August 2009 Welcome to the world all of the little princes and princesses!

[OonaghBhuna]

I would like to say congratulations to everyone that joins us on this thread and I am looking forward to hearing lots of birth stories and interesting developments of about our beautiful babies

Hiya, it took me ages to find the thread, wanted to see how eveyone is doing, now they are 8 months plus

Alex is now crawling, started last week and has soon picked up speed, he can now follow his big brother, which he thinks is great . He loves his food, is teething, but no teeth yet and he weighed in at 20lbs 7oz last Friday! The HV said he'll be a 6 footer easily! Still not decided about going back to work yet, have any of you gone back yet? Also had to stop bf at 7 months due to a very bad back and having to go onto very strong painkillers. Was quite upset at the time, but he took to the bottle very well and is very content with it, so smiles all round now.

Hope you are all doing ok

hey all, its great to hear your little ones are coming on well. its scary how quickly the past 9 months have went in, my boys are getting big, taking plenty of notice of each other now. one still bigger than the other but they're just two totally different babies, the smaller twin(t2) seems to be about a month behind his brother development wise for example he is only discovering vocal noises that his brother has been making for over a month now, he cannot sit up on his own yet but his brother has been since a few weeks back, it will take a few weeks for him to catch up on the walkie too but hes getting there. hes stronger on his tummy though, neither boys are crawling yet so maybe he will be first to do that, both teething like mad, t2 has a tooth coming up no sign of any in t1.

just wanted to know have you any experience of this, both boys have been sleeping through night without feeds for a few months, t1 goes down no bother and would never wake til morning not even for dummy, t2 goes down with a bit of rolling and twisting but dosnt take long to settle, but he seems to winge in his sleep and sometimes wakes out of his sleep, sometimes his dummy will put him over but most of the time i end up lifting him into the bed and he would go quiet straight away and fall asleep. they are still in my room but in seperate cots since about 4 weeks ago. i know i shouldnt take him into the bed but when im up a few times a night its the easiest thing to do, if i left him get so loud he would wake his brother. i dont think i could put them in a different room yet. any ideas whats going on, have i him spoiled, what should i do?

Hi valz, I think they go through phases of waking again, it could down to be his teeth. DS2 had started to sleep through, but has now reverted back to waking atleast once and it's his teeth I'm sure. Last night he woke twice and could only be settled with a bottle.

thankss vjay, probably is his teeth you know cuz he is teething like mad at the mo. i suppose i should be thankful he falls asleep by just been lifted without needing a bottle. i was worrying that because i take him in beside me he was getting too used to that and is expecting that all the time.

Valz I wouldn't worry too much about taking him into bed with you. I have been popping ds2 into bed with us because he is quite unsettled with his teeth and I'm too tired to stand or even sit there cuddling him, so I pop him inbetween us then we drift off to sleep, but I have to say that I always wake up after 10 minuts or so then move him back to his cot. He hasn't been waking the last couple of nights which has been good.

Ollie is still in our room in a cot.He wakes between 5 and 6 and comes in between us for a cuddle. I just go with the flow its easier. They grow out of this stage so dont worry about spoiling them. Its such a short time really.

Hello - Dd 9 months and just started standing up and "cruising" around the furniture, she is into everything (eg eating a pot of sudocreme when my back was turned). We moved to Tokyo a couple of months ago and starting to meet more Mums and babies and get settled in. I find sleep wise she is all over the place, a couple of days sleeping through the back to up twice a night. I also just take her in with us to feed her if she wakes up - so much easier! A lot of the time I drop off too and wake up an hour or so later. Probablly our fault for all the change we have made her endure! Lovely to have some updates.

Can you believe our babies are going to be 1 in a couple of months? This past year has just flown!

quixotic glad you have settled in , ds is now pulling himself up on the furniture, and chewing it , still no sign of any teeth yet, he's brother had quite a few at this age. As for the sleeping, we have a similar story to yours too, sleeps through some nights, others he wakes for a feed, it doesn't really bother me though.
Have decided to be a SAHM, quite excited now I've made the decision. Anyone else staying home?

Ladies its so lovely to find you all! Marsaili (Maisie) is doing great - cruising around, stairs and standing - I fear walking is just around the corner. Oh and 4 teeth (all on the bottom) and another coming in!

