Oct 07 - this little piggy stayed at home...

[Dalrymps]

Hey guys sorry for the sh*t title, if there's already been a new thread set up please direct me there???

very quickly ... muppetgirl, this is probably a growth spurt ... it may last a couple of days, stick with it!

Hey everyone, only had time for a quick scan of posts but will write a proper post myself tomorrow now dh is on a day off . Just popped in to say i finally got my hugabub and it's fab, dh wearing it now and ds snoozing away!
LES - my email address is [email protected] , if you email me how much you want for postage and how you want me to pay it (paypal/cheque/etc) then i'll email you my home address back. Really appreciate the offer , sorry to hear about your tooth, hope it feels better soon!
Anyway i'm off to bed, chat tomorrow, catch ya all later

Muppet you're a much better person than me! . Freecycled the rest of my materity stuff only got p*ssed off when the second lot of people didn't bother to collect / contact and gave it to a charity shop instead. WRT Henry's feeding from 2 months the cow and gate boxes say 6oz 5 tims a day so think this is in keeping with what he has had. Agree with ejt though that this is likely to be a growth spurt and I wouldn't worry.

MrsFish - I'm still mostly in maternity tops too! Bottoms is fine but the tops are much more comfy as they are longer so don't ride up as much!

Nellie - hello! great to hear from you - sorry Madeleine isn't sleeping great but you sound very happy anyway - sure she'll sort it eventually.

Hello to everyone else! Just off to brave the post office (hoping its quieter early on) to send the last of my ebay stuff then a chill out day I think.... So probably be about later.

hi all...
I'm still not able to post much on here, as Ronan just loves being carried/held all the time.. is in sling now but he is getting very heavy 12.12 at last weigh in- big hungry boy! (how long do the hugabug slings last?)

Still bf but introduced evening bottle as this is when he is most cracky usually.
Haven't got him sorted in his cot yet (is still in with me) as he looks terrified and really cries whenever I put him in it...
I'm a sucker I know but he won't be a baby forever, and I love having him next to me.
Just wish I could put him down occasionally and have a bit of a break.

Hope all are well, and if I don't 'see' you before Happy Christmas and ebjoy your beautiful babes.

Hi all, H's 'sleeping through' only lasted the one night then
He wants to sleep from 7-2am-5.30am but mean mummy wants 10pm-5am.
Oh well, at least he's sleeping!

We're off to friends fo Christmas coffee and then baby clinic, then up the motorway (oh god the m6...) to grandma and grandad's. Have the car packed to the gunwales with the top box on as I've got the kids and the dogs to take. Food has been packed, blakets also just in case. I look like I'm going on an expedition to the North Pole!

Will still be about but probably a little less as FIL is always on the computer.

Looking forward to meeting up with Anyasmum on Thurs...

I've had three nights on the trot with Ben sleeping 12 hours now hopefully he is established in that now...just waiting for the teething to start now to bugger it all up

Mrs Fish!

Muppet enjoy your time away and hope the journey isn't too epic!

MrsFish at Ben's sleep! I am always nervous of thinking they have got into a pattern - I always seem to jinx it! Little gits angels know just when we are getting complacent I think and throw a curveball! Here's hoping Ben doesn't!

Unicorn - Adam is just the same as your Ronan in the day and will only sleep for any length of time in the sling. The hugabubs apparently last as long as you can lift them - wouldn't fancy carrying a 2 year old but I'm hoping to teach him better sleep habits before he gets too heavy!

Mump, Greedy, J20, Floria not heard from you ladies for ages - thinking of you all and hope you're doing OK!

Choc not like you to be awol for so long either - hope you're doing OK.

