March 2007 - All present and correct now

[LunarSea]

Morning all - new thread as the old one's about to hit the 1000 posts limit.

Not so great this morning - feel like an egg-bound chicken IYSWIM. Grrr - especially as I managed to avoid it all the way through pregnancy. And not sure if there's anything I can take for it while I'm feeding?

kiwi-i just stayed in my trackie bottoms in the end

fox-are you still annoyed at your dad over the childcare fiasco or did i miss something ?(i was in hospital with no MN when you had Monti)

kiwi-i just realised i hadnt looked at your photos before.your girls are totally gorgeous!

if anybody has time,could you answer this quick question for me?(only the thread title is relevent the actual post is just babble)

many thanks

agreed kiwi gorgeous pics!
But we kiwis make really scrummy babies you know

I think Finn eats fast and the milk comes out fast
Longest feed he has ever had was 13 minutes and he threw that up!
ds1 was the same,dd was more dainty and took longer though.
My boys are just gluttons methinks.
As for sex... well it's been some considerable time since the last time IYKWIM

So not holding out any hopes for a love in

Diva we all know about you and your bionic eggs

Mossie was not aware about your situ with parents etc hope you're at peace whichever route you choose.

Also wondering about Boo, she was not happy the last few times I saw her post IIRC?

Jays how are you feeling now?

My babies have all been fast feeders, and my milk seems to come down fast. But Hasan takes longer now because he's taking more as he gets bigger. Probably 15/20 mins.

Maybe Booboo is too preoccupied for mn, hopefully not too overwhelmed. Maybe she'll reappear in due course. Hope so.

Mossy you are obviously moving towards being ready if your are starting to work out what you'll write and what you hope the response will be. Things have changed, time has passed so hopefully with a new perspective things will turn out ok.
Did you see dr who yet? I forgot to watch until 7 so I missed a bit. I would love to on the writing team, working out these story lines

Piffle - are you a kiwi?? I never knew that !!!

Hope you and dp had a great time Diva - no matter what you were wearing . MissE slept over at a friends on Friday evening so we went out to eat at a quick, easy, and totally scrummpy pasta joint but I felt such a wally pushing my buggy through all the banker wankers at Canary Wharf. MissE came home late yesterday and promised that she was never sleeping away from her sister again... damn!!

Kate is slow at feeding taking anywhere from 20mins to 40mins. She's only a one side feeder tho.

Love your comment to the MW about contraception Mossy. Shame she didn't crack a smile to humour you!!

Yep I'm a kiwi, well I was born in the Uk but lived all my life from age 2-25 in NZ, and feel like a Kiwi, plus both my little brothers are kiwis!
However we're all over here now, to find wives, husbands make money and then take it all back to NZ... eventually

Kiwi are your girls part Maori did you say? They are very pretty aren't they? ("yes" replies Kiwi )

I'll try Boo again next week

Mossy did you see Dr who last night?

anyone see "Slam" at 2-3am on ITV2? Great film to watch when feeding...

Diva - still not talking to my Dad since childcare fiasco. It was his aggression towards me which has switched me off, rather than the actual letting me down on childcare (unforgivable though that is I can understand he may have been stressed anticipating it). Its just not OK for him to bully me, etc etc.

Really made up your noisy neighbours have gone any sign of the new neighbours yet? Hopefully they'll be a nice family

Monti's button smells again so will take him to GP tomorrow. His bum is still red raw too

I've added a public profile and a couple of photos. If I'd realised it was that easy I'd have done it ages ago

Had a bad week all told. DD had been going to sleep at 10.30pm. Now she feeds constantly from 5pm- 12.30am. I'm getting quite stressed in the night from tiredness. Last night she excelled herself and was still screaming at 1.15am. I could feel the "red mist" descending so I got up, put her in her cot (we've been co-sleeping up to now) and got back in bed. To my amazement she lay quietly looking around then went to sleep until 8.30 am!!!!

Evenhope - wow didn't realise you've got 5 kids too!!!

Your daughter is so sweet - is this the one who is keeping you up all night then???

Seriously - maybe the smell of your milk was keeping her awake?

off to buy DD some sandals. Got some brill Italian ones in TKMaxx this morning for a tenner for DS1

Evenhope - Lovely pics. Hope you get some rest today

I have peace at the moment as DH, DS & MIL are off looking for a new bbq
I am counting down the days til MIL leaves - with bf going badly I really want privacy, not questions about my breasts or opinions on where I am going wrong!

Evenhope, lots of teenagers to deal with eh? Are they helpful?
Hope everyone had a good weekend

I reckon Ronnie takes max 5 mins to feed. He takes himself off boob no.1 and refuses to be put back on it, then wants no. 2 and then no. 1 again 5 mins later . I think he might be a bit of a lazy arse as once he has to put a bit of real sucking effort in he doesn't want to!!

I remember with ds1 being really anxious about how long he was feeding and I would time him, I've never done it with any other child though.

I'm a lazy parent, whenever the babies cried I would give them boob [grin[

Teenagers helpful?!!! DD1 and DS1 are both at uni so we don't see much of them. DS2 can be very helpful when the mood takes him. DS3 is not helpful at all and when asked to "watch the baby" throws a major wobble. Yesterday I got "mother, are you going to take your child back?" when he'd had her for 5 minutes so I could have a cup of tea!

DD2 has been asleep all day, presumably to make up for last night. Trouble is I expect she'll be awake all night again.

Are you all using proper bedtimes and putting the babies up to bed before you go up? I've been taking her up when I go but there is always a 2 hour feed when we get there so I'm clearly doing something wrong. None of the boys did this.

