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?

ooh and scarlotti not sure about the wine thing. I've been much more relaxed this time around but I never have more than 1/3 glass and feed normally.

Best and worst presents well as I bought and wrapped all he presents in this house everything i got was just what I wanted

New years resolutions : lose 15kgs (i can't put it in stones as its a scary amount!),learn dutch, get organised, finish DIY... maybe a bit too much...think my resolution wil be to take things easy in 2010

scarlotti on kellymom it says 2% of alcohol goes into milk and it takes about an 1 ou 1 1/2 hours to eliminate from the bloodstream and hence milk.

OMG I've just realized i'm starting back at work in 26 days!!!!! Up at 6 with 2dc, droppping ds1 at school ds2 at childminders (at the otherside of town) on foot.. in the middle of winter...then 2 hour commute to the office....starting to panic already. Oh well on the bright side my departement has been phased out during maternity leave...so i don't think i'll be doin much when i start back (well appart from looking for a new post!)Anyone else back to work soon?

Oh maman2tom that must feel strange thinking about work. I start back start of May but my office is, err, here (I work from home). How about everyone else? When do you start back at work?

New Year Resolution: lose weight and try to chill out more - less stress would be good!

Last night I was up a lot: Toby woke a couple of times having kicked his blankets off his feet, then DS2 woke with my lurgy three times, then Toby woke properly for feeding, then DS2 again, then Toby restless in and out of sleep until he properly woke at 7.15am. He's now sitting in his bouncy chair but will need a nap very soon! The DSs haven't even got up yet.

New Year's Eve: some champagne and an early night I think. I don't like NYE anyway and I'm quite glad of the chance to go to bed early for once!

I'm back to work 1st June (approx), I'm a childminder so depends on what work I can get. I really need to think about updating all my paperwork and go on a couple of courses before I start back. I'm not ready to function just yet. maman2tom Are you going back full time?

BBL I'm not a fan of NYE either. I'm happy to be tucked up in bed before 9pm most nights. I don't do resoulutions. Instead I like to make a plan for the year ahead. We're booking a holiday (out of season, whilst we can before DS1 goes to school in Sept 2010), and I'm having my boobs enlarged. Always wanted it done but the bf is putting it on hold until later in the year.

Scarlotti Glad you had a good day. Always fancied a foot spa. I was thinking about having a glass of something, but was worried about the feeding. I haven't had a tipple for over a year now. I'm not missing it but I do fancy a nice chilled cider now and again!

We are expecting snow tomorrow. I need to face the supermarket this morning and stock up for the weekend.

Think I'll be looking to start back at work in May too, although I'll have to find a job first as am a contractor. Have a bit of savings in case I can't find work instantly, but not much!

hobnob thanks for the alcohol info, I had a large glass of wine with dinner last night. To be honest, I get tipsy on practically nothing and stop then anyway so I doubt it will do any harm. What a lightweight!!

Early night here for us I think, party animals that we are!

i've got about 38 days til im back and tho its only one day per week the kids will have to be away over night and im dreading that.

I'm probably back to work at the beginning of March. Like Fruit, I'm a childminder. Mum of one of the children I look after is on maternity leave herself so will be coming back to me at the beginning of March with a 2 year old and a 6 month old and Leah who will be almost 4 months old - that is if Ofsted grant my request for 2 under 1 year olds that is!
Actually, Fruit, can I ask what you think about me starting over with my EYFS paperwork for this family? I would have to ask for it back off them and do a lot of catch up to keep what I had going so thinking maybe I could just start afresh! Do you think Ofsted would look badly on that?

It is depressing isn't it thinking about work? I will be starting slowly and just doing a couple of hours a day while Toby naps but that'll mean nothing else will get done such as cleaning, washing and ironing! Wouldn't it be wonderful in the government would pay us to take a full year off everytime we had a child? I took a full year off with DS1 (6 months on full pay from my previous job and 6 months no pay) and it was really nice to be with him for one whole year and watch him develop and grow.

Will read through in a minute, but scarlotti you are requested over here

fruitpastels i'm going back 80% which means i have wednesdays off (v popular in france as kids don't go to school onweds) plus in my office we work a bit longer everyday and finish at lunch time on fridays. So it's really just 3+1/2 days a week but i remember with ds1 i was a total zomie for about the first 6 months!! Looking back i have absolutely no memories of going to work at all!! Maybe one of my resolutions should be to pass my driving test it would make life a bit easier!

