March08 mums- tummy and teething troubles!

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new thread for Merry...

Hurray! DS is six months today. I have kept him alive (with a little help from DP ) for 24 whole weeks.

Glam, is that a special post-pregnant brain 6 months or have we had a timeywimey shift to a 48wk year?

lol i miust have that, never noticed!

Just thought I'd post a happy one to give you all a break from my whining. DS cut first tooth and is happy, feeding going well, weaning going well, and I have lost another half a stone. And the sun is shining. Happy wknd all.

Sounds great. v about half a stone though.

dd1 and dd2 are away for the weekend. House is very quiet and I'm clearly not as much fun for ds as his big sisters.

Shouldn't someone be on here with happy news of new enhanced boobies?

Turtle, good news!

She is on facebook
turtle, have a fab one.
off to watch olympics on the big screen at canary wharf, but I need to clean the floors before that while dd is asleep.

im here and i have fab enhanced boobs
Im (wait for it) wearing a 32 E actually technically im in a 34 DD as they didnt do a sprots bra in my size but still! They sound huge but they dont look that big and suit my frame, im now desperate for them not to shrink . The whole thing went really well and ive had very little pain, i stopped taking any painkillers yesterday and feel fairly back to normal (just a bit top heavy). Soo pleased i finaly took the plunge and did it, ill get round to doing some pics at some point.

My lovely children are down south with their dad till tomorrow as im not supposed to pick them up, though ill be able to manage izzy.

Going to go catch up on everyones posts now x

Spugs, glad you're pleased with it, don't fall over or have someone's eye out

My, we are quiet on here, anyone would thing you all had lives or something?!

I sometimes have a life Today DD had her first settling in session at nursery, she seemed to really enjoy it!

Tomorrow I am going shopping in London, need some back to work bits!

Glad you're thrilled with your breasts! I'd kill for a tumy tuck

Hi everyone

It has been a while since I posted. Being back at work means I pretty much have no time. All going well though. Expressing x2 per day, so don't take a lunch break.

monthlymayhem snap on Portugal, we went for 6 days for the wedding of some friends. It was so, so lovely. Beautiful weather and never too hot because of the lovely Altlantic breeze.

Ewe my DD sounds a lot like yours in that she's only rolled over twice (and one of those times was half asleep). She sits up quite well as long as someone has a hand on her tummy.

She's going through a really lovely phase at the moment, all smiles and chattiness. No sign of teeth yet. It doesn't sound fun at all from what you guys say.

It's still all breastmilk in these parts. I'm starting to think about weaning. Very much attracted to BLW but also think I might start off with baby rice and pears and then just not bother too much with proper puree and use plenty of finger foods. Must do more finding out.

My sister and one of my best friends both had babies 3 weeks ago. I'm so glad we're not still in that place of utter madness.

good and supportive thoughts to you all from these parts. Now that I know this thread is not moving at too much of a clip I won't be too intimidated to check on what's going on.

hello skidoodle, how do you find being back at work? what childcare did you get sorted. sorry i can't remember!

I think, fingers crossed, that we have survived another growth spurt. This one has lasted about a week. Daytime seems to be a little more normal but still at least 2 feeds a night. Just turned 5 months, so not long to go. We now have limited rolling, just on to his side and no teeth, lots of raspberries and giggles. And I have very stretchy nipples as he likes to latch on and then take a good 360 degree look at his surroundings before settling in for a feed (ouch).

Can we have a little survey on post-pregnancy weights (inspired by Turtles announcement of half a stone weight loss)?

At 5 months, I have about 6 pounds to go until I'm happy (although I'm already slightly lighter than I was when I got pregnant, my weight had crept up by about half a stone in the six months or so beforehand). I'm most definitely not on a diet, but we eat pretty healthy family meals (although there is often an alarming amount of snacking in the evening), and I am almost constantly moving about.

My main reason for asking this is obviously because I'm nosey, but also as I am really disappointed that those comments you get in the first few months (wow, you look fantastic, have you lost weight, etc, etc) are a dim and distant memory, but are such great mood boosters.

Also, I have to secretly confess that whenever I tell someone that I have three children that I am disappointed when they don't say something along the lines of 'gosh, you don't look old enough'. Instead I can see them thinking 'seeing that haggard old woman is the most effective form of contraceptive I can think of!'.

maybelater - i was thinking only yesterday that i'm no longer getting the "wow you look great" comments that i was when ds was 1, 2 months old...

