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

[AmyB1978]

MrsC, glad you had a good time at the beach house. Hayden is,adorable! Maybe Emily will have to sleep out on the deck at my parents place, as it is at the beach. we are spending a week with them in chincoteague Virginia before spending the rest of the time at my sister's outside of Baltimore.I think we might even spend a day or two with friends in PA if all is going well.

Jenjen, how was swimming?

Rose, glad Alfie is enjoying the carrier, I love mine! (And so does Emily.) have a good time at yoga and go Alfie for settling early and Easily n his oak!

BabyM, yay for good sleep!

AFM, my DH really hurt my feelings earlier today and I can't seem to shake it. Emily was,taking a nap and so I was trying to,get some things together for dinner later on. Emily woke up but wasn't fussing so I let her go to see if she'd go back to sleep, as she could have used more sleep. She didn't and started crying so I went and changed her and brought her downstairs, I stuck her in her high chair with toys and started cooking again. She started crying but I was almost done so I just tried to,hurry it along as I knew she needed to eat. DH went over to her and said something to her about " your mommy needs to prioritize better." I told him he was calling me a bad mother and he said no but I just let it go. I was really angry at first but now I am just hurt... And questioning if I am a bad mom for letting her cry a minute. 99% of the time she comes first and nothing else gets done but i have realized there are times i need to finish somethjng really quick orit will never get done and so she does cry. ive got guilt enough over it without his comment. Best of all is this comes the day after he is like "when are you going to,just let her cry it out to go to sleep?" And I said I didn't know that I ever was and he told me she has to sometime. Urgh!

 

[JenJen80]

AmyB has he ever had a day where he needs to cook, clean and look after a baby? Don't feel guilty if we jumped every time our babies cried they will never learn to amuse themselves.

Swimming was amazing she loved it. I was half expecting her to scream the place down and she did but only when it was time to get out. I'm going to try and take her twice a week as she is free and i can have as many swims as I like as it's part of my gym membership.

Looks like it's going to be a lovely sunny week here.

 

[MrsChezek]

AmyB - augh, the nerve on him!!! Men just don't filter sometimes...or it's like they don't think before they speak! I'm sorry oh made you feel like a bad mom...just from what I've read from you, I think it an excellent mom!!

Jen - yay for swim time! I can't wait to teach H how to swim

 

[rose.]

Mrs c, Hayden is so cute! Sounds and looks like you had a fantastic time.

Amy, leaving Emily for a minute certainly doesn't make you a bad mum! Sometimes like you say, you just have to leave them so you can finish off other things. It's different if they've been screaming their head off for 10 minutes and actually need something but a minute of grizzling isn't going to hurt. And if your OH feels that way he should maybe be doing the dinner instead!! Men just don't know what it's like. My OH said I shouldn't hold Alfie all day and should put him down on the floor on his own more!! He thinks this would stop him crying as he wouldn't rely on me so much. He is 10 weeks old!!

Jen glad you had a fab swim! We have a good swimming pool nearby with good childrens facilities and I can't wait to take Alfie there. So far he has only been swimming on holiday.

Well, Alfie woke at 3 this morning and then again at 7.45. Not the best but not too bad! I am now trying to get him to go down for another nap so he is well rested for his yoga class. He is laying in the cot hiccuping and wriggling around and it's so tempting to pick him up but I MUST give him the chance to fall asleep alone, at least for his first nap of the day while we are upstairs anyway.

 

[baby_maybe]

Amy don't let you husband make you feel bad for letting her grizzle a bit, I often can't get o Ruben straight away because of cooking or sorting the girls etc, sometimes one of them even gets to him before I do to stck his paci back in or pick him up, it certainly doesn't make either of us bad mothers it's just that sometimes they have to wait their turn!

I think I let Ruben nap a little too long yesterday afternoon as at bedtime even though he went down fine, by 12 he thought it was awake time! He went straight back to sleep, but then was fidgeting at about 3am as well. I didn't have to feed him though which was good, but today I'm definitely making sure he doesn't sleep too long before his bath and last feed! In fact I'm trying to get him to nap now and even though he's definitely tired he's fighting it!!

 

[sportysgirl]

Rose glad you both like the carrier and hope you enjoy baby yoga!

Mrs C Hayen is so cute love the hat!

Amy B, men have no idea! They can make you feel really rubbish sometimes.

Jen glad the swimming went well, we are hoping to take Poppy this week.

Poppy slept from 10 till 5 last night excellent! She seems to be sleeping less in the day taking only 45 minute naps.

We live in Cornwall and are off to the beach as hubby is back! We have been on lots of beach walks but today we are going for a longer time!

