September 2006 babies - smiles all round!

[clairemow]

New thread for us....

sorry mabel, GL not GI! (not that desperate! - yet...)

myrtle - has your lo's eating pattern gon up the spout?

Soor, the message about pics was for myrtle too! duh! having a fuzzy head day at the end of the migraine - just had a look and they're lovely, bless!

God I feel so queasy....I'm panicking slightly as although we have used condoms the 3 times since J was born, we only put them on at the last minute so to speak..(sorry if tmi). As I'm still BF, surely the chance of being pg is very remote? I've probably picked up a bug??!! Gosh, I don't know..I'm driving myself mad with it. I'm imagining that I'm much more bloated than I've been of late & that my boobs are bigger - if that is possible. I have dropped the 4pm feed but that was two days ago so I don't know why they feel so heavy still. Surely not...? I've not even had a period yet. Maybe I should think about the mini-pill???

Coriander - I'm sure it's nerves making you see extra symptoms iyswim! Really hope you don't have a long wait until you're due on
I've just gone back on the pill but am very fed up as I've been bleeding throughout the whole cycle. We haven't even done the deed since the last scare (it put me off again!) but dh is taking me away for a night for Valentine's Day and I really don't want any accidents
Dd was sick over me during her bedtime bottle - luckily we had a clean spare grobag. It feels like the washing machine is permanently on. We've got the inlaws coming tomorrow for the weekend which has put me in a majorly bad mood... grrrr... and dh is being tired and snappy, ds whiny as he has a cold and is tired. What I wouldn't give for a month away rather than just one night!!!

Cruise - sorry I haven't been on MN for a while so I missed your questions. Yes, I am weaning from breast to bottle. I've dropped the mid afternoon feed first after DS's lunchtime nap. He's been taking just a few ounces of formula first and then having a bit of breast too so I'm just taking it really slow to begin with. Feeding has gone a bit up the spout though in that he's feeding less during the day especially the mid morning feed for some reason but then he'll have really long feeds at 11pm, 4amish and 7am. He also seems a bit constipated - hasn't been since wednesday and he is straining and irritable. My SIL said to give watered down formula so have been doing that last 2 days but still nothing? Is this normal for formula? He's only having a few ounces a day so what's he going to be like when I drop the next feed!!
Cruise - let me know how it is going for you..

Hi all,
Hope your all well

Coriander - know exactly how you feel, I thought I was pregnant(again) couple weeks ago. I was lucky the nurse gave me a pg test straight after dd had her 16wks immunisations, thankfully it was negative! (couldnt cope right now with another lo)
But I had all the symptoms was so weird I felt like I was putting on weight felt nauseaus and went off tea (all the same symptoms the first time round)
I think your brain goes into overdrive as soon as you think of the word Pregnant. And then you feel like your experiencing all the symptoms. Hope it works out ok for you.

Compo - I went on the pill about 6 weeks ago and bled for 3 weeks of the cycle very irritating indeed. The doc just said it was the pill getting back into my system. But its no fun when you cant even have fun!

DD is doing well, I really dont know where to start with this weaning thing. Even though she's a big girl she seems content on sma gold and sleeps thorugh the night so I know she is not hungry or she would wake for a feed.
Is the reccomended age 6mnths to wean? or if not is it better to just wait untill your lo shows signs of wanting to eat our food?

x

Myrtle, introducing formula can make them prone to constipation. J has 3 bottles of formula now & 3 breastfeeds. Since we introduced more formula he's been constipated twice (compared to never on breast) but it seems to have calmed down now. Do think that it takes a while for their systems to get used to the change. Personally I'd never heard of watering down formula!

compo, I'm NOT pg!! Did a test today - just felt worse & worse so figure it must be a slight bug or something or that my first period is immiment. I've never been so happy in my entire life....really don't know what I'd have done had I'd fallen so soon after J.

clairemow, much at your skiing!!! Didn't get to go this year but PIL already planning next years trip to Meribel-Motarret for DD first time ... Also, don't think it's sad re Sound of Music!!! Happens to be my fav too...went to see the show in London 2 weeks ago; Connie was fantastic..

Thanks redz! Much relief I can tell you - DH really doesn't want anymore I hadn't even told him I was worried or that I was going to test!

Re weaning, yes, current WHO guidelines are breastmilk (or f) for the first 6 months then solids. However, as with most things, it depends on the baby in my opinion. I weaned DD at just past 5 months & 2 weeks as she started waking at night again & was showing signs in being interested in our food etc etc. With Jack, at the rate he is eating, I'll be lucky to get to 5 months although I really don't want to start any earlier if I can help it. At the moment, whilst he does eat a lot during the day he is still going from 7pm - 11pm through till 7am. If your DD is still doing through the night then maybe it may be worth holding out if she's content enough on milk thus far?

Thanks Cori,
Yeah think I will hold out, She does sleep through the night. It just so many people have been asking me if she is on solids yet and im like...no.
I think its because she's so big she looks like she's on solids!
She wears 6-9month clothing at 4mnths!
But then Im tall and so is her dad so cant expect much different.

