July 2008 - Rolling, rolling, rolling, our babies just keep on rolling!

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Praying for you and Samuel, Disney.

I haven't been on the july 2008 threads for ages, but thought I'd pop in. Dewi isn't rolling, but I'm glad for that (at least he stays where he's put!)

thinking of you Samuel and disney x

Sorry, just realised you won't know who I am! I was JacobsPrincess!

DS - sending positive vibes to Samuel. I don't want to overstep but if he is floppy/sleeping and not feeding are you sure you shouldn't be taking him to A&E?

Oh Disney!- really thinking of you and litle Sam. Hope he perks up soon!

Im kinda on the same thought as Libra... Given all his medical troubles id be at A&E straight away.

Keep us informed

Disney Sending you big hugs (and a prayer to the Big Man upstairs) I agree with the others and get him to hospital tonight.

i have taken him to the docs so we know whats wrong
one of the problems with his heart is he has quite a few holes and he has a pda and usually the blood just flows through and around the arteries but with samuel the blood goes into his lungs he has pulmonary hypertension
he is struggling to breath a bit tonight so we are just making him comfortable
he is asleep now so his breathin is easier for him
we are going to craniofacial team tomorrow to see the plastic surgeons so they will see him there to
dont worry im watching him but there is nothing a&e could do
the longer he holds on the better this can go on for months as he then can have his surgery
its just seeing him like this is horrible for me and my dh
im just willing him to stay stable right now thank you for your kind words x
going upstairs with him now and we are of tomorrow and staying for 2 days there
il post when i come back
im going to miss you guys il try to post via my mobile x

my post sounded confusing
the craniofacial unit is in oxford hospital they re giving us accomadation so we can all be together we are all going to be with samuel
they have like flats with shared kitchens etc....
there a lot of terminally ill babies and children there
im quite nervous guess thats why im on here and not asleep
better be going i havnt packed a thing yet
im scared im going to wake up and hes gone
stupid i know but get very silly things going round in my head when im nervous
he is asleep on his back his little face is ice cold
going deff now
see you tuesday or wednesday

Disney, good vibes and prayers from the mcchesers family, with be thinking of you,your DH and Samuel. Sounds like the hospital knows how to take care of you guys. Keep Faith xx

Disney, just wanted to say I've been thinking of you and little Sam all night, and you were my first thought this morning. Hope Sam has a comfortable few days in hospital. Big Hugs
xx

Morning all. (yawn) up at 5:33 with unhappy baby.

My problems seem so trivial now. There is so much that I get from you girls..thank you all for being there!

I was going to ask you ladies. How many of you are still B/F ing? How is it all going for you? I am still B/F Aidan and thinking about BLW. I'll have to have him weaned or close to it by February when I (gulp) go back to work. I asked one of the infant feeding coodinators about the chomping on the nipple business. She said that at this point A would be adapting to a growing mandible and several bones in his head would be growing in. This chomping is just him getting used to his new jaws. Ahhh..

Also..has anyone who is still b/fing started their period? I've had wicked cramps like ovulation but no bleeding. I've also had what feels like the worst PMT ever..really horrid to my DH and just overall dark moods. Just trying to figure out if this is par for the course, or if I should be looking for treatment. Still weepy, angry and very anxious and it's starting to scare me that it will stick. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I'm still fully bf with blw plans. would really recommend the book I'm reading mcchesers. Poppy will be 6 mths just before Christmas, so she will be able to lick a sprout with us!
As for the af I'm no help there as my period has come 6 weeks after the last breastfeed with both my ds. (Even though with ds2 he was 19 mths!) If you go 4 - 6 hours between feeds, which you probably are most nights your body can trigger ovulation. Lots of bf mums find their af comes back around the 6 mth mark.
You still sound a bit down and stressed, might be worth a visit to the docs to chat about it? Hopefully someone with more experience of anxiety / pnd will be along soon xx

disney - I know you're gone now, but sending you good wishes x

Disney - I'm glad the hospital has accomodation so you can stay with Sam,he will be in my thoughts.

I am still b/f, not quite exclusively as A has 3oz of formula at his pre bedtime feed but he also has breast at the same feed. I hated expressing and as A was feeding thru the night didn't usually have a lot left to express in the morning, which is usually the good expressing time. I want to keep b/f until 6 months and for me the introduction of 3oz formula has meant that I know that if I want to I can leave A with someone for longer than 3 hours which has given me the peace of mind to continue breastfeeding. Just knowing that I can have that break if I want to has made it easier to carry on - does that make sense?
I'm in exactly the same position as you re:going back to work beginnning of Feb (in fact I changed it from the beginning of Jan so I could get to the 6 months and be the one to start weaning him). Not got my period back yet.

