October 04 - New Year Toddlers

[maisiemog]

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

oh Kath - sorry to hear youre having a buggering time atm - is he teething by any chance ? and oh no not fags!!!!!!!

Biglips - tbh I have no idea - you'd think after 4 I'd have a clue wouldn't you! He's never been the worlds greatest sleeper but the last 3 or 4 weeks have been hell! I keep telling myself if its his teeth then we'll get over it but just feel so permanently crappy. I did wonder when he was really little whether I'd got PND, he had reflux quite badly, but when I look ahead, life just looks so generally crappy (not really terrible if you understand just a bit crappy!) What makes it worse is everyone says but you've already had 3 you should know what you're doing now. Sorry - hope this didnt sound overdramatic!

Kaath! I'm sorry it all looks so poo at the moment. I bet a lot of that is down to lack of sleep, it can really make you feel down. Alfie is a bit random as well, he has a week of wakefulness and then he seems to start sleeping again.
Is there anyway you can give Moley to relatives for a while and get some shuteye?
I have to say if Alfie is up teething I knock him out with Medised, it's the biz. Also putting chamomile tea in his beaker and keeping him up all day help him get a good few hours of sleep.
How many teeth does Moley have now?
Do you find it easy to sleep yourself?
I'm the worst sleeper, I want to go to bed early, but I'm just not an early night person and I end up staying up late, knowing I will be up at 7:30 with Alfie.
I think Moley sounds quite like Alf, they both like to climb and be boisterous and play. I feel so tired after a day chasing Alfie around. He now climbs up the sofa and onto the bookshelves or grabs everything off the chest of drawers. When you pick up the same stuff time and time again you do start losing the will to live.
This weather and the short days don't help, but do you get out much with Moley, like to the park or that kind of thing.
I hope you feel a bit better tomorrow.
Biglips, that girl's going to be a whopper! That is a big old foot she's got. My brother was a 5 at EIGHTEEN months, and that was considered big - and he's 6 foot 3 and weighs about 16 or 17 stone.
What height are you and your dp?

Kathh- yeah lack of sleep doesnt help! as if im lacking sleep im so tearful and worn out till Dp comes home from work i hand the baba over to him for me to have a nap and i feel tens times better than before

maisie - well im 5 8 and Dp 6ft but his sister is over 6 ft so all his side and my side all tall esp my 13 yrs old cousin who is 6ft and will be 6 7 by the time he finished growing!!!!

Biglips would also recommend medised as is the only medicine which guarentees a good nights sleep for DS1 when teething is painful (only problem is that Boots can sell out!). I have recently experienced 4 months of disturbed sleep from DS1 which came as a shock as he slept through after 6/7 weeks. I was in tears and really ratty when a friend who had experienced a similar problem with her 15 month old recommended moving DS1 back to a sleeping bag (I had stopped as DH thought they were too restrictive) - luckily grow bags come in sizes up to 3 years and after using one he has slept through ever since - Poor mite must have been cold .

Luggs, I had the same thing with Alfie kicking off his covers. We bought him a 2.5 tog grobag which is up to big like 36 months or something. It's really warm, some nights I leave the side unzipped as he gets hot. It works really well though, and medised.

Thanks Masiemog, good idea to leave the bag unzipped when warmer DH is paranoid about overheating! (even though our house is usually cold)

Sorry some of you are having a crap time. Was intending to come on here anyway to ask how you entertain your little darlings? Until now DS1 has been home every afternoon (he's just started full time) and DD has been here all but 2 days, in Feb she is going to do 2 mornings at pre school, I'm so used to DS2 just bundling in with them that i'm begining to worry about how to keep him entertained. Sounds a bit feeble now I write it down as by the time we get back from school its 9.15, he sleeps 2 hours after lunch and we go and get DS1 at 3. But humour me what do you do to keep them entertained?

