August Babies...part 2!

[elena2]

Hi everyone!

Heelllooo? Anyone in? Haven't seen much from us August ladies posted lately. How's the house coming, Wills? How is everyone else?
We are getting into a routine for work which seems to run smoothly, but how I miss my days at home. Ds was called up in assembly on Friday and presented with a star badge for doing so well at Breakfast and After-School Clubs (the only child doing both at present ), and he has really been making an effort.
Dd is trying hard to sit up, beams at everyone, and shouts if left without at least two attendants for more than two seconds. She seems to enjoy nursery alot, and aside from the fact I hate leaving her, we are very pleased with the staff and the setting. Her keyworker is great and very pro b/f and EBM. Dd is enjoying solids but it is affecting her milk intake, so we're doing as much stirring in of milk as possible.
How are you all doing? Wills, I saw a previous post from you concerning the Fluoconazol (?sp). How are things now?
Katherine, we're using jars at times too. When you have the choice of an untried and £3.00 butternut squash or a jar of the same for 54p, you try the jar first, don't you think? The squash was almost as big as dd. And she didn't like the jar, either.

HI Marina
ood to hear from you. Glad things are going smoothly, even if its not what you really want. I feel so lucky to be able to work from home.

Moving onto solids is going really well. DD2 loves her food and although there are still quite a few jars in the cupboard she's also having potions of bio-yoghurt and home-made soup which is going down well. Only trouble is that her daytime milk intake has dropped hugely so shes getting very constipated due to dehydration. I've start giving a cup of water with meals but its hard to know whats the best thing to do as don't really want her to go without her milk so much but she's just not really interested (expect for nighttime when she can't get enough). Have got a tin of prunes in the cupboard now and have perfected a blended raisin mix which seems to produce movement within an hour when we are desperate. Don't really remember this problem with the other two.

Hope the house is coming on well Wills.

Hi!!! have been abit busy here. marina-- so glad work is going well. I have till June wiv baby. Can't really say am looking forward to it!! I do hope everyone is doing well. Love to all, Champs xxx

hi all, nice to her things are going well.

We have just started weaning! got to nearly 25wks and she grabed a spoonfull of my broccoli and leek soup and seemed to love it so decided she must be ready. she had 1/2 a mashed banana (which was quite lumpy) on the first day then (at a little chef) polished of the best part of a jar of "organix" banana & strawberry on her 2nd day. today (day 3) she had very badly pureed parsnip followed by apple and mango. should I try 2 meels tomorrow? H/v told me not to hang about when we did start as she is nearly 6mths.
What do you guys think?

DD now has 3rd tooth and is sitting fairly well but still gets too excited and falls to the side or back at times. Still can't roll from front so gets very cross but has now started sleeping on her front!

Well, good to catch up. hope to hear from the others soon?

Hi everyone! Dd got her first tooth at the weekend (proud and sore mum - ouch!!). We haven't started weaning her yet - she is 5 1/2 months - but she is starting to seem to need more so we're going to start thinking about it. She can roll now, and I think she is starting to sit up more. She just likes to watch what's going on really. Oh, the other new thing is she can say 'buh buh buh', so she has a consonant!

Hope everything's going well. Wills you have my sympathy - we were without a proper bathroom for a year, and a kitchen for two years, so I know how you feel! (((hugs))). It will all be worth it in the end! Hope work's going ok Marina - it's tough leaving them isn't it - I only do very part time but I hate leaving the little poppet! (I like leaving her elder brother, because he has an ace time and I get a break from the constant playing Thomas the Tank Engine!). Love to everyone, m. xxx

Hi everyone,

Wills, doing houses up is a bit of a passion for me, that unfortunately I can't indulge in atm as 2 ds's under 2 are more than enough to cope with!
Have you been watching loads of 'Property Ladder's? How big is the house? Hope you are ok with everything re thrush.

Marina, I'm so glad you are happy with the nursery and dd has settled well there.
Work is rearing it's ugly head for me too, we simply can't afford for me to be off any longer.
And much as I hate to admit it, I'm really beginning to feel suffocated at home now. Does that sound terrible? I love both the boys to bits, and ds1 is becoming great fun and a really loving, cuddly little boy now he is coming up to 2. But I feel like I don't have a minute to myself.
Last Wednesday the boys were meant to be both going to Grandparents, I had planned my day to myself to be really relaxing and was looking forward to it sooo much, and then MIL phoned at 7.30am when dh was about to set off with them, saying she had been sick in the night and couldn't have them. I was gutted to say the least, and really upset. I felt really down for the rest of the week.

Anyway, same plans for this Wednesday, so hopefully should be ok, fingers crossed!

Ds2 is doing ok with his weaning, but he has gone off his milk a bit. He's become really hard work to feed the last few weeks, and his cheeks get bright red and hot sometimes. He doesn't seem to be teething.
I can't remember if I told you when he was in hospital with his infected belly button they found he had a heart murmur. He's had 2 echos, and they said it wasn't serious because he fed well and had good colour, and the scans showed it was a valve that hadn't closed, apparently quite common and usually heals by the time they're one.
But now with this awkwardness feeding, and the bright red cheeks I keep getting paranoid that it's something to do with his heart. Sometimes I lie awake worrying about it.

