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!!!!

Gill - our flat is on the market and I am have been browsing but there is not much point in really looking until we have an offer and that could take a while yet. I'm playing the long game on this one and am going to give it until Christmas and then see where we are. PITA having to keep everything tidy all the time though!
Am impressed with M's bum shuffling. Ds2 nearly rolled over yesterday but that's about it!!

Princess - how are you?

After being woken up 6 times a night for two nights, I was up twice last night. Am blardy shattered.

How is everyone else?

Hi Beany gosh you must be knackered! Is DS2 showing any signs of teeth yet, we had broken sleep for about 2 weeks before james got his first one, but don't be worried ladies some just pop right through and don't give them too much bother. Beany are you still exl BF? have you given lo any food yet?

James is 25 weeks tomorrow and for the last 2 days he's had a bit of pureed pear and some sweet potato and carrot, he didn't go mad for it but didn't spit it out either, i'm hoping that as the next few weeks go on the gaps between bottles will spread out a bit, at the moment he's only going just over 2hrs inbetween feeds you can't have everything though he has last bottle at 7pm and then wakes up about 5.30am, unless his teeth are bothering him and then i'm up and down all night

Tyaca how's it going in your new gaff? did you say it was out in the countryside? That will be lovely for Esther this time next year when she's running around all over the place

We have no plans to move EVER! we were lucky to have bought our house 10 years ago before all the prices went silly. We could not afford to buy it now and as it's a 3 bed semi, there is plenty of room for the 4 of us, it's on a cul-de-sac so it's really quiet.

Gill i'm really impressed with Malcolm sitting up, James is no where near sitting up because he is too interested in his feet! he can't even fit in his bumble anymore because his thighs are too big, he's just like Roberto Carlos who used to play for Brazil!!!

Princess how did it go yesterday?

Egg did you do anything for the twins 6 month birthday yesterday?

Count can i ask you a personal question? I was like you and finished feeding lo at about the same time as you did, now i'm still leaking a tiny bit and my boobs now resemble two undercooked Naan breads they're just swinging around all over the place, are you suffering as well or is it just me? Maybe its my age They might improve when i shift my last bit of weight we'll see....

Bloody hell Beany, six times a night? I thought my life was a bit tricky at the mo, and we are not trying to sell a house as well as coping on no sleep.

Have bitten the bullet and looked into getting a night nanny to sort us out before it gets too late! Seeing a lovely sounding lady on Monday who reckons she can get DD sleeping through within 5 days and doesn't ever leave her to cry or get her into any bad sleep habits. It means that I don't have to get up at night while she is here, and hopefully not after she is gone. Don't want to reach the end of my tether and end up going mad so am trying to sort things sooner rather than later.

Hoping everyone is ok. DTs are very grizzly today, DS1 thankfully is being ok, despite it being wet and horrid so we can't do much, but we have played in the garden and played some cricket so he is happy. And it is the weekend soon thank god.

Alkar hope you are feeling better and asthma is under control. Must be v scary.

Tyaca good luck with the move. You must be excited (and a bit nervous). Best to move now while DD can't run riot, we moved last summer when DS1 was 18 months old and he made it a lot harder, esp as it was pouring with rain so couldn't even take him out to swings to get him out of the way.

Hi everyone - can't believe some of the babies are 6 months old already - where has this year gone!!!

Egg - is your dd getting up a lot in the night now? Do you think it's habit rather than hunger?

Leesmum - that's a good long sleep at night ds2 is having. He's not half packing it in during the day though!! Every 2 hours is quite often for ff isn't it - although it's not that long since you stopped bf so he might still be adjusting?

Beany - being up twice must have seemed like a good night after the previous 2 nights! You must be shattered though. Ds3 is up twice every night so not nearly as bad as what you're dealing with. Last night I woke up with ds2 sprawled out across the middle of my bed (dh on night shift). Managed to hurt a muscle in my neck lifting him back to bed (2.5 stones of dead weight) so will be demanding a massage tonight!

