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?

Jezabel sounds fabulicious, Lunar !!

Lunar - yes she sounded like something from a Catherine tate sketch

welcome Bertie and mossy to Gingers of the World Unite - we Gingers must stick together

hoping for Phil and Teds to arrive today -- whhooooowhoooo!!

Montipine has his jabs at 11.30am - wish the wee laddy lots of luck and hope he deosn't scream all day as a result!!

Kiwi - strange sleeping patterns eh? how do you change it?

Rosy - I'm still holding out hope for that girl - I think she's still alive [crossed everything]. Its a question of whether they can locate her as she's probably in Spain or further afield by now.

Hello all, wow lots of chat

lunar, that really does sound like a 'you've been framed' moment

Foxy/Mossie, ronnie is also looking rather 'ginger'. We have decided that he no longer sports a max wall hair do but looks worringly like Neil Kinnock!!

kiwibella - as if you need to ask, over my ead body would he choose England over NZ

fox - Finn is 7 wks, he seems in a hurry which as he is my last is a bloody shame, boys huh...
Callie - hope Jordi is starting to feel better, sounds like he is getting plenty of rest which will help loads.

Mossie - am getting hair chopped this afternoon now the pregnancy lustre has died off it looks awful. Hope you find the time to dye your hair soon...

Diva I have put Finn to sleep when he is awake too from birth, he goes down beautifully in his pram during the day or in his crib if I'm upstairs. At night he seems to prefer to scream for an hour whether I'm holding feeding or he is in his crib. He is awake from 3.30pm, has short nap going down wonderfully at 6.30pm (after bath some nights) Then at 7pm he wakes shouts and usually gives in by 8.15pm - once he is down he is fabulous.
I am finding it dead stressful so I am aban-doning his bedtime, will keep him downstairs from now on til 8pm at least.

We also changed the crib for the cot last night as he makes his way to the top of the crib and bashes himself... let me out methinks...

So only woke up at5am to find Finn nestled snuggly in the spare blanket pile at the top of the cot, he travelled the whole bloody way. Do babies really ever go under bedding... Feet to foot seems a bloody waste of time here - oh and this was in a grobag too - go figure???

Finn will not take a dummy - dd loved hers.
Well Finn is back to 2 hrly feeding daytime and 3-3.5 hrs at night.

Oh well at least he is easy to settle and feeds fast and never needs winding.

lunar-lol at your experience.you should have sent her in the direction of MN...i could do with some light enertainment

i cant believe all these babies pushing themselves up etc.Elsie just lays there with her head to one side when i put her on her front-just like all the others did.well,the girls.my female children seem to all prefer learning to communicate before laerning to move(thats why i have a 17 month old whos still crawling but says lots of words).

better go and get ready to go to the doctors.

good luck at the docs diva.

Lunar we get to meadowhall a lot as PIL live near to it and gosh it is full of lasses like that.
Dead funny!

Thanks Piff. In theory, Jordi could play for England on account of his father but like you say, over my dead body!!!! His grandfather, sadly deceased 12 years ago, would rise from his grave and haunt both me and him if that ever happened. Actually, it would be over DP's dead body too, despite the fact he is actually English.

Lunar, being called Jezebel wouldn't matter a damn in Wales because nobody ever gets called by their full names, so Jez isn't such a bad abbreviation. If it didn't have that association with the name, I think it sounds quite nice.

After a bad start this morning, with lots of crying and screamy bits, J has now been asleep mostly for the past three hours and I think he's going to do it again - sleep all day, cry much of the evening. Oh dear.

His hair is really falling out now on top and the sides, much to my sorrow, cos I loved his spiky hair when he was very wee. Did I tell you about the scalping experience I had about two weeks ago? A book recommended using Vaseline to get rid of cradle cap. It said rub it gently on the baby's head and shampoo it off. I followed these instructions and was horrified to see clumps of hair floating around the bath and a newly-bald on top baby emerging. He was also screaming so I was worried it had hurt him. Was really pissed off with bloody book! Hair is starting to regrow on the top but it's much lighter - I really hope he goes dark again as he gets older. So Jordi is joining Ronnie in the Max Wall look, Kitty!

