October 2010: Giggles and Wriggles

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Here we go again!!

Welcome everyone :)

Glad R was ok spring!

Don't like meds but will see how it goes.

Harriet, sorry to hear you are feeling down. You take special care of yourself. Thinking of you.

Tribble, hope your LO is better soon. How annoying re spilled food.

Flowers, well, my gym is local, so not too much of an effort to get to - I walk with DS in a sling, as I don't like leaving my pram unattended. I have a small wheely suitcase with all his kit in (swim nappy PLUS swim snug PLUS neoprene outfit - for containment AND warmth!) and the inflatable ring (which I leave inflated). He actually puts his legs out for slipping through the legholes now! So I get him changed quite quickly, I already have my costume on. I have him in the inflatable ring when I get in the pool. Getting out is not the easiest, as there are no graded steps, just a vertical ladder, but I manage. I did go swimming alone at the hotel in Liverpool when we went to that engagement party a month ago and getting out of that pool was really difficult.
DS loves swimming, we do 45 minutes, I sing nursery rhymes to him, like If You're Happy And You Know It (Splash Your Feet!), or Five Little Ducks. Take him out of the ring after 20 minutes and swim lengths without it, sometimes on his back, and he kicks. Sometimes I dunk him, but not every time. After this he is famished, so I quickly shower him, get him out of his costume, nappy on, and BF. This often zonks him out, so I put him in the suitcase asleep while I get changed! :) I have a lovely photo of him like this, I might see about uploading it to my profile! :)
Er, not sure if I have helped at all - anything specific, please feel free to ask me.

:) hello!

Hj- I hope your Gp can help and you feel better soon. I feel so much better ATM esp with sunshine outand about-it's the simple things that start to make a real difference, just not being stuck inside due to horrendous weather makes it's feel better.

Hun- I'm very envious of your swimming! Dd hasn't been yet due to us all being ill etc etc but she loves her baths with her big brother :)

Spring-glad it went well I've not left dd yet, I think were both going to have separation anxiety!!

Tribble I hope your tea was retrievable

Dd is starting to bite when bfing. No surprise as she is teething and weaning-she just grins when I explain we'll stop the feed if she continues! She'll stop soon enough (had better!!)

Morning all.

I hope you and your DS are starting to feel better Tribble. Thats so annoying for you about your dinner! Depending on the day, something like that happening to me would have made me cry. Was any of it salvageable?

Seashells My DD is starting to bite too. Have started saying ow and if she keeps it up, pulling away as when she seriously wants to eat then she'll get down to it. She was teething last week and had some tooth buds which I could feel when she was feeding, but she's adjusted her latch thank goodness.

No Hun your DS sounds like he really enjoys swimming. I was hoping to take DD swimming this week but it probably not the best idea with her earache.

Spring I'm glad R did well at the childminders. That must have been a relief.

I have a pipette for giving DD her medicine but I'm not doing very well. No matter how I try it, most of it ends up out of her mouth. I've tried squeezing it on the side of her cheek, letting her suck it out of the pipette, squirting it down her throat and when she's in a state of surprise, quickly feeding her, and I've tried feeding her and gently poking the pipette into her mouth next to my nipple and dripping the medicine in. Nothing works particularly well. Does anyone have any tips? On the plus side, the dose that I managed to get in her last night seems to have helped. I can touch around her ear now without her crying.

Elsa Not really no, I had to make myself some more (and nick some of DH's), I did actually burst into tears. DH was laughing at me, but when the waterworks started he took DS and held him until I'd finished eating. Regarding the medicine, I'm not too sure to be honest. I use a syrine and just sort of dribble it in a teeny bit at a time.

NoHun I actually thought you'd placed him into the suitcase to wheel him home for a moment there. I had visions of you with a makeshift reins set and some bungee ropes and him tied to the top of this suitcase.

Am now imagining the bungy arrangement also......

Elsa

Elsa - we found mixing meds with milk helped her swallow.

Dd2s appt was cancelled so have been to pics & pizza express. Having a half birthday tea tonight :)

Elsa I have never had to use a pipette, could you not use a 2.5ml syringe? You can get one from the docs?
My dd can now sit, it may only last a few seconds but im counting it as a sitting up session

elsa we have always struggle with ds and medicine too, ni real tips we tried the ways you have and none were totally successful, but the antibiotics worked despite him not keeping it all down

Loving the image of nohun wheeling her ds around attached to a suitcasde .

tribble sorry about your meal, that must have been a proper 'final straw' moment!

hj sounds like a good evening!

spring glad childmindrs went well

Ds is such a strange little boy, he won't take a bottle so today tried nuby cup and sippy cup, neither very successful so in desperation I got a small normal drinking glass made of plastic,put a tiny bit of water in and he just picked it up with both hands and drank! Only problem is we both ened up soaking wet as a lot of his attempts missed!

