April 2011: losing sleep and gaining shoes, toddlers share with us their news

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I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread.

Pile in!

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Ps yep he's still on gaviscon. Think ill try normal then.

Do you want to keep just the evening BFs going, kitty? If so then start my dropping the feed which furthest away from the feed you want to keep (morning?) and establish that over 3 days, then drop the next nearest one etc. That helps your body adjust to the changed milk production times. IIRC A is older than S so BF is more established. Word of warming though - you may find A reverse cycles and refuses to take more than he has to from a bottle so makes up for it at night.

I hear you with the wilfulness ILTMI. I clung to the hope it's just a phase but maybe they'll be stuck in strop mode forever?!

Sorry to hear B still isn't quite right fizz. She sounds charming

Ah good point frak. Might knock it on the head then. Gonna need my sleep come April.

Ooooooooooooh, Anyone on the MN panel? Just got an email with a top secret poll! Not sure I can say what it is about! Bt I'm intrigued!!

Yeah just did it. Wanna share your first two answers?;-)

Yes and yes

1 Mum :)

2 Brash

I don't like number 2 much

I'm on it but never get anything I live in the wrong country.

kitty you should be able to keep an evening BF without the reverse cycling. It's just if he works out that his preferred source of milk is available at nighttime and not during the day.... Depends how much you feed at night or whether you'd be comfortable giving water instead.

Oooooh, I got it too. My answers were:

1). Daytime tv
2). Really annoying

Number two does my head in, although I'm not quite sure why. I agree with you Fizz!

Haha there's a pattern forming here.

1. Lovely
2. Irritating

!!

I'm intrigued, and a bit jealous.

I've just registered for the panel thing!

Another strop monster here......everything is NO! NO! Then some wailing and writhing, then MuMeeeeeeeeee cuggle, MuMeeeee cuggle, then back to NO! ...... Really really doing our heads in! He's such a jolly, affectionate little thing and it's really hard when he turns into Mr Grumpy Arse. I have actually called him that a few@ times lately. Bad mummy. Really ought to stop before he starts repeating it at nursery!

BTW, does anyone have any good telly rationing strategies? S just lurves his programmes and of course is completely on the ball in terms of realising how DVDs work and that essentially they provide on tap telly and we're being ubermean if we refuse to put one on. Cue endless pestering to put one on and wailing when we turn it off. Sometimes he's very good about it and will happily get on with something else when he's had his allotted amount, but weekday evenings when he's tired from nursery it can be a right old battle to keep him amused till bedtime. Which makes me feel really sad. :(

I officially love the panel! In case anyone missed it on FB yesterday, I'm getting a free steam mop to test. I need to do a review and then I get to keep it! How cool is that!

Our telly rationing has gone out the window recently with B being ill. He has also learnt that sky+ is full of his favourites! He can ask for "momoh" finding nemo and "iten neen" Cars! How can you say no when he looks at you all wide eyed and snotty, and then the biggest grin when it come on screen. I'm a sap!

IMHO a bit of telly in the evening when things could otherwise become fraught isn't going to turn him into a zombie. But I'll only admit that on this thread, I'm not brave enough to put that out there!

F's a bit of a TV fiend too. "Beebies?" And "iPad?"

I agree that at times it's fine. We tend to put on music and have a dance to distract him. And after a while he gives up stropping asking and will start to play.

He's hit the terrible twos already. CM told tales of hideous embarrassing tantrums whilst out today. But if anyone can handle it, she can!

I read about the mop! I'm well jel! And we're getting laminate in Feb so I neeeed one!

Oh I'm with you Fizz, we do always let him watch a few programmes, he gets such a lot out of it and he needs to chill out when he gets home - it's just that he'd watch from 5 till half 7 if you let him and that just seems rather too much!! (I love the way they learn the names their way - Night Night Gah Gah!)

If you guys think you're bad re: telly. Then i must be terrible. R is addicted to the bee movie and insists on watching it about 5 times a day, mainly by shouting "bees, bees, bees" at the top of her voice until someone puts it on for her. On the many occasions when i refuse, she has now figured out how to turn on the dvd player and put it on herself!!

We have a tv fiend too - and another one who's worked out how to switch it on herself. Apart from CBeebies, football and come dine with me seem to bizarrely be her shows of choice

kitty My DS used to have his Gaviscon with the normal Aptamil powder in tommee tippee breast flow bottles.
What i did discover was that his reflux was always worse if we used the ready made cartons of milk so I always tried to avoid those.

Thanks gys. Hv said about putting the medicine in the bottle.

Another tv/iPhone fiend here.
And I end up calling her Grumpy Pants

Makes
Me sad thought as she used to be such a positive character - wouldn't say no at all. Now it's her automatic reaction to any question.

Exactly how I feel, JKS. Does make it better to see that lots of them are going through the same phase, though. Really think Mumsnet should change its byline...... Mumsnet - You Are Not Alone!

Love it daisy.

Yep S is the same. Changing his nappy is a nightmare. So blinking wilful. No to everything and strips and tears if I say no to anything.

I guess this is the work up to the terible 2's?? Ideal, I can't wit to be right in the midst of it with a newborn!!!

Morning sickness has kicked in with gusto this morning :( No actual vomitting but I feel absolutely horrific! I am now thankful for bee movie as it is providing some much needed distraction! Sea bands are firmly on and I'm working up to brushing my teeth and maybe having a shower!! Bleughh!!