July 2010: Their speech is improving but it's sleep we're still losing

[DesperateHousewife21]

Welcome back everyone!

I was low-carbing till dh brought home a curry and naan bread and a huge bag of Maltesers

Well when I say I'm low carbing...

I did it last week and loved it. Then I was expecting some news on Friday and didn't arrive so I stuffed my face full of comfort food. Unfrtunately my comfort food was lasagna and garlic bread and chips and then I had an Indian on Saturday night so fucked all my good work up. The 4lbs I lhad ost are firmly back on again :( But I started again yesterday and am determined to stick with it this time!

I had a pack of belvita biscuits for breakfast, last time i had those i ate the whole box for breakfast then a smoothie will be lunch then fajitas for tea, dh said I looked like I had lost weight but I know he is lying, I have put on 6 pounds and my belly/muffin top is huge!

Guess who has only gone and got herself a bloody job?!?!

Ooh! Well done :) what is it?

Tell us more mlic!

Will post on the fb group, s'more private

Did you see the pics of my boys on fb? Im so lucky really they are yummy.
F has been really weird with his feeding today though, like he wants it but cant have it, hes been generally quite happy and smiley but just not that interested in him milk, very wierd. Last night he woke at 3.10 nd buy 4.40 i was sooo fucked off cos every tie i tried to put him down in the cot he would cry, in the end i went to bed and let DH sort it out i was too wound up to carry on. How does such a beautifull perfect baby drive you soooo bonkers?? He took a while to settle tonight too so im dreading tonight.
mylife see comments on FB, great news!!
DH was sat looking at books with D and im ashamed to say his speach is loads better than i had thought, dh was saying whats that and he was answering really clearly, i usually say 'wheres x' or 'can you see x' what does anyone do to encourage speach?

Yeah they're gorgeous vik!

W repeats everything. I use every opportunity to ask him questions, ie. on the walk home from school - are there any cars coming? what colour is that car? (they're *all red or blue ) Look what's that?

I'm one of those annoying mothers

i'm one of those annoying mothers too mlic. dh is more like you're saying you are vik and asks 'where's the cat' type questions rather than ones which will result in A talking - then i'll be muttering away at him in the background.

even with F, he'll ask him too-easy questions whereas i expect F to know everything. F's funny, his latest phase is asking approx 85034 times a day 1) what time is it? (he asked what the small hand was on on my digital alarm clock yesterday) and b) what letter does that begin with? he's asks the latter about any noun which enters his view. wearing!

other stuff i'll do to encourage A to chat, is to get them to look for specific things as we walk - eg door numbers that we pass on the way back from nursery - F has to read the number and A just repeat it. she gets so excited tho i'm sure she's got no actual clue what it's all about.

i had a chat with A's keyworker a couple of weeks ago and she said she's at the top end of her group there of similar-aged children in terms of her speech and physical abilities. i felt quite guilty as i always (mentally) compare her a bit unfavourably to F with development as he was so fast at lots of things so she seems way behind what he was doing at her age. so anyway, judging by that, i think how much a lot of the thread 'babies' are talking is actually more than average but seems 'normal' because it's normal for here, iyswim?

congrats on the waitrose thingy woodlands. sounds good fun

i agree with mlic about the hormone thing and night-time. the children i know have been all sorts of ages before they are dry at night, it just seems to happen on its own. F is way off being ready - still wakes up with a soaking nappy.

Yeah, like with the walking when J was behind all the other thread babies by miles but not so much in real life. He's not saying much at all yet - all your babies are well ahead of him! He does have maybe 30-40 words but he's not started stringing them together yet. His latest one is 'Wow' which is very sweet - he says it at anything he is impressed by!

His other latest thing is picking up my handbag, walking into the room with it over his shoulder, waving, saying 'bye bye, mwah" and leaving the room again! Very cute.

G's not putting words together yet. A wasn't at this age either. I've never really counted how many words either of them have had at any age.

