December 2009: for the sake of Auld Lang Sine

[LaDiDaDi]

Just thought that I would get this started before the ante-natal thread gets filled up, not that I've had much time to post since I had DS but others might be able to multi-task better than I can!

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Hello all, can I join you?
I had my first baby, Tess, on 5th December

Of course you can join us PartialToACupOfMilo. Welcome

Managed to have a night out last night. Fed Catherine then left her with DH and an emergency bottle of EBM then sat with my phone on the table all night for if she woke cause she still won't actually take a bottle.

She slept from 7pm till 1.30am! (I was back way before then) then fed and slept until DS woke us both at 6.15.

Feel much better for having had a night out. Much less claustrophobic.

hello all.
Just checking in, hope you are all well and babies are all thriving!

Annie and Bex I am in Harrogate!!!

My poor baby boy has a horrid cold and is coughing with all the snot in his throat and choking on it. Got another mum at school to pick dd up and have resigned myself to staying in pjs pacing the floor with an unhappy chappy for the day!!!

Sparkly get one of those Nuk snot suction things. You dont have to do that gross sucking on it, its just a squeezy thing that you.. well squeeze and it sucks all the snot out of their nose. Has really helped Elizabeth who was so snotty she was vomiting up mucous.

Ooo, some of you are not that far away from me, I'm near Market Rasen (between Grimsby and Lincoln)

Anybody down south? or am I on my own down here?

I'm down south Holly - South London (Raynes Park to be exact), anyone else down this way?

Imogen also has a bit of a cold this week and we've used the NUK suction thing (well I made dh do it actually). Hopefully will clear up soon though.

Holly - I'm currently in Germany but from Suffolk originally

ds2 woke up at 0315 starving hungry. He's not been sleeping so well this week. Not sure if it's a growth spurt or if he needs more than just milk.

Hello PartialToACupOfMilo. How are things going with Tess?

Oh dear, my embarassing story of the week - I fed Imogen when out with some friends yesterday about 10.30/11. Sat around drinking my diet coke and chatting away, walked around shopping centre, took back some stuff to mothercare then drove to my latino bambino class which starts at 1. As I got there I realised I had never put my bra back on properly let alone done it up for the last 3 hours - ooops!!!! Good thing I noticed BEFORE bouncing around to the music!!!

Hope you all have lovely weekends...

i have been out and lost breast pads before!!!

I have those silicone Lilipadz breast pads at the moment.

I was sat feeding Catherine at my PIL's house - where we had gone to meet up with both SIL's, their husbands and kids before the Mother's Day meal last weekend - and dropped a pad without noticing. My MIL picked it up, held it up in the air and asked loudly "what is this"

Hi all,

Thought I should introduce myself a bit more...

Tess is my first baby and was born at home (planned) a couple of weeks early. I was 100% convinced she would be late, so all the decorating stuff was still in the bath (DH had been repainting bathroom) which is where I was planning on spending the early stages and neither of us had yet read the TENS instructions. As it turned out everything else went really smoothly and she ended up arriving quickly and easily, so I didn't need the TENS or the bathtub - phew!

In the first couple of months she cried a lot and slept badly. I would meet up with the girls from the NCT group and all their babies were little angels and mine would be screaming her head off... Then I found out they all had routines in place and I didn't so I became obsessed with getting into a routine and tried to implement the Baby Whisperer stuff. Some of that helped, but it mostly made me feel inadequate and guilty that I couldn't make her happy . I have since realised that as she was the last of the babies to arrive I had probably just missed seeing their babies behaving in the same way as I had started my maternity leave later. Anyway since about 8 weeks she's been a star and has steadily got better and easier. We now have a set bedtime routine which works , she's only waking up once between 7.30pm and 8.00am-ish and she goes off without a problem. She's BF, which we both love, and she's putting on loads of weight (was just under 6lb born and was 12lb 3oz this time last week). The only real problem is that I have to go back to work at the beginning of June and don't want to.

Anyway that's us. I'll have a read through the thread and get to know you all a bit better now

Hello Partial! It's always nice to have more posters and that's a lovely intro .

I went swimming with dd, ds and my mother this pm. It was nice and seemed to tire us all out.

Still feeling stressed about my dad, waiting for a letter that will give us some info about how he is doing after his op for prostate cancer last year. I'm so scared that he will have recurrence/spread .

Going to get in the shower now and have a quiet cross-stitching and reading type of evening. Holding off the wine tonight as I might need it tomorrow.

Hi girls!

And hello to Partial, lovely little introduction and nice to have you.

Persephone is still doing very well - back to normal completely now I think. Although she was very sick this evening and hasn't eaten terribly much today - perhaps a bit of a bug. I have noticed that since the operation she has been a bit more sensitive than before - ie she only used to cry, and not proper crying, when she was v tired or v hungry. But today a bit of wind set her crying properly with real tears (that breaks my heart!). She does have her (arm) jabs on Monday so am not looking forward to that...

She has also been chomping hard on my finger so perhaps it's the start of teething - although they will take a while to appear I am sure. 4 months today - how time flies... She has also decided her new trick is to shriek like a seal pup. Loudly. So in public it is a bit argh. V funny but can grate a bit - I would be cross if I were in a restaurant and had that noise - haha.

