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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Angielka · 04/09/2013 18:00

Glorious, sorry meant to respond to your particular point before and forgot...

DD1 is (very) allergic to egg and also to dairy. I found out when she was very little (under six weeks I think) because of her eczema, which is often linked (according to paeds, ask the dermatologists and they tell you the opposite...). I cut out dairy for a year since I was bf and she still has to avoid it. I'm telling you all this because it was a big issue for her, but discovered quite early. If you're really worried that it's that I'd suggest you ask the doc to test it. We went to the hospital and had a skin prick test which admittedly was horrible, she screamed bloody murder, but at least we found out exactly what we had to avoid giving her. Especially if you're not wanting to cut out calories for yourself it might be worth doing that rather than testing it by cutting out and seeing if there's a difference. Feel free to ignore me though, plus I'm not sure how it works in your system, as this was all in Belgium.

LetThereBeCupcakes · 04/09/2013 18:24

tugs our days are exactly the same, to the minute.

We finally have some teeth! Well, nearly. Little Man has two little slits in the middle of his bottom gum. Add to that the first crawling on Sunday, first pulling himself up on Monday, and the first sitting himself up yesterday, he's had a busy week! Goodness knows what tomorrow will bring...

We actually had quite a good night last night - DS slept from 7pm-11pm, quick feed then back to sleep until 3, another quick feed then back to sleep until 6. Not great by some standards but a near miracle by ours! Long may it continue.

Meringue33 · 04/09/2013 18:54

Birdies what Tugs wrote is the Gina Ford routine. Except the lunchtime nap is supposed to last two hours. If only babies read the damn books!

Angie I think you're right! Sometimes you feel like you just have to try something tho as waiting for them to just grow out of it can seem interminable!

Welcome back Tugs too. We need a roll call!

Polyethyl · 04/09/2013 22:29

Just had a miserable evening. I needed to go to an important meeting this evening so mother came round to babysit. For the past month baby has shown a strong preference for me and cries when I leave the room. (Which is no fun for my poor husband.) When my mother arrived baby gurgled with joy to see her but the moment I walked out the door she screamed and screamed hysterically. No distraction, no toy, nor milk/food could comfort her. Mum says she crawled round and round the flat screaming hysterically looking for me. So I came home early. What on earth do I do? I can't stay home 24/7. I have two evenings I must attend next month and I can't walk out early from them. My mother says I should leave her more often to get baby used to it - but that seems terribly harsh on whoever is left to cope with the screaming. Unpleasant for the neighbours and excessively distressing for the baby.

Her distress was so extreme tonight I don't know what to do.

Lora1982 · 04/09/2013 23:03

P know about 9 months most babies get clingy like this, maybe she's going through it a bit earlier. Dexter has a moan when I walk out the door I just keep popping in and out the room and he seems to get that I'll come back or maybe he doesn't give a shit perhaps leave something that smells of you?

I dont have a bad routine but im considering copy n pasting octanaes because hes wide awake til 10 and I want my evenings back :-D

Lora1982 · 04/09/2013 23:05

P know about 9 months most babies get clingy like this, maybe she's going through it a bit earlier. Dexter has a moan when I walk out the door I just keep popping in and out the room and he seems to get that I'll come back or maybe he doesn't give a shit perhaps leave something that smells of you?

I dont have a bad routine but im considering copy n pasting octanaes because hes wide awake til 10 and I want my evenings back :-D

BuntyCollocks · 05/09/2013 02:17

Ugh

Shit night. Have been out in the car, she woke as soon as we came in. She's downstairs with dh. I'm going to sell her to the gypsys.

Cejay8 · 05/09/2013 06:37

S is a good sleeper at night but we don't have a set routine really. If I'm home it's roughly:

6.30-7 awake
7ish ready brek
8ish milk
8.30ish nap of about 40 mins
10ish milk
11.30-12 lunch (too often a Hipp jar!)
12-1 nap (length of which varies wildly, she hasn't read Gina's book either)
2.30 milk
5pm dinner
5.30 bath time
6 big bottle of milk
6.30 bed

Sometimes if she hasn't had a long lunch nap I have to persuade her to have a late afternoon nap. She normally sleeps 12 hours solid at night but occasionally we get a cry for milk but she goes straight back to sleep.

She goes in her cot awake holding her blankie with Ewan lullabies on - has been the same routine since she was about 2 months old.

We've been out a lot this week so naps have been very short and doesn't seem to make much difference at night thankfully. Except if she's really overtired, we get some screaming

I'm also trying to switch the morning and afternoon milk feeds for snacks. But not quite there yet, I find most of the rice cakes on the floor.

Around 9-12 months they can get very, very clingy. DS didn't but I remember two of my friends at play group had their daughters clinging to their ankles and screaming inconsolably if they so much as wanted to nip to the loo. Seem to remember it lasting a few weeks. So it's just a phase!

Bit of a ramble from my phone I'm afraid - cant look back at other messages. We're off to legoland today I've heard DS up since 5.45am!

Birdies · 05/09/2013 08:11

Wow cejay 12 hours solid?! . Your routine is very different to mine though so maybe I do need to adjust it!

polyethyl that has happened twice to me and it was awful although more recently she's been much better. I think the key is for her to learn that you might disappear but you do come back. Could you get your mum round more often and you leave them in one room whilst you do other stuff in the house. Then you can keep popping back in and then lengthen the gap for returning to her (hmm sounds like controlled crying method!). I think your mum is probably right about leaving her more often but if you're at least in the house for the first few times then it won't be so bad on her or whoever is looking after her?

