November 2012 - In denial about the six-month sleep regression

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1740697-November-2012-Starting-weaning-what-does-your-baby-eat

Or just this: Candy Cunting Crush Shitting Saga. Says it all.

Evenin all!

Wow! Thanks for all your thoughts about chest pain and dizziness. Really interesting reading. I had the pain today with no dizziness so I suspect it is coincidental.

I spoke to the GP a year into having the pain and he had no idea. He said "well, you might need a steroid injection into the breast bone area. . . But I don't fancy doing that so good luck!" Genuinely. Just as well I like weird.

I will keep a diary of the dizziness as I need to eliminate some of the things you guys suggested - my diet hasn't been great for a while so anaemia could certainly be an issue. The incident in the shop was very weird indeed. I was looking at my feet then grabbing for the rails of clothes trying to work out if they were moving.

PR when I hit 30 I could no longer go up ladders. Really, really bizarre. Not a fear of heights but when I tip my head back I lose sense of which way is up. DH took a long time to believe me as it happened so suddenly. One day I could fly up the ladder and change the lightbulb the next day I couldn't. Bizarre.

I hope it helps stunt. I think I was a very sensitive wee girl who picked up on things that I didn't understand. Looking back I know some teachers were cruel and unsupportive and some pupils were mean. I think at the time I has no idea apart from intuition. I obviously had no idea what to do with this so it manifested itself physically. By the time I got to P7 I knew what was happening and I understood the feelings - left a bit of a mark though. I don't know what my parents could have done really apart from being more aware of what developmental milestones I should have been reaching and pushing for answers on why I wasn't. I couldn't tell the time or tie my shoe laces until the summer after I left. My parents had no idea that this might not be me just being not very bright and would have had no idea how to tackle it anyway.

Sorry - I am actually kind of thinking out loud now. I will go and pull my thoughts together a bit more coherently.

'furious skydiver' :o love it :o

And a fucking gain. I was just getting cosy in my nice hot bath made him wait till I'd washed my hair and am now cold and dripping on the rocking chair

YW I just nodded in agreement/recognition throughout my reading of your post I was thinking today how tanned my hands and forearms are going to get this summer. I am also convinced that O is cutting a back tooth rather than front, but I didn't know if that was possible. O is also skinny of bum and large of head so he topples forward when trying to sit. He also looks like an angry skydiver when he is on his belly trying to crawl

Matilda has been in a shitter of a mood all day. not unlike meShe has a cough. Any suggestions for what we can do to help her?

Went to view the colony house tonight. A euphenism for tiny flat with poststamp garden. It was sooooo small. Everything about it was minescule. In fact, if you put a double bed in the biggest bedroom you wouldn't be able to shut the door and there was NO storage. None. We haven't ruled it out but I am sitting here feeling a bit sobby that we have been spoiled rotten with this gorgeous rental and nothing will ever compare.

Dizziness and chest pains sound crap pass - sorry I can't add anything into the mix.

Have a lovely lovely holiday *izzy8 - I do hope your dad is okay too. People are bastards

Hope everyone else is doing okay. Only skim read but did snort at "nestle baby" !

Another lollipop baby here! She can sit for a few seconds but gradually the noggin weighs her down.

I took p out with me this morning while I hung the washing out. I popped my head round the sheet I was hanging to see her on her front with her hands planted in the grass. She was staring at it with a big smile on her face. It must have been an amazing sensation for her. Then she just lay there smiling at the sky.

Then we went to the park where she had her first shot on the swing. She is still so tiny that she wobbled about in the seat but she really enjoyed it. Then we went on a long daunder and I got burnt.

PP sounds like you are having a shit time. Fuck.

pass do you need to POAS?

Hoorah hoorah for holidays izzy! I am so excited for you. Take lots of cute pictures for us please?

Was she too hot MM? Shame she didn't enjoy being out and about. The flat sounds poor - you can get better. It'll just take time. Renting somewhere fab can be hard as you do usually need to compromise on certain things. Sounds like that place would be a compromise too far though.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahah!

Eh. No. No peeing on stick required here! AF has just arrive as if to prove my point.

Poor DH's willy may well have dropped off for all I know. Poor thing.

izzy at least you know you will be up in plenty of time It would be really quite ironic if tonight is the night he chooses to sleep.

J is fat of arse, thigh, tum and head, and also falls forward. It is more to do with core muscle strength than noggin to body ratio.

