October 2011, the three C's crawling cruising and chatting

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Thanks Mama for the title. A new thread hopefully everyone will find us again.

Happy birthday mama enjoy your tea. No tips I am afraid, just the thought of some choccies later!

Happy birthday mama x

Thank you birthday tea was scrummy and home made cake too! He's gone I'm feeding J. Ds2 cried (and do did I). It's only 2 frigging nights! Just first time since J.

Great advice, I will lower standards...

Happy birthday mama cake sounds yummy.

Enjoy your day mama, I agree with the others- lower standards and eat more cake (maybe bribe DC with cake?....)

Mama, I made your banana loaf yesterday and pleased to report that it's went down a treat so much so, me and S have nearly ate the lot!

I think I can finally see a tooth

Fuzzy for tooth. Glad banana loaf went down well :)

Happy Birthday Mama, hope bedtime is going well . DH was away last weekend, first time since P born Not long til Tuesday though.

Fuzzzy did you go to Next?

Barbara training sounds more like Abab tbh!

Good luck for tomorrow night Penguin.

I wish myself good luck tonight, after the last 2!!

Pebble there's probably been too much chatter to read back

How's bedtime going mama?
cheshire yeah I went. Think I was to late though and the shop was just about empty!!! There was loads of 3-6, 6-9 things. Did get her 1 top and a pack of tights . Did you get anything?

For those of you with older children, when did you buy them a proper pair of shoes? Right now about the house, S just has her bare feet and if we are out, she has a soft pair of leather shoes like these
www.cheekymonkeyskids.co.uk/inch-blue-baby-girls-leather-shoes-mouse
but I'm now thinking that as she is up on her feet so much now I should maybe get her some pre walker shoes. I seen a pair in Clark's today for £15, was tempted but there was huge queue and I couldn't be bothered waiting. Obv when she is up and using walker etc, I want her feet to be supported. I have very flat feet, plays on my mind of its connected to not wearing proper shoes when younger. Just curious

I have read that it is better to keep them bare foot. DD only had shoes on when walking outside, plus being small and a early walker meant she was 19 months before being big enough for more proper shoes (she was in 3-6 months when she started walking). I however couldn't point to any scientific sources.

Our NHS equivalent did a series of free talks about infant podiatry, they told us that babies don't need shoes, that when they start walking it doesn't really matter what shoes they wear as they are more about stopping them from walking over stones etc, although once they stop walking with their feet down flat it's really important to get shoes with some flex in them to allow for a greater range of foot movement. It was a good talk. I tend to leave Atai barefoot where poss because I notice that he is more stable when standing up against things. But it's pretty cold here atm, so really ought to put him in socks more often!

I remember reading a bit in the Guardian about it as well, let me try and find it ...

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/09/barefoot-best-for-children?INTCMP=SRCH

Hope you ladies are all well! It's a crappy, cold and wet winter morning here and I am about to head to work. Good times.

I've did a 0.5 mile run tonight, plan to take things slowly and maybe get a general check up from a physio regarding my knee to stop me getting injuries there. Although can't afford a private session but a bit scared to go the doc's and ask for a referral however my other physio said just do it.

DS has done the first half the night in his cot for three nights now and is more settled. Last week he was waking every hour at this part of the night, now we feel like we have some evening again :)

Sorry for the absence. RL has been/is particularly busy atm. End of summer term annoys me, they have the whole year to do stuff, why does it all come now???

Sorry to not catch up properly.

CP excellent news about your nights! Long may it continue - it makes such a difference having a few hours back in the evening to MN.

Fuzzzy we got Clarks cruising shoes for ds1, but have since learnt they're better without, or soft shoes like your link for outside, so will do that for E.

Happy Birthday Mama. Cake sounds lovely, hope bedtime went ok! Two nights will hopefully fly by

Chesh how many weeks is P? We've just come out of a WW and we had nearly four weeks of disturbed nights . Was awful, but E feels so much more 'grown up' now. The night you described sounded almost exactly the same as a few of ours, I hope yours get better soon.

