November 2008 - Cooing babies, tired ladies

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now I'm off to catch up.

my great hulk of a DS isn't far off 15lbs!

I'd use them until they can't fasten up any more.

hope the metanium cream works juanitad. less is more with it though so you only need a teeny amount. you should still see the skin through it iyswim....and watch out for clothes cos it stains like buggery.

Morning me dears. How are we all today? Cold enough for ya? Brr!

Sorry to hear about all the poo and screaming, Lacks. Weirdly, mine seems to have started doing something similar and I'm wondering if he is constipated or something. He kept his daddy up til 4am, while I got loads of sleep(6 hours).

Right - coffee coffee coffee!

morning ladies

how has everyones nights been?
my goodness daisy what a big boy, must be lovely for you to see that all your perserverence with breastfeeding is paying off tho.

am sure those smiles will come soon twinkling
my health visitor said i should now be making sure my wee man is chatting away to himself, but nothing yet, im sure they all just do it in their own time.

giggling at hana being the rebel and breaking out of the hula gang!!

hi to everyone else, started roughly following GF today so away to jump in shower before waking my wee man up

hey rutho looks like only me and you on here this morning......wonder what that says about us!!

Hi choc, how you doing? My health visitor said that a baby that hadn't smiled by 2 days was a cause for concern, but then she was a total weirdo. 2 days? Pah. And she called Fin fat.

I'm sitting on a white cushion in my new hula jeans and am paranoid that they will leave a blue mark as they are so cheap.

Baby is asleep again, and I don't want him to be! He needs to be awake during the day but appears to have some kind of baby jet lag/time delay. He would much prefer to be nocturnal.

Gah.

Must go and put slap on and dry hair while he's still out, tho!

Hi Vbab, how was your night in the end?

Helloo
Two beers and I have a hangover - majorlightweight- so much for drinking 'all daddy's beer'!

Feeling a bit low today, and I struggled a bit last night. I feel very paranoid for some reason.. I'm guessing it's 'normal'.

Hope people had a good night

lol at big bum bumble, daisy Ds was a big lad too. Imi is pretty much out of the diddy diapers (but mine are non alpix so still fastenable, just) but the totsbot size 1 still holding out.

RUtho just make sure your legs don't turn blue!

I'm sure he'll be smiling lots when he's ready,twinkling junitad I think so far for the meet up we have your good self, me, daisy, ceebee, rutho, yorky and hopefully vbab- is that right?

sorry for you not feeling great today furry and that you didnt have the best of nights when you were out. hopefully it wont last.

question for all you knowledgeable ladies, how soon is too soon to put our babies in their own room?
the only reason i ask is E doesnt sleep well in his moses basket, he will sleep in my bed, in bouncer or in his own cot for naps. the last few nights we have been co-sleeping and wondered if putting him in his own bed in his room would be safer??

Thanks choc it was lovely to be out, Ithink I'm just finding social situations a bit tricky at the mo.

re sleeping- I keep mine in the crib in our room (or in our bed) until they are 6 months or so, but then cribs are quite a bit bigger than moses baskets. I know somepeople find it hard to sleep properly with them in the same room, and some babies too. all i can suggest is maybe try it for a week and see how you get on.

Hi Ladies

Choc - I spoke to my health visitor about this and we are going to put Becca in her own room as I am sure we disturb one another. She quoted the FSID guidelines of 6 months but like someone else siad on here some people don't have room in their bedrooms for a cot. We are moving her next week, just trying to get a few day naps in there first. We do have one of those Angelcare breathing monitors though.

Saurus - Nice one getting 6 hours

Well we had our best night ever last night, she was in moses basket asleep by 7 last night, she moaned once, twice but did not even need resettling by the time I got to her she had settled self She woke for a feed at 6.15 this morning. I know it is perhaps a one off and due to the fact that yest afternoon she fed for 40 mins but still

Now whilst this is great, should a 10 week old baby be going this long, or should I have woken her?

I have never woken her for the 'dream feed' as I felt she would have woken if she was hungry and I don't think she would have taken a full feed.

Lacks sorry Bumble is so unsettled.

Furry LOL hangover on two beers - I wold have been on the floor. On DH's birthday we opened a bottle of wine and I could not even have half a glass, it like went straight to my head, this is why one of my new years resolutions is to start drinking!!

Re Job: Think I am going to contact my union next week as I am fed up with he 'agro' / stress of it all. Although I have to say it felt quite nice to be dressed 'proper!

coolkat well done on your kitten going so long!!!! Tiger is also 10 weeks old, and she sleeps 7pm-630am BUT with a very qucik feed about 1030 that DH does. She only really takes about 3oz so maybe we should stop it all together???? Both DS's were sleeping 7pm-7am at 12 and 14 weeks respectively. Over Xmas Tiger dropped her middle of the night feed (sometimes it was 5am) and if she did wake, was happy to be settled with a cuddle or her dummy . Consequesntly she has a good feed at 7am which sets her up for the day.

(Apologies for the above post to all of you still suffering from lack of sleep)

I have been thinking about the whole GF/attachement parenting thing, and I would actually say that I DO both. I am very strict on sleep and feeding (GF) but am always holding/cuddling/playing Tiger when she is awake. She is also in our room in a travel cot for the night sleep, although her own room for the day and early evening.

I guess the above is how I have got there after having had 3 DC's. With DS1 I followed GF rigidly (was always back home for the lunchtime sleep in own room) but now, I am happy for that sleep to be in the car or going around the supermarket!!!

We are having a lovely chilled day today after being out for 3 hours walking/brunching with friends this morning in Richmond we are doing diddly squat this afternoon!!

