September 2011 babies, making more noise, more mess, but growing more amazing by the day.

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Hey, here we are again, moving on to the next round of exciting things our little babies are getting up to. :) I hope no-one minded my title, but there hadn't been a big decision and given we were so close to the end I thought I'd just go for it.

I shall update stuff from me tomorrow.

Hi Cake, glad you are all doing well, my LO was a nap and snack baby - now he just snacks. How are you finding double buggy? they can be a bit of a beast to move around. Hope you can settle on a name soon - what do you call him at the moment as my friend called her son Booboo until they chose a name but Booboo stuck and he is still called that now.
Am not at work but DS gets so excited when he sees a laptop and just wants to bang it so can't turn it on till he is in bed (8pm) and am often too tired to type.
Hope everyone is doing ok, had DS 1st party which went well, felt quite emotional though that he is 1 already. He is desperate to walk and keeps grabbing our hands to walk him round (not good for the back ache!)

Hope your doing ok cake and it sounds like you are getting good help with DS1. Enjoy your baby snuggles and hope you feel more relaxed second time around :-) I was alot more relaxed with our second but found it difficult managing my guilt at not giving DD1 the attention she was used to now I have two to look after. One year on its got easier but she still has her mega clingy days when she is jealous of her baby sister but most of the time she is just fab with her. I try to make special time just for her at least once a week, like just us go swimming or for a ride on the bus, it was the little things she missed like I couldn't always hold her hand whilst we walked as I need two hands on the buggy at times down our hill.

Glad your birthday party went ok candr yep its an odd feeling our Los are one now! We are having daily little tantrums when DD2 doesnt get what she wants or we take stuff away she is quite the little strop monster. Oh dear I fear this will be my pay back for having a good sleeper :) this time around. Our first was quite a handful between 18mths-2yrs but was generally pretty good after that. Then again she appears to have had a cold, streaming nose for the last 3 wks so I dont think she is feeling tip top.

We bought some of those hide n squeak eggs someone mentioned and they have been good fun, so thank you. I think our 5 yr old has been playing with them more :o

just a quick note to say i am still reading your posts
hope everyones well

Heellooo anyone still about? :) hope people are doing ok. our Lo is becoming a right little monkey. this week its climbing out of the high chair at meal times grrrr at nursery she sits very nicely on a low chair with no straps but at home bloom nightmare!
but she is also very.cute too and seems to be enjoying her nursery a lot more which is a relief.
hope the new babies are doing okay and LookAtHerGo your bumps are doing ok.

Ah yes, our squeaky eggs have made a big come back too, they really were the best £1 I have spent at a car boot! I gave a set to a mate whose DD was 1 last week too. I dunno what it is about them but they just love them don't they? Although I am not loving hunting for 12 bits of toy every bloody evening when I tidy up!

Good to hear you're getting on OK Cake, hope DS2 starts doing some more extended napping soon. And well done on BFing two as well, I am very impressed. Have you tried tandem BFing? I've always been fascinated to know just how do-able it is in practice!

Yes, work is bloody mental at the moment, I am just flat out and bringing so much home with me in the evenings. I feel like I barely see the DCs from Monday to Friday and then I'm shattered at the weekend too so grumpy and they just seem to be getting a bit of a raw deal from me really. So I'm feeling guilty and crap but thank goodness DH is spending time with them most days (he has them three days during the week and my parents have them the other two) so fortunately one parent is doing a decent job!

Couple that with the fact that the government and the media seem to really have it in for teachers right now so moral at school is at rock bottom and I am feeling a bit grim! I am applying yet again for another job at a different school, a big step up so it's quite ambitious but I really need a change and we need the money!

How is everyone else? I can't believe how quickly time is racing by. Have all the babies had their birthdays now?

Hi all, we are now walking hooray! (age 1y 3w) Still a drunken totter but getting more confident each day. Just need to remember to put his shoes on each time we go out.
Feral, good luck with job app. I take LO into my old school sometimes and the head has made so many changes it is driving the staff mad. When I left so did 6 others and 3 more since then. There is now only 1 teacher left there and even the new staff don't want to stay which is awful as was such a great school. I hope you find one you are happy in as makes all the difference.
Ssmile, my lO is a real pickle too and has a bit of a rep amongst other mums as their babies copy his tricks. He has no sense of danger and is very cheeky too but in a lovely way.It is hard to know where to draw the line sometimes. I want him to be inquisitive and brave but not cocky and dangerous.
He is going through rubbish sleeping again (or still is more realistic) but is napping better in the day (but only on the sofa) he will sleep for half hour in cot but 1.5 on sofa where I can have a nap with him sometimes.
I love the age they are at, have had lots of parties and think it is lovely that he already has frends he has known for a year and has really bonded with some children. Has been lovely for the dads to see their kids laying with friends at the parties.
Anyone doing a baby halloween do? we have a little costume ready (have never paid attention o halloween before but will only be able to dress them up for a few years.
Hope everyone is doing well and bumps and new babies are progressing nicely.

