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.

Another one with a clingy baby. Shouted "mamamama" til I picked him up today :)
fuzzzy we did try one bottle of formula a couple of times when MIL has stayed over to do night wakings but unfortunately didn't make him last any longer. Think it a bit of a habit now and he thinks that while he's awake he may as well feed. Think he's also playing some catch up too bunt, and the teething def not helping. @ Barbara
Legoland sounds awesome btw

Yay for W sp, N may not be far behind now. When he's on all fours he rocks back and forth but gives up after a while and just rolls away. Went swimming today and he was doing breaststroke legs!!

There's a Park Asterix???!!! I love Asterix, must have had every one of the books when I was a kid. Well that's one family hol sorted :)

ips love asterix too! kept trying to think of a nickname for R but new mum brain just gave up ...

Park Asterix? Cool!

Had an interesting discussion with my parents the other day about how you should best raise kids to be succesful. My Dad - who was always very ambitious for us - was telling me in all seriousness that I need to start "laying the seed now" for A to be a nobel scientist or whatever. My Mum (my parents are seperated) totally disagreed, and gave my Dad a hard time and argued that all you can do as a parent is, in her words, "give your kids the tools to thrive in whatever situation they may find themselves in or choose for themselves". It got slightly heated - my view is that as long as A grows up with empathy and can find fufilment in whatever he chooses to do, what I want for him is - as cheesy as it sounds - to be happy in whatever he chooses to do.

It was very odd - did you lot have pressure from your parents? Will you do the same for your kids? I am going to work really hard not to be pushy although I have to admit that parental pressure really worked for me and now I have a job I love that I wouldn't have otherwise, but at the same time am aware that it could go really badly as well.

I read an interesting article on parental pressure anyway you might be interested in as well ...

www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/raising-successful-children.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Ha ha need to read and catch up properly as P i awake (even though she only slept every 60 FREAKING MINUTES last night!!!!). I can only blame teeth as she is constantly chewing and still gummy.

This "Barbara" woman gets around a bit

Hi all, sorry will read and catch up, just need a quick rant. Because C is driving me crazy!! He just won't be put down, at.all. I have to go to the toilet and brush my teeth holding him, leave him screaming whilst I quickly get dressed, distract him as best I can to make bottles/food...

Scheh I literally read last night (while sat on loo) the bounty book and they are meant to be super clingy and only wanting main carer, so in a way it's a good thing iyswim, because he's doing what most babies do . They are wary of strangers now too apparently. Made sense as J is limpet girl atm.

She's done early morning 4/5am wake ups last 3 morning now then goes back to sleep from 6.30 till 8. Poor dh takes her around 5.30 so he's tired.

Did anyone who's bfeeding still have any advice re nipples? I think I'm going to end up at drs.

cheshire who is Barbara

Wow Asterix land sounds brilliant. Loved Obelix (sp) best. That's the big red headed one, yes?

M is being the same right now scheh . He's screaming and crying when we leave the room, trying to follow us everywhere.

He woke up at 5am yesterday crying and didn;t get my memo about needing a lie in today (went out for dinner last nigth with some friends) so I was up at 7am (Though reading your post, I shouldn't be complaining cheshire)

Earlier he fell asleep in the swing with his face down on the tray while I was putting washing away upstairs

Little monkey is jabbering away - papa AND dada!!!!! I keep saying to him, "No. MAMA!" but he's not getting it.

ipswitch at MIL. I can't imagine how difficult it must be with all the health worries you've had with N on top of sleep issues. Stick to your guns, do what feels right for you

pebble at kling-on. M likes licking our coffee table, our sofa, the floor, particularely the step into the kitchen (nice) and yesterday he BIT DH on the chest!!!!

M is farting like no one's business. Serve us right for giving him beans for the last few nights.

Pen I stand by what you say about wanting M to be happy in what he does. I think it's important that children do their best, but I really don't agree with pushing them in a direction they're not ahppy with. Maybe I'm speaking a bit with my teacher hat on, but I see a,lot of pushy parents at my school who want their kids in a higher stream; if the kid scrapes through by the skin of their teeth, legally the school cannot put them down a stream if they've passed, and then they end up drowning because they can't deal with it.

From my own personal perspective, I had the LEAST pushy parents ever. One of 4, so we were just expected to get on with it. Praised when we did our best, but none of this "cash for grades" (as loads of friends got). I cannot ever remember my parents helping me with hw or nagging me to do it (my mum used to get me to check her spelling ) And on the whole we turned out okay

My parents gave us a good example by working hard, earning what they had, not getting into debt (mortgage aside) but academically they didn't push us. My mum left school when she was 16 with no Qualifications and my dad did an apprenticeship/college until he was 19 - but we all ended up going to Uni and 3 of us are in careers that we enjoy (youngest Dsis is currently finding herself in the South Pacific - not really a career right now but most definitely enjoying herself )

oops, mega post

bunt are there not any other creams out there that you don't react to? know it is hard to find the time to remember but DS's latch often goes awry and I have spend time concentrating on it again and not just letting him do what he wants, which currently involves latching while laying down and then rolling onto his stomach.

DS is cutting his top two teeth atm and needs to work on his latch because it makes my skin crawl feeling his teeth. DD has also cut another tooth and there I was complaining about everything being back in her mouth

5:30 starts are the standard in our house, from both of them, although we all have colds things have been too affected by it i.e. DS is worse but not as bad as he generally used to be.

