April 2007 - We are, quite simply, amazing!

[JoMa]

Have been lurking but L has habit of starting to wail just as I catch up and want to post!

Please some sun from anywhere, this weather is sucking the life out of me, was forecast to be 21 degrees and sunny in Sydney yesterday (in the middle of their winter fgs) am so tempted to go back with my Mum and Dad next week... don't think dh (or my credit card) would be very impressed

Hope everyone who had a bad night is having a better day... L wailing so better dash

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hi everyone x

No, SOKL, it is fine - she going to have her squint corrected, poor little thing.....

OMGoodness!! Bumble - I have just looked at the pic of Lucy on your profile & she is completely scrummy - so gorgeous - all that hair, what a cutie!!

Going to go & see if there is anything I can do to help as friends are moving house today .....

hey ladies

just off to catch up then i will be back!!!

LOL nutty - you having postman rage over nappies

Crappy night here too - fed at midnight - dh fed him at 2pm - then at sometime again between 2 and 4.30 when fed again and then 7am .... so 3 middle of night feeds arrghhh - and if give him hungry baby milk it seems to make no difference.

I have come up with a number of options which wouldn't dare post on feeding forum:

a) carry on as I am - but very tired and grumpy at times
b) switch to formula - can't be arsed tbh and costs money - would be easier with boys to bf over the summer
c) wean earlier and carry on bf and cut out the bottles

I am up for c myself - thinking maybe to hold out to as close as 16 weeks as poss and then go for food and breastmilk. It seems to be the lesser of two evils - I know breastmilk is best for him and am happy bf but he needs more - and my last 2 were on food by 14 weeks!! Also we alreadyhave food so would just need to cook and freeze down. I did look at the selection of baby rice yeaterday in sainsburys - wasn't too impressed - may have a look in boots or somewhere like that. I don't have a highchair either - and want to get a tripp trapp kind - so will need to feed him in bouncy chair on table til he can sit up/six months which is yonks away.

Top tip by the way - when you use baby jars - keep them and refill with your own food at home.

Such a nightmare trying to figure out what to do with the feeding.

ds2 did the polishing and dusting this afternoon

Must go on school run xxx

OMG we went to see a house in bicester on the weekend and i told dh that I thought it was nice, he has phoned to tell me he put an offer in and it has been accepted and he has got a soliciter drawing up the paper work.

I know you thinking that sound nice but he didn't even tell me he was considering doing it, it was just a maybe, now the twat has got us buying another bloody house that needs loads of work done on it and we haven't even finished this one!!!!!

blimey knee high!!

btw - the chair of the playgroup apologised 3 times - once in tears on answer machine, a letter and in person yesterday - so have reinstated myself as treasurer!

I am considering ging for a run !

SOKL, we've put H up to 7oz bottles now. He does bring back a little bit at each feed though, but not that much. He ALWAYS drinks whatever is in the bottle so the HV's advice to up it when he drains it is no good to me wasn't with dd either as she was the same! I think boys in general do drink more though.

Bumble, is it wrong to want to give L's cheeks a good squeeeeeze She's very cute

Octo, would be tempted to do c myself. All the advice you're given is great but I believe each baby is different and the mum knows best so go with what YOU think is right for YOU and HIM.

KHIN and on your behalf, sounds like he hasn't thought it through. We only have to decorate our house and can never find the time. The hallway's taken us over 3 months so far and we still have to gloss everything.

Right must remove myself from the computer to do the washing up

Can't wait til my dad gets back off his holiday and brings us his old dishwasher. Fingers crossed it works as it's been in his garage for a year!

have braved the bf forum!

Thanks Eddas and CD for your lovely comments about Lucy! Eddas, it's a wonder she has any cheeks left - I want to squeeze/kiss them at every opportunity, dh thinks she stores extra milk in them!

Octo, glad everything sorted out for you re Treasurer. Can't add anything to the feeding issue so hope things get better.

KHIN - , why do dh's do these things? Sending hugs to you. We just needed to redecorate our house and it took us forever...

Elkie, hope all is going well with the bfing for you.

SOKL - hope the dentist was ok today.

Am very excited, just arranged with my Mum for her to look after Lucy while dh & I go out for dinner on Sat night, so excited!

Hope everyone else having a good day.
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Hiya gals.

Survived the dentist - just! I had a scale and polish, and it was really sore! I think he took great joy in hurting me as payback for poor K screaming in the corner.

KHIN, can't believe your dh! Madness.

Octo, glad the lady apologised to you.

Bumble, Lucy is adorable.

Best go, need to get B some toast.

Back later. xx

KHIN - at your dh

Octo - glad you got an apology

SOKL - ouch @ the dentist

All alright here apart from the weather...which got out nice just as erin wanted fed

Hi all

feeling crappy today. blame ellie and nutty for keeping me up late on msn! That and the baby of course!