High five to PR on the candy cunting crush saga. I'll post you a link that will help you beat it.

pass I took O out yesterday, and he was touching the concrete floor with his hands like it was the most amazing thing he had ever touched. For a moment I had a tear in my eye as I realised how everything is a new experience for them, and it must be so overwhelming! But yet, so much fun! He loved scratching his nails over the concrete as I tried not to wince too much and my heart just did a teeny little explosion of love!

The wonder with which O looks at everything makes my heart melt too Detective . I was thinking just that when he was transfixed by a dripping tap yesterday. They have developed so much in these past 5/6 months and it must be so overwhelming for them.

Just recently he has started turning the pages in books when we read together and he really gets his toys now. His feet wiggle when he is concentrating on something

I stare at him in wonder every day. Amazing things, babies.

H is 7 months today!! 7 months!! In 5 months time he'll be 1. My goodness!!

I cry now when I see pictures of O's first few hours. I feel awful that he must have been terrified coming out of his cosy home into a bright, noisy place and forced to wear clothes

MM sounds like it would drive you mad - having done peedie house with no storage - I was pulling my hair out by the end of it! And I'm nowhere near as tidy / houseproud as you my love. I'm happy to live like a messy slattern and it did me in. We ended up in Kirkcaldy because of the space we could get here - I'd love to be in Queensferry but we'd have half the square footage. I'm on a mission to fill our new found space if we ever need to move again we'll be stuffed.

Izzy happy hols and serious bad juju being sent to which ever bawbag attacked your Dad.

Pass I think kids can be so intuitive and sense far more than we give them credit for.

Chasing let's set up a pissy baby aeronautics display team

When I put LO in her cot or go to collect her she slides her arms up and down and jiggles her legs like one of these corkscrews: www.google.fr/search?q=tir+bouchon+de+gaulle&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pF-JUcqEDpO10QXAo4GgCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=356

It's gone so quickly for us but to them it is a whole lifetime. chasing he will have already forgotten about being born. So much has happened since. I wish we could remember babyhood.

Arse. www.google.fr/search?q=tir+bouchon+de+gaulle&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pF-JUcqEDpO10QXAo4GgCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=356

I had a heart burst moment watching him sleep in the buggy as I pushed him home. His wee lips sooking and his chubby dimpled hands twitching and his big frilly sunhat lopsided as he snoozed. So beautiful. He's the best 'thing' I've ever done

Det my cake contained vitalite and an obscene amount of sugar. I feel a bit

I also melted the handle off my new silicon cake tin stupid fucking Asda putting non heat proof removable handles on their bakeware

I think that Chasing. Must have been so weird for them.

We were all staring at our babies in wonder today! I put L down to sit on his mat with some toys while I did some stuff, then just stopped and watched him, amazing that my tiny helpless baby can sit up, pick up toys and books and enjoy them. unless in the park or other public place

Amazing how far we have all come. Congrats on 7 months chick

Sugar. Hmmmm!

Dp has been doing well tonight. He has been tasked with reading up on CMPI. I am reading medical journal stuff. He is looking at food stuffs. He said O could have vitalite. Would your cake work with sweetener??

Are you eating eggs or avoiding? DP made the most gorgeous pancakes. Well, they were sweet eggs really. Eggs, sweetener and vanilla extract. .

Thank you PR for fucking reminding us how to bolloacking swearing for swearing cunting Wednesday.

Happy 7 month birthday baby chick!

We were talking about something on this thread the other day that made me quite weepy with the same 'the world is so enormous and incredible and viewed with such innocence' moments. She has no idea about badness. Her unhappy moments are completely fleeting and my mere arrival in a room can calm her instantly. Her world is an incredible, exciting, enormous but safe place.

At the park today she was swivelling her head like an owl with a big smile on her face. So much she had never seen, heard or smelled before. Children squealing, rusty pedals on a roundabout, BBQ smoke and so on. Just wonderful.

She has recently started craning round to see things so her understanding of things being just out of view is building. It is great to see her now in her push chair pushing herself forward to look round the sun shade.

But do you know what? Today I thought we can't possibly have another baby because how could another child compare to this one? I think we have been spoiled with No. 1

I'm so hoping that this is the week O learns to sit properly! He can do it for a few seconds, but once he leans to the side, off he topples! DS1 was 5.5 months, so I'm sure it isn't far away. He is still practicing his crawling stance, but doesn't get more than an inch or two! Often to be seen dragging head along the floor too! I really want him to be able to sit, as I can see him longing to play with toys. Feels so mean for him having to slug around on the floor!