Well just had comedy trip to post office where the enormous parcel I had (a hat I sold on ebay) was too big for standard parcels and was going to cost me more to post it than she paid for the item AND the bloody postage! She got a right bargain too - the hat is absolutely beautiful and was expensive new but its really too small for me - have suffered in the past but now being sensible! Wasn't prepared to pay that so have brought it home and parcelled it up smaller. Needed to collapse the hat box which was battered before and is even more now but never mind - the auction was for the hat not the box! That will teach me to extimate the costs of postage on items I know nothing about sending - never mind you win some you lose some!

Had really lovely day yesterday - funny how things seem to be at extremes at the moment. Anya got through the WHOLE day without crying! Woohoo! In the evening we made a big thing about switching on the tree lights - she's into lights at the moment - and we got the video camera out (first time in ages) to record her reaction for posterity. Also a good trial run for Christmas day - don't want to spend it trying to remember which button to press. As it turned out she wasn't that impressed about the lights, but we had a really fun time doing it - it was like a proper family moment, all warm and fuzzy!

To make you laugh - anybody else still got baby brain? We had a power cut late last night and the backup battery for the burglar alarm must have run down because at 12:30am when the power came back on the alarm went off. DH and I both shot out of bed - it's v v loud - dd waved her arms about but amazingly stayed asleep. Anyway, dh goes past 2 nightlights - both very obviously on but he's too tired to notice - goes downstairs without realising that the electricity is back on, and finds a torch so that he can see to take the alarm fuse out. I notice the nightlights are on, know that the electricity is back on, but I'm so tired that I actually stand there like a lemon holding the torch for him!! Why didn't I just switch the light on?? DH now thinks I'm barking mad, and the argument "well, how can you not have noticed it wasn't pitch black upstairs?" isn't really cutting it! Admittedly I can see why.

Muppetgirl - glad you had a great time in London - very brave, I can't imagine such an expedition at the moment! And give the Quality Street here - I'll mind it for you. Looking forward to Thursday.

Alicet - forgot to say, thanks for offer of doctor advice. Doctors at the genetics clinic have been really good though - very patient and actually explained things so that we understood what was going on and what needed to be done - very rare in a doctor I think! (present company excepted of course)

Mrs Fish -

Hey all,

MRs Fish how on earth are you getting him to sleep for 12 hours?! I thought Dareh's sixish hours were good. He's a nightmare to get to sleep but once he goes (about 12ish) then he won't get up until 6ish.

I am getting a heart burn again too - so annoying as I never had it before I was pregnant. The dr thinks my tummy pain might suppressed acid so I am on meds for that.

I thought Dareh had got himself into a routine but has changed it the last two days. He has added an extra feed in the morning which is annoying as my boobs are not better yet and I need the break between feeds.

Hi everyone!

glad to see you're all doing well - albeit with ups and downs.

we're doing ok here in sunny south wales. huw has slept seven unbroken hours the last two nights!! - yay - keeping fingers crossed he keeps this up.

somehow\ managed to get a chrstmas tree up at the weekend, and have the cake in the oven as i type (the fruit only sat round soaking up brandy for about a week longer than it was supposed to!) I'm cooking for 9 too at christmas. Yikes!

got to love you and leave you for now ...

a x

hello everyone - hope you are having a good Tuesday. you all sound very christmassy - i think i'd be more so if i didn't have a grumpy bum son today who is refusing to have the daytime sleep he so desperately needs!

he is very good at getting to sleep at night - appears to be in a routine of a feed about midnight and then sleeping till 5am ish when he just needs his dummy or to come into bed with mummy & daddy so he can doze till breakfast about 7.30

which is fab, don't get me wrong - i am extremely grateful for this, but the downside is that he doesn't think he should sleep during the day. which means he gets so overtired as he fights it all the time! sometimes he'll sleep in his swing but not today. anyone else have these problems??

hi inzi - i love the cuddles too but i have a house that needs hoovering and some baking to do - he just doesn't care! thank god for a dishwasher tho...

jane sounds great - its funny how we spend all day making funny noises at them when they make them at us

re: the 6 wk check - my hv did the weighing and measuring & the doc did the checking of hips and eyes. also hv checked that i was ok with the pnd questionnaire. i had also started bleeding again at that point - was v worried so saw gp specially about it as thought it might be infection or something, but turned out that she thought it was just my period starting up! what a nuisance esp as breastfeeding & thats supposed to keep it at bay, but no such luck! perhaps may be the same for u?

olly has finally gone to sleep cuddling me, so i am gonna risk putting him in the swing so i can have some lunch...