Started the counselling sessions for the PND last week, and it went ok. Told her a little bit about my mum, and my relationship with her, and we talked through some of the feelings I've been getting that I always feel this need to do a better job with my boys, and not mess our relationship up like she did with me and my sister. Hopefully I'll be able to get on with things without having that hanging over me all the time soon.

Sorry, this has turned out to be rather long! Must go and get some sleep!

Hi all! How are you all this week? I reckon we ought to try and have a day in the week when we all post and catch up. elena - glad to hear the counselling is going well - I hope things improve for you. Hope work is going well, Marina, and the house Wills!

We've had a lovely weekend - for the first time I can remember we had a 'normal' Saturday - took children to the seaside, went to the Sea world place, had a nice walk on the beach. We were supposed to be visiting dh's mother, but ds came down with what I think was 'slapped cheek' on Thursday. I took him to the doctors, and she wasn't convinced, but said it could well be that. I'm sure it was, but anyway, he is all better now. We're about to start weaning dd - she will be 6 months in about 10 days, and is desperate to start solids - she keeps reaching for them, and is starting to wake in the night again, so I think we will try this week and see how she gets on. The pig-headed part of me wants to wait for the calendar date, but the reasonable part says go for it now. She was 14 days overdue when she was born, so I guess technically she's reached the 6 month mark!

Hope you're all having a good week! Wills - what are you doing to your house? We have been doing major renovations to our house, and dh is manic DIYer (and very good at it, but slow), so we live in a constant state of chaos. I'd be really interested to know what you are doing. And how is the thrush now? Hope it's improved. The other thing I was going to ask you was about your baby's weight gain? Have they relaxed about the 'failure to thrive' label? I'm still avoiding the dreaded HV's scales!

Anyway, this is a mammoth message! xxx

Where is everyone?

hey musica!!! how r ya? waves

Over here and drowning in conjunctivitis medication musica and champs...been meaning to turf this thread up and catch up all weekend.
Elena, I am so glad the counselling has got off to a good start. It changed my life and made it possible for me to keep going this time last year, I hope yours is as supportive.
Hope your little man is feeding better and the worries about the heart murmur have abated. It's so hard to relax about babies, isn't it? And I REALLY hope you got your peaceful Wednesday.
Musica, so did you start solids then? How did it go? I must admit I am feeling v. pleased with myself that despite being out of the house all week dd is mainly eating stuff I have cooked myself. Freezer is full of brightly coloured ice cubes. After a slow and gentle start, she is doing well with her solids (and like ds before her) tucks into parsnips, courgettes and other veg with aplomb. She even stuck her fingers in to dh's apple and custard the other day...
I just miss them both so much. I miss watching Metalheads with ds and singing along to the theme tune of Watch My Chops, while dd is perched on her pillow beside us and watching her brother with glee. I miss making tea for us all while listening to Stuart Maconie on Radio 2. Oh well, they are well settled in their current arrangements and we can't afford for me not to work f/t at present, so end of moan.
Wills, Katherine...how are you doing? I have a question for Katherine which she might be able to answer...there are two big YHA hostels in the Peak District - do you happen to know which is best for families?
Have a good week, all. I am counting the days to half-term!

marina - us too with conj. med!

will attempt to add more tomorrow but... conjuncitivitus medicine - funnily I'm taking it but not the kids. Have just returned from seeing a nutrionlist and now have a list of things I can't eat. Am considering cutting my throat instead. Well if I achieve it I will at least be thin. The nutrionlist kept saying "you must remember to eat" and I kept thinking - yes but what, there's nothing on that list worth eating ! Oh dear. Am going to give it a try, however as I have a really stonking awful cold and absolutely no voice am off to bed so night night all

Oh wills - good luck! Both dd and I are on the conjunctivitis medicine. I am being more of a wimp than dd, and am quivering wreck when dh looms over with the eye dropper.

Marina - yes, we started solids when dd was 25 weeks. I really battled with myself, because I wanted it to be 6 months, but as she was 2 weeks late, and had all the signs of being ready I thought it was better to go with it. She loves it. Being that bit older, she is wolfing down bananas and apples, and is so much more settled between meals. She's stopped waking at night as well, and I'm sure it was the right time.

Sorry you're having to work so much - it's horrid having to leave them isn't it. ((hug))

DD had a hellish cold this last week and really sticky eyes. I tried teh homeopathic remedy pulsatilla 30c and her eyes were clear by morning. Cold lingered a bit longer but she's on the mend now - passed it on to me!

Marina - sorry but my YHA days are long since over. Used to have great fun there when I was younger but find it a bit pricy nowadays.

