October 2014 // thread 5 // baby's first Christmas

[JeannePoole]

Welcome back!

(Dear greetings cards manufacturers: 'Baby's First Christmas' does NOT necessarily have to include Baby being liberally sprinkled with glitter from your shoddily-made merchandise.

Except that, as I'm rapidly discovering, it does.

Yellow thanks, I typed a big long thank you message earlier & my phone crashed.
Yes, I think I'm going to have to give it a shot. He is dog tired in the day but just will not sleep, poor wee sod. His eyes were purple today & even carrying him around & dancing with him would not put him over. I must get some dairy free tips from you. I took a baby step yesterday & eliminated tea with milk & cereal for breakfast. Drank gallons of fennel or chamomile tea instead.

My Mum is totally intolerant to dairy. Had to give it up when I was really little as she thought she was having heart problems & turned out to be palpitations & wheezing caused by dairy. She was in hospital having observations for days & her body was overloaded.

It was a one off! He's just woken and had some boob. Oh well!
Ds has bought a DVD and a tshirt for daddy. A film he didn't get to se in cinema as too busy getting house ready for baby!
I've bought DH clothes as he never gets himself them! I think he's got me some boots, face cream and a chocolate shaker for tops of my cappuccino (my birthing present to self was a nespresso machine!!!)

Hi Fedup
I'd love a Nespresso machine, I suspect my DH may have got me one as I keep laying serious hints. I'd rather go to my friends for coffee than the coffee shop as her Nespresso coffee is so nice.
My DS did wake & has been voraciously feasting. He is so viscous sometimes. We nurse in the dark & he missed the mark twice & made me wince, I would say I have 2 baby love bites!

moose- has babymoose settled now?

excited- that's so unfair, you having a sleeping baby but not being able to sleep due to sore boobs and said baby being a noisy sleeper

fedup- sorry to hear it was a fluke. Hopefully it'll be repeated tomorrow (well, today going by the time) night!

I've had about 2 hours of sleep tonight. Fed DS at 2:30 and held him upright for an hour, put him back down and he stated making a weird noise so I picked him back up and he projectile vomited. Luckily I'd taken him into the spare room so it's only the crappy duvet that got soaked (and my dressing gown). The weird noise must have been sick related. He cried for a few minutes but then fell asleep on me but was writhing round a bit. He let out a couple of farts so not sure if wind was the cause? Is that possible? He carried on wriggling a bit after the farts though so I'm not sure. Wish i could read his mind! He was in a deep sleep about 15 mins ago so I braved putting him in his basket and touch wood he's stayed asleep. I'm too scared to sleep in case he's sick again and chokes on it.

Hope everyone else is having a better night!

Oh dear sore.

DS went to sleep at 12, woke up around 4, Fed, pooed, nappy change, now pooing again. I've made a cup of tea while he gets on with it. Will probably take another hour to settle him.

Oh and my first period in a year has arrived. Pah.

Rudy- you've just inspired me to go and make a cup of tea :) Hope you get back to sleep after your DS has finished!

Enjoy it! I think It's the silver lining of being awake at ungodly hours - a HOT cuppa.

We had massive nappy leak so just done full change - he's wide awake and chatting away!

Well I'm just going to slip in a reference to Rhod Gilbert and the electric toothbrush here hehe it's a bit if a cheeky one lol.

Dylan has bought dh a lovely hat and a scarf combo to wear with his gilet he got early (sneaky daddy!).
We're successfully at my mum's and he slept 10:30-5:30 so can't complain. Daddy conveniently forgot to bring up the bottle and milk to no rest for me!

Woken up with a horrible sore throat, first time been ill since he arrived what can I take? Am ebf.

Pop some paracetamol and have some hot orange squash with honey in it Happy, that's what I've been doing since the cold has been trying to rear it's ugly head. i read somewhere that it works as good as if not better than Lemsip. I think we're meant to veer away from anything containing decongestant too so I've just been burning eucalyptus oil in my aromatherapy burner.
Mrsb that's a bummer about the milk and bottles!!

P.s. I've bought feck all for DH from Heidi, bad mummy! For the last few years my family and DH have gone on a week's break and the adults do a Secret Santa rather than us all buying for each other and I picked out DH from the hat, I got him Yaktrax, a manual grinder for coffee beans and a pair of double walled glasses (coffee is a big thing for us too!), I'll sign the tags from us both!

