Moms of April/May/June 2010 babies thread! :)

[hope&faith09]

Hey all -

We have had a lovely day ... feeling much better and took Amy swimmming! Then we went to pizza hut for dinner so weight watchers has well and truly gone out the window today. I have felt very down the last couple of days hoping to have a more positive week this week!

Hope your all ok. x

 

[A3my]

LC - I'm so sorry I missed your post! Poor you having mastitus good news the lump has gone I'm glad you had a better night, I'm hoping to have that tonight.

emera - what fantastic news about your friends daughter phew, what a relief!

maybe - you go girl!! I hope you make them squirm when you ask why you didnt get the job lucky you having the option to extend your mat leave I love your old videos on fb, time certainly flies!!

H&F - glad you're feeling better and that you had a lovely day

sarah - brilliant news your business is doing so well yey for babysign, I'd have loved to do that good luck with nap sorting

modo - hope you're ok hun x

I've just done some wallpapering and I need a bath the girls had a cross country race this morning which was fun. we've just pottered the rest of the day. Had another bad night last night, I dont get it, he's pretty much fine in the day and then has these massive temperature spikes at night if it is teething like the doctor said I hope the bloomin tooth comes soon

 

[maybebaby3]

amy - i thought it was supposed to be an old wives tale that teething made babies ill any more interviews on the horizon?

sarah - sorry your dad and steve weren't able to sort out your car. if i did extend my mat leave (if they allow it) it would be in the hopes that something would come out between now and september or at least shortly after. we shall see!

h&f - hope you're feeling more cheerful soon. dont worry about ww. every week you worry and every week you lose weight. i've been awful for the last 3 weeks and put on instead of lost am starting again tomorrow!

lc - hope you had a better night!!!

modo - hope you're ok

emera - hope your ears are better!!!

i hope frufru is ok. havent seen here on here in a while!

i'm posting on my phone in my bed with the kids watching boomerang here with me. need to get up and sort breakfast though!!!

 

[L-C]

Hi, will post properly later but Amy, Will has had a temperature with every tooth and sometimes 3 or 4 nights on the trot, then it'll die down and a couple of days later the tooth pops through xx

 

[Frufru]

I'm lurking maybebaby I have placed a ban, well more of a restriction really, on my internet/computer usage as I am always complaining to myself that I have so much to do and not enough time to do it and then proceed to sit on the computer for ages Since imposing the "step away from the computer!" ban I have seen a drastic improvement in my daily achievements I have even managed to get out in the garden during some of Joni's naps and get some tidying and weeding done Just 15-20mins here and there but every little helps!

I am letting myself have half an hour for the computer a day which leaves me enough time to read our thread but not quite enough to do my usual posts, for which I heartily apologise

Oh, and I have heard back from work and the part-time hours I requested have been agreed

to you all

 

[Sarahwoo]

FruFru that's great about your hours! Woo hoo!

Such a good idea re internet usage, unfortunately I have to go online to check my business email a few times a day. I am thinking about putting together more or a routine though, as like you say its too easy to sit on here all the time - and even worse since I go on on my phone too.

Oliver decided he wanted to get up at 6am thins morning He then had an hours nap at half seven, and I thik he's just hetting tired again now. 6am is waaaaay too early to get up!!!!!

 

[maybebaby3]

frufru - glad you got your hours approved. i am limiting my usage of the computer too. also the kids use it to play games and watch films that i have saved on it so i don't get on as much as i used too. it's constantly on all day so i do nip on on and off all day for 5 mins here and there when i can but like you said it's all to easy for 5 mins to become 10 and then 15 etc

sarah - having a routine is a good idea. i have more of a routine on school days but i'm pretty rubbish at the weekend. i like to do baking and painting with the kids and then danny asks what i've been doing and says that i take the easy way out doing activities with the kids instead of chores all the time they are only little for such a short time that i want to make the most of it. i have very happy memories of my mum and dad doing stuff with us and i want the kids to have memories like that! i don't consider it an easy way out. it'd be far easier to just ignore them i think and on that note i'm off to toss play doh pancakes with erin

 

[maybebaby3]

after making pretend play doh pancakes the kids wanted real ones so we just made some now hoping owen will have a nap as he's only slept 20 mins after lunch! he's in his buggy but fighting sleep as usual even though i know he is tired!!!

 

[modo]

Hi everyone! I am doing ok thanks I have had two better days so I am hoping for this to continue. I have been thinking a lot about Bobby's birth and all my regrets about the failed induction and breastfeeding. Its weird because I am not planning to have another baby for a few years but I am almost certain that I want it unmedicated. I am still losing weight which is good but I still have a long way to go (minimum 20kg).

Sorry for rambling, just wanted to say hi!

 

[maybebaby3]

modo - don't beat yourself up about it. no two pregnancies, labours and births are the same. my friend had 2 successful inductions and then went on to need an emergency c section for her third. the important thing is that both you and bobby are ok and well!!!

owen finally started to crawl today al last! he's surpassed dylan and erin who only started crawling just before they started walking unaided! lol! i will try and post the video on fb but it is being really slow today.

 

[modo]

Well done Owen

Thanks for your kind words maybe I keep thinking back to how mean the midwife was to me (she told me I made her behind on her paperwork) and how I wish I could have stood up to her. They had me on morphine which made me feel timid like a mouse, strapped to the monitor unable to move (it was broken so I had to stay in one position) so no wonder I didn't progress past 5cm. Bobby then turned in the wrong direction and his heart rate wasn't great hence the c-section.

