Jan 2010 babies and mothers....come here to hibernate!

[mistletoekisses]

New thread for us Jan 2010 mums. Will hopefully get busier as more of our little ones arrive!

Arrivals List
1st Dec - Missmarjoribanks - boy Thomas William Francis (33+4)
10th Dec - ClaireDB - girl Mira - 5lb 11.5oz (36+5)
11th Dec - Alibobins - boy Jacob, 6lbs 1oz (37weeks)
14th Dec - londonlottie - twin girls Juliet 6lb 1 and Eve 5lb 6 (35+5)
15 Dec - Whensmydayoff - girl Olivia - 6lb (36+6)
22 Dec - Liskey - girl Ellie - 5.5lbs
24 Dec - timmette/shinybaubles - boy Oliver - 7lb
25 Dec - Fakeplastictrees - boy Luke Edward
29 Dec - CantThinkofFunnyName - girl Olivia Iris - 6lbs 2 1/2oz
30 Dec - Liny - Nottinghamsire - girl Elise
1 Jan - TheMinnieBauble - boy Freddie - Weight TBC
2 Jan - nomorebboze - girl Megan - 5lbs 12oz
5 Jan - Fraochsmum - girl, name TBC - 6LBS 2oz
5 Jan - FlightofFancy - boy Edward - 6lb 14oz (37+3)
6 Jan - salvadory - girl Imogen
7 Jan - MistletoeKisses - boy Nicolas - 6lb 8oz
10 Jan- crumpette- boy 'babycrumpette'- 8lb 15 oz

My little super pooper is now 8lb 14.5, she's put on 1 lb in 2 weeks.
She's been quite grizzly too. Think it's wind/poo.

MrsMB - well done on getting out & about and feeling better... even if you did have to go over to the dark side to do it

Well done COTFN too, taking on the mighty LA fitness & winning.

Well done CTOFN! Sorry Olivia has been sicky, I hope her tummy settles down soon with her new milk. Must check out how long I have to wait for buggyfit here, hope not 10 weeks. I know my instructor and she's had csecs herself, so hope she'll be sympathetic! It was a really good and hard class 3 years ago with DS, I started doing it when it was offered via my local surestart, for £1 a class, but it was stopped after most of the local mums dropped out complaining it was too hard! Only three of us ended up sticking with it. So we ended up having to go to the regular classes for £4.50 . Also planning to start postnatal pilates class that can take DD along too.

Lovely post Yangymac. No more babies here, I can't go through another birth, I just can't get them out

Sorry to hear about DHs' job situations Jardins and Lottie, must feel in limbo.

Glad you've been getting out MrsMB, I've been a bit down too, but feel loads better since have been able to start driving this week and get out with the DCs, though the level of organisation involved with two is !
Hope James better Crumpette and that mum-in law visit wasn't too bad Quirky

DD is doing well, 10lbs 8oz at 4 weeks old, so has gained 2lbs 7oz since birth. She's nearly out of 0-3 month clothes as is really long with huge feet. Doesn't take after me then, I'm under 5 ft tall and size 3-4 shoe. Hopefully she will be a long legged beauty!
Avoiding dummies here too for BF reasons, I just let her feed again if she's feeling sucky. So far she's a much less sucky baby than DS, she doesn't even seem to like to fall asleep on the boob- what kind of a baby is she!!! I think I have an independant DD on my hands, DS still firmly a mummy's boy!

Have fun at aqua Fraosh, 2 weeks to go for me before can indulge in formal exercise again.

oh, and I'm experimenting with drinking loads of fennel tea today to see if it helps DDs bad night time windyness. Trying some iced in the fridge as well. Will report back whether effective !!

Maygirl do report back on the fennel tea! J is especially 'windy' at night

maygirl I would also like to know if fennel tea is effective! I was drinking peppermint tea yesterday with the same intention.

I am trying no coffee or black chocolate today after dd had a no sleeping day yesterday as well as a very windy bottom. So far so good...

