Just Mumming 8 - the one with the fire crawlers, wind machines and the Health Visitor revolt

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Add your stats Viroids (or don't bother). I feel like there's something I'm supposed to write here but don't know what it is...

Mmmmmm Domino's. Wants one now

I doubt the insurance will cover it tbh. But ill just need to suck it up. Lesson learnt that's for sure!

Anyway. Today is clearly my turn for OH being a selfish dick.
I was supposed to have the lie in. But no, been up since half 7. Made wee ones bottle, went back in to find him sitting watching DD. Did he offer to take over? No. Did he go back to sleep and is still in his bed? Yes. Did he get to spend most of yesterday spending money on shite at one of those comic-con type things? Yes.

I even said to him last night, you get up with DD, I'll take your side of bed so I can have a lie-in.

But this morning when he does get up I bet he'll be all "why didn't you wake me". No OH why didn't you do what you said you would. Selfish git.

Happy Sunday (sorry for the all out moan)

Oh no cookie, any ideas what it can be? Hope he gets better soon.
fudge, what a git indeed. He best make it up to you today eh.

So, turns out we've been watching the wrong tooth. We've been looking at the top two coming in and under our noses the one next to her bottom right has decided to pop out. Poor kid was probably wondering why the shit loads of a besom was going on the wrong gums. I swear it wasn't there yesterday. I only noticed it when she shouted at me in her car seat.
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Hi all! We are away on holiday it's so nice having another pair of hands around. Even if they are DH's

fudge if you live in a flat do you have a block policy?

Hurrah for sleeping through we seem to be in a pattern of S going down at 8pm, waking at 12/1am and then 5amish for feeding and then waking for the day at around 7amish. As long as I go to bed at 10pm, I can get a decent sleep. This is also without resorting to formula! Amazing!

Naps during the day are still only in the pram or sling though. Not sure what to do about this. DH, who of course knows it all, is equally baffled. I have tried everything. At least DH has seen for himself now that it is impossible.

Fleur enjoy your holiday! I could do with one I'm telling ya lol

Cookie what an arse- hopefully you'll have had a better rest now.

Yay for sleeping through Min!

La sleep will come, I promise! Think I've mentioned previously that there's some sort of golden "weight" that gets achieved and then they sleep through. For us it was the 14lb mark. R is being weighed again this week. I'm shitting it as I can see that he's outgrown his 3-6 month clothes already I just ding want to admit the fact that my little boy who was 3 months a couple of weeks ago is going into 6-9 month outfits !!

Why is it on my night R wakes up at around 6 am ( I know this is amazing as he's been in bed since 7pm ) drinks his bottle nicely but then proceeds to scream the house down. Then I bring him into the freezing cold living room where he screams for a couple more mins and goes straight back off to sleep. Why can't he just go back to sleep upstairs? I'm so fucking Cold I've got icicles on my nips, surprised you can't see my breath.

Had a lovely weekend as the pests went to their grandparents from Saturday morning until 2pm Sunday afternoon. Me and the ST went to Cheshire oaks (cannot go to that place with babies- it'd be hell) and he bought me a Barbour coat (early Xmas present) but as we were leaving he said "you can just have the coat- get writing a Xmas list so I know what else you want" how nice is that?! Every now and again I think "aw I love you ST" and how much I don't want to scratch his face off.

I'm sure I wrote a post yesterday and its bloody disappeared! Hey ho....

Sounds like the spanish life is tiring R out nicely Min! Enjoy!

Hope E is better soon cookie x

Sounds like you're enjoying yourself fleur - definitely nice to share the load Hope MrF is behaving himself Don't worry about the naps - minipopz was the same for a long time but he happily naps in his cot now if we're at home.

Can't remember anything else. Stupid mobile site.

One of the girls on my old January bus has just got a bfp.... Two under two anyone!?

Oh - good work on the shopping pixie You definitely deserve a treat!

