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

[beaditAli]

Our spanking new thread ladies!

sorry had to post cos juggling this with rounds of toast for all 3 kids.
hope jack is better soon. sounds more than just teething to me, but i could be wrong.
both mine have runny noses at min. everytime they walk past im whipping the tissue out, they're gonna catch on soon and start giving me a wide berth!

Sassy are they both fully walking now? Just had a thought as I'm pram obsessed, are you gonna have to get a triple buggy?

Beadit hope jack feels better soon, sounds more than teething to me too but hopefully just a 24 hour thing and will be better tomorrow!

Sassy are they both fully walking now? Just had a thought as I'm pram obsessed, are you gonna have to get a triple buggy?

Beadit hope jack feels better soon, sounds more than teething to me too but hopefully just a 24 hour thing and will be better tomorrow!

Beadit if you go to your mumsnet page you can set the settings so all your posts are highlighted.

Sassy We went to Chester Zoo 2 weeks before Lucy was born and I was shattered, sorry, There was too much to see and we walked all day. Luckily there are loads of benches for me to flop onto

see if this works beaditali

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yes newmum they are both fully walking. isobel is a little unsteady and holds her arms up like an orangutan for balance, but she can walk the full length of the living room.
i think i will be doing a lot of flopping on benches debs
i have a reprieve- chloe is too tired and doesnt want to go to the summer fair. just taybarns for lunch then.

I have a poorly boy too. I think he's just got a bad cold but he's had a temp of 39.1 (Jack wins!!). He fell asleep on my cousin at 4pm last night & pretty much slept all night from then til 7am, fell asleep on me at 8am and was back in bed by 10am. He's been really lethargic all day. would play for 5 mins then just crash. went back to bed again at 2pm & woke as if there had never been anything wrong!!!!! Apart from a snotty nose, my happy smily boy is back!!! I wonder if thats why ai've been having the clingy nights!

I'm just waiting for dh to cook my tea. Its "date night" only a certain little man has just come back downstairs cos "bed is fedding me up!!"

Sassy glad you had a slightly easier day! Don't know how you do it!!!

I think it's hard when you are dealing with other people's children, I have pissed off not impressed a mum before by stopping her child doing something that I though was helpful so unless I know the mum a bit I don't get involved sassy34264. Hope you had a nice meal and I loved Chester zoo but we ran out of time, mainly due to huge queue getting tickets to get in!!!

Sounds poorly to me beaditAli but then I do think teething is a bit of a myth . Poor little man and Olly too bananacurry but glad he's better. Horrible when they're poorly, Luke has had a bit of a high temp but is otherwise fine with his chicken pox but he is totally covered!!

Ds1 has been horrible today to the point where my mum said she would have smacked him if he'd been hers and she usually says I'm too harsh! We spent late afternoon out the front with the neighbours, both their dd's have chicken pox courtesy of ds1 so the kids ran around with balls and bubbles, Luke bum shuffled after them all and sucked stones and we chilled out, very nice . Not sure what we'll do tomorrow seeing as we need to be quarantined!!

So Lucy can walk holding on but only if she goes backwards She is trying her hardest to move and yesterday fell forward trying to get on her hands and knees.

Went to my dsis 40th today and the girls were very good and charmed evryone. The weather managed to hold off and we had a lovely few hours. I was even happier as I managed to find a maxi dress which didn't make me look like I was wearing a sack

i'm a maxi dress convert debs i've never bought one before because being so short i thought they would swamp me- but i love them now.
i understand what you are saying cinnamon but i cant think that anyone would think its ok to let a baby suck paint!
hope you enjoyed date night banana

"date night" was slightly ruined! Ds1 stayed down till we'd finished eating at half 8 then Olly woke up and came down full of beans, wanting to play at half 9!!! Oh well!

Sassy I don't get some mums either. I'm sure the paint was fine to suck on but its paint! I can't imagine any parent being happy that their child is eating paint!

Whats with the wizard smileys?? Oh, is it cos Harry Potters been released?? [hhmm]

Hadn't seen them until now bananacurry but guess it could be!

They were probably worried about getting paint on themselves sassy34264!

Luke was not happy last night [hsad] but on the plus point his spots are scabbing really quickly! Fingers crossed it's all better in a few days.

sassy I've said to people a few times that they can stop Orlaith or Imara doing something if they think it's necessary. I don't know why people need to be told though. Last week I was at a soft play place and a little girl had wondered away from her mum and was playing in a very dirty bin, but no one said anything! [hshock] Surely no one would be annoyed by a stranger stopping their 2 year old from playing in a bin! [hconfused]

I love maxi dresses too, they hide my very white legs perfectly. [hgrin]

Right, I'm almost at my wit's end with Orlaith's sleeping. Last night she went to sleep at 9.30, woke at 11.25, 2.15, 3.20, 4.15, 4.55, 6.15 and then properly at 9. She seems so upset when she wakes. I gave her ibuprofen at 11.25 and just water at the other times except when I gave in and gave her milk at 6.15. This has been going on for about 2 weeks now and I've only been giving water instead of milk for the last 4 nights I think it is, but it doesn't seem to be changing. I'm so confused, any suggestions or ideas will be much appreciated. I'm willing to try almost anything now. [hsad]

I hope Luke feel better soon cinnamon

I forgot to say, she's really gone off her food, to the point where she's almost eating nothing. But she seems absolutely fine during the day so I don't think she's ill or anything. [hconfused]

Have you tried putting her down earlier saoirse86? I know of Luke hasn't had his usual amount of napping time during the day he often wakes at night as he's overtired and just can't settle himself without my help? Could be illness as both boys have been ok during the day but quite restless at night with the chicken pox and night can be worse when you're not well. Could also be the dreaded habit!!

