Morning!
Sorry to hear about rubbish nights - min, popz and wil you seem to be having a particularly crappy time just now :( I hope minimin, miniwil and minipopz stop being monkeys soon.
wil is there anyone who can come and babysit and give you a break?
popz that's shite that you're the 'default' baby caring person and he gets the night out. That's what I'm trying to get across to dh at the moment, that it's not fair that I am constantly stapled to the baby whilst he gets to have regular breaks (even if breaks mean work). It's not on of Mr Popz to expect you to be all day and night with mini :( and coming home late is shite. I would read the riot act if it were me.
zyla the vista is a pig to fold! I hold the handle but then I've also got to try to hold in the buttons at the sides at the same time. It's really awkward and sticks and I end up frustrated. I also hate the carry cot hood mechanism - how can you hold both buttons at same time as trying to lift it up/down??? It's also very heavy. I'll get used to it but I'm afraid yesterday when I was knackered and cranky it got kicked when it was refusing to go down and told it was a 'stupid fucking buggy' loudly enough that I'm sure my neighbours think I'm scum.
fleur have you inserted the book up Mr Fleur's arse yet?
boo equally tell Mr Boo stop being a tool! he wanted the child, he can bloody well pull his weight! As for crotch grabbing - I would be booby trapping my bits with a big claw spring trap to trap his penis next time he tries.
cookie that sounds like fun! Hope you had a lovely day!!
I actually deleted the babycentre app for the same reason you said wil, I got obsessed with the pregnancy one and wanted to not have that same 'must check app today' feeling that I had before. But the WW app will be good for if I'm wondering why he's perhaps being a bit more difficult and whether there might be a developmental reason for it.
I hear you all on the sterilising thing. I'm doing it just now only because he's so little, but I frigging hate it - hate all the faff that goes with it. I also hate that I'm never sure whether I should sterilise something again if it was sterilised and then has sat out on the side in the kitchen for a day. Should I? I sterilise everything once a day just in case. As soon as possible I'm ditching sterilising and feeding DS soil and taking him to crawl around on a horse yard or two. Never harmed me. Besides there is always cat hair on my boobs so it's not like they are completely sterile either! (yes, I have furry boobs)
I've just tried to put on the caboo again and I'm doing something wrong. I get the legs in the right place but then his head is wobbling all over. If I then secure his head it looks like he can't breathe properly. Bum. Going to take it to NCT class this week to get someone to help me.
We've conquered (ish) the choking problem. I now hand express the squirty start of boob out into boob pad and then try to keep him upright as much as possible. I let him do the initial let down and then take him off to stop him guzzling, calm him down and put him back on. It does mean I get pummelled with frustrated fists a bit, but at least he doesn't choke.
Also I think we've got to the bottom of some of our issues with the constant feeding. I've been following advice given about him being tired rather than hungry and now, once I know he's had a decent feed, I put him down to sleep. Previously we were following the shitty advice of the midwife at the hospital, that if he's awake he will always be hungry and to try to feed him.
At night he's pretty good about going off to sleep quickly, but during day it's harder. White noise app is proving to be a god send. Plus swaddling. No idea what I'll do when you're not meant to swaddle anymore (1 month old - is that right?), but perhaps he'll be a bit more easy by then as he'll be used to the routine? He will be fast asleep and then suddenly wake himself up with the mori reflex. It's very frustrating.
Bit of a barny with Mr La this morning. I do appreciate that he has been working and gets home at 2am, but to be fair I've been feeding a newborn every 2-3 hours for nearly three weeks now, plus the many nights I didn't get any sleep at all in hospital. So I do think it's a bit rubbish for me to do all the night feeds and he sleeps in until 11am :( I got a big sigh and 'it's not a competition' when I told him he's getting far more sleep than me when he complained about being made to get up.
Is it wrong to admit that I'm just not a big fan of bf? I'll continue to do it because it's best for B, but I hate being covered in stinky milk. I do love the bonding and connection and stuff of being able to feed my DS, I just hate the faff that comes with it - boob pads, smelly milk everywhere, sleeping in bra.
On that note - do not buy the sleep bras from Mothercare that I mentioned the other day! They are the most fucking uncomfortable things ever. My boobs fall out of it and then the boob pads fall off and I wake up soaking wet. Shite. I've written them a strongly worded email telling them I want my money back.
No one's invited me out at all since having miniLa, I just get loads of folk wanting to come and see him, but I'm too tired to make conversation for very long so I put everyone off. Bad La, need to be more sociable.