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.

I forgot my little yay moment.

LO stood alone without holding on at baby group yesterday :) and has done it 4 times today for granny, not for very long, and not for quite as long as she has done at home when it's just been me and daddy, but yay, she's started standing in front of others now! EEP

Had some sleep :o yah! My DH looked after DD1 and didn't get so much but grrrr I specifical said to him last night when she wakes up give her ibprofen (I left it on the side) as it will last longer and she doesn't react to it, so what did he do...grrrrrrrh gave her the full pink sugar paracetmal so she was wired and awake half the night. He should bl**dy know better I've only got the pink stuff as baby took that but spat out the other one but our eldest gets hypo wired on it so I only give it during the day. She off school again her temp been 2c higher than mine on the thermometer all yest and this morn. Our thermometer was supposed to be a good in ear one but gives my temp as 35c and DD1 as 37c when I can quite clearly feel she has a temp. Even since a baby that's her thing always reacted to any bug going with a 39-40c temp we had a few evening trips to A&E when she was a baby.

Baby last night loved beetroot last night was funny I keep trying it with DD1 playing the look its pink purple food card but doesn't work. Anyone made chocolate beetroot brownies in the river cottage book? Thought we may use it up that way. Baby has found her very stubborn bit will not let me spoon feed her now so it required a lot of patience last night helping her to spoon herself yogurt :o

Hen night sounded great fun sebs

Yah 100 baby standing very exciting

feralgirl very at :) twin girls bit grrrr to the lack of sleep and lots of crying juggling two!

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine :)

Aww, Ssmile, poor DD1. And grr to the DH not listening. What is it with men and not listening ffs? Mine is exactly the same if it's any consolation.

Wow to the standing 100years, that is so exciting! Do you think she'll be walking before her first birthday then? I always get a bit freaked out when you see tiny babies walking really well as it does look a bit crazy! My DD has slowed down a bit this week and isn't really doing anything new; I think her body's trying to cope with teething and hasn't got much energy for much else.

She did sleep right through until 5.15am without waking up last night. Shame I didn't do the same as DH was snoring like a pig

Been having a total nightmare here the last couple of days as our stupid rayburn spewed out a whole load of soot all over our kitchen the night before last; because the window was open it blew everywhere and so we have had a massive mission cleaning absolutely everything and because it's oil-fuelled the soot is sort of greasy and takes some real scrubbing to shift it. It's been a right bugger.

We've also been having a new boiler fitted and tbh the new one is worse than the old one! For some reason we now only get about 8 inches of hot water in the bath before it goes cold and now the bloody plumber has gone on holiday for two weeks so we're stuck like it

And my car's doing something weird and just drinking petrol, we've got no money to fix it so I am just leaving really early for work every day and driving dead slowly to try to conserve the fuel as much as poss. I am terrified that the damn thing's going to conk out as we are broke and it'd be horrible without two cars as DH would be stuck in the village with the kids and no way to go anywhere.

Oh well; boiler, rayburn and car. That's three things gone wrong so hopefully that's it for now...

Aw ssmile, I'm glad you managed to get some sleep, though it's a shame the ibuprofen was ignored in favour of the hyper stuff. Yeah her standing is coming on well, she's letting go more and more now, but it's never for a huge amount of time, but it's more frequent now. Eep.

Feral, I'm pretty sure she will be walking well before her 1st birthday, although I could always be wrong, but she's showing all the signs, unless she decides that crawling is a great way of getting around the place! Shame about the snoring DH. I hope your car isn't costly.

Holiday Holliday holiday :) yay yay yay

An absolutely gorgeous view from our front window at the moment :) just fab

Oh and we have a tooth, and the second one is almost through. She has bitten me twice :(, I think though I was feeding and she wasn't that interested, but I'll see how it goes, I'm just not sure of the best thing to do if she does start properly biting.

100 wrt to bitey-feeding, with both of mine it's worked to just take them straight off the boob, give full eye contact and so "no" very firmly; just the way that you're going to have to tell them no when they get bigger! Obviously they don't understand the word but they get the tone of voice and the eye contact I think. Alternatively very loud yelping scares them and then they stop ime!

Thanks feral. I didn't know whether to ignore, say no or yelp! I've heard all sorts my sis said ignore, I said no in the past at clamping down Gah. I'll try the no firmly if she does it again.