I'm marvelling at how many of you have little ones sleeping through - Maisie still wakes 2- 3 times a night. We're co-sleeping because I get a lot more sleep that way but we're hoping when we move and our room and her room are on the same floor but we'll see. Best laid plans and all that.

Unfortunately I've been diagnosed with postpartum depression. I didn't realise you could get it so late (I was quite the opposite for the first 6 months) but, to be honest I'm just so relieved that this isn't how I'm supposed to be feeling about everything and there's a reason why I'm struggling and crying all the time!

Lovely to catch up - I'm going to watch more closely from now on!

Emily

Hi babybump2b, sorry to hear about your pnd, but like you say, it is releif in a way that there is a reason to why you are feeling the way you are. I felt quite low about a month after I stopped breast feeding, I had to stop feeding over night due to taking stong pain killers for my back, so I don't think the hormones were helping my mood.

Ajay still has no teeth, though is teething like mad, we seem to go through phases of excessive teething, where I think the tooth must come through, then it slows right down again .

He is also criusing around the furniture too, and is into EVERYTHING

Gosh just seen that this thread is still going.

BabyBump2B - sorry to hear about the PPD,I am sure things will start turning a corner soon. I found the 1st 6 months easier than I thought but TBH the last few months have been much much harder. I have had less support from family as DS2 is no longer a 'baby baby' and DH has just been soo busy with work which has made things doubly tough as I am pretty much 24/7 with both DS's which is tough as he is not around much to help with that or anything around the house or garden. DS2 is also not sleeping though he wakes between 4am and 5am every day and sometimes 1 or 2am too, I wouldn;t mind except it takes ages to get him back off to sleep again and if it is 4.30am then he is pretty much awake for the day. I thought it was teething as he cut 6 teeth in a month but I now can;t see anymore coming through so am convinced because I have been giving him lots of cuddles to help settle him to sleep that he is now reliant on them but I am sure it is a phase and will pass eventually (hopefully!). I just don;t want to give up my sleepy cuddles as am not sure if we will have another baby and this stage doesn;t last long at all.

DS2 is also drooling like crazy, crawling, standing and into everything too which is lovely but is causing trouble with DS1's toys ... sign of the next few years I guess.
I am also still BFg although had a bad bout of mastitis a couple of weeks back which knocked me for six. Don;t think I will continue for much longer as I think DS2 is self-weaning and is less and less interested now, plus I really don;t want to have to go through mastitis again which seems to threaten a lot now due to the inconsistent self weaning feeds.

Hope everyone else is doing well. It is lovely hearing how everyone is doing.

Hello everyone, thought I'd drop by and update.

The Bug is now 10 months old, and is still virtually entirely breastfed, by which I mean that she appears to be living off me and the tiny minute quantities of rice cake that she allows to pass her lips. Every single other food item is found wanting, plates overturned, spoonful refused. She reached the grand weight of 15 lbs this week, so it's not all bad!

Like her siblings before her, she is on the verge of walking (unless I nail her to the floor (in a sitting position) first). Damn it, I still haven't tidied the house, she can't walk yet. Saying quite a few words and has a wicked sense of humour- high-fives (sister taught her), says "no no no no" whilst shaking her head when she doesn't want to do something, and most definitely has a mind of her own. If it weren't for the fact that I'm positively ancient and we both nearly died getting her here, I'd have another...

Babybump- I am sorry about the PPD, and I hope you start to feel better soon. I alway s think that the sleep deprivation is definitely a contributing factor to feeling like sh1t in every possible way. The bug is useless at sleeping- way worse than she was at 1 month, 2 months, 3 months or 4 months. In fact at the moment she is waking up anything up to 5 times a night as she's teething, rather badly as it turns out, and always at nights. It's not fun. I just keep hoping that the end is in sight.

Hi All

glad to see your wee ones are getting on great and eh getting yous up a few times a night im bad, t2 always wakes a few times every night, he rolls about that cot banging his head from one side to another, his teeth are just putting him crazy altogether, he has two at the mo. t1 used to be great, never woke once at night but this past fortnight he has been wakening maybe once a night and like his brother only ever settles when i take him into bed. i do think if i had a bed with a frame built round it the two would sleep no bother cuz theres not a peep outta them when there in my bed...crafty boys me thinks. i dont mind havin them in beside me though there just so damn cute&cuddly. My husband on the other hand, insist they're goin into there own rooms soon, which they probably should be soon but im just concerned that i'll be like a walkin zombie runnin in and out a few times a night with dummies, husband tells me i'll just have to persevere but thats something im not good at! its alright for him he'll not be the one getting up 5 times a night!! im also a bit worried about them crying for ages a me not hearing them. Just wondering is there many of you have your lo in ther own rooms yet?

valz, argh, the teeth! 7 here and counting- she has one molar and two more on the way. No idea why she's in such a hurry with them...

