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

Cam what a nightmare - we had a huge bathroom leak last year and no one knew where the stopcock was, luckily there was a plumber doing a job in one of the opposite houses - i must have looked a sight cos i burst in shouting do u have a plumber here, lol, needlesss to say he knew where it was and did an emergancy repair - we were waiting for him to sting us with huge bill and all he wanted was £20 couldnt believe my luck

lgt hope your doing ok

Just amazed myself in tesco - to say we are scint would be a seriously dramatic understatement, so i went in with enough money for food shopping and petrol, I got loads of their value stuff ( cant do value beans lol) plus a few finest bits for me, well if i am only having 1 meal a day ot had better be good, anyway i got enough food (not fruit and veg) for 2 weeks for £80 was gobsmacked we do that in a week usually, when i got to the till they gave me a coupon it was for 10,000 points which is £400 in deals omg I am having flash hotel for take that with those, off to the market tomorrow for fruit and veg - we get through so much i should own a farm, anyway needless t say i am very pleased with myself!!

A only woke once again last night, altho he did wake at 5 as well but i count that as morning

DP has been on his pills 2 days now and he is smiling hehehe shouldnt laugh but its a strange thing - he is also really spaced in the morning, but looks like they ate putting him back on track - still early days, he has to increase dose next week

Hope ev1 is ok

just on long enough to add a piccie.

Am soooo knackered. Baby was awake all night feeding. Now he has found the knack of latching on he's feeding for Britain.

Just have to try and get him to make it less painful for me now and then we will have cracked it. I must say I'm very impressed with the BF support in Tower Hamlets. I've had 2 phonecalls and 2 visits to help me. Pretty impressive.

Oh yes and switch from sleeping all day / feeding all night to the opposite, but I'm guessing that will take another month at least, or am I being optimistic?

lovely piccie! well done on bf front... think you have to make them stay awake during the day / change after each feed etc at night straight to bed after winding / no changing... good luck..
xx

sorry about your bathroom cam, should have said that earlier, brain all over the place... i wonder why?

snotty nose wise.. we bought one of those snot suckers from sainsburys but its frightening me - has anyone used one with success? we just keep laughing at it so much we can't get it in her nose!

BB we ended up using our snot sucker as a bathtoy

I've updated pics of my chubster. The HV comes tomorrow for our 6 week check and I'm assuming he has topped the 12lb mark.

Lups, well done in Tesco, I can't usually come out of there having spent less than £100, it's the devil's spawn of a place and I hate it

fab photos CM - can't believe how quickly they are growing!

OMG - I need to wise up. Have just had £140 of shopping delivered and there was no meat in with that, becuase we got a freezer full of meat at Costco last week. I can't believe you can do two weeks food for £80. My lot will prob do two weeks, with a stock up on fresh veg in between. It's all the feckin' "finest" juices and bottles of Appletiser. It really racks up. Oh, acutally, I bought giant 5L washing liquid/ softener/ wash up so that made it dearer... Still... I need to get out more.

Re: Hiccups. Echo what BB said - it's a tight/ immature diaphragm that causes them. A gets them a lot less since the last Osteo visit, though still gets them when stressed/ overtired. Best you can do is to keep them calm and relaxed when feeding and hope for the best. A gets them when she's been crying though.

Cam - I don't know how you sound so calm. I would be up the (sodden) walls if that happened to me. Hope you get your water back soon.

I'm reading Baby Whisperer. I really like it. A doing the EASY Eat/ Activity/ Sleep thing quite well in the mornings and goes straight back to sleep at night after feeds for me. She's being going a bit bonkers early eves to about midnight the last few days though. Suddenly dawned on me last night that I haven't been following my own advice to SOH and have not been eating properly. Just been eating cereal and picking during the day. Had a big (healthy-ish) late lunch stuff up at 3.30 today so hopefully breastmilk will be better quality this evening and A will be happier. I even noticed last ngiht that my boobs weren't even feeling "full". Silly Mammy. I've been eating dinner at around 8.30 or 9 each night so makes sense that about 3 hours later she settles. We'll see tonight if my theory is correct.

A "played" with her baby gym today for the first time - rather than just looking startled by it. I was so chuffed. I lay her under it after a feed, even though she was asleep. She woke up a couple of minutes later and had a play and bashed a few things and was quite happy for ages. Awww.