Tired- get a doidy! I was a bit sceptical but dd3 doesn't spill that much ( drinking with assistance ). She wouldn't have a bottle or sippy cup.

I tried a doidy a few weeks ago with no success, but maybe its worth trying again. He gets furious if I try and help him with eating or drinking though, he's avery odd little character! He was on my friends lap today at lunchtime as we were out, and I don't think she believed me and she tried to feed him and he got very upset! We got through nearly 20 teaspoons though as he drops them on the floor when he's distracted, I need to get a big mat of some sort to put down I think.

Aww tyson just saw your post - like the name change. Well done to dd that definitely counts!!

I was tempted to wheel him home, but thought better of it. He really did look comfortable! :)

Just had him weighed and measured, he is just above the 50th%ile, so very pleased with that - all on breast milk. Start BLW tomorrow on his six-month/half birthday. Might even go to the park and make a picnic of it, if the weather carries on like it has been for the last few days!

Tyson, your DD and mine are development twins! DD is sitting too not for massively long but she's getting there. She mastered the roll from front to back last week and now if I put her on her front she rolls immediately as a kind of 2 fingers to tummy time! P.S liking the name change....perhaps I should join the trend...

Thanks for the tips and reassurance about the drugs. The slow dripping of medicine into her mouth while I'm bfing her seems to be doing the trick.

TF DD likes to grab glasses too. She grabbed my mum's orange squash with ice in it the other day. Necked some then spat it straight out with a disgusted and surprised expression on her face. It didn't teach her...

Elsa twirls.....

Whaddo you think? My new technique to stop DD comfort sucking to sleep is bouncing in her Amby Nest whilst I sing lullabies. Invariably I have one in my head all day. Today's is Papa's going to buy you a Mocking Bird....

Mock Nice name change!!

NoHun Oh that sounds nice!!!

I think we've started weaning without really intending to, DS grabs stuff off of me and DH and we don't really stop him. He's probably had the smallest amount of food you could ever have ever, but he does like gumming things.

I would like to say he was feeling better, but he still looks a bit pathetic to be honest. He had us up every hour last night with his coughing and the crying that followed. He's now sat next to me on the sofa watching Wallace and Gromit with me.

Have any of yours got comfort objects? DS seems to have attached himself to a couple of taggies and a silkie (from the whoosy heartbeat bear we've got) we've got floating around.

I seem to be a comfort object ...

Think dd3 overate a bit last night as she was a bit grunty this am. Seems ok post poo though! Forgot to say my parents are making progress with her , I managed to leave her in a room with them (5min)yesterday & she just carried on playing with them!

Mock-like it. Dd2 songs that song but she never gets it right.

Swimming this afternoon then picking up guinea pig equipment.

MockingBird, yes, nice namechange! What a spate of namechanges we have had!

Tribble, hope your DS gets well soon.

No comfort item here - apart from DH and me, of course!

Not sure what to do with myself this afternoon - may just mooch around town.
Enjoy swimming, Harriet.

*Ooh, meant to say I'm washing all of DS's 6-9/12 month clothes! Six months tomorrow! Wow, it's flown!

Had a good swim, 45 mins in just swimming up & down, jumping in & shouting at other kids!

In park waiting for xh to be in to drop off big 2, knackered after walking all over, so unfit & achy

NoHun We've just gone into our 6-9 months stash in the past week or so, DS is a lump tall boy.

DS is being a right bleeding pain, everytime I tried to feed him he sodding refused. It got to the point where I was achy and full, when he did feed it was only a small feed so I've had to express off some milk to get comfortable again. Well he'll be having that later!!!

I had that when dd3 was ill. It fixes itself much quicker now than in the early days.

We've been out to the pub for tea. Dd3 charming everyone & sucking an apple slice to bits.

mockingbird I like the name!I sing that one to ds too, I can't remember much of the original one though so I just make stuff up!
Love the sound of your dd trying squash, very funny!

Think I am the comfort object here too, but am trying to give him this lovely soft bear when he's sleepy in the hope it will become one

Hope your ds feels better soon tribble

They are like twins mockingbird :) Like your new name :)