Morning viroids. First day on our own here. Neither of us are dressed but I've had a shower and B has a clean bum

Good work on the shopping pixie, I love a trip to Cheshire oaks when I'm over that way

We've got baby group this afternoon. I'm quite nervous about it, not sure why.

I need to go to the GP, wound is now healed from original place and leaking from a new one!!! Antibiotics finish tomorrow. I think i need another course another week without wine won't kill me hopefully

Purple sounds like you're doing a fab job already!

Popz I'm a mum of two under 2. It's fucking hard work and sometimes I want to run to the other side of fuckoff but it's getting easier every day
Be even better if I didn't have all these sudden ailments but most have subsided now. I'm off to physio on Thursday and to say I can't wait is an understatement. I just want my pelvis putting back in place and then re- evaluate the situation going on in my legs. I'm hoping it's jut because my pelvis is buggered that my legs are constantly aching rather than anything sinister, however having a dodgy pelvis doesn't fit the rest of my symptoms so who knows!

Fleur P didn't sleep anywhere but her pram up until she was about 4 months (I mean at night too) we transferred her to a cot at around 4-5 months old and she's fine. Took us a while to get her to nap in her cot but now she does she refuses to sleep anywhere else which is even worse because she won't nap if we are out for the day and becomes a right moody cow. R on the other hand naps just about anywhere and everywhere- he hates being held when tired I've realised so as soon as he starts whinging he goes straight in his cot and left well alone lol

Don't worry about baby group Purple you'll be fine, I used to be really scared of going to things like that but in the end it was either I went or I stayed at home staring at the 4 walls going slightly insane.
When you've been to one you'll love it. Hopefully you've got some nice mums who'll have a chat with you as well

Our first day alone too purple, I had planned a nice relaxing one as I've been out of the house most days so far...m has other ideas and has proceeded to scream/feed all morning. Of course I'm now worried something is wrong..
Definitely sounds like you need more abx I'm afraid :( if it's any consolation I still haven't been able to have wine since birth thanks to miss evening cluster feed! did contemplate the idea of a morning glass to make up for it

I've got my first day on my own coming on weds and have decided to bite the bullet and go to a baby group in the morning if I can.
But the sleep thing seems to be getting worse and we do well if she sleeps for one 2-3 hour stretch between 10 and 7, with the rest being micro naps or awake, and not much better during the day :(
They suspect that she might have a posterior tongue tie and we have an appointment next week to see. She's just so unsettled, and really windy which wakes her up repeatedly. . . Just don't know what to do if they can't help her at the appointment. So fingers crossed!
Pixie, I live near Cheshire Oaks and think you were definitely right to do it without children! Whereabouts do you live?

I'm near Altrincham so I'm a good 45 mins away from Cheshire oaks but yep there was no way that I was tackling that place with a double buggy of screaming kids. Fuck that for a laugh!

Hope first days are going well! Baby groups save my sanity and different places keep h from getting bored!

We're off to my first weigh in since the cruise...hmm...could be interesting.

I love Cheshire oaks, I'm not that far either, about 40mins? Dh has promised me a spree there once my body has decided on its lost birth state :D

Oops sorry I said hello then buggered off again, not keeping up well am I?
Home from SCBU now, all going ok, keep feeling I am so not up to the task of being a mum to this amazing little human but seem to be muddling through. Literally can't believe how much I love her.

purple and mountain hope today is going well for you both. I've got DH at home this week but as of next Monday we're on our own. I need to get on and find out about baby groups etc. I don't really fancy signing up to anything I have to pay for yet as MelbaToast will be asleep through it at the moment, but hopefully will find a few NCT coffee groups or something. Then the next challenge will be working out how to get out of the house on time on my own.

