November 2012 - Next stage car seats and yet more teething

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1808232-November-2012-Summertime-and-the-babies-are-sleeping-mostly-with-a-few-notable-exceptions

Hello all, have tried catching up, but a bit stressed. Dh popped to drs this afternoon as felt a bit rough (like hungover but dizzy too). Next thing he is ringingto say they?re taking him to hospital for tests as a precaution and is in ambulance as they won?t let him drive. Don?t really understand why. Trying to get H to bed so can read to others but he won?t settle and no word from dh. Bad evening!

On other topics, got H the fisherprice cookie jar, moby bath octopus and tomy eggs plus a handmade crocheted monkey for his birthday. Having to stop myself giving him them now!

Sorry for not commenting.

Pennie these come highly recommended by a lot of my friends who travel as much as we do www.micralite.com/ I only didn't get one due to handle height as dp 6ft7

See weirdly PR the thought of giving L suppositories doesn't freak me that much

Arggghhh am now like ooohhh new buggy

Daisy I hope dh is ok. FC for an update from him soon.

PR suppositories work wonders, don't they? Chasing we give calpol in a syringe, directed towards Fs cheek, so it doesn't choke her/make her gag. Not sure if that's helpful or not.

Erm, my brain has gone a bit squiffy. Manic day at work today, with some really poorly patients. Was late leaving too, which was horrible - made me all panicky that F would be the last baby at nursery. I start on a new ward tomorrow, always a bit chaotic, and all the new junior doctors start as well. Plus am 2 days in to a 12 day stint . On the positive, no pox yet

Chasing we give the cheapy chemist own brand calpol (free on minor ailments in Scotland - is it free in the rest of the UK?) and it comes with a 5ml spoon. He takes it off the spoon willingly. Even though (or perhaps because!) he has omeprazole twice a day by oral syringe - he hated getting calpol syringed - I think its more viscous and choke-able. I dunno or maybe he prefers the orange taste of the free stuff. But spoons seem to be the way.

Pennie am so envious. I have some really good memories of HK. Including getting absolutely shit faced in Lan Kwai Fong for my 30th - I'm amazed I didn't totter to my death - LKF is in the mid levels and the streets are sooooo steep.

VQ enjoy your solo time with the wee man. I'm v curious about the Mountain buggy - I did luff them when we were buggy shopping. Have you got the single or the double terrain? If the latter, and we do get updiffed when we try this autumn - we'd be interested.....

As for movement... well he's finally joining lots of rolls together, can turn on a dime and is throwing commando crawling and backward crawling into the mix meaning he can move across the room at a slowish pace. I finally cleaned the fish tank out (haven't in three months wah surprised that all fish were still alive) and that seems to be worth moving towards - as is getting away from nappy changes .

Still no teef but given I'm still BF I'd actually be OK if he was toothless until I wean him....

Thanks pig, I try to do that but now it has got to the point where he refuses to open his mouth. I tried to sneak it in alongside his bottle today but that resulted in the gagging. He used to find it hilarious when I held the syringe in my mouth so I could get it in that way, but he has got wise to that now.

Oh and no clapping here but joyful waves with both hands... so he's half got it

No clapping or waving here. I do lots of both so I'm sure he will pick it up soon.

chasing you have a couple of weeks to think on it :o

pikz happy to pop some in the post (though I reckon you can get some in Holland)

Evening all. Not looking forward to tonight, E went to sleep relatively easily but woke after 45 mins. He is still in bed, he's stopped moaning now and is stroking his matress, so we'll see. It's never a good sign that he's woken once asleep though as usually he's either awake, or asleep for the night/until early morning at least!

pikz LO keeps insisting on trying out the laminate. He's faceplanted it once so far and I think cried more when he faceplanted the carpet. As PR says i bet it'll be good practice for your DS

sophia sounds like you're doing fab with the packing, not long left now!

congrats on winning a sling pp! I had a slingythingy, but didn't get it until e was about 6-7 months old and by then he weighed a good 9kgs and I really just couldn't manage him . If i ever had another which is very debateable after the last few days I would like to use a sling from early on. Same as cloth nappies, i'd like to give them a bash, too. Seems a bit late now to bother though :(

chasing it does sound like you're healing and getting over it :) You're doing very well. You should also go and get some more stock cubes and give the guy your number - that isnt that brazen, after all you'd have met him twice.

donna I love the way GT calls her fella FH also. Makes me chuckle every time!

nope pr no waving here or clapping yet.

vq sounds like he wants to be on the move! Bet he'll be all over the place once he's better again. Enjoy your time with J :) They'll be home in no time!

Oh dear! When I first read chasings comment asking for advice on calpol and then read pr saying something about down south my first thought was oh pr always does bum medicine but surely you can't put calpol up there, and then I read it properly, and then I read further down you said about calpol supositaries LOL! I about choked on my MAOAM! Seriously though can you get calpol bumstuffers? I bet it's so much easier to give it that way! pikz it doesn't bother me in the slightest either tbh it's just everything over here seems to be oral medication ie the end that fights back

ahem, anyway, chasing i give it the same way as bplp

eek daisy hope your dh is ok and you hear something from him soon, sounds like a stressful evening! Also, love the eggs and the cookie jar, keep thinking of getting e those too

sounds very full on and busy bplp hope it's less hectic at work soon

yw nappy changes are the bain of my life and sometimes he full on screams at me! I don't like to hold him still but when he's getting shit everywhere, quite literally, I have no choice. Unless i'm doing it wrong and anyone has any other ideas? I've tried distracting him etc it just makes it take longer.

