Hi everyone.
Looks like I've come back to a new thread. It only took me half an hour to catch up
First and foremost. I hope that all of you with aches and pains/colds/poorly dcs get better soon.
BF bras I'm hoping that once I've lost a bit more weight I'll be able to fit in a hotmilk bra. Luckily my cup size hasn't changed from when I was pregnant as I'd feared. A 36FF is big enough as it is. At the moment I've got a truly hideous one from Bravissimo. It's cups come so high up that I can't wear half my tops. They even peek out of my H&M nursing top. But it's no use buying a new one now. I want to wait to get refitted to as close to our holiday as possible in the hope that I will have lost even more weight by then.
C really puzzles me, you know. At night, say about 10, you can put her down on the sofa/in her crib, but not her pram and she'll just lie there and quietly drop off. During the day (like now) when she's tired, she screams and screams and I can't settle her to sleep at all, except for in the sling and occasionally on the boob, but often she gets upset because there's too much milk coming out when she just wants a bit of comfort . I really don't understand why she just goes to sleep with no rocking/holding/feeding at night and not during the day. I'm trying to think what's different, but I can't really think of anything. It's not even the dark that makes a difference, because at night she'll fall asleep in a fully lit living room.
Spangle Was it you who was on a progesterone only pill with a 12h window, rather than the usual 2h one? What's it called? I think I'll ask the GP to prescribe me that while I'm waiting for my 1st period (coil needs to be fitted during a period).
Our camping trip was a success. C even had her best sleep ever down there. On sat she fed every 2h on the dot and because we were just relaxing and not doing much I could just do as she liked. At about 10 she fell asleep and then slept until 3.30 and after that woke at 7! Normally she does a 5h sleep from about 10-11 and then goes 2h after that (bit like H, spangle). I felt like a normal human being on sun!
The drive home on the other hand was a bit of a nightmare. I can't remember who mentioned their dcs being OK as long as you travel at some speed. Well C is the same. As long as I was on the motorway doing a decent speed she was quiet, but then we hit a big traffic jam on the M1 and she screamed through the whole time. I was on my own with the 3 dcs, so all I could do was try and block it out or I would have gone mad. It's v. stressfull to hear your lo scream like that and not being able to do anything about it. Anyway. When we got home she screamed throught the unpacking of the car, but I needed dc1 and 2's pillow and duvet to put them to bed (it was 9pm) so I had to sort them first. As I was unpacking I noticed ds had weed on the back seat of the car. Not just a little leak either the whole space where he was sitting was soaking and his shorts too. I can tell you I went ballistic, screaming at him and really having to control myself from giving him a few slaps. He's 7 and he knows how to 1) hold it and 2) tell me so I can stop at the services. He never once told me he needed a wee. It turns out he just let it flow because they were watching a DVD and he didn't want to miss a thing . So DH and I have decided that they can't watch any more DVD's in the car for now.