Hi all,
Juat got back from weighing Henry and at 6 weeks he's 13lb 9oz so doing very well on all those mamouth feeding sessions he's had last week/this week. The HV we saw was a different one to normal (It's a self weighing procedure where you weigh your own baby and sign to say you've been there. You can talk to the HV's -there are around three- if you need to or go if you want to.) She said his eyes shouldn't still be sticky and his spots should have gone so he needs to see a dr for antibiotics and cream. We are now seeing the dr at 3.20...
Not sure whether to go up north today or tomorrow now.

hey everyone,
inzi and strawberrylace - sounds like you are both ideal cadidates for a hugabub, really comfy hands free hugging and you can get thngs done! I washed up with ds in mine yesterday, it's great! Ds isn't too bad at going down for a nap but sometimes he falls asleep in my arms then when i put him down - ping! his eyes are wide open again , sometimes what works is to put his arms by his sides and wrap the sheet over him quite tighly so he's held securely (not too tight), then he usually drops off, if we leave his arms out he just wriggles loads and wakes himself up by poking himself in the eyes!
Apricot - glad the sleeping seems to be going well, long may it continue!
Stefka - ds only sleeps about 6 and a half hours max too, is 7 weeks old at moment, not too bad though, we can cope with it at the mo, will be very hppy if he sleps longer though! Sorry he's giving your nips a battering, i really hope they heal properly soon and you're not in so much pain anymore, sorry about the heart burn too, as if you need that on top!
Anyasmum - wow a whole day without crying, i can't even imagine such a thing! Good idea about getting the video camera out on xmas day, think we'll do that too
Alice - hope you eventually managed to post the hat! i've decided i hate royal mail anyway after they took a week to deliver my hugabub - it was sent 1st class! what kind of service is that?
Muppet - hope you have a nice time at pil's, box on top of the car sounds like a good idea, think we'll have to invest in one of those!
MrsFish - at your ds's sleeping, seriously though, thats fabulous - sending positive vibes in the hope it continues for you!
Unicorn - hey, sory you're having probs getting lo in to the cot but as you say he won't be a baby forever so just go with it, do what makes you both happy , oh and merry christmas!
Hi to nellie ad ejt and anyone else i've forgotten to mention!
Well d is on a day off today so gonna go see pils and get some food in then hopefully wrap our xmas pressie, ds slept about 6 and a half hours again last night and then another 3 after his feed so doing well, if i get time i'm gonna atempt to bake some mince pies too ... not sure how far i'll get with that plan considering i'm still in bed right now . Feeling very christmassy today yippee!!
Catch ya all later

Hey great minds - I was about to come on here and tell inzi and strawberry that they NEED a hugabub but Dal beat me to it!!! I can do virtually everything with him in it that I can without and he sleeps happily for ages. Only things I can't so are lifting bulky stuff so have to transfer washing in small bits for example but its great. Or else just forget the chores and get dh to help when he gets in! I can do this (does this make me lazy or relaxed?!?!?! ) but I know some get more stressed leaving things - think you're one of these inzi?

Muppet hope everything is OK with Hnery - Adam still has sticky eyes off and on and I have to say I'm not in the least bit concerned - sounds like you weren't either until hv put her oar in! Good luck with the trip north whether its today or tomorrow...

Hello and hugs everyone else! We managed to get back to post office with the box - so worth doing!!! Plus had a lovely chilled lunch out with a book while Adam slept in the hugabub - bliss! A few bits of christmas shopping and some jobs and thats our day flown by again - another with 2 tomorrow! And I get the mirena put in too first thing so here's hoping I'm not too uncomfortable after with 2 boys to look after!

