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?

cor lazy mother alert..I just cuddle and lift Hasan all day, when he falls asleep i put him down somewhere handy, if he's awake when I'm ready for bed I feed him to sleep beside me. I don't even care about him getting to sleep on his own..

callie-dd2 was so used to falling asleep on her own from when she was in hospital that she wouldnt fall asleep in my arms ever.

Mossie, Ronnie has just started falling asleep in his chair. Up until now he had to be held or fed. It hapens mostly in the mornings. Evenings are still a grumbly feed fest .

dd3 falls asleep by herself - sometimes she has a little cry. Funnily during the day she does not like sleeping in her bed - prefers to sleep in her chair ( see pic on profile). Other times I feed her to sleep.

She is becoming a real chatterbox - she was in her moses basket after her 2am feed chattering and gurgling away.

She is 8 week this week - need to organise her jabs - have so much on - might have to be next week.

Dd1 and I are off to a mother and child evening at kindy. We do activities like they would do at kindy and then do some joint artwork that goes in their portfolio for the end of the year, sing some songs etc.

dh is coming down with some lurgy so he has kept me awake all night coughing and getting up and down - poor thing. He has still gone off to work to infect everyone else though

Monti will fall alseep in the buggy sometimes (i.e. when its stationary and in the house). He can fall asleep in a chair/car seat if there are other people in the room or the Tv on (he gets lonely...).

In the bed, he can fall asleep after a big feed in the mornings. But he often requires me to lie next to him and hold a dummy in his mouth.

He slepts very best of all after a bath though - it really sends him off when he's had a bath then a feed (or the other way round)

I feel bad about my neighbour now:

if he was breaking in - that means I have a teenag burglar living next door

If he's innocent, I feel as though I've got him in trouble by being a nosy neighbour...

I was hoping his parents would pop in for a chat but the haven't - probably too

Diva - I agree that small children are often very instinctive and psychic - I think we lose those instincts as we get older.

Re. flirting. I used to get very jealous when boyfriends were flirting. My DH doesn't do it now (to old LOL!!) but I am guilty of it sometimes and its always innocent. I just do it to entertain myself. In fact if I fancy someone I would be too embarassed to flirt with them, I flirt with people I don't give a stuff about generally, to entertain myself

I think if you feel it can really eat you up though and ruin your confidence.

Your DP loves you I know he does, from what you've told us about him in the past.

Just wanted to add that Monti falls asleep by himself in the mornings but at night I have to coax him to sleep with the dummy/lying next to him.

hiya everyone, how are those babies growing? emily gets bigger and fatter by the day - thunder thighs.
sorry some have been having friend trouble, i think now almost all my friends are people with young kids, and i've always got closer again to other friends once they got pregnant. I suppose we just have more to talk about.
sleeping baby talk - emily is great at going to sleep by herself at night, I put her down after a bath and she gurgles, might cry and I feed her again, then put her back and usually that's it. she let me know when she was ready for that routine by going mental around 7-8 when I was trying to rock her to sleep ds1 and ds2 were the same but with ds1 i needed my mum to point out i was just irritating him by rocking him etc.
but . . .
I've given up totally on the idea of putting my babies down during the day for a sleep - never managed it with any of them. dd loves going in the sling for a nap and it doesn't seem to make any dif to her bedtime routine.
and i personally don't worry about the falling asleep at bedtime thing either. dd is a bit of a revelation, going to sleep when put down awake, but ds2 was bf to sleep til 14 months and then we just changed to story and tuck up in bed no probs, so it doesn't always mean trouble lies ahead
got to go, battery about to go

morning ladies.

i dont bother with daytime 'sleeps',i just let Elsie drift off in her chair or her pushcair whenever she wants.the way i see it,i want to encourage 12 hours a night from as early as possible,an asleep baby is no help during the day as i have dd2,who is now growing out of daytime naps and its hit and miss whether she'll have one.

fox-tbh,ive got more of a problem with online flirting than rl.i know that people often 'flirt'in rl with people they dont even find attractive,just for a laugh or to get what they want,but ive seen the way online 'relationships' develop,and that they can destroy rl relationships,thats why im more wary of the online chat thing.

Elsie has started waking up just because its morning now,rather than because she's hungry,and she keeps kicking her little legs like shes just discovered they're attached to her

i think the tablets are kicking in now,i feel very dizzy and weird atm,i hope it passes.

i started talking to the woman who lives next door-but-one this morning.i thought somebody else who was friends with the karaoke killers lived there,but dd1 pointed out they live in a different house.next door but 1 has 3 small children,including a baby of 15 weeks,and she said she also had to knock on next door and ask them to keep the noise down a few times!
anyway,she didnt know theyd moved out,so shes happy now as well.

