March 2013 babies - we all have our beautiful babies :)

[baby_maybe]

I had Ruben weighed again today and he's now 12lb12oz!! He doesn't look like he weighs that much but I can certainly feel it when I'm carting him around in his car seat. It's good to know that all the mucking around with his milk hasn't affected him putting on weight though, I do worry about it sometimes!

 

[Kte]

I can't even imagine what Sophie weighs now! She gets weighed again next week.

 

[rose.]

Arghh DH is being a right prat at the moment! He moans about something the minute he gets in (like the pram is in the way, I haven't put the water bowl away), he moans about dinner (another shit dinner), he thinks I don't do anything all day, he has the cheek to call me lazy!! Arghhhh!! He has no bloody idea what it's like looking after a tiny baby and he genuinely thinks he is right. I have put him straight multiple times but he still thinks he is right. It's getting to the point where I have to Leave the room before I smack him one! He is just sooo annoying!! Then he has the cheek to laugh at me and make fun when I get upset or angry.

Both him and a grumpy grisly baby means my evenings are becoming a misery. Why can't he understand that being a mum is harder than being at work?! He thinks I sit around all day doing nothing. He also had the cheek to say this evening, as I was balancing Alfie in one arm feeding and my dinner in the other, 'well it can't be that hard if you can eat at the same time - I can't hang a door while eating a sandwich'

GRRRR!!!

Sorry. Just needed to get it off my chest.

 

[sethsmummy]

Rose i think you need to treat yourself to a day out and let him experience what its like to have to deal with a baby all day by yourself! men can be such gits!

 

[rose.]

You're right!! Alfie won't take a bottle anymore though once I can get him to take them again I will be giving DH the shock of his life. We will see what he thinks then!

 

[Kte]

Rose. Sorry your hubby is being an idiot, they just don't get it at all sometimes!

 

[sethsmummy]

You're right!! Alfie won't take a bottle anymore though once I can get him to take them again I will be giving DH the shock of his life. We will see what he thinks then!

oh no thats a shame hun. have you tried a MAM bottle? haha im telling everyone about them because i love them so much!

 

[rose.]

No I haven't! He was fine with tommee tippee but just started rejecting them on Sunday. Ill try those ones next thank you!

 

[sethsmummy]

your welcome hun.. i LOVE my mam bottles they have a wider teat so its easier for them to latch onto and they are so soft too. AND you dont need a steralizer for them either.. just pop them in the microwave amazing!

 

[kraftykoala]

OMG Rose, how did you not smack him in the face!!! I honestly don't know where my days go, babies eat up time, if you aren't feeding them you're changing them, rocking them, gingerly trying to put them down so you can pee / wash / eat / rock back and forth in the corner like a mad woman. Hope Alfie takes a bottle soon so you can go out and leave him with DH so he can see just how hard it is!!

 

[sharnw]

Rose I hope little Alfie takes the bottles again soon, so your OH can be a mom for a day and see what it's like

 

[MrsChezek]

Anna - I am just gaining since delivery I feel pretty bad too and all my muscles have been replaced by jello! I totally feel your pain

Mrs AJ - a pedicure! *drool* I'd kill for one...and a yoga class and a massage...

Paula - Alfie is super cute! I'm envious of your exercise plan!! I miss working out...but I'm too tired to even think about working out

Kte - I love your daily goal! Awesomeness! I guess there are days that I never get out if my PJs so perhaps I should take up that goal too!

Rose - the saline really helped Hayden...it helped me get more stuff out of her nose with the aspirator. And I cannot believe your DH! The nerve!!!!

Baby_maybe - yay for Ruben doing better!!! And for more sleep for you


Hayden was much better all day today. She slept well and was in pretty good spirits when awake...until this evening. She had a hard time going down for her early evening nap and then again at bed time. She didn't go down until midnight!!!!! So I'm hoping she won't be waking up until at least 5am...I hope tomorrow she'll return to her usual bedtime routine.

