March 2016 - quick, a new thread!

[Swearwolf]

Sorry for the terrible title, I saw the old thread was up to 996 posts and panicked!

Ooh don't I feel important

X posted - didn't mean to ignore there Dom. I keep having the same problem with the thread dropping off Threads I'm On. Very annoying. Hope you're not up bfing too often tonight.

Hi Trinpy!

gutted, though not surprised, we didn't get any snow yesterday/overnight. I take it there was none at your end of the county?

We had the teeniest snowfall on Thursday night here in the south east. We took DS outside to experience it for the first time, he was quite intrigued!

Thanks for the reassurance Dom and Trinpy. DS was better yesterday on pick up than he had been the previous session. His key worker said she has no concerns and that he'll most likely settle within a few weeks. Monday will be hard but we'll get through it! DH is working from home that day so he can come and do the drop off and pick up with me bless him. Then he's flying abroad for the rest of the week

Trinpy wow 6 teeth all at once! Did ds2 suffer with them? My DS finally has some teeth too. His first one came through a couple of weeks before Christmas with no fuss whatsoever. The second one has just broken through the gum earlier this week and has been a different story - it's really disrupted his sleeping, I've been up 3 times a night, thanks DS! The top ones I can see bulging underneath the gum so I think they're going to follow fairly soon too.

We never get snow here Dom . Although I was doing some last minute Christmas shopping on Exeter high street a couple of days before Christmas, it started snowing just a little bit and everyone's faces just lit up (well OK, maybe not everyone but most people's). You could tell snow's a bit of a rarity around here!

Me That's so strange that he was fine with the first tooth but not the second. Were they the bottom front two teeth? Ds2 suffers greatly with pretty much everything, so the 6 teeth at once was pretty rough on all of us! Also I can't count - it was 2 teeth just before Christmas and 6 more just after, so 8 altogether. The first 2 on their own weren't quite so bad.
It sounds like your ds will settle in to nursery pretty quickly. I bet once he gets used to being there he'll absolutely love it.

Wow 8 teeth in quick succession, your poor DS. Yes my DS has now got the bottom front two. It is strange how different they have been and also how far apart they have come through - almost a month between the first and second one whereas all my friends' babies have had them come through more or less together.

Me hope this morning went ok and you're not finding your first day back to terrible!

Yikes Trinpy all those teeth at once.. although given the spread out horror maybe getting it in one massive hideous hit would at least get it over and done with?..

We had no snow either - it came down long enough to grind everything to a halt at rush hour for about 20 minutes and then it was gone.. The novelty of it isn't so great when I can walk to the office anyway!

R is running snot at the moment with her second manky cold this year - had a pretty disturbed night last night and just sounds so bunged up, guess this is something to get used to now shes at nursery.. If only she wouldn't scream like i'm murdering her when I wipe the crusty snot off her face... out her eyebrow....

We had the top 4 come through in very quick succession just after C got bronchiolitis. That was an absolute barrel of laughs!

C is refusing to crawl but is cruising on the furniture and climbing all over us... its a bit strange.

Day 1 went well thanks! A few tears at drop off (me and him) but I called after a couple of hours and they said he was absolutely fine. He has apparently been pretty laid back all day, although he only had one 35 minute nap the entire day even by his admittedly poor napping standards, that's bad. He fell asleep in the car on the way home which wasn't ideal at all! But hopefully his naps will improve once he's settled in and got more comfortable in the environment.

And work was great. Everyone was so lovely to me, had loads of people stopping by my desk to welcome me back and my boss had got flowers and a card which was so nice. Lots of other mums assuring me that it gets easier. I had loads to do which helped, meant I didn't have much time to think about how much I was missing DS.

vroc I'm not looking forward to the inevitable colds either. Why do babies hate having their noses wiped so much?!

Glad your first day back was good me. C did really well at her nursery settling in session but it was only an hour and she could see that I was there. She happily went off for snack time though. She strangely had a very early nap at 8.30-9 45 when I had to wake her so she wasn't tired, I'm tempted to keep her up today and see if she will nap there. It's a bit awkward as she normally naps at 9.30 and the session starts at 10. I've told the staff she just likes to be left to go to sleep not cuddled or anything, she doesn't scream when you put her to bed but she does whinge a bit so I just hope she doesn't wake the other babies up.

Looks like we got a bit of a Christmas gift over here...

/bounces off to September 2017 thread

Bloody hell Tri you're going to have your hands full . Massive congratulations to you, that's wonderful news.

Fell off the thread oops.

Wow tri you're a braver woman than me haha. Hope you're well.

We have a stander but not walking yet crawling everywhere though and hes 100 miles an hour all day every day, ive been at work since 3oth nov and R loves nursery so I'm quite glad of it as he gets his energy out at least.
Only 2 teeth here too, but can now see the top 2 so think they'll be through soon!

Wow tri! Congratulations!! Like others said a braver women than me! But what great news!

I'm feeling like a bit of an idiot over the whole thing tbh - we weren't as careful as we should have been and clearly what I thought was a light period coming back was ovulation spotting - and we managed to do the business right on the button on Christmas Day when this happened. Boom, 3 days short of 18 months between due dates.

Wow, congratulations TriJo! 🎉👶🏼
It'll be intense in the short term but magic in the long term (I'd imagine)!

Wow congratulations TriJo! 18 months is a small age gap but I know lots of people who prefer to get all the baby stage out the way. (I'm not one of them! If DS gets a sibling, which we are still undecided on, there will be at least 3 years between them I think!)

