September 08 - New Year PFBs, Last Year BFPs!

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Hi - welcome to the new thread!

eandz if you can make me look slim I'll be on the first train to London. I have about one photo of me and DD that I am prepared to let family back home see. I don't want anyone to know how fat I really am, so now DH knows he has to take photos from the waist up only! I said to DH the other day that I realised the only way I can look slim in photos is actually to BE slim!! I am finally on the right track with a diet now, and I have some pretty ambitious goals, but highly motivated. Good luck to everyone else trying to lose some weight too. It is a tough road, especially when you are a foodie like me.

aww ponymum
come to london, we can meet in a public place and i can take lots and lots of pictures of you in all sorts of angles and different positions until you find a few you feel happy with.

and starlight you don't even look chubby to me, but i'd love to take pictures of you if you'd like.

it breaks my heart that i only have like 3-5 pictures of myself with Noah.

ooh, should we do a due sept 08 glamor shoot and anyone who wants to come can come out and have portraits taken?

So glad things sound as if they are improving eandz and of course I know which is you and which is your sister in the photos - be confident, you are lovely and slim. You don't want Noah picking up any body image issues now do you...?!

Had a couple of firsts this weekend - C has found her feet with her hands and is trying to sit up, so funny (though she sometimes cries when she can't do it). And this morning, she woke at 7.45am, had a feed and went back to sleep at 9. DP had worked fri pm and Sat, so we too went back to sleep and we all woke again at 10.30!! Felt like the old days of Sunday morning lie in!

Am reading up on BLW - my HV is just crap and talks b***ks

Hi ladies, long time no speak, sorry have just been insane for the past few weeks.
can't believe my life has just been so busy I don't know whats hit me.
I'm now having councelling for my birth experience as was taking over from me being a good mum. but thankfully things are much better now, even if my PIL managed to ruin my progress in one swift comment, which is still to upetting to talk about.
Els is still doing well, hes trying to put stuff in his mouth, which he manages about 50% of the time the rest of the time he just shouts at it and gets very frustrated, but he'll get there.
He now weighs 10lb 11oz which I was a bit disappointed with but hes still putting on and hes grown more length ways than out wards the HV seems ok with his progress, anyway hes just woke up so its bath time
love to all xx

Hi Barnpot nice to hear from you. Hope you are feeling well.

Sorry Ponymum I have given in and joined facebook. Have requested to join our group, can someone let me in. It's freezing out here.

Oh my rl name is deborah boardley

barnpot good to hear from you! Glad stuff is going better.

I finally get to meet my other nephew this weekend (he's 6 months). Tempted to get some designer baby outfit off Ebay for A to stop SIL3 getting snotty about her darling only wearing Boden or whatever, but she'd only find something else to be snotty about. SIL3 is the snobby one with white carpets who is convinced her PFB will never make any mess ever. I wonder if he's being weaned yet...

Antibiotics are helping the ear infection no end. I love modern medicine.

or better yet, cut out three holes in a plastic bag so A can wear it as a smock, do the same thing for yourself and dh then when it comes time to eat just let A self feed by encouraging him to stick his hands in his food and bring it to his mouth.

(i can't wait to do this!!!!!)

Have booked a short break in Cornwall end of May (A will be 9 mo). Having just read a thread on leaving babies in hotel rooms during dinner (99% of posters saying NO!)...am now paranoid that we were planning to do the same. Small 18 room hotel, bedroom on the first floor. Was planning to bring the monitor and have that with us while we eat. Have any of you experienced mums done anything similar?

scratch my idea

forgot plastic bags weren't safe for babies even if there were holes cut out and they were being supervised.

amyone have any ideas for good smocks for when i properly start weaning noah-bear?

this

thanks DG
i like it...it's by 'goochi'.

EandZ - I would love to have pics taken of DD!

I've managed to reach my weight-loss goal which tbh I thought I would never reach before embarking upon the diet (half a stone less than pre-pg weight), so I've now set another one which I would never have ever ever thought I'd reach (even before having a baby!), but I reckon I can do it, I've been losing 2lb a week every week since I started weighing myself and have lost over 2 stone now, if I could lose one more stone I think I would die of shock (but don't think I could lose that much, impossible!!)

Before anyone wonders whether I'm starving myself I'm really not (bf'ing so making sure to eat properly), just no junk except the odd bit at weekends and also a cereal breakfast instead of skipping and then snacking on all sorts of crap. I've been walking every day with the pram too which is a big difference to my 100% sedentary life pre-baby.

What are people using for bathing you LOs now? DD is too big for her little lie-on plastic seat thing so I need something bigger. Any ideas?

lolli
shall i bring my camera to the meet up on the 10th? and then we can find a quiet place to take lots of pictures?

and congrats on your weightloss. i bet you look amazing! i can't wait to get back to normal human size.

Hi Everyone:

EandZ try breastfeeding in the bath. Babies love it.

I am currently loading loads of photos on picasa and writing a wee blog as a way to remember our trip in the UAE. Will share it here when I am done.

We spent all day last Friday on the beach off the Corniche. It was bliss. The sun isn't currently strong enough to burn dd1 which was a good thing as naughty parents we were and forgot the sun cream.

Barnpot lovely to hear how you are doing. keep strong.

We have stayed away in a hotel when dd1 was 8 months the first time. It was a wedding at country house in the wilds of the Cheviot hills. We let her sleep (on the floor) all snuggled up like a bug in a rug and as soon as there was movement heard on the monitor I went to get her then she just sat on my lap over the rest of meal.

Once she got older and would not just go to sleep in a strange place we found a sitter to keep her safe and entertained and once she was tired they rang me and I went up and fed her to sleep then went back to the do.

The first time we did this at one of dh's works do which are always 5* hotel events, we were the only couple doing it. (Bringing their smaller children overnight and hiring sitters) The next year a few others copied us and the 3rd yr the company started to offer booking a sitter as part of the service for the annual do.

eandz I meant to say, i second calling a bf line and definitely get in contact with the Breastfeeding Network by phone or email as they have a pharmacist who is a bfc. She can better guide you about using your medications for Still's disease than your physician can. (yesterday, i saw a comment you made on another thread about using medication with arthritis (?)) I think he is most likely misinformed about combining them with bfing.

I am very glad to be "oop north" today as we have just a lovely sprinkling of snow and all roads are still normal.

Did I remember to tell you all I have snow phobia!

Lots of snow here in Suffolk too

We're going out for a walk in it when M wakes up from his morning nap. We've got a stately home and estate in our village, so we'll take a walk over there. I bet it will look beautiful. We may even have to stop for tea and cake at the cafe

Snow phobia? I'm not laughing at you

We are on South coast and have about 2 inches of snow, it's still snowing though.
Been out to the doc's this morning - stitching from birth still tender and she thinks they've done it too tightly (explained it would have been hard to do perfectly at the time due to car crash nature of the whole thing). Might have to have some more work done on it if it's not right in a couple of months. Grrrr. Really would be nice to be moving on from birth discomfort by now.

Barnpot you are being v brave getting counselling etc, hope you manage to move towards feeling better about the whole thing.

Lollipop congrats on the weight loss, that is amazing! And you were slim before, curse you!
I've managed to lose about 10lb since the beginning of october, but 4 of those have been in the past 6 weeks, as I am finally dieting properly. Hope to lose a fair bit more before I stop BF.