July 2010:Our actions get dafter, all for the reward of giggles and laughter!

[kkfairybrains]

new thread! thanks once again to spireal for the name!

Well, the thread in AIBU looked like it was threatening to enter the realms of 'heated debate', but seems to have calmed down. Though general consensus is I should just give M the chocolate button rather than trying to melt it into the porridge!

For avocado, once it's pretty ripe I just mash/puree it with a bit of cooled/boiled water at the moment, Memphis. :) M had it for lunch today and managed to smear it everywhere. Next week though I plan to try offering some mashed with soft cheese, to see what she makes of that.

For cameras, I use a Canon Powershot A630, which is pretty good. I lovelovelove the fact I can angle the screen, it means I can take pictures from weird angles really easily. Or, M loves seeing herself in the screen so I can get her to smile at herself by flipping it to face the front!

However the camera struggles in low light conditions. It has a red eye light, but when it activates M tends to stare at it in vacant-eyed fascination, giving lots of zombie-baby pics.

Sounds like there's teeth starting to pop through all over the place. M is chewing on everything in sight, but no immediate evidence of teeth yet.

A new query... How are all the LO's doing regarding hair?

M lost virtually all the hair she was born with (which was a shame, as I quite liked her hairy werewolf ears!) and now has a dusting of brown hair everywhere aside from the little patches at the back where her head must rub on the (infant/cot safe) pillow. I assume those will fill in over time..?

M is scratching her head a lot, she did have some dry patches of cradle cap but they've mostly gone now. Is it likely to just be itchy because the hair is growing, does anyone know?

thanks a million for all the advice re the cameras ladies! will take it all on board. have barely had a minute to myself all day so am going to have a flick through my camera now about the red eye thing. this water situation is really starting to get to me. just a very annoying time of the month for it to happen! my friend took some washing for me this evening and one of my clients who is coming tomorrow offered to take washing home with her tomorrow! obviously i won't do that but people are so good!
chulita that sounds really scary about L. you poor thing and poor her i'd say its frightening to say the least.
stac is everything ok with J at school?
spireal E's hair hasn't fallen out at all really. just a patch at the back where her head rubs when she sleeps. it's actually grown quite a bit! she was quite red when she was born but it seems to be going quite blonde now. but then sometimes it looks red again and other times it looks brown! i'd say it will definately be fair anyway.
cakes how was F after that today? did he eat?
memphis wow you're going to be busy in the kitchen. i'm thankful i didn't arrange to have any dinners here over christmas with the water situation!
well E was cranky again for a little while this evening with her poor gums. calpol and ambesol are just the bee's knees!! dp is out tonight with his friends so i'm sitting with a well deserved glass of wine :)

kk cant believe your water situation!! how are you managing? x mas dinner is easy i dont understand why people plap about it we are up at 6 i will put it in then so it will be done for 10 then we go out visiting relations then oven on at 1 everything on hob and in oven and then done thats why i do it because all my other relatives run around like they have no head!!
spirael will try him on it this week, regarding hair L hardly has any he was born with barely any hair!! but his eye lashes are so long they curl back on themselves, just been reading your thread, it turned into a breast feeding thread!! last night i had a pizza and i turned around and L had a huge slice in his hands the sneaky boy pulled it off my plate!! luckily it didnt get to his nouth before i snatched it away!!

F has been spoon-fed (this, the blw TODDLER) a few things today so I'm feeling a tad less panicky. He did do three loose nappies tho, which is a hanging offence at nursery so praying he doesn't do it there tomo - I soo need a break from 'Duddle, mummy. Duddle, mummy' then 'NO!! Mummy!' And he could do with the distraction.

Wherefort art thou tsc / ph?! Am missing the bad influence yur swearing has on the rest of this thread? ;-) all ok there?

Likewise needle and trudyla we need your arty/continental touches!

dh you prob know this already but with blw you can mix it all the hell up. Prob one of the reasons why tis best to wait til 6m if you're going to do it.

mlic how are you managing to settle w sans dummy? A has been a pain with her the last two evenings so its life is currently endangered.

kk how the hell are you managing without water?!

spirael F the baby from hell also had a v itchy scalp which became baby eczema (anyone noticed I post far more about my issues with my oct 08 baby than my july 10 one...?) If m does develop it then do let me know as docs seem to be very out of date with good eczema treatment. I was 'lucky' that a friend's daughter had it terribly so we learnt from her doc's mistakes! Fingers crossed it'll just clear up soon anyway.

