September 2010: windy bums, weaning starts to loom!

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A starter for 10 on our Sept 2010 babies as their first Christmas comes nearer! Can't believe we're there already; I was barely pregnant last Xmas!

I've got both mine on my knee.....i played the nursery rhymes card too early.......damn.

What a busy day!

Saoirse When you say you were weaned at 1 do you mean weaned onto solid food or weaned off the breast?

Where can I get an Amby which won't break the bank? Lucy loves to be snuggled and it looks so comfy, can't spend £150 on one though.

On controlled crying, IMO it is horrible. Mainly because I can't bear to hear the babies cry and it makes me upset to hear them. Lucy likes to have a 2-3 minute cry before her afternoon nap but it isn't solid crying, more like grumpy whinging. We've found that if we put her in her cot and we wrap her up for a walk she drops off quite easy. For now at least.

What a busy day!

Saoirse When you say you were weaned at 1 do you mean weaned onto solid food or weaned off the breast?

Where can I get an Amby which won't break the bank? Lucy loves to be snuggled and it looks so comfy, can't spend £150 on one though.

On controlled crying, IMO it is horrible. Mainly because I can't bear to hear the babies cry and it makes me upset to hear them. Lucy likes to have a 2-3 minute cry before her afternoon nap but it isn't solid crying, more like grumpy whinging. We've found that if we put her in her cot and we wrap her up for a walk she drops off quite easy. For now at least.

Sassy - dont be daft. i know u didnt mean anything like that. x

chelle
I looked back at my post and i thought i was answering your question, not giving advice. Think cos cinnamon says 'i agree with sassy', it implies i was advicing! So i blame cinnamon

Hehe sassy , don't let cinnamon get you in trouble!

debs We were weaned onto solids from EBM, does that count? My mum actually wanted to keep us on EBM as long as possible and that's when our demands outweighed her supply!

dixie Orlaith's like that with her toys. She used to happily lie on her playmat but now she gets frustrated with all those toys around

saoirse I know! I don't need the help, i can do it all by myself. hehehehe. (god i hope cinnamon knows i'm joking, or else i'll be shunned soon!)

Can believe you'd blame me!!! Yes I knew you were joking, I was thinking the same though that I wasn't suggesting that chelle1986 did and feeling guilty. Faces and voices are most important to young babies so just chatting and singing is good. Really recommend the baby yoga if you can find a class or fancy doing it at home, has bits for mum to do too and relaxation too.

Mellymooks my ds1 has recently been worried about monsters (he's 3 and 8 months), not to the extent you are talking about but he is frightened of the dark now too so I think he's just becoming more aware. If dss is at his mum's the ds1 thinks there are monsters in his bed and he won't get out of the car on his own if it's dark. Read your other thread and I do tell there are no monsters, I think admitting they exist will just make her more frightened.

Think I need to rename myself clumsymumluckybaby, but that would be a bit confusing! Had a horrendous fall with Arlo earlier. Was feeding him on the sofa and my mum arrived, she always peers through the window rather than ring the bell in case she wakes him. So I went to get up off the sofa holding Arlo and I don't know how but I over- balanced, went toppling sideways and both of us ended up on the floor. I hit my head on the coffee table, and seriously thought I might have broken Arlo's neck or something as he ended up in between the legs of the coffee table and landed quite hard. And my mum was watching the whole thing through the window. Well Arlo screamed, obviously, but was fine after a feed, not a mark on him. I on the other hand have a large bump on my head and a cut on my ear. Was so scary, the moment after it happened, I just looked at him expecting him just to go limp, so glad when he started crying, and then he seems not even to be bruised. Argh! Must be more careful!!! Now keep imagining if he'd hit the table instead of me...or if I did it while carrying him down the stairs...gonna have nightmares about this I reckon! And my mum too probably.

dixie you can re name yourself when you do something like that, ^every single day (im thinking about starting a blog about it!)...BTW dont worry,babies are very^ bouncy!

Ok so lost my post! Arrgh!

Cinnamon, Sassy back in the naughty corner! chelle I do pretty much the same as Sassy although not for the same reason! Never thought of helping him play independently, Just don't have the time to play as much as I would like. I just sing silly songs, wave toys, & pull funny faces and alternate position etc!

JodeyLea Who advised the baby rice? I'm sure you have tried everythin but have you tried infant gaviscon? It worked a treat for ds1.

Melly I've commented on your thread. I really hope things settle down for you! unmumsnetty hugs coming your way!

clumsy, I've promised Arlo I won't drop him again, so will hold off on renaming myself for now

dixie that sounds really scary, I bet you've never been so glad to hurt yourself!

Who was asking about amby hammocks? I was just looking on ebay and there's loads so you should be able to get them cheaper.

Has anyone moved from using a moses basket on to a crib? Olly has about 3 cm left in his moses basket and DP isn't ready for him to go in to his own room yet. If we put cotbed in our room we won't be able to move....crib seems logical - what do u reckon?

If I'm honest I'm prob not quite ready to put him in his own room yet either.

dixie - you wally! Hope your ok, lucky escape there. Am always petrified of falling with Olly - I can fall over invisible things am that clumsy!

Been giving tiny sips of water this week to get him used to it - he seems to really like it....and loves holding the sippy cup! haha...

I do that a lot Dixiebell, what if that had happened, what if they'd fallen that way instead of this and it drives me mad. We often walk past the river over a bridge and I usually sit ds1 on the wall buy as we were approaching in my mind I started to think what if he fell in I couldn't jump in after him as I had Luke in the sling and he Wouk certainly drown so I would have to stop and take him out and then he'd be on the path while ds1 and I floated down the river. So when he asked to look at the ducks I said no just in case!!!

