Ash, sorry I was posting as you did.. So glad to hear you and Blake are doing ok...We are all here for you luv..xoxoxo:hug::hug:
Ok bbl..
Printable View
Ash, sorry I was posting as you did.. So glad to hear you and Blake are doing ok...We are all here for you luv..xoxoxo:hug::hug:
Ok bbl..
I had great intentions of posting personals this morning, but I've only just finished brekky and I'm still in my pjs! He's in the carrier now, asleep, he just would not settle before. Normally I'd be okay with that, but I need to have a shower and be ready to go to the MCHN at about 2.00pm. Showering takes at least half and hour with this bloody foot, and I know that he's going to want to feed twice before we go, so there goes my two and a half hours! Man, I love my life as a mum, but who would have thought that it could take so long to get out of the house LOL!
haha sez, i need to be ready in 45 mins and mason has decided to go to sleep!
so the bag is packed, and i am ready....but he needs to wake, feed, change and get dressed!
Hey everyone! Blake is having a nap, and has been down for half and hour, THIS IS NOT NORMAL FOR ME SO I'M A BIT EXCITED lol I have uploaded new pics to his site, in my sig :D
Ashlee the link isn't working for me :(
I forgot to answer someones question before re: Noah's bath, I have to top and tail him now although on Thurs I have to soak off his plaster in the tub so I may bathe him then, poor boy loves his baths :(
Sorry bout that, I forgot I changed the name to the link, will just go get the new link now and change my sig :)
ETA: Done, should work now :):)
Aww he looks so cute!!! I love his hair!
Sarah - thanks!! Now got a picture of my little princess in my signature thanks to you!
Ash - glad to hear you're getting a nap out of Blake. Hope you're feeling better and taking the chance to rest yourself.
Danni and Sez - I hate that - you're ready to go out and the little buggers choose that time to actually sleep! I had to wake Izzy this morning so I could get to the OB on time, and then she ended up all grumbly.
Kristen - yay for such a huge sleep for Mia, although a pity she had to be such a naughty girl for her mummy to get there. Let's hope you have a more pleasant evening tonight, but just as long a sleep from your little princess.
Alex - I hope you're going to take pictures of your miniature Rambo - that sounds really cute.
Had my check up this morning with the OB and all's fine - he told me I've done so well I should be not wasting any time for my second child!! Hmmm. Think we'll see about that! A second baby seems a looooooong way off when you're dead tired, up in the freezing cold night feeding at 4am. Izzy is finally down sleeping so I'm off to bed now - sooooo tired. Someone should develop a pill that gives you 8 hours of sleep in tablet form - they'd make kazillions I reckon.
Sorry I've been missing in action for days.....my little girl just WILL NOT SLEEP! And it's driving me nuts. So I'm exhausted and barely get time to eat/go to the loo let alone post on BB!
I hope things get better soon, yay to those bubs who are sleeping. What is the secret??
Ash hun hope you are taking care of yourself. Your latest pics of Blake are so adorable.
OMG she is awake again, she seriously doesn't sleep more than 15mins. I call them her 15min powernaps!
Hello,
Just a quick one from me too. Every day is different with Julian & I have no idea what to expect. Last night was awful, he was up from 1am to 5am. Some days he wakes every 3 maybe 4 hrs if I'm lucky at night. during the day he hardly sleeps at all so that is challenging. Hurray to you girls getting some sleep, i'm very jealous!
We managed to go out to dinner for my brothers bday, it was great. Exhausting getting out though, expressing and then trying to feed before we left. My mum has been very supportive and i've stayed there the last few days.
anyway got to go, have an unhappy camper here!
Hi mummies,
I'm losing my mind. My little "angel/terror" has been a nightmare today. It was my first day out for lunch with SIL's & girlfriends and their babies and she screamed from 9.30 this morning until we arrived at lunch where she slept in everyones arms except mine. Olivia settled in everyone's arms and kinda slept but everytime they gave her back to me she started screaming again. I hate it but I feel like she doesn't like me. By the end of lunch I was nearly in tears. At home she slept in my DH's best mates arms and DH but not mine. She slept for everyone except me. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I'm her mum. She's supposed to be most comfortable with me. It is getting so hard to keep positive. She settles so beautifully for DH all the time.
Sorry guys I think I'm just exhausted and my hormones/emotions are just completely out of control. Fingers crossed she slepts overnight and I can gain some sanity and stop these silly thoughts.
Another selfish post, sorry everyone. Tomorrow is another day and hopefully Olivia will give me time to do personals and catch up looking at all the beautiful baby photo websites.