Xposted like buggery!

spirael my two were both baldies so had none to lose. So freaking jealous of A's lashes tho!

mlic the dummy's life is endangered btw not my child called 'it' ;-)

memphis dp got some bottles at work and he's filling them so that gives me enough to wash, sterilise and fill madam's bottles, his dad brought up some big drums today to flush the toilets, i went to my friends last night for shower and dp went to his friends on the way out tonight. the washing is really building up and i'm running out of clothes to wear but there's just not a lot else we can do! going to have to bring E up to dp's mums tomorrow eve for her bath. re the christmas dinner its the preparing that takes the longest for sure! i'd be the type of person who'd be runnign about like i've no head and getting panicky that everything was going to turn out ok! i'm actually quite nervous to cook for other people! that made me laugh out loud at L with the pizza!

x post cakes! apart from the above, i can't do colours unless people are prepared to wash them out themselves at home and with cuts and blowdries people are having to come to me with their hair washed! not ideal but hey ho!

I don't want to haven't got time to type much as I'm just in from night out (well, in with face washed and into pjs with a quick skim of the thread)

cake W has got incredibly attached to crumble and chews it a lot. If he stirs I go and pat his bum/back (he sleeps on his side) andgive him his comforter back if it's out of reach, if that doesn't work I put 10mins of environemtnal sounds on his lullaby bear thingy. If all else fails I feed him, but that's maximum twice a night. Usually once.

I still can't quite believe it but he hasn't woken since I put him down. Do I go to bed or dreamfeed? Decisions, decisions...

Go to bed!

F up screaming with teeth :-(

Hope you had a good night out.

I don't remember you answering chulita about whether you've tried the calpol/nurofen combination cake? I, like her, find it works wonders. My mam was like yours wrt school chulita, I literally would not dare to try it on! She can be quite scary when she wants to, even at the age of 30 I wouldn't lie to her! I remember being sent to school a lot of the time when I said I felt bad anyway and 9 times out of 10 I picked up. Although I do remember throwing up all over the school coridoor once when I'd said I wasn't well

And the decision was made for me! I had literally clicked post and he woke up. I went to bed 11.50 and he was up 3 times last night. I'm pretty tired, but had a nice night with my old workmates so it was worth it :)

kk poor you with no water! And over Christmas as well! I salute you for managing so well with a baby in the house.

memphis you do have a life! Its called Mumsnet
Yeah one flavour at a time, I get a bit carried away lol.

cakes what Ive decided to do is give him food off a spoon for a couple of weeks til he's 6 months then offer him finger foods when hes got that picking up skill a bit more refined.

He woke twice between 10 and half 7 last night, may have been more but Ive blocked it from my memory!

Going to a baby group today, another xmas party

kk that's awful with you having no water. It happened to us one summer in Gloucester for 2 weeks but because everyone was out of water the council dropped bottles off for us. Can't imagine how you're managing esp cos you need it for work too!
cake any secrets you've got for eczema treatment would be gratefully received! L's always struggled and I just can't get anything to shift it.
mlic I always find if I debate on a dreamfeed he always wakes up so now I just do it anyway. I only fed S once last night so I'm still tired but it's good not to have the every 90 mins feed!

oh sorry chulita i missed your question re neurofen/calpol. yes i do do that but wasn't keeping it up round the clock til yday when i thought it was the only way he'd eat. the problem i find is that teething goes on so long (with these back teeth) you'd have to drug them 24/7 for weeks!

Eczema 101 (from Know-it-all Cake: from eczema to cameras - i'm your woman)

Don't use anything with SLS on their skin (this includes the aqueous cream doctors inevitably prescribe - comes under different names so check ingredients), the eczema soc have recently published a paper saying SLS is one of the worst things for eczema as it actually thins AND irritates the skin.

Get a free sample of some Pure Potion Skin Salavation - we found F's eczema had nearly all gone by the time we'd used up the sample (less than 2 weeks), this was after a year+ of him frequently bleeding where he'd scratched himself raw and us trying various prescription stuff. We then bought a tub and used it twice a day, it ran out about 2 months ago and he's had no eczema AT ALL since

My friend's daughter had a really bad case of it - it was all over her body, had to wear a special 'suit' to bed, was constantly covered in scabs and frequently on antibiotics/steroids. Even hers nearly all cleared up with the Pure Potion (after trying literally every prescription treatment known to mankind). There was one patch which for some reason didn't clear up but they found a cream from Arbonne that did the trick on that. If PP doesn't totally work on L then I'll get the details of the arbonne stuff for you.

