Nov 09 and we're feeling fine, feeding, burping, not enough sleeping - that's us!

[BeckyBendyLegs]

Just thought I'd better create a new thread.

Raggie how about a trip to Burford?

someone posted an oatmeal cookie recipe earlier, i can't find it. Can you repost it.

Also, kyte's chocolate cookie one too. Talking of which, we have not heard from her in a long while...hope she is ok.

Who else have we not heard from?

thanks everyone for the info on scarlet fever, am not so worried about if he does get it.

I also was wondering if anyone had kyte's cookie recipe, as I had it but have lost it, and is a big hit here. keep getting asked when i am making more, and to make batches specially for them, but mil and step fil and fil and step mil!

there definately isnt as many on this thread as I'd thought there'd be. am another thinking of what kyte is up to.

by* not but. lol

Just checking in... will catch up on news in a min.

Did spot 'Clooney day' comment from wook. Yum. My Clooney day is this Friday - do try not to tire him out will you?

just bookmarking

Whats Clooney day! George adoration???here in Geneva he is plastered everywhere..makes a walk a pleasure...better go cook!

Ninja Alfie was a big baby at birth, wasn't he? We had our 6 week checks today too, at 7 and a half weeks , and Ethan was 11lbs 15 and a half, up from 7lbs14 at birth. He has put on 1lbs11 in a fortnight so may be catching up with Alfie.

Good to see sleepless and misssese back!

I'm also changing nappies around 10/11pm in an effort to wake him up & encourage a bigger feed and also to avoid leakages as he doesnt then get changed until 7/8am.

Having some very weird sleeps here from Ethan. Put him in the cradle at 9pm last night, he slept for 45mins then woke up very upset. After about 3 hours he did a poo, I think that had been upsetting him. He wouldn't settle after that either but eventually fell asleep after a feed at 2:30 then didn't wake until 8:15 - his longest stretch yet between feeds. Got a bit of a surprise when I realised he was still awake when I woke up this morning - first time in a long time I haven't been woken by a hungry baby! Hope he settles down well tonight but after most of the day pram napping while we were out, I'm not holding my breath!

Today was my first day out on the bus with the pram. It's not easy is it? I think I need L plates!

Here's Kyte's recipe:

Millies Style Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

125g butter, softened
100g light brown soft sugar
125g caster sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
175g self-raising flour
50g cocoa
½ tsp salt
200g chocolate chips (we did half milk, half white choc drops)

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4.

1. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.

1. Sift in the flour, cocoa and salt, then the chocolate chips.

1. Roll into walnut size balls, and squish / flatten (if you do bigger sizes add a little more cooking time)

1. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting - the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges.

1. Take out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack.

Pav here's Kytes's recipe

Millies Style Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

125g butter, softened
100g light brown soft sugar
125g caster sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
175g self-raising flour
50g cocoa
½ tsp salt
200g chocolate chips (we did half milk, half white choc drops)

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4.

1. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.

1. Sift in the flour, cocoa and salt, then the chocolate chips.

1. Roll into walnut size balls, and squish / flatten (if you do bigger sizes add a little more cooking time)

1. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting - the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges.

1. Take out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack.

fairybex sorry to hear you're weepy. Hope your mood improves and the baby calms down.

scarlotti I think I'd be interested in the close sling, please. A friend of ours lives in Brighton and is coming to see us soon, he could pick it up perhaps. Please let me know how we can sort this out if you're interested.

Not a chance of getting away without changing nappies at night, the poo-machine I gave birth to... Can't even not wipe her bum not to wake her. She manages to go off to sleep on her own after the 1 am feeding, thank god. We have had a couple of mornings when she'd wake up 5 or 6 and wouldn't settle, think she has bad tummy, as there's a lot of noise, and not all of it crying

Thank you both, now I can keep in the in-laws good books!

Thank you both, now I can keep in the in-laws good books!

whoops, how did that happen?!

Pav here's the oatmeal cookie recipe I made - www.101cookbooks.com/archives/nikkis-healthy-cookies-recipe.html - it's very banana-chocolatey.

We've I've started putting LO down at 6pm in the bedroom in the hopes that DH & I can have some evening time to ourselves. It takes some initial investment but if I leave her in her basket with her dummy she will drift off, eventually. Sometimes.

YEY thank you for the recipes! I was meant to be doing them today, but did not happen as Reuben wanted my attention all evening, so tomorrow morning DD and I are going to trash the kitchen do some baking together.

