APRIL 2008 - We venture over to the 'other side'

[VictorianSqualor]

Our babies.

07 March: Ashton, a fourth child for gemprincess, 5lb 13oz @ 34+6
09 March: Ted, a second DS for Daftmoo, 7lb 14oz @ 36+0
21 March: George William, a first baby for KnitterintheNW, 7lb 2.5oz @ 37+3
25 March: Olivia, a second baby for TheMaskedPoster, 7lb 2oz @ 38+4
28 March: Pablo, a third baby and first DS for vacaloca, 7lb 14oz @ 39+4
28 March: Matteo Alexander, a first baby for Gangle @ 38+0 (?)
30 March: A baby girl, a second child for PortAndLemon, 8lb 15oz @ 39+5
02 April: Jak, a baby boy for rainbowdays, 9lb @ 39+1
02 April: A baby boy, a second child for bunyanvillas, 6lb 14oz @ 37+5
02April: Struan, a baby boy for Donnabels, 6lbs 15oz
02 April: A baby boy for mummyofaprincess @39 weeks
03 April: A baby girl for PippiCalzelunghe @38+2weeks
03 April: Aeryn Daisy, a baby girl for Denny185, 9lb 8oz @ 39+3
03 April: Benjamin, a baby boy for Micegg, 8lb 3oz @ 39+4
03 April: Roelof Grové, a first DS for Sal22, 7lb 5oz @ 38+5
03 April: A baby boy for siikibam, 6lb 8.5oz @39+1wks
04 April: Matilda, a baby girl for AprilsFoolsBaby 7lb @
06 April: Henry Peter, a baby boy for Sheds, 7lb 130z @ 40+4
07 April: Sebastian George, a fourth DS for Peachy, 8lb 4oz @ 41+1
07 April: Jack, a first baby for ThePFJ, 7lb 5.5oz @ 41+1
07 April: Lexie Bea, a fourth baby for babywhiting, 8lb 1oz @ 39+4
08 April: Alasdair, a second DS for bunnyrabbit, 8lb 5.5oz @ 40+3
08 April: James Samuel, a third baby for honeybee10, 6lb 7oz @ 37+2
09 April: Zara Mia Martin, a first baby for V1KK1M, 7lb 10oz @ 41+0
11 April: Kyran for rdk, 7lb 13oz @ 38+3weeks
11 April: Sebastian James, a second baby for Fleecy, 10lb 2oz @ 40+4
11 April: A baby girl, a first baby for CeylonSapphire, 7lb 12oz @ 41+1
12 April: Maya Alice, a first baby for egyptianprincess, 8lb 15.5oz @ 40+3
12 April: Sophia Viviana, a second DD for AussieDivaonaBreak, 6lb 12oz @ 39+3
15 April: Alexander Oliver, a third baby for VictorianSqualor, 10lb 3oz @ 41+0
16 April: Ailish, a first baby for Mollyfloss, 6lb 11oz @ 40+3
16 April: A baby girl, a second baby for elfsmummy, 7lb 13oz @ 41+1
16 April: Zoe, a baby girl, a first baby for ToastAddict, 6lb 10oz @ 39+3
17 April: A baby boy for paranoidmumy, 8lb 9oz @ 41+4
17 April: A baby boy, a second son for lorisparkle, 7lb 12.5oz @ 41+6
18 April: Millie, a baby girl for scorpio1 8lb 9oz @ 41+?
18 April: Cameron, a second baby for munchkinmum @ 39+5
19 April: Oliver Michael, first baby for bashboid, 7 lb 4 oz at 41 +3
20 April: Samuel, a first baby for Velbels. 8lb15oz at 41+1weeks.
20 April: Angharad Mai, 8lb 4oz, 40+6, first for 7monthsplus
20 April: Emilia, 7lb15oz, a first baby for SuzeM, 40+6
21 April: Eve, a second baby for Scampmum, 8lb 4oz @ 39+3
22 April: Sam, a second son for Soph73 @ 40+0
22 April: Molly, a first baby for EllieG, 8lb 8oz? @ 40+5
22 April: Daisy, second baby for AttilaTheHan @ 40 +3
22 April: Zoe Olivia, second daughter for Piccallilli2 7lb 1oz @42+1
23 April: Jessica Elizabeth, first baby for BabyBratt @ 40+1 7lb 12oz.
24 April: A baby girl, a second daughter for christmaspixie, 9lb 2oz @ 40+6/41+5
24 April: Miya Jade, baby girl for ShelleySare at 39+4
25 April: Amelie, a first baby for Dondons, 9lb, 41+3 (i think!)
25 April: Aisha, a second baby for Jaq39 7lb 14oz @ 41+4
26 April: Hope Olivia, a second dd for northeastmummy, 7lb 11oz at 41 .
26 April: Gabriel, a third child for Bainmarie @ 41+5
26 April: Eli Michael, a baby boy for LittleMissTurquoise, 7lb 15.5oz @ 40+5
27 April: a baby girl for Ayomi, 6lb 1oz @ 41+0
28 April: Jacob Andrew, a 2nd DS for Kaybeeand2boys, 8lb 4oz @ 41+5
29 April: Thomas Henry, a 2nd DS for TLSM, 7lb 8oz 40+3
30 April: Harry Samuel, a fourth ds for Chipmonkey, 9lb 5oz @ 39+2
01 May: Sophie May, a baby grl for Annieroo, 6lb 5oz @ 41+4
01 May: Euan George, a baby boy for Jenniejennie, 8lb @ 40+4
02 May: Robyn Olivia, a baby girl for soph28, 8lb 1oz @ 42+1
05 May: Nora Martina, a first baby for Eva07, 7lb 8oz @ 41+2
05 May: A baby boy for Beeper, 8lb 10oz @ 41+0
05 May: Gabriella Summer, a first baby for Mum2babyroo, 8lb 4oz @ 40+6
06 May: Wilf, 8lb 60z for bigbadmom @ 41+6
07 May: James Andrew, a second ds for Moominsmummy, 8lb 13oz @ 41+5
08 May: Ellie Isabella, a first baby for Carey87, 7 lb 8oz @ 42+1
08 May: Robin David, a 2nd baby for Woollymummy, 8lb 11 oz @ 41+3
09 May: 4 kittens for scorpio's cat!
10 May: Astrid Mary, a second dd for sagitta, 8lb 8oz @ 42+0

