March 09 - The spring babies have sprung

[jollyjoanne]

Thought I'd start us up a post-natal thread for the new mummies of March 09 (or thereabout!)

lolli get some travel sickness bands, they were invaluable when I was commuting! And don't feel bad about telling seated people you're pg to get a seat.

Hope all goes well with daycare, would also suggest building up his time for a few weeks.

Laumiere Did you find those worked? God, I tried them (and everything else) and it did nothing for me. Good to know that they can help others tho.

How are you? You should be getting some sleep!

you ladies are staying up far too late - I am in bed by 9pm every night!

I had an afternoon with the girls I did my dd1 ante-natal classes with yesterday. Rosie was the poster child for having another baby - she was all snuggled in her car seat and slept for the whole time we were there. This was in a room full of 4 shrieking and over excited toddlers, plus 8 adults all trying to talk over the mayhem!

Our memories of our toddlers at Rosie's age were of us all pacing around with a wailing baby trying desparately to get them to sleep so we could have a coffee and a chat!

Rosie is just so chilled. She only got upset when woke up in the car home and realised she was hungry. She then drank nearly 2 bottles of milk, burped copiously, gazed at dh for a while, had a wee cry then went back to sleep at 7pm!

This is so so different to my baby days with dd1. I feel quite sad looking back and realising how much i didn't enjoy the baby stage. Mind you I am finding dd1's toddler stage hilarious - there is never a dull moment in the meep household these days!

It's a beautiful day here in Scotland - dh is having a long lie, so I might get the girls and head for one of the big playparks that is usually far too busy - am hoping if I get there early enough dd1 will be able to run around without getting wiped out by bigger kids!

lolli I am with slick and laumiere on the settling in stage at nursry - can you do some phased days to start with?

Meep urgh! Ended up staying up really late - Didn't get til sleep til 6am !!! Hayfever, cold and my dodgy arm with pins and needles all the time. Am now away to have an 'Eilidh and Mummy' day despite it being nice outside she wants to go to the pictures. Oh well, maybe I can have a secret snooze in there...

Later y'all!

(Laughs hysterically at Slick) I know.....

However this is the only weekend off I have with DH this month and as he gets up late and stays up late I tend to go a bit short on sleep to spend time with him.

Well girls, feel free to mock. after being all excited over G's sleep he's done many wake-ups in the last few nights (poss because DH is home and snores). On the plus side DH and I got to have a date on Sat which was lovely.

G is now starting to bat my hand if I do 'give mummy five' and wants to sit on our laps for all family meals to watch us eating. I think I may need to unpack the high chair soon! Then at least we can eat with both hands instead of one.

FB was up at 11pm, 12am, 2am and 6am. I am NOT impressed.

After a thoroughly unpleasant evening of shrieking and howling, Rhys went down at 10pm. And then only woke up at 2.30am and 6am before sleeping until 8.30am. I AM impressed. And more than a little surprised. And not expecting this to continue.

laumiere thanks for the advice re: sickness bands. Will definitely invest in some if I get the job.

I really wish I had staggered the nursery time - this wasn't gone through at the time and I feel such a moron for it not having occured to me that this might be a sensible plan of action. I might ring and ask if we can give it a second go, but on for an hour or two. I hope it isn't too late and he doesn't just shriek instinctively having been left for hours the other day.

I just feel guilty in general at the moment. I'd never been keen on the idea of my hypothetical child not having siblings of a similarish age to play with but this isn't how I wanted to "play" things (for want of a better word) at all. I would have really liked 2 or 3 years of it just being James and since my relationship with DP was essentially on the rocks before his birth (and now, to be honest) I didn't envisage baby number 2 being with him, as awful as that sounds. And now we're going to have 3 children together. And all in the space of a year. He won't ever remember it just being him - which in one way is a plus but in another makes me feel very sad.

I'm trying to keep things positive though, and am running another bet amongst all my mates on the gender combo of the babies (did a similar thing with Jim only obviously just the one gender!). My initial instinct was 2 girls but now my gut's saying girl-boy. My mother's absolutely convinced that it's 2 girls though. She's not a gambler but said she'd put money on it if she were!

Oh, and good luck with the wedding venus lula!

Sorry for poor sleep (yay for good night's sleep though Corgi), but thanks for putting things in perspective - DD went down at 8.30pm and woke at 10.40, 2 (having only gone down at 12), 3.30 and 5.30 - gave up then. Feeling thoroughly down about and completely knackered - tried giving her a bottle at 10.40 last night to try and give myself at least one feed's break, but she was having none of it - not a bit!
Is currently asleep in her buggy having been on a walk with DS and I to feed the ducks.
Loli - sorry for your doubts, if it makes any difference, I don't think most children have memories of under 2 once they get older (one of the reasons they do the op that DD will need between 9 months and 2 years, so she won't be as likely to remember it), so it won't make much difference to him. And your children will all be very close and play with each other, so while it will be tough to start, you will reap the benefits (from what I have heard from other Mums).
Laumiere - that's so cute about G - DD was happier for 10 minutes sat on my lap at lunchtime today (until she decided she was hungry - again - and DH had to take her while I finished my dinner). Time to move DS out of his highchair at table methinks (it's one you pull up to table and he'll be quite happy in a normal chair - it's just keeping him there that will be difficult.
Good luck with wedding venues Lula

Rosie's sleep is pretty much asleep at 7.30ish - dream fed at 11.30ish - awake at somewhere between 3.30am and 6am for the day.

