Anyone with young babies ?

I was just wanting to know how many mummies on here have young babies.. my little girl is only 6weeks old and being a first time mum i would love to chat with others that have young ones as well..
i dont know anyone else with a bub and my mothers group around here is just a bust

Thanks!
xx

I am a first time mum with a 5 and a half week old little girl.

And I know what you mean about mothers groups. I went to the one in my town and it seems absolutely no-one goes to it sad

I have a nearly 2 year old so im out of the question!

Have you tried play centers? I never went to a mothers group when my daughter was a newborn but i wish i did.

she goes to playgroup. (which theres a mothers group at the play center i go to)

Or try your maternal health nurse about mothers groups.


You should deffo give it a go. It gets you out of the house and you get tips and advice from other mummies.

Good luck and im sorry i wasnt any help sad

Hi,

I'm a first time mum too with a 7wk old boy (7wks today) smile . I also dont know anyone else with a bub, and havent been able to find a mothers groups within my area. I had a few issues with breastfeeding, (after contracting mastitis twice and once being admitted back into hospital for it)so am now bottle feeding, and just getting back on track with things.

Hey, I also have a you g bub. A little girl. She is ten weeks old. She is my first bubby smile
I also found mothers groups to be a bit of a bust. Not much happening at them. And I am the first in my group of friends and siblings to have a baby. Love hitting to other mums tho.

Hey girls, my little man is 3 and a half weeks old. I also have a five year old dd. I havnt been to mothers groups either time... I tried one with dd and it was really catty and everybody was comparing their kids and turning everything into a competition.

This time I havnt bothered... however my psychologist tells me that every woman that suffers from pnd doesn't attend a playgroup and they shut themselves away from the world. She asked me to attend one and I just can't face it! No signs of pnd so far this time round but I guess its early days yet!

You girls getting enough sleep?

double sorry.

Hi Im a first time mummy my bub isnt as young as you guys has 5 months old.Def interested in meeting other mummys to can get a tad lonely

first of all.. HI EVERYONE!!! =) =) =)
im so glad u all responded .. i live in a little bit of a crap area so all the mothers groups n play groups are full off either VERY young mums that already have their lil teen thing going on (lol) or mums that have aboub 100 kids that arent very friendly..
i live so far from everyone i know so i get lonely too.
so far so good with the sleep department.. she only usually wakes up once (if at all) at night just for a feed.
i just got over the 6week crying peak.. she had abit of colic at the same time. so i had 2 days of alot of crying ='( broke my heart. but she still slept all night!! lol
xx
any stories?

Stories.. hmm, well I'm not sure if its a story but I have to admit that the new baby thing is really quite confusing even second time round. I thought I'd be cruising through, and although its certainly a hell of a lot easier in that I'm I'm a good place in my mind.. I am finding it difficult - just in that it seems like such a guessing game all the time!

My little man is very spewy... and it seemed he was a bit better with it lately, then all of a sudden he is puking all day again today. I don't know what makes it better or worse, and he's very squirmy with lots of tummy pains today. With the amount he's spewing it means he wants to feed hourly which is tiring for me.

And the sleep thing I'm finding really hard too - with dd I made a huge mistake rocking & feeding her to sleep and it created a horrible sleeping pattern. So I vowed this one would be fed and put down straight away. I'm confused about this one too because sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesnt! Last night he was really unsettled and it took me 2 hours to get him to sleep because he wouldn't go to sleep by himself and he was obviously overtired.... and yet on some other nights its the easiest thing in the world to feed him and put him down awake. Most nights he only wakes twice.. but the past 2 nights he has woken every hour and a half.

Dh is going back to work on Thursday... which means I have to do the school run with dd - and I really don't know how I'm going to do it!

I feel like I'm completely bumbling along once again ... thought I would've had it sorted second time round!

Even though this is my first bub, i totally know how u feel! everything is a guessing game and when you cant guess correctly straight away panic starts to set in a little..
i just jumped the colic hurdle with my lil girl and it broke my heart everytime she cried in pain, it also meant alot of hourly feeds also as she wasnt feeding well because of it.. :'( But alot of tummy rubs and a bit of infacol later and shes happier than ever!
My DP went back to work 3days after bub was born! i wanted to kill him! i had a baby i had no idea what to do with and 2 sooky dogs to keep alive all on my own! ARGH! but i surprised myself and held it together pretty well in the early days.

My little girl has just started to find her voice as well smile she babbles back to me now when i talk to her, we have some pretty great conversations together.
shes also starting to figure out what her hands do.. and that she can suck on her fingers.. :/ so now im trying to mae sure shes not doing that lol
xx

Oh gosh 3 days off is not enough. My hubby did that to me first time round and I was a mess.

This time he has a much better understanding of the pressure I'm under and he has taken a whole month off - so he goes back on Thursday. And I'm still having a panic. lol

We've had spew problems and hourly feeding too. Little man is pretty unsettled and it's hard. I think the difference with him being the second child is that I know it wont last. First time round it felt like all the problems that came up were going to be forever.. and yet suddenly my girl is a big 5 year old off to school and we have a whole new set of different problems with each age! smile

That's cute your little one is babbling... I LOVE that stage!!