May 2009 - we're all here! btw, does anyone know what the Hungry Cry sounds like?

[Momino]

phew! how many threads have we done since last aug?

What a little monkey! Don't worry, calm down, she is safe and NOTHING happened. I guess it has happened to most people. DS1 escaped from a caravan we'd rented for a week, which meant that we had to cut short our holiday as there was no way of containing him! Like you I felt terrible.

Today has been one of the worst days I've ever experienced as a parent to the extent that I wonder why I had any DCs at all.

Hi All,

trying to keep up - Emmab sounds like you did the right thing contacting the police about your neighbour - a scary thing to see though.

I took advantage of the Figleaves code too and have now got on a Anita 38G nice white nursing bra - ta very much! although checked online today and only £30 left in the current account so looks like we will be living on the credit card until pay day end of next week - ooops - supposed to be cutting back and being more prudent to get debt cleared mmmm...

DS still feeding like a demon but good at night for sleeping - last couple of days have given a FF bottle too as top up when I have been too tired / sore to BF anymore.

emmab agree you did the right thing calling the police and also how scary E getting out of your flat.

Belgian how nice to have a settled baby

very happy today as DD1 had her degree results ( she has been doing English at St Mary's in London ) and has got a First !

But Arghh teenagers - DS2 in a strop becase I won't let him take my laptop to a house party and told me i'm out of order, never do anything for him and really does not understand why i said no

Emmab Don't worry. It happens to all of us. DS got up early one day when he was 2.5, got dressed and then went out (to go to the playground he later said). A little old lady waiting by the busstop at the end of the road noticed DS crossing the road and walked him back to where she'd seen him come from. They were met by me running down the street panicking in my dressing gown . Thank god for little old ladies. We did have a childproof front door lock (and still have) but obviously it didnt keep in DS, though it does tend to keep in adult visitors

blotted what's happened that's so bad?

pula Funny how our babies are so similar. I wonder if they'd grow up to be good friends if we lived a bit close . C's woken up now and has been a bit more demanding since, but she did go from 1-4.30 in her pram! Best ever during the day I think.

blotted- sorry to hear you've had a really bad day

EBmom- that is one clever toddler to work out the stairgate (and the front door for that matter) - mine have never been able to figure them out, so don't blame yourself. But like you say, some locks on the top of the door would make you feel much better that she won't be able to repeat her escapology performance.

rosielady- I am also tempted to give FF top-ups the way my DS2 is feeding. Tonight he fed 5-7.30pm almost non-stop including 3oz of EBM in between BF to give my breasts chance to fill up, which makes me think he could be taking on 8oz or so? He had just had a 3 hour nap so guess he was hungry.

sorry if I am a bit late on this but Detsy - I would be up for a meet at Bluewater, would be not too far for me. I'll look out to see if anyone else can make it over there.

Has anyone else lost their appetite ? - so weird but mine has gone completely I just don't fancy eating anything.
I have eaten one toasted muffin today and thats it. I just can't find anything I want to eat. Which I know is not good for the BF'ing at all. I am drinking plenty of fluids mainly squash and some milkshakes but that is all I fancy really.

DS2 has been the same and is hardly eating at all - in fact I had to interrupt I's feeding 3 times because D was playing up at the dinner table. I felt really awful yanking him off my boob just to jump up and tell D not to hurl his plate across the table again.
I is the only one eating in this house today, and he is now on the 3-4 week old growth spurt and feeding every 2 hours mostly.

Oh btw I posted a short little vid on FB of Isaac's rolling over trick. he did it twice and as I grabbed the camera he went the opposite way. I read that many babies do it and then forget and have to learn all over again in a couple of months time. he obviously doesn't like his tummy time at all - quite funny though.

PML at BelgianC's car - Christines sister !! Quality, I wish my car could drive me by itself right now as not allowed to drive for another couple of weeks.

EmmaB'smom, similar thing happened with my DS2 while he was staying with grandma - after her swearing the garden was safe he 'somehow' managed to open the back gate and run towards the main road outside her house - Grandad spotted him, chased him and rugby dived grabbing his legs with them both skidding towards the kerb narrowly missing a car - Grandma nearly had a heart attack, Grandad and DS2 both bruised and grazed knees and hands and can you believe it but Grandma put DS2 in the naughty chair, which is where he was when I arrived and had the story relayed to me. ... me speechless, Grandad was outside fixing locks the back gate !!! A few days later he worked out how to open our front door so don't feel bad/alone I think nearly all mums have a similar story.

Blotted hope you are feeling better tomorrow.

Just been reading all the excellent advice on BF'ing on this thread - I don't know what we would do without such support and advice - it's great to know you are all there... bigs hugs everyone xx

blotted, I hope you're ok. please come on here and vent if you need to. we're all here for you .

emmabsmom, that is so scary. your heart must have been in your throat, bless you. our dd1 has figured out how to open our back gate which opens onto a very busy road. when she did, we were so scared but am happy to say she didn't venture. DH - like yours - went out same day to get those sliding lock thingies.

