The CRESH Creche and Spa - future home of all ESH

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I liked the CRESH acronym more than FESH so have used it. Welcome all ESH to your final stop on the journey. Rest your aching lady bits, try one of the many gin based cocktails, and try to molest the gorgeous waiting staff.

Here Silv

Meeting was quick.

fp sorry you had a bad night. I don't know what to say other than that we had to be really strict with Squeaks, lying her back down when she stands up in cot etc and ignoring a fair but of noise.

I think you should take the shop job. It's exactly what I would love to do if I could afford it. My first career (aged 14 to 21) was retail and it's something I enjoy. But not at Next. Never again!

Disappearing/climbing baby is doing my head in. She came home from nursery with a huge bump yesterday. She can climb two stairs into the laundry room and yesterday she climbed up the futon I was sitting on to get from the floor onto my knee and grab my full mug of tea, which then soaked me. And she keeps leaving rooms and stealing the caps off the radiator valves.

And she's trying so hard to talk. Twice this week I've been convinced she was trying to tell me something and felt awful when I couldn't work out what. Back to the signing I think...

disaster in our house this morning. TGO had to go to brizzle today so had to be up at 5 to get the train. I woke at 5.30 when artie started stirring to find the taxi outside and TGO still fast asleep!
Thankfully he managed to get a slightly later train but will still arrive just about on time.

I doesn't want Artie to learn to move

What IS IT with babies and radiator valve caps??

Clyde just pulled a cup of coffee over himself. Luckily it had been sitting around for nearly 2 hours so was cold - but still!

I had put it up on the tray of the highchair thinking this was well out of reach, but apparently he can now stand on tippy toes and reach up very high. My god. Where do I put things now?

Artie pulled a coffee over himself on Sunday :( luckily it was not hot, just warm but oh my god it scared me

I love the two handed grabbing of pint glasses! She even did a drinking action with an unopened can of beer the other day

I think you can hold off on the handover until I've taught her how to open the cans

I hope it's only cooking lager. Don't you be wasting any of the good stuff

she can do what she likes with her dad's Carling. That stuff stinks like glue.

fanny glad you've got the wine back down. I find not drinking really helps, bar the large cocktail I had before lunch yesterday

I'm finding the ADs a bit weird. I can't cry, but neither do I roar with laughter. The emotions aren't gone, but they are very much internalised. I know when I feel happy/sad/angry etc, and I write about it on here, but there are no physical signs of how I feel. I'm pretty numb and just getting on with life in a pretty placid manner.

HELP!

Weighed Berwhale yesterday and my giant baby is falling through the centiles like a stone. He's averaging 100g a week gain when it should be much closer to 170g. HV lovely last time, told me to look at the baybee not the scales, this time wants to monitor it all a bit more closely - as do I... Am off to see the bf'ing support people on Sunday to get them to observe a feed, but can hear him swallowing and nothing hurts so I think that bit's fine. However, have stopped swapping boobs and he still wants both and a couple of feeds today have taken over an hour. Am allowing him unlimited time on the boob, but when do you hit law of dimishing returns if you're constantly feeding and he's getting less and less? What do I do about his sleep? Is my supply fucked? I know it will become more fucked if I supplement but what if I'm starving the baby - again?

Pliz to advise. Am going to see people about it and weigh him again in a couple of weeks and will head to GP then if no improvement, but any thorts about what could be wrong would be brilliant.

Am I being selfish and insane? What should I do next?

NB Am posting this in breast and bottle feeding also, in blatant cut and paste stylee.

And when I said I'm not swapping boobs, I mean I'm not until he finishes the first side. Think I might have been swapping everytime he lost interest before.

I do not know enough to advise Drom, so can I give you an unESHly hug instead? Does Berwhale seem happy and alert at least?

Yah - there's no immediate concerns. He's smiling, trying to roll over, howling with rage when expected to sleep etc etc. Just can't work out what's going wrong. How's KateBob?

She's ok. Has had a blocked nose the last two days so nights haven't been fun. Last night she was crying so much because she couldn't breathe. Steamy bathroom, baby olbas oil and the little sucky contraption weren't helping much. So TBG took one for the team and did the manual sucking approach. Gross but it worked. I now have saline spray so hopefully tonight will be better. I hope so as I am exhausted.

I am very impressed by the trying to roll over. Maybe Berwhale is just adjusting and deciding what percentile to join? My friend's baby has never gained weight according to the charts but is a very healthy and intelligent 4 year old now. Surely if Berwhale wasn't getting enough to eat there'd be signs of upset? I hope you get some good advice and figure it out.

poor KateBob, and woo and eurgh at TBG.

drom My opinion won't be popular (I'm sure), but personally I would be worried about such a low weight gain (especially following an initial large weight loss) over 10+ weeks. :(

Doesn't make you unpopular with me Alps. I don't understand weight gain enough to know when to get worried. It's confusing if they seem happy and healthy but the weight isn't going the way it should. What are you meant to think? This baby lark is a headfuck.

I would try and see a bfc in actual real life tbh Drom. How many centiles has he lost? How long does a feed last and how many a day?

Anything over a 2 centile drop is to be worried about alps, that's what the HV's go on.

Is that 2 centile from birth Cos? Or of they dropped one and then followed the next for ages would it be 2 centiles from that?

Hmmm, not entirely sure! good q I will try and find out....

Yeah, am heading to the bfc on Sunday to get them to observe a feed and make sure all is well there. He's dropped from 75 to 25 which crosses two centile lines. Alps I am deffo worrying, but it's a watch and wait brief atm - try and get more food into him, see what happens, get checked out by GP. I don't want to change too much, too fast in case it masks some kind of underlying issue. Got no problems with formula if that's what he needs.

Poor KateBob. The London Ambulance guy who did a first aid chat for us said you can tickle the inside of their noses to make sneezes happen if they're bunged up...I sort of want to try!