Junebugs 2010

[Delilah]

I would love to try this Emma but I'm not sure if I could with working - I am happy for him to just get his sleep when he goes down right now so I can carry on with the stuff I need to do - maybe I'm making a rod for my own back....

Last night he slept 6.30pm - 11pm and was awake until 2am then slept until 8am, awake until 11am this morning and now he's still asleep, he will probably wake in an hour or so I expect - I maybe able to do the keeping him awake until 7pm bit though, I'll see how tonight goes.

Linn, is there nobody you can leave the girls with so you can have a nap?

Mxxx

 

[emmadrumm77]

They are still so tiny, so no need to worry. Just i know how it helps having done it before xxxx I know you have to try and juggle with work D......................I admire that xxxx

 

[E&L's mummy]

im quite lucky really cos i know H will want feeding between 2 and half and 3 hours so i know i have a window to get stuff done and if im coming up to that time and need to not be feeding, like school run time, then i give her it a little earlier.
D dont worry hun, every child is different, every mum is different at different times in thier life. you have to worry about today not tomorrow, its sort of what im having to do at the moment cos my days are soo full with moving etc and with mil STILL here everything is out of whack. xxxxxxxxxxxxx

need a bit of advice to please ladies......i think DD2 is showing signs of getting ready for potty training.....do i hang fire till after the move or go with what she is wanting to do???????

 

[emmadrumm77]

When r u moving?

 

[emmadrumm77]

Personally E&L I would wait, she isn't 2 yet and will be easier once you are settled. If u do it now, with moving etc......it could take u months of stress, where as if u wait till u r all settled will be more relaxing for you all.

 

[-Linn-]

Delilah yeah MIL would die to have them but I wouldn't be able to relax anyway... I slept for 4 hrs total so well I can manage. But I really need 8 hrs every night or I feel tired all day.

Just spoke to HV she was so nice, confirmed that some babies just won't sleep and that it is good to never let them cry it out and that lots of babies can't be put to sleep when they are awake and that I am doing everything perfectly fine. She said all her babies never slept well either. That is what I think though, I got friends and all their babies slept well and all mine don't! Whatever

E is so cute though, she smiles at anyone and just looks around so much when we go out like she's already much older. Already getting distracted by noises when I am feeding her.

And I decided tonight will be better Never had 2 bad nights in a row! Is this bad, I just put her in her bouncer with vibrations and knew she would sleep then so DD and I could get some lunch! Haha at 4pm! Been out this afternoon.

 

[oboeverity]

Hiya!
Please add us to the list; Edward was born on the 26th of June
xxx

 

[-Linn-]

I miss my buddies CJ and Lili, how are you? Not seen you online for a few days! Hope everything is well with you.

 

[lili24]

I'm ere Just had a busy few days and now I am trying to arrange Laylas Christening. How you doing Linn.. Love ur new pics of the girls!

I have to say I haven't put Layla into a routine at all, just been feeding her on demand and letting her sleep when she wants, and she has made her own routine. She is now in bed at 9 and wakes at 6. Then back down at 6.30 til 10-ish. So it hasn't done any harm leaving her to set her own routine

She's massive now, I seen a newborn in Asda and it made me realise how much she's grown up! I sorted her wardrobe today and packed most of her newborn stuff away.. I don't think she's gonna lose any of her hair either, it's just getting longer and thicker.. I love it! Dunno where it came from.. Me and OH are blonde, then we have this child with a full head of dark brown hair, looks like we adopted her xxxxxx

 

[E&L's mummy]

Emma.. movers come aug 4th. my gut reaction is to leave DD2 till after we move but she is becoming really difficult to change and wants to wear "nicnics" all the time. i think she sees me changing DD3, and she isnt a baby so why should i change her iyswim. i dunno......feel like im failing them all at the moment, not helped by comments from "she who needs a kick in the face" only 4 sleeps to go!!

 

[emmadrumm77]

Hi Lili XXXXXXXX
My girls were both born with black hair, but it went blond at around 2-3months. Jake has White hair!!!! So different xxxx
must check out your pics on Fb xxx

 

[-Linn-]

Lili doesn't look like your OH adopted her lol... but I know what you mean, O never lost her hair it just grew out lighter! And Es hair is already growing too, I can't believe my baby is nearly bold lol... with all that heartburn.

E has been asleep for 2 hrs hope she wont get up for the day at 4am now lol

I am tired... yawn, but otherwise fine!

