Nov 2007..... Once we pop, we will not stop!!!

[sparklygothkat]

I can finally start this, as someone else has had her baby.. woohooo!

SparklyGothKat - 25 Sep (8 Nov) BOY - Callum Eden
KaylaBMummy ? South Wales - 18 Oct (8 Nov) GIRL - Katie

Choc - Megan is in her big cot in our room. I guess we're lucky that it fits. Not sure whether we'll keep her in our room for the whole recommended 6 months. Dh thinks we should but that is cos he's been in the spare room whenever he has to work the next day. I go back to work full time in Feb and I'm not sure I could manage with such disturbed sleep. She's not bad, only waking at about 2/2.30 for a feed and then quiet until nearly 5.30/6am. The problem is that I hear all her little snuffles and grunts throughout the rest of the night. If she was in her own room then I would only wake when she started crying. Think dh and I will have to have this discussion again in a few weeks time!

Hope you all got a decent night's sleep (well at least 3/4 hours together)

Morning- glorious day today, sunny and crisp! I'm off to post natal aqua aerobics today so have tried on my swimming costume and its a bit wrong but ho-hum. At least noone can see you once you are in the water.

Had a good night here Anabel fed at 10pm and then woke at 2am and had a looooong feed till 3.15am and then slet till 7am. Shes having another nap now so its all good. I struggled to fall back asleep after the 2am feed just lay there feeling tired- very frustrating.

Have a good day everyone.

Morning everyone.

Feeling knackered at the moment, although i didn't have that bad a night really.

Finally fed Ellie last night at about 11pm (she was due at 9.30) and then took her up to bed. She woke up again at 1am so i gave her some Infacol in preparation for another feed, but she just zonked out again! So i just put her back to bed and i didn't hear from her again until 5am! She didn't properly go off again until about 6.30, but she woke me at 8.45 so i cant grumble too much really.

I have to say that using the Infacol by the book at each and every feed is really doing the trick (fingers crossed, touch wood & whistle, and any other superstitious thing) as Ellie is so much more settled than when we weren't using it. We've also not been having the screaming abdabs in the afternoon/evening either. She does still get a bit of pain from trapped wind, but last night i gave her some gripe water and she slept for ages really peacefully! Could i have found the answer to all those screaming nights or am i speaking too soon.....

DP asked me what i had planned today and so when i said nothing, he suggested i go somewhere and get out of the house. Of course I knew where it was leading and said to him that i didn't have anywhere to go. That's when he suggested going round to his mum's. She absolutely dotes on Ellie and it's great that we all get on really well etc, but sometimes i dont feel like being polite and socialising and getting my baps out in front of MIL! AIBU to not want to go round there and to just want to stay indoors and veg out? I sometimes think that i can be a bit of a social recluse at times and really need pushing to get out and interact with other humans.

certainly don't think yr being unreasonable to not want to go to mil. i never want to see my mil

am surprised at you not being sociable in rl - you are the life and soul of our thread. i think it may be a good idea to get out daily but it doesn't have to be with others. personally i go stir crazy if stuck in the house all day.

hope you have found the solution to sleepless nights - i will be v

fiona hope aqua aerobics goes well

Silk - dont get me wrong, i love socialising etc and in groups i am quite often very lively and bubbly but put me in a one-to-one situation with people i dont know or dont know very well and i can be a little shy, believe it or not! Unless i've had some wine or something of course. Then it's a completely different story! I doubt very much i am the "life and soul" of this thread tho! I just sit here and babble away far too much!

RG- you are deffo the life and soul of the thread I love reading your posts and all your adventures with your LO.

I had a great time at the pool today. I'm going to be stiff tomorrow though it was quite an effort after 7 weeks of sitting in front of the telly feeding my baby.

Tomorrow I am going to a exercise class to the hospital they put on for all the post natal ladies. It goes for 6 weeks so hopefully it will be good.

I have eaten a huge lunch because I was so hungry so I don't think I will be losing weight but hopefully the activty will firm me up a bit. I certaninly need it.

Fiona - you are putting me to shame!!! Two exercise classes in two days?!!! Blimey! The only exercise i get these days is walking from the front room to the kitchen to get more food to stuff in my face! Talking of which, lunch beckons.... Think i'm going to have the last bit of Monday's home made Shepherd's Pie and nuke it in the microwave.

I've added another picture onto my profile of Ellie and her very cheeky grin!