My 2ds seem to have turned into a tag team as soon as i get one asleep the otherwakes up!! When am i supposed to do all those exciting things like...washing,ironing, cooking!!I think i'll have to accept that my house will ressemble a bombsite fr the forseeable future!

Maman2tom that's good you have the Wednesday to break up the week. I'm sure it's not easy doing the commute for you. Hope you get your driving sorted out. I didn't drive when I had DS1 but was learning to drive early on in my pregnancy, but gave up when I got too big and uncomfortable. I started up again when DS1 was 3 months old, it was really hard to concentrate and have the energy to do the lessons. But, I passed first time when DS1 was 6 months old. I haven't looked back since and so glad to have the car and made my life much easier, especially now DS2 is here. Go for it!!

Southern You are in the same situation as me. I was looking after a child and the mum fell pregnant a few months before me. She is going back to work and depending on Ofsted's approval, I will take on her pre-schooler and baby, along with my oldest and baby. I am starting a fresh with the oldest child regarding EYFS. I have a copy of the earlier stuff I did with her (might be an idea for you to do the same), so it's there for Ofsted if they want to see it. There will be 1 year of her development missing in my EYFS folder, so it will take a few weeks to get to grips with it again. Hope that helps.

Happy New Year everyone

I always find NYE terribly depressing and feel pretty down today. I hate it. I just want some sense of normality to return to our lives now and to go back to normal (crumbs I can hear fireworks already). Bahhh humbug.

On a positive note: I'm so pleased to have got to know you all in 2009 and been through pregnancy together - its been great and a real therapy for me. Here's to 2010 and going through babyhood together and watching our little ones grow and develop, smile, laugh, crawl, say a few words, even walk perhaps some of them.

BBL am with you in wanting a sense of normality to return. Can't get into it all when I'm up in the night and feeding so much all the time!

Happy new year to you all too.
Will echo BBL's sentiment - it's been great getting to know you all and certainly a sanity saver to be able to type any worries/concerns I have and have instant responses from mum's in the same boat. Really has helped me not to feel lonely and supported.
Thanks ladies, you're all one in a million

It's just turned midnight here so Happy new year. After an eventful 2009 for us all heres to a great 2010!!

I'm celebrating with a very small glass of champagne as dp managed to skive off work a bit early so didn't see the new year i by myself

Happy New year to all, a bit early as I am off to bed, feeling a bit miserable so with you on that score BBL!
Know what you mean about wanting to get back to normal too, but I'm not sure if things will ever get back to normal for me:
So, starting a new decade with a new baby and a four year old, no job, two and a half stone to lose and a marriage that surely can't last another decade! Yikes!! But sort of liberating somehow, it could be an exciting year ahead!
The pregnancy thread saved my sanity at times this year, thanks to all.
Can't get on here as much as I would like as perpetually feeding all evening, but have lurked a bit- Fruitpastels and Laugs was it you two with the bfing issues? I thought I was a breastfeeding pro but the first four weeks of trying to feed Hedy took me right to the brink of despair- much, much better now- it can be got through but must say is it you Laugs who found the NCT advice really aggravating? I find all bfing advice in the books etc really annoying when it takes no account of how the mother may feel etc, and when it just skates over problems as if they are trivial.

Morning all! Hi Wook good to hear from you. Sorry you are feeling down too - I'm sure we'll all feel a bit brighter soon.

Last night was so weird. DH and I did the deed for the first time, which was nice, then I went to bed but woke up at 30 seconds before midnight just by chance and lay there thinking 'wow, it is midnight' and all was really quiet but suddenely I heard the distant rumble of all the fireworks going off. It was quite magical in a way.

I feel sick this morning. I don't think champagne agrees with me anymore.

Happy New Year! Hope it will a good one for everyone, come what may. We had a rather boring evening to be honest! We got a take away and watched a film, but Leah was really really unsettled and so we spent half the evening pacing and trying to get her to sleep! I feel asleep before midnight but woke up just before so saw it in and then quickly went back to sleep again before having more unsettled time in the night again! DH got up with the DD's this morning so I had a bit of a lie in but he has now gone back to bed himself.

