Just Mumming Along (Viroids 4)

[JuniDD]

A lovely thread for all the JS Grad Grads to chat feeding, sleep and post-birth STUFF.

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Roll call please ladies and perhaps add the number of slings and buggies you have acquired at the time of posting...

Ps well done Wil! I've left DP in charge of dinner. I did wander in and poke a potato - ever helpful

It's taken me over two months Pis. I am also not a fan of co-sleeping but I quite often give in after the second wake up as she doesn't normally settle after that.

H has been sleeping loads today too! Weird clock changing Sunday baby conspiracy? :)

Hmmmm. Now it's lighter at night is taking longer for her to drop off.
Dammit, there's a leg of lamb with my name on it too!

Ooh that's what we had Min. Cheap in Tesco?

The extended daylight has not stopped my one from sleeping. It is all she wants to do. Should I be concerned?

Yep tesco has come up trumps for once!
She's down now, took 1 hrs 15! But she's like me, need darkness to kip. The problem was mainly she had outgrown her old swaddle and I put her in it as she had been ok, but managed to wiggle her arm out so popped her in the bigger sized one and don't think she knows what to do with the freedom on her legs so kept fighting it but really didn't need to.
She's deffo sprouted, head is almost at top of moses basket now, so she's in her cot for good on Friday.
Just have to work out how to block the light into her cot now.
I'll try the cot bumper but on the outside of it, so she can't put her face on it and if it falls.off, it falls o to the floor.

H has had an amazing couple of days! Sleep still not good, but at least we had a 2 and a half hour stretch last night...but....she just seems to have had something click! She looks at you when you talk, turns to hear things, has started looking at toys and reaching a little towards them (may be coincidence of wavy arms though) and has changed the way she cries completely, it sounds different and wet nappy cry is different again! It's amazing! Before she would look at us and focus briefly, but it's full on looking, she copies DH when he pulls faces at her too (aww). I'm sure it's all completely normal, but we're amazed how suddenly it all happened and we don't have a clue about this parenting thing so are over excited hehe

min you can get stick on blackout blinds if that would help? Can't remember who does them, but they're use anywhere travel type ones so no fixings, just suction pads.

DS has got a new cry in this latest leap and its so dramatic! I'm not loving it!

H's sounds like she's been on 40 a day!! Either that or like she's been crying for hours and gotten hoarse!

I've seen them zyla, they look fab but pricey. Missy is in the front room which the sun shines on all day so whilst it's warm, it's bright. And it has a huge bay window so would have to buy 3 of them on amazon it would cost nearly £60!
Rs cry when she has trapped wind is a screech. Her tired one is like beavis and buttheads 'uhhh uhhhh uhhh' laugh and her 'if you don't take me way from whatever is in front of me, I'm going to throw back my head and let shit flow from my throat and you'll regret ever letting me on this play gym' cry sounds like she's cooing and having a great time, which is confusing.
She doesn't have a wet nappy cry, but her poonami one is loads of little sighs like she's already upse we didn't notice it.
Funny little bugger!

Yay that some of the tiny folk are getting the hang of the sleeping thing!

I'm still not cooking, made a mean onion gravy as a token gesture earlier though.

If you're not there when a health visitor comes for their first post birth visit will you get in any trouble? I've had a letter through saying the woman wants to come on Tuesday which is day 9 and they'd previously said someone would come after day 10. I've got MicroBoo's photoshoot at pretty much the exact time that the woman's meant to be here and I phoned to rearrange and no one's called back :/

So today MrBoo gave MiniBoo chocolate buttons and told her to share them with MicroBoo... He saw no issue with this, absolutely no potential danger, because we were there! And when I pointed out that the last thing we needed was MiniBoo trying to share things with MicroBoo whilst we weren't looking and causing her to choke he said 'Oh, well they'll never be left alone together' I can't wait to see which of them he's going to take into he loo with him when he's in a situation where it's just the three of them home! And don't even get me started on the amount of time he spends at the bloody computer paying no attention to what's going on in the room, the man lives in fantasy land...

boo I'd be tempted to ring the HV again to leave a second message saying you won't be there as you were told 'after day 10'. Ours aren't the best organised so I'm not surprised they haven't called you back. I had 2 letters from them the same day, posted on the same day and signed by the same woman, one saying they would come out to see me as my baby was due soon, one saying congrats on having her and they'd come and see me, on a diff day to the first letter (yes she was early but still!)

at the chocolate buttons sharing!

zyla I'll give them a ring again tomorrow, and I'll let them know I'll be about the rest of the week if they have a space.

I know! Idiot man! This is why we could never do shared parental leave!

Our HVs are fine about rearranging appointments. We have apps all the flipping time so have had to do it quite a lot.

Hahaha Boo, he's clueless about looking after two children isn't he?

That'll teach me to write she sleeps all the time. Has been a screamy nightmare and wouldn't settle all evening.

lol wil I think he's forgotten everything about MiniBoo being small, and he underestimates the extent of MiniBoo's willingness to share, she has on occasion attempted to force feed me half chewed biscuits of unknown age when I've been foolish enough to fall asleep on the sofa...

Mum had been bragging till MiL about how well MiniBoo sleeps, so this weekend she didn't sleep. at all. I meanwhile have taken to assuming she will be up at insane O'Clock, that way I'm pleasantly surprised if she sleeps in past 5:30, she normally goes down fine, but she was mighty unimpressed about going down tonight, even having asked to go to bed, think it's cos it was still so light...

We can never get H to settle before 10 at the earliest and I dunno how to change that... Tonight we're waking no longer than an hour and 10mins after being put down...

zyla I can only assume it's because their body clocks are still screwed from the womb, where they'd be rocked asleep by our general movement during the day and then wake up at night when we were moving round less. microBoo had been settling at some point between ten and midnight since my milk came in but tonight MicroBoo won't sleep cries since about 8pm she's been on and off the boob half heartedly feeding, I managed to get her down for about 20 mins and that's it.

Aww boo. I think you're right, I need to ologise to H anyway, she's just done a 3 hour stretch for the first time ever! :)

*apologise

Worst.
Night.
Ever.

Woke at 12
2
2:30
3
Finally gave up and put her in our bed, she fell asleep til 6.
Did I?
Nope.

Second set of injections today too.
Makes for a restful day!?!

Poor min

Boo - more milky hormones are produced at night... so that's another reason why newborns are nocturnal!!

DS has got a cough, bless him

I somehow ended up coming home from hospital with 2 red books for H, one we were using and one that got put on my bed and I packed away without thinking, so we have a spare... I've just re plotted all H's weights on the graphs (the prem graph and then the normal graph with adjustments for her being 4 weeks early) and it's amazing how far out some of the HV points are!!

I'm going to keep the rubbish wrong one in the book we're using and secrete the correct graphs away somewhere in case I ever have an argument about her growth!

Good news on the three hours zyla. Boo to all the coughs and non-sleeping.

Any tips for how to get a baby to feed for more than five minutes? She isn't falling asleep - just blatantly not interested.