Late Jan 2011 - newborns no more! Welcome to the joys of teething, weaning, wiggling & squealing :)

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Hello ladies, hope you found your way over here okay!

Our little newborns are newborns no more! :( :)

Hopefully a while yet before teething and weaning starts, but there's definitely a lot of wiggling and squealing going on already :o

Hi Bubba how were the hols?
Good luck with the room move, agree with JJKM that I only seem to wake when I'm really needed as Ev is in his own room. Maybe L won't wake for milk if you're not right next to him .
No teeth here but dribbling like a loon and some horrible nappies so may not be long. A bit if commando crawling but lots of spinning around on his big fat tummy

Don't know where most people have disappeared to but I did post on a thread that Rocklover started the other day. Sounds like she's having a tough time so I posted that I'd been thinking about her. Havent seen anyone else though. Anyone heard from Cupcakes?

We're off on holiday for a few days tomorrow, visiting some of DH's family in Jersey. Hoping for some sunshine.

We haven't moved DD into her own room yet, but I noticed last night when I got up that I disturbed her so it might be time. I had figured I'd stay as we are until she slept through, but she's also slept 9 till 6 two nights running so fingers crossed we may be turning a corner.......

Next week we have a nutritionist coming to talk to the NCT girlies as I won some competition or other. Apparently they are coming to "set up" at 2.30, heavens knows how many are coming, as my house isn't what you'd call palatial.

Today I reversed into DP's beloved mini, this was not a good idea. Thankfully no damage appears to have been done.

Right, had time to read back. Glad the sleep move worked better for your girls jjkm and it sounds like they're each developing quite differently to each other, yet still in line with non-premies. L does similar to Kali and stretches out if we don't get him down into a sitting position quickly enough because he wants to stand, but it's more a will thing than a physical thing. You sound very together with all the hurdles you're all going through though.

Ooh, Running that sounds dead posh - bet you get loads of food freebies :)

Hi Fuzzy hols were lovely, if very wet! :o Did lots of yummy eating to hide from the rain but also got lots of good walks in. My parents overlapped with us for the first few days, so DH and I got a couple of short evenings out to ourselves. Still feeding The Boy far too frequently for my liking, so had to get back early from our evenings out.

Last night was a 'mare - he woke for a feed at 9pm, then 1:30, then 4:30. DD2 woke at 2:30 for no bloody reason and refused to go down quietly, then DD1 joined in the fun at about 5. Tried giving L a bottle of water at the half four wake. Needless to say he was Not Amused :o :o :o :( :o May become Bitch Mummy and keep on doing that and assign DH to baby duty after 1am so he'll get bored of waking for no milk and stay asleep. Then I'll try it again with the 1am feed etc Sound like a good plan??

bubba it sounds worth a try good luck.

Kali did something very very clever yesterday, she got from her tummy to a sitting position all by herself - I have no idea how as i wasn't watching but she was very pleased with herself!

running hope you enjoy your nutritionist visit, sounds interesting.

Cupcakes is around on Facebook from time to time and i think all is well. She is in the UK at the moment, J has had his surgery and it went well.

tbh, anything is worth a try. I am absolutely knackered and desperately need to sleep for more than 3 hours in one go!! :o

Any progress Bubba?

Hope you're all having a good bank holiday weekend, we've been out for a walk and then come home to do some gardening. I was given a whole heap of clothes & grobags yesterday so need to do a sort out before the house bursts at the seams.

Bollocks, just wrote an epic reply and pressed the back button somehow (with the back delete button?) and lost it all. Hey ho, probably saved you all some pain! :o

Summary - 1st night, worked a treat. Just 10 mins of complaining to poor DH at 4am. 2nd night worked less well - 20 mins of protesting and then a couple of further wakes. 3rd night, Mummy Being a Bitch Plan had to be postponed as the poor wee lad has two teeth coming through simultaneously and has a high temperature to go with it, so I hunkered down on his bedroom floor for the night and fed/cuddled him all night long. Poor little man.

I don't envy the baby clothes explosion running - have just managed to get rid of loads of baby stuff (thanks to friends and cousins popping, and DH's insistence that we have no more :() (although, funnily enough, looks a bit reluctant to go and get his balls lopped off The Snip if he wants any more nooky but no baby! :o :o

Best post this before I have another Doh! moment :)

Hiya, am checking back in! am a bit hopeless with keeping up with threads but will try and keep up a bit more.

