FEB 08- Sore nips and no naps continued!!!!

[sarahmikeharryandrosie]

Hi Ladies thought i wouls open the thread but i have no imagination- hence the title!!!!

we bought peas in their pods and when we opened one pod they were sprouting - planted them and voila, little plants - it's so satisfying to make things grow. We don't have birds as we have cats who scare them away.

i wish we were moving to the country. Have you started packing?

Hector is asleep on the rug - what a cutie.

Ahhh, I was looking at a vid of DS2 asleep in his bouncy chair and wished that the DTs still fell asleep anywhere. They used to play under the activity arch and the next minute I would look over and they would be asleep. Never happens now. Cot only, or at a push DS2 will nap in the buggy. DD is a fussy little monkey.

Better go and get them!

We have our first tooth. I was sure i could see something on his gum bottom left but this morning a little stump appeared bottom right

Been out with a friend today who's baby is due on Sunday, my DS was here by then I am glad I had him a week early she looks so much more uncomfortable than I was.

crazy crazy ferdie has his first tooth too-at 12 weeks -what's going on? dd was 9 months before hers so i'm still in shock a bit. me and dd keep admiring it, well, me more than her, she mostly tries to pinch him.
egg, how great that dd has been happier with the solids. i want your chocolate hoard-am stuck now in a house free of chocolate with no way of getting any til dh comes home at 11. rats rats rats. not even nutella.
we had a storming weekend. it was brilliant. what a difference a night without the kids makes . lots of mojitos at the party we went to too and adult conversation yippee, and dancing. we did feel a bit wrecked when we came home but not too bad. hadn't realised how badly me and dh were getting on before we went. dh said on the way back 'what a relief, i really feel we're going to be allright together for the rest of our lives together'
gingermumi love the pics of the girls with toby.
wish i wasn't so far behind all of you, the weaning talk is flying over my head. although we will be starting as soon as we can with ferdie as it really helps babies with reflux and dd really improved once we started at 16 weeks.
have been trying to stop dd from pinching all ferdie's toys. keep saying' ask f if you can borrow it'. she asked me at lunch if she 'could borrow my sausage'. hmmm, don't think i've got the message through yet then.

teeth!! wow.

Argghh what a night- LO woke and was fed at 10, 1, 3, 5 and 7. At 4 he woke and was given calpol. At 3.30 I woke up from a nightmare and was too scared to go back to sleep. At 4.30 DP woke from a nightmare saying he was choking. At 5 I went to the bathroom and saw something massive scuttling under the sink, a big beetle I hope not a cockroach but didn't have glasses on. Then too scared to go for a wee until morning. And I think LO is lining up for another night of the same.

Frequent feedings means 3lbs off! Won't last.

Glad your hols were good Egg how did you get on with all the housework?

Hope yesterday was ok for you Leesmum. Ginger your girls are v glam.

Hello everyone else!

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Hi, Sunday was ok, had a little cry in the morning and got it out of the way i think it does you good to have a cry now and again, DP loved his prezzies and DS1 kept saying "i love you dad" aaaahhhh

Alkar and Princess gosh teeth already, DS2 still loves his fist but there is no sign yet of teeth, but he did grab my crumpet out of my hand the other day, i would have let him have it but there was 10 ton of butter on it

Talking of weight i'm still the same, i saw a picture of me at christmas at weekend and bloody hell i was massive, i WAS 11st 5lb when DS2 was born so really i have lost loads but that last bit i taking forever!

Gill i hope your bad night was a one-off, and well done on the weight loss x

Princess i'm glad you and hubby got some time together, i think you needed it and i'm sure ferdie will improve loads when he gets into food xx

Mitford are you ready for another baby yet? Some people want short gaps in-between, i can honestly say i would shit myself if i even thought i could be pregnant again oh well i'd better keep my PJ's on in bed then had'nt i, lol

Egg you have been busy, i keep meaning to getting round to shifting all the crap out of the box room so Ds2 can go in in a few weeks,Ds1 went in his own room at 5 months and slept loads better.

