November 2008 - Cooing babies, tired ladies

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now I'm off to catch up.

hi ladies. Had lovely time with ruth and Fin. I'm just always a little reserved and quiet when meeting and getting to know people and also paranoid that I dont bore. A love match between A and F would be lovely but I dont think they feel the same way as they both slept the majority of the time after a quick look at each other.
coolkat - Do you live anywhere near Sheffield/Rotherham? If you do we could meet up if you fancied it.
ruth - thanks for today. always a pleasure meeting you and Fin . Yes you spelt Alyssa correctly.
A - Had her medical and 1st injections today. Medical went fab no probs except for her sandpaper skin all over which has been confirmed as eczema . She did manage however to wee on the doctor's hand . The lil minx. With the injections though she was crying for an unknown reason before we even went in the room, 6th sense . Well she cried for 5 or so mins after the jabs so much her bottom lip and chin was trembling.
She has been feeding ok since but has been out of sorts and was crying a lot before bed at 7.30pm. Poor DS as we were on our own (DH at docs but then got called back to work) kept getting left in the living room watching TV for a few mins at a time while I kept trying to settle A upstairs. DS had every right to kick off but didnt . Ended up fetching A down after trying for half an hour, at one point I even let her cry as she was obviously tired.
DS - Been good today and fantastic this eve regarding A. But he did poo his pants today so toilet training not so good AGAIN. But the really good bit when DH got home was DH had bought DS spiderman light up trainers as a surprise and I didnt even know . DS loves them and was dancing around in the kitchen trying to see them in our cooker front (reflective front). He loves them so much he insisted on going to bed in them . Must go and take the trainers off now without waking DS.
ME - Feel great from meeting Ruth and Fin today, having deep and meaningful chats with DH, mum and dad over the last few days like a weight lifted but ... got really sore throat and coughing occasionally . Either the monster size coffee from this morn or i'm getting cold AGAIN.

Sorry for monster post just dont know when to stop!

smiles - Hi. Very at 8-6 sleep! But I suppose A isnt too bad with (normally) I wake up between 8ish and 6. Just a sleep through seems a million years away.
I think it was lacks that said about sticky eye massage.

ARGH! must read before posting!!!! 1 wake up NOT I wake up.

Hello

Took your name suggestion, daisy

Hi ellielou02- sorry I missed you yesreday.You must be a very organised and together person to cope on your own.

And hello again to smiles and heartmum!

All ok here. Bit knackered, but having DH and all 3 DC couped upin the house for teo days has gone more smoothly that I could have hoped!

merryM I can totally sympathise with your row with DH. I have been running around trying to get everything done today and DH, sat on the sofa with his leg up astutely observed 'you look a bit stressed out, pink'.. well..really, can't think why dear????

Hi all,

Housework day, totally knacked, just posting to say hi to Ellie, sorry chick didn't mean to ignore you before.

Too tired to find punctuation other than commas and full stops. ;;; And semi-colons.

I will catch up with y'all properly tomorrow as I have a midweek "nothing" day planned, maybe a bit of light DIY and shopping and housework and and and...

[wakes up with a start with keyboard covered in drool and QWERTYUIOP printed backwards on face]

Sob. Night night.

Goodnight to you all am off to give last (hopefully feed of the day) lol at being organised and together , am a bit dizzy and not organised at all still there is always hope .

Am only skim reading but have to say, WOW! heartmum those pics of your boys are just so fab! Are you or is your DH a photographer?
Just love the one of him at 5 days old and the one with black background and naked babe. Beautiful! I want fabo pics of my DS!!!

Well, will maybe wait until I am getting my smiles.

Am so proud om my babes tonight. Had them both in bed by 8, Yeah!
Am waiting for J to call for his feed though, any minute now.
Still no sleep throughs here ( of those who are) but at least things have improved, back to about 4 hours instead of 2.
Still getting an hour of gurning after the 4 am and 7am feeds, what is that about? Nothing I do settles him. I have to give up in the end and let him scream for a bit, after which he settles
Have given infacol before a feed, tried gripe water after (don't hold much with the gripe water though, never seems to achieve its goal?) And still he strains

Day time is good though. He is getting himself into his own wee groove, which is suiting me just fine
And sounding so much more like a little baby that the poor sad thing he has been.
When I put him to bed at 8ish, he coos and talks to himself for nearly an hour before finally sleeping for and hour or 2.
Sounds so much like his sister now makes me very happy.

hi smiles; good to hear from you . It's a worry when folks drop off the board for ages.

