July 2010: the "a ffffew more birthdays, a ffffew more walking but are they all sleeping? Are they ffffeck!" one

[CakeandRoses]

bloody nora memph . i don;t think we've had a shirtstorm like that since A was a newborn

I dont know where it comes from, and his poo really really smells to the point it makes me cough, he was walking around my mums house with no nappy on and got into dog bed and squatted for a wee, it soaked through a £50 dogbed there was that much! does anyone elses baby squat when they wee or poo? L has started doing it every time he goes now

tsc they think he is intolerant to food groups but they wont test him for some reason, I keep pushing but the hv, doc and lifestyle coach all say unless he has a huge reaction he should grow out of it, he goes like that normally then he just does really smelly nuggets for a day or two, ive tried cutting stuff out but nothing changes the pattern

Lyndon would sit in his poo all day without making a peep, if you dont catch him in the act you dont know unless it really smells, yesterday it smelt so bad I had to oust the house and open all doors and windows! hmm reading what im writing is making me think I need to think about getting it looked at privately if my docs wont look into it!

That is a lot of poos, memphis, though it can vary a lot. We had one little boy at nursery who did 5 every day, without fail and afaik there was nothing wrong with him.

Same here for nappy changes, one on getting up, one in middle of day (usually just before sleep) and one at bedtime, unless there's a pooey one to change at another point in the day. Usually just one poo a day here.

damn, dh was right about me changing them too often

but anyway that's not the reason they don't leak as they don't leak if she's had them on all night either - mind you, that might be because i change her after her dream feed

5 poos a day wss i bet changing his nappy was popular!

We were on a rota for changing nappies so we all did one day a week each. Roughly 60 nappies a day . Changing G 2 or 3 times a day has never seemed like a problem after a job like that.

D gets changed when hes woken up in the morning then around 3ish after his nap then after his bath before bed. He usually does a poo in the morning after hes woken up so I wait for that before changing him. Obv change him more in the day if he does more poos.

He did a poo on my mums conservatory floor the other day, I was sitting in a chair reading and he handed me the poo. I didnt know what it was so I accepted it, I thought it was a sqashed peach or something, then realised what it was whilst in my hand and literally didnt know what to do for about 10 secs!

Im going to my mums again today, my sis is going to be there with her oldest and youngest (love newborn cuddles!) its meant to be a nice day so Ill get the paddling pool out.

rah - crap night with Lady A, not sure if it's teething (she's beginning the next bottom tooth) or just randomness but she did my flipping head in.

i said below mlic: usually we change 7.30am, 11am (morning poo time), about 2.30-3, often around 5pm too (afternoon poo) and then 7 for bed so that's 4 - 5 changes.

i don't think that is too much personally tho and it's mainly driven by her pooing schedule.

60 nappies a week is my idea of hell wss, why do nurseries change nappies so much?

Morning all,

My nappy changes are the same as most of you. Had to do a change through the night again due to the pampers as I never managed to get new nappies yesterday. Will go to asda for my usual ones later.

Ds went to bed at 6.30 last night and woke at 7.30 this morning. He's so tired from school wish it was R she's still shit. I have no clue what to do.

dh sounds like a lovely day, have fun. Lol about poo in hand.

cakes are you working today? R cutting teeth too, so fed up with it :(

What you all up to today? I am doing housework and shops.

ha ha dh wish I could have seen your face!

Had a dreadful poo incident the other day - J was having some nappy-free time before his bath and I was clearing up in the kitchen when I heard the sound of straining coming from his (cream carpeted) bedroom. I didn't quite go in as quickly as I should have done. There was poo all over the carpet and he was smeared in it. I yelped and rushed him through to the bathroom and plonked him in the bath. I didn't quite know what to do - I got the shower head and pointed it into the basin for the water to warm up, but unfortunately dropped it and sprayed J (and myself) with icy cold water. Of course he was screaming, poor boy, and there wasn't much I could do till the warm water came through! aargh.

I tend to change nappies when he wakes up, after his morning poo (maybe 8ish), lunchtime ish, 3pm ish and then after tea. Obviously depends on his pooing schedule though - at the moment he's pooing about 3-4 times a day.

