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June 10 babies are growing apace, teething and crawling all over the place.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 14/03/2011 15:17

Here we are ladies. Let's see if we can manage to chat a bit more on this one :).

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latrucha · 14/03/2011 18:26

Thanks CSWS Smile

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BraveGirl · 14/03/2011 18:37

Jolly good show!

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greensnail · 14/03/2011 19:16

aww, I liked MrsAR's suggestion Wink. Thanks anyway CSWS.

I should have learnt by now not to mention Alice's sleep improving on here, her naps have been terrible today. I think she's coming down with something else - the nicer weather doesn't seem to be doing anything to reduce the constant illnesses yet. Will have to wait and see how the night goes tonight, but I'm not confident I'll be getting much sleep tonight.

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Fillybuster · 14/03/2011 19:57

Aw shucks, CSWS, I'm touched Blush....and I didn't even have an acceptance speech prepared Grin

Thanks for starting the new thread...must admit that I thought MrsARs suggestion was good too :)

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MrsAlwaysRight · 14/03/2011 20:47

Thanks ladies Smile

Am aiming to post more and lurk less on this thread.

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NizzyNoodles · 14/03/2011 21:10

Just marking my place.

Hope you're all doing ok!

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MonkeyMargot · 14/03/2011 22:12

hoorah! and on we go. Well started CSWS. BTW - isn't your MN Moniker now obsolete since J slept through?! here's hoping so...

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CantSleepWontSleep · 14/03/2011 22:18

He only slept through once mm Wink. Though is still miles miles better than before last week.

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minimoonumbertwo · 15/03/2011 13:40

Just marking place - thanks for new thread

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goodname · 15/03/2011 14:39

think I should get your name instead csws as fergus has had so many bugs reccently his sleep is dreadful. Feel like I am going crazy again. He's actually slept loads fer the last 2 days but onoy if I hold and feed him constantly. He is so miserable with this lastest cold and so am I as i literally cannot put him down!

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Barbeasty · 15/03/2011 17:59

Both titles were good- we'll just have to make sure we all post lots so we can use MrsAR's next time!

Greensnail I know what to mean about discussing sleep. I'd been chatting about sleep/ lack of it last Wednesday, and so at 4am when Ruth was still awake I was tearing my hair out! It wasn't that she couldn't sleep, she was just crying if I left her in her cot and full of beans crawling and playing if I went in to her.

Of course, on Thursday she had a horrible cold, which I now have!!

Ruth doesn't eat a massive amount, unless there's cake. We had to go to a reception for the bishop after mass the other weekend, because DH does the parish website. So, after the introductions there was tea and cake. A big slice of cake with buttercream was put on my plate, and before I could break a little bit off for Ruth, she had grabbed the whole slice and rammed it in her mouth. Blush it went everywhere.

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earlyonemorning · 15/03/2011 19:41

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greensnail · 16/03/2011 13:46

Oh no, poor Alice has chicken pox :( She's been grotty for a couple of days and then the spots appeared this morning. DD1 seems fine so far but had similar symptoms last week without the spots so am hoping she had it mildly then and is in the clear. I realise I'm probably deluding myself Grin. At least the weather's good so we can get out in the garden and aren't confined to just the house.

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MonkeyMargot · 16/03/2011 13:50

Oh dear greensnail. Poor Alice......it's been going round the houses here and my friend's 5 month old had it really badly. Hope your DD1 manages to avoid getting it, but I guess she needs to get it at some point.

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earlyonemorning · 16/03/2011 19:28

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latrucha · 16/03/2011 19:46

I think DD and Daniel may have it too. Can they really get it again if they get it as a baby? I think I have herad that before.

Daniel's sleep is appalling. DH is bearing the brunt of it as I am sleeping on the sofa bed (
I have other issues which mean he's being lovely to me ATM). ~I did have him from 4.45 this morning and it was enough for me. I have been awake since then. I don't think there is much we can do until he eitgher gets chicken pox or doesn't, cuts some more teeth and most importantly,learns to walk. That's pretty much what he's doing all night, either round the cot (and he wears a sleeping bag) or on DH's chest. Hmm Monster.

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greensnail · 16/03/2011 20:07

Oh LaT, that sounds tough. Hope things improve for you soon. When we were exposed to CP when Alice was a newborn the doctor said if she got it then she would probably get it again later too. Never heard the under 2 thing before though - I had it when I was under 2 and have only had it once (so far...)

