Just Mumming 9- We're suffering the curse of Mel B, ST syndrome and the rise of the sleep snatchers. We've all had enough and would just like a good JS.

[PixieChops]

Morning Viroids

Welcome to the 9th Just Mumming Fred.

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Name: Pixie
Age:29
Pests: 2- P (girl) 17 months old, R (boy) 4 months old
Things I can't do anymore- have a crap in peace, drink a hot drink, do any housework, shag ST, sleep, take naps.

Things I can do- carry a toddler, baby, dirty bottles and nappies down the stairs all at once, put a double pram up in 20 seconds, have a shower inc washing and shaving in under 5 mins. Be coco the clown on 26 mins sleep.

What a gorgeous wee chunk pixie!!!!
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That made me laugh - more kids?? Is he mad? I was put on mini pill at 10 weeks after birth but I've stopped it coz it took us ages to have B and I don't want hormones fucking up my body again. We don't have sex anyway so it's not like I need it!!! Too tired. They wouldn't let me have a coil because we are trying again within a year fucking madness

Zyla I'm sending positive thoughts - hope you get the result before Christmas

Finally getting new washing machine today - bloody landlord has left us without one for 2 weeks after ours blew up. Lesson viroids - don't leave washing machine on when you go out! I came home to find ours smoking and the electrics had burned out. Lucky I came home!!! With a young baby it's been bloody nightmare having no washing machine. This morning B did a 2 day poo that that came out the top of his baby grow. Had to stick him in the bath coz it was all over him!

Poor bub is full of cold.

Dulcet thrush is hideous! get some caneston up you it'll sort it out. Oh my god the relief is wonderful!!!

Hi essie!!! I remember you!!! I too have a gigantibaby - 9.10lb at birth now 18.4lb at 4 months EBF and I also feel like I'm being sucked dry daily! Congratulations!!! Your sleep situation sounds pretty shite! MiniLa can go to sleep ok but getting him to stay asleep is horrendous. Bit better last night with only 2 feeds. Woo!

Wtf!?? Reverse bold fail

Hi La, congrats on jumbo baby! Thanks for welcoming me back! Why do our bodies feel the need to grow them so big? FFS? Mine got so stuck we had pretty traumatic in theatre session while they winched him out and then they took over an hour to sew me up. How I avoided a C-sec I don't know. I am sure there is irreparable damage done downstairs but I haven't investigated very closely and it's all still a bit numb! HV asked me the other day how my scar was and whether or not I'd looked at it recently. Errrr...no?! No plans to look at it ever thanks!

Sorry to hear about your washing machine. I am terrified of leaving things on when I go out ever since my Mum's ipad charger caught fire. Luckily she was in. Scary. Glad you've got a new one sorted. Can't imagine how I'd survive more than a few days without doing laundry now! LO crapped all over his Christmas jumper today and we need it for a party tomorrow. Happy days!

Re more kids, one day, but not any time soon! GP gave me a prescription but I haven't bothered putting it in yet. I read somewhere that the pill can mess with your milk supply so I thought I'd wait til I stopped bfing since he needs every ounce he can get. There no chance of JSing at the moment anyway! Baby is strapped onto me most of the time!

God the weather is shite here today and I've got cabin fever. OH is playing golf in it such is his need to get out and escape from us for a bit! Poor chap!

Snap!!!! I pushed and pushed, he got stuck so I was wheeled into theatre for forceps and ventouse attempt which then became emergency CS! Now I just have a huge heavy baby to cart around all day, but tbh I'm grateful he's so big because he got ill with an infection at 2 weeks old and it was scary enough - would've been scarier if he was an itty bitty thing!

God was the charger charging at the time or just left plugged in?

Charger was charging at the time and she heard a bang and went into the dining room and it was on fire!

Poor you, that sounds grim. Glad you are both ok though, and that he's ok following the infection. V scary. My neighbours 3 week old has just been hospitalised with a chest infection.

Hi essie! Welcome back! I'll join the monster baby, difficult birth club. Doesn't make me want to try it anytime soon! I do miss being pregnant though.

Glad your night out was successful zyla. Maybe plan another one in to take your mind off it all and feel more human!

How have you coped without machine la?! I'm struggling to keep up with a machine in working order!

Just put J's cot together so I can try and get him to nap in it this week. It looks so big!

Quick question viroids - b just did a nappy that was just mucus. He's already pooed normal runny poo twice today. He's very dribbly through teething and he's had a cold. Is it a sign of teething/cold? I've been spraying saline up his nose so he'll have been swallowing some of that too

Hi essie!! Welcome back! I remember you from JSers - did you pop onto the grads fred briefly too? Congratulations on the not so little man anyway

Minipopz was 8lb 8 and that was big enough!! He was forceps too. Most unpleasant, you have my sympathies.

