Babies due September 2021

[FTEngineerM]

WE HAVE ARRIVALS 🥳🥳
Since we’ve had babies arriving I thought we could have somewhere to carry on after the babies are born and we tackle our new mum lives

I hope I tag everyone but ones arrived so far:
@kat1112025
@kirky685
@sillysocks998
@jay3004

And everyone else when your bundles of joy arrive:

@Noodles4Me - 26th Aug 💙
@Scotti84 - 30th Aug 💖

@Sceptre86 - 1st 💖
@primhutch - 1st 💖
@RaeRae84 - 1st 💙
@KHR1 - 1st 💙
@CherylLW - 3rd 💙
@GWhiteley - 3rd 💖
@deedeebythesea - 3rd 💙
@Allicit - 3rd 💙
@Poppins2016 - 4th 💛
@2021mumma - 5th 💙
@Squibble84 - 6th 💛
@leftitlate37 - 7th 💙
@SillyBry - 7th 💛
@LouiseJayne23 -7th 💖
@bewitchingnight - 8th 💖
@SK28 - 8th 💛
@Taralweaver - 8th 💖
@AdventuresAwait - 9th 💖
@mumof23188 - 9th 💙
@Bubbles1st - 10th 💙
@Catkin7 - 10th 💖
@FTEngineerM - 12th 💙
@CobleCloud - 13th 💙
@Maybebaby29 - 14th 💙
@Taybz - 14th 💙
@Bigdreamer9 - 14th 💙
@Eppy123 - 14th 💛
@Newmum110 -14th 💛
@Hopefulmummie - 16th 💖
@Mamabearwhere - 17th 💙
@HollyMoore - 17th 💖
@aurora2021 - 18th 💖
@Bluespace - 18th 💙
@ErrolFinn - 19th 💖
@xsjrx - 19th 💛tbc
@unicornpower - 20th 💖
@Moominmiss - 20th 💙
@Sophieandtiger - 20th 💛
@bluemagicalsky - 21st 💙
@Clouless - 21st 💛
@Suma2021 - 21st 💙
@SP2Bx - 22nd 💛
@Geegee20 - 22nd 💙
@Holly91 - 22nd 💛
@Rach921 - 23rd 💙
@LittleCatDog - 23rd 💖
@SproutingSprout2021 - 24th 💛
@LittleAurora -24th 💙
@RadDarwazeh - 25th 💛
@crobo87 - 25th 💙
@d0nut - 25th 💖
@GummyBear91 - 25th 💖
@AdriannaP - 25th 💛
@MrsTD88 -27th 💖
@MrsBrett20 - 27th 💛
@marshmallowmode -27th 💙
@Mrssernalewis - 28th 💛
@ams92 - 30th 💖

Hi @Scotti84 @Kirky658 @AdventuresAwait. Yes it's great to here there's lots more sleeping going on. We co slept last night and got from 1130 to 4am. But Co sleeping scares me loads. So with caution. Today I'll probably just stay in one room, feed baby and myself and nap. Hubby's at work. It's easier to have everything in one room when tired. Thanks for sharing, I know I'm not alone. There must be loads of mums all awake at 4am doing feeds and nappy changes. Think I'll go GP about the tingles then. Is anyone taking there little one pumpkin picking this October? Lol. We are. I'll put AJ in a sling and walk across a muddy field in style, hopefully! @Kirky658 enjoy your holiday together. I'm sure it'll do you a world of good as it would me. Stay cations all the way for now. Also my stomach isn't poochy. It's just big and numb! Still look 25 weeks pregnant. It's impossible to make sure every room is clean with a new baby. So we have to let go of that. Xx

Word to the wise - we've now got a cleaner who comes once a month for £35 he cleans the whole house. It's a godsend!!!
@adventuresawait in all honesty I don't know how Alice did it she just suddenly started doing it! She also makes up for the lack of night feeds in the day @scotti84 lol x

I've been cleaning one room every 2 days or so. We mainly live in the kitchen which is a tip, but everywhere else not bad. Don't stress ladies, being tidy is overrated (I thought that pre-baby though! 🤣)

I'm lucky now that my boy is a bit older, he seems happier now he can see further and is very chilled. We have a routine he sticks to 80% of time. He's not clingy so will let anyone look after him thank god! Means me and DH can go out tonight to pub quiz.

I've had his name put down for nursery, which is scary. It's not until April when he goes but needs must. I'm even thinking of doing some training whilst off to improve my career options when I go back.

I've given myself til February to get my body fully back to its best - anyone else set a goal? Shame I've rediscovered how much I love wine!!

