October 2005 Babies - it just keeps getting better and better!

[Elf1981]

Thought I'd steal the honours of setting up a new thread

Elf - i had the same problem re night waking with Joey this time last week. He's 20 weeks old today (already!), and has gone back to sleeping through, completely of his own accord. I have taken to feeding him about 8.30pm in front of the TV downstairs with the light out, he drifts off to sleep, then i take him up and dream-feed him about 11pm and deliberately leave the upstairs TV on and put him in his cot whilst he's still slightly awake, as i did think part of him waking an hour after i'd fed him was that he was waking up thinking 'hang on a mo, i fell asleep in Mummy's arms on a boobie!'. Seems to work for us, but i must not let myself get complacent , otherwise, when he has another lapse, i'll end up being a zombie again! HTH x

I just made Hannah a valentine and put it in her scrap book. I love her to bits.

Trice

They ARE lovely aren't they?

I keep thinking how GREAT it is not to be all fat and pregnant! SO glad I don't have to have a horrid pregnancy year this year!

I am going to get my DS2 a red rose today and then press it to keep it, I love him to bits.

Happy Valentines Day all

Fed Evie on and off til 12:30 last night when she went to bed and she woke at 6:00, though suspect that was due to the alarm clock going off rather than anything else.

We had to sleep downstairs last night as dh has just decorated the bedroom and the paint fumes were a bit strong. We put ruby in her travel cot and she slept even better than she does in her normal cot. It was good to try her in it as we're going away for the weekend next week so it was nice to get her used to it. I'm not really looking forward to going as it's hard when she has a bad night at home but being in someone elses house is going to be trying. She has developed such a lovely personality now. She's so happy and contended and can amuse herself for ages on her mat with her toys.

I'm with you morningpaper on being very grateful I'm not pregnant. It was around this time last year when I was suffering from the most horrendous morning sickness. I'm also looking forward to the summer and wearing 'normal' clothes

What did we all get for valentines today? I'm still waiting but have high hopes!

Going to see the childminder tonight. She'd only have Evie under the age of one if we choose to go with her. Got a list of questions to ask (nabbed them from another thread) and going to go on gut instinct. It works out a lot cheaper for us to use CM rather than nursery (which I was surprised at, almost £2k a year cheaper), but want to go where is best. The CM lives close to us, been a childminder for 13years from what I understand from our phone conversation. Am trying not to think too much and listen to my instinct. Not sure whether collective responsibilty of nursery is better vs one-on-one care from CM?
Argh!
Six weeks left to return to work, am dreading it. My friend (we work in the same office) returned yesterday and texted me to say it was naff and work has gone up the wall. which I kind of knew about my work anyway as my boss emailing me some work to look at the other week "if you dont mind", and it's a disaster. Loads of crap to sort out

Happy Valentines Day, All. I got a dozen red roses, and some lovely Elemis bath stuff, but it still doesn't make up for the fact that DP will be 600 miles away at his parents, and going out for a posh indian meal with them tonight while i get left holding the baby, microwave meal in hand. I hope everyone else's evenings go as planned. As for being pregnant, this time last year, i didn't even know i was expecting! NM x

Happy Valentines day everyone!! DH got Jess and I a dozen red roses each - she was over the moon and keeps going over to smell them .

I did'nt know I was pregnant until 26th Feb but really already knew iykwim. Infact I was on the trying to conceive thread along with JRM - anyone else on it then?

Elf good luck at childminders tonight.

NM if it makes you feel any better DH and I are on a diet and cant even have a microwave meal (lighterlife diet).

JB hopefully lo will be an angel next week and Cameron is also so happy and contented and when I go to get him when he wakes from sleeping he greets me with the most amazing smile. What kind of toys is your lo playing with, Cameron still really only playing under gym but feel he is getting fed up with that? Oh hope you get somethiing nice today

tried hannah in her bouncer today for five mins- she really seemed to like it. Makes up for those horrible jabs she had to have this morning.

