Summer Peaches... going to be ripe in late July/early August!!

[Mosnippy]

Just a quick hello we obviously all to busy with our bundles lol

Hope you all ok xx

 

[molly85]

i'm always logged in but makes it easier to grab 5 minutes on here

 

[misse04]

been to get Harvey registered today. Trying to keep house tidy and loads of washing to do now were home. Never ending mess at the moment!

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Misse that's what it's like for me too. I feel like all I'm doing these days is washing bottles/making them up/sterilising, picking up toys and clothes from the front room and putting the washing machine on lol.

We took Lily to get registered today too and had some family visit. They've taken Toby to the beach for a bit to give us a bit of peace lol.

OH is being better than before. Took her for one of her night feeds the other night as I was getting quite stressed. Is taking her for it again tonight because I'm so very tired.

Little miss is brilliant though, still throwing up but not as much. My mum said my sister was exactly the same nothing helped; not winding her more, not changing her formula. Nothing.

Health Visitor has just been too and she's on the 98th percentile for her weight (she's not quite gone back up to her birth weight but she's only a couple of ozs off so HV isn't worried) and inbetween 98th and 99.6th percentile for length and HC. Big girl!!!

 

[misse04]

To be fair OH has been brilliant and first 2 days did all cleaning and sorting Connie, hes been getting up to do the bottles and ive been eeding and changing then hes got up with Connie the last 2 mornings too so going to give him a lay in tmo.

Weve just had an argument as were bth stressed with visitors and his dad was meant to come round tonight, when OH spoke to him he said he would be here gone 7, so Connie would be in bed and we really wanted an early night. So OH changed it to saturday now hes moaning he feels guilty so i said fine tell him to come round now and stop moaning but im going to bed and he can do all of Harveys last bits cause I really wanted to be in bd if im going to be up at half 5! and its escalted into a argument... ridiculous!

Has anyone else felt guilty on their older babies? I'm desperatley trying to make sure Connie gets lots of attention but she just keeps playing up and i feel like I'm contantly saying no or moaning and she didnt want to come near me earlier. It upset me, its fine now and we had some time together playing upstairs and putting her to bed she gave me cuddles... think the hormones are starting to kick in.x

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Yeah Toby is really playing up too. Started being violent. Kicking things and threatening people so feel like I'm constantly shouting at him. OH is also quite protective over Lily so Toby I think maybe feels a little pushed out by him but I'm sure balance will find itself eventually. I'm so glad I can still take Toby to bed and have a little play and read a story with him before and also when giving him a bath so we can still get some time together. I think it's just a matter of finding balance and it will take us some time to find our feet and figure out this parenting two lark lol but we'll get there. And my family are making sure Toby isn't feeling left out. My Dad has taken him to town and bought him a toy. My sister came round to play with him earlier and sat drawing with him and my family came over from Warrington today too and after their cuddles with Lily took Toby to the beach for a bit whilst the Health Visitor came x

 

[molly85]

Abby was totally spoiled by Matt while he was off so i think she's a bit lost but has managed to get some cuddles and playing with chris though I did pre-empt her having to play alone so she is generally happy in her play pen or pottering around alone in the living room with her dolly and push chair.

Petrified over matt being on nights for a week soon

 

[irmastar]

Misse congrats!!! big boy, any pictures??
my son is being acting up too, doing all sort of things to get attention. I think he is feeling a little left out as his dad and his wife have a 9 week old baby . so first they have a baby and 6 weeks later bang mommy has a baby too. Hopefully it'll get better oncve school starts. Oh Nicole has been formula free for 4 days now, and she latch again with a nipple shield, nowwe are BF at night too wow, gonna see a lactation consultant on the 15th.

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Well done irma for sticking at it. So glad it's working out for you. Kind of gutted that I had to give up but at the same time so glad to have the freedom to take DS to bed. Lily usually needs feeding around that time but now OH can takeover if she wakes for her feed whilst we're reading the story.

Realised today that it's less than 4 weeks until DS starts school. It's so scary. He seems so much bigger and older since Lily has been born and it'd already seemed to go so fast but now I just think where the hell is my baby boy and who is this intelligent, cheeky, brilliant little lad in his place? He's so grown up. I'm struggling to pick him up now I've been holding Lily. His hands seem so much bigger when I'm holding them. I don't like it one bit lol! It scares the life out of me that he is growing up. That he's starting school. That before I know it he will be this teenager that I will have to constantly worry about doing the same things me and OH did when we were teenagers. He'll be doing exams and building his future. It's just so much more apparent to me that a time is going to come when he doesn't really depend on me for much anymore. That terrifies me. I don't want him to grow up.

