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.

[wondermoose13]

excited oh god me too! The first time he slept for 6 hours i woke after three thinking id lost him in the bed somewhere!

Let the battle of mummymoose + omeprazole vs babymoose commence! :s

[Happytimes31]

Thanks on both counts! Always nice to know not alone when up at night. And he was only one for 5 mins or so at 3!!

[ohthegoats]

Yep, pre jabs she was doing 11 - 5. Post jabs it's been 11 - 3.30. Apart from the sicky night when she didn't sleep until 1 - slept til gone 5 then.

I know it's probably coincidental, but I feel a bit like the jabs broke my baby!

[tattyblue]

excited I always sleep cuddling a pillow (weird) and an getting quite used to waking up wondering why the baby is so squashy and where its head has gone.

[sazzlehopes]

Morning all. Hello slide!
Splendide hope you have a good day with feeding with the new tongue!

So N went to sleep at 10pm last night which was ace as he did 5 hours and woke at 3 but then woke at 5 and didn't reakky settle after... Oh well, the 5 hours was pretty ace I guess! I think we'll be on 2 wake ups a night for quite a while it seems. Hungry little beast at almost 11 weeks!

Oh and if I'm reading the wonder weeks book and N was a week late should I be looking at his due date age? In other words he'll actually be 12 weeks this Saturday....

[ExcitedCJ]

Splendide meant to say.. Hope the new tongue brings some relief got you both. Look forward to hearing the outcome.

[ohthegoats]

Sazzle, re wonder weeks, yes. Pip was 2 weeks late, she's 10 weeks on monday, so 12 weeks for their adjustment.

[sazzlehopes]

Goats, thanks. So we're at pretty much the same stage then...

Also did anyone ever hear from portico? I'm not on Facebook but wondered if she was doing ok. I know me23 asked a while back...

[fatpony]

Do you all use a white noise app? M is doing 8.45pm-3am but will then only to 2-3 hrs from that breastfeed, so wants to wake 6/6.30am. I find that if at the first peep I leap out of bed and put the hair dryer sound on BLOODY LOUD I can sometimes lull him into another half hour (I've got the freebie version which only does 30 ,ins, must upgrade). If he starts properly in whinge mode though it doesn't help.

The problem with him waking at 6-6.30am and being bright eyed/bushy of tail is that he is then grumpy for a nap about 8am and finds it hard to sleep then...so my new year goal is a baby who sleeps in till 7.30!

[Happytimes31]

Same here goats am dreading the next lot already!

[wondermoose13]

Yep goats, happy jabs have ruined babymoose too! Before them we had a week of really good sleeps, ended up giving him some calpol last night as he felt warm, didnt have a temp but just felt warm for him, but he still only slept an hour for the first bit

[BettyJudy]

splendide did your little mans TT look obvious after you had it diagnosed, or could you not tell?

Taking baby betty to be assessed privately after lactation consultant said probably she has one, but her frenulum looks really flat against her tongue and she can move it out of her mouth a bit.. Although her tongue does cup when she cries and she has lots of other symptoms...

[splendide]

Well so far new tongue seems a success. We won't know till he's weighed next week but he seemed happier between feeds yesterday and then slept really well (for him!). So at least he's not been made worse I think.

[splendide]

Betty not obvious to me until it was pointed out but when I was shown under his tongue I could see it was very thick. I had assumed he wasn't tongue tied as he could stick his tongue out but now I can see he has sooo much more range of movement and his whole mouth looks different.

[ExcitedCJ]

Sazzle Portico is on the FB group occasionally.

I went to my work Christmas breakfast this morning & it was just lovely to see everyone. Lots of cooing over baby & a fab Christmas present to boot. Now I'm feeling good about going back. Not for another 7 months mind you! :)

[Kirstipops]

It was a bit weird when I went into work to "show off" Heidi, all of my colleagues but one came up for a look/hold and a chat. The girl who didn't sat resolutely at her desk and didn't look over, she's made no secret that she hates her job and doesn't like babies (tho is trying for one of her own), so the talk in the office was that she is somewhere between jealous of me having H and also of my being off on maternity leave! Still odd though, even if you weren't maternal at all surely you'd give a quick nod and smile of acknowledgment! She un-friended me on FB too, charming!

[SlideIn]

We're at home, just the three of us, in the morning, then heading over to my mum's around midday to have dinner with DM, DSF, DGM and DSis. My brother is 200m away with his sons, exGF and her new BF. Cosy! ExGF has never, in 14yrs, brought the boys to my mum's for Christmas, so I feel she should have one with her newest GS.

