May 2007 - The babies are arriving!!

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Thought i would start the offical May 2007 thread as it is May and we have now had our first offical May baby - even though we have 6 naughty babies who queue jumped and arrived in April .

Probably be a while before there are many messages but a least we have a thread now

Me too, sorry scoot.

Night xxx

Hi all

Just added another piccie of C to my profile. Could only manage the black and white one though and one of DD2 feeding him.

I am expressing 4oz a day now and he has that at about 7pm (ish). He is then usually awake for a while and then goes to sleep and I wake him at about 11. I am waiting for to do this now so thought I'd nip on here. Last night he slept from 11 until 5.45 - we were shocked. He has then been asleep nearly all day again on and off - waking every 3 to 4 hours to be fed.

Not much else to tell. He still has a horrid eye but I keep forgetting to put the eye drops in - bad mummy that I am!

Morning everyone, I've really missed coming on this weekend. We've been so busy and not been in much so haven't had a chance to come on.
R had a brilliant night last night. She had a bath at 6.45pm then had 120ml of milk at 7.15 and didn't wake until almost 2am! She took about 120ml again and ten slept until 6.40 so had a really good stretch of sleep. Mind you I need it as she's still really hard to settle during the day. She's happy when feeding but is never really happy when awake. She just cat naps and cries on and off. I was wondering wether it is anything to do with the formula but I don't want to change it and then regret it. Does anyone think there's any mileage in trying her on one of the lactose free ones like Omneo Comfort or Aptamil? Any advice would be welcome. I only think this because it seems to be about 30 mins after a feed when she gets really unsettled and she often looks in pain. I always wind her during and after a feed and she rarely has trouble bringing wind up. She does fart a lot and her nappies are awful but I can't remember how normal that is!

Both kids down by 8pm last night but then had ds up at 12.45 as he isnt as settled in his big boys bed as he was in the cot, also we cant leave him cry like we did before as he starts fumbling around in the dark and could hurt himself! Ella on the other hand woke at 2am and 5am then 8.15am. I got up with J this morning and let dh have a lie in for the first time in 10weeks!

MrsJB, how was M when she went into her bed?? did she keep getting out, or is she kind of stuck in there due to her grobag?

Ella seems to be falling into a routine all by herself which is great as ds was all over the place. She wakes and then about an hour later wants to go back to sleep and thats normally for about 2hours. Which is great as it means i can get dressed, tidy the devastation caused by ds and attempt the ironing - really getting into ironing at the mo

Have started expressing at about 9.30pm to try and build up a stash in the freezer for the nights where i might like to go out I have about 7oz so far

Lupins, i am quite interested by the weetabix diet.... can i do that whilst bf?? Have also dug out my little stepping machine in a bid to lose a few more lbs. The annoying thing that i have found is that you lose so much weight so quickly straight after giving birth and then the rest takes AGES to shift. I have between 7&14lbs to lose and i thought with all the bf'ing i am doing plus walking to get ds everyday from nursery and the walking into town that i try and do once a week would make a difference. As of this week i am cutting out bread and going to have to resist kk's and sweets (my big down fall). Wedding is in 5.5weeks and i have a dress fitting tomorrow. Even if i could lose a lb a week i would be happy. I know the HV said not to diet, but really i need to lose this jelly belly.

Lups, am going to Mothercare at lunchtime if you are in town......

weetabix is fortified ith vits so should be fine

Just checking in to say hello. Haven't really known where my head is the last week. All a bit surreal.

Thanks to Befnal you all know that Baby Oscar arrived last Monday at 4.15am by emergency C section. So much for my home birth, but we both came out of it in more or less one piece. Will try to do a birth announcment today.

Hope everyone is coping. I am in complete daze and don't have the first clue what my baby wants / needs. Am very much trial and erroring at the moment, but thanks to my fabulous DH and my Mum am more or less coping.

NCT breast counciller coming this afternoon. Am getting great help from them. Hopefully she will at least allay (sp) some of my fears.