Mrs JB - sounds like you're doing fabulously with the feeding. It would make a lot of sense that you and she are bf better now that you're more relaxed. If you're tense and worried you might not 'let down' properly. Well done for your perseverence. (Sp? Brain dead this afternoon).

Hmm, just caught up the whole thread there and forgotten half the stuff I was going to respond to.

Oh, Juicy - congratulations. That's brilliant you're getting so much support with the feeding.

Befnal - I think you are the winding/ burping queen! (In the nicest possible way.) You are a mine of information. The stuff you've been writing has been really helpful.

Suppose I'd better make some dinner whilst my little caterpillar is asleep. (I think she looks like a bug when she's all swaddled up. ) I've lost all inspiration though. HOnestly, I can't even remember what I used to make for dinners before she was born. I have all these chicken breasts and pork chops in the freezer and I can't think of anything to do with them. Booorrriinngg.

Talk later. x

Evening all, first and foremost im having an ice cold Stella.....

Second i seem to have survived the first day solo, am amazed. Mainly due to Beau sleeping after his 5.40 feed this morning so i could make breakfast do lunchboxes and shower before waking him at 8.10 for a feed and to get him dressed before being thrown in the car seat.

Went to town with him and Hugs, Hugs was on his mutsy board thingy, nightmare. He dashed off at every opportunity. I need some kind of strap to secure him to the pushchair, any ideas? I bought some jeans, horror of horrors..... im a size 14.Bloody hate changing rooms, why the mirrors on every wall????? I feel my size 10's in the wardrobe are a long way off

Hiccups are the bain of Beau's life, bless him, his whole little body ( i say little loosely) is shaken when he has them.

Took him to the HV yesterday, 3 weeks old and 10lb 14oz Little tubber Have eaten tea with the children tonight as im sure ( as dawned on you TYG ) that i dont eat all afternoon and Beau going nuts and feeding constantly during the evening may have something to do with crappy milk, doh!

Currently have 1 child in front of me doing homework, one drying her hair (prima donna), 1 on the pc upstairs surfing the WWW (fully blocked child proofed ), 1 building something, 1 on the couch looking sleepy amd finally 1 asleep in his crib...phew

Am calling Beau my little ginger sponge, he is red haired and pudding like

JL lovely pic, nice to see you have a bean chair as well, I love Arlens

BB I have 2 differant snot suckers - both equally disgusting but hey ho they seem to do the job - if you ca get it anywhere near their little noses

CAM we are really trying to get out of the tesco trap and shop around a bit, we have a fab butchers in the village, I prefer the sliced meats in lidl as they have no added water, and the nappies are only £5.99 for 56, we are only using 1 -2 per night the rest of the time he is in reusables and the washing powder is £4.99 for 50 washes fab!!!

AM forgot to thank you for the vits, so thankyou!!

TYG hope your milk theory is right and you become a buuxom wench again soon, Willow calls A a caterpillar when he is swaddled lol

LGT what about a wrist strap tried to pushchair?? wow you are truly a supermum, dont know how you do it, I have tried to get dd in bed and she just keeps coming down to play with A who is under his gym, will it be in 18 years when i get peace, lol at ginger sponge - hmmm bet thats nice with custard actually

Anyone else have thunderstorms?

Blimey I never realised what a bunch of lushes you all are

Lups you put me to shame, I am now going to make much more effort to use the butchers in the village and there is a really good greengrocers too, i must be more organised..However I just can't do the reusable nappy thing again, there just wouldn't be time in my day/washing machine schedule to wash them, and if ds2 being such a chubster, is like dd he would never fit into any clothes wearing them

LG&T, well done for surviving and still having the energy to post! The lunchbox thing in the morning is a killer for me..whatever happened to school dinners?? I also bought a pair of 14 jeans yesterday, my 10s will be languishing at the back of the wardrobe for some time to come. I was in the changing rooms for so long, feeding a crying J, that the salesman came looking for me! I love the photos by the way, you make such lovely kids

I am a bit concerned that you bfeeding mommas are not eating enough - I have to eat like a pig several times a day

TYG the only reason i am so calm about my crisis is because I am laid-back-breastfeeding-mummy and frankly I wish I could breastfeed for the rest of my life if it stops me from getting wound up! Also, tbh we could do with a new hall carpet and the ceiling was in need of being replastered at some stage so mr morethan can pay for it instead of us!