Did anyone see This Morning today at 11? There was a premmie baby who was just 1lb at birth at 23 weeks who was treated in the same unit as Jordi. It was his first birthday today. He was so cute. Was welling up listening to the mum talking about it, and picturing the scene I know so well. Then afterwards, there was an item on the Welsh news about cot death which frightened the hell out of me and made me resolve to get a monitor today as I still don't have one. Bad mother emoticon please.

It's raining a bit less fiercely than yesterday so I'm determined to get out today. Two days in the house in a row is not a good idea, i don't think.

I had a lovely HV round yesterday to talk about weaning. My god, seems so soon, not that I'll do it until he's six months anyway, but that's only two months off now. Eek - where is it going?

Callie - PMSL at Jordie's hair floating across the bath!!!

I have resolved to leave Monti's bonce well alone, for fear of his hair coming off with the cradle cap Instead I gently pick the scabs while feeding him (..nice)

Kitty - good, another Ginger person in the world We just need a few billion more not to be a minority!

Diva/Piff - I think Monti is too laid back for all this wriggling. He manages to wriggle across to me in bed at bight, so I wake to find him snuggled against me, but that's about it - though his neck is very strong.

Would it be useful if we put at the end of our posts how old our babies are now, as I am getting very confused between Ronnie/Bertie at the newborn, Jordie at the advanced end, and all the other between..

or is that just me?

Monti is 9 weeks (10 on Tuesday)
Had his 6 week check today and first jabs
Keep forgeting to do "tummy time"

foxcub I know you (probably) as Cosmo is my nephew!!! Blimey - what are the chances of that! LOL

Today I took Elliot on the bus in his pushchair and he screamed blue murder on the way home and some woman shouted at me to get him to stop! I didn't know what to do - she told me to take him out and hold him but I told her that was too dangerous (I nearly got thrown down the aisle on a bus when I was pregnant because the driver slammed on his brakes suddenly). Anyway she went on at me about what a racket he was making like I couldn't hear him and in the end I told her to F off [blush. He stopped after that fortunately.
What should I have done? Am I being hysterical about carrying him? Do you hold your baby if they yell?

On a more positive note, Elliot fell asleep in his chair on his own for the first time ever this morning. Normally the only way I can get him to nap in the daytime is to stick him in something moving so this is huge progress

Sazzy, what an old bag that woman was! I would have got insane (sleep deviration..don't mess)
Well Ted is sleeping a bit better, had a drama yesterday when I gave him forumal (sma gold) for the first time for a night bottle and he came ouit in a rash..straight down the doctors

formula sorry my spelling is to pot as husband is looking after baby...Badly! grizzle grizzle

Sazzy - I had similar helpful comments when DS was a newborn and was screaming in Sainsburys. He wanted to feed and I wasn't about to whip a boob out at the checkout.
Two lovely Aussie girls (with toddlers) took pity on me and helped me pack my shopping. They also told me to ignore the old biddies!

DD is 7 weeks today and approx 11lb 14oz

Skin clinic was useless. Saw a nurse practioner who knew nothing about bf. She suggested my nip won't heal until I stop feeding which wasn't exactly helpful

Sazzy... that's the 8 degrees of separation at work!! Funny if you and Fox do know each other in RL .

Kate is asleep, again! She went down about 5pm. We went to the baby clinic this morning - which she really enjoyed. She was gabbling away to the other babies. I'm going to have to toughen up and make more of an effort to get to these groups. Kate is obviously more sociable than me .

Kate now weighs 5.2kg or 11.4lbs!! I'm quite proud of her 700g gain in the last month.

Funny image of hair floating in the bath. What a shocking moment .

Piffle ... glad your boy is in training for returning to NZ!! Callie - are you not English?

good idea Fox:
Kate - 11 weeks tomorrow

oh Blonde (x-posts) that wasn't helpful at all!!

sazzy - !!!

which part of the country does he live in?

It's such a small world foxy!