Tugstonia · 05/09/2013 08:26

Thanks all :)

Wow I didn't know my routine is the Gina Ford one! DD got herself into it. Wish she'd sleep through the night but I guess one wake-up isn't too bad and certainly better than it was.

glorious · 05/09/2013 09:37

Thanks angielka . I was planning to get the egg allergy investigated as it was fairly dramatic and I understand that reactions which are going to be anaphylactic can start with hives and get worse. Stupidly I hadn't thought of testing the dairy too, though I think if it's more of an intolerance than an allergy then the skin prick test may not work so perhaps wouldn't help. Thanks for the thought though, I'll see if we can get it done. Luckily DH gets free health insurance through work and adding DD is only £1 a month so we did that which means provided I can persuade the GP to make a referral we shouldn't have any issues. If only it covered me as well!

Sorry about the bad nights and separation anxiety.

Lora1982 · 05/09/2013 13:04

Tooth number three wooo. Dps working full time as of next week and im figuring out what hours I can do when I go back. Going to do two kit days next week so wish me luck :-D

Lora1982 · 05/09/2013 21:19

So I switched my routine around and did octanaes afternoon one and hes asleep a hole hour n half earlier!!! knowing my luck he'll be awake at 1

Lora1982 · 05/09/2013 21:20

Hole?! How embarrassing, WHOLE.

Meringue33 · 05/09/2013 22:12

Good luck Lora :)

DM & DF are here. They are very frugal. My mum made my dad take a bath after the baby so as not to waste the water :O

Birdies · 06/09/2013 08:59

Having the most un-peaceful breakfast ever - X squealing and babbling so loudly I think the windows might break. How can a baby have this much energy after being up so much in the night?!

She is now straining very very loudly. I think a poonami is on the way.

Anyone else have a very noisy baby?!

Right I am copying octanes routine too.

Lol merignue - surely then your dad basically bathed in diluted baby wee and poo?!!

mrsbugsywugsy · 06/09/2013 09:09

Welcome back creepy, hope you are OK.

So yesterday dd fell off the bed , I feel awful. She seems fine though, cried a bit then I bf her and she was back to normal. I had turned my back for a second and she somehow covered the distance to the edge of the bed and dived off.

I bought a bed rail recently then discovered that it only fit a single bed so not sure what to do - perhaps it's finally time to make her go in her cot, but I can't bear the screams and enjoy the cuddles too much

Bunty am of two hour naps! Dd's are getting shorter, about half an hour usually.she still has three a day, but the times vary - I'll put her down whenever she gets grumpy.

Meringue33 · 06/09/2013 09:17

Well not poo as I'd wiped baby's bum, but almost certainly wee!!!

Poor MiniBugsy. We have guardrails on either side of bed, I don't think it matters that they are for a single bed you can still fit it to a double? You just have to watch still that they don't roll through the gap at either end or bottom of bed.

mrsbugsywugsy · 06/09/2013 09:55

The one I bought was definitely for a single bed, it attached by kind of hooking underneath the mattress so the mattress had to be exactly the right width iyswim. Is there a different kind?

I used to have baths with dd when she was tiny but now she has a bath after dinner and turns the water into a vegetable soup

Lora1982 · 06/09/2013 10:13

Bugsy cant you take the hook bits off and do a sort of diy trick to tie it to the bed slats or something?

Well following last nights success I didnt bother feeding him at half ten I just moved him to the cot and he was fine til 6 when he lost his dummy and slept again til 8.

for the routine rejig Octane :-D lets hope it works again today.

Back on reuseable nappies because im skint and cos ive extended mat leave I will be skint longer. Need to find 3x £500 to pay three months bills, already a third of the way through and im selling stuff at an ntc sale this month too so hopefully that will help too if I dont respend all the money ive made selling stuff while im there

octanegirl · 06/09/2013 10:32

Whoop whoop Lora! Honestly it works so well. I have full evenings to myself every day :)
I have sort of commando crawling but he only pushes with one leg. Its so funny. There is also the sharp point of his first tooth just poking through. Ahhhh!

lollipoppi · 06/09/2013 11:46

Hi all!
Good luck lora, what's a kit day btw? how's the toothache now?

Meringue love that your dad had sloppy seconds on the bath I used to bath with DD but I'd end up dirtier than I went in!

Birdies hope the new routine works!

DD is a grump today and so am I she was up at 4.30 screaming, went back to sleep at 6am and DS woke at 6.15
Think there may be some more teeth on the way!

Birdies · 06/09/2013 13:40

octane - so he has two naps a day not three? And how many hours in total does he sleep?

What was the rejig you did lora?

Birdies · 06/09/2013 13:43

Oh sorry, didn't read it properly. Wow so he sometimes naps at 5 and STILL sleeps through?!

I am so

Do you ever wake him from naps? Like the afternoon one?

I've clearly decided you are the expert on sleeping through haha!

Birdies · 06/09/2013 13:45

Me again! So he sometimes only sleeps for 1.5 hours in total in the day? Maybe that's the secret!!!

Can anyone smell desperation from me?! Hahaha [manic laugh]