May see you later but might not get round to it as I suppose we should relaly decorate the tree rather than leaving it standing in its netting fetchingly in the corner of the room!

Just got back from the drs and are a little confused. Dr says it's conjuctavitis but Henry has no redness, soreness and isn't bothered by his sticky eyes at all. I have eye drops to give him -4 times a day wish me luck then
If the sticky eyes don't clear up within 3 days he wants me to take Henry for a swab!?

Dh found this website which it defintaley sounds like a blocked tear duct
here

It says no treatment is necessary...

Do I use the drops or not?

Hey muppet, we dot some stuff of the doc for conjuctavitis too, although ds's eye seems to keep filling with water then goes sticky, but they did take a swab and say it showed some 'bugs' so thinking maybe he has had both? used the ointment in his eye for a few weeks 3 times a day and the stickyness didn't seem to be clearing, kept coming back. But when asked doc again he said it should work cause the swab showed positive. He said to try it for another wek along with masaging the corner and if no better he would prescribe something else then if still no better he would refer him to have the tear duct opened. Anyway, i've not been out for 3 days cause it was completely frozen over and dh was working 12 hour shifts and his eye seems to have got a lot better?? Think maybe when he was outside the wind was causing it to water more then become sticky? anyway fingers crossed has cleared up now. If it were me i might try the drops and also massage the corner/side of nose as the link says and then if no better do the swab? up to you really
Well i just had my first outing with the hugabub, great! went and did the food shopping and he hardly stirred, just wriggled a few times and went back to sleep
alicet - glad you got the hat posted, hope the mirena being fitted goes ok.
Hello to everyone else, gonna go feed ds, catch ya soon

Anyasmum ? loved hearing about your lo?s reaction to the lights ? Mairwen loves looking at lights too!

Oh, and I have a severe case of baby brain ? things don?t happen unless I write them down ? oh, and the story about the lights ? !

Hi Stefka ? glad to hear your boobs are recovering ? it may just be a growth spurt, and it?ll ease up in a couple of days ?

Hi Apricott ? we will have to organise to get together after Christmas ? Mairwen is sleeping quite well at night too ? wish I kniew how I?d done it ? I?m sure I?m doing exactly the same as I used to with Rhydian ? and he was a bugger to put back into bed at night!

Strawberrylace ? I can only recommend the sleep forums on the babywhisperer website: here ? it?s been really helpful in terms of having a look at sorting out Mairwen?s daytime sleep!
I got my first period 4 weeks after giving birth ? how crap is that? Especially as I?m exclusively bf!! Grrrrrrrr! Never mind, the Mirena should take care of that!

Inzi ? lack of joined up thinking at you surgery methinks! Glad that Jane is smiling and gurgling ? Mairwen is very vocal, and looks so earnest when she?s talking to me ? then she lets out a giggle, and grins at me ? it?s fab!

Muppetgirl - at the weightgain on Henry ? you must have super-concentrated booby-juice!
Am as confused as you on the eye infection front ? Mairwen had sticky eyes from the first couple of weeks, and was given eye drops as they were revolting ? I never managed to get them in 4 times a day ? trying squirting a bit of breastmilk in his eye! And surely you?d have conjunctivitis too if that?s what it was ? I always thought it was highly infectious! Alice ? correct me if necessary!

Dal ? can I have a mince pie if you?ve got any spare? ? I?ll swap you for one of my 4-seed bread rolls I?ve got doing at the moment!

Alice ? well done on posting the hat! Tip for you on getting the mirena fitted ? take some painkillers before you go, then keep topping up all day ? you?ll probably feel like you?ve got a very heavy period coming ? at least I did ? but it passed after about 24 hours!

Hi to everybody else!

