April 2004.... count down to the second birthday!

[Yorkiegirl]

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dd says "micmic" for biscuit. know exactly what you mean about them singing the sounds of words rather than the actual words of songs, lunavix :)

have fun over the next two weeks fennel! will your new job be similar to your old one?

hello all
I am struggling with DD2 and I don't know what to do.
\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=8&threadid=157511\thread} here with the details. Your advice is requested please.

YG not sure I have any further advise. It couldn't be indigestion?

The fact that she keeps screaming when you pick her up says not really behavioural to me, but then again I put up with 11wks of screaming baby before going to dr to have silent reflux diagnosed-he is a different child.

Hugs YG

Yorkiegirl, read your thread it sounds appalling poor you. does she scream as much for everyone or just you?

dd3 very clingy this week but we have moved house and all been ill (coughs, colds, sneezes) so not very surprising she's clinging. But now with her language explosion lately she can tell me if something hurts - "cheek hurts" etc. which makes life easier.

Chuffed, also sounds bad for you is ds better now?

Heaps better for us, I was considering giving him away a couple of times, he screamed for over an hour one day when shopping.

He is laughing, gurgling, lying on the ground kicking all things he hasn't done till the last week. He did do the occasional laugh and smile but it was normally when being held.

Have posted on the other thread too - YG - ds does this when getting picked up from nursery too - but it is pure tiredness that makes him do it. I have to get him from car, undressed, into bag and cot - all being hit by a whailing child - absolutley breaking his heart. After his sleep he is fine again.
But last night he woke at 9.45pm really sobbing and calling for mummy and daddy. Took him about 45 mins to calm down and go back to sleep in our bed. He NEVER wakes in the night, NEVER refuses milk on offer (and he didn't want it last night) and usually won't refuse medicine if offered either. So I don't know what was wrong with him.
Maybe they are all going through the same kind of thing. Lets hope its a phase!

Oh God Yorkie - sounds terrible.

Hi everyone - I'm still around but exhausted from night feeding, hope you are all well

Ds came out in spots last week. Anyone know anything about thrush in the gut?

Hope you are feeling better LJ

How's the new home Fennel?

I'm finding dd a handful when she is at home and I feel guilty about it. I can't wait for her to go to nursery (she goes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurday) to leave ds and me in peace.

YG, I have posted on your thread but don't have advice, just sympathy. Hope things get better soon. Chuffed - so glad things have improved for you. The more I read about reflux the more I wonder if ds had it. The first few months with him were v. difficult. He was v. 'colicky' and also a v. sicky baby (I assumed all babies were sick like that - until I had dd). Is silent reflux when they aren't sick?

Sorry MrsD, I don't know about thrush in the gut. Don't feel guilty about enjoying your time with ds - if you can have some time on your own with him it means you can give extra special attention to dd when she is with you :)

HD- Yes silent is for babies who aren't sicky.

MrsD - it certainly is a juggle, all cudos for those of you who have done this 2 thing no matter how easy your first...

Any news YG?

Don't feel guilty Mrs D. I have 2 weeks off with dd3 before my new job and am sort of wishing I'd put her in nursery already to give me some space. Just cos she's rather clingy and follows me around waif-like. and i don't even have a newborn to excuse my lack of patience!

HD yes new job is quite like old one. 3 days a week research job at Exeter uni. (will be a change as last job was full time but i did it in 4 days + extra bits). it seems nice.

new house is just rented one, convenient but not exciting. it's half the size of our old house, where we were quite spoilt for space. so this is a good exercise in being organised.

3 days a week sounds great :)

(thought you might spot the Woodcraft Folk thread!)

3 days a week sounded great but now i think it might not be enough if dd3 is very clingy and needy on her days with me. she's ill at the moment though so perhaps she's worse than normal.

have been on both Woodcraft Folk and Brownies threads - just in case one doesn't suit.

think I am living with 2 children in one here.
DD2 is so changeable. Got an appointment on Tuesday so we will see how things go then.
Still find it strange to think that when DD1 was this age I was 5 months pg with DD2. This time round I have no desire to do all that again!

Fennel - I have been thinking about your advice re. introduce baby to bottle before they are six weeks.
Well I did so last week with ds, he's six weeks this weekend, and he was okay. Tried again yesterday and he was okay despite a little struggle. But last night, when I really needed him to take it for me he wouldn't!! He'll just suck and suck on me forever and a day.

Huge respect to you Chuffed, I'm guessing you had it worse than this and I'm screwed.

