March 2016 Babies Thread #11 - We've got smiley babies, screaming babies and farty babies!

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This time last year....my nephew was days away from being born, I was planning a wedding and looking forward to that holiday.....little did I know that I would fly home with a little souvenir

ffaux wow, that would drive me absolutely demented. In fact any one of the things you describe would be maddening. Give yourself a big pat on the back for surviving. You have got me curious about when goosebumps appear - though not on babies our age surely.

Time DH is also able to immediately soothe E, my sister saw it on facetime last week and was in awe. it is 99% great and 1% bloody annoying. Funnily enough this week we had a bit if a reverse as she wants to be held and swayed and my technique seems to get her approval.

rhu screaming in his sleep? Poor thing.

Morning all - please don't hate me but M slept from 12 - 7 (gets flags out in celebration)

I feel like I've had a holiday but I prefer to think of it as her apology for being such a beast from 8.00pm...we have an hour of sheer hell with her. She screams, cries (real tears) claws at us like a mini wolverine and then quite literally at the stroke of 9.00pm she smiles, coos and gurgles. I think the problem is that by 8.00 pm she is knackered so I'm going to have to be brave and start putting her down for a proper nap during the day. This is likely to end in tears ( from us both probably)

We're also brewing up a doozy of a nappy. No poos for over 24 hours so when she blows it's gonna be a delight.

Time I do agree, C is just reacting to a new face - it's not that you're doing anything wrong. In all the pictures you post she looks like a contented happy girl. I know going back to work is something you have considered for a while ((hug)) it's not been easy for you in pregnancy or since. X

Ffaux Mil sounds like a bloody nightmare. You have my sympathy. Vent away.

Dom ....not sure about the death pies to be honest...I guess they will be reheated but I'd be a bit dubious. I'm normally a bit blasé about out of date stuff but unrefrigerated meat? Hmm. Probably fine but I don't think I'd eat them because while I can cope with baby squits I hate having a dicky tummy

Anyone got any exciting plans for today?

Dom I'd think the pies were fine so long as you nuke them when you reheat them. But me and DH are pretty blasé about use by dates/reheating and I've reheated stuff which has been left out before.

Currently sat next to DD2s bednest waiting for her to go to sleep. I'm sure she's tired and needs to sleep but it does take about half an hour to pop off to sleep by herself and sometimes constantly I feel a bit guilty/worried that I'm not interacting with her enough

Ffaux sounds hideous! Good luck for the next three weeks I think you just have to grit your teeth and her through it while always thanking a higher being that she doesn't live down the road from you. Remember you know your baby best! My mil is lovely but says very odd things which I let myself get hurt by.

Dom how warm was your house? I would be tempted to eat them still because they would have had to cool right down from cooking. However this is not a scientific statement and after your sensible comments about formula being a great breeding ground for bacteria I got the impression that you are science based so maybe don't take my advice

Not much to report here, just enjoying the company of my parents and looking forward to the long weekend.

ffaux yikes that sounds a nightmare! Just keep counting down the days until she leaves! And ignore her in the mean time...

Dom I'd eat them but make sure they were hot when reheated, But I'm like marmite and fairly laid back about dates and left overs etc, also I thought it was better for things to be left out longer to go cold than be refrigerated warm so they should be ok but can't remember where I got that information from...

Off for R jabs shortly, so not got anything else planned for the day, DH has tmrw off so looking forward to a long long weekend!

Dom my DP would definitely eat them. I probably would as long as I wasn't doing too much the next day- just in case! As others have said, just make sure they are super hot all the way through when reheating to kill any nasties.

Good luck for all the jabs today.

Yay for Paper! (Waving flag for you). That's a good stretch!

Not doing much here today as waiting for my new oven to be delivered, anytime up to 2pm. Hoping to get in the garden later to enjoy the sunshine.

Dom I'd eat them too. We usually leave leftovers out to cool completely after dinner and pop them into fridge or freezer at bedtime. If they're warm going in, you'll accidentally partly defrost and refreeze other items.

I'm jealous of all those with partners who can settle babies! In the evening T starts angry screaming usually within thirty seconds of me handing her to anyone else. DH is a saint and endures it for an hour after DS is in bed so I can have down time. Luckily she is getting interested in toys so I can leave her watching her cot mobile for 10 minutes sometimes, but most days she's on my lap, in the sling, or beside me in bed for the other 23 hours.

