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August 2005 babies enter a new year!

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Miaou · 03/01/2006 17:20

A new thread for the new year!

Here is a link to the old one.

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moschops · 03/01/2006 20:09

i'm feeling better now.....i think having a good cry and venting it all was what i really needed. ds has returned to his cheery self and so my days are easier again. he wants to 'stand' all the time and i appear to have strained my left shoulder so i just can't handle him as much as he would like. we have bought a high chair for him and he is happier to be strapped in that as he is on more of a level wth us.

what i really need is to get my driving licence so i can get out and about.

we are having our house valued tomorrow to try and get some more money on the mortgage......we thought we had the money 'retained' but hadn't read the contract properly and didn't realise we had to apply for it within 6 months. hoping the mortgage company will give us the money as we need it to finish building our kitchen.

Happy New Year to you all...........lets hope it is a good one for all of us!!

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colinandcaitlinsmommy · 03/01/2006 20:49

I didn't realize you weren't driving moschops. It is even worse to be housebound, I was that way with Colin when he was little, because I didn't know anyone here yet. I feel for you.

Miaou, Caitlin goes for anything she sees and wants. She has such determination on her little face, too. She gets very frustrated when something is too far out of her reach. DH and I both say Colin was stronger than she was by far, but she is so much more aware of things than he was at this age. I think it is a girl/boy type thing, because that's what so many of my friends say, too. And I totally admire your optimism. I am usually that way about most things, but my children sleeping isn't one of them. Maybe it is because I'm such an insomniac myself. Either that or every time I get up it takes me an hour or 2 past them going to sleep for me going to sleep.

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pookey · 03/01/2006 22:16

Hi all

DS isn't sitting or rolling yet yet but enjoys being held in a sitting and standing position. He loves being bounced hope thats not dangerous! He has quite good hand control (I think) but gets frustrated when things wont do what he wants (usually fit in his mouth in a pleasing way) he has one hand in his mouth at bath time and another holding something else . He like holding his book when I read him a story and scratches everything, my boobs, himself books, the sofa - he is like a cat!

Ds has gone from waking once or twice to 3/5 times. I always feed him as he seems really hungry and his weight hasn't been so good. I have started reading up on weaning. Is anybody else trying to delay - we have lots of asthma in my family and dp has mild food allergies.

Kate the pilates sounds fab I have always wanted to try that but I am so unflexible.

Moschops good luck with driving, I'm not driving either failed my test when 7 months pregnant and ill with flu, the examiner was awful made me do an emegency stop even though huge and had obv already failed the test in the first 2 minutes!

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suzi2 · 03/01/2006 23:01

Pookey - your DS sounds like mine - he's always scratching at things too. Today his head is so bad he looks like hes been in a fight with the cat! We're trying to delay weaning too. I have asthma, DH and I both have eczema (as does DS) and I also have allergies. I am dangerously allergic to nuts so am really trying to take care that DS doesn't have any/many allergies. I couldn't handle him having the sort of reaction I would. Now I know what my mum went through! DS is 21.5wks though so not long to wait. He's getting quite frustrated that we get to put things in our mouth that he doesn't though!

DS is doing well. Still tall and skinny. He isn't rolling either. But he is sitting quite well. He can sit for a minute or so before toppling to the side or doubling himself over. He's worked out how to pull himself straight if he starts to fall backwards though.
We're very proud.

Sleepings still a bit iffy but the waking all the time thing has passed. He now grumbles every couple of hours but we're good at leaning out of bed and rocking the hammock or popping his dummy in so it's not too bad!

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pookey · 04/01/2006 11:15

Oh Suzi you do have a hammock I saw your name on a discussion about them - I looked up hammocks on mumsnet after seeing one on the internet and I meant to ask you if it worked out?

Our babys do sound quite similar both tall and skinny We will hopefully start weaning at the same time as ds is 21 weeks but I am really getting tempted to give in now as no serious allergies, I am trying to avoid nuts (apart from odd indulgence) until i finish breastfeeding - dont even know that its necc just some notion I took in to my head!

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kate100 · 04/01/2006 14:23

I had a terrible day yesterday, I threw carrot at the wall DS2 was eating carrot and blowing raspberries at the same time, now I usually find this really entertaining, but yesterday I felt really poorly and had no sense of humour at all. So the bowl went flying merrily over the living room and up the wall, unfortunately it has stained. Not a good Mommy day yesterday, then I felt so bad about it I cried all afternoon and when DH came home I was sitting in the living room with the children on each knee and we were all crying. What a sight!! He must have wanted to turn around and walk out again, but my fella's clearly made of tougher stuff than me, as I was dispatched to bed with paracetamol and hot chocolate as I was so ill and he put the children to bed, made dinner, which he brought to me in bed and tidied the house and put out the rubbish and the recycling. I wonder why I married him? I feel much better today and I'm nearly over my cold.

