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Wow this place is like catching a bus no ones around then bam ur all here lol

YAsa perfect bump hun and glad to hear you have some nice fitting jeans now lol

Vic Harry is such a cutie with his lill bald head :x

I'm sure I had more to say lol
My energy levels are just soo low rite now I had plans for today as the weather is nice but I don't think il be able to keep to them as I'm soo drained I've hoovered and washed up already just laundry to do and wanted to clean the rubbish that people just throw in my garden
Ohh well

Have a good day all xxxx
 
Just wait till baby girl is here stacey then u will feel drained completely 4 awhile.. even if u sleep good seems like you never catch back up..
 
I don't think I feel any worse than I do rite now I feel like death
Going to collet my pram later :) can't wait to have a Play with it

Need to soak in a long hot bath :/
 
haha just wait.. you will feel like death with excitement after baby is born.. lol not so much death but exhausted beyond belief.. exp. with baby number one.. i was a hormonal exhausted mess with mckenna.. but thats just the early days..

Have fun piccys would be great :)
 
haha Stace bless my little pickle he's not bald but I'll let u off as he does look it in that pic :rofl:

Jen it's a Baby Bjorn one :thumbup:

Sarah I hope next year u get a better Mothers day - I dropped a few hints & so did my Mum & Sister-in-law... :winkwink:

Looking fab Ysa I'm so excited for yoooooooou :happydance:

OMG I have to book H's jabs for sometime next week :cry::cry::cry:
 
Vick - yep think i'll be dropping hints next year....with a hammer on my DH head!! haha!!

we got our jabs next week - not looking forward to that!!

got my 6 week check today - hopefully my iron levels will be back to normal cause i stopped taking the supplements as they bunged me up and didn't want to strain with the caesarean scar and all!!

Darragh is now sleeping in his cot!! he was just getting too big for the moses basket! worried bout him hitting his arms and getting his arms caught in the bars so looking into bumpers but heard traditional bumpers are not reccommended anymore so been looking at alternatives such as airwrap - anyone got any ideas!!

Stacey - take this time to relaxe!! everyone tells you that but seriously you will never be more tired then you will after the little one arrives!! especially if you are planning to bf. getting close now ...... excited for you meeting your little girl it is such an amazing experience!!

haha - just looked over to check on darragh on his play mat and he is fast asleep....i guess he is all played out!!
 
Morning all how are we all??
I have been taking it easy but yesterday I just did not feel right then just before I want to bed my body shut down and I was in a lot of pain everything hurt even to blink I could not get up and go to the loo with out it taking extra long to get up and then the pain walking
Ive not slept well at all Dh has even taken the day off work to keep n eye on me I got up at six and took some paracetamol and have seemed to sweat it out now but not getting out of bed today at all
Baby is completely fine and swimming around in her bubble
I've had this virus before

Have a good day all xxxx
 
Morning all how are we all??
I have been taking it easy but yesterday I just did not feel right then just before I want to bed my body shut down and I was in a lot of pain everything hurt even to blink I could not get up and go to the loo with out it taking extra long to get up and then the pain walking
Ive not slept well at all Dh has even taken the day off work to keep n eye on me I got up at six and took some paracetamol and have seemed to sweat it out now but not getting out of bed today at all
Baby is completely fine and swimming around in her bubble
I've had this virus before

Have a good day all xxxx
 
Morning all how are we all??
I have been taking it easy but yesterday I just did not feel right then just before I want to bed my body shut down and I was in a lot of pain everything hurt even to blink I could not get up and go to the loo with out it taking extra long to get up and then the pain walking
Ive not slept well at all Dh has even taken the day off work to keep n eye on me I got up at six and took some paracetamol and have seemed to sweat it out now but not getting out of bed today at all
Baby is completely fine and swimming around in her bubble
I've had this virus before And it sucks

Have a good day all xxxx
 
Sooo sory to hear you feel so awful esp at the end... hugs
 
Awww, Stacey, not too much longer!! It always gets rough at the end... but then you forget all about it and do it all again!! :hugs:

Since I said I'd give details about yesterday... copied from my journal...
Okay. Sam's in the moby and sleeping. He's been fussy this evening. I wish we had some infant tylenol but we don't. I could ask DH to pick some up but I know he doesn't have any money, so he'll have to come home and get some first anyway. Maybe he can go back out. I really can't believe we don't have any on hand, but I guess we buy children's now for DS.

Anyway.

So DH stayed up all night, as he always does, doing who knows what. So then this morning I'm feeding Samuel around 6 am and he says, when you're done with that you can get a shower. So I put Sam in his bouncer and I go shower. Then I get into bed and he lets me stay there for maybe 45 minutes before he comes in and kicks me out.

So then when it's time for Sam's appt, DH is very grumpy and hard to wake up. As I figured he would be. But it's his own stupid fault for hanging out all night. Yeah, I'm tired, too, but it's not my choice. I get up with our child. He does whatever he wants. It's dumb, IMO, for us BOTH to be sleepless. But whatever.

Anyway. So he is grumpy the whole time we're at the dr's office.