Luv Dan.
oh dan...hunny she doesnt hate you! Mason will smile for everyone except me...so i kinda know how you feel.
I hope it was just an off day for her. Big hugs sweetie :hug:
**Big whiney whingy post!!***
Dan - big hugs to you hun :hugs: she doesn’t hate you babe - it must be a day for it - Izzy has had another unsettled day and screamed all afternoon and once DH came home she settled and was fine with him, daddy’s girls. I’m sure they were just having a bad day and like you said, tomorrow is a new day.
Danni – Mason will smile soon for you hun – when he does it for someone else, just tell yourself that its wind! Otherwise I hope you are going well babe.
Jan – Each day is sooo different isn’t it – thank goodness, I hope Julian sleeps well for you tonight and gives you a break. Mums are great aren’t they- mine is coming for “Operation day-sleep school” tomorrow and Thursday!! Yay on getting out – its such a mission isn’t it but it does feel good to get out and feel like there is more to life than having a baby attached to the boob!
Lis – I want the secret too! We totaled 2.5 hours sleep – (not consecutive!!) from 645am – 7pm… hence my mum coming over to help!! Good luck – I hope Elena starts to co-operate too hun.
Lulu – your pic of Isabelle is GORGEOUS!! Looks like you have a water baby like my Izzy too – she luuurves the bath!! Great news from the ob – I’ve had a few people mention no#2 too ….man that will definitely be a little (read FAR) way away!!
Ash – Hope you are feeling better babe and I love your new photos of Blakey, I love the one with his hand in his pocket, little cool cat!!
Sez – Hope your MCHN appointment went well today! I have huge admiration for you doing this all with a broken foot hun..how long til you get your plaster off?? You must be counting down. I swear these little monkeys time their crying for when we are about to 1/eat, 2/shower, 3/ go to the toilet, 4/ do anything vaguely resembling a normal non-baby related activity!!!
Alex – Can’t wait to see pics of your mini Rambo – and go Lara!! Yay for Toby and his routine – that’s great!! And with two little men – you deserve to be in pjs all day – man I really don’t know how you mums with more than 1 do it!! Huge medals to you all!!
Sarah – your photos of Noah are sooo cute – I love the black and white one of him on his tummy, and sleeping with you. So adorable and he deserves a big hug and medal too the brave boy with that plaster on. :hug: I hope he gives you a bit of a break and you can get some rest tonight too.
Tara, Rae, Kristen, Lee, Kelly, Ange, Mel’s!!, and everyone else I’ve missed - a big hello to you all!!
Well we have had another day where we have not slept at all really. A few 20 minutes naps scattered throughout the day, in the pram at the shops, in the car briefly etc…. and then she just screamed from about 3pm until 7pm, unless she was feeding or actually pretending to – does anyone else’s precious suck or seem to be sucking and when you take them off you realize that your pants, the bib, the couch and your little darlings clothes are drenched because she has been sucking but letting milk just drain out of her mouth??? What a waste!!:rolleyes:
Well like I said mum is coming to the rescue for Operation day-sleep school!! :lol: for the next 2 days to see if we can work out something that works to get her to sleep. I really feel she was upset tonight because she was sooooo overtired. Surely just because she sleeps for about 7 hours and then 4 hours over night doesn’t mean she doesn’t need sleep during the day?? especially as she shows tired signs??
Man I am crapping on – sorry I feel like this is my only release sometimes.
Oh another thing – DH comes home and she’s screaming so he takes her for 5 minutes and then says oh she might be hungry again when she’s just fed…. I feel like he can’t and won’t try to settle her because his solution to her crying is just boob. So then Im in tears trying to explain that this is what its been like almost all day and I cant feed her constantly. Plus my right nipple is KILLING me again and will have to use the shield again tonight….
Well enough of a whinge from me – thanks for reading this far and heres hoping all bubs are great for their mummies tonight- lots of sleeping, settling, eating well and smiles all round!
Dan - Olivia definitely doesn't hate you!!! Maybe its just the old "mum smells like dinner" thing that everyone tells you about? When you try to snuggle her just for a cuddle she thinks its food time?
Tan - oh I am soooooo with you on the DH thing. Mine used to say all the time if my Izzy was crying that she must be hungry - at least he did until I had a complete melt down at him one day!! Funny though, he had her on Saturday afternoon all on his own for a whole 3 hours while I was out and told me that night how exhausted he was because she just didn't sleep all afternoon!! Ha ha I said. Welcome to my world!!! Good luck with your mum and your sleep school - crossing everything for you that it works.