Sorry for the epiphanic rant lol

 

[irmastar]

I only stick with it because I really wanted to experience BF , formula feeding is fine too. BF doesn't work for everyone, my son was FF and he is fine . I just wanted to experience BF I guess, and I am sooo lazy to get up at night to make bottles, even if the were of EBM because I had to heat them up ugh. I have been trying the side lying feeding position and once I master it, feeding at night will be so much easier too.

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Oh Lily is such a meance. Went to bed at half past 10 for her bottle. Finished and put her down by about 11ish and managed to get to sleep about 10 minutes later. She woke up at 2am for her feed and has yet to go back to sleep. She has had another bottle and is about to have one more. SHe has had boiled water. She's been burped. She's thrown up. And she's just plain whinged. Very tired.

 

[misse04]

Glad im not the only one struggling with 2, Im sure Connies testing her boundries. I know what you mean KM, Connie seems so old to me already and shes only 1!

Thank you irma will add a pic.

After 2 nights of 4 hour feeds was going really well. Last night was awful, we went to bed at half 8 to get early night and I didnt get to sleep until 12! Harvey was absolutely screaming so i had to come downstairs (he hadnt really cried atall up until then) he was clearly in pain but not sure what... He had burped well after feeds, thinking colic or reflux (but no sick for reflux) was so horrible to see him like it and then had to get up at 6 with Connie.... Im so tired but really want OH to have a lay in where hes done so much

 

[molly85]

yikes i am now worried whats in my milk though am up every 2-3 hours its not for long.

I was sent a pic by a friend of the size of a babies tummy at 2 weeks it's gone from the size of a marble to the size of an egg! so about 2oz worth of feeds no idea if that helps anyone might be they are guzzling to quick and eating to much .

going to risk tesco in a bit with both of mine eeeek. I have just discovered what is worse than the baby your feeding pooping mid feed it's you stinky bummed toddler doing it ahhh

 

[stardust599]

Must have been something in the air.

A has been horrendous the past 2 nights, not settling down at all. Everytime I start to drfit off he lets out another wail. I can't even bring him into bed with me as I've started smoking again

He's bothered badly by reflux during the day and wind at night. I'm just surviving and trying to grab any good moments that I can. I took him to A+E last week as he won't eat and he won't sleep. Started Omeprazole but it's not making much difference. We have Carobel thickener for reflux and if I make his milk thick enough for him to be able to eat it gives him really bad wind and he's up all night. If I don't thicken it well he barely eats all day (1 - 1.5 every 2hours) but sleeps like a rock at night. Can't win! Back to paediatrician next Friday, they don't think he has a milk allergy though.

 

[molly85]

is he propped up at night star? even in a car seat as you all need sleep? thats something i was advised by my friend grr at docs even intolerance can make for an unhappy baby

 

[irmastar]

Misse- he is such a cutie.
Stardust-I really hope for things to get better for you.
I am happy, my baby sleeps so well at night, she only wakes up twice,and today we woke up at 2 pmlol

 

[misse04]

We had a good night last night. Although he has his awake time when we want to go to sleep.We got to sleep at 10 then he woke at 2 for a feed then OH took him downstairs at 6 when Connie got up so i could sleep properly,, he only sleeps properly in our bed so have given in most of last night for some sleep. otherwise he keeps stirring

 

[molly85]

Hehe misse i get company when OH goes to work. Must say I was very glad ofhaving crib next to bed this morning the very reason cosleeping can be a bit dubious I fell asleep when feeding and attempted to roll over with Chris on my chest whoops. Lesson learnt there thankfully he rolled into the side of the crib

 

[misse04]

He likes cuddles lol. Went for heel prick today, and he stopped bleeding before they were done so had to do it again, Connie cried because she didnt like him crying was a bit of a nightmare. We went to a bday party this morning so Connie got to play with us while Harvey slept which was nice Feel like things are settling down, hes doing so well. Having 3 ozs every 3-4 hours in the day then does a 6hour stretch in the night then goes back to 4hours and he only lost an oz of his birth weight... not that im surprised with the amount he eats x

 

[misse04]

Well, we just gave Harvey his first bath which he liked got him all clean and dressed then went and sat in bathroom to sit with Connie in the bath and Harvey threw up everywhere which he hasnt done since day 1! We were both covered, so had to wipe him down and change him again! Knew it was all going too well