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.

Hi all hope everyone had a nice xmas. So ds is refusing to feed he normally has 30oz a day but last 3 days has managed about 15 he has a congested nose and i think he could be teething anyone know how i can get more milk into him as worrying he isnt getting enough

Don't know the answer I'm afraid kbb. My ds has been the same last few days whilst he's had a horrible cold. He's feeding better today though. How old is your ds?

Hello all, I fell off the thread!

kbb have you tried giving smaller amounts more often? That's the only advice I have as ds was a milk monster and still is!

popz I am sorry you are feeling so down. These babies and now almost toddlers can be total pita. E has certainly gone through a few phases where I have wondered wtf have we done. But then he does something adorable and all is forgiven. Fx something adorable happens soon :)

essie I am raging about your mil! How frigging rude!

la your mum sounds great, staying up with B!

So sorry to say it but E has gone back to self settling whoop whoop and also sleeping through with an extra bonus of sleeping in, past 8 am in the mornings He is 16 months though.
Don't hate me!

Thanks for the sympathy viroids xx I think everything just seems so much worse because I've been ill, everything's closed over Christmas so we haven't been able to go out to our usual activities and break the day up. MrP works such long hours and hasn't had any time off either so we've not even had much of a Christmas. Minipopz is so relentless right now and I feel like I'm doing everything wrong. Ugh. I am actually not broody for the first time ever Well, maybe a little, but I think that's more nostalgia for newborn minipopz.

Popz I can't wait for next week when stuff is open and the world goes back to normal. I feel a bit confined too.

Hope everyone has a good night. DS currently asleep on me. I'm scared to put him down. He's been going about 90 mins between wake ups for the last few nights. He's 17 weeks now. Please someone tell me this is the 4 month sleep regression and he'll grow out of it.

I've come to my parents for that very reason popz- nothing happening at home and MrToast working long hours and nights between now and new year. Hope I'll settle into a routine of sorts in the new year now Melba Is a bit bigger and may get something out of a few more activities/groups rather than sleeping through everything we go to. Hope you feel better soon.
Melba has been doing brilliantly with sleeping lately, self soothing and going from 9.30pm til 4/5am the last few nights. She won't settle properly tonight though and I've just boobed her to sleep for the third time. Bollocks. I reckon those last three nights were my lot and we are back to a million wake ups again, probably until she's 21.
Time to attempt the transfer from me to crib...

Essies he's 18weeks. Cookie i've been trying to feed more regularly. Can see a tooth starting to peek through the gums now so hoping once its through he'll start feeding better

Morning Viroids, I can officially join you now! All good here, little one is adorable. Hoping she will get the hang of feeding a bit more today. She goes for a big latch and then immediately falls asleep on the nipple, which is very cute but not very efficient! Getting lots of support though so we will get there.

For those of you with stitches (joy), when did the swelling start to go down? I am so swollen it is unreal! Having to sit on a blow up cushion! I'm hoping it will begin to subside today, literally walking like John Wayne.

Hope you are all okay!

Welcome pud! She'll get there with feeding and that's great you are getting support. Hope you're managing a bit of sleep.

Well, Melba woke every two hours true to form last night. Seems as though my Christmas gift of sleep was time limited! I'll just enjoy the memory of sleep.

Welcome pud mine started to feel better after a couple of days but needed to take regular pain relief for about 5 days to make sitting comfortable. Now only taking it as when. Babycandy is 9 days old today, can't believe where that time has gone. Feeding is getting easier all the time and she is even able to be put down for short periods so I'm managing to grab an hour here or there at night.

Welcome pud and congrats! Fab news. Sorry about the stitches, I think it's different for everyone but it took about 3 days for me to be able to sit down (did you have a tear or an epi? apparently if you had an epi, like I did, they always cut to the right, so if you sit on your left bum cheek it's more comfy, I wish I'd known this in the beginning as no-one told me until about 5-6 days in), a fortnight for my nether regions to really start to settle down and about 6 weeks before it felt 'normal-ish'.... not sure it ever goes back to how it was?!! Having said that, it all feels waaaay better than I would have expected it to given the fact I had forceps and a giant baby. Glad to hear you are getting good support with the feeding.

We had a better night last night so I'm feeling pretty decent today!

Hiya Pud! I had epi and stitches too.... Was a good couple of weeks before I stopped walking like John Wayne! Make sure you keep up with the painkillers. I found sitting on a bag of frozen veg wrapped in a cloth provided a bit of relief! Good luck with the feeding xx

Welcome pud can't really advise much I'm afraid

Hi pud welcome!

popz I'm going to start coming round to yours to break up the daily monotony! Or meet half way between, we're not so far apart!

