April 2007 ...... as the last stragglers trudge wearily over .......

[CaptainDippy]

That ok!!?

Glad all is better in your household SOKL!

Just got back from church, DD2 sleeping in cot, DD3 sleeping in hallway in car seat and DH out with DD1 who will soon be asleep in her pram in the living room ..... ..... THREE sleeping girls ..... We managed it!

Nutty - I left some info on your coccyx pain on the last thread .....

Hi everyone
Sorry I never have time to catch up, hopefully that will improve soon!
mammyjo, yes, it is CD who sells the sheepskins in her shop, and I can recommend them (T hasn't laid on it yet, but I have and it's lovely!)
Sorry you're having trouble with your DH and the feeding, men sometimes just think anything for an easy life don't they?
LesleyR - we have exactly the same thing with T - went to a family wedding yesterday and wanted to leave early as we knew it was all getting too much for him (and us). We'd told them we weren't staying well in advance, were just popping in at the reception to say congratulations. We stayed until 5, which was about an hour or two longer than we'd planned. The minute we said we were going, everyong started saying "oh but he's fine, stay for the meal" "he's been so quiet all day!" yes, cos of some strategic feeding during the ceremony and a long car drive!! And yes, when we got back he was sobbing hysterically and we were exhausted!
Rant over, sorry, wedding was lovely and we were so glad we went

Hi all, and Ellie, please come back. I really hope you are ok - the thread isn't the same without you.

Mammyjo, really glad you are sounding perkier today. Bloody men eh. Dh isn't too bad, but I do hate him complaining about being tired. What do you expect with a 2 1/2 week old baby!!!???

Re routines, K isn't in one at all really, and B wasn't either until 6 weeks if I remember correctly.

K just stays downstairs in her moses basket until we go to bed. She is now in her own room as of last night though. She seems to be v hungry in the evening and quite wakeful and I remember B was like this as well.
Can't remember how we managed to get B into a bath/bottle/bed routine now.

Hope everyone is ok. Must dash. x

I've just had a look at Ellie's last few posts, I don't think she's gone, I think she was just in a hurry with her last post.
Or has she not been around in a while? Ellie come back, we need you !!

Hi Katy and SOKL! I have just had the most lovely moment with Ffion. She has started to smile over the last week or so but she has just done the most wonderful beeming smiles for me! Its the sort of thing that you could cry it, its so lovely! Makes all the stupid crap with dh seem so trivial!

CD, can you tell me how much your sheepskins cost? Are they for the babe to sleep on, or just for lying about in the day? Sorry, probably really dense question but I really dont know!

hi

had our worst night yet last night T started feeding at 11.30pm and kept going on and off until 3.30am! He kept being sick when we put him in his cot and so we had to change everything about 4times, I have been winding him etc, but for some reason he waits until he's been put down And then he would totally wake himself up and decide he was still hungry. I felt like sobbing when I saw a huge blister had developped on one nipple. I'm having to take paracetamol to keep feeding today. Just soooooo sore. Sorry ladies, you really are getting all the info on my nipples from me! Thank God my friend who's a bf counsellor is popping over tomorrow.

I think he's been unsettled because he's been poorly and because we've just had so many people over and he's been passed around so much. Felt really upset about it all last night. I think I've been trying t o accomodate everyone too much and I'm going to be a bit more assertive with them. Katy - I kind of feel similar to how you felt at the wedding. ds sleeps on people all day, They think everything's fine, but we know later we'll be paying for it!!

Anyway, we're all knackered today. Have decided to have a babymoon day and all I have on the list to do is feed (him and me!) and rest.

Mammyjo - we've started a bedtime routine with T (he's 3wks) Nothing very elaborate, but I'm doing the 6/7pm feeds upstairs, dimming the lights and settling him into his moses basket in our bedroom afterwards and coming downstairs with the monitor on. It's been pretty much ok so far. I think we'll leave bathing him at bedtime for a bit though.

mammyjo - that's lovely!! Can't wait for the smiles to start!

oh, and I noticed that GMM started a thread over here looking for some advice about engorgment and bf.

