August Beach Bumps - 24 Girls, 27 boys, & 2 team yellow! 39 babies born!!

[onebumpplease]

Saw your pic yesterday, Did you take Lena to work Bar?

 

[Barhanita]

yes! I needed to for a half of the day. She behaved!

 

[onebumpplease]

Wow that's impressive!

 

[Scottish]

Angel do you bf? I can't remember if you do. I hope you are also feeling a bit better yourself as I remember you were feeling a bit down

Bar go you! I bet it is strange to be back at work! How fab you can take Lena with you xx

Celtic omg such a sad thing to see! When i done my nurse training in a&e I heard really sad similar story's of baby's to and it broke me heart.

I have a question and I know May sound crazy but those of you who are going to have another baby in future what sort of age gap are you thinking? I defo want one more as I left such a big age gap with my dd and Hama I don't want I do the same again. I did originally think of waiting 2 years as I want to do primary school teacher training next year but now I thinking of trying much sooner like near a year but unsure yet! I just want all the sleepless nights out the road ASAP I know it's v soon and we are all sleep deprived etc and I am a bit crazy thinking about it but hey ho! Hehe

 

[babyhopes2010]

cant get any bigger ,surely?
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[Angelmarie]

Yes I exclusively bf.
and with regard to whether I'm feeling better- I'm not sure! Up and down with it taking very little to tip me over the edge!
Thanks for asking though

I had a 6 year gap between my first two but I struggled to conceive- it took well over two years. I had hoped the age gap would be closer. I struggled to conceive Amelie too but was referred quickly due to past history so it only took just shy of a year. Only! I had wanted two years between. Funnily enough I waited an extra year because I applied for primary teacher training! (I got through to last interview and blew it due to having a horrific virus and on heavy medication. Stupid me should have rescheduled but at least I got Amelie sooner!)

My advice would be to do your training first. The more kids you have the more difficult it will be. That course is a heavy workload!

 

[Angelmarie]

Your bump looks well low! Is baby engaged do you know?

 

[mac1979]

Scottish-we are trying for #2 once raptor is potty training. I don't want 2 in diapers at the same time, but I am 34 and the biological clock is ticking.

Is it weird I haven't had any cramping from the Mirena?

 

[Barhanita]

Angel, do you dislike the age difference between your sons? Scottish, why do you dislike the difference? I am leaning towards a somewhat big gap, but maybe I am crazy.

Mac, enjoy it! Cramping sucks.

 

[onebumpplease]

Gosh Scottish I don't know what we will do. I know I want to give Rowan a sibling, but the baby blues and exhaustion had me seriously questioning that. As well as the traumatic birth putting me off. However I now feel that the sooner the better, while I'm used to sleep deprivation, rather than having to go back to it. Also I am 34 and it took a year to conceive Rowan.

As for in relation to teacher training I did primary pgde a few years ago and it was hard work, but so is the probation year and teaching full time, so not sure whether it would be better to get baby out first or not

 

[Angelmarie]

Angel, do you dislike the age difference between your sons? Scottish, why do you dislike the difference? I am leaning towards a somewhat big gap, but maybe I am crazy.

Mac, enjoy it! Cramping sucks.

I like the fact that Eden is old enough to help me with stuff but the gap is VERY difficult when for example, Eden is out playing with friends in the street and Caelan sits at the window sobbing begging me to let him see 'his' friends because he's a 'big boy now'. Utterly breaks my heart and I sit and sob about it. It's tough to explain to the little one why he can't do all the things the big one can do.
Also they're at very different play levels and Very often Eden just can't be bothered with 'baby games'.
Eden gets the brunt of my anger in any issues as he is older and should know better/help out more etc (sometimes its easy to forget he's just ten as he is very intelligent and mature for his age).

It is a big shame I couldn't have them closer together so they could have been playmates. They are great friends and always will be, I feel but I just think siblings thatt are closer in age are closer friends as children (I admit this divide decreases with age).

Sorry for rambling!

 

[Scottish]

Baby hopes great bump pic, it is l

 

[Scottish]

Don't know what happened up there ^^^^ I will retype grr

 

[Scottish]

Angel well done on ebf that's fantastic. Amelie sounds as though she's in a great routine xxx I hope you will feel better as time goes on

I applied for the primary pgde before I got my bfp then in December I found out I was successful for interview but cours is starting August (now) so I had to tell them I couldn't attend it this year. I do want to do it before having another baby but I also do t want to wait to long with regards to age gaps. I will still apply for pgde at the end of the year for next August and let fate take over I guess ?
Well done onebump on doing the pgde I know it sounds very intense eekk are u still teaching?

Barhanita I guess with age gaps I feel same as angel. My dd longed for a sibling for years and the reason is just having someone for her to grow up with and play with as she has been lonely at home and now she is more grown up I don't think she will have the same bond with hama as she would have if smaller age gap hence why I want another soon. I was an only child so I can't really compare but I know I would have loved a sibling! I waiting so long after my dd as I went to college then university to do my nurse training and then worked for a bit before ttc.

 

[lolpants]

I'm not having any more. Everyone's different, but in my opinion 2-4yrs is the best sorta age gap. I'm hoping my girls will grow up friends.

We spent the day at comic con today everyone loved Melody .

Lol xx
Anyone else hired/considered hiring a cleaner for help? I am really struggling to get on top of things and am thinking of getting help?

 

[Barhanita]

I would love a cleaner, but we cannot afford

 

[Scottish]

It's 1.24am and my baby is still refusing to sleep! He's wide awake zzzzzzzzz.......

 

[bella21]

bar- when you say lena is fussy, how fussy is she exactly?

I'm starting to think chase is colicky. he cries ALL the time. he was great all week and then yesterday he cried for almost 4 hours, today he cried all day from 10am-6:45 give and take little breaks here and there and he would only nap for 20-30 minutes at a time. he's never just content unless we give him a little gripe water in his bottle. it makes me so upset and i cry all the time because i don't feel like i can do anything to soothe him and i feel like being his mother i should be able to do that no problem. he's finally asleep now since 6:45pm and its now 8:40 but this is his first long nap of the day. OH and I went out and changed his formula to gerber goodstart soothe- for colicky, excessive crying and fussy babies. i just don't know what to do anymore and i feel like a failure baby blues are getting worse and i really hope I'm not getting PPD. when we fed him the new formula he seemed content and thats when he fell asleep but i don't know if it was just coincidence or not because he didn't sleep all day and was overly tired.

also my incision decided to pop open today and puss was pouring out of it. i just had my incision checked 2 days ago and i told the doctor i was having a fever and chills and sweats. he said it was most likely from my milk coming in. when he checked the incision he said it looked a little red on the one side, and amazingly enough thats the side it started pussing from today. why wouldn't he just order me an antibiotic right there and then? so i had to call the OB on call today at the hospital and he ordered me antibiotics. I swear its just one thing after the other anymore, i feel like I'm recovering all over again. another reason why i feel like i can't take care of chase like i should be because i can't move around properly

sorry for the rant ladies

 

[HHenderson]

Does anyone know if were allowed to clean the glue off our cuts? I was told to only rinse with water when I shower. The glue is peeling and gross looking.

 

[Barhanita]

Bella, sometimes during the day she is just upset, tries to cry and looks very unhappy. But then in the evening she spends good 3-4 hours of eating-crying-fussing... Then she falls asleep.. It's hard to almost never see your baby content..