June 2005 babies

[uwila]

Hi everyone. Thought it was time we have a post-natal thread.

[bubbaloo]

kvg-glad you had a better nights sleep last night.we did too.ds had his last feed at 10.30,then slept right through till 6am this morning,so im feeling really energised today.
we did think about a crib but the ones ive seen dont actually look that much bigger than a moses basket,so i'll probably stick with the travel cot.we were going to get one today but we've had a housefull and they've only just left.maybe i will try the gym ball,thanks but thats if i can be bothered to inflate it again.

franni-hope you enjoyed the bbq.certainly great weather for it!

trib-your neighbours sound a nightmare.are you friendly with them? perhaps you could mention how hard your'e finding it trying to settle toby and that loud noises arent helping.must be really frustrating for you.

jonah-ive also just had some carrot cake and it was yummy!!!

[lynny70]

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[eastyorksmum]

Evening junies hugssssssss

wow what a hot day it has been today. william has been very unsettled we went to see grandma and he didnt settle all afternoon.

Breast feeding is still hard work so tiring especially at 2 am in the morn he seems to take just 5 mins and fall asleep so ive tryed passifying him with dummy.

Hubby is lovely will wake early and take william so i can get some sleep. i dont know what ill do when he goes back to work next week.

Midwife comming tomoro weighing william again i think with all the feeding he must have put on some weight.

Hope we all have a better nite maybe its the heat thats why our babies wont settle. Will try and feed william again soon i found that waking him up
last nite let us have a better nite sleep.

I hope all you breast feeding mums are eating supper too.

Nite ladies love to the babies xxxxxxxxxx

[Tessiebear]

Just to say a quick "hello". Havnt had a second to get on the computer - and now Joseph has just woken up!!! Bit mad here - constantly feeding, Mastitis, crying loads, unsettled baby.
Tired me!!

[Franniban]

Morning girls,

Yes, Lummox, that's pretty much what dd does on the sleep front. I find it easier of I can get at least one 3/4 hour stretch.
Lynny, those squares sound fantastic. Will have to find out where the nearest Pumkin patch is to me.
Very strange in our house hold this morning, I've had to get out of bed as dh has gone to work. He's got a part time job at the local supermarket, to keep the wolves at bay! So the usual morning shift was not so enjoyable for me, dozing while dh gives ds his breakfast. I know, I've been really lucky to have dh around for so long, will have to get used to it!
I'm going to have to do a mega cook up today, as ds cannot survive on fishfingers and pasta alone. I get stumped as to what to feed him. I've kind of gone off Annable Karmel. Any ideas?
Trib, what a nightmare for you with your neighbours! Do they know you've got a newborn? Or are they just ignorant?
Well I must go and hoover, as ds is asleep, and it means I don't have to carry him around as I hoover, saying "nice hoover, lovely hoover" to stop him balling his eyes out!
Hope you have a good day all, xxx

[welshmum]

Bit of a saga of woe here I'm afraid. I bent over to pick up ds to feed him at 4am and have totally but my back out - was crying with pain. I'm off to the osteopath at lunchtime hopefully to get 'cured'. It hurts so much to do almost anything, I'm alternating between crying and swearing and poor dh has to take yet more time off work to ferry me about. I just want to shout 'Isn't having a new baby hard enough work???????'
Ds has gone back to being unhappy in the evenings too so I've started him on colief drops as recommended by a friend who had the same problem. I hesitate to say they're working but he's definitely way less uncomfortable in the night now. We'veonly been doing it for 24 hours so hopefully will see more improvement soon.
Anyway ladies apologies from the heart for moaning so much but I have definitely hit a real low point.
Love to all and especially bubb - you've got it so much worse than me x

[Lua]

Morning all...
Bubb, sorry to hear about your tail bone. Take care of yourself!
Tessie, hope life gets less chaotic soon!
We had a bit better night. Couple of three hours sleep, which does wonders to me!

We have our 6 weeks appointment and I am now fretting over jabs!!! We have some family history of autoimmune diseases so we gave DD vaccines at a slow pace so we had time to see how she was reacting to it. But here we seem to have no choice. AAARGHHH! What is so wrong with choice?
Rant over.
What is everybody else doing???

