Postgraduate brookers - Brooking No Argument for happy, healthy and sleeping DCs..

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New thread time!

Sil's brother- far away enough to not put me off ;) too

Oh, and meant to say scarlet Dh says loads of hair loss may be worth checking a full blood count to check iron levels, vit something-I've-forgotten, and something else I've forgotten already. he says most likely all be normal but a couple of other potential causes. But just so you know. Doubt I'll bother... He claims my receding hairline isn't too bad though so clearly not to be trusted ;-)

Much much better days for the hawthers troops yesterday thank god. F still up in the night and think he's going to get trained soon but then again who am I kidding I'm such a softie I can't bear to hear him cry

Food wise he's not unhappy and does take some stuff from a spoon just nothing savory. Still the whole aim is to get them eating what we are eating and if he is shoving it in whole now then that must be good. Will weigh him next week when he is 8 months and hope he has kept pace and then I'll try to chill out about it a bit.....

dream my parenting motto is do what you've got to do. Get thee a jumperoo and sod your colleagues. If they have an issue with it then I'm sure they'd be happy to sort out a rosta so they all come to help you out during the week

Yy to do what you've got to do!

Gaaah. I went to bed at 11.40, which was stupid, but I wanted to finish my book. M had been up for a feed at 11.15. She then proceeded to get up at 12.35, 12.50 (ie, didn't go back down properly, waited until I had climbed back into bed and was starting to get so warm and comfy and then yelled again), 1.50, 3, 4.30, 5.30 and 7. The longest stretch of sleep I got all night was an hour and a half. Bad, bad little beastie! She doesn't seem massively hungry because she doesn't feed for longer than 10 mins, so what is the problem? Unless she is hungry, but also sleepy, so she falls asleep again before she's eaten enough to sustain her for a longer stretch of sleep?

Dream, I didn't know that about baby walkers! Perhaps I should put mine away until M's legs have grown a bit more although PIL will be furious, because she is only just touching the floor with the tips of her toes. I'm less worried about her being able to reach things she shouldn't - I expect that she'll do that in her walker and that she'll need watching when she's in it. What does toe walking mean? I thought a baby walker would help M learn to walk and I remember all 3 of my little siblings adored theirs and used to scoot around the kitchen at great speed crashing into people's ankles, so I was really keen to get her one and suggested it to PIL as a christening gift. Boo!

have got wee DS2 snuggled in beside me cos the last time i put him in his crib he lasted about 5 minutes.

this is the 3rd night of waking every hour at least after an initial 3 hours. he seems to be happy with a boob in cuddle range just now. big brother was up shouting again at 3am too.

spent an entertaining afternoon watching DS1 run round the garden in his pants after soaking his clothes playing with water. lucky outdoor toys can mostly be hosed down as he had quite a spectacular wee accident as well. had to wash him and his new slide's steps as that's where he was standing on the 3rd step up. biscuits i think your DS1 still wins for peeing on electrical equipment though...

I still have nightmares about the idea of him breaking my precious sky box Jaggy

too loads of babies love them!! It won't help her learn anything at all but she might enjoy it! It's a totally different way of moving to walking independently, different muscles and she needs to be learning to get herself up against gravity, control her own muscles and take her own weight to learn to stand/walk. . Unless she spent way too much time in it there would probably be no problem if she thinks its good fun for a bit. Toe walkers are literally that- kids who are up on their toes full time and never get their heels down when walking- therefore ending up in physio! We put them in plaster casts if their muscles have got too tight etc (I've seen an 18 month old who couldn't physically get his heels down any more) and advise parents how to stop them doing it, stretches etc and how to get their development back on track. Of course loads of children will use a walker without that as a problem, my sister included, but i wouldn't use one myself- but will consider a jumperoo or similar for a break for me. I will get off my soap box now and remember I only see the worst ones referred to physio!!!

BBC info

baby centre stuff

X posts as that took me forever...

Yay jaggy for ds1 enjoying your new garden :) surely a garden accident is the best kind?!

That's interesting about the baby walker thing Dream. Presumably a jumperoo / door bouncer in your circumstance could be used for a few minutes at a time to entertain one twin while you're, for eg, changing a nappy of t'other one? If it was only for a few mins at a time that wouldn't be too bad would it?

