April 2004 Babies.....the 3rd installment!

[Yorkiegirl]

Message withdrawn

dolbear - I'm glad you said that about the grobags as I have just odered one for dd. Never used them before but if they help to indicate bedtime they're worth it for that!
dot - 21 lb! That's very good. DD is just over 16 lb now.

aye ds is 19.6 lbs @ the mo , know what you mean dot1 ds has the weight , but not the brains yet ! IYKWIM gro-bags v snuggly 2 , handy 4 ealy morning feeds so ds does not get cold and wakes him up more !
also recomend the walker thingy without wheels! ds will stay in it for an our @ a time , which is loads !
what do I have 2 get ready 4 nursary , what do you have to take in ? a normal travel bag or what ?

Hi everyone. Wow you lot were talkative yesterday My ds doesn't seem to well at the moment. He's got a nasty cough and yesterday he was sick all over me and him during a coughing fit. Then when I went to get him up this morning he'd been sick in the night and it was everywhere. I'm a bit freaked out as I didn't hear him and he could have choked being sick lying down

Lucyjones, mine have done that occasionally, it's scary isn't it though I'm not sure what you can do about it realistically, short of not leaving them alone ever. My baby neice did it one night when I was babysitting too, which was when her devoted parents came back and found her lying in a pool of sick.

HD - my lightbox was about £200 but you can get them for £100, but the cheaper and smaller they are the longer you have to sit in front of them for. with small children this can be a problem. I was lucky and a friend lent me one before I bought my own. it does help with that sluggish wintery depression I get in Jan/Feb. or this year, apparently, in Aug/Sept

My irritating, puritanical dh watched Gladiator with me last night. He hadn't seen it before. A kiwi himself with dark hair and a goatee, some of my friends had told him he reminded them of Russel Crowe in Gladiator. Well, I don't know why I asked him to watch it with me. He proceeded to drop unhelpful comments all the way through it. He's jealous, I say
"This soundtrack is a rip off from The Planets", "I don't know how historically accurate this is" and " The dialogue is not very realistic is it?" I don't know........

I'll endorse the grobag too. Dd has slept brilliantly ever since I put her in one. Admittedly she did wake up once during the night for about 6 weeks, but that was only because she was hungry. I've never had a problem putting her down and she doesn't wake up because she has got cold.

You have my sympathy Lucyjones. Dd scared the life out of me when we had started weaning. She had soo enjoyed her breakfast she had eaten too much. I was in the bath when I heard a hideous cough. I threw myself out of the bath and dashed into her and she was lying in a pool of sick, it was everywhere. When I picked her up she continues to retch, her whole little body spasming with the effort and her face red and blotchy. I was terrifies and didn't know what to do, I thought she was dying. Looking back on it, I feel silly but I remember how hard I was trying to disguise my panic so as not to worry dd! That was awful.

ooo , u poor girlies , I have not had that , but I remeber too well that feelin when ds had this habit of choking on nothing and the panic when I heard the thump as he hit the floor falling off the sofa , its orible !
do babies not have survival instincts ~@ this age ? ie if they are ill they turn their head to brethe etc or is that just wishful thinking on my part ?
I still have the baby alarm on everynight , one of them movement sensor thingys cos I am a coward and can not sleep without it

I think it might be all down to teething as his nappies are really wierd at the moment - very runny and smell foul (sorry TMI!) and his bottom looks sore. He seems off his food too, but then perahps he just doesn't like pureed carrot, broccoli and parsnip (who can blame him?!)

Hmmmmm.... he was very sick this afternoon after his mid afternoon bottle, all out of his nose too poor little thing. Still think it's teething but a little worried that he's not getting enough food and liquid down him although he is fast asleep now.

LJ are they all gooey? Like there's mucus in there? Sorry if tmi. I think it's a teething thing

I hope all the mucus-y babies are better today.

hi HD - the windsurfing season winds down around November. last summer he did it 4 times a week so twice a week on average this year, due to dd3, has been better but it's a strain with all the childcare. it does however mean he has a nice lean body unlike me.

Fennel where does your dh windsurf? We just got back from a beaut windsurfing holiday in Egypt on the red sea at a place called Moonbeach. It was super windy everyday. We took dd and she was fine. Poor dh misses windsurfing so much being in London and he did try it down on the south coast but decided it was just too cold.
dd is doing her trial week at nursery this week and loves it. No tears, and is playing with the other kids (well the 9 month old ones crawl around with her and over her) and she is quite OK with that.

Chuffed - Moonbeach sounds nice. did you have childcare for dd? we have been planning to go on one of those watersports in the med holidays with full childcare, but we had dd3 instead this year.

dp windsurfs in Manchester, that famous watersports hotspot . actually he teaches and sails at a lake in S. Manc 3 miles from home, and at a bigger better lake 30 mins drive away in the Peaks. and at weekends we go to the Lake district or N Wales. where he sails and I babysit 3 small children on the beach and grumble. I used to windsurf and sail too, before dd2 and dd3.

aren't you from NZ? that's one place we think of moving a lot because of the watersports possibilities.

Message withdrawn

yes we are both from NZ. Wellington is the windy city but we are from Auckland so the city of sails. I had a few windsurfing lessons while at Moonbeach but am not very good yet.
No official childcare, it just worked quite easily hanging out at the windsurf centre with dd. While I was sailing dh looked after her. I wouldn't have coped with 3 though.
A tooth is through for dd (well you can feel it and there are ridges under her spoons) but she has been quite grissly today so maybe there is a second coming through...not sure. No mucus though thank goodness.