Aww poor wee lamb Trice. Johnny has his jabs tomorrow too. I'm going to do what I did the last couple of times and just pop him on the boob during the injections. He cried more at being taken off the boobs to swap sides than he cried about the actual injections themselves!!

We were woken by Johnny crying at 5am this morning. He had shuffled to the edge of the cot AGAIN and had his head clunking on the side of the cot. I had the brainwave today of putting him in a cloth nappy at night (normally he has cloth through the day and a disposable at night). He can't kick about quite so wildly in a cloth nappy so he might stay put for a while. That's the theory anyway. I'll find out tonight if it works!

Elf - can't get the scanner to work, but I will see if I can get it scanned in elsewhere and then i'll email it to you

MB

elf - if you get a good feeling from childminder then go for it. In my own very very humble and personal opinion, childminder was the way to go for dd1 and will be for dd2. f you find the right one, then it's fab knowing your bab will have such one-on-one (or two) care with the same person. I put dd1 into a nursery when she was 6m but took her out at 9m when something horrid happened. she was with family and a chikminder for 3 days a week for a few m,onths then childminder for next 2 years. even when i decided she needed some socialisation at nursery i kept her childminder on 1 day a week and have never regretted it one bit. Dd1 LOVES her childminder and still sees her 2 afternoons a week. when she starts school in spet she will see her before and after school 3 days and dd2 will spedn those 3 days with her....... god sorry for waffling. am even boring myself. am pissed. dh has cooked valentine meal so i thought it was about 11pm but it's clearly not so he's now watching arsenal and i'm doiung this. whio said romance wa s dead?
anyway child,inders are GO!!!

LOL, wish I'd had wine last night!

Went to see the Childminder, she's lovely! We were there chatting away for about two hours. She's been a childminder for 19 years, her kids are all grown up now (aged 19, 22 and 23). Her sister is a childminder too, for 20+ years. I've seen her last ofstead report, it's really good. She often takes the kids down to the local toddler group, or meets with her sister so there are quite a few kids together. She was really friendly and open, held Evie who shockingly didn't cry (!) and chatted away with her in the same way I do. I signed Evie up with her, she'll go there from 7:30 til 4:00 and Evie is the only one under one years that she can look after, which I am happy about because although there will be other kids there, Evie will be the only baby so she should get better care than at the nursery. Plus, an excellent thing I found is that she'll give us three weeks of holidays, and she has three weeks of holidays herself, and for those six weeks, we dont have to pay. So I can either book my holidays around her (unlikely as my mum will probably want to do it to spend some time with Evie) or have them at different times. All in all, chosing the CM over nursery saves us £2k, but I also feel a lot more at ease with her than the nursery.
Now all I have to do is cancel the nursery, I'm going to get DH to do it. I'm posting another thread about this as I'm not sure whether I'll have to pay anything to the nursery.

As for sleep last night, put Evie to bed at 9:00, she woke at 12:00 for a feed then slept through til nearly 8:00

Same here this morning elf, CAmeron slept till nearly 8 - I had to go and wake him!!

hi bonnie, ive emailed you hun, hope you are all ok x

Johnny had his third jabs this morning. I did the feeding him whilst getting stabbed trick and he hardly batted an eyelid. I was so proud of my boy!

I tried putting him in a cloth nappy last night to see if it would stop him kicking so much and then hitting his head off the side of the cot at 4am. Hey presto, 7pm to 7am without a peep.

MB

Put Evie to bed at 8:00, dream fed her at 11:00 and she slept til 7:00.
Wooooohhooooooo!

Cloth nappy again last night to stop Johnny kicking about wildly in the night and he slept 7pm to 6.30am.

