We've no time for JSing. We're battling green nappies, sleepless nights, x-box playing men and trying to hide our sling addictions. Fuck it, let's do a runner on a golf cart.

[TheBooMonster]

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... wink

Cookie, I'm like that too. Getting fatter by the day. Definitely no stick peeing needed here though.

Poor tortoise

I'm lying in bed and seeing these little feet appear from the Moses basket every few seconds. She's doing crunches in her sleep - no wonder she's skinny! Anyone else found grit in their baby's nappy - like sand? Google was no use

If anyone is in the market for a woven wrap, ellevil.com have a few at £30 (half price)

Nope, sorry Pis. I have found all sorts of other shit though
He's just woken up and done an epic mega poo that the nappy had no chance with His bowels are out of control! Not sure if it's something I've fed him, or if it's another tooth...

What's everyone up to this fine weekend?

Not much planned really. Hoping at least one of the slings I've ordered has been delivered so I can play, I'll be googling various versions of the words 'gritty shit' to see what I can find and I'll be mediating between DS and DP to allow the former to watch the FA cup final this afternoon as well as the Spanish equivalent this evening (DP has no interest in football and even less interest for the telly)

Oh no poor tortoise!

I've been gardening, bought & planted some new plant & everything. They will die in a couple of weeks when I've forgotten to water them but for now they look pretty

Miniscoob is high on calpol whizzing her bunny round her head while hopefully cutting another tooth, why do they take soooooo long to come through.

Happy Saturday viroids

I've been up since 1:30.
She's asleep but every time I put her down, she wakes up.
Another write off.

This one is getting harder to put back in the crib too Min. I'm knackered after a shitty night.

Is anyone else using a Moses basket? What do you do between the time the baby outgrows the basket and goes into their own room? DS went into the nursery at four months (the recommendation at the time) and was teeny tiny so didn't outgrow the basket.

Hope your night improved min.

Weird one for us last night, we both slept all afternoon from 3.30 til 7pm but she went back down at 8. Then upsy downsy from 2am.

pis I've just got the cot alongside the bed. No nursery as yet and babyj is 7.5 months...

I haven't got room for the cot - it's a cotbed so even bigger again than a regular cot (and we had to completely rearrange the room to fit the Moses basket in). I'm wondering if one of the super cheap IKEA cots might fit the bill and I can just sell it on/freecycle it when she moves? I'm not convinced I'll want to put her in the nursery at six months too Juni - so that's why I'm trying to come up with an idea so outgrowing the Moses basket doesn't force the move IYSWIM?

We've got H in a sidecar crib thingy, and I'm already planning to keep her in it past 6 months, she's short so should do longer in it :)

We've got a super cheap ikea job. mrJ hacked it so the mattress is same height as our bed.

I'm a bad mum, I shipped miniscoob out to her own room at 4.5 months. She out grew the Moses basket & I couldn't fit anything bigger in our room so got an angel care sensor matt in her cot & put her in there. Until teething started she's slept a lot better in her own room than with us lucky bugger doesn't have to listen to DP's snoring

I'm an even worse mama. R was shipped off to her room at 8 weeks!
She's a light sleeper so we were waking each other up all night.
Sort of regretting it now in the middle of the night traipsing next door but hey ho.
It didn't really get worse, nor better. I got fed up, bought her downstairs, flicked thru Netflix, she must have got bored and fell fast asleep so she was deposited back in her crib.
Then the husband got up with her at 5:40 so I could catch up.
She's so got to learn how to put herself to sleep soon else I'm gonna crack up.

We're nearly 4.5 months and I'm keen to clear the nursery so i can ship her out. I'm tired of having four hours sleep a night. Don't have an angelcare monitor either. However by the time I actually get round to clearing the nursery she'll probably be six months anyway.

Hey, none of this bad mum business. We're all fab mums doing it our own ways. All different and all awesome!

I often out babyj down awake in the night but hearing me breathing sends her off so not sure how that would work if she was I. Her own room. And she's actually been in my bed a lot lately...hmmm. Wasn't planning on co sleeping...need to look at that now I realise!