Better crack on - feeling swamped

I will remember the pulsatilla, Katherine...(we had some in the medicine cabinet, duh) because dd's eyes were clearly viral rather than bacterial conjunctivitis, and her medication didn't work. Hope you are feeling less swamped soon.
We also discovered that dd had an EAR infection the hard way - when her eardrum perforated overnight. Whatever happened to babies who cry lots when they have an ear infection, have a temperature, etc? Dd is obviously a little hard nut as she hadn't complained at all. Amazing the effect antibiotics have when they are needed - she is much better today and, with hindsight, more cheerful. I feel so guilty for failing to spot it before.

i have a throat/ear infection!!! i need antibi now...... so ill..... have sniffles too. feel like crying......... no time to cry must carry on...

hi there, sorry not been on for a while. We are also on the sick list as DD and I have chest infections and are both on meds. Her second one in her short life!
Weaning is going well. she now has 3 meals a day. H/v said that you need to get cracking when you "delay" starting. I didn't delay it I wiated till she was ready and the WHO recomended time!
get off high horse.
can't remember if DD had 4 teeth when I last posted but she does now and is sitting un aided for a while but does fling herself back at times.

GET WELL SOON to all!

We ought to call this the Sunshine Ward except that judging from poor PPH's thread these horrible germs are everywhere...hope you are feeling better now Champs and KMS.
Dd did lots of rolling at the weekend, so much so that she has carpet burn on her nose and looks like WC Fields. She is also singing a lot, if you could call a squeaky gate noise "singing".
We WENT OUT for the evening and dd's godmother babysat. We toyed with seeing something intellectual like Lost in Translation but I'm afraid we ended up at the local multiplex with a lot of other haggard-looking older parents laughing our socks off at School of Rock. Highly recommended to anyone who has a sneaky fondness for idiot bands like Yes and Rush...
Five days to half-term and counting

DS1 Birthday today!!!
Poor love has a sore tooth..... went dentist yesturday and has a swollen cheek.
His party will be on sat, he's soooooo lookling forward to it.

Hope he had a good birthday champs! And hope everyone is better from all the bugs out there. It's dd's christening this weekend, so I'm having a few minutes off from frantic baking, making beds up etc. Dd's new trick is she can sit up for a short while on her own. Now this is all dependent on her being put in exactly the right position, with legs balancing her in v. unladylike fashion! But she's improving every day. She's not really into rolling, but likes to watch what's going on.

How are all the other babies doing? Katherine and Wills, I've not seen you around recently - are you both ok?

Happy belated birthday to ds1, Champs! Hope he had a lovely day.
And good luck with the christening this weekend, Musica - I hope it's a lovely, memorable day.
I've had three lovely days off at home with the children for half-term and am now back in the jug agane while dh takes over. Dd is like yours, Musica, capable of staying upright for a nanosecond if legs are carefully arranged, and she is a nosy little flirt! Unfortunately we have been seeing a lot of Stalag Luft GP Surgery 101 lately and she is letting the side down badly by laughing and arm-waving in a very "I didn't need this emergency appointment at all" fashion. Different story at night, alas...we're onto our second perforated eardrum, second lot of amoxycillin, and last night I had one of those hideous moments where I thought she was dying. She has so much gunk in her throat that she started choking, having been snuffly but cheerful all day. Holding her upside down and patting her back firmly got her back, but it was a nasty 15 seconds that seemed to last forever. NHS Direct did us proud with a really helpful, reassuring nurse.
So it's off to the doctor's AGAIN today and this time I'll let dh do the explaining.
Hope no-one else is as full of mucus as we are in our house...Katherine, Wills, you are quiet. I expect it's half-term for Katherine, but hope to see you and Elena around soon.

thanx musica and marina... party went very well and well worth the staying up till 6am (only just worth it though)

Musica-- Hope the christening went well!!

Marina-- How scary! ..... BTW sometimes docs listen more to men... pathetic considering it's us mums that have to look after our kids when they are sick and the dads dont even know whats wrong with them, or even hear them when they cry at night!!

gets off soap box

Hi all,

Marina- how scary! I hope the mucus is clearing now

Well DD has decided to CRAWL today!! She has been sitting well for a while now, although I still haven't seen her go from her front to her back yet! over the last couple of days she has been creeping and we hadn't seen her do it but today she was after a plastic bag on the other side of the room and off she went. she was very cross when I took it away just as she made it there!!

Where is everyone else?
Hope you are all well if you are just getting time to read and no time to post.

Wow KMS - crawling! Marina, hope your dd is feeling better soon. It's horrid when they're ill, isn't it.

The christening was lovely - she looked such a poppet. The house hasn't recovered yet, but it was worth it to have such a lovely day.

Hope everyone's ok and had a lovely half term. xxx

Oh my goodness KMG, that's brilliant (and scary too ) what a busy girl! Dd did front to back twice over the weekend, with big smirks to accompany, but is not sitting alone for more than a nanosecond yet. We will hopefully evade the crawling for a couple of months yet.
She's much better thanks and back off to nursery where the cheering news was that one of her little compadres was admitted to hospital with bronchiolitis last week. Just hoping that this is not still lurking because with our luck dd will get that too, and it can be quite nasty.
Musica, glad Sunday went well. We finally hauled ourselves off to church for the first time in several weeks and picked up dd's baptism certificate. Ds was done when there was an interregnum, and never got one, and our priest has kindly offered to rectify the omission.
Katherine, Wills, Elena - are you all OK? Just busy, hopefully.