Some news...

[bunique]

If I have to stay in hospital overnight with baby #2, that will be my first night away from #1!

[Katster]

Hope this works? Lol.

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[bunique]

Haha! Excellent! Was Nigel Farage in your eyeline?

[Katster]

Haha! Excellent! Was Nigel Farage in your eyeline?

Hopefully

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Last night she slept through (11.30-6.30) for first time!! Couldn't believe it?! Fingers crossed she does the same again tonight!

I was just going to post on an earlier comment you made about a routine for Willow. My ex and I tried all sorts with our 5 but the only advice I can give is let Willow lead but carry on as normal. We found that with our household the baby would soon fall into line, a deliberate action or not. There are only 18months to 2 years between siblings so a routine is paramount and I guess baby can feel this.

[midnight]

Ha! Oh dear! One of my brothers didn't have a name for almost a week, so I'd be following in a grand tradition!

Took even longer here (about 2 weeks). I had to stay in hospital for nearly a week, and all the midwives called him "baby nameless" .

[Katster]

I was just going to post on an earlier comment you made about a routine for Willow. My ex and I tried all sorts with our 5 but the only advice I can give is let Willow lead but carry on as normal. We found that with our household the baby would soon fall into line, a deliberate action or not. There are only 18months to 2 years between siblings so a routine is paramount and I guess baby can feel this.

We have ended up following a routine but letting Willow decide what time it begins and ends. So whenever she wakes up in the evening, I feed her and then we play for roughly an hour or until she shows signs of getting bored and/or hungry again. We keep the lights bright and then take her for a bath. When she returns from the bathroom the lights are dimmed and the tv is quiet and we put her lullaby CD on. I feed her again and we play quietly with her or just talk to her until she shows signs of being tired. We put her to bed. Sometimes she goes to bed at 8pm, tonight she is still up now. We are not too fussed about time for now but hope that by sticking to this night time routine (*ritual?) she will learn/understand what comes next in an evening as she grows older. To be honest it was more about getting US into sticking to a routine, rather than her lol.

[Katster]

Tonight Willow decided that 12.15am is a great time to finally go to bed. Yawn.

[Katster]

She's just had her first lot of injections

[bunique]

My big baby had her pre-school boosters today so I sympathise! Feels awful at the time but very much worthwhile. I had my whooping cough booster at the same time so am feeling extra sympathetic with a dead arm!

[Katster]

She seems ok just extra sleepy (I didn't think that was possible!)

[midnight]

My son was sleepy and a little feverish for about 24 hours after the first injection (he was 12 or 13 weeks old). I felt terrible - being sleepy was so out of character for him! All the others later on, we didn't really notice a difference.

[Katster]

So I have managed to express 8oz over the last six days and tonight's the night. Mummy is going to play out! (Tea at my friends who lives just down the road and I'm driving, ha). I'm looking forward to it but even before I've left the house it feels weird to be leaving her behind...awwww.

[Katster]

Oh and apart from feeds and nappy changes she slept for 28 hours after injections. Imagine that.

[Katster]

It all went well and I enjoyed my evening. I had a glass of wine. My first drink since January! Just the one

[bunique]

Last week at work eve for me...

[midnight]

It all went well and I enjoyed my evening. I had a glass of wine. My first drink since January! Just the one

That sounds so rock'roll!

Last week at work eve for me...

It's the final countdown?

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[bunique]

Friend who was due 16/12 gave birth in early hours to a gorgeous baby girl. I've told this one to stay put til Christmas Day, then it's free to come out whenever it wants! We have a midwife, a nurse and a health visitor all attending Christmas Dinner just in case she has other ideas!!

[Katster]

Wow not long now then Bunique!

I'm still completely smitten with my Wisp

[bunique]

Finished in the nick of time. Baby is allowed to arrive now!

[Katster]

Wow!

[feral chile]

That's stunning.

[bunique]

Baby will not be allowed anywhere near it

[midnight]

Oh no, of course not. But it will make a splendid wall hanging. The blanket, I mean, not the baby.

[bunique]

She's here Born in a corridor on a wooden palette/trolley thing, narrowly avoiding the car park, within less than a couple of minutes of arriving at hospital! We're heading home shortly to recover from the shock!