September 08 - New Year PFBs, Last Year BFPs!

[ninja]

Hi - welcome to the new thread!

hopefullyI have had probs too re; stitches...i had a 2nd degree tear which needed to be stitched by the registrar as it was so bad

I went to the docs after about 8 weeks as it was still sore and she said that i might need a corrective cauterisation proceedure but tried some streoid cream first...its called proctofoam and it reaaly helped me...got rid of the redness/soreness and raised granulation area too.

hope you get it sorted soon...its not nice x

thank you all for your comments and sympathy....just feeling very blue at the moment although i have no erathly reason to...sorry about typing - toby on my lap!

xxxxx

no still in uae. last night i got to bed at 1 am. sorry to hear about the probs. i have no insight 'fraid.

ponymum the phil and teds sleeping bag might be good cheaper alternative. It is lined with the softest fleece imaginable and actually feels like a grown up sleeping bag. You can zip down both sides as you described, and it has a drawstring round the top to snuggle round their head. The holes for the straps are compatible with my umbrella fold so I'm sure it would work on most buggies - there are different height holes for the shoulders, one for the crotch strap, and one each side for the waist straps. You could always come and visit us one day and look at ours...and eat cake fresh organic fruit

hopefully you really are a bad influence! First muffins, then encouraging frivolous entirely justified spending!

Your influence over me is so great that I had actually got to the point of putting the Wallaboo in my shopping basket, when I saw Carriebo's post about the Phil & Ted - that does look good. I like the suggestion about a get together Carriebo, but you know you have really offended me by not asking for another one of my collapsed-in-the-middle-and-burnt-on-the-top banana cakes as per my last visit. No seriously, let's get together. When is good for you? Shall I email you?

I just discovered the Joovy - wow

Joovy? eh? what is a joovy?

So glad to hear you have a good GP hopefully. Sorry you have to go through this, I have seen threads on here about recovery from tears. Maybe there are some good tips on there that can help you with treatment and to find out what treatment is available?

www.joovy.com/pages/pd_caboose.php

Tis one of these hun

Jenbot If you're in my computer, the time on Friday has been changed to 9:30 - 11am at Greenfields.

9:30-11:30 - doh!

Foxy Thanks have found loads of diff videos on you tube so will be watching them and trying to pluck up the courage to juggle babyhave a go. May ask dp to help as I tend to drop her when putting vests on. See what you meant about the first one it would of been easier if you could see what she was doing on the floor. I do get a bit taffled with all the tails but once it is on there isn't a lot left after going round my belly once or twice

Ninja lovely shot of dc swimming she/he looks lovely. Sorry can't remember.

Went to my first waterbabies today. They started the new 'term' last week so I emailed her yesterday to put myself on the waiting list and she rang asking if I wanted to go today. Cue rushing around getting swim nappies, making sure cossie still fitted and working out where I was going, and yes I still got lost on the way. Apart from having to wear a swim hat, forgetting my change mat and wearing my breast pads under my cossie. Doh. We had a good time. The pool was really warm and Robyn loved it until the instructor took her to try and go underwater, she wouldn't go and cried and cried. On the plus side she did sleep all the way home.
How do you all cope with the drying issue, I dried robyn first, had to use both towels as hers was drenced by the time we got back to the changing room. Think I will take 2 next week. She still cried a bit but I think that was more to do with all the other kids crying.

Right - you lot have inspired me, I've put us on the waiting list for baby swimming classes. Just waiting to find out if anyone's going to drop out after half-term. And it's on a Sunday too which means DH can come along! In the meantime, I'm on the hunt for a swimming costume that can hold my new saggy belly in. Posted asking other MNers about the Miraclesuit but it seems to have had lots of bad reviews.

The swimming lady said babies can have a runny nose due to teething and that this it would be fine for them to swim as long as they can breath through it. A has had a runny nose for the last two weeks, it gets bunged up when it dries out but a few saline drops or a bit of bogey surgery with some cotton buds usually shift it. Does this mean he doesn't have a cold and he's just teething? Am actually perplexed enough to think about booking a HV appointment.

