Bumpkins & Babies Chat Thread

[florabean1981]

aimee, earl is totally gorgeous! he has such expressive eyes! and as for HV comments, stay on your soapbox all you like, lol!

kte: i dont believe it's possible to overfeed a baby- surely they'd either refuse the feed, or puke up the excess anyway???

maffie, which electric pump did you get?

chaos, good luck with the generic brands lol @ the ceiling fan; for harry, it's the aquarium, hehe, it mesmerises him!

 

[Maffie]

Flora I got the avent iq, its great and matches your own pumping style. I get 4oz in less than 10 minutes.

Eswift even though Noah latches well im still sore.

 

[florabean1981]

Flora I got the avent iq, its great and matches your own pumping style. I get 4oz in less than 10 minutes.

Eswift even though Noah latches well im still sore.

i want to ask for an elec pump for xmas coz i get bored using my manual one, lol.

 

[Maffie]

im loving avent stuff, its all been easy to use, it has a rubber petal thingie which massages the boob lol sorry bad description but it helps with the let down apparently.

 

[littlekitten8]

Afternoon girls. Have had a good morning. James slept til 9.30am which was fine but we had to leave at 10am to get to postnatal group lol so was a bit of a rush. Then one of our friends from the group came back for lunch. Now James is sound asleep in his bouncer. Hoping to go to Mothercare when OH gets home for his break.

 

[Kte]

Thanks about the weight issue ladies. I was worried about what the HV would say today when I got Chloe weighed but she seemd okay with her weight gain this time. She weighed in at 10lbs 4oz today! (She was 8lbs 11oz 2 weeks ago.) The HV said it's just something we have to keep an eye on as Chloe has jumped from 25th percentile, to 50th and now she in the 75th! She said so long as it evens out and she stays in the same percentile in the next few weeks then there shouldn't be a problem. I don't have her on hungry baby food either, when I said she was a hungry baby I meant she had a good appetite! Her food does fill her usually, she feeds every 2-3 hours in the day and every 3-4 at night and takes anything between 90ml to 150ml. I don't want to up her feeds just yet as she doesn't always take the full 150ml. Yesterday was a blip on the feed routine thankfully, she seems much more content today and taking her regular feeds. The way I see it is I am 5ft 9 and OH is over 6ft and Chloe is already a long baby with big feet! She is going to be tall and hence she needs all the growing nutrieints (sp) she can get!

Aimee ~ I have had those days. I think it's when you just want to relax but then so does your OH and then their relax time kind of interfears with yours and as annoying as it is you can't get mad because they deserve to relax too!! I am also kind of jealous sometimes that my OH can just switch off and I am on alert 24/7. Food wise, Earl doesn't look over fed either I think he just has a good apetite too. I agree so long as the LO's are happy then that is the main thing. Yey on the smile front too! I play the toungue game with Chloe but she hasn't grasped that yet although she is taking a lot more in at the moment. Look at his little red barnet on the pics: too cute! Also ~ Medowhall meet sounds good to me too!!

Chaos ~ hope the generic brand agrees with Autumn. OH and I did the same, investigated the back of the boxes to see what the difference was between them and there is hardly any.

I really want a bouncer for Chloe, she doen't seem to be entertained by any random object at the moment, she loves being bounced on a knee tho. I wish she did find something amusing sometimes so she could babble away for a bit, give me chance to sort her feeds without being in a mad rush to keep her occupied and happy at the same time!


We went and did a tiny bit more christmas shopping today and I decided to have Chloe straped on me rather than take the pram. We went in a cafe and whilst we ate she had a feed and then happily dozed off. In the next shop we were walking about and it was quite empty except on the isle with christmas devorations in so it was quite packed. Walking through the middle of people Chloe suddenly gave off a really loud burp and woke herself up! Everyone just looked at me!

 

[Maffie]

Well so far today Noah has been a total cloth bum baby, seems to be going well, we've tried 3 different ones and washing them should be interestingas he has done some huge poos today

He's definitely n a growth spurt he's feeding for England. These HV are obsessed with weight I know Noah is gaining slowly but it still means he's gaining!

He's crying lots today but he id that on the last spurt, I hope he has a calm night.

His new travel cot arrived today so im hoping to find time to put it up later, although im not ho

peful as ive not even made it to the shower today, every spare moment has been spent washing clothes and cleaning the kitchen.

 

[littlekitten8]

Maffie I've not made it into the shower yet either. Have been doing my housework because we have an inspection on Monday. Have totally blitzed the kitchen and half done the living room. Having a quick snack cos I'm starving having only eaten 1 piece of toast and a sandwich. Want to get some more done before James decides its feed time. I'm being a very naughty mummy and put him in front of CBeebies to entertain him cos he likes singing and I don't have the concentration to blitz my house and sing nursery rhymes at the same time lol. But its put him straight to sleep lol.

