PART TWO - Those June/July babies

[kaz33]

As promised - Part two

lol,.... the show must go and all that, hope the other nights went better!!

Hello?
Anyone there?
Where is everybody?
Kaz, MI, Champs etc, hope you are all ok. This thread seems to be fizzling out a bit. We have to keep it going til the babes are 1!!!

I'm still here ? although I did join late hope it's OK. Any news to report, Poinsettia (that was you, wasn't it)? My ds is sitting and rolling but doesn't like being on his tummy so no crawling yet. Thank goodness as new house is three storeys and we haven't got stairgates yet!

I'm here!

DD2 can sit up. And bumshuffle. And sort of get into a twisty pre-crawly position from which she has to be rescued

She can bumshuffle! Wow. Isn't she a clever girl! I am typing one handed due to cat on lap (only chance she gets these days due to ds...)

Ok, its a deal - keep the thread going until they are one.

He'll be ten months at the end of this month. He now has one half tooth, but is that holding him back from solids. No way, he sort of sucks food into submission. If you try and feed him slightly sloppy stuff he will last a few months before the screams and back arching starts. He wants what DS1 has, yesterday he ate a whole toasted tea cake with butter.

He has started to try and balance himself, letting go - so far he just crashes to the floor. But its not far ladies, maybe a month or two and then both of them will be on the move.

Most importantly he is sleeping through the night finally and they are both in the same bedroom. Still gets up at 6am, but don't mind so much now it is light.

This summer is going to be so much fun with the two of them.

Can't believe I forgot to mention this (bad mummy) but ds now has four teeth. His canines are coming through but no sign of front teeth at the top yet. Makes him look like a vampire!

No teeth here, although a determination to munch every foodstuff that comes her way. I'm owed a bumshuffle, eddm - dd1 was the laziest baby on the planet, and was lolling about on her bottom when other kids were WALKING. I am writing yet another baby article, this time on the first six months, and having to make a lot of it up simply because if you went by either of my two you wouldn't get much action, believe me.

Kaz, how are the work plans going?

HI!!!! how lovely to hear from you all!!! DS2 is 7months old and a little darling. He to doesn't like his tummy but can shuffle backwards.

Work hmmmm - we are having to get a new nanny so I asked head of department about working 4 days instead of 5. He was very positive but then took 10 days to tell me that I had to fill in a form which was attached to our intranet system. The policy for flexible working has not been highly publicised, even my head of dept did not know about it until personnel told him.

To cut a very boring story short I am going to have to employ someone 5 days a week as our window to find someone is quite short. Going to think about the 4 days a week thing when I have someone in place and know how much it is going to cost. ie: can we afford it ?

But they are so beautiful and I am so proud of them, it breaks my heart to be away from them so much. On the other hand think I would go insane if I was a SAHM all the time, just don't want to work so many days.

Money ( DP and I earn roughly the same )and the kind of work I do makes it hard to find a solution. Still trying though, i'll get there in the end.

Anyway good to hear from you all. MI, I'm terrible I haven't managed to read any of your articles, my brain has totally gone to butter and i'm lucky if I remember to pack my house keys in the morning.

I have NO idea how I would cope with a Proper Job, you know. None at all.

I have to admit that this is the stage where I find them totally adorable, you know. Little people who can laugh and interact. I have to keep reminding myself that the first six months (for me ) are grim grim GRIM every time I find those "ooooh, a new baby" thoughts creeping up on me

Well I've no idea how I would cope with the uncertainty of freelancing! And the self discipline required not to read novels, watch daytime tv and see my friends... and complete wimp about, gulp, phoning up commissioning editors and selling them ideas. Probably wouldn't have any anyway.

How are we all, my lovely friends? DD2 has a possible ear infection; been whingeing. Am experiencing that peculiarly horrible blend of guilt and callousness ('hope you're OK to go off tomorrow' unique to the Working (as opposed to what?) Parent.

Hi Girls, advice needed please. I have just started a thread about it but do any of you have any tips on cups/beakers? DD2 isn't interested at all in hers, have tried several, she just won't drink from them, its like she doesn't understand what she has to do. Has anyone else experienced this? Or do any of you know of a good cup with more of a teat like spout? Any suggestions would be lovely. She has two teeth now btw, and does the press up position but isn't crawling - she can roll across the room in about 3 seconds though - but she only does it when nobody is watching! And she has developed a crush on the little mermaid!

Oh, she sounds a love, Dahlia. I've not started on cups simply because dd1 was such a pain with them that I gave up for ages.

Nor me on the cups yet, DS1 just didn't get the whole avent thing. Then got him to a beaker with three holes in the top - from Sainsburys, can't remember what they are called.

DS2 has started to get quite clingy, he's cottoned on to the fact that his big brother gets loads of cuddles and want some himself. It's lovely and his lovely blonde hair has grown. Luckily DS1 has got a lot more independent, I left him infront of Monsters Inc and came back to find him playing with his Leapad - he sat there playing for about 30 minutes without requiring my input. Aaaargh - the future, luckily DS2 still needs mum.

Well, dd2 has been off ill for the first time (so she's pretty healthy really, isn't she - has been poorly before but in holiday time). Now snotty and coughing and generally requiring breastfeeding in the small hours which is so not something I enjoy doing. Utterly gorgeous though. Smiles at everything she comes across, which is very cheering.

MI - that breast milk is fab stuff, DS1 and DS2 are the snot monsters, just recovered from yet another cold. How long before the next bout ?? Well I console myself that it is building up their immune systems.

Snot city here at the moment, I have to say. Times 2.

How is everyone?

Bit of a lurch back to sleepless nights here but think that's teeth. Or suchlike.

I'm VERY tired

hi MI, tired here too!! grizzly, clingy baby alert!!

More sleepless nights here ? ds has had a cold for six weeks now on and off, seems every few days his temperature goes back up and gets all snotty and miserable again

eddm.... it's so horrible that baby's have to get sooo many colds isn't it. My ds2 gets them all the time!! and their so small it must be awful for them.

Snatching a brief interlude before we RETURN to the doc's (if you phone for an appt you can't get through till they're all gone, dammit) with a snotty SLEEPLESS child (now napping, of ***ing course), who has now been off colour for two weeks and we reckon could really do with medical attention. Am going demented through lack of sleep. At least my current hiatus between urgent work engagements (ie shall starve in gutter gnawing ragged crusts after current project is over) means I can take the day off with her.

Good luck, mine are now snot free ( touch wood ) and sleeping well.

DS2 has stood up on his own, smiled, wobbled for a couple of seconds and then lowered himself to the floor. He's like a dynamo, you feed him and off he goes for a couple of hours until more nourshiment and sleep is required.

DS1 has got really physical with him and is now to be found wrestling his brother to the floor or trying to sit on him. Boys, eh.

Feeling very gooey as just spoke to my friend who had a little girl a couple of days ago. Haven't seen her but gosh - it seems so long ago ladies.