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March 2007 - All present and correct now

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LunarSea · 23/04/2007 07:25

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?

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foxcub · 10/05/2007 22:22

Lunar I will do some more tummy time with Monti

Piffle - Finn sounds really strong - must be all that feeding . How many weeks is he now

[paranoid in case Monti is not as advanced as other babies emoticon ]

divastrop · 10/05/2007 22:29

piffle-i put Elsie to bed awake from birth,just used to keep putting her dummy back in but now she drifts off on her own.

i keep forgetting about tummy time

dp keeps quoting things ive posted on here.bloody cheek after having a go at me for asking him about who hes been chatting to on his online game

divastrop · 10/05/2007 22:29

piffle-i put Elsie to bed awake from birth,just used to keep putting her dummy back in but now she drifts off on her own.

i keep forgetting about tummy time

dp keeps quoting things ive posted on here.bloody cheek after having a go at me for asking him about who hes been chatting to on his online game

divastrop · 10/05/2007 22:30

grrrrrrrrrrrrr.that was dp who did that,he keeps pressing buttons while im typing cos hes waiting for me to get off here!!

foxcub · 10/05/2007 22:35

Diva

My DS1 hounds me to get off MN - really spoils it for me - to the point I can't concentrate!

TheBlonde · 10/05/2007 22:37

Sazzy - I am putting DD to sleep on her tum too

eidsvold · 10/05/2007 22:40

we do tummy time with dd3 too - she is very strong and is able to hold her head up for some time. Dd2 hated tummy time with a vengeance - she would scream and carry on. However it seemed after a while when you put her in the cot to sleep - she would flip onto her tummy.

dd1 wasn't too bad but again not a big fan.

good weekend planned here - Mother's day on Sunday.

We usually celebrate with lunch out on a Saturday as dd1 is not too good with crowds - just too overwhelming at times. So off for lunch tomorrow. Then off to visit my mum on Sunday. Also seeing db and sil who have not seen dd3 yet.

Mossie - I told you - took me 6 weeks to crack it with dd2 cause it was like having my first BUT i also had people - medical people assuming as dd2 was my second I knew what I was doing esp. when it came to breastfeeding. I went through real stages of thinking I was a crap mum etc - sleep deprivation did not help - dd2 was a big hungry baby. Then around the 6 week mark it just seemed to click. Glad to hear it is all coming together for you.

eidsvold · 10/05/2007 22:43

bedtime routine here is one last feed and then off to bed. when they get a bit bigger - usually dinner, bath, last feed and again just put them down to bed.

Dd3 is looking like being a dummy refuser like dd1 - dd2 took to her dummy like nobody's business - which I needed her to do at the time. Dd3 just sucks once or twice and then spits is very hard out of her mouth and then will not take it again. We were lucky though - dd2 came off her dummy quite easily jsut after dd3 was born. She gave it to the dummy fairies for 'another little baby whose parents can't buy her a dummy'. We gave her a little stuffed do g that she can cuddle up and go to bed with as that was the only time she wanted her dummy.

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LunarSea · 10/05/2007 22:44

Piffle - sounds like Finn & Toby should have been twins. He's been doing that mini pushup thing for a couple of weeks, and yesterday when he was on his tummy on a blanket on a wooden floor he was trying so hard to crawl that he managed to move the whole blanket several feet across the room.

We were out at a shopping centre this afternoon when Toby decided that he was starving so we adjourned to the nearest coffee shop for refreshments. While he was slurping away a young mum - who can't have been much more than about 20 herself came in - wearing a bright pink velour tracksuit, bright pink hair accessories, and heelys(!) and pushing her bright pink buggy, containing a bright pink child of about 3 or 4. Ok, so the child wasn't bright pink but her clothes were, and she also had pierced ears and lots of very shiny jewellery - and a bright pink dummy.

So I'm minding my own business and telling myself not to make judgements when she asks the child if she wants her "joo-joo" (blackcurrant drink) in her "bot-bot" (bottle with teat). So now I'm starting to mentally tut and wonder how the poor child is ever supposed to learn the proper words, when mum looks at me with ds and asks "Wots iz name then?" So I tell her and she says "mine's Jezebel". Now how on earth do you respond to that? Did she not know of the assocations there are to the name, or did she just not care? I don't suppose anybody would want to be the one to tell her if she'd done it from ignorance - but poor child to be saddled with that

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foxcub · 10/05/2007 22:45

Eids: "took me 6 weeks to crack it with dd2 cause it was like having my first BUT i also had people - medical people assuming as dd2 was my second I knew what I was doing esp. when it came to breastfeeding. I went through real stages of thinking I was a crap mum etc - sleep deprivation did not help - dd2 was a big hungry baby. Then around the 6 week mark it just seemed to click."

that wqas my experience too with Monti - people assumed I didn't need support as 3rd time Mum and I really struggled with the latch for first few weeks, then it suddenly came together.

sazzybee · 10/05/2007 22:46

I keep forgetting about tummy time too (during the day anyway). Bit embarrassing when the doctor checked elliot's ability to hold his head up yesterday. He obliged in the end but only lifted it an inch or so. I'm pretty sure he can do more than that. Still - don't want him crawling too early

Glad others put their babies to sleep on their tums too

Happy mothers day for sunday eidsvold

CallieNewMum · 10/05/2007 22:47

Jordi goes on his tummy when it's over my knee to try and relieve wind/stop the crying! He hates being put down on the ground when he's not about to go to sleep so he doesn't get any back or tummy time on a playmat really. Oh well, it'll come. Will it? I knew he was sick today when he submitted without a whimper to going in the bouncer and then let me cut his nails!! Normally the bouncer is a no-go zone.

