Septermber 07 poppers.....please meet here!

[dal21]

Hi ladies - cannot see a thread for the sept ladies who have popped. Thought I would start one (hope I havent been totally blind and missed one already set up)

we can share our trials and tribulations of our LO's here!

Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLP Oh do tell!! What happened with the WII

Happy New Year everyone!!

Well, I think yesterday was the worst I've felt since Paul was born. We always spend New Year's Eve with my sister, and because we're all such lightweights we're usually in bed by about five past twelve if not before. For some reason, though, we decided that the year we have a three month old baby to look after would be the year to stay up until 2am drinking loads of whisky and playing SingStar . Then Paul decided to get up for the day at 5.30am...

But on the bright side, we put him in his own room for the first time last night, and it was fine. I don't think he necessarily slept any better, but it meant we could go to bed at 8pm without disturbing him. I just set my alarm for 10.30pm for his night feed. And it was SOOO nice to be able to read in bed with the light on and chat to DH before going to sleep. He woke at 4.15am and 6am, but both times settled back to sleep reasonably quickly, so I reckon I got MORE than eight hours sleep all told .

Hello everyone!!!

A belated Happy New Year to you all and I second Mrs F's post - it has been a pleasure sharing tales with you all in 2007, heres to 2008.

We had a LUSH holiday - scotland was fab and just back to London after 12 days - think it is the longest I have been out of town for many many years. Feeling very relaxed and rested and we still have a few days to enjoy in London before DH heads back to work.

Hope everyone else is well and LO's are coming on. Ryan has moved to 4 hourly feeds quite easily so now I only have 4 feeds a day (plus dreamfeed that DH does) so it all seems a lot easier. Am also estatic as I managed to slip on my skinny jeans today!! Hoorah! . was beginning to think i would never be back in them!

Am starting to think about work options now - 4 months have flown by....what is everyone else thinking of doing?? Is anyone planning to be a SAHM with one LO?

Hugs to all! Amd Hopey - thanks for your text, am about to drop you a very belated one back!

oh and hopey - liking the new thread title suggestion. sorry for no replies to others, have quickly skimmed all the posts.

Hi Fio - it is all down to the wonderful, lifesaving baby whisperer! I dropped nightfeeds from when ryan was 12 weeks old...started trying when he was 10 weeks old. I dropped the 1am one first and worked on stretching him to 3/4am....took 10 days and I was exhausted as was toing and froing from the nursery back to bed between 12-3. Then once he stopped waking for the 1am feed, I worked on eliminating the 3/4am feed. I basically wouldnt pick him up but used dummy and shush/ pat to get him to go back to sleep. He still wakes once or twice in the night, but resettles very easily.

I made sure I upped the time he spent feeding during the day and offered both breasts.Now - he can wake anywhere from 6 to 6.30 but plays happily until I pick him up at 6.45 and give him is first feed around 7ish.

Then 2 weeks ago I started moving his daytime feeds from 3 to 4 hours, stretching the time out between each one and he has easily adapted to it. I have to confess that routine has worked wonders for us! touchwood.

Hello all!

Sorry you're still feeding constantly Fiofio, hope you work out a way to get things more settled soon. I fear I may sound a big smug (I really don't mean to) but Cerys has really settled since her last operation. She has been going through the night for many weeks now but in the last few weeks she has increased her intake of milk which has meant she is down to four bottles a day now instead of 5. She used to go about 3-4 hours between feeds but for the first time I have introduced a routine and she now takes 7-8 ounces at 8am, 12pm, 4pm and 8pm (or thereabouts). She is definitely getting too big for the moses basket and I can't wait to get her weighed as she is much more chunky these days. I've been putting her to sleep in the nursery in the daytime and early evening for a few weeks now and I just carry her upstairs with me when I go up to bed so she is used to the cotbed. I intend to leave her in her nursery in the next week or two when we have found the mains lead for the video monitor . I can't leave her overnight without it as the nursery is downstairs so very far away from us [nervous emoticon].

As far as the wii goes, it was hilarious! I decided to create myself a 'mii' which means picking out features similar to myself and then putting in my name etc - its really hard to get it right when you're laughing uncontrollably and the letters are very small on the screen. It's even harder to do any of the games etc when you can hardly stand up and you still can't stop laughing - I don't drink very often so when I do it goes to my head! I'm glad to report I didn't get too much of a hangover though - phew!

Dal - glad you had a nice time away! We went to Wales for a couple of days which was really lovely but at the same time I couldn't wait to get home and back into our routine. I'm still waiting for the kids to go back to school so things can get completely back to 'normal'.

MrsBumblebee - don't you just lurve the Singstar - best invention since sliced bread in my opinion! Glad you've still managed to get some sleep!

MrsFish - glad the potty training is going well! As far as I know Cerys will potty train a bit later than others (not sure why) but for now I'll just be happy for a pooey nappy - can't wait till Feb, yay!

Hopey - sooo, sooo, sooo glad to see you posting again and to hear you're feeling better. Thank you for your texts over the holidays and when Cerys had her operation hugs.

It's been a really tough year this year but I can't help thanking the Lord above for the fact that I've survived even if I feel somewhat disheveled - lets hope and pray that 2008 is a good one!

PLP xxxx

bit smug not big - do'h!

Oh and we've undoubtedly hit the teething stage

I have no idea why the hugs turned into a link then as I put regular brackets around them for arms doing a hug (hmm)???

