October '04 babies - anyone fancy a kip?!!

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I certainly do. Bean is becoming more and more unsettled in the night as the weeks go by and it is taking its toll. Florence, you have my utmost admiration for still being alive, let alone managing a trip to NZ!! Hope its going well.

Bean is 3 months tomorrow, and people are already asking me if I am going to start weaning him soon? I would like to keep bf until he is 6 months, but how do I know if he needs to start sooner? Or will I know that is a stupid question when I have a permanently hungry baby on my hands?!!
What is everyone else planning to do?

Btw, am reading a marvellous, marvellous book called "What Mothers Do (especially when it looks like nothing)" by Naomi Stadlen. It talks about what a shock it all is, what we provide for a our babies and crucially, what I find missing from so many other books, how we actually feel - exhausted, sometimes angry towards db, unsure of ourselves etc etc. It does not tell me what I "should" be doing - hurrah!!! Cannot recommend it highly enough. Is doing me the world of good and we like that.

Aw CB, you poor thing . Best wishes for Monday.

Funny that Cazzybabs, when my dd is away for the day, I feel like my right arm has been liberated, not cut off! I can actually do something that doesn't involve jiggling a toy, mopping up contant stream of drool, putting teensy socks back on or chucking under a chubby chin
I did feel v v guilty the first few times though, but have given her away to grandmas so many times now, the worst has passed. Have to get her used to them as I'm back in work f/t in 4 weeks -

bibi -when was your baba born ? 2004 or 03? as someone on my members profile said that your baba was born 15th oct 2003.... am i right?

Bibi - that has come round so quickly!!
It's horrible isn't it? You need a break but it's horrible to be away from them for a minute more than you want to be.

Ds was just epic this afternoon. NOTHING would calm him down. Last resort is usually to take him out in the pushchair (the cold air usually does it, not sure if this trick will work so well in the summer....?) but even that didn't work, so I was pushing a wailing baby around the mean streets of NW London.
Sigh.

He's asleep now .... but how long til the next feed.... {Bill Murray waking up on Groundhog Day emoticon]?

Biglips, my dd was born in 2004, I would have some cheek to be complaining about the impending end of my maternity leave if she was born in 2003 and I was still off work!

6 months is NOT enough - when I go back I will have had 24 weeks pml, and boy don't I wish I'd worked right up until the bitter end so I could have just 2 more weeks at home..? Finances being different I would stay off for the year, but there's no way we could manage, believe me I have spent many an afternoon in front of a pile of bank statements, bills and a calculator, trying to make it work.
MIL (from hell at the mo.) has suggested I sell my car!!!! [insert OUTRAGE emoticon here] It is only my dream car, that I work bloody hard to pay for thank you very much. And if I'm honest, rage aside, it wouldn't do us any good as I could live off the cash until I went back, but I'd need to get another car then anyway. I work about 15 mins from home, but it's in the back of beyond on an industrial estate, so not even buses go there.
Lottery win is my only hope. If everyone keeps their fingers crossed for me, if I win millions, I'll set up a mumnsnet creche an supply free chocolate for new mothers on maternity leave

Cazzybabs - my dd is also called Grace! Though as she has the runs today - she isn't very graceful.

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rickman - WOW! what is big piccy of your gorgeous baba ! hes a smiler

im knackered and ready for bed as first time today ive joined Aquafit!! (i nearly drowned) as its the first exercise ive done since baba was born and my back feels alot better so i really enjoyed it, baba was in the creche at the swimming baths and it was the first time ive ever left my baba with a stranger but i did switched off for an hour (ahh!), but she did well, cried abit then fell asleep the whole hour!..

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!

Bibiboo thats how I feel. I thought I had worked up to the end (I stopped 2 weeks before my due date) and then dd2 was 2 weeks late - still if she hadn't been I wouldn't be on the Oct thread with you lovely ladies - so 2 extra weeks at home with her or many hours on mumsnet with you lot - HARD CHOICE!!!!

hotmama - hope your grace is better today! Mine is fast asleep with a dirty nappy - bad mother alert! Ahh well its only nappy rash!

Rickman your babe is soooo cute and has lots of hair!

Beansprout - is your babe sleeping any better? Grace is going to bed about 10.30 and then waking up for 1/2hr at about 4.50 and then sleeping till 9 - which is fine apart from on Mon when I go back to work and she'll have to be awake at 7.00

cazzy about the hard choice!..

yeah i wouldve of been a september mummy but baba came 2 weeks late (she was so ever comfy inside me) so i worked up till i was 38 weeks pg, i started to get knackered by the time i got into work as its in a huge building and it used to take me 2 mins from car to my computer desk chair before i was pg, then a month before i started on maternity leave, it took me 8 mins!!.

oh forgot (my bad manners)

WELCOME hotmama and hope you'll enjoy !

I was the same - by the time I gave up work I just needed to sleep in the afternoons.

i hadnt even started maternity leave! I had ds on the morning of my last day at work - he was 3 wks early!

HAPPI 1ST MOTHERS DAY EVERYONE !! [GRIN]

With your youngest!

dd2 (8) and ds1 (6) brought me some weetabix and orange juice in bed which i thought was quite sweet - dh was at work so they'd thought of it themselves. ds2 (5 months) celebrated by not waking up till 7.15! dd 1 (12) just stayed stinking in her pit till 10. what did you all get?

a card from nursery and flowers from church was what i got. ohh and I bought reduced white chocloate chip cookies from Sainsburys.

ohh and work tomorrow

I did well I got various cards and home made flowers from nursery and pre school. Also double bridgit jones dvd set from all 3 of them via DH. Flowers off my grandma and chocs off my mum and lunch at my mums - DS1 obviously still doesn't get it though as I lost count of the number of times he had me up last night

Sorry doing DS1 a dis service it was ds2

Best of luck for work tomorrow CB
KathH - love the Weetabix, bless...!

Got some chocolate and some lovely framed pics of our lovely Bean and have been looked after by dp. Feeling quite emotional really (sniff).

Hope you all had a good day.

i got my first mothers day card from my DD and DP's DD with 2 flower baskets ormanent which is very pretty so ive put it on the kithens window ledge

Aren't our children lovely?! I got a very sweet card and my girl has obviously picked up on my musical tastes because she knew to get me the Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits, so now we're going to give Trisha a miss and have a lil boogie together instead.

weird day for me today as i should be back in work as my maternity leave ended yesterday but not going back to work cos not worth it (as now im on 8 weeks contractual notice) so i offically finished work in may

How did it go today Cazzybabs?

Ds has been very clingy today. Doesn't like me leaving the room which makes it a bit difficult to get anything done. Then I remembered the old stick-'em-in-front-of-the-washing-machine trick... ahhh, silence!!

Anyone need any washing done?!