@Kirky658 I will definitely get a cleaner in. You said 'he' lol. Men cleaning the whole house?! Lol.
When I go back to work in April my husband will take paternity leave for a few months and he will definitely need a cleaner to help as hell have his hands full with baby. You know they can't do more than one thing at a time! Haha

@Noodles4Me I've a big house with 2 stairs! It's so tiring. I'm hoping to start working on my body by Christmas. I read we're not suppose to diet, not that I would massively whilst BF. But I definitely need to start exercise again. I'll be doing my home work outs. 20 mins a day. After I've just had 3 cookies and a twix!

@Sillysocks998 @Kirky658 hahaha I hope he cleans better than my lovely other half who thinks wiping surfaces with a cloth means he's cleaned bless him! Not a bad idea though, even if its just to get the big things done... might look into that!

Im not worrying about my figure, I've lost the weight i put on, don't look the same as before but were after another baby soonish so I'm not going to worry when I'll just ruin myself again 😅 might take a while though, only tried sex once and it hurt like a bitch!

@Scotti84 I mean, that’s my standard of cleaning at the moment! I carried a duster round the other day and just wiped the surfaces people could see 😂

Hey ladies I've kind of gone off the radar for a while so just catching up, sorry if I've missed anything major. These past few weeks have been full on! In our area the October half term is two weeks so our 5 year old has been off school last week and this week and that combined with a 4 week old has resulted in chaos 🤣

@Kirky658 that is amazing Alice is sleeping for such a good stretch, hoping Orlaith manages something similar soon... our longest at night so far has been 5 hours but it's not every night. Hope you have a lovely holiday.

@Noddles4Me I have rediscovered wine too 🙊 I am planning ahead for returning to work and have been speaking to a few recruiters about any opportunities which may be available around the time I plan on going back as I've been approached by a few over the past few months. I am ridiculously underpaid for what I do but where I work has such a good family/work life balance that I've let it slide but childcare is bloody expensive especially with two kids so I feel I need to stand up for myself more when it comes to salary when I go back. Last time I went off on mat leave I ended up interviewing and being offered a role where I am now... seems to be a trend forming while on mat leave where I have too much time to think and quit my job 🤣🙈 so I suppose my goal isn't weight related as such but a career goal.

Hey ladies, is everyone giving their babies (and themselves) daily vitamin D tablets/drops?

I keep forgetting and everything I see the box on the side I feel bad and feel like I need to be better with it

I would love if my baby would sleep at night!!!!!Everything else is going great but am hoping that he e eventually learns how to sleep at night

Hi @CherLW, I try to remember the Vitamin D every day but often forget. I remember probably 50% of the time...

@CherLW I just have the healthy start vitamins I bought from super dry for 3.99 near the formula and add 5 drops to formula or breast milk.

It has vitamins A C and D.

@CherLW I started giving multi vits but they made my boy really unsettled. So stopped. I do have just vit d drops to give but as he gets occasional formula and I'm still taking pregnacare the health visitor said not to worry to much. I will start the vit d drops but in the mornings instead of nights in case they upset him too and if they upset him to be honest it's rather he had a bottle of formula more often to get it in him that way.

@Sillysocks998 when you add to breast milk is it expressed? I don’t express yet and I’ve read to put the drops on your nipple… i have dropped them on to his tongue and didn’t seem to bother him… not sure if that’s ok to do.

@AdventuresAwait glad I’m not the only one! I really need to remember! I wish me taking a vitamin d tablet would be enough and effective for Jesse through the breast milk!

@Bubbles1st my health visitor wasn’t overly concerned about them when I said I keep forgetting.. like every now and then was good enough kind of thing…

Ladies, I need your advice please. It seems I have a sweet but ravenous baby on my hand! Tyler constantly feeds and feeds and is attached to my breast for hours on end in the morning until at least early afternoon. Don't really know what I'm doing wrong and getting really frustrated.
He's producing plenty of wet nappies of 1&2 and gaining weight at 3 weeks but he seems incessantly hungry and will cry when he goes of the boob. Just as he falls asleep he will wake up again and want to be fed - is this normal? This is the case even after about 90ml of formula.

I can't get anything done around the house or get myself clean and organised as he's barely sleeping during the day. At nights, he wakes up every 2-3 hours max and I'm so jealous of all of you getting 4-5 continuous sleep out out your little bubbas! What happened to the saying that newborns sleep 14 hours a day??! Is it all a lie??
Also, how do you entertain baby when they're awake and not breastfeeding?? Besides talking, reading and singing to them I mean. Are they too young for a bouncer? I'm starting to feel absolutely useless and a crappy mum already

Just to add, I've sought advice from the midwife, sisters and even the breastfeeding network but everybody just says all this is normal. Is it really normal for mama and baby to be physically attached like this breastfeeding all day?? Please don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely smitten with Tyler and Dh is so supportive but obviously can't help when he's at work.