Cute!!! She has so much hair. DDs is starting to fall out now except she has a big tuft right at the back at the bottom so it looks like a right mullet!!

Believe me I need all the exercise I can get. I need something to motivate me as otherwise I'm a right telly addict. Also the one at the hospital is free and I can't resist a freebie.

hehe thanx. Ellie's is also falling out - she has a massive receding hairline at the front, just like her father!!

Think i should take advantage of a willing MIL and look for exercise classes. It would probably make me feel better, although i'm worried about overdoing it!

Should say sorry for the fuzziness of the pictures. They were taken with my phone and they do look quite clear on the phone, but are rubbish resized to a larger size!

Hi all

feeling quite shattered today, Ollie was quite good waking at 1.00 and 4.00 but then DS woke up a few of times with really loud whingeing / crying, in the end i lost my rag, DH had gone into see him and he was still really whingeging so i stormed in and told him to shut up or i would smack his bum, DH was already in with him trying to get him back to sleep and was v cross and told me to go away. I hate it when i lose my rag like that, i think all the broken nights sleep catch up with me now and again, after all DS is only 3 bless him.

Oh well....popped into mothercare this am and picked up Grobag, will see how Ollie gets on with it tonight. then went to Postnatal group, nice to meet other mums swap baby stories etc.

Choc - Ollie is in our room in his cotbed, it fits in but only just, and i imagine he will stay with us until he stops night feeds.

Fiona - i too had rubbish nights sleep, after Ollies 1.00am feed i just cldn't get back to sleep, normally i don't have a problem, but then when i did fall asleep I dreamt that i was trying to get to sleep but couldn't........how twisted is that

RG - you sound much like myself, i make myself get out and about and socialise otherwise i would go mad, but sometimes i'm just happy in my own company. Lovin the piccy of Ellie grinning, she looks like your DP doesn't she

i notice that a lot of you do you last feeds at 22.00, i guess it means that LO then only wakes once in night for feed, at the mo' Ollie gets his last feed around 8.00 and we put him down around 8.30ish, he usually is aleep by 9.00 but then wakes at 1.00 and 4.00, so maybe will start putting him down earlier and feeding him late evening, just that its nice to get whole evening to ourselves, i don't know its swings and roundabouts isn't it

have good evenins all
Lx

Lizzie- I put DD to bed by 6.30 so she is asleep by 7 then I wake her at 10 for a big feed and she is back asleep by 10.45ish. She then wakes only once during my sleep which is much better than 3 times it was before. Sometimes she wakes at 2, sometimes 3 and a couple of nights ago it was 5.30am!!!

Fiona - at your sleep!!!!

Lizzie - awww three year olds are very trying aren't they. I remember snapping at DS like that when he was that age. I even snapped at him on Monday so the irritation doesn't always go away!

Ellie does look alot like DP i think, although people have said she is a good mix of the both of us.

Ellie's last feed is normally around 11-12 ish. No set routine really.

Evening all

Sorry I havent been on - have become addicted to online bingo

Daniel is doing well, still waking twice in the night, but I can come with that - tends to be 1ish and 4ish.

He is just starting to settle into a feed routine during the day so thats good.

Not much else to report on lol other than the fact i am still ill, this stomach thing is not fun, constant pains in my tummy and feeling sick, as well as digestive discomfort permenantly.

Oh the joy! Take care all, will report in tomorrow once HV has been!

Hello DJarm! Hope you get better soon hunni. Poor you.

Can we talk baby acne? Ellie still has these little red spots on her face and today i've noticed they're on her head too. There's not many of them on her head - just a few. Just wanted to check what your LOs acne looked like. She's only ever had two little milk spots and they dont look like them!

DP has just bathed Ellie (under my strict anal supervision! ) and she's now been fed again and put into bed. Let's hope she stays there

Hi Jarm - sorry yr feeling rubbish

Rg - Megan had spots/pimples for a week ages ago (how can it be ages ago - she's only 9 weeks old) They were red and small and raised but didn't seem to bother her. They went and she had a feww clear skinned weeks. Until the last week where eczema has flared up. Doc gave us hydrocortisone cream and it has made a huge difference in just 2/3 days.

