Trapped toddler parents: Inspiration and support needed through the summer hols!!

[PinkDaydreams]

Following on from the previous trapped toddler thread!
Sorry for rubbish title!

Sorry to hear that @Chocolatetrifle, hope they're giving you some time to rest.

Still no baby beginning to wonder if he's waiting for Christmas! DS woke up with a fever today but no other symptoms as of yet so we're holding off on testing him. DH and I tested ourselves to double check and we are negative so taking that as a good sign. Last thing we need is to get COVID just before I go into labour!

Needless to say the TV has been on all morning and I'm beginning to get restless...we need to run some errands so planning to wrap DS up in the pram and take him for a walk while one of us pops in and out of the shop.

Hope everyone else has a good day!

@squishymamma, no baby yet! See what tomorrow brings!

Hope your DS will be ok, you definitely don't need covid before labour.

I'm having an unproductive and slow day, have Christmas tasks to do like wrapping and s bit of work but can't face doing anything!

Sorry you've had a crappy night @chocolatetrifle, I'm not surprised your not feeling motivated.
DD was up at 5 as well but I managed to fit in a little nap at 6am as she was amusing herself.

I'm stopping breastfeeding today so going to be a horrendous bedtime as I've never got her to sleep without doing it but I've thoroughly had enough.

We're meeting MIL for a mooch around a garden centre in a minute. DH is working again, but it's a 4 day week next week and then he's off until the 5th.

Fingers crossed baby comes soon and Covid stays away @squishymama

@Motherofmonsters good luck with bedtime. I'm in a similar position with ds2 but not breastfeeding. I still get him asleep with his bottle, he is waking and asking for milk in the night still know I need to change it but no energy... Think he's getting more molars or something because the waking up is off scale, or it could be the 2 year regression as he's talking more, I'm rambling now so will go off and get a cuppa and focus!

That was a disaster trip out, DS got over stimulated and would not stop running around. Had to properly hold his hand so he didn't knock over the elderly/display shelves. Then DD took a liking to a footlong box of sweets grabbed one and sprinted to the exit. That tantrum lasted all the way home after wrestling her into her car seat

Shes asleep, actually wasn't as bothered as I thought. I told her it had all run out and she only asked a couple times. She did get upset but that was because she wanted to get out the cot but I said she had to lie down. I've just got to stick with it now.

Hope everyone is okay

@Motherofmonsters sounds like a very up and down day for you. Glad to hear it went better than you'd feared with DD!

Hope you managed to get some work done @Chocolatetrifle.

DS still had a fever when we put him to bed but he's been pretty much his usual self, maybe a bit more tired than usual, so we'll see what happens. Naturally I'm on high alert, so trying to consciously relax and not catastrophise things in my head. Went for another sweep at the hospital and nothing had changed but I'm feeling slightly more tightening in the bump so we'll see

Hope everyone gets some sleep!

Morning,

How's your DS @squishymama, did his temperature come down? Any twitches happening?

DD slept until 2am and went back to sleep after 10mins with no fuss and then woke up at 3am and was not happy at all. We had a lot of tears and shouting but I managed to get her back to sleep by singing twinkle twinkle little star for an hour. She then woke up at 6.50 asking for milk, I just said it's all gone and she was okay with that and went downstairs for breakfast. Not a bad first night

Well done @Motherofmonsters an hour of twinkle twinkle at 3am is tough work! Hope you are hanging in there @squishymamma & DS is ok. I am in two minds about taking DD to the panto on thursday as we are seeing our elderly/ vulnerable PILs at the weekend, so difficult to make decisions (though nothing compared to the worry of getting covid before labour obviously!)
We are going swimming this morning, was thinking we should do something christmassy but they love swimming & it tires them out beautifully. Maybe some christmas craft this afternoon though we already have glitter contaminating 90% of the house!

Have just been to the garden centre, DS1 misbehaved the whole way around because I wouldn't let him get a £15 large wooden nutcracker figure which would clearly become something dangerous to have in the house as he would probably try to lob it on to DS2's head or something. Both boys came out crying and whinging, how festive!

Glad the night was not too bad @Motherofmonsters.

@squishymamma how are you and DS?

Glad to hear you had a decent night @Motherofmonsters though I agree an hour of Twinkle Twinkle is impressive!

So hard that we have to make all these decisions @Lostthetastefordahlias. Would an option be to take a lateral flow before you go to visit PILs, if you decide to go to the panto? That's what my sister did before she visited my parents (though they aren't particularly vulnerable so maybe a different situation).

@Chocolatetrifle the things they get upset over! I know their brains are still underdeveloped and they can't control it but sometimes I'm guilty of saying to DS "why can't you just behave like a normal human being"

Thanks for thinking of me everyone. I'll spare you the details but there are some promising signs that things are at least progressing slightly, a few twinges etc, but still nothing major yet. DS slept badly so DH was up and down all night, he still has a fever today but it's not as high. We'll keep him home tomorrow to be on the safe side. The TV has literally been on all day, I tried to get DS to go outside but he was having none of it and I didn't have the energy to press the matter. Using the excuse that he's sick and I'm too tired

On another note, we're on page 40 now...do we need to start a new thread soon?

I have managed to do the work I put off from yesterday now and have done a bit of wrapping so I'm feeling a bit better about that.

@squishymamma, glad there are some signs for you, hopefully baby will soon be here.

@Motherofmonsters I can't believe you sang twinkle twinkle for an hour! You deserve a medal.

Yes please to a new thread!

Glad something is happening @squishymama!

Sounds a bit like my garden centre trip yesterday @chocolatetrifle. I think all this Christmas run up can be quite overwhelming for them.

I'm back to singing twinkle twinkle star to get DD to sleep, I appear to have swapped breast milk for that but it's working.. The cat had decided to barge in and wake her up which is helpful.
My breasts literally feel like they are going to explode, hopefully they'll settle soon.

DS is having a sleepover so I'm going to tackle the kids wrapping. I've got so much more for DS than DD as she's only 2 I'm hoping I can get away with it. I just can't find anything to buy her

@Motherofmonsters I'm training to be a breastfeeding supporter, they suggest to handmilk for relief - only the worst of it. If that helps I'm sure your DD won't notice, I'm pretty certain DS has no idea what's going on at the moment, I'd forgotten to wrap one of his presents and left it out on the dining table and he didn't care about it at all

New thread created just in time for Christmas!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4431205-Trapped-toddler-parents-support-through-winter-and-beyond

Still no news from here, DS still feels a bit warm but didn't have a fever this morning so hoping it's gone so he can be shipped off to nursery tomorrow