May 2005 babies - part 2

[logic]

Hello! How is everyone? Dd is finally sleeping in her own bed - yay!

Don't worry, northstar, it happens to everyone. In fact, I don't know anybody who's baby hasn't wriggled off something or tripped down some stairs.
They are getting so strong now aren't they?

abow & matthewsmummy, thanks for your kind wishes. I'm not brilliant again today but trying to be positive and think of next week. I went shopping to the trafford centre,a new lip gloss has cheered me up slightly!

MM I bought dd some pressies about a month ago and I bought some more today. DH & I are also looking forward to "opening dd's pressies" !!lol!!! I think I am also going to buy dd a bracelet or necklace as I want her to have something to keep. Suppose she will be inundated (?) with pressies from grandparents,aunts,uncles etc so it will make a nice change. We want to put the tree up now !!! ...I LOVE CHRISTMAS...

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hello everyone, just realised that although i've been on mn a fair bit, i keep forgetting to post on here about ds. think he's about 22/23 weeks now, you tend to loose track when its not your first.

i always thought that i would never post photo's on a members profile, prefering to remain annonymous, but have today found out that ds, like his sister, had bad eyesight and needs to wear glasses. have just got back from opticians and they will be ready next week. he is going to look so amusingly ridiculous that i think i'm going to have to post a pic!. dd had glasses from 18months, but until today i didn't know they did frames small enough for babies. have also posted this in 'health' to see if anyone else has experience of babies wearing glasses!

take care everyone

uwila, I am giving the kids' old clothes to the Sue Ryder charity shop although I am keeping the really nice stuff as keepsakes and for when my brother gets around to starting a family!

Sorry to hear about your ds' eyes, lucykate. It must be very stressful for you. The glasses do sound cute though.

Had a slightly bizarre experience yesterday. Ds' pre-school supervisor approached me after the session and told me that she and all the other staff think that ds is deaf! News to me since he chatters all day and sings in tune :-)) Took him to his GP this morning just in case and she thinks it's mad too but he's getting a hearing test anyway. Apprently it's getting very common for schools to do this and it's driving the GPs nuts.

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Oh my, Logic. I think I'd have a few words for the school. That sort of message really shouldn't be communicated unless they are sure. Can you send DS to school in a shirt that says "I'm not deaf. I'm ignoring you."?

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Hi all,myermay thanks for asking. I do feel "brighter" today. It scared me a bit as I had 2 days on the run that I felt really down...usually i'm up one day and down the next. Will see what my gp says next Tue. Yeah I;m looking forward to our holidays...

Shopping...mmm I agree. I used to love it but I agree now it's so different. Constantly looking out for toilets,taking 1-2 hours for lunch,taking half the shop with you when you leave (due to stand being wrapped around the wheels! LoL!!...How annoying is this..?!) but dd loves it and spends the whole time smiling at everyone!

Logic sorry to hear about ds...It's madness that others tell you stuff about your children that usually panics you for no reason. Hope all is ok.I love uwila's comments ..I would love to see the teachers faces!

Myermay hope all goes well tomorrow.

Lucykate...glasses on a baby..awww...I never knew they could do anything for them when so young...!

Love to all.xx

shhhh - glasses for a baby are called 'tiny tots' and made by fisher price of all people! i thought if he needed them he'd have to wait until about 1yr ish.

myermay - i got trapped in a branch of wilkinsons yesterday with our pushchair. went in to get some nappy sacks but couldn't get through the checkouts the gaps were so narrow. i had to go out the entrance, then in through the exit to get to the other side to pay!

am finding i'm doing more and more shopping via the internet instead now, so much easier!

I so agree with the nightmare shopping experiences to the point that I won't even go to the supermarket on my own with the kids now. I'm doing all of my Christmas shopping online.

I'll be thinking about you tomorrow, myermay, when you and your ds go for his appointment. Hope everything goes ok.

