September 2010 - meet-ups, pram addicts and the cutest babies in the world!

[Chelle1986]

Am taking the innitiative and doing the new thread! Bombs away...!

jodey none here either though I think Im feeling rumblings!
Beadit DS1 was total cone head who then went on to have quite a flat patch but it didnt seem so pronounced once he started sitting up on his own. DS2 has a huge flat patch - just like his Da! But both have loads of thick hair so no one else notices it. Phoebe has loads of hair too and then one big bald patch at the back where I have had to cut little dreadlocks from! She will have a flat bit too. See what its like when he is sitting up etc
Cinnamon I can absolutely understand why you would feel teary, that said I am an infant teacher and in my experience a high percentage of the children that are seeing a Speech therapist when they come into school or start to see one when they come to school will have a lot sorted and need no further sessions by the time they are 8.(That does not mean they are all seeing a ST regularly until they are 8. Some only need it the first year.) I have just noticed that a lot of developmental stumbling blocks are all panned out etc by roughly 8years of age.

I left the house at 10am this morn and just got back at 6. Spent morning doing grocery etc then picked up boys, playtime, then visit my mum. I have to get out every day but not usually for so long. Everyone settled in bed now and Im going to make an attempt at a workout. ugh!!

Left the boys with their nanny today! seriously, How hard is it to feed a baby!? he's been draining 7oz without a breath. I get back & he's crying & wingy & had only had 1/2oz! "got 3 lots of wind up tho!!!" thats ok then! he's starving but has no wind!

I gathered from your pictures on facebook that they were younger bellabelly! He will be 4 in April so not much older really.

I just hope it won't take too long beaditAli, he is a total chatter box but at school he is apparently very quiet! Dh is doing his best to cheer me up just feel like I've failed him. On the plus side he got a sticker in the whole school assembly (nursery attached to primary school) for being so helpful and kind to other children even though he's only been there 2 weeks!

X-posts MammyG, thank you!!

banana It must be something about nannies! Whenever Orlaith's nanny has had her I send enough bottles for the time she'll be there and usually there'll be one half drunk. Then there's all these conversations about how she's got wind and that's why she's crying really?!
They came over on wednesday, the day Orlaith's tooth came through and she was (understandably) grumpy. She also has the ear infection and an itchy head from her cradle cap or eczema (still not sure what it is). But apparently the knowers of all who are my PIL's realised she was upset because she had wind, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

I will stop complaining about them one day, I will, I will, I WILL!

Today my mom asked if Harlyn had slept through the night and when I told her he hadn't, she rutted saying "he should be in a routine by now" I was so pissed off. He's only 4 months and still suffering with colic episodes in b4 bed and in the night. I can't force a routine on him. I sweare andy sister must have been angel babies. That or she is totally deluded about how it 'was' in her day. Don't get me wrong, she's a star and really helps me out but sometimes she just days the wrong thing and after a broken nights sleep, it pisses me off!!!!!

Maybe it's a sign of my period coming?

Took ages to settle Harlyn tonight. He cried solid from 7:30 till 9:30. Not sure if it was gas, teething or tiredness. Possibly a mixture of all 3.

Off to bed now! Night all x

tutted not rutted! Bloody predictive spelling!

I don't think it's just them saoirse86, lots of older generations put everything down to wind!! My mil and sil (her kids are 20 and 17) always ask if Luke has wind. I think we understand a bit more about what's going on with babies or perhaps they've just forgotten and wind is the thing that sticks in their minds. For me the most annoying thing is that they all still treat him like a tiny baby, my mum and stepdad included. They still cradle him and assume everytime he whinges he must need them to wander around rocking him. The fact that he now has the capacity to be bored, to want only mummy etc seems to totally escape them!

Off to visit a friend who i haven't seen since we were pregnant, babies due 2 weeks apart but hers was a week early due to elcs and Luke 2 weeks late so they are 5 weeks apart will be nice to see her and see how different they are, both on same centile. Just hope her dd doesn't boss ds1 around too much so he wants to come home!