M isn't putting words together either and hasn't said any numbers. I think her spoken vocabulbary is maybe around 50 words now? She understands more than that, however. She says "Oooh!" instead of "Wow". Both are very cute.

A quick query... Are all the LO's still sleeping in a cot/cotbed? M is ridiculously tall has almost outgrown the largest size of sleeping bags I can find, so I'm going to need to move her to a duvet. Problem is, I'm worried that without the relative restraint of being fastened into a sleeping bag, she'll then start vaulting the bars of her cot and do herself an injury.

We're looking at getting her room sorted and installing a toddler bed since we can't sell our bloody house. Any words of wisdom for making the transition? For example is it unethical to staple her PJs to the bed so she can't escape?

M was Christened at the weekend and the priest was giving us a look when we assured him she really was only 22 months old. People keep expecting her to be able to talk better than she can, I guess because her height makes her seem older than she is!

Actually, funny moment I can share from the Christening. M was in my arms when the priest removed the lid from the baptismal font.

M immediately points at it and says "Bath!". Hilarity ensued.

Ah bless her Spirael! :)

Firstly, you can get sleeping bags for up to 3yrs if that's your preferred option. I know Next sell them, and some other places.

Secondly, don't just assume she'd climb. W has no fear. We often joke that he's like a little stunt man - he climbs everything/everywhere. But he never attempts to climb out of his cotbed.

I am looking at moving him to a bed sometime soon but for the simple reason that he can't reach the door handles, so I know if he wanders in the night he can't get out of his room. I don't know when exactly I'll do it though.

We're also going on holiday in June where he'll be too big for the cot provided, so I could do with him being used to sleeping in a bed by then.

Like the 'Bath!' Spirael!

I imagine you mean she's growing out of the 18-36 month sleeping bags, is she? What I'm thinking of doing when J does move into a bed and a duvet is getting those ones where the duvet zips to the sheet. Grobag do them, as do Vertbaudet. It wouldn't totally keep her in if she wanted to get out, but it would help stop her falling out of bed, plus stop her kicking the duvet off and waking up cold.

I've got no immediate plans to move J into a bed as he's still happy in his cot. I'll probably aim to do it when he's about 2.5. However I'm conscious he's going to grow out of his travel cot very soon - it's only 90cm long and although he's not particularly tall, he is about 85cm or so. That's going to be tricky as of course we'll be away from home and I won't necessarily want him to be able to roam.

Have just seen this recommended on another site: www.toysrus.co.uk/Product.aspx/TruHome/BruKidsRoom/BruKidsRoomCoOrdinatedDecor/BruKidsRoomCoOrdinatedDecorThomas/021237?aw_link=aw&cm_mmc=Affiliate%2fAwin--78888--Text-_-DeepLink

What a good idea for travelling with once they outgrow their travel cot!

I want to take S out of cotbed but since the older two are sharing, he can't stay out of L's bed which isn't conducive to a peaceful bedtime. Like mlisc's W though he'll climb everything but is quite happy to stay in bed.

I had to take S to a&e yesterday after I hoiked him into the car and wrenched his elbow...oh my goodness I've never felt so awful in all my life. Thankfully he's right as rain now.

Hey everyone!
Haven't been on in ages and hadn't even the time to read so it's taken me the last 2 days to catch up!
chul aw thats terrible was it cut or what?
spireal that's very funny about the bath! E is in a bed the last 6 or 7 weeks. But she just didn't sleep well in her cot and considering how well she sleeps (most of the time) now and how easy it is to get her down, i realised that she just hated her cot. She has a duvet in the bed and is well able to pull it up over herself if it goes down.
mlic and tsc congrats on the jobs!! Brilliant news! tsc how is little Mikey now?
cakes glad you seem to be coming out the other side of your sleepless nights!
memph im the same ever since my birthday i haven't stopped eating and i had done so well up til then! and now we're going on holidays in 4 weeks and i feel like a big frump so its back to thr excersise!
woodlands it's you that's going on a 4 hour flight soon isn't it? What are you planning to bring to entertain J? I'm dreading our flight as she is just going to want to run up and down the aisles!
Wrt talking E is pretty good. She has sentences and knows numbers and recognises some of them when she sees them. When she see's a few objects to gether she'll start counting them but she kind of just counts randomley rather than properly! We get some great laughs out of things she says and thats the main thing i like about this phase!
The little madam took off her bottoms and her nappy today and peed on the floor .