No mucus here but a very clammy sweaty baby! It's hard to tell if it's just him, or if he's got a slight temperature - he's been clammy for a couple of days, and bad tempered - thank goodness for Calpol!!

He slept until 6am today - hurrah! Just as well as I'm knackered - I joined an orchestra last night! Just an amateur one, but they're very good and I'm very rusty - was soooo scared in the rehearsal, but by the end of it I was just about remembering how to play..! Another rehearsal tonight, but I don't get home until 10.15pm (am usually in bed by 9.30pm ) so it's a late night! Still, I really enjoyed it - lovely to do something non-baby, and I managed to give ds2 his bedtime bottle and put him to bed before I went, so a bit less guilt about leaving the house!

dot - rehearsal sounds good. I am not doing much that's not baby and not work, but sometimes drag myself out to aerobics etc in the evenings. may try something hideous called "bums and tums" tonight mainly cos it's round the corner and after child bedtime.

Chuffed - we think of moving to the Coromandel peninsular - do you know it? a town called something like Wangamata. I have a work colleague there with a vague job possibility and abeach house we could live in on a 4 mile beach. sounds nice.

Fennel, haven't been to wangamata but it is supposed to be lovely (apart from around new years). Don't know what the wind is like but it is a surf beach so the swell can be good.
dot you just described dd when you said yours was clammy, I thought it might just be this humid weather but she has been a bit wingy too.
I got a bit of a fright earlier this afternoon, was cleaning bottles and turned around and dd had stood up against a small box full of her outgrown stuff and was holding on but if she had tipped in one direction she could have bumped her head on the corner of the toy box. Agghh the corner bits are going to have to come out tonight. She definately isn't a little baby anymore

no mucus here , hugs to those of you who r suffering from that
but lots of bad temper - flushed cheecks and yelloing
dot- what do u play ?
used to play clarinet , but got a bit tricky while pg
the closet i ever got is local raft race @ cookham

Hi everyone. Had to get up in night as poor ds had done another of those nappies and had soaked himself! Hope it is just teething. He's still got a bunged up nose and cough. They didn't send him home from nursery though so that must be a good sign.

Hi everyone - been offline for a while, but back in Denmark after an epic road trip (just me and DD2) to Cornwall to get the last things (i.e. whole luton van-load) from our house there before we rent it out. So DD2 was the youngest trucker on the ferry and was a complete angel .

As for rolling, sitting, CRAWLING (!!) wow - dd2 can still do none of the above, and she's from 5 April Just waiting for that lurch off the sofa as soon as she can manage it...

Sorry to hear there have been some icky babes - DD1 used to throw up at the drop of a hat... first sign of her having even a cold poor thing. DS OTOH has been sick twice in his life (sorry, 3 times - once last week for DH when I was away ) and he is nearly 4.

Fennel - we did a Sunsail club in Turkey when dd1 was 2 & ds was 6 months. Childcare etc was fab, and I loved it, but dh likes adventurous sailing and watersports, and found the sailing area they give you a bit restrictive (you have to stay in sight of the beach).

Off to unpack some of aforementioned van-load...

I play violin - had another rehearsal last night and it was great, but I'm shattered! Orchestra finishing at 10pm and ds waking up at 5am do not go together well!! But I really want to keep going - concert in 2 weeks time!

ds2 is doing so well, bless him - such a lovely sunny baby - I can't get over how much he laughs and giggles, 'cos ds1 was never really like that. Just love it, and am in a very good mood today 'cos I've got from tomorrow afternoon - Tuesday off! So dp is bringing both ds's in to collect me tomorrow at lunch-time -I've told ds1 I've got a swivel chair in my office and he's very excited!!

That's lovely Dot - what are you planning on doing? Ds seems a lot better but didn't want his breakfast - petit filou and banana - what's not to like?!!

Hi girls.
Chuffed - I didn't realise you were from Auckland, or a Kiwi for that matter! Dh is from Auckland, I met him while when I was working there. Gate-crashed his party That was five years ago but it really doesn't feel like it.
I loved Auckland, it's a very beautiful city and I'm sorry I never went to the Coromandel. I have heard how beautiful it is.

Thankfully I have come across this mucusy business with dd, although we do have snot first thing in the morning. The nursery phoned me yesterday to tell me she had a raised temperature and could they give her calpol. I think they were a bit surprised when I said that I wouldn't react to a high temperature unless she was miserable. Anyway, she never had it in the end because she went to sleep. Best thing for her I say. Still no sign of teeth, although (I've no experience) the nursery think she is teething because she has been a bit grumpy and dribbling.
The other thing that really surprised me was how apologetic the nursery staff were for disturbing me at work!! I said I was more than happy that they did ring me because I wanted to know. The manager then thanked me and said that it was really good to have my support. I was a bit surprised Why would anyone not want them to ring them if they were uncertain of anything? Am I missing something here??

Mrs D - u would be suprised - my mate Jen who is now dpe man @ the nursary ds is going to , we r v proud of her promotion says that soem mums leave their kids behind with ring worm ! and various sickness bugs , broken arms u name it and when they sometimes fone as with u the parenst get realy arsey , like do I have to come now , i am realy v busy etc etc , realy nasty she calls them trophy kids poor things one boy even ate stones for attention ! and he was the son of a doctor , no ofense if anyone is one