Sorry to everyone who had bad nights. Sending virtual tea and Oreos your way!

ffaux that sounds like a nightmare, poor you, how much longer do you have to go?

dom I agree with marmite and vroc, better to leave it out and reheat it properly than put it in the fridge/freezer before it's properly cooled (which, as I understand it, risks raising the temperature of all the surrounding food and spoiling it). It won't have gone off in a few hours, and the heat when you reheat it will kill any bacteria anyway.

time, sorry to hear that you're feeling so down. As others have said, it's a new face and the baby will be picking up on your stress. My FIL has the magic touch with S, he can always jiggle her to sleep - unfortunately we don't live with him!

Yay for sleep, Paper!

The Death Pies went in the bin. I was never going to eat them. The one I had last night was lush though.

An interesting divide between the eats & avoids here though!

Leaving them to cool before putting them in the fridge was the error. They were cooked late and I went to bed hoping DH would remember. He didn't. I did think of wrapping them up and putting them outside to cool. But I didn't.

Well, after going to baby clinic (12lb8oz) and then the shop, we've upgraded from sofa day to bed day! Well, the couple of hours that were left after that and lunch. DS2 cuddled up and slept beautifully!

Welp, I was ^that^ mum that cried because G cried getting his jabs. He had been snuggly all afternoon though which has been very nice.

Not jel at all about the sleep paper...... G decided that five was up up up time so we came downstairs and I stuck Mad Men on while he played with all the jangles on the gym.

ffaux that sounds like a personal hell to me (trapped with my MiL anywho) Paddington stares and lots of non committal humms is my advice! I hope the three weeks go by fast.

dom I'm also a leave it out but still eat it person. Go with your instincts

C was very good getting his jabs - very little spit-up of the rotavirus liquid, only cried a little after the needles and then fell asleep after a little boob :)

We're back from jabs too, poor little sausage really squealed, she calmed down quite quickly though and is still in her car seat having dropped off as we were heading in the door.

This weather is not helping me dress the baby appropriately - boot weather yesterday, grey this morning and boiling now, ds and I are in jeans and the baby is in a babygro.

Back from jabs this morning she cried when they were done but was asleep by the time she was back in the car and was happy bouncing around in gym cooing at grandparents and then had a doze and all hell kicked off just now screaming blue murder like she was being jabbed all over again.. Literally crying so hard no sound was coming out in a strangulated cry. Wasn't convinced she got any of the calpol earlier as most of it came back out so she's had another dose after checking HPA guidance and without Grandads assistance this all went down fine appears all those years of worming horses had left me with useful skills for drugging babies so hoping it will help, she's sleeping very lightly on my lap she feels very hot but too scared to move to check!

Hope everyone else's whose been jabbed had a quieter afternoon!

Afternoon.
Been in bed all day today with a tummy bug. Oh phoned in sick and has been looking after c and guess what she's been settled all day :'(. I'd enjoy it but I feel like such utter shit. He and her where sleeping in the lounge and I guess it's the final factor in me deciding she's better of with her dad. At least she gets the rest she needs then :(.
Oh well..off to type my letter to work now and hopefully get it posted tomorrow morning. I've not enjoyed any of my maternity leave or pregnancy and this last year's been utter shit tbh. I truly love her but I can't enjoy her. I figure if my oh enjoys his time with her he should be the sahd.
Faux - your mil needs to back off ( sorry ) and realise it's your baby.
Hope the babies who've had their jabs have a settled night.

vroc same thing happened to G. Four hours of sleep and then an hour and a half of solid whimpers and wails. He went the reddest I've ever seen him. Got the next dose of Calpol in and took him in the car to pick up DP and now he's home, boobed and happily cooing with his dad.

Time do what is right for you, you have done so amazingly to get to this point - shit pregnancy, stressfull birth and fussy little lady all for your baby. Now you can take a breather and think about your needs. 💐🍫

Right, we are going to make a bar of pasta and mountains of garlic bread - I need a carby cheesy binge. What are you all having for tea?

ohwool haggis and cheesy mash with salad. I love my adopted country's comfort food, but it does require supplemental greens!

I'm laid down in bed with T nursing and dozing off beside me while DH and DS do bedtime stories. Co-sleeping is great when you're a lazy git like me . Definitely beats marching around with the sling in this weather.

We've just had dinner - we eat on toddler time in this house i just love an excuse to eat early as I'm always starving. This is going to make me sound like such a middle class douche but dinner was quinoa cooked in my rice cooker (I heart my rice cooker so much), mixed with roasted sweet potatoes, spinach and loads of feta cheese.

Commiserations to those whose babies had jabs today, hope the side effects are minimal!

