October 2014- thread 8. Growing up fast, 6 months already!!

[MundayCakes85]

Morning all! A shiny new thread for Easter.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, I'm off to eat copious amounts of chocolate whilst hiding in the floor of the nursery with Ewan the sheep

Haha he's been suffering all day but he's a trouper so didn't complain too much! We're off to the New Forest tomorrow for a nice lunch and looking forward to presents, obviously!
Sazzle my libido vanished a while back but hoping my hormones even out when I finish BFing.

Thanks for libido confessions! Mine isn't particularly high at the best of times either but we're very much at a low point here. I don't really fancy and when we tried I had lost all my confidence

We've had a few busy nights with the kids lately. DD up a lot and when she's eventually settled (in my bed) DS has been waking for a wee! He conned me into thinking it was nearly breakfast time this morning so he came into bed for a cuddle. Half an hour later I realise its only 5am!!! Promptly send DS back to his own room! Thank goodness he went happily and straight back to sleep.

Good things though, DD has settled herself to sleep the last two nights (hasnt meant she's slept any better though) and she took her bottle today. Yeah!!!!!

Certainly no heat wave here, blooming pouring and blowing a gale

Same here STIGZ I managed a quick trip to mothercare then retreated home. We were both a little fractious from being cooped up all day. For some reason I hadn't appreciated that bibs come in different sizes so had been causing him great upset by squeezing him into tiny ones - hence hasty trip to shop. Bad mummy.

Lovely sunshine but windy here. Managed a walk in the forest and a beer in the garden this afternoon.
Had our last BF tonight, have been weaning off for about a month now so now boulder boobs so far. Still a bit sad but looking forward to the next stage.

Ahh munday it's bitter sweet that last breast feed but you've done it exactly like I did with my first ds1. I eased it down slowly and finished about 8 months. It felt right.
I'd be doing the same with N if it wasn't for the allergies.

Quiet on here today! I am a lone parent again this week so DS is in bed already!! DD won't be far behind I hope. Get them in bed early is always my strategy when I'm on my own.

goats have things improved with you? splendide it's good to hear you sounding chipper!

How do you ease down the breastfeeds? Just gradually introduce formula? I'm not sure I'm ready to stop but am mindful of nursery in September.

HubnutI started reducing bf at 7 months with DS. I did a combination of adding an extra bottle in the day and he dropped other feeds through weaning anyway. I just kept bf in the night until he started sleeping through more often, which was at about 9 months.

Hubnut I started a formula dream feed around 5 months, then gave a bottle with her lunch from 6 months. Each week I swapped a boob for a bottle until it was just bedtime. She has naturally gone from 7 BF to 4-5 FF.
It is sad but I'm looking forward to wearing some of my old clothes that don't require easy nipple release

I did the same as igotta and munday- reduce gradually week by week meant no painful boob moments and less of an impact i think on your hormones.

Hello out there.... How are people!?

Goats - we miss you.

I keep wanting to reduce the BF. We've combination fed from v early on due to tongue tie and BF was a big stress for me. I kind of feel like I want to carry on as much as possible as it was such a traumatic experience. I've only recently started to enjoy the time when I do BF.
It's a big crutch for us too in terms of bedtime/naps/comforting. I feel like I wouldn't know what to do instead. I guess there's no hurry to reduce.

The weather has been gorgeous today, it's so lovely spending more time out and about with bubba. I've been trying to encourage her to sit, but she has little interest. She arches her back when I try and sit her down. She always wants to be on her feet. Any tips on helping babies sit?

Sazzle how is N doing with his formula? Hope it's giving you a bit of a break.

Hello I'm here still!
sleepy babywing has no interest in sitting either just falls forward in slow motion then wiggles onto his tummy.
I went for coffee yesterday at a baby/toddler cafe place and there was a group of women with very newborn babies and some still pregnant I'm guessing maybe an nct group or similar. I could not believe how tiny there babies were and how big babywing was next to them!
I had a meeting at dd2s nursery last night about her starting school in September I feel sick about it. I feel like life is whizzing by past me so quickly, dd1 is working hard towards her entrance exams and will be off to secondary school next year. I just want everything to slow down everyone is growing up far too quickly!!

I completely get the growing up too quickly thing Buttwing it all goes so fast!

I have to be careful around newborns to keep myself in check - I always get really broody about it and we really cannot have anymore. Coil fitting next Tuesday

Worked out this week that I have been going out with (ie first became boyfriend/girlfriend) my husband for 19 years, which is half of my life!

I've been with my husband 16 years which is almost half my life too! What a weird thought.

I had a meeting today about going back to work. I'm sort of looking forward to it and sort of dreading it. The dread is mostly about how I'll cope if his sleep is still bad. I guess I'll just manage because I'll have to.

I know Buttwing, newborns look so diddy now. So v cute though. I can understand why you get broody Fate.
I have to say though, I can't imagine having another one any time soon though. Another year or so, maybe.

When are you thinking of going back Splendide?

Not till the end of September so I've got a while yet. It'll be full time though and it's a tricky job at the best of times. I used to love it but this period of depression seems to have really knocked my self esteem. Maybe work will help get me back to normal a bit.

I think work helps a lot splendide and even if you are tired you have a change of scenery and aren't looking after baby 9-5 so you feel refreshed as a mummy. Well i do when I've had a work day...I'm only part time though as a freelancer, i'd find full time really hard work.

And SOUND THE KLAXONS we are getting there with sleep. The last few nights I've had stretches of 4-5 hours from about 11pm when he wakes and I feed him till about fish when I again feed him and then he wakes about half 6. Flipping amazing to finally get a decent stretch which I've not had the whole of these last 7 months. And amazingly I feel nowI could have another, how bonkers is that when I swore blind that the lack of sleep this time had totally put me off a third. Mother nature is damn clever at making yo forget really quickly how bad it all was!

Goats hope your sleep is improving, I thought of you the other night when I'd finally has a decent stretch. I'm trying to refuse to feed if he wakes between 11pm and 4pm as I know now he can go without food for that time, and has done more than once. It's a battle of wills as he's not wild on a dummy, and there is a load of crying at the beginning, but he settles peacefully enough with some cuddling, shushing and back patting....

not fish. 4 ish.....

Glad your sleep is improving sazzle. We've had a pretty good week for sleep really.

I guess work will just have to be ok! I just have no idea how the logistics will work. Realistically I'll be out the house from 7-7 ish. So the 12 hours DS isn't in bed. I can't just not see him but don't know what I can change. Maybe I could do early so 6-6 out the house and at least see him at bedtime. It's going to be so hard to leave him.

Or maybe we could try to push bedtime (and wake up) later. I'm crying now thinking about it, I'll miss him so much :(

I'm going back to work in September too. I've also already had tears at the thought of it. Keep telling myself to enjoy the present and deal with the emotions when it actually happens. X

Sazzle, your fish typo made me giggle. At first I thought you'd found that feeding N fish did the trick. A bit of pollock and he slept like a dream...
So glad things are improving for you. Once you get a longer stretch after 11pm, things get so much better.

Splendide, I feel the same. Not seeing bubba is going to be tough, but I think she'll get a lot out of being at nursery. Plus, I think work will be a good stimulation for me too. I am getting a bit of a mushy brain.

Obviously by writing down that it was going ok I broke the baby and last night was terrible!! Well not terrible just so needy- I had to have him in with me and practically hold his hand all night. He was inconsolable when he woke crying, my oh couldn't settle him at all, only the boob would work, he sounded distraught I've not heard him sound like that before. Maybe he's ill or teething? Who knows hey?! Oh well, let's hope we get back on track soon!