He is so cute in the mornings. When I go in to lift him, he is usually awake and gurgles and giggles at me whilst grinning away. Don't know where he gets that from. Both me and DH are zombies in the morning When I give him his first feed, he is so serious about getting the job done. Then when he has had enough to get over the hunger, he gazes at me whilst feeding. If I smile at him, he grins and my nipple falls out of his mouth. It's SOO cute. I really want to post a pic of him on MN, but DH is not very keen, so I'll have to respect his wishes I'm afraid.

aaah mawbroon he sounds really sweet. ruby's always really smiley in the early hours, personally I think she's having a good laugh at waking us up It would be nice if we could all post pictures not only of the babies but of ourselves. I've got a mental picture of what everyone looks like but it's probably completely wrong. Dh is with your dh though on not wanting pictures posted so we'll just have to imagine.

Ruby seems to be in a bit of a routine now of waking at 12 then at 4am and then at about 6.30 -7am. That's ok but I could do with her dropping the 4am one. She had her last set of jabs yesterday and it was so sad. She was nearly giggling at the hv before they injected her. when the first needle went in her little mouth went down at the corners and she was so upset. I'm really pleased they're all over and done with now. I've been very brave and have taken her on my own to every one. With dd1 dh had to do it but he hasn't been able to get time off this time.
Ruby's also starting to really take an interest in her toys now and loves playing.

Has anyone's little one rolled over yet? I looked in dd1s baby book and she'd achieved this by four months but Ruby looks quite happy just laying there. Obviously a bit lazy like her mum

Morning everyone, havent been on in ages, glad to hear all babies continue to do so well. Heidi is now nearly 4 months (next week). She is doing great and is experimenting with new sounds all the time. Im starting a new job full time however in less than 2 weeks now and she will go to Nursery 3/4 days a week. My husband and I have decided to split up all our holiday time so she dosnt have to be in creche 5 days a week. Im still dreading it. I have enjoyed my time with her so much. Part time work isnt an option at the moment though so what can you do. We have decided to move nearer my family in the summer and our aim is for one of us to be at home full time in 2 years! My husband is really keen to be a house husband and he is great with her so we'll see. I put a thread on to see if anyone else had gone back to work full time when baby was so young, but it seems its unusual enough. Would really like to speak with someone who made it work, at the moment feeling a bit alone in this. Anyway will let you all know how it goes! Wish me luck!! Mrow

mrow, I'm sure little Heidi will be fine. In an ideal world we could all choose whether we wanted to be at home or not but unfortunately circumstances dictate this most of the time. My sister was in the same situation and had to put her ds in at 4 months while she went back full time and it all worked out very well. You will really appreciate the time you do spend with her. Good luck with your new job xx

Heidi rolled over last night Mawbroon. I had an interesting chat with a paediatric physio who was saying to encourage babies to be on their fronts an hour a day (supervised!). With all the focus on babis being put on their backs to avoid cot death some babies never get on their tummys and are missing out on the crawling stage. They think that crawling is really important to make the back muscles strong as the kneeling position strenghtens the back! Ive been trying it with Heidi but its taking her a while to get used to it!

OOps, I was answering your question Justbonnie bout rolling over and thanks for support!

Johnny has been trying his hardest to roll over (from his back) for weeks and weeks now but still hasn't managed. I have tried to give him "tummy time" but he is not that keen. I'll keep trying though. Maybe he just hasn't figured out what to do yet!

Evie loves tummy time but we dont do an hour a day, probably about fifteen mins in total. She looks like she's trying to roll over, can almost get halfway but not the whole way over (she's 19 weeks today). At the moment she's far more interested in putting her feet in her mouth, she loves eating her toes!!

As for morning time - she usually wakes up around half seven, and when I lean over and say "good morning" to her, she gives me the biggest smile ever. I put her on our bed to feed her, and she'll get agitated if she cant get the boob right away, but after a while, if I'm smiling at her / stroking her cheek, she'll give me a big grin and come off the boob, before she gives a look like 'hang on, what happened there?'

Aren't they lovely?!

My mum is taking her for an hour today while I have lunch with some workfriends.