Feeling bit depressed at prospect of spending all next week with dps family. dp's brother's baby is bottle fed and so doesnt feed very often (not compared to d!) and he sleeps loads (think ive said already but cant remember if it was on here or not!) whereas D will be feeding,crying, wanting to be entertained the whole time while they swan around doing whatever and leaving him with whoever. And dps paren5ts whilst supportive of bfing are suprised by how often he feeds and not sure any of his family really understand his feeding and the problems ive had. On monday dp said perhaps its time we gave up bfing and gave him bottles cos its obv not working It is working its just not easy. he did this with ds1 but said he didnt understand before. he just wants easy life, he's not big on babies really, adores ds1 and is great with him (most of the time) but just not keen on the baby stage and thinks ffing wud make it easier which it might i guess. And he's constantly moaning and having a go about me not doing anything all day and if im feeding and ask him to get me something theres normally a ffs and big sighs etc. I hate being sat here having to feed all day and wherever i go, the state of the house is driving me mad i get back/hip/leg/bum ache and i have no lifeoutside feeding - if i coud do more i f**&ing would and so his digs just infuriate me, half the time he says hes only playing/joking but its not funny! And hes worse infront of his family. Am worried they'll be the same although in a more subtle polite way obviously. think my head may explode!! I will keep bfing - im much too stubborn to quit now, ill quit dp before i quit bf, but some help, understanding and support from people in rl (cos have had loads from here which is lovely) would really be nice

Sorry for big rant and totally selfish post but needed to get it off my chest and dp doesnt listen and couldnt tell anyone else.

The significance of bottle fed refers only to him not feeding often, the swanning around doing whatever etc is specific to dps bro and his dp. Thought i best clarify that cos reading it back it might have come across as thats what i thought of everyone and its not at all, its just what they'll be like on hol! Hope ive not offended anyone

And that last post was shockingly bad - hope you can all understand what im trying to say!!!

Oh and thought some of you might be interested in nestle free week

And ethical child trust fund Seems to me like theres not much to choose between the ctf accounts so might aswell go for an ethical one!

right just to let you all know, Dippy has no internet and Ellie has a friend round so will be half an hour.

anyone wanting to do a runner, you've got 30 mins!

taken me several hours to post this!

bloody hell kneehigh

go for C Octo

SOKL - Joe has started nursery for one morning a week, give me time with matthew and get joe used to nursery for when i go back to work. have an interview on thursday with my temp agency to talk about going back to work

I will have more to say, when i've read it properly!

i do have a friend round, but just realised i'd typed all that at 5pm and not pressed post

Sorry your having a hard time pesha but glad you feel strong enough to carry on with the bf despite dp & his family.

Stupidly stubborn i think rather than strong nutty but thank you

Probably more than I can successfully catch up on, so apologies to anyone I miss entirely, have been out all day and doing some of the more essential things since we got home.

SOKL and Emmymummy, glad to hear that you've been having happier times with your older kids.

Sorry to everyone else having bad nights, but if you're breastfeeding and anyone's giving you pressure to try switching to formula, it doesn't necessarily mean that nights are trouble free. Danny was awake and mostly crying from 3 am to some time between 8 am and 9 am.

Breaking off to eat my tea.

Re myself, Thanks for the messages on breastfeeding on this and previous thread, however... I'm hoping to increase the amount of breastmilk he gets and will try the tips, but I think he's going to remain primarily formula fed. If I get the chance to have another at my advanced age, I'm going to fight very hard to breastfeed and to make it work next time. And I will be looking at some sort of contribution I can make to help others i that boat eg small regular financial donation to a relevant charity.

Pesha, I hope you are able to stick to what you want to do re breastfeeding, it's such an emotive thing isn't it? And it's hard for partners and for some other people to understand just how it matters, whan it does. And I think formula feeding is a real hassle, I wish I could still just feed from what I have with me all the time anyway!

Berlimey that took a while to get through.

Pesha sorry you're having bad time, can sympathise about ils not fully understanding about bf. MIL who ff both of hers seems to say "Are you feeding him again?" about 4 times a day when we stay at their house. Or if he cries (a hungry cry) and I say he needs a feed she never believes me until he's latched on and acting like he's never seen booby before!

at DH KHIN. It's a big thing to do without checking with you first!

Octo - Not being experienced in feeding/weaning matters I'd say trust your instincts and experience. C sounds like best option for you.

Maveta - love the vid. So cute.

Hope everyone having a bad day is feeling better now. Sorry if I missed anyone out.

Went to visit a nursery today for when I go back to work in January. Seemed really nice but v.expensive. G seemed tiny compared to babies there. Think we should see a couple before making a decision.

Had a pootle round shops in Leeds this pm. Got a lovely top for £5 (reduced from £40) in Oasis sale. Went to M&S baby change to feed and change G while we were there. Then bumped into a work colleague who told me next time I should try Harvey Nicks baby change, apparently it's got leather walls!

Got a cute kooshies swim nappy today in readiness for our holiday on Northumberland (for holiday read fortnight staying at ils house while they sail in S of France!). Don't worry we're not putting him in the North Sea just going to the local pool.

Off to massage G now DH has finished bath.

Pesha, I think you're being strong, stubborn is good. Stick with it.

And thanks, Pesha again, for the links on the ethical CTF, I like the sound of that and I've seen that I can start the process online and that might help me to get on with it sooner. I can probably fill in an online form with baby on my lap, paper form's a bit harder (I'm still struggling with the passport application but hope it will work now).