TheBlonde - I feel like you about BFing - I'd rather just do it in provate than suffer everyone's unwanted comments. Are your nips still sore from the thrush?

I did a lazy feed 2 days ago and mine are both sore as a result of one crap latch

evenhope - no proper bedtimes yet for us. Toby's still cluster feeding in the evenings - every hour until about 11 - so there doesn't seem any point putting him upstairs just yet. We have his basket downstairs though, so we use that for the evening catnaps between feeds.

OMG - looks like I've got another baby who isn't going to be content to stay put for long. Toby flipped himself over from front to back yesterday. I thought it was just a fluke so I put him back and he did it again. Then he did it again this morning, and has just done it 4 times in the space of 5 minutes! Now he is seriously NOT supposed to be able to do that just yet. ds1 did it at 8 weeks - which is early anyway - so does this meant that if ds1 was crawling at 5 months that I shouldn't be too surprised if Toby does it a 4? Please, say that isn't going to happen! But then again Toby is definately stronger than ds1 was at this stage - he could hold his head up the day he was born, which ds1 couldn't, and is already using his arms to push his shoulders up when he's lying on his tummy, so perhaps it is on the cards?

Evenhope- Ronnie goes down for the night between 8-9 pm, which is great.

This'll make you laugh. Dp, the kids and I go for a walk in the woods this afternoon. As we're on our way back this huge, flabby bloke suddenly appears on the path, marching quick step towards us. Now dp and I can't quite agree as to his attire so I'll give both versions:
He has no top on
He's got black(boxer short type) or tight shorts on, a black pirate syle headscarf and an eyepatch or black sunglasses.

I'm actually not convinced I saw him at all seeing as I thought I'd just seen a fat, semi naked pirate stride past me.
I know I'm very sleep deprived but this is ridiculous.
Dp thinks he was a perv getting his kicks.
Still we all said 'hello' in a polite manner, as you do

Well today's a bad day. Bertie slept last night from half seven until midnight! Great I hear you say! But since then, I swear he has not slept, except at the boob. And as soon as I take him off.......

.......He wakes up again! Of course he does!

So dh kindly offered to take him for me for an hour or two so I could sleep.

Until I discovered that meant letting him cry and cry and just checking on him occasionally. So of course I couldn't sleep thinking of Bertie crying his eyes out.

Dh thinks I'm being silly, he'd be happy to put Bertie up in his cot for the night and just check on him crying every twenty minutes to see if he's okay. And of course I can't bear the thought of that, so basically there is no help coming from that direction.

At least tomorrow dh is back at work and I can get mil to come round and rock him / pace the floor with him for an hour while I sleep.

I do feel a bit at the end of my tether, but no so at the end of it that I could let a two and a half week old baby cry himself to sleep.

What should I do? Am I doing something wrong? Why won't he sleep except at the boob?

Tried co-sleeping with him last night and he still cried, I don't think he latches on properly lying down though.

Mossie, you know some days they just want boob all the time. Ronnie has been like it ALL day. Unless he sucks he screams. Tomorrow it will probably be better. I would advise you just to go with it. Men are mostly crap when it comes to babies. Best left to the women ime. Hang on in there.

Mossie - as Kitty has already said, you just have to go with it. Hope you get some help from MIL and things get better.

I had a similar time earlier in the week where I fed DD from 3pm til 9pm, DH then took over and finally settled her with the help of a dummy

Lunarsea - DD has flipped from front to back once so far, she's 5 weeks now. Bit scary as it took DS ages to roll and it means I need to pay more attention on the changing table etc

Fox - the nips seem to have recovered from the thrush. However the pain of the thrush obv masked a bad latch so I have big gash on one nip which is v painful. I am alternating doing the rugby hold to see if that helps

Evenhope - bedtime is random here. If DD is asleep then she might be in bed, otherwise I might be eating my dinner one handed

Evenhope she is beautiful!

Hasan is feeding loads at the moment.

I've managed to put on half a stone (fume) I'm overeating from anxiety...anxious I'm not eating enough obviously I am

Hi all...

What a lovely sunny day - Kitty, we are all off to walk in the woods tomorrow as it is my Birthday . Hope to see lots of bluebells and not too many semi naked pirates !

Mossy - Seriously, there is no right or wrong when it comes to babies (unless you are hurting them - which you are clearly not). They cry, you do your best - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Just make sure you get enough breaks to keep it all in perspective.

Blonde - glad you will be an outlaw free zone soon - tell them to keep their eyes off your norks.

Amos just follows us around and we follow him around, and so far that it working ok. Looking forward to his spots clearing up so I can take some more pictures. Anyone else have a spotty baby ?

Hi Laidback - my baby is spotty too and I am a slack momma who is failing to wash her face! She hasn't had a bath in a week

yep spotty baby here too.

top tip...ds1 handed me a sleepy Hasan saying 'just keep blowing on his eyes then he keeps them closed and goes to sleep '

Good tip Rosy

Kitty - I reckon he was a perv too - probably into "dogging" in cottages or something

Lunar - wow he sounds really strong - can't believe these babies are rolling - Monti rolled once and rolls of pillows but not from back to front or t'other way round yet. His neck is nice and strong now though

TheBlonde - glad your thrush is gone - hope the gash heals up - it'll feel a lotter better shortly and your life will feel so much easier

Mossy - why don't you try cuddling Bertie in bed till he drops off then gently placing him next to you and continuing the cuddle. He may or may not wake up !

I'm very lucky in that Monti is very appeasing and generally does what I want - cuddled him to sleep this morning when he wasn't at all tired, so I could go back to sleep.