Our babies are teething, screaming and generally not sleeping, but we're still JS-ing - it's Just Mumming 10!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 10th Just Mumming thread...following the trials and tribulations of our babies, following the success of Just Shagging in getting us viroids upduffed!

For those that don't know, a 'viroid' is from the original JSing thread 1, where someone was trying to type ladies (in reference to all the JSing ladies), but their phone decided to call us all viroids instead!

The name stuck and we've been the JSing viroids ever since.

The 43rd grads thread is here

The thread we have graduated from is HERE in its 56th outing. WARNING: they're all a bit kerazy not to mention randy!

The previous Just Mumming thread is HERE

There is also a private facebook group (so it doesn't give the game away in your news feed!)... if you want to join to see photos of new babies etc, just ask in-thread!

Pis I actually cannot bear breastfeeding right now. Not so much biting but minipopz seems to latch on with his teeth!! And it's agony getting him on and off. And when he's thrashing around whilst hanging onto my nip with his teeth... It actually makes me want to vom/ cry everytime.

Big hugs la :( if you need to vent about Mr la do so, you might find it helps?

I feel quite sick at the thought of babies with teeth latching on. My nips are sore enough as it is!

Sending hugs La everything is worse without sleep. Feel free to vent though

B had Ella's mango and apple porridge this morning. He didn't like it til I added a generous squirt of baby crack an Ella's pouch. I might as well stick to ready brek and add the crack purée

He did his first straining poo today, I'm an awful mummy for laughing but he pulled such a face and turned bright red

Weaning poo. Boak!

Don't worry jelly - you get a nice long bit in between without sore nips!

Eep Jelly, you have all my nipple sympathies. It does get better but it is awful when they are sore. Do you have a boob group to go to?

And Popz too, that sounds horrendous!! Now scared of teething!

La, your night times sound really rough. Would you consider doing some more sleep training now that B is better? As for Mr La, it is scary how much having a baby affects your relationship. Have you had a proper sit down chat with Mr La about what you/B need from him?

Poor P keeps choking. It sounds horrendous and then she does a big vom. It makes her eyes water poor little bean. :-( Also the stupid baby monitor broke so now I can't leave the living room as she is asleep and I'm scared that she will choke again. And I need a wee!!

Hi everyone, sorry I got left behind again.

AF is here. Hoped I'd get away with it for a bit longer. A is 6 months old next week. Also, I think I have a prolapse of some sort. Got colposcopy week after next so will see what they say and go from there. So fed up of being invaded down there, hoped it would be over now but no, seems not. Cervix-gate started in 2011, I can't believe it's nearly 5 years.

There's teeth coming through here and he's already started clamping down with his gums which is fecking agony. He bites down and pulls back, my nips are going to end up being a foot long. Pis and popz you have my sympathy. I dread his teeth coming through. At night he feeds calmly and it's great, but during the day its chaos.

Weaning is going well, I'm relaxing a bit. Gave him some steamed brocolli florets at lunch and he gummed off the seedy bits and spat out the stalks which was pretty awesome, he knew just what to do, like some sort of baby chimp. Still doing puree as well so I know some is going in too and so my Mum can have him and feed him as she is too freaked out to do BLW.

My DH is a cockhead at times too. He cooked me a nice dinner and bought me flowers and chocs on V day which was a surprise, but he is utterly incapable of tidying up after himself, or even flushing the sodding loo at times. This morning I left him giving DS his ready brek and came back down to him doing aeroplane impressions with the spoon and DS looking a bit 'wtf' at him cos the poor child just wanted to eat his porridge and not have to wait while his father waved the spoon around like a tit. I could have killed him. FFS. Why? I feel a bit as thought I've retreated inside myself emotionally because he doesn't sodding listen when I do try and talk to him. I think he thinks cos I'm back in my old jeans that I'm back to 'normal'.

Sorry I've ranted. la, I recommend a quick rant! I do feel a bit better!

la also meant to say, night-times are crap here too. A is 6 months now and some nights still waking hourly. Last night he went to bed at 9, fed hourly til 2:30, then slept til 5 (woo!), then I had to hold him to keep him asleep til 7. I co-sleep after the first couple of wake ups and DH is in the spare room cos he just gets in the way and complains he's not had enough sleep otherwise. I'm hoping it will improve. We did go through a spell at about 3 months where he was sleeping 3 hour stints with 2-3 feeds a night but then at 4 months it all went wrong and has stayed pretty shite. So, you have my sympathies there too. I am surprised at how little sleep I have grown able to survive on, but I'd seriously love a bit more and I know I'd do a much better job of everything if I did get more sleep, plus I think A would benefit from more sleep at night too.

essie that's spot on. That's exactly how I am with Mr P. Telling him how his behaviour makes me feel is just such a futile exercise that I don't even bother anymore. We don't really speak that much tbh because he's more interested in his phone.