18w+5

Saoirse do we share pil??? Everything is wind! but when she winds him she just pats his back so gently that by the time he's got any up he's past being hungry! I don't even wind him unless he stops drinking. He had 7oz without a break the other day. When I wind he gets a goot old belt!!!

cinnamon I hate it when people insist on trying to settle Olly instead of giving him back! He just ends up more upset!

Beadit not sure how to put pics on here so will put them on face book!

Finally getting round to swimming today! I'm very excited but a bit that Olly will be wearing tobys things from when he was a year old! The size difference is becoming really obvious now. (not saying olly is the size of a 1 year old, more toby was the size of a 6 month old when he was 1!)

beadit!!!!! - Olly says thank you muchly!!!!

Catch up later guys.xxx

Banana They do the opposite with wind. She gets it up really easily herself as long as she's upright and I never do it till she's finished. They do it after every 1/2oz and hit her incredibly hard. I'm really not being over-sensitive about how hard it is, if someone was hitting me that hard I'd find it very uncomfortable at best.

cinnamon they're always trying to settle her like a tiny baby. I always tell them when she's tired and say just to leave her because she'll settle herslef. 30 seconds of a bit of whinging and someone's up picking her up, rocking her, taking her to another room, sitting in the dark, all the things you do with a newborn but not with a 4 month old. They'll be saying "we shouldn't really do this, it's not helping her in the long run". Well stop it then!

They're now bringing up the weaning every time I see them. I've told them countless times that I WILL NOT be weaning her any time soon and I will see how things go. It really annoys me that they don't listen. And I genuinely don't see how it affects them so why do they need to keep asking me?! Their children are 29, 34 and 38 so can't they accept that the advice may be different now.

Last night Orlaith scared the life out of me. She was in the bath and I was washing her hair. I was looking closely at the dry bits when I noticed her whole head had gone bright red. She'd put her hands so far into her mouth that she couldn't breathe. I assume she wasn't breathing through her nose because it's blocked up. I got her hands out quickly so it all lasted 2 or 3 seconds but it was terrifying. I decided she was going in her swaddling blanket so she couldn't get her hands in her mouth in the night.

Massive post of the month award goes to me!

I've just realised that I shouldn't have said about not settling a 4 month old like that. I didn't mean to make it sound like all 4mo's are easy to settle because I know they're not. But my 4mo is. Didn't mean to annoy or upset anyone.

Orlaith 17+1

The tiny baby thing happens a lot here too! Jack absolutely hates being held like a baby! In fact ...... he's not even great in his chair as he longs to be laid out flat to beat his arms and legs everywhere.
My gripe is with nappies tho! Why oh why do so many folk NOT change nappies often enough. On so many occasions I've collected Jack and his bum feels like a brick ... another thing that seems to slip their minds.
And CAN my sister leave him alone when he's asleep???? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Thanks for the help re: flat heads. Think I have to be stricter with the Lillas Kuddis during the day tho can't have it in the cot or he's bent sideways by midnight!
Gonna try feeding him the other way around too. Not upside down or anything just the other arm!
Although..... if we have a day like yesterday (mummy hating horrible child) he's def gonna be dropped kicked thru some goal posts!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend! Thankfully I'll be nowhere your lil ones so they're safe!!

beadit they do that too. It's funny how they don't change her nappy enough when she's with them, but when they're at my house, MIL insists on changing her nappy. She always does it before Orlaith's finished (even when I tell her she's not finished) then takes the nappy off, letting her poo all over the changing mat and then leaves the dirty nappy on the dining table! It's funny how she know not to do these things in her own house!

Sorry you've had a bad day. I've had a couple of those recently with Orlaith, but I feel better knowing it's her teething/cold/ear infection/itchy head and she doesn't just hate me!

Ok no more moaning from me for a bit. I'm going out with my mum, sister, niece and nan, oh and Orlaith, to Stratford. We go all the time because it's not far from my nan's but today we're going to be tourists

I concur on the people trying to settle Arlo. I know they're just trying to be helpful and take the pressure off me but me taking 5 mins to settle him is better than everyone else in the vicinity trying and ending up with a hysterical baby, and me having to calm him anyway!

