September 08 Remember what we were doing this time last year?[wink]

[Debs75goldrings]

So what were we all doing this time last year?

mornin' all.
this time last year I was getting ready to get completely trollied at my work xmas do - I work up north so it involved a trip to london to a swanky club in Leicester Sq...sigh, how exciting - ah well, I'll do it again next year!

DP and I were also nervously waiting for our first appointment with the fertility clinic as we'd been trying for almost year. We had one aranged for 4 Jan. Little did we know that when we went for the appointment, i was just pg - we reckon DD conceived on xmas day at 11.45am!

C and I recovering slowly from cold. DD and I stayed at sister's house last night as DP in Glasgow.... to say I am not a fan of my 5 year old nephew. He kept saying 'I love baby Charlotte' but kept trying to get sneaky pinches and slaps in when he thought we weren't looking and he dropped a rattle on her head. Honestly, he's a litle bugger and sister never pulls him up. He has no manners either and never says please or thank you - at almost 6 he knows he is being naughty.
I kept saying 'no' firmly and lifting C out of the way of his grubby fingers and glaring at him. GRRRR.

hopefully relax and enjoy your trip - it'll be fine, you'll see.

Just had a thought which made me smile - has anyone noticed that this thread has fewer and fewer posts? Not a bad thing at all, think it means that we are all gradually getting to know our LOs more and more and spending happy time with them, rather than frantically posting here looking for help with a crisis.

Think it's a very positive thing! Shows we are all very capable mums.

For me, I certainly have found advice here invaluable - C's colic is improving slowly. Making bedtime earlier has helped and I have learnt to deal better with bad bouts of crying.
It's nice to think that we generaly only need to catch up every so often as we are too busy enjoying ourselves!!!

Last post, honest, can you imagine having your first baby in the next few weeks? I am so glad C was born in September - we are going to have a fab xmas and I can't imagine coping with a very tiny newborn and cooking xmas dinner!!
Off to get C up for her bottle.

This time last year I was buying new clothes in the sales thinking it would take ages to conceive... a few weeks and a blue line on a stick later... the clothes fit me now though (apart from the nice new bra which will have to wait until I stop feeding and shrink a few cup sizes!)

When I told DH that we were talking about "What were we doing this time last year?" on MN, he gave me a big smile and got something out of his bedside drawer. It was THE pregnancy test showing a positive result from when DD was conceived! So sweet!

Though part of me couldn't help thinking... er, I peed on that .

I thought that story was so sweet donkey til you pointed out the peeing bit! Still, bless the OH, he done good

Today I survived my first supermarket trip on my own with two dcs. I've always managed to time it with a visitor, or send dh. I timed it with ds's first nap (so we were out the door at 9am prompt!) and he slept all the way round, what a good boy.

I've organised a wine tasting night tonight and I'm so excited, there will be 14 of us and lots of wine and cheese and singstar on the playstation. Its the closest I get to having a works christmas do!

Hello! Sorry I have not been on much lately, but T has an awful cold and cough and is up at night (...since turning 9 weeks he no longer has a night feed!) so we are all pretty tired.

Cant believe its so close to xmas....putting the decs up today when ds1 gets home from school

Just in case I forget due to xmas craziness....I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the amazing support/encouragement/laughs/tears and everything else over the past year. I feel like I "know" so many of you and your babies. I am honoured to have shared this journey with you all xxxxx

DS slept through last night

Asleep in his cot by 7.30pm
Dreamfeed at 10.15pm
Woke up at 6.30am

However I was awake at 4.30am with tits the size of Wales that were so tender I thought they were going to explode, and leaking all over the bed. I also didn't get back to sleep as I kept thinking 'should I just check on him?'

I know this probably won't happen every night now, but I'm encouraged that he done it on his own, not after jabs or Calpol etc.

lol at "tits the size of Wales"

and very excited at festive smileys

Have any of you seen this website? simply colors
Its really good. I went to a party thing last week where the person that does the clothes was there and I ordered rugby shirts for ds1 and 2 with their name and then 06 and 08 under their name on the back (like the Aiden 08 one on the bottom left of the link). They came today and they are so smart, they'll look very cute in their matching shirts (and I said I would never ever put them in matching outfits!). They're not exactly the same though, ds1 has navy with blue writing and ds2 has pale blue with navy writing.

Iliketo - I know precisely that feeling with the exploding nocturnal norkage. The few nights that DD has slept through I have done exactly the same as you, and woken at 4-ish willing her to make the slightest 'awake' sound so that I can justify feeding her - simply to give me some relief so that I can get back to sleep! It seems we just can't win either way.

Nice she is beginning to sleep through though. But she only really does this from 11pm at the earliest, as she still refuses to go down in her basket in the evenings. She is slowly getting used to the idea of falling asleep without me, so hopefully we can nudge towards a 'proper' baby bedtime before too long!

I always feel like I have to admit that my dress size has little to do with what I do and all down to genetics, tbh.

Men in the caribbean like their women 'chunky' so that counted me out.

deb75 sling arrived. thanks.

donkeymum - A is the same as your baby; I don't bother trying to get him to sleep in the evening as he'll either sleep 6 hours starting then so wake at 2am and every 2 hours after, or I'll try to wake and feed him at 10.30pm and he'll grump, not take much, and then wake 2 hours later.

