November 2012 - To sterilise or not to sterilise (bottles that is)

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1820625-November-2012-Thinking-about-first-birthdays-Already

Gosh guys I could've done without today. I hope teeth result at the end of this one, its been, very loud/whiny/screaming blue murder at the drop of a hat. Hope tomorrow isn't the same! Anyway, best get on with an epic postyness....

Ah vq poor j :( hope you manage to work out if it is indeed a soy problem but it does sound like it doesn't it. Poor mite.

Hmm bry difficult decision!

for the bad nights as always, stunt I think eliminating those sounds like a sensible decision, there must be something causing the horrendous nights

Woohoo for teef lily :)

Thanks for the argos tip vq been looking at a play pen. I don't appear to be able to leave him long enough for a quick wee, it's getting quite wearing. I have spent all day hovering near him for when he falls.

I'm not sure gt e stands in his cot too and has fallen twice :( makes settling very difficult after a bang to the head

