March 2007 - where the babies all get feisty and we "make rods for our own backs" or develop arms like a trucker!

[Mossy]

Couldn't help it!

am hear to report a night of 1.5 hourly breastfeeds, but bless him he slept all the night through aside from that. He is so brave it makes me cry.
This morning he has been up for about 1/2 an hour and back down again, still waking every 1.5 hrs for his mummy and her boobies

I am truly attachment parenting and do you know what

It's very very special to be able to be so close, normally he prefers to sleep alone.

I'm confident he is ok now, temp is hovering just below 39 and he handles the temp ok, so not having to coax meds down him

He is just resting.

Hopefully this means we'll all be ok for xmas!

Good news piff - sounds like you might be through the worst of it! Fingers crossed! Poor little mite... make sure you keep eating and drinking loads to cope with the extra boobage demands!!

Am assaulting a tub of Mrs Beetons ginger ice cream as I type I'm official taster of new things for you xmas dining

I lose weight very fast when feeding lots so am shoring up

Good news Piffle.
Hasan has a slight cold, no temperature but he was up feeding all night and ds2 was up three times and I was up at 3.30am ravenous eating crisp sandwhich! So I am also struggling to keep up with enough calories at the moment!

So I am a wreck today...but it is a gorgeous day and alls okay. Hoping for more sleep tonight!

Jay nice to get an update. So it's a leap year next year! If you are late one day he/she will be born on my and snoosnoos birthday!

Hope that Hasan stays mild Rosy
Finn had mild cold 10 days ago, 4 days of the runs 5 days ago and then this...
DD was also very ill if you remember and so have I been
Thanks god I am better so can give Finn 110%
DD is also better, coughing at night, but not waking so she is fine

I Was so tired this morning I forgot dd's glasses for school
She should be ok

welcome back Jay, Trix and another others i have missed.
Piffle - hope lo feels better soon, sounded scary.
Snoo, Fitfox and trix - have you tried feeding your los from a cup?

Snoo-he smokes weed outside though it usually comes straight into the house and if Hayden is in bed upstairs he will smoke inside the living room claiming too cold outside! the cable guy is a nice young man but nothing will ever come of it due to both our circumstances, cable guy wants to travel the world etc and i have a house (rented) and a job etc so i am pretty much routed here at the mo. he is off home to SOuth Africa (did i mention his yummy accent!) tomorrow so will nto see him til Jan by then he may have met some young thing so not holding out that i will see him again though we are fb friends now!

Rosy - heavens dp does not know about cable guy as he would get all jealous etc and nothing is going on, yes i find him attractive but as yet there has been mothing going on other htan good company twice.
Mossy - you are prob right about dp being like old slipper, i guess that i feel as though being a single parents and not having opportunities to meet other people i am staying with him but honestly he is trying.

Finn drinks from a cup, he has too lol as he hates bottles!

WE have always found the lids from avent bottles make fab first cups.
DD never had a spouted cup at all, she went from those onto proper beakers and very rarely spilt a cup.

piffle/trix-hope the lo's are feeling better.why do they say 'probably just a virus'as though viruses are nothing?i was always told to take babies straight back in if i thought they were dehydrated,ie not wetting nappies etc.

i can finish my message now

Elsie drinks her juice from a cup now(she picked up one of dd2's and started drinking from it a couple of weeks ago)and she has started taking her bottle off me and drinking it herself.

she seems to have a temperature tonight.

Snoo how is Elsie this morning?

Happy t erport Finn has improved a bit - only fed every 2 hrs last night and has eaten a little bit of weetabix and fruit. He is now purging and oh dear god the snot the colour and the volume
But he is better, still fragile, clingy, tired and porly but discernibly better

Me is knackered.....

Piffle glad Finn is a bit better. It must have been so frightening. Poor little man, he's very brave.

Snoo how is Elsie this morning?

What is it with all the poorly babies? Time of year? Or is this usual?

Jay nice to get an update! So you think you're having another boy... aren't you tempted to find out?

Bertie's in a funny mood this morning. His top teeth are coming through so he feeds for about five minutes then comes off grizzling for about two minutes then goes back on. He's been on and off the boob like a fiddler's elbow this morning!!

Got a job interview this Friday. We've so little money it's not funny. Don't know where it's all gone. Well, I do; it's Asda bloody organics and posh wine thanks to dh.

Can't be too angry though, he does make lovely meals and it's not like he spends a fortune, just a little more than I think is necessary.

Piffle hope you get to take it easy today.

Mossy how exciting...is the job a good one?

My nerves are wrecked...finally managing to sell a couple of used but good condition things on ebay...I'm making £30 woohoo...so exciting first time I sold anything... usually just buying.
And there's a Jasmine Pippa doll with a bid of £40 on it and I have one of those...but I don't want to sell her though...ooh I'm so excited

Glad Finn is better. DD was throwing up half the night and has a cursty nose again (yuk). Not too worried about the throwing up ATM as she helped herself to most of my fajita ingredients at TGI Fridays last night and I don't think they were baby-suitable She stank of onion this morning!

