nappy and changing bag obsessed February mums thread!

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thought i would do the honours!
was going to call it the exhausted and turning to alcohol feb mums thread
but thought i'd be a bit more upbeat! lol

misdee. What a sh*te time you're having (read your threads but never felt I knew you enough to say anything but think of you a lot - puts my little worries to shame).
Love Nik

Aw misdee - well I am sure seeing serena looking cute in her outfit will give Peter even more to fight on for. Her curls will look so cute under a santa hat !!

I should stop being such a misery about the outfit, we have persuaded MIL to host christmas for the first time since my FIL passed away 2 years ago so we should be encouraging her to throw herself into it all !!

SL - I did see a pintuck white shirt in (dreaded) next but that might be a bit over the top LOL !!

hello all...

well done to sam! bet he's been eyeing up his bro's toys for ages ... and, fight!

nik, thoroughly at street abuse, agree with SL girl sounds chavtastically awful tho!
zapp IS unusual, but i think it's v. funky looking! am getting a footmuff

HN - thanks for your advice on job thread, didn't realise dh was a lawyer. think i'll stick with phd, which i think is what i do want, really. just a bit scared of going back, & that i might never finish it.

roo screaming, gotta go!
xxx

seems calling dd a strange child last night did the trick as she seems to be sort of crawling this morning. I think it might be a unique style as she keeps one leg straight and pushes with that whilst keeping the other in a bent position.... and sort of goes from bottom to stretching an dmoving and back to bottom again so I guess a bit of an extension from the bottom shuffling !! Its really quite amusing to watch - almost looks like she is limping !!

Oh and Roosmoo - glad you may have decided what you want to do - think its probably a good idea to go back to the phd and see how it goes. You might regret not doing it otherwise - how far through are you ?

My eldest crawled exactly like that Hazellnut! I have only ever seen one child who crawled the same so am pleased to hear Anna doing the same!

Aaaah, MILs.....TBH mine isn't too bad but I don't get on with her & think it's as much my problem as hers. I just don't like the fact that she's related to my baby. And I can't be honest with her the way I am with my mum. AND she's coming to stay next week because she's "lonely and depressed"....Gah! Mind you, she did buy us the beloved zapp so I should really be more tolerant.

Tipex, the cod episode was triggered by the usual cod slags someone off, someone (poor SL in this case) has a go then gets laid into by all the cod acolytes & sychophants (?spelling??) - you know, the ones that post "oh fishy one" and "I know the name of cods eldest son" etc etc , so I decided to have a grumble in the privacy of our own thread!!!! To cut a long story short (not).

I guess I shouldn't be so miserable about mine - she will come up and babysit for us when we ask and she doesn't do the lonely and miserable thing on us even though I expect she is as times. Gosh must be in a much better mood tonight .

Tipex, dd had a funny tummy bug last week which was just smelly horrid nappies for a few days but didn't appear at all ill otherwise. in fact, I was convinced she was teething until a load of her baby chums came down with it this week .

Futurity - glad its not just me with an odd crawling baby

Just went for a bit of a walk to see a few fireworks and dd was completely non plussed by the whole thing !!! She didn't even like the historical explanation I gave her about it all !!!!

I have just commented to dh about how dd could possibly be sleeping through the activities outside and then wakes up in the silence of 2/3/4 am !!!!

Sorry to hear about the vomit !!

oooooh tipex, leon has just got over a tummy bug with lots of vomiting, nasty nappies, since tuesday! we've been hiding at home and i've had it too! i hope ds gets better soon

can't wait til next year when they can enjoy the fireworks!

hope you are all well

tipex hello!
and hello everyone!
we're ok apart from the sickness( gone now), how is you ds this afternoon?
leon has six teeth now and has just crawled up the stairs!! he's currently playing with a friends dd who has just learnt to walk and he is in awe and just following her around lol!
he's really settling into nursery, although i only leave him there for 5 hours max

don't want to make you jealous but my mil just moved to australia!!

bye for now

Hi All !! Glad ds isn't too bad Tipex, isn't it strange they way these bugs pop up all over the place and not just localised (I think you're in the midlands aren't you ? ) and Leon too.... Ah well guess we need to be prepared for all these bugs now winter is upon us !

How did you manage the MIL going to Australia Goss ???? And well done Leon on climbing the stairs, which reminds me, must buy stairgates !!

Lovely description of your ds Tipex. Hmmmm how will I describe dd ?! -

Anna is blonde with big twinkly blue eyes. Loves people and being centre of attention so usually ready with a big cheesy grin. Likes food in general, blueberries in particular ! Fave activities swimming, walking (with help), pulling the telephone cable and hair and trying to steal people's glasses. Dislikes milk, being made to sleep and Maclaren buggies... Giggles at teletubbies (baaaddd mummy), horses, dogs and cats and Mummy doing the actions to heads, shoulders knees and toes......

oh and Tipex - you certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons with your reins thread. I've never really thought about it - thinking about it now, you don't see that many children out these days with reins on although mores the pity in the case at the weekend where dh,dd and I were walking along the road (well dd in pushchair !!) when there was a dad with a double pushchair with probably a 2 1/2 and a 18 month old - something like that. Anyway, Dad looked like he had been thrown out of house to entertain kids whilst mummy had a break and tbh didn 't really like he knew what he was doing (which is probably unfair) . Anyway, the 2 1/2 year old girl was running off and very close to the road and at one point DID almost run into the road to the extent my dh hung back to make a grab for her because it didn't like the dad was going to !! Then we got a bit further up the road and he went into a shop and just dumped double buggy with youngest one inside and went in just to buy a drink (and this is in scabby london rather than somewhere where you know everyone and its SAFE !) and he wouldn't have been able to see the pushchair from the shop. Anyway, that wa sa very confuluted (sp ?) way of saying, in that case they would have been MUCH better off with reins.