How's yer foof Dulcet?

Have you eaten anything new recently La? It's probably just from the dribbling.

Minipopz is still doing turboshites. Hope he's shitting through an entire outfit every single day.... Hope his belly sorts itself out soon!

HE IS shitting through a whole outfit, not hope he is....

Ffs why does OH have to wind the baby up into an excited over stimulated frenzy right before bedtime. He then hands the wide eyed grizzly wriggling creature to me and mutters something about him needing feeding and puts the footy on.

La Little llama did mucous nappies when he had a cold a could of weeks ago. They were basically just foam. Gross.

Hi Essie! Don't think I've had the pleasure nice to see new faces. Sorry about your birth, mines a similar story with my first (girl), P got stuck and was distressed so I ended up with episiotomy and forceps and a tear. She was 6lb 14oz and then I got pregnant with R when P was only 4 months old. I had a planned c section with him and though it was scary it was loads better than the first. He was a whopping 8lb 10oz and is in 9-12 month clothes at just under 6 months old! Whopping for me as I'm tiny and also the fact that P was so small we weren't expecting R to be so gigantic! Anyway I was told by 3 different midwives that if I'd tried giving birth naturally to R it would've ended up in an emergency c section as he definitely would've got stuck. Don't care what anyone says I think there are certain people who are built for baby making and birth and others that aren't. I'm in the "not built for birth" category. That thing with your mums charger is bloody scary too. We're always leaving stuff on charge when we go out. Not anymore!

Dulcet I've never been so concerned with another woman's foofah before but hope it's not as itchy and you're feeling better.

La I think mucus nappies are pretty normal when babies have colds. R had mucus nappies without a cold and that's when we started realising he may have a milk protein intolerance as that's one of the signs.
Plus like you said if you've been giving him saline drops etc it'll make everything a bit looser. Found that with R who appears to be teething at the mo. He's not sleeping very well. He did a gigantic shit before and it stank. It was all up his back. I've put it down to calpol and nurofen.

Fuck me viroids I've got a 2 hour drive tomorrow with a ST (Silly twat) and 2 kids under two. In a car fit to bursting. Not looking forward to it. Can see Peppa Pig will be on a lot of the time.
I'll need lots of and then lots of when I get there. HELP!

Poor Minipopz too, hope he's feeling better soon, poor little chap. Nothing worse than shitting yourself.

H didn't go to sleep until 9.30 last night! Tried feeding her to sleep for over an hour and a half while she kept coming on and off the boob and romping around the bed like a loony! Overtired and overexcited baby took forever to go to sleep!

Thank you for the concerns for my fanjo. So far I haven't had the pill thing, just the cream which does help ease it. Off to shops today though.

Is that you off somewhere for Christmas then pixie? Sounds like portable DVD players are a must in the future then!

Think it's anything you are eating popz? Or just one of those things?

10 days to Christmas, I love Christmas but feeling totally unprepared! My list of people to buy for still has 8 gaps - including a baby secret Santa I am due to hand over tomorrow that I am clueless for!

Trying J in the cot for naps this week. First attempt will be in the next 30 mins I reckon - wish me luck!

The cream just treats the itch I think. The pill or the pessary should sort the actual infection.

Minipopz's explosions are getting progressively smaller so whatever it is I think he's getting better.... I've been feeling sick as a dog all week so think we've probably had a bug. Can't think of anything different I've eaten!

I've got a few Christmas bits, might try and pick up some more on the way home from playgroup today. Shopping is a nightmare right now though, especially with the pushchair!!

Put the tree up last night - mini hasn't even noticed it yet!!!

Hope the break isn't too painful pixie....

Oh god I'm doing some sleep training and I'm failing dismally. B is currently crying in crib

Popz Glad mini is getting better. Shopping with a pushchair is a nightmare isn't it. Mum and I went Christmas shopping a couple of weeks ago and I ended up with baby in the sling and we put all the shopping in the buggy.

He's a grizzly mess today. Tried to go for lunch with a friend. Normally he's quite into going out and likes to look at everything. He slept in the car on the way there so I thought he'd wake up in a good mood, which he did, but he had a total meltdown part way through lunch and I had to bring him home. First time that's happened!

Now I've got him in the sling and he's just watching me type! Maybe he's wonderweeking. There is a storm cloud against this week on the app, though I fail to see how it can predict exactly when they all supposedly develop at different rates?

Sorry for waffle, was thinking out loud. Well, sort of out loud?!