I gave lo some carrot on his highchair today - just out of interest really - didn't think he would eat it. Anyway didn't really go to plan - I've attached a couple of pics to my profile. Also a more recent pic of all 3 boys.

First week of school holidays over for us. I'm actually really enjoying having them here with me all day and not having to rush out to get to nursery, and pick them up again. They've been really good this week which helps - I'm sure if they were being horrors I would be desperate for the Autumn term to start!! Also dh is on holiday for a couple of weeks (although got called in for an overtime shift last night which we couldn't refuse since I'm not working at the mo).

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend - weathers been pretty rotten here over the last couple of days but is meant to clear up over the weekend (fingers crossed).

Rozzy!! LOL at your LO eating the plate! Your boys are really REALLY gorgeous!

LO has just cried herself to sleep as she got too overtired. I really must implement some kind of a routine as she is too old now to 'go with the flow'. She can wiggle herself around the cot now and looks like she is trying to escape from prison as she is often to be found holding on to the bars with her face pressed up against them!

Morning all. Rozzy those pics are fabulous. So cute. The boys are all so handsome and look so alike (my three all look like they are from different families...).

DD does not wake up so many times, but she feeds at 10pm (reluctantly, but if she doesn't she wakes at 11/12ish instead), and then again sometimes at 1am, but sometimes not til 4:30am, and DS2 keeps waking and yelling which wakes either DD or DS1 or both, and the combination of both of them is getting too much, and DD had just plain water last night at 3:30am, and still only had 2oz at 7am, and she just needs a bit of sorting. If she was my only child she would not be a problem at all. I spoke to the lady who will hopefully come and stay for a few nights and she said it sounds easily solveable and that they should be able to sleep for 11-12 hours without a problem (in an ideal world of course!).

TBH it has made me feel happier just knowing that on the 5 or so nights she will stay I don't have to get up at all, unless with DS1, which is rarely before 5:30 when he gets woken by one of the DTs, so I can cope with that (he used to sleep til past 7 and sometimes til 8).

This morning DS2 woke at 5:30, but he woke up DD, who wasn't hungry, but she got fed up lying in her cot while I fed DS2, so she burst into tears, which then woke DS1. So we have been watching Balamory downstairs since 6am. DD refused to go back to sleep until 7:45. She was shattered poor love.

Had a lovely day yesterday despite the rain. We managed to get out to the swings for an hour in the afternoon, and bumped into a local friend and her little boy who is same age as DS1, so they played a lot together which was very sweet, and we have arranged to get together for coffee which is nice (despite making lots of "friends" since we moved here last summer, have not managed to sort out doing coffee or going to people's houses which is nice).

Sorry, long rambling post. Feeling happy today .

Off to London tomorrow with DTs (first time for them) leaving DS1 with DH, as it is my mum's bday so we are meeting up at my sis's house. We would all go but still don't have new car so can't all fit into ours unless it is only for 5 min journey as it is hellish being squished in back for 2 hours!

Morning Egg, glad to hear that you're feeling a bit better today x That night nanny sounds great, she will be if she can get the DT's to sleep better. It must be hard when one wakes up and starts bawling and you dread them waking others up! Ds1 gets up at about 6am just when i've finished giving Ds2 his morning bottle and if it wasn't for Ds1 bouncing around everywhere i know Ds2 would go back off for another hour or so but he can hear his big brother and wants a nosey

Rozzy your boys are so handsome they look great together, actually i had a dream the other night that i had another boy called Paul!! and i couldn't get it out of my head all day..but no we are having NO MORE. Did lo not like the carrot then, i tried james with some butternut squash and pear like you suggested and he loved it.

This time next week we are going down to see my sis and bil in Uxbridge for a week, i'm really looking forward to it as we are'nt going abroad this year, with having to pay for Ds1's nursery fee's and getting the christening sorted we can't afford it this year

Omy how are you and is lo still sleeping through?

Beany are things any better at night for you?

Omy - are you on hols now?