Hope this works!

Oh and washing-wise I stick to 'Pure' washing tabs (from Sainsburys) and Green Force fabric conditioner (mega cheap from Wilkos). When I try different brands both F and Dh are itching like mad.

oh and Aveeno Oil (from docs) to bath him in/clean him with

Dp's brother suffers from ezcema so i'll pass on that info.
Well my friend that took E's washing text last night to say that it's all stuck in the washing machine as her water is gone too . She had a few bits of my clothes too. At least we have heat! going to have to brave going to town and buy some vests and babygros for madam. The thoughts of it! so bloody annoying that near enough the whole town is without water now because of frost. How can this happen?!

Im so bored. Ive got 3 hours til I go to the baby group, 3 hours!

Thanks cake! I'll get a pot of that in to try. L is like your friend's girl - she sleeps in a hideous silk 'suit', we've got a drawer stuffed full of every steroid/antibiotic/moisturiser you can think of and she's allergic to all of them bar one. She was under a paediatric consultant before we moved and he couldn't think of anything else for us to try. Her whole body is covered in it and when she has a flare-up she scratches herself til she bleeds. Her sheets are always covered in bloodspots regardless of how often I wash them. She regularly wakes up scratching herself and crying. I'll definitely give that one a go because I feel so sorry for her knowing that she has no idea how it feels not to itch! We use Ecoballs for our clothes so no worries on that front, she reacts to pretty much everything else.
As for the teeth front...freaking eh! How long do they take to come through??

arghh just lost long post when mac ran out of batteries

in summary...

sounds like L really suffers from it. really hope it works. my friend was recommended it by another mother whose daughter it 'cured' so think it's basically miracle cream!

tell me about ecoballs - have been thinking of trying them

back teeth - about 8 weeks a friend said yday!

felix was jack-knifing round our bed screaming 'Noooooo! Nooooo!' last night. lucky our walls are thick as our neighbour would be thinking about calling the ss

the amber necklace has helped tho as the last lot of teeth he was also kicking the shit out of us too

i just defluffed some cushions using spit* - and then looked up and noticed i was doing it right in front of a funeral

*note in my defence: no-one ever uses said cushions other than the cat the fluff came from

There's times when its nice living opposite two churches and there's times like this....

Tesco was hiddeous. I went to the one about 10 miles away as it's massive (Iwanted to get some Christmas presents too), spent an age in there thanks to a mid-shop feed where I had to go to Costa and warm bottle and eat croissant then feed him, then fight my way round the rest of the shop. Typically I was packing my shopping when W started screaming like the world was due to end and therefore there wasn't a thing I could do about it until I'd packed/payed a ridiculous amount of money and I'm not even doing the Christmas dinner. Then I had to cross town to give mam the fresh sage she couldn't get in her Tesco, then drive home via the post office to pick up the free samples of Heinz I've been sent which I can't even use as they have cow's milk in them!

Come home and feeding E, then plan on getting W weighed as he hasn't been weighed since beginning of November and I don't know when I'll next get chance after Christmas.

Busy, busy. I'm knackered to from late night / 3 wakings / up at 6

Knackered too

Ecoballs do the job, I find everything goes a funny grey colour though like eventually they just suck the brightness out of things. Whites are especially bad so all L's vests are grey but they do get things clean. They also make the clothes come out smelling like wet cloth rather than soap so if you like fake 'clean' smells that soap gives you'll need fabric conditioner or something. We've been using them for about 18 months and other than the colour thing we've got no complaints.

8 weeks? that's assuming you know when they actually started teething though and L's symptoms have been going on for what feels like ages. She currently upstairs crying in bed, I spent 20 mins lying next to her but can't spend all day there :(

PS I fell over in the snow today

Luckily I (a) didn't have a child in my arms and (b) it was on my drive so nobody saw me

x-post mlic did you have a good night last night? I've not braved the shops even though we're short on stuff. Need to get S weighed today too but can't imagine the children's centre will be open...

Yes had a lovely bottle of wine meal thanks, and catch up. Boy am I glad I'm not going back to work!