Eca - sorry to hear you're so sore. Hoping it improves soon.

Just popping in to say hi, Erin is having a restless afternoon .

Ellie - please come back, we all love your emails!

Eca, sounds a grotty night- enjoy today's babymoon.

Mammyjo - well done for getting to 6 weeks with the BF, especially with less than supportive DH . Am so chuffed to have got to 3 weeks as it really has felt like two steps forward one step back at times. Ds is another one cluster feeding in the evenings which leaves me glued to the sofa but he does at least sleep for a decent stretch once he's finally off the boob.

We had a fleece for dd and it seemed to keep her cool over the summer and I'm sure helped stop her gatting a flat head from lying down. Have been too stingy to get one for ds, poor neglected child!

Re slings - I am loving my ergo, really comfortable but I think I might get a bit hot & sweaty using it in hot weather. Have a ring sling too which ds settles in really well if he's fractious. Need to start going for some good long walks and shift this baby weight.

Dd very cute this morning & was playing at BF her baby Annabel. Her latest observations are "Baby has a WILLY! Ellie doesn't have willy. Mummy doesn't have willy. Daddy has BIG willy. Baby has LITTLE willy!!" etc etc .

PMSL @ daddy has a big willy baby has a little willy....soooooo cute

Erin seems to have drifted off to sleep (hopefully she'll stay that way for a bit )

i'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

was only away cos my house was a mess, so i was either doing housework or at someone else's house to avoid doing it

oooh ECA, i do know it, about 15 mins from me, you should have said

and yes, well posh joint, went once with my gran

2weeks for bf to settle???!!!!!

then why the f@@k hasn't mine settled at nearly 4 weeks

back in a while, off to docs, impulse thing, saw emergency doc at weekend as Joe out of sorts, asked him RE: thrush, no response.

the more i read the more i think that may be the problem so going back again

Hi Ellie, hope you get some answers from the docs re Joe poor little man.

I need to ask another question.

K is great at being burped - sometimes just moving her to put her over my shoulder makes her belch like a good 'un. However I have noticed that she has been crying a bit whilst feeding and pulling her legs up as if in pain. Could this be colic?

I feel such a novice even tho I already have B. They are so different!

Thank you.

Hope everyone is ok. Need to head out but will be back later to check on you lovely ladies.

Hi Ellie, hope you get some answers from the docs re Joe poor little man.

I need to ask another question.

K is great at being burped - sometimes just moving her to put her over my shoulder makes her belch like a good 'un. However I have noticed that she has been crying a bit whilst feeding and pulling her legs up as if in pain. Could this be colic?

I feel such a novice even tho I already have B. They are so different!

Thank you.

Hope everyone is ok. Need to head out but will be back later to check on you lovely ladies.

Well, my mum thought the form was hard but I'd done ok and she helped me and Mike find the bits I didn't know at 6 am - his National Insurance number and stuff. The form asks for my last two addresses - I've lived in the same house for 8+ years after fairly short time arrangements as someone's lodger.

Sadly I can't make my claim yet as I have to wait 2 weeks to register. Islington gives you appointments - this isn't made clear on the website - next available appointment is 21 JUNE - err, no, don't think so. I'm also anxious to get a baby passport and book a holiday abroad at the end of September - I will obviously need to register for this.

I can register at Haringey however, so Mike obtained an appointment for 22 May at 3.45 pm - really this is much better as it's two miles so I can actually just about walk there, leaning on the pram for support if I need it, and we have plenty of time to set out.

Thanks for sending out the latest crop of messages and pics Ellie, hope your son is ok.

Hi Ellie, glad everything is ok and hope the doc sorts Joe out for you.