Was wondering what people thought of these? www.safedreams.co.uk/shop-toys/ are they worth getting or a waste of money? I got the safedreams bumper the other day as now e can move he keeps sleeping with his face in his cot bumper and that worried me, so I got these breatheable ones, but he also likes to sleep with teddies so didn't know if they were a real risk and I should get one of these teddies for in his bed, or if normal teddies aren't a risk and these would be wasting my money? Thanks quiche!

Like YW we can do it on a spoon. He's happy to take a syringe finally though so we do it whichever way!

O likes to hold the syringe sometimes. He will put it in his own mouth and I plunge a little at a time.

BTW, thank fuck for the quiche. We're still giving 2.5mls... fuck that shit, it's going up to 5! Should have read the fucking box clearly!

I worry about giving it a bit too freely also. I give it on unexplained grumpy days, which at the minute are less than the happy days. So I try not to worry too much!

No clapping or waving here still, and no real babbling. Guess moving is his 'thing'

I have shown him both, I think clapping will come first before waving. He likes it when I clap, and when I clap his hands for him. He waggles them about, but not close enough to make a clap!

BP thank fuck for no pox yet.

DP said he has spoken to his mum. She said she won't be in the kitchen that much, she will be in the living room too, and will move the stuff off the fireplace . I'm just going to buy her some safety stuff and give it, then she has it. Will give it a trial for a month, if I am not happy, I'll get a CM.

Talked to my own mum about it - she thinks I am being precious. She will soon see when she has O on his own though. She said I need to relax . Anyway, my mum wants me to get her a travel cot, and some edging stuff for the fireplace. Also, she is getting a stairgate. Makes sense as she will very soon have 3 grandchildren 2 and under. 3rd one due any day now...! My poor mum. Had one child, ended up with 8 grandkids thanks to remarrying!

MM Tantrums... every day. Several times a day. Since a very very young age. He's one frustrated little dude. I am very quick to intercept though as I pretty much know what he wants. He tantrums getting in the pram, but I know as soon as I am moving he is fine. He tantrums sitting in the trolley in the supermarket, and if I pick him up and carry him, he is fine. He tantrums at my feet, I know he wants picking up and cuddling. He tantrums when stuff gets taken away too.

In any other child it would be normal crying, but O does the whole screaming, scratching, pulling, hitting, arching back, holding breath, rage thing.

I am assuming he just hates being non verbal! I am hoping as he begins to talk it will ease the fuck off! So different to his brother... who never had a single tantrum. O is making up for it...

Dinner time thank fuck....

Daisy I do hope all is well with DH

YW when J is better you could pop over and give it a whirl. With the two Js in, because of their size difference, you could get a good feel of what it would be like for you. I even have the twin pram bit in case you are blessed with them

Hope all ok Daisy

kyz calpol is paracetamol and yes you most definitely can put it up there. I tried liquid into mouth with LO once or twice but she prefers it up the bum. Who am I to argue?

OMG that post reads back very badly. Please don't think I am weird.

So it is pr that makes sense then. Duh! I don't blame you pr when E had his antibiotics i dreaded giving them every time, so if there's an easier way, why not?!

det that makes sense re your MIL, to give it a trial. She will either soon realise what o is like to care for and keep safe and adapt for him, or she won't and you'll get a cm, at least then you've givne her a fair shot so dp can't be pissy then either. Also re: tantrums, e is having more and more. Well, usually it's just an outburst of 'WAAAAAAAH' and then he shuts up, but he never used to give a shit about anything, ever. Now he cries when you move things out of his way, or move him, or take things, or change his bum or dress him. Right PITA but I think it's normal so i'm just trying to ignore it/do what it is he wants without 'spoiling' him. If he wants to hold something whilst i dress him, fine, but i draw the line at letting him eat plugs so he'll just have to cry at that one!

Thanks guys, still no news and can't phone as he told me he was turning it off to save charge . kyz I wouldn't say its too late for a sling. I have just bought a connecta and it is great for when H is teething and grouchy. Also for shopping when you are fed up of having to traipse round and find lifts every 5 mins with a buggy. I'd had a break from babywearing for about 3/4 months so he whinged at first but he has got used to it again now and will sleep in it.

But if meds are to go up the bum they need to be in suppository form. You cannot squirt liquid calpol up there. Aside from being very messy, the syringe could harm the bot, and the rectal tissue is much better at absorbing drugs so they would get too much.

Although a bum smelling of strawberries would be quite nice, if brief.

Daisy did he go to A&E? You could ring there and as his NOK they would be able to let you know if all is okay.

Kyz I'm hoping it works out, as I know she loves him, and she is brilliant with him. She could be a CM she is so good with kids, but she doesn't want to give her house over to it!!!!

I am just glad that I do have options, because if we couldn't afford childcare we would have to put up and shut up so to speak. I am grateful for that at least.

PR I thought you were weird anyway.

Kyz it is not too late for cloth either.

Daisy call the hospital. They could pass a message to him, or give an idea of what is going on. You must be beside yourself. Big hugs. Good they are taking it seriously, but hope it turns out to be something dull (((hug)))

Detective they say it takes one to know one

I need car seat advice!

O is getting out the straps on his car seat. On observation, he isn't purposefully doing it, he's pulling himself to sit up while in it, and because the straps are tight, and he is strong, they slip off his shoulders.

The straps are on the highest setting, but they seem to be too low, if that makes sense.

When I was playing with him in his other car seat, he didn't have that problem, because he was sat up, and because the straps were at a more appropriate shoulder height.

I don't want to move his seats yet, but what can I do to keep him from sitting up in the car seat and making the straps slip down to his arms?!

True....