FEB 2010 Teeth, nosh and smelly bums - it's all go, six months on!!

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Where did the last half a year go??!

CC IC My LO has dropped all daytime sleep except 2 to 3 hours after lunch... I guess I am lucky in that respect although it does not help that dd1 storms around the house waking up the baby when she's not in nursery.

Chinook I also had big plans for when dd1 is now in nursery three days a week from 9 to 3 but dd2 has put a stop to my plans very quickly because she misses her sister and has also realised it's her chance to have my undivided attention... so there goes another day without the kitchen floor being swept never mind cleaned properly

IC funny you should say that... We definitely had a ghost in our old house but this one seemed okay until the toys started playing up .

IC forgot to say DS doesn't nap in his cot but on his playmat on the floor if at home or car seat or pushchair if out.

at BG haunted toys. I read this thread a while ago and it seems that toys come to life quiet often.

I hope you all get some rest / sleep

Shoild read quite often. That teach to post on my ipod in bed as DH is working tonight.

When I get very stressed I start seeing things in the night when asleep/ awake (?) - I once woke dh to inform him there was a lizard trying to climb onto his night table and I thought that was just not on!!
Another time I saw a small child running out of our bedroom (well before we had children). Maybe it's that child playing with the toys .
Ok, I am being silly but it's such a nice thought...

I'm spooked now BG. At least you'll be ready for Halloween!

GF I just got water up my nose laughing while reading the thread you put a link in for... Very reassuring. My dd1 also does not yet realise batteries that have mysteriously vanished can be replaced

Hi all,

Sorry to bring the tone tone down but have been feeling a little emotional and figured this is the perfect place to unload (if I tell DH he worries etc.). Feel free to ignore, it's more for my benefit.

I have to admit when LO was born I wasn't exactly overwhelmed with love and all the jazz. Don't get me wrong, I really cared for her and wanted to make sure she was perfectly fine but I didn't feel the love.
When someone offered to babysit at 5 weeks, I took the evening without hesitation. Never been overly worried, def. no PFB syndrome. When everyone here was saying how upset they were when they caught their DCs fingers when cutting their nails, I just felt guilty that I didn't feel like that when I did. Of course I didn't do it on purpose, but I wasn't upset over it either.

Not being the most emotionally connected of people, I was bit worried that the trend would continue. I think due to my upbringing, it's become second nature to not emotionally invest in things. A lot of the time with DH I feel quite indifferent towards him. I know deep down I love him but.... Also been stressing about potential effects of my emotional neglect towards LO as she grows.

I think I'm finally really starting to feel it though. Have noticed for the last few weeks that if I leave work early, that I'm all excited on the bus. It's not just the odd twinge here and there anymore, it's almost constant (well except at 4am). Lots of hugs as well. It's prob because she's at the stage where it's so obvious that they love you too (in their own way). Who else excitedly kicks their legs when you walk in.
The rather morbid aspect of it is that I keep thinking that if something happens to her how upset I would be. In a way it's reassuring, but also disturbing. Of course now I'm feeling guilty I don't feel like that with DH (but from the sounds of things, I'm not alone )

Yesterday when I was trying to get her to sleep, she had lost her dummy and found her way to face. Where she promptly ate my nose and tried to eat my eyes, but with the same mouth motions that they use for BFeeding. One of the oddest but cutest funniest things that only your DCs will ever do to you. (Thanks for reading, if you're still here)

CC you describe exactly how I felt with dd1! It also took me a while to connect with her and let me reassure you it has done her no harm. Interestingly with dd2 it was instant overwhelming love when she was born - the way people sometimes describe it. So I have seen it from both sides... You are doing fine

Ah, CC, I shed a few tears... just moved by what you wrote!

What BG said...it often takes a while for the maternal love to truly take hold, try not to worry. And everyone has different ways of expressing love - some let it all hang out, others - like yourself - are more reserved. It's all fine - your DD is a lucky little girl to have such loving parents.

Quite a good night last night - DD only woke a couple of times before 06.30, so I had my first 4-hour stretch of unbroken sleep since she was born - then another couple of hours and another half an hour or so after that. Bliss... I feel revived.

First nap actually happened today without major trauma - just over half an hour, so that'll do.

Now I'm getting excited because it's my birthday weekend and DH has got lots of fun things planned, including a visit from my sister!!! Yay!!

Oh, CC - forgot to do this earlier:
our blog - I've been dreadful at writing stuff lately, but luckily DH is still updating it and putting up pix.

Happy Friday, team!

CC don't fret, and this is the perfect place to say stuff like this. Like BG I also took a while to bond with DD1 but with DD2 it was instant. I think the first time round I was overwhelmed by the enormity of it all and was so consumed by the functionality of it that I didn't give my heart a look in.

And as for love for your DC being different to your DH, well it's going to be, isn't it? I find I love my children completely unconditionally (though I have been known to tell DD1 that while I always love her with all my heart, I don't like it when she hits me/tortures her sister/whinges etc!), whereas I have expectations of my DH that I don't have of my kids. Surely that's normal? Please?

Guilty confession on the nap front - DD2 doesn't have (and never has had) naps in her cot. She naps on our bed (I put the radio on and lie next to her and she looks out of the window at the tree swaying in the breeze and falls asleep within a couple of minutes, when I slip away), or in her pushchair or in the car. She has two or three 20-30 minute naps a day.

Like Stoof my DD1 wasn't a great napper (she only ever did 25 minutes at a time, and had dropped all day time sleep well before she rached two years), so this wasn't a huge surprise to me. I've never really fretted about it as I think night-time sleep is more important (to them and me!) than daytime, and as long as they get it when they need it I don't mind how or where it comes about as long as it isn't too arduous.

