Hello, just quickly popping in while Rosie has a nap!
Jelly, I would love to be a birth partner, not a midwife but like a pregnancy support and labour support, like a really good friend that helps you through it the way you want, someone who knows what you want and encourages you. I know some people are lucky enough to have dh's that do this or mothers or sisters but my dh just sat and watched all through the labours, a midwife came in with Rosie and she was so fab and it was only through how she was with me, encouraging, and rubbing my back and it really put me at ease, I wish she had delivered Rosie.
Anyway i would love to do that, i know that loads of labours could go much better with this sort of support.
Emzy, all babies grow at different rates, usually connected to the way Mum or Dad grew at baby stages.
I worry Rosie is still in 0-3 month grows, and some 3-6 at 5 months old, but she is perfectly happy (when not so poorly!!) and half of the reason i don't get her weighed is because i don't want some hv telling me what i should and shouldn't be doing for my baby.
As for sleep again be guided by yourself, I personally have never left Sophie to cry, and don't intend to with Rosie, the others just went to bed with no fuss so never needed to let them cry, and my eldest i let cry and he just used to scream for hours, and i hated it.
Some say it makes a rod for your back not getting some routine in place, and a routine is quite easy to start at any time, I just think I had these babies and bedtime is all part of the thing! It is worse now with the children coming in and out of their rooms at night, and they were all good as gold as babies!!
Holly is happy and healthy, and that is because you are doing a great job, her size is particular to her and how she is meant to be, just like Rosie posy is so teeny and bed time is up to you. Always be guided first and foremost with your baby by you
lbb, i think most gs are called sheba!! She was lovely, I grew up with her and we were her family, one in a million she was
Hope your all feeling better soon, Rosie today seems to be more able to regulate her temp on her own but has another pain she is just so upset about, she keeps poking her tongue out and curling it up, she has a long tongue and it looks really funny, it may be teething although i can't see or feel anything, or it may be a sore throat or something like it, it looks funny though!
This is about the first time today Rosie has let me put her down, she is really screamy, and crys even when i hold her which is really not like her
Hopefully the worst has gone
Blob, that's a long drive!
Fb, thank you, and wow trouble free teething! Ours is trouble free so far because no teeth!!!
Genies, it annoys me also people being bloody picky and bossy when there isn't even a problem in the first place!
I am too gobby to tell what to do, when someone asked me to keep my child quiet when she was having a tantrum i invited her to ask my daughter to be quiet and see how she got on!
Big
to everyone else,
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Louise that is sooo groooossssss!!! 
Did NOT see this coming!!
But i go loopy on the mini pill and i'm scared of the others while I still want more children. 
So now I don't know what to do. My friend from antenatal classes did CIO with her baby and it worked within 3 nights. I just don't know if I can leave her to cry?
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