V.pleased that Arli napped for an hour in his cot this morning!

congratulations on your first tooth Orlaith

banana DS is allowed 15-30 mins a day, and even then not every day! I had a bit of a wobble about it, am i being fair etc when a friend came to stay over with her DS (same age) and I suddenly felt like i was living in the 50´s. Anyway got over that by thinking that shes permissive

clumsy and Debs75 Do you both co-sleep? Just wanted to ask what you do about naps. Maia naps on the bed at the moment (or ontop of me on the sofa ), but is getting good at rolling over, DS had a nasty fall due to this problem. (He fell off the bed and landed between the bed and sidetable, cue histeric Mother who couldn´t find him!)

Im still waiting for my period, the longer the better for me.

cinnamon sorry if Ive missed earlier post on this but what prompted you to take DS1 for check ups?

Beadit not seeing any flatness, but one very cute boy. hadn´t seen your pics before.

Beadit another thing that might help. Have you got a bumbo chair and/or bouncer/standup activity thing?? That way there's no pressure on the head at all.
One thing I've noticed tho. Toby had a very small soft spot on the top of his head. Ollys is a lot bigger. Could have anything to do with head flatness?? Plagiocephaly is the posh term!

Had a very successfull swimming trip. Olly loved it. Why does it have to be so hard tho. What happened to packing a bag, going swimming, going home, dumping the wet stuff & it magically being washed!

Saoirse I'm guilty of the nappy thing Toby regularly goes all day in the same nappy My friens calls me neglectamum!

I changed ds1's nappies much more often than I do Luke's beaditAli! He doesn't suffer from nappy rash and when they're small they wee so often that a new nappy is wet very quickly so I don't see the difference between a mostly empty wet nappy and a fuller wet nappy but each to their own and I agree that extended families should follow mum's request! I hate changing nappies which doesn't help.

patito I have had concerns over his speech for some time but have been told several times there's nothing to worry about. He has moved into the nursery attached to the primary school and the teacher there straight away said I should get his hearing checked and then apply for speech therapy if necessary, sooner rather than later.

Had a lovely chilled out day, chatting and drinking tea while the kids played and the babies played or slept. Stayed much longer than I expected which was lovely. Ds1 did get bossed about but took it well and had fun, he also got a whole bag of crisps which I never let him have and his eyes nearly popped out of his head!!

I thought babies were supposed to have a growth spurt at 16 weeks? I was waiting for it and nothing BUT Luke has been an eating machine the last two days! Still absolutely hating solids and I didn't even bother today which is very naughty of me [Blush]

Thanks patito ...... I feel bad about putting pics of his head on here so have added one of the front of him to even it out

cinnamon just that Jack HATES having a really full nappy left on so I can't understand folk not figuring that out...... still...... they can be hard to suss out sometimes

Jack has been a bit of swine the past couple of days not sure if it's a growth spurt or teething or just a full moon thing?

banana thanks for the pics! It does help to get advice from experienced mums! We do have a Bumbo but he's not so keen yet.

beadit - your not alone matey. Olly is being a swine too....we'll get there. Chin up huni. hug.xxx

Olly has drained 5 x 8.5oz bottles today...the pig...! Maybe it will make him sleep better....yeah right!!

Hmmm do i go to bed or wait for DP to get home from work...am torn!

Wonder if anyone has any advice actually - whatever time he has his feed in the night whether it be midnight, 3am, 5am....he is WIDE awake! And it is really hard to get him back to sleep - sometimes he actually WONT go back off regardless of the time. I dont talk to him, I give him a cuddle, change his bum and feed him - same as i would when it was bedtime initially and he goes off no problem - any tips?

Olly 17 weeks.xxx

chelle we don't change Louis's nappy in the night unless it's leaked or he's done a poo. Also, we don't put the light on (there's just enough from a neighbour's security light coming in). Is he wide awake before you change him? Sorry I don't have any more advice..

Don't know chelle, only that I don't bother changing Arlo in the night as it wakes him up too much. Unless he's pooed of course, but he doesn't tend to overnight. Just quiet feed and back to bed. Actually I don't even bother burping him after feed, just slip him back into cot. It doesn't seem to bother him.

X-posts and great minds, maple!