December 2011 (drop-in) - The Trouble With Dribbles

[LittleMissFlustered]

sc00by, that's so tough, I really hope your LOs settle soon. (((hug)))

3rd time up since last post. This is getting ridiculous. How do you stop a 2yr old from repeatedly getting out of bed? DS2 keeps waking because he's wiggled to the cot sides and is stuck.

Gaffer tape?

Hope they calm down soon. If its any consolation my two are tag teaming me as well. No sleep thus far, and the birds have started up:/

Sc00by, we had this with DD2 at about that age. Options include 1) stairgate over their door, 2) the "rapidreturn" where you wordlessly and soundlessy carry them back to bed til they stop
It, or c) cheat and cosleep "just while daddy's away" or get them sleeping with you then carry them back to bed once asleep. When they hit about 3, sticker charts/rewards can help but 2 is a bit small for that. Personally I thinknthe thing that is least hassle for you to implement.

Staple gun his pjs to the mattress... Harsh but effective, no?

P.s. gone back to old nn. (i was temporarily neverenoughsleeportea ) but I'm a hawthers at heart

seven I have been to the National Space Centre - we live about 1/2 hour away from it. Although it's been a while and we've not gone with a LO. There is plenty of things to do so I'm sure it'll work.
There's also a large park close by should you need the fresh air and the weather is reasonable.

They are communicating Oi. DS here, after giving him a feed at half 11/12 ish, did half one, half three, half five and then up at half six.
I have a feeling that the only reason that I feel vaguely OK is that I've actually long since passed through the barrier of insanity through sleep deprivation and am actually swimming cheerfully in the calm pools of madness on the other side...

That's amazing MsB, I'd love to see Miri do that. I have images of her with war paint clutching a large knife in her teeth...

Hope the upchucking has abated LMF - do you think it was something he ate, or the start of a bug ?

Someone told me Rashka, that when they get past 14 weeks you forget how many weeks they are and start saying 'oh, X and a bit months'. I know I do- I think DS is coming up 19 weeks, but it could be 20- but he's four and a bit months!

So sorry your missed your DH's call scooby, that's crap. I guess they can't give you set times that they'll call so you can clear the decks and be by your phone. Really hope you're able to get a call in soon.

One bit of cuteness from DS- he was really tired yesterday (missed a nap) and it was just before his bedtime. We were watching 4Music, and that 'Hot Right Now' tune came on. I was sitting on the floor with DS, and started dancing away sitting down to amuse him, and he joined in! Admittedly, it's in his flapping-his-arms-like-a-penguin and thrashing his legs way, but he was really going for it and giggling madly!

Plans for the weekend:

• Today Bluewater to get a few odds and sods for work, and to have a nice lunch out, as I need to have a treat, and frankly we won't be able to afford it that often when DS goes to nursery!
• Tomorrow much football, and DP takes control of DS wrangling
• First full day of DP in charge and we're going to a post natal group. Me prep for work.....

LMF Your doing a fab job and hope the vomiting has stopped.

Easily You'll be fine. it's hard being on your own but you'll be ok.

Seven She's had Baby Rice every other day and she is def ready as was totally enjoying it, ate all of it and was even opening her mouth ready for the spoon! What is Eva on? Have you started weaning her yet? (sorry if I've missed it)

Morning all!

Well DS is 17 weeks today and feeding him 3 hourly seems to be doing the trick so I'm not going to think about introducing solids for another couple of weeks - Yeay! I'm not sure I'm ready for brown poo!

We're giving DS his last feed at 10pm and he seems to wake up anytime between 3am - 5am. We aren't feeding him a this time as per the HV's advice and feeding him at 7am. It's a bit tricky getting him back to sleep without a feed, generally I have him sleeping on me, but I have to stay awake so I'm feeling a bit tired.

I'm feeling a bit guilty for being a grumpy mum and feel like I don't spend enough time playing with DS, does anyone else feel like this? I'm going to try to be more fun today!

Hi dsm, just give her all her mormal milk and give the baby rice after milk as an "extra". See how she goes today and get sdvice if you're worried.

When I was a first-timer I was always reassured by how similar the other babies' "paths" were to mine: it shows we're doing things OK and this is just our babies becoming little people bit by bit.

Today so far we is teething and has found our fingers. Woo-hoo!

Sometimes I feel I don't play with him enough Cherry, but then just remind myself that at this age, being talked to and taken around, having a few 'toys' (mainly to gum on ferociously in DS's case) and just generally given love and attention is enough.
Don't feel bad about it at all; DS has even helped me with filing my quarterly bank statements and bills, which was a bundle of laughs for us both!

I swear aethel, DS is going to make himself sick, as he rams his entire fist in there... and then brings it out dripping in ectoplasm baby spit to wipe all over me.

cherry I forgot all about ending up with brown stinky poops after weaning, think I might just keep DD2 on only milk until she is potty trained....

Woke up this morning, looked at cot couldn't see DS. Brief panic before I realised that he was fast asleep clinging to the bars at the top end of the cot. I'm impressed he managed to move that far without waking me up, hes usually noisy when he shuffles!

