Crawling, sitting, standing..... any Olympians in the midst? ;)

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Cinnamon How did your friend get on yesterday?

sassy I have found metanium to be great for nappy rash. Hope everyone is ok! I do lurk around reading still but font seem to have the time to post very often now I'm back at work. I'm exhausted and missing Harlyn terribly but only 5 wks to go till the summer hols. As for Harlyn, he's still massive, scoffing everything, obsessed with shaking his head, commando crawling and tooth number 8 poking through. No cruising yet but won't be long x

don't not font .

Also, Harlyn has smelly breath in the morning. Does anyone else's lo? I'm thinking it maybe due to the reflux or due to him having a cold. Might ask the HV.

jodey I take a step back from Jack at least once a day! I don't think banana is kind to fresh smelling breaths..... he's always worse after a banana day!

Lol, defo smells after banana and he eats it everyday! Will try mango instead and see if it makes a difference. Thanks beadit

had a mahoosive teary melt down about an hour or so ago! Feeling tired and exhausted as well a guilty for being at work and rubbish at trying to keep on top if the housework, washing and ironing! U have to be superwoman to be the best mom, wife, teacher, cleaner, chef, performer! Aaarrggh! Plus we are skint due to paying two mortgages! Too much pressure!!!! Feel better for blarting though! It will soon be payday and the summer hols! 5 wks and counting. I miss my
little Babbitt so much. I am enjoying having adult company and conversation but I'm struggling to come to terms with other people looking after him. It's going to take time to adjust I think.

Thanks for asking bananacurry, but it was postponed due to lack of staff! Shes gutted as shes had enough now and if she does go into labour again it makes everything more complicated, but I tried to positive and say every day will be better for baby. I'm going to see her Sunday again.

Sorry you are feeling so rubbish JodeyBogeyPicker, it's really hard! I had the same with ds1, you do get used to it plus you'll be part time in September which will really help. I feel the same at times, though I'm with Luke I feel I'm not giving him what I should because I'm too busy and his whole life revolves around other children :(. If harlyn is happy with the people looking after him that's half the battle! Leave housework, I used to mine every week now do bits that bother me and full clean every 2-3 weeks although I hate it by third week. Plus make sure you have some time to relax or you'll burn out and that's not good for any of you. Lots of hugs coming your way :)

Oh dear cinammon I know obviously staffing is important but your poor friend got all psyched up & then was let down. Have they not booked another date?

Jodey teething can also cause bad breath. My friends little girl used to stink when she was getting a tooth. Metallicy! Sorry you're feeling crap! a good cry always helps & like cinnamon says you'll be part time soon enough.

The boys went to my mils while I was at work yesterday and apart from them feeding Olly a jellybaby all went well I think! Although they don't know how to deal with ds1 when he has a tantrum. they're very mild & just ignoring him always does the trick but fil shouts at him! I'm pleased its not a permanent thing & when I go back properly they'll be in nursery! On the up side, Olly crawled for his life when he saw me & tried to climb up my legs. He's never done that before!

We've got a night off tonight. They're going to my mums. We're going to our local for a meal & a few drinks with our neighbours. I just know I'll be awake at 5am tho! I think Ollys ruined my body clock!

Chelle where you gone??????

Just had a text to say that it will be next Friday (which will make her 35wks), after she was told they didn't want to deliver on a Friday due to reduced staff over the weekend on the ward and that they were amazed she still hadn't gone into labour

How did Jack's check go beaditAli? I was going to ask if anyone but Debs75 had been invited for theirs. They call it a 9-12 month check here and ds1 was 8 1/2 months when he had his but I haven't heard anything. Ds1 has meeting all developmental milestones but not yet mobile! Will not say that this time, Luke is everywhere and he can now cruise too plus he keeps letting go and standing very wobbly for 5-10seconds

Luke is being a bit of a pain at dinner time and as soon as dh puts him in the highchair he just cries. Some nights I put his food in while he's crying he'll taste and calm down and eat the rest. Other nights he just keeps crying and I have to give up. We have tried moving dinner time so he's not too hungry or hungry enough and I also tried letting him feed himself, which worked perfectly the first night and the second night he just threw the food on the floor and carried on crying. If I put the food in while crying he always eats it so it's not that he doesn't like it but I don't want to force feed him and I have no idea what the problem is as he doesn't do it for the other meals and lunch is cooked food that I spoon feed him most days too. Any thoughts??