I am now up to 2 mile runs, it is frustrating taking it slowly but i know it is the best thing.

climbin do u run? i'm thinking of starting as well...just petrified that it'll make my already huge thighs even more bulky....

pene love your post. my dilemma as well. most of the times i tend to think like your mum...after all helping kids with survival tools should be the best you can do as a parent. but then sometimes kids do need direction, don't they - would that be construed as pushing? and then we come to marketing your kids. you wouldn't believe some of the friends I have. to listen to them you would think their kids are solving algebra problems at five and reading tolstoy at six. whereas i feel all i want is to be able to raise R to think for himself....

sche deep breaths......

Interesting about the clinging as W seems to be finding his feet freedom wise! Been quite happy crawling around on the floor with me in the room he last few days. Hope he hasn't got that phase to come I'm back to work on Monday so DH and mil have him at various points (seperatly) over the next few weeks before he starts nursery in sept.

Whoever asked (on phone and can't remember) my parents always told us they would be proud of us if we had tried our best, the outcome didn't matter iykwim.

Got some good news today saw W's kidney consultant and his op seems to have been a success kidneys now have equal function and the left is now draining properly. Another check up in 6 months and he will probably sign us over to his pead consultant in Winchester.

And on a sort of W note MNHQ have been stupid enough to let my fledgling blog about him and out hospital trips into the bloggers network

That's great news sp :)))

Ooh anAsterix name lovin......will think long and hard about that one .....
sp that's great news! Will he have any follow up scans or just check over by consultant?

bunt and cp I had a few issues with N latching when his 2 teeth came in (bottom ones). He got v bitey and I would take him off, try again but took off again the instant I could see those teeth advancing (ow!) I did get given a cream by the hosp in a yellow tube, I'll try find out the name and if it is wool based. Looked more like gloopy Vaseline to me!

Strawberry - bloody brilliant, such a relief for you!

Hi everyone I have read back on the thread think we were only on page 6 last time I was on I'm back now and hopefully will be able to keep up

SP that's good news! Is it worth trying to be on the bloggers network? I have been blogging for years but am not sure it's interesting enough!

It is good news we're very pleased, it's one less thing to worry about! ips he'll have an ultrasound but no more things requiring needles required :)

pen they let me on and I literally have 7 posts! If you want to give it a try there's an application form in the bogging section it only take a couple of minutes to fill in. If you've found stuff to blog about for years it must be interesting :)

ips how's N doing?

Glad to hear it sp, N had had 2 cannulas in the last 2 weeks and I don't think there's much that's more distressing than having to hold your baby while they try to get needles in :( (I do some of the kidney function scans that I suspect W may have had and I know they're not fun)

N is doing much better thanks, his tea didn't touch the sides yesterday (was cramming cheese bread in his mouth like I was gonna take it off him!!) and he's back at nursery- he loves it there. He's got colour in his cheeks again, and is getting more chubby. Game the sleep is still pants tho! Guess you can't have it all

Glad to hear it sp, N had had 2 cannulas in the last 2 weeks and I don't think there's much that's more distressing than having to hold your baby while they try to get needles in :( (I do some of the kidney function scans that I suspect W may have had and I know they're not fun)

N is doing much better thanks, his tea didn't touch the sides yesterday (was cramming cheese bread in his mouth like I was gonna take it off him!!) and he's back at nursery- he loves it there. He's got colour in his cheeks again, and is getting more chubby. Game the sleep is still pants tho! Guess you can't have it all

Gah! Stupid iPhone posted twice!

ips glad to hear that N is on the mend!! How are you doing? Are you back at work?
sp wonderful news re W . Must be such a relief for you and dh

Not much happening here.. We had a lovely day yesterday at Loch Lomond, sitting on the pebble beach and dipping toes in the water. S had a great time just watching all the other kids running about with their buckets and spades. Can't help but wonder what next summer will be like that she is walking and starting to talk! I remember sitting out in the sun last year while pregnant thinking how it would be with a baby too!
She has really takin a shine to the cats and trying to get them at every chance. They on the other hand, not so much. Came into livingroom yesterday morning to find they/one had peed all over her play mat and toys . Thankfully was only cheap wooden blocks from asda so they got tossed out. No idea what was going on but it hasn't been repeated so hoping just a one off...

I renewed my gym membership today so it's time to get my lazy ass into shape. 7 wks this weekend till S birthday so I want to see a significant change by then. ed are you still on myfitnesspal?

Have good day everyone

sorry my last post was meant to say i haven't read back as im about 20 pages behind.

fuzzy i still have the app, but still havent actually started using it am now trying slim fast as i really need to do something drastic i just seem to keep putting weight on, wouldnt feel so bad if i was at least staying the same

M now has a tooth and is crawling and has just started cruising the furniture and has worked out how to climb the stairs i now spend my entire life runnning after her telling her not to do/eat whatever she has most recently discovered.

am now back at work 3 days a week, and much to my own surprise i'm actually really enjoying having some time away from the kids. have already had a couple of run ins with MIL though. i know i'm lucky to have free childcare but she has just been completely getting on my nerves lately!

I will start tracking on app from tomorrow. Will be a challenge as I want to use up as much food in the house as I can before I go shopping again. Thinkin up meals for me and S has been a challenge the past few days . I have so many odd bits and pieces in the cupboards!!!

ips that is great news! at least food sorted

sp great no needles anymore - cannulas suck!!! if they can have a nicotine patch, why don't they research something similar for babies and medicines talking out of my ass i know

Re just fell off the bed.. was playing with him on our bed.....landed on his front....there was this bang sound....and then the crying how in the world did nature trust me with a baby

called the doc who said he should be ok unless he throws up few hours later; just put ice on the bump; plus have given him a calpol before putting him for his afternoon nap......