I wanted to ask. Do any of your LOs make a big fuss when being cleaned up after eating. Half the time my LO whinges and starts crying at times. I don't want her to hate eating because it leads to cleaning, but likewise I can't leave her with food on her face and hands. Sometimes she's fine, but she's really whingeing atm.

Second tooth broke the surface the evening, it's only a tiny break, so I reckon tomorrow will be through. Have been brushing her tooth! She's ok so far with that, although she tries to grab the toothbrush and stop me doing it, but have had OH to help so I've not had any big bother, but I reckon doing it on my own will be interesting. I think it's because she's the only one who has been in control of stuff going in her mouth with BLW so for me to put a thing (probably what she thinks) in her mouth then it must be weird.

Yes 100 we have big crying / shouty fits whenever we try to clean lo's face, even when she see's the wipes coming she sometimes starts crying!

I've started putting the wipes in warm water and saying gentle gentle as I clean her face and then giving lots of kisses and praise, this seems to help...sometimes!

Thanks, I tend to use a warm flannel, I think she's better when I take her into the bathroom and wet it in front of her, but with being away I've not done it, I'll have to see if it helps.

Yep big fuss ere too when it comes to face cleaning time. I give her the flannel to play with then we do hands, she likes sucking the flannel but not the face cleaning but I don't know any kids that do! :)

Yep, i have two little soapdodgers here as well! DS did it and DD went through a phase of this a little while back but I have to say that I wasn't as tolerant as any of you guys! She would just get a quick swipe to the face and I would suffer the howls; she's not bothered about it any more so I guess it's another one of those idiosyncrasies that pass in time.

100 when DD is cutting teeth then she has this special rubber toothbrush like this that she can chew and brush her own teeth with but she actually quite likes it when I do it which is a relief as DS has always been pure evil about his teeth.

On the subject of teeth, we had another make an appearance this morning (top left) and I reckon top right will be here tomorrow. She's been quite grim with it the last few days, very grizzly and it took me an hour and a half to get her down for a nap today. I'm hoping that with four teeth that she'll get a bit quicker at eating as she will quite happily sit for 45 mins at a meal time gnawing away at stuff which does get a bit boring!

Oh, I'm glad it's normal for them to hate having face washed! My LO really pulls the most miserable face when I come close to her with a wet flannel! And, she really moans when I put on her plastic bib - but it is one of the tough plastic ones. I've got some jacket type bibs, they were huge on her but she's probably big enough to fit in them now, might try them instead!

LO loves me brushing her two little teeth! Think she likes the minty taste. I thought we'd have more teeth as she seems to have been teething for at least 2 weeks, but no appearences yet, but I can feel the top two through the gums. Can't be far.

Well... what a start to the week - a real poopy one - the dog ran off again last night for about 45 mins and must have had a real adventure (bear in mind we live amongst farms) as he came back smelling - and DH2B was greeted by a BIG dollop of diarrhea by the patio door! All over skirting boards, up wall, splashed onto LO's play pen.. .YCH! He had to go off to work, but did clean up the big dollop and left me cleaning all the splashes. Just finished, cleaned hands, made breakfast for me and LO, picked her up to put her in the highchair - and noticed she was covered in poo all down her leg! Lovely - quick bath, change of clothes and finally, and first sip of tea - at 8.45am, after getting up at 6.45am!!! Fast forward to lunch, and she had another change of clothes!! Must be heat... they're normally pretty well contained in the nappy these days, but not today!

Well, registrar and flowers paid for today, so just venue to be paid then we're good to go! Hope this weather, or at least a slightly cooler version of it, lasts till the 8th!!

Hope you all enjoying the weather and LOs staying cool... ooh, LO just woke up from nap...