@Taybz that does sound normal for that age, but what we also found is Lilly used boob time as comfort too, we tried her with a dummy and she'd happily suckle on that. If she is hungry she sucks it a bit, looks disgusted and spits it out so i knew it was actual hunger. I know people are split on using dummys tho so it will depend on your feelings on it.

As for entertaining them it is so hard, even now Lilly is more alert its not easy. I just walked around the house with her and show her stuff, talk non stop any old crap, sing, play music, read books etc, its boring for us but i think they take some of it in. It will get easier, there's such a big change in the first few weeks x

@CherLW yes ebf x

@Taybz I have a very similar thing. He feeds all morning, constantly. He won't be put down and doesn't sleep in the day anymore unless he's had a crap night or I take him out in the pram/sling and even then it's hit and miss. I feel your frustration as there no 'sleep when the baby sleeps' for us. I'm lucky if I have got dressed or even eaten anything by midday. My health visitor said that the heavier he gets the better he will get at sleeping /self soothing? He was 3 weeks early and so still only 9lbs now at 6 weeks old.

Hi all hope everyone is OK. @taybz although not breastfeeding, Alice goes through periods of constantly eating bottles and it drives me mental! So hard to deal with. I keep being told it's a growth spurt but pretty sure they don't last weeks 😅

We are now down in Cornwall, she was a star in the car and slept the whole way. I have a horrendous cold and Alice has caught it so she's struggling to feed as she's all stuffed up and is also still constipated bless her, it's gonna be a fun week!!!

@Taybz they do kind of sleep that long, but in tiny shifts. And they do cluster feed lots in the early weeks to help stimulate your supply. It does get easier.
6 is the magic number - 6 weeks gets s bit easier!

@CherLW I’m exclusively breastfeeding too. Rosie is 6 weeks and has milk pretty much ad hoc during the day. But often wants it as much as every hour. She’s really unsettled in the evenings. Gets over tired/stimulated, struggles to sleep, so wants boob. But then gets colicky as she’s actually full and just wants comfort.
But I feed her at my bedtime regularly. So she gets a feed between 9.30 and 10.30. Then she generally wakes somewhere around 3 and if I’m lucky, that gets me to the morning. Last night she didn’t have bedtime feed til 11 and she slept til 6. It was amazing. But that’s not often, 1 feed in the night is normal for us, 2 is a bit of a pain, but i consider that’s ok. She’s super easy at night, which I’m forever thankful for!!

Vitamin D drops… oops. Rosie has had them about 3 times as I never remember. I’m sure my first didn’t have vit D. I just put them on my finger for her to suck, when I remember.

I’ve also signed Rosie up to nursery for next May. Scary times! I only sorted it so early as I knew where she wanted to go and was emailing them about my eldest, who had just left, so I thought best to sort it!

6 weeks this week and Rosie is starting to lie down on her own for short periods being awake without screaming. Not always, but better than last week when she screamed every time she was put down!

@Kirky658 hope you enjoy your break and Alice is feeling better, a bit of good sea air will do you both the World of good!

@SillyBry @CherLW breastfeeding question, so sometimes i wake up and theyre like rocks, I feed Lilly and they go down, but they only feel so full in the night, when theyre soft in the day, is there still enough milk? I can tell when theyre completely empty because she gets frustrated, but is there milk even if it doesnt feel like it?

Lilly is in leap 2 atm, shes still sleeping good in the night, well from 1am, but back to the stage where if i put her down for 5 mins she cries, she just wants to snuggle with me all the time (which means i get nothing done but it is also so nice becausw shes growing so fast!) and it sounds like shes getting a voice too because instead of the crying noise it sounds more like a little scream, freaked me right out to start!

@Scotti84 I’m the same! I did a online workshop whilst pregnant and I think between about 1 and 6 Is when you make most of your milk so it’s ideal to feed between those times.
I worry by the evenings some days I don’t have enough milk but he’s growing and never crying enough to make me think he’s starving so I hope it’s ok.

Jesse is in leap 2 also… he loves just being with me… I’m sure he knows when I leave a room as he can be happy on his mat/chair/cot and then I leave and he cries! He isn’t the best at sleeping at night but I’m enjoying the middle of the night cuddles until he does!

Hi mum's, quick question
AJ is now 10.5 weeks old. I feel like he's drinking slightly less bottles of milk. If he started drinking 8 a day as a new born, now I feel its about 6 bottles per 24 hour period. Do they suddenly drink less milk as they get older?