good morning all!
All those stories about losses make me really sad. It must be so hard, especially if it happens after a normal and healthy looking pregnancy. But it seems as it happens to almost every woman at some point of her life and if it is "just" an early miscarriage. When my sister came over to visit us when Paula was about 5 weeks she quickly told me about her second missed miscarriage just a couple of weeks ago. I didn't know at all how to react as I haven't even known she had been pregnant. (The first time she had told the family already about being pregnant.) And also I was standing there, changing my baby's nappies.
I'm also sorry to hear about so many babies feeling poorly at the moment. I hope things will improve soon.
socks-as-mits, thanks for that tip, tried it tonight and she kept them on until the morning when she realised she had them on and looked a bit
3rd-jab, it doesn't necessarily have to be the worst. Paula took it well, but I have to say she took them all rather well. Obviously there was lots of crying when the nurse put the needle in (a good one who had everything ready) but stopped quickly. I would say, the first jab may have been the worse (but maybe only for me).And her non sleeping at the moment is probably rather due to over motivated grand parents who just can't give her a little bit of quite time too.
wook, interesting thought of baby teenagers. I guess there is really a huge difference in what they want to do and what they actually can do.
skorpion, I found too that Paula seemed suddenly more sensitive to food than before. But I could still not tell what exactly it causes. Maybe it is not always the same? Like for us, sometimes we have a bit more problems to digest an egg for example than other times.
Paula seems to have digestive problems at night but not really during the day , so I wonder if I should slightly change my diet, eat normal food during the day or rather early and for dinner something like plain rice. And I should try to feed her less during the night. At the moment it is worse than when she was a newborn. I feed her almost everytime when she wakes up (at the moment between hourly and every two hours!), partly because she seems to be hungry partly because I take wrong decisions when half asleep. But she definitely needs more at the moment because she takes usually more than just a couple of sips.
I'm sure there were other things I wanted to say but I'm in constant hurry at the moment. PIL are here for the week, they are quite ok, but it is sometimes a bit too much for me. And I can't hear anymore about how sweet Paula is, how sweet her toes, how sweet when sleeping, look at her, she is laughing (yes, she does that sometimes with me too). I really want her to have a good relationship with her grand parents but I sometimes feel that I am babysitting three children. I do not feel as if I could leave them alone with her, they just don't seem to have any experience how to handle a baby or to read the signs. When Paula starts crying because the funny game gets suddenly too much, my MIL would do it again and again and even louder or quicker and more exciting, a behavior which is normally typical for men, isn't it?
I will though let them go for a walk with her this afternoon to meet a dear friend who is slightly scared of children to give her the chance of having a childfree coffee and cake.
Well, pav, I had quite a lot to tell after saying that I'm in a hurry so I just stop now.
Hope everyone is having a nice day!