For the 8th time...............May Babies!

[egypt]

well hello

and thanks everyone for such a kind welcome !!!!

Me?!! I thought I'd been quite restrained of late

(the poster formerly known as GeorginaA)

Oh and welcome bongobum

I blame you too Libb

Hello and welcome bongobum (an excellent name if I may say so .. is there a story behind it?)

Oh god... am defrosting my fridge (freezer section at the top) for the first time in ... well okay a long while and I had to because I was lucky if I could fit one ice cube tray in there.

I actually have a separate ice cube tray drawer - I've only just realised this. Because on previous defrost attempts I obviously hadn't defrosted completely (that section being better insulated). Have just noticed and tried to shift it and it's completely ice packed - 2 inch thick block of ice

Cue the Scott of the Antartic jokes...

... bugger another non-baby related post. Can I tenuously link it to the fact I needed storage space for the home made baby food? No, didn't think so...

Two words for new appliance buying when I FINALLY get my new kitchen: frost free.

omg casmie, i think ours is giving up soon! dreading defrosting freezer - but ice everywhere!!!

helsy: fingers crossed for an easy move!!!! glad ours is over and done with. - nothing wrong about chips - ds loves them; well, when he is able to steal one from our plate

egypt: what great progress on dd's nightsleeping/feeding! and glad that you had a fab time in prague
you put yr dd in the washingmachine?????
hmmmm, maybe i should try that - ds can get quite mucky sometimes

oh and welcome bongobum!!! lots of ears here

LOL susi and dd in washing machine...

Welcome bongobum. I love your name too.

Casmie I like to hear about the soap operas of everyone's domestic lives. It adds texture and background to my knowledge of you all. (I am the kind of wumman who zones in on the shoes under the sofa when someone posts a pic of their baby in a bouncy chair).

... so Egypt it sounds like a success, would you say so?

health warning susi: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PUT BABY IN THE WASHING MACHINE. you have been told

welcome bongobum, now known as bongo. sorry but i get lazy with the ol fingers.

i was thinking about defrosting just the other day casmie. how sad am i - i was in prague at the time?!!? and we have an icecube tray too that i just recently discovered

yes white noise - thanks judd. i have tried it but only very briefly as dh said 'surely that cant be good for her - they use that sort of noise as torture in some prisons you know'.....which made me turn it off in shame and fear. i do have a white noise machine...think its the one casmie told me about many moons ago and it has many noises on including birdies tweeting and running water. so could try those i suppose. but at the mo, she is waking later and later each night so i am keeping fingers crossed that she's cutting wakeups out herself a bit. we'll see! the other idea i had was downloading music that is on the baby mozart dvd as she loves that and goes instantly calm and still. but have yet to get round to working out how to do it.

hi spots, X-posted. yes was a success methinks and so are the nights - so far. shhhhhhhh. just wondering about the bf. i dont really want to stop, but then again, i have to sometime and this is the ideal opportunity as she has forgotten all about boobs. wondering if i just gave her her morning feed she would start wanting it in the night again as comfort when/if i pick her up. hm, what do you think?

there will be other opportunities to stop if you don't really want to stop now! I can't believe she's actually forgotten bf ever existed, she's just got into another mindset. The optimist in me would think that you might be able to do the odd bf and keep it on your own terms but I am totally guessing.

If she 's still taking milk feeds it seems a shame to give up on bf altogether. but then when had you thought of stopping anyway??

Dunno egypt - in your shoes I would be part secretly relieved and part gutted! I'm still having similar dilemmas about bf ds2. The feed really are short and not as enjoyable anymore - he's normally pulling off and checking to see what his brother is doing or just being nosey. There's no WAY I could feed in discretely in public now.

But also every now and then we have a really nice feed and it's just often enough to make me want to hold on to it for a little bit longer...

there is no way i can feed her in public or even in a room where someone is making some noise, she is so easily distracted and has been like this for quite a long time. but does feed q well when very hungry and alone. i was thinking of carrying on with the bedtime feed up til about 1 year, but i think thats a dodgy one now after this nightmare of getting her off it. have to say, it hasnt been heartwrenching in the cc kind of way though. she hasnt cried. just only when my mum didnt have boobs for her.....but the washer sorted that out

and back into the washer

funny enough dp and i talked about that earlier. wasn't it so much easier when they didn't have a mind on their own???? now they look around, direct us around, want to go here and next second over there, that toy right this second andifnotthenIshoutthewholeneighbourhoodtogether, get frustrated at everything, ...

well, who's the boss now?????

Why not try breastfeeding her during the day but keep bottle routine for bedtime with absolutely no B/F during the night. You know she can do it. Seems a shame to stop this way
If she acts up, you just stop again. If you don't try, you won't know. Sorry for butting in......

morning morning ladies!
night was fine; lucas cried out at 5ish but settled back on his own and woke finally at 6.30!
bottle went down like a treat - which it obv is - but i skipped breakfast. try to go easy on his tummy!

but he is a very happy chappy! sitting on his blanket surrounded by his toys and babbling along. every now and then he looks up and laughs out really loud - sometimes i really wonder what's going on his little head

Egypt I think mears idea sounds good but then they usually are. I'm actually thinking about giving DD a bottle at bedtime and dropping down to just the morning feed. I don't think she's that bothered about the bedtime feed for comfort now and she bit both nipples last night and then blew a raspberry at me each time. Would have been amusing if I wasn't in so much pain but I wonder if she is trying to tell me something.

And for those of you interested in domestic detail we have a 7yr old frost free fridge freezer which has never been defrosted even when we moved. It has an ice cube tray but I use it for ice cubes. DDs stuff goes in some other trays. However the garage freezer is an hand-me-down from PILs and needs sorting out but it is too cold in the garage at this time of year to defrost it - ie it wouldn't thaw. Will start trying to include a little domestic detail each time I post!

Morning babies of may

Kiera has completly recovered now, and is back to normal Hurrah! She's on her front playing with some of her toys at moment, i'm hoping she's just going to miraculously start crawling

Casmie- How did the defrosting go in the end? No frostbite i hope

Susi- Glad lucas has recovered now.

I am feeling absolutly shattered and just want to curl into a ball on the sofa and sleep for England, but I was like this in early pg with kiera, so i expect that's what it is.

Take care everyone
xxxxx

xx take care too cat xx

those are wise words yes mears. i am also concerned that she'll stop taking a bottle however. she rarely would have one with me around and it took me going away for 2 days for her to take one finally. i guess i dont want to go back to bf if it means she will refuse the bedtime feed from a bottle, then we really are back to square one. it is a shame to stop this way though....but this morning my breasts are hardly full and i've not expressed for 24 hours. i know they will produce again if i start.. oh and dd was rooting around for me last night when i picked her up.....wouldnt sleep in her cot for an hour, only on my lap. thought she'd forgotten the bf thing! so put her in her pushchair at 230 (washer again - for a quick spin) and she slept until 7. had a bottle and went back until 9! wow. you know, i think the pushchair, being all cosy and enclosed, makes her feels snug and safe. might put that cosytoes in her cot. but too hot? no sleeping bag of course.

hey ladies may i join you?

Now she is taking a bottle Egypt she won't stop - honest

course you can ... welcome kate

Hi kate!

Ohhh, isn't this exciting? two new people! (i was getting bored of you lot )