September 08 - Just ladies with babies

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I thought I'd start a new thread before we run out of space...

Hi all, quick post before go and get C weighed. Had lovely day ysterday and met up with ninja and her lovely daughter Maebh (hope I spelt it right!). Film was OK - C did not settle well so ended up in and out of film. Thought films were not for us but then discovered C had done a huge poo all over herself!! Oops - didn't think it could be an option as she had pooed day before..... Bad mum

Might try a film again sometime soon - think there's a local mum and baby showing.
But was lovely to have a good chat with ninja and have lunch at cafe rouge - yum!

Last night was a great one - as C has bad colic from around 7ish, we decided that we might as well make the most of our evenings and just take her with us. So went late night shopping into Chester and saw a lantern parade. Was brill. Has starbucks around 7.30 and fed C and.........she fell asleep at 8.10 and did not wake up until her dream feed at 10.30. She slept through everything, including getting in and out of car. She has not fallen asleep in the evening ever ever ever!! For the first time, DP and I enjoyed an evening chatting and smiling at our sleeping daughter.
Now.....evening walks in the pram suit may become frequent, even in the dark, if it means she sleeps rather than screams for 4 hours. highly recommended!

foxy - have a fab day!!!

oh yuk yuk yuk. to top off the gross poo drama i have just grossed myself out by finally managing to express some of the blockage that caused the mastitis. i kid you not, i expressed 3 little white lumps (bit bigger than a grain of sand, similar texture to chalk), and a few thick stringy bits of milk came out afterwards. eeeeewwwwww.

hopefully - yuk, I remember expressing the gone-off milk! smelly too... but once that's out, things improve quickly!

Have a good day Foxy hope your DD is happily surprised!

leonie- i thought my AF was coming back last night as i had period pains but nothing yet!

foxy enjoy tonight - your first with DH home for a while.

Just had C weighed and she has only put 3oz on in past week and a half. She is only 10lb 5oz at 10 weeks old. HV was a little concerned but not overly so, just said to bring her back in 2 weeks. I am a little worried that she is not putting more weight on as she's eating normally but maybe she's destined to be a naturally small person.

My AF hasn't come back yet even though my DD has her last feed at 10:30-11:00 and sleeps until 6am and has done for the last 5 weeks I think.

Hopefully - I'm very at your dad being a photographer, I wish that I had someone in the family who was, or who had a really high-spec camera. I absolutely love taking pictures and would love to learn to be a photographer, but I know that a certain aspect of it is to be artistic, and I don't have an artistic bone in my body!

Biglips - Yes I suppose it's wax, looks very thick and gunky. I don't think i'd trust myself to stick a cotton bud down it though.

lollipop - you can buy those ear buds that designed that you cannot any further...here

I have just finished my Christmas shopping. I am feeling very proud of myself
And all the Christmas cards are bought or made (ds1 and I made 30 cards yest) but not written yet.

I'm also very proud of ds2. While waiting for the Baby Whisperer book to arrive- I reserved it from library- to give me tips about settling ds2 and getting him to sleep more than half an hour at a time he has sorted himself out. For the past few days he's slept about 40 mins in the morning and late afternoon (in a sleeping bag) and about 2 1/2 hours early aft (swaddled). And he's sleeping all evening too now.
So the trick to getting a baby to sleep when you want it to sleep is to be inconsistent and to change your mind lots about the best way to tackle it!

Lollypop Your daughter is gorgeous. Don't feel guilty. Sometimes it is just what we need to do, spend money we should't in something for them (that is my problem with slings) I have my eye in a Mei-Tai at the moment or maybe convert my gauze wrap into one.
Star lucky you with friends like that at Uni

To top off my morning of grossness:
T does another little poo. I take him to the changing table, clean him, literally just get the clean nappy against his bottom, and he does another massive projectile poo.
So I clean him again, let him kick his legs for a few minutes to ensure there's nothing else coming out.
Go for the second nappy, don't even get it all the way on him before he projectile poos all over it and me.
Again, I play with him for a few minutes while I clean us up, get the third new nappy on to him, begin to pick him up, and he does another massive poo!

It was like something out of a comedy show, I was cracking up too much to even put the fourth nappy on for a while, but he did manage not to fill that one. So I practically filled the nappy bucket in 5 minutes flat! I suspect he weighs about a pound less than he did when he got up this morning...