PFJ - I am in awe of you. I was sitting here thinking how on earth I am going to cope when I read your story and made me realise how lucky and easy I have it - and now I feel bad. Poor you and poor, poor little Jack. What a rough time he has had (and same for you) - I so hope and pray he starts to get better now and stays that way. I hope the whole finding a new home comes easy - although we all know moving isn't fun at the best of times, never mind now.

HV came around today - little missy is now 9lb 8oz - up by 7oz since last Thursday! She likes her food - that's for sure! Sleeping is no better really - she is going down a little earlier (9pm-ish) but now wakes up in the wee hours for an hour or more at a time after feeding. Agggg!! Man I miss my sleep!!

For all those FF pros - can you feed a baby with the bottle when she is lying down, or do they always have to be up and in posistion? And is gripe water any different to infacol? Oh and is it bad for a baby to sleep propped up? Whenever mine is propped up, she seems to sleep better, but as I am unsure, this is a rare occurance! Probably shold have asked the HV all these questions, my brain was a little befuddled this am from lack of sleep!

OOpppps......

went to change nappy and found that i hadnt put a nappy on from the previous change. Not done that before, head must be on a different world to do that.

Had to give J a bath hehe

I'm a 36DD and feel huge compared to my normal size which is a 32C.I've got clevage for the first time ever and bf hp and hopes that they won't shrink too much when finish bf J.

im a 32c now up from an a!!

FF - feed sitting up. millie has been sleeping tilted up cos she has a cold.

gripe water is diff and better

soz 1 hand typing

Sleeping tilted up is fine, it is because any mucus in their nose when laying flat dribbles down the back of their throat, this doesn't happen if they are tilted.

I would imagine you could FF whilst laying down, but baby would be more likely to get windy as they would take more air in, just make sure when you feed the teat is completely full of milk, not air.

god that ting tings song!!

and where is Ellie?

does anyone have her number? hope she is ok...

Thanks ladies - knew I could count on you for answers.

And as well as where is Ellie, where is Aussiediva? Hope they are both okay...

how to calm crying babies - found some of these quite good and thought someone might like to read.

M2B - these are kellymom's tips on mixed feeding - there's some info on bottlefeeding there that helped me.

Thanks Sal - that was interesting reading

hello all

PFJ - how nice to hear from you was wondering how you were all getting on - hope things get better for you all really soon ((hugs))

can I just check if anyone else is getting night sweats? after 3 weeks of them it has onlyjust occurred to me that it's probably due to hormones! am waking up several times a night totally soaked and then get freezing cold - have to change nightie/t-shirt several times a night. any tips on how to minimise it?

anyone's LO suffering from rashes? (apart from PFJ's little Jack) - saw a dr the other day about it who said is just newborn rash but it's all over James' face, in his ear and around his neck and uppper chest - it's bright red with loads of tiny white fluid filled spots - it must be REALLY uncomfortable for the poor lad but dr said not to worry....

Millie is like that in her neck and top of chest, tis normal, really dont worry

DH is a bumhole. Fact.

lol scorpio, now I'm dying to hear the rest of the story.

Roelof had the rash too, doctor said it's baby acne from mom's hormones and harmless, and apparently not painful / irritating to baby (I always wonder which 6-week old confirmed that, but hey). His went away after a week or so, now it's just a little "rough" skin on his cheeks - the bits in his neck and ears went away completely, and it's not red and fluid filled anymore.

