Just mumming (viroids 1)

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So we don't scare the viroids on the antenatal thread with horror stories of no sleep, chomped boobs and endless laundry or make them envious with tales of cuteness....

Haha Nickel, I remember that shock clearly. I suddenly realised I owned no toys and was the only one with nothing attached to my pram.

Pulling funny faces and copying what ds was 'saying' seemed to fill most of my days . Black and white pictures are interesting for them too.

i was determined that I wouldn't use those brightly coloured things - playmats etc.
then i realised that we didn't have anything else - everything we put in front of her face, she ignored!
so now we're going to have to do a sing-song running commentary of everything we do!
I don't have anything to put her on except the cot/pram and a rug, so we can' take her round with us.
I've told DH to get one of those lie-down chair things (we improvised yesterday with the car seat, and watching DH in the kitchen while i went to the toilet seemed to keep her entertained.)
obv can't use car seat at work, and you're not supposed to put them in it for long.
Also don't have anything at work to put her on. would normally say carpet, but of course, lots of people walking god knows what on their feet.

i tried th carrier on the other day, and I think i'll need to make some fasteners for one part, because i can't put her in it while it's on and i can't put it on while she's in it.
If i make one part openable, i'll be able to do it.

and i've gathered all the damaged baby books and marked them Display Copy Only, so that i can put them out for her on the shop floor without people thinking it's okay to damage my stock

I was just discussing with dh the other day that ds might think life is a musical

Don't worry about bright play mats. Just use a picnic blanket or similar. Or get something cheap. www.babycity.co.uk/tummy-time-play-mats-Bright-Starts-Tummy-Turtle-Prop-Up-and-Play-Mat-pd-3235.html

They shouldn't be in a car seat for longer than two hours at a time, so short bursts won't do any harm.

i think DD does too!
it seems to be the only way to calm her at the moment - a bit of dancing and singing

i was given a playmat thing.
I'm going to make one - I'vegot lot of different fabrics upstairs, so I''ll sew them together like patchwork, and maybe add a bell.

That sounds like a good plan. The mat we use the most is a patchwork quilt from a friend. A similar one from amazon was £40

Ds has had a monster nap this afternoon so worried he won't sleep this evening. Coaf, we are still not co-sleeping either

LOL nickel I too remember the moment that DS required entertaining but wasn't interested in anything. We had a really odd period between about 8 and 12 weeks where he clearly wanted something but wasn't interested in anything IYSWIM?! He would lie on his playmat (inherited) staring blankly out to one side. Then all of a sudden everything is amazing! Frak gave some great advice that all the need is cuddles and you to talk to them. It is true! Like CC says, I think my DS thinks life comes with a running (and sometimes tuneless musical) commentary too! Even now he actually 'likes' toys and is grabbing and chewing he by far prefers me to chat to him, chew is toes and fingers and generally fool around with him. His favourites at the moment (Sophie the Giraffe notwithstanding) are his own feet and both mine and his own fingers (for fear of traumatising him I won't offer him my feet ).

We have had loads of firsts this week! Man made ones - swimming in the pool, swimming in the sea etc but also 3 great milestones. He rolled from his front to his back and then a couple of days later from his back to his front. He also has found his feet properly now - in that he yogically chews them!

I think it's true about needing me to talk to her.
Because she's most mithery when I'm working!
VAT return, "mummy you should be talking to me"
Goods-in "mummy talk to me"
putting invoices on the system "mummy talk to meeeee"
reading the newspaper "mummy talk toooo meeeeee"
MNing "mummmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy taaaaaalk toooooooooo meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Wah"

We bought one of those chair bouncy things last night from argos, and it's here in the shop.
Seems to be a hit so far.

Today, I have managed to entertain her by opening and closing the folding door several times (no kidding, she got 10 minutes out of that, and it distracted her while i was on the phone! ), and I've stripped her nappy to change her, and she's quite happily entertained on the floor airing her underbeneathsies (because if i do it too quickly, she'll wee)

Even if ds is being a nightmare, I can turn it round and get him happy for half an hour by stripping him off. @ underbeneathsies

it's weird isn't it!

that word started in my birth thread.
can't remember who invented it, but it certainly beats any other coy terms for that area.

HV came today.
DD is a whopper now at 9lb 15oz!