Fruit - In all honesty, my EYFS work from pre maternity leave is VERY patchy and lacking in substance! That is why I'm hoping to just start it all again! Might try and get myself a bit organised when DD1 goes back to school and set about getting it less so! Due inspection in August time so should really make sure everying is up to date!!

Leah unsettled again (think there is something going on with her tummy as she is not right - hoping its not lots of intolerances like dd1 has) so better go....

Last NYE, I was recovering from my D and C, drinking red wine in bed and crying a lot as I tried to think about what I was going to do in 2009 if I wasn't actually going to have a baby that summer.

I cuddled up in bed last night with my wide-awake fat baby fussing away, and felt very grateful. Was asleep before midnight!

Happy New Year all! The exclamation mark was a bit forced there. YEsterday was another of my darker days but I echo everyone's sentiments - I hope the year ahead is full of wonderfulness for each of you/us.

So here's my new frustration - every time I feed Baby Beans (still no name), he pukes some of it up again. I've tried burping but no burps appear and the puking happens anyway. All night long he had the gurgliest tummy ever and was really restless in sleep and now all this puking. Anybody have a guess what is wrong or what I can do differently? Very frustrating and worrying.

In good news, he was weighed yesterday and has put on 500 grams since his last weigh in about a week and a half ago. The midwife didn't indicate if that's on target or not - anyone know what the ideal weight gain is? Are we doing okay?

Hope you all have a lovely first day of the year, with a few hints of normality about it!

Happy New Year!
DD is playing Beatles Guitar Hero! Bless her! Will catch up and post in response to others tomorrow if that is ok, we are having a chilled out family day today, doing chicken roast.

Have a great relaxing start to your new year with your new babies, and for those with older babies, with your whole family.

Love to you all xx

Happy new year everyone What a year its been!! I hope this year, with a new baby, is amazing for you all. x

Tamlin you and me both. My ERPC was last year on xmas eve and new years eve was spent wondering if we'd ever get another baby and should we give up trying. Am so glad our fortunes turned around, and I'd like to thank you for being there through it all with me on this and the knicker checkers thread.

Last night was no celebrations as sleep was more of a priority due to the gorgeous little man that sleeps next to me in his hammock
I feel truly lucky to have completed my family this year. The start of the year and the first 3 months of my pg rank up there with the worst times of my life. From May onwards though things just got better, my marriage included as the stress of it all had taken its toll.
Hoping 2010 now marks the start of the good times in our house am planning to start as I mean to go on and not sweat the small stuff, have a good declutter now the boys have moved bedrooms and pave the way for happy families!

(do feel free to remind me of this when the lack of sleep robs me of my patience, sense of humour and general niceness!!)

Happy new year! We've had my best mate and godson staying over the last few days. She brought food and cooked it and did all the washing up. Was great! Only problem is Isaac's been quite unsettled at night. He had been going to sleep at about 8pm and sleeping till just before midnight, which was great as it meant DH and I could have dinner, watch tv etc but he just wouldn't settle for the last few days so I've had to put him in sling again in the evening

I've been taking the getting baby to sleep by any means necessary for first 12 weeks but he's 13 weeks old now and I'm starting to thing hmm what do I do now? getting him to nap during the day is difficult as he'll only sleep in the sling or in the pram if i take him for a long walk, not ideal on rainy days. I've ordered the no cry sleep solution and the no cry nap solution so hopefully i'll get some ideas from there!

Thirteen weeks? Oh my god where did the time go?

Scarlotti I was in a similar situation last new year. I'd had an MC in May and we'd been TTCing since with no joy so I was wondering as the year ended 'will it happen?' I'd actually been ovulating on New Years Day and forced poor, tired, hung-over DH to do the deed after the DSs went to bed! I really didn't think I'd be here, a year later, with a seven week old baby! My family is complete too.

BBL it's funny how these things turn out isn't it. We'd had 2 MC last year, one after the other, so took Jan this year off so I could have a cycle then fell pg in Feb just before valentines.
I feel a huge sense of completeness now with the DC's and it's allowing me to savour the time with Ioan, rather than wanting the next bit to happen (smiling, sitting, eating etc.) which is what I've had previously.

Ahh, sentimental soppiness coming out as it's new years!! I do have a really good feeling about things this year though