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[AmyB1978]

rock back and forth in the corner like a mad woman.

love it!

 

[baby_maybe]

krafty - you summed up my days perfectly there Having a baby is hard work and yes, sometimes you do get to sit down for 5 minutes for something to eat or to check your emails (normally fb or bnb for me!), but ususally it is just that, 5 minutes and then the baby needs something else!

sharn - I love your avatar, Kaylee is so gorgeous

Mrs C - sorry you're not getting much sleep, hope Hayden gets back to her normal routine soon

AFM - Ruben went 6 hours again last night, so I think he's beginning to get himself into a night time routine He's still fairly congested, so I'm still going at him with the saline and the aspirator in the hope that it clears it soon!

 

[Kte]

babies eat up time, if you aren't feeding them you're changing them, rocking them, gingerly trying to put them down so you can pee / wash / eat / rock back and forth in the corner like a mad woman.

It's so true! I sent OH a text yesterday saying 'scream', he asked which one (as in which DD) and I just said, no - me!

MrsC: Glad Hayden had a better day, shame about the night. Hopefully she sorts her pattern out again, maybe it was just from so much rest after her jabs

babymaybe: What awesome sleep!!

AFM: Does anyone else's LO tummy growl when they eat? Pretty much every time I feed Sophie you can hear the food hit her tummy. Its like she's been starved and its the first thing to go in, makes a huge noise. She feeds every 2hrs in the day still and she has plenty of wet and dirty nappies (although today was greener than normal). She's on hungry baby formula now too.

 

[sethsmummy]

kte ethan is the same hun. sounds like his tum is growling. And his poo has also gone green... it kinda goes from hard to runny just now either one or the other. x

 

[baby_maybe]

Ruben's tummy growls too! I always feel like I've been starving him even though I obviously feed him when he's hungry and don't leave him!

 

[Kte]

Thanks! I never leave her either but yep, that's how it was sounding! They must just process it so quickly!

 

[rose.]

Yeah Alfie's tummy growls too! I think it's his digestion getting a kick start as he often also poos while being fed.

Koala, LOL that is so funny and true!!

Mrs c, it's so typical that good days usually end in unsettled evenings! Alfie has started being a bit cheeky in the morning after his 5am feed (which he decided today would be at 4am!). He doesn't fall asleep after his feed but instead is wide awake! I've had to start putting him down in his basket and rocking him and singing for 15 mins or so, eventually he falls asleep. So frustrating when it's 5am and all you want to do is go to sleep! At least he went down in the end though.

I am wondering if Alfie needs an earlier bedtime - he gets very fussy around 8 and keeps falling asleep about 8.45 before his bath! Last night he moved both his feeds back an hour too. I think I am going to start bathing him at 8-830 instead of 9-930 and then feed him, then if he falls asleep I don't have to wake him to bath. It's hard to know what time to put them down, especially as he likes to be on/off boob all evening! I suppose its a bit of trial and error.

OH has promised not to be such an idiot again, and he says he will be the perfect husband for a week! Ha can't see that happening. He is planning a trip to Scotland at the end of may as a family, a good practice for our holiday to Portugal at the end of June. I didn't want to go at first but now Alfie is feeding better and I'm getting used to going out and about with him I am quite excited! It will be good to practice packing everything too before we go abroad.

Alfie is now 10lb 5oz!!

 

[MrsChezek]

Nice weight gain Rose! I was thinking of moving Hayden's bed time up by an hour or two myself last week so she'd go down by 8pm but then the jabs happened and now she shifted her bedtime by 2 hours in the wrong direction!!!! 11:30pm/midnight is definitely not working well tho! She sleeps in 3-4 hour increments which isn't bad but I want the 5-6 hour stretch back! We're taking a practice trip to Texas in 3 weeks in preparation for our summer trip to Europe too! Hope yours goes well

Kte - H's tummy growls as well...sometimes I think it's mine! Hard to tell as we're tummy to tummy when I BF