June 2008- Some are sleeping, others weeping and some are just eating

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Thought I'd start the new thread using paro's suggestion

Fungle - Not a newborn week, but definitely going backwards.... approx 2 hours sleep post 2.30am yesterday. Better last night tho. [relief emoticon]

"each baby "should" track his/her own percentile, so the professionals only worry if say your LO was 75th centile and suddenly drops to 25th or vice versa" - That is exactly what has happened with Ryder.

Oh Amber you poor thing, esp as Luke is now waking just the once, how unfair. No advice, but lots of love and hugs. Can you send virtual sleep?

Deb - LOL at ironing muslins....a certain someone I know ironed a bib last night!

Opps, Ryder's calling me....and not politely.

Hahaha, yes, I confess I ironed a bib. But Penguine, you failed to mention that I melted the label...

LOL Penguine - so French!

Hmmm, ironing bibs and muzzies. It is the Upsidedowncake family opinion that ironed bibs and muzzies are not as absorbent as non-ironed ones. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

Morning all

Hope your lo's slept ok. I've been awake with full, engorged boobs - don't know why that happened, reluctant to express as I think that's sometimes been the cause of my problems, just hoping that they calm down today before flying tomorrow. Wonder if the air pressure on board has an effect on full boobs like it does with crisp packets???

Oh dear god - hangover from hell. Certainly slept no problem though! Maybe that's the answer - alcohol! Getting up at 6.30 is no fun when you drank your own bodyweight last night. I also had about 5 cigarettes - bleugh.

PP, sorry, didn't mean to upset you (is it me, or am I making a habit of that at the moment ?). I did put the "should" in inverted commas because it "should" be taken with a pinch of salt .

Amber, hope the hangover clears soon. Funny you mentioned the ciggies - I went out for my first girls night with my NCT mums last night and we found out that five of the seven of us used to smoke! We also decided that if smoking hadn't now been banned in pubs we'd have probably all shared a packet last night - but we're far too old to be standing outside in the cold puffing on fags!! So, thank you Government for saving our lungs!!

Hello everyone

Amber, hope you feel better soon. I really miss fags ...

Debs, I find I get random engorgeness too. Sometimes I express at the end of the day if it's really painful.

Also, need to ask you / Ernest / Josey / Rolf / anyone else with older children's advice ...
DS is going through a real stage of saying 'poo-poo', 'penis' or 'wee-wee' in response to anything you ask him. We try and ignore this, but then today, he took snot out of his nose and anointed Dorothy's eyebrows. It was so GROOOSSSS. Tell me this stage will pass.

USDC It is just a phase and ignoring it is the best thing you can do. DD1 talked about poo and wee almost constantley after starting school!

Penguin - try not to worry about the centile drop. My dd was born on 75th and dropped to 25th and is a fit and healthy 5 year old. She is just designed by nature to be small, and possibly so too is Ryder. Apparently you dictate how much you feed them before birth and by the time they are 6 weeks old they get to the stage where they can dictate how much they want, hence babies weight gains falling at that stage. This is also I think part of the issue with Jamie, he doesn't want to be a big baby and just isn't really interested in feeding. We can be buddies on this if you like!

UDC - they all go through the fascination with saying wee etc and it will pass. Either ignore it or just say really calmly, 'that's not a nice thing to say' and then go on to comment on something else so its not a big thing. My seven year old is currently saying 'oh bum' for everything he finds mildly annoying so expect to go through this stage several times. The snot thing is just gross though.

Penguin don't panic like sybil said they adjust and then they will stick to it my nephew age 5 is still under the 20th percentile, he is just small and wiry like his mum, and he dropped as well.

sybil good to see you hope you are well.

DH is out at the moment, his nephew piad us a surprise visit, we haven't seen him since DH's mothers funeral nearly 4 years ago, unfortunately his step dad is being sentenced next week and things are very strained at home, so hopefully we will see some more of him.

Have a good weekend.

Last post before flying back to UK tomorrow, have a good week everyone, will update you all when I get back about our decision - do we stay or do we go???

I'm very excited, it's been 2.5 years since we went back to Leyburn , got a long journey tomorrow, car, plane, bus, tube, train then taxi!!!So when you see the programme and we're filmed arriving at our reunion tomorrow night you'll understand why I look so knackered.