This morning it was 3.30am - so I thought "b*gger this is too early" and put her back to sleep after her milk - great, I got back to sleep too then she did a huge poo and woke herself up - ugh. So my day started at around 5am.

loli you wil do great. It will be hard work - but I can already see my dd1 "playing" with Rosie and can't wait until theu entertain themselves without the constant need for me to be there!

I have just cleared out dd1's cupboard to find some more clothes for Rosie. There is a mountain of pink clothing in there (stuff I bought for my pfb, inherited stuff from dd1's 3 girl cousins, and clothes given as pressies - some never yet worn ).

At least with all the pink no-one will mistake my hairless girls for boys

lula, I love a good wedding - post the links to your possible venues and let us all chip in with our (probably unwanted) views

Hi All

Hope you've all had a nice long weekend (for those who have it - am I right in thinking it isn't one in Scotland ? I think we were in Aberdeen last year and it wasn't one).

loli - I think its quite normal to be having doubts in your situation but if it makes you feel any better, I worry that the age gap between our 2 (4 years) won't be great as too big (even though it wasn't planned to be so big) so I think you worry whatever the situation. And I hope things work out ok with your dp.

We've had a lovely one except poor Lara has a cold which has now turned into a cough . Which meant, having suddenly last week stretched her sleeping to 6/7 and once even 8 hours she then had 2 terrible nights where she was really congested. Last night she slept for 7 hours but for the last hour of it was coughing in her sleep. She's not coughing too much in the day and is starting to sneeze snot (charming) so hopefully she is now getting rid of the gunk but its quite sad to see/hear.

On the plus side she seems to have suddenly had a growth spurt and is now happily fitting 0-3 month size clothes (no laughing those with normal size babies) and with the sleeping and the fact my nipples are no longer sore we may be seeing results from the tongue tie snip which is great.

I think L has taken a liking to DD1's bunny (her comforter) and was holding it and chewing its ears. I told DH to take it off her as we really can do without the problems of her getting attached to the mangy thing. SO we're trying to convince her to attach to the baby miffy DD1 bought her when she was born !!

wheely we are almost in 0-3 month clothes, so L sounds like a normal sized baby as far as Rosie is concerned

Sorry to hear about L's cold - Rosie has been snotty for the past week - when she eventually sneezes out huge snot lumps she sort of smiles and looks pleased!

hiya im new to mums net.... i too had a baby in march, taya leigh who was born on the 4th. she is lovely and joins her other big sister ella who is 15months old, jessica age 6 and amy age 9. congrats to you all.

LOL at Rosie being pleased with snot . Anyone know when you should worry about a cough in a baby (obv am worrying now but suspect I shouldn't - DD1 got her first cold and cough at 10 months and I panicked so at 10 weeks am finding it terribly stressful ).

On the growing out of clothes front - it now means I have to get rid of the small ones. I had got rid of the early and tiny baby stuff we'd had for miniscule dd1 but for some reason getting rid of proper newborn stuff is definite exceptance of this being 'it'. Which I am absolutely fine about really but its still hard getting rid of stuff !!

Welcome to the madhouse Vicloumic !!

lol thank you wheelybug.

for your bad night's sleep Starshine. After a fantastic fortnight of 6 hour stretches at night, F has reverted to waking at 1, 4 and then up for the day 5.15. It's hideous, especially as she's not a good daytime sleeper either and only does 40 minute naps from which she wakes up tired. I find it so hard to stay positive when I'm tired and get all the baby worries out of perspective.

Still, I should look on the bright side. She doesn't have a cold yet despite DH and DD1 having had a really bad one this week. Also, she's really started to interact. She's nearly 10 weeks now and is laughing and smiling away, especially at her sister who fascinates her.

Hope Lara's better soon Wheely.

starshine get a totseat, they're fab for keeping little wrigglers put! (www.babycurls.co.uk/totseatchairharness_993.php?gclid=CNHT8o-P2JoCFYR_3godQxN0Kw) The sites reckon they're good for up to 5 yr olds.

loli I think it's only natural to feel doubts at this time, after all you're adjusting to being a mum of one as well as being pg. If it helps at all I know DH is the man I want to grow old with and love more than anyone, and I have still considered divorcing him more than once in the last 3 months!

Yip, Loli DH and I were having some belters before I got unexpectedly pg with FB and we are fine - despite the odd rumble. We've gone through many a phase where we think there's no way it's going to last and then we come out of it again. And so it goes on. I hope that's the case for you too, and remember, it's A LOT you're going through just now so you have to cut yourselves some slack if you can.

Wheely Our age gap between DD1 and DD2 is 6.5 years and they still play together so that's great, so I'd imagine a 4 year gap would still work fine.

FB's a bit mucusy too, he's been bringing up quite a lot with some green phelgm in it too. ooohh, yummy!

Corgi If that's a good night for you, I'll shut up.

Welcome Vicloumic! 4 kids, you crazy cat!

It'll come as no surprise to any of you that FB has been in a lot of his 3-6 month stuff for a wee while now.

Got to go to hozzie tomorrow to get that mole removed. Just really hoping it's nothing. Have a history of it so pretty scared tbh. Fingers crossed.

Hmm, I need some advice girls.

I've run my own proofreading and CV writing business for about 4 years now (I will rewrite a CV or an application form for £50) and I'm very good, currently I have a 100% success record for getting a client an interview. I'm tempted to advertise on MN's small classifieds, but it's a £50 charge to place an ad, so do you think it's worthwhile?

Yes.

Didn't get a chance to finish post!

But yes, if you are getting 100% success rate - that is excellent and if it costs you the rate you would charge to do one CV then I'd say it's worthwhile.

I can proofread too. God any spare work?