You must be sooo tired!!! All those children and running them around.
I'm exhausted with just Alfie.
We tend to get up between 7 and 8:30 (whatever Alfie does basically) and have brek.
He then kind of plays with his toys while I eat my brek. I play with him a bit (usually throwing him around and having toy fights with him) and then do stuff around the house whilst he follows me around trashing the place - then lunch - then nap.
In the afternoon we often go out to the park or the local softplay or shopping or something then more food then bed.
He is starting JoJingles next week and goes swimming on a Friday morning.
Often a grandparent comes over once or twice a week to play with him. Yesterday we had dp's parents up and we went to see Narnia (a bit amateurish IMO).
He goes to the shops quite a bit.
I was thinking today about how many children I would like, I can't see myself having more than two (like my family) although dp is from a bigger family and I think he would like three or four.
I could see myself adopting a third child, but I don't want to actually give birth more than twice. That's enough for me and I don't think I have the time now to be pregnant more than once more.
Dp keeps fantasising about having twins.

i take DD swimming once a week, playgroup twice a week and i see my friends once a week too... at other times i take baba out for a nice walk in the nice weather... on horrible days she wreck the living room BUT i let her he he he!!

oh and a nap in the afternoon for 2 hours

maisie - 4 or 5 - better start packing your bags

i only want 2 and thats that!

sorry 3 or 4 (not 4 or 5 - sorry didnt meant to give you a heart attack!!!)

Yes two's plenty for me!!
Alfie gets to watch CBeebies when I need to do something in the Kitchen, otherwise he just comes in and gets under my feet.
We play with his stacking cups or his toy that you put rings on like hoopla, I don't know what it's called.
I went into the bathroom today after Alfie had been in for about five minutes. The nappy bin was pulled over and one of the feet were pulled off, the potty was knocked over, there were some towels on the floor and there was a bottle on teatree oil down the loo!

Baby geog has a mission to get his (soft) shoes down the toilet or in the bath, soon as they are off his feet he is off!

awww as mine got a habit of putting new toilet rolls in the filled up bath for baba!!! - hmmm! i have to wait for it to dry for days before i can wipe my bum with it!!!!

Baba went for her MMR today... so gotta keep an eye on her for the next few days incase she comes out with summat. she was sssoooooooo brave as she screamed for 2 seconds and then was telling the HV off for sticking the needle in her leg

oh and babas weight is now 28lb 10oz

which is 2 stone and 10 oz!!!! (crikey!!!!)

Blimey biglips, what do you feed your baby!!!

Ds weighs 16lbs!

That must be quite a high centile for baba.
I think I'm on quite a high centile too at the moment, so I'll have to stop with the Christmas Cake (that dp's parents kindly left for us )
I'm feeling a bit like I'm on a treadmill today, forgot to have lunch, ran about like a mad thing, taking stuff to the charity shops etc...
Alfie has suddenly started to sleep from 7 - 4am then wake up and muck around for an hour. Grrr!
Thanks Alfie, mummy's tired!!

well she aint fat but always had been solid from birth as she was 9lb 1oz at birth and by the time she was 3 mths old she was 16lb 8oz... i just feed her normal stuff and she is tall for her age too as she more like a 2 yrs old - she is 84cm in height

so since 21 july she had put 5lb ish

No I think Baba's just going to be a lot taller than average, so she's bound to be a high centile.
I was looking at Alfie's red book (or is that just Scotland?) with the growth charts in it, to see what the head circumference chart said, but they stop that at one and only measure for height and weight. I was quite surprised to see it goes up to 20 years. I don't remember going to be weighed when I was older than 8 or something.
I wonder what centile I'm on now. Is there an adult height/weight centile thingmy?
I'm definately too heavy at the moment, by about a stone, but I just can't seem to get rid of it.

well ive got a girl cousin who is 6ft 1 and her brother who is now 13 is nearly same height as her and is gonna be 6ft 7 by the time he finished growing!!!! eek!

That's like my family, I've got two girl cousins who are 6 feet tall and one of my cousins is 6 foot 7 at 16 years, but I don't think he'll grow a lot more now.
My Dad's 6 foot 1 and my brother's 6 foot 3. But I'm 5'5 and dp's 6 feet so I reckon Alfie will be kind of average heightish.
We met this baby who was 8 months old today at swimming and he was BIGGER than Alfie. Haha!! .

I haven't taken Alfie to the HV to be measured for ages, so I tried to measure him and I think Alfie is somewhere between 25th and 50th centile, but I find him really hard to measure. He's such a wriggler. He has a teeny head.
Biglips baba is 91st centile on the boys weight chart, which means she will be bigger on the girls.
Did anyone get their health visitor to use breastfed growth charts? Mine never mentioned that they were available, but apparently the average weight is lower for bf babies by a couple of pounds as formula adds more weight to babies. If we get Alfie weighed etc... before his MMR, I think I'll see if she has one. I can't understand why they don't use the most accurate growth charts for the baby?
What's the next big checkup?