December 2011: They're one Jim, and highly illogical!

[LittleMissFantabulous]

I went with Gary's suggestion, as it was quite awesome and indeed factual!

:o

Onwards?

cheung DS also loves any books with buttons to press which play songs or make sounds. Noisy animals is a good one, although the buttons are a little tricky to press until they're older. The gruffalo sound book is a nice one too. DD loves all the Julia Donaldson books and the noisy one is a good one as an introduction when they're a bit younger

faffin Julia Donaldson also does a lovely range of books called songbirds for learning to read if DD is still into her books when she's older. DS is 4 and can now read, these books and fridge magnets are pretty much all we've used once he'd learnt his phonics sounds.

It selfishly makes me feel better knowing we're not the only ones with sleep troubles. And lmf it's not ridiculous, it's perfectly understandable for you to be getting fed up if he still wants to bf like a newborn at 1 and won't take formula.

((((LMF)))) being woken repeatedly is the pits. Getting frustrated is perfectly understandable. Hope he settles down soon.

Figgy, I'm glad you're getting better nights at least. Teething is grim.

I rang just about everyone connected with the house today. We're waiting for lots of info from the other solicitor (why is it always the oter solicitor!) but at least things are slowly moving along. I think. Sigh.

This too will pass!

Octoboy enjoys books. Any book. It's not what's in it but the act of running away from the other two with it having it!

BOi loves books. Any books. Favourite for a while has been "one little hippo and his friends" published 2011 by Index Books, published by Top That! But other favourites are anything about In The Night garden , any push button noise things, and flaps. Flaps are the best.
Well, stage 1 of sleep routine worked well. He was asleep in his cot before 19:20.
In other news, I have only had 14 points today.
Last week I finished on track without using any cheat points. I still haven't done any exercise. But I also still have not had any alcohol whatsoever.
I'm not supposed to weigh myself until Friday, but, if the scales are true and remain constant, I've lost 2.3lbs since Wednesday.
Lmf - is he refusing all other milk? BOi only has formula for his night feed now, other than that he has full fat milk. (I'm still buying ready made formula, I never got round to the powdered stuff.

Milk comes from boobs. All other white liquids are treated with suspicion and revulsion. Unless its the froth on a coffee. I have tried, believe me. Like his sister he would rather starve. He happily drinks water from cups, beakers, bottles and such. He's quite partial to trying to steal coffee too. He looks wounded when I refuse to share:o

I have spent Christmas trying to wean him off night feeds. Hushing, shushing, rocking and jiggling to mixed result. One aspect of being single I could do without:/ Ho him, can't last forever she says as she feeds the demonic vampire child

Thanks for that tip seven. DD is now taking quite an interest in learning her letters. She got a leapfrog fridge magnet letter thingy for Christmas, and keeps asking me what different letters and words are, so it sounds like those books would be really good for her.

We've now cut out DS's daytime milk and he's finally eating a bit more as a result although he's still a fussy little bugger in terms of what he'll have. He has cows milk cold from a cup with breakfast and warm from a bottle at bedtime. I'm quite happy to keep that as a bottle for a while as a part of the bedtime wind-down routine. He's been sleeping beautifully for the last few weeks from 7-7.30 or 8 and I'd been thinking another tooth or illness was bound to come along and mess it all up again. Sure enough they told me at nursery when I picked him up that he'd been very dribbly today so I think tooth 9 is coming...and we're onto molars and canines now

Hmm think I'm giving f too much milk. At the moment he gets offered 3 bottles of full fat milk a day, 9.30, 3 ish and bedtime.

Can't for the life of me remember what I did with DS1. I guess I should cut down so maybe do what faffin does and give the morning milk in a beaker which he will probably spit out or dribble everywhere and cut out the afternoon one completely. He's only just turned one and is a bit variable on the food so maybe this would help?

