Roly Poly Triumphs and Colgate at the ready!

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Hope this works!

Well it't Gastroenteritis....

Poor boy has to have anal paracetamol suppositories coz he cant keep the calpol down....just put him to bed....but so poorly...poor little mite.

Poor wee Olly. Hope he feels better soon

Bloody hell theres a lot going on isn't there, hope all the poorly babies feel better really soon!!

Lumpy really sorry to hear about your auntie and grandma!

We've had some bad news too, DP's step dad went for the results of his tests yesterday and basically he has so much cancer in his body that they can't tell where it originated from. He's getting lumps all over his body and they've said that it's cancer coming out of him because theres so much in there. I'm sure theres a more technical way of putting it but thats the gyst of what they've said. He's said all along that if the news was bad he didn't want to know how long he had left but faced with that yesterday he asked and they said that they couldn't really put a time on it, they're going to give him radiotherapy but have told him it's just to make him comfortable and they can't cure him. It's so unbelievably sad! He is such a lovely man and the only Grandad that Grace has got as me and DP don't see our real dads. Hopefully he'll show them all wrong and live for a really long time but we'll have to wait and see. Just got to make the most of every day!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!!

I wrote a post last but my stupid phone navigated away from it when I'd been away from the phone for a bit. SeaChelles, I said that ds1 used to sleep a lot when poorly and it always helped so hope Olly has a good night and feels better in the morning.

JodeyBogeyPicker I used to make annabel karmel recipes for ds1 and split them into the number of portions ahe suggested but Luke won't eat that much, he usually has about half of these little pots, that's where my post got lost finding that link

I'm sorry to hear your news newmum001, I have a stepdad and although my dad was around he is still very important to me and my boy love him to bits. I hope that he does have lots of time left and that you can all make the most of it.

Luke has been pooing every few hours since Thursday and he has such a sore bottom. It's beet this morning but last night he cried everytime I changed him. I thought it must be something he's eaten but dh said it was probably a bug. None of the rest of us have been ill and he's not unhappy or showing any other signs of illness so don't know really. He fell asleep before dinner last night so only had milk after 1pm but still poo'd when he woke in the night and when awake this morning so not sure really :(

Wishing everyone well and hope you all have lovely weekends :)

newmum So so so sorry to hear that. It's awful. Cancer is the most horrible disease and yet so common. One of my friends is in the same situation with his sister. It's just awful. Again, so sorry and I hope he does show them wrong too. I bet he dotes on the gorgeous Grace.

Saiorse forgot to mention, period was longer then before but not painful.

Seachelles whats Gastroenteritis? Sounds horrible. Poor little man. Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

I'm going out tonight with DH and a few friend to The Jam House to see a band and have a dance. It for my birthday on Monday. Harlyn is staying at his Nanny's house. I'm really looking forward to it but am dreading waking up in the morning with no smiles from my cutie boy. I know I'll be up early racing over there just to see him. We will be going out somewhere nice for Lunch on my actual birthday with him so that will be special.

Wow, quiet day yesterday. Hope everyone was off having fun and the poorly LOs were feeling better..

We took Louis for his first train and tube rides, down to London to see some friends. We took just the sling so we could go on the tube easily, and the day actually went surprisingly easily. Louis was in a bit of a grump. I put it down to being tired as he didn't sleep much, but when we got home he did 4, yes 4, big proper solid poos in the space of about 10 minutes. He then lay on the bed giggling to himself while I got things ready for bed, so I think tummy ache might have been the problem. I'm going to try harder to get him to drink water with his solids so he doesn't get so backed up in future...

Despite Louis' minor grump (and to be fair, my friends all thought he was quite jolly, I'm just very demanding ), we had a really nice day, though it was all a bit rushed and knackering. We had a lovely lunch with our close friends and their beautiful soon to be 3 (I can't believe it) twin girls and then I went to see my best mate who's 36 weeks preggers. I hadn't seen her since before Christmas so it was really exciting to see her bump, and she looks great. I really love that our little boys will know each other from when they're both babies

Can being really grumpy be a sign a baby needs weaning? Arlo has been a bit of a menace this week. Just never really happy, moaning a lot. We just went for a pub lunch and ended up doing a pass the baby relay as he was crying mist of the time. Thought he was hungry but he wouldn't feed properly. Don't think he liked the hubub! Anyway, he's 23 weeks now and I think I'm going to start some solids this week. It's not that he seems hungry, he sleeps through too, but I wonder if maybe he feels unsatisfied somehow

Quiet day today too....

