Right - DH is back and watching cricket highlights, my beautiful mummy has just gone to bed having hoovered my whole house, cleaned the downstairs loo and our ensuite, putting DD to bed and doing all the washing up and tidying the kitchen (on top of washing the kitchen floor on Wednesday!), so I'm going to try and see if I've missed anything over the last few days on here!! [can you tell I love my mummy!!!! (could be the 2 glasses of wine I've just had very quickly though?!). Toby is sleeping fitfully, not sure sweet potato agrees with him, so this will probably take an age an be a bit disjointed - sorry!
Firsty ? I hope you are safely home all mended and recovering now. I?ve heard you mention your heart lots, but not quite sure if I know what is wrong with your heart, but hope that it is nothing too serious and operation has mended it all completely. I also wouldn?t worry about DH coping without you, they do seem to cope very well, but they only have to do it for short periods of time and I bet Ty greeted you with a great big smile and cuddle!
Bodders ? as I?ve said before it is great to hear you sounding so much more positive ? as Chooster said I don?t think I could have coped as well as you?ve been appearing to cope. Apart from the cup of tea incidence you?ve sounded so in control of it all. I feel bad when I lose it with Toby just because he?s woken 3 times in an hour in the middle of the night, so to put up with what you?ve put up with for so long must have been horrible. I hope her sleep settles back again soon for you. Shame about next week, but still think I?m a bit tired for a long drive just at the moment ? must do it though. Shall we aim for a weekend as then we can bring DP/DH to help with the darling DDs ? would be lovely to see whether our DDs get on ? imagine if they hate eachother ? mine will certainly be very shy to start off with!!! I?m hoping that Toby?s sleep is going to improve over the next couple of weeks as he eats more food, but wish I?d heard of the 4 month growth spurt before, would have helped me cope with it all a bit better I think! (but I?ve now lost 9 lbs since Christmas, while eating what I want, so I can?t complain too much about my greedy son!!!). ECing! ? all I can say is !! ? but I did PMSL at the thought of all these babies being hung out of car/bus windows!! Toby is still pooing in the early morning ? can?t hear him do it, but I do need to change his nappy, as he won?t even try to settle if I don?t!
Greedy ? glad you had an ok time in Anglesey ? sorry you had such a horrible drive home though ? we?ve not yet attempted more than 2 hours with the pair of them. DD was great when driving down from Scotland last summer though ? behaved better than me or my dad when we got stuck in traffic for 2 hours ? my excuse was pregnancy hormones, not sure what my father?s was though!. I?m so pleased that Marcy is now giggling ? Toby has been doing it for weeks, and it makes me so happy. I imagine him giggling when I?m losing it during the night!! If he wasn?t such a lovely baby when awake, it would make it so much harder!! Do your other DC make her giggle? In fact that goes to everyone with older DC? Toby just seems to smile spontaneously when he hears DD?s voice ? so lovely how much he loves her!! Just hope it lasts!! Don?t worry about the childminder ? it is only for 4-5 hours ? I?m sure they will be fine {fettle says while not even considering leaving her DC with a childminder at all, but it would be for 3-4 days, not hours!} BTW saw the colour of my white bath sling next to the bath today while it was empty and you are right, it?s not very white anymore!!! How?s your sis? Has she done another pg test? I have to say I?d seriously consider exaggerating my bleeding for an early scan, but I?m amazed they won?t scan her to find out what is going on though ? I always was with all my pgs!
Seaside - great to hear from you. Glad little Cass is doing so well and well done you keeping up with the expressing. Not sure what breast pump you've got, but i've got the Avent hand pump and a friend lent my an attachment which you can attach and set a pumping rate and it them pumps away for you, leaving you free to do whatever you want with both hands!! i've not actually used it I have to say, but she managed to get a lot of coursework done, while expressing!! May be worth looking into? I too would tell the BF cousellors to p-off! Unless they are doing it in the right way, it would just be so annoying and intrusive. You've tried it and you're doing the next best thing (not sure I would have carried on as long as you have expressing - although now I'm losing so much weight, it is tempting to try and continue expressing 4-5 times a day as a weight-loss regime after Toby hasn't finished breast-feeding - would that be weird?!) Hope your doggie is ok?
