October 04 - New Year Toddlers

[maisiemog]

Hi All, I thought I'd start a new 2006 thread for the October 2004 Mummies and Babies.

In answwe to your question - My advice about how to stop the bititng is something which is very very difficult...but I try to ignore all behaviour I don't like. I simply ignore it..no reaction the child gets board of it..much better to do something mummy reacts to. It is all to do with endorphins in the brain...when you react to something your child has done good or bad your child gets a squirt of endorphirns and likes that squirt so carries on doing behaviour which gets you to react and so gets a squit of endorphoins. I am explainning this really badly...basically it doesn't matter what the behaviour is if you react the child will carry on doing it! This is something I preach better than I practise, espcially when I am tired.

Or you could do as someone I know does which is to smack - cure violence with violence!

Please remind me of this thread when Grace is lying on the floor sreaming!

TODDLERS!!!!! nnnooooooooooo! she is still my baby

my "baba" used to bite me quite alot when she was younger (never bites her Dad only me!) and i say "no" a few times till she get the hint... she doesnt do it as much as whenever i said "NAUGHTY" and point my finger at her, she really get upsets! but you gotta carry on doing it..... so i noticed when she is hungry or tired she intend to pinch my clothes!!

Tantrums - mine had hers since she was 11 mths old so i just plainly ignore her.. i find it funny when she is on the floor on her front screaming and kicking her legs like a 2 yrs old!! and she also grabs anything in sight and flung them on the floor, so i just wait till she calm down to speak to her

baba is doing really well in her signing as she can do foods, milk, bath and bed.. she had only just start picking ip up really well

Right well Alfie isn't getting no endorphins from me, no squits for him. I do tend to ignore, unless I can't, say if I'm putting on his nappy, that would be bad.
You must be more weathered to the whole thing Cazzy, having another dd. I'm still in shock sometimes.
Toddlers ARE babies: walking babies. My dp is a walking baby too!
Oh I must remember to sign to Alf, keep forgetting. That's great that baba is doing so many.
Does your baba do like a wobbly lip thing when you tell her off? Alfie does that and it's hard not to laugh. Then he puts his head on the floor and wails 'No No! I can't take it' - in Alfie language - like it's a tragedy.
Hopefully I'll get used to the tantrums, he hasn't really had any for a while anyway because there aren't any chocolates left.

Thats alright then, mine is still a baby then because he can't walk yet

maisie - lol!! at alfies tantrums.. i know what you mean trying not to laff as it looks so cute but you gotta take it serious though

baba had chicken tonight with chicken and fresh tagelaite (sp?) pasta followed by her fave yoghurt - yum yum!!

anyone baba start crying when you hug your dp/dh? as mine does and always had been, but we do give her a hug too to reassure her!!!

No but Grace doe get really jealous when I hold other babies - well she is going to have to get use to it when I have number 3 (not pregnant yet BTW am planning to try as soon as wedding is over and done with!)

Cazzy - how are the wedding plans going? I havent done much more for mine but i am going bridesmaid dress shopping on monday, one of them is 8 months preggers atm!!!!!!

Ds doing well has now got over his chest infection thank goodness.

Starting all his theraplay, and hydrotherapy this week after the xmas break!!! Busy busy busy!!

OK - bought some jimmy choos yesetrday - in the sale...OK so I haven't any normal shoes for work etc but they were a must!!!! How are yours coming on?
I still need to sort out flowers and cars! Have asked one of the nursery nurses from Grace's room if she will run a sort of creche while people are having their dinner!

at the moment I am feeling ill and sorry for myself...am still writing my reports but it is hard with a headache!

Hope Jay is doing alright!

Cazzy what is it you are studying again?? I'm sure you have said but I have forgotten.
Alfie's new seat arrived today in the biggest box in the world. It's huge.
So we'll be fitting it tomorrow and I won't have to sit in the back seat anymore. yay!

baba is watching The seals on telly and is saying "woof, Woof!"

Actually at the mo I am writing my school reports - wanting to say things like your son is a thicklazy bully who causes me sleepless night and having to write things like your son has made steady progess over the year and has tried hard to curb his boisterous playground behaviour...and even that shall get me in to trouble with the "no not my son - he is victim, you don;t understand him or push him enough" - aHHHHHHHH I hate reports they are a waste of f*ing time!!!!

SORRY!!!!!

Actaully dp has just paid for me to do my last OU course so I have can have another degree - HORRAHHHH I am doing pyschology!

i wouldnt wanna write them reports either - good luck for writing them!

Well done getting on the pyschology course (degree)... ive got my exam in march for level 2 in British Sign language (gulp!)

baba just lifted her plastic chair all the way from the living room into the back room as she wanted to sit with me - awwww!