Feral, poor you. I have had to clean that soot before and it just seems to spread doesn't it. Hope since that was 3 things your done now.
Sebs - yeuch to pooey rooms. How gross to have to clean but all part of owning a dog shame LO had to join in.
Hen night sounds fun. Have not had a night away from LO yet - or a whole day! Cant think what I would do as am so used to him being with me and everyone I see wants to see him too. Am skint so a day out shopping/spa is out.
My sister got engaged so am really happy about that and can't wait to hear her wedding plans. Wonder if she will want DS as page boy - (picturing him in cute suit aged 16m if they do it next summer)
Am lucky with DS with teeth and face. He is fine with me doing both though am being careful of the 4 new top ones. With face I have a batch of little face cloths (from £ store), he has one and I have one - he even tries to wipe own face now. In the bath is fine if I give him soemthing to hold while I do it. He would also suck the bath dry through a flannel if I let him hold it.
Well done for standing babies. DS loves standing while holding on but is not steady enough to let go - yet.
Boo for biting babies. DS sometimes bites if feeding when tired - can't help jumping as it bloody hurts. I do say NO but he often just grins at me so I move him away for a few seconds which seems to work.

Sorry Sebs but I am at your poo story!

Sounds like you all set for the big days sebs will fingers and toes crossed this Fab weather holds for a while. We off on hols to Cornwall on the 9th so I'd like it to stay too :) and sorry I too o) at poo story but not nice to clean it all up.

Hope the soot is all gone too feralgirl and all going ok.

We mostly ok, Lo has eye infection I thought it was just suntan lotion rubbed in at first but it swelled almost shut and ozzing green gunk by Monday morning, had telephone emerg DR appt got cream for conjunctivitus but 24hrs on it still looks bad. Anyone know how soon the cream supposed to work, if no improvement by morning I think I will take her back to Dr as she very grumpy with it.

I'm bit worried that I can't seem to drop any breast feeds yet as well. She was 9mths on Sat and generally feeds on demand approx 5-6am, 8am, 11am, 3pm, 5-6pm, 9-10pm. I had tried to drop the 11am feed and give her sippy cup water or juice at lunchtime, but everytime she been ill she wants more feeds again. We have tried two types of formula in her cup but she spat them out, and I've been trying these for 3mths on / off. It's not essential yet for me to stop feeding her during the day as not back to work till Aug but I really wanted to start the transition by now. How is everyone else who is BF doing?

Oh don't worry Feral, I was about it too!! It was a truly poopy day!! Could only happen on a Monday...!

Candr - congrats to your sister - hopefully DS will be a lovely pageboy next year!!

LO had her 8 month check today (a couple of weeks late!)... she's 21lbs / 9.5kg!! But, that's only around the 80th PC phew! She's also around the 60th PC for length/height - which is pretty good for a 5ft 1inch mother!! (Obviously gets her height genes from her Dad!). Everything else ok, except HV phoned me back to say she thought I'd best make a GP appointment to get a "second opinion" on her hips because there are creases in one leg and not the other - which used to be a sign for referral but on its own isn't anymore, but she's being ultra cautious. Will make one after the half term break (and wedding).

Olympic Torch is going through Wrexham tomorrow, which is about 25 mins from here and where friends and family all live. But, it starts there at... 7.25am, so think we'll be giving it a miss! Would have been good to see it reach the top of Snowdon today.

Glad there are a few others who have fussy face cleaners! I like the two cloth idea :)

Enjoying our holiday, though OH and I both had bad tummies yesterday, think its something we ate :( few possible suspects, but you never really know.

8month check? We've not had one, I didn't know we were supposed to. Although I think I recall them saying something about it being later at our surgery, must check that out.

Re the bf ssmile, I reckon I'm feeding usually about 7 times a day, sometimes more, never less though!

Hope you enjoy your holiday and tum gets better 100

Our HV do the development check at one now. They used to do them at 9mths but she said too many babies didn't meet the development levels expected so they do them at first birthday now.

Had awful night with baby, think her eye really bothering her it looks awfully swollen, plus she temp or got very hot in night she eventually went to sleep after paracetmal 3-6am only :( going to try get a face to face Dr appt today which means hanging on the phone at 8.30am when we are walking to school with buggy not easy!

Ssmile, DD had Fucibet for conjunctivitis a little while back and it took a good while to kick in, maybe 3 or 4 days before there was any noticeable difference. And I reckon that if I was home then DD would have that many feeds; she does at weekends. The only way to cut them down with my DD was by me not being there iyswim! I hope you got to see your dr and that LO is OK soon (and def before the hols!)

Good effort on the check Sebs, we have them at 9 months down here so I guess it varies everywhere. V excited for the wedding! Will you post some pics on your profile so we can see the dress? Pretty pleeeease!

