November 2012 - We want rattles and we want them now

[StuntNun]

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

[TheDetective]

PR I would definitely get her seen, with a temp over 38 and little improvement. Xxx

pidj Sounds wonderful to me, but go with MrS GT's advice lol! As a musical kid, I'd of loved it.

[TheDetective]

It's my night for feeds tonight. Oscar has done 9-6.15. I went to bed after his last feed. Plus had a nap yesterday evening for the first time in forever. Feel so much more human.

Of course I woke at 5 panicking at no wakey baby.

I wonder why he sleeps 7-8hrs some nights, but barely 4 on others. I've got an experiment to try today.

DP will be when he wakes! Maybe I should tell him I've had a crap night?!

[TheDetective]

GT Go to sleep, go to sleep, why the fuck won't you go to sleep sung to the tune of, fuck. I don't know. It's some famous nursery rhyme that I've changed the words because I can't remember them too. Might be Brahms lullaby.

[TheDetective]

Taking my own advice and going the fuck back to sleep!

[kirrinIsland]

With apologies to those who DHs/DPs who are less than impressive.....

DP did the night shift last night with the ebm I was saving for my trip up north tonight, but i'll worry about that later and the little minx slept 5 hours in her pram, had a bottle, went back to sleep and is still snoring. Clearly the problem is me! This adds a new problem that DP will a) no longer believe me when I say she's had a bad night, and b) have a very big head. Still, I've slept 6 whole hours in a row for the first time in 12 weeks. I'd do a little dance but I don't want to waste my new found energy

pidj that lesson sounds great, i'd have loved something like that when I was at school. Got my fingers crossed for you.

PR I would probably be down the doctors today, worst they can do is send you away to keep an eye on it they like that round here Hope she is better soon.

[PetiteRaleuse]

I just phoned the doctor's. The receptionist said to bring her in tomorrow if she is no better. Now she is over 3 months it is no lnger the emergency it would have been trhee weeks ago If she wasn't in a bit of a mood I wouldn't notice anything wrong with her. 20 minutes after the paracetamol goes in she's smiling again. She' s eating OK, though maybe a little less than usual. She's just grumpy. And hot. She's breathing ok, just a little faster than usual but that is normal with a temperature. If by the time this paracetamol wears off in a few hours her temp is higher than last night I will call again, as temps always get worse in the evenings.

[ChunkyChicken]

pidj as a teacher, I have a few questions I'd need to know to plan a cracking lesson (although I only teach Science so not particularly exciting!!). Some are for them, some are for yourself

1. how old are the students?
   
2. what are they working towards/studying for? What have they been learning recently?
   
3. what's the objective of the lesson I.e. what are they going to learn? "What's the point?"
   
4. why are they going to learn that?
   
5. what questions can you ask the students to get them thinking?
   
6. can they work out what they're going to do/learn without you explicitly saying so initially?
   
7. how will you judge how progress has been made?
   
8. how long will you have to teach - a whole lesson or just part?
   
9. what activity can do to engage them (starter)?
   
10. what activity can you do to summarise/consolidate their learning (plenary)?
    
11. how will you identify the students so you can ask/answer questions?
    
    Sorry if that's a bit teaching your grandmother to suck eggs of me, but I've done a few interview lessons & had to observe others...
    
    DS has just woken up for another feed & dozed off. :) DD is in our bed having had a temp of 39+ at 4am again. :( Getting DH to phone at 8am to try to get her an appt as its been up & down since Fri. In fact, since Boxing Day, as soon as she gets tired/run down she gets a temp!!
    
    And you're right, 7.5hrs or whatever is a blessing, VQ esp when he self-settles beautifully. He woke up when we came to bed last night, lay there smiling & cooing at us & then turned his head & went back to sleep. He was so cute!!
    

[Catbag]

Got out of bed about 90 mins ago to make a brew. It was a full-on blizzard outside. Woke eldest children up to share my excitement. They did not.

First question out of DS's mouth: Do you think the school will close? (it does close frequently when the weather is bad cos of this being a rural area and 65% of school coming in on buses from a wide outlying area)
Me: Unlikely. I think it's slowing down now and I think the sky is starting to clear.
DS: Great. I'm going back to sleep.

On to next bedroom...
Me: DD! Come look out of the window!
DD: (blearyly) What?
Me: It has snowed loads and is blizzardy!
DD: Do you think they will close my school? No, of course they won't, because in 25 years of being a headteacher, Mr X has never closed the school because of weather. Bah. I am going back to sleep.

