Feb 08 "Sore nips & no naps"

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Sorry guys- it is better with the date non?

And what about tallulah? She was going through a bit of a cack time with DP/DH before baby was born. Hope she is ok.

How strange...logged onto MN for the first time in AGES and what do I see - my name! Must be ESP...!!

We are fine - I am totally adoring my little one. Have put a recent picture on. He is so lovely and funny and such a good boy.

I know I haven't put my birth story on but it was just so longwinded and took forever, but wasn't traumatic although I had soooo many injections and needles, not so good for someone who HATES them. The hospital and all 4 of the midwives I went to in the 38 hours I was in labour were all fantastic and lovely, so no complaints there. And in the end Digby came out with 45 minutes of pushing with an epidural (wonderful!) and was and is just fantastic!

So he is eating TONS of formula (bottle fed as breast feeding was a disaster as had an undiagnosed infection and then the antibiotics made him vomit lots - v demoralising when you are finding it tough to feed in the first place. He is about 13lbs now, and had a couple of nights sleeping through, and a couple where he was wide awake at 4.30 and there was no way he was going back to sleep again, very smiley about it though, just wanted to play! Now he is on dreamfeed again, and settling into sleeping til later in the morning, although it changes most nights.

I'm so enjoying him though - we are really busy and out and about loads which is great. Am very jealous of all you tiny people though. I am on weightwatchers, and doing buggyfit twice a week, have lost 9 lbs but have another 2 stone to go. And I thought I hadn't put much weight on when I was pregnant!

So tell me all...is everyone ok? I guess I should read the previous posts, but it's a bit daunting having missed so much

Gosh what a coincidence! I was wondering about you as I have your number on my phone from when you went into labour etc and was thinking of texting you to see if you were ok but didn't want to intrude. So glad it is all going well, you sound v happy .

So... is he DIGBY?

He is gorgeous, btw ...

Good to hear from you mymissus!

Only a quick pop in today - dd1 is 20 today, took her and ds to pub, how cool it that?!

BTW, He hasn't pooed for 3 days any suggestions? have to go he's been sick on dd1!

ginger my DS2 is now on day 4 I think, except for a skidmark . Bit of water sometimes helsp, as does prodding him up the bottom with a wipe .

Can't wait to take DCs to pub on their bdays. Happy birthday to your lovely girl .

Well....he is registered as Edward (on the last day possible), but DP pestered me all the way there about calling him Digby!

But after 28 weeks in my tummy as Digby and 41 days after he was born, the name has stuck and it is really difficult to call him Ed. My parents and sister do, but everyone else just knows him as Digby

Hello all, spent half the morning in bed as i was feeling depressed - brought on by fact that dh is going out 2 nights in a row and i can't. pathetic, and i realise that the weather has made everything seem much worse than it actually is.

I got some resuable nappies for Hector - bumbles - and they are cute, fluffy and absorbent enough for a night nappy. I was using muslins and he has outgrown them royally. I love changing nappies now, even the pooey ones.

Also did some pilates in between my snivelling.

Cute picture mymissus!

I was wondering about tallulah too, she did sound like she was having a tough time.

I like the sound of your sandpit egg, I'll have to get one for DS when he's old enough. Have bought him a paddling pool today though, its a little blue inflatable car from mothercare, it looks sooo cute I couldn't resist. I reasoned that they might sell out by the time we can use it

DS has been unhappy all day after his injections. I met some work people in the pub for lunch and he was very grumpy and he is usually grinning at everyone. His temp seems ok at the moment I have calpol here but he just spat it out last time, any suggestions on how to get him to take it?

Going to DHs grans tommorrow. Its a 4 hour drive there and a 4 hour drive back, didn't really want to go yet but her dementia seems to be getting worse so DH wants to go asap.

Mitford I am sure it is the weather helping us all feel cack... once the sun shines nothing seems so bad . Two nights in a row for your DH is a bit much tho...

Alkar it is gutting when your DCs are normally happy and smiley and then you go to show them off and they are miserable. It happens to me sometimes with DS1 who is a very happy lively lad, but when my friend came who hasn't seen him in ages he was off colour and grumpy and tantrumy .