Dulcet sorry to hear about your foof. I had to take antibiotics throughout my pregnancy which kept giving me thrush. Horrible.

La How's it going? Has he gone to sleep?

Pixie hope the drive went ok.

What are you trying la?

Sorry about your lunch essie! Minipopz seems to be in a permanent wonder week this last month or so.....

Fortunately I had already necked my sarnie and there were two other friends there so I didn't abandon one friend alone when I fled! Since bath time he's been trying to roll over and getting really angry when it won't work. Poor thing! He's now asleep in the sling yet again!

Slings are a godsend some times!! If only minipopz wasn't such a big lump, I'd whack him in there all the time....

Why has my daughter decided that she won't go to sleep until 9.30pm? She crawls around like a loony getting more and more tired, if I try to cuddle her she screams until I put her down and if I try to feed her to sleep (which has worked for 10 sodding months!!) she goes on and off and on and off then bites! So no milk, I've had to rock her on the nursing chair for half an hour to get her to sleep!

This is new and ridiculous lol

Hello!
Sorry for silence and popping on just to post random sentences about jelly nappies and sleep training!

Dulcet have you tried J in the cot yet? How's it going? We've unhooked the crib from our bed to start transition of B to his cot. So it stands alone now rather than cosleeper. I hadn't realised angelcare movement doesn't work at night with cosleeper crib as parents movements would be picked up. Doh! Makes perfect sense now I know!

He's going into cot at Christmas when my DM is here to help me with my anxiety. Really struggling with it as a parent.

Going to fit mum meet today with B dressed as reindeer. Yay! I'm getting excited about Christmas now, even though I know with a baby it'll probably be very different and a lot less boozy!

The bit I struggle with sometimes being a mum is how you can't do normal stuff anymore if that makes sense? Like just going for dinner, or if we want to watch films on couch. I don't mind it but I just forget and make plans!

How's the thrush dulcet?

Pixie good luck!!!! Hope you're in a bath of wine right this minute with fingers in ears going la la laaaaa!!!

How's minipopz? Any better on the poo front?

When you've got a large baby it is such a strain - my back is broken! I go to get it fixed every couple of weeks. He's 18.5lb now at 4.5 months. Jeez! He can sit up now though which is such a help! Needs support sometimes but he's doing it mostly himself

Is she leaping zyla? Wee monkey!

Going to sling library today - want a sling that lets me put him on my back. I have the ergo which I can do it with but I want a wrap as well.

Took him for lunch with work colleagues yesterday and he was good! We played pass the baby.

Sleep training was crap. He just wasn't napping as easily as normal so I thought I'd do a bit of putting him down and walking away, coming back regularly. All that happened was he got excited every time he saw me and kicked his legs around madly in crib with a big grin on his face, then he cried when I wouldn't pick him up. He's too young to do proper sleep training so I'm saving that for after Christmas. Going to do the pick up put down and timed crying thing. It'll break my heart but he doesn't settle himself and he's too big for me to keep rocking him to sleep

Argh! Just read that back and it sounded like I'm criticising anyone doing sleep training earlier than I am - absolutely not!!! Am firm believer of everyone doing what works for their baby and their sanity!!!

I meant the type I'm thinking of doing is not recommended until 5/6 months so I'm waiting until he's 5 months and I know that there's nothing else going on (adjusting to not having splint, growth spurt etc)

Christ - I'm the last person who should be telling other mums what to do! I'm a bag of bloody anxiety

OMG something amazing happened this morning. DS fell asleep in the buggy when it was STATIONARY! Seriously! First time he's ever fallen asleep without movement or boob. In fairness he has a cold, hardly slept last night and was watching me muck out a stable, so that's enough to send anyone to sleep but I am immensely excited by this promising development!

La let me know how you get on at the sling library. I am struggling cos DS is 14lb+ (not been weighed for a while) and I'm tiny. I've got a bondolino sling for when I'm out and about and I use a kari me at home, but I can't cope with putting it on outside the house cos it ends up on the floor and gets wet. I'd like to get him on my back after Christmas when he'll be 4 months, is that too young? I'm not sure what type of sling is best though. The bondolino does a back carry but I'm not sure I'll manage to get him on there on my own.

We had a crap night, he was really snotty, which probably explains why he was miz yesterday. At midnight he was just crying and snotty and seemed really unhappy. I ended up giving him some calpol, then felt bad that perhaps I shouldn't have done, but he fell asleep for 3 hours afterwards. Is it ok to give calpol when you are not really sure what you are giving it for? He seemed really unhappy so I decided he must have a headache or a sore throat or something but obviously there is no way of really knowing. I feel a bit coldy too so we've definitely both got something today.