I always feel sorry for whoever at nursery is on nappy changing duty! What a job. They change nappies at 9ish, 1ish and 4ish which I think is about right really.

cake We sound simelar in the tidying and could make life easier stakes. I do tidy up when D has finished playing in a particular area or while he naps or before we go out. I hate leaving toys all over the place and i think its giving him the right message and keeping things fresh for him too. Im really trying to get him into a strong routine but the cm doesnt appear to be helping, she let him nap at 4.30 yesterday!! i have never let him sleep so late for fear of his night time sleep being disturbed (as it was e slept from 7.30-6.30 so can't complain!!) I have always loosly followed Gina Ford, as much as i hate her i love her too, and she says for them to have a short morning sleep and a longer after lunch sleep and she says that psycologically and physically it has been proved to be better for them. Those with toddlers, what have you found works best for you and the new baby re older child and sleep? I did write in the comms book for the cm to try her hardest to stick to this as i have already spoken to her about it, i pay her so she should really do as requested, or is that unfair?

that sounds quite horrific re your cream carpet incident woodlands and your poo in hand dh. F dislikes being dirty so the only poo incident with him was the one recently where he 'helpfully' took his pull-ups off. i'm not great at giving A nappy-free time so i don;t think we've had any with her either.

you're not being unfair at all re your cm vik. i'm very precise about how long/what times F & A are allowed to sleep at nursery. They had to wake her up yday as she was going to sleep past 3pm.

I think I need to be clearer with nursery about J's sleep. For some reason I had it in my head that OFSTED decreed that nurseries had to let children sleep when they were tired and couldn't wake them, but I don't think that's true. I mentioned it briefly to someone there the other day and she said it was fine to let them know when I want him to sleep. He tends to go to sleep at about 10.30-11am for about 40 minutes which is less than ideal - I then can't get him to sleep in the afternoon till maybe 3.30 or later, but yet he can't go through till bedtime. I would like him really to have his morning nap at around 9ish, or else go through till after lunch. I might have a word next week.

dh that's very funny! He probably just wanted some attention and thought that was a good way to get it!

I change nappies about the same as tsc when he's in cloth although in spozzies I sometimes let him go all day cos they hold so much.

cake I wish I'd stick to 15 mins of cartoons, they watch while I'm on mn and recently in the morning while I'm throwing up/getting my head around being awake but I really want to cut down, I hate it when we go downstairs and the first thing L asks for is cartoons.

60 nappies a day not a job I'd want.

viksam I'm sick with this one too, I think I'm just a vomitty pg person. With S the tiredness/ms went around 16 weeks, I'm hoping it's quicker this time.

I got my scan date through, on the 9th...I hope it's good news cos that's my birthday!

chul tbh, it's actually selfishness in a way that i don't let F watch more - i'm not a fan of TV in general and the noise of cartoons makes me feel stressed so it just never gets turned on in the day (the 15 mins he watches are of old Thomas episodes on my Mac) so he never asks for it, he asks for music instead.

it was also a decision based on seeing my cousin's DCs who are really lovely but have watched TV nonstop since babies and have zero attention span which i've assumed to because they're used to non-stop stimulation. They never read or want to just sit and chat etc and they are ALWAYS whingeing to be doing something/be somewhere other than what they're doing. It doesn't bother my cousin as she wants the TV on all the time anyway but it would drive me nutso. I thought I'd try to do what my parents did with me - i watched little to no TV as a young child and no cartoons (i didn't like them even then) and i read loads, made up games etc and was happy doing stuff on my own.

i don't mean any of this in a judgey way at all, as i said, it's more what suits me than aiming to be the perfect mother.

oh and very exciting re your scan

We grew up without tv too cake and never needed it. I hardly watch it now, just the news every now and then and films but barely anything else. That's why I really don't want the DC to get into it but when I'm feeling rough and L's wanting all sorts it's so easy to doze while they veg in front of it, I hate myself for it though...stupid really!

mlic it's amazing the energy they have isn't it?! L keeps asking to go swimming too but I can't take both of them on my own, maybe when DH is off we'll get a chance.

i think you need to get any rest any way you can at the mo chul. it wouldn't be great for you or the baby if you were charging round after them nonstop and running yourself into the ground.

i really wouldn't feel guilt about it - you do lots of other fun things with them too