Take care everyone

Good luck Deb

Penguine - I like it. Alledgedly my RL name is French, so that's cool. Explains my liking of good food and garlic. And like you Amber, cigerettes! I could murder pone now TBH...

Amber - Glad you slept, regardless of the cause. Sounds like you had a good night out, which you deserve.

Sponge - No offence taken at all! You're right about the percentiles and it's why my HV is a bit concerned, however I think it's because Ryder is puking up too much after every feed, she's not worried about that though.... We'll see how the next weigh in goes a week on Tuesday.

Sybil - Your message was lovely, as was your Sophie. Thank you so much. I'm not actually concerned about his weight, because as the London Ladies will testify, he's a alert happy baby. I am however getting a bit worried about the vomiting....could I cope with going dairy free!?

Upsidedowncake - Sorry, but your post about your DS really made me laugh. I hope he stops for your sake, but you've just brightened a dark day!

5gomad - Sorry about your nephew, sounds like he's having a hard time right now.

Having a crap, crap, crap few hours at the moment. Ryder up from 2am again last night and whilst DH did eventually take over, he didn't do so until 5.30am and whilst he took Ryder to the front room, he left the bedroom door open so I still didn't sleep until the two of them did.... Ryder has also just had the hugest tantrum that after two hours I decided I was going to have to try letting him cry it out for just 5 mins. After serious screaming for about 2mins (tears pouring down my face), DH said "I'm going to him". Basically left me feeling like the most evil person ever. Also pissed off that only at that point did he decide he was going to help. I've left them to it now and DH is now feeding DS formula (after 6 feeds in two hours, my boobs are empty).

I think not working means that I'm completely reliant upon the titles Mum and Wife for an identity and right now I feel like I'm failing at both. I know that this will pass, but I wish it would pass right now.

Sorry for the rant, it has actually made me feel a bit better though.

Just got back from DH having taking me out for my borthday and anniversary and one bottle of red later (on my own) I have made it back to the house a little worse for wear. You never know I may let DH ravage me later He'll wonder what the hell has happened
Hope all is well and I'll catch up with what;s been going on tomorrow.

That was meant to say birthday, Can you tell I've had a bottle of red??????

BTW we put Luke in his cot last night without the moses basket but in his grobag. Do we need to put any other covers on him? Mind you we did succomb to putting the heating on last night. He slept from 10pm till 8.15 this morning without any covers but he is creating now, Maybe too much stimulation from the Italian Restaurant we wnet to

My spelloing is crap when I'm pissed!

SPELLING

Can you tell I'm trying to defer the inevitable

Watching tumbleweed sweep across as I'm typing this oh so very carefully

You are fab will email tomorrow

Hey Libra - hope you don't feel as rotten as I did yesterday after my bottle of wine and a large vodka!

Still not sleeping and I have a 2 hour driving lesson today - guess that's a bit dangerous. Got my GP appointment next week but Luke's settling in week at nursery directly coincides so will have to move it.

PP - hope you feel better today - you are not responsible for Ryder's feeding frenzies - these phases happen for gawd knows what reasons. Doesn't make you a bad mother or wife.

Luke has discovered squealing and does it all day - can be cute but not at 5.15. He's so vocal now even the HV was surprised. I went to costa coffee with him and a couple of other mums and he squealed throughout and shouted loudly and I was actually a bit embarrassed as everyone was looking at me!

Morning amber

Lol at the squealing Fleur does this now too and we are sometimes not sure if its talking or crying there is a fine line

Libra - glad you had good bday hope no hangover this am?

PP- i feel like this sometimes i blame the hormones

Off to a bday party today so going to go get Fleur and i ready it takes us twice as long now to get out of the house, inevitable of course!!!!

Thank you Amber and Paro. Quiet again here today. My meltdown is on hold today. {grin] Ryder slept until 5am this morning, feed and then slept until 8.30am when DH took him into the front room (bedroom door closed). I then got to sleep in until 11am, complete bliss.

Hope you got a lie in too Libra!

Agree re: the fine line btw crying and laughing! I mean Ryder, not me.