I've lost all but about half a stone - lost all the weight within about 3 weeks and then this half stone has stayed since then. I blame breastfeeding when really it is my persistent snacking habit I want to lose a bit more than that as in the 3 months between wedding and getting pregnant I'd actually put on about half a stone. Obviously wedding weight was almost starving weight - which for me is 3 square meals a day and a glass of wine but no snacks - so I doubt I'll ever get back to that. Basically I want to be back to my usual borderline 14/16 size. When DS starts solids I'm going to start some decent exercise. My plan is to be comfortable (i.e. just squidgy bits as opposed to plain fat bits)in my bikini by our holiday in November.

skidoodle - glad work is going well. I'm very impressed that you are still managing to breastfeed and are fitting in all that expressing. Bravo!

I was cooking and freezing some bargain organic apples yesterday for ds. gave him a little bit on my finger - he pulled a very unhappy face but licked it all off! He's 20 weeks now - not planning to start in earnest for another month provided things stay roughly as they are (he's being a faffy feeder at the moment but is not unhappy/unsatisfied). Skidoodle - think I'm a bit like you. Not sure I want to go the whole hog on BLW but too lazy to mush everything for very long!

We sound quite similar then HQ. I love your definition of starving weight!

With dd2 I did a mix of purees and BLW (although I had never heard the term then) and it worked really well.I personally think its good for them to get used to a spoon. And I know it is said that they don't need calories from food until they are 1 but both dd1 and 2 were wanting a lot of food by about 9 months (although memory is vague) and they wouldn't have been able to achieve that with their hands.

Life??? I vaguely remember having one of those. DS is off nursery this week with slapped face syndrome which results in me trying to entertain him ALL BY MYSELF!!! Can't do playdates untill the rash dies down and as it really does look like I've been smacking him upside the head I'm reluctant to take him out in case I get arrested.
Weight is annoying- I actually lost weight in pregnancy until the last month so I thought that I might carry on losing it once I'd had DD but the glasses of wine are putting paid to that. I am trying to do sit-ups (raspberrys of amusement from DD notwithstanding) but the sleep deprivation is really making doing anything tough. Is it wrong to wean at 5 months mainly to try and ensure that your only holiday this year doesn't pass in a 3 hourly feeding cycle blur?

Glad you had a good holiday skidoodle - it was my first time in Portugal and really enjoyed it.

Well, I've got to admit that the weight thing is the one aspect of having a baby which was easy for me. Don't throw things, but I was back in my normal jeans 5 days after LO was born. He was my first though, and I did keep up lots of exercise until I was 7 mths pregnant. I've been back running once a week since LO was 6 weeks old, and that combined with breastfeeding has actually meant I'm half a stone lighter than my normal weight (it's the first time I've been under 9 stone since I was 18!) and yet I've been eating like a horse!!

Anyway, LO has been very grumpy and sicky the last few days - I'm blaming injections, teething and the crap weather! It is dry at the moment so I'm going to get him out for a good walk.

i'm putting it on, as i can hardly move i'm like a dog now, i dream of chasing things in my sleep, and have had very vivid recalls of major surfing breaks i took in my 20s. had a call today, my thyroid results have gone awry, so maybe some help there for me with increased thyroxine dose. i would kill for some exercise, but it is completly forbidden until i get my consultant appt in case i damage my joints. am actually not overeating by much at all despite attractions of food for comfort, but as all i am managing is to shamble along after the kids and occassionally twiddle my ankles in front of the goggle box, the weight continues to creep on. i'm a pretty pissed off bunny: both my post natal periods have been wrecked by major health syndromes. i am loving being a mum to two, but it is increasingly hard.

as all the homestart volunteers are on holiday, we've worked out funds for a mother's help until treatment starts for me in sept, but i'm reluctant to find someone, i will miss our privacy. oh well, better get onto it.

I was losing weight quite easily post birth for the first couple of months, then stress set in so I comfort ate for another 6 wks or so until I got the yeast overload. Since cutting out the sugar I lost another half stone again, but still got 5lb to go to get to my pre pregnancy weight. And even then I'm still way over the clinically obese BMI, as my WII fit loves to remind me! Hopefully will start to lose a bit more with the bellydancing, starting again tonight after a false start a couple of weeks ago when it was postponed. Won't be able to snack so much when I go back to work as they've got rid of our canteen, so will have to do packed lunches. I suspect it should in theory be easier to lose weight when we have toddlers due to so much running around after them, but obviously that doesn't ring true for those who've gone on to have 2nd babies and say they never lost the first baby weight.

MB, is swimming out for you as well? Always lovely in the water due to lack of loadbearing, but unfortunately everything creaks back into place when you have to get out. If not, try to exercise vicariously by watching the Olympics . I do think of you every time I wake up with all my joints aching, but am in denial about possibly having similar problems, combined with not wanting to be told by the GP that it's all in my head.