Be back on when I get another minute. Love to all xx

Good to hear from you Juicy, congrats on healthy arrival of baby Oscar xx

hello - have been v quiet recently and don't think I have caught up with everything but I have tried! All well here. LO had 6wk check with HV today who was really nice. Not surprised that I am eating like a pig and feeling quite tired - he is now 12lb 13oz which is pretty ridiculous. He must have dense bones or something because he does not look that huge. DS1 being v sweet - dressed as a pirate all the time at the moment. Keeps saying to LO "sammyool (has not quite mastered how to say samuel) aren't you lucky to have a nice big brother" and if "sammyool" cries then he tells me to stroke his head to stop the crying - so sweet.
SOH re shyness and mum's groups. Do go along and keep going and you will find that you will meet people. It can take time (in my experience) because, by the very nature of the people there, everyone is rather tied up with themselves adn their LO and does not necc make small talk. AFter a while you all begin to think you know each other simply because you spend time in the same room! I did not really get together with other mums for a while after DS1 and would worry about the fact that other people were meeting up here and there and I wasn't. I felt that I was doing DS1 a disservice and he would grow up with no frineds. Needless to say I should not have worried - have spent the last 4 weeks going from bday party to bday party with him. Once they are at nursery school they make friends anyway and you end up making friends with parents.
I am not convinced that that all makes sense and there are lots of typos - am trying to type with my baby elephant lying on my lap farting like a trooper. Think we will have a nappy change...
Glad to hear everyone else is getting on well (on the whole - mastitis - ouch). Sky - you have been through the wars.
Any news on dejags recently?

Just had A weighed 8lb 9oz where did all that come from little chubber!!

Thats brilliant Lupins - lol at little chubber.

Anneme, awww how cute of your ds1. Jack goes up to ella and strokes her head when she crys and says 'sush sush sush' 'mummy my sister, my ella crying'

Welcome to the other side Juicy

Hi all
Abbylou - sorry don't know the answer to your formula question. DD1 always had Aptamil and DD2 and DS are breast fed so sorry can't help.

Got an electric swing lent by a friend and got it set up yesterday. It is a god send. He is in it now looking very hypnotised but at least calm as some evening are pretty rough.

He seems to have settled into a bit of a routine but I'm sure it probably wont' last. He feeds in between 9am and 10am - then between 12 and 1 - then between 4 and 5 - in between 7 and 8 he has a 4 oz bottle of expressed milk - is awake during the evening falling asleep about 9 ish - I wake him at 11 and he goes straight back to sleep until in between 4.30 and 5.30, usually going back to sleep until 8-9 am ish again. I do hope it lasts but you never know!

Congrats JL on the arrival of Oscar and well done to Arlen on gaining all that weight.

Congrats JL - I love the name Oscar, Ruby could well have been called that if she had been a boy!
Sky you sound like you've got a lovely routine going there, well done you! Ruby has had a more settled day today and has given me loads of smiles, she's sooo gorgeous I could cry when she does it. She actually had a small amount of happy awake time today which was a miracle. Maybe she's going to be one of those babies that just change at 6 weeks - here's hoping! We've got our 6 week check tomorrow, can't remember what they do but sure there won't be any problems.

Well done Arlen.

Sky, Jorja does much the same now we have sorted her feeding out. She does 11pm, between 4-5am and then between 8-9am. I am putting her to the breast more and more over the last couple of days though. Think I got so stressed out about it not working it became even harder, now I am expressing and mix feeding I don't feel so pressured so am enjoying being able to feed her even if it's just a bit of comfort for her when she is unsettled, she still won't latch well but it doesn't matter so much now she gets it in a bottle.

AM, sorry to hear things are a bit tricky with J in his bed. You just have to persevere with the putting him back and asking him not to get out. Have you tried giving him a book or something that may encourage him to sit in bed with? Maddie still never gets out of her bed, we are fortunate and believe me it's not normal I'm sure, she loves her bed more than any child I've know and will stay in it for hours if left, singing, playing with her teddies, kicking the wardrobe is her latest trick but she only ever gets out of it once we open the door. She is slightly restricted by her bag, however she does shuffle across the room in it if she needs to so by no means is she unable to get out. IYKWIM, He'll get there just try to be consistent in your approach.

Hope everyone is well.