Dixie I could be wrong, but I don't think that general grumpiness is a sign that a baby needs to start weaning. Could something else be up with him? Teething can put them off eating if their gums are hurting, or could he have a minor bug? The Wonder Weeks book says that 23 weeks can be the start of a period of 'fussiness' before a big developmental week at 26 weeks. Louis didn't seem to be very affected by that time, but he was really grumpy at the time of the previous fussy period they predict.

Hmm, maybe wishful thinking that'll be the solution then! I purred up some carrots earlier, looking forward to starting the weaning anyway. Arlo is also sleeping in his own room tonight! He woke once about an hour after we put him down, and now - just came in and could smell the poo! Hoping he'll carry on through till morning after this feed. Is strange not having him in our room - bit sad about it! Instead I have the blue glowing light of our video monitor. You can switch it to only come on with noise but I wanted to be able to look at him if I wake up!. DH thinks I'm soppy, especially as my eyesight is so bad I can barely see the picture without my glasses on anyway! Also when the sound comes on the monitor makes this high pitched squeal which is a lot more disturbing than a baby's cry! Scared the s*#t out of me when it came on just now .

Hope a lovely weekend had by all, and an enjoyable week ahead.

Hope you had a lovely time JodeyBogeyPicker and didn't miss Harlyn too much.

Sounds like a great day Mapletrees, glad everyone thought Louis was lovely and I'm sure he was. We went to my friends little boys 4th birthday party on Saturday and him and ds1 have grown up together which is lovely, although we don't see each other as much as we'd like. Have you made any decisions about when you'll go back to work yet?

I have no idea if that's a sign Dixiebell but if you want to give it a go then why not!! Weaning is really exciting imo, if it makes no difference to him being grumpy you haven't lost anything. Both mine were in their own rooms from the first night so never had that moving them out, missing them moment but I'm sure Arlo will be fine.

Is anyone else having trouble sleeping? I went to bed at 10 and laid there until 11.45 and then thought I might as well go and do something contructive! I haven't been able to fall asleep as easily since I had Luke, my mind just seems to be running all the time. It's worse since I knew I have my inspection but I am so tired and just can't fall asleep. Once I am asleep I have no problem staying there though!
Had a bit of a hectic weekend really with catching up on paper work driving 45 mins there and back to a birthday and been swimming today. Got a training course tomorrow in Norwich 8.30-12.30 so dh is home with the boys but he has to take dss to school 40 miles away first and be back by 10 for ds1's speech assessment. It's the longest I've left Luke and with all the toing and froing I hope he is going to be a good boy for Daddy! He usually doesn't have milk at those times but now I'm worrying that if he decides he wants it that he hasn't had a bottle for ages and he might decide he doesn't want it!

Whoops that was pretty huge, sorry

26 weeks (6 months+day)

Happy 6 months to baba Luke. I'm sure he will be a good boy for Daddy Cinnamon.

I had a great night out but was up so early and then couldn't get back to sleep and just clock watched until 8am when I phone my mom to find out if H had slept well. He went to bed at 6:30pm and didn't wake till 7am so he was a very good boy. I was so so excited to pick him up that I was there by 10am even with a vodka hangover. I had been looking forward to going out and having a glimpse of the life before responsibility, dirty nappies and cleaning up sick but although it was a great night, it just didn't compare with the wonderful/amazing life of being a mommy. I was so happy to be reunited with him, though I only spent 4 hours of his awake time away from him so I'm sure he probably didn't even notice i wasn't there.

Well it's my birthday today so we are going out for lunch which will be lovely.

Happy Birhday Jodey, hope you have a lovely lunch 

Happy Birthday Jodey.

Happy 6 month birthday to Luke.

Grace is 6 months old today, i can't believe how quickly it's gone. We went to DP's mums yesterday and her friend gave her a baby walker that she had for her grandson but he's walking now so doesn't need it anymore and Grace loved it, she was whizzing about everywhere so we stopped off at mothercare to get one on the way home.

I've had a bit of a meltdown this morning and need you all to tell me to stop being stupid. Last week i managed to get Grace to nap in her cot although she was falling asleep on me first and i was waiting till she was out for the count before putting her in her cot. However i decided that today was the day to start trying to get her to fall asleep by herself. Anyway she fell asleep on me this morning so i put her in her cot straight away knowing that she'd probably stir but thinking she'd still be tired enough to fall back to sleep on her own and all hell broke loose. She woke up fully and was doing loads of leg banging and chatting but no crying. So i left the room and sat in our bedroom and she was just in her cot happily chatting to herself after a few minutes she started fussing so i went in and shushed etc and left the room and again a few minutes later. I was starting to get a bit wound up so i went and stood outside for 2 minutes and by the time i came back in she was hysterical.

