December 2012: Sunshine, saliva & sleeping more...we hope!

[WeeJo08]

New thread ladies

Oh ski yay for rolling and letting daddy see. Ds2 waiting until DH was on a plane on the way to India

A rolled on purpose this morning, back to front. He still hasn't made the link to keep rolling, but he's pushing himself up on his hands really well and keeps trying to crawl. Gulp!

Saw the original Dr this morning. We now have ranitidine to try, and if that isn't effective we can increase the dose and add domperidone.

A's cold has gone, so I'm back on dairy. Yum! I'll see how is goes, and can always reduce it again if needed.

Pidj I have a special request for you. Feel free to say no but dd would love some kind of carrier for her dolly but I can't find any cheaper than £25 I know you made your mei tai is this the sort of thing you could do? (For less than £25 )

Well after two tbsp of porridge and an oz of ebm in his cup ds has still only gone 2.5 hours between feeds (porridge was an hour after a feed). It seems he's never going to be full! Obviously I know it's a good thing he's not skipping feeds but there was 3oz of milk in the porridge

I'm eating skittles

Sorry not been around much over the last few days. Just trying to catch up.

Willyou - glad the wedding went well. Louise sounds like she was her normal charming self .

Hales - what a nightmare! Will keep fx that it's third time lucky and you get it sorted now.

Ski - great news about the rolling. It's lovely when you both get to see them do something for the first time.

FOD - nice work with the cup. We've just got to the stage where I feel confident enough that N will use his cup so I can leave him with DH or DM for a couple of hours. This means I've been able to start DS1's swimming lessons again. I think he's really valuing having some one to one time with me again. The only problem is managing to express. I never seem to have chance in the morning and when I tried yesterday evening I could barely get an ounce. My supply does seem to have reduced a bit - not nearly so much leaking now, even though N is still feeding regularly.

We're still taking a blwish approach to food. Only doing fruit and veg atm. N has developed a technique where he piles the food up on his tray then eats it face first!

Also finding it tricky changing an increasingly mobile baby. He keeps rolling over as soon as I put him down, and is also determined to crawl. He's only got reverse gear atm though, but he can cover quite a distance while becoming incredibly frustrated that he's going in the wrong direction .

Ispy I find evening the worst time to express. I fed off of one side twice in a row then expressed off the other and got 4oz this morning is that something you can do or do you feed from both sides?

Haven't read any of the posts since yesterday but utopian check out auto trader on line or there's a car land in chertsey. If you can face it, car giant in white city gets my vote but its more than 15 miles and takes a whole when you're there but you will def find what you are looking for and no haggling!

ISpy at reverse baby! LO has been trying so hard to get over on to his tummy for a while and finally did it. Hardly ever rolls front to back any more. I suppose he just likes being on his tummy, easier to look around!

Hurray for sleeping through isthat!

Spotty I'm making one for my friend's dd's 2nd birthday in early July if i get time. I'll attempt 2 and call it £15+postage if you like?

Yes please thank you!

I've just bought a tiny love giant play mat from tesco. It's reduced to £25 and in the clubcard exchange so I didn't actually need to pay any one for it. It's good because it's so big dd and ds can play on it and it will last for years. A friend had one and their great if anyone needs to move on from the play gym type thing I definitely recommend them

I'll see what i can do then :)

Urgh. Edward has puked all down my front. It pooled between my boobs and is even in my hair. Gross!

Lovely FoD you glamorous lady you!

I'm trying to eat an omelette and the completely unweaned Jamie keeps lunging at my fork with his mouth open! He's giving me the big puppy dog eyes begging for his share

Happens to me on a regular basis fod!

I've just had to really lay down the law to dd1 (just turned 6). Her attitude just stinks at the moment. It's the old give an inch problem - I guess I've been less 'on' her since Tabs has been born and she's being very trying now. I know it'll turn around quick with a bit of boot camp but I hate it - why can't children be reasonable?!! Sometimes it seems the nicer you are to them the more they take the piss.

Think ill treat myself to a bath tonight - no-one better wake up for boobage while I'm in there (yes Tabs I mean you!)

WL I was just praying ds didn't wake up as I was eating an ice cream. He keeps falling asleep at six and I have to wake him up for bath etc so I think I need to move his bedtime but that means disrupting our whole evening routine/dinner/dd's bath. Not sure what to do.

