November 2008 - Cooing babies, tired ladies

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now I'm off to catch up.

Evening everyone

Vbab Sam is exactly the same with his bottles - sometimes he will dosn a 6oz bottle but most of the time it is about 4oz! I seem to throw a hell of a lot of formula away that I refuse to up the bottles to 7oz until he is downing 6oz on a much more regular basis.

Furry 7.30-7.30?? Am so although even if Sam did that, we would still get disturbed 2 or 3 times by DS1 that I don't suppose I would feel any better!

Daisy great for Bumble last night - fingers crossed it continues

Well having had such a lovely day yesterday, today has just been a nightmare! From the minute he got up this morning, DS1 has been in a very naughty mood which is not like him at all - the worst thing he did was bite Sam's hand (again!) but this time hard enough to leave 2 nasty marks on it I am at a complete loss how to deal with his naughtiness....might be time to introduce the 'naughty step' I think but I am sure he would just think it is a game. It is just so infuriating as most of the time, although he is hyperactive and boisterous, he is not particularly naughty but then he has days like today where he is just a nightmare. But he has been really snotty today and threw up after dinner so not sure if he is ill and that was what was causing the naughtiness. I hate the 'terrible twos'!!

Hi everyone, I posted a couple of times on the antenatal thread but didn't do very well at keeping up. I hope I'm not too late to join... I promise to try and keep up!

DD was born 30.11.08 at 11.14pm (does that make her the youngest Nov baby?) after a surprisingly quick labour (less than 6 hours from a 'stomach ache' to her being born). We made it to the hospital with 20 minutes to spare

She is in her crib at the moment but isn't asleep. I'm hoping she'll settle shortly Tonight is the first night we have put her in a grobag, she kept kicking her covers off and waking herself up.

Well she's crying now - best go settle her

coolkat, we are off to Whinfell in the North Lakes on the 30th....two weeks time. I'm not looking forward to baring all in my swimsuit!

ceebee, DD has days like that as well. It seems to co-incide with Bumble's unsettled days as well. Almost her way of asking for attention if she thinks he is getting more than his fair share. It's difficult though isn't it. I have days where both of them are crying at the same time; my instinct is to get the crying baby, but then she is more aware of the fact that he is getting attention and she isn't so cries harder....then I think can he wait? In the end I've balanced them one on each knee! It's so hard sometimes.

I've been fighting twin buggies this evening trying to get the feckers back in their boxes. I've broken three nails so have been compelled to bite the rest until they are the same length. Bang goes that New Year Resolution.

Hi Phee!

ceebee- lol at terrible 2's. DD1 didn't eat a scrap of tea, but put quite a lot of it in her mouth and spat it out all over the floor, looking very pleased with herself!She is such a little monkey.

MIne get very crabby if poorly/over tired.

Hi Phee

congratulations on your DD and welcome back to the fold

We were out for lunch today with DH's family and DD managed to eat a three course children's meal, and the protions were pretty huge! Her two bruiser cousins who are three months younger than her only managed to share a main course. And then she had some birthday cake back at the PILs!! Don't know where she puts it some days, but she'll probably just pick tomorrow.

Had a lovely day today. GOT OUT!!! First church - caught up with loads of people, had multiple baby holders, and someone gave a huge pile of clothes for ds1 that their ds grown out of. Then went to a birthday lunch in a Caribbean restaurant. Yum, yum, yum. Got home about 5pm after leaving home at 10.30. Then dh went to fetch his parents to come and stay with us, so I had babies till 9pm on my own - AND I MANAGED. I nearly lost it when they were both screaming and Miri was in quite some pain (Judo just whinging a lot...grrrr), but the point is I MANAGED.

Now dh is working this week. My first week 'on my own', but luckily in laws are here so don't need to drag babies on the playschool run...plus mumin law will cook delish curries all week. I doubt I will have ANY time to MN though, so I hope everyone's weeks go well, especially you Obs. Ceebee UFC is Ultimate Fighting Championship. It basically involves people pounding each other in the head, thumping heads against the floor, blood spurting everywhere etc. etc. you get the picture, but it is not staged like WWF. I have banned it infront of ds1.

Some days she eats and eats, others she eats 2 meals out of 3, and some days she barely eats anything. I go by the 'what did she eat this week' theory- it's less stressful!

DS eats whatever is put in front of him plus whatever he can pinch from the pantry.Boys!

Glad you had a good day, merry- well done you for managing- that is what it's all about, isn't it?
Good luck for next week-eek! But v.jealous of all those curries!

Sounds like a lovely day Merry

the curries sound good

Well done for your first solo mission. Next week will be a breeze, you'll see

Obs, I hope things are OK with you, lovely.

Hi,
Apologies have not caught up - expecting Will to start crying as I have just put him to bed.

I cancelled my last post cos I wrote something I thought dh would be embaressed about - giving away info without asking - I don't mind but on reflection thought he might!

Day 5 of being alone with Will. Dh back tomorrow tho. Think I have done really well but am starting to lose it and have eaten nowt but prinfles and dairy milk and lemonade for the past 24 hours! I'm soooooo tired! How am I going to be able to resist handing dh the boy as soon as he walks through the door with jetlag? I just waaaaaaant a cup of teeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa

Furry if only what you said about boys was true - DS1 exists of fresh air!! I can only think he eats lots at nursery because when he is at home, he eats sod all - even if I averaged it over a week, it would be nothing!