Ds isn't colicky anymore since I have treated him for thrush.
I have cheatede here and cut and pasted this from the February thread;
I have to admit to getting really down last week as after such an easy first baby I was really struggling with this one. He just seemed to cry all the time, he was colicky and windy. I never knew when to feed him or wind him.
Anyway, as I said these spots came up last week coinciding with the hv visit - she didn't know what they were either. They seemd to get worse so I arranged a GP visit.
Now I had been advised by a friendly GP I know that it could be neonatal thrush. It could be in his gut and it was now presenting all over on his body. This theory also explained the stabbing pains I had been experiencing when I was breast feeding.
I had also arranged a prescription for ds and I prior to our GP visit. By the time I saw the GP ds had had 3 doses of Nystan.
Anyway the GP had poo-pooed the thrush theory, they were baby spots and said to stop the Nystan.
Well I didn't! Basically because I didn't believe it was as harmless as baby spots, it was too angry looking and also by the evening it appeared that the heat had gone out of the rash apparently due to medication.
Now I have a different baby! His bad colciky wind seems to have stopped, he's so much happier - he's even started smiling. He stopped crying all the time, only for feeding. In fact he just seems to have settled. What's more that foul smelling wind has stopped (respiration of the yeast infection).

YG also left messgae on thread though not very usful here I am afraaid , still battleing the food issue all going well again then his molars started to come through and the eating has almost completely stopeed so now I have to go th rough the whole battle of wills again as now he prefers not to eat and now he has got the hang of the stubbon thing I have a real fight on my hands yuk
hope the move went ok fennel
and the sickies are feeling a bit better
v tired with f/time work ( i know big wuss )
but think as a family was right move as dh happier so are we all because of it

Sorry to hear people are having a bad time of it No advice YorkieGirl but have a hug to cheer you up.
Chuffed - what did you do to help your little one with the reflux (just in case for future reference!!)
MrsDoolittle - hope you're okay too. I'm dreading the sleepless nights again. I can still remember how crap I felt after having ds (ooh nearly 2 years ago!!)

Geez MrsD doesn't that screaming and smelly wind drive you mad. Now you mention it ds had that too.
We got given baby gaviscon but are now on losec which decreases the stomach acidity. I too have a happy smily baby apart from when trying to go to sleep or hungry. He is definately not as easy going as dd who was a breeze and still pretty much is.
Hope all is well for you all and if not getting better.

Gosh - hope you all have nice peaceful weekends and that we can all perk up for Spring. Tho pissy weather here today.
Almost back to 100% after horrible flu virus thingy last week. Felt really drained and breathless - knackered and hard to cope with 2 yo solo. Glad for weekends when dh is home.

glad to hear the new arrangement going well dolbear, at least for dh.

Mrs D you have to keep it up, a bottle a day say, preferably by dh or someone else. 6 weeks is the trickiest age for rejecting a bottle but if you persist it saves loads of angst later.

sorry to her ds hard work. i guess 2 close in age is always going to be hard work at the start even with easy baby or toddler. still nice having them close in age though (of course i'm biased )

oops, sorry to hear not her.

Cheers Fennel
He has taken a bottle from me since then but I have to admit it has only been water. He takes everything I have at the moment so I have none to express yet.
I've given him the water when I have been struggling to keep up with him.
He is so cuddly though, I just know he is going to be a mummy's boy [ smile]

Chuffed - it's such a relief to have a quieter baby. One I can understand, anyway. I'm sure the foul wind was thrush though, his skin has cleared up too.

Fennel, what is Exeter like? You are on one of our rail routes. I've thought about escaping to a quieter part of the country. Is housing any more reasonable?

hi Mrs D. Exeter is really nice. small lively city with great sea and beaches and hills just outside. Come and visit!

We haven't really sussed the housing situation. which is why we're renting first. there's a lot of variety in house prices depending on where exactly you buy - cheap in the villages just outside Exeter, quite expensive in the smart bits of Exeter itself. we can't decide really.

I'm tempted to visit you know Fennel! Me being on maternity leave and all that....

Dh is being really boring and talking about practicalities all the time - I need to break out.

MrsD when are you coming to NZ next time?

Mrs D is Newbury not suiting you then?

what is DH's job? is it jobs he means when he talks about practicalities? there are fewer jobs round here but also a bit of a recruitment problem too as people see it as a bit far away from everywhere else.
new medical school recently opened here so there's probably lots of jobs for you