Elsie 9 weeks 4 days....smelly...better go!

This is all very interesting re the sleeps - wish I'd thought to ask! Elliot goes to sleep a bit more easily in the evenings now I've stopped stressing out about how much sleep he is or isn't getting in the day - he sleeps loads in the mornings but not much in the afternoons it seems.

I've started a new thread in parenting asking for tips on this weekend away I'm going on over the bank holiday. I'd appreciate your views so I'm going to try and link to it (picture me here with my tongue sticking out the corner of my mouth in concentration) here

diva - that doesn't sound v nice re the feeling dizzy. Hope they may you feel better soon

morocco - I am loving every single roll of fat elliot gets - he is getting really squidgey now

Another horrible day - I might put the heating on again or Elliot gets cold ears!

Do you ever stop worrying about these very tiny people? Bertie has a cough since yesterday, I have called the hv but she hasn't got back to me yet, he isn't registered with a Doctor yet because he doesn't have a birth cert until Friday when I take him into Liverpool to get it. So I'm worried...

Neither me, dh or mil has had a cold or a cough and he's not seen many other people in the last few days at all.

So is it: something I'm eating that's going into his milk? Could he be allergic to something, either in the milk or in the house? I am racking my brains to think what it could be!!! He has also had some very explosive poos (sorry if tmi) so could that be related to it?

Diva it's great to hear that Elsie drifts off by herself!

Foxy you did what you could about your neighbour - if you hadn't done anything you'd be driving yourself mad thinking you should have!!

Oh balls Bertie is now crying / coughing again so I will have to go...

Diva One of my friends says when she stops flirting she'll be dead. I'm too lazy and shy to flirt really.
Dh is a big flirt with women and men, he's just a people person. throughout our relationship he's been socialising with various females who I would seldom meet. There was one woman who definately had the hots for him. I met her at his christmas do and a year later at the next christmas do I could hardly remember her but she was telling me what I had been wearing the year before
Dh would be socialising with her and others but not me because I always lived elsewhere from him...and comitted and tied down with ds1. I used to get pretty jealous! Though I knew he was committed and true to me. But I had to overcome the jealousy if I wanted to be happy with dh because he wasn't doing anything wrong and his friendly, sociable personality is what I like about him too.
I deal with it by concentrating on me and doing my own things. I think I actually go too far in the other direction and can be cold and aloof.

Mossy Is it just a bit of a cough or quite bad? Hasan had a cough a while back but it wasn't anything extreme and I called it his attention cough. All my babies have done that so poor guy, if it was a real cough I ignored it! Though I didn't ignore him of course!

Tried and failed to post earlier

Mossie - your doc will be able to see you baby without a birth cert or registration if you are worried

mossy-babies will easily pick up any bugs going because thier immune systems havent developed yet,but you will probably have fout it off before you got ill.

the way i deal with illness in babies is if they arent feeding as well as normal,or they are sleeping all the time(they always sleep more when they are ill,but should have some awake time),then i take them to the doctor.i'm sure your own doctor would see him anyway if you explain you havent been able to register him yet?

rosy-i realise i will have to get over my posessiveness,as i know that dp isnt doing anything wrong,like he says,he doesnt even know what gender most of them are in rl,and alot of them are just teenagers anyway,but the main thing is he doesnt care who they are in rl as hes just playing a game!

i need to get some interests of my own and keep busy instead of obsessing over what dp is doing

Hope everyone is well

Callie that friend does sound rather evasive... but you've done the right thing by leaving the ball in her court. If she wants to start a friendship then I would leave it to her to make the next move. Annoying when people consistently let you down though.

Foxy at the boys on the roof! Do you really think they were up to no good!

Shanks well done on getting out to meet new people. Your friend sounds a little immature to me... bit bizarre to treat you like that when you've just had a baby... she sounds too high maintenance to be a good friend to you.

Diva are you feeling any better? Is dizziness etc a usual side effect for you on ads?

Rosy I'm with you in the "putting baby to sleep wherever" camp! I did try to get him to fall asleep unaided in my stressy period when i stopped posting on here.... however my HV soon sorted me out and told me to go with the flow... music to my ears... so we're still on a very loose routine and every day seems different! Samuel seems happier like that though... me too

Mossy if you're really worried can you get an appointment to see the GP so they can listen to his chest? I know our health centre is brilliant at that if you just phone up and say how old baby is etc... they should squeeze you in and then you can have peace of mind. It's terribly hard when it's your first baby to know what the hell is ok and what's not... infact... what am I saying? I still don't know third time round!