Well, we have yet to see if changing the heating times make a difference to his sleep. We've been hugely lucky - DS pretty much sorted himself out with sleeping, and at about 7 months he dropped his last night feed on his own and started sleeping though. The only we have done is always put him into his bed awake, and helped him fall asleep in there. For naps I still cuddle him to sleep, but I suspect that's for my benefit more than his ! We have had to do controlled crying on a couple of occasions, where he just would.not.settle and it seemed like us being in the room made him more angry/upset. On the rare ocassions that he wakes up and I can't get him back down, he sleeps with me. Today we seem to have toofs number 7 and 8 making a break for freedom on his bottom gums, so I'm not holding out that much hope sleep wise. He sucked the calpol out of the tube like it was babycrack earlier. Little druggie.

Today my friend came round and I gave away loads of my baby stuff, including car seat and play mat and loads of other bits and bobs as she is having her first in June. I can't believe how much space I now have in my house!!!

LMF You are a stronger woman than me, I would have lost.my.mind BFing through the night still. Hope things look up for you soon!

Faffin Hope it doesn't mess up his sleep too much!

Oi Well done on the weight loss!

Monkey boy is only interested in books in the context of ripping the pages out, eating the paper and bashing them against other things. He does like me to read books to him, for about 1 minute, before he gets bored.

MissRee be careful with the bug - I had a persistent cold for weeks running up to Christmas, turned into a sinus infection, which then turned into raging tonsilitis and I left it a bit late before going to the out of hours, and there were mutterings about how I would probably have ended up in hospital if I had left it any longer! Hope they can give you something to clear it up!

Right, best get off to bed soon. Work in the morning.

Weve been really lucky with teething so far only number 2 seemed to cause dribbling and discomfort waiting for that to change.

How would I know if DS is dairy intolerant we have had a distinct digestive slowdown since introducing cows milk thinking about it before 12 months he never had any normal milk though did have cheese/yoghurt so dont think he is. He's on 1 ff and 1 milk a day if we up to 2 cow milk then he gets bunged up. Tomorrow we reducing to 5oz bottles from the current 6oz I expect much dramas when he realises its all he's getting

Work, if it's possible, got even more today.

It's going to be hell on wheels for weeks, at best, and I'm resigned to not seeing DS during the week.

DS is now on 300ml cows' milk per day, with water at every meal. He will guzzle anything bar raw tomatoes, and will not touch 'wet' things, as mentioned before!

Am slumping in front of the Victoria documentary, then off to bed...

(((northern))) what a total Bugger about work. Make sure you look after yourself.

raaboonah I'm not sure if cutting daytime milk is definitely the answer. I'd been reluctant to do so because he's such a bad eater, but in the end thought I'd give it a try and see. The real test will be when I get him weighed next week. Really hoping he won't have lost weight again.

Hi, all.
NorthernChinchilla, what an awful period to look forward to! I seem to remember when you started back at work, you were swinging back from the train station through the summer evenings, with both your boys...

Oh, bollocks, I was going to write more to all, but the littler critter is crying!

I can't sleep. I bet when I can there will be grumbling a from a cot. Meh.

Oh! She's shut up!

Okay, will go for a shower anyway.

Oops. something...?

Byeee!

Morning everyone,

On the subject of milk, DS won't drink it anymore, so he has about 180ml on his breakfast, and a big portion of natural or Greek yogurt every day. I've given up offering milk as a drink for the last few days as it's just being thrown away. I will restart offering milk as a drink today/tomorrow and see how it goes.