Thanks for your message on facebook bananastew, I thought I was fine with it whichever group we were in but I'm not as happy as I thought! I hope I will chelle1986, thinking that I'll start with fruit/veg purées as they suggest and if he enjoys it will carry on if he's spitting out more than he's eating will stop for a bit an just say he's not getting with it. Glad your babies enjoyed their rice sassy34264, ds1 hated it but loved food once I gave him carrot and has ever since- he's definitely my son

Completely unrelated but those of you on Facebook, I'd like to draw your attention to my friend with the initials J C neeS. Just take note of any status I write & how she has to go 1 better or have it worse! She does it with everyone & its really annoying!
Some examples .........is fed up & just wants this baby out! "I know how you feel but at least you're not heavily pregnant in the heat wave like I was!"
...........Has a poorly boy! hope we get more than 4 hours sleep tonight! "Mine are both poorly too only got an hours sleep lastnight. Going to take them to the Dr today!" AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

clumsy glad you're both ok and am secretly relieved that someone else has had a tumble with their lo
I was keeping quiet about what I did to poor lil Jack when he was 5 weeks old.
I was having horrendous nightmares about my labour and was sleeping on the sofa with Jack in his basket (on it's stand, on the floor at my foot end). I must have really thrashed out thinking of one particularly horrid midwife and the next thing I knew I was on the floor and Jack had tipped out of his basket. He was face down and screaming. Oh god it's awful thinking of it again but the basket had tipped sideways so I'm sure he rolled quite gently out the side of it as it fell. I HOPE! He was fine afterward but of course I never mentioned it to a HV. Hope my address isn't anywhere on here!
chelle so glad Olly is sleeping! Is his teething not so bad at the mo? Bless him.
cinnamon melley awwwwwww monsters?? I guess we have all this to look forward to not How on earth do you stop yourselves wanting to cuddle them in your own bed??
Had a lovely couple of days as I'm making an effort to get out every day to help pass the time. Still car sharing with DH so i'm exhausting all possible places within walking distance. Basically a garden centre, 2 coffee shops, a co-op and 3 farm shops. I might go and make friends at the vets again just for some new faces.
Hope everyone's well and please just pretend you never read the bit about my tipping a baby out of his bed!

banana ha ha ha ha! baby wars! She sounds like a bit of case. Like my sil..... she thinks she's the only person out there to have kids and moans on and on! Ahhhhh well!

So many crossed posts!

Chelle!!!! HIYAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!

Chelle Ollys in a crib. Just be careful of the bars! I have to have him in a grow bag cos otherwise he gets his leg stuck! I love cribs. I think thats what babies should be in

I dropped Toby when I was pregnant! Fell out the door & we both went down! like someone said, babies bounce!!!

BEADY HIYYYYAAAAAA! Goin bed now but tomorrow am sending you my mobile number!!! I miss the beadster!!!! hehe. x

poor little Arlo,he's so ill

he sounds like 70 yr old smoker,hacking and coughing.snott streaming from his little nose,and he's biteing everything,he so sad...just whimpering to himself

banana my cousin is the same,she is a compleate f'ing nightmare!

Oh clumsy poor lil man! hope he picks up soon! xx

chelle I'll try and get on facebook tmrw! We need an appointment diary me thinks!
Jack is in a crib and I bought Ikea's really cheapy but really long cot bumper and so all the bars are covered!

Sending big get well hugs to Arlo clumsy
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thanks guys

melly i hope your dd is feeling better soon. im sorry i have no advice....the anti monster spray was a good idea though eh?

Clumsy hope little man is better soon! I bought Phoebe an ointment called snuffle baby today. you can put it on their chest but I just put some on her bedclothes to help clear her nose while she sleeps. its like vicks vaporub but for babies.

banana I know the martyrs!! such a pain. you have a headache they have a tumour, you have a c-section they have a d section! Tell her to get off the cross we need the wood!

Sassy ask away! Just feeling a bit sad cause I really dont want to go back to work. I dont have to go back for another 3 months but now its the new year its on the horizon and am struck by how much its affecting me. Im so busy with the 3 of them and find it enough to stay at home with them. I dread putting a job in the mix esp as I am a teacher so lots of work to be done in the evenings and sometimes the energy levels needed are just too much. I dont have a choice and at the moment there are a lot of things in my life I dont have a choice about and no control over and it gets me down at times. Im so lucky with my family I shouldnt complain but sometimes it just hurts that I cant give the best of me to them. Prob just being way to self pitying or hormonal - will have to give self a shoe up the backside!

Melly my wee man went thru that too. Try a night light first of allHe was carrying over some night time dreams/fears into day time. I teach infants and you can tell them all you want that monsters and other creatures dont exist but they believe what they see. (books and pictures etc) children put personalities to things and even tho they know they are not people or 'real' they are still alive to some degree because of the characteristics or traits they have attached to them. ITs a tough one to draw the line on but its all part of their world widening out. I didnt make too big a deal of it to him. Just keep telling her if she is scared she must tell you and you will deal with it. I found this the best approach as they will also learn to trust you to deal with all the 'baddies'. we were very concerned bout ds2 for a while but the more worried we got the more he fed into it. Once we decided to play it down and just say 'now no need to be afraid mammy took care of it' it all started to dissipate fairly quickly. (heard him at school telling a friend that if he wanted his daddy to take care of the big spider he would send him over!) Also must mention that the resurgence of Toy story causes a little freak out incase she has been watching that. hope that helps sorry for monster post, but know what you are going thru! x