Mother of all conception months Graduates

[NOMORENUMBERS]

i was just trying to figure out is alex is one or two weeks! cant believe he is 2 weeks already!

octo doc got struck off last year they implanted 14 eggs into her! i was so shocked when she said her montly costs were $15,000.00 but has no money . . .so how does that work then? ok so my boy i never spent more than the tax credits and child benefit we got for him so £120 per month even if you make that £200 per month x that by 14 is £2800 and even though i am not allowing for exchange rates and all that i still cant see how $15000 is not her being extravegant. . . i mean even if you double it for utility bills that is still no where near!

 

[sequeena]

£15,000 a month surely not! I can't believe 14 kids would cost that... really?!

 

[molly85]

teenagers may be. they want everything

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

ha ha yeah i am sure i teenager could bring up a $15000 bill per month lol!

hell if i was extremely extravegant i could do double that but being frugle and still requiring $15000 pm . . . no

 

[sequeena]

*falls over*

Still can't believe how much they cost!!! They must eat LOADS!

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

they must eat gold! lol

i would imagine a huge chunk of it is for nannies but she always seems to put across that she is doing it with minimal help ie practically none doesnt make sense to me

my mind is boogling tonight bump has defo dropped, getting loads of pelvic pressure and all that just wish i could tell for sure lol! i cant believe i can breathe! i might actually sleep well tonight if only the pain in my hips hadnt just gotten so much worse. . . oh so excited! it seems so surreal now that my baby girl is going to be here in a few weeks! i am the last one on the list tell me i am actually not the last one due to pop (albeit sunroof exit lol) dare you are next on the list!!!

 

[tas1]

Hey ladies,

Madcat I did wean caden at 10wks and he was fine,it wasn't full on food just porridge in the morning then worked it up,I made my own food which they recommend when weaning early but he was such a big baby that when he finished his bottle he was like that was starters where's the main and pudding so I just did it! I thought caleb would be the same but he's not fully on hungrier baby yet so i'll give that ago then decide! (this time round my HV told me not to give hungrier baby early on coz I would have to wean early and to give him it for his night time feeds which I do so seems to help,they didn't give me much advice with caden)

Kate rentokil is very expensive try your council first and see if they can get them out! Rentokil quoted me 250 plus vat to get my creepy crawlies out whereas the council was £20! And yay for 32 wks and dropping,think I dropped then which made my hips worse! Have you got everything ready yet?

Can't believe how fast these babies are growing,caleb is 11wks today he weighs 14lbs 11oz! He has put 1lb on since his jabs which were 14th June so I'm abut worried as he seems to have slowed down weight gain wise, is that normal? I thought that happened alot later!

Hope babies are behaving and are getting better

Xx

 

[molly85]

sounds like he gained fast so is leveling out.

i'm trialingabby om hungry baby for her top ups or she needs more formula more often. shesgetting good feeds out of me at the moment then an hour later wanting more gets the top up and takes her through for a few hours rather than hourly or 2 hourly bfing got into for a bit. I'm happy withthis does it make sence? i don't want her getting to fat gaining and bulking out yes but not fat

 

[tas1]

Makes sense Molly,I use to do that when I was BFing caleb,there's only so much your boobs can take!
I did think he was levelling out but you just worry coz he did gain so fast!

What a bad mummy I am last night I fell to sleep with caden leaving my dad to put caleb to bed and wake me up! I felt so guilty

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

WOW tas thats a good weight!

Morning all!

well, wow again actually!. I had a feed to do at 4.30 and no more till 8, i feel a bit more human!

i think Bailey was off colour after his jabs as yesterday afternoon&evening he was very tearful, temps were slightly up but no by much, we gave hime calpol just incase.He still didnt have his colic though which was great.

 

[tas1]

Aww poor Bailey! Calpol prob helped him,it's a god send! And yay for feeling human and no colic!

Just all other babies to be ok now!