Egg - doesn't sound like your dd is hungry so hopefully the night nanny will do the trick! Ds3 looks really like ds1 as a baby - ds2 is more like his dad but you can still tell they're brothers. Glad you're feeling happier!

Leesmum - no carrot wasn't a hit - he didn't seem to know what to do with it but he's still young (just 22 weeks) so plenty of time. Glad your ds2 liked the butternut squash and pear. The week away at your sisters sounds fab!

The night nanny sounds like a really good idea egg. Daniel sleeps 9-8 and I am still tired so I have no idea how you cope with 3 waking up at different times in the night.

Love the pics rozzy. Havent tried DS on carrot yet, he had pureed banana yesterday pulled his face whilst he was eating it but kept on going! Generally just give him baby rice in the morning and a bit of fruit in the afternoon. It doesn't happen every day though I'm gonna have to be much more organised when he's over 6 months (he's 23 weeks now) its so easy just bf.

No hope of a holiday here leesmum. We have just enough money to live on until I go back to work. We probably shouldn't have had the extension done yet but I don't think I could go through all that mess with DS crawling and eating real food. Oh well, just have to holiday in the back garden this year!

thequietone- my ds was born 4th Jan (4 weeks early admittedly) and he's only rolled over once, has no teeth and can only sit for a few seconds. He's very happy though and that's what matters hun! I'm sure your lo is doing fine!

Have not had time to read all posts, my dad was rushed into hosp this week. He's been unwell for days but didn't want to bother the docs (FFS he couldn't breath and was in mega amounts of pain). Finally did see doc and was told to rest and take paracetamol. Parents did nothing 'til he was so ill they called an ambulance. Initially they said it was pancreatitis (Sp?) and transfered him to another hosptial who said he has gall stones and a massive infection. They transfered him back to original hosp (parents have private health care and could have gone to local BUPA but again didnt want to make a fuss, they took out private health care 'cos dad has been left diabled by catching MRSA in the very hosptial he's in now). They (the hosp) decided to take out gall bladder but kept putting it off. Finally had op yestreday - gall bladder was gangreenous, worse the surgeon had ever seen! Am furious with parents and hosptial for delays. He's diabetic too and they couldn't give him any insulin for the first day beacuse there wasn't a machine available to give it to him. That hasn't helped him much either.

Am so tired from running around, working and going to hosp and helping out with my nan. We're off to Devon on monday for a few days and TBH going away is the last thing i want to do! dad is still on high dependancy ward, mum says go, but I am torn! He should start to make quite a quick recovery now but looked pretty rough today.

DS is waking at night too which isn't helping! He also is only feeding from one side. Anyone else encountered this? He flatly refuses to feed from RHS. He's not liked it from birth but now just wont feed from the left boobie at all! Hope i don't lose my supply

Am off to carry on sorting washing

ginger, my DS had a major left hand side preference, I remember looking it up on Kellymom, here
www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mom/lopsided.html.
I don't think it's a big problem though, apparently you can feed from one side only.
hope your dads getting on OK. The care he had sounds really appalling. Are your parents going to complain, or are they too nice and worried about making a fuss?

The night nanny sounds great Egg, you'll have to give us all her trade secrets!

Rozzy, the carrot picture is really funny, and your boys look gorgeous.

More lack of milestones confessions: DD is nearly 6 months but she can't roll or sit up, doesn't have any teeth and wakes up a couple of times a night. She does have a lovely smile though, and has been making friends with all sorts of random strangers on the tube today! I love having a baby, people are usually so much nicer when they see you're carting a baby around.
We've been down to the beach in East Sussex for the last week, but the weather was rubbish. Foolishly packed suntan cream when I should have packed wellies. Still had a good time though, DS was 3 a couple of weeks ago and he was really excited about going on holiday, he seems old enough to 'get it'. DD is pretty much over her chickenpox now and luckily she wasn't too sick with it.

hiya all - hows tricks? i've felt super tired all day, tried to get an early night but now cant sleep. ho hum.