3ofeach, well done to your dd1, that's great !

Hi all
Ebsmom - how scary but what a clever dd. Glad she is ok

Blotted - hope you are ok

Been feeding A constantly again today and she hasn't slept more than an hour apart from when dh came home and let me have 2 hrs in bed so I feel refreshed now.

Hope all have a good night x x

I just wondered if any LOs are smiling at their mummies, because S is 5.3 weeks old and looks like he might smile, but hasn't quite done one yet . I keep grinning madly at him, but just get a blank response

smiling Same here. C keeps looking like she might smile any minute, but hasn't actually done it yet. I'm hoping it's soon. Both other dcs were 6 weeks and C is not 5.4 weeks. I'm also making a fool of myself smiling at her and telling her to give me a smile, in response C just stares at the wall behind me
Another thing I keep doing is admiring her legs. She's got the best chubby legs I've ever seen on any 5 w/o!

minim I tried to watch your little clip, but the Flash player thingy is playing up and it wont work. I've tried to fix it, but it's no good so far. I'll keep trying

Appetite I was just saying to DH today that my appetite is a lot smaller than when I was pregnant. DH stupidly said it was because I'm not nurturing a baby anymore now I'm not pregnant. What does he think my boobs are doing at the moment. Men...

Sorry not caught up on everything...

smiling - exactly the same here. O seems like he may at any moment

Earlier I was thinking that DS is becoming more settled. However, ever since he's pretty much been constantly feeding from me since 5.30pm!! I guess he is 6 weeks tomorrow so maybe he's hitting a growth spurt!?!

It's not helped that I had a bit of expressed BM to give him and DH accidentally put it in a non-sterilised bottle. I'm not annoyed with DH as he was trying to help, just frustrated.
Am a little worried that DH isn't findin fatherhood what he expected. He's said a few negative comments like "Mummy's better at changing nappies than Daddy" and after this evening's waste of BM "I'm fucking useless". This isn't like him. I'm trying to ignore any negatives and just thank him for positives at the moment. I've also got him a really cute Fathers Day card from Photobox with 2 piccies of him and DS on.

WARNING TMI

any reason why sex should be painful when I had M by caesarian?

ses- even thought i sterilise my bottles and stuff, i know a lot of people who think it isn't necessary so you could always use the milk if you really need to (if you haven't chucked it already).

looby- I seem to remember sex being a bit uncomfortable last time when I had a cs- i think i just thought i was a bit out of practice. Not tried this time yet (poor DH is sorting himself out every few days ). I'm planning on a fathers day surprise for him though with my hot milk undies

ses Maybe your dh needs some quality time on his own with ds. Dh used to take ds in the bath with him and that was great for bonding and playing. Also try and encourage him to do more nappies etc... The more he does he more confident he'll become. Other than that you're doing the right thing with praising the positives.

Looby as your bf, you might be a bit dry IYKWIM. Otherwise I'm not sure. If it continues I'd go and see my GP

Just say that frazzled posted on F/B that baby H is giving her lots of grins. I want baby grins too.

prob silly of me but I didn't think it would hurt as M didn't come out that way - bloody sore now perhaps I'm a bit rusty

BelgianC I had probs with the flash player thing today too - they must have changed it recently because I put a video on there ages ago and it was okay. So annoying when they update and change things that work fine.

pula I did lol at momino's 'I'm your mummm' and did the same to dd2 - but with northern accent 'I'm yer mummm' and she grinned at me

will persevere.....

and then there are the variations

Better go. C seems to be hungry again again. Hopefully she's filling up to go a nice long stretch in the night. She seems to have fed every hour since about 6.

I'm off to bed hope M wants to sleep too

Hi all. Harper has been giving me an open mouth bright smile which as been lovely. I wish she were smiling at me now . She's been unsettled for the past few hours which is unlike her. She's usually down by at least 8.30 then sleeps till 3/4am. she had those wild, huge eyes earlier - isn't that overtiredness? how, but how do you calm down an overtired baby?

she fussed from when we put her down then fussing turned into screaming. we rocked, changed, burped and i've now just fed her (and let her use me as a dummy) for about 90 min on and off. put her back in the basket where she promptly started screaming again, i ignored her knowing nothing is wrong (that is obvious) and the crying then got to me so i yelled at her to shut up. how silly am i?

DH has now taken her in the basket out of this room so i can cool down. i guess i needed a break from her, maybe. see? I told you earlier I was going mad. maybe sleep will help. i can't hear her anymore so she must have succombed to sleep.

meme me me again. sorry.
hope you're all getting zzzzz.

Momino- hope H has dropped off now. I find if S is getting overtired i have to swaddle him and feed him for ages (usually stroking his face or covering his eyes to cut out any stimulation and encourage him to shut his eyes). I don't think you're mad - I was shouting at S yesterday too .

S has been asleep since 7.30pm so what am i doing still up?! I am sure he will come round for a feed as soon as i creep into the bedroom as he's not quite up to H's usual standards of sleeping 7/8 hours. Usually 4 if we're lucky...