Love the name, btw

Off to do Mummy and Jorja time now Night all. xxx

Hi all,

Well one glass of wine and a small gin last night and felt quite hungover this morn which hardly seems fair..does not bode well for Friday which is my first big night out in what seems like 10 years, but is really just 10 months..
I am doing the same diet as you Lups but with special k..Thought had lost quite a bit of weight till saw self reflected in a shop window today and was most disheartened with the image!

Mae was weighed today and is 8 pounds 11 now..blimey, hope she hasnt inherited my propensity to gain weight!

Took Lily to a sort of theatre/interactive dance thingy today called 'baby balloon'..she needed to get out of the house and she loves balloons so off we went..it was so funny..it reminded me of TYG's dd's dance thing with the interpretive dancers!I spent the whole things trying not to laugh as people in stripy catsuits pretended to be balloons..All the other Mums were getting really into it as well which just made me giggle all the more!Quite good at the end though as we were all able to get inside a huge inflatable balloon which was lit up with fluorescent lights,(quite trippy really)..Lily liked it though, which is the main thing..she managed a smile for the first time in a week so it was worth it just for that..

DH's last day off tomorrow before he goes back to work, eek..so we are off to Woburn Abbey safari park come hell or high water tomorrow, to make the most of it...

hope all are well and babies sleep tight tonight..

Congrats to Juicy BTW...lovely name...

Oh, Abby...M is on Aptamil..she is quite windy though too so dunno if it would make any difference switching?

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DH went back to work today.......

Morning all

just popping on while i have two minutes peace, dh and Alana are asleep and ds2 is round his friends. I should really be doing the washing,ironing, hoovering etc but sod it, i dont feel as if ive had any time to myself since giving birth.

A is doing really well although i wish she would settle straight back to sleep after her night feeds, she stays awake for at least an hour after finishing. Ive tried feeding her in the dark, not talking to her, only changing her nappy if i really need to (which is practically all the time as she seems to be wee-ing for britain)etc, everything in fact that people say should work but still she stays awake. Then just as she seems to be settling she gets the bloody hiccups . She gets them at least twice a day and always after her night feed. It doesnt matter how long i wind her for, if i give her colic drops, if i dont jump her around too much, I can pretty much guarentee she will still get them so if any of you have any tips i would be grateful. The boys never had them this much but then again they never farted as much as her either, there is noting lady-like about my little girl

WE had her photos taken by the Pixe Photo people yesterday. Im hoping they come out ok as we didnt have her photo taken at hospital (we missed the photographer)Dh wasnt impressed with me though. It took so long for them to be done (she wouldnt look at the camera) that when we got back to the car we had a parking ticket so of course it was my fault for wanting her photos done. He was in such a foul mood about it when he left for work that i made sure i was in bed when he got home. He'd calmed down by then though

i had great news yesterday, my brother is coming to visit on the 30th and he will finally get to meet his niece. You may remember he moved to Ireland a couple of months ago well that went pear shaped after a week (the woman was a weirdo just like i said she was)and he has been living in Lincoln ever since, staying with our cousins up there. This will be the first time he has been home, i think he was a bit embarassed. Its only a quick visit though as he now seems to have settled in Lincoln, he has a job up there and is looking for somewhere to live but at least we get to see him

LG&T hope you are feeling ok this morning. I know you will miss having dh around but at least you have us

April, I have nothing but empathy for you and your bed situation with DS1. We had two fairly horrid weeks where we tried to persuade DS1 to settle in his big boys bed. Each time he kicked off, we left him for 10mins, then quietly led him back to bed, told him ?DS, it?s time to go to sleep, mummy loves you?. Then walked out the door. Half the time he just legged it back to the stairgate and started crying again, but we persevered and now he sleeps like an angel again. It is horrid though, especially when you have 2 crying in unison. My DH was less kind-worded than I was. I was all gentle, whereas by the 3rd time, DH was really firm with a ?go to bed?. Being honest, it seemed to work a lot better than my softly softly approach, although he did feel terrible after. Good luck!!!!