Announcement

T has gone to sleep, in his cot, with me not in the room tonight for the first time ever. Normally I am at least sitting there, if not shh/patting him.
Tonight he was just lying there staring at the ceiling in silence for ages and I got bored of waiting, so I left the room, went back to check him 10 mins later and he was fast asleep! He's had one little squeak since then, but was asleep again before I got to the top of the stairs - another first!
We are currently undergoing Operation Cot (getting T to sleep in his cot for as many sleeps as possible, trying to go out during his awake times so he doesn't conk out in the pram) and perhaps it is improving things. Fingers crossed. Even if it goes tits up tomorrow, I have to cling on to the fact that he managed it once!

so... first day of dairy free diet to see if that helps Alfies reflux / wheezing, etc. Its crap I hate it! Got to try to stick with it though. Was in town and I thought Thorntons would do a nice dairy free choc but NO!

oh and hopefully that is great news, stick with it!!!

hopefully I'll keep my fingers crossed that this is the start. It's amazing when they surprise you like this.

Debs75 Practice in front of a mirror. I also do it with the bed behind me so i only have to lean back if i am making a hash of things.

Well done T!

i cant do it

bad night last night, woke up with headache and the thought of no dairy made me want to cry. GOT to have a bit of butter and milk in my tea. But I'm not gonna go mad, have cheese and stuff- will that make a difference or am I kidding myself?

plusone - start a thread asking for non dairy ideas. Vegans will have loads of alternatives for you to try. Stuff like rice and soya milk can be used in tea. If not, pop into the 10/10 thread and ask for some ideas. There is a poster on there who is into her 2nd of non dairy to see if it helps her ds.

Yay hopefully that's great news

Baby boy is totally perplexing me. For the 5th day in a row he has refused his dreamfeed at 10.30. Last night he slept through from 6.45pm - 5.30am without a feed, but the previous night he woke up hungry twice.

souns like i have butter in my tea

(i dont)

Plusone if you post on breast and bottle feeding, someone will probably be able to tell you whether reducing will help, or whether it has to be all or nothing. Have you tried non-dairy alternatives to milk etc?

Just been to exercise class, feeling all bouncy and healthy now! It will last for about 30 minutes, and then I will want to eat the end of the tub of ice cream in the freezer.
Ooh, I was going to make ice cream this week, must remember to buy ingredients.

hopefully I am very of your exercise class. I need to arrange some babysitting so I can get to the gym.

DD was a little cherub last night, she slept from 7 to 7. I didn't give her the dream feed- just to see what happened- and apart from a couple of little grizzles (she has a snotty nose) she was able to go through the night. Now all I need to do is do my expressing earlier in the evening and I can start getting a decent nights sleep again.

ninja I love your swimming photos!

Not as as I am of your amazing sleeping baby!

Gym also has a creche, but I am too unfit to go to anything except the post natal exercise class, so haven't made use of it yet.

Good work hopefully! ponymum yes yes lets meet! Do email me! Lets buy in the cakes this time

Ds has gone backwards...he's woken between 4:30 and 5:30 for the last 5 nights and been genuinely hungry. Also I don't want to let him even so much as grizzle coz if he wakes dd then that might be that for our night's sleep... So having had a sleeping through baby for 8 weeks we've now gone backwards He's been taking both sides during the day rather than just one, which is quite unusual for him. Ho hum. Mum's here at the moment...showing him the snow in fact while I 'do important things on the internet' .
Better go...!

How old is you DS now CarrieBo. I suspect you're in the regression to newborn hell 4-5 months growth spurt!

carriebo poor you its so awful when they regress, sure things will settle down v soon.

am so fed up with space pirates, i'm sure there are only 2 episodes which they just keep repeating aaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhh

CarrieBo you poor thing. I guess if he's properly hungry there's not a lot you can do about it. I had some success with offering T a top up feed before his lunchtime nap (and occasionally before his morning one, if he hadn't had a massive feed at 7am), which i think helped up my supply more quickly than just persevering with the extra night waking would have.

T has been a pain this afternoon - been grizzly and unhappy since lunchtime, and was properly screeching by 4pm, for no apparent reason. Of course, as soon as DP came home he was all smiles and gurgles again, and DP gave me that pitying 'you clearly can't cope with your child' smile and gently removed him from me. Is it wrong that I had to hide my smile when he started screaming at DP 10 minutes later?