BOi is a chunk. Maybe I ought to cut down the milk... He eats very well. And then some. Maybe I should weigh him in and see where he is... A what point do they shake their fists at you and start using words like obese?
The new routine worked well at getting him into bed. We will spend more time in his room so it becomes more of a happy place and not somewhere he is banished too... But he ended up in our bed again last night. He is constantly ill though - just with colds. He has a very spluttery cough at the moment. He is very polite though and puts his hand over his mouth. He's not been taught too, he just does.
Good luck with work Northern. I hope it gets better for you, and not worse. I've got a crap couple of days ahead - but only slightly crap. I found out last year that I had to cut my marketing budget by 0.5million euros, but it was unclear what part of the business needed to cut what percentage, so I put it off and put it off, and now my team are asking me for our final marketing plan... Am bad. But last year was hectic at the end and I was barely in my office, so that's my excuse, and I have no excuse now, so I have to tuck away my nice creative marketing bits, and start looking at excel spreadsheets.
I really need to provide a 2012 summary also. Bob I hate reports. Web reports are easy, it's all there on one screen, but annual... budgets... bleurgh... dull dull dull dull...This year I will be more organised and it will be easy...

I decided to have an extra 5 mins in bed this morning - and woke up 45 mins later. Yikes! Not good. Now at work with greasy lank hair. Nice.

DS is still having 4 beakers of roughly 200ml milk with every meal, and 2x240ml of water a day. He eats food really well but just loves his milk...some days he'll drink/eat less but others he's a nonstop munching machine, he's inbetween the 50th-70th for weight so we're not worried.
SAHM, I remember you asked about the food link on the last thread (all this talk of food reminded me);
both got the same information but one is a downloaded sheet (and eaiser to print), the other a webpage; sheet
webpage if you can't do links, the webpage is www.infantandtoddlerforum.org, it's a really interesting site.

Sorry work has become worse Northen.
Hope your team will see your hair sos today Oi & be kind to you.

Hi can you all look on Chat the thread is called message to India and please click the link and stop the war agenst women in India?

cant link as on phone.

Thanks An

Air I've got the link: here

Thank you, AnAir. I want to write a bigger FB post so will have to do it from the keyboard, not the phone.

Hi everyone. Sorry to hear about all the sleeping troubles. As you all probably remember DD has always been a nightmare and for 3 months between 8-10 months she Woke.Every.Hour - argh! Then all of a sudden, as in overnight, she just slept through for 11 hours. We had a big hiccup at Christmas as she decided she didn't like sleeping in a travel cot (think the mattress was too thin for the little princess) and was up for 4 hours in the night but she's settled down again now and sleeping through for 11 hours. I have no idea what happened, I have always fed/rocked her when she wakes in the night so am definitely not doing it text book style!

Only problem is that I am still bfing her morning and evening and I would now like to give up and get my body back, but I'm really worried about how to get her to sleep in the evening without a bf. We have it good at the moment and don't want to spoil it! She goes down OKish after lunch without a bf but I am so scared of rocking the boat...

Can't remember who asked about cleaning high chairs but I use the clear Dettol spray. In fact I am a bit of a Dettol obsessive (not quite as bad as SAHM with her Flash!) and Dettol the high chairs, dining table, kitchen surfaces after every meal

I Dettol all lightswitches, Door handles and Patio doors (Aaron licks/kisses them alot) as well as kitchen top and highchaire and the phone

Im feed up of people in this house being ill all the time.

Thanks for the link

Hope went for her MMR today but only had the boosters as she has egg allergy. We are having her tested on the 1st of Feb at the childrens Hospital.

Then its Aarons 4th birthday on 3rd of Feb. He is acting up big time and has started hitting me and not doing as he is told. I have started putting him on the timeout step but its not working :(

Dh feel over in bathroom today and hurt his back so is not in work and in a horrid mood :(

Im stressed about money and still undesided about to go to work or not. Dh is not helping at all. When i ask him to do make some phone calls as he is off on Mondays he doesnt and now the house phone is missing

Im finding it hard and i feel like i might go crazy at any momment. I get really angry all the time and i feel like i get no help.

Im not sure what my dh wants from me. I look after the children thats my job he works and we both do housework and cook as we are the adults. He does nothing so maybe he didnt get the memo about families cost money?

Im November Hope can have free childcare and i can go back to work and i would have bf her for two years. So i just need to hold on untill then.

Have I depressed you all yet?