DP goes on at me sometimes about being on MN but he can't complain cos he's always faffing about on MySpace or some such site. He claims it's all either to promote his work or for politics which he's into - so how does watching Pottymouth Parrot video fit either of those descriptions, I ask you....

Jordi got his quote of screaming in this evening after all (he was fine for a while in all fairness, being held by a friend of ours, which was nice to see) but went to sleep about 9.45. Now I'm debating whether to do the dream feed. I did it last night at 11.30, and he got bad wind so it took a while for him to go back down, but he slept from 12.30 to nearly six, then went back till seven when I fed him, then because of the cold probably, slept again until about 9.30. Decisions, decisions...

foxcub · 10/05/2007 22:48

Lunar - x posts

well at least she was friendly!!!

ohh must go to bed now - feeling quite drunk on my two spritzers

sazzybee · 10/05/2007 22:50

LunarSea - LOL - you must live near me! Having said that, one of my friends has called her son Cain which I've always thought is a bit odd (hopes that no one reading this has child called Cain)

quite jealous of her heelies though - I wouldn't mind some

foxcub · 10/05/2007 22:52

I had a friend who called her son Cosmo.

His surname was Pratt

[hiccup]

eidsvold · 10/05/2007 22:53

foxy - i had to tell people that not only did I not breastfeed dd1 - i had to feed her with formula via a nasal gastric tube for the first two months of her life and then she was able to progress to bottles a couple of weeks after cardiac surgery. Just to get them to understand why this feeding was sooo foreign to me.

I even thought it would take longer to sort it with dd3 and so bought in some sachets of formula ready to top her up and help me until we sorted it - that is why I thought it was weird to have it all not as bad this time round. Granted dd3 is nowhere near the size of dd2 to start with BUT i can't believe it is going as well as it is.

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LunarSea · 10/05/2007 22:56

sazzy - it wasn't near here, we'd just hitched a lift with dh who had a business meeting there for a change of scenery. But yes I think it was nearer to you than we are!

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foxcub · 10/05/2007 23:01

Eids - glad it is going so well this time. Your poor DD1 - what a tough start in life - it must have been an emotional roller coaster for you.

Think I am going to wake Monti in a miniute to "f=dream feed" him before I retire - otherwise he'll just wake me in an hour's time, just when I've got off to sleep!

foxcub · 10/05/2007 23:01

wher di that f= come from? ?

Mossie · 11/05/2007 08:06

Morning all,

Hey Foxy, can Bertie join your gingers of the world club? He's more russet... does that count? Anyway today or tomorrow I'm getting my pillarbox red hair dye... can I be an honourary member?

Jezebel - what a name!! Then again, I was thinking of calling Bertie Wayland at the beginning, until someone pointed out to me that it's Smithers' first name (from the Simpsons)!!

What's all this about tummy time, do I need to start doing it now, or should I wait until he's big enough to lift his own head off the ground?

Morocco dh used to work at Bolton Council, he did a lot with the Labour Councillors who didn't like Ruth Kelly at all, but dh couldn't stand the majority of the Councillors so took what they thought with a pinch of salt!

Right Bertie is starting to grizzle, better go before it becomes a full blown cry!!!

Rosylily · 11/05/2007 08:22

I've got a headache At 11 o'clock last night all 4 of my children were up, I had been up since 5am that morning and I was yelling 'GO TO SLEEP!' at them instead of singing lullabys like I usually do Yesterday was a bit of a nightmare day from start to finish really, but it's all relative.( At least I have all my children to shout at...feeling very bad about the news at the moment too Foxy)

These days I wake up in the morning feeling unrefreshed and body aching before I even get up Last night I watched a bit of my yogalates dvd while I was eating my pie see I'm full of good intentions!

Hasan is pretty strong too.

Lunar that was so funny. Sounds like a comedy sketch!

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LunarSea · 11/05/2007 09:18

Rosy - It was that cliched that I half expected someone to jump out and say "smile you're on candid camera". I still can't work out how you'd actually roll on heelies while pushing a buggy though. Don't you need to use your arms to balance?

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kiwibella · 11/05/2007 09:35

well, I don't know what to make of my wee girl - she slept from 4pm yesterday!! She woke as I was going to bed about 10pm. I fed her and she had such big eyes I thought she would be up for hours, nope. Same again at 3am... before waking at 7am. I am about to take her to the baby clinic - and she's asleep!! Luckily in her car seat, so we are going anyways .

kiwibella · 11/05/2007 09:38

I don't lay Kate on her tummy as often as I should - she is so funny when she does, it sounds like she is running a marathon with all the huffing and puffing .

Hmmm, Piffle... will Finn be an All Black or an English rugby player in the future???