Exactly, uwila! I've never had any worries about ds' hearing at all so I was quite taken aback. Obviously they are genuinely concerned and she backed off pretty quickly when I said that he was fine. I am 100% sure that he just goes into a dreamworld of his own or has his own agenda so he just ignores them. Trouble is, I've got to go into school tomorrow and tactfully tell them that my 3 year old doesn't find their conversation interesting enough to bother replying.

Oh Logic, I'd be so with the nursery if I were you! How long has he been attending nursery? My DS1 is 4 and is often on another planet but seems to involve other people aswell! Definitely like Uwilas comment

Re: shopping. God yes, I remember it well with DS1, if I need to go to the local supermarket I try and go when DS1 is at school otherwise I get far too stressed (imagine pushing the pram, holding a basket and trying to make sure DS1 doesn't disappear while dodging all the boxes of stock that they insist on leaving in the aisles! Grrr)

LucyKate, one of my friends DS's had glasses when he was about a year old - very cute and also ensures they get used to them so they don't know any different iykwim.

Myermay, I hope all goes well at your appointment today, will be thinking of you.

Shhh I hope you're feeling better today. Sometimes I feel crap, like on Saturday, I was peed off for no reason at all and it lasted all day, DH just doesn't realise that I can't just snap out of it. Luckily for me those days are few and far between.

Oh and does anyone else feel invisible when out and about with the pram? I get so sick of people just cutting in front of us - on Tuesday we were walking along the road and a bloke almost opened his car door on us!

OK rant over, sorry everyone!

Maddison, DH and I like to push the pram a bit fater just watch people trip right at the moment they go to cut us off. They usually turn back with a dirty look. We just smile like we don't know what happened.

The funny thing is even when it's totally the other person's fault they still look back like it's our fault for walking down the street.

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myermay,sounds as though todays appointment had a positive outcome...At least you are on the road to getting things sorted iykwim although I know this is not an ideal position to be in. Its sounds as though you are handeling things really well...I thoroughly admire you for this...Everyone was probably the same as dh & I were when expecting, you wish everything is ok with the baby and that baby is "healthy"..but at the end of the day if baby is born and there is something medically not right you couldn't just give up on baby...to me that "comment" is bizarre but only because I now know what it's like to give birth and to love your baby NO MATTER WHAT. i wish everything goes well for you & your ds2...

Thanks also for your comments. I must admit yesterday and today I have been feeling a bit brighter. I told my mum yesterday that I am due back at the doctors on Tue and she is concerned about me. Bless her, she says she will help me as much as she can to try and ease things..she already does my ironing for me (I hate it with a passion) and even suggested doing my washing etc Bless !!! THB I told her that I can't even tell dh why I feel like I do as I don't know myself. Madness.........

I also back up the shopping comments. Its true that others treat you as invisable when you have a pram and I have also had many dirty looks. But that said..I have also had lots of friendly looks,smiles and comments esp when they see my gorgeous dd..!! (Proud mum alert..!!) But I suppose I was only the same as those who found pushchairs unecessary before I had dd.

Anyone out for bonfire night tomight or tomorrow..?? DH surprised me with fireworks at home last year when expecting dd so this year he is bringing some more home for dd..bless..hope she likes them..

Hi everyone!

Some friends had a party last night with approx 40 people so we took the kids along, DS1 enjoyed it but after a while wanted to come home (but only because he was sleeping at grandmas house!) which was a good thing since DS2 only liked the lights and colours and not the bangs lol - he had this pitiful little cry, I shouldn't laugh really - he sounded like he felt so sorry for himself!!

I hope all the other May little ones (and siblings) enjoyed their first bonfire night

Hi, glad your littleones enjoyed the fireworks maddison. We had our own little fireworks night with dh,dd & I. She loved it and also enjoyed the bright colours although she wasn't as keen on the bangs etc.
LOL dh nearly blew the side of the house off which did scare dd..think she though dh was on the end of the firework . Its quite nice knowing that all these events are being experienced for the 1st time for dd. . Hope everyone else is ok.
Well we are all packed, LOL, dh asked if we really needed to take all we have packed !!! They really have no idea do they !!