Just had the HV round for her 8 mth check, which she seems to have passed. She has picked up most of the weight she lost so she is just above the 50th centile (was 75th), but curiously she is just above the 91st for length! Isn't that a bit odd?

Evenhope, length measurememnt in babies is usually so inaccurate as to be ridiculuos. Take no notice of it. Glad she "passed" her tests

Rosy I sold something on ebay rececntl;y it wentf for more than I bought it for, it was dead exciting. I've got draw full of stuff to list but i can't find the time. I think it will have to wait until January now. I was outbid on a pair of boots yesterday by 2p, I'm still well pissed off about it .

Mossy, whats the job interview for?

Piffle, good to hear Fin is winning the battle of the bugs. Ronnie has been relatively bug free so far. (I'll just go and hug few trees now, bye.........................)

Elsie was up from 11pm till about 2.30 am screaming and wouldnt be put down so she ended up in our bed so we could get some sleep

i so hope she sleeps tonight.she still hasnt got anymore teeth.she is all bunged up again.

mossy-the bug thing is the time of year but it seems to get worse every year.i think the more antibacterial/antiviral wipes/sprays/arse cleaners they bring out the more the bugs mutate and the stronger they become.

i had a friend who's house was disgusting-i seriously considered nominating her for 'how clean is your house?' at one point-yet her children hardly ever got ill

Ah it all makes sense then, we don't do anti-bac stuff here and Ron regularly hoovers up scraps from the floor

sorry to hear of all the poorly babies

mine is crawling and finally got her first teeth this morning

must find the playpen out

bethoo - are you living with your dp? (sorry for the nosey qu!)

question for those who are still breastfeeding... have you all got your periods back? (obv excluding the pg ladies!) mine hasn't returned

i dont do anti-bac stuff either so i dont understand.no matter how many times i pick bits up off the floor Elsie always seems to be chewing a bit of paper

snoo, I reckon it's just bad luck

theblonde, I've had three af's now. Thankfully with the last one I had no symptoms, no pmt, no bloated tum etc.
With the one before I had pmt for at least 2 weeks, I was bitch lady from hell and was the size of a barrage balloon

You're lucky if they haven't returned yet!!

TheBlonde no AF here

Still no AF here either and I'm only b'fding about 3 times in any 24 hour period...

... on that subject... to those of you who have started their periods again... was the first one terribly heavy - like a proper "cleanout"? (sorry if TMI )

Hello all,

No AF here either although, even though Bertie still feeds like a newborn, I have been having a few "twinges" in that area for about a week and a half now, so I'm wondering if I'm going to be unlucky and even the teeny amount of food Bertie eats is enough to mean he takes slightly less milk and my periods come back. I do hope not!

Bugger better go grizzling little man on floor (top teeth coming through now..)

Theblonde - i have been having AFs since Hayden was about 6 months and still bf. actually AF came yesterday on day 28! so cycle must be back to normal as others were about 40 days apart!
and no do not live with dp! would be mad as he would drain me financially and it would be clean clean clean for me! cant live together at mo as our dogs would not get on (i have two boxers and he has a staff!), that is right we love each other so much we cant give up our dogs for each other!

when you have a very sterile environment the babys immune system is not in use so when it does finally meet viruses etc then the baby reacts a lot differently than a child who encounters dirt etc frequently. i knew a woman who was obsessed with sterilising everything in the house with bleach etc, even stripping the mattress down to the springs. anyway what i am getting at was that her kids had every allergy going! so a bit of dirt is good in a way though odviously there are limits!

Briefly as am mixed up and messy today
Finn nightmare last night, screamed up half the night
Dp has had to take day off as he is too tired to ride motorbike to work.

Finn just whingy grumpy, despite calpol, constant cuddling and nursing.

Am at end of tether

Really shokced myself last night, had real feelings of hostility towards him after 3 hrs of constant not settling. When he finally settled at 2am, I resented feeding him, it felt awful, like he was an alien.
It felt wrong

Today all ok and feeing and feelings are loving and normal
I never would have hurt him, but felt myself losing it big time.

Dp says it was just a stress reaction and tiredness (have had shag all sleep in days)

Am now feeling so guilty and wondering if there is something underlying.

On a more lovely note, exp and his missus had a little baby boy yesterday 3 wks early 6lbs 3oz,
How about this for quick.
Waters burst 12.30pm in the library of course!
Flatmate took her to birth unit in Kent, called exp who was in Ldn

1.45 fully dilated, aha here comes a baby...
FEET first, so she has 4 stitches, but baby came out fine
No name as yet.
He is very cute and ds1 has another little brother to adore!
Have sent very funky gift box(theya re vegetarian hippys lol)

{{hugs}}} Piffle, there's nothing wrong with you, You're just an exhausted woman, not a saint ( well maybe you are .)
I have real feelings of anger and hostility towards Ronnie when the going gets tough. I usually tell someone to take him away as I'm scared I will lash out.
I know I never actually would, but the feelings are very powerful, if short lived iyswim.
Don't be so hard on yourself, you are allowed to be tired , angry and at the end of your tether. I really hope he begins to improve soon so that you can start to rest and recover yourself