spirael L is like mlics W, he is fearless, about everything can climb and run better than his friend who is 9 months older but has ner attempted to climb out, even the night I forgot to put the drop side back up he was happily playing in there in the morning.

L's speech is quite good I think, he says where are you so fast its whereareyou! but he drives me mad going through names over and over nanny, daddy, mummy, larley, tarkey, jordan, meemee(amy) picpeee (pixie) all over and over a million times a day, or daddyvan, daddytractor,daddybike, daddycar, daddywhereareyou over and over, or he narrates everything he does, see's or watches, reading the Gruffalo is quite cute he just says the pictures he see's grufffffo, oh deeear bad mouse and cake (snake). But it does drive me nuts he speaks on a loop, non stop. I have to say I dont like this phase much, he is very sweet but he hasnt got enough speech to communicate properly so he is lashing out, he kicked my niece earlier :( I feel like such a bad mum saying I dont like the phase.

But I got home from work today and had a lovely letter, my dads favourite singer had a gig last month its the one thing that spurred him on though chemo and he ended up in hospital during time of gig, I wrote an email to his agency and got a handwritten letter back from the man himself and loads of personalised signed pictures, I cant wait to see my dads face in the morning, he is my dads idol!

I just tumbled spectacularly off the Slimming World handcart by polishing off a bowl of leftover cream cheese icing on a chocolate digestive, then compounded it by having 2 homemade mini apple pies, and I'm sure as heck going to kick the arse out of it now and have (at least) 1 of my strawberry cheesecake cupcakes after tea tonight

fairy apparently it's common in toddlers who get hoiked, a ligament gets caught in the joint but with a bit of manipulation it's all sorted, thank goodness!

Sorry memphis didn't refresh before I posted. That sounds like a brilliant gift for your dad, I bet he'll love it!
Honestly all these babies are so chatty, S still has the one word.

spirael you may joke about stapling her to the bed but I know someone who (kind of) did that. My friend's friend (and I know her, it's not one of those mythical "friend of a friend" stories ) had her second dc when her first was only 15 months old. She put the older one in a bed (assume she needed the cot for the new baby) and put her in a sleeping bag in there but actually safety pinned one corner of the sleeping bag to the sheet so she couldn't fall out. Those duvets you zip to the sheets don't exist here so that wasn't an option.

I didn't use a toddler bed for A (actually don't know if they exist here either, have never seen them). She just went straight from cot to a normal single bed when she was about 2.4. I used a single duvet but had it on sideways iyswim so there were long bits hanging over the sides which I tucked under the mattress to hopefully stop her falling out. I will prob put G and A in the same room for a few years as A has said she would like that and they could have a big bedroom together and we would still have another bedroom big enough for a double bed for a spare room.

chul dh did that with A when she was about 2 - pulled her up on the bed and pulled her wrist "out" - and my friend did it spinning her 1 yr old around the other day - the doctor I saw said it's really common.

kk G can unzip her sleeping bag and take her pj bottoms and nappy off, have found her in bed like that a few times, I have solved it by putting her in all-in-one vests with poppers, she can't undo them!

Yea wss that's what they kept assuring me but it didn't make me feel any better, one of those "pouring with rain, three children, middle child goes wobbly legged in middle of car park and starts to collapse into puddle, mum drags child to feet to get everyone safely to car and bob's your uncle" moments. It's the way he couldn't move his arm and kept sobbing that got me, knowing I'd done it to him...ah well, the way he is, I'm sure it won't be the last time.