Babies Born April 2008 #2

[alittlegrubi]

Sharon A post about yourself is not selfish. I've had days like that too - can't say why I'm sad but i am and if DH asks what is wrong do I want to talk I say no because I think I'll blurt out something that really isn't an issue and cause more problems.

[chelle66]

Sharon, I FEEL the same way...
alittlegrubi, yep, I just say its nothing too, in fear I dig around and start something I just really dont have the energy to finish!all cos of feeling so emotional and wanting to put a reason to it...ah sleeplessness has alot to answer too!

[Nettie]

Grubi - I know exactly what u mean by not wanting to blurt out something. My DH always wants to know what's wrong when I'm 'blue' but I often don't know or it's too many things to discuss it.

Very tired here at the moment. Am hoping to sleep when Liam does today, but not sure if it will work. He sleeps fabulously in my arms, but not in the bassinette!

DH has gone out for a few hrs and NOW I have to go to the loo. Sheesh!

[alittlegrubi]

We attempted to attend the Babes in Arms movie session today. Remind me not to take 2and 3/4 year old with me again. Thought he would love it being that the movie was Ironman and just as it started to get good, he picks up the popcorn and says "Wanna go home, pop porn go home, drink go home?" and then half way home he starts "I wanna go watch ironman scary movie" Grrrrr!!!!
Greer was great she slept through the hour and a half we were there for.
Nettie - I know it can be hard, but let Liam cry while you go to the loo, he wil be okay. Have you tried laying Liam on his tummy for a sleep, I found with both of my bubs tummy sleeps worked where the reflux would wake them on their backs.

[Beatrix]

Grubi- oh i have taken my two to the movies and its more of a game for them and the eldest only goes for the popcorn. :rolls: still you did well in attepting it with a 3 week old.

well MJ is finalkly startoing to sleep otherplaces besides in my arms !!! for the last two nights she has slept in her pram. we still have progreesed to the cot but her pram is acctually a bassinet pram so i guess its the same as still sleeping in a bassinet but with wheels and a handle!

Nettie- oh dear the timing!!!!

Sharon- how are you feeling today, remember feel free to come and whinge and cry in hear as much as you want. if you want to talk i am most of the time on msn mummynessa@hotmail.com

oh man massive let down and i am now soaking wet lol and it was cause my middle child was crying!!

[Sharon19270]

Beatrix thanks for your msn details, will add them to my contacts, I don't get on there too often because when I do I stay on for hours LOL. Still feeling really down and wanting to cry all the time, but put on a brave face around my friends, DH sees straight through it though. That's great that MJ is sleeping in the pram, at least it gives you a break from holding her all the time.
alittlegrubi i'm not worried about blurting out something that would seem rather trivial under normal circumstances because I know that DH realises that my emotions are pretty much out of my control atm, it's just that it is really difficult to be specific about what is actually making me upset. As for the Babes in Arms session at the movies, I take my hat off to you for attempting it.
chelle66 if I give DH the 'nothing' response when he asks what is wrong, he knows i'm lying and will say so, and that's usually enough to get the tears flowing, followed by him giving me lots of hugs and reassurance, then if Oliver is awake and whinging he will take over.
Nettie it's hard when they don't want to sleep anywhere but in your arms, Jordan was like that too and I found it very frustrating.

Had another bad afternoon yesterday with Oliver, he basically screamed for nearly 2 hours after vomiting after his bottle, DH walked in the door at 6pm to find me very stressed and crying, he took oliver off me, settled him down and an hour later he was asleep, DH then took Jordan and they went off and did the grocery shopping, I really do appreciate how much he is helping me atm, and love his so much. but, it has got me thinking as to whether Oliver is having reflux problems, he won't vomit after every feed though, so I am also wondering if he could just be making a piggy of himself when he has more than a 100ml, but I thought that since he was 5kg and only having 6 bottles a day, he should be having 120-150ml per feed anyway.

Oh, I don't friggin know, there could very well be no reason for his screaming at all other than to send me insane!

[alittlegrubi]

Sharon Greer has about 2 chucks per day at the moment and smelling her breath it isn't reflux as there is no acid smell. I was thinking it was overfeeding, but I'm with you - who knows - I'm going to try the Brauer's Stomach Calm or Colic Relief but if they don't work I'm going with the "just to drive me insane" theory too..

I think that it will improve and I just need to remind myself that it is going to happen, there isn't much more than what I am doing that I can do to help her, so just go with the flow and stop stressing, because she will pick up on that and be worse than if I can remain calm.

It is great that you have DH to help. Mine is very much the same, helps out when he can, will carry Greer around to keep her quiet, changes nappies, does some of the housework and the grocery shopping and sometimes takes Logan to his parents to give us both a break from having to deal with two kids.

Beatrix I'm sure the popcorn was the best part of going to the movies for Logan. He did ask for the popcorn to go home too. He was so overstimulated by the experience he was a pain at the shops when I stopped in to get nappies and he wanted to go in a trolley - which I can't push - then I had to chase him around the carpark to get into the car - we had a screaming match of I want trolley all the way home - I had to calmly tell him to stop crying and calm down and we would talk about trolleys or he goes to bed, made him a bottle sat down on the lounge and half way through the bottle - out like a light. Next Babes In Arms Session will be Mother and Daughter time only, at least until he is old enough to sit through the whole thing.

I foolishly mopped - wipe over mop - the floors this morning as SIL is planning to pop in and she'll do it if they look like they need it so I wanted to get them done and I was careful about doing it, but I'm a little sore now.

I am like most of you and get better day time sleeping if Greer is held, but she will sleep in her bassinet some times, find she sleeps longer in there if I put her on her tummy.

I always thought that if you breastfed poos weren't meant to smell - or is that just stink? Greer always smells when she poos and she just has so got to go change it.