If I just make sure he feeds loads in the evening and don't try to make him sleep until 10pm or later, he'll then sleep his 6-7 hours at the same time as me, and then we both sleep for another couple hours before he insists on getting up.

I'm not waking up soggy as much as I used to, although last night my friend fed him at 11pm and I forgot to express before sleeping - so woke up in a wet bed at 4.30 and had to express (200ml in 10 min!) before going back to sleep, and then feeding him at 6.30am.

Once A has his own room after Christmas I'll try to get him to sleep in the evenings, but atm I'm keeping him as portable as possible - often going to friends houses in the evening so other people can hold him and I can relax a bit! He mainly enjoyed the Mamma Mia! singalong a couple days ago - expose them to culture young, that's what I say.

My DD did her first ever dream feed on Wed night. I put her to bed 2h earlier that night too and she went straight to sleep so it was a night of firsts for her, I felt quite proud of her actually [festive sad bastard emoticon].

finally, have found you guys! last year around this time, i was dancing around las vegas being happy that i was young, carefree and that my marriage has lasted more than a year.

imsantasmum LOL You wait until you have a 5 yr old !

Donkeymum LOL at your thought re your very lovely DH

Aw becaroodolf Very honoured too!

ILikeToHoHoHo Baby Starlight sleeps through now and then atm, but I never do. I just lie there at around 4:30, look at her gently snoring away and think 'what's the point?'. Next time I'll remember that you are doing exactly the same

notcitrus 'If I just make sure he feeds loads in the evening and don't try to make him sleep until 10pm or later, he'll then sleep his 6-7 hours at the same time as me, and then we both sleep for another couple hours before he insists on getting up.'

SNAP!

This time last year i was looking forward to January when i would be having op to get rid of ovarian cysts. was enjoying my freedom with a 12 and 9 year old i could do pretty much what i wanted and babysitters were easy to get. luckily hospital messed up and didnt have scan before appointment. by the time scan was done i was 7 weeks pregnant.

We had been using the rythym method as dp doesn't like condoms and i can't use the pill or the implant due to the cysts.

oh my god, you're on a new thread again. I never get to catch up these days. I need to find an xmas name.

DD and DS are well. DD is playing under her musical baby gym while my dinner cooks. She has discovered her thumb . We have never got the hang of dummies.

re: weight loss. I've shrunk alot this week. Lost about 6lbs, but I put that down to endless trips out with the double buggy, how heavy are two small children , and IBS, so not much food .

notcitrus and starlight double snap. last night i tried feeding less in the eve and putting him down in his cot bout 7.30- crap. and then he woke 2.30 and 5.30.am gonna stickk with mega evening feeding and sleeping in swingseat in lounge til 11pm ish. least then i get a good sleep ( fingers crossed)

oops, just told dh to put sudafed on ds2 when I meant sudacream. Good job he's got a little bit of common sense.

starlight thanks for the concern re the pills, after the initial day of engorgement, my boobies settled down again, and my milk has become more rich. Elliot is pooing about once or twice a day, but not pooed today, so i think hes absorbing it better. just waiting for the fallout!
I spent an hour with the HV today, he now weighs 9lb 3oz, thats about half a pound a week. she also measured him and diid his head circumferance. and although they are still off the chart they are all in proportion to each other, so they are not concerned.
also discussed his development, which they are impressed with. and said although it is hard i should leave him to cry for a short while before i pick him up that way he'll become less dependant on other people settling him.
they also watched me feeding and made a small adjustment to his position, and he fed for around 15mins then went to sleep, something he never dose.
they also wathced him play on his tummy, where he demonstrated his rolling over technique.
I'm going back after xmas for them to check on him again. but must admit I think they were on the ball.

what was i doing this time last year?? Elliot was concieved in new years eve, so i was frantically peeing on sticks, and discovered that i only ovulate from my left overy. we'd been TTC since sept. and i'd just started a new job, where there were 8 people already on mat leave.

course, A sleeping sensible stretches only applies when he doesn't have a cold like he did earlier this week... he is totally unimpressed by snot, but he is more outraged by the desnotting device than he was by his 8-week jabs!

Been selling stuff on Ebay for first time since 2004 - made over £60 so far, hope to make £100 and fund Christmas.

Barnpot That's brilliant news!

Just one thing though: 'said although it is hard i should leave him to cry for a short while before i pick him up that way he'll become less dependant on other people settling him'

Please please please do whatever comes natural and makes commonsense to you wrt this. There is NO evidence, only anetdotal, that this is a good thing to do and there is just as much (imo more valid) evidence to say the opposite is true. If you are happy to do it and it makes your life easier then do so, but there is absolutely no reason to be miserable or add to the neverending motherly guilt wrt to this.

Hello everyone! Think this maybe my first postnatal post... and shes almost 3 months! Shocking... still really struggling with baby Romilly vomitting constantly and a terror of a toddler - who has been ill constantly with colds and fluey things for that last couple of months. Glad to see so many familiar names still on here, makes me feel nostalgic for the old days, with bump and a whole lot less trouble!