April mummies baby club :-)

[HannahGraceee]

girls, guess what? i'm having a DRINK! whoo hoo and i tell you what it is going down a beaut! think i might be able to use the 'drunk' emoticon soon lol xx

I'm not Joking!! should I confess to how classy I am?

I'm drinking..... Lambrini!!!

LOL the cherry one is surpisingly tasty lol

 

[sarah_george]

But only half the strength left to my own devices i'm proper hardcore!

 

[HannahGraceee]

i remember i got pissed out my face on lambrini before lol good old stuff lol

have a drink for me too lol

 

[HannahGraceee]

omg did i say

AVA SLEPT 1 - 7 last night x

 

[sarah_george]

Oscar slept 1030 last night till 730 this morning i feel like i got a 3 month old already! he's 10lb 14 already too the little chunk!

 

[chel27]

hi sarah_george congrats on having a good old drink, even if it is lambrini
i have a lovely bottle of hardys wine chilling in fridge but cant touch it cos im on tablets 4 times a day due to a horrible boil type cyst thing thats latched onto my ear and OMG its painfull

hows your lo?

 

[kellysays2u]

Hey everyone guess what!!!! Such good news today well a little bit of bad news but even that one is good in a way...

1- Athena latched on! Theres even a pic in the breastfeeding forum I was so happy lol... Never thought my boob would be online lol.

2- The little chubbers is 8 lbs 11 oz... Course comparing her to all your babies that seems really small?

3- She is 20 inches long... 50.8 cm.

4- This is the somewhat bad news... Athena is going to be put on a SIDS monitor till six months... its pretty much the same monitor she is on now but it also has a heartbeat monitor to... In a way I guess it will help me cause I wont be as afraid to sleep... But I HATE having her all hooked up to them. It sucks.

Woops pressed send to early...

On another note though... Got a really strange email today from someone who I guess hunter has been hanging out with and likes him... She wont tell me who it is but she basically just called me a slut that hunter is cheating on me and that i should leave hunter then brought it even further to say I should kill myself so that to put hunter and athena out of there misery... How can someone be that sick to say it would be good to leave a baby without a mom... then she basically proceeded to tell me she would be the babies mom and that she would make hunter happier... It made me cry in a way cause hunter really doesnt seem like he wants to spend a lot of time with me anymore... I know this is all just to make me mad as most people know how insecure I am about myself. But I just dont know... I know that he still wants me with him as the other day he woke up from a dream where I left him and asked me to never leave him... But I dont know if he still wouldnt be happier without me...

 

[mellllly]

Aww Kelly - Well done Athena!
I think Men are just on a different planet this month reading all your stories!
I really would ignore that email hun, it is sick Did you reply?

Thanks SS, Not meaning to sound big headed or anything but I am in the paper quite a bit for netball - might be that? I dunno!?

I have a horrible cold coming and OH still made me get up and do the early feed!

Do you think it is fair that I have to get up all of next week for all the early feeds?
I know Graham has work but he doesnt start till 8.30am, Sophie usually wakes up at 5am for a feed and then is normally back down by 6 / 6.30. I said to OH do I have to do all of them, and he said well you can easily catch up on sleep during the day!
1. I cant sleep during the day
2. if I do it takes me forever to actualy nod off and then I catch 10 mins and feel worse

Plus why do I have to put up with the broken sleep pattern whilst he gets 8 hours per night!!! Am I being unreasonable? He can easily come back to bed for an hour before he goes to work, he is a typical man and can drop off as soon as his head hits the pillow.
Being at home with Sophie is also full time.
When she is asleep that is when I can actually go and get dressed, sterilise bottles, make up bottles, eat, clean etc. Then what happens at weekends?? Will he want to lay in because he has been hard at work all week??

Arghh sorry ladies rant over! I suppose I will get up all next week and see how it goes!

 

[lyndsey3010]

Morning girls!

Cooper was awake yesterday from 9am til midnight, he cried whenever he wasn't on the boob so at 7pm I relented and gave him a dummy to stop him comfort sucking on my nipples. Started off happy as larry then started spitting it out and was chilled out without it. He only woke up once for a feed at 4am and fed for 15 mins and was straight back to sleep again instead of it taking 2/3 hours like the night before. Best sleep I've had since having him.

Melllly - I've told OH I'll do the night/morning feeds and nappy changes as long as Friday and Saturday nights when he doesn't have to work the next day he's helping. He does so much now around the house, walking the dog, cooking sometimes etc that I really can't complain anyway.

Kelly - oh my god that person has a serious issue. Who on earth does something like that. Crazy. But clever athena! My little boy is now 8.8lbs which I thought was huge weight gain for him. (7.1 at birth) but like you seems so much smaller than other peoples. He's also 54.5 cm so he's all arms and legs!

 

[sarah_george]

Morning ladies, I'm not sure how long Oscar is now but when he was born he was 60cm is that huge? the midwife did measure him 3 times to check, he really is a chubber lol most people when they ask cant believe he's only days old rather than months!