 

[lili24]

It's so dark I don't know how it could ever go light lol. Does it just grow out blonde? Her roots seem to be blonde, and eyebrows and eyelashes. I'd be so shocked if she stayed dark, but I like it! You can't really see on her pics, but it's so long at the back you could do a ponytail in it

We've got Laylas needles on Thursday Dreading it... And he scan next week on her hips because she was breech xxx

 

[-Linn-]

it will grow out blond and then the roots will be dark, it looks funny. My friends LO looked like he had low lights lol... I am not kidding, it was too funny! E has white lashes and eyebrows but so were Os and they got dark, I think E will have the same haircolour as O, the blond/white hair on the top of her head fell out and the hair at the back and sides is darker. Babies are funny.. can you believe Delilah had no heartburn? That tale is so totally not true. And doesn't it feel fab never to have heartburn, how much I appreciate that when I lie down at night lol

Good luck for her immunisations, I am sure it will be fine, the smaller they are the less crying lol... my DD2 would scream the place down like somebody was slaughtering her lol E didn't make a single sound when she had her heel pricked.

 

[Delilah]

Hi All, had another day of non stop crying practically I am so exhausted and not fit for anything right now so Im just catching up on posts. Last night he slept 10pm - 1am so did I then he was awake most of the night and I dozed with him on me, I know you're not supposed to do that Paul went mad this morning when he found us both on the sofa... but if I put him down he screamed and it was easier... Linn's right I had no heartburn or any other symptoms in fact, think thats why I expected motherhood to be easy..... Nathan is asleep with Paul atm I need to sleep too before he wakes up. He lost 4oz since I've been using the nipple shield - need to rethink but dont know how I can put him on direct when I'm in so much pain....

Bye for now

Mxxx

 

[-Linn-]

Delilah I can only recommend to get rid of the pillow, then only feed him on one side and express at the other, try to use the expressed milk in a bottle so your nipples can heal, you only feed him on one side for a few days for alternate feeds and use the EBM for the other feeds then one side can heal with the pumping only and you can swap to the other until that is healed, in the meantime try to get a better latch and use plenty of nipple cream Lansinoh and don't use a pillow. Paracetamol/ibuprofen for the pain. This is what my midwife has told me when I struggled with DD1.

It is the mistake I made feeding DD1, and I was sooo sore. Don't know if you can do this timewise but it might work. I just gave up This time I did not use a pillow, I just put her head in my hand and latch her on and then I rest her head on my arm while she drinks. And I am never sore. My friend made the same experience and it got better without a pillow.

 

[nightkd]

Thanks guys We ended up going to a hunting shop and playing some of the games there (haven't had a chance for MONTHS) as well as going and having a REALLY rare steak (the bloody waitress started trying to get rid of us about half way through the meal, but I seemed to have a bottomless pit of a stomach, so I sat there and almost made my way through the whole thing (except DH gets bored because he eats quick and I take my time so I got a box for the last of my steak...) which I was bloody glad about, because...uhh...how rude?! I could've gone a dessert, but the biatch brought us our bill before I'd finished too!! WTF? Ah well, I had some choccy ice-cream when we got home, so it saved us some dosh (and her some tip...)... We went and saw Toy Story 3 also! Then got back to LO at 9pm!! So she was with her Auntie from 1pm til 9pm!! It was nice to have a break, though we did keep looking for her in the mirror in the car etc...

She had 6oz at one feeding!!!!!! I supplied them with about 12oz of breastmilk and fortunately that saw her through until we picked her up (though she wanted to feed at the boob once we got back home..) I'm sure she's having a growth spurt.

We're having issues now... Whenever she feeds at the boob, she just doesn't seem to know when to stop...she was doing that a bit before, but now it's every time - she projectile vomits shortly afterwards... =/ I was starting to enjoy going back to boob feeding, instead of feeding her from a bottle every time....but now I'm nervous to! She either screams the place down because we stop her early, or vomits everywhere because she overeats... WTF are we meant to do?!

We have some formula to try her on tonight...we got the sensitive stuff to start with...so we'll see how it goes. I'd rather feed from the boob than pump now, but...blargh. At the moment it really seems like we may end up doing part and part BF'ing (expressing) and FF'ing... Formula is bloody expensive!!!! Now I actually feel kind of sad thinking about not feeding her on the boob...

Anyway, hope everyone's well. Bean has slept in our bed for a few hours last night and the night before, which was kind of nice...we just don't want to get her used to it, because I really didn't want to co-sleep with her actually IN the bed (we were looking at cosleepers for a while)....It's kept her settled though as she's continued to be fussy (we're thinking this could be what the paediatrician talked about with them getting fussier up to 6 weeks, then improving after the 6 week mark...)...

xx

 

[Deee[Riley<3]]

i had Riley Caden on June 3rd !!
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[emmadrumm77]

Well we had last night and all went well!! Poor OH was scared he was going to hurt me! Was quite sweet really xx

J has been so good sleeping 7pm-2.30, but then won't sleep again unless i hold him!!! Last night i cracked it.................put a breast pad that i had worn that day by his head as he slept, so he could smell me, he slept through from 2.30-7am with his nose on the pad!!!

 

[lili24]

That's such a clever idea Emma

My first period is here since my section.... OMG it's painful