Well they used to live in Putney which is where I'd imagine you know them from? Don't tell me there's more than one

You're not the first person to comment on his name - fortunately that's not my surname

pmsl@sazzy+foxy...but surely you would have recognised her from the pic fox??

i had somebody on my bra thread a little worried last night as she thought i may be one of her friends,till she realised i had too many children.its a very small world as there are 2 other people(that i know of)from this town on here(note to self-stop slagging off the locals)

sazzy-as an experienced motheri would like to re-assure you that 'f**k off' is the standard response to stupid women like the one you encountered.i wouldnt get Elsie out of the pushchair on the bus,or supermarket etc,if she was screaming.i would just let her scream.and tell anyone who had a problem with it to eff off

dp went to the docs with me,told them my depression is seriously affecting our relationship etc.ive been given different ad's.i hope they work,cos i kind of feel like im on my final warning and if i cross the line again dp will be out the door.

Elsie-9 weeks today

i was going to suggest the same thing a few weeks ago but i forgot

sazzy at some people
I was on a bus with ds once when he was tiny and he howled, he was hungry but we were too near our stop for me to feed him.

She yelled
Cant you hear him screaming, stop him
I yelled back
No actually and why would I. I'm really enjoying it love, aren't you?
I think F off was a perfectly reasonable response.

Callie, sorry but had to giggle at Jordis hair drama!!! I bet he grows a luscious little mop now.

Finn 7 wks
22/3/07 8lbs 3oz
Now
12lbs 2oz and that was last week

Kiwi - no, I'm not English, I'm Welsh . And half Scots and quarter Irish.

Jordi is being frighteningly quiet. Can the experienced mums reassure me that it's normal for a baby with a cold to just sleep. He's eaten less today too, but not too drastically and he has woken as normal to cry when he's hungry. I think that cot death thing earlier has really put the wind up me.

That is funny, Foxy and Sazzy . Sazzy - that woman needs shooting. You were quite right not to take him out of a harness on a bus when he's so tiny. She obviously needs to get herself eitheran ipod or a car quick if children on buses disturb her.

TheBlonde - fantastic advice there for you . Hope the nip sorts itself out.

The hair thing was funny in retrospect, I must admit. It's now falling off normally onto his bedding. He's still got a massive rubbed off patch at the back which I'm starting to fear will NEVER grow back!

Forgot to say - Jordi 17.5 weeks (real age), 9 weeks (adjusted age). Weighed 12lb 7oz two weeks ago, am guessing 14 ish or more now?

callie-most babies have a baldy patch at the back which grow back when they start sitting up.i dont know how well you can see my dd2 on that photo but shes got lucious locks and she had a bald patch till she was 10 months.

oh,and babies who have colds like to sleep alotas long as he's feeding ok and has some time when hes awake during the day then he's fine

OMG Sazzy - I feel so embarassed - making fun of gorgeous little Cosmo's name

believe me I ahve never been so caught out!!

deffo the same child - lived in Putmey and moved to Se24?

I did ante - natal yoga with his mummy - who is lovely BTW [mega guilty emoticon for taking piss out of her child's name]. They came to DS1's first few birthday paries and his Mum and I were quite friendly.

R U her hubbie's sis or her sis?

Do you know my biggest fear is one of my own sister's coming on here and seeing me slag of my family LOL!!!

Diva - I'm amazed I haven't "met" any local women I know in RL on here !!!

anyhow...[ahem..] thebLonde - that was really useful (not!). WTF is a skin clinic anyway? The don;'t sem to know much about BFing. Have you an injury on your nip? I had a chunk missing for about two weeks and it wouldn't heal while I had thrush (got I hate that word). It did eventaully heal but I had to change my latch to avoid the bitten area.

Sazzy - Feck off is an appriopriate response - whta a miserable woman - why is it British people resent children so much when the rest of the world love them (ponders on the collective mental health of London population....)

callie - its normal for babies to sleep loads when they're sick. Monti is out for the count after his jab (after yelling all afternoon - I gave him calpol which did nothing then had to give him baby nurofen - "from 3 months"? - which worked wonders)

Sazzy - did Cosmo's Mum have any more kids? last time I saw her ( about 5 years ago) they were trying...?