Iamatmotheratlast ? hope you are settling into being a mother!! Hope little Oscar is not causing you too much trouble and is a little angel for you?
Minxi ? so good to hear from you ? wont? be long until you, Rah, Ready and Lottie are over here ? I miss you all. You are more than welcome here anytime ? you know I stalk you all anyway, but feel really bad actually posting on your thread!
Rainbowdays ? I hope you are getting better? Not long now til you are home ? 2 weeks? Sorry it doesn?t look like we are going to arrange a time to get together before you go home. You never know though, if I ever find myself over in your part of the world?.!! Hope the spy world will continue without you while you?re on maternity leave!!!!
Honey ? how is Dex?s sleeping going? Very that you?ve got him taking a bottle of formula at bedtime! Toby is just not interested and DH is just not interested in helping me in the night ? even if he does go, he just says, ?oh he wants you!!?. Of course he wants me, I?m the one with the boobs, but he can?t have them all the time![grr][grr]!!! (Toby that is, although come to think of it DH can?t have them all the time either!!). Hope your new nighttime routine works for you ? I still really miss having Toby around in the evenings, but he?s more awake during the day now he?s settling about 6.30-7pm. Hope you get your holiday sorted ? it is tough finding childfriendly cheapish holidays! We?ve not have a summer holiday since DD was 6 months old! Combination of lack of money and DH?s lack of suitable holiday times. We were going to go somewhere hot and sunny next week for half-term, but then our boiler blew up and we spent the money on that instead ? kind of felt it was a better long-term use for our earnings!!!. Maybe you should find a really massive villa and we could all go on holiday together with our families ? can you imagine that?!!! Tough having to think about moving house as well ? living in my 5th house in 6 years, I don?t envy you that!!
Chooster ? glad to hear that Theo is back to normal ? some strange man-flu in your house!! Or else you?re super-woman avoiding it all!!. Hope everyone is back to normal now! Thanks for sending our love to MrsMc ? we do miss her!! I so hope that she is managing to enjoy Xavier despite the lack of sleep ? he sounds the total opposite to Toby when he was that age! I?ll let you know what I find out in the book, if I ever actually get around to reading it! Never seem to have the time at the moment. One thing I have picked up, is the same old ?don?t let them fall asleep while breast-feeding!?- how are you actually supposed to stop that happening?! Toby falls into such a deep sleep, that I could drop him in bath of cold water and I don?t think he?d wake up! I practically drop him in his cot to try and unsettle him a bit, but he just murmurs and rolls his head from side-to-side and falls straight back to sleep! May have to resort back to using a dummy technique at night, as he won?t take a bottle, I can?t try water or anything like that. Need to get DH to be more supportive though and get up on occasion, but he is so tired due to work, it is hard asking him. Still can?t believe that Toby did sleep through for a couple of weeks before we went away for Christmas (if that doesn?t put you off a holiday, Honey, nothing will!!!).
Cityangel ? congratulations on hearing the heartbeat!!!! Such a lovely sound isn?t it?! And feeling him move as well ? it really will fly by now you know!! Getting quite jealous again for pg people, but I?m pretty sure that we have done our share of children at the moment! Like Bodders, I?d love to be pg and give birth again, but I really don?t want another child, so perhaps surrogacy is the way to go!!. Good to hear that your moles are ok ? my grandmother died of skin cancer, so it is something I?m very aware of. A couple of mine have enlarged/changed while pg, but I was also told that it was nothing to worry about as due to the pg hormones.
Right ? that was a record for me ? only an hour to write, in between going to Toby! - shouldn?t leave it so long between posts again and shouldn?t post while tired after 2 glasses of wine either!
Hope you all have good weekends
Xxx