Oh, and I only had the night sweats in those first couple of weeks - completely soaked my clothes, urgh. Now back to normal though.

hi everyone i have finally managed to get time to catch up on mn.
Samuel is generally good but doesn't like sleeping in the day which is tiring when he is on the go or crying all the time.
found out today that the reason i am still cracked and he feed for an hour on average is that he has a tongue tie. hoping to see the consultant tom which would be good as i really don't want to give up.
been great to hear how everyone else is, keep up the good work ;)

Really great that the tongue-tie has been diagnosed.
Sounds crap, but thank goodness you know now eh?
They'll snip it and hopefully it'll all fix pretty quickly from what I've heard it often goes undiagnosed.

Gabriella also has a little baby acne - nothing bad though and I'm happy as it is harmless. hee hee - I suffered from a few persistent spots during my pregnancy and it seemed that as soon as I gave birth, they went away - now I know where - baby got them!!

Yes - suffering from night sweats - really gross! Can't wait to get back to normal!

Well, from tomorrow I might not be able to post for a couple of days/weeks when my MIL is here (as I have to hide this new addiction ;-) ). Might try and sneak in and read in the evenings, but no more leasuirely bf'ing with laptop next to me... So bye for now, will miss you

Morning all, will miss u Sal - when do you sleep woman your always on here

Scorpio we're waiting (not very patiently) for an extension of the bum hole story.

Aeryn has lots of spots, so do I at the minute , not worried about hers as they will settle down, mine on the other hand I think i might need to do something about

BF laying down, Im lazy enough to feed laying down but find it really awkward to do, dosent seem to matter how I get myself the latch is never quite right. I still do it just end up with a bit more of a burpy baby after.

Morning all,

After all the great info that i was given yesterday i went ahead and used them all just to shake things up for myself and J. Wanted to see if a radical change in the nite routine would help at all.

I decided that J would sleep with me in the bed and not in the moses basket by the side so i wouldn't have to move her about after a feed. I took her up and got us both ready for bed, we botrh lay down and i tried to feed her lying down which i succeeded in doing after a few false starts and she fed for a good 3/4hr+ and fell naturally to sleep.

It was great..... she didn't start to stir properly for at least 4 hrs YIPPEE!!!! and again gave her a feed lying down for another 1/2hr and again it was about 3 hrs before she stirred to feed again. I only fed her twice last nite which is a first for me. She woke up at 7:30 this morning which also is later than normal...I feel human again....

Also didn't change her nappy through the nite.

Thanx for the great advice all, am hoping that this is a new beginning to better nites for us both.

Just one thing happened which i found funny... When i woke up to feed her the first time we had both turned 90 degrees on the bed . Any thoughts on that one.

So pleased for you, you sound very pleased too!!

Well its not that exciting, the bumhole story. I have 4 kids here all week this week, dh obv at work. he came yesterday, did dishes as normal, etc. When kids went to bed he just sat down, even though mimi was stirring and i needed a shower. i had already got up 50 frigging times to tell Z to get in his bloody bed. anyway i had a shower and when i got out he was playing ps3, i said can i watch telly. he practically growled at me and was very snappy and rude - i had seriously doen nothing. Then he ignores me for the next hour what a fucking child. He then went out fishing (pre-arranged), but before he went out he gave me a hug (jeez, thanks!!). i dont know when he got in, we were asleep. he finally worked out at 4am when mimi woke up that yes he was an ass (putting it lightly) and he went in the front room to sleep becuase 'i need to get back to sleep i have work tomorrow'. 'oh do you' says i 'diddums. it must be hard'

then at 630 before work he comes in and says he is very sorry and doesnt want to lose me after how i told him in the night i am sick of it. he is often rude to me and has to be told lots about the way he is talking to me. I just felt yesterday after having 4 kids all day, BFing in the night etc that it would be great for an adult to give me 10 mins of care and peace last night. you know what i mean?

i think he is waiting for me to text him today as he knows it wont be worth him doing it first . i was so angry last night though, i rarely get angry just annoyed iyswim.

Its fine though, nothing bad or horrendous, just another attack of the 25 year old child.

well he rang me and i told him off think he is suitably bollocked.

he is still a bumhole unless proved otherwise.

scorpio, if it's any consolation my dh is being an arse too, he seems to think the fact that only I can feed zoe absolves him of all responsibility to even wake up in the night, so i end up doing everything. As she has a bad cold all she really wanted several times last night was a cuddle - would be nice if he could take his turn occasionally, i'm knackered.

i know what you mean - though when millie woke up when she was snotty i told him to get up. i get that too, it takes some gentle persuasion.....

any top tips on how to deal with snotty baby? i'm going to try propping up her mattress at one end tonight

propped matress and saline drops. we also put vaporub on a sock and put it about 2 feet away from her basket so the smell was in the room iyswim.