Time as others have said you've done amazingly well coping with everything! How old will C be if you do go back? When DD1 was 6 months old I returned to work as financially we couldn't live on DHs salary, and DH took 3 months leave to look after her. He loved it and she did too. It was tough for me but right for our family at the time. Hope it works out for you either way.

Time I hope you get to enjoy DD more once you're back at work.

Commiserations to those with grotty post-jab babies.

DS has done remarkably well today considering he's got a nasty sounding cough and bunged up nose. I've thrown every cold remedy at him tonight - he's had cough syrup before bed, snuffle babe vapour rub on his feet and on a tissue in his Moses basket, and the Vicks humidifier running in his room (to be transferred to ours later). I'm hoping this arsenal of remedies leads to a better night as I'm shattered after last night

Damn, I thought we'd got off lightly but I've just had an hour of solid screaming, that really high-pitched, pained kind Just when I needed to be cooking dinner!

Dh is out tonight so I had fancypants dinner - filled pumpkin and pine nut pasta with a cobbled together 'sauce' of creme fraiche and feta. Eaten with a spoon because I'm disgusting.

S has finally gone to sleep on my chest and I don't dare move. Only problem is I need to wash up, and I'm on the wrong sofa - my drink and the remote are both over at my wee breastfeeding station (a big basket of stuff on one side of the sofa I normally sit on, basically that whole sofa is now mine), I've dropped my chocolate on the floor and fucking Netflix has just asked me if I want to keep watching Dexter. I'm going to have to move her aren't I?

Great success, I transferred her to her cot and she's still asleep! Hopefully this early night doesn't mean we're in for a ton of wake ups. If it doesn't, I'm trying it again tomorrow! If only she was already in the sleeping bag...

Sorry to hear about the jabs upset. E had a slight temp the next day too but was fine after that.

Just saw this on Facebook the-thud.com/24-hours-with-a-newborn/ it really made me laugh, especially the constant googling as that is me!

Haha purple that's brilliant and definitely includes every waking thought I have (I didn't just Google 'how to wind a sleeping baby' honest)

Hope everyone who had jabs today gets a good night's sleep and not too many bad reactions!

time if you feel that you would be better suited to being back at work then go for it. I know someone who really couldn't deal with being at home with the baby all day and went back to work when baby was 6 weeks and she said even now it was the best thing she did, she got her identity back and appreciated the baby more when she got home from work after having a day of adult conversation and 'rest".

swear why do we do it to ourselves? I know I'll sit on this sofa for 5 minutes, argh damn now I can't move! Glad to hear the transition to cot went well though.

me hope the cold shifts as quickly as it seems to appear!

ffaux wow I feel for you, just keep repeating 'only 3 more weeks' rather this intense visit in one go than her being there twice a week, every week, forever!

Bed day sounds great dom must do one of those one day soon but I end up feeling guilty and getting ds up and playing with him haha.

Ds has reverted back to 2 hourly waking again and I think it's caused by trapped wind as his belly is making some strange noises, but he falls asleep on boob every time he feeds so I don't know what to do argh!

We had spaghetti and homemade meatballs and homemade sauce for tea (one of my batch cooks from mat leave)

Purple that is hilarious! Described my first few weeks with DS to an absolute t! I'm also an obsessive Googler, DH constantly tries to remind me that people did have babies before Google existed!

A much better night here thank goodness. DS is still snuffly and still has a cough but it didn't bother him or prevent him from sleeping - all those cold remedies did their jobs!

Swear the number of times DS has fallen asleep on me with my cup of tea and the remote just out of reach! You'd think we'd have learnt by now not to sit down until everything is within reaching distance!

This was typed last night, I can't remember what distracted me 😐 I'll post this and catch up.

Me poor baby! Sounds like you will have tonight sorted, fingers crossed. The smell of Vicks is so nostalgic for me! It's been decades and I can still remember it. I'll mentally add it to the shopping list for when we inevitably get hit with a cold.

swear now I want a breast feeding station 😁 We pretty much just pile all the remotes, phones, terry cloths and other gumph on the footstool. Your tea sounded lush, have a good night in!

Mship I flipping love haggis 👍

Q that happens to me too! I think I was told that evening feeds have more of the "sleepy" ingredient to get them full and settled for longer over night (HAH!) but since G has just boobed and zonked with a white Santa beard of milk at 12:30 I'll take it with a pinch of salt.

Has anyone heard of The Fourth Trimester zine? It's only on issue two but I've found the articles really good. They are on Instagram and such.