Hi everyone, haven't posted for a while as we've been on holiday and had a few computer problems. Nowhere hot and sunny, went to the lake district for a week, but it was lovely to have a break together and for dp to spend more time with dd. Oh she's woken up, have to go! Hope everyone else's babies are ok and get better too.

She's asleep again now, she just needed some more milk but probably won't sleep for long, I'm trying to get her used to sleeping in her cot at least once each day, she's got used to sleeping in the car/her buggy, or the sling, but I need to get her used to the cot before I go back to work. I hope the helmets work for the flathead syndrome Myermay, I've read about them and they're supposed to be good aren't they.
Logic, hope your ds hearing is fine, my niece is waiting to get her hearing checked, and is in a similar situation - I think they just ignore adults sometimes - I know I do!
Shhh, hope everything goes well for you at the doctors.
Hope evrtone else and baies are fine.
dd liked looking at the fireworks but did cry at large bangs. Although luckily she sleeps through most of them. She slept through the carnival which came right past our house, only a few feet away as we are right on the road, until the fire engine blasted its airhorn, she went off to sleep again theough. I expect she'll watch it next year!

hi littleb, it's nice to have you back again. We moved dd into her cot about 3 weeks ago....but we then moved the cot into our room ..Oh well one step at a time!!! Let us know how the move goes. Good luck.

Hello!

didn't know there was one of these... dd, felicity was born 8th May... she's a monkey! rolling... sitting up! grabs stuff... and unfortunately i think she's thinking about crawling!!! aarrggh.

Hi Kateandfelicity, nice to have you joining us! We're moving dd into her own room this weekend, hopefully it will help her to sleep longer as at the moment she usually wakes up when dp's alarm goes off at 6. She has been in her cot at night for a while but I've been having trouble settling her into it for her daytime naps, she's getting better though as she's sleeping there now and went down easily after some milk, I tried to give her some through a cup spout (from Avent) but she started coughing and spluttering, I think it came out too quickly for her, is anyone else trying to give some cups yet?
I also wondered how big everyones dd/s are getting, my dd is now just over 17lbs and is 6 months tomorrow but people keep commenting on how big she is, even called her enourmous, she has gained alot as she was only 6lb 10 at birth but I didn't think she was that huge, maybe she just looks big against me as I'm only 5ft2, anyone else getting comments like this? Its a bit annoying!

Aww LittleB, your dd is positively dinky compared to my ds2, he will be 26 weeks on tues, was 7lb 9oz at birth and almost 2 weeks ago he was 21lb 5oz!! Thats why we call him our little chubbawooky lol! But yes we do get lots of comments from people about his size, and our hv is referring to a paediatrician for weaning advice for him. I'm not that worried though, he doesn't look overweight and I believe that a baby can't overeat so if he has too much it will come out one way or another!

Hello and welcome KateandFelicity, my ds1 started crawling at 7 months and by 9 months he was mobile (which included climbing the stairs )

Logic how are you lately? hope you're okay, have ds's pre-school said anything else about his hearing?

Shhhh, when do you go on holiday? If you're already there I hope you all having a lovely time.

Hope everyone else is well and that May babies are happy and healthy. xx

LittleB, I don't know what it is about babies but people alwas say "oh what a big boy/girl"... for lack of anything else to say I suppose. People say the to me about DS as well and he is bang on average. Not sure what his weight is but he doesn't look fat and he doesn't look skinny so I'm sure he's just right.

An a very very happy note, he seems to like this eating thing, and I am just over the moon because DD was (ahem... okay, still is) a miserable a cow about eating. I gave him some cauliflower and broccoli and apple and baby oatmeal today thinking no way will he go for this. But he ate it all... yippee!!!