We put J in on his own three weeks ago, but he's gradually creeping into our bed!
He's been a bugger to get down lately, so after his second first wake up I bring him in with us. He's started half waking up and emitting this high pitched wail that wakes you up in 1.8 seconds, so at least when he's right by you there's a chance of getting the dummy in before he properly wakes up

The word 'wake' features heavily in that post but I'm too tired to think of an alternative

Well this is shit.
I'm up sitting in her room hoping, praying that fir the 11th, yes 11 th time tonight so far that bastard dummy will stay in, she won't rub her eyes and call out for us.
She's very snotty so obviously finding it difficult to breathe thru her nose.
Husband and I have just had yet another row. Tbf he's said what I feel but I hate that I feel this way.
He says it's depressing, worrying all day whether she will eat and all night whether she will sleep. How long can we go on like this?
We went to bed at ten. I'm still awake.
I miss sleep.
I really miss sleep.
Sorry for the rambling.

Big hugs for those with sleep probs, and an extra squeeze for min

We're doing a trial run at leaving H on sat, going to a local restaurant. I'm bricking it...

Oh min, so sorry about the sleeping troubles. Did she go down in the end and give you a break?

Interesting reading when you all moved babies out to their own room. I'm keen to do it as soon as possible, but it's not practical at the moment as the nursery is not finished!

We're slowly moving into some sort of routine here now and E will every now and then give us 3 hours of sleep in one go. I'm starting to actually feel a bit better after the cs, and am able to pick E up now so we're kind of doing split shifts at night, 5 hours on 5 hours off. It's working for now.

I've had to start working again though which is a bugger. Could really do without all the invoicing and payroll etc right now!

E's given us lots of real smiles recently though. It's such a lovely thing to see her respond and smile! Like there's a light at the end of the tunnel

pis probably doesn't help but A's poo is gritty like sand if she eats too much wholemeal

We shipped A off into her own room at about 5 months I think. She and MrBoo are both noisy sleepers and I can only cope with so much, but there were 4 grown ups in the house, and I spent a lot of time sleeping on her floor anyway! E and I have all but moved into the nursery. She won't sleep in the crib and MrBoo won't relinquish the bed. Works fine for me as there are less attempts at JSing when he has to make the effort to come into the other room. Doesn't stop him coming in every half an hour to try his luck in the mornings though...

On JSing what are you viroids doing about contraception?

Condoms, things are screwed up enough for me in that department by bf hormones so I'm not taking any more!

How are you managing to work Mini? You're a legend!

She'll be fine zyla, enjoy yourself!

Min is it just the dummy issue waking her up? Would you try going cold turkey on it? May be three days of hell but sounds like it's pretty rough for you anyway. Try the plug in vapour thingy or saline nasal drops for stuffy nose. With regards to eating, as long as she's healthy, I would try not to think about it. Micro's appetite definitely varies day to day although I think it's easier not to get caught up about it when bfing as you don't know how much they're getting. Some days she hardly feeds and others is clamped to me she is a midget though. for you.

I think I might try the coil for contraception. Have exhausted most other avenues.

She only slept next to me in the living room, then the husband got up and took her so I had an hour or so, then another hour with her.
Managed to get an emergency appointment this arvo, think she may have a sore throat or so.
Completely refusing all drinks now.

wil, I would, yes, but I fear I can't stop her from crying without it. I've tried and failed countless times, I'm just a shocking effort of a mum. I'm surrounded by all these mums and babies who just gaze adoringly at each other. She only looks at me in the nighttime and when I'm proper up close, the other times she just more interested in everyone else.
Although last night in th 1hr 30 she slept she didn't have her dummy, she was quite happy with her fingers in her mouth, so she can do it, just won't.

May also have to resort to controlled crying, which may be tricky considering she doesn't really cry in bed, just whines.

Again, sorry bout the whinging.

Oh Min that's rough

I'm still being reckless on the contraception front.... Although Chat did link to some research on using EBF as contraception so I'm not overly worried just yet. I have the HV tomorrow and she'll probably nag me again.