 

[lyndsey3010]

Oscar in your avatar

Wow 60cm is long, are you/OH tall?

 

[HannahGraceee]

Morning girls!

Cooper was awake yesterday from 9am til midnight, he cried whenever he wasn't on the boob so at 7pm I relented and gave him a dummy to stop him comfort sucking on my nipples. Started off happy as larry then started spitting it out and was chilled out without it. He only woke up once for a feed at 4am and fed for 15 mins and was straight back to sleep again instead of it taking 2/3 hours like the night before. Best sleep I've had since having him.

Melllly - I've told OH I'll do the night/morning feeds and nappy changes as long as Friday and Saturday nights when he doesn't have to work the next day he's helping. He does so much now around the house, walking the dog, cooking sometimes etc that I really can't complain anyway.

Kelly - oh my god that person has a serious issue. Who on earth does something like that. Crazy. But clever athena! My little boy is now 8.8lbs which I thought was huge weight gain for him. (7.1 at birth) but like you seems so much smaller than other peoples. He's also 54.5 cm so he's all arms and legs!

Ava and cooper are the exact same!! she crys and wants to comfort suck for hour and hours but when she does that i have the best sleep ever

i cant bealive there both nearly a month old gone so fast!

 

[sam*~*louize]

Layla was born at 49cm, friend was born at 50cm. Think that's average, so jesus yes I'd say he is tall!

 

[lyndsey3010]

Ava and cooper are the exact same!! she crys and wants to comfort suck for hour and hours but when she does that i have the best sleep ever

i cant bealive there both nearly a month old gone so fast!

Its so scary how fast time goes. Drags when you're massively overdue, whizzes now they are here!

 

[sarah_george]

Oscar in your avatar

Wow 60cm is long, are you/OH tall?

Yeah, i'm 5 10 and DH is 6 3 so i guess it was inevitable that we would get a biggun! he fills 0-3 stuff already so glad i didnt buy too much in that size! i'm gonna measure him later when i get the chance, he's adorable i could just munch him all day well i do actually

 

[chel27]

wow its quiet in here today!! how are you all? i think amy has finally got into a routine now and generally has her last feed around 8-9pm and then goes to bed and genaerally sleeps 8 or more hours

 

[lyndsey3010]

Wow chel that's great. I can't wait to get there. As you can see, it's 3.45am and I'm feeding and on here on my phone to keep me awake!

I suspect OH and I are gonna have a cracking row tomorrow..... He was out ALL day on a stag do, came home shit faced about 10.30, and has just got up to take headache pills which means he's in for a whopping hangy which means I get no help with the baby. Pisses me off that he has to get so drunk, he can't pace himself and clearly can't think that maybe I want a bit of a rest and to catch up on sleep. Oh no. He has no flipping thought for that. The wedding is end of June, miles away so he'll need a hotel, I'm not invited and basically I don't want him to go because I need weekends with some time to sleep whilst he sorts Cooper out. Flying solo 24/7 is just exhausting.

Rant over. But he better watch it as he's in for a bollocking later

 

[mummy to be]

cuddles Lyndsay - i know what you mean.. it is so tiring!!!

Chel - How are you???

I am exhausted today. Allan didnt drink last night (which was a nice change lol) He really helped out last night. He even got up this morning when Layla had finished feeding, took her changed her, and then put her to sleep in her rocker and then he went and did all the washing, ironing, and most of the house work. All i have to do now is the vaccuming... He let me sleep in for a extra 3 hours! He was great. He appoligised for not helping me out more and promised to make the change!
He also got up everytime i was awake last night for a feed and he took her to burp her and changer her lol... It was a great help!

 

[sam*~*louize]

that's great mandy - soo glad your gettng help now!

 

[QueenMummyToBe]

Hey ladies..

My turn to rant I'm afraid..

So the breastfeeding is going well... apart from a couple of things...

I have an oversupply of milk (because I was expressing so much) and that has led to a 'forceful let-down' .. so Amelia is gulping down milk and letting in too much air so every like 2 minutes I have to wind her.. Making the feeding process 10000x longer!!

OH has always said weekends are Daddy and daughter time, because he works 45+ hours a week and commutes 10hours a week too he isn't at home very often during the week to see her.. so she woke up at 10am for a feed, I've been feeding her and winding her and she doesn't want any more feed off me.. (for now anyway) and she is still crying..
..Instead of helping me (because he knows she cries when she can smell milk on me) and trying to settle her he is on the wii and saying 'What the hell is wrong with her' .. HOW THE F AM I SUPPOSE TO KNOW?!

Mellly - I understand what situation you are in.. It took me breaking down for OH to realise I needed more help when we were bottle feeding her.

I think men don't realise how much of a task it is looking after a baby all day and night by yourself! I hate asking for help and in all honesty non of us should have to ask for help when it comes to our babies.. it takes two to tango and all that!

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