Anyone else watching X factor this year? They were so rubbish tonight that I'm thinking I might not bother!

DD is also getting very adventurous; she was all over the little climbing frame in the park today, and copying DS swinging by her arms from the bar over the slide! She's had a bit of growth spurt and so now her legs are long enough for her to climb onto the sofa and up onto DS's bed. Her feet are still too small for shoes though, only a size 2 and Clarks didn't have anything below a 3 so she's just on her padded waterproof bootees. She has totally lost one of her really nice soft leather slipper type shoes that I bought her though, the little monkey

She is a complete bugger for early waking atm; we're lucky if she sleeps later than 5.30. She went until 7.30 this morning but only because she was awake for 2 hours in the night! I can't decide whether to try the wake to sleep method. I might see how we're doing at half term and then give it a go if I'm desperate. It really is a massive pita.

This said, it is now 10.30pm and, bearing in mind that DD'll probably be up in 7 hours, I'd better go to bed!

4.30 this morning. This has been going on since August! At what point does it stop being a phase? I haven't got her up as she's not crying, she's just kind of going "aaahhh" over and over again on the other side of the rubbishy partition wall between our bedrooms.

What do I dooooooo?!

We still have bad nights too Feral. A normal night is sleep at 8 awake at 11, 1 (up and down a few times till 2 or 3), 5 (at which point he comes into our bed) and 7. Have stopped giving milk at night and stopped bf a month ago. Can take between 5 and 45 min to settle sometimes and awkes with full on screaming lots of the time.
No advice I'm afraid but just thought you should lnow you are not alone (our LO have seemsd so similar haven't they?)
Hold onto the thought that by toddlerdom they should sleep brilliantly and everyone that had great sleepers won't know what hit them when their kids start night wakings
Really feel for you though as I know you have to work

Grrr tried to post 3xs now and phone keeps crashing. Short version sorry your having Crap sleep candr &early starts feralgirl. Our Lo mostly sleeps well but 5am is normal wake up but I think this is Fab compared to our DD1 :)

Had shitty week, all very tired though. DH working 12days straight veryong days, I'm working 4days a week, baby been ill with the hand foot mouth blisters bug and 5th tooth broke. Eldest is loving school year one but tired and answering back attitude has gone up another notch :(

Yah posted with out phone crash. On a positive I went shopping today to spend some of my back to work wage packet :o got lovely size 12 red mini (the smallest I've been for 12+ years!!) Plus a pair of boots& a coat that fits. Very pleased with myself. On downside the OP that the GP had said ooh your have that by Xmas, the consultant has said they would rather sit and wait as the MRI scan showed it had settled down for now :( fed up of conflicting advice on an issue which will flare up again.

Anyway hope you all have happier weeks roll on Sat!

Oh god so glad I'm not the only one being woken often

Am still reading & thought of you in sept for first birthdays - will post properly soon just marking place. Lovely to hear of new babies & walkers! 20 wk scan yesterday all is well for Feb baby.

Warm wishes to you all :)

Smeghead (cool name btw) have you had a NC? PM me to let me know who you are/ were if you're a regular (and hello if you're not!)

Bloody 4.30 again this morning. WTAF? Does she not need sleep? DH went in with a bottle and some calpol and she went quiet for 20 mins - just long enough to lull us into a false sense of security - and then she started again with the aaaaahhhhh-ing! Then she started howling so DH, bless him, got her up and brought her downstairs while I went back to sleep.

But this is as nothing to my latest worry as I found a weird soft spot on her head behind her ear last night, feels just like a newborn's fontanelle but on the left side. I've done some looking around on the internet and apparently babies do have six fontanelles and one is sort of behind the ear (called the sphenoidal fontanelle) but they're only small and supposed to close up when they're about about 3-6 months old. And it's weird that it's only on one side too, right? So I'm quietly freaking out about that as well as she is all over everything and falling over and banging her head like a normal 1 year old but what if she risks doing something really serious to herself because her skull's all gappy?

There are conditions that delay the closure of the soft spots but they're all really full on and she is totally normal. I'm sure I'm just looning out about nothing but DH is under strict instructions to get her a dr appt first thing tomorrow and then phone me at work!

Good news for your scan Tiddly, that's lovely

Feral, don't stress as is prob only a gland. I have one there too that seems moro prominent when I am ill, can give me ear ache though so holding something warm to it relieves pressure.
TP that is great news about scan, hope you are taking things as easy as poss.
Ssmile - poor LO with HF&M, really not nice. Not sure what your MRI thing is but hope is nothing too bad.
Yousmeghead - hi, have we met before? There are a few crap sleepers on here so feel free to have a moan

Don't mind telling you girls, yes a nc, a little clue I love wearing skinny jeans lol

Btw nothing wrong with freaking out!

