September 08 - New Year PFBs, Last Year BFPs!

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Hi - welcome to the new thread!

Pacita I love you! You always have the same problems as me (although thankfully I do not have shingles!)

"To top it all, D had his 2nd lot of jabs and was extra clingy and crotchety and hard work - and woke up 3 times between midnight and 7. "- SNAP and thank goodness, its always better to know someone else is in the same boat. What are your days like?Mine are all over the place and I really think its my own doing. I just feed him whenever, I make no real effort to make gaps between feeds which I think makes him very snacky so I'm going to try to feed 7, 10.30, 2, 5.30 [plusone laughs out loud as she types as DS currently does all these but with 2 extras between each feed] And yes they are GF times (sort of) but they will suit. I need to start distracting him more when he cries as on the occasions when I do he stops crting within a few mins so obviously isnt really hungry. [have just realised he's just like me- i would love to snack all day! ]

digitalgirl: DS: 31/08/08
debiithescot: DS 01/09/08
lollyheart: DS 04/09/08
SunflowerNeedsSunshine: DD 05/09/08
EandZ: DS 06/09/08
ILikeToMoveItMoveIt: DS: 08/09/08
Starlight: DD: 09/09/08
Ponymum: DD: 09/09/08
Jenbob (please add yourself)
Hopefully: DS 17/09/08
Imoscarsmum: DD 17/09/08
Pacita: DS: 30/09/08
Plusonemore: DS 5/10/08

starlight, that essay sounds very familiar. My sis is currently training to be a NCT antenatal teacher and I proof read her stuff. I think she qualifies sometime this year.

digitalgirl: DS: 31/08/08
debiithescot: DS 01/09/08
lollyheart: DS 04/09/08
SunflowerNeedsSunshine: DD 05/09/08
EandZ: DS 06/09/08
ILikeToMoveItMoveIt: DS: 08/09/08
Starlight: DD: 09/09/08
Ponymum: DD: 09/09/08
Jenbob (please add yourself)
Hopefully: DS 17/09/08
Imoscarsmum: DD 17/09/08
CarrieBo: DS 25/09/08
Pacita: DS: 30/09/08

Welcome jenbob hopefully I've just come on line for the first time since lunchtime and accepted your request so can we be friends again please?

imoscarsmum I am of course in no way an expert, just a person who reads a lot coz I have no natural intuition with parenting, and my understanding is that bottles should be given up by the age of 1. BUT as with all advice its worth knowing why its there. As I understand it, drinking from a bottle leaves more milk around the teeth than drinking from a beaker, which can damage the teeth. Also some kids have a tendancy to have a bottle with them over a period of an hour or more, taking little sips, which is very bad for the teeth. My dd continued to have a bottle until nearly 2, she only had it at bedtime, drank the whole lot in one go, and brushed her teeth straight after. HTH.

I did my tax return on line, it wasn't too hard, and they gave me money back when I had thought I would owe them, so its worth it ladies!

ponymum I know just what you mean. Ds is not 4 months old, he's 18 weeks

I have also had a rubbishy couple of days. Dd has been pushing me to the limit, and I've not had the energy to keep up high spirits and enthusiasm as I'm just too tired so she's running me ragged and I'm trying so hard to be consistent in my discipline and self controlled in how I speak to her. I'm also insanely hungry. Since 5 pm I've had a banana, pint of water, shepherds pie and veg, bowl of cereal, three biscuits and a cup of tea. And I'm still hungry.

digitalgirl: DS: 31/08/08
debiithescot: DS 01/09/08
lollyheart: DS 04/09/08
SunflowerNeedsSunshine: DD 05/09/08
EandZ: DS 06/09/08
ILikeToMoveItMoveIt: DS: 08/09/08
Starlight: DD: 09/09/08
Ponymum: DD: 09/09/08
Jenbob (please add yourself)
Hopefully: DS 17/09/08
Imoscarsmum: DD 17/09/08
CarrieBo: DS 25/09/08
Pacita: DS: 30/09/08
Plusonemore: DS 5/10/08

X posts plusonemore!

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you are making me hungry btw, mind you i'm always hungry at the mo, i just blame it on bf. I have lost 5lb in a couple of weeks without really trying though!

Jenbob: DD: 10/09/08

true star but every time i think i must get him in a routine there seems to be a growth spurt. In fact i never seem to be out of a growth spurt!!