Talking of poo, E only did one as opposed to the usual five

And today at Waterbabies, I watched him 'swim' underwater for the first time. So cute. So so so cute!

Ooh, and em how did the meal go? What did you cook in the end?

Fuzzzy just got P 6 bodygrows for bedtime as she has just about outgrown the mountain of ones she had and a little cardigan for £2.50, all on vouchers because she got loads when she was born

P only has a little pair of sandals for wearing when she has dresses on and it's too hot for socks but feet might get chilly in the sling etc. I am sure I read something about their foot being better left without until it's more moulded, otherwise shoes could make it potentially misshapen (don't know how true that is but kind of makes sense if you think about getting bunions).

Lookout she was born on 5th Oct, I think she is about 41 weeks (just coming in to WW but she seemed to do the others early).I don't care that DH doesn't believe in them, I do and it's the only thing keeping me going! She was waking last night from 1-4am every hour, sometimes even after 15 minutes!!!

Re shoes, I have a pair of sandals for when W is walking outside but most of the time he's just in socks.

Sorry you had another rubbish night cheshire

Good to know about the shoes! As I say, she goes about the house in bare feet, and the little soft leather ones when we are out as its still chilly!! Will hold off then

cheshire how long has this been going on with P? S must be 42 weeks then, bad night here but not half as bad as yours so I can't complain. I'd given her an omelette for dinner with broccoli and a spoon of beans. Don't know if it was a bad combination as she was farting like a trooper!! . Does anyone else find this with eggs?

mama cheshire i'm alone this week too...DH away for the week :(

fuzzzy the fireworks may be thanks to the broccoli. i always feel cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli bring on the works...and you've even added beans! :)

Hi all, manage to drop off the thread again

Holiday was lovely except Leo and I got a nasty cold, both still suffering a bit. We had DH and my parents to take care of us though on the plus side. This weekend was the local folk festival, loads of fun. Highlight was taking ds1 to the Saturday night with K'naan (world cup song waving flag). We got home just before midnight and he was exhausted but happy.

Mama, hope you had a nice birthday before DH left and that the week goes fast.

To all going through WW and bad nights - hang in there!

On the subject of shoes, none of mine had shoes before they could walk outside unaided - I use woollen booties if it's cold or just socks. Got some gorgeous lamb skin and wool booties from padraig. Ds2 had them and reused for L as they wash really well.

fd I forgot to say in response to you ages ago, joseph has a couple of small skin tags in his bum crack. They dont seem to bother him so not done anything. Have you sorted s's?

lookout the dinner was nice but not great. I couldn't find another main I fancied so did the one I mentioned. Not worth the effort... And the sticky toffee was from a new recipe book, and I didn't think as nice as the ones I had made before. The soup was fab tho! Good job the guests were our parents so they have to come back!

Joseph had a terrible night and a few grumpy days. So unlike him. I don't know what it is, but just stocked up on teething gel just in case... Fingers crossed tonight is better as I am v tired!

I found out today I have a job at my old company, for 2 days as I wanted. Hurray!! So happy that I don't need to find something new. My boss was great; it is usually the type of place where you stay at work until everything is done, no matter on the time. I said I would need to leave at 5 without fail and he said no probs, you will just have to leave what you haven't done for another day! I think I caught him in a v good mood.

That sounds lovely out you can tell you're not in the UK as you'd just be washed away here!

Sympathy to Cheshire C been a nightmare atm as well, had to give him a bottle at 4am night before last, and I don't think he's stopped crying/screeching all day. Even when I brought him into bed with me this morn, he just screamed down my ear and kept kicking my c sec scar till he fell asleep for just over half an hour, in fact he slept better when I put him in cot this afternoon-2 hours!!

DP has brought me chocolate, and making me some oven chips with fried stuff for dinner- I couldn't face a week alone!

X posts emm that's great news :)

Posting on the run just to say glad to see I'm not the only one with a monkey child atm. E very grumpy day today - only times he stopped whingeing and shouting were during his nap and when he was eating. This is now week 5 of bad nights, (with one random sleep through) and I am very tired. Off to bed right now. Hope everyone gets better nights/days soon.