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

some of that didn't make sense...

i wasn't catching up on riven's thread with dh! i was supposed to be spending time with him but was sneaking on MN to read it.

Aurelia was in her nest on the floor beside F's chair.

I'm glad- I thought we were the only ones feeding to sleep still.

Urgh. I've just ruined a perfectly good cake with waaay too much icing. I feel so sick.

Not off a booster cakes no but Dylan who Is 4 so has no real excuse for falling off his chair did so last week. I had turned round to make my sandwich so don't quite know how it happened

He managed to drop his sandwich on top of bethan and got cheese tangled up in her hair he was in floods of tears. Bethan was fine until I started to cuddle and make a fuss of Dylan then she was in floods of tears.

A biscuit helped with dylans tears and a cuddle stopped bethan's although I did have to wash her hair in the sink because it was properly moshed in and she stunk of strong cheddar for the rest of the day

cakes I have lost count of the number of chairs dd has fallen off, she pushes back and the thing topples over, sure we have had a few booster seat incidents, she is such a fidget bum.

Apparently Riven is front page of the Mirror tomorrow..

Thanks everyone, I have went with the harsh mum. He is enjoying it just missing home. They phoned me before bed so I had a chat with him, not even offering an option to come home and focused on how much a of a great time he was having. Then I came off the phone and cried [big sap emoticon]. As you all say he is back Friday not too long and there isnt any real problem thank goodness.

cakes glad they are both ok. R fell from her high chair when we first got it dp hadnt strapped her in right and she wriggled. She was fine but we were panicking

mlic your group sounds great, wish we had sure start but its not up here

memphis maybe next week will be a turning point for you with regards to the birth

tsc are you loving the new machine? Saw the article for riven in the guardian hope it helps her

dh R wouldnt take her porridge tonight so I am just betting she will be up shortly, hope D has a good night

Congrats on the win dythlan defo buy your kindle

needles hope you and new friend stick together, I still meet up with becky and violet from the thread as I dont have any friends with babies, all their kids are older. How was the dinner party?

Well off to bed, I am out early tomorrow seeing friends. Night all

Thanks stac it wasnt too bad.

Annoyingly Dylan slept til half 4 but DP bloody woke me up half 1. He didnt feel well and kept getting out of bed, getting water etc. He still went to work today though. Hes coming home at lunchtime maybe earlier as we've got the registry office thing.
We're going to the golf club at 6 to talk to them about the reception.
OMG its really happening!!

Dylan kept crying in his sleep :( like really loud wailing, anyone had any experience of this??

dh is he getting some teeth? G has had 2 teeth pop through in the last week and although she doesn't seem too bothered by teething, there have been some half-wakings up crying during the night.

Dh had 4 job interviews this week and has been offered a job by 2 of them. Yay! His current job is commission only and it's not been going very well so it's all been a bit of a strain financially.

Last night wasn't great again. Aurelia was up and down between 3am and 6am. Think it must be teething as it wasn't wind and there's always been something specific with her when it comes to not sleeping. Will be armed with calpol and ambesol tonight, as was too sleepy to think of it last night.

I'm finding 9-12m clothes fit A perfectly (she's not 6m til next week), i haven't had her weighed in ages (will try today) but I don't think she's on the huge side. Am wondering if 6-9month clothes are a bit of a con! Some makes (such as the Gap top she has on today) are 6-12months which makes me wonder if they don't grow all that much between 6 and 12 months.

Congrats wss! That's great news

dh no i've not experienced that but teething does sound most likely

poor bethan with her cheesy hair dylthan!

stac sounds as tho you did the right thing with J

needle i don't feed to sleep but tbh that's mainly because A just doesn't do it of her own accord rather rather than i've been super duper at preventing it. With F I used to try not to feed him to sleep so he was v sleepy rather than fast asleep. As he got older i used to try to wake him up a bit as i put him down. Funnily enough he actually didn't struggle to go down at all once i stopped bf. Wouldn't worry too much - they adjust to everything ok in the end.

dh B does do that. She'll be fast asleep then all of a sudden give out a loud wail. It dosen't wake her it's almost like she's having a bad nightmare. It's horrible to hear but dosen't seem to bother her at all.

dylthan well done on winning :) hope you get something nice for you, mums tend to be awful at that!
dh I've not had that either, hope he stops, can't be much fun to wake up to.
memphis I'm glad the group went well, hope you make some friends from it too!
needle yay for potential friend! I'm a bit still haven't cracked my town yet.
cake I'm a bit suspicious about sizing too tbh. DD is average size and is still in a lot of 18-24 month stuff. She's just been given some 18 months stuff that my 4 year old niece wore last year It annoys me cos it makes boxing old clothes rather difficult - I'd like to have them in neat 0-3mth order!
mlic every day I decide that this is the day I get back into it...hmm. Just annoyed I nearly did the month and now I'm back at square one (that and the fact that I love eating so much!)
stac fwiw I went to boarding school and was soooooo homesick for a lot of the first couple years but it would only hit me every now and then, the rest of the time I loved it. My parents only heard about it when I was sad though so they'd be wondering whether to bring me home. (It took about 8 weeks for the sad letters to get there, they'd think about getting me home but by then it was near the end of term ) If he grizzes it out it'll be better for his confidence I reckon. And no shame in crying, it'd be worse if you did I think!

