September 05 - lots of smiles

[milward]

Here it is!!

Pcircus - hope your appointment goes well.

Mummyhill - wish I could help out. Happens to me as well.

ds is getting his first tooth as well. Just needs to come through the gum.

[LadyLazarus]

It'll be a yoga magazine. Don't want to spill the beans just in case!

[LadyLazarus]

Just wondering, and shoot me if this is a stupid question, but when you go to mum + baby groups (which I still havent; been to!), how do you manage? all the ones round here seem to clash with her sleeping / feeding times! I understand i can feed her in there, but as you have to leave the pushchair at the door, i'd have to go after half an hour or so cos she'd be due a nap... sorry, i do worry abotu the silliest things! Having one of those days today!

[mummyhill]

LadyL - you don't have to be there from start to finish it's more like a drop in type of thing, get there when you can. At the one I run we have parents who turn up for the first 1/2 - 1 hour others that come for the middle hour, some that come for the last hour and others that come for the full two hours.

[Rhumba]

Hello again, Been a bit quiet. Gabrielle got an awful cold way back in November and was puking up everywhere and not sleeping, refusing to settle herself at all and up and down all evening! we then went away (managed a flight with Ds and DD on my own!)and then DS was ill and then it was Christmas (and everyone had changed their names!) New thread was easier to catch up on so thought I'd say hello again.


Life getting better Gabrielle will now settle herself in the night and for days time naps. Did CC in the evening which was horrible and would have thrown in the towel the first night except that when I went back in she settled as soon as I put my hand on her and then settled after I left with only a short cry . Still wakes every 45 mins afterwards but generally only doing this once or twice and it only takes a short hug (as opposed to several hours!) and last night didn't wake til 2am (happy days)

I'm still only brestfeeding other than a wee top up of EBm in the evenings, not sure if she really needs this but she won't take a feed from Dh so am just trying to get her used to a bottle (esp as Have a freezer full of the stuff!)Am getting fed up with how long each feed takes (up to an hour)but enjoying being able to eat as much as I like!

Sorry to hear some of you have been a bit down, hoped that would have got better but I think the local services are not very good at helping with PND. Working with mental health teams in the past they often seem to just visit a couple of time and unless you are high risk of self/other harm tend to back out. Not very helpful I know.

Potty trained DS in May when he was 2, must admit I really pushed it as I was pregnant and just took him out of nappies and after about 7 day he cracked it and it took a further week til he was fairly accident free, Having said that he went to nursery 3 days a week and they were very supportive of that method (and just handed me lots of wet clothes!), it was summer so easy to dry clothes and I only had him to look after. If I hadn't done it then think I would have waited til next summer as very little gets done in the Rhumba household at the moment.

LL - would the DD sleep in the car seat. Must admit was really anti it with DS as had heard that wasn't good for their spinal development but would never go out with DS if I didn't and I try to limit it when I can. Also with Ds just tried lots of different cups til I found one he liked, bit expensive but worth it in the long run.

Pooka - still up for a meet up if you're around. DS will be going to nursery on Fridays now and pre-school Mon -wed am. Sorry never got back to you but got a bit submerged by everything.

Can't believe we're into teething and weaning already. Love the name of this thread it's so true and what keeps me going some days.

[beatie]

Hi Rhumba - sorry to hear about all the problems you have had.

Lady L - With dd1 we used one of those Tommee Tippee bottles with handles (which looks a bit like a rocket) - it says from 3 months + and has a wide spout. After that we moved onto a Tommee Tippee sippy cup - not the one with the spout which flips up out of the lid but one which has a larger plastic spout and a lid which flips over the top.

[Cabe]

Hi Rhumba

LL - You should be able to feed, we all sit round feeding and chatting at ours.

[beatie]

Oh my! There's a Due in September 2006 Ante-matal Club thread!

[jaydeelady]

hi guys, thanks for best wishes everyone, just realized how miserable i always sound. sorry, will try and try to be more positive.
naomi doesn't have a bath every night but we still follow a routine of sorts, with the other three dh and i had rigid routines which everyone laughted at but all of them have been pretty good at night and we had our evenings back with all of them quite early on. This time i thought i'd be more flexible but naomi has settled into her own routine quite quickly and over the xmas period when we thought it'd be difficult she would just go off to sleep in her car seat or pram then transfer to cot when we got home and sleep all night. She usually sleeps from avout 7.30/8.00 til about 7 ish but its up in the air now shes poorly. BTW she is much better today and the hosp have phoned to see how she is, how cool is that?
As for potty training.... sorry girls it was too long ago !!!
its very dark here and threatening to snow, does anyone have snow yet?

[jaydeelady]

guess what ? finally going to broad band wireless something or other next friday so then i'll be able to post more than once a day !!!!

[milward]

wow - sept2006 that was us last year beatie!! sending them lots of best wishes xxx

rumba - good going on the potty trainig!my dd3 was 2 in may as well & just refuses to go on the loo. It might well be summer before she's not in nappies.

[Simplyred]

Hello!

ahhh babies expected in September - bless.

Got a headache today and grumpy! Hope the littlies behave as dh not back until 7.30 (Spanish class again) oh well better cook tea and watch Deal or no deal - teaching ds probability!!!! oh no hope I'm not teaching him to gamble!