[Lua]

P.S.: Welshie, hope the osteopath cures you! big hugs!

[welshmum]

Thanks Lua - fingers crossed
Seem to remember forgetting to respond to a question you asked me about moving ds from our bed to his basket. Afraid I've got no secret I just keep on trying him. The first stint after the 10pm feed is the most successful, I sometimes get all of 4 hours kip. I'm sure it's his wind that's been upsetting him and I'm hopeful that once that's sorted he'll be more inclined to sleep apart from me. Let me know how you're getting on too - we reluctant co-sleepers need to stick together

[katzguk]

lua - first jabs at 8weeks and you can space them if you want the choice is yours! i have friends how waited 6weeks rather than 4 between the jabs

[katzguk]

i'm not mentioning sleep - don't want to be linched or jinx DD2's excellent sleeping!!

[bubbaloo]

oh no welshie-i know whats its like to have back pain,how awful.lets hope the osteopath helps!

well...so much for my little darling sleeping through the night.he went down at 10.45 and slept through till 4am which im certainly not complaining about,BUT he's stayed awake grizzling since then and im shattered.have already done 5 nappy changes this morning,so looks like he's going for a world record today.

[LipstickMum]

Hello everyone

Busy weekend in the Lippy household, god knows how I managed, but it was great.

Bubbs, sorry about your tailbone That's gotta hurt! Rest as much as possible.

Welshie, What are you playing at woman!!?? You poor thing Do you have a hunky osteopath..? Back pains are awful, so debilitating. Lots of love to you both.

Dd2 was feeding like a crazy baby this morning, I am tired, tired.

Dd1 fast asleep covered in sand and paint after a morning playing with 1 of her little friends.

I'm still eating for England and yet not putting on a pound, breastfeeding is like magic!

Love, Lippy

[eastyorksmum]

Afternoon ladies hugsssssssss

We had a better nite sleep william woke ar 11 for a feed then didnt wake till 5.30 am feel like a new women lol.

Just waiting on midwife and health visitor william is fast asleep im trying not to let him slepp so much during the day.

Im sorry to hear about you ladies with the back problems hugsss try and rest.

Hubby going back to work next monday dont know what ill do without him he will help me do everything when it comes down the care of william, hes lovely anyway.

anyway hope we all have a nap this afternoon think we could all do with one xxxxxxxxxx

[bubbaloo]

KVG-poor you! youve every reason to feel like that.no-one ever said being a mummy was easy!
i suppose im fairly lucky in the sense that ds does sleep most of the night and hardly ever cries,but he was up at 4am this morning and stayed awake grizzing untill lunchtime.i thought i was going to go crazy,so sympathies for those with colicky babies and babies that cry alot-i take my hat off to you as i dont think id be able to cope as well.

has anyone else not been out with their baby on their own yet,or is it just me?.

i hoping to go out just the 2 of us on either weds or friday to get him weighed.i do suffer from mild panic attacks/nerves so it's a real big deal for me,but im determined to do it so wish me luck.

if i can get myself "cured",i might even show my face at a future southern meet up.

[mrsflowerpot]

Hi ladies

Have been having big problems with my laptop the last week so have been seriously Mumsnet deprived - hopefully it's all fixed now.

How is everyone, Welshie and Bubba, sorry to hear about the back problems - nothing worse is there, particularly given how much bending is involved with tiny babies. Bubba, sorry too to hear about your horrible fright with Oscar, but glad he's well and home with you.

KVG, hope you're feeling more yourself soon, these first few weeks are hard emotionally, I had forgotten how hard they are tbh.

Tessiebear, I missed your birth announcement so congratulations! (sorry about the mastitis, hope it's clearing up)

We're all fine here, bit sleep deprived and constantly covered in baby spew but basically OK. DD is a really easy baby so far. Ds has been a bit of a handful, reserving all his most spectacularly bad behaviour for me, but he's been better this weekend and today he's been great. He had his sports day this morning which was so cute, until he got confused in the relay race and then was too upset to do the next race, bless him. DD slept through the whole thing, which was most obliging of her as it meant I could just park her at the side and give ds all my attention which has really shown in his better behaviour today.