ginger - v sorry to hear about your dad. the not making a fuss stuff is just awful, i'm glad it all got sorted in time and hopefully he's on the mend now. are there other people around for your mum at the mo? sounds like the hassle of going away would be a big mare, but does seem like you've had a lot on and maybe a break would be good once you were there.

egg - the nighttime description sounds awful. when is the night nanny coming? sounds like a great option. please dont think i'm too bonkers, but i had a dream i came round your house last night .

on the subject on milestones, my SIL posted a vidoe of my niece crawling at 7months old. that seems v early, is that early? dd managed to do a front to back roll over today and one day last week spent a good couple of hours bum-shuffling backwards on her back. one-off though i reckon, like her mum she is quite content staying in one place most of the time.

thursday, yes people are so nice when you have a baby, arent they? i spend my life chatting to strangers and have a slightly psycho habit of grinning inanely at pregnant women and others with babies. esp with dd in a sling i find. tho' saying that, on bus the other day i couldnt get a seat and some young guy offered me his. he was sitting with his g-friend who reluctantly stood to let me have his window seat. then when i had to get off she v pointedly wouldnt move and just twisted her knees vvvvvvv slowly leaving us to struggle and wobble our safe way up.

princess -- hullloooo. you ok?

move monday and go OFFLINE. will be forced to use DH's classroom til we get net.

Gingermumi - I also had probs with LO refusing to feed from my right boob! I was worried like you - but my sister showed me how to BF from the right boob whilst LO is lying on the bed / sofa with her head propped up on my right thigh so that to her it seems like the left boob IYKWIM. Prob didn't explain that very clearly - but it seemed to do the trick. It must have been a bit of a phase coz she willfeed from both again now - but still won't sometimes if distracted / overhungry / overtired etc.

ew, just reread my post and sounds a bit like I was breastfeeding my sis!! ew ew ew ew ew! LOL! I was definately not!!

Ginger - hope your dad gets all better and no more problems. I really struggled with the rhs too and used to have to express from it but strange to start problems now!

Night nanny sounds good Egg - hope she makes a difference. Had a hellish night with DS - he has been v grumpy and woke shouting at 1030, 2, 3.30 and 4 last night. normally a feed or bringing him into bed sends him off to sleep but not this time. I think it might be his insides - he's been having a bit more solids and now has solid poo which must be a big change for his little system. We've stuck with milk today but still grumpy.

like the carrot pics rozzy! a much more sensible and clean way than puree. Even if i'm feeding hin myself he grabs the spoon then starts a vigorous face rubbing......No way am I ready to embrace the mess of blw...

What a nightmare Ginger - hope your dad is recovering well. I've no experience with lo refusing one side but I've certainly heard of people who've only fed on one side. Perhaps worth giving a bf counsellor a go? Hope you enjoy Devon - I know you don't feel like it but at least it's not too far away and you could just come back if you felt you needed to.

Gill - has Malcolm got any teeth? Maybe that's what's making him grumpy? Is he taking his solids well?

It's really reassuring to read all of your posts about what stages your lo's are at re rolling etc.

Dinners ready - better go!

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

Tyaca, I came on here to post about my dream I had last night. I dreamt I came to your house . You moved to a really flash apartment block full of celebs and Shirley Bassey and Boyzone lived there too, and I came to see you. That is so very spooky. Good luck tomorrow.

Ginger am so sorry about your poor dad. I hope he is continuing to do well and you put in a complaint. Hope you do manage to get away and enjoy yourself. Your mum knows how to reach you if she needs you.

Thursday next glad your DD is getting over chickenpox ok. My DD loves to smile at strangers, she is only miserable behind closed doors .

Gill your DS is sounding a bit like my DS2 at the mo. His poos have changed dramatically and he has not had a proper one for 2 days. For the past week he has been waking up 2 or 3 times a night shouting hysterically. I am usually feeding him by 4:30/5am as well, when he used to get to 6 or later. Today he has been dribbling even more, puking a lot (only little bits, nothing sinister) and has, for the first time in his little life, got a spotty botty, so I think a tooth may indeed be on the way. Having said that DS1's first tooth seemed to be on the way for months and appeared on his 7 month bday.