I am not friends with babymoose... the little bugger has had 2x30mins sleeps and has spent the rest of the time having a good chew on my nipples! I wouldnt mind if he was feeding god knows he needs fattening up, but this is just half asleep munching :(
I was really hoping he'd sleep well last night because hes bound to hate the travel cot and dh is crap at putting him down at any distance greater than about 10cm.
And as an added bonus im going to get a lecture on how tired i look/why im not getting my child to sleep from mil
Feeling mighty fed up right now

yellow i wish cutting dairy out made babymoose sleep in the day, hes a terror! Lol
sore i got projectile vom the other day.. how can there be so much from such a tiny person! And it was really hot too, very odd! But he hasnt done it since so hopefully its a one off for you too!

Me too happy. SW yesterday morning and hot water and lemon did help and I need to buy some
Honey today

Got woken up with a head butt from ds1 but fortunately ds2 was just grinning away at me - was so cute! But then ds1 kept jumping one and by boobs are killinge as he kept squashing them - ouch. Can't be good for them

cj nespresso totally worth it otherwise I spend a fortune in Costa and Nero as would end up getting one every day!

Sorry for some crap nights sleep - moose and sore. Enjoy hot drinks is a good idea

Worst night's 'sleep' ever. Think I got about 20 minutes. Ace.

Thanks fedup and kirsti and nice to know not just me, always makes things feel better!

Moose are you excluding soy too? It takes 7 days for soy protein to leave your system (much quicker than milk proteins) so might be worth a shot. FC when his tongue tie is snipped it all gets a lot easier.

Sorry to hear about bad nights its so much worse when you have a bad night in someone else's house too.

He keeps smiling at me and yawning... driving me bloody crazy!
Not tried soy, might give it a go :(

40% of CMPI babies react to soya as well. Sleeplessness because of low level tummy pain is a common symptom. If he's not even snoozing in the sling I'd consider it. Worth a try for a week or so after Christmas xx

Moose, hopefully when snipped it should get a bit better. A's has been snipped since Wednesday and he does seem a bit more settled but he still likes to be on my boob the whole time. As the lactation consultant pointed out - why wouldnt he?

Oh i hope so splendide
Im really worried hes buggered his milk supply because hes not on deep enough to stimulate more,
Ive just been trying to wind him and can feel his spine really easily :s
No idea how to get him to stay on longer and get more milk, poor babymoose :(

Merry Christmas Eve everyone . Anyone have any annual traditions?

We did the annual drive round to look at bonkers illuminations houses last night. There are four such houses locally, they draw a crowd and collect for charity. The kids love it and this trip officially starts the beginning of Christmas in out house.

Today they will be going to my Mums to make mince pies and egg nog for Santa. Another annual tradition that gives me 2 hours to get the presents down from the loft and into the garage ready for tonight.

After tea this evening we open the Christmas Eve box - which Santa's elves deliver early. New Onsies PJs each, New DVD to watch, popcorn, posh hot chocolate, tin of squirty cream (eww, but the children love it) and marshmallows to sprinkle on top.

Then we all settle down, watch the DVD in our new PJs, eat popcorn and drink hot chocolate.

Then photos by the fireplace with the offerings for Santa (I have this photo saved from every year of my children's lives) and off to bed.

Happy Christmas Eve everyone.

Fate. Lovely christmas traditions, i do the new jammies/popcorn/new dvd thing !! Im getting so excited arrghhhhh

I hope santa brings me what i asked for ... A guarantee from now on i will get 8 hours solid sleep a night? Probably more chance of getting a rainbow coloured unicorn

Just one Christmas tradition here: Radio 4, 3pm. And this year, for once, I won't be at work missing it

Hurrah Christmas Eve.

The baby has bought a Lego research laboratory for her dad. We don't do sensible presents here because I think they go against tree point of presents, which is to be the sort of thing you'd never buy yourself, so oh and I always get one another a selection of silly things. We've bought the baby some clothes she'd need anyway and then wrapped them up- quite excited about seeing her in her first pair of dungarees tomorrow.