Lizzie - totally understandable snapping at ds. Sleep deprivation is a killer isn't it?

hi all, am having a crap day. Am ill with the flu, sore swollen throat, bunged up nose, headache, dizzyness, joints aching.. luckily dh is ok and able to do the school runs, but Callum has been very grumpy today, feeding lots and at one point he was screaming and nothing I was doing was helping, I ended up just putting him in his chair and walking away..

Last night was horrible as I woke every hour, was hot and cold, keep dreaming strange things, but thank god Callum slept from 11pm to 4am, and then woke up at 7am.

sorry to hear this sgk - get back into bed if you can - take care

Oops, spoke too soon. DD had yet more wind, so i brought her and her basket down here, gave her some gripe water and she's now sleeping peacefully in her basket down here. Kinda defeats the object of trying to get a routine sorted really doesn't it!

Silk - sounds like Ellie has the same pimples as Megan. Phew!

Sparkly - hope you feel better soon too. It's so hard trying to be ill when you have DCs to look after. Thank goodness for your DH!

JARM and Sparkly, hope you feel better soon.

RG, I know how you feel! Rebecca and Ellie have much in common. However I am winding her much better now since I read a different method - hold her sitting facing forwards on your knee, put one arm under her legs and the other under her armpits and lean forward and wait. She burps! Hallelujah.

Fiona, what is Anabel doing while you do these classes? can she come too??

Well, Rebecca's sleep refusing continues - after a good day of napping yesterday and a relatively good night's sleep (ok not good compared to some people but good for her and me!) she has resisted sleep today. Even frogmarching her in the pram failed. She refused the Hugabub. One thing succeeded - she and I lying in our bed wrapped up together with my arms woven round her and her hands on my face. V sweet... Soo... Alice lent me the most fantastic book about sleep and I've decided she's a needy baby who has started to associate sleep with difficulty and so needs more reassurance than in the waking time... so I've ordered an Arm's Reach co-sleeper to see if it helps (I dont really want her in our bed, but this is a cot attached to the bed, so next best thing). Watch this space!

Hope you're all okay.

Choc - That winding method is similar to what i do at the moment. I sit her sideways on to me and lean her forward, then gently pat and rub her back. She 98% of the time burps, although i'm not sure if its coz of the rubbing or because of the position she's in. Does the trick tho! I hardly ever get wind up with her on my shoulder!! In fact, she hates being in that position so i dont even bother mainly.

Ellie also has not slept much today either. Just cat naps really so i'm hoping that that will make her sleep better tonight.

Hope the co-sleeping works out ok for you. Sounds lovely with her putting her hands on your face all snuggly. Awwww

Had Sara weighed today - she's only put on 1oz since last week The HV still doesn't seem worried in any way. She said they only worry if a baby drops 2 percentiles. I'm trying not to let it bother me but to be honest, it is preying on my mind a little (well, a lot!).

Still, Sparkly and Pixie's experiences are putting things in perspective. So I really should stop worrying and just enjoy the fact that Sara gives me a good night's sleep.

RG - LOL at Clubgate Although I prefer mint clubs he he.

JARM - things sound as hectic as ever at your place. Kids reeeally do pick their moments don't they? They seem to play up the most when our tolerance is lowest.

Had LOM over for coffee the other day. She caught me in the middle of trying to organise a million bags of Tesco shopping. I thought I had ordered 4 courgettes but ordered 4x3 packs of courgettes instead! What a dunce.

Thomas is geeeorgeous! Very scrumptious and very alert indeedy.

Easy - thanks for the reassurance. If Marnie is feeding along the same lines, I guess it's not so unusual.

LizzieO - IIRC, the issue with sleeping on tummies is that babies are known to sleep deeper when on thier tums. So if they stop breathing in their sleep, they are less likely to wake up and recover their breath. About grobags - I used one for DS and it was fabulous. Kept him warm and toasty all night. Definitely recommend them.

I'm off to try and see if Sara will take any EBM from the bottle. She was fine with it before but now has started refusing it, the little minx. She's been very fussy today due to having her 8 week jabs. She is very angry!

Night all x

choc - i hope you havent paid through the roof for the co-sleeper xxx

choudru- Dd2 has only put an ounce on this week as well. I was a bit despondent but the breastfeeding counsellor said she'd put on 1lb 5oz over the month so she's happy. i've had to up the domperidone though.
choudru-how old is sara now?

Choudru- just checked- she's a week younger than dd2. thing is in a week she might not put on a l;ot but she'll make up for it this week- they're normally down to monthly weighin's by now anyway- for this reason