[PiccadillyCircus]

Have finally sorted out the wireless thingy .

I am moderately impressed with myself.

[Kiwifruit]

September 2006! That is scary...

Took Charlotte for her first immunisations today and she screamed briefly, then smiled at the nurse. She seems a bit unsettled now though - hopefully she will settle tonight. Had to wake her up at 8:30am this morning !

Beatie - it took a week or so for the routine to kick in at night, but I just persisted with it (she has a bath most nights, because she loves it - DH bathes her while I get tea ready (he hasn't started work yet), but not every night). Am probably a bit naughty feeding her just before I put her down at night (a big no no according to the Baby Whisperer), but I don't care! She does go down awake most of the time (sometimes she protests loudly and DH (the big softie) will rock her to sleep) - took a while to get that sorted, but found that having a mobile for her to look at helped a lot. I'm still breastfeeding exclusively (Charlotte was 13 weeks yesterday) - little mare won't take a bottle of EBM (well, she will, but only once in a blue moon, so not consistently enought to be able to leave her with someone else), which is a right pain. My own fault as haven't been consistent with it. Once we are settled in our own place in Auckland will try again. However, evening routine now means that I can go out once she's in bed asleep.

Lady L - great news about your column, what will you be writing about?

Dumb question - why do you need to introduce a cup this early? Hadn't even crossed my mind to try - is this something I should be doing?

[LadyLazarus]

Kiwifruit - my HV told me to "get the baby off the bottle as soon as possible", something to do with the cup helping the mouth muscles develop for speech or something, but Elise is not very keen! The column's on herbal supplements, ginseng, royal jelly, that sort of thing.

Why is it bad to put the baby straight to bed after the evening feed? Elise goes down awake, and USUALLY goes to sleep within half an hour or so, but last night was screaming on for over an hour and a half . Her cheeks were quite pink, so possibly some sort of teething thing going on, although I can't see anything. Can you put Bonjela on even if you can;t see where it is?? She has her 3rd set of jabs this afternoon, so hopefully she'll be ok...

[mummyhill]

LadyL - Yes you can just smear it on their gums and see if it helps.

[Cabe]

Hello Everybody

It's been a morning of waiting this morning - for a phone call from my brother to say he and his family can come over tomorrow for my sister's birthday party and waiting for my new starter motor to arrive for the car... funny how it's difficult to get anything else done when you're waiting...

Lady L - I wouldn't stress about any development scaremongering your HV's into... fads and fashions and all that! Go at your own pace with the drinking cup thing

Mummyhill - no meet-up for me today - no car... I was hoping it would be done by mid-morning tried to e-mail you but the server's down... will try again later x

[mummyhill]

No meet up for me either Cabe, still got a little girl at home feeling under the weather. I still haven't received the mail you sent new years eve either, maybe it will come through when the server is up and running.

Feeling absolubtly exhausted today and am hoping to get an early night even if it means leaving dh to put the kids to bed.

[Simplyred]

Hello!

Hope every one has a good weekend.

LL- never heard a hv wanting a baby to have cups quite so soon - but its been a long time since I had ds! - I'll give Rachel a cup when shes more able to hold it or when she has teeth - that may be damaged by bottle teats (sugars etc)

[LadyLazarus]

RedHelen - I feel better now about Elise not being able to use the cup, I was starting to get worried!

Hubby has gone out for the night to a gig and I am stuck at home feeling sorry for myself!

[Simplyred]

LL - Sorry your missing out on a gig - and tv's terrible too!!

[mummyhill]

Morning all.

David is enjoying the baby rice and is much more contented.

[bubbles2904]

Good morning everyone. not much to say really except welcome back rhumba. Mia slept through for the 1st time in 6 weeks last night. WOOHOO
LADYL, congratulation on your coloumn.

[Simplyred]

Hello all!

Bubbles - very glad Mia slept through - are you feeling more settled after what happened?

Quiet day here - just had a flurry of snow!

Feeling scared today - got my Ultrasound on Thursday - to see why the right side of my thyroid is a little enlarged as it is functioning correctly - keep having worrying thoughts. Got a preoccupation with my health generally at the moment - I hope it all fades away when this turns out to be nothing serious(fingers crossed).

[bubbles2904]

SIMPLYRED, if you mean about what happened in my neighbourhood, then yes, i feel a lot better, still a little jumpy but most of the neighbourhood is to be honest. From my post, you'd think i lived in a really rough place but it's actually really nice and quiet here and we're looking to buy a house in the street we currently rent on. Hope your ultrasound goes well, i'll have my fingers crossed for you hunny

[HeyBaby]

Hi there. Was looking for mums in my area initially, but Bubbles put me onto this thread! My DS is 3 m.o. and currently sleeping (phew!). I think he has started teething and is biting down on everything he can get his hands onto. The midwife told me that he might not actually get his teeth through for a few months though . His attention span is also shortening as he gets older (any ideas for toys that they can play with independently? or is it just normal for them to constantly want your full attention 24/7 ... ok slight exaggeration but you know what I mean?!). Plus I think he is going through a growth spurt - furious sucking at the breast or bottle or even a finger every 2-3 hours. What happened to the blissful days of clockwork 4 hourly feeds? Ah, the mem'ries ....