Well, we?ve had a hospital visit today ? Rhydian has a contracted foreskin, so we went to see them at the hospital for a decision to be made as to whether he needs to be circumcised ? the good news is that he doesn?t for the moment, but they?ll reassess when he gets to puberty (seems a long time to wait!) I was convinced they?d say he needed surgery, as he gets pain every time he gets an erection ? can?t be good for him emotionally?

Have finally come to an agreement with dh that after Christmas, he will talk to his dad (who will hopefully talk to his mum) ? and that, until that happens, I will not see them at all ? I think dh has finally realised just how ill it makes me feel when I have to see the PiLs ? I am making a real effort to be less tetchy, and less odd ? but dh also has to do his bit. Oh, and when we go to see them over Christmas, dh will not be leaving me alone with his mum, as that?s when the ?bitchy- ?helpful? comments start ?

Am hopefully going to wrap some pressies tonight ? it depends on Mairwen ? she was desperate for sleep at about 5pm, so I put her into bed ? and that?s the last I heard from her ? this could backfire!

Night all ?

Hello all!

Reading through some of your posts I'm feeling v (love the festive emoticons !). I feel like I'm weeks behind all of you. DD is still feedind every 3 hours pretty much like clockwork, she still wakes up for several night feeds, I still haven't got the hang of b/f in public, in fact, come to think of it, we still haven't had 6 week check up or jabs yet and it's 9 1/2 weeks now!

Am I doing something wrong ?

How do you all cope with baths/showers when you're on your own with LOs? Do you bring them into bathroom with you (not an option for me because bathroom is friggin freezing!) or leave them in another room? I still have to shower in the evening when DP is here because I haven't worked out how to do it when I'm on my own.

Can't believe you're all baking cakes and mince pies and stuff. I'm feeling very inadequate . I still feel I've achieved a lot in oneday if I manage to eat lunch and get dressed!

fwiw missbumpy, just need to remind you that Mairwen is 11 weeks old ... and that she's no. 2 ...

and as for showers, I duck into the bathroom to have one when Mairwen's sleeping ... in fact out morning routine goes:

• get up feed M
• get M washed, massaged, dressed.
• M gets tired very quickly again, so put her down to sleep ...
• I dash into bathroom, have the world's quickest shower, go downstairs, eat breakfast, express some milk ... hopefully, I'll get all of this done before she wakes up!

Ejt thanks for the tips about the mirena! Still have some decent painkillers from my section so will be popping them all day! Good to hear of the arrangement you have come to with your dh too - fingers crossed that makes things easier.

Missbumpy - don't feel crap because you're in a different pattern to some of the others - babies are all very different. FWIW Sam (ds1) was very similar to your dd and he's turned out ok! I have a fab mobile that is on Adam's cot that is battery powered and plays for 15 mins. He LOVES it and that buys me time to get in the shower. Most other things around the house I can do with him in the sling so that works well too. Other things that worked for Sam were his baby gym with a mirror on which would also buy me 15-20 mins and the baby swing. Both not as useful with Adam yet but the mobile is def great. plus I put him on the floor in the bathroom under the light which he seems to like and he LOVES the hairdryer too!

Muppet - yes conjunctivitis is very contagious. Sticky eyes in babies are very common and don't always need treating. I agree if his eye is not red and its not seeming to bother him I would just bathe it every few hours with cooled boiled water on a bit of cotton wool. Maybe keep the antibiotics and use them if he's no better after a couple of days of this. Or ask your doc to do a swab to confirm its conjunctivitis before giving the drops. Lots of cases of conjunctivitis in small children are due to viruses anyway so the antibiotics wouldn't work. Up to you bu tI would go with your instinct and just bathe his eye if he's not bothered by it.

Anyway can't remmeber anything else and need to cook tea - will be abck later to catch up with everyone else! Big hellos in the meantime though - you are not forgotten!

Dal great news on hugabub outing by the way! We take Adam out in it all the time - just need the pram for all his junk! Or bloody mahoosive parcels containing hats!