Alice also seems to have a tummy bug, I'd sort or assumed it was just part of the chicken pox virus, but have just had a quick google on chicken pox and I can't see anything about getting D&V with it. Does anyone know if this is normal or if maybe she has 2 bugs going on?

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earlyonemorning · 16/03/2011 20:19

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Fillybuster · 16/03/2011 22:32

Oh dear, the not sleeping sounds pretty horrendous - sorry to those of you who are suffering from colds/teething/wanting to play at 5am issues.

Mia is still not remotely moving, although has bottom bounced a bit and goes into complete and utter meltdown if she thinks she is being left on her own for even a moment. Its heartbreaking because she becomes genuinely distraught - it isn't just the 'noise-thats-a-bit-like-crying-for-attention' we get at other times. Proper full-on screaming, tears rolling down her face, hyperventilating, panicking baby :( :( It does mean she's pretty much glued to me, even for toilet visits, which is just very very wearing....

Apart from that, all is good. Eating and (ahem) sleeping are mostly fine, although she seems to have 'off' days where she isn't at all interested in milk or food. I try not to worry, and she does tend to make up for it a day or so later. We're down to 3 bottles a day....can anyone remind me when that changes again?

As far as CP goes, I thought it was 2 as well. DS caught it when DD1 was 6 weeks old and she got about 3 spots - the GP also reckoned she would catch it again so I was a bit nervous when she started nursery and Mia was 10 weeks old....hopefully we're past the scary stage now (apparently its quite dangerous under 12 weeks - I'm very glad I didn't know that when DD1 had it!) so I guess we'd cope if the girls picked it up, but massive sympathies to Alice greensnail as it really isn't any fun. It was the being stuck at home that was the worst of it iirc....

Right, must go to bed....I have a job interview tomorrow afternoon and my brain feels like lentil mush at the moment.

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lolalot · 17/03/2011 13:44

Ooh Filly good luck with the job interview!

Am very envious of the eating and sleeping babies. Mine doesn't do either consistently at all. We are still on 5 bottles a day, but suggested to DH that we try the sippy cup at the weekend and see how it goes.

George has had a chest infection since December and I've had him back to the doctors 5 times to be told "nothing we can do, just keep an eye on him". I know he needs to build up his own immune system (am very peeved that bottle fed DD seems to have had a better immune system than George who was breast fed for 4 months...) and I know he's teething like a monster (5 teeth now), but it's really starting to upset me.

His talking, climbing and cruising aren't suffering though, he's growing up really fast! I think he'll be walking very soon Shock

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lolalot · 17/03/2011 13:45

Ah... let me introduce myself.... I name changed from AlwaysHopeful because I felt like a change Grin

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CantSleepWontSleep · 17/03/2011 14:06

Sympathies for the cp greensnail. I guess she's not even old enough for liquid piriton yet is she? Bugger.

Am glad you explained the name change lola - I thought I was going to have to wrack my brains to remember everyone's baby's name! I hope that you are still hopeful though!
Am with you on the walking soon. Not imminently, but J can push a walker along if he chooses to now. Mind you, the others did this for a good while before they actually walked unaided. He has 2 and a half months to go to equal dd, and she was the first of her rl peer group.

Op recovery still going fine here. I did pick J up for the first time yesterday, and thought it was ok, but I am sorer as a result today, so it's prob still too soon really. This is a bit of a bugger though as I have no help next week, and dh will be away, so I have no choice but to pick him and the others up. Eek.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 17/03/2011 14:07

Oh and I hope your interview went/goes well filly. Within the same company or something completely new?

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earlyonemorning · 17/03/2011 22:31

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madamefreckle · 17/03/2011 23:11

Hello new thread! Smile

Not much 'crawling all over the place' going on here. Emma is another bottom bouncer...reminiscent of yogic flying....(on a rather smaller scale obviously) Grin
However, she is at last eating something...getting to grips with all sorts of finger foods, yoghurt and fruit purees (but only if she can suck them out of a pouch - not off a spoon....darn, there goes my home cooking...unless, perhaps I could put my own purees into icing bags for her???) Her intake of savory foods is rather scant but who can blame her preference really?

greensnail - Seems to be quite a bit of chicken pox going about here too. Hope Alice is ok. It's just horrible for babies to have it when they are too young to understand anything about it. Just wondering, are you still breast-feeding? I had thought that it gave a certain amount of immunity but maybe not.

CSWS - Just seconding earlyonemorning - don't overdo it if it is at all possible not to!

How was the interview filly?

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