Lucky thread

[baileybubs]

On and speaking of being an aunt again, my nephew might be born as early as next week now! I think all is looking good but he's pretty big and mil said something about fluid round the cord (I'm sure she's misheard something there) but SIL is having another scan on Monday and might talk about induction!

Yay for your sister having a lovely scan and baby being ok! Bet she was so nervous!

 

[cupcake1981]

Aw the dummy's been a lifesaver, he settles instantly with it. I didn't want him to have one but he was chewing his fingers and even his sleeve, and well you can take a dummy away but you can't take a baby's thumb away right! For the first time since Zach was born hubby and I have begin able to watch tv together in the evening!

Not sure how much longer the expressing will happen, my supply dwindling and also the sheer amount of time it takes up, I can only find time to do it twice a day as it take half an hour each time.

Yeah she was really nervous, she's so happy tho now. I can't believe I'm thinking of baby no 2 already, but I think at the moment it's more to do with regrets about my birth and breastfeeding and wanting another chance to go back and do it all the way I wanted to tbh, Zach is more than enough for me to cope with at the moment!

Yey for your nephew coming soon!! I bet your SIL is so excited, but in a bittersweet way, must be heading towards the anniversary of Isabella x

 

[CherylC3]

Aw cupcake thts great ur getting into a routine Hun, it's not weird look at me and bailey desperate to do it all again.. The dummy was a godsend for us but now he does the same as Emilia infact he's stared just taking it out and chucking it away lol..x

Hope u girls hav a nice weekend I'm going to my friends house oh and her cancer is clear she just needs some chemo and radio therapy and she will be fine.

 

[baileybubs]

Aw that's great her cancer is clear Cheryl! Brilliant news!

Cupcake yeah will be bittersweet as it was October last year. Think it will be nice on one hand if he is born in September but on the other hand better if he can bake as long as possible!

Well df is in the dog house yet again, this time it's gambling online! He's a pain in the backside! That saying is so true, can't live with them can't live without them and it's so frustrating!

 

[CherylC3]

Oh and meant to say the OPKs are still positive and still bfn

 

[CherylC3]

Oh no bailey thts a nightmare he needs sorting out Hun..x

 

[cupcake1981]

Oh bailey I see your post in baby club about your df. He really is a numpty isn't he.

Cheryl that's good news about your friend x

 

[baileybubs]

He's driving me bonkers cupcake, I don't know what to do he's just so frustrating! He watched me spend an hour on excel the other day drawing up a budget for the next 3 months because I needed to include cost of moving, and the fact that I won't get any pay for December, and it was after he saw me doing all that working out that he just decided to take more money from the account!

Do you ever go past the point of being annoyed or angry about something? That's how I feel now!

 

[baileybubs]

And Cheryl still positive opks but negative hpts??? That's weird! Can you take a pic of the opks?

 

[cupcake1981]

Can you change the pass codes on the accounts or something? I really don't know what else to suggest, I'd have lost it completely by now!

 

[baileybubs]

That's exactly what I've done Hun, makes me feel awful that I am withholding his own money, I remember telling a male friend years ago that it was unfair that his wife wasn't allowing him any money to buy cigs, now I totally get it!!! He was selling me a sob story about how they both earn and share the money so why shouldn't he be able to buy himself fags and I agreed, now I realise he was probably as useless as my df and his wife was just trying to get all the bills paid!

He's now saying that moving to this new house can be a fresh start but all I hear is blah blah blah, where have we heard all this before. It's his birthday in 2 weeks and I don't wanna buy him anything, why should I? Recently he has managed to get an Xbox, I've bought him a game for it, then he sneaked on my amazon and bought another game for it without checking it was ok, he gets "pocket money" every week and gets to keep his tips, and what do I get?? I get a headache from working out our budget and sorting out our bills!

Sorry, mini rant over lol, would be so much simpler if I didn't love the pinhead!

How's Zach today anyway Hun? How did you get dh to agree on the name by the way? Df has said if we have another girl I can call her Niamh which is what I originally wanted to call Emilia. Glad we didn't coz she doesn't seem to be a Niamh to me now lol!
Has his cord fallen off yet? Had he had his first bath?

 

[cupcake1981]

I really feel for you Hun, you feel like the bad guy all the time but someone has to be responsible.

Zach is good ta, his cord came off a few days ago (did you keep Emilia's? I can't bring myself to throw Zachs away!). He's had top and rail washes but we've not bathed him yet, am a little scared so gonna get grandad to come and help us with his first bath as he is baby bathing expert lol! Did Emilia ever have days where she didn't poop at all and then days where she pooped after every literally every feed, it's all or nothing with Zach! Have got aptamil formula this time as some people have said SMA can bung them up.

I dunno how I got him to agree, I think after 14 hours of labour and major surgery hubby woulda let me call him Mickey Mouse if that's what I'd wanted! He wasn't named for an hour or so after birth and we just decided that he looked like a Zach and that we didn't have any other ideas!

 

[baileybubs]

No we didn't keep Emilia's but it know a lot of people do. Aw bathing isn't so bad if they don't hate it like Emilia did lol! Have you got the tippitoes bath same as me with the support in it? I found that really helped. I still don't bath her every day coz her skin is so sensitive.

And yes Emilia went for 3 days without pooping when she was just a couple of weeks old and is was worried she was constipated but then she did loads on the fourth day and it was still all soft so she was fine. I believe bf babies can go up to a week without pooping lol!

 

[CherylC3]

Hey

Bailey I feel so bad for u Hun it's a shame u always hav to nag at him... Stupid men like u say can't live with them and can't live without them lol..x

Cupcake we still hav Leo's I don't want to chuck it its in a pee sample tub lol.. Bathing is easy in the tippi toes bath Hun. Oh and yeah my friends little girl struggled pooping on sma but as soon as she changed to aptimil she was fine. Xx

 

[cupcake1981]

Yeah we have that bath. When did you find the best time to do it was? Say I need to feed Zach at 8 would you try and bath about 7 ish so that he could be settled by a bottle afterwards?

 

[baileybubs]

Thanks Cheryl, shame we can't live without them eh lol? Did anyone watch the debate on This Morning about nagging. I agree with what Ruth Langsord said that if men just did what they were supposed to do in the first place we wouldn't have to keep asking them lol!

 

[baileybubs]

I think its trial and error at first Hun coz we found Emilia hated baths at first so she would scream and it would do the opposite and get her all overstimulated! Whereas for some babies it helps settle them.
We also found that coz of the colic in the evenings it was better to bath her in the day when she was in a better mood.

 

[CherylC3]

Here's my tests

Never saw it bailey. X

Cupcake I do bath at 5.45 and bottle at 6. X

 

[CherylC3]

Leo's first few baths were at daytime.x

 

[baileybubs]

That opk doesnt look positive yet hun, its slightly lighter than the control. Have they been darker?

I think I must be ovulating because I feel rage!! I always have such a short fuse when I am ovulating!! Amazingly though I have managed to remain fairly calm when talking to df about this money thing lol!

Gonna have a chat with him when he's on his break, and basically tell him that I have decided that I can't carry on like this so this is his last chance to prove himself, he's got 3 months to show me he can be a responsible father and partner.