September 08 - New Year PFBs, Last Year BFPs!

[ninja]

Hi - welcome to the new thread!

Yeah dd got her place at my 1st choice school

Fraser has never been in a sling, would it be to late to get one now?

Im going away soon and it would be easier just to take a single buggy and put f in a sling, would he get fustrated in one?

no it isn't too late to get fraser into a sling.

He can go straight into a Mei tai or a Soft Structured carrier (mei tai inspired but with buckles)

I won't be hearing about dd's school choice till late Feb. Yeah lolly's dd.

Thanks foxy

I dont suppose you could put some links on for me please

Hello, the latest re: nipple gate is that I seem to have shingles. No wonder it was bloody painful and I felt grumpy. NHS direct have been brilliant re: sending me to a doc right away, so I'll be seen at the Whittington in about an hour.

The person in the phone started to make noises about suspending breast feeding, but I have just read that the effect of the medication used (acyclovir) peaks two hours after intake, so if I keep the feeds far enough apart, the dilution of the medication in my milk should be negligible.

Any of you have any experience of this?

Honestly, how opportune.

Pacita, i thought about shingles but couldn't remember the word for it.

BTW, you probably won't even have to take wait 2 hrs. If you want confirmation on that, phone the Breastfeeding Network. They have a pharmacist who is also a bfc so they are the best to speak to when it comes to drugs and breastfeeding.

sigh.... I think this is the coolest way to get a small baby on your back. Practice at home with the mirror. Then you can do the ironing/dishes, whatever with a quiet baby on your back.

Then in a couple weeks you will feel confident enough to do it without a mirror and outside the home too.

Look at other links on the sidebar for different ways of putting them on too. I use the 'santa toss' with dd2 right now with a short wrap. With a high back carry the nosy curious baby is kept happy by watching what you do and where you are going.

that's great foxy, really need to get one now... just shown DP the other video as "see men can do it too"..., though he thought I was showing him just because I wanted to watch it...

oh yes, that slingdad invented that carry, i believe. he is in oz.

shinglesgate: I have clusters of blisters all round my left breast to the left side of my back. Just came back from the hospital, where they have prescribed an antiviral.

Herpes zoster is the same virus that causes chicken pox, so it stays latent in your body until your immune system is low (e.g. due to lack of sleep). It is getting increasingly worse and feels like burning. Not nice to nurse on the left breast at the moment. Hopefully the meds will stop it from spreading and speed up the recovery (which otherwise can take up to 4 weeks!).

So here is me wishing for a good night sleep for all!

pacita poor poor you, i have had 3 relatives recently who have all had shingles and i know how horrible it can be, i just hope that you have caught it quite early. I suppose someone has mentioned that you can catch chicken pox from shingles? Your DC would be fine though i'm sure if they get it, i reckon the younger the better. take care

Thanks plusone. Yes, they did mention that D could get chicken pox, but that he had received some immunity through the placenta, so it would be mild. IN do really really hope he doesm't though..... starlight how did BS cope?

That video was very cute but that would have taken me about half an hour to do by which time ds2 would have been screaming and ds1 would have eaten/broken/drawn on something he shouldn't have! Also ds2 wouldn't have stayed that still to let me put him in it. I takes me about 5 mins to get him in a pouch sling and that's meant to be easy!

We discovered today that ds2 won't fit in his car seat with his snowsuit on as the straps won't go long enough. He obviously doens't very often go in the car in his snowsuit but we were just going on a 10 min drive to a lake today and knew he'd be asleep when we got there so didn't want to disturb him.

pacita poor you! Luckly DS was 10 days late or DP would have missed the birth as he got shingles just before EDD! hope it's not too unbareble and you're being pampered!

I'm asking for sleepy vibes as M isn't well and was even more disturbed than normal last night.

I'm amazed at how little sleep I'm functioning on (and also by how DH felt he didn't have to get up to look after DD1 even though I'd jsut got back to sleep for 10 mins after being up with M most of the night).

I think I can hear my bed calling.

Pacita hope you're feeling better soon. DD1 had chicken pox at a year with only 7 spots - so it doesn't have to be horrible if D gets it.

Pacita my grandmother had leukemia (sp?), and once she came out in a load of blister type things and everyone was terrified it was her immune system finally cracking under the pressure, we all rushed to the bedside etc. The relief when it was 'only' shingles was hilarious, and she was thrilled to be suffering with horrible shingles! Needless to say, everyone who visited her who hadn't had chickenpox swiftly got it. I always think of it whenever I hear about shingles, and it makes me smile to think of my granny being so thrilled to have shingles! Sorry to hear you're suffering, but thank you for the happy memory of my granny, who died a couple of years ago.

I am trying to work up to waking T for a feed before I go to bed, but he's snoring really loudly and is absolutely out for the count. Need to wake him anyway, as he is in the pram carry cot, or I would just go to bed, but it seems so unfair!