Bug definitely still in with us and will be until we extend the house! (in the pipeline this year we hope)

Like duchesse mine is in with us too, until the garage conversion is done, hopefully by early next year.
DS1 was in his own room from day one, we had a monitor that pick up everything, so always heard him.

well ive been sleeping in the spare room for almost a week now to see how the boys get along on there own, hav a monitor on, i have to say i have been up and down to them a few times a night but never had to lift one of them out in beside me. i think i was to quick to lift them when i was in the room with them, either that or they sense im not in that room and dont look to get lifted into bed. cant believe they are 1 in under a week, its scarin me how times flyin in. all im hearing these days is "ya'll go again soon im sure...." Anyone else hearing anything similar or indeed planning another addition in the next year?

Hi valz, no I'm done, I have ds1 whose 7 and ds2 and I'm quite happy with that
I can't believe our babies will be 1 so soon too, mine has just started walking, and while it's fab, it's also quite sad too, he's just growing too fast

hiya all

aaishah is crawling now, still not eating much and breastfeeding loads

oh yeh im pregnant ...

x

Hi All,

DS is 11 months now and is cruising round everything he can at the moment, giggles a lot and has 4 teeth. He doesn't really have any words yet but he definitely is trying to say stuff all the time. He has been sleeping through for about 2 months, but i went back to work two weeks ago and he has been unsettled since then, waking up to 4 times a night.

Valz my DS has been in his own room since he was 5 months old, but only because i had a terrible chest infection and was coughing a lot and didn't want to disturb him. We have found that he sleeps much better and on the occasion when we have stayed at friends or been away and he has been in the same room as us we wake up in the night far more often and i think we disturb him too. I really worried about him being on his own for ages but found that it was less disturbing for my husband and DS got used to it fairly quickly.

BabyBump, hope all is ok, or at least as ok as it can be.

and Mama2 wow, congratulations!

Congratulations mama2, when are you due?

Hi all, KKQ here, I couldn't find this thread at all and just spent a lovely hour or so trawling through 3 antenatal threads to get to it, its amazing the things I had forgotten about in the days and weeks prior to Isaac being born, reading through everyones birth announcements was like reliving those days.

Big Big Congrats to mama2 I would love another, but I somehow very much doubt Mr kickarse would let me get away with it!

(((((Big Unmumsnetty hugs to all you lovely ladies, and happy birthday to all your 1 year old babies)))

:)

Awww cheers KitKat/KickArse!

Leo is in bed now after puking all late afternoon/evening. Bloody nursery, he picks up everything going it seems.

I am still breastfeeding, and did the thing-I-swore-I'd-never-do yesterday--fed him whilst he was sitting in the shopping trolley, in the middle of Tesco. It is amazing how my attitudes towards BFing have changed. I was always in favour, just never saw beyond the first six months. Now I'm not quite sure when it will stop! He still has at least two feeds a day.

He's not walking yet but is standing unaided. Occasionally says 'buh buh' and waves, says 'da da' for most everything else.

Hope all of you and your babies are well.

Just wanted to say "Hi!". Dropped in while thinking about discount codes for Christmas.

Hope everyone's well... or at least not struggling too much.

Going back to work was fupping awful for me... very very stressful for a number of reasons.

The little one is a dream though. Sleeps through from about 8 and likes extended naps during the day. Eats anything, still BFing morning and night. I feel very lucky... as I cling on for dear life!

Hi Hawk, :) Your LO really is a dream! I'm on 2-3 wakes a night atm! Sorry going back to work was so stressful for you, I'm now trying to work out what to retrain as for when this one starts school, and I'm getting panic attack feelings just thinking about it! :(

To me working mums are bloody amazing because I couldn't do it when they are so small and I suspect I'm going to be very crap when the time comes!

Glad you appeared, I don't watch this thread any more, but I was looking for some info for someone and came across your post. Good to see you again :)