October 2011: Crawling, teething and (we hope) sleeping through

[Penelope1980]

Sorry guys - posted the 1000th message without realising , so hopefully you can all find this thread!

Oh and thanks to whoever mentioned the 0.5 tog sleeping bags I've got one on order now

strawberry the cold thing is due to lack of sleep/not taking as much care of yourself I haven't noticed it so much this time but I had a cold every month for a year after C was born and I've always had an excellent immune system.
Need to clean the house now as MIL is coming I let dh and I get out for dinner/movie tonight.

I've got a cold too and so feeling sorry for myself

Just had bubbles out which ds really liked as well

I have just got over a cold too. It seems like everyone has had one recently

Fortunately his only finger food so far is fruit, but I can see that happening if he leaves a lovely looking tea when he is older - i hate to waste good food, but I need to stop... I lost all my baby weight, but it is slowly creeping back...

strawberry we also found feeding N cold stuff from the fridge, even purees, has gone down better the last couple of days. especially melon - he loves it

ed enjoy your night, any idea what you're going to see? need recommendations for our next trip to the pictures. DP got a fortnight off now so may get to go ourselves. cant afford a hol this year :( but will be nice spending last 2 weeks of mat leave as a family. hoping for more nice weather so we can go for a picnic

may has felt like a long month, our money feels like it was spent weeks ago

No cinema doesn't look great ATM but I don't care a long as I get to eat chocolate

Mama were you secretly

Anyone else got a wide awake baby? I think she is too hot, she only has her nappy on now and I am trying to pack 2 cars for tomorrow whilst she is messing about and talking to the drawer handles!

I was cheshire - getting a compliment like that is better than cake IMO... And that's some serious talking.

J was wide awake at this time yesterday and can hear her stirring. I do think it's too hot for them. I put her in just a best with light sheet on her. Where are you off to Cheshire?

I've got to pack ds1 case tomorrow as he's off to Bude for a whole week on Sunday with school. Dh and i are going to miss him so much and I know ds2 and dd will miss him too. They aren't allowed mobile etc so won't be able to speak to him at all.

Ds2 managed to play in garden today and only ran inside while planes went over and then came put again it was great. He helped wash car and played with Jessica in paddling pool.

Jessica had very wet day, shower this morning with me. Then bath in sink post lunch, paddling pool and water table in garden and bath with ds2 and me. Kept her cooler

Mama for your mum!

Ipswich chocolate in bottles? I could do with some of that. Not had choc for weeks. Getting withdrawal! Edward v. .

Cheshire Ahh at talking to drawer handles! How sweet. How can we possibly ever be mad at them when they do things like that!?

Emmazed I'm eating so much more fruit now, finishing off what Seb doesn't want. Although he did have most of his mango this afternoon so I just had the bits he's couldn't get to. Still got almost a stone of baby-weight to go .

Seb's gro-egg is red for the third night and on 25oC! He's just in a long-sleeved vest (so his arms don't get cold!) and a 1 tog bag with the zip undone a bit. The blackout blind stops the wind coming through. Anyone else still got their lo's in their room? We've been so lazy at getting his room ready! But I do quite like having him in with us (just not choosing clothes for work in the dark!)

Seb (and us) had risotto for dinner tonight. I made the chicken and veg bigger so he could grab it and he ate in a nappy but there was rice EVERYWHERE when he was done! He cried a bit but I think he was getting frustrated as he kept dropping things down his front.

Think that's why N keeps crying at food tally, he gets frustrated because he drops so much. Had a laugh at him trying to eat rice yesterday. He went face down on his tray and tried scooping it into his mouth!!

tally j still in with me (so is ds2 ). We do launch pads so clothes out night before. Saves dh scrabbling around in dark (he sleeps on sofa a fair bit, it's nice a cool downstairs so I'm . 27c up here with fan on. 3 in the bed, j is bfing and ds2 asleep Otherside of me. I love it

I'm in the Netherlands lookout so my parents are over from the UK.

Seemed to have cooled down a bit here, well the humidity has, so its a bit more bearable. M is still having some probs dropping off and is waking up early. Wriggling all over his cot without his sleeping bag.

Sometimes men really are useless. DH took M downstairs with him while I stayed up to have a shower. I thought to myslef, how lovely, I'll come down to a fed baby and a cup of coffee...yeah right! M was howling because he was hungry while DH is sitting there looking at him, while eating his own breakfast, and saying, "I really don't know why he's crying." Because he's hungry you pillock! Grrr.....