Im glad you got the all clear I know how scary that is!

cori - phew! Had a scare meself for same reasons about a week ago but thankfully a false alarm too! We're off to the docs tomorrow to sign DH up for more permanent contraception

Redz - DS2's just gone 4 months too and is in 6-9 months clothes. I think people always ask you when you're going to wean partly because they look older than they are but also because the guidleines have changed so recently that only new parents really know you should wait until 6 months. As my mum is fond of telling me, DB1 was given a 'tot of gin' at 3 months !

Jingle - what kind of milk do you use for your formula feeds? DS2's eczema has really flared up again even though we've kept to the creaming regime and I'm going to go talk to the HV/GP about it. Poor little mite, he looks so sore

Redz - re: weaning, as cori and liquid say, wait as near to 6 months as you can, particularly as she doesn't seem hungry, some people seem to have the attitude that babies NEED solids at 4 months, even if they're surviving quite happily on milk. My mum (bless her love her to bits), keeps on about it, DS2 is also a very large boy and I have just bought him some 9-12 months babygro's, he is not fat, just v. long, but DH is 6'4" and I'm 5'10", so he was never going to be be short. He is still content on milk, so I'm stcking with it, I was v excitied to get going with DS1, but this time round, it just seems like more work faffing around pureeing!

The diet didn't even last a aday - i just can't do it, i like food too much. DH took me for a meal on friday night, I had corn fed chicken breast stuffed with olives and sun dried tomatoes on a bed of buttery mash - oooo bliss! Then yesterday we were in town and had to grab something quick....a Greggs veg pasty...oh dear....
I am starting yoga tommrow with my neighbour, as I've decided I don't need to loose weight, I need to tone up, which means I can still eat, plus I shouldn't diet whilst BF anyway...surely... (i'll convince myself if nobody else )

Hello all been a while since I posted but I just had to share with you mabel, ooh that chicken sounded so good I let out a gasp!!
Sod the diet! I would not be turning that down either!!

And thats all I have to say at mo! Now dying for DH to take me out to dinner! PIL are up next weekend and did sugest that we go out while they babysit ( a cunning ploy I know their game!) but DH loves giving DD her bath so much he is saying no at mo! What a crappy man eh? I will get him round, don't you worry!!

How did the wedding go bristols? I still remember mine with fondness, seems like yesterday! But I have only been and gone and got preggers and had a baby in the mean time! Where did the time go!?

Thank goodness Coriander and Liquid it was just scares
Really envious of any dh's persuaded to have the snip, my dh refuses to even discuss it!!
Dd still on just milk, trying to get to as close to 6 months as possible but 5 months would be brilliant!

Persuade?!! Dh has been trying to convince ME to let him go to the docs since about halfway through the pg with DS2! And I haven't actually said ok yet come to think of it... ah well, it takes two as they say!

Seriously though, if DH wasn't so adamant I'd wait until the boys were 2&4, especially given what's happened recently for ggglimpopo I know it's not healthy to dwell on but it does cross my mind every now and again that when DH has it done there'll be no second chances.

Mabel - I've eaten 3 biscits today! Think I'm going to concentrate my efforts on the excercise bike! Yummy chicken though, must o have some food now...!

Well, the wedding was a bit of a nightmare really. It was the most disorganised thing I've ever seen. DH was an usher and was called on to rush around doing things all day. He knows that this is an usher's job but we were given no notice so there was no planning. There are far too many things to write about here but to give you an idea, I was sitting at my kitchen table eating a crumpet on the morning of the wedding when a photographer just waltzed in to take pics of the groom getting ready. He didn't even have the courtesy to tell me she was coming Then, when I went to get myself ready, I walked into my bedroom to find the groom doing his tie in my mirror whilst being photographed, having not asked me Am I being unreasonable in thinking this is rude? You don't just go wandering into other people's bedrooms, do you? At least there were no knickers on the floor!! Sorry to go on but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

I was so disappointed. It was the first time we'd been out without DS and we were so looking forward to it. It was so stressful! Anyway, the evening 'do' was good fun as DH and I got very merry.

Fairy - I have such happy memories of my wedding day too. I love looking at the pictures and remembering. Time does fly.

Watching Top Gear and Richard Hammonds crash. Its horrible. I suppose its what you call morbid fascination. Although I do normailly watch top gear...

All's good with LO. Nothing else to report really. Have a good night all

Mabel & Liquid - thanx for your input re highchairs. My cousin said he'd let me use his old 1 (his kids old 1) and i've got a bumbo seat so we'll see how it goes.

He's just had a LO, 8 days old, he's alot heavier than my LO but i almost can't remember mine being that small. He felt as light as a feather.

Received a letter from HV re weaning planning to ask about baby led weaning.
Anyone going to try it?
LO is 5 months today still being BF and is 14lb 1.5ozs at last weigh in. I can't wait 2 be able to let his dad look after him without me. I feel guilty typing that .

