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Oh, okay, maybe he's doing a lot better than we thought then! We were told at baby group the other day to let him cry it out - going up every five minutes to comfort him and let him know he wasn't alone. That lasted for about 40 minutes on the first night we tried it, and for the next couple of...

Hi all, We're having a bit of a nightmare with Noah (11 weeks) waking up every night about 45 minutes after we put him to bed. We feed him at about 6.30, give him his bath at about 7, then give him the rest of his bottle before bed at 7.30. He always, always falls asleep during that bedtime...

OK, thanks, we'll try that!

Our little four-week-old seems to be having problems getting numbers twos out, bless him. He does daily poos, but always seems to have a battle getting them out. He'll lay there in his basket making these awful straining noises, and go all red in the face. It helps if we lift his legs in the air...

I can empathise here. I've not shouted at my three-week-old son, but I certainly have less patience with the crying than his mum does. I really wanted a girl, which might have something to do with it, but I definitely think blokes take longer to 'fall in love' with their offspring than women do...

Hi mums, Just a quick question that is probably impossible to answer definitively, but my sister is coming around to see my two-week-old tomorrow and has just text saying she has a cold and is concerned she might pass it on to the little guy. Is that a risk worth taking? Thanks!

Just a quickie from a bloke's point of view... I don't feel like I'm missing out on bonding with my little boy just because his mum is breastfeeding. I change more than half of his nappies, talk to him and hold him when he's awake, and bath him when I get home from work. I used to think...

:lol: What? You really think so? Christ, I don't even know any of my neighbours, and I think I would have had to have done something pretty bad to deserve that! To be fair that's only happened once - but once was enough for me to stand in it! :evil: I don't mind cats while we're on the...

Nor is it funny when cats cr@p on my doorstep, dig up my garden, leave dead birds on my patio and muddy pawprints all over my car! The bloody things treat other people's houses like their own - I don't get why people have cats when they spend 99% of their time outside! I was obviously only...

I'll join in if you like... I hate cats with a passion and would quite happily round up all the moggies in my neighbourhood and make stew and coats out of them to feed and clothe the homeless! There, I said it! :lol:

Having owned a black lab before, the thing that used to bug me most was the amount of hairs around the house - and because they're black they obviously really show up. I remember the first time I hoovered the place after we got this dog... I moved the sofa and underneath it was enough black dog...

Now I think about it - the consultant gave us the date as November 7th at the 12-week scan. Sorry, we've had so many of the bloody things I've lost track! Based on what you're all saying then, that means he probably calculated it based on the measurements. It was at the six-week scan that they...

OK, stupid bloke question here... but is it possible for a consultant to have miscalculated my wife's due date? I've had a look at those 'due date calculators' you can get on the net, and they all calculate it from the first day of your last period. I put that in based on what my wife tells me...

Fair enough about the cost of the NCT classes. I can't remember how much they were (more than £100, less than £200 I think), but if you're going to have to scrimp to get the money together then I wouldn't bother. You won't miss out on anything massively important. It's just a really...

We went to NHS classes and NCT ones, and both had their value. The NHS ones are obviously more geared to traditional advice, and what will happen in hospital etc. It was more like a series of lectures on child birth with old-school diagrams and stuff – but they were definitely useful. The NCT...