Hi All
Just popping on to catch up, not much to report here. We just seem to be watching football ALL THE TIME at the moment - DH sky+s the day matches and then watches the evening one live. I can't fit anything else on the sky+!! What about my Desperate Housewives and Location Location?? What am I meant to watch when feeding?!
Pamelat - don't worry about the feeding, just tell anyone who comments that it is called feeding on demand for a reason! DD was exactly the same, I was just feeding constantly and if she did manage to go more than 30 mins I was producing so much milk that I was getting engorged after about an hour! However now (5 weeks 3 days) she now feeds every 3 - 4 hours for 20 - 30 mins plus winding, has some awake time after feeding and then sleeps for 1.5 - 2 hours before next feed. And I didn't do anything to get her into that routine, she just did it herself. The best thing I have found is to use a dummy to get her to sleep in the day rather than falling asleep on boob (then she wouldn't wind properly and would wake up) and that if she hasn't had three hours from start of one feed to start of next, then I put her in the sling and walk around and she will go back off to sleep after 2 - 3 minutes until she get s decent gap between feeds, with bonus that I then have more milk so feed is better and she is properly hungry when she is feeding. Hope some of that helps, but it all sounds fine to me.
Homebirthmummy - glad Virginia is doing well. We had a similar think with DS1 where he was in SCBU for an infection for a week post birth so DH only had a week at home with DS1 before his pat leave ended. Can your DH take some additional time off in a couple of weeks to make up for the lost pat leave?
Hollyoaks - brilliant news on Grace - well done her! It's amazing how resilient they are when they are still so small.
Mustbemad - LOL at your moment of exposure! It is so easy to forget - I walked around the house a few days ago having forgotten to re-clip one side of my nursing bra - I was so lopsided when I caught sight of myself in the mirror, it was untrue! Did you tell your DS that you were celebrating National Breastfeeding Week?!
Angel - take care of yourself, you sound incredibly busy.
Clothes - I have made a pact with myself that I am absolutely NOT buying any clothes until I get back to the weight I was at my wedding 6 years ago. I was a loose size 12 when I got married, and am now a fairly well filled size 14, so I have about a stone to lose. I am going on holiday in 5 weeks and my target is half a stone by the time we go away, and then not put any one whilst we are on holiday. I am determined - I have just thrown away all the cakes and biscuits in the house, or given them to DH to take to work. I work best when there is no temptation! However, shoes and accessories aren't caught by my pact, so I will still be able to indulge in the occasional shopping trip!
We had a lovely day today - went out to Valley Park in Harrogate which is a proper Victorian park with a massive children's playground, paddling pool, boating lake, crazy golf etc. Had a picnic and a generally fab time with my Mum and Dad and the children. Took everyone for icecreams on the walk back to the car and in a fit of generosity decided to get DS a "sprinkles cone" which i thought would just be an ordinary icecream with chocolate and sprinkles around the cone rim. When the icecream arrived, it was HUGE - DS's eyes were out on stalks. It was twice the size of all the adult icecreams, but DS sat himself on his Buggy Board and ate his way through the lot despite me trying to get rid of some of it for him. Needless to say he didn't eat much tea! Bad mummy...
Also, DS said the funniest thing today. We are a family who like singing etc and I was cleaning DS's teeth and trying to teach him the chorus to Wimbeway - the bit from the Lion King that goes really high - I was trying to get him to repeat it after me, and he looked at me in all seriousness and said "Mummy, I only do Twinkle Twinkle and Baa Baa Black Sheep". I could have wept with laughter! He is becoming a real comedian - the other day I was telling him he couldn't reach the light fitting because he was a little boy, and he threw himself on the bed and said "Mummy, I'm not a boy, I'm a PERSON!" I don't know where he gets it from!
My Dsis had her 20 week scan today and all is well - but made me feel sooooo broody looking at the little scan photos, and talking about the little movements she is now feeling....we might have to start discussions about number 3. For those of you with 3 children - can you tell me honestly what it is like? Is it loads more work than 2, and is the so -called Middle Child Syndrome a reality or just an urban myth?
Seem to have waffled on a bit there, sorry - hope everyone else is doing well.