Hmm, advice on how to keep calpol down. DS1 hates taking it when he really is ill, and refuses whilst sobbing, but wants it all the time when he is well . I gave DS2 a little bit the other day when he was coughing a lot and used the syringe thing that came in the dentinox colic stuff so I could stick it right towards the back (can also try using the infacol dropper thing). DS2 does sometimes try to spit out his infacol, I tend to give it to him lying completely flat, and squeeze the dropper as directly down his throat as poss but he still sometimes manages it!

mymissus Edward is a great name, although Digby is also smashing, and it is nice that he has a "normal" name but you can still call him Digby!!!

Quick question about cradle cap. DD's is still quite bad, but it is getting drier and easier to pick off, but her hair comes with it, in clumps. Anyone else? I think she is losing her hair anyway naturally, but I cant resist picking the scabby bits that are half off and feel a bit guilty that her hair comes too (I can do this while she is asleep or awake and she doesn't seem to care so it is not hurting).

Hi all - no news here but wanted to pop my head in and say hi

We also used the infacol dropper to give ds3 his calpol after his first set of injections. It probably helps that he's been having infacol since he was a few days old so used to having stuff squirted into his mouth.

Crappy weather here too but managed to get some meatballs made with ds1 and ds2 and baked a cake with them too. Hopefully the sun will shine tomorrow.

Egg - I'm beginning to feel a loss of control over routine as well and it does make you feel as if you're not coping doesn't it? Not that we had a real routine but whatever we had is falling apart! Hope the next day is better. Malcy's been a pain in the ass the last couple of days - still sleeping through all night which is something but very cross and crying a lot, not sleeping in the day, waking up and crying in his pram etc . Think he is hungry a lot of time - the other night breastfed him followed immediately by 200ml of formula - but also he's just shouting whenever he's not being held and screaming the place down at bedtime. Plus DP has come home with toothache... uh oh.

Met up with a local mumsnetter yesterday and took our boys swimming - me for the first time and I was so excited. Malcolm on the other hand looked thoroughly bored by the whole experience - I was so disappointed!

Had a dream about you all last night

Gill, I hope we were all very glamourous and wearing sparkly ballgowns in your dream . Also hector (now 2 months) is really unsettled and screamy during the day this past week. we have no explanation but it is tiring. like malcolm, i think he is hungry - feeds about 8 times in the day, but doesn't have a full feed each time - i think he's not digesting his milk in time for the next feed. BTW, how old do the nippers need to be before they can go swimming as i have just got H a snazzy new swim nappy (Note to self - STOP shopping).

Egg, it is gutting when ds doesn't do his usual sweet little act when friends are around. i'm always apologetic as he squirms in my lap, cries and poos. I shouldn't care really but i just keep protesting how sweet he normally is.

Hello all, how is everyone? This weather is so shit and not improving my already tested mood!! I'm sorry but I am about to moan and go into one!!!

Dp is just doing my head in at the moment and I can't work out if its just that classic just had a baby so don't want you around thing or whether I really just have had enough of him We just seem to be getting on each others nerves all the time and I know thats natural when you've had a baby etc but 3mths on I'd expect it to be settling down. Not just that though its his general attitude. Everything in his life seems so much more important than mine. I went on a friends hen night saturday and we decided to book a room. Now bearing in mind dp is on the stag do for the entire weekend coming up, I didn't think this would be a problem but it was just such a nightmare trying to just get him to stay at home. Firstly he wanted to get a babysitter and go out and I said no way and had to beg him to cancel it which he did in the end. My main reason was that I was worried he would not wake up in the night when ds2 needed feeding. Now bearing in mind this was my first night away from him and he'd not woken up the weekend before after drinking I felt justified. He also buggered off to play football leaving the boys at a friends which pissed me off too. Why can't these things just be forgotten for one frigging day ffs??? Then to top it off, I discover sun night that he'd gone behind my back and booked himself onto someone else's stag do in portugal later on in the year that in total was gonna cost in the region of £700. I'd said no cause we agreed no weekends away on our own this year as we were going to have a family holliday but also cause money would be tight with me on maternity leave. I made him cancel it so now he's not really talking to me. I just want to scream at him. We have no tumble dryer at the mo and now the fridge has packed up, we need a new bathroom and I'm on god damn maternity leave!!!!! Why can't he just accept he's not 19 and single anymore????? Everything about him at the moment is about himself (apart from the dc). We've been together 9 years almost and I'm still having the same battles with him now that I did then. I just don't get it anymore. Sigh I know that these things are really trivial but it just all builds up with me and it just makes me question why we're together

On a plus note liverpool have just scored yipeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Sorry to moan on.........!!