Dream that's interesting - thanks for the info.

So, up to what age can a jumperoo be used? Am starting to wonder how I'll go to the loo, get a shower etc once DS is crawling (atm he sits in his bouncy chair). Any advice from you experienced mums much appreciated!

dd1 went in her cot with a pile of books and toys when I had a shower pet. She did that for ages and ages despite walking well early. She finally got bored of it at about 18/19 months iirc. Then I'd shut the bathroom door and she'd be in there with me. When she worked out how to open the door I was worried but it's been generally fine.

Oh, Scarlet, my hairdresser said it's normal to have a receding hairline for up to a year after giving birth. :( Sure yours will recover much more quickly though, but might be worth checking with GP just in case, especially given Dream's DH's comments.

I did the in the bathroom thing for ages but now-& when it stopped working well- I shower in the evening.

Fab - thanks Pomme! So there is hope after all...

garden accidents definitely easier! he had 2 in the garden, but it was because he was all excited to have his friend to play and we were distracted talking to friend's mum. we forgot to remind him as often to go for a wee.

he gets grumpy if we see that he needs and get him to go, but is impressed with himself doing a wee when he gets there. he's in a funny mood this morning and decided he wanted a nappy not pants at breakfast time.

i guess you get ones that spend hours in baby walkers dream?

DH always showered before i went to work. otherwise we put the travel cot outside the bathroom with books, toys and Cbeebies on!

When ds1 was little I used to try and get showered before he woke up which was doable because he mostly woke after 7. At the moment I leave ds2 in his crib but use the en-suite so he can see/hear me. Once the crib is gone I don't l ow what I'll do. Probably go back to getting up at 6:30 and just get ready before they're up?

Getting up before them helps me with ds2 too who is mega slow unless he has constant nagging reminders to get on. Thus if I'm already dressed etc it means he's a lot quicker - i think he thinks it must be later if I'm already up?

I had a playpen for DS, but I probably won't use it for DD as I won't be able to see if DS is behaving himself around her. I try and shower before DH goes to work, but when that's too early I leave DS watching tv and take DD upstairs with me. When she gets bigger I'll probably leave her in her cot. Although DS hasn't done anything at all to DD to make me worry, I'm mega paranoid about not leaving them in the room alone together. Remember that Harry Enfield sketch "Lulu"?

Dream thanks for the hair info from your DH. I'm still so worried about it. It's still getting worse and while I know it's normal to have hair loss I can't believe it's normal to lose as much as I am. I now have patches missing around my head. It covers well still so you probably wouldn't notice unless I pulled my hair about to show you, but even the hairdresser said it seemed like a lot and I should think about getting it checked. I'm fed up with finding it everywhere and untaggling it from DD's fingers contantly. I think vitamin B complex is supposed to help, does anyone know if it is ok to take a single supplement of vit B complex while Bfing?

Hello all! Just trying to catch up.
Re: weaning- bibs with sleeves are fab. I enjoyed doing it and just went with the flow not worrying too much about how much they were eating! DH did that but I pointed out the ' starving' fact to him and he chilled a bit.
We had a nice day in Brighton yesterday, d was so good,fed when we stopped for coffee and lunch and slept in the pram in between and then did his 9 hours at night. We bought him a skwish which he loves!
I was offered a jumperoo but we don't have the space. We had a bouncer for the boys which they loved but just for short bursts.

Thanks for the links, Dream. One of the comments in the second one says that even helping a baby to walk (ie, by holding her hands as she walks) is bad because the baby won't walk with her hands above her head! Is that true? Should I limit Jumperoo time? M has just spent a good half hour/45 mins in hers jumping happily.

Is that true about the hand holding when learning to walk thing? Blimey - there is soooo much stuff out there that you could just never know all the things you could do wrong!

I have started a thread in Baking asking a question about doing DS's birthday cake - anyone got any ideas as to how I can do it a week in advance?

Freezer biscuits? You can freeze sponge wedding cakes I think?

But can you freeze it once it's iced Pomme?

Found a rainforest jumperoo locally on Gumtree for £45. Shall I?