I don't know if his behaviour was because he thinks Sam is getting attention (he is not cos we are very conscious of it) as he woke up in that mood today so didn't have any reason to think it iyswim.

Merry aah, I know what UFC is now - thanks. One of the top competitors is local to here so the local paper always covers it but I tend to skim read the articles about it Sounds delightful!!

barbs I bet you miss him. I would miss DH if he worked away lots- he's my best friend, too. We've been together 20 years! only worked it out because a friend asked melast week.
I would perhaps ask him if he had a good flight before asking for the cuppa!(but I would ask for the tea

ceebee lol I did hesitate before posting that!

yar - good point furry! Now the cat is crying to be fed!! Gees, sometimes I find myself thinking as I sit with a fed, sleeping baby and a fed sleeping cat 'what about me?' I was ging to have a bath but even that feels like a chore. Dh will have to come home to a rather dishevelled and smelly waf!

Congrats on your 20 years - fantastic!!

merry Congrats on flying solo! Every time I think am knackered I think of you doing so fantastically with your 3 and it spurs me on!

Have a little bottle of cider in the fridge - am I allowed it?

barbs you need one of these. you should get one in the bounty Pack imo.....invaluable for women with young babies everywhere

I read your post and thought that you must have thought you had shared a little TMI! But in answer to your deleted question, not weird or odd at all. I can happily go without

This fighting thingy sounds horrible. I'm dreading DS getting exposure to that sort of thing. Some of his school friends have Grand Theft Auto; not appropriate for 6 and 7 year olds imo

have the cider and enjoy barbs

I'm just about to have my second glass of wine.

Thanks everyone

Daisy Is the icandy pear that bad? We've got the apple and as we're planning a fairly small age gap we were considering converting it.

My knowledge of UFC is limited to Pete on Friends or am I thinking of the wrong thing?

Now I want wine.
But I'm upstairs

and feeling very lazy

I definitely need one of those Daisy And thanks for answering deleted q!!
i am glad we are all having drinks this evening! Just out of interest how much do you allow yourselves whilst bf- ing (this is where you all tell me you have expressed so you can have a drink and I am exposed as an Unfit Mother)

I had 2/3 of a bottle of wine on Friday and fed bumble about an hour after my last glass! The alcohol metabolises from your BM at the same rate that it metabolises from your blood, so unless you are rip roaring drunk it's OK to have a few glasses without any worries.

Phee, it's a lovely pram, but the seat units were just too too small. DD is only 20 months and she is on the dinky side, but her legs were all scrunched up in the cosytoes and her head was right up inside the hood of it. The bumper bars were a bit close in as well and you'd need a transit van to transport the thing around. DH and I decided it was all style over substance and a false economy as you'd end up buying something smaller and more compact as well.

Ahh! That's o.k then!

Dh jus foned from airport - he has had an amazing time in L.A. Defo shoulda bathed methinks - he is going to find things a little less glam than he has been used to recently.

Think I must away to bed - Have OCD tendancies and takes about 4 hours before I've checked everything's off/ locked 92 times altho this has got better since having a baby - am too tired to worry about it!

Night x

Just fed A. She only had 1oz at 10.30pm feed which apparantly isnt good in terms of getting a sleep through but two good feeds prior, good? But i think that at least she wont have much to drop once she has dropped this anywhere between 2.30 & 4am feed. Correct or crap logic from me? She woke eventually at 3am for feed but screamed at 1.30am then 2.30am and i thought not feeding you yet will try saying "Sssh" once each time. It worked and bought 1hr 30. So what was the screams about ?!! Little minx.

Thanks Daisy

I hope everyone had a good night.

The grobag was a success! DD slept 7 to 9ish when she finished her feed. She then slept until 1, had 1oz and went back to sleep until 8.30. She's just had 2oz of her bottle asnd dozed off. She used to sleep 12 to 7 from about 2 weeks old but has been waking 2-3 times a night for the past week as she's had cold. Can't wait until it's cleared and she can take her bottle in one go again

Good Morning . In fact I'll go as far as to say it's a great morning

Bumble fed at 10 last night, went straight to sleep and slept until.....

6.30 am

Morning.
Congratulations Daisy, we seem to be getting better, don't we ? At last.
We have had 2 'reasonable nights'.
Inconsolable crying from 10pm-midnight.
Then sleep from midnight to 6am with a feed at about 4am.
This is do'able/bearable.
Dh seems very down. He can't seem to cope with all of this. Among other things, I think he has that sentence "they could take away your kids" ringing in his ears.
Not good. I have rung the police and the hospital this morning, to get my records of what happened the other day. He says he hates his life right now.
Spoke to my bf on the phone last night. She said I sounded really 'lonely'.

It is my birthday a week today. He have booked posh restaurant. Hope the atmosphere improves between me and dh between now and then.
I feel really sad about all of this. I knew things were tough. But I thought we were doing well considering. He is such a strong man normally. But I suppose there is only so much that ANY person can cope with.

Cheer me up guys. Where Rutho ??