Reuben has a nappy changed at around 10pm or so, then not again until i can be bothered to get up we wake up first thing.

Reuben has no routine! I have tried to figure out what routine he might have, even if it is backwards (night/day). He tends to wake from whatever sleep he has had around 4am or so? Then, he either goes back to sleep or he is awake until about 6am ish, then he likes to sleep til about 8am? Most mornings we can rely on the 6am-8am sleep, but the rest, its like chucking up a pack of cards into the air and seeing where they land! Especially as DD gets up at 6:30am ish and likes to talk to him!!

He still cluster feeds of an evening. I thought this might be due to comfort sucking, but not so judging from last night when he drank about 130ml or so of bottle plus lots of boob over the course of the evening from 8pm or so. Seeing as I am intending on feeding him his bottle in the evening, should I just not feed during this time, and give him boob at around 8ish and then nothing (maybe try a dummy?) til his bottle at 11pm and make it bigger? and then nothing for a couple of hours? Or keep on letting him feed all evening/night til he drops off?

Does anyone else, especially those with children already, have any moments where they completely forget what on earth they are doing? This evening, i completely wobbled and just felt like i don't really know what I am doing. I have felt so confident up to now, not overly so, just like, yes second time around, i do know a bit more, i feel more relaxed. But today, i felt like 'what am i doing? am i doing it right? why don't i know what to do?' and my confidence seems a bit knocked. I guess I am just tired as he was awake much of the last couple of nights, due to a sudden burst of awareness of the world, like 'hello?!! there are people and things around me! I cannot sleep'.

Grr. DH says he will take the awake but happy enough boy for a bit. He had started to grump a little in his moses basket, for attention. So, he takes him next door and I see this little bod being whisked off, his face over the shoulder of his dada, and he looks content, wide eyed watching me as he is bundled off into the front room. Then, after 5 mins, he starts crying. Which means he has been plonked in his rocker.

Sometimes a lot he just wants to be cuddled, walked around, held, but DH is like 'oh he is happy, i can put him down' no, he is happy because you have not put him down. Then he gets picked up and he looks so like 'you know i want to be held, why did you do that?' with these sad eyes. Why can't he just hold him when he cries? It is not exactly relaxing.

pav I am delighted that Reuben has no routine!! Neither does Ethan. I think I'll start keeping a diary in an effort to identify any patterns. He's usually good with the night/day differentiation but even this has been a bit hit & miss of late.

I figure the diary will help me see patterns & encourage his own routine or confirm that every day is different and I can start tearing my hair out!

Similar story here. DP tried to soothe our fractious baby for an hour around 1am this morning but wouldn't get out of bed to walk him around & allow me to doze, lay in bed expending as little energy as possible which resulted in baby & mother getting more and more upset. Men!

scarlotti just looked at the facebook group. Not sure if you know but there's a list with real names & nicknames on the discussions page.

Ahh! I should be sleeping now. Had both dcs up in the night.Ds is away to nursery and Anya is sleeping but I am sitting online trying to get football tickets for my dh Must learn to say "no".

OK tickets bought, going for a lie down. How long will it take for Anya to wake up once my head hits the pillow? I give it 30 seconds

Checking in...still in the house of plague...

I have the same issue with dh here, Ioan cries so he'll take him and then sit on the sofa watching him cry and trying to get him to take the dummy. No, he doesn't want that, he just wants to be up on your shoulder having a look around Anyone would think he'd been looking after him all day and not just walked in the door from being out at work.

claire thanks, will check out the page!

skorpion are you on the fb group? If so I'll get in touch with you that way

The only routine I've instilled is the bedtime one so that I get an evening. The day times are much more fluid although he always sleeps for 45 mins around 2 hours after he's woken. Today I'm going to town so he'll be dozing all day in the pram probably, although have decided to put the pushchair bit on it so he can see more of what's going on to keep him awake.

Pav I did the dummy in the evening thing too break the cluster feeding cycle once I was happy the growth spurt had finished and when I was ready to reclaim my evenings. I wanted to make sure he'd take plenty from the bottle. He was snacking all evening but wasn't really hungry iyswim. Worked for us but I think part of it was that I was ready to put him to bed at night. Up until then I'd wanted him snoozing and snacking on my lap

Can I ask what the facebook group is? Can anyone join? Thanks

Fruit search for Mumsnet November 2009 group on fb and ask to join. One of the lovely ladies here who are admin's will accept your request.
Gives us a good way to get in touch with each other outside of mn - great for selling things etc as you don't have to publish any personal details on mn!