We had a huge thunderstorm and the power even went off, for a moment I thought I was back in Africa

OMG the thunder! I hate it but have to be brave for Jack. A few loud bangs directly over the house and the power blipped a few times.

Started on the weetabix diet today - well it went ok ish, had them for brekkie and lunch and then had scampi, beans and chips for tea, not to mention the few naughties i had in between.

Had my first dress fitting today for my bridesmaids dress. The good news is that it needs to be taken in a fair bit, the bad news is that i need to invest in a pair of magic pants!

Kids are being 'special' tonight. Had to put J back in his bed 15 times before he fell asleep and E didnt go down until 8.45. I just hope that its because its so muggy.

JL, well done on the bf'ing.

E does get a little snoty but not enough to require a sucker. Be greatful that you are not Thai..... my step mum is and she told me that to clear the babies noses they place their mouth over the nose and suck >

Have the hiccups here as well, E has always gets them at least twice a day bless her.

Picked up the Pixi Fotos i had done of Ella yesterday and they are beautiful, i only went in to get the 10 pound 12x10 picture that they were doing for fathers day..... ended up spending 160!!! They are so nice that i dont mind.

Cam, OMG poor you. Hope it gets sorted quickly for you.

LG&T, good to see you again. Beau sounds like he is doing brilliantly. Bless at the ginger sponge I think i might go and get a nice cold carlsberg from my fridge - It might help E sleep

Big hello to everyone else x

I weighed Jorja this afternoon. On my digital kitchen scales. I sat her in my huge mixing bowl. 7lb 10oz now.

TYG and LG&t, really good to hear you are both doing well.

lg&t can you attatch some reignes (sp) to the buggy. I have to do this for Maddie in the shopping trolley, there are no straps on french trolleys and Maddie stands up in it if she is not strapped in. I clip them round the bar behind her back, now she just say's "Mummy, hummm Stuck, stuck" all the way round the store. lol

I hope SOH is OK, it's been a few days.

Brill thunder and lightening storms here too. I LOVE THEM!

AM, 15times WOW tommorow it will be 10 and the day after 8 and less and less until he'll be taking himself off to bed on his own.

Off to stimulate my bobbies, there are batteries involved you know.

Hey all - Mum goes back tomorrow and sis in 10 days so still finding it really hard to get time at the laptop so miss youse all lots!!

The vampire child at my breast is definitely sucking my brain out my nipplers as I can't remember ANYTHING. However she has put on 10 ounces in 1 week so I figure she is doing ok it's just me thats suffering but not really complaining.

She did 6 hours last night followed by 4 then 6. Feeding so well which is awesome.

I think I'm doing ok but people keep telling me to relax more. Going to Paris for 2 days on Monday with my Sis then Boston for 8 days in mid July otherwise I'm 3 weeks without DH - he's got a new job and has to go there for training so give me your orders guys. Kids clothes, electrical stuff whatever. we will have loads of suitcase room as we have no money so I can't do any shopping. Quite seriously let me do it for you

love to all

tam
xxxx

Sod it. Just lost the post I typed. Suffice to say, the eating better seems to have resulted in a happier baby, happier household and happier Mammy last night.

Morning All.

LG&T - I reckon an elasticated wrist link thingy. Not too restrictive for Hugs and will at least keep him near the buggy.

Cin - that's quite a busy travel schedule! You know by July, you'll be finding the "having a baby" lark so much easier than now that it won't seem so bad not having your DH around. I know you'll miss him a lot, but personally, I often "manage" better on my own because I don't have DH to "look after". He'll vehemently deny that if he reads this.

MrsJB, i love it when they tell you they are 'stuck'. I normally get told this once i have strapped J into the car seat. I hope you are right in the number of times he will get up tonight. Not holding out much hope though. He woke at 1.30 and refused to go back to bed so came in with us. Wasnt even bothered that he wouldnt get a star. Also well done on J's weight. I get E weighed every two weeks so will see what she is on Monday, i am guessing she will be about 11lbs.