Scoot - can I join your lush club? My b/feeding alcohol rule is "one glass is okay". When I say glass, I take that term very loosely, therefore if I can pour a drink into one glass and it not spill, that constitutes one drink . No wonder my DS1 used to sleep well at night!!!

LG&T ? hope it?s going okay there for you!!

LG&T - good luck

Pebble, J also seems to get an extreme amount of hiccups, especially at night, however they seem to send him back off to sleep as he hiccups away merrily for up to 5 mins and then drops off. Actually he doesn't stay awake much at night and often takes himself off to sleep without a peep (well a lot of snorting, farting and wriggling) after feeding - sorry, I'm not being very helpful am I Great news that your brother is back, I grew up in Lincoln..

Congrats JL on the arrival of Oscar.

Baby Balloon - sounds very home counties Scoot But glad Lily enjoyed it.

We are in the midst of a major crisis in the cam household - we have had a leak with our shower on and off for the last few years, we have had a new one put in and it continues.. so the contractor has spent last saturday and this saturday pulling off all the tiles, resealing the boards around the shower. He had resealed and retiled and was coming back this saturday to do the grouting, the shower was dismantled when.... whoosh at 1am this morning out pours the water from the top of the valve and floods the shower tray, floor and down into the hall. The ceiling is about to collapse and the carpet is soaked, the electrical box is dripping... I turn off the stopcock and mop up. So no water, no shower, damp carpet, ceiling about to collapse - yippee! At least the insurance company will pay. So the contracter is currently pulling down the ceiling and Jasper and I are holed up in the sitting room not able to move. Ho hum, good job nobody does want to view this house. Apparently the valve went in the shower and it was just a coincedence that it happened while he was in the middle of doing all that work...So I have a million and one things to do, but am forced to relax

I wish A would fall asleep with the hiccups instead she gets irratable and wont settle until they have gone Must admit i dont like getting them either so she must take after me lol

Sorry to hear about the troubles you are having. Enjoy the rest though as i bet there will be a lot of clearing up to do when its all done

Pebble fraid i can't remember if you are bf or bottle. my latest trick to reduce hiccups in L is to lift her flat out of the cot onto the bed and then roll up next to her and bf so not only does she not really wake up, she doesn't move! seems to give her a more relaxed feed. at the end I sit her up once then down again for a quick burp (find if i do this soon enough after she finishes it works every time - either a burp or immediate posset). then i put her straight back in the cot - if i do have to change her she often wakes up and then we go through the hiccup/awake stage (which my lovely dh deals with, as well as the nappy ) so i try to avoid it for his sake!

i think their diaphragms aren't properly opened yet and they will get better at feeding and winding as they get older.

has anyone else's wee bairn got a perma snotty nose?

lg&t, hope you are ok. I bet N didn't want to go back either. You will be fine though, afterall you are SUPERMUM!

I don't know how to stop the hic ups but I do know how to get rid of them quickly. Now it sounds bizzare but if you get them to feed more whilst they are hic upping they will go very quickly. Not much help to those who hic up at the end of a bottle but useful for those Bf or in the middle of a bottle feed.

Went food shopping this morning,orja screamed the whole way round, pleasent, she's still small enough though for people to say, arrrrrrrrr poor thing and not aghhhhhh stop that child screaming.

Should have said, i don't know how to stop them getting hic ups, doh

BB - we are on permanent snotty nose here I am trying organic lavender body cream and snufflebabe on a tissue near his cot as well as the saline drops...poor boy

Hi all, how are things? R managed another night of only one wake up lat night, the second in a row! Maybe we're on for another good sleeper - I hope so!
We went for our 6 week check this morning which all went well except R has been referred for a clicky left hip. I'm not too worried about it to be honest, the gp said it's nearly always nothing to worry about. I'll wait and see what they say before gettng in a panic about it. She has to go and have an ultrasound scan on it.
R has been like a different baby the last coulpe of days. I'm wondering whether she's reached that 6 week changing mark. She has been much more contented and has settled herself to sleep more succesfully an din her own bed. She too was getting a lot of the time but I've chaged the teats on her bottles from newborn to Size 2 and it seems to have done the trick. Not much use if you are bf I know but it has definitely worked for us.