Just saw an event today! miraculously both boys asleep at the same time for over an hour. amazing. anyway it was the 400m mens semi final. Plasti coated go faster Australian, too cool for school Jamaican, serious African types. And a distinctly hungover looking, unshaven, white singleted, pocket flapping brit boy who promptly came last.

National stereotypes, I love em. restores my faith after all these medal wins i've been hearing about!

sadly swimming out for time being as well, tried a while back and knocked my shoulders into a pain stratosphere i didn't knwo existed. (winces at memory). the drugs wil work, tghey will, just waiting til they start.

had 1st ever acupuncture sesh at w/e to kill time and trya nd help while waiting. did know harfm, was very interesting and has possibly been a help: hard to tell as i was easing up since last week on the recent flare i'd had. might have been feeling better anyway. deffo odd, acupuncture though, i went bright pink!

Sooooo..... went into town today and now have to get bus back home. Got on with Phil & ted with 2 kids and 1 bag of shoppping and managed to run over an elderly gentlemens foot. then had to cope with the glowers of 2 other oaps and mutterings off 'didn't even apolgise' while I sat there and pretended not to hear when what I wanted to do was say ' I did apologise, but he must have missed that because he was too busy swearing at me and what the hell are you three fiends of hell old dears sitting in the wheelchair/pushchair space for anyway, you have neither, oh silly me I forgot- you all like to stretch your legs out and have room for your shopping trolleys.'. But I didn't so I'm saying it to all you instead.
On the plus side- on day 2 of the stayathome-athon- I picked up an entire plan city road for £4 at the 2nd hand toy stall. Bargain!
merryberry- a friend of mine has rheumatoid arthritis and she found physiotherapy really helpfull- she was struggling even with pushchair clasps before and now she seems much better.

Oh merryberry sorry to hear you're having such a tough time.

In answer to your earlier question - I'm quite liking being back at work. I'm utterly exhausted at the moment ad feel like I never have a spare minute but I guess I'm happier when I have too much to do.

DD goes to a childminder from 9am to 4.30 every day. I decided to go the CM route so she could be in a more family-like environment. So far it seems to be working out well. The CM's two DDs adore her and apparently argue over whose turn it is to hold her

On Friday I went to pick her up and when I went in she was sitting there the little chair she uses up there and chatting and laughing away with her "friends". It was weird to see her as a person apart from me iyswim, but really nice at the same time.

monthlymayhem less than 8 stone? the weight you were at 18? and thrice

lost a stone quite quickly, then gained about 1/2 a stone due to constant scoffing of cakes and chocolate. BFing makes me really hungry. To be fair, I probably should have put on more than half a stone given how much I was putting away

But BFing has been going so well (after a terrible start) and I have great supply and my milk seems really creamy and I'm not prepared to do anything that might put that at risk. And denying myself an entire packet of little muffins would be very risky indeed

More recently I've been trying not to be a total greedy guts and that has coincided with DD suddenly being very hungry. For the first time I feel I'm at my limit of supply - I'm worried she's not getting quite enough.

In the last week or two I've started looking much slimmer and my tummy has really gone down (stupid C Section ) but I weighed myself today in the room where I express and I still weight 12 stone. That is around 2.5 stone more than I weighed before I got pregnant and only .5 stone less than when I was 9 months pregnant. So I have no idea what's going on with that.

My shape is starting to resemble my old self, so I guess soon it will start to make more sense. 12 stone is heavier than I've ever been when not pregnant and is more weight that I thought I could carry. I certainly usen't be the kind of woman who looked good at size 14 (unlike you HQ). It may be that that has changed, which would really please me

Anyway, I guess I'll worry more about it when I stop BFing. I'm doing a lot of cycling and walking to and from work and the CM, so that might help too.

Am fat fat fat! Probably about 1/2 stone heavier than before I was pg. But this is my second baby and the weight just fell off after my first. I fear this time will be harder
Its the belly that is really annoying...

I went to gym n swim this afternoon and weighed myself - I still have over a stone to lose It's all tummy here too, legs n arms are back to normal and pre preg clothes fit as all my jeans are low waisted but I still have a jelly belly.

Hopefully all the rushing around/no time for lunchbreaks when back at work will help.

Ive put on 4lbs since boobs, but some of that has got to be my huge belly! its ridiculus i look 4 mths pregnant again. I havent lost all my baby weight but to be honest im not bothered. just need to tone up some of my blubber!

Have started weaning, shes had baby rice today but was not impressed in the slightest! might try sweet pot instead.