On a more interesting subject, ds2 is superb and doing so well. He's such a laid back little thing bless him which is just as well cause ds1 is hard work at the minute. he has just started at pre-school (on top of nursery) and loves it though so I'm hoping that's gonna help calm him down - he just has far too much energy!!! I just wish I wasn't so tired all the time. I know I try and do too much though.

Put on a lb last week but then lost 1.5lb so doesn't look I've done a lot!!!

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Get it off your chest Countto10 - well done for putting your foot down re the portugal trip - hope he gets the message loud and clear!

I'm steaming with my dh still for telling his ex girlfriend about my c-section in great detail

glad your ds2 is doing well.

lol @ football chat, countto10. dh is chelsea and his scream at their first half goal terrified esther. i have never heard her cry so hard or so suddenly. maybe she is a liverpool fan? she seems happy enough now sorry things rough with your DH, we had a bad night on monday. i retired to sleep on sofa, and when he gave up trying to get me to bed and just offered to swap, i swapped . its so tough isnt it?

gill - i too dreamt a bit of MN the other day... dreamt mitfords had changed her screen name here. how mundane is my subconscience??

so -- a quick question for the sling wearers among you. cause i use mine all the time, but get nervous about using it for situations when i may need to take her out - what kind of slings do you have? are they ones you can take baby out of without undoing? the only one i really use is a wilkinet but impossible to take esther out of without completley untying.

nice to hear from you mymissus. digby v cute,

if we're doing an AWOL shoutout, there;s been no sign of princessllama since her v low sounding post last week. checked and she hasnt posted on the other postnatal thread she goes on.

gingermumi - glad you had a nice time with your dd's. re the not pooing, my HV recommended water and that really works. also, i gently rub rub anticlockwise circles on her stomach.

egg - how is ds1? i hate disruptions to even my vague schedule....know exactly what you mean about not knowing what;s causing the crying. its funny, you spend so long trying to work out schedules and trying to understand your lo, only to be thrown off kilter when you dont do things exactly the right way. i swear i feel like i'm invloved in a logic puzzle that's basically unsolvable cause there are too many variables

(chelsea just scored and i've just seen the funniest mute football celebration from dh. oooops. offside. he's not happy)

v nice day here, one of my BF's came and met esther for first time.

Oh don't ds1 frightened ds2 like that yesterday and his little face, bless his heart!!!
Ds1 was a liverpool fan but dp has now trained him to go round singing man utd man utd grrrr

that short one with the west country accent just got voted off the apprentice.

who won the footie in the end then?

still in extra time but chelsea are winning 4-2 on aggregrate grrrrrrrr

chelsea!

not that i CARE mind ... one more night that dh gets to ignore his doooties! aw but bless him he's happy.

can 't focus on footie for more than 10 minutes - like the post match commentary mind

DH not only watches the game, and the commentary, but also wants me to buy all the papers the next day to read THEIR commentary. It's just a game FFS! Plus, I'm American and this football thing just bemuses me!

Counto10:feel free to moan away as much as you please. Men never seem to grow up beyond the toddler stage in some ways. Why can't they see beyond "me! me! me!"?

mitford and gill: Is is something in the air? I've moaned earlier that DS2 has been really unsettled and screaming for oh, it seems like hours in the afternoon...after being relatively placid until now!

alkar: dementia is so heartwrenching. It must be tough for your DH to watch someone dissapearing, yet still be physically there. The possibility of this happening to my parents really frightens me. Not sure how I'd be able to handle it.

mymissus: I love Digby/Edward's smile! I think that is one of the best things about this age...the gigantic smiles that they start giving. Suddenly, the sore nipples, lack of sleep, and frustration seem to all be worth it.

Oops. Just saw the time. Need to give DS2 his dreamfeed bottle (a real battle now to get him to take one!) so I can sleep until at least 5am!

Night all!