CC you're a great mum, as said previously some people keep their feeling inside but it doesn't mean that you don't love your DD.

DS is at the present trying to pick the corner protector of the tv unit. He starts to understand the meaning of 'no' but he's testing to see how far he can go. That'll be interesting in a few weeks.

CC you are not alone, I didn't have the rush of love with DD1 either. Actually I was very surprise at how ugly monkey like she was , my first thought "now what am I going to do?", and she fight me for feedings for the best part of the first week at hospital.
I cared about her, make sure she was OK, but some kind of real love came much later.
It was not instant with DD2 but much quicker (within a week, not months) Being upset at the thought of loosing them is part of motherhood.
It is the perfect place to unwind.

aah CC ? like BG and WC and MC i struggled the first time? divvent worry lass!

oh bloody hell? one afternoon last week DH was due back with the DC's and i'd just got in from work, and they became 10 minutes overdue and i just got completely consumed with anxiety that something awful had happened to them all and burst into tears? nutter, clearly! xx

ha ha it finally happened. LO has not taken to porridge with water, added some breastmilk. Asked DH if it was the right temp as I was putting her in her chair and he tested it by eating . His face when he'd realised what he had done. Would it be so wrong to blog it?

watercress that's exactly it, it was all very functional.

Hmm, seeing my name abbreviated to initials makes me think I need to namechange. Short of seeking inspiration from my groceries (as I did last time), has anyone any suggestions?!

That's the reason why I've never initialed your name watercress

DS is loving his baby walker and so do I. It gives me some minutes of freedom. He can move forward in it but he's really good at going backwards.

Lovely day today and we had a nice lunch out finishing it with a guernsey ice cream. DS approves the ice cream

watercress can't initialised yours either The chance of me trying to find you a new nm after half a bottle of wineat 23h are next to none!
babycress? (we would still know it is you?)

DS slept through last night but 'm not counting my chicken as 1stly he never repeats it in the long run and 2ndly he most of the time does it when my mum is over (they share the same room).

Teething has bothered him today and I wonder if a new tooth is making its way out? Thankfully there is painkiller and teething gel as I always find it hard to deal with when he's in pain.

Time to sleep now (my last night of real sleep as my mum leaves on Sunday).

Still to be celebrated, though GF!!

Hah, no, I've always avoided your initials too, watercress for the obvious reason...!

Just had a lovely birthday weekend with my sister staying and lots of walking out and about in Madrid, which meant some okay-ish naps by DD in the pram and DH spoiling me rotten, bless him.

Birthday present from DD was a lie-in until 0800 (although she still woke up a few times overnight, but hey - a lie-in is a lie-in!)

This morning though, I kicked DH out of bed to deal with DD after he woke her up by fidgeting loudly at 06.10 and I couldn't get her to resettle. I'd spent several hours on and off being woken up by his fidgeting, DD waking up or DH's snoring (not v loud, but I'm a light sleeper...) so was a bit fed up. Poor DH, it was a bit of rude awakening for him after being blissfully unaware of the nocturnal disturbances he'd been causing...

Anyway, overall a splendid couple of days...

IC very happy birthday - slightly late, sorry, we were away for the weekend.

Glad you had a good one IC

Went in to bedroom today and she was standing (not sleeping) up in the cot, 24 hours earlier she hadn't even pulled herself up on anything else to standing.

Spoke to my mum today and in addition to not sleeping through, I also refused to nap. Apparently I would be so tired I would walk into everything. Def. some sleeping karma going on.

The three of us went for a lovely walk this afternoon along the 'America Rivera'. A slight exaggeration but nice views over the harbour and quality time spent together. AM bloody knackered now though.

I knew I was right not to count my chicken. DS woke up several times last bight but I blame his 2nd tooth coming out.

Back to work this morning after 4 days off and I don't really want too.

DS is learning to wave bye-bye with his hand but at the present he waves at himself.

CC we too have a sleep karma as I wasn't a big sleeper and it seems that DS isn't neither.

IC late happy bithrday!

CC apparently I escaped from my travelling cot at 6 months (I still don't think it is possible ) Hence my mum seeing everything DD2 does at pay back... She has manage to topple a chair on top of her twice , she can actually move the chair with her sister sitting on it one handed .
We used to called DD1 "baby hercules", anybody knows who is stronger than hercules?

Congrats on the sleep, standing/crawling and teeth.

DD2 slept through yesterday , the same day DD1 decided to wake up 3 times . One pee in bed, one huge spider (not real in her dreams), then she decided to start the day before 5, nicely played in her bedroom though but she can't stop talking ever

CC I envy the sea, I miss it!

DD2 has 2 new teeth, in total, 3 on top, 3 at the bottom so I would expect the other 2 to come soon, probably no sleeping through for a while then.

GF very clever DS!

My lovely smiley baby has been reduced to a snivelling wreck the past few days... Two top teeth pushing through, streaming nose, ear ache, very juicy cough, sore eye from wiping snot into, toxic nappies and the first nappy rash of her life. She is not a happy bunny. We've also had at least two wakings in the night with her just quietly moaning to herself in despair...
On the brighter side, she now talks in sentences (joking of course!). She watched me make pizza on Saturday night and did some very cute begging for bits of cheese by going 'Mammma hmm hmm!' (hmm hmm being her all purpose food related word for I'm hungry/this is nice/ more please!). I couldn't resist her as she was asking so nicely, so she had a fair bit of cheese and olives. She also enjoyed playing with the garlic press (once I'd washed it!)...