We are off to see Kung Fu Panda 2 tomorrow, it's the first time we've been since Luke has been mobile so I'm not sure how he'll feel about sitting on my lap and it might be the last time the 5 of us go until he's big enough to sit still as I really don't like it when people let their children run around cinemas and I won't do it. My mum has booked us a table for lunch on Sunday for fathers day so I hope it will be nice.

Another question and I'm not sure how I feel about this so feel free to be honest! I have booked a photo session for my boys next weekend but dss isn't with us then. I feel really guilty for not including him but as much as I love him and he is included in everything we do, I want some pictures of just ds1 and Luke. Does that make me a horrible person? I haven't told dh I'm taking them yet and he is at work that day. I will tell him, but I'm nervous about how he'll feel about it.

That was huge , can you tell I have 2 asleep and 2 at preschool?!?

I haven't caught up so will do later but wanted to ask you all something about poos!!

So for the last 2 weeks Orlaith's been pooing more and more often and they're always diarrhoea-like. It's got to the point now where I'm changing her every couple of hours if not more during the day as she's done a poo, and they're mainly liquid so pretty messy too! She's always been regular going once a day at about 10.30-11.30 and they've been paste-like.

So what's this all about? She's not unsettled, seems comfortable, not complaining, so I'm quite confused!

Ds1 had something known as toddlers diarrhoea but I can't remember when it started. It just meant he poo'd a lot and they were always runny. When I phoned nhs direct I was told I it's less than 6 times a day then don't worry about it but I had found him literally sitting in a puddle of poo when I went to get him up from his nap. He was referred to hospital where we were told he'd grow out of it and although they don't know the causes it occurs more often in children that eat a lot of fruit/veg and drink a lot of juice. If it is more than 6 times and day or it carries on and you're worried then take her to the dr no point in worrying yourself about it.

Cinnamon I can understand how you feel. My main question is how will your ss feel? Will he notice and feel left out? If not then I'd go ahead and do it but I'd be very aware that it could make things awkward.

Olly has random screaming sessions at meal times. Occasionally he'll scream like he's being tortured, I take him out, let him play for a minute, put him back and he's fine! You could try that.

saoirse not sure about the poo thing! Ollys had a bad tummy but that was the change in food & water on holiday! He also doesn't get on with pears. Could it be food related?

Still waiting for Ollys check here. It was called the under 1 year check when I had ds1 so I'm not going to chase it up till then!

banana Jack has a metallic stench and teeth 6 and 7 are poking through so it def could be teething! From experience of adult stinkies: bananas and coffee are very quilty food stuffs!

cinnamon Jack's check went really well. Length, head circ and weight all done and she observed lunch time and crawling/playtime and was very pleased with him. She did mention that Jack is in the top 1 and 1/2 % of babies his age for length!
He's gone from 98th at birth for weight to just above 50th but no worries expressed so he'll just be slimmy I guess.
He's a monkey though! He's been a bit lazy with his sippy cup and I was worried she'd tell me off for still offering him water in a teat bottle but he grabbed hold of the cup with both handles and swigged away like he'd been doing it for years! TYPICAL!
Also, she noticed an improvement in Jack's head which is always nice to hear.

How much do any of you medicate for teething? Jack is having about 2 powders a day/night and today I gave him calprofen as he's so unhappy about these two big teeth appearing. Just wondering how often you've found you need to medicate?

How come all you babies have so many teeth! Olly still only has 3 & looks like a real goof cos 1 of his front top ones is almost totally through & there's no sign of the other! I'm rubbish at medicating beady I never think he's in pain & after 2/3 days of him being a pain suddenly realise!

I honestly don't think he'd notice bananacurry. We have photos of him and ds1 and I have ds1's preschool photo with Luke which is what I want to replace.

Neither of my boys have had teething problems so I haven't given anything but Luke got ulcers with his top front two so I used bonjela teething gel and it seemed to help them heal.

Well we have had a very eventful day! Spend the whole morning in A&E as grace decided to lunge forward at serious speed this morning and twisted her arm. Got to the hospital and waited AGES! She was finally seen and given x rays on her elbow and she'd popped her elbow out of the socket! They popped it back in and she never cried but because she didn't start using it again within 20 minutes they wanted more x rays done on her shoulder and wrist! We went back down to x ray and as soon as she got in the room she was grabbing charts and boards off the walls with her bad arm so they send us home. Not had chance to catch up and we're off out soon as it's dp's birthday so I'll catch up tomorrow. Hope everyone is well!

banana, Arlo has no teeth yet! He's 8 1/2 months...sure they'll come eventually!

newmum that must've been horrible for you. I hope she's got over it all now!