Last night dd2 made a weird hiccupy noise and then coughed and I thought she was choking. I ended up cuddling a sleeping baby who then burped very loudly. Overreacting, moi .

crumpette hope you meet up with your French neighbour. It's easy to become antisocial when you've been in a lot too.

evening all
I have been drinking fennel tea for a couple of weeks now and I think it has made a difference. No more windy nights for DS2 although we are now awake at night because he is full of snot from his latest cold
Have been getting out and about a lot more including a breastfeeding group where I met some lovely people so things feeling sort of back to normal. Although with you Maygirl on the level of organisation required to get 2 children out of the house !

Have started reading a great book - what mothers do - I wish I had seen it when I had DS1 as it is really helping me make sense of how I feel being a mum, relationship with my own mother etc
Wondering how flyingma getting on as not posted for a while ?

I've read What Mothers Do sazlocks, and love it too. I read it in the early days with DS and was like wow, that's exactly how I feel.
Well had loads of fennel tea today, sat here now with a chilled one, wishing it was wine! DD has had a cranky session around 6pm, but wasn't all ridgid with wind, more tired and overstimulated cranky. Will report back on how she is overnight, when usually is her worst. I'd heard not to have too much peppermint tea when BF, as it and sage are herbs used to dry up milk. Sure you'd need to drink loads for any effect though.

Morning all. Hope those feeling down and isolated are OK. I'm so lucky that DH still hasn't gone back to work yet, although I suspect that will change in the next week or so. DH has been struggling with the baby blues rather than me

Made it to a local toddler/baby group, nice to get out, but it's not my type of thing tbh, have to keep saying to myself that it's good for Tobin and it's not about me!

Oooh had a bad mommy moment yesterday. We've been try5ng a new nightime feeding thing, he had a ff at 2.30am then he woke at 6.30, I thought he wanted to get up and tried to get him back off to sleep, it took DH to ask if he had his nighttime booby feed I'd completely forgotten that I hadn't fed him. Still feeling guilty...naughty mommy!

Morning all!

Crumpette - so glad James is so much better. You do need to go get him registered. You need the free birth certificate to register for child benefit and they only backdate a claim to 3 months. So the longer you leave it, the more you lose. I know we aren't talking huge sums of money, but every bit helps. I also totally understand the whole not being sociable bit. I totally go into babymoon mode and simply dont get out and about. Plus I find it really hard to start talking to other people. Was far easier to make friends in the playground when playing hopscotch?

SWH - I have started getting out to toddler/ baby sessions, not really my cup of tea, but it was nice to get out. I also found out that our lovely local park, play area is currently being totally refurbed is also going to have a cafe opening on site! Yay! I know where I'll be hanging out when it all opens in April!

Hello to everyone else! Well done all those exercising! I am embarking on a spring clean of the house/ garden, so should keep me occupied for a good while. But beyond that, am waiting for the weather to get nicer before going for some runs. The lard can stay on my arse until the sun appears

We seem to be doing ok on the sleep front. Have dropped the 1am feed, so after the 10pm dreamfeed, am not feeding before 4am. Nico still wakes at 1am, but resettles quite easily. We seem to have turned a corner at 8 weeks (touchwood) and he is becoming much more chilled out. I hope in another month or so it will get even better. But am feeling a lot more human!

sazlocks What mothers do is a fantastic book, I read it with dd1, thanks for reminding me I will read it again.

I must add fennel tea to the shopping list. Hv thinks dd2's wind/poo is because she's now bfing properly and is just adjusting to the change in diet.

Still keeping off the coffee, I feel better too and can kip when I need it (if I get a chance-cue dd1 "mummy you're asleep"; well, yes that was the plan...)

somewhat some toddler and baby groups are better than others. I took dd1, as a toddler, to one and never went back as child was being allowed to rampage without parent intervening. Personal bugbear of mine.

sazlocks - good news about the fennel tea, i'll be adding that to my shopping list.

mistletoekisses - fingers crossed now Nico has dropped that feed and he realises by waking hes not going to get any food he will sleep through for you. Let me know what 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep is like, i think i remember that.

crumpette - i'm glad James is better.

How is everyone else doing?

DS seems very unhappy this week with tummy ache and a cough. I'm trying colief in the hope it makes my little man happier, have any of the bf mummys used colief before? If so do you express just enough to add the colief to before you feed DC or express a feed so to speak then just take it from there so you dont have to express numerous times in the day?