C'mon all you November ladies, if you are lurking out there come and say Hi

I've been doing my buggy test reports tonight....thinking is definately over-rated as an activity

I'm off to bed now, taking the now sleeping bumble with me who will no doubt wake up for a feed and then refuse to settle again.

busy day tomorrow,....baby clinic and then finally getting round to visit a friend who had her baby on Dec 1st; I've not seen her bub yet and he's six weeks old already....and she lives less than five minutes away by car

oops, than the poor sad thing he has been.

heartmum - got to agree with lacks about your amazing photos. I thought A was gorgeous but Zack well WoW he is stunning, as are his brothers of course.
RANT - even at this early hour need to rant about DH ... well he has during the week one feed to do, the 10.30/11pm feed that hopefully one day will see A through the night. Well on top of the fact that the right hand, me, doesnt know what the left hand, DH is doing half the time and to be honest I dont think he does. He only gets A when I cue him to do so and then he only fetched her to bed after midnight when I realised (was in bed) he was still downstairs on his PS3! So she slept until 3.30am but dont know whether things are progressing closer to the holy grail sleep through or whether he gave A feed later. Then at about 1.30am I woke again when I realised he was still on PS3!!! Fine I understand his life but I am the one who has to put up with a grumpy, snappy, DH for the rest of the week whos constantly yawning and telling me how "tired" he is. Also me having to, like I'm his mother, get/kick/nag him out of bed in the morn for work and organise him out the door. Apart from the coming to bed late thing and then torturing me and DS about it for the rest of the week its also the fact that I will be looking after the kids nearly all week, do things a curtain way working hard on routine that seems to be working then he will come in and do whatever and f*k things up. e.g. the other night I said A needs her bottle in the bedroom in dark as per bedtime routine. He argued with me that "i've never done that". NO S*T SHERLOCK! Wonder why you not done it?! He just wanted to sit in front of TV feeding her. He loves DS routine, which I basically did, but finds it hard to stick to what I say with A to work towards the same goal even though he knows the benefits. He just wants to do what is best for him sometimes, sure of it.
THANKS for the vent and apologies. Will be able to sleep now.
JUST turned to A after rant and she smiled and made loud happy noise at me. Feel better now .

Morning.
I am feeling really sad this morning. Have agreed to stop bf, becasue dh asked me to. Am still pumping, so don't lose supply. We will see if formula makes any differecne. Will review it in a few days.
M would not settle in his cot last night. Had him downstairs in the lounge in his upright chair. Dh and I took turns to sleep on sofa. M is well noisy.He took 7 oz at 2am and then practically nothing at 7am.
Have just put him in his cot now - for mid morning nap - to try and get him re-used to it.
Trouble is, I am out and about all theis week, at nap times - Dozy's, then physio. then eye doctors today and tomorrow - so not sure how well this re-introduction is going to go.

sorry, I didn't say welcome to ellielou, the other day.

Morning all - bit of a grey day here and so minirosa is complaining as she likes to go out - would lug the pram up here but can't face 40 steps with it. She is under her gym protesting but not loudly have tried putting her in cot / chair but no way so have put on some music and am hoping. She still has the snuffles at the drop in clinic they gave me a saline spray which is great its agentle spray and it brings the snot down in waves she even did a projectile sneeze and snotted her teddy !!!
Sorry about your dh - I usually take minir to bed to dh round 10 ish and then I get ready for bed and last feed - he was asleep so I put her on the bed next to him and did what I had to do - I came back and he had his arm round her to stop her from moving but had not picked her up. he then missed lots of huge smiles and gurgles and this morning said - she doesn't smile as much as dd1 !!!!!!

smiles Nice to see you back and congrats on DD.
I also heard from an NCT friend that breast-milk in the eye is good for sticky eye? She recommended doing this with a bottle and not by trying to aim the nipple into the eye (as she first did!)

Morning all,

How was your night? I feel like crap - I don't think this routine thing is working for Fin. He went down at 8.30 again (good boy!) but then woke up hungry again at 11 and I couldn't get him down again until 1.30 again. He then woke up wet at 6 so I had to change him and he weed all over himself and then of course became hysterical, woke up DH who was grumpy at me, so I started crying... Finally got to sleep again about 7 and so we all got up late again today. I know I should just have stayed up with him but I was soooooooooo tired and the bed was so warm. And now I have buggered it all up again.

Vbab, mine does the same kind of thing, including winding Fin up before bed and not getting him up in the morning "because he needs his sleep after being up all night". I had to remind him the other day that I was tired, Fin was cranky after his jabs and Grand Theft Bloody Auto could wait (DH: "..but I have to finish this mission or I'll have to do it all over again" Me: "It's a BLOODY GAME - this is real life and we're your family and this is not a rehearsal!").

Obs, hug for you feeling sad.

Rosa, see, gross but effective, no? First time Fin did that I couldn't work out how so much snot could even get up such a full nose...

Right. Off for more coffee, without which I am as nothing.

Morning all,
I am feeling a bit bright and breezy this morning. We started a proper bedtime routine last night with a bath etc and put Jay to bed upstairs and about 7:30 it took nearly an hour and a half to settle him but he then slept until 6:30 this morning (sorry), He missed the late feed as I couldn't wake him enough to feed him.

Good to see you smiles

Heartmum your pics are gorgeous!

Obs hope things work out one way or another.

We are getting lovely smiles now here

hugs rutho for your crap night. Don't worry about routine being fkd up just start afresh tomorrow.