She was screaming and it took 30 minutes to calm her down it was honestly like she was scared so i went back to everything i tried to stop doing last week and now she's asleep in the pram in the kitchen with the extractor fan on and i feel like a failure and a bad mum.

I knew it wasn't going to be easy but i honestly didn't think it'd be that hard or id feel so bad about it. I really don't know what to do now, i can't try that again but i'm back to work in a few weeks and i hate the thought of her getting that upset in nursery and me not being there.

Has anyone got any tips because i'm really not sure what to do now

Hi lovelies!
Jack is totally himself again which is brill!
That poorly spell really made us appreciate what a good baby he is when he's well.
I do feel like i've aged ten years in a week tho

Lucylumps so sorry you're having a rough time at the mo...... sending hugs!
chellerelle hope you're doing ok and Olly is feeling a bit better. Don't worry too much about poochy either..... they settle in quicker than we realize. Hugs!! xx

Just popping down to play with the Bears! Jack is missing his little Daisy!

Happy happy birthday tooooooo yoooooooooooou Jodey xx

Happy Birthday jodey

Happy 6 mth day to Grace

newmum You´ve stole my post! I want to start to get Maia to fall to sleep alone as i have to go into hospital soon for some tests and wont be able to feed her for 24 hrs (currently feeds to sleep). I started yesterday: feed her till she was nearly asleep and then tried to put her down, she woke up, tried o settle her without feeding, but she wasn´t having it. Tried again in the evening and she was just hysterical crying, I left it 2 minutes (in my arms ) before resulting to feeding her to sleep, she latched on and was asleep within 30 secs.

I don´t know what to do, or where to start, I know I wont be able to let her cry it out as the sound of her crying makes me really nervous, but I´m getting really anxious as the hospital could call any day.

phew, felt like a mammoth post.

Oh and DS has decided right now is the time he wants to stop his afternoon naps - why???

Happy Birthday jodey

Happy 6 mth day to Grace

newmum You´ve stole my post! I want to start to get Maia to fall to sleep alone as i have to go into hospital soon for some tests and wont be able to feed her for 24 hrs (currently feeds to sleep). I started yesterday: feed her till she was nearly asleep and then tried to put her down, she woke up, tried to settle her without feeding, but she wasn´t having it. Tried again in the evening and she was just hysterical crying, I left it 2 minutes (in my arms ) before resulting to feeding her to sleep, she latched on and was asleep within 30 secs.

I don´t know what to do, or where to start, I know I wont be able to let her cry it out as the sound of her crying makes me really nervous, but I´m getting really anxious as the hospital could call any day.

phew, felt like a mammoth post.

Oh and DS has decided right now is the time he wants to stop his afternoon naps - why???

After a night of almost no sleep, for Lucy and me, Lucy is now having a mammoth dinnertime nap so my boobs are rockhard. She was so upset and kept waking, having a little feed then getting more upset. She was fine when she woke up so hoping it was just a bad night.

Patito when i went into hospital to have Lucy I was still feeding dd2 to sleep. I worried about how dp would get her to sleep but he just kept her up till she fell asleep then put her in bed. Could your dp do the same? He could maybe put her in the pram and walk her till she slept then put her in bed. Dp did this with dd1 when she was tiny as she would not fall asleep after the late night feed. He only did it for a few nights before she started falling back to sleep.

Thanks for the happy birthdays lovely ladies. X sorry to hear some of u are having difficulties getting your LOs to sleep. Fortunately Harlyn will settle himself but he just doesn't sleep for anything longer than 30 minutes (generally) at a time in the day meaning he gets grumpy and tired quickly. He sleeps well at night though so that makes daytimes easier to handle. He has had a runny nose the last two days! Hoping it's just a sniffle that will pass as quickly as it started.

cinnamon only just seen your post about portion sizes. Thanks for that x

Re sleeping, only advice I have is persistence. I thought Arlo would never nap in day in his cot, but 2 weeks of continually putting him down, comforting when he cried then putting back down as soon as he calmed ended in him getting used to it to the extent he now starts dropping off just from going into the cot. It helped that DH was home during that period as he held me back from jumping in too early, and encouraged me to do it - it's difficult nit to rake the easy option when you're on your own and tired. Could you perhaps try over a weekend when you have some support?

Well Arlo wolfed down a bowl of baby rice thus morning! He kept reaching out for the spoon. So sweet! Hopefully this will continue, and weaning will be easier than getting him to nap was...!

Arlo 23 weeks today

Chelle hope Ollys better soon (Newmum gastroenteritis is inflammation of the intestines usually caused by a bug.) For fear of sounding like my friend who has had everything worse, Ds1 had it when he was 8 months old. Its horrible when they're like that!