Melba has started being a bit of a pickle with feeding- almost like she gets all over excited and wriggles around at my boob with her mouth wide open, spending a good while sucking her fists (how do you keep them out of the way when your hands are full of baby?? And then she's flailing her arms around so much she manages to move my bra back so it's in her way anyway), trying to turn around, face-planting my boob, and generally not latching on. She gets there eventually and has a good feed but it's getting frustrating as I just want to feed her and it's like she won't let me.

Also, what are you all wearing? (In a non-creepy way.) I don't fit any of my old jeans yet ever? and also my c section scar is a bit tender still and the seam of my maternity jeans rests right on it so don't want to wear those for too long in one go anyway. So I'm living in tracksuit trousers and getting fed up with it! I want to buy new clothes but a) still hope I'll lose these thunder thighs before too long so don't want to buy new jeans particularly b) now have to consider bfing for everything... So what do I do? Leggings and long tops with a nursing vest underneath? That seems the only option for leaving the house and looking half decent excluding the milk dribbles as I haven't yet mastered how to stop it dripping on everything all the time. Any tips?

Oh good grief and why are the Muslims always 'over there' when I'm over here under a baby?

Oh. Muslins. Muslins. Autocorrect oops sorry!

toast is there a sure start centre near you? Their baby groups are usually free :). I still go to some with H.

Somehow I lost 4lb while on holiday!! Suspect it may catch up with me next week, either that or I'm lucky and mrZ needs to take me on holiday ore hehe :)

Hope the first days are going well. It's scary but you'll get into a little routine of your own soon. Got to ALL THE BABY GROUPS. You'll go cray cray sitting in the house all day.

Have a glass of wine mountain - hardly any will end up in your milk

Glad things are going ok Toast! I do one up one down for breastfeeding, so vest top underneath a lift up- able top. Lift top up and pull neck of vest down to get boob out. Means you don't have to spend a fortune on nursing clothes, and your tops won't get all pulled out of shape. There's a good fb group called "Can I breastfeed in it?" where people post their feeding friendly fashion finds! There's a lot of shirt dresses and zip tops in the shops at the mo which are good for boobing. And I still wear my maternity leggings now at 9m postpartum!

Well done on the loss Zyla x

So many posts to reply to!

Toast - I just wear normal stuff and tie Muslim (shit - muslin!) to my bra which covers boob while feeding plus tummy. It takes a bit of practice but is quite effective! My baby also fussed at boob and got over excited. Is she popping on and off?

2 under 2 is scary! Think I told you about my friend who has 4 under 3

We put B upstairs in his crib in our room 7-10 last night with white noise on. He has not been sleeping well in lounge in eve and then wakes up when transferred to crib when we go to bed. I had monitor on and checked him every 10 mins. He slept 8-1 which is longest he's ever slept in crib!

But my anxiety has gone through the roof today and I'm too scared to do it again tonight :(. I'm worried about him stopping breathing and SIDS etc. I know risk is low and we will be in room from 10 onwards but I'm still terrified. I hate anxiety it's so fricking debilitating sometimes!! We have movement and sound monitor. Plus white noise because of the stuff that says they shouldn't be alone.

He's also starting to dribble loads and coughs on it and of course I'm terrified of him choking. I'm a big pile of nerves.

Definitely definitely go to baby groups!! They really can lift your day and it's an excuse to get out of the house. It gives you structure to your week and it's good for you to chat to other new mums.

Well done Zyla!!!

Need to read back and check what I've missed

Oh and fleur my baby is being mega fussy and only wants to sleep on us just now. It's very frustrating but think it's a phase

Hello all :)

E is at last starting to turn the corner, he has had two days temp free, he still isn't eating brilliantly but I think that is more stubbornness then I'll news now! And hurrah he slept through last night and is back to having two good naps now!

purple how did the group go?

la hugs for the anxiety. Just do what you feel comfortable with!

Apparently changing H's nappy is tantamount to assault, and dressing her is even worse! She's also really frustrated that she still can't crawl so screams a lot AND I think one of her top teeth is going to come through soon. I'm not expecting a good night...