What do you think you all think about dieting whilst BF? I'm so fat i feel really cheesed off with it. i'd just got to an ideal weight when i got pregnant- lost more weight through HG and then just piled on the pounds when i realised i could eat now i'm a heifer the biggest i've ever been. VENT

Any HV / doctor will tell you NEVER to diet whilst BF!!! You need all the energy you can get & the extra calories (you can hinder your milk supply & /or pass out if you are dieting etc - I know this from various friends / family that have tried!)) so whilst I'm not endorsing being miss piggy until you stop () just be sensible & resolve to diet / lose weight / get to gym etc when you have stopped!!

liquid...only 3 biscuits!! We can't have them in the house as I'd eat the packet.... bristols, sorry to hear about the wedding DH wanted to watch TG but I just had to watch the CBB final..very sad I know as I've never watched them before but I've just been addicted to this one.

DH very much on for the snip...keeps on at me when can he go etc. After the scare it made me realise that I really don't want anymore. We feel extremely lucky to have one of each both healthy & beautiful (in my eyes!) so maybe enough is enough! I also, for those of you that rememeber, hate hate being pg!!!

watched top gear as well - i found it quite spooky watching the crash, especially where he said after he's done the 2nd run he said he felt 'so alive' blimey!

ezridax - my attempt at dieting was a disaster - as i wrote on here - tbh I don't think it's wise to diet while BF, also I didn't lose my baby weight with DS1 til after I stopped feeding, I was luckier this time, to get straight back to my orginal weight quickly, it is my shape I don't like, but starting yoga tonight!
Also re: weaning, I am hoping to try baby led weaning, I am trying to find out a bit more info on it - not sure if it's a better way of weaning, or just a bit 'trendy' at the moment, so need to do some research...will let you know what I find out.

I have another (yes another!!!) theory about DS2's sleeping. I am still doing him a bottle of formula at 11.00pm, but have found that if I give it him he wakes at about 4am, but if DH gives it him, he goes til 6 or 7am - how strange is that. So That's now DH's duty, not too much to ask when I do all the other feeds.
Bristols - sorry to hear the wedding was a disaster...my DH photographs weddings - i would like to think he doesn't just saunter in to peoples houses uninvited!

I remember the night I had DS, I was being wheeled out of the theatre after being stitched up and one of the midwives came in and said Richard Hammond had been in a crash at Elvington, which is only about 8 miles from where we live. I will never forget that. I missed Top Gear last night but plan to watch tonight.
Must go, DS has just woken

hi all,

Bristols, sorry to hear the wedding was so stressful. I think they are only relaxing if you're either not involved, or they're very well organised!

Glad to hear about the negative tests... Phew, I can hear the relieved brow-wiping from here!!! I was saying to DH this weekend, if you could guarantee me that another one would be a) a girl, and b) as good at sleeping as her older brothers, I'd contemplate a third. Unfortunately you can't guarantee either thing!! But I don't think we'll be looking for any permanent forms of contraception in a hurry (in fact I am going to the doc on Weds to talk about a coil...).

Had a nice weekend, we went away for Burns Night - haggis and Burns reading at friends. I love haggis, and didn't risk eating it last year, so had quite a bit... yum yum.

Fraser has dropped his dream feed now - we tried it last Thursday and he still slept til 7 the next morning, so it's gone. Although when we were in the same room as him on Saturday night, he was awake from 3.30 - 4.30, not crying, just cooing in his travel cot. It would have been so cute if it wasn't that time in the morning..!

And HE'S GOT A TOOTH!!! Bottom left one. Well and truly through. I hope the rest don't give him any jip, he seemed to cope really well with this one.

It was morbid curiosity for me too. That's bad isn't it? I was watching CBB upstairs but came down for a sec and was hooked. Missed Ian's eviction altogether!
And I know what you mean about him saying he felt so alive, but also before he did it at all, saying this will either be fantastic viewing or that we would be witness to a horrific crash (or something like that) Self prophesising!! Scary!

Re sleeping, I keep coming on here in a panic about DD only to find that 2 days later she has stopped whatever was worrying me and that it was all over nothing! Most of the time I never quite figure out what was upsetting her! I just end up rocking, burping and cooing her, then she settles!?
So I am now vowing to stop panicing!
Yeah Right!!!

Not sure how I would feel about the photographer business bristols, i know my photographer did kinda wander around the house taking pics here and there whilst I was getting ready, but I didn't really notice her. But then that was in my own house (well, my parents) so I think that is ok. But when it is someone elses they ought to ask if they can just wander around. Actually, I am sure my photographer at least told everyone that that was what she would be doing and that we ought to ignore her. So, Yeah! He shoulda asked! not just assumed he could.
Old saying, but I like it 'To assume is to make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'!'
My DH hates it when I use that one on him

Yeah! A Tooth, Clairemow!
DD is always chewing at something and I am on the look out for any signs, but never anything there.
so, for our LO!

Your LO! oops

We wouldn't have minded at all if we'd have known and had time to prepare. But you know how muddled a house with a 21 week baby can be! Better go - bathtime...