DS2 does grab things, but he gets annoyed when he can't get them into his mouth when they're too big and then then drops them on the floor.

Moschops and Pookey, you really should try and get back to driving, I passed my test after I had ds1 as I knew that realistically I couldn't have another baby and not be driving. Good job I did too or I would have been housebound during pregnancy 2. I did fail twice if that's any incentive to keep going, once really badly and once only just, third time I sailed through, you just don't know what's going to happen. I also felt under pressure as DH passed first time with 1 minor fault

Miaou, I've found weaning ds2 easier than with ds1 too. He seems to have got the hang of the chewing action much quicker and is more accepting of new flavours. He's also cut back on his milk a bit, but with what's in his food I don't think he's having any less, if that makes sense.

Does anyone else have a baby that just isn't content to be a baby? DS2 is always so keen to get onto the next thing, in complete contrast to ds1 who just liked to let the world go around him, until he thought it would be to his benefit to give it a go. Still does in fact, which is why he's still in nappies, as he can see no advantage in using the toilet. Whereas ds2 is desparately trying to stand or sit up, this morning when he was lying down he grabbed hold of the knees of his sleepsuit and tried to pull himslef to sitting. I think it's great that he's so determined, but he gets very upset and frustrated.

I really do need to work on the weight loss, dh's gran called me fat on Boxing Day, nice eh? Especially as she's not exactly Kate Moss herself!! Still I suppose I must be grateful that she only upset me, she usually offends everyone on the room.

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Azure · 04/01/2006 19:41

Kate sorry to hear about your bad day. DH has arrived home to a scene of misery on more than one occasion (not that I've ever been lucky enough to be sent to bed). DS2 is now taking a bottle once in the daytime - only around 2-3oz though - and for the second night-wakening, which is a great improvement on last week. As DH has been doing the bottles it has meant that I haven't had to get up for the second feed in the night, which is bliss. DS1 didn't wake up until 7am this morning so I think I had my longest sleep for almost 5 months - 1.30am to 7am. What we need now is for DS2 to drop a night-feed (preferably both). I thought DS1 was late at sleeping through the night from 8 months but we seem to be heading in the same direction.

With regard to weaning, DS2 has had rice, carrot (his fave), butternut squash (didn't like), potato (not keen), apple, banana (yum) and courgette. We're trying it twice a day, but how much he has really varies.

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wilbur · 04/01/2006 19:51

hi all, and Happy New Year! Great to have a new thread and hear about how everyone's doing. Ds2 celebrated new Year by getting his first tooth on New Year's Day which is great. He was very moany over Christmas, not his usual happy self, so I thought that might be the problem and he's much happier now. Still haven't started weaning, hoping to get past ds1's birthday on 11th Jan, but he's really ready for it, and has started to wake up at 5 am having previously slept through til seven, so I reckon he's a bit peckish. I wonder how many people really get to 6 months on nothing but boob?

Glad you're feeling better kate100 - I know that feeling when everything goes horribly wrong. Your dh sounds excellent in his response to crises!

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blossom2 · 04/01/2006 22:07

Haypp New Year everyone.

DD2 is now nearly 6 months (strictly a july baby ) and really really smiley. Which is very different to DD1 at this age who never smiled at strangers or even family. both have the same giggle and laugh though. DD2 can roll from back to front but then gets frustrated, can sit well but leans in her highchair, can grab and beginning to use her mouth to explore everything she can get her hands on.

Sleep and food are not going well. she's been poorly so did sleep through but is back to waking once in the night. However getting her to sleep in the evenings is horrible, as she wakes up screaming but doesn't want me or bottle so not sure what to do. she isnt taking to her purees but likes finger food (bread, rice cakes). doesnt like carrots. havent tired anything else yet apart from apple.

but overall things are okay. i hope this year is a good year for everyone filled to happiness and joy. I'm sorry to hear about the flooding and deaths in the last post - here's to a NEW YEAR !!!

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blossom2 · 04/01/2006 22:13

oh Miaou - cross stitching going well and have completed a couple of small pictures. not sure what to do with them now ... also 2/3 completed on a height chart!! DH even brought me a free-standing frame for xmas which is great ....

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blossom2 · 04/01/2006 22:14

sorry (hit return before asking this ) hows the website getting along??

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Miaou · 04/01/2006 23:36

Hello again everyone. I should really be in bed but I have a blocked duct (again - same side as before, I don't think it ever cleared completely) so I am putting off lying down cos it hurts!

Ds has started blowing raspberries, and has today discovered how to do a sort of squealy laugh, which is just hilarious to listen to. Bless!

