DECEMBER 2012: The start of crawling and the end of maternity leave

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I've had a clingy baby today. Complete fury if I dared to put him down. His teeth lumps are so huge and hard though so I can understand the grumpiness. I just wish it hasn't been on the day DH had the car and I had dentist as it involved 4 miles of walking and I stupidly forgot to take the sling as well as the buggy. So I had to listen to him screech or walk holding him and pushing the buggy, neither was a great option tbh.

WL sorry to hear of tabs gagging. I know it's scary but it's a learning curve they need to get through. DH panics ever time (as do dd and ds1) but I've worked on my poker face.

DS has worked out the best way to get picked up is to plonk yourself on the adults feet and shout until they oblige! it's so funny seeing him determinedly crawling towards you, as you know exactly what's coming :)

I'm just feeding him to sleep before running club, fx he stays in bed as DH had a hard day at work and I'm not sure Velcro baby is his idea of a peaceful evening or mine for that matter

I walked through the front door to a screaming baby who has whinged ever since.

He's frantically chewing anything he can, so I think teeth are involved. So many lumps and bumps to choose from though. Maybe we could have them all in one go! (Wishful thinking!)

I just need a slightly better night. Otherwise I'll be packing a lunchbox of chocolate...

Hope all the other grumpy babies give you a break and a good night.

I've just ordered an organised mum calendar, after we established DH had meant he had to work every Saturday until the end of July, not June. This is after he'd arranged to meet up with a few of my colleagues this Saturday (and was planning to ask his mum to babysit), and he's doing the cooking at his mum's big, annual family barbecue in a couple of weeks. He's useless!

I hear you beasty my mantra is 'is it on the calendar'?!

stacks tabs loves being eaten, looking in the mirror, flying and playing with anything that's not a toy. At the sensory room there was a basket of jam jar lids which she loved. They made a great noise and were good to hold and chew.

Wow, I could have written lots of these posts. Ditto 'is it on the calendar'. During making some plans my husband said 'Oh no, I'm in Copenhagen that weekend.' !!! Guess my response. C also has such lumps in her upper gum and she drools like a fiend. No wonder she's feeding from me so much, she'd be dehydrated otherwise.

This is awful, but it's kinda nice to know I'm not alone with a cranky teething baby. Barbeasty and Isthat, hope your little ones calmed down.

WL, C loves being eaten too! Especially her hands and her neck. So funny to watch her giggle.

No calming yet. We've cracked out the calpol and the broken sky remote (since he's determined to chew one and DD broke one "cleaning" it in my glass of water).

I'm about to eat dinner, which could be interesting!

Has anyone heard of the "minor ailments scheme"? I went to the pharmacy he other day and they offered to sign T up for it. It's free, and means if he gets a cough or cold or similar they'll give me calpol (or whatever over the counter drug he needs) for free. Didn't cost anything to sign him up.

Spotty - hope you are feeling better .

Hales - N's teeth have come through in quite a random order. He got the front bottom two first, which I expected but then he had a lovely pair of fangs at the top for a bit until the top front ones caught up. His latest the second one along on the bottom right (excuse complete lack of official dental terms).

WL - DS1 went through a long stage of only feeding from the right boob. I was worried about hideous unevenness, however so far it seems to be ok. Am ignoring the possibility that pregnancy and bf again have covered up the true situation and may make N feed only from the left whether he likes it or not just in case

Mama, Beasty and Willyou - hope you all manage to catch up on some sleep tonight.

Stacks - the minor ailment scheme is fab. I get all the boys' eczema stuff from it as well as calpol, nasal drops etc.

N had his first trip to the cinema today. The special baby screening was Despicable Me 2, which I thought DS1 would love so we had a little day out. He was so good - just babbled a bit, then fed and snoozed. Caused less stress than DS1 anyway who almost blew my cover for trying to economise on cinema snacks by repeatedly and loudly saying "can I have my packed lunch now mummy?" .

Not heard of that stacks but it sounds brill. I'd sign up. Could it be a Scottish thing? My local pharmacist is brill so would have thought he'd mention it if it was available.

Oh ispy you've got the scheme too - I'm going to ask! Cinema can't begrudge a small boy his packed lunch surely?! Bless him. Dd1 and her friend recently exposed us mummies who were trying to pretend they were under 5 so free on the train with an 'I'm 6'! Oh yes dear, so you are. Both kids are very tall too

My left boob is considerably bigger than the right anyway - was quite noticeable during pg. dd2 always favoured the left too.

We have that scheme as well but adults can also sign up i regularly get my thrush pessary on it i think its called a health passport here though.

Ispy H has 7 teeth also with 8-9 on the way down. They also came through in a odd order when i checked it was called cross teething which is apparently really hard for them, but touch wood up until these 2 teeth we havn't had any bother.

