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.

Oooh, hello Badger, nice to meet another arts industry survivor! And hello to fellow North Easterners Rudy and Bump.

Username is pretty self explanatory, I'm someone who always seems to be in someone else's way! It was suggested 'In the way since 1982' would be my epitaph. Charming!

yellow I'm glad you actually wear yellow willies when I think of you I always imagine you sat at a desk writing wearing yellow willies! Strange I know but I am a bit!! :)

Shit! Wellies Wellies! Not willies

Pregnant

Hi all love reading the stats!
I'm glad a lot of you are still in here. I'm on Facebook but rarely check so find it easier to read on here...

Ok mine.
BABY Ned born 4/10/14 exactly a week overdue. Although I knew he'd be born around that time as my dates were different to theres. He's ds2. First child is 4 tomorrow!!!
Vbac birth which I'm immensely proud of although due to complications with lack of oxygen during the birth he spent a week in scbu and 3 days on a cooling mat to limit brain injury. I only got to hold him on day 4 and it was the hardest first 4 days ever. Despite this I pumped like a crazy lady in hospital and he is ebf now. (This is partly due to suspected CMPI and me being too nervous to introduce formula because of that...) He will have check ups for the next 2 years at Hospital but I feel in my gut he is fine.
ME 36 living in sussex. Freelance children's book author and illustrator so will start up work again when I feel like it in the next few months. I'm lucky to work freelance and fit in around the kids.

What I mean is I use Facebook but I haven't joined the group there.
Oh and I'm tempted by dc3 as despite the worry and sleep deprivation I can't imagine not having another!!!

Ok so back to that sleep deprivation... Ned fed last night every 2 hours! And would only sleep attached to me. He's 13 weeks today, 14 of you go by due date. This can't be a growth spurt can it? Or is it teething woes. He would not take the dummy at all, in fact for the first time got really angry about it!!
I guess I'll see if it was a one off or I might try fates tip of feeding every 2 hours in the day and see if that helps us through the night!
Oh my poor savaged ( . ) ( . ) !!!!!!

"wearing yellow willies"

Properly made me laugh a lot

Bigger three on a sleepover with grandparents today. Me, DH and baby got a lie in, woo hoo. Didn't get up until 9am - bliss!

Still no poo! Not sure if hes purposely not trying because it hurts or if omeprazole has bunged him up
cant believe hes 12 weeks today! Seems to have gone really quick but also how have u survived at the same time! Really not looking forward to dh going back to work on monday :( going to have to really try to get him to nap! Ive got far too used to eating lunch...
MIL's arrival is imminent- shes coming to look after babymoose while me and dh blitz the house, shes already text dh to make sure he has a cup of tea ready for when she gets here!

my autocorrect clearly has a filthy mind!

wondermoose unless he seems in pain wouldn't worry too much r can go 3 days without pooing. Is he ebf? I was going to suggest giving some cool boiled water if it continues. Is that ok to do with ebf babies ?I know it's fine with ff babies or sometimes giving his bum hole a rub with a wipe (the things we do!) can stimulate a poo if there's one lurking up there.

Moose a wee bit of Vaseline around the bum hole usually does the trick for my wee one

Yeh he is ebf, normally putting sudocrem on his bum gets him going but nothing as of yet. He seems happy enough but his tummy is really hard. Our bf group person says he should have 2 dirty nappies in 24 hrs, and hes normally really regular with his timings too lol i just dont know at what point it stops being normal and needs to see a dr
The in laws are downstairs but babymoose is asleep on the boob so im hiding upstairs! Lol

moose Have you tried The Leg Thing (as it's affectionately known round here)? - knees up to his belly, hold the soles of his feet together, rotate slowly clockwise over his abdomen. Has precipitated a much-needed poo almost instantly on more than one occasion for DS.

Also, please can I join the Facebook group? I want to know what you all look like now!

Ooh no i havent i'll give that a go :) i didnt realise there was a fb group, does anyone have a direct link to it?

moose we tried bicycle-ing the Pop's legs and an ounce or two of cooled boiled water and it worked for her. Prepare yourself for the poomageddon that comes after though!

Moose sorry, I'm sure she's lovely but your BF person is speaking tosh about two dirty nappies a day - BM is perfectly suited to a baby's needs - so for many babies there is very little waste. I was told to only worry if there was more than 14 days without a poo, and even then it would likely be a laundry problem rather than a health problem . Loads of BF babies don't poo twice a day. Don't give cooled boiled water if you can avoided - its not recommended for BF babies. Lil is tending now to poo every 3-4 days.

We find the best thing is the baby massage 'poo whispering' as DH dubbed it. On the underside of baby moose's feet, rub your thumb, hard in firm downward strokes along the outside edge of baby moose's feet going from toe to heel - it always produces a poo within an hour here.

Ha. I was about to say that we were behind on poos here and then low and behold, it flowed forth, that for which the phrase "shitstorm" might have been coined. it took two of us and a dunk in the washing up bowl to recover (baby bidet).

Love reading all of these. yellow I went down the Karakoram from China to Pakistan in 2008. Stunning scenery. Not sure I'd go now though. We had landslides and broken buses but nothing compared to the Taliban running around there now.

Baby: little M born 10/10 at 39 weeks. Planned c section for medical reasons. He was 7,3 at birth and just hopped on the bathroom scales - the wee fatty is 14 pounds! Just turned 12 weeks. He had fine red hair at birth, DH disgraced himself by texting everyone about his ginger mullet. Then it all fell out and regrew fine blonde, now properly red again as it gets thicker. Gold in some lights. I think he is gorgeous! He has come on so much the past two weeks over Xmas. Smiles all the time now and at anything. We also have 5 or 6 manoeuvres up our sleeve guaranteed to make him laugh. A real character now. Sleeping still a bit hit and miss. But he is so happy the past week I am dreading the next wonder week...

Me: 33 originally from Scotland, now in north London. Work for a research consultancy on the political side. First baby and would like one more, maybe in 3 years or so. Going back to work in a May. First we have a trip to Australia planned!

Username - used to work with horses and always had those Thelwell books/prints of the little fat and mischievous Shetland ponies.

Fatpony I went in 2008 too. After escaping Uighar bombing in Kashgar in Western China during the Beijing Olympics - Pakistan felt peaceful in comparison.

fatpony my ds1 has the most amazing auburn hair it's like every strand is a different colour I love it so many people compliment it

Thanks yellow I thought I remembered something about not giving ebf babies cool boiled water sorry moose for the dodgy advice :)

Right two hourly feeding going ok. Fate you are my parenting hero (I know splendide feels the same!!) so fingers crossed he is nice and full for tonight! He hasn't slept as much either today so really hoping for a better stretch tonight. Thank goodness it's so rainy today, feels guilt free to be on the sofa so much! although I need to get off my arse and make a dairy free birthday choc cake for ds1 in a minute!

Baby Badger went through a phase of only pooing once every three days. I asked the doc and she said up to ten days is fine and she'll go when she's ready. True enough and when she did go, it was EPIC. She goes about eight times a day now