Feral - hope it all turns out to be nothing, I'm sure it will.

And, on the sleep front, my LO who has never been a good sleeper, has been an awful sleeper recently. Screaming in the night, tried everything - it was if she'd forgotten how to sleep. But, I wondered if it was a reaction to the 12/13 months jabs she had about 10 days ago - she got some "measles" spots (which the nurse said could happen 7 to 10 days later) and it was at the same time she seemed really under the weather. She's seems brighter this last day or two, so fingers crossed, her sleeping gets better too.

But, her "normal" sleep resemble's LittleCandr!! Except she comes into our bed about 1am!!

She's also got a mouthful of teeth which can't be helpful. She's got 9 teeth through with about 5 / 6 more on the way!

TP = well done on the scan!! Yay!

Ssmile - hope your LO is better soon.

Smeghead - great NC!!

Yay nice to see lots of familiar names on here.

Hugs to those with rubbish sleep.

My lo has got much better with her sleep but we are now in the midst of horrendous teething - it's only her 5,6,7 & 8th teeth coming (i think) but it seems to be a theme that she goes right off her food, poos for Britain and projectile voms at least once a day - bizarre! Has anyone experienced lo being sick whilst teething before?

feral what did the docs say about your dd?

Oh gosh, I've been away from here for about 3 weeks!

Loads of posts. I'm not really good at replying to all of the posts at the moment, but I have read through.

Very quickly about me, I'm now 22 weeks, having 2 little boys! Am almost as big as I was when I was full term with DD (1.5inches bigger around my middle then) Am quite tired, and pelvis is wrecked, but still very happy and chilled about it. DD is everywhere! And has learnt to nod, give big open mouthed kisses, does the most wonderful hugs and if I lift my top up she comes over puts her head on my bump, sucks her thumb and strokes the bump with her other hand! It's very very cute.

cake I hope things are settling down a bit for you now.

Re hide and squeak eggs, we got some a few months back, and DD loves them, she does however turn them around and blows from the bottom and makes them whistle!

TP, glad the scan went well :)

Dr said that DD has a big cyst that she has probably got from a bang to the head. DH had to answer all sorts of questions to make sure we hadn't been battering her She's got to go to paeds at the local hospital for an ultrasound first thing tomorrow morning to check it's nothing more serious. Dr said she must've had it for a long time as you can feel the ridges of bone where the her skull has started to grow around it so I feel well guilty that I didn't notice it before.

MrsL, DD had a rubbish reaction to her jabs too. A rash and a little bit of a fever, generally just under the weather for a few days but nothing that some calpol couldn't sort out.

at Smeghead, I know who you are now. Good to see you again

at all the teeth! DS was the same and used to cut four at once. DD's are agonisingly slow coming through and she gets one at a time and each one seems to cause endless upheaval. Nothing as bad as babysarah ( at the vomming btw but I have heard of it before, think I read the idea that it could be because they dribble loads more?)

And finally a great big "awwwww" to babylook as that is just soooo cute!

Oh dear Feral, don't blame yourself as these things happen. Am sure it will be ok.
Smeghead - still can't work it out?
Look, that is so cute - we get cuddles with pats on the back and Ahh's and is learning to close mouth a bit when kissing. Glad things going ok for you - have you chosen names?
Sarah - Teething - sometimes they vomit due to the acid build up in tummy (affects other end too), milk can help level out PH in tummy. DS had teeth through in 2's and 4's and had 8 by 7m but no more since then although lots of finger chewing.
DS is getting more confident at walking and did not react to MMR which I am relieved about as have big fear of it. I only let them do MMR and am back soon for the other 2 jabs as felt it was too much at once (he reacted really badly to jabs when smaller with V V high temp and hospitle trip etc)

Gosh feralgirl hope Lo is ok. It is scary when its their head. My Lo has constantly had bruises on her head this last month as she careers around the house I think she finally getting more stable now, but only Monday she pulled a large cup of Luckly cool tea off the kitchen table all I saw was her running off down our hallway with my favourite mug grinning as she knew it was naughty. The tea went all over the table only just missing my laptop&phone! She didn't get any on her how I don't know. Note to self push.cups into middle of table now! It's high table as well she stands on tip toes with her fingers out running them along any surface to see what she can get :o

LookAtHerGo & tiddly glad little bumps are going ok. You both must be knackered hope you have some help with Los. Two little boys arrh sounds v.cute LookAtHerGo will keep fingers xed the old pelvis holds upto 34wks+ lady at my DD1 school had twin boys Felix&Elliot v.cute two yr olds into everything :o