Waah! I had to go to the outpatients tonight because I have mastitus. It was horrible, lots of little unhappy children wearing their pyjamas in the waiting room (with their parents)
I felt soo ill, fluey and shivering, but now have some antibiotics so I've taken one tonight.
It's all that Alfie's fault, he has been on a feeding frenzy since his cold started, so he has pushed up the milk production. I didn't even think of it when I went to work today, minus breastpump. They sent me home half an hour before closing and it was the nightmare drive home of all time. I kept thinking I was going to blackout. It was so cold this afternoon, when I got in dp said my lips were blue. Poor me!!
I'm feeling much less horrid now though.

hallo, can i join your gang? have ds born 7 oct o4 but only been on here since the summer. would be nice to chat with other people who's babes are same age ( i sort of know biglips form liverpool threads)

maisie - oh dear! i hope you get well very soon XXXXXXX

we are all cold free since Xmas - Hooray!!! . All in we all had 5 different colds - thru baba of course since October (sniff!)

Mazzy - Welcome ... i believe that you had an emergency c-section with DS as i did with mine too as was in labour for 17 hrs, so little the midwives realised that baba was back to back, facing the wtong way and too high up, they tried to shift her but she wouldnt budge! (till i was 36 weeks pg baba was lying in tranverse position)

hello mazzystar

I am feeling a fraud - Grace woke up this morning - really swollen gummed up eye - wouldn't open it for an hour - so I cleaned it lots and decided I couldn't send her into nursery so took the day off work to look after her (my 1st day back after Xmas break) and decided she needed to see a doctor - I never ever take her to the doctors - infact this is the second time I have taken her and the last time was her 6 week check I think (there may have been one more time anyway)....so I made an appoitment at 8am this morning for 10am....however now after much degunking her eye seems to have stopped producing gunk and although swollen seems much better - i am going to look like such a time wasting idiot at the docs - I really hate doctors!

Morning girls - just noticed a new thread has been started up.

Update - I am now 37+ weeks and am due on Jan29th/Feb 1st - depending on whose date you take - like due dates mean anything - Grace was due in September!

Am feeling fine - got backache so have been referred to an obstetric physio - my fault for having pregnancies close together. well at my age I needed to get cracking. Having dd2 to be called Evie (at the moment - still undecided about a middle name).

DD1 won't walk as crawling is faster! She has done about 5 steps together and did her first ones about 6 weeks ago. I refuse to buy her 'proper' shoes until she is walking properly - so she is still wearing soft leather ones.

DD1 is doing the tantrum thing - like she is being stabbed if you say no - she'll learn there is no point.

DD1 still only has 2 teeth which she got at 11 months - hoe long after the first teeth did the top come through?

Hope you are all well. I am now on maternity leave again until Jan 07 - will post with birth details - if not before.

HM XX

Hi Hotmama,
Sorry to hear about your back. I had problems after Alf, so it's great you have found a specialist before. I hope you find time to do the exercises after.
How are you feeling about the labour? Do you have any plans?
Alfie has 6 teeth now and lots of dribble. I thought I saw a molar, but it must have been a chip?
I had the brainwave of sending my mum to John Lewis to have Alfie's feet measured a few weeks ago. Surprise (not really) she brought him back with a new pair of Clarks, which cost £25, extremely cute though. Do you think you could get
a nice rellie to take Grace?
Having said that, they are really hard to put on, and he ends up running about in a pair of soft leather Daisy Roots, as we don't really let him walk outside on the pavement. He runs about in shops and that kind of thing and seems to balance better in them than the pre-walkers.
What does everyone else do for shoes? Alfie is a size 4 and a G fitting - podgy feet like mummy.
Biglips, has baba dragged the table through yet, so you can have a dollies tea party?
DP bought Alfie a boy dolly at Christmas, it's black - Edinburgh is not very multi-cultural, so it's probably the closest he will get for a while.
We thought Alf could learn to be a good daddy (like dp), although he mainly chews the dolly's (Fred) head.
My boob is feeling much better now I'm on the Flucloxacillin, and Alfie is helping too.

DS 'wella' (spanish grandma) was getting his first pair of clarks for his 1st birthday but as he can't walk yet he's still waiting!

Geo are you Spanish? Is ds your little El Nino?

moley is going on a new shoes outing on Friday.

And he's still not sleeping thru the ruddy nite!

He's not interested in the lovely toys he got from Santa either - he likes pushing the veggie trolley from the kitchen to the living room with dd2's doll on board - dh is not impressed!

Heehee! I think Moley and Alfie would get on very well. Is there a lovely trail of dirt from the veggie trolley?
It turns out Alfie quite likes (plays with for over ONE minute at a time) the Tomy mobile phone thingy.
One of my aunts buys stuff I would never buy and he loves it, like a Postman Pat TV thing that plays horrible tunes. Every morning he put it on and then did other stuff and when it finished, he went and put it on again - like background music. Then the batteries ran out - shame!
She got him a VTech interactive nursery rhyme book thing and he goes back to it time after time.
Both are very annoying.
What are the most annoying toys the babies received this Christmas.
Do you ever find yourself humming the tune from a horrible toy?
Or Balamory?
Yesterday I kept singing the song about 'tell me which house will it be?'
Help!!!
Oh, and Alfie has started yanking at my top ala Cazzy's Grace.