And we sit there from 12:15, when our appt was, until 12:45 or maybe even later. All these other people get called back. Finally the lady calls us back and says she missed us and should have called us back a long time ago and we should have been gone by now.
Grrrr.
Anyway, so the actual appt was very quick once we got back to a room. Poor Sam had his second hep b shot and he cried. He's up to 10 lbs 1 oz now. Yay!! That was about all the dr said... he goes back in a month.

So then we're supposed to be going to visit Donna and I tell DH where it is. And he's like, "Whatever." So I'm like, look. Do you want to take us there and then go home? or go home and then we'll go without you? He says, oh, I didn't think you were supposed to go anywhere. And I say, well, I'm not. But Donna wants to see us and she has been missing us and we already told her we were coming.
So he doesn't answer. But eventually I can see that he's driving home.
Good thing I was feeling pretty good.
So he gets out of the car and goes in the house and I call my mom and thankfully she wasn't doing anything.
She was able to go with us. I would've liked for her to drive but she doesn't have an infant car seat yet and I didn't think I'd feel comfortable with her driving my car.
It felt really weird to drive again. Haha especially without a bump!!
So anyway, from that point on it was okay.
We visited with Donna and her mom for awhile.
Then we were supposed to come home in time for DH to take the car to work, but apparently we didn't get home early enough because he called me to say he was already on his way in the truck and he hoped he didn't run out of gas.

So I told him I'd drive out to his work and meet him and give him money to make it home.
Once we got there, we sort of made up. We all came in and ate dinner, since it was about time anyway, and we got to show Samuel off to all the guys he works with. So of course DH was all proud.
Then we came home for a short time and then my mom came back and picked up DS and took him to church and it was just Sam and I for the evening.
We watched American Idol.

Anyway. So that was my day yesterday, in case you didn't read it in my journal.
Now I have to go feed Samuel. He's going for longer stretches between feeds sometimes, so that's a blessing. Of course, there are also times he wants to eat again after two hours. Consistency would be nice. :shrug:

Oh, and I bit the bullet and subscribed on diapers on amazon. I'll let you all know how it is. They say you can cancel at any time, so if prices go up or something I'll just cancel. I hope.
 
Wow dead in here today

Just thought I'd pop in and say hi and that I'm feeling a bit better but I'm still getting out of breath and tired also she's on a nerve and f me does it hurt

Went out with my mum today ddnt get much but got some very handy nipple guards :)

Have a good rest of day all xxxx
 
Wow, it really is dead in here...

I'm dragging. Was sat holding Samuel after he'd finished eating and I don't know how many times I dozed off. Thomas kept telling me, mom, you need more sleep. You need a nap.
I said, honey, I can't.
So finally I called my mom and she's going to come over and let me nap.
Honestly I've been so drowsy today I'd think we had a gas leak except that DS is fine, obviously.
 
Aww Jen thomas is too cute can I borrow him for a bit lol
I do hope u get ur well erned kip just put my step daughter to bed hope she sleeps all the nite thou as she ddnt yesterday and was in our bed snoring at 5 so I just got up ywan in bed now but nose is too blocked to sleep :(

Xxxx
 
Day 3 of trying to get darragh into a sort of routine and the bloody clocks go forward!! hardest bit is trying to get him to take proper naps especially in the afternoon rather then just cat nap like he tends to do...i'm trying to get him down for 1 hour in the morning then 2 hours at lunch time then maybe one and half at tea time....so exhausted yesterday me and DH actually went up to bed when i put darragh down at 7pm...took 40 mins and 3 interventions but he went off to sleep...i had a quick shower and he didn't wake till 12.30.......hooray but then did get up at 3...thats ok and 5..not so good...then 6...hmmmm.......i think the 5 o clock was just him waking up and wanting me to nurse him back to sleep...need to get outa that habit!!!

anyone else trying routines???
 
Eden doesn't have a nap-time routine during the day - I can just kinda tell when she's tired and we put her down for a nap. Sometimes she as 2 naps a day sometimes she has 3. She's always in bed by 9pm at the latest at night though after her last bottle and sleeps through till 8am the next morning. Took us a while to get to that point but it's working ok :) xx
 
I was just thinking about that last night.
So far, we have NO discernible routine whatsoever. I even write down what time he eats and there's no pattern from one day to the next.
Do you think that's normal for a 1-month-old?
 
sounds totally normal to me jen....main reason i want some sort of routine is just to get a bit more control...also darragh s really cranky in the evenings and i think if he got a better quality nap in the afternoon his evenings would be nicer...sleep wise he isn't doing too bad...one long 4-5 hour stretch then 2 hourly or three hourly...sometimes though i think he just nurses to go back to sleep....routine in the day is based around EASY (EAT, Activity, Sleep, you time) in a three hourly cycle...but darragh still wants to be fed after two hours more often then not...trying to get him to feed more so he lasts longer....he tends to get quite sleepy when feeding...need to sort that association out!

Rach - sleeping 9-8am by three months...you've done so well!!! hope we get there!!
 
Never heard of EASY... but that wouldn't work for us, either, since Samuel generally gets sleepy during and after eating. It used to be he'd go to sleep while eating or when I put him up on my shoulder to burp him-- every time. But now sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't. I wish he still did. It was predictable and I knew I'd be able to get stuff done after a feed.
Seems like just when I think I've discovered a pattern, it changes. :dohh:
 

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