A couple of friends have suggested I put her down earlier, but I don't see how it would make any difference. She's generally awake 8.30am-9.30pm, which is just the same as 7am-8pm surely, or does it not work like that? [hconfused] I might try putting her down earlier tonight anyway, it's worth a shot!

I've also tried making her sleep more in the day but it hasn't helped. In the last 2 weeks there've been days she's had 2.5 hours in total in the day and 2 days where she's had 30 mins. There doesn't seem to be and rhyme nor reaon as to when she wakes from a nap. Just sometimes it's after 15 minutes and sometimes it's after 1.5 hours. In the day when she wakes up she's perfectly happy, but in the night she's miserable.

I don't feel like there's much point in going to a doctor or HV as they always fob me off. She doesn't seem hot either.

I am starting to worry that it's habit because in many ways that's harder to sort IYSWIM. [hsad]

many may not agree saoirse but if one of mine was doing that i would stop the water, pick them up the first time for a few minutes (until they calmed down) and then i would put them down and walk away for about 5 mins, then if they're still crying go up, dont pick them up, rub their back and make soothing noises and then lay them down and walk away. then depending on how distressing the cry is, i would just let them cry themselves to sleep. i think that controlled crying actually makes them cry harder and longer than just letting them cry. the problem is knowing when its habit and when its pain/illness.

cinnamon wish I thought teething was a myth too...... every time Jack is about to get a tooth he gets grumpy, snotty and often has a temperature. I know a lot of mums who say they've never had trouble and the same number of mums who say the opposite and the symptoms are always the same and at similar stages before teeth appear... so I guess some lo's just don't suffer and others really do.

Jack seems a little better today but is still bursting into tears very suddenly and still has a high temperature. DH's hairy tummy was a saviour this afternoon tho very funny to play with apparently!

lumps how is lil OllyDobDob??

Has everyone seen chelle's Olly climbing stairs all by himself on Facebook video He's so brave!!!

sassy I agree with you. controlled crying ime leads to more distress (although I fully accept it works for some.) I had to leave Olly crying last monday cos i just didn't know what else to do and actually did exactly what you've suggested on thurs night when he woke!

I don't think changing bedtimes works. People have suggested I put olly to bed later to get him to sleep in but it doesn't work!

Another one who doesn't think teethings a myth!! Ollys tooth has broken through today!! He's a lot better. An absolute snot ball but was fine all day till his temp started creeping back up at teatime! Hows Jack???

Grace is another sufferer of teething! She's getting her back bottom teeth and she is waking up screaming and will not settle. She hasn't got a temperature but she is definitely in agony the poor thing! She hasn't settled herself for afternoon naps for 2 days and i've had to rock her to sleep both time and she was awake from 12.15 - 2.25 last night. She's sooooo clingy and last night while i was trying to settle her she kept giving me kisses, falling asleep then waking up and giving me more kisses before falling back asleep. It was very cute.

Regarding controlled crying, it worked wonders for me as you all know but i also think you get to a certain point where going in every 2-3 minutes is more of a distraction and they're better left on their own to settle. Obviously it depends on how frantic the crying is but that's down to instinct. However i personally think they do need a certain amount of training (i hate that word) at first in order to get the hang of knowing that you will come back but it's time for a nap first if you see what i mean.

Hope poorly babies are on the mend and that everyone had a lovely weekend.

ha banana i can always rely on you to join me on the naughty mummy step!
i'm not really very good at pandering to my kids. it could be the 2 years i spent working in a young offenders prison or the 6 years teaching teenagers- you learn that kids dont appreciate kind and nice, they interpret that as weak and soft. but more than likely it's the innate selfish streak that runs right through me! i worry that if i do something pandering they'll have me doing it constantly! eek.

Sassy I agree with what you're saying, I try to be quite relaxed with grace and only step in if I need to. Which doesn't always go down well with others. She's very noisy and more often than not sounds very angry or upset when she's shouting but she's not she's just very loud! Other people respond to every noise or move she makes and I'm the more of the sit back and only intervene if I need to type. My mum, dps's mum and even dp sometimes jump up to every noise she makes. Now she's crawling she's into everything and to be honest if it's something she can't hurt herself on I just let her play with it cause I figure the more I take something off her the more she wants it, letting her have it means she gets bored of it pretty quickly meaning I don't have to keep moving things out of her reach! Everyone else runs round taking things off her and she thinks it's a game!

However her sleep is a nightmare again at the minute and I'm rocking her again as she's screaming like someones hurting her everytime we put her down. I think it might be her teeth but she's fine when she's awake making me think she's just trying it on! Does anyone know if there's a 9 month growth spurt?

Sassy I agree with what you're saying, I try to be quite relaxed with grace and only step in if I need to. Which doesn't always go down well with others. She's very noisy and more often than not sounds very angry or upset when she's shouting but she's not she's just very loud! Other people respond to every noise or move she makes and I'm the more of the sit back and only intervene if I need to type. My mum, dps's mum and even dp sometimes jump up to every noise she makes. Now she's crawling she's into everything and to be honest if it's something she can't hurt herself on I just let her play with it cause I figure the more I take something off her the more she wants it, letting her have it means she gets bored of it pretty quickly meaning I don't have to keep moving things out of her reach! Everyone else runs round taking things off her and she thinks it's a game!

However her sleep is a nightmare again at the minute and I'm rocking her again as she's screaming like someones hurting her everytime we put her down. I think it might be her teeth but she's fine when she's awake making me think she's just trying it on! Does anyone know if there's a 9 month growth spurt?

Quick question? Has anyone stopped sterilising? I'm thinking now she's crawling and licking the floor etc which if I'm honest doesn't get cleaned as often as it should then it's a bit pointless sterlilising her bottles. But all info say's stop sterilising at 12 months.