Beady Glad you've got your smiley jack back!

Newmum so so sorry to hear about your dps stepdad.

Cinammon is ofsted this fri??

OK, So major boastfull post coming up. Sorry in advance but if I can't do it on here, where can I?!

My boys are the best boys ever! We went away this weekend to my sils. the last time we went ds1 was 10 months so he won't remember it. they were absolute angels. both went to bed with no fuss, we all shared a room to they were up a little too early for my liking but thats not too bad. Olly fed & slept wherever, and ds1 had to wait and eat with everyone else which meant he was eating 1 1/2 hours later than normal but he didn't bat an eyelid! I was just so proud of them. Even the 3 1/2 hour car journey wasn't too bad. they only moaned the last 20mins. They even won my bil round & he's the least patient person when it comes to kids!

And to finish it all off, ollys started clapping! He did it a few times last night if I clapped his hands together 1st, he carried on but today at the singing group we go to, he just sat clapping away!!!

There really should be a proud emoticon!

Olly 27 weeks (I think!)

Hi all
Had a total afternoon off yesterday.Went out to my friends at 2pm with two other girls. We had proper afternoon tea - china, silverware, cucumber sandwiches then went on to watch 6 episodes of Downton Abbey! Was there til 1am with all the nattering. It was really girly, silly and fun! Tired as today tho.
Phoebe def fighting something. Bit of a cough today will see if it develops but she was tired all day long and not her usual sunny self. Cant remember who mentioned it but she also spent about 2 days pooing last week! Dh was in awe - couldnt believe someone so small could produce so much!

newmum I always found it easier to it in stages. If Grace is used to sleeping in the pram with the extractor fan then just start with moving her upstairs etc when she is used to that tackle putting her down and soothing her, then not feeding to the point of sleep. DS2 was/is extremely stubborn and would work himself into such a steam he could get sick so it was the easiest approach for us and worked brilliantly. Hope it gets better.

I know why Lucy has had trouble sleeping. When she woke up from her 4 hour midday nap she had pus oozing out of her ear. I cleaned it up but if you pressed more came out(sorry). Got a dr appt for tomorrow. she continued to sleep on and off last night and luckily slept most of the night. Still oozing pus this morning so I rang dr and got an emergency appt and she definitely has an infection. The odd thing is she isn't pulling her ear and it isn't red, she doesn't mind if you touch it either. Anyway she is on antibiotics and calpol for pain. She doesn't like taking meds and spitsd most of it back up but we will persevere.

After all the trouble we have on a night getting her to sleep if we just put her in her pram she soon drifts off. She likes the thick fleecy liner and burrows her head against it. if only I could get something like that for her cot

Sorry about your sleep problems newmum001, I did let ds1 cry and Luke is such a good sleeper I don't have any tips. Have you tried giving her a comforter, like a fleecey blanket or muslin?

Debs75 have you seen geleibeans handmade crafts on facebook? She is my friend, you have to add her to buy from her but she makes fantastic things and I have seen some bits for cots that might help you? Hope Lucy's ear is better soon.

Glad you had a nice birthday JodeyBogeyPicker, no probs about portions, ds1 ate loads and it always worried me.

That's so lovely lumpybananapuree, it's great when you can be proud of them and enjoy their company. Ds1 has gone back to being a nightmare after school, so roll on Easter hols!! Yes Ofsted is Friday, pretty much upto date now.

Boys were both so good for dh yesterday and all went to plan, except he got the wrong start time for ds1's school!! Luke slept through last night again, but he has done 4 days in a row before so I'm not holding my breath! I have 4 sleeping children this afternoon which never happens!!! Right back to do some more paperwork.

Haven't heard from Saoirse86 for a while hope all ok.

Hi all...... sorry if tmi but I need to talk about poo
Before Jack was poorly we had a couple of really firm ones. Kind of Jack Russel esq then he was reeeeeally runny when he was on his drugs but now has done 2 really firm ones again. He still doesn't go a day without pooing and most days we get 2 so I'm not worried that he's constipated but is this around the right time for grown up pooing??
I started weaning very very slowly at 17 weeks and he's been on 3 meals for the last 5 weeks.
6 months on Sunday

I never seem to have time to fill in a baby book so need to look back at our threads for all the info i've forgotten. Anyone know if there's a quick way to bring up our individual old posts?

Happy Tuesday one and all! all round and for lumps xx

beady what are you trying to say?? I'm not the alcoholic!!!!!!! although a nice would go down a treat!
grown up pooing is fine. Ollys are always solid unless he has pear! Not sure if you maybe do a search for posts by you might be one way of bringing them up and if you know a rough date you could be more specific