Cherry also feel like I don't play with DS enough sometimes, but actually if i'm playing with him constantly it gets too much for him. Sometimes he just likes to lie on the floor and hold his feet instead of being fussed over by his mum!

Hope you've managed to get some sleep since your last posts LMF and Sc00by

dsm she's on baby rice at the moment. I started again yesterday, I think it was just a growth spurt last time butthis time she seems more settled on it.

msb Eva is making commando crawling motions with her arms but can't move forwards yet. She's lost her ability to roll onto her front today, she's getting her arm stuck again and is very frustrated!

Thanks bjr, premier inn is booked as its 3.5 hours away, we're going next Saturday. I'm a space freak and I'm stupidly excited! I haven't told DS yet for fear of him bring excited and not sleeping for the next week!

I confess I've never made bottles properly, I've always pre-made them and kept them in the fridge. I assume I'm going to have to take the steriliser, and need a milk powder dispenser, a flask of boiling water and one of room temperature boiled water? Bloody LF milk you can't get in cartons!

Phew! Feeling a bit more relieved now! I think part of the reason I'm worrying is that if I don't make the effort to go out and get to mum and baby groups it's just me and DS all day as DH doesn't get home until about 7pm. I think it might be good if FIL could babysit maybe once every couple of weeks so DS gets some quality one to one attention from someone other than myself and DH. I wish my family lived closer by as they'd love to babysit and spoil him rotten with attention! It's not so much that I need a babysitter, just I worry DS gets bored of me and I'm not teaching him enough (I realise I sound a bit daft, just being tired doesn't help!).

I've done a few keeping in touch days at work and I really enjoyed myself, I definitely want to go back to work part-time at the end of the year. I think it will be good for me and also for DS as he will go to nursery and
learn a lot there plus get to interact with other children and adults.

To all those going back to work, good luck! Hope you are enjoying it, on the plus side you can have a cup of tea and drink it whilst it's still hot! I think looking after a baby is definitely harder than being at work, I felt like I was having a day off when I was doing my few days at work :)

Beemybaby lol! Yes roll on potty trained babies! Half of me can't wait to start DS weaning, and half of me feels like oh no, effort! My mum gave him some baby rice when he was 9 weeks and although he loved it, I said I'd keep him on milk only until we got to 17 weeks and see how things were. At the moment I feel like we're ok on milk only. I might start making up some purées and freezing them ready next week as I'm thinking of introducing solids at around 19 weeks now.

I think purées will be my new obsession! I'm not really keen on baby led weaning, I prefer the idea of introducing purées first and then gradually making them chunkier, and introducing finger food for DS to play with at around 6 months.

Next time I'm at the weigh in clinic I'll ask when the next weaning talk is. I'd like to feel more confident about what food DS can have at 6 months, e.g can he have the same as us, just minus added salt? We cook everything from scratch, so I'd like to feed DS what we are having like spaghetti bolognese, cottage pie, tuna pasta bake etc.

Morning all
First accident here today went to roll lo into crook of dh arm for his feed and he rolled right over his arm over the edge of the sofa bounced off the coffee table and was half down to the wooden floor before I caught him. He's got a bit of a bash on the side of his face and could have been a lot worse luckily he was more interested in where his bottle was.

Off to catch up on the thread.

I got roughly two hours sleep last night >_<

Cherry from memory at six months they can have anything but honey, so cook on, without the salt:)

Sympathy , figgy, it's awful when they bounce! The first egg-on-forehead moment will come when they toddle, the front and back parts of the skull are thickest for a good reason!

I mushed up our food sans salt from 6 months with the DDs, you're meant to go easy on nuts and shellfish until one just in case they are allergic. Honey is this weird theoretical botulism risk but everyone says to avoid it til 1 (ish). Do be gluten/wheat/dairy free until 6 months then crack on.
I am too lazy to be bothered am not going to pre-make puree, but then I didn't stock the freezer before birth either! Besides, my freezer top drawer is filling up with EBM!

In other news, DS is getting distinctly reluctant to take his once-a-week bottle of EBM, and and I'm getting frustrated by his total inability to nap for more than 30 mins at a time in the day, and he only sleeps on me. I also have a lovely friend who's been through the mill for the last few months with a baby who's totally bottle-refused (she wanted to mix feed to work two mornings a week.
So I've decided to Introduce one formula bottle at lunchtime to get him used to it and maybe encourage a nap habit( she says hopefully).
I love BFing him but i will see how it goes ...

LO pretty much woke every 1-2 hours last night (sometimes just after 1/2hr) and would only settle by being fed. DH brought him downstairs at 8 to let me have an extra hour. ...I woke up at 11:19am!

I completely didn't see your post Figgy! I remember pootling down to A&E when my eldest decided to try to sit up under a coffee table, they do tend to try to remover their brains in the most inventive ways possible >_< Hope you're all ok now:)

I am on my second bucket mug of coffee of the day. It will not be the last:o