MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 3

lazywife

Congrats Kerri
Saf, hooray for a trip home, I think your right, be prepared for your emotions for your sister to become pretty raw again, but nice for A to see where you (and her Auntie) grew up and played together.x
Wowee Nutella, now that's the way to move! (although 21 viewings at an open house.... good luck!)
Delain, boo for more floods. Hopefully you'll be able to get back to normal again soon.
CD well done for trying some groups, I too was keen to pick up some mummy friends, but I've not really found any "new" friends. Luckily a friend has had her baby 6 weeks ago, so I've another mummy friend I can take T round to and he can play with their stuff whilst we chat... cheaper than a yummy mummy coffee shop group.
For those with 4 month sleep regression and fussy feeds, it does improve. I still will be up for a very quick feed most nights about 3am, but he settled back into remembering sleep was a good thing and messing around with feeding meant he got less (I'll put it away for a bit if he's fussing too much). That was the point I tried to get into the naps in the day a little more... even though it meant he slept on me for an hour or so in the afternoons. If he had not had enough sleep in the day, the nights were even worse.
OH had a really hard day in work today. He's tired and worn out as it's his own business, they are busy (it's only him and one other), but not busy enough to afford another member of staff, so catch 22. Means he works more than he should and he so loves to spend time with T, he finds it frustrating. I'd love to be able to help more, but tied up with T, so just feel a bit stuck in mummy mode. On the plus side, we're going on holiday in March, just to Bluestone in Wales for 4 nights. Really looking forward to a little break away just the 3 of us
L.xxx

Oscar_the_Pug

Congrats Kerri!


Re baby groups, fwiw I've found it takes *ages* to get to know people. I go to a few, and it's only recently that one outgoing mum has suggested a few of us meeting for coffee: over 4 months since I started to go. To me it's been worth persevering - my new bff may not be there but my little girl is likely to go to school with these kids eventually and it's nice not to be a total stranger. All the stuff I do is activity related though (massage, swimming etc) so there's not been any awkward expectation of small talk. I try to speak to new faces too if I'm beside them but have noticed that few first timers seem to want to have a chat (ie I ask them about their LOs but they don't ask me about mine: not that they have to, but how else will you get to know people if you don't try to chat back?).


Mind you I also tried a library story session but my LO was waaay too tiny for it, so I'll try again in a couple of years!

continualdiamond

It's hard trying new groups but I've had to put my needs 1st as really it's more for my sanity than anything else.

With being from another country I don't have any of my own family here and I'm not close to my inlaws at all. They only live 30 mins from us but hardly see them and majority of my friends are work colleagues and of course I'm doing a different job to them at the moment.

A friend who has a 7mth old baby lives over an hr away, we do catch up but usually just once a month if we can. My only other mummy friends are the 3 ladies from antenatal class so I do find it hard sometimes being at home with my LO and having no one to talk to at all.

Felt really sorry for my hubby tonight, he didn't get to see Scarlett at all. I thought he'd be home about 6pm so ran Scarlett a bath thinking he'd be home before I needed to get her out, he wasn't. Managed okay on my own, but then whilst getting her ready for bed she started rubbing her eyes, it was only 6:30pm.

So put her in her bed and she really cried, which = exhausted at which she struggles to fall asleep on her own, so I had to rock her in my arms for a bit to get her to relax and then was able to put her down in bed again. However that = her asleep at 7pm when hubby walked in the door.

When I came into the lounge he was really upset that he didn't get to spend time with her as when he left for work I was giving her a bottle.

Oscar I think that is the difference - activity related as with baby yoga I don't feel awkard at all dispite singing this week. It was only the 2nd week but I got chatting to another mum as we both walked to our cars. The ones I tried this week turned out to be more for children who play, so they had like dressing up out, puzzles and colouring etc.

I'm down for baby massage but not until March apparently as it has a long waiting list.

katiechoc_2

*Nutella* wrote: »

Hello

Sorry I've been awol - it's been a manic couple of weeks here. We've decided to move, and on Wednesday we had an offer accepted on a house that we love (it's perfect in every way, including the location) - subject to us having an offer on our flat by Monday! We've got 21 people coming to see it tomorrow (during a two-hour 'open day'), so hopefully someone will love it, but we also had someone come to view it last night, and he's put in an offer. It's a bit lower than what we'd like, but we'll accept it if we don't get a better one. It's all happened so fast - we got back from Christmas at my parents' exactly two weeks ago, and since then we've found our perfect house, put our flat up for sale, sorted out a mortgage and completed all the legal paperwork, all whilst working full time :eek: I'm knackered! Very exciting though

Hope everyone's well - I have nothing useful to contribute at the moment, as my brain is overloaded with house moving stuff

Eek exciting Nutella! I wondered where you had got to Hope you get a better offer, but atleast you've got one to fall back on :T

*Nutella*

Thanks ladies - our open day finished an hour ago and we already have two offers of the full asking price

lazywife

:T
Hooray Nutella!

Saffagal

Wondered where you'd got to Nutella. Congratulations on your offer being accepted, and on getting offers!

Mrshaworth2b

Yey Nutella, big big changes ahead for you then

BeNiceToMySelf

congratulations nutella!

glad other people are going through this regression too. LO is clearly finding it hard to stay asleep without boob.

hope the trip goes well Saffa

Sparkles87

We've hit the 28/29 weeks fussy phase, right on time for me to head back to work. She's blowing raspberries with her food all the time and pinching quite a lot when tired. Hopefully it'll settle quickly.

Congrats on moving Nutella - very jealous!