Just checking in very quickly - Toby decided he wanted to be awake for 3 hours between midnight and 3 last night so off for a nap - very happily awake, but I wasn't happily awake with him!!!
Greedy - interesting techniques! PMSL laughing at the primrose oil tablet encrusted baby!!! So hope today's the day - good date to remember today 09/07/09! But then it's my Mum's birthday today, so that's a good day too! Have you looked into reflexology or accupuncture? Someone on the mc thread had 2 lots of accupuncture and went into labour that evening.
Bodders - Pierre! hark at your DD1!!!! Far too posh for us northerners!!!! DD hasn't yet got an imaginary friend, but she often chats to people - I think she's reinacting things that have happened at school that day, as I hear her telling people what to do and reasoning with them, when they obviously don't want to do what she's telling them - whenever I ask her who's she's talking to, or what's she saying, she blushes and says "no-one/nuffink!" [anyone elses toddlers dropping their 'T's and 'th's!!, DD started a few months ago, having spoken perfectly before - she knows fine well what she is doing, cos if she catches me looking at her quizzically, she'll go say parTy!!! - anyway I digress!!]
Mrs- hope the cat is not in too much pain - glad to hear they are coming with you - will they be able to communicate with the foreign cats?!!!
Honey - is DP back yet? How are your pre-labour pains etc going, or are your hips over-riding everything? If it gets very bad, it is never too late to get a referral to a physio to get a support belt - really helps when walking/shopping for support of your bump and pelvis - not wanting to rub it in, but you could be pregnant for another 4-5 weeks, so could be worth it, as the pain will only get worse as you get bigger and the baby pushes down on your pelvis (sorry - not very supportive am I, but just trying to be realistic!). also if you get referred now, it is easier to self-refer yourself back after birth if the pain doesn't subside on its own in the 1st 6 weeks.
Firsty - great to hear from you. I can really sympathise with moving with a baby - I found it hard enough when heavily pregnant, but to do it now, would have been awful! hope you are settling in well now though - sounds great that you think Ty's routine is under control - I've no idea when we'll start thinking about Toby and a routine! Although we are sort of in one now, but not one that these parenting programmes would approve of!!!
What else - can't go to sleep now anymore, as Mum is taking DH to work, so I have to stay up in case the MW turns up - ridiculous - they need to see me to formally discharge us, although they semi-discharged us last week depending on Toby's hospital visit results! They then had the cheek to say they were really over-worked and understaffed, even though I'd said I didn't really need to see anyone!
Well, my health visitor (and by the way, Bodders, what do you mean, of course there are fairies at the bottom of my garden!!!). Clinics are self-weighing (once you know how to use the scales!), so none of this lip-sucking "oh- not put on enough, give him some formula/solids asap!!!". She actually congratulated me, when I said I was solely breast-feeding. She was brilliant with DD who was fascinated in what she was doing with Toby (hearing check and weighing him). She says that mothers know what is best for their children and when they are not well, so to trust my instincts at all times. And that she wasn't going to chase me if I didn't come to have Toby weighed, it was up to me when I came, but she was always there either at clinic or on the phone, if I ever had any concerns! I then briefly mentioned how DD was a calm contented baby for 6 weeks, then started screaming all day for about 8-10 weeks - she immediately said, that it sounded like reflux to her - which is exactly what I had thought, but I was told it couldn't be and even was told by my then HV that I had to have post-natal depression and I was causing my baby to cry! Yesterday's HV was shocked by this - but I''m glad I said it, as I obviously had some demons to put to rest about the whole situation with DD, which I feel much calmer about.
So - I was quite impressed with her - hope it lasts!! I got so fed up being told what to do with DD, when it went against my better judgement, but as a new mother, you trust the so-called experts don't you! This one seems much more hands-off, but more supportive in a way.
Anyway, that went on a bit didn't it?!!!
Off for a cup of tea and a lie on the sofa
Hope you all have good days (pouring with rain here, so hope it better with you all)/
xxx