Morning all,

I was just thinking this morning how I wish that I'd 'found' MN with DS1, I would have been armed and ready with so much more information. I mean, he's still alive and well, but I kind of feel as if I just muddled through, very much using trial and error. DYKWIM? I'm still thinking it's very much trial and error, but every decision is an informed one, and I always have a back up plan. Thanks guys for making this last year so much more pleasurable than it would have been without you! Soppy post over.

I need to get up in the loft ths week, I need the Tigger Door Bouncer down asap as Sam is not content in chair or on play mat anymore. I also need to get next lot of clothes down, and I think I might aswell get high chair down too... phew....

How is everyone today? Is the weather jusy as bad where you are? thinking of you scottish ladies, it's supposed to be worse there isn't it!

We live about 0.5 miles from the national memorial (you might have seen it on the news, it's amazing), and I really feel for the poor people who have to stand in the cold and wet yesterday and tomorrow.

okay, MAJOR RANT ALERT!!!!

I know i often moan that living 400 miles from anyone i know gets lonely, but right now i am missing the beauty of it!!! My mother has come to stay for the week!!!

She arrived yeaterday and already the dinning table is the wrong way round (it's a sodding square!!!!?) Jack should not be having 2 daytime naps (he's only 21 weeks?!) And i should be ashamed because i havent polished!
I was getting J dressed for a lazy indoor day and put a vest and babygrow on him that wasn't ironed (she undressed him to iron them before redressing him saying 'it's not good enough kerri!'

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I swear i will never again moan about the isolation of living in norwich!!!

Disney - i know you have already gone but I am thinking of you guys and little sam. Hope it all goes well. (I keep Jack updated about sam, he looks up at me very pensive when i tell him about all the MN'ers babies !

Smudge you should smile say "no-one irons as good as you do Mum" and then present her with a basket of washed clothes.

funny you should say that Libra she is doing my ironing as we speak!!!! !!!!

Oh what a night, B decided 3am was a good time to stay awake for an hour, chatting, moaning and pooing a clean nappy twice! James Bond was v good yesterday nice to get out just DP and I. Still had to come home and cook roast dinner for everyone though. B would not take a bottle for SIL, Dneice or me yesterday just plain refused got herself all worked up eventually gave her a boob and she had that "I know what I want look of sheer contentment on her face" Strange as she took a bottle Friday night without much of a complaint. I think she still has a wee bit of the cold too. Last lot of injections this afternoon as well.

Very windy up here today we are not too bad as we are in the middle of a kind of rolling him so most of it goes over the top of us, also means we are never at risk from flooding.

disney - thinking of Sam and you x

Smudge - oh mothers I haven't spoken to mine since July right enough but when I had DD1 she tried to tell me how to do everything, byt the time DD2 came along I think she realised that I didn't listen to anything she said and just stopped although her interest in DD2 was neligible anyway, DD1 has PFBGC status but DD2 doesn't and also in my mothers eyes is already a second class citizen being female, poor DD3 well she's a bit of a non entity really anyway sorry off on one (I usually am when it comes to mothers)

Jodie - aww what a nice thing to say, I have been very lucky I found MN when I was 10 weeks pregnant with DD1 so have always had great support when I have needed it.

mcchesers - I am still BFing and will be doing BLW probably at the start of the New Year. Aidans a wee bit older than B isn't he, can't you start New Year then have a good 4 weeks before you go back to work? I thought I had my period a few weeks ago when I had a little bleeding but then it packed up after a day (!) DD1 came back at 6 weeks, DD2 11 months (DD2 fed a lot more than DD1) I'm a bit like you feeling really low but don't really want to see anyone about it yet. I think after a baby your hormones go a bit erratic, coupled with your body feeling a bit battered and sleep deprivation it's no wonder things go a bit chaotic for a bit. I find they settle down a bit at 6 months. I get so frustrated as I hardly ever sit down and relax (apart from the odd 10 mins on MN) the house is still a tip, theres always something needing to be done and it's as if I have done nothing all day IYSWIM?

Hi everyone.

Thinking of you and Sam, Disney. Fingers crossed. x

Ahh Libra, sorry to hear about your cat

Nice to hear from you again NotAnOtter (your names are always great- can't remember the first one I knew you as but Butterfly McQueen is still a firm favourite!) Sympathies on the being shattered bit.

