Jelly and ice-cream and candle shopping here we come for our amazing ONE year olds!

[beaditAli]

Hope this covers it! Not sure what cakes we'd all be making so kept that out

Erm........Who's George Lamb?????

comix really sorry to hear your news. its great that you're so positive. It'll help your mum. Fingers crossed it all goes to plan!

I've never heard of him either lumpylumps, googled him. Not really my but not bad I suppose.

His dad (larry lamb) played archie mitchel in eastenders but george is really famous in his own right for presenting etc but he was lilly allens manager early in her career aswell! And he is so fit!

His dad (larry lamb) played archie mitchel in eastenders but george is really famous in his own right for presenting etc but he was lilly allens manager early in her career aswell! And he is so fit!

Happy birthday Orlaith and Oliver..... loving the new piccies chelle

Oooooooooo Geeeeeeorge Lamb [mwah] he's a handsome boy!

cinnamon sorry you're feeling rubbish about money etc. I feel your pain although we're not struggling hugely just that I'm realising I'm gonna have to let go of my business to a certain extent as it needs more of my time than I can give it. I'm gonna have to run it more like a hobby really and not aspire to so much really tough mentally as i've built it up on my own and love doing what I do.
Also really about the helmet these days. I want it off but he's still 11mm out. I know it'll not correct all of that and time will help too now but I don't know if I can carry on with it anymore.... even though I know he'll probably continue to improve with it for another 2-4 months.

blah blah blah.......

lumps what's up with Ollydobdob?

Can anyone recommend a good beaker for switching to from teat bottles for milk?

Thank you very much for Olivers birthday wishes. He has had a lovely day and been very spoilt.

Happy birthday to all the other babies who I have missed whilst away. Hope you all had lovely days too.

xx

That is :( beaditAli, I am not ambitious at all but can see that having worked hard to build something up and having to chose between it and motherhood must be hard. Hopefully you will find a way to be happy with your business on a smaller scale. If the helmet is making you that sad then just don't use it anymore. It has obviously really helped and as you say things will naturally improve. Luke is still not having milk from a beaker (still bfing) but he drinks from this. Ds1 had the 4m+ tommee tippee beaker for milk once he stopped bfing, but neither of them had bottles regularly so don't know if they're better ones to move from teats.

Sounds like good advice cinnamon...... need to convince DH

I do still enjoy work but at it's peak I had customers in Holland, Australia and The States so I know it's potential and that I can do it as a one man band ........ just not now I'm a mummy too.
Who needs jewellery for Christmas pressies???

Talking of work beady hows my bracelet coming along?? I need it in 3 weeks! Not really sure whats wrong with Olly. I think its teeth but he was sick yesterday morning in his cot. Was fine all day but a bit off his food then was sick almost exactly 12 hours later in his cot again! He got up this morning at 7, had 2 spoons of breakfast at halfpast and was back in bed by 8! I hope he's better soon!

Can you post a pic of Jacks head now, with the before ones so we can see the difference?? 11mm is a really tiny amount in the scheme of things. Olly doesn't have milk from a beaker. I'm a bad mummy & don't intend on stopping his bottle! Ds1 had his till he was 2.5 and then i only stopped it cos he would chew the teat and dribble the milk all down him!

I'd managed to do pretty well finally weaning orlaith off having so much milk, she was just having 16oz, but after being ill at the weekend it's all gone to pot! I'm hoping it's because she's not feeling right still and just wants the comfort. It was bloody hard work getting her down to 2 bottles though.

Last night she kept waking up crying and proper upset crying rather than her usual "I'm a bit hungry and if I whinge long enough mummy will come". It was so bad I think it's a strong contender for 'the worst night ever'! I was supposed to be going to work today but I decided not because I just know I'll make some awful mistakes, so we're going to the park instead and enjoy this weird but very welcome last bit of summer!

Beadit if you really feel you want the helmet off then do it. At least you know you've done something really positive about it and it's probably a lot better than if you'd waited for the nhs to get their act together. I know it must be hard holding off a bit on the business but you can always push things along more when jack and any future babies are a bit older.

Just dropped Arlo off at the childminder for his second session. It was worse than the first as he suddenly realised what was about to happen, and got v.upset. I could hear him screaming at the end of the road!! Sure he'll be okay...not sure about me :( :)

That's :( for you Dixiebell, I'm sure he will be fine and you will be too especially when you're at work and have something to occupy your mind. I have had a variety of children and the majority stop crying once the door is closed, honestly! Imo it is better that the children know what is happening so even though Arlo realised what was about to happen the more you prepare him the better. As the cm if she can text/email you a picture so you can see that he's fine very quickly, I have done this very often and I don't think it's too much to ask as everyone has digital camera's these days.

Thanks Cinnamon. I think it's just weird because I know it's not the leaving him with someone else per se that he doesn't like, just that they don't know what it is that makes him happy, iyswim. I know that if someone walks him round and lets him kick a ball he will be fine, but they don't know that! (Although he did take his favourite ball today!). Only 2 hours today anyway, so off soon to collect him!

I've tried uploading more pictures of Jack's head on my profile page. On the early photo if you imagine the darkest, front part of his hair being the middle then you should be able to see the wonkyness...... then the others are 7 months on after 5 months of treatment. He's gone from 20mm to 11mm Plagiocephaly and from 102% Brachycephaly. If anyone's bothered enoough I could explain the measurements a bit more
Guess what though...... barely worn his helmet all day and it's not on tonight I feel total guilt but relief at the same time. It's on my mind ALLLLLLL the time

Sorry to blab all about me

notsonewmumanymore was it your birthday recently???