That's great. She is doing really well

We have our six month check next week (a couple of weeks early). I can't believe my baby is over five months old. Where has the time gone?!

Is a 6 month check standard CC? Just not heard of it before...moving areas screws with everything

We are all packed up an about to leave. Really, really sad about leaving my Dad probably just hormones (the be all cause of everything!)

Yep, I didn't know about it until the appointment arrived. Though it is probably in the red book! The health visitor just comes to the house and checks weight, length etc.

No 6 month check here. it might depend on the area you live in.

Fvp, everything seems to be different. I have to say that the health visitors and care here are pretty amazing.

Just woke up from morning snooze with ds. He is choked with the cold. It had him wide awake and grumpy at 4am. Feeding with a blocked nose isn't easy. Any recommendations or tips for making him feel better. Dh was trying to persuade me to take him to the doctors this morning. Don't think they will do anything for a cold though

Saline nose spray and the snot sucky thing worked for us Lots of cuddles too

Not a lot the dr can do for a cold. Give calpol when needed and use a snot sucker (bleugh - but they work wonders) and saline drops to clear his nose. You can get baby Olbas oil but the regular stuff can be used too, we just made sure we didn't leave it anywhere near dd because it feels like its burning if it gets on the skin. Hope poor DS gets better soon.

We're still battling sleep. It is slowly getting better. Dd now wakes at midnight and 3 and for feeds and probably once more before 7 but doesn't get fed, just put in our bed with a dummy. It's weird that she has a breastfeed at and goes down by 8 and sleeps her long stretch til 12, then has formula at 12 but only sleeps 3 hours. So much for formula helping them sleep longer!

Bloody sleep DS was awesome all holiday, probably due to co-sleeping. Got back yesterday and he was evicted to his nursery he did a really good stint from 6:30 (he was knackered!) to 10. I then brought him to bed for a feed and never put him back...! Selfish mama!! was woken this morning by gorgeous baby chat.

I'm rather frustrated at the moment.
DD is killing my left nipple!
it seems she won't pen her mouth properly when she's on the left, and it's made my nipple really sore - and she keeps pulling on it too.
:(
I dread feeding from that side now.
she's fine on the right.
i don't know what to do.
last night, i couldn't feed her in bed whilst lying on my side, cos she just kept clamping with small mouth. I kept taking her off and reattaching her, but that hurt even more, and then she'd change her mouth shape after a while.
so we sat up for a while to try that, but it made her cry to keep changing positions and latch. couldn't even do the rugby ball hold.
now this morning that boob is really hard and full and i daren't ler her on it for any period of time to get it down.
I am still doing that side, but it's agony.

Nickel, I feel your pain, DS was a nightmare to nurse some times. I wish I'd known about MN then! You could have a look at kellymom.com for advice. I ended up pumping when things got really bad just to rest the nipple.

Nickel try feeding her in the rugby ball position when on the left to trick her into thinking it's the right. That worked for my dd until she stopped mucking about for me. Took a week or so though.

Gah to the sleep. Dd woke loads last night, including when in our bed and nothing seemed to help. I think she is self weaning from the dummy which is good in a way but gives us nothing to pacify her with when shes in a state.
DH is putting her to bed at the minute and she's really screaming. I know if I did it she would have a little moan then go to sleep, but she won't do it for him. On the one hand I want to just do that bit every night but on the other I want her to go to bed for him too so I can go out occasionally and not have to do everything all the time

I sympathise with you both tonight!

Nickel my DS had a real arse with my LHS too. For the first few days he wouldn't eat from that side at all and after he accepted it he would still have off days from it, perfect on the RHS. For us, I reckon his LHS took a bit of a battering on the way out so it was a bit sore for him. Again, tried 'tricking' him with the rugby ball hold, but nothing. I remember one night sitting up in tears thinking I was such a failure. No sage words of advice. I expressed to ease the engorgement and then it just clicked (not literally, you understand )

Esk - we have a bit of the reverse issue here. DS feeds then goes to bed. When he invariably wakes 30 mins later DH has a much better success rate at settling him than I do :(

Well she screamed and screamed. DH came down and I left it a couple of mins because she does usually just stop on her own and go to sleep. But she didn't tonight. Stopped screaming as soon as I opened the door and she could see me and then whinged on my lap for a bit longer, but when I put her down she went to sleep so easily. Poor DH. It seems only mummy will do at the moment.