Glad to hear you are keeping up with the cross-stitch, blossom! I have done none for six months now, as ds has been so unpredictable in his habits. However, now the weaning is having its effect, he will sleep for two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon, so I am intending to get going with my website again when the girls go back to school next week (I'm getting a feeling of deja vu - did I say all of this on the last thread?). My db and his wife had a baby boy last month and I have been designing a birth sampler for them - it is all sketched out but I haven't done the difficult bit of charting it yet, hopefully I will be able to do that next week!

Re your completed pieces, if you don't want to frame them as pictures, could you make them into cushion panels?

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kate100 · 05/01/2006 16:07

Thanks for being so nice everyone, I feel much better today and ds2 seems to be over the worst of his teething and has cheered up a bit.

Hello blossom2 haven't heard from you in awhile, are you back in the UK or are you still in Paris?

My Mum had cross stitched ds2 a beautiful sampler to mark his birth and is making him a sign for his door, I have no aptitude for it at all. I do knit, but only in the knowledge that if I make any mistakes my mom will sort them out for me, although I am getting better.

We've bought ds2 a stand up activity centre as he likes being on his feet so much. He only likes it for about 15 minutes at a time but loves it while he's in it.

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colinandcaitlinsmommy · 05/01/2006 16:26

So Caitlin's back to her old ways of waking up 7-9 times a night. She's not screaming, so I can't figure out why. She goes to bed at 8:30 and then wakes up and is pretty much up and down until 11:15 then wakes up at 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 5 and 6. The only thing I can think of is teething? Or else something else is horribly wrong with her, but don't know what.

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pookey · 05/01/2006 19:32

Wilbur congats on your baby's first tooth

Glad your feeling better Kate your dh sounds like a gem!

C&C mommy thats really disappointing for you, things seemed to be getting better, it is strange that she is waking but doesn't seem upset - maybe she is going into her light sleep and not able to go back to sleep cos she is used to being helped back to sleep?

Last night wasnt too bad for us but not great either, ds went to sleep at 7, woke at 9, 12, 4 then up for the day at 7. He is usually pretty hungry so I think it is a developmental getting ready for solids thing.

There is a thread on night wakings on the homepage at the moment and somebody mentioned they went to see a cranial osteopath and that helped with night wakings - dont know much about it but it caught my eye because they mentioned their baby was snuffly and my ds has always had a funny noise in his throat. Sorry to ramble hope tonight is one of caitlin's good nights x

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pookey · 06/01/2006 10:21

C&C Mommy, my Noah woke 5-6 times last night and actually I think it was teething as he has been grabbing dp's finger and chewing on it this morning, he has also been quite cross. He was wimpering while going back to sleep a couple of times last night.

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dazedandconfusedmum · 06/01/2006 16:56

Hi All!!

Happy New Year!!

I haven't been on here for a month now but it has seemed like a week!! December has gone so quickly with school Christmas shows, DS1's 6th birthday Xmas meals and then Christmas itself!!

Ds4 is doing well, he is not rolling or sitting or anything like that but he does blow bubbles/raspberries and "talks" all the time He is still sleeping through the night and in the Christmas holidays DS3 & DS4 weren't waking until 9am

I am not even thinking about weaning yet. Max will be 6 months in February Half Term so I am going to start then. He has enough of a job being awake enough times to fit 5 bottles a day in without confusing the issue with food.

I am struggling to get the 5th bottle in him as he will go to sleep after the 5pm (ish) bottle and then doesn't wake again for the last one so I am having to wake him at about 8/9pm to give it to him. For all of you with non-sleeping babies you must be thinking "poor you - yeah right" but I find that it is a pain when they don't wake for the last bottle as it interrupts the routine and you have to wake him (which is horrid) just incase he doesn't sleep through and wakes at 4am. With 3 other DS to deal with in the day, a 4am wake can start my whole day off 2hours early.

Are we still on for a meet up??

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pookey · 06/01/2006 21:00

Happy new Year Dazed and confused mum - really looking forward to meeting you and hopefully some of the other mums next week

I dont know whats wrong with ds, I put him to bed asleep having had a really good breastfeed (milk on cheek job)and dosed him up with calpol and infant powders and he still woke in less than an hour in pain of some kind. My fri night treat dinner went cold, dp got him back to sleep in the end though with lots of pats and rubs.

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dazedandconfusedmum · 07/01/2006 08:24

Pookey - Do you think it could have anything to do with him be asleep when you put him down?? I am no expert but I have been told that if you put them in bed awake (or almost asleep) they learn to look around and know where they are and get themselves to sleep. Apparantly, if they fall asleep in your arms but wake up somewhere else it un-nerves them and they get upset. Don't know how true it is as I always put Max in his cot awake but I have noticed that every time he wakes up he will look around and talk to himself and his cot mobile for a while before he cries, and when he does start to cry it is not histerical crying but a whimpering "come and get me" crying.

