December 2012: the little monsters continue to surprise us.

[MaMaPo]

I for one have a very surprising baby.

We've dropped our cot base weeks ago, J started crawling around his bed on all fours which meant that his head was in line with the top of the bars. It felt like a short nose dive from there to the floor so we dropped it.

Good night here, one bum change at 12:30 and we coslept in the spare bed after that. Then we've just woken up at 7:30, with 2 watery poos in the space of 5 minutes I was hoping he was finished.

Lazarro I have no advice, J self settles when he wants to and then decides against it some nights and we're up for hours. It must be really hard if he falls asleep easily at bedtime/naptime as no one wants to start controlled crying etc at 2am!

Off to feed the monkey (and me I'm starving).

Oops she sorry Lazzaroo

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the 2 nappy changes at 4am!

The thing is it never seems so bad in the day! So I convince myself it'll be a better night....then when it's not I say 'we've got to do something about this''! I think I am in denial about heading down sleep training route. We did it with dd1. It was awful (well, the first night was). But within 3 days she was self settling & sleeping better. I remember we reached a point of exhaustion and both being ill but I think she was a bit older.

Anyway, we're off out for the day. Dd2 is back asleep so I better get get organised. Hope you all have a good day

Have a lovely day Lazzaroo.

MiL's visit has been cancelled as Jamie is still ill. Now surely she can see that a baby covered in poo while she takes him for a walk is not ideal not to mention the chance of her catching it. But no that would rely on her being reasonable, she is sulking now and barely talking to me when I rang her to let her know he's still ill! The silent treatment may work on her two sons but I'm made of sterner stuff!

Ofgs WillYou. Tell her she can come and clean up the poo if she wants something to do.

Well I usually put ds down after two hours but I wanted to sort the washing first this morning. Two hours and ten minutes after he woke he was hysterically crying he was so tired!

Ooh but that does at least mean your routine is working Spotty.

I know, I'm stir crazy and would love to go out even if it was only to asda but I'm being considerate and keeping him away from other people so that they don't catch it.

willyou your mil is officially batshitcrazy! Who wants to be round poorly kids? They're horrible (not j specifically just in general) whiny pooey things!

I'm battling with DS as he wants to play with the lights in my work computer and I won't let him. he can pretty much get away with anything else but not touching my computer when I'm working, do what does he want to do?

Oh and he tried to pull himself up on ds1s stool earlier, and it fell on top of him! He screamed a lot, there was blood in his mouth but I'm not sure where from exactly, and he sobbed through a bf. he was much better after breakfast though. This boy needs to learn he's not invincible!

Did he break his lip tie IsThat? Dd hasn't broken hers yet but when falls and smacks her mouth it seems to bleed from there

No I did check, although he has 4/5 lip ties along the top lip, 1 at the front and a couple each side further back, so he may have broken one of the ones further back but he wouldn't let me look. (DH thought this completely normal when I showed him, so it's his odd genes causing it, he's got 3 apparantly)

I didn't know you could have more than one

Neither did I! Hence me showing DH and saying how odd it was and DH ran his tongue round his own mouth and shrugged saying he had 3! Lol

isthat read your post and searched around my own mouth. I can feel two one at the front and one at a side. I know I was breast fed though so I guess they are lose lip ties??

nutella DS is bf and he has 4/5 he doesn't flange (is that the word) the top lip but he feeds and we've never had a latch problem or pain, so I've never been too worried about it.

Ds has one. Lip ties shouldn't effect feeding I don't think but I did read it makes it harder once they have top teeth

Ds was only awake for ninety minutes before he needed to go back to bed. He's so sweet he just lays on the floor and puts his thumb in

Ah it seems nap refusal is back, i knew it was teeth that made napping easier yesterday and the day before.

Utopian H was born on the 7th i need to lower her cot but havn't just yet. Its on my list to do this week.

Ds1 woke ds2 from both his naps today that boy is not in my good books at all! So ds2 is grumpy. Although he's been great with a friend who visited and DH. Just grumpy with me!

Evening all. Back from lovely day out but all shattered now! Just feeding dd2 then will settle her. Then sort dd1...she fell asleep in carn way home at 4.30pm so will probably buggercabout tonight & be more awake than me! at least she has pre-school tomorrow so besides the grocery shop (which I hate!) I intend to do very little!

Dd2 has had rubbish naps today so we'll see what difference, if any, that makes. And no proper tea, just weetabix before milk.

Hope everyone gets a good night

Oh IsThat I feel your pain!

DS was crying and I just wanted to finish off a job application so left him a couple of minutes, went up and found he's rolled onto his back and got his arm through the bar so was stuck bad mummy!

We lowered our cot ages ago I used to panic when he was raising himself up

Aaagh

Raise himself up on his front so down it went!

Is everyone's LO's less interested in their milk now there's up to 3 meals a day on offer?! Ds only has 3 bottles now and it's hard work trying to get him to have milk other than first thing or bedtime. We're still feeding to sleep too..

Maryland dd was ff and I think by this age she was just having the two bottles and by the time she was one she wasn't having any...she HATED drinking her milk from day one but loved food. DS is less interested too but still wants feeding every 3-4 hours

Isthat "batshitcrazy" is hilarious. I'll use that one.

Willyou are you still in the doghouse?! Do you care? I hope J is feeling better?

Thanks spotty.. Reassuring.
I'm desperately trying to make sure he has the 600ml (500?) that he's still supposed to have. Something else to worry about!! He loves his food like your dd. I guess I shouldn't be surprised its much more interesting than milk!!

I have the opposite problem. We're still on 2 meals a day and even then one is usually very small. C just could barely care less.