*~*~* August 2010 *~*~* where does the time go?

[CherryPie3]

Only 5 spaces left on the old thread - wonder how long it'll take us to fill ths one up?

Happy chatting :)

[bellygazing]

Teehee vix! It is a quiet thread tho, I agree! How's your LO's sleep these days? E has literally today got the tiniest top of her first tooth poking through. It's been a busy week here - finally getting the hang of crawling (she is faster today than yesterday which does not bode well), first tooth and (whispers) sleeping through. Hope everyone is having a lovely day. Still sunny! My Mum is coming over very shortly because she's going to be helping with childcare when I go back to work [gulp].

[Chulita]

We've got 2 teeth here vix but they popped out months ago and no sign of anything since.

S sleeps either from 6pm til 10pm, feed then til 5.30am or he goes through til 2am then up at 5.30 so he's doing all the right things and having a long stint every night, I just need to get him all the way through at some point.
He's upstairs at the mo crying and has been for the last hour but he's been awake since 10am so he's knackered but for some reason he won't shut down

[Chulita]

[vix206]

Alex sleeps 7-7 every night now, 12 hours straight. I can barely believe I'm typing these words!!!!

[bellygazing]

vix that's amazing, so pleased for you! E is continuing her run of 7 til 7ish and it feels so good - but i find it hard to believe so I'm constantly expecting a return to the odd waking. Probably the night before I go back to work...

chulita I am looking forward to going back, even tho there have been a few worrying changes in my absence. I always planned to go back (financial necessity) but just in the past couple of weeks I have occasionally found myself a little bored, which hadn't happened before. Looking forward to getting my brain in gear and thinking like a journalist rather than Elodie's mum!

[marzipananimal]

yay for the sleep vix and belly (am a little bit but it gives me hope!)

Had a rather sad experience this morning. I put J down for his nap (fed him to sleep as is usual at the mo) but 2 mins later he was awake and sitting up playing in his cot. I was sure he was tired and I have a cold today so was not in a mood to let him get away with a 2 minute nap so I left him. He cried and played on and off for a hour (I went in and gave him a cuddle a couple of times and he seemed sleepy, but wouldn't go to sleep when put down), then finally went quiet. I went up to check on him and he was sitting up against the side of his cot with his eyes shut and his head nodding forward onto his chest making tired little squeaks/sighs :( I didn't know whether to laugh or cry he looked so cute but so sad! I lay him down and he slept for 1 1/4 hours (phew!) I feel like a bad mummy though :(

[Woodlands]

aw poor J! they really fight sleep, don't they?

i think my J is smack bang in the middle of the 9 month sleep regression. He has whinged all day today. I hate hate hate it.

[girlsyearapart]

Internet has not been playing ball sorry for lack of post to update.
Scan went well!! Heartbeat was there and all looking good.
Next scan the proper one is on may 24 will be glad to be able to tell people as I'm showing already.
My mum guessed it won't be long before someone with just as much tact as her says something!

Tilly has 2 teeth now she seems to be teething again but nothing appearing.
She was up this evening and also yesterday evening and during the night.
Not coping with that I was rather enjoying the 7-7....

Apologies for mistakes as am on the iPhone

[soontobefatnat]

gya fantastic news!

marzi oh, your poor little J!! I am still too crazy/anxious about E's sleep to leave him to get on with the daytime naps, so I'm still roaming round with the pram for all napszzzzz....

woodlands nine month sleep regression? Dear God, is that a thing? Eek. E is so up and down here. Slept 7 hours in a row last night from 6.30 - 1.30, but was then up loads after that. It's so sporadic still. But I was rather hoping that it was going to keep improving (give or take the odd bout of teething).

Finally (speaking of) Vix E has one and two bits in terms of teeth through...bottom three at the front. And bloody congrats on the sleeping through! Yippee.

[marzipananimal]

yay gya I'm so glad! Great news

[bellygazing]

brilliant news gya, really pleased for you. nat, it WILL get better - I was planning to start sleep training but E just randomly started sleeping through, 5 out of the last 8 days with no noise at all and only once have I got up to her, the other 2 times she settled herself back to sleep

i have no idea why I was excited about crawling, there is now no safe place to put E while I hang the washing out/ have a cup of tea/mumsnet... She is just off like a shot with a strange combo of pulling herself forward commando style and traditional crawling on all fours.

Poor marzi, sure J was just fine. Had similar thing this morning - when I wemt in to E she was on her front doing push-ups but with her blanket completely over her head like a child dressing up as a ghost! They do get themselves into ridiculous positions.

