and Kate Atkinson's Life after Life really stuck with me. Heartbreaking and beautiful.

I've had trouble trumping after c section. So frustrating! Sometimes all you want is a good far thing hehe.
Dylan can easily down 150ml in a night feed, he's 6 weeks.