Tyaca did you see Turkey the other night...bloody brilliant and tonight is France v's Italy, i want Italy to win but i think the French might just nick it

Hi to everyone else xxx

Oh forgot to say well done Rozzy on losing 3lb's as well x

mornin'! i am eating raspberries and strawberries with loads of cream and enjoying fern britton's return to this morning . we going away today for a couple of nights - should really be sorting stuff out... ah well.

leesmum, glad you had a nice day on sunday. know i shouldnt wish dd's life away, but your comment about your ds1 saying i love you dad made me really impatient look forward to dd being a bit older.

funny to be talking teeth, yesterday was searching old messages for teething discussions. dd's having some mardy in pain moments during the day. tho' bad mum me, i really cant tell if it's teething or reflux which seems to be getting worse.

hope you had a better night last night gill and princess i know just what you mean about feeling a bit behind everyone else with our march babies.

wow teeth! toby has been teething for ages and still nothing! I can see the crown under the gun but nothing more has happened for weeks just loads and loads of dribble and gnawing!

Talking of teeth, i have an abscess and it is really painful, dentist gave me antibiotics but they aren't working yet have to go back this afetrnoon for x-ray. It's making me feel crap!

Am off to tidy kitchen before i go - ahh, the joys of life!

• should read 'under the gum' !

Hello! Just back from lovely holiday in northumbria. The north-east coast is just SO gorgeous!!

am going thru a bad patch with DH. had an argument yesterday about me cuddling DS too much!!! look I will cuddle my baby as often as he needs it!!! and sod the housework. anyway DS was poorly and was runnng a fever so of course he needed cuddling

also my hair is falling out in big clumps. dunno why. stress maybe? think I may have lost another kg (yay) but not sure as I did fiddle with the zero on our cheapie Argos bathroom spring-scales

sarah/egg - v excited at all this weaning talk, esp since DS is still such a tiddler. am gonna get some organic veg from the farmers market and puree it to freeze in batches for whenever DS is ready to wean. He's not yet, I know - only 16wks and still has his tongue thrust reflex whenever anything goes in his mouth.

gill - hope you had a better night last night

gingermumi - hope your own teeth get better

right am gonna put poorly DS in his sling (he seems brighter today thank goodness) and get on with the blasted housework....

Another tooth has appeared this morning so he now has 2 very little stumps on his bottom gum.

Sorry to hear about the problems with your DH sally, I don't think I'd like being told I was cuddling DS too much.

How did last night go Gill? My DH woke me up snoring about 2am - He's in the spare room and I was wearing ear plugs, he was really bad last night I'm so tired today.

Hi all!

Hope you had a better night last night Gill. You must be shattered!

I can't believe there are teeth already - seems like yesterday we were all fed up with being pregnant!!

Sally - I think losing a lot of hair is really common post birth. You don't shed as much as usual whilst you're pregnant so for some people it does come out in clumps after the baby is born. If you did a search you'd probably find a few threads on it I should think.

Strawberries and cream sounds delish tyaca - have a nice few days away.

Ginger - hope that absess gets better soon.

Leesmum - I too put on a lot of weight whilst pregnant this time - 2.5 stone - but I'm paying for it now - it's taking much harder work to lose this time than it did with ds1 and ds2.

Princess - glad you enjoyed your child free weekend - sounds like bliss.

Is beany away just now? Haven't seen a post from her for a while.

Sally it sounds like your DH might be a little jealous? They can get a bit like that, well Dp was like that for a few weeks when DS1 first came along, and even though we all love our DP/DH it doesn't come close to the love you have for your children and NEVER will.

Tell him if he behaves he might get a cuddle later x

Alkar i think we should start calling Daniel.....Jaws...wow 2 teeth already, i can't remember are you BF or FF? and how's it going if you are BF?

Ginger, isn't toothache horrid you have my sympathies, i was in agony with my wisdom teeth and ended up having them all pulled out.

Rozzy i hardly put any weight on with Ds1, and i didn't get the fat back i have now!

thanks for sympathy, have to phone dentist tomorrow for results of x-ray - he's talking about taking tooth out! Great, last time i had a tooth out they had to cut the gum and stitich it back up because the root was so long Hope it doesn't come to that!