Tyaca with DS1 I checked the book all the time to see what age the average baby does things (not even opened it this time). Crawling is 8 months on average. DS1 was 8 months and 1 day. First tooth is 7 months on average. Some babies crawl at 6 months (or even earlier I think!). DS2 moved about an inch today but it was not crawling, more a lurch while he sobbed. He has been a real misery today.

We drove all the way to London and back, and babies were good as gold in car, not a peep out of either of them, but they cried most of the time we were at my sister's house.

Bovril it's ok, I knew you didn't mean bfing your sister!!!

Gill I know you asked a few days back about LOs going off to sleep on their own etc. These two always go into cot awake and DS2 normally goes to sleep fairly quietly, DD normally cries a bit and then nods off although sometimes if I get her dead on at the right moment and catch her before she is overtired she goes without any fuss. The only time they go in asleep is sometimes after a night feed / early morning feed when they fall asleep on the bottle. My main problem with DS1 lay with him not knowing how to go to sleep without me feeding him. Is it just his last feed of day that he screams at if he goes in awake, or after night feeds and at naps too? I had to bite the bullet and start putting DS1 in awake (also at about 6 months), and I would sit in the chair next to his cot and talk to him about his day while he drifted off (sometimes took an hour ), but gradually it took less time and he finally got used to going to sleep on his own.

Tonight, however, he has been in bed since 7:30 and is still awake. Someone is playing loud music and despite his window being tight closed he is getting upset. He seems to have developed a sensitivity to night noise, ie babies wake him now when they never used to as well. I hope it is "just a phase".

Long post again .

hi everyone- sorry to hear about your dad ginger, i hope he is on the mend, have u decided if you going to get away for a few days??

We have made the most of the weather and gone to the park- DS had great fun playing the the water jets- we had a picnic and stayed there most of the day- i now exhaused though- the weekends go far too fast-!!!

Hi to everyone hope all well,

Egg - my lo is really pukey at the moment too. He's always been a bit sicky but over the last few days there's been much more coming up - hope it's just that he's taking too much milk. He was sick in the car on the way home tonight about an hour after he'd been fed and it reeked!! When does your night nanny arrive?

oh grrr, dd been awake for last hour and a half. thought she'd just got back to sleep but reckon i can hear her now. sometimes i wonder whether dd waking is as much about my depth of sleep. i am SO looking forward to her moving to own room. not sure i'll be able to hold out anotther two months. at least at new place i can bugger off to spare bedroom.

egg that is v v spooky. and pmsol at "really flash apartment block full of celebs and Shirley Bassey and Boyzone lived there too" good to know who your subconscience rates as a-list...

dd def awake. got to be up again in three hours and temmpted to put coffee on and not try to go back to bed.

Hi everyone i hope you all had a lovely weekend, i was sunny here yesterday!! i even managed to get the grass cut. Well at last i've lost some weight 2lb's, i'd better be good this week in preparation for my visit to sis's at weekend because i certanly WILL NOT be dieting next week my BIL is a Flt Lieutenant in the RAF and a fantastic cook, but he really piles is high and you just HAVE to finish everything off because it would be rude not to. lol

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Ginger how is your dad doing? Oh what a worry for you and your mum. Here's hoping he recovers soon xx

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don't know how i managed to cut the last few off....thats better

Hello everyone! Am loving all your accounts of weaning, With DS am going to try to hold out till 6mo (another whole month!) because of v bad food allergies in the family. Am impressed so many of your LOs are doing all that stuff! DS is still nowhere near sitting, and can only roll one way, and has no sign of any teeth - tbh I am quite glad he can't roll as he is still sleeping in our bed!

still no sign of the dreaded Chicken Pox here - we have another week to wait until he gets the all clear.