Holiday was fab, poor H was poorly over Christmas with the worst diarrhoea, not a bug according to the ship doctor, caused by change in food. She was trying and enjoying lots of new stuff, so it's a shame. She got nappy rash really badly and over the period of about 3 hours it was terrible! Blistering, I refused to put her in a nappy bad! She's never had it before and all we had was some bepanthen but another mum on board introduced us to meta im which is the stuff of gods and I'm making sure we've always got some now!

Sorry for everything I've missed, hope you're all good!

Oh, and...is it normal that my 10 and a half month old is having teenage/toddler type strops when I tell her no or take something off her and she wants it? They're full on nuclear tantrums! Please tell me I'm not alone in this?

Oh no, poor H! And thank goodness for metanium bearing ladies!

I'm guessing it's fairly normal zyla - minipopz is the same...

He seems in a better mood today thankfully!! I'm still ill. Dr said it's viral so can't have antibiotics.... Wish it'd just hurry up and bugger off now!

zyla E enjoys a good tantrum he has now started throwing his hands up in the air to emphasise how unfair life is as well as throwing himself on he floor or dropping him self down like a rag doll if he doesn't want to go where I want him too. Oh the joys!

I didn't know they always cut to the right, that's quite interesting!

Thanks for the welcome ladies. I didn't have an episiotomy (wish I had!) but did have a 3rd degree tear. OUCH. I shall try the frozen peas trick!
Zyla, that sounds terrible!

Oh I am rubbish! I forgot to welcome you pud and also candy!

Anywho welcome welcome welcome!!

I had an episiotomy and a tear (lucky me)

Rock and a hard place I reckon Pud! How's it going with littlepud? Are you at home now?

cookie that made me laugh! Minipopz likes to faceplant the floor for maximum emphasis on him being the saddest boy in the world!

So, despite being put to bed at 7.15 he is still up screaming. He was asleep for about 10 minutes until I had the audacity to put him in the cot... I am losing my mind!!!!

Yes we are home now Rpopz, which is lovely. Baby pud is getting the hang of feeding which is good. She screamed if we put her in the crib last night so we ended up tag teaming cuddling her. It took us ages to work out that she was actually quite cold so we did skin to skin to bring her temperature up and then she was great. Going to talk to the midwife about it today as she was wearing loads of clothes and blankets but still got cold... Hope you managed to get some sleep!

popz hope you feel better soon! I must admit H sleeps with us loads now, she sleeps better! I do keep saying I want her to sleep through in her own room like she bloody used to, but no idea how we'll do it again..

pud we slept in turns for weeks so one of us could hold her when she was born...remember she wants to listen to your heart and have warm snuggly cuddles like she's still inside you! :)

pud a warm/hot water bottle in her bed before you put her in will help keep her warm. And feel snuggly when being transferred. Don't forget to take the bottle out :)

When E was little he would spend the first half of the night in his bed and the 2nd on my chest.

Well over pud! No tearing advice (I got away with a 'vaginal graze'!) but sounds like you have s variety of things to sit on. We did the hot water bottle thing, and we rolled a towel up for the edge of the basket to make it smaller for him. He slept like that for months!

How's bedtime going tonight popz? A bit better I hope. Are you feeling any better?

Sounds like a good holiday overall zyla, except for the nappy rash. Is there much for her to do on board? In laws go on a cruise on 2nd and been talking about doing one with them in the future.

I'm sat outside J's room at the moment. Made the mistake of saying he had gone soundo to sleep only for him to change his mind 2 mins later. DH had said 'maybe we can watch a film'. Idiot! I've been in and out but he's kind of chatting and moaning to himself now. Been a nightmare all day which I'm putting down to teeth.

Morning everyone! So combination of being on baby duty constantly and having a new iPad I haven't got hang of yet means I've not posted for ages although I've been reading.

Pud - at the start I ended up holding minila more than putting him down! With regards the cold general rule is you need to dress them in one more layer than you have on. I'm always worrying about B's hands coz they are freezing but as long as their core is warm it's fine. I hope you're ok lovely, it's all a bit overwhelming sometimes at the start but shout if you need us

Zyla I'm so glad you had a lovely holiday! But not good about her poor bum :(. My baby has sensitive skin so I'm constantly fighting rashes. Metanium rocks!

Oh god baby awake will catch up later