Off shopping in a bit to buy some new work clothes - including a bra which you cannot breastfeed in! Judging by the state of my finances, going to be hitting Primark...

[neenz]

Brilliant news GYA! Was fearing the worst when we didn't hear from you.

Marzi, cute story about J. I'm sure he was just fine.

D got the CC treatment last week and has slept through the last 3 nights . Things feel a lot better after a few nights' proper sleep. I was getting really exhausted after 9m of broken sleep!

[bellygazing]

Quiet here again! We've had a nice wknd, took E for an underwaterphoto shoot - the culmination of our exorbitantly expensive swimming lessons - it went really well, am hoping the pix come out well. They too are very pricey, hey ho. She is so cute in the water, lots of kicking and splashing.

We've made our 1st concession to her crawling and moved a whole load of stuff from various shelves - and decided which things we will let her pull out and which she can't have. But she's already trying to pull herself up so
it's going to be a constant battle of moving things. Recently she's really taken to eating paper like restaurant menus and argos catalogues...

[Chulita]

bellygazing I leave S to play with the local paper that comes weekly. He'll spent a merry 15 mins destroying it

marzi poor little J, sounds very very cute though!

S is being a little treasure at the mo, he wakes either at 10 for a feed or 4am-ish. I'm not worried about one feed over the night.

gya so pleased everything's ok. DH and I aren't actively ttcing but aren't taking any precautions against not iyswim.
I've not had my period yet though so I've no idea if anything's going to happen.

[soontobefatnat]

Ooh, that's exciting Chulita!

Belly are you doing the Baby Swimming classes? We had our photos done over the weekend too. Eli HATES the submerge still, so was quite upset after what was, essentially, a class dedicated to dunking! He hasn't shown that much enthusiasm for the classes, tbh. But I'm going to give it another term because I think confidence in the water from an early age is a great thing.

So we're off to California in a couple of days - am excited and tense about it in equal measure. Eli still very unsettled in terms of sleep, so dreading what jetlag might do... But perhaps it'll be fine. Any expert advice from long haul veterans? I'm just looking forward to spending time the three of us altogether. I've actually found adjusting to motherhood quite tough and I think I've been pretty hard on DH at points, so hopefully we can chill out and have some fun. Leaving on Thurs, so will pop on before we head off.

[bellygazing]

nat we do Waterbabies but only 1 term as can't really afford another and I'll be working 4 days a week as of May 31. E usually loves it but the last couple of weeks we did a dunk where mum wears goggles and goes under 2 catch baby from instructor and she REALLY didn't like it. So was paranoid that was what the photoshoot would be, she would refuse to be dunked and that would be £45 (!!) wasted. But fortunately there were no goggles and she did all three submersions with no tears.

Re going away, we haven't been yet but a friend went to New Zealand for a month. She used the same travel cot wherever they were for consistency and same sleep cues like a particular scarf over a pram for naps, and found jetlag only really a problem for maybe two days either side. Good luck and try to enjoy yourself ans relax a bit.

chulita wow, good luck ttc (ish) I think it will be a while before we go down that road again. We would also have to be doing rather more horizontal dancing than is currently the case...

Speaking of ttc, anyone heard from cherry?

[marzipananimal]

wow nat, hope you have a great time! We haven't been out of the country yet with J (and can't see it happening for a while) but when we've been away we just try and keep the bedtime routine as much the same as possible and he's been fine. I guess it will be tricky adjusting to the time change - a bit like having a new born again who doesn't know day from night! But at least you're on holiday so can take it easy.

J has been waking between 5.30 and 6.15 the last week or 2 but yesterday we put up darker curtains and he slept til nearly 7am. Why did we wait til now to do it?!

[thedogwalker]

Hello all, I'm back . The move itself went ok, but it was the unpacking. T had a bad cough and was very grizzly for days which meant I couldn't unpack as quickly as I wanted to. DH had to go back to Germany, so I was on my own. Took DH to the Doc's, who said he had a chest infection, antibiotics and I have my happy baby back again

During my time off line I've had my first AF , can't say I was happy about having them again. T still has only 2 teeth, he can sit on his own, he can sit up from lying down on his own, he says Dad Dad and Mama and can clap when asked to. He eats everything I put infront of him, I give him what I make for us. Last night I made Chilli, I only put in half a chilli to start with and cooked it, tooks T's portion out and then added more chilli. He then had chilli and rice for dinner. He had chicken piri piri last week which was also quite hot. He is used to the heat from my booby juice .

Talking off BF, he is now biting me when he lets go, but then laughs as he is doing it, little monkey. Any tips on ow to stop him from biting? And Marzi, T also farts and laughs, it's a boy thing????