L rolled over once last week, but has yet to repeat his marvellous feat . I don't think he's quite ready for weaning yet, although his eyes follow every morsel of food I eat (and there are a lot of morsels, if you could see my thighs you'd know I'm not lying ;)) and he chats to me the most when there is food around. But he's not waking any more often (how could he???!) so I'll hold off for a while yet. I've actually forgotten how old he is, not sure if he's 18 or 19 weeks (oops BAD minkus).

Re; BF- he has started waking some nights for the 11pm ish feed though, I had been giving him a bottle of formula at this one but as it didn't seem to make any difference to when he woke (sometimes 1am, sometimes 4am- no rhyme nor reason as far as I can see) and dh wasn't prepared to do it, making a bottle up just seemed to be another job for me to do so he's back on the boob for that feed too!

Def teething though, had an awful night last night which included two revolting mucousy teething nappies (like B, SK) lots of homeopathic teething granules dentinox anbesol and calpol (in that order, calpol is the big guns!) I can feel his gums at the front are a bit rough and he's chomping on things all the time, loads of dribbling too. DS1 was the same but his teeth didn't show up until he was 15 months, poor love was talking before he had any teeth. And gumming stuff to death.

Things I love about all this baby business (loved reading all yours too!);

The way his bottom lips gets all puckered and puffy when he's hungry
His little gurgles and coos, like he's singing
The feeling of having a warm chubby sleeping baby in my arms when I wake up in the night (although more often he's the one doing the waking up)
The smell of said chubby baby first thing in the morning, that milky yeasty fresh pooh smell! (Sorry, it's true)
How he gets all excited and kicks loads in the bath, no matter how tired he is or how hard he was crying the second before his bottom touched the water
The funny evils he gives my boobs before latching on
How he goes all wide & cross eyed looking at something in his hand
ANd about a million otherthings!

Ok sorry that was a monster post, just off to collect ds1 from nursery now as L hates the car after about 4pm and screams blue murder. Oh the joys!

Minkus - I'll admit to quite liking that milky/buttery smell of fresh nappies too, it's so sad the minute they start food it's downhill from then on in.

I remember a friend taking her PFB DS to the HV as he had black strings in his poo and she was convinced it was worms, I had to very gently ask her if she had gave him any banana to eat, yes banana looks like black stringy worms once it comes out the other end. The joys of weaning.

Just had B weighed, so she was 13lbs 6ozs 4 weeks ago and she is now............ 13lbs 6ozs I thought last time it wasn't quite right I know she had clothes on etc but still, I can tell by looking at her she has put on weight, her thighs are chubbier and she's filling out her clothes more. Scales eh? If I were more paranoid I might be reaching for that weaning spoon. Came out of HVs armed with Tommee Tippee beaker, toothbrush and paste and some books double

[very panicked face] thought I#d lost you guys.....forgot to save the thread and couldn't find it for a bit

phew...mini takes deep breath....nice to see everyone again

Disney much love and hugs to you and Samuel xxxxxxxxx

Mini goes off to save thread.........

milky-buttery??? elodie's smell kind of sour and chickeny!

disney - thinking of you and little sam, hope all goes well xoxo

Disney, thinking of you.

smudge, just take a few deep breaths. Mine's arriving in a month for three weeks and I'm already driven crackers at the very thought. Not really!

Just been to combat aerobics and am knackered. About to ruin it all by eating moussaka and then going to bed. Night all!

Mum stood and did all my ironing (it was a mountain) just to prove her point!!! She even took the clothes i had ironed downstairs again to iron!!!

It's quite funny, i had jack after we moved to the arse end of nowhere, he is my first and i have managed. He had horrific colic and it took me a while to bond with him. But he is a happy little thing that is actually quite independent. Sometimes he just wants to be put on baby gym to play and scowls if you try to join in! But mum still tells me im doing it all wrong! I keep reminding her that ive managed for nearly 5 months without any help!!!

Jack has the last of his jabs tomorrow, he was ill previously so they got delayed. Dh is taking him as i get upset!!!

Hope everyone has a good evening and am sending sleepy vibes to all the babies!!!

Disney, my thoughts are with you and Sam. you are such a strong person, I hope you know that. from what you've said, Sam is more poorly than I realised, and you seem to be coping with it so well. I'm sure you know that it's OK not to cope at times as well...

Sam has a fantastic Mum.

We're here for you, don't worry about whinging. Cass.