Poor DH (who was equally appalled) then got a lecture about how he was never to behave like that when out with dd on his own !!

On the other hand, my god daughter didn't walk till she was 19 months and then has always been very well behaved and wouldn't dream of running off so would not have been necessary.

God, have rambled on simply to say, I guess it depends on the child......

hello everyone!

have been offline for a few days as dp has broken the computer and can't fix it! so insisted he brought his laptop home from work so that I could come on mumsnet! lol

sorry to hear about all the sickness bugs! Linus is fine, although I think he is getting a bit sniffly again

Loving the descriptions... they both sound rather like Linus (particularly the glasses grabbing, pinching etc!)
anyway here is mine:

still rather bald although working on producing a bit of a feathery look on top, BIG blue eyes and the cheekiest little grin, laughs a lot at people saying beepbeepbeep in a high pitched voice (he fell over laughing the other day), he loves my deodorant and a silk scarf he found earlier, he is very gregarious and will approach other children as if he's known them for ages, he is always on the go and wants to get into everything. Eats whatever he can get his hands on. He loves bath time. He knows exactly how to butter people up and performs in front of an audience
He hates getting out of the bath, and having things taken away from him (think handfuls of wet toilet paper or mud)

Funnily enough, had a runny tum here too - it's been going around the nursery. Not sure how to explain the smeely poo Tipex - change in diet? May be worth trying probiotics?

Love the descriptions, what a sweet idea & definitely some common themes!

Right - Ellie had brown eyes and lots of brown hair and is the double of her daddy! She has a gorgeous smile and loves company & lots of attention. She LOVES phones and remote controls, paper and things that aren't toys. She gets bored easily, doesn't appreciate being ignored, hates having her face wiped and is another one that doen't like getting out of the bath. She has her parents well & truly besotted .

Poor thing is getting a bit fed up of not being able to crawl properly, keep backing herself into awkward spaces and getting stuck!!

Great to hear the descriptions - they DO have similarities don't they !!

Tipex, don't know how long your ds has had his runny tum but Anna's lasted almost a week before it was completely better - wasn't really bad all that time but certainly wasn't 'solid' until a week later. All this time she was herself and didn't seem ill (hence infecting everyone we knew !). Also it didn't seem to pass to adults just babies.

Hope he's feeling better soon.

ooh tipex, sounds a bit like leon, could just be a bug, leon was sick too but fine in himself

love the descriptions, so many similarities!

so leon has big blue eyes like mum and dad and lots of curly blonde/gingery hair; he's on the move and has a current fixation with the stairs, which he can go up, but not down! he loves to grab my glasses and anyone elses too; books are a big favourite to play with, but also any passing nipple he can squeeze! leon loves to dance when you sing or play music and the swing is a big hit;

hello feb mums, great idea abt the descriptions, love them (but would love to see pics now! altho know what the lovely linus looks like of course.)

roo is ... another big-blue-eyed charmer, with a good amount of mousy-blonde hair, his fave things in the world atm are slides (loves loves loves em!), escaping mid-nappy change & crawling around nappyless, chocolate ice cream (), being chased, pasta, mummy-milk (big style), singing with actions, bath splashing, flushing toilet (v. exciting atm!!), most things he shouldn't have (mobile phone etc.), being carried...
dislikes: sleeping ( 'sleep is for the weak'), spoons, things being taken from him, most foods (but roosmum getting tough now!), girls generally (i think!), other babies squealing/crying, new places (eg when roosmum casually puts roo down on floor - cue devastation! he just lies flat on his face & sobs...), having his nappy put on (see above).
whew!
um, he's plumpish (but slimming off i think) & totally gorgeous, with a lovely smile & a fabby chuckle!

tipex...as you can see above, sleep not that great here. he's really variable, last night was a 'good' night in that he went to bed at 8, woke for milk at 1, woke at 4 (dh went & settled him), woke at 5 & had milk, stayed in our bed & we all got up at 7ish, after being pestered by him climbing all over us, biting/licking our faces, generally babbling & ordering us out of bed!

soooo...i'm trying to sort roo out a bit atm, would you all be willing to give a quick overview of your babies' routines?? we hardly have any routine & am thinking it's time there was a bit more structure going on.

for one thing, i think he has way too much milk, & am trying to get him down to: 1.early morning, 2.mid-morning, 3.mid-afternoon, 4.before bed, 5.sometime between 11-1 (whenever he wakes for the 1st time basically). am hoping this will encourage him to eat a bit more, tho last 2 days have been poor. all he's eaten today is some yoghurt, & a tiny bit of melon & mango. have a feeling he's teething again tho as well

was wondering whether to try baby-whisperer, a few people i know say it's the way to go - anyone tried??
oh any help on what a day could/should look like (esp regarding eating/sleeping) would be great!

HN, footmuff for zapp arrived today, to brighten my day ... delivery guy knocked on door abt 2 seconds after roo puked the small amount of scrambled egg/avocado i'd got him to eat...

[roosmum is fed up]