DH is away tonight for the first time since dd arrived, so this is my first night on my own with both of them, hope dd sleeps as well as she did last night (5 hours! ds didn't do that for about 3 months). House has gone on the market and dh starts the new job full time on 1 August, but we don't have anywhere to live down there yet or a school for ds - details, details.

Right, off to gaze in the fridge looking for inspiration. Don't really fancy food at the moment at all, so end up getting hungry at odd times and eating biscuits. Not a good way to proceed with the postnatal diet really.

Hope everyone is OK, hope also to be around more assuming laptop stops randomly crashing.

[MrsWednesday]

Welshie, so sorry to hear about your back, it really isn't what you need at the moment. I hope the Osteopath sorted it out for you.

KVG luvvie, wish I could give you a big real life hug. You've verbalised everything I felt first time round with DS1. Are there any other friends nearby who have babies that you could go and visit? They won't mind a crying baby (and your own crying baby always sounds louder to you than to anyone else). Even a walk in the park helps to break up the day a bit, stopping you from feeling quite so trapped. For me, going to a post-natal group arranged by my local health clinic was a life-saver - meeting other women with babies the same age as mine made me realise I wasn't the only one who was struggling. Is there anything like that local to you?

Just on the practical side, could you try the Colief drops Welshie mentioned? One of my rl friends had great success with them too. This won't last forever, honestly it won't. Hope your DD has a better night tonight.

Still in the reluctant co-sleepers club here . Am managing to get him to sleep for the first part of the night in his cot but after that he's snuggled up next to me.

Tessiebear, hope things settle down for you soon. How are your DSs coping with the new arrival?

[MrsWednesday]

All the very best of luck Bubb

Cross-posted - Good to see you again MrsF. Hope all goes well without your DH there tonight.

[mogwai]

Hey all

Wedding ring fits!!

Ok can anyone beat THIS?

You know I said I was having a major problem with visitors? Well tonight I was watering my hanging basket and who should turn up with a card but MY OLD BIOLOGY TEACHER . I left school 16 years ago. She had heard about my baby "on the grapevine".

So you get the picture about problems with visitors....I wasn't joking!!

[mogwai]

sorry - Lippy - I'm just outside manchester

[teabelly]

Hi there,

Flying visit - will catch up properly tomorrow if poss...

Little jinx heard me last time so the omneo has been given up in favour of the normal cow & gate formula for 3 days now as dd at least likes that...not saying anymore as jinx may be around but so far so

Welshie poor you with your back and Bubb too

We had ds on the colief drops when he was little and they made an amazing diference to us so I hope they work for all those now trying it

Re dh and night times...whilst I'm off I'm up to dd at night all the time, except fri/sat when we take turns. But as soon as I'm back at work it be on a turn by turn basis (which is what we did with ds and works well for us)

Hello Coop/Charley nice to hear from you again

Vicky - thanks for the personal update - still don't know how you manage 3 so young tho

Sibling rivalry - he he he - Lynny have to agree with Charley the nakedness did make me smile too . And we have exactly the same here...suddenly ds has to go for a wee when I'm feeding dd, and apparently this now has to be done in the nude! Which is fine when we're at home, but I think my friend was shocked when ds suddenly stripped off and started running around her house last week shouting 'I'm a little nudy boy' at the top of his voice!

Who's having 6 hour sleeps?? No boasting on here ladies ...some of us are grateful for 3 hours between feeds!

Right best be off on that note as I can here distinct stirring from upstairs....x

[uwila]

Hello everyone. Sorry about your back, Welshie.

Both my children have been peacefully sleeping for a howle 2 1/2 hours now... ahhh bliss!

Lua, I'm sort of delaying the vax as well. When I was pregnant with DD, my cousins son was diagnosed with autism. And it just brought the whole MMR debate (which I had previously disregarded due to lack of compelling evidence to support heir case) home. DD has had single jabs (last one was last week). So for this new 5 in 1 I got to thinking that it wouldn't really hurt just to put them back a bit. So I think instead of 8, 12, and 16 weeks we'll try more for 12, 16, and 20 weeks. I can't really see that an extra 4 weeks will do any harm. The only reason for this is that I've read that some people think the introduction of vaccines actually inhibits the normal development of the immune system. No idea if this is true, but just in case I thought I'd delay a bit.