Eek I'm not looking forward to school age. Dd's bad enough since starting nursery but at least she has the excuse that she's only two then again it's nearly half term and I have noticed her getting worse (always cries lots and plays up when tired) could your dd1 be tired from school?

WL dd1 could be finding it hard school wise. I always find the further into the year you get the more horrible they are. She should catch up on some rest in half term.

Fx for more sleeping through tonight.

I know this is so minor to everyone else, but I just managed my first solo bath for DS. We've always just bathed him occasionally with us, so it's his first solo bath since he was just a couple of weeks old. It made for a completely different routine for him though, but I think we should try it more often.
I really need to get my evenings back. DS will sleep from about 7/8pm but only with me in bed with him. So I need to eat dinner etc before we can do his bedtime, then I'm stuck in bed and never get to spend any time with DH. Does anyone know if a GP can prescribe ranitidine or does it need to be through a consultant? I don't think the gaviscon is doing much, but I do think its silent reflux waking him so much overnight (we had a 'good' night last night - only every 2 hours).

I just read back, but I've forgotten everything!

Spotty - is today your first day giving DS food? I'm wondering how it'll affect his nights.

I can't wait for DS to start crawling, even backwards, I hope it'll mean I have to carry him round the house less. Even if I will have to start chasing him round, at least I won't be carrying the little heffalump! :)

I don't think it's particularly tiredness from school, I think it has been slipping for a while and now reached crunch time. She's always been a give an inch kind and can be quite lazy, on top of having just had birthday excitement and spoiling. As I say, I know a few days of being super strict will sort it but I feel mean, but I also know its in her best interests to be a nice person!

spotty that's a toughie - could you bring his sleep forward?

isthat v jealous of the sleep, we've gone totally backwards again.

beasty my dr says she always prescribes domperidone and ranitidine together. I haven't filled the prescription though as I wasn't entirely happy. Since then T hasn't been too bad. spotty I keep thinking about whether ds has reflux - have you had any further developments? Great that he's eating and feeding so well, maybe you'll see a nice weight gain next time.

stacks x post. Yes to drs prescribing ranitidine. Your nights sound horrendous, it's a wonder you don't just fall asleep with him.

Dd1 obviously can also be lovely!

I'm not sure re reflux. HV wasn't too helpful he's had tastes of dd's fruit purée before but I gave him porridge today so more bulky. I think he really just is hungry the fact he fed, hour later porridge (w/4oz milk) then an hour later fed and no sick or anything

I'm sure he will be up as normal tonight

Back to the dentist tomorrow

Stacks I agree I think it's really important to have some time in the evenings to fold washing relax. Well done on the bath!

I could bring his sleep forward but it would mean either me not eating with dd or dp not eating with dd and I which would be a shame...

I didn't mean his bedtime but his late afternoon nap. Well done on all eating together, we only manage it a couple of nights a week due to dhs shifts. It is nice and so good for the kids to all eat together but it's nice for DH and I to eat together when he gets in sometimes too. and sometimes peacefully by myself when dcs are in bed and he's on a late

Will be interesting to see if weaning does help his sleep if he's guzzling so much! We can but hope!

Haven't even got in the bath yet and we're on first wake up.

He doesn't have a routine for naps really just falls asleep as and when.... this afternoon he slept 2-3:20 so he wasn't tired until 5:30ish which is too late. His lunchtime nap was cut short because we had to get dd from nursery hence the funny nap time. It's hard to get any nap routine when you have more than one isn't it? It wouldn't be so bad if dd did the same times everyday I suppose.

I've just realised my maternity pay stops at the end of July

Haven't had a chance to post in a while- quickly trying to catch up.

We're slowly settling in to the new area & house and starting to feel more at home which is nice. So much to do though and not much time! Feel like should get lots done whilst on mat leave but in reality not much free time with a baby& toddler!

Dd now rolls to her belly immediately as soon as I put her on her back and is really trying to move forward and lift her bum in the air & getting very frustrated that she can't move!

utopian re work seem to remember you're an architect? Know only very very vaguely related but how about working in an estate agents on Saturdays for the mortgage. When we were house hunting recently they seemed to have extra people on Saturdays that only worked on the weekends.