Well, I'm now working on the assumption that S has a wheat or gluten intolerance on top of his dairy hatred. Bloody brilliant...every since we've started weaning (with toast/rusk etc) he's been windy/sicky and showing all signs of reflux again. So today I'm doing non-gluten and seeing if it makes a difference. Bad day to try really though, he's got his last set of jabs today :( and he's timed his naps really, really badly for them, he'll have been up for 2.5 hours by the time he gets them and will probably sleep on the 10 min journey home and then not want to sleep when we get back. ARGH!

rivens story was on daybreak and lorraine this morning, think its on the front of the mail too, ah the power of mumsnet!!!
stac one more day and J will be home! i bet he comes off the bus with a big smile on his face!!! i hope i make some friends from it but the only one who lives near me is the oldest one who if im honest was a bit of a know all (she worked for homestart but not in the area were in) but hope to find at least one friend, one i really like was the most effected she made me look sane and she was lovely bless her!

L is sleeping terribly, he had the runs last night, he was up from 12.30 til 1.30 screaming and from 4 til6 doing the same so im still not dressed, he isnt hungry but he scatches asnd pushes you away if you try and comfort him, i really dont know why he is waking so upset i need to phase it out somehow he was sleeping through and never woke this much before, i ended up in tears saying i cant cope, sometimes i feel like he hates me!!

I'm soo over these flipping 'leaking the moment the enter the world' poos that A is having almost every day. The one she just did was doubly annoying as a) it stank! (bearing in ind this baby has only ever had bm and calpol that's just weird) and b) she was wearing some new trousers I really liked.

decided i'm not putting her in vests in the day now as it's just another item that has to come off and go in the wash, will just put her in another layer without bottom poppers.

chulita that's so true re sizing. the last lot of F's I cleared away I had no idea which bag to put them in as i think there were some 9-12m clothes he'd been wearing at 2!

memphis sounds like the group started well, hope it helped to see others going thru the same stuff as you.

needle kept meaning to ask if you have nct bump and babes meet-ups near you? we have monthly ones in local cafes.

oh and Yay! re Riven's story in the media.

Riven and Mumsnet have made it to the front page of BBC too... Here.

cakes i always got told baby poo dont smell, they lied!! lyndons has always smelt sour, at the moment it is so bad it makes me cough poor boy im on 5th nappy of the morning and the last one was teetering on the edge of getting on his lovely cords and tanktop!!!

have you guys with 2 or more children felt like you're starting to get into a groove now? I feel like in the last couple of weeks I've been really enjoying the days most of the time. Yesterday was hard as I was feeling so sleep-deprived but even then I still enjoyed being with the two of them.

Have got into a bit of a routine too which seems to work well in terms of getting out and about:

Mondays: trip to the library for F, visit a charity shop so F can choose a toy, pay the lady and put donation in box then usually meet a friend for a cup of tea

Tuesdays: F in nursery. Take A to baby sensory then often meet a friend for lunch (this week went with a mother i'd just met in the previous term of sensory)

Wednesdays: Take F to music class then go for a cup of tea with a friend whose dd goes to the same class

Thursdays: F in nursery so have a leisurely morning with A then usually meet DH or a friend for lunch then a mad afternoon doing expressing/homework/prep ready for evening class

Friday: i've set up a weekly arrangement with a few friends and their DCs to meet at a nearby (nice-ish) playbarn (soft play) so the toddlers can let off steam and we can collapse, drink tea and chat .

sorry i didn't mean to exclude those of you on your first baby - the question still applies!

it was just i found the first months of having 2 children pretty tough in terms of getting any kind of routine which was actually enjoyable rather than just feeling i was constantly feeding, changing or trying to get one of them to sleep.

I don't have a routine either. I think it helps if you have something to do everyday. I've only got the one thing on a Monday, every other day is just winging it really.
mlic S is constipated too. DH got really excited at his (Sam's that is) last poo cos it was 'like a big boy's poo'. I didn't have the heart to tell him he'd been fighting it for about 3 days and it's not a good thing!
And yea, what is it with this 'baby poo doesn't smell' myth. S often has minging smelly ones that stink out the living room for ages!
I'm hoping to get him weighed today, he hasn't been checked for aaaages. Just need to wake L up and I don't really want to!

I think that's just it chulita and mlic. Before this weekly 'routine' started to fall into place recently I felt like i/we were just surviving iyswim?

It surprised me how long it's taken this time as I was v lucky to meet some good friends early on with Felix and I we did about a trillion classes a week!

Is there not much going on round where you are in terms of classes/groups/friends with DCs or is it just you're still at survival stage due to sleep deprivation?

nixster some nice star prints in m and s at the mo. Just bought a hoodie for a friend's dd and then couldn't resist getting A one in 12-18m (sob!) To put away for later.

Thanks tsc for making me snort in the shop queue!