Thanks to all for the good wishes. It is really reassuring to hear from star and ninja that chicken pox need not be horrid. For now, Diego remains spotless (fingers crossed).

Diego's sleep pattern remains the same, waking 3 times per night. I wonder weather this is a new habit as a result of his cold, or whether it is a growth spurt. I have no idea. Ninja I am sending you sleepy vibes, and keeping some for myself xxx.

The worst is nursing on my left breast, as diego's stroking (formerly cute) is now excruciating, so I have to try and keep him as still as possible.

Hopefully, it's a nice story about your grandma, and really good to put things into perspective: yes, it's only shingles. I hope not to give my lurgy to anyone though....

Have a good Sunday you all!

Pacita hope you feel better soon, and what a great positive outlook too

I am trying to venture out but it's cold, wet and windy and I all I want to do is curl up on the sofa. Diet is now in full swing and my nice porrige for breakie paled into significance with DH's fry-up - grrr!!!

Hi everyone had a very sleep deprived few days so haven't felt like getting on the computer.
Had to have Robyn in bed with us as she is not settling in her cot after her midnight snack. We are managing to get her to bed a little earlier, about 9.30 and then she wakes about 11 to 1ish. It can still take me an hour to feed her though. The biggest problem is she uses me as her dummy and will not go to sleep unless she is suckling. So midnight feeds are often just an attempt to get back to sleep. I'm trying not to feed to sleep during the day and we have managed a couple of times to let her drop off, usually with a few mins of angry crying.
On the plus side she will have a nap if in her sleepy wrap which we are using more as the pram is broken and will not fold down so doesn't fit in the car.

Foxy watched the link for back carrying and would like to try it but not sure i can baby juggle to that extent, think i might try with a teddy first.

Saw my friends 2 month yesterday and she is the same size as Robyn with huge hands and lots of ginger hair. Her sil was watching her and her 20 month old sis so that mum and dad could go home and make baby no 3

After all my worrying about the cost of waterbabies we found the next door council do aqua babies at a really low £3 per lesson. have put our names down but the waiting list is up to 3 months depending on centre. We have her wetsuit and happy nappy so are going to try it on our own for a while.

pacita sorry to hear about the shingles...hope the meds sort you out soon!

splish very sorry to hear your P hasn't changed at all. What were the reasons for you waiting to split from him? You don't have a joint account with him or anything like that do you?

A has a cold, it started off with a runny nose on Weds but now its full blown gluey bogies. So now DH and I have colds. Boo!

Despite the cold he's still managing to sleep between 11:30 and 3:30...I'm finding the 3:30 wake-up really hard now. I think it's because I'm sleeping deeper. Will give it a couple of weeks and then we start Operation 'Drop the 3am feed'.

Does anyone have any experience of 'persuading' their babies to drop night feeds? I really don't think he's going to do it on his own anytime soon. It's taken him nearly the whole of January to stop waking at 2am.

DG I'm not planning to attempt to encourage T to abandon the night feeds any time soon (he has a full feed, and only once in the night, so I'm fairly sure he actually needs it), but when I do - if he doesn't drop it himself first - I'll do as Starlight suggests and just attempt to go a bit further and be a bit less responsive and hope he inches it out. I too am too lazy to attempt anything clever at 3am, and feeding makes him shut up and go back to sleep quickly!

Cinema tomorrow is The Reader - I'm not normally a fan of intense films, but I know I'll be bored if I don't go, so I'm contemplating it. It's probably also fairly long, so T will give up the ghost before the end and I won't ever see it!
I'm so much happier now that we have regular things we go to - cinema mon, baby group weds, exercise class (with T) on thurs, baby gym fri, and this week I'm going to attempt to add the rhyme time at the library on tuesday. What a busy bunny I am!

Sorry to hear about the shingles. I had that back in 2006 and it wiped me out (and I had a m/c at the same time ) If we lived closer i'd bring round dd for a playdate coz I really want her to catch it and be over and done with!
We're exhausted here too, after going to Manchester for our godson's 3rd birthday yesterday and getting a very late night.
DG do you share a room with ds? My ds went from two night feeds to one when we moved him out, and then that one got later and later til he slept through. Seems I was being disturbed by him coming into a light sleep and feeding him to get him quickly back to sleep whereas in fact he's able to self settle but i hadn't realised, and didn't have the patience to listen to him doing it!. We have our door and his open so I know I'm not leaving him crying or anything. HTH.
hopefully I've heard The Reader is excellent, I'll tell you the twist at the end if you miss it!
I want to see Bride Wars

pacita - I hope you're starting to feel a bit better. Take care and take time to look after yourself - easier said than done I know.

Hopefully - I'm glad the kick up the arse helped I like having things to do on set days too, it gives structure to my week.

starlight I don't know if it's true but I've heard that if you get chicken pox before the age of 2 you might get it again later as your immune system might not have been developed enough 1st time round to make the right antibodies to fight it off the next time it comes along. You were lucky babystarlight was so unaffected by it though.