Spotty hope your feeling abit better.

Hello all. Im a bit of a lurker on this thread but just because i dont visit the site frequently enough to have much input - its nothing sinister honest

Just wanted to say that its good to see how everyone else is doing cos it can feel like its just you sometimes! Sorry to those suffering terrible nights lack of sleep is horrendous

I had never heard of minor ailment scheme but this explains it. See bottom of link! www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Pharmacy/Pages/Commonconditions.aspx

I had a go of the search thing but it didnt work. Will just ask next time im in pharmacy and hope they treat something useful to me

oops nothing is easy on here!

Oh littleginger thanks for link. I only joined mumsnet for this group i've said it a thousand times but its saved my sanity to see other people going through the same thing at roughly the same time.

No sleep here yet, i've resorted to stripping her clothes off and leaving just her nappy on

Oh hales, I hope that works!

Welcome littleginger! How old is your little one? are you having a dreadful time teething too?

Long feed here now, but a lot of it is comfort sucking. I'm desperate that she sleep now instead of partying for 2 hours so I won't unlatch until its clear she's dozing (and even then it'll probably still be party time).

Will also have to look into that scheme. Thanks for the heads up.

2.5 hours sleep so far tonight and I hear birdsong. I feel pretty bad right now. I hope everyone else is fast asleep.

Just put R back to bed after his 2nd wake up! His sleep is so random at the moment, 1 night he sleeps through then the next 2 he won't.
Thankfully his cold has gone so we're off fo swimming later.
Hoping everyone is in the land of the zzz's.

Fuckity fuck. Why is it the night I need to feed, feed, feed ds and I have both been asleep since before 7pm and he's still asleep now. I don't want to go and express as I know he will be up soon and it's better to feed him. Tbh it's not too painful but the tiny blood blister/crack I have is making me dread it...

spotty Have some chocolate before, during and after expressing...?
Glad its not too painful anymore.

Really sad that I think I'm going to have to start reducing bf R. After 1 bite 4 weeks ago, I've had 4 bites in the past 2 days. I've tried pulling him off with a firm NO. I think he bites when he's not that hungry.

We went to our local nct baby and toddlers group on monday. If I'm honest I found it a bit cliquey and not very welcoming so not sure if we'll go back. There was a free sing and sign taster workshop though which was fab, definitely signing up to start that in september.

Sleep was marginally better, we got a couple of 2 hour stretches!

Got a bit of a peek in A's mouth while he was screaming, and he's got white lumps where hid molars will be. No wonder he's grumpy!

Spotty if the crack makes feeding painful, can you try a nipple shield until it heals? They really helped when DD destroyed me (looked like she had taken a huge bite out of each nipple).

2blessed - you have my sympathy. I had a really bad time with DS1 biting, and would have stopped bf but for the fact he absolutely refused to drink from anything other than me so had to keep going. After a couple of weeks of absolute hell, it did just stop. Not sure if he just got that bit further on with teething or he learnt how to latch with teeth or what, but it seemed to go as quickly as it came. N hasn't been as bad - he does bite, but hasn't caused any actual damage. He definitely only does it when he's not that interested in feeding and is just messing about. Sorry that this isn't much help and I wish I had some more useful tips. I just wanted to you to know you're not alone and that there is hope it will sort itself out.

MaMa I hope you've managed to nap? It's soul destroying watching the hours tick by until the sun comes up. Have a massive coffee and a big slice of cake.

How did it go spotty? Are you feeling better?

2blessed DS went through a biting stage a few months ago, not sure what caused it but it stopped as quickly as it started.

Ooh molars beasty my older 2 always slept really badly before they got molars. I hope your sleep continues to get better.

DS has been really grumpy all day, I hope he's not getting ill again, he's still got a terrible cough from last time.

I'm tired of having a tired baby that won't sleep! He had me up hourly last night. Started in his cot which was good, slept 8-9 and 9-10:30 with very quick settles back to sleep with a quick cuddle and no feeding. However 10:30-1 he just wouldn't settle for more than a couple of minutes. Of get him to sleep, hold him a minute, transfer to cot, he'd sleep for 1-10 mins then wake crying. Over and over and over. Have up and brought him to bed where he continued to wake hourly. Got up at 7 this morning, nap at 9-9:30, exhausted and complaining by 10.
He does this every day pretty much. I try and keep him sleep longer at naps but he just doesn't go back down. He's basically overtired 24/7 :( No teeth to blame, just the old reflux.

Sorry others had bad nights. No advice on biting, T does it a bit but he's got no teeth yet. I just have to have a day or do of telling him off then he stops for a while. It does tend to be when he's finished feeding but not asleep, I wonder if he's trying to stop the annoying milk coming from his 'dummy'.