Dixie your cm will suss Arlo out in no time i'm sure and he'll be loving his new surroundings

I meant from 102% to 98%..... basically it's head/width ratio. Our head widths are roughly 75% of our head length tho heads are getting wider so now it's guessed that the average is 85% of the length so Jack was/is way too wide ...... explaining the bulge. If you can see it!?

and i meant head length/width ratio!! Grrrrrrrrr

Beadit, you can definitely see the improvement in those photos!

You can see a big improvement beaditAli but I can also see that his head is still not as round as it could be. I think you need to talk to dh about how you feel and decide what is best for jack. Does he dislike the helmet? Will you feel guilty later on if his head is mis-shapen? Are there other implications other than headshape? Is there a recommendation by the people who are treating him for time/total growth that's optimum? Ds1 had a very flat side which has vastly improved but you can still see it when he has wet hair. Like me, most people know it's there and don't do anything so I really don't think you can beat yourself up about stopping when you've done a lot already. No disrespect to you at all but when I spoke to the hv about his head and she told me they treated it in the states my thought was that they are much more obsessesed with how they look and it really didn't matter but I really didn't research it or any other complications. Is your dh totally against leaving the helmet off?

Thanks...... I know it has improved but some people start treatment at 11mm rather than stop but then Jack is slowly growing out of his helmet and we can't afford a second.
cinnamon Around 1800 babies are treated at the Leeds clinic and there are about another 6 clinics in this country. It's not really just cosmetic though that is what the NHS would say as they're afraid to address it at the moment in case of a back lash on the back to sleep campaign. Although...... NHS Bristol and Leeds used to treat Plagio until there specialists retired!
There can be sight and hearing problems....... if you really think that we're talking about skull plates..... there's a lot goes on in there!
Also... if he needs glasses as a child/young adult they wouldn't have fit any where near normally on his head as it was though I think we're beyond that point now. There are young adults now that can't get motor bike helmets to fit because nobody recognised the longer term effects when they were young.
I could go on and on and on........
There is a bloke in his 30's that went to our clinic pretty much desperate for help but of course there's nothing that can be done at his age. He has recently lost a lot of his hair and is so self conscious it's really sad
Anyway........ helmet is on this morning so I'll see how we get on today

Beadit it does look loads better. The way he looks now is very similar to how orlaith looked at about 4 months and hers has improved naturally. She still has a bigger bit on her left at the back but it's not really that noticeable. Do you know if, at this age, his head would improve much naturally or is it a choice of leaving it as it is or having the helmet on for longer? The other thing I was wondering is about the shape of the helmet. Is it more shaped to how he used to be and therefore might not make much more difference now that his head is a lot better? If that was the case then maybe it would soon be time to think about taking it off anyway.

Right, i need to whinge, orlaith's been a nightmare the last 3 nights. Last night she woke up at least 10 times crying! I can't work out why she's waking and why she's so upset. The one thing I was thinking is that she's not been eating much but then she's been drinking more milk at night. Maybe I'm just going to have to go through that horrible process of weaning her off milk and onto food all over again. It's like having a 7 month old again!

Beadit, yes it was my birthday yesterday! I'm 27 but still feel about 20! Does anyone else ever get pangs of wanting to go back a few years and do it all again? I had the best time from being 19 to 24 ish! Was living with my sister and best friend, out every weekend, girly holidays, dating etc! Now I'm in bed by 10 and get pissed off 2 glasses of wine! What happened to the party girl I used to be? However I am out on saturday, grace is sleeping at dp's mums and I fully intend to make to most of it! There's about 20 of us going to a karaoke bar then an indie bar in manchester and my friends are all complete piss heads so should be a good night! I just don't want to get any older!

Beadit, I don't know anything about jacks condition but if it has improved so much in just a few months then maybe use this helmet till he grows out of it and then discuss what to do! Imo the risks - glasses, helmets etc would kind of sway me towards keeping up with it!

Saoirse - could she be going through seperation anxiety? Grace did exactly what you've described a few months ago and it went on for about 10 weeks! In the end when I knew there was nothing wrong with her we just left her to cry herself to sleep and after a few days she stopped waking up! It is so exhausting so I really sympathise with you! Just offer every kind of food you can as often as possible till she is on regular meals again! When we stopped giving grace jars ahe was clearly hungry for a few days then realised that there were no more jars and has started eating so well since then! And I was. In a complete panic for months as she gagged and got sick at anything even slightly lumpy!

saoirse the inside of the helmet is adjusted as when needed so to certain extent it is changeable....... I think the long and short of it is that I want a helmet free Jack

Beadit ever since adding you on facebook I've been thinking ur husband is very familiar and couldn't think why as I knew I'd never met him and now I know why. I was flicking through the music channels on sky this morning and he's a dead ringer for the lead singer from Alien Ant Farm! Very random I know but as soon as I saw the video this morning I knew it was him he reminded me of!

love it newmum! Our window cleaner is the double of the young/ish, dark haired bloke that is on cbeebies bedtime hour! (never actual thought how you spell cbeebees/ies/)
Women in their 40's usually fancy DH like mad and always say he looks like Freddie Mercury! [shocked] and massive [ha ha ha]

Helmet off again all day...... think this decision is being made a bit too easily

newmum Happy belated birthday!!!!*
NOOOOOOOO!!! We don't have SKY so can't check! Send me a link!?!