I'm also thinking about the clothes explosion contained under my older kid's beds and starting to ebay a few bits and pieces. I keep thinking about work and making money in general so keep casting my eye round the house wondering what we can sell next in the meantime!

we're hitting a bad patch with nightimes as well. I had it bad with my older 2 at 7months when we moved them out our room and B is staying in our room for a while longer as we're up in the loft so thought it wouldn't be as bad since he's still sleeping next to me. He's gone from pretty much sleeping through to waking 2 or 3 times a night and complaining. He's commando crawling but it's making him really cross!! His body won't co-ordinate quickly enough for his brain and he spends all day screaming and shouting about it. Then he doesn't nap for long enough after lunch, screams cause he's overtired then laughs and waves his arm in circles when i try and settle him again.

is anybody still breastfeeding? i'm going through the chewing nipples phase. my older 2 would guzzle big 7-9oz bottles of milk around this age but B is just messing about so I don't know how hungry he is with all the screaming and complaining. His best trick is to clamp is jaw shut then shake his head.

i was just reading about the tube feeds jjkm i used to work with special needs kids and we had an older boy who wasn't fussed about eating food as he knew he was getting it all through his tube so they were trying to reduce the tube feeds to make him feel hungry ... like you're going through. it was really frustrating because he was really underweight and the hunger didn't really seem to bother him.

Hi naturalbaby your LO sounds just like mine what with the commando crawling and playing Silly Buggers while breastfeeding :o
I recently sold our double maclaren, not needing it anymore as DD2 walks everywhere, but the mum who bought it off me had two kids aged 5 and 8!!?! And she paid almost as much, if not more, than I paid for it myself. Some people are weird (luckily for me) :)

Poor L is not enjoying this teething malarky; temp went up to 39.5 last night, with calpol/nurofen and nothing but a disposable nappy on :(

Hope you've all had a good bank holiday (those of you in the UK)?

Hi all! Sorry I have been awol a while, summer hols have been very busy, and we have been away for a week or two, went to Norfolk broads/ Suffolk/ Bedford seeing family and stuff. Very relaxing and my DH has just returned to normal - just in time to go back to school again. I am also going back to work whichI am dreading (having a few mares about childcare, namely to do with crazy DM). I also have had a baby who wakes many times a night and buggers around with the breastfeeding so can empathise there. What is that all about?? Anyway, will read back to catch up but I will be on here more now I promise :)

Good to see you back travis :) :)

I'm off for an afternoon kip while DH is still on hols so he can look after the noisy buggers darling little ones. Is 7m old too young to put a baby onto a naughty step for preventing his mum from sleeping? :o :o

B would have been on the naughty step for no sleep today! woke up 3 times last night then when i thought i'd have a sleep when my older boys did after lunch he lay there blowing raspberries for over an hour. finally fell asleep just before my older 2 woke up.

Poor L teething, i thought mine were bad but we never had temperatures. I have a draw full of amber teething necklaces at the ready, they worked really well with ds2 but he broke it so we got some spare.

Someone else told me about amber necklaces - do they really work? (how?). Baby cocaine worked a treat with the girls when they were teething, but L is unamused.

My afternoon kip was very shortlived/non-existant also. DDs don't sleep in the afternoon anymore and L slept until about 5 mins after I went for a lie-down, but DH couldn't hear him shouting as the girls were shouting louder, so I got up in the end and shouted even louder

Right, settled him again, changed DD1's bedsheets (started wetting herself during the day and evenings??!) and put a 3rd load of washing on. Now I shall sleep (at least for a couple of hours before L wakes again I hope! )

Hi everyone

Finally back from our hols and trying not to think about all the washing that is lurking in the kitchen.

Good to see all our babies developing nicely but frowny face for babies not sleeping.

Wondered if A was teething as dribbling increased and had a couple of days of nasty nappies but I think she's just teasing us. I read about amber necklaces too and it seems that people who try them, rave about them but I found an article totally dismissing any properties they may have as an analgesic. I have however found a website that sells necklaces that little ones can chew nicely so I can at least wear jewellery again without my little monkey tearing her gums to bits on it. www.smartmumuk.com/index.php?id=2

brilliant idea! :)

Isn't it just?