Sorry about the prolapse, hope it's something that can be sorted quickly and easily xx

Ah, don't worry about it too much pud. Not all babies bite. Minipopz had teeth for months and months before he discovered biting! And I think the nipping is probably just because he has a lazy latch now we've been boobing so long. And even the biting pain is NOTHING in comparison to those first few weeks of nipple pain so you are through the worst I promise!

H won't drink cows milk! She has it in her porridge etc, but thought I'd try it instead of formula for a daytime milk drink (thoug we are still using bottles, my HV would be shocked but she won't drink much otherwise!) and she spits it out...so she gets the sodding expensive toddler milk!

She is ace with her food though, ate a while ramekin of cottage pie for lunch, then had mushy peas (she's into spoon feeding herself if I load the spoon up and I like it to be stuff that sticks to the spoon a bit for the sake of my kitchen!) and some mash (same reason), some chicken bits and then grapes! Little piglet, mind you.,she never stops moving! She also stood by herself without holding on today!!

I probably shouldn't say this, but she still doesn't sleep through, but you do kinda get used to it...

MrZ is usually pretty good but he's just really passed me off....we're booking a holiday (going to try centreparcs for H!!) and we were talking about insurance..I mentioned it might not cover my medical issues and he scoffed and said that he doubted any would. Mit really really hurt...not my fault I have type 1 diabetes, had preeclampsia and then got skin cancer fffs. I'm raging at him. He's already grovelled and said he didn't mean it like that but I'm really hurt.

To clarify..the peas and chicken etc were for tea, she's a piglet..but not that much! ;)

Minipopz has never slept through

That's probably not reassuring information but it's meant to be....It's all normal baby sleep and its nothing you're doing "wrong".

On a positive note to the sleepless ones, P started sleeping through from 7pm to 5.30 from about 7 months, then started sleeping 12 hours from about a year and at 3 and a half years still does. He's a dream. So it can get better. His brother, on the other hand, wakes up every 1 - 2 hours for no apparent reason, is up for the day at 5.30 and then ready for his nap just as P is waking up. You can't win 'em all.

Yesterday was my birthday. Despite the 4.30am start (!) we had a lovely day digging for dinosaur bones and ringing the doorbells on trees to see if the gnomes were in. Oh how birthdays have changed. Still, it was better than my 40th last year which I spent at the Maternal Assessment Unit being diagnosed with a hernia.

La, I don't think Gwynnie has a chocolate digestive addiction! To be honest, it's such a relief to feed R things that he enjoys that I'm enjoying it too. His milk feeds are so stressful I now get butterflies when we're about to start one. Also, it's nice to have someone appreciate your culinary efforts. If P had his way he would eat baked beans straight out of the tin for every meal. He's even started just picking the batter off fish fingers because he 'doesn't like the chicken inside'.

popz no idea re my foof. Hoping to avoid any sort of surgical repairs. Have booked a 121 pilates session with a local teacher who is supposed so be the shiz with this sort of thing. Hope she can help with my stomach too.

Sorry your relationship is weird post baby too. I just don't know what to do. I can't even talk to him about my broken bits. He went for a bike ride earlier and came back wittering about how great exercise makes him feel. He literally has no idea what's happened to me in the last 12+ months. I guess it's inevitable, not much changes for them really. I then cooked him dinner with a baby strapped onto me. He didn't say thanks. He used to be my best friend. I don't know where to start to mend it.

I'll post your ICs tomorrow.

zyla sorry about yours dhs stupid remark re insurance. Hope he has redeemed himself. Great you have a holiday booked.

snap thanks for giving me hope re sleep! 4 hours is the longest stint he's ever done and he's not done that since he was about 3 months. He did sleep in til 7:20 this morning though which is a vast improvement on the 5am wake ups we've been experiencing recently.

He had parsnip mush for tea and seemed to like it. He wants to hold the spoon and feed himself which is a pain cos obviously he's not very accurate. I guess I let him do it and he'll improve?!

Oh Essie that is such a sad post about your relationship with your OH. Would you consider showing him that post? It might start a conversation about how you both feel?