DS had a good day at nursery today, he napped much better. Probably as he was so tired from being up at 5.30 this morning. He went to bed later than normal today as we got stuck in traffic coming home and he was then very overexcited and took a while to wind down, hoping this with the intensity of the nursery day might, just might?!?! encourage him to sleep in later than 5.30 tomorrow.

Oh wow trijo congratulations! Don't beat yourself up, these things happen and as dom said, it will be hard at first but lovely in the future.

me I'm glad your DS is settling in well at nursery, and you back into work! Fingers crossed for a longer sleep in the morning.

I went to work yesterday to do a keep in touch day. I was there for 6 hours and it was ok! I was really nervous on Sunday night and had about 2 hours sleep! I don't even know what I was nervous about, everyone was absolutely lovely and I remembered far more than I thought I would. It was like putting on old comfy shoes. I've got four more to do, every Monday for 6 hours for the next four weeks, and then back properly the first week of March. DS was fine too, he was with DH and they had a good time. I think poor DH was a bit shell shocked, I start work at 7am so he had to do all of the morning routine by himself which I always do, and he's not so keen on getting up early. Oh well! 😂

Wow trijo congratulations that's wonderful news ! I had a 19 month gap between dd1 and 2 as well. Short term was intense but they had a brilliant routine and now keep each other occupied and play together really well. In fact it has paid off beautifully as they always have each other and it makes me life easier as ds is something else. Good luck !
me glad to hear your ds is settling in well and you're enjoying work . It's so amazing to get your self of sense back and have that balance . I'm really missing it !
Good to see you q . I have a hyper baby too who is on the go 24/7. It is SUCH hard work !
dotty am sure it'll be a pretty steep learning curve for your dh. It's the other way round here - dh does all the morning routine with my two dds but that won't be possible anymore and am really struggling !
Ds is all snotty , has been up a gazillion times and I'm feeling all sorry for myself !

DS is poorly he was sick in the middle of the night, and vomited a fountain of milk and porridge this morning too. I hate seeing him unwell, he looks so sorry for himself and I feel so helpless. Nothing at the bottom end yet. As selfish as it sounds I am so wishing that I don't catch it, I have a huge vomiting phobia and I'm so pathetic about it all. DS has been fairly happy for most of the day, he is sleeping a lot though which is good as he is unwell and needs his sleep but I'm worried that he is going to get dehydrated. Argh! I hate winter so much!

Tri wow congratulations! Hope everything goes well!

Dotty hope your DS is feeling better and you've not caught it! Has to keep R out of nursery today she really was too sick to take in even on a dose of calpol - thankfully as I had a meeting DH managed to cover but hoping she gets in tmrw...!

So much snot.

Wow congrats tri I actually wanted a small age gap, there's 16 months between me and my big brother and 18 months between dh and his brother but I had awful nausea until 20 weeks and the thought of going through that with a 9 month old still bf put me off. We have a 26 month age gap and to be honest we are all so used to being tired all the time having another one doesn't really make it any worse and the 2nd one learns fairly quickly that sometimes they have to wait!

Wow congrats tri! My sister is due in April with a 19 month age gap, ill let you know how she gets on I have 28 months between mine and honestly it was hard at the beginning but they are already playing nicely together and entertaining each other. I always wanted a smallish age gap. Next time it will be longer, as my career is totally stalling and I need to focus on it a bit for the next couple of years!

Dropped off thread due to life being insanely busy! Dd2 started nursery at beginning of Jan (though I had gone back to work in Dec) and has started to settle in ok. First few days were teary for us both (o managed to avoid crying but only just!), but I've been going in to bf her twice a day so its not been too bad.. I've also got enough holiday saved up that i am effectively working four days a week now on full time pay, until my holiday runs out! Her sleep has been pretty horrendous recently with lots of night feeds, we ate still co sleeping and just decided to roll with it, i don't have the energy now back at work to try to change sleep routines. Luckily its calmed down now she's settled into nursery so its not too bad and back to 1-2 wakes. Though she has got an ear infection at the moment dd1 has never had one so its been a new and unpleasant experience. Got antibiotics for her from the doctors yesterday so hopefully all will be ok soon.

Hope your DS is over his vomiting bug now Dotty.

marmite glad your Dd is settling in well.

I am so ready for the weekend after my first week back at work! It has gone fast and we are probably in a bit of a honeymoon period but I have really enjoyed being back at work and DS has got on as well as he could have done at nursery. Other than the first day when he barely slept, he's been napping really well, demolishing all the food in sight, playing well and sleeping well at night. He's still up at 5.30 most mornings for a bottle which is a bit of a killer now that I don't get to go back to sleep (he normally still does, but I need to get ready for work!) but he's sleeping through until then so can't complain too much.

I feel slightly guilty for saying this but for most of the day I don't really think about him much! I've been busy straight away so haven't really had time to. But every day when it gets to about half 3/4 o clock I start to really miss him and then I'm clock watching until 5.30 when I can go and pick him up. So looking forward to spending the whole weekend with him!

Congratulations TriJo, ! DH and I are getting on and a second would have to come sooner rather than later but DH is adament we stay at 1 (I have 2x stepchildrenin their 20s). Mind you he was 100% against marriage and baby when we first got together..

DD is up a couple of times a night for feeds while taking solids and a couple of bottles while I am at work. Goodness knows why she is not a big round butterball.

Glad your return has gone well Me, DH has DD every day now we are in Paris with no family and still looking for a house so not able to register with a creche. He is great with her, I love opening the door and hearing him talking to her, singing etc.

We lost it this morning unfortunately at just past 5 weeks along. Even though we know it wasn't a good time for it losing it still hurts like hell. C has been sick today as well so it's been pretty horrendous overall.