Babies born July/August 04

[madgirl]

Hello everyone. My DS2 was born on July 4th and I have been waiting for a "Babies born in July" thread since then, but none has appeared! (at least I don't think it has). So I thought I should start one, I didn't have Mumsnet for DS1 and I wish I had. I thought it should be July/August since almost all of the July babies were/are late! How is it going for you all?

You poor thing Littlerach. What an insensitive bastard.
All babies cry ffs and most of them at 8 weeks aren't content for very long periods unless asleep or feeding, and if she's all bunged up and coughing then of course she's going to be a bit unhappy.
It probably isn't that serious but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you think is right and delay the jabs for a week or two until she feels better.
Ds isn't having his first ones till next Monday when he'll be 9.5 weeks (just lack of organisation on my part, he isn't ill) but no-one's suggested to me that there's anything wrong with this timing.
Go with your instincts and ignore the bugger.

'Fraid am not going to be able to make the lunch next week, Sponge, so will CAT you - thanks in advance.

hellomama, one day in the difference we'll have to keep up to date, ds is doing fine presently, and dd has just got her incisors practically all 4 at once so i think the cranky days are over, plus dh's brothers have all gone home to the respective countries of residence and things are getting back to routine!
my god do i love routine!

madgirl - that thread on coping with a toddler and a baby at bedtime is here

hi all

Just back from our Scotland visit, Abbie was great in the car, just woke for one feed and slept straight away afterwards.

Enjoyed the break DP and I went out for a meal and an night out. Have had loads of advice as well:

• I should be thinking about solids (11 weeks)
• isn't it about time I thought about giving up BF
• I've started her all wrong with the co-sleeping
• She should be left to cry for a bit as it's good for her lungs
• also had comments that she's not getting enough food (even though she's chubby and flying up the centiles)
• I shouldn't be thinking about having 3 kids as you have to pay extra on holidays

I have taken it all with a pinch of salt, well meaing relatives

hi all

Just back from our Scotland visit, Abbie was great in the car, just woke for one feed and slept straight away afterwards.

Enjoyed the break DP and I went out for a meal and an night out. Have had loads of advice as well:

• I should be thinking about solids (11 weeks)
• isn't it about time I thought about giving up BF
• I've started her all wrong with the co-sleeping
• She should be left to cry for a bit as it's good for her lungs
• also had comments that she's not getting enough food (even though she's chubby and flying up the centiles)
• I shouldn't be thinking about having 3 kids as you have to pay extra on holidays

I have taken it all with a pinch of salt, well meaing relatives

Good lord sweetkitty, good job you're sensible enough to go for what you feel - YOU'RE THE MUM!! I learnt that one too!
Hermkyne, GREAT to hear from you. Yes I have a younger one and DD2. It;s tough but getting better. DH does work late alot and I have to do it all but I suppose we get there with the assistance of a glass of vino early evening (for me I mean!!). Things are really tough early on aren;t, keep posting if you can and I'll try and chat more over the next few days.
Well can you beleive DD2 is 9 weeks today and has starting teething!! I'm gutted, so early. She has the bad nappies, temp, rosy cheeks and cranky temperament and white bits coming just undeer gums. Poor lamb, niw I know why last night was a disaster!!!!! I threw her bottle at DH and went down the beach to listen to the sea for 10 minutes. Then clamed down. Better today.

quackers that time on the beach sounds absolute bliss! lucky you to be so near to it.
my ds (10wks today) slept all of 1 hr today and from 7pm til 8.20 could not settle himself, drank me dry by 7.40 so there was nothing, and dd an angel, god she is so ggod, i lost it with her last night becuase i was so exhausted, and she got such a fright, i felt terrible but "bobo" for the 100th time was getting on my nerves. anyway the good thing is she comes running to me 10mins later.
so i am on a routine with ds from today , up at 7am to try and get his sleeping back to the way it was.

on another note i am having a memory problem trying to keep up with the relevant threads and contributors - i am going to have to print them off and note whos who!