Also, i'm asking a favour of any of you that have the Ameda Lactaline breast pump. I bought one off ebay (i figured it would take forever for me to save up for a new one with the £7 maintenance i'm getting from DS' dad) but when i put my boob in the cup bit the suction doesnt seem to do much but the diaphragms are moving and when my boob isnt in the cup bit the diaphragms move loads. Does anyone have the instructions for putting it together and using it please that they could send me/e-mail me/tell me so i know it's together and i'm using it properly?

Happy Mothers day to all the Mummys for tomorrow

Happy mothers day to all the mummies on here! My mothers day started with boy my boys presenting me with full nappies. And then DS1 proceeded with a full blown tantrum for 45 mins....glad to report that the day has since gotten a lot calmer.

Newbeginnings - the longer stretch of sleep is lush! Makes the world of difference. Have enough energy to have embarked on a total spring clean in the house. Re the colief, breastmilk can be stored in the fridge for quite some time. See this link. bm storage. If I was using colief, I would express as a one off and use the bmilk from the fridge to mix the colief with before each feed. Then express when I needed more. Have you tried Infacol before going the colief route? Is so much easier to give. No idea re. the breastpump i am afraid...

Hope everyone else having lovely weekends.

Lordy lordy - is it Mother's Day??? You could have fooled me ! My morning so far has been spent taking DS to rugby, coming home and preparing all of the roast dinner for this evening, then DH turns up from his rugby coaching to laze on the sofa and comandeer the TV watching (guess)... more rugby!

I did, however, get brought Scrambled Eggs on Toast plus a huge mug of coffee by my darling DS this morning. Only trouble was it was about 10 minutes after feeding Olivia, just as I was drifting back to sleep. No such luck for a lie-in then....

Slightly crappy mother's day. The only cards I got were the ones the boys made at school. Didn't even get so much as a "Happy Mother's Day" from DH. sigh. I don't even know why I get my hopes up, it's the same every year, yet I'm too much of a softie to return the favour on Father's Day.

Had DD blessed though, which was very lovely. We got most of the family together which was really nice, my Dad did the blessing (he blessed the boys too). Was lovely to see my folks, and we had a nice buffet after. Mmmm, loving being able to get away with the extra calories... not that that ever stopped me before

Can't say I bother with things like mothers day, neither does DH so no expectations, no disappointment.

Tobin's got cradlecap I think...looks like he has poo smeared all over his head. Oh the joys of it all.

Hello everyone. Well, I've had a rather amusing morning thus far. Heart Breakfast called me and asked if I would like to represent Barnet in "Battle of the Boroughs" tomorrow morning at 08:10!!!! I have entered various competitions before online and apparently am a "Heart VIP", hence the call. Well I did chuckle! So - my dear MN peers - I shall be on the radio tomorrow (for those London based)! I have to say though, I am v v v nervous after my giggles this morning when I got the call. I just know I am going to mess up. Very easy to answer all the questions v quickly when you are listening to the radio, but quite another I think when you are "live".

On a baby note, Olivia has a rotten cold and DH picked up the wrong formula for her at the weekend so I found myself running around every supermarket and pharmacy in the borough trying to get the "right" one this morning. It's Aptamil Easy Digest and apparently not that easy to get hold of as it's "Special Milk". So - lesson learned, a friendly pharmacy is now going to ensure they order in for me every week. She is still sicking up quite a lot and has good and bad days for feeding. Saturday she hardly took any milk - but miraculously still slept well at night, but yesterday and today she is taking between 3-5oz every 3 hours so she is making up for it I guess.

She was going 6 hours at night on a reasonably regular basis but alas, that seems to have stopped and is back to feeding every 3 hours again. Trouble is, whilst her feeding is still erratic, I know that I cannot just soothe her off to sleep - she really is hungry when she wakes and drains a bottle. I love them when they are small, but I can't help wishing a little of her life away to when she sleeps through the night .

Oh and I'm now signed up for "Pushy Mothers", which is like Buggy Fit and I start next Monday. Not happy as put on 2lb this past week, despite sticking to WeightWatchers points completely .

How is everyone else? Bit quiet past few days.