My lovely cranial osteopath suggested that maybe I just dont make good enough milk- as I struggled to feed DS1, he kept losing weight- and because ds2 feeds so often. I smiled nicely at her thinking 'rubbish, he is gaining weight perfectly, following 40th centile' but at times I do wonder...Is that possible do you think?

digitalgirl: DS: 31/08/08
debiithescot: DS 01/09/08
lollyheart: DS 04/09/08
SunflowerNeedsSunshine: DD 05/09/08
EandZ: DS 06/09/08
ILikeToMoveItMoveIt: DS: 08/09/08
Starlight: DD: 09/09/08
Ponymum: DD: 09/09/08
Jenbob: DD: 10/09/08
Hopefully: DS 17/09/08
Imoscarsmum: DD 17/09/08
CarrieBo: DS 25/09/08
Pacita: DS: 30/09/08
Plusonemore: DS 5/10/08

I've updated Jenbob's.

plusone one of the many many many reasons I love our routine is because I always have a full boob of milk whenever ds needs a feed, and I know he's been satisfied at the end so I'm fully confident that if he cries then something else is the matter. Which was the case today when the problem was that 48 hours worth of poo was all over the inside of his clothes...

starlight my MN&RL friend and I were talking the other day about how we now thinking in status updates and MN speak, and in every situation practice how we'll word it in our heads to put on MN later!

I've just put pics on fb and my profile

carriebo thats exactly what i want too, its hard enough knowing they are getting enough anyway! I will give it a very good go tomorrow and let you know how i get on!

Jenpet: DS: 26/08/08
digitalgirl: DS: 31/08/08
debiithescot: DS 01/09/08
lollyheart: DS 04/09/08
SunflowerNeedsSunshine: DD 05/09/08
EandZ: DS 06/09/08
ILikeToMoveItMoveIt: DS: 08/09/08
Starlight: DD: 09/09/08
Ponymum: DD: 09/09/08
Jenbob: DD: 10/09/08
Hopefully: DS 17/09/08
Imoscarsmum: DD 17/09/08
CarrieBo: DS 25/09/08
Pacita: DS: 30/09/08
Plusonemore: DS 5/10/08

I'd got deleted! I know I'm technically August, but I belong here!

plusone just remember that you are working towards a goal. I can pretty much guarantee that you'll not arrive there tomorrow, but knowing where you're heading (like stretching out time between feeds by 5-10mins a day) will hopefully mean that you won't think 'this doesn't work for me' and give up again straight away.

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Izzy your ds has the most extraordinary amount of hair!!!

Welcome jenbob

Jenpet: DS: 26/08/08
digitalgirl: DS: 31/08/08
debiithescot: DS 01/09/08
lollyheart: DS 04/09/08
SunflowerNeedsSunshine: DD 05/09/08
EandZ: DS 06/09/08
ILikeToMoveItMoveIt: DS: 08/09/08
Starlight: DD: 09/09/08
Ponymum: DD: 09/09/08
Jenbob: DD: 10/09/08
Hopefully: DS 17/09/08
Imoscarsmum: DD 17/09/08
CarrieBo: DS 25/09/08
Becaroo: DS 25/09/08
Pacita: DS: 30/09/08
Plusonemore: DS 5/10/08

Finally get A over his cold, but for a bit of coughing, and back to sleeping 9.30 to 6am - and of course I not only wake up when he coughs, but then am up for 2 hours with earache, followed by waking repeatedly with a soggy ear. FFS, my breasts leak less and now other body parts decide to leak instead!

But hey, we bought a bathroom today.

Plusone - I visualise you and I holding hands down the path of growth spurts and night wakings. It kind of makes sense that we are a bit in sync, as our LOs are 5 days apart.

I too am trying to give this routine thing a go while I agonise over the quality and quantity of my milk. Problem is, I'm buggered if I'm going to wake up D at 7 if he's still asleep! I won't be awake to do it, for one thing. Carrie, what would you say is the best length of time between feeds, how much flexibility is there, and how much sleep do you usually get? (hold on, you posted about it a while ago and I took mental notes; was it 9 to 10:30, 12 to 14:30 and then half an hour between 4 and 5?). I wish I could be so organised...

Star if you are a bad parent I'm Herod.