Hey Tam, nice to see you. Are you around for the mid july meet up? 10th i think. Tilda sounds like she is doing really well. Great news on the sleep front We are off to florida at the end of the year so will be taking a fairly empty suitcase with us so that we can hit the malls LOVE IT. You are a brave lady (if not slightly mad, in a nidce way) to be going away with such a tiddler. We are off to France at the end of July and even that is a bit scary!

Hope a good night was had by all

Morning lovely ladies,

glad to hear the feeding is going so much better for everybody, same here as well really notice when I have not had much to eat that A is harder to settle.

I too sympathise with the size 14 jeans thing, awful maternity stuff just looks ridiculous on me now but my regular jeans are not fitting properly, I can get my fat day jeans on but then have the awful muffin top jelly belly hanging over the top. The worst bit though is after avoiding stretch marks all the way through my preg they turned up about a day after A was born!!!

BB I know I said about getting together this week but not going to manage it as A has appointments right left and center, how about next week? Dont have your mobile number so mail me and let me know when you are free.

JL the BF support in Tower Hamlets is pretty good they also have BF clinics every day throughout the borough and the BF co-ordinator at the RL is fab she is the one who gave us a referal for A's tongue tie.

Anyway best get on with the housework and I suppose I should think about gettin gout of my pj's.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone, just sitting hear listening to R crying through the monitor from her bed! I'm going to leave her a little while and see what happens. She was really good at settling herself yesterday and I thought she had cracked it - obviously not!
We had another great night's sleep last night as she went from 7.15 - 3.30 without waking. The problem is she wakes up starving and was ready to be fed at 6,30 and again at 8.30! It's hard timing feeding round dropping ds off at childminders so she has had to wait and I think that resulted in the grumpiness!
We actually had some good news from the tax credit people this morning. Our 4 weekly money is going up from £40 to £345 - some jump! I've checked the form over and over and it's all correct. I think it's because this time they've actually taken my maternity leave into account and also dh has recently started a business and is earning half what he was. It's not very often these things go in our favour so for once I'm taking what's due!!

Is the meet up the 10th? think thats the day my mum is coming up so would need to be back by 2ish

A is still giving it loads ofprojectile vomiting going to get him some stay down milk and see if that works - just stocked up on sma tho grrrr

Right I am getting nowhere this morning so off to make an effort and get something done

Hey Tam that is a great travel schedule, can I come too? I am quite I hope you don't feel too sad when your mum goes back.

April, sorry for all your bed troubles, I remember those times well Heres hoping J soon comes to term with his new bed. DS1 stayed in his bed mainly I think because he was surrounded by a mosquito net and couldn't get out

Lol at the thought of you MrsJB, putting Jorja on the scales, if I did that with J I would need industrial strength ones to stop them from breaking!

Has anyone else's baby got some serious baby acne? J has it on his chubby cheeks and the top of his chest and back, how long do you think until it goes?

I was going to ask about the acne as well Cam. I've been putting a little Sudocreme on at night whuich seems to calm it a bit. I'm guessing they're clearing toxins/ hormones via their skin? Hopefully it will go soon.

Also, does anyone still have carpal tunnel? My right middle finger tip is still numb...

no acne here yet tho flaking skin on forehead which is just as attractive! my carpal finally cleared at 4 wks... fingers crossed... am thinking of changing my name to BefnalQueenOfFarts...lol

Hey TYG - my carpal tunnel has completely gone now. Are you still retaining any water? That would be the reason. I've peed mine all away BLISS

Not going to Boston till the 17th so will be at the meet on the 10th with bells on. So excited as seeing everyone bumpless and meeting all the beans...can't wait

So no orders from the US. Cam? Surely there is something you desparately need?

Nah - Befnalnorksnorkel is my fave so far. Made me snort tea out my nose last night!

I'm with Tam BB, I can just imagine Lauren norksorkeling

Tam you are so sweet for offering, the only thing I can think of is a pair of Crocs for ds and dd but I'm still not convinced about them, anyone got an opinion?

It's official, J is a chubster, the HV weighed him in at 12lb 4. He is putting on weight so well that she says she won't weigh him for another month. Also we both have to go to see the doc for a 6 week postnatal check-up, do you all have to do that too? She said don't put anything on his acne and it will just go, do you think having baby acne will make them more predisposed to acne when they are teenagers? If so I shall have one unhappy boy