Had a bit of a meltdown tonight - was fed up with my husband working all hours 6am-11pm sort of times. And I never see him. i know it's for us and he must fnd it horrid but I felt a bit sorry for myself too. We're also trying to sell and we had a second viewing today but it came to nothing and there are lots of houses we want to buy. And have been told that after P's cast comes off she will need an abduction brace (which is pretty much the same but obv can do normal nappies etc and she can have baths again) for 6 weeks 23 hrs a day and for a further 6 weeks at night. So it will be 8 months before she isn't wearing it in the daytime. I just feel will miss out on normal baby development. So I cried. But there are much worse things and i am so lucky so I have pulled myself together.

BTW am in South West London, near Gloucester Road. Trying to move to Parsons Green though. If it EVER happens.

Oh and have started a blog. Not sure why but you never know! It's about pregnancy and birth and babies etc. And have also started the LSJ course so those things are keeping my mind busy... AND I didn't buy anything or note (a pair of sunglasses doesn't count!) In the new shop we went to today. It was AMAZING though...

Hello partial. Good to have you on here. I am a first timer too. Love the name Tess!

Kings, just read your post and can empathise with you in terms of the finger chomping and the shrieking; Anna is just the same at the mo...although we think she sounds like a little cat! is very funny. Can also sympathise with the DH work situation...my DH has been working all hours this week as has had quite a few major deadlines. it is hard on both of you isn't it, because you have been at home all day with DD and are tired, but then they get in and are also knackered!

we have quite a nice weekend planned...we are going shopping in Sheffield on sat, then staying with friends sat night and they are cooking and then on Sunday we are going to another friend's for Sunday dinner! Yippee, no cooking for me!

just noticed that a December 2010 thread is just getting established...can?t believe that was us a year ago!

Lee funny you should ask about knowing we were pregnant, I went back and looked at my calendar and I'm pretty sure it was exactly a year ago today I found out! We were in New Zealand on holiday visiting my parents who were living there for a short while. I had to sneak to a pharmacy to buy some tests as I was a bit late and just had this feeling I might be. Did one which was positive but dh didn't believe it so drunk a ton of water and did a second one half an hour later. Dh still didn't want to believe it (only because he really wanted it to be correct!) and wanted me to wait until the next day to do the third one before telling my parents but I convinced him it must be true and we told them! I remember being terrified as we were so far from home and I am diabetic and I had no idea what I could couldn't do/eat etc... Obviously though I managed to muddle through as here we are now!

Kings you are doing brilliantly well, if you move to Parsons Green you'll only be a couple of stops away from us on the District Line!

Thanks everyone for the support - I was in a foul mood last night - sorry! Feeling much happier and although hubby has to work a bit this weekend, it will be from home and he did the first feed this morning and put her back to bed and went for a run so I got a bit of a lie-in - it's amazing what some sleep can do! I am very luck to have such a lovely husband.

Yes Hendo - will not be too far away. However, that would mean we had actually managed to sell the flat and move. which seems a million miles away!

We're going for lunch with my parents to say thank you for being so amazing when P had her op - so that will be lovely! And we're out tmrw eveniing for a birthday so am looking forward to that. I must say, I do rather like the fact I can have a few drinks and not worry about the hangover the next day as.... I don't have to go to work - woop woop! .

BTW are people going back to work?

Also, can I shamelessly link to my blog in case anyone fancies reading it? (And then "following" it or making a comment - I think you need to have followers etc to appear on searches etc or something. I don't really know tbh - should probably find out!)
www.theyummymummychronicles.com/
Feel free to tell me to bugger off!

Hello all, everyone sounds happy this morning and so am I . My dad got his letter today and his bloods are fine so no evidence of recurrence! Yippee!!! Will be smiley happy mummy all day!

Hi everyone,
A couple of days away and you've all been so busy!

Welcome PartialToACupOfMilo.

Brilliant news LaDiDaDi...

Hendo and Kings - you're more south than I - I'm in Cambridge so kind of in the middle now! I am really glad things are going better for you Kings, have been thinking of you.

Sounds as though a few of our little ones have had a cold. DD has been suffering a bit since last weekend. She had a fever for one night which I managed to control and the rest of the week I have been suctioning her nose etc. Obviously it makes it harder for them to feed with a stuffy nose poor things. The cold has been disturbing her sleep so I haven't had to worry about becoming engorged in the night anymore!

No real plans for the weekend. DH is working 7am both mornings and will be home around 7pm both nights. Might go out for a trapse around some shops this afternoon... need to find an outfit for this family get together in a couple of weeks and I don't want to leave it until the last minute or I will get stressed about it. Did start a diet this week - or at least have stopped buying chocolate and the fruit bowl is full.

Have fun all whatever you're up to.

Oh lastly... DH was dancing and singing with DD yesterday and she was loving it... and gave us her first proper laugh... was TOO cute - wish I could have caught it in video.

ds2 had his first taste of baby rice earlier on. He seemed to like it & drunk as much milk as usual which will help his weight if he carries on like that.

kings - I'll be going back to work in June. I think I'll be ready to go back to work but not so sure I'll be ready to leave ds2. Obv can't do one without the other though. Luckily I love my job which makes it easier.

Partial - Welcome

Lee - I was actually due at the end of November, and I took a test on Tuesday 24th March (my mum's birthday), my period had been due on the Sunday, so I found out pretty early. I remember my booking appointment with the midwife wasn't until early May... I'm not sure how I made it through April! It seems amazing to look at DS asleep on his sheepskin now, if only I could have looked forward a year this time last year, that would have been very reassuring!

Kings - I have set a bookmark for your blog - looks good

La - great news about your dad

I found out was preggers april fools day!
So almost a year