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November 2012 - Don't forget the tummy time

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StuntNun · 25/01/2013 09:47

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kirrinIsland · 29/01/2013 18:13

Thanks VQ DD1 has spent many a night in her reclining pram seat due to coughs and colds. It definitely helps her stay asleep.

pikz the pram seems to work for N when she gets like that, although she doesn't often go to sleep, it just seems to chill her out a bit for some reason? Have you/would you try a dummy?

I didn't join the antenatal thread until I was about 6 months gone due to being paranoid about mc - I had this ridiculous idea I would jinx myself if I joined too soon. Wish I hadn't waited, the support here is great, I could have done with it in the early stages.

BigPigLittlePig · 29/01/2013 18:23

I forget who was talking about hand hygeine for fist munching babies earlier, but a word of warning...have just prised open LOs fists to access nails, only to find fistfuls of (blue) belly button fluff. Remarkable and a bit gross

PetiteRaleuse · 29/01/2013 18:27

DH Baby brain moment of the evening (they get it too): I do the supermarket shop online, in the kind of click and collect thing where it isn't delivered but you go and get it. The place where we pick it up is by DH's office, so I order in time for it to be picked up at 18.30. And I remind him several times during the day.

He just got home 25 minutes ago smiling and happy because he left early and got home early. Bt he forgot to pick up the shopping. So he's just left again with DD1 to go and get it. 20 miles away. Next to his office. Where he has spent the day.

I'd be annoyed but I can't be he looked so miserable as he pretty much turned round and went out again, feeling like a fool. Well, I suppose it will learn him not ever to forget the shopping. I'm proud of myself I finally màaged to remember to order strawberry jam, after forgetting the last few times.

Pikz · 29/01/2013 18:28

Thank you shall get pram out. Kirrin I would have let him have a dummy if it worked but he spits anything that doesn't supply milk out of his mouth!!

Overtired babies are terrorists.

I was too scared to join the antenatal for a long time. Gutted I didn't as like kirrin would have loved the support sooner.

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 18:35

kirrin thank you for the pram tip. I have never thought of that, but it makes sense.

MissMummy1 · 29/01/2013 18:36

Well Matilda decided to crawl at baby massage today Shock !! No joke, a full on commando crawl about 4/5feet before I caught her. YW will back me up. The HV running it couldn't quite believe what she was seeing! M was 8 weeks yesterday - she's going to be hard work, isn't she?? determined little bugger Grin

In our bid to save money we have cut our Dominoes Two for Tuesdays nights (worked out it was costing us about £80 a month Shock Hmm ) and swapped them for equally unhealthy cheap and cheerful ASDAs 2 for £4 make your own pizzas. Which are amazingly soooo good!

Right, off to catch up! Need to find the motivation to fill in this job application, but then again, I had a phonecall from a potential new client today. Yep, motivation to actively seek work when it's coming to me and is dead easy money all gone!

MissMummy1 · 29/01/2013 18:37

Oh and VQ your kids sound sooo sweet. I love the stories of your toddler's antics that you share!

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 18:38

BP it is amazing how much fluff they can accumulate in their little puddies. DS had a hair around one finger this morning and it was really quite tight. It left a mark when I removed it. He must have grabbed it off me last night.

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 18:42

Thank you MM two year olds are both wonderful and terrible.

BigPigLittlePig · 29/01/2013 18:47

Thoughts please ladies. In my quest to get LO to sleep better in her crib, I've been hunting around, and sheepskins seem to get mentioned quite a bit. Does anyone use one? Are they worth it?

Frantically trying to dry both of her sleeping bags in time for tonight, she is incapable of sleeping with just blankets because her legs are on the go all the time.

I haven't put LO in her pram yet, she's only been in the car seat attached to it. I might give that a go tomorrow for daytime naps.

DH is soundo on the sofa, he is tired Hmm wasn't up for 3 hours with a screaming baby in the night though, was he Due to irritable mood am sorely tempted to lob a pillow at his head.

PetiteRaleuse · 29/01/2013 18:52

Wow MM crawling at 8 weeks. Best of luck with that one. DD1 was late crawling and walking so hoping LO will be too, as I'm not sure I'll be able to keep an eye on them both until DD1 is a lot older. Oh dear. That was why I wasn't supposed to have two under two. Oops.

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 18:52

BP I bought one for my first, but never used it as they were linked to SIDS. I had it in the pushchair when she was bigger, but gave it away. I know detective has one.