Okay, rant over. Enjoy the sunshine everyone.

Mama i love the idea of 3 in a bed but i love my space and my bed too much. Plus dh sleepwalks (well sleep chokes, it's weird and worrying and means we could never have the kids in bed with us). Hope ds1 has a good time, and you cope with him being away!

ips that's really clever! E would never think of scooping up food - I'm seriously impressed! Still not much eating going on here but he is still picking things up and trying them, just getting bored fairly quickly.

Tally E'r room was too hot as well last night - 27 degrees to start with! We bought an A/C unit the other day and it struggles to get the temo any lower than 22 in there. Hwoever that is better than nothing and is considerably cooler than the rest of the house! We just put it on for a couple hours before he sleeps and take it out when he's in there. Then we have the fan on. He sleeps just in nappy and 1 tog bag and that seems to work ok. I love the sunny weather but I hate hot nights!

Having the first BBQ of the season today and am making some little turkey kebabs so E can share with us. Quite excited about it

Eng @ you pillock. Sounds like our house.

lookout dh has sleep apnea and snores badly. He's also very hot. Even ore ds2 we didn't always share a bed at night. Dh doesn't sleep in with me and dc. I woukd really worry he'd squish one (he has rolled on me in past). I love set up here and dc smell lovely unlike man smell in mornings.

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Mama I wonder if my dh also has sleep apnoea too as when he jumps from bed (every night. Sometimes twice.) he claims to be choking. He has hit me in the face before too and wrestled me out of bed cos he thought I was trying to hide the baby under my body . It can be quite amusing but the last few months it's ben at times annoying (to say the least) as I'm woken not only by E for feeding but also by dh with his choking!

Just to say as its been eating away at me, I know I sound like a heartless cow leaving him to cry but im really not. It tears me up so much I ended up on the hospital because of it. It's all i can do after I've tried everything- walker, bouncer, chair, radio, toys, books, food etc. I physically can't hold him constantly, he's almost 20lbs and I'm no weightlifter! Plus its dangerous to when I need to make bottles and handling boiling water. It's not just me not coping or doing something wrong as the other patients & nurses in hospital all commented on how difficult he is. DP is usually the most laid back chilled out person, and he was losing his temper this morning.

Just wanted to say that because I got quite upset reading on MN yesterday how "damaging" it is to leave a baby to cry- I don't do it out of spite or fun or sadism. Its literally a last option. It worked wonders with hos sleep- he would scream for ages, hpurs, in our arms if we tried to rock him. But put him down, he wails for 0-3 minutes and now sleeps 12 hours every night.

scheh would it help starting a thread in sleep as there must be others who have experienced similar. 12 hours is very long straight sleep at 7/8 months, and maybe if he's that much time alone at night he needs more 1-1 in the day. Of course you can't hold him while making bottles, but it's a fantastic reason to not need to do housework stuff and ironing I usethat excuse all time

He sleeps really well though :/ he hates co sleeping, can't go to sleep and wakes up constantly then is miserable all day from tiredness.

I wouldn't mind so much if he was happy for me to sit and hold or play with him, but he wants you to carry him round, no sitting allowed!

He's a lot better now though since I've spoken to DP about holding him too much, and doing cc. I wouldn't do it with a younger baby, but C is 8 months now.

Glad things are better now. Hope my posts didn't make you feel bad. Every baby is different, all of mine are different from each other too. Sounds like he wants to be up and mobile doing everything mummy is doing . In a few months he will be following you around. X

Tbh it was.only Wednesday that was bad, and that wasn't helped by me going through really bad medication withdrawal (didn't sleep or eat for days, vomiting and horrible nausea). Last week was my first week alone at home with him too. Thursday/Friday were better as the drug cleared out my system. I just panic reading someone saying I've given my son permanent brain damage because he's been crying.

You're right- he's just desperate to be walking! Unfortunately our house is not baby proof at all

No, it was a thread about cc/CIO in parenting that really upset me. I am trying my best, its just very difficult! Being told I'm damaging him is very upsetting.

I know that thread I'm on it. Tho I've not been judgey pants just shared my experiences. It's not something I feel happy doing, but then I cosleep, natural term bf etc and there are people who would say that is wrong. All you can do is believe in yourself and follow your instincts.