Dec 06 - a new one for Indith and her rubbish dial up!

[weirdbird]

New thread for our incessant chatter!

Oooh, I like the hats
Spose I'll have to have a go at this facebook thingy then do i have to post a photo (maybe one of me when I was 12?)

did write a post before but it got lost with stupid new book-style view thingy grrr. bp, back sounds really awful, nothing worse (well, childbirth) as it just affects everything you do. Take care.

ds2 gave up bf. I cried buckets tonight. I've seen it coming for a couple of weeks (he's been down to a nightfeed for a few months) but didn't want to face it. Handed him a bottle and he was glugging it down. Very as I was hoping to keep on for a year or so, but introducing bottles at nursery (he wouldn't take milk from a cup) was the downhill slide. Feels like he's not my baby anymore. Oops, welling up again...

Oh AQ, poor you. Have a good cry and let yourself feel sad for a bit. It's a big change for both of you and the changes in hormones make you wobbly too, you're bound to feel tearful. Go with it and have a ((((((hug)))))) from me.

Lucy, I still have the list, funnily enough I was just looking at it to see when the first lot of birthdays were .

Of the people who still post, Jabber's ds2 is on the 22nd Nov, then your ds, then Calm's dd, Eli's dd, Mags' ds and Castles dd are all Nov babies.

And my DD is one of the last on 3rd of Jan, gosh it does seem so long ago and yet not that long ago at all that we where all moaning about various aches & pains, worrying about this and that, wondering who was going to have there baby first, weird and wonderful cravings, milo and tea cakes..

Indith you will have to invite me to the FB group as my poor brain has exploded trying to work out who has added me on FB and who they are!

Will have to let you know who Calm is when I am on as well so you can invite her!

Gosh its confusing

AQ - Its hard isn't it, it feels like the end of the baby years, or it did for me last time, and to add to the fun your hormones go all over the shop as well.

Morning Guys.

AQ - your poor thing. I know how desperate you feel when that final breastfeed happens. I remember with DD1 being quite keen to drop it and then terribly upset when it happened.

My DD is now on one (long) breastfeed in the morning. I try and give her milk at other times from a cup but she has a bit and then starts blowing raspberries .

I cant quite believe it as SHE IS STILL ASLEEP. This is a baby normally up at 6.15. I'm taking it as preparation for the clocks changing tomorrow night so plan to try and do everything an hour later today and tomorrow to make the most of todays aberration in sleeping.

Morning!

How you keeping AQ? For what it is worth, I think it is wonderful that you feel so strongly about it having had so many problems. He is still your baby it is just that a bottle is so much easier to glug and go when the world is so exciting and needs investigating

Mine is, of course, the last birthday Jan 11th! If you have the list Oli do you mind posting it?

Ds didn't wake til 5.20 last night! Then did a huge poo after his feed and didn't settle too well after and then woke at 7 instead of my having to wake him at 8 but hey ho!

Well Hannah has been really ill, but is finally on the mend (thank god) but the antibiotics have given her severe nappy rash, neither of mine have ever suffered before, I have sudocream but her poor bits are literally red raw Any advice?? Tips etc...

Oh, AQ, it's such a big step for you both. I wish there was something constructive I could add - I remember exactly how I felt with DD1, and I was inconsolable - yet strangely liberated - for a while.

WB, sorry about Hannah, but glad she's on the mend. Have you tried sitting her in a little water with loads of bicarb? That really helps. Bathing her bits with cold chamomile tea and then putting a thin film of calendula cream will also help. If nothing else does it, have you tried metanium? (See how quickly my holistic, herbal, organic principles desert me when faced with nappy rash!)

Both of mine were up for most of the night - DD1 was vomiting all over the place (YUK!), and DD2, having been woken, just wanted to play. Kids. Who'd 'ave 'em?

I second metanium if rash is bad.

I don't know BP but mine are on offer at the moment, special offer, get 1 get 1 free!

Thanks guys, have lots of bicarb (use it for cleaning) Would use aloe vera gel but we are out...

OK have managed to join the facebook thingy and even downloaded some pictures.

AQ, hugs, but have to say it is quite liberating once you get over the shock

WB, metanium. Use it all the time with DD2.

I bought another stairgate yesterday for downstairs and you have to ring and order the extension bit if you need it which I've done. In the meantime I have a 'temporary arrangement' involving a footstool, a box containing a new car seat and stairgate in it's box blocking the bottom of the stairs and DD2 still manages to clamber over it all. DH is convinced she will be a mountaineer when she's older.

another vote for metanium - thin layer over the top of thick layer of vaseline: protects and heals at same time, brilliant. Sorry she's been so ill, WB, and ditto BP's dd1...poor love, yuk and all!

Mother this weekend, am likely to be AWOL...

Oh, and have to do excited mummy moment thing - dd2 is saying some recognizable words. Well, sounds. 'flower', 'there', 'light' as well as Mama and Dada h

In French, though h

No need for stairgates though, she's still trying to pull up on tippytoes - phew!

that would be and

I need some sleep...

WB, if Metanium doesn't work, I swear by Bepathen. I used to be a metanium girl but discovered Bepathen with ds2's particularly stubborn nappy rash and I'm a complete convert . It's not as messy as Metanium either.

Great Eli!

We are getting Dada, Cat and Tigger. No sign of mama yet though...

Eli, ds2 started saying 'cat' when we were on holiday, in context at the holiday place cat. Now it seems to be used for everything that moves and quite a lot of things that don't!

DD2 has started saying "no no NO"

lol at the "no no no"

Hannahs first words where hello (last weekend), and have now been added to with hello dada, but she doesnt say dada without the hello, and no sign of mama yet!

at no no no (sounds like dd1)

'bye bye' is probably top favourite here, accompanied by enthusiastic waving. dd1 didnt' say 'mama' until about 18 months (cat was her first word, seems popular!) but lovely lovely dd2 said it first

She probably knew she needed to make up for being a high maintenance sleeper/feeder...

Ahhh, first words Ds1 has come up with bath and daddy but amazed by byebye, french words, no no no and waving etc
Also at castles' mountaineering dd2!
Thanks for all kind words re: bf, I hadn't really thought about the hormones side of it, surely not much as I was down to once a day or should I not underestimate? Cried again when I gave him his lunchtime bottle, but it does occur to me I can leave them both with dp and go out early for an entire evening!
BP & WB, hope dd's get better very soon!

Ah, AWBS, I meant to say...and forgot, as usual, sorry....YES definitely can still be lots of hormonal effect even when down to once a day or less. I had a horrible blue week or so when I stopped BFing dd1, and I'd been down to once a day for about two months! With hindsight, am quite sure most of it was hormonal - though grieving the end of that initial teeny baby stage is sooo natural too

I would get yourself that night out, though, hormones or no hormones; oh, and please don't be too impressed at French words - I don't speak much English to dds so its their first language anyway

Eli I wish you lived up here! I am useless at speaking French to Ds and I know I'm going to regret it.

He is currently saying haboof while pulling my hair from his vantage point in a lovely mei tai I borrowed from the sling library. First words? Think we have a bit of time to go.

Oh joy the hair pulling is turning into a game. Since when did my slapping his hand and saying no get so funny? He really should be asleep...was hoping being carried around would do it. Oh well maybe the washing up will help

'haboof': Urdu for 'hair off', no?

If you lived down here, Indith, we could do French playgroup stuff with our LOs. Sigh.