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February '15 babies - appearing thick and fast!

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GeekyHybrid · 18/02/2015 12:44

Our first thread on the 'other side'. And may all our soon to be mummies join us in this adventure through the early days of parenthood as we continue to share exciting times.

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Memphisbelly · 01/03/2015 23:07

Hope you all have goid nights, we have changed our room around again to hopefully help me sleep. Baby is very snuffly got docs again tomorrow he is coughing like a 30 a day smoker but luckily sleeps soundly.
Had the loveliest weekend baking, motorbiking, writing with ds1, he asked me how to draw a heart then when I looked he had wrote 'love mummy' on it and when out for lunch stroked my hair and called me beautiful feeling very lucky Smile

tweety89 · 02/03/2015 00:18

Cabbage leaves worked a treat on my engorged breasts. Unbelievable...Last time I probably didn't insist a lot and didn't change anything.
Sibling-wise we've got a problem;
DD (4.5y) is still wearing a nappy at night (luckily) and the past 3 weeks we've had two...poo incidents during the night. The first one a week before I gave birth, the second one a few days after I gave birth. Any others ever experienced something similar? It's worth saying that DD had a poo only once when she was 1 month old. Since then, only wees... ConfusedConfusedConfused

tweety89 · 02/03/2015 00:20

memphis that's so sweet! :) :)

Memphisbelly · 02/03/2015 00:36

Tweety my ds is same age and still in night time pull ups no experience of pooing in them though. I would personally at this stage just make no comment on her doing it, thinking no comment = zero attention from it and overy praise a totally dry night

tweety89 · 02/03/2015 00:46

Have to admit that the first time was a bit of a shocker, luckily it was Sunday morning before half term so she didn't have to go to school or mention it to her friends (!). Not sure whether it's the LO or just the fact she hates wiping her bottom and tries to make sure that she has a poo at home instead of going to the school's toilets...
Since then we started waking her up between 10pm-11pm in case it helps.

Memphisbelly · 02/03/2015 02:18

Tweety I have been into the reception toilets at the end of a school day I think a lot of kids struggle with the poo at school thing, there was poo smeared on wall near paper dispenser, told teacher and shexsaid it is cleaned twice a day.....just last week a phantom poo turned up on the reading carpet.....the culprit was never found!

Dh is on his way to hospital with the baby, his cough has got so bad in last 2 hours he is struggling to breath, sadly as we have ds1 and my mum has my niece on a sunday night so she cant come sit with him so I have stayed home Confused dh is a lot calmer in these situations so its for the best but im worried, I think he was shocked when I said for him to go and not me

BanglesSpangles · 02/03/2015 03:08

Night feed for me

memphis, hope all is well at the hospital, and its nothing serious

Going to my first baby group tomorrow. Dsis asked if i wanted to go with her and 2 year old niece- definitely wouldnt have gone on my own as i am a total wuss!

trukevoli · 02/03/2015 03:24

memphis - hope it all goes well keep us updated when you get a chance.

freneticfox · 02/03/2015 03:25

Went from 10.30-2... Now refusing to settle.

I loathe nights.

freneticfox · 02/03/2015 04:01

Missed your post Memphis, I hope all is OK. Thinking of you x

Memphisbelly · 02/03/2015 06:56

They have just got back he has broncolitis, poor boy seems more ill than when they left, dh has just walked in and gone straight to workShock he is asleep upright on me.
Getting out in fresh air for walks will help him but he can't lie down without choking so going to have to look at ways of sitting him up a bit in a carrycot.

Frenetic, that stint he slept is an improvment, try and see that as a big positive step forward, swaddling clearly did something to help him

sandulacek · 02/03/2015 07:40

memphis hope he feels better soon! I'm dreading the moment when we're sick for the first time...as probably won't know what to do...

Bf'ed twice between midnight and 7, not bad I think!

Memphisbelly · 02/03/2015 08:51

Sand I am a bit clueless, we rang 111 who told us to go straight in and a doc would be waiting for us.

Worst part was not being able to go with them as we had ds here too. If dh was right in remembering weight though he is now 9 pound 9! How are newborn clothes only just fitting him right at that weight?!

freneticfox · 02/03/2015 08:51

OK so he only accepts swaddling when he's already sleepy. Otherwise he screams the house down. Still not had more sleep in addition to that couple of hours. DH at work. Sore section wound from lifting LO.