Debi I'm always banging on to DP about being consistent with getting T to sleep, and how we have to get him used to things, and yet we chop and change all the time, and every night something new works to get him to sleep! The current favourite is laying a muslin over his mouth, which he rubs his lips on by opening and closing his mouth, until he falls asleep (at which point I remove it, obviously). We hit on it when I had a muslin round my neck to stop T dribbling on me, and he nodded off instantly! Very weird...

imoscarsmum a gain is a gain, and that doesn't sound like an alarmingly low weight for a 10 week old - she'll probably put on a pound before next weigh in, just to prove you wrong!

Lollipop I'm exactly the same - I love taking photos and wish I was good at it, but I'm bloody awful! DP makes no effort and has a dirt cheap digital camera, and takes far far better photos than me.

Hi all,

Back from my little break - bit of a nightmare journey so it took 9-hours to drive. Erin coped really well and it's made me more relaxed about going to Ireland in 2-weeks.

Erin was weighed today before the dreaded jabs on Monday, and is now 11lb 11oz.

Well done on the Christmas shopping front, I have not even begun to think about presents yet!

I am a BAD BAD stupid BAD mummy

Went over to my NCT friend's house for tea and on the way back hit the car in front of me in slow moving traffic. A had been crying for most of the 5 minute journey prior to that, and had just calmed down till the car jolted and he started crying again. The bloke in the other car was a nervous wreck, A was crying. Thank goodness my other two friends were following in the car behind and stopped. One of them consoled A while I scrabbled around unable to find a pen to swap numbers.

Had A checked out at the dr's and he's fine. God bless rear facing car seats.

I, on the other hand, am a blubbering trembling fool.

Hi Digitalgirl,

So sorry to hear about your crash, but glad you are both ok.

Big hugs to you xxx

digital - oh no !.... but yes glad youre both ok...as it is hard when you get distracted by a screaming baby next to you.

awww i rcvd my school photies today of dd1 on her own and dd1 & 2 together..awww so sweet!

Hello all - back from lovely week in the country with my parents. Weather was freezing, but a change of scenery was much appreciated by all three of us.

I demonstrated bf-ing for an NCT class today - twas hilarious because i remember attending that class as an expectant mum and thimking how confident and 'professional' the mothers were. Now I know different, because i'm pretty sure I looked that way today...!

I was very bossy and told them not to doubt their ability to bf or their supply, or to believe 'if it hurts youre doing it wrong'. Also told then about kellymom and how helpful the 'net can be when you feel you're the only one! God, I've become even more strident that I was before...

digital sorry to hear about your crash, glad you're both ok. You need some TLC tonight, I hope your DH is looking after you.

I am feeling good today as I had a long 2 mile walk this morning, I had to drop the car off for the MOT so put DD in the pushchair and walked all the way home. I was visualising my thighs getting smaller as I power walked home .

DG poor you and A, but you are not a bad mummy! Just a slightly unfortunate one today.

charity that's a really nice thing to have done - I'd be far too scared in case they started picking apart my technique!

Meglet I've taken to going for a walk for T's lunchtime nap, and the last two days I have actually walked (rather than window shopped) for 2 hours, and my thighs ache. Probably didn't even cover that much ground, as I walk so slowly compared to how I used to. I used to be fit!

Hi digitalgirl It's SOOO hard driving with a screaming child, plus the sleep deprevation doesn't help. I bumped my car loads of times in dd1's first year (mainly into bollards and skips!!). The main thing is that you're both well.

Starlight sorry about the bad night, it's hard after so many good ones

imoscarsmum that's a reaonable weight gain. Just think if last week you'd weighed just after a feed and this week you weighed after a poo that could make several ounces difference. Did you get back OK yesterday?

Star - yes I loved it, but I am a total show off! But I do feel that I have learned SO much from reading the experiences of everyone here, and the advice that people give each other (esp. you and Foxy - honestly you have been so helpful!). I want other women to know that this advice is out there, but you may not get it from HCPs. So although my technique may not look quite like the pictures, thats probably useful in itself for them to see - proves that not all nipples/latches/babies are textbook.

DG - that must have been terrifying...poor you! But I'm sure you know that your DS will be supremely unbothered