We're good, now. In news that will shock nobody, I have PND. On meds and weekly doctors visits. I also have gallstones, had several attacks of biliary colic which landed me back in hospital, then home on co-codamol so bye-bye breastfeeding. Bye bye this planet really, my job is safety critical so I haven't taken anything stronger than paracetamol for years so 60/500 dose knocked me sparko for several hours after taking them. My mum had to step in with the baby a few times. Got it under control now through cutting all , on the urgent list to have my gall bladder out, have a pre-op consultation on 23rd.

Alexander was poorly too and we had 6 days on the children's ward with him. I took him to the out-of-hrs docs with constipation at 7pm, at midnight he was having a lumbar puncture, so escalated quickly . He'd been screaming all day but had no temperature; when we got there the paediatrician was concerned about the size of his head and fontanelle; he then developed a non-blanching rash, so was started on IV antibiotics while we waited to see if he had viral meningitis - the nasty bacterial kind was ruled out early. He didn't, and the antibiotics did their stuff, so we were allowed home. But the antibiotics destroyed all the good bugs in his stomach too and he was put on lactose-free formula.

A few days later he was screaming whenever awake. several GP visits (no it is NOT colic) later back to the paediatrician, he now has silent reflux. On Neocate, Gaviscon and Omeprazole. Much happier.

Oh and a tooth has crumbled but I can't get an appointment. Gah. Think that's it!

[Me23]

kristi how rude! Just ignore.

gun if you're lurking hope you are doing ok?

slide welcome back

V had her vaccination today at 10 weeks as nurse was off sick and I was procrastinating. She's pretty much being asleep since poor thing.

sazzle since being on ranitidine v is now a happy puker several times a day sometimes projectile, sometimes clear saliva like and sometimes curdled milk.

I have now been off my Bp meds for a week tomorrow, my Bp is the lowest it has ever been. I'm still scared to believe this nightmare might be over, it robbed me of those early weeks with baby but hope I'm making up for it now.

[Me23]

Gosh slide x posted what a roller coaster you've been on. Wishing you and baby good health from here on! I've hAd a gallbladder attack bloody worse pain ever, worse than childbirth for me so sympathies. It often does flare up or first present itself post Natal, my Ds was 12 weeks when I had my attack ended up in a&e with IV morphine.

Hope you get op soon and hope meds are working for PND (hugs)

[YellowWellies]

Slide gosh you've been through the wringer love! What a tough time, glad you're both on the mend - good luck for the op.

Kirsti I wonder if she's struggling to conceive? Still rude though....

[ohthegoats]

Blimey slide that sounds tough. Hope things continue to look up.

On the wonder weeks thing, I'm wondering if that's what's been going on over the last week. I've just read the signs of leap 3 on the app and it totally fits the week we've had. Could be jabs too though, who knows. Would be nice if we didn't have another week of the same ahead though!

[Kirstipops]

Ah she is the same whenever anyone brings their baby in, even when a woman who'd brought her little miracle baby in last week (a little preemie, still wears an oxygen tube thingie, bless her), apparently she muttered "This isn't a fucking creche" to someone and caused a bit of a barney, so she's an all round gorgeous human really!!
Slide welcome back, what a horrendous time you've had, I'm glad to see you back and ready to pick up the chat again.

[SlideIn]

Oh, and we're moving in 2wks. Because not enough stress, obvs .

On the plus side Alex sleeps 2am - 7:30 wakes for a cuddle, back down for up to 2hrs! Gobsmacked & grateful to feel human again - meds working too.

[Pregnantagain7]

Wow slide talk about a tough time! Hope things are starting to settle down a bit for you and your family

Sorry for being totally thick but what's a wonder week?

[tattyblue]

The baby has been sleep all afternoon. I've managed to read a book and everything. Incredible. I had chores to do this morning so I took her out in the sling, and so she slept then, woke up when we got home, and then after an hour of being happy went back to sleep again. Normally I have to fight to get her to sleep at home in the morning and then I take her out in the sling in the afternoon. Now I wonder if swapping the two round might be better.

slide it sounds like you've had a rotten time. I'm eternally thankful to have escaped pnd but I suffered chronic depression through most of my twenties and can vividly remember trying to lie down on the pavement outside Liverpool Street station because I was just so tired, even though I was sleeping about sixteen hours a day at the time. To feel that way and have to look after a baby as well I cannot imagine- I hope you're able to give yourself even a tenth of the credit it sounds like you deserve.