Furrytiger why do you feel so displaced in social situations, were you out with HER last night, or just feeling a bit unsure? Where did you go??

dozy i have just started GF at 7weeks, today E slept for an hour at lunchtime instead of the 2-21/2 recommended, i take it as the days go on he will learn to have a longer nap at this time??

enjoy your lazy day, isnt that what weekends are for??

thank you coolkat for your experience on the sleeping in own room

My GF book arrived today so I am starting to read that later.

Becca is currently asleep in her cot.

DM no I did not go out with my m last night. I haven't spoken to her for nearly 2 weeks. I am avoiding her, because I don't knwo what to say to her, but she hasn't rung me, either.. she will be waiting for me to capitulate, and can wait a long time.

I feel like everything is all mixed up really. I worry that I deal badly with people, too, that it's not her at all, but me..and that people don't really like me but tolerate me for the sake of DH.. but then maybe that is the result of the 'conditioning' I feel I have no place in other people's lives. I don't even kniow if that makes sense.

It all sounds a bit self pitying, I'm sorry.

I wish I could be happier, for the sake of DH and the DC, I'm trying really hard, I'm just having the odd 'wobble'.

Coolkat that's great news, about the sleep. I'm hoping Imi will sleep through once she stops being so full of snot and goo, poor thing.

Stripey you are not self pitying Don't think that please, I know where you are coming from to a certain extent I also feel as you described abov in social situations and worry that people don't like me and are not interested in what I am saying. So yes it makes alot of sense to me.

Coolkat great news on the sleep, hope it continues.

Just got back from shopping in Guildford. Bought a lime green coat from m&s. £75. Seems alot , doesn't it. But I just loved the colour. It is floroscently bright. they won't miss me in the playground on monday morning. dh wasn't so keen. he says I can help the kids cross the road !! We'll see what Dozy/choc/pink make of it.

M slept from 7pm, waking at 11pm and then 4.30am. This is fab. This I can cope with. Not even craving a sleepthrough. This is all I want.

Coolkat, congrats on sleep through. Don't ever think you can't tell us. I didn't think your were boasting at all and am genuinely pleased for you, if not a tinsy bit jealous.
We can tell eachother anything here, without reprisal.

Talking of being able to tell eachother everything......
watch out... TMI alert
Dh and I have discussed both of us wanting to get 'back in the saddle'. But with ds2 non sleeping, unsurprisingly we just haven't managed it.
But last night.... we started, but still didn't make it... but I had a .....HUGE mindblowing, body shaking 'O' .

Hello all! STILL haven't caught up on all the chat on this thread.
obs - you sounds better - how did your appt go earlier in the week?
Rutho glad you're back posting - good to see.

Well done coolkat on your LO sleeping through the night. Fantastic!!

OK - I need some advice please! All was going so well, LO now going down at 7pm in her nursery and sleeping til we wake her at 10 - 10:30pm. Only problem now is that she is refusing to take her bottle of EBM at 10:30pm feed! I really don't know why. We didn't give her a bottle over xmas as I forgot my pump, but she went straight back onto it when we got back home.
She just screams and moves her head from side to side when DH tries to feed it to her.

Anyone else experienced this? any tips please? I'm worried we will never, ever be able to leave her if she won't take a bottle again!
Sorry for ME ME ME post...just stressing at moment.

p.s. cri-cri Cranial osteopath was good. It was cool to sit on a sofa for an hour watching someone carry the Plum around - she loved it! And it seems they aren't out purely to extract hard cash from us, as he said there isn't a thing wrong with her and he doesn't need to see her again. This is most reassuring, so worth going just to hear that.

P.p.s What are Hula jeans??! I must admit not being very up to the minute right now with the latest fashions.....enlighten me!

Monkey I am sure it is a one off, we will see tonight!
Hula jeans are jeans from New Look that keep getting really good reports and if I remember correctly Ceebee was going out and did not want to spend much and someone recommended them and now most of Nov 08 mummies are wearing them They are only £10. Sadly I have none as do not have New Look near me and need to try before I buy!

Re not taking a bottle, sorry I have no advice as I am to lazy to express

Hi all, sorry for the loosely connected posts - I find it v. difficult to keep up here!

Dozy I am green with envy totally inspired by Tiger's superhuman sleeping skills. D0es she wear her nappy outside her tights It gives me hope!

Rutho as belated hello again. Your posts always make me chuckle, even in my sleep deprived state.

obs and other back in the saddle types. Lucky you! I fear I have a while to go yet....

I'm sure there were lots of other things to repsond to but my memory=sieve at the mo.

evening all

monkey, maybe it's as simple as she just isn't hungry?

coolkat, at ten weeks, if she is a good healthy size and pooing and weeing and alert etc etc then I would just accept her sleeping through and enjoy . with BF babies not feeding at night once BFing is established is only of concern if there are underlying problems.

we have trouble-shot one of bumbles recent issues.....he has been having feeding probs on what is usually his good side, having a few sucks and screaming. discovered tonight that I have been a bit lax with basic hygiene and he is red raw, weeping and cheesy behind that ear . I've been lathering him in cream on that side as his skin is horribly dry and flaky, so either the cream had accumulated and gone off, or esle I didn't dry him properly after his bath on Thursday. The creases are very deep on that side so I should be more thorough in future.

he has been awake pretty much all afternoon and evening, with only one or two short naps. hopefully this is boding well for a good night's sleep. He is in his chair cooing and gurgling at me now.

Obs.....O? O?.....nope haven't a clue what you are talking about, but I'm sure it's not wholesome

furrytiger, not self-pitying at all. A lifetime of her treatment is bound to have dented your self confidence and sense of worth. My childhood was idyllic in comparison and I struggle in social situations.

erm....what else?