PurplePidjin · 29/01/2013 18:53

Wwyd? Overtired ds is sparko on me. Overtired dp is sparko upstairs. I have no dinner and it's bedtime after Hollyoaks on E4, giving dp 40 minutes to wake up and make toad in the hole, and for us to eat it. Argh!

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 18:55

MM discourage crawling. Your life will get a whole lot more complicated once they are mobile.

PetiteRaleuse · 29/01/2013 19:03

Ooh toad in the hole. Yum. I keep meaning to make that. Sorry, not helpful I know.

YellowWellies · 29/01/2013 19:06

I've had an overtired baby terrorist here too. J lost it at baby massage - great first impression made on the new HV Blush but he'd only slept 20 mins all day. He's just collapsed on me now. On the plus side I've walked 13000 steps - over six miles with him in the buggy to get him to sleep. I don't put him flat in the pram - you shouldn't with reflux babies - otherwise the acid just burns their throats laid flat. On Drs advice he always goes in his pushchair at a gentle incline. On the same advice I don't like him in the car seat for over 2 hours as that fecks their spines.

kirrinIsland · 29/01/2013 19:08

pikz N mostly won't take a dummy either, but I always suggest it to others cos with DD1 it saved my sanity. She has taken one occasionally but mostly she looks at me like she thinks I'm a fool and spits it out.

crawling mm ? you're going to be kept on your toes! DD1 didn't crawl or even roll til she was 10 months - it was bliss!

I discovered N's hand fluff a week or so ago - couldn't believe how much there was! It is also surprisingly hard to prise her hand open if she doesn't want to.

glendathegoodwitch · 29/01/2013 19:11

Dottie always has a handful of fluff from her mittens - clean them twice a day with a wipe - does anyone else's LO get dirty finger nails?? It's like she's been digging for potatoes - every night I scrape them out with the corner of the clippers which she hates!!

Dh has taken dd1 to bed to listen to her read George's marvellous medicine but as its gone past 7pm what's the betting he's on his fucking ps3 game??? Grrrrrrrr!!!

Tomorrow Dottie is being kidnapped for the day by a good friend - her brood of 5 are all at school now so she has serious baby withdrawals lol - do I spend the day in bed or out shopping and treating myself to a pedicure???

YellowWellies · 29/01/2013 19:11

Tilly was indeed crawling - J was watching in fascination please may he not be getting ideas....

BigPigLittlePig · 29/01/2013 19:13

Glenda my vote would be with stay in bed but I'm a lazy slob at heart

PurplePidjin · 29/01/2013 19:17

There are lamb and mint sausages calling me mournfully from the fridge Sad

And I feel rubbish because I guilt tripped my mum today. She's done the square root of fuck all to help since we got home, she's promised to come and help me do housework next week. Now I feel shit that I need a 65yo woman to do my hoovering.

And I'm hungry and thirsty

And the internet just died and I can't get up to reset the router

Fuck

Passmethecrisps · 29/01/2013 19:26

glenda bed, bath and book. That would be my vote

pikz I have trouble between 5pm and 6 as well. Sometimes she will have a proper sleep but she falls into a really deep sleep and I have to wake her for her bath which seems unkind.

Well, I went to a baby group today! It was actually a toddler group but babies are welcome. It is at the psychology department at the university. The deal is you go, chat and drink tea while occassionally someone behind mirrored glass observes you the children and notes anything interesting. It runs 3 days a week and was really pretty nice. There was a lady there with twin babies of 15 weeks so I wasn't the only with a wee one. Toddlers do like babies though! Penny's eyes were on stalks. She had a great time just soaking up the different place. Then we were at the docs getting weighed so by the time she got home she was completely brain melted. Overtired babies are mental. P has taken to doing this furious scream/shout. She was certainly practicing it today.

I am vey impressed with Tilly mm! I was proud of P's achingly slow foot shove type worm movement across her mat yesterday. Actual crawling is awesome/terrifying! When p was an hour or so old she was in the bassinet being measured. When the midwife turned her into her front she made a bid for escape an tried to crawl over the edge of th bassinet. I missed it but the midwife yelled for me to look an DH saw it. She thankfully lost this skill.

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 19:28

glenda bed and Internet shopping.

ValiumQueen · 29/01/2013 19:31

pass was that not a bit scary? Being observed? Perhaps I could take DD2. I would worry that social services would be waiting outside. Was the group free?

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StuntNun · 29/01/2013 19:34

NEW THREAD TIME!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1671393-November-2012-Vent-chat-or-brag

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