 

[florabean1981]

harry has literally been attatched to me today, so i am drained... he seems to be refusing sleep n looks so tired, but all he wants is to feed & be held, bless him. i assumre it's coz of the jabs yesterday, or maybe another growth spurt? have given up putting him down now & got the carrier strapped on with him in so he feels a bit more secure. just btried washing up in it, n got his legs all wet in the [process, lol. oh well. cant wait till oh is home so I can have a bath- i feel like a total skank as i ahvent even changed out of my pjs today

 

[aimee-lou]

Chaos - I too am jealous of the ceiling fan obsession! lol. We have a lamp that Earl will gladly stare at, and he will look out of windows for hours as long as you're holding him - Bad mummy accidentally left him in viewing angle of the TV and came back to a very quiet but very entertained baby watching Eamon Holmes on This Morning!

Thanks for the lovely comments about Earl - everyone always mentions his eyes! They're the same colour as mine but they're big and gorgeous like hubby's....sorry lovey dovey moment there lol

Almost time for bed for a LO si i'd best be off.

Meadowhall it is then........Who's coming and when are we going?

 

[Chaos]

Evenin' Girls!

Well it's lucky I went out to get formula, because when I got home, I found the remains of a tub across the tiles in the kitchen. Murphy, (who is a cat who needs to stay out of kicking range for a few hours!!!) did his normal trick of getting up on the sides to scavenge for food whilst I was out and decided it would make a tasty snack!

I took Lil Miss out for a walk around the nieghbourhood this afternoon to see if it would get her to take a good nap. Did it? Did it heck. I put her in the "proper" part of the buggy rather than in her car seat on top, and she must have enjoyed the view, because all I heard for 40 minutes was "OOoooooOOH" "AhhHHhhhhhh"

I thought I'd share a video of her newest trick. Spit bubbles. It grosses me out because she'll blow a big wad of them and suck them right back in She was a bit slow with this lot a most of it dropped on the blanket lol. Oh .. when she's looking up and staring .. that's at the ceiling fan lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyz9XZVzQEw

Flora/Kte ~ Re overfeeding, I agree. One time Autumn pigged her 4 oz really fast and 30 seconds later she projectile vomited it everywhere. Now when she's full she pushes the teet out with her tongue.

Re pumps, I'm not sure if you get the "Medela" brand back home? I have the "Pump in style" electric pump .. found it works really well.

LK ~ Re CBeebies, Autumn LOVES curious George haha. I had the telly on for background noise today, had lil miss on the sofa sitting in her boppy, went to check her and she's staring at the telly laughing away at it. 9 weeks and addicted to the goggle box already!

Flora ~ Slummy Mummy days are great!!

Oh I forgot to mention .. yesterday I was wanting to have a shower and she was being a lil moo and fussy, so I decided on a whim to take her in to the shower with me, I put her little bath seat in there on the seat in the shower, sat her in it, got in my self, picked her up and I faced the spray so it was on her back. Do you know, she was passed out and snuggling in to my neck with in about 20 seconds? It's so strange the things that sooth them lol.

Ok I need to do something with this house whilst she is nappy, looks like a bomb went off!!

 

[Kaites]

Good evening!

It's been a couple busy days around here so it's taken me ages to catch up on all the posts! We finally found a convertible car seat that fits in the backseat of our car and still gives me and hubby enough leg room in the front- yayy! Emma has had 2 nights this week of 7-8hrs of sleep- fingers crossed that this is a trend of things to come.

Chaos- re: generic diapers, we got a sample of the Costco generic and if I remember correctly, they were really similar to the Huggies diapers. We cloth diaper- there are so many cute diapers to buy though so I can't say it's saved us $$ like I had planned

Flora- I barely make it out of PJs most days too- I might as well be comfy if I'm just hanging out at home. Emma is entertained by the aquarium too. We bought a crib toy that looks like an aquarium that has fish "swimmimg" in it- she seems to like it as much as the real fish so far.

Aimee-lou- cute pics of Earl, especially the one of him in the tub!

Kte- you'd think the HV would take on look at you and your OH and realize she's gonna be bigger than average based on her parent's height. Emma likes bouncing on my knee too- grandma has bought her a jumperoo for Christmas.

Maffie- hope the boobies heal soon- sounds painful! Have fun with the diaper washing- my hubby finally stepped up and put his first load in the washer for me today

Hope our babies all sleep soundly tonight

 

[florabean1981]

chaos, i'm loving your videos of autumn! harry started blowing spit bubbles this week too, but doesn't let it drip out of his mouth yet, lol. I keep meaning to take little videos of him, but never get round to it, lol, but I now have like 400 pics on facebook of him, which my OH says makes me a saddo camera addict, hehe! yep, we have medela over here, but it's well expensive & wioth moving house within the next week or so (just waiting for exchange of contracts now) we are kinda broke.

