July 2010: Better child-proof the home, it won't be long now 'til our babes start to roam!

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New thread.

As you were

well wss if he had smelly feet you could class it as abuse
mlic i do it all the time, my steamer cleans everytime, dh always scrubs it, im one that would prefer to buy a new one! when i 1st moved out of home i bought 3 microwaves in a year rather than clean them, my mum does it for me now its one job i refuse to do!
dh has gone out and im bored, all i can do is look on the net! i also have half a trifle i may eat!
wonder how needle is not seen her in a while, also someone may have said in past but what happened to anifersgirl

I thibk anifers came back and posted not so long ago and everything was goibg really well for her.
What did dh say about centreparks?! or did you suprise him yet?!
Tsc that sounds like your day is going well so far. Hope bedtime is as good! I dont know how you feel about liga or rusk but what about a bit of one of them mixed with formula? are you planning to try and introduce it soon or go with the flow?

I just noticed that dh Lots of good ideas in there though, going to sift through and write some down!
memphis so glad little L is clearing his guts at last :)
kkfairy hooray for water!
tsc there are some freaking loons on this forum - seriously don't think they live in the same world I do...
Right, I'm off to bed, boob's aching and I'm grumpy. Hope you all have a lovely sleep!

Dylan woke at 3, then 4:15 then 6:30 and didnt really go back to sleep after that.

Ive got nothing to do today. I need to hoover but that wont take long. Ill prob go out again, maybe down the beach to walk Dylan and get some sea air into him to make him sleep tonight

mlic Dylan was sick aswell, on my side of the bed, lovely! I fed him lying down so he took in loads of air, when DP picked him up he did a huge burp!

I gave him chicken last night but he was so tired he didnt seem very interested in it.

morning everyone, L woke at 4 for the second day in a row since dh has been at work, this is what he did before xmas, for xmas he slept through til 6 now dh is back at work its back to 4 grrr! i refused to get him til he was properly crying and by then he kept saying maaaammm maaaammm, i sat there in silence then said to dh why when hes trying to make me guilty he sounds like hes calling me hopefully tonight it will be daddd daaaadddd, i doubt it though all his noises start with mmmmmmm, i just kept saying in my head he is 6 months he isnt ACTUALLy saying mam!
going into town got to buy a bloody microwave now, so watch out ladies, mlics blew up now mine maybe its a thread thing and someone else is next!!

tsc when L is sick now he eats it is proper sick smells of bile etc rarely just milky now

morning all, ds away back to school yay! Have to get some food shopping but thats about it. R woke at 4.30 then 6 and is eating again just now. Regarding solids, how much do lo's take? R doesnt seem to take much, its been worse since she was ill. dh and mlic hope both babies are better soon. tsc had a look at the thread it seemed extreme. X

tsc it wasnt really sick, more like all the milk Id just fed him as he had alot of wind and that pushed it all back up withing 5 mins of drinking it.

mlic all I said was he doesnt sleep through the night, he sleeps in my bed and she went off on a bit of a tangent. Saying I shouldn't co-sleep I should do CC (although she didnt call it that, just explained what it is)
I didnt pay any attention, I just said 'yeah' in the right places.
DP doesnt want to do CC anyway so Im not doing it, only in a few months time if things get really bad and even then I dont know if thats the best option.

Found a patch of reception in cottage if I do the downward dog in an exact spot of the bedroom :-)

Dh - as others have said your hv should not be telling you that (do these freaks get any training at all?)

It's your choice whether to co-sleep or cc - and unless you have a angel baby it'll usually be one or the other.

If you're happy co-sleeping for now then just carry on.

tsc is right re bf babies being a bit harder but in saying that both of mine went down fine in the evenings after a bedtime routine (felix was older probably 4 to 5 months whereas A was from about 7 weeks). A normally sleeps well on her own and if she wakes up it'll be due to wind or reflux or wanting her dummy rather than for bf. So they're all different!

Will post later if I can as F is asleep and dh is out with A so going to have a nap myself!

i have tried a bit of cc but only when as you say mlic when i know she isnt genuinely upset. My mil feels you should let a baby cry as it strengthens their lungs (probs an old wives tale)

memphis aw thats cute it sounds like mama not so good as your left feeling guilty. Was L unsettled when dh went back to work, R has been a bit funny today.

Its a dull wet day here, may wait till after school to go to the shops. Anyone doing anything today?

hope your enjoying your hols cakes

Hello all. I know I haven't posted in ages - having a bit of a love/hate relationship with my puter atm.

DS is challenging atm - 24 weeks old, he can roll to tummy - then gets stuck and cross. He has decided he doesn't like sleeping on his own and that 5am is a good wake up time - just as well hes so cute! He has one tooth and I think he is teething again, I have tried twice this morning to put him down for his nap, both times he woke within a minute and we are on feed number 5 this morning I think. Was going to put off weaning until 26 weeks, but am tempted to get started sooner??

And that is why you can't buy medised for under 6's!
I personally co-sleep (well ds is suposed to be in bedside cot but always ends up next to me) and don't expect ds to sleep thrpugh - if he does 6 hours straight thats fab!
DH's GP (who he went to for a bad back) told dh that dd at 4mo needed a bit of discipline, let her cry! I had to pursuade dh that actually GP's aren't always childcare experts!

haha i was sitting here thinking surelyits easier to say nearly 4yo than 198 weeks!!
dh im shocked she said cc as thats more about choice of the parent, my hv wouldnt bat an eyelid at that, but i do feel like a criminal whenever i go docs or hv trying to make me agree that i co sleep, as they are dead against it here due to a local baby dying when co sleeping but i have never done it and think they are shocked i dont do it, i said to doc the other week the closest i get to it is propping him up in bed while i watch half hour of daybreak i think they just like to tell new mums off!! My friend is fron the US and there they push co sleeping she has 4 in a bed and has never owned a cot!!
stac he is quite unsettled since dh went back doesnt help that he hear dh's van pull off every morning! hes parking it at end of road from tonight, was going into town today but its raining and i hate taking pushchair in the shop with a raincover on so i may just stay in house all day L had been asleep for 2 hours!! got clutter clearing to do but cant be bothered!

dh some hv's just say the first thing that comes into their head. I'm always quite happy to ignore them if I don't agree with them
I just let S cry for 20 mins til he went quiet. He's been up for 3.5 hours cos we had some errands to run so he was overtired and not settling. I'm not doing cc at this age but if he doesn't want feeding then he gets left I'm afraid!
I'm hoping to get both down for a nap at the same time so I can get Shredded, it's hit and miss though. I don't think I can do it with L up, she'll just get in the way!
welcome back wonder
got to go, destructive 2 year old is on the rampage!

i think the 17 week guideline was there for so long that professionals are having a hard time getting their heads round it. HV I saw with dd, 2.5 years ago confidently told me that WHO guidlines were for African babies and UK babes were the same size at 17 weeks that African babies were at 26!! Scary thing is at the time I believed her