Hi All, just thought i would pop in an say "Hi"!

Glad to hear that everyone is getting on reasonably well - i am having to ask so many questions it is unbelievable.

My little angel nearly had me in tears a few days ago - she is 12 weeks and has learnthow to hit the hanging toys on her bouncy chair - she really looks at them and concetrates on what she is doing then hits it and cracks up laughing - I nearly shed a tear - DP said i was a right plonker!
She has also learnt now to put her arms up in the air when she wants some attention or a cuddle - she is so clever

Evie has also got a tooth coming through Quacks - constantly got her hands in her mouth, rosy cheecks, dribbling and a big suspicious lump under her gum. She's not been too bad with it just goes through little grumpy patches.

Must say, and i dont mean to be smug, but am absolutely loving being a mum - i hate not being with her - i just want to squeeze her so tight and eat her all up

Harry slept through the night again last night - hurrah! Had a pretty grumpy evening with him on and off and couldn't settle him other than for 10 minute strecthes until about 10pm but then he slept till 7am. What an angel .
First jabs tomorrow, poor little mite.

Sorry everyone, I've barged in on this thread but my ds3 was born in August so can I join in?!

When is everyone's babies dropping the 'middle of the night' feed? DS3 has a feed at 10.30 then wakes anywhere between 4 and 6am!! I only give him half a feed and give the rest at 7-7.30am and it keeps him in his routine for the day but just wondering when he might decide to just wait till 7am to wake up!!

Course you can skate - I only had a July babe as Abbie decided to put in an early appearance.

Abbie was really restless last night didn't go down until 1am but did sleep through until 7am fed and went straight back to sleep until 11am. She's went down for a nap today yesterday the most she slept during the day was about 20 mins but in saying that most of the time she is content to lie under her playgym.

I'm the same as you SC being a mum is great (most of the time) I love first thing in the morning you wake them up and get a big gummy smile it melts you

I love being a Mum second time more though, I feel more confident even though she sometimes drives me mad getting her to sleep! Once she is gone she's gone, like all of yours by the sounds of it. We have similar eve's then Sponge. Takes us a while but we get there. She either feeds late around 10 and goes through or feeds early am 5-6 and most of the time moght be encouraged to have another nap till 7am then. I do find it tough when she resists sleep or is overtired. I seem to spend all day and eve settling her. I know this passes and she makes up for it everywhere else.

Cannot believe Abbie is 12 weeks already where has all the time gone? Only got another 14 weeks with her before I go back to work but trying not to think about it too much.

She had second set of immunisations today was horrible and she's still upset now think I'll try and calm her with a nice breast fed and a cuddle.

AF has visited me, have been feeling really down past couple of days thought I was just fed up post going home but now I know why. Nurse said it's not uncommon if baby goes more than 5 hours between feeds, Abbie does this most nights. Thought I would get away without AF for a while with breastfeeding but not to be

Hi there i have benn visited too!!!
Afet almost a year of no AF I was not at all ready!! But it did explain my moodiness!! Jabs tomorrow...

Excuse my ignorance, fairly new to the site! Can work out most acronyms but 'AF' - what's that? Assuming it's period but what do the letters stand for?!

BTW, came onto this thread as my ds3 was born in August - well, just - the 29th!

Hi Skate. I may be entirely wrong, but I think that AF stands for Auntie Flo(w)...i.e. period.

hi skate - yes it is your period (Auntie Flo) don't know why it's called this either.

After jabs had angel babe last night - 2-5pm, 8-11pm fed and straight down till 6.30am this morning, quick feed and down till 9.30am, no crying!

How are you all?
This thread has been a bit quiet , thought i'd try and bump it up!!

Evie had her jabs, the new lot, and slept nearly all day afterwards!! And the last coupleof nights she has been going from 9pm til 5.30 am. So annoying, if she feeds after 9pm, she wakes at about 1am, as well as 5am!!