AAaaaarrrrgggghhhhhh,

PTP - you are all doing so great! lovely to hear that little cerys is doing fantastically. LOL at your Wii antics, have never tried one out but am slightly as my brother has the PS3...and have never been that fussed about it. But before xmas I he bought it round with a preview of a sequel to a game they are releasing in feb this year. I LOVE this game and in HD it looks AMAZING! I now want the PS3! Will bribe my brother to lend it to me.

had a rather sleepless night, have transferred ryan from amby into his cot last night and spent most the time toing and froing. But figure that I would rather get him transferred now as opposed to when he is older and no doubt more stubborn and vociferous in his protests! ha ha!

I am also on a hunt...posted this on dadsnet section. here. I want to find something that DH can do with DS on weekends minus me and maybe meet other fathers. any suggestions? right, am off to wake my sleeping angel.

Hi Dal, when Ryan is older you won't have any trouble finding activities for him and dh to do together. My dh and ds1 took up karate together a couple of years ago, and dh also helps train ds1's football team. But it's a little trickier finding something for a lo to do. The only thing that springs to mind is swimming. Or if you wait a few more months, what about baby gymnastics? (Ds1 went from about age 3, but I seem to remember there being a class from walking age.) Another idea, what about baby signing? The trouble will be finding something suitable and it being available during the weekend. They could always do a regular trip to the park. I do this with my boys on a Wednesday after school (well, we haven't this last term, because of Liam, but plan to restart it this term). Making it a fixed date means we always do it, and it's as enjoyable for me as it is for them. If it's more about a bit of 'me' time for you (ie you just want them out of the house), some cinemas do sessions where babies under one are welcome - but I'm not sure if these would be at the weekend though. Alternatively, as a last resort, pubs are smoke-free now, so you could always send them out for a pint - male bonding and all that!

Plp - I've got a mii too, startlingly real aren't they?! Apparently I've missed my vocation - I should be a baseball player. Crap at the others, but really good at baseball (mind you I was captain of my school rounders team ). Glad to hear Cerys is doing well. Shame teething has started - it must seem like one thing after another for you.

Fio, Liam has been feeding non-stop for a few days (very unlike him), but thankfully I get a bit of a break at night. I feel for you. I'm hoping the routine of school might just settle things down a bit, or at least make it easier. Hope it does for you too.

How's the potty training going Mrs F? Ds2 is doing ok, the big test is today, going back to pre-school. Hopefully he'll be ok. We stopped using them at night too and so far so good.

Anyone got snow? Apparently we'll be getting it this afternoon.

Morning all..

Not good this morning, not only has my stinking cold come back full force, I have a sore eye and have pulled the muscle in my shoulder so it hurts to move/lift Ben, god knows how I managed to get Sam to nursery this morning. Also my ears keep getting blocked and I didn't get much sleep either hmm I was up twice with Ben and twice with Sam.

Kinki - Potty training going fantastically well in the day, no accidents since boxing day but last night Sam decided he didn't want to wear a nappy to bed, so because he has been dry for the last 5 night I obliged. You guessed it... 3am this morning hysterical crying because he had wet himself, I guess that's how I did my shoulder, turning the blasted mattress over. I too am nervous about today, he has gone to nursery all day, I hope he is ok, I don't want his progress hindered.

I totally agree about trying baby signing classes - I'm looking for one local to us at the moment. I wish I'd done it with DS and DD1 as my Mum is one of the top sign language interpreters in the country and we're embarassingly awful at communicating with the rest of the family! As far as something to do with DH I'm not sure - the other suggestion of swimming sounds good as long as you're confident of his ability to be organised with dressing and reading your DS's signs of having had enough - babies at this age get tired very quickly so they might only be in for ten minutes.

Dal - I've wanted a PS3 for a long time now but they're just too expensive Glad you had fun, what game was it?

Thanks kinki, yes it does seem like one thing after another but I'm just relieved its a normal baby thing for a change! We've had a few screaming fits and I think I know when its her teeth. Other times its a mystery - has she got a stitch stuck in her bottom; is a stitch coming lose; is her bag leaking underneath, yada yada yada... We're just waiting for the next 'candle' to arrive which I'm not looking forward to! I've considered videoing what we have to do but I reckon we'd get put away for a stretch so I'm not going to attempt it!

Sorry to babble but I just feel a bit 'on my own' lately. DH is still adjusting to his tablets although he's slowly improving but he's very much out of action and I'm getting to the stage where I feel like I'm doing everything unless I force/beg him to do something with Cerys. He's doing general other stuff around the house so I can't complain about that but there's definitely a lack of 'teamwork' at the moment. When we went to Wales, his sister fed Cerys and I realised and said that was the first time in weeks I've not had to feed her - she was astounded and seemed a bit annoyed with DH!!! Also, on Christmas day, I managed to convince my mum to feed her and she actually said to Cerys "I'm just a grumpy tired Grandma and I shouldn't be doing this, I should be doing the fun things!" I've not approached her about this comment (or a load of other comments) as its not worth the hassle but I can't help feeling a little down about it.

OK, I'll stop moaning now - I've woken up with a headache this morning so its probably just that. I'm off to start a new thread if thats OK? I'll go with your suggestion Hopey xxx

Awwww MrsFish, hope your shoulder improves really quickly. I'm sure he'll do great at nursery - DD1 thrived on it and it always seemed to support what we were doing at home. ((hugs))

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