I keep thinking I should have waited till he was ready. That I felt him move less because he had less room and he was fine where he was

I just stopped thinking about it and I don't think I dealt with it. It's weird I am obsessing about it now nearly a year later.

Sorry I don't mean to bring everybody down I thought today was a good day

 

[emera35]

Modo - It definately sounds like its really preying on your mind at the moment Have you written out your full birth story? Even if you have, maybe you should write it all out again, including how each part of it made you feel. You might find that doing that will put it all in order for you and help you deal with some of the negative feelings that you might well have been carrying about for nearly a year

I know i obsessed about my labour for a long time, maybe 3-4 months after Roh was born. It was entirely different to yours, but i felt very shell shocked about the whole thing, and it certainly wasn't what i had planned or hoped for, in fact, in major ways it was the opposite of what i wanted (i was adamant i didn't want to spend my whole labour listening to his heartrate, as i knew it would scare me, but they had it on in the room the whole time ). I think obssessing about it then has meant that i dealt with it, and moved on. If you pushed it out of your mind, then likely you still need to sort through it

 

[Sarahwoo]

Well done Owen!!!!

Modo Don't be so hard on yourself honey! You did everything you could! Don't look back and wish you had acted or dealt with things differently - you did everything as well as you possibly could have at that time! Thats what matters! So much was completely out of your hands and the main thing is that you and Bobby were okay! Please don't be so hard on yourself honey. Have you written out your birth story? Not to share, maybe just to go through it all in your head and get it onto paper? Do you think that might help? I wish I had some better advice honey, but I have LOADS of for you

Nothing too fun to report here today, just a normal day with lots of after my early morning

To those of you who's babies have routines . . . can I ask a question? Do you always get them up at the same time? I've been thinking about Oliver's routine, and I'm not sure how I will fit everything in Quite often he doesn't get up until 9am, we get up, and a leasurely breakfast and then get ready for the day. Quite often it's 11am by the time we're dressed He goes in the bath at about half six before bed at about seven, and with two good long naps plus meals I think he'll be eating and sleeping and not much else! So should I get him up earlier? Not 6am !! But maybe 7.30am or 8am. I've not really thought it through properly yet I know you've all shared before but if you wouldn't mind sharing your routines I'd be so, so grateful!

xx

 

[Sarahwoo]

Whoops, crossed posts with Emera there, but good to see we both had the same idea re writing out your birth story Modo!

 

[emera35]

Great minds Sarah

Roh's "routine" if you can call it that, is:

8am-9am - Wakes up, milky time
8.30-9.30am - Brekkie
9.30-10am - 20 minutes infront of cbeebies in his activity centre (i get stuff done)
10 - 10.30 - Get dressed, playtime or we go out
11am - Drink and snack more playing, or a little nap for 30 mins or so
12.30 - Lunch
1pm - Milky time
1.15pm - Nap for 1.5- 2 hours
3pm - Drink and snack playtime or we go out
4.30-5pm - Dinner then playtime
6pm - Waybuloo and ITNG and nmilky time
6.45pm - Bathtime, cuddles and story
7.15-7.30pm Bedtime

Its pretty flexible though I very rarely wake him in the morning, unless we have to do something specific. Occasionally he wakes up earlier, like 7-7.30am ish, but then one of his naps will be longer, so everything pans out.

 

[emera35]

Oh, and Sarah, i always wake Roh up from his morning nap after 40 minutes if he doesn't wake up, otherwise he doesn't nap properly in the afternoon, and then its definately tears before bedtime!

 

[Sarahwoo]

Thanks for that Emera! very helpful

 

[modo]

Thanks you two I never did a birth story because I felt I failed and I blamed myself. I think I am mourning the birth I wanted but you guys are right. The main thing is Bobby is here healthy and well

I will try and write Bobbys birth story tomorrow and will go from there. You girls have made me feel so much better

Bobby got his 8th toothypeg today! When he smiles he looks very mischievous he travels round the outside of the playpen holding the bars (is that cruising?) but he won't do it anywhere else Today I was singing "hey, hey, hey" to him and it sounded like he was trying to say it back to me (it sounded like heh, heh, heh from him!)

 

[emera35]

Just had an update on my friend in Japan, She is still stuck 50 miles away from home, and her OH is still stuck in another city about 100 miles away. There daughter is safe in Sendai, she's with their neighbours who have a little boy the same age. Their neighbourhood is pretty much destroyed, as they all lived pretty near the coast, but they are all staying with their neighbours sister in her apartment which is in the centre. There is only intermittant electricity, and the water isn't working. My friend is planning to start walking home tomorrow (well, today there) as there is no other way to get back to her LO currently, although she's trying to negotiate a lift most the way. Driving all the way there is tricky, as alot of the roads are destroyed in that area.
I'm so glad they are all safe, but i can't imagine what a nightmare it must be for them! And trying to take care of little children in the aftermath of whats happened must be so difficult At the moment they are planning to come back to the UK as soon as they can all get back together, and international flights are running.

 

[modo]

Emera hope your friend and her family can be reunited and come back to the uk soon. I can't imagine what they have all been through