SOKL, as far as I know colic is more obvious during the evenings so is this when K is more unsettled? My ds used to scream for hours from about 6pm every evening. Luckily Ffion is not the same! If it is only when feeding then does she settle after burping? If she does then maybe she just winces with her wind during her feed, I know Ffion does this at most feeds but once burped or farted she is calm again! Sorry if that is a bit garbled but from experience with ds I think the continuous screaming kind of gives colic away and its bloody awful! Even burping didnt relieve the symptoms sometimes for him but all of a sudden after several hours he would just stop for no reason at all (at least that we could work out)!

Elkie, I rang them about the addresses question as I have lived here for the last nine years and cant even remember where I was before this (was renting somewhere with friends but had moved a few times). They told me just to write how long I had been at my current home. Apparently they use them to trace you if you have moved around a lot to prove you are who you say you are I think!

Hi Mammyjo, tbh I don't think it is colic as havng read up on it it is nowhere like the symptoms they describe thank God. It is also not in the evenings per se, and is also only during some feeds.

It doesn't seem to help when she has been burped tho, so I just wonder if her tummy is a bit painful. I might try infacol anyway - no harm in it!

Right, really must go as need to pick up B.
x

As a first time mum, I went out this afternoon for my first real walk with Danny in his pram, together with proud daddy and grandmother (ie my boyfriend and my mum). I learned that its size is actually more of an advantage than a disadvantage - the big handle acts as a balance to this person walkig on wobbly legs, and most people will just get out of your way. My last memory of wheeling kids around is taking my brother and sister out in their pushchairs - I would have been 8/9 or 11/12 at the time depnding on which one, and everyone expected me to wheel the pushchair around them. I encountered a group of really rude teenage boys who would not simply budge up on the other side of the pavement to walk the other way, in the end I gave up, stand still and tuttted. One of them kissed his teeth at my mum in response, but generally other humans and cars were much better at stopping.

I got to learn about the huge range of foods and fruit juices and funny household goods available within 15 minutes walk of home, lots of stuff I never see when I'm travelling into Kings Cross in central London to work. And the school run walking crocodile. Fascinating.

Have to go as the Dannymonster is due his next feed.

Thanks mammyjo, that's reassuring, my mum's comment was that it should say "if you've lived at your current address less than x years". I think an awful lot of the form has questions to try and catch out fraudsters, but it also could scare legitimate claimants or cause them problems. I can wait for my child benefit money though I need it some time, but surely it's a problem for many women to have it delayed by registration difficulties and hard paperwork.

Hi all

What a day!

Don't know if you remember my dilemma on the AN thread about a friend I hadn't spoken to for years (no big argument, just stopped talking) saw her house was up for sale, didn't know what to do.
Anyway, who should I see in Tesco today? That same friend. A tiny bit awkward at first (we were so close I was her bridesmaid) but she had her 2 dc with her, and I had mine, and after a few mins we were comparing birth notes
She asked me if I'd like to go to a mother and toddler group with her tomorrow. Tbh, the whole conversation felt a bit surreal, but am so glad that we've spoken. Not sure if we can be the same friends we were before, but I actually feel quite good about it, iyswim

However, it feels like ds2 has been on my boobs all day. I'm hoping that this means he won't be up so much tonight. Wishful thinking....

Aaaagh! Stupid dilemma time. My infection - which feels like a cross between cystitus and thrush - nice!) hasn't gone (was given Dalacin internal cream before), so today the doc gave me antibiotics and thrush cream (do these not cancel each other out? ). Anyway, the antibiotics say they could cause vaginal itching. I have taken one dose this afternoon and the itching is now REALLY bad, but then the infection generally feels worse so it might not be a side-effect.

Would you:
a) take the nighttime dose and see what happens, risking it getting immediately worse and so getting even less sleep than you otherwise would, or
b) not take the nighttime dose and ring the doc in the morning for advice.

I am inclined towards b), I must say, especially as I am happy to use the Canasten part of the treatment in the meantime (which I have had hundreds of times)

Hope everyone else is okay,
xx