Snap, oh god the chocolate digestive addiction! I've started recording my calorie intake on my fitbit app and have realised just how many I eat in a day. Oops!!

Yo! You lot talk too fast for me these days! I struggle to fit MN in between the millions of meals Ben has. Seriously I feel like I shovel food into his face all day!

On that note - when do they give up milk at lunch time? Annabel whatsherface seems to put it at around 7 months. But Ben really loves his bottle after his lunch, he takes about 5oz. It's the only ff we do in the day. I'm weaning him off me during day but he has EBM for the 10am feed. So he has 7am bf, 8am porridge wit EBM, 10am bottle with EBM, 1pm lunch with bottle formula, 4pm bf, 4:30 tea, 6:30 bf then 2-3 night feeds depending on sleep.

He's awake and grabbing phone will write more soon

Hugs essie. Will you be able to sit down and have a chat with him? Best not to let these things fester...

la E still has his lunch time bottle, after we introduced lunch we pushed back his lunch bottle to 2pm. Now he is older he has his lunch then bottle and bed!

Question regarding stitches: how long were you tender for after stitches? I had an episiotomy, it's 3 weeks since R was born, and I'm still quite sore and tender down there.

I was still on max dose paracetamol and ibuprofen up to the three week mark Jelly and it slowly started to get better after that. But I would presume that an episiotomy would heal faster than a bastard tear. I would ask your mw/HV to check your stitches.

I had an episiotomy and I was taking back to back paracetamol and ibuprofen for about a month jelly ...

It took me about a fortnight to even be able to walk properly! Damn massive baby.

OK not just me dosed to the max on pain killers then! I might ask them to check my stitches next week if it's still this sore, they feel fine to me, I think I must be bruised from the forceps too...

It has been so long I can't remember

Howdy folks! I've had noooooooo sleep and I feel epic!

B is yet again (4th time this year?) streaming green snot from his nose. Yaaaay! I love my life! I especially love anyone who comes near me and my baby with a fucking cold. One I can stand, 2 maybe tolerate - but 4 fucking colds one after another is taking the frigging piss surely?! Each one lasts at least a week and we get no sleep because he is snot full then gets a cough which both wake him up.

Raaaaaaaah! I needed that rant, thanks. Dh is of course working nights at the weekend so I sat holding the baby from 8pm when he woke up (after going to bed at 7) right through until he came home at 3. I've got a small window of opportunity between Dh waking up (about 10am) and going to work today to get some sleep, before I have to do it again.

The worst bit is trying to feed a snotty hysterical child. It bubbles out of his nose all over my boob, when he then rubs his face into it rooting and it smears right across my chest. Yum.

How's everyone else?

Dh is actually being really good just now. I've no idea how much I've told you all but he's been a nob a lot of the time - men are naturally inherently selfish in my opinion and my lovely Dh is no different. He'll happily come in with us at lunch time from being out, disappear into the kitchen and make himself some lunch. Meanwhile I'm there trying to get B's coat off, go to the loo, strap him into his chair, warm his lunch, make up bottle, etc etc. Bloody men. But he's been alright last few days since I printed out a rough schedule if B's day and put it on the kitchen wall. Now he at least knows what should be happening at what times, as this baby is fed on demand but is regular as clockwork!

Glad B is liking his food purple! I give B ready brek for breakfast but put homemade purée or Ella's pouch in to liven it up a bit. Yum!

Right need to read back through.

Pud what's she choking on? Definitely sounds a bit refluxy. Get ye to the GP for (hopefully) some help.

Sleep training - not just now, he's waking for reasons such as teething, cold etc - so wouldn't be fair on him. Once he's clear of this cold and back in routine I'll see how things are.

Essie yes! The waving spoon thing drives me nuts! Just stick it in his gob for fucks sake! Dh likes to play with him during meals and make funny faces. It's fine but then B doesn't concentrate on task in hand and I'm paranoid about choking. Grr. He's getting better though.

Sorry to hear about prolapse :( what will they do?

B is doing ok at weaning. We gave him lasagne the other day and he loved it. Struggling just now with the cold as he's not keen on eating but hopefully once it buggers off we can crack on. He fed himself toast and scrambled egg and loved it. We've planned our meals around him this week - Dh finally listened to me when I said that we needed to do this as I had nothing to give B except purée.

Put a bit of Nutella on his hand no reaction so I'll give him a spoonful once he's over this cold.

He's waking, best go