Would like to say a huge congrats to GYA, glad the scan went well and CazandBelle, looking forward to your 18 week scan, let us know the flavour of Bow, getting excited for you.

T has gone to creche for the first time this morning, he was happy, I was upset when leaving . It's only for 3 hours, but I am lost without him.

Hope everyone is well and is having a good day. Take care xx

[thedogwalker]

I stand corrected, T came back from Creche with his 3rd tooth peeping through .

I was really lost without him for the 3 hours. Don't know what I'm going to do next week when I'm back at work full time and my DM is looking after him instead of me. Hate the thought of being a part time mum .

Hope everyone is having a good day x

[Chulita]

You'll never be a part-time mum dogwalker, such a thing doesn't exist.
S still only has 2 teeth but I'm happy with that. When he bites I plonk him in bed quite forcefully and leave him to it but tbh he only bites when he's not fussed about milk and I'm forcing it on him so it's my own fault anyway.

[Chulita]

I meant to add, someone was talking about when L goes to preschool and I changed the subject. I can't stand the thought of her not being with me all day, as much as she drives me crazy at times I'm going to miss her so much for the couple of hours she'll be out!

[marzipananimal]

Welcome back dogwalker :) It sounds like T's doing really well - especially with eating! Does he feed himself things like chilli? How does he do it? J is eating pretty well but doesn't quite get how to eat things like mince or rice. He's also started rejecting broccoli which he used to like.
I'm sorry you're not feeling good about going back to work - but as chulita says, you're still a full-time mum! You're just providing for him in a different way some of the time.

I'm 25 today! DH got the later train to work and made me a nice breakfast but that's been the extent of the festivities. We're going to go out for a meal later this week though if we can get a babysitter.

It feels strange at groups now that J's crawling. He'll crawl off and play while I sit and chat (which is great!) but I'm not sure quite what I'm supposed to do, ie. am I supposed to follow him around closely to keep him out of trouble or just keep half an eye on him? Don't want to breach toddler group etiquette!

[weehector]

at nat's travels.

at dog having to go back to work. I just couldn't contemplate it right now. I would need a life coach in to organise my life before that could happen & it would break my heart too...

Crawling/standing/walking (Little Lord Hector thinks he can stand AND walk -lets go, stands for 1-2 secs then doof..waaa...)/climbing at E6 grade (the one handed pull up to standing from under precipice of the video cabinet)...I'm knackered chasing him so have just dropped £100 online on a playpen & safety stuff.

And what is it about newspapers & magazines...sheesh, I thought my old dog was bad for making a beeline for them but LLH has Edward Scissorhands from all the rumpling & tearing. He likes The Sunday Times & a watersports courses brochure the best.

Two front teeth here too but the biggest news is that we have had our first word - 'mama' twice..clear as a bell & in context (as in 'hey, you get back her & shovel in some more grub' & 'you're no use, I need the milk tanker' when his dad was settling him last night), as opposed to the mumumum I've been secretly proud of for weeks. Mt little heart was so delighted..

Night all
x

[girlsyearapart]

Hello all we are on holiday at camber sands it's very nice.
Was just a sun £9.50 job so cost us about £80 in all for the five of us for a mon-fri break.
It was meant to be a 2 bed caravan but has ended up being a 3 bed chalet bungalow thing which is rather nice.
Went to beach yesterday and swimming after. All our three love to swim which given we are swim instructors isn't really a surprise ..

Still only got dada here and two teeth but she does eat pretty much whatever we give her and has the same meals as her sisters which is handy

[SupersonicDave]

Hellooooooo......

How are you all? I have been rubbish, sorry

F is doing well, learnt to crawl a week ago, and has already got bored with that, so is now pulling himself up to stand and starting to cruise He has got 3 and a bit teeth, still BF (didn't think i would be!) and the sleeping is ok, now does roughly 7pm - 4-5am, then feed, get up around 6.30am, then a short nap in the morning and a longer one in the afternoon, so doable.

I have had a quick skim of the thread, just wanted to add that between 4 and 8m, i really hated being a mum. I wished i had a job to go to and was struggling and often felt that DS was more an inconvenience Since he turned 8m everything has changed. He seems so much jollier! We have moved him into a room with DD, so feel we have a little of our own space back, and strangely he sleeps so much better in with her, even when she makes a noise. I looked at him last week while he was sat in the bath smiling and actually thought "I love you to bits" which seems like it should be obvious, but it hasn't felt like it.

I hope you are all well, how are the pregnant ones doing? nutters