Dixie My niece has no teeth yet either and she was 9 months yesterday. Orlaith's take forever to come through properly so I wouldn't be surprised if my niece's all pop through suddenly and Orlaith's still only got 3 half teeth.

cinnamon I think that if you have photos done of just your boys that'd be fine, it's be different IMO if it was you, your DH and the 2 boys. Maybe you could make it out like it was a bit impromptu so that's why it's just your boys as your DSS wasn't there.

I can't give any suggestions about bad breath or smelly ears or anything because Orlaith doesn't have them, just a very stinky runny bum!

Newmum poor grace. My friends son did his a few months back and has done it twice more since so watch out for that.

They did say at the hospital to watch out for it happening again and it's turned me in to a very over protective mummy! I'm having to stop myself surrounding her with cushions whilst she's sitting on the floor as I don't want her to be scared of moving but I've been hovering over her all day to make sure she doesn't slip again! She's still being very whingy and she's a bit frightened to use it, but I know it's ok cause she was swinging off the washing machine door last night with her poorly arm and laughing her head off so it's not massivley sore! I've given her some more calpol this morning as it might be aching though!
Grace has morning breath too, even though we brush her teeth twice a day (when I remember in the morning) but they always get done at night! No smelly ears or anything though!

They did say at the hospital to watch out for it happening again and it's turned me in to a very over protective mummy! I'm having to stop myself surrounding her with cushions whilst she's sitting on the floor as I don't want her to be scared of moving but I've been hovering over her all day to make sure she doesn't slip again! She's still being very whingy and she's a bit frightened to use it, but I know it's ok cause she was swinging off the washing machine door last night with her poorly arm and laughing her head off so it's not massivley sore! I've given her some more calpol this morning as it might be aching though!
Grace has morning breath too, even though we brush her teeth twice a day (when I remember in the morning) but they always get done at night! No smelly ears or anything though!

I'm experiencing life before babies! Its wierd. I got up and left the house in 10 minutes, I went to tesco and was out in 30mins. I came home and unpacked the shopping in 10 mins, I cleaned the bathrooms in 10 mins and I've spent the rest of the day laid on the settee watching real life medical programmes! This is literally how I used to spend my days off. Its been nice but what a waste!!

oh no newmum poor grace. hope she is better and it doesnt happen again.
ive mulled over your post cinnamon as i have a daughter from a previous relationship as you know. i would never take my now dp's children for a photo shoot with chloe. and i would go mad if my dp took them and didnt include her. but the difference is maybe that he doesnt live with you. if my dp said he wanted a pic just of his kids, i would be very upset. sorry. i feel like me and chloe were a package deal and if he wants me he has to accept her as his family too. but on the otherhand if it was a child who was his and didnt live with us, i would probably want a photo of just MY family too. its very double standards i know. best thing to do would be to find out how your dh feels. men dont really analyse things as much as we do and it might not even cross his mind. i know it wouldnt with my dp.

that should say WITHOUT chloe!

I told him yesterday and just said I really just want to replace the photo I have of the two of them and he was fine. We had planned a family photo with the 5 of us once Luke could sit but haven't got round to it and would have a proper session then rather than a small slot in a day of photos. I find it so hard being a step parent it's the hardest thing I've ever done, I do everything I can for him and then he goes back to his mum and I'm not allowed to be part of anything else in his life. I was harder before I had my own but now I have them it's easier to focus on them and let go of the things I cannot change with dss but its a constant battle. As any of you can see from my fb pics he is central in everything we do and isn't excluded but I feel sad for my boys as sometimes I feel dh doesnt want to do anything with them if dss isn't here which is actually quite a lot of the time, so they miss out. I understand his family isn't complete without him but they shouldn't be made to put everything on hold imo, plus his mum has a lot more money than us so he has experienced a lot of things my boys will never ever be able to and I don't feel guilty for them having a few things that dss doesn't. Anyway as you can see a lot of years struggling with all of this and probably many more. Thanks for your honest answer though sassy34264 I appreciate it.

Kung Fu panda 2 was fantastic!! Luke sat for about an hour then I had to go and sit in the gangway/entrance bit so Luke could cruise around but I could hear it and see half the screen. We had kfc after and gave Luke a corn on the con, he loved it!!!! Off to a refurbed pub near my mums today for fathers day lunch