Just had a FAB few days with MIL. She played with LO loads and I finally had a bit of "me time" But she took us all out to lunch yesterday and Ds got in a right state, cryingcrying and needing to be walked round the car park all the time ... so we skipped dessert and went home uponwhich there was a magical transformation and he was good as gold

Gill - my LO likes to try to eat my fingers / arm / whatever and like yours I don't think he is really hungry, it's almost as if he is playing at feeding

beany - good luck with selling your flat, the newspapers are full of gloom and doom but round here things are still selling, just not super fast. hope your LO is a bit more settled at night now

Egg - how typical re babies crying only when in company! (see sunday lunch story above) am v curious to see what night nanny does to get your LOs to sleep through in only 5 days! - am in admiration at anyone who can do that job.

alkar - hope you're feeling better now, what bad luck getting asthma as an adult. do you think you could be allergic to anything that could be making it worse? (animals etc)

rozzy - loved your pics of your weaning attempts! my LO is also interested in plates/edges of tables but not really in the food - although he did reach for a slice of fruit cake the other day..... swiftly whisked away as it was MINE ALL MINE

omy - we are in same situation re: needing a routine - LO also tends to get overtired and has to cry himself to sleep, which I hate the difficulty is in deciding what routine to choose.. let us know what you decide on

ginger - hope your dad is getting better now. cant believe they didnt give him insulin because no machine - why couldn't they just inject him like normal??? oh well spose they must know best and all but it doesnt make sense to me.

tyaca - hope your move is going ok today. I also have noticed that people like to talk to DS when he is in sling. when he's sitting out it's like he's invisible but as soon as he's bundled up in the sling (closer to peoples eye level I spose) there are cries of "oh! how cute!" maybe its because in sling he rarely gets upset but just LOOKS around with big brown eyes

princess - hope things are ok with you and your family

I lost weight!!! yay!!!! just 1kg but who cares. think maybe it could have had something to di with MIL sleeping downstairs so I could not raid the fridge at 3am

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Hmmmmmm just noticed I used quite a lot of smileys in that post - ah well proper punctuation is overrated IMO

Egg - your babes waking each other up sounds miserable! It would be fab if the night nanny could sort it! What a saviour.

Leesmum - my boobs were like empty baloons after BF for about a year - the fat does return but it seems to take ages! a boy called Paul eh? I am going to try butternut squash soon! today she chewed on a crust of toast quite happily and sucked banana from my sticky fingers! yum. LO sleeps through sometimes! it is tantalising. She always wakes for feeds in the night if I have had to leave her for work in the day. Yesterday i was away for 5 hours and she made me pay last night! She is sleeping soundly now though! I think I have lost some weight from cycling to work for 2 weeks but I don't dare weigh myself as it is too depressing to go up again! I always put on weight in the hols as I don't cycle as much - though I am going to the gym as often as I can - I really enjoyed going with my 16 yr old DD - though she is now in Croatia for 2 weeks!! (with best friend and her family) Miss her!

rozzy - I am 'on hols' though I am teaching at a summer course this week - only 1 hour per day so not too stressful!

Ginger!!! Your poor dad. Bloody hospitals! What pisses me off is the disgusting food when you are trying to recover from an op you need wonderful nutritious food not bland goo. I took my juicer into hospital when my dad was recovering from a heart op and found a kitchen and made him a yummy fresh juice! Hope he recovers quickly . As for one boob preference - are you expressing from the side he doesn't like? Otherwise you prob will dry up on that side. Why don't you start a specific thread and ask the mumsnet experts. Bovril! brill idea about 'pretend left boob'!

Thursday - beach sounds fun. I have just found a new website for waterproof clithing for kids! muddypuddles.com - it's great!

Tyaca - move monday!! do you mean today! that seems to have come round rather quick! Hope your new place is gorgeous! 3am!!!! go back to bad you mad woman - coffee idea is bonkers! (hope you are asleep now!)

Where does the time go!?

Princess - I also had the "too much coffee" feeling. It's horrible. You have been thru so much. I hope the counselling helps. Diff in breathing sounds like panic attack, i agree. Maybe go to your Dr, if you are open to temporary medication to get you through the time you need to recover from this horrible ordeal.