Hope you're better soon 100.

Have spent the day in Exeter hospital today with my mum as my aunt got rushed in to have an emergency op to remove part of her bowel last Friday. They seem to think it's probably cancer which is v grim. Her step daughter is getting married at the end of this month and is the most unbelievable bridezilla and a massive spoilt brat and so now my mum has ended up taking on a whole load of the cooking etc as my aunt won't be able to do it. I am bloody with my step-cousin for making my aunt work so sodding hard making stupid flouncy bridesmaids dresses and worrying about fiddly faffy food for the last month while, actually unbeknownst to the rest of us, she's been incredibly ill. Families, who'd have them?!

feralgirl hugs hope they can remove the infected bowl and you aunt responds well to treatment it must be a worrying time. My DH work partner has been going through the same process the last 6mths at Exeter Hospital and she had part of her bowl removed but is making gd recovery now.

Had awful few nights with Lo she keeps crying in her sleep. We had 2nd Dr appt yest got drops for her badly swollen eye which much easier than cream to get in. She slept a bit better with those and some ibprofen, but I'm hanging today v.tired and got after school.swimming too with DD1. I've got a Dr appt tom for me, so this week I will have had 3trips to the Drs! I be glad to have a week with out going after the last few weeks.

Feral - Yes, I'll post some photos but please don't get too excited as it's not a "wedding dress" as such!!! I've gone for a dress that hopefully suits a 41 year old with a daugther and 2 stepkids!!!! Getting very excited now!! A week and a day to go!

And, good luck to your Aunty, and hope she makes a good recovery. Boo to your step-cousin... I'd tell your Mum to say stuff it to her, let her do her own stitching and cooking, but then, your Mum is doing it for your Aunty I guess. Families indeed...!

Ssmile - ooh, your poor LO - hope she gets better, and fingers crossed that the half term holiday is a GP free week for you!

Off to DSD's school soon for a Jubilee Party - the first day of rain in ages - typical. Going to dress LO in red, white and blue - but leaving it till last minute... just in case of any disaster (after my poopy start to the week, think I'm being sensible!!)

And, bad mother alert... LO rolled off the bed this morning! Well, think she dived forward actually. Thankfully we've got a pretty low bed, and she fell on her bum (phew for nappy padding) but how bad did I feel??? That's it now, no more turning my back... time to grow those eyes at the back of my head!

Hey :) tum is better, was very short lived and we're both quite sure it was food related as opposed to a bug.

My LO had to have eye drops last years at 10 weeks for conjunctivitis which were hellish to try and get it at times! I ope they work for your LO ssmile.

Sorry to hear about your aunt feral.

Sebs, don't worry about the bed incident, I think these things happen frequently. I know we ourselves just caught LO before she landed on the floor once.

Well the holiday is lovely. :)

We don't have stairs at home, but there are ones here in the cottage. LO has learnt to climb them! She also climbed onto. Crate yesterday and a chair this morning. I seem to have bred a climber! Last week she climbed into this over the blue bit and into the seat in the middle!

But we've had a proper injury, she was playing standing against a dining chair, now I don't know if she toppled, or the chair toppled, but she ended up underneath it on her back, I picked her up and she had a bit of a nosebleed :( She has a bruise on her nose now. And also while we were visiting friends yesterday she did 2 whacking head bangs on firstly a table, because she was bouncing herself and secondly the back of a settee, doing the same thing. I swear she thinks she is in her jumperoo when she isn't! Poor thing, but she is a happy thing. Even doing all this stuff!

She's very funny now, she shakes her head no, so when we say are you a clever girl or something similar she shakes her head!

When I said frequently about Thebes rolling, I meant it happens to lots of people.

Seems a few of us have baby illness problems. Hope eye gets better soon, must be awkward trying to stop LO rubbing it. DS has got an ear infection which made me feel bad as his temp has been up for a couple of days and he has not been himself so ended up in baby ward till 1am as they wouldn't let us go as it was 40.9. He is a bit of a grizzle monster now but hoping the meds will help.
Have had a few knocks and bumps on DS pulling things over onto himself so yes, time to get the 2nd set of eyes working.
Yeah to wedding all coming together, must be very excited now