Aye, think today is a wonderful opportunity for me and Fin to have a lovely pyjama slob day midweek - might take him to the park later if it stays nice as he has just started to stay awake in the pram occasionally. I looked like a total nutter walking back from the shops last night talking to Fin about what we were passing "And that's the off license, with the drunk man outside, and that big thing going past was a bus, and now we're going to wait at the lights and oh, look, Finny, the drunk man has followed us. How nice".

But I digress. Probably time to change the boy and have a shower.

Hugs and LOL at Rutho.
Its not Fin, for whom the routine is not working. Its Ruth. Ha ha.
It was YOU that buggered it up, becasue as you said, you SHOULD have stayed up at 7am, but that warm cosy-wosy bedddy beddy was calling you, saying "Ruffy, Ruffy, come back to me, my love".

Yeah, blame it on the kid. Ha ha.
We have all done it.

Me ? Many times.

obs - hope things get better as day progresses. Wish I could meet up with you as you seem like a fantastic lady who is the type of person I get on with, takes no s**t and not bothered about dishing it out who is really strong minded and very funny. My kind of gal. Hope all that doesnt sound bad or like I am trying to climb up your arse. I just speak the truth.
ruth - DH's . Sorry about your bad night with Fin. Enjoy your pj slob day you both deserve it just for dealing with DH never mind everything else. Dont worry about routine, as you saw yesterday, A does feed at "about" times and basically wings it in the day. Fin may be the same. and at pj rest day no such luxury here . Going to meadowhell with my dad in a bit with A and DS just to get out of the house.

Obs, you harsh woman...

Bugger the routine. I couldn't help that it was still dark and it was SOOOOOOO cold outside the bed. I'd do GF but it doesn't allow for total lack of moral fibre and stiff upper lip!

But I do now have NO room to shout at DH next time he "forgets" to wake Fin up as I am just as bad.

PS actually Fin doesn't get a slob day as he has to wear lovely little corduroy dungarees before he grows out of them. I went throuigh his "too big" pile yesterday and he now fits into age 3-6 months clothing. At 9 weeks. I have had to buy him 6-12 months socks as he has flippers instead of feet - I think he's going to be a big bloke and his daddy has size 11s, so I really hope Finbo doesn't end up as one of those poor chaps with size 15 feet who have to have handmade shoes and speciality socks!

Not had chance to post for a couple of days but have just about been keeping up!
Welcome back Heartmum and Smiles and welcome to Ellielou
Love all the pictures of the LOs on people's profiles (I've been having a nose!)
Sorry about DH's not pulling their weight and cocking up bedtime routines. Mine isn't too bad and does what he's told, although I did have to point out to him last night as he was giving E a bottle whilst watching TV that he might need to tilt it a bit more as the poor thing was just sucking air - he was more focused on Jeremy Clarkson than his daughter
HV came round today and E now weighs 6.3 kg (14lbs) and measures 61cm She's on the 91st centile for height and weight which explains why she's now in 3-6 month clothes! She also has massive feet.
Cranial osteopath this pm. The explosive poos have eased up a bit so perhaps last week's appt has done something, although yesterday she pooed everytime she ate which was a bit of a chore!
Obs Sorry to hear about your decision re bf But your health needs to come first. Hope formula does the trick and also that M gets used to his cot again. Are you still planning to join Autumnlady and I at Bluewater after your dr's appt?
Hi to everyone else.

just a quick hi, lovely pics buzz
sorry not everyone has had a good night!

cricri did you get your paeds appt?
we have ours on 3rd feb to discuss the scan we got a 3wks. oh also the new bottle of AB's doesn't smell of aniseed so E is taking it much better!

Hi!
Hope all is well - read posts last night but no time to reply apart from Merry Can do tomorrow afternoon if you still fancy? Would be lovely

Oh ruth who says you buggered it up? GF? Who made her lord of all. After a bad night, you need your sleep as well as Fin, so why wake him up just cos she said so?
Rant over

I only say that cos I do that every morn (jump back into bed at 7am, well ish, cos he wakes then, finally settling at 8). I am just not a morning person so cannot imagine getting up as unreasonably early as 7am. J will learn eventually.
So I am a bit of an anti GF doing exactly what she says not to
Ah well, when they are all 6 months they will all be pretty much the same so why stress eh?

He is off his way today, shouting the odds about everything. Even let out a peircing scream when I swopped boobs. What was that?

We are having a slobby day. DD and I still in dressing gowns, waiting for J to settle so we can shower in peace
J in jogging pants, which I wouldn't normally put him in if we were going out.
Anyone else like that, just can't leave the house in jogging trousers? I just can't do it. I get to the door, then turn and dash upstairs for my jeans
So therefore my LOs get the same treatment, no jogging pants outside the house unless going to a messy time class where I am happy for them to be wrecked but she gets changed there before we go anywhere else.
Oh dear, I am a bit mad

DHs? Throw all computers away! Or do you think you could impliment (sp?) a score system? They have to be good enough to gain time on the things
Would be so good if they agreed to it. It is mad, the compulsion to stay up so late to complete a level!
Men? They are just boys, for life really.