She has been interacting so much more this week, it is lovely! And she is taking more milk again, so has stabilised on the centiles, so HV will leave me alone now!! We have our last osteopath appt today, he has been excellent, even DD1 looks forward to seeing him!!!

Has anyone seen Toothache around?

Hi, very quiet here isn;t it. Things going better now for us too. Georgina is 10 weeks, teething like buggery, poor love but is a total dote. I put her down in her cot to sleep and I get two big blue eyes with a huge smile lookng at me. I think Oh go to sleep, sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn;t. Much better though. I've found she likes to be in bed at around 7pm, I don;t do dreamfeeds now as she just wasn;t interested. So I leave her and she feeds at 3am and that's it till around 7.15am, so not too bad. I'm just thinking about work too. Am just about to start my own business form home. As I live on an Island, there;s huge demand for baby equipment hire and no-one provides it, so I'm giving it a whirl!

Hi all! Things have been busy recently so I haven't really had much time to post. I've started doing the odd saturday and evening shift at work (mainly through the need for money rather than anything else!) although I have enjoyed doing my own thing a bit. Little Ruben gives me huge smiles on my return though, and so far him and his dad have managed without me for a few hours, although no tea is waiting and the washing doesn't get done! How do we manage on our own?! Ruben now sleeps at around 10pm until 6am. This week I have had awful PMT-type symptoms and poor DH has had to put up with some very bad moods. I also seem to have acquired a pot belly... I even did a pregnancy test to make sure nothing untoward was going on! (Luckily it was negative - phew!) Having read the last few posts of this thread I suspect AF may be on its way though. Gutted - its been a year and I quite like not having all the hassle!

Good luck with the business venture Quackers! What island do you live on?

hallo- inspired to post to make sure the thread continues! i am very much enjoying ds2. he is v smiley and placid and is (touch wood) sleeping v well at night. he is 15 weeks on sunday tho and i know already i will no way be making it to 6 months for solids!! quacks, fab thing starting your own business. hats off. i was thinking of doing that but just don't hink i have the energy to do that as well as cope with the boys, eek i sound very old. hellomama well done for starting back, yeah funny how the blokes can never get as much done as us eh??

I'm amazed how much I can get done, yet DH struggles with one. Funny how we are expert multitaskers, us women!. I live on the Isle of Man btw! Hoping all will go well with venture.I can be as busy or not as I like and not need childcare as it can be done at home. So good to hear from you hellomama and madgirl!!

Hi all.
Harry has been pretty good recently and is becoming more scrumptious by the day.
Had his first jabs (new 5 in 1) without any fuss. Happy to sit in his bouncy chair and watch me do things for a while so I've been able to get more done. Smiling lots and making his first attempts at a little laugh which is v cute.
Sleeping from around 9 till 7 with one wake up, anywhere between 2 and 5 which dh and I take it in turns to do so not too bad.
He's been really out of sorts today though, crying all the time, feeding badly and puking up a bit and only just now gone down for his first decent stretch of sleep of the day. I think he might have a bit of a cold poor little mite as the rest of us are all pretty snuffly. I feel really bad for him and it's awful when you can't comfort them, but it's also hard not to get annoyed when they just won't stop crying. Oh well, let's hope he wakes up feeling a bit better.

hi sponge good to see you

Abbie had her second 5 in 1 last week and seemed ok with it just very sleepy

She's becoming a right little madam when it comes to sleep, she won't sleep at night now and when she does go down it's from about 1am to 7pm then has a feed and back to bed until 11am, I think she thinks she's a teenager. She also will only fall asleep on the boob or on someone's chest, I know it's my own fault for starting her off like this but it's so easy when it's the only way to comfort them at 3 in the morning. Her daytime sleeping is still quite erratic as well. I can see a few nights of controlled crying coming our way in the next few months.