Had our fist jabs yesterday. Very fractious Samuel all day and night... very sleepy today. Don't those needles look huge?

Diva - you have us don't you?

[actually I am a 6" Italian guy with a huge wonga )

Dolly - sorry never got to CKidson sale today. What did you buy?

I went to ahandbag sale at 12 and bought a big sensible leather bag pour moi (reduced from £165 to £50 so had to buy it) and a sparklu glittery pink hnadbag for DD (£2)

Monti's poos are so explosive atm they go right out his nappy, up his back and practically out of his sleeves too. I' using so much Vanish trying to get the stains out!!

fox-lol.i assume youre gay then as you fancy dt?

mumsnet is great but i really need to keep away from the relationships threads when i feel crappy cos to read them atm you would think that all men are cheating b*ds

Not much time - crikey Finn has fed and slept all day, cannot keep him awake which while it sounds ac, is a worry as I am sure he will thus by default be up all night...

Mossie, you can whip him in the the docs maybe?, I think any cough on a very young baby is worth listening to to put your mind at ease at the least. I hope he is ok.

Finn puts himself to sleep, sometmes grizzles for a bit but nothing major. He like to scratch/stroke grip the sheet over his lambskin and pull it down so his head gets on the lammy. He then sucks his index finger unti he nods off. I hve plonked him down awake from day dot though.
I have had him asleep a lot on me today and it has been delish, although my wrist is cramping as he is so damned heavy!

Not muhc else to tell, am not goin to be on much as need all spare time to fill in DD's Disability Living Alowance forms for renewal, it is very stressful analysing all the things your dd cannot do, when you spend all your real life focussing on what she CAN do... it always taks me ages to do the forms and I get very depressed. Even thouhg dd is a delightful and gorgeous girl it still works me over...
Right off to scoff a chinese

Hello every one. Im new here. My DS is 10 weeks now.

Mossy, hope the cough is nothing to worry about. I'm slightly worried about Jordi because he's got very loose poos and has gone three times today - once when I was changing him too - not nice - and also seems to be bringing up a lot of milk, although he always brings up quite a lot. Im not sure I'd know the difference between a bit of reflux and being sick for other reasons. But he's eating fine so I guess not too much to worry about. I've got a bit of an upset gut too so maybe we've both got a mild bug or summat. However the rest of the day has been nice. It's been really nice after a rainy start, and I've been for a walk in the park then lunch at a cafe with another premmie mum. Days like today really make you appreciate maternity leave! He was really happy, smiley and chatty after I fed him when we came back.

I've got my two mates coming over from Dublin at the weekend which I can't wait for. One, who's my best friend, had her son nine days before Jordi was born. So the boys will meet for the first time.

I'm currently uploading video of Jordi onto the computer while I'm typing so I can have a go at editing it.

piff - how heavy is the mighty finn now? Hope you get your paperwork sorted pronto - sounds even more depressing than the ordinary day to day stuff, which is depressing enough

Diva - all men are b*stards when they want to be, even if they're not cheating ones..

Callie - that sounds bril - 2 mates over and another lil one to coo over - what a fabby weekend in store

Hi NewMum24 - My Ds is 10 weeks today, so snap!! Is this your first baby? How is it going?

Monti has been quite demanding today - just wouldn't sleep, plus my nips are very tender and I'm knackered so feeling abit sorry for myself.

Come on Dolly, tell me what you bought then!

mossy - hope the cough is going, it's worth checking out if worried at all though. are you still bf? that will help with antibodies as well
piffle - much empathy on filling in of dla forms. they are crap and demoralising but worth it for the extra cash so I hope you get what you want. we've got another 18 months to go - is it easier filling it in second time round? i hope so.
em has passed her 8 week check! she has healthy lungs (IE cries a lot) and is 'strapping' (ie a big heifer) lol!

Morning all and welcome to Newmum24!

I've changed my name

Is the shrinking wishful thinking or celebration of fact(in which case and[enve])?

We've had 2 nights in a row where Toby has dropped the 3am(ish) feed - and I'm not sure I like it! Now he's waking up at 5 and feeding solidly through to 7. I think I prefered the 15 minutes in the middle of the night and then 6.30-7 we had before!

Welcome newnum24. Another boy - there must have been something in the air last June because we've got loads more boys than girls here.

Mornin' All

You know I swear that Monti recognises the sound of typing, for whenever I start typing a post, he wakes up and yowls to get me off MN

[dashes off]