It must be the day for it. My Izzy has been screaming all afternoon too. She hasn't settled for more than 15 minutes at a time and that's when I've been holding her. Putting her down has just been out of the question. DH's having a go at settling her now while I'm supposed to be doing dinner. Think I'd rather just go to bed and cry . . .
Hope everyone else is having a nice, quiet, sleepful evening with their little princes and princesses
I'm so sorry I have not been able to do PMs. Between these kids (three just broke the camel's back for sure, but I'm loving it) and a baby that refuses to sleep at all in the day, and also now hates the sling even but wants to be held and my house looking like shambles, I'm only able to usually read and type one handed, and doing personals one handed is near impossible
I wanted to say thankyou all so much for you kind wishes. The ABs are doing their job well and I'm feeling heaps better and really optimistic about missing a D&C this time.
I so want to catch up with everyone and really hope to over the next few days. I'm thinking I might invest in a better sling. this one is not working and I'm unable to get anything done.
Leo also wants to feed almost constantly for the last 4 days, i'm assuming growth spurt? My bbs are sore and empty and I've been worried it's because my milk is going away, but I'm hoping it's because he's just draining them so much they aren't getting a chance to fill up.
Love to you all, I'm going to try and attempt personals tomorrow, even if it's just a few. I just can't put him down or he screams the place down!
ETA: We've got a break, I'll attempt a few now!!!
Tan, just read your post and she sounds just like Leo, I think it's all normal at this stage unfortunately. I sooo relate to the milk thing, I'm sick of it running down my pants! My two other kids also had the unsettled hours of an afternoon and evening, and Leo starts around 4pm and goes till around 8:30 pm at the moment, screaming like there's no tomorrow. It's apparently very normal that time of day. My DP takes him as soon as he comes home and has a shower, and the crying doesn't seem to bother him (I didn't know men like that existed LOL) and he just holds him and rocks him and seems to be able to settle him better than me because he doesn't smell like milk I reckon. I go and cook and fold washing, it feels relaxing. I can really relate to the constant sucking and sore nipple thing. The midwife said to me back in week one when I asked about why baby's start crying week 3-4 constantly, she said it was because the usualy experience aa growth spurt then and it takes the BM a few days to adjust and they need to suck constantly then also. DP reminds me of this over and over when I get stressed about him wanting to suck so much. :hug: Hang in there hun
Lulu: :hug: Order take away when you feel like that and go and have a break. It's so important. The last thign you feel like doing sometimes when you finally get a break is doing more work.
Dan: it's definately the BM factor, I've been feeling the same a bit, Leo seems so much more settled for DP. He can be screaming for several hours with me, but with DP is asleep on his chest in 5 mins. I've felt less bonded with him because my other kids used to only want me an no one else (their father , my XH never held them as babies though), and now I have this baby that loves being with his dad as well as mum and I've felt it means he doesn't love me as much or that I'm doing something wrong. But I know it's got a lot to do with the BM as he mouths as soon as I hold him. Please dont' let it get you down at all hun.
Lis!!!! Don't worry, most of us having that problem too. All I can say (from memory) is that this will not last forever, they do get into a routine, from memory it was around 2-3 months with my other kids and they will sleep in the day. 15 minutes max is what I get too. Poor DD was singing to a screaming Leo today when I attempted to go to the toilet. HE was bright red and covered in sweat when I came out due to crying so hard and DD looked like she was going to cry because he sounded so distressed. All because I dared to put him down! Good to see you around still hun.
Ash - :hug: I'm thinking of you hun, love you xxoo
ARgh, it couldn't have lasted for long. He's screaming for my poor nipples again. And please exuse the typos, I am typing very fast between putting him down and not having time to go back and correct, I hope it's readable!
Great job Tara!
Yep, the day for it! Lots of crying and not much sleep here.....in fact my little munchikin is still awake :rolleyes:! He's gotta go to sleep soon, but he's bug-eyed ATM. Unlike Tara, I definitely can't post personals with one hand so I'll leave it at that for now!
Nighty night!
Yay for Izzy - we fed at 7pm, 1.30am, 6 am and only just got up!!! Whoo hoo - means that i wont be tired and teary all day now when she wont sleep again the little angel!! Ha ha - hope your nights were ok - talk later am typing one handed while scoffing weet bix!!!
Wanted to ask- last night after the long stretch of 6 hours again - my boobs didnt go rock hard??? Its a bit scary and hope it doenst mean my body is making less milk??
yayyyy!!!! :D