Like I say, I am no expert but it might be worth considering and maybe testing the theory??

I have a bit of a problem for next week coz my Dad is working so I will have to bring all 3 of the little DS's with me!! If it's a problem let me know, or if not we can re-schedule for the Friday or the following Friday?? Let me know.

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josey · 07/01/2006 13:34

hi everyone sorry to hear so may of you are still having trouble with babies sleeping, pooky dd sometimes falls asleep straight after her feed and if we put her down she wakes straight away so i take her back through for about 2mins then put her back awake, as she seems to register that she is going to bed.
C&Cmommy does caitlin go back to sleep if you ignore her? i know that sounds awful but it does sound that she is in her light sleep and as pooky says used to someone being there.
nothing interesting happening with dd, loves her food, today was the first time she has had lunch usually just had dinner, but she is one of the youngest i probably should be a good mum and hold off but cant stand seeing her so hungry.
DH went back to work yesterday after 4weeks at home it was murder i felt so abandoned, looking forward to the schools going back to get into some normal routine again though.we are all so lazy dd was the last up today and that was cause the phone woke her at 10! i can feel the knives!!!
things took a turn for the worst with my gran she now has a blood clot on the lung and i was given the news in the middle of new years dinner, so hoping things will get better and this isnt the way the year will pann out!!
started my fitness yesterday hahahahaha!! got divina dvd wow i can hardly walk today and that was the first 30min didnt takle the other 2!! my thighs are screaming so must be working please let me continue to kid miyself!!but hey if she can do it after 2 kids so can i!!!

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Miaou · 07/01/2006 14:42

Urgh, ds is nowhere near sleeping through yet. Despite being on three meals a day now he still wakes every two hours for a feed at night! He feeds for half an hour each time too, so he's not just waking for a snack! I think I need to try and increase the amount of milk he takes in during the day, but tbh it's not easy. I feel like death warmed up at the moment.

He made me laugh yesterday - he discovered his willy whilst in the bath - kept pulling it! He hasn't made himself cry yet but I'm sure it won't be long

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kate100 · 07/01/2006 15:23

Welcome to the world of raising a little boy Miaou!! Now he's found it he won't ever leave it alone

DS2's skin has broken out again, it seems to be that everytime the temperature drops he breaks out again, so short of never leaving the house again I don't know what to do.

Last night ds2 was awake until 11 he wasn't crying or anything, just lying in his cot cooing, consequently he's been in a foul mood all day, he still doesn't seem that keen to sleep today as he hasn't napped very well either.

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colinandcaitlinsmommy · 07/01/2006 16:14

It must be teething all around. Or something.

The past 2 nights she either has slept through the night and then woke up at 4:30 last night. We had been giving her teething gel for the pain, and we think that was the problem. Someone we know said that when they gave their baby the gel it would numb their throat and they would cough, which is what Caitlin was doing, so we stopped that and it seems to have worked.

If she wakes up crying, she won't go back to sleep if we ignore her. If she wakes up cooing it is about 50/50 that she will go back to sleep, unless she wakes up after 4, then she's too hungry, I think. I do think I should start trying to put her to bed still partially awake, though. It never worked with Colin until he was between 4-5 months, so I guess now would be a good time to start with her. No matter what, though, she always wakes up 40 min. after we put her to bed. I don't even count it as a wake-up anymore, it is so automatic. We used to just be able to pick her up and put her down, but we have to go get her and rock her for a few minutes and put her down.

DH thinks her sleeping through 2 nights ago had something to do with him. He said he was just going to be up with her all night so he slept out on the couch, and I had to stay in bed, and she only woke up the one time. I wonder if he figures it had something to do with the way he slept on the couch that kept her asleep?

Sorry DS is keeping you awake so much, Miaou. I wish there was something we could say to help you.

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Miaou · 07/01/2006 16:46

Aw thanks for the thought c&csmommy - it's not bothering me too much really. The dds are not hard work, plus they go back to school on Monday, so I get plenty of time to rest during the day. It's dh who is suffering really - if he gets woken after about 3am he can't get back to sleep and ends up getting up - makes for a very long day for him!

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pookey · 07/01/2006 17:40

Hi all

Thanks josey and dazedandconfused mum, I kind of go half and half sometimes put thim to bed asleep other times when he is awake, I think you are right he does sleep better when he has gone to sleep in his cot I will have to be more consistent. Just recently though he has been screaming as soon as he touches the matress whether awake or asleep. Last night wasn't so bad in the end only 3 wakings so quite pleased.

Dazedandconfused mum I don't mind which day we go for really, if it is easier for you and ok with Azure and beachyhead we could make it another day?

C&C Mommy if my ds does anything 'good' when dp is around it always has something to with Dp's presence

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