On a happier note ds rolled over for first time tonight, he does lots of rolling to the side but never quite make it over but he did front to back and we all clapped and cheered - (proud emoticon) poor lad was probably scared to death!

sally- agree that dh is probably a bit jealous - IMO you can never cuddle a baby too much and losing your hair is common, it's because you don't lose much when you're pregnant. Hope you have a better evening hun.

my hair's falling out loads Sally, helped on its way by DS grabbing fistfulls of it and puling hard. Is just supposed to be all the hair that didn't fall out when you were pregnant so you shouldn't have less hair than normal (touching wood here!)

last night was better - thank goodness. thanks for asking everyone. 10, 3 and 6.

hope you don't have to have your tooth out ginger, especially with that experience! DP has an appt for a wisdom tooth extraction next week. It's going to be very tricky and was originally going to need GA.... I haven't been for years and really must get round to going while it's free. Stupid not to....

good night all!

hi, thanks for your insights on my hair and DH!

am reassured that hair falling out is normal. you know what I think it always used to come out like this, I'd just forgotten b/c it seems so long since I got pg.

DH stuff ....... arghhhh. we had a talk yesterday. somehow am finding it really hard to get through to him. at the moment we are just staying away from each other to avoid winding each other up.

poor LO, it is not his fault his parents are squabbling, I don't want him to suffer because of it.

I think DH/P stuff is just as normal Sally. Have been thinking recently how different and well crap my relationship with DP is at the mo - no arguments but just no... anything really, feels like a shell of our previous relationship. Arguments aren't nice particularly if he's being a little unreasonable as it sounds like he is but I suppose at least you're communicating and he's telling you how he's feeling (jealous!) Hopefully it will all settle down as you get used to the new dimensions of your family (I certainly hope it does here!)

I need some advice please. I got Daniel weighed again today and he has lost weight for the 3rd week running. Only 4oz but he's dropped from the 91st centile to under the 50th now. The health visitor said to put him on more solids, baby rice for breakfast and dinner and some veg for lunch. I'm still bf though and I want to carry on with bf until he's at least 6months old so I am reluctant to give him so much food as solids but I don't want him to keep losing weight.

Alkar I was looking for Beany yesterday (I am a stalker) as she hadn't been on here for a while and found a post by her saying that milk has more cals than pureed veg and baby rice anyway so although it might fill them up it wont help them gain weight as such (sorry Beany if I have quoted you wrong there, I can't be faffed to search again). Anyway, have read this quite a bit, milk is definitely the highest cals AFAIK.

Also if he is still around 50th I presume he is fine, although obv has dropped a fair bit, it could be that he has become more active now he is a bit older and so is wearing it off a bit more.

Sorry, I don't actually know what I am talking about, so hopefully Beany or someone a bit more knowledgeable will come along, but am pretty sure breastmilk is the best way forward for him. Does he seem happy and healthy otherwise and not pooing 18 times a day or anything?

Reminds me I must get on the scales with DD and see how she is doing.

Thanks egg. Thinking about it he is very active. He goes to waterbabies once a week and when he's not bouncing on his bouncer he just wants to stand up and wobble! I think I will try bf this week with baby rice for lunch and see how he is next week. My little boy is growing up

Alkar - I agree with egg - milk has more calories than solids. If you put him on more solids then he would probably take less milk so I don't think that would help with the weight gain(though I'm no expert and could be wrong). My ds2 moved from the 91st centile at birth to below the 50th centile by 3 months. I don't think a babies birth weight is always an indication of how big they'll be later in life IYKWIM. So in the months following birth they are quite likely to move on the centile lines - also remember some centile charts are not bf specific. Has he been weighed on the same scales each time? That can make quite a difference too.

I would say as long as he seems happy, there are plenty of wet/dirty nappies, and you're feeding him when he asks I would try not to worry too much.

Anyone in the South of England? I am on tv tonight on 6pm local news . I know I will look like a right muppet as I was so nervous.

DS1 is getting excited tho.

oh egg, just missed you, i read your post at 6.55! maybe it wouldn't have been on london tonight? hope you were good.
sally don't lose heart, dh and i have been rowing (sp?) lots, even after our romantic night away! it happened with my first baby too and it does return to normal.

What were you doing on the news egg?

I agree having a baby does put extra pressure on a relationship. It does get better and actually makes you closer in the long run I think.