Hanging in there, I know it will get better. It just feels like I still have such a long way to go and many months of this ahead.

trukevoli · 02/03/2015 09:29

Frenetic, not sure if it will help but the only way we can get our little one down is by putting him in his doomoo bean bag. Keeps him upright a bit and makes him a bit snugger but free to move around. For the day we have the rocking Base and we also have the quilt thing that goes over the top for night.

I know someone else on here had a beanbag it was the bambeano one, not sure how they are finding it.

sandulacek · 02/03/2015 09:37

Frenetic - I have this weird feeling around my section wound...it's like numb but painful a bit when you touch around. But the mw said it's healing fine and this is too be expected after a major abdominal surgery. Just be careful picking your lo and nothing else.

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GeekyHybrid · 02/03/2015 10:29

Is anyone else's child chuntering away at night? Even in their sleep?! He seems to constantly be whining, groaning etc but is still asleep, it goes on for short spells, then he goes quiet, and repeat, all night. It sounds similar to his waking chuntering just with less arm flailing. I can't help worrying that something is bothering him Confused

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LittleMissSunshine33 · 02/03/2015 11:17

Poor baby boy Memphis must be horrible to see!

Frenetic nights are scary I'm just getting used to walking around in the dark! My LO sleeps fairly well but when he does kick off it's much louder and longer than in the day! We Co-slept again last night I really don't want to get in the habit but he doesn't seem to like his crib and sleeps so well next to us!

Waiting for the health visitor who is and hour and a half late!! Have no number to contact either Angry

On the plus side I'm in a pre pregnancy dress of mine today Grin

loopsyloup · 02/03/2015 12:04

Well done Memphis - you seem so calm about it, which will probably help your lo get better. Scary though.

Frenetic - I know how you feel as I remember that from my first one. It may feel like it is lasting forever but it will get better, honest! And you will feel better too - people don't tell you when you're pregnant that just recovering from pregnancy takes time, and you are tired and busy looking after another whole human. Look up the stuff on 4th trimester which I think is really reassuring about how the first three months are - essentially it is another stage of pregnancy so unreasonable of anyone to expect you to be 'back to normal', including yourself!

Re the night time chuntering - my lo does this too. She's really snotty at the moment and I spent half of last night listening to her sniffling and snorting in her crib and when she wasn't being noisy I convinced myself that she couldn't breathe, but she's survived the night... So easy to be mental in the middle of the night!

Got what I hope will be my final midwife appt today!

freneticfox · 02/03/2015 12:27

I think he senses my anxiety today, LO has been crying and chattering all morning, only dropping off an hour ago after a marathon five hours awake!

Think I could have used help for a bit longer, but making do where possible!

freneticfox · 02/03/2015 13:25

Possibly a regional question... What's chuntering? Similar to random chatter noises I assume :p

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GeekyHybrid · 02/03/2015 13:31

frenetic yep, random babble / noise type thing. Hadn't thought it was regional but then hadn't realised 'mardy' wasn't used nationwide either until Memphis and I had that discussion!

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RedSal · 02/03/2015 14:17

hiccups - are any of yr LOs getting them a lot? mine rarely burps (maybe 1 or 2 per day) but has a fairly big hiccups session after about every other feed

LancashireTea · 02/03/2015 14:19

Yy to regional terms. We'd say chunnering on back home or mithering. And a cry is scriking. My LO just kicks off at changing time. She hates it when we try and change her even when she has done a massive "mustard poo" as Oh puts it.

Nights are scary. Plus I'm not a fan of hospitals at night. They are creepy as feck. Thankfully we had a good night again, eve though her midnight feed was disrupted by the antibiotic team taking her and she then faffed a out till about half 1. Fed again at 5. And then because of one thing or another cluster fed from 8 to 11 spaced out by more poo and a paediatric visit. Then we had to have her cannula changed which made me a bit Sad.

But.... We go home tomorrow and we only have 1 more antibiotic to go. Grin

Memphisbelly · 02/03/2015 15:59

Loopy i try really hard to stay calm as with ds1 I was so full of anxiety it really effected him, he was very unsettled, never slept through etc so I am concious of staying chilled to chill this one out Grin

Geeky like mardy, chuntering is used around here Smile baby chuntered all night long seemingly wound up and since going on gaviscon he has stopped.