Kaites, that's great about emma's long sleeps, hope it continues! Since changing to cloth, has her diaper rash completely gone?

oops, bubs is awake again & screaming. out come the boobies again

 

[Maffie]

Morning all, well woke at 5 this morning with a stinking headache, it was verging on migraine territory and I so didnt feel up to feeding Noah, OH couldn't do it has he needed to get ready to collect his children (they will be meeting Noah for first time today) Anyway I thankfully had an expressed bottle that I did in the early hours so I just managed to feed him that. OH gave him a cuddle while I passed back out!

Head feels almost normal again now, so thankful a full blown migraine didnt come as without my meds I dont know how i'd cope.

I managed to feed off right boobie just now, it seems to be healing well. So glad of the break the electric pump gives me.

Chaos we have the medela, ive heard great things about them but I know a few people who have had them break and the avent seems so much more sturdy.
I have to agree with Kaites on costco nappies ive not tried them but ive heard good things about them, I like cloth bums too though.

Noah started spit bubbles last night, we went to TGI's before we went for the shopping (he loves all the christmas lights in there and they are so baby friendly) It was packed and Noah got so much attention, even while I was feeding

Aimme I wouldn't worry about Earl seeing the TV I have it on as background noise quite often, I was quite a telly bug growing up but I was always taught I could have things like TV if I did well in school and behaved well. Speaking of TV's im gutted since digital switch over we have lost ITV, channel for and 5 so going to miss x factor tonight!

Right i'd better shower and clean the lounge before OH's boys arrive (we have got them presents from Noah) Might have to make some sausage sandwiches for brekkie first

 

[littlekitten8]

Had a good night last night. James had 3oz at 9.30pm and I went and had a bath and went to bed. OH stayed up and fed him at 3am for me so I got out of bed to go check on him and he was already in there about to start feeding him so I went back to bed and was out cold again within a few minutes. Then he woke up at 7.30am so I got up and fed him. He was wide awake so I moved his moses basket under the mobile so he could look at it and within 5 minutes he was asleep and has yet to wake up. Had breakfast cooked for me which was very nice.

Maffie - you poor thing. I suffer terribly with migraines and luckily I've only had a very mild one since having James. OH works such long hours that I don't know how I would cope if I got a full blown one.

 

[aimee-lou]

Morning all - hope we're all well....

just a quickie before mister man kicks off (I can hear him gurgling so he's on the wake up! lol

We officially have a smiley baby - 5 weeks 5 days! Woohoo!

Picture to prove it below....

Gotta go....MIL and SIL are due any minute!

 

[Maffie]

Im the same LK when I get a full blown migraine im out of action a full day with falling over, faint spells, vomiting. Thankfully not had a full one since early on in the pregnancy.

 

[Kte]

Chaos ~ You can see her moving her head trying to follow the fan, it's too cute! Pesky cats! I have our baby milk stored in a air tight jar, Bandit stole my cerals' this morning too, I was not impressed, he was swiftly booted outside!

Aimee ~ I'll come! Now the tricky part with dates! What side of Christmas / New Year are we thinking??!?

Flora ~ I am trying to hold myself back with the pics but it's too hard! Have some more to pop on FB too!

Eeek, I'll be back, cheeky is waking up for a feed

 

[aimee-lou]

Why is it when you're waiting for people they're always late?! They said they would be here 11-12.....hmmmm still no sign!

Kte - I was thinking the other side of Christmas. Basically because I only get the car on hubby's day off and he has about 3 before christmas and they're all taken up with family visits.

Earl has got his grumpy pants on today....He wants to eat every 2 hours and Just Wont Sleep! poor little thing....I think personally he's picking up my annoyed 'when the hell are you getting here' vibes! lol

Best go....they'll probably arrive while I'm on here and Earl is wailing in a corner! lol (he's not by the way....just grizzling and smacking hell out of his friend the cushion! lol

 

[Kte]

Why is it when you're waiting for people they're always late?! They said they would be here 11-12.....hmmmm still no sign!

Kte - I was thinking the other side of Christmas. Basically because I only get the car on hubby's day off and he has about 3 before christmas and they're all taken up with family visits.

Earl has got his grumpy pants on today....He wants to eat every 2 hours and Just Wont Sleep! poor little thing....I think personally he's picking up my annoyed 'when the hell are you getting here' vibes! lol

Best go....they'll probably arrive while I'm on here and Earl is wailing in a corner! lol (he's not by the way....just grizzling and smacking hell out of his friend the cushion! lol

Was hoping you would say that! Ah thats good, either way I get to fix my car or make sure I have enough money to get the train. Pre-Christmas I need all the money I can get! Found OH a present from Chloe today, just got to figure out what I want to get him!

Hope Earl settles and your visitors turn up soon