On to 4 yo DD's bedroom...
Me: DD! Come and look out of the window!
DD: (suspiciously) Why?
Me: It has snowed! Come and see!
DD: No. If it has snowed then it is cold outside of my bed. I am staying here (turns over)

My kids are weird. I am the only peraon in my house to be excited by the snow :(

[Catbag]

person*. I have no idea what a peraon is.

[fruitpastilles]

Morning all! Had quite a good night, LO went down at 7:30 woke at 2:30 for a bottle then straight back down and woke up about half an hour ago

12 weeks old today and I'm looking at her happy smiley face knowing she has her horrible jabs today at least she is blissfully unaware!

[PurplePidjin]

Thank you pm sent and advice noted :o

[MissMummy1]

Hahaha your kids are hilarious catbag ! That said DH phoned me at 3am "because he thought I'd be awake with M anyway" - I wasn't amazingly - to tell me it was snowing. I also did not share his excitement.

PP your lesson sounds fab! I'm a primary teacher but in Scotland. I think Year6 is the equivalent to our P5 so I can email you a template of a basic lesson plan proforma I use if you like? P5 is one of my favourite year groups to teach - old enough to have a bit of banter with or give some responsibility to but not quite at the cocky/eldest in the school therefore own it stage. All the very best to you, you have some brilliant ideas!

[Sophiathesnowfairy]

Lol catbag

Have they closed the schools?

No snow here.

Am hearing it might have snowed in NI though stunt,is that right,think they may have even got some on the coast which is unusual.

[horseylady]

No snow here though according to fb very close has snow lol!!

Ds busily chatting away!!

Right can I take him somewhere to get his passport photo taken? I don't think I can do a booth?!

[GTbaby]

Argh. Didn't mk it to 9.30. Feeding but taking ages .

[PetiteRaleuse]

We've had, in the last hour: hail, thunder, v strong winds, rain and snow. V strange weather.

Temp down to 37 and she's lively and chortley. So the paracetamol is helping.

[ValiumQueen]

Well, DS just slept for the four hours. I am shattered. I am struggling with my breathing as I think I have a chest infection. Off to dr today. DH is insisting. He has never done so before so I must be bad.

[ValiumQueen]

And we have fucking snow. I fucking hate snow. You are the weird one cat

[Passmethecrisps]

I like snow - as long as I don't have to go anywhere.

Wee P has her jags today. Poor wee sausage. Watching her in her bouncer trying to eat her Lamaze firefly.

Good luck preparing for your lesson pidj. Sounds like you have got a great idea and the ladies on here are helpful as always. I have never actually had to do a lesson like this before.

Actually, speaking of p eating things. Does anyone else's LO try to eat the bubbles in the bath? We put lavender baby bath in her bath and recently she has been stuffing it in her mouth.

[gardenpixie32]

Horsey Jessops do baby passport photos. I took the girls for theirs at 6 weeks. Just remember the passport photo guidelines. The teenaged boy who took the first set made a balls up of it and I had to point it out.

[Kyzordz]

Just skimmed but yes passme Eric eats bubbles too, not noticed him showing a preference to any sort though!

Quick q as i'm now panicking about temperatures. Do I need to go and get that whacking great Braun thing? I have one of those little digital things in the TT travel set, will that work? My mind has decided its worth panicking about as we have more jabs today and I didn't realise how rubbish the brother max one is but I've been testing it and it's shite. I now don't trust it at all and am finding it hard to trust said cheap digital thing :/

[Catbag]

Try taking your temp with the thermometer now? See if it seems accurate?

VQ :p
Hope you get this chest infection nobbled quick. You need a break :(

[PetiteRaleuse]

I have a cheap digital thing - it's most accurate up the bum on babies. Underarm add 0.5 degrees. It is far more accurate than the expensive ear thermometer I bought and chucked out for lying, and is even more accurate than the thing they wave at you in hospital if that isn't kept at a pretty much constant temperature for ages before use. (PIL have one and it gave me three wildly different readings within minutes. They're good when used properly)

[PetiteRaleuse]

VQ please get yourself checked out. Nasty chest infections won't get better on their own and you need to look after yourself if you want to be able to look after the children. Remember what you were saying to me a few weeks ago.

[TheDetective]

I love how good we all are at giving advice and how bad we are in taking said own advice!

Blizzard here. Cat, what VQ said.

Bubbles and water get eaten here. In fact, whatever can be stuffed into mouth gets eaten like it's the best thing ever. I try not to think about the germs!!

I'm doing 3 hourly feeds today whether he likes it or not. My therory is crap night followed by good night is because that crap night has included an extra feed. So the next day he's already one feed up, so there fore the night he doesn't need an extra feed. But then he does the next night because he's back to being a feed down. So I need to get that extra feed in the day if he is to go 8 hours at night. Does that make sense?!