I can't get over that woman wanting a double buggy. maybe she was buying it for someone else? I hate it when I see big kids in buggies but I suppose you never know how far they've had to travel or if there's some medical issue or something to prevent them walking. all the same, I'm hoping not to buy another pushchair once A grows out of the present one.

We bought her next car seat last week. We weren't planning on buying it so soon but it was reduced so seemed daft not to get it now. It's a bit scary thinking she can soon go into a forward-facing seat. She does seem ready for it though and gets very bored on longer journeys.

Sorry, that last post of mine was cut a bit short - L crawled properly !! :) :) so I thought I should get off t'internet and take an interest (He'd just started commando crawling a few days ago, but this was proper crawling)

Yes, great idea about jewellery - first thing my mum does when she opens the door to us is tuck her expensive jewellery away! :o If they could do some nice earrings that can't be ripped out, that would be good too.

The buggy thing made me go too. Yes, there are of course some good reasons for some bigger children to go in buggies, but the number of children who are much bigger than DD2 being wheeled around is mad.

Am hoping that DD2 will be out of her carseat and on to the next stage by the time L moves up a seat - and then DD2 can move into DD1's, and we can get a cheaper one again for DD1. We have to buy school uniform and shoes, plus ballet uniforms for the two DDs so hoping to save money wherever possible (although can't help but :) at DD2 starting ballet - she's very plump and short so will just look funny gorgeous (in a doting mother's eyes anyway!! :o)

for crawling!

I have a bum shuffler. She also keeps lifting up her bum in an attempt to crawl/move forward. At least I'm guessing that's the aim rather the face plant which is the usual result. have to admit she fell off the bed again at the weekend. Not sure how it happened but think she did a massive shuffle forward and over-balanced. Almost took her to A&E, she cried that much. Poor sausage.

Glad you agree with me on the buggy issue Flubba. I have to admit my usual reaction is "lazy buggers!".

We're getting a car seat which should last until DD is 11. The reviews are good so I just hope it fits and everything.

You inspired me to get on to Kiddicare and buy the new carseat for DD1 (bargainous 50% off the one we went for!), and a nifty little buggy bag too, which should come in handy on my marathons between school, nursery and home with my three monkeys :)

Sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh at " At least I'm guessing that's the aim rather the face plant which is the usual result. " :o :o Poor little thing! :o DD1 did some weird bum shuffle-cum-chimpanzee lope and got laughed at every time, but by 'eck she moved fast with it!

Crawling? Bum-shuffling? Blimey, DD is just doing the face-planting with gusto! :)

I thought of you yesterday Gallic, went up to Belper and popped into Fresh Basil. It was you that recommended it wasn't it?

We've had a look at the next size up car seats, DP went into Halfords and blew the minds of the assistants by explaining that his 1979 mini doesn't have rear seatbelts and nor does it have air bags. It appears there is a seat which will fit the mini, and his company car, and my car so we're getting that apparently.

we had a car seat juggle the other week when the mothercare assistant condemed our layout as a death trap! we have 3 in a row - ds1&2 in stage 1 seats so now ds1 is in a new seat so B can have his stage 1 seat in a couple of months.

got my older 2 back at football next week, would love to get them into dancing! i did a few taster sessions and one was based on ballet which we loved but need to save up a bit or stop the football for a bit. dh would love that!

lots of baby screaming and screeching going on for some reason. can't get anything done unless I'm holding him then he wants to face forward to get a better view and i can't cook with an excited baby kicking away on my hip!

bath time was interesting tonight - he's such a good roller he spent the whole time just rolling over, crawling to get anther toy, rolling back, rolling again, crawl for a toy, roll....

@Katie, yup, I recommended Fresh Basil. Hope you had a huge slice of cake. :)

A lot of places have car safety centres which can check which seats fit your car before you buy them. One day I might actually use our local one!

Naturalbaby were your other two early crawlers too? Or do you think trying to keep up with early siblings has been an incentive to get moving? My other two crawled at 9m and ??? (Very Bad Mother emoticon - who has absolutely no recollection of when DD1 crawled, but knows for sure it wasn't at 7m) :o

ds1 crawled at 10 or 11months with a lot of persuasion and training! ds2 managed to drag himself across the floor around this age to go after the cat.