June '07- We are all bump free!!! HOORAY!!

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looking in guilford so pretty expensive. they are such a beautiful couple though!

i only change LO's nappies through the night if there is poo.
i'm watching perer and jordan on ITV2 - well funny

ok, next question, any of you co-sleeping? does LO sleep between you or on your side and if so do you use a guard rail?

peter oops!

I LOVE peter and jordan! (so does DH!)

Bloody hell, all they'd get in guildford is a one bed flat for that money! It seems like a lot of money, but it isn't there! It's a lovely place to live though!

12 hours, ROFL.....not with the amount of wee that comes out of babyboo.....

....LOL we're back to bodily functions again!

andiem, I see you couldn't resist the lure of that thread.

I usually keep babyboo in the bed beside me after her early morning feed. DH not in the bed so she lies there on top of the duvet, with a blanket over her, and a pillow under the duvet at the edge of the bed incase she should roll.

In fact, I ususally fall asleep with her when I'm BF and should work at feeding lying down as I always wake up with a stiff neck and am paranoid she falls out of my arms.

wouldn't trust her in between DH and I tbh.

Am co-sleeping when DS won't go down otherwise (ie last night, when finally slept at 1am after feeding in bed). Was in between me and DH, but then on other side for next feed. No guard rail, but I do feel v nervous about this and move as far over to the other side as possible so that he won't roll out. He's only 3 weeks though, so probably wouldn't roll too far anyway.
(in any case, DH is sleeping on the sofa most nights now so that he can get some sleep and be awake for work - so I can move positions for feeds and leave the baby in the middle of the bed).

I would rather stab myself in the eyes than watch those twats prostitute themselves and their children! Sorry, they are idiots!

I co-sleep bumper and william sleeps on my side, not in the middle. DP is a heavy sleeper and I don't trust him not to roll over. I don't use a bed guard and have never had dd or ds fall out of bed. I am such a light sleeper that I wake as soon as ds makes a slight movement or sound so I don't think he would ever be able to fall without me catching him first!

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Any takers.....it's for a good cause!

daisy no couldn't resist a cheeky post can't believe there are 500 messages anyway what's wrong with a fruitshoot every now and again or a sausage roll for that matter I love m&s ones

I usually put lo in between us after his 5am feed on top of duvet as he is in sleeping bag feel better if he is in between. I do the bf lying down in the night works a treat for me but I can drop off as well glad to know I am not the only one. My dh doesn't wake up in the night just asks how many times he has fed but lo is very quiet and just shuffles about a lot when he wants a feed.

As for nappy only change if poo otherwise he's in the same one allllll night

in spite of extended bf am obviously bad mother fruit shoots sausage rolls no nappy changing............

we have been known to occasionally patronise that american burger chain as well as fruit shoot, sausage roll and worse, mattesons smoked pork sausage!

that is definitely a sausage too far in my book

off to bed sleep well ladies may your night time feeds be speedy

I'm off too, dd has just woken up and is sat downstairs with us on the sofa. Time for more calpol and bed methinks. This is going to be a fun night!!!

me too...good night lovelies

me too - off to bed with my chamomile tea before DS wakes up!

nice to meet you naturopath and i hope you'll come back to talk again

night ladies, thanks for your replies and sorry I didn't say hi properly naturopath!

bloody hell, can't keep up. Will try tomorrow. Rx
Hope we are all ok.

Good morning all - I have 2 mins to post before dh brings Arthur up for a feed so thought I'd say hello. All well here apart from lo having worked out that if he sceams constantly someone picks him up...so we are trying to leave him a bit, agony for me. He still hates his Moses basket, I think he's a tummy sleeper.

Good buy recommendations for we Internet shopping queens - Grobag egg for nursery temperature, Baby Bjorn Active for walks and he loves his vibrating chair and will actually sleep in it for a couple of hours.

Hope all is well for everybody, hopefully will be back later! xx

Blimey - I have a weekend off MN as I had my mum to stay and its taken me AGES to catch up!

Took even longer as I had to go and look at the BF / FF thread as well - nothing like a good argument . I did resist posting though (as a FF who "chose" to FF whilst still pregnant ) and I would have been really rude to some of the arrogant up-their-own-arses think-they-know-better types on there. I was actually quite by the time I finished reading it.

FWIW I only change dirty nappies at night not wet ones - its just a shame that DD saves all REALLY dirty ones for 4am ATM

Although I don't co-sleep with DD, she woke up very early this morning and I put her head between my boobs and cuddled her and she went straight off to sleep - so even though I'm not BF, she obviously still enjoys it! Yesterday morning when she woke particularly early, I just took her into my mum and got another 3 hours sleep

Hope everyone and their LOs are well and have had some sleep - catch up later x

Morning all - hi doggus, sounds like things are going ok for you, sounds like you have a very independent little boy there!

Crap night for us last night. DD went down to bed with me at 12, woke up at 1.30, then at 2.30, had a brief feed. then she had really bad wind, she cried, I cried, DH took her out till 4.30, woke me up to feed her again, then she eventually sleep fitfully on my chest till about 8.30. I was definitely swearing off bfing last night, but doesn't seem so bad this morning. just need a stretch of sleep longer than 3 or 4 hours!

I can't cope.
Baby seems to be always screaming his head off, evertytime I feed him DD wants a "cuddle" and I can't give her one (sitting next to me snuggled up is not an option for her). I am so sleep deprived I think I am actually going insane.
When I have been up half the night feeding the baby and I think "DH can pop his dummy back in if he is still grumbling" but then DH seems to have no patience and ends up telling DS to shut up after about 5 minutes which means that I feel I have to get up again as otherwise poor DS is being told off for something i know he can't help! AArgh.
Then we have also got a buyer for our house this weekend, but the people we are buying from won't commit to us unless the whole chain is in place so we have no guarantee of getting our dream home. It is all just too much. I have been crying all morning as I feel like I just want to go and walk under a car so it will all just fucking stop!!!
It was never this hard first time around - I really worry I might do something stupid when I feel like this...

glad you exercised restraint charlie....it amazes me that people can't just accept other people's choices and leave it at that.

I, of course, have no such restraint an waded in with both feet

Bumper, can you try expressing enough so that DH can do a night feed and give you a bit of a break? It was the best thing I've done so far and babyboo doesn't seem to have suffered for having a little formula (although some might say....)

On the subject of expressing, I expressed about 2.5ozs this morning, and it seems to be more opaque than the 6ozs I expressed yesterday morning. Is this cos the stuff from yesterday has a much higher volume of hindmilk in it? How much of a normal feed is foremilk and how much hindmilk?

Think I'll start a thread on this subject.....