CTOFN - we get heart on our freeview so if we're up tomorrow we will listen

My 1st Mothers Day was really good. I decided it would be a great idea to get pprints of Jacks hand and foot prints so i enrolled the help of a friend and we managed it although the handprints are more just blobs. Bless 2 of my friends as well as they got me chocolates and flowers because they knew that DS' father wouldn't bother.

Has anyone else got a bu,mbo or bebe pod yet? If not i would definitely recommend getting one. DS is a very clingy baby but he really enjoys sitting in it and looking around and chewing his hands.

I hope that everyone else is ok.

Ohhh CTFN - I will defo try and tune in if the boys allow. (And I remember!! Swear my brain is like a sieve right now!). Re the weightloss, don't be disheartened. Scales are quite unreliable - measurements are always more accurate. According to my scales, I havent shifted any weight for the last 2-3 weeks. But I am in back in jeans that didnt fit 2/3 weeks ago, so am definitely getting back in shape.

Newbeginning - we tried the bumbo with DS1, he hated it. So we gave it away to one of my friends whose son loved it. But Nico loves the baby bjorn sitter as much as DS1 did which is a relief.

Re. Mothers day. I have my mum with me, so served her breakfast in bed and made a lush cake for us all to have for tea. Told DH I expected the same in a few years when the DS's were old enough to do so..Until then, DH did a good job and got me some lovely bathstuff that I had run out of a while back...so that kind've made up for the hectic day I had.

Hope everyone else is doing ok. Been a while since ali and some others have posted. Pop back on guys and update us with how you are getting on.

Lottie - I think this is where the fun really begins for you. How the 2 of them will entertain each other and the laughing/gurgling is fabulous. Olivia has moments of it and I just love it - but 2 of the cherubs - aaah, my heart melts!

How's the passport issue going and DH's work?

Well - I got 3 answers wrong on the radio - really really stupid ones too! Doh. Pressure of time and all that is my excuse !

Right - she's screaming - another feed methinks.

Never mind ctofn, it's the taking part that's important!
Wow, bet you felt great in the morning after they had such good sleeps Lottie!
I was also thinking about some who haven't posted in a while - Bethoo in particular. Did she join the post natal thread? Has anyone heard from her?
I had a lovely first Mothers Day, Cara sent me a big bouquet of flowers, took me out for dinner, and got me alphabet fridge magnets so I can write her nice messages! I'll post a couple of photos from our night out.
She seems to have been grazing constantly during the day for the last week, but only once or twice at night thankfully. I'm just going to take her to get weighed at 10am then straight up to Glasgow to meet my sisters and mum - I really don't want them to miss this gorgeous stage she is at because she smiles and laughs at everyone!
Hope everyone is well x

Fraochs - oh Cara is totally lush! That pic of her sitting in bumbo is gorgeous - what a great head of hair and wonderful happy character she seems to have.

Yes, I wondered about Bethoo. She was having a right old time of it with ex-DP and family not particularly supportive as I recall. I do hope she is faring ok.

Hey all... what good timing! I've been trying to post but it takes ages to catch up when you fall behind. Tho having read thru 8 pages of posts, I cannot remember any replies I need to make.

Had a few weeks of visitors (aunt helping out, sister and brother came to play) and then they all left around the same time. DH works away from home Sun night-Fri so this is the first time in 2 weeks alone when I have been relaxed enough to spend some time here.

I am not sure Bethoo ever joined the postnatal thread.

quirky I've had the same thing re the cough-choke-hiccup thing and wound up with him sleeping on my chest quite often

In fact, I may have overdone it slightly yesterday doing baby massage class at 1pm followed by 8-week check and jabs straight after. I did not have time inbetween to feed him so by the time we got home, he was so tired and hungry. I stupidly decided that yesterday (having spoken to lactation consultant in the morning) was the day to switch Aidan up a teat size. Cue lot of choking on formula, more screaming, bringing up milk and a generally upset baby. 4 hours of crying later, we both fell asleep (him on me) without the bedtime routine.

I have the lactaline and will try to look it up later (clingy DS post the traumas of yesterday). I just looked at the pump and when turned on with no boobs in, the diaphrams on mine pulse gently. They get more vigourous when the boob is in.