 

[Kte]

Amy: Sorry to hear your OH is being a bit of an idiot. You did nothing wrong at all, don't beat yourself up - your not a bad Mummy. Sounds like he should have helped out if he felt she needed seeing to urgently, rather than just watching and thinking he can comment!

Oh I need to go, my eldest if being a huge pain in the butt today/tonight. So much for an early night, if it's not one it's the other kicking off

 

[Kte]

Jen: Glad the swimming went well I haven't been able to take Sophie yet as she hasn't had her first set of jabs yet. Can't wait though!

Rose: How did baby yoga go? How did the nap settling go?

I love it down in Cornwall too, we used to have relatives who lived in Somerset so did a lot of visiting different beaches and places when I was younger. I can't believe it's easily been 7 years since I have been there! I can't wait to take Chloe and Sophie to visit all the beautiful places.

 

[rose.]

The yoga went great thanks Alfie was really good apart from the last 15 mins when he decided he wanted boob then sleep!! Lots of the babies cried though so he wasn't the only one. Got our first massage session tomorrow which I can't wait for.

The first nap of the day was good thanks kte! He had quite a Few naps today as we were out and about and he slept in the car. He is now settling himself in his cot for the first nap which is good. Tonight I can't believe it - he had his bath at 8.30, fed for a bit then was in bed asleep by 9!! This is unheard of so I am just waiting for him to wake up and cry, I think we may be in for an interesting night tonight... But we'll see!!

Kte hope your eldest settles down soon!!

I've been researching swimming lessons. There is a company nearby which does lessons for 3 months upwards, they teach them to swim underwater and hold on to the pool side in 9 sessions supposedly. I am very keen on getting Alfie in to swimming as soon as possible. I think it's a really important skill. I have just requested some info on it so looking forward to receiving it! It's on Saturdays or Sundays too so hubby can come

 

[JenJen80]

Kte you don't have to wait for them to have jabs now you can just take them whenever you like.
Rose was it waterbabies you were looking at?

 

[Kte]

Ah well, she has them this week anyway

Chloe is in bed now, so now it's Sophies turn to be a monkey. She used to settle between 8/9 but the last few nights it's been 10/11. She is wide awake now, her day sleeping hasn't changed, so I'm not sure what is going on. I just want my bed!

Here is Sophie's 2 month picture. Typically she had some random milk rash on her top lip so I can't help but see a pretend moustache I still think its a lovely smile thought. Plus it's the latest picture I have of her, the rest are of her in the sun so she has a big floppy hat on and is hiding under.

https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g110/Kitty_fantastic_o/BabyandBump/2monthsold_zps6386934c.jpg

 

[AmyB1978]

kte, Sophie's so cute!

Rose, glad yoga went well!

Thanks ladies for all of your support!

 

[rose.]

Wow kte Sophie has changed loads! She is so cute. Alfie's sleep has changed the last week or so - he seems to be moving bedtime back a bit and is more willing to have a nap in the evening, and he was going through to between 4-6. But now he's waking at 2-3 again and then at 6ish. I'm so tired! Hopefully it won't last long as he seems to have stages with his wake ups!

Jen it's not water babies but is something similar I did look at water babies but there is no price on the website and that annoys me! These classes are just called baby swimming but look like the same thing.

 

[sharnw]

Hi ladies

Rose same here. Kaylee was great last week doing all nighters 9pm-6am and last night she changed again,?woke up at 2am, 4am, 7

 

[rose.]

Weird isn't it! Maybe they're having a growth spurt so need more milk

 

[JenJen80]

We have had the 4am wake up call for the last two mornings. I put her in a 1.5 tog sleeping bag and I'm wondering if she's getting cold back to the 2.5 tonight and see what happens.

 

[JenJen80]

https://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac185/jenneil1980/IMAG00581_zpsa9983603.jpg

here is a pic of my baby girl

 

[Amy_T]

Hi ladies. I haven't posted for a while but been trying to keep up with the posts. It was had term last week so had my oldest at home and spent the week keeping her busy!

Can't believe our babies are all growing up so quickly, Holly is 10 weeks old today, I want to freeze time! She has had her first lot of jabs and she was fine after a quick scream! We also took her swimming and she loved it... She was a little shocked at the temperature of the water but she was smiling away.

Here is a pic of her to satisfy everyone's picture cravings! ...

 

[sharnw]

Beautiful photos ladies. So adorable!

 

[rose.]

Aww gorgeous pics it's lovely seeing everyone's LOs!

Our first baby massage session this morning was great even better than yoga! I got chatting to some of the other mums aswell and we stayed behind at the end to chat. We are going to start doing buggy fit on Thursdays which should be good. Also we are thinking of going to a craft village next week to get Father's Day presents!