What has everyone got planned today? X

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Hi Ladies :wave:

Sorry I was MIA yesterday I spent the day with my lovely friend and her two boys because it was the school strike day and both of our elder boys were off school We went to Pudsey Park which is about an hour on the bus from where we live It was a really nice day and although the weather alt from sunny to over cast and we had a really light shower the boys had fun and we had a nice picnic

As for Charlie and the gaviscon is seems to be going really well
Wednesday night Charlie eventually went down at 11.15pm after getting over tired and refusing to drop off he woke me yesterday morning at 5.30am and then went back down I got up at 8am to get ready to go out and Charlie slept on which was brillliant cause it allowed me to get sorted for our day out I then had to wake him at 9.15am to feed him and get him changed I think he would have slept for a while longer had I not roused him whilst we were out yesterday he literally woke twice for his bottle and then felll back asleep when I got home between 5pm and going to bed at 10.30pm he had a total of x3 3oz bottles which is a blumming record He then went down about 11pm and woke me at 4.30am and 7.30am at which point I got up Hes now snoozing in his bouncer Dare I say I think I have my baby back

Off to catch up now

 

[madcatwoman]

Hey Madly thats so good to hear!! i bet you feel a little less stressed too!!

ok, so ive noticed that when Bailey is put down somewhere flat for a while he starts turning and contorting his body with head all turned and looking very awkard,to me it looks like he's trying to roll, but in the end just ends up in a different direction. Im assuming he 'is' just trying to roll?-anyone elsesdo this?. It proves an issue in his new travel cot though because he does this and it ends up upsetting him so then he's balling his eyes out&doesnt sleep. IVe just taken him down to our bedroom&put him in his basket where he's dropped off. DO you think its just a case that he's better off sleeping in the confines of his basket?.

Also, apart from when theyre sleeping, is there any other way of cutting their nails without cutting them too? he's drawing blood with his!

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

for laughing Tas and 8oz bottles mmmm I wonder if we will ever reach that

Well done on whipping the boob out in public Molly

As for weaning I find it really hard to believe my boy was the biggest by far (Teagan coming second I believe but still an whole l lb+ smaller than Charlie!) and my boy feeds the least of all our babies 3oz bottles Oliver was weaned at about 3.5 mths he was so ready drooling and sucking his hands whenever we ate which somehow makes me think Charlie will wean early too hes already hand sucking and drooling

madcat we have sleeping bags and Charlie has been using them every night since he was practically born .... a baby must have imo

for a good night Ozzie

Poor Noah and thrush

for a first chuckle too Peanut we have been having them for two weeks now

NOMORE blah that your still battling wasps

for all the babies off colour from their jabs we have this to look forward to next Thursday

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Hey Madly thats so good to hear!! i bet you feel a little less stressed too!!

ok, so ive noticed that when Bailey is put down somewhere flat for a while he starts turning and contorting his body with head all turned and looking very awkard,to me it looks like he's trying to roll, but in the end just ends up in a different direction. Im assuming he 'is' just trying to roll?-anyone elsesdo this?. It proves an issue in his new travel cot though because he does this and it ends up upsetting him so then he's balling his eyes out&doesnt sleep. IVe just taken him down to our bedroom&put him in his basket where he's dropped off. DO you think its just a case that he's better off sleeping in the confines of his basket?.

Also, apart from when theyre sleeping, is there any other way of cutting their nails without cutting them too? he's drawing blood with his!

Charlie does this too hon

and as for nails I find best when they are asleep cause Charlie really thrashes his arms around

 

[madcatwoman]

oh at least Bailey isnt alone in contorting himself&upsetting himself in the process, thanks for letting me know madly!
As it happens, hes asleep in his travel cot now...changed his mind!

Another question...a day of them from me!. Bailey has dry skin on his face which he makes worse by rubbing all the time which then makes it a bit red. Its ok with a little baby oil on, and if his mits are on too, but DH whips them off as soon as their on and his skin is back to square one. Is there any sort of moisturiser good for delicate baby skin?.

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Another good night with nice four hour stretches between feeds But his feeds lasted a bit longer, he took the right then the left then the right again. DH took him through the living room at 10:45am and let me sleep until noon! lol

 

[tas1]

Madcat caleb has a dry face too,I'm really paranoid that he will get eczema as caden got it on his face when he was a baby so I started using cadens aqueous cream and it does work,I sometimes use oilatum in his bath other times I use infacare in his bath! Today I've just bought some sensitive shampoo boots own stuff to see if this helps his head as his head is still really dry! I don't think the weather helps going from rainy to really hot it drys there skin out!

Xx

 

[tas1]

Oh and yay for good nights with Charlie and Alex!

Fingers crossed for you madly I hope charlie is better now xx

 

[madcatwoman]

thanks tas, where can i buy aqueous cream ?& is it specifically for babies skin?