July 2010: Our babies are growing, they're grabbing their toys and soon they'll be throwing!

[stac14]

new thread ladies xx

tsc hah hah re bf babies (in an ironic manner)

dh Congrats on your sister being pg! Wish mine would, I'd love to be an auntie!

Re the settling thing: tbh, I'm not sure there is a golden bullet for this. You get some babies that naturally settle/sleep well and those who don't (I've got one of each, both were/are ebf).

You have to decide whether you'll them them cry it out or not and then just muddle thru, all the while saying 'this too will pass' of course.

I've heard some parents get good results with the baby listener's pick up/put down method but it didn't really work for us - possibly we ditched it too early tho.

We did the old 'Sitting on his floor, patting and shhhing him sometimes for hours' method (not joking and it was winter and we have a v v old, cold house with bare floorboards!) Finally now he's a good sleeper (usually 7.30pm to 7.30am+) as long as he's not teething as then no-one in a four block radius gets any sleep!

What? BF babies don't sleep?? Shh, no-one tell M - she's apparently oblivious!

mlic chin up on the boots front, you'll probably step in dog shit tomorrow if your estate's anything like mine...

DD's started taking her trousers off all the time...any ideas how to keep them on?

tsc I feel the same in that I just dont know what to tackle first, making his bedtime earlier, getting him to self settle, finding out the reason why he's waking up so often in the night when I know its not always hunger.

Dylan seems to have lost a sock between the car and the sofa, no idea where it could be.

my best friend's just gone into hospital to be induced...I'm sooo excited for her (and nervous) she wanted me to be her 'doula' but Sam/new job/house move kind of got in the way :( Checking fb like a fiend though, she's promised to text me but I'm afraid she'll forget once she's cuddling her little boy , lol!

evening all, that recipe sounds different, let us know how they go!
needle any joy with the dog? have you sorted things with H?
mlic hope you get boots clean i would cry then lock him in the shed as i nurture the boots !!
after putting off the child benefit i did it last week and got £240 today backdated! went swimming this morning, i have a water baby on my hands, dh has now gone til saturday, although i will miss him like crazy think it will do us good, we've bickered a bit over weekend, redeemed himself before he went and totally cleaned kitchen even taking plinths off and cleaning under those and tops of unit! ive trained him well!!

Had a better night last night, Dylan woke at 3:40, then somwhere around 6ish, then DPs alarm woke him up grrr! Another reason why his own room would be better. (dylan not dp!)

Going to get him weighed today, think the weather is meant to be crap so prob not going to do alot else.

Oh no B has her second lot of jabs today not looking forward to it at all.

Also trying to find someone to come and wait with D he's terrified of doctors after his last set of jabs and I think if he sees his sister distraught after these it will tip him compleatly over the edge!

Morning all, crap weather here so staying in till i take rileigh to get weighed. Been a lot going on here a friend found out her dp of 11yrs was cheating on her, she threw him out and was arguing with him through the window and he punched it. The glass went into her eye, she has lost 90% of the vision in the left eye. She's home already as she has 6 kids. Sounds like something from a soap. To top it all off her poor cousin had found out he lo passed away in the womb so heartbreaking. My friend is being amazing her strength has shocked us all. I have to admit it puts the stuff i moan about into perspective.

mlic totally agree that its not babysitting if lo's are in bed lol

dh luckily rileigh is quite a deep sleeper not much wakes her but i think its more cause of the boys being so loud lol. Would you not consider moving him sooner?

Hows everyone today? X

stac your poor friend! she needs to think of the term an eye for an eye and get someone to rip his wandering eyes from his skull!
mlic i have a friend whos husband will only look after kids if they are in bed and shes got a taxi home before when baby has woke because hes called her home!
dh im putting Lyndon in his own room next week i was up for 2 hours in the night, he just wanted to play so at least in his own room i wont be kept awake by him chattering to his comfort blanket!
weather rubbish here, my car is making funny noises so getting it checked out and a waitrose has opened near me so going for a look, ive missed all there expensive lovely puddings!

Morning all,

Even before halloween, I've namechanged back as people calling me opens or crypt wasn't making me smile like seeing my fave word cake!

Had to do the morning get everyone ready and get our arses down to nursery run on my own today as DH had to leave for work v early this morning. F has taken to waking and playing in his room til 8ish so he nearly missed his nursery breakfast (finishes at 8.45). I admire all of you that do the nursery/school run by yourself every time!

Have been feeling frightful with a bad cough and had to keep going yday for dh's birthday so today I'm planning to snuggle up with A and rest.

stac good grief! Your poor friend and her cousin. It does make you realise how petty most troubles are, like you say.

mlic did E manage to keep the necklace on long enough to see any improvement? F's def teething again but he actually slept in his own bed all night and wasn't a total horror yday. He actually sat thru a film at the cinema and then a meal at a mexican whereas usually his teething would make that impossible)

Morning ladies. gwen and I are not well
poor little thing- she's so bunged up, she can hardly breathe and has this horrible cough. She looks so confused about it. I don't know whether to go straight to the doctor or ask the ladies at the weigh-in

stac, my god, your poor friend.it does put my row with dh into perspective. does he know what he's done to her eye? I'd almost be tempted to go to the police after that.

chulita how is your friend? has her baby been delivered yet?

mlic are the boots going to be ok?! [Shock]

memphis no joy with the pooch, but I think h and I are getting there. thank you.

Hey needle sorry G is so unwell but pleased to hear things with dh are better!

You might be best taking her to the docs - around here the weighing clinics are 'well baby' clinics and aren't happy if you bring ill babies there in case it spreads their bug. Not sure if all clinics are the same or how strict they are about coughs/colds.

mothers of todders any ideas how I can keep F or his room warmer at night please?

This is his first winter in his new room and it's a corner room so has two external walls plus an external floor (it's above an arch as our house is an old coaching house)! His room dropped to 14c on a very cold, frosty night recently - he woke up freezing as he'd chucked his covers off. I fear we'll all have a sleepless winter if I can't make his room warmer!

Also, he's in a cotbed with the bars taken down so has a cotbed duvet - would a normal single duvet be better/warmer or would it be too big and therefore a suffocation risk?

needle glad things are sorting out,im so sorry about your dog! poor Gwen, would saline drops and a nose sucker give her some relief? what about infant olbas oil?
cakes ive obviousy not got a toddler but would a grobag be ok to use my brother is nearly 4 and still has one, but then my step mum still has him in a normal cot (not cot bed)
or what about those brushed thick pj's?
cars not going in til monday so dont think i leaving house today its rubbish weather, thinking of poor dh working outside in Aberdeen all day, very thankful he wont be bringing the wet clothes through my clean house

cakes DD's room is the coldest in our house too and she kicks her covers off. I've sewn strips of fabric on her duvet cover and I tie one side of the duvet to the bed slats on the wall side so she can't completely lose the duvet. If it's really cold I tie the other side on too so she can roll around under it but it can't fall off iyswim. Otherwise Grobag do a duvet that zips onto the sheet but they're quite expensive.

mlic I'm with you on the feeding front. Sam's just not bothered about food, I need to get him weighed but DD's really snotty/coldy so I can't really go to the weigh-in place this week. But I'm so tired of trying to constantly get food into him.

stac that's awful about your friend that's GBH surely...

I'm so tired today, up feeding Sam twice, awake feeling snotty and 'orrible 4 times, text message from friend to say she had her little boy (yay!) then final feed and wake up at 6am [yawn] and DD's not well so although she's not curled up on the couch she's very touchy.

Cuddles for chul and mlic on dealing with the stress of your non-feeders (platonic ones so your dh can rest easy even tho it swiftly follows me kissing you. mlic ). I so feel for you both and really admire how well you're coping with it.

memphis sorry but I was a bit at the thought of a 4 yo in a cot still! Why is she keeping in there? The problem with using a grobag is that because F is in a bed, he wouldn't be able to get up and play when he wakes up.

chulita thanks for those bedding tips - will investigate.

needle it's the nuk nose sucker you need imo - i had a different one too and the non-nuk one was useless whereas the nuk one pulled out tons of it

mlic i can never decide if I admire or pity you - or both! I can't believe everything you have to handle on your own. I have to say it's made me not take my DH for granted (so much).

Altho as I said before, no DH is perfect - I have to deal with almost all DIY, tradesmen, house renovation (and a 400yo house needs a lot) and the household finances as DH just doesn't do those, which kinda suits me as I enjoy them to an extent (I act all martyrish about it tho of course ). I think we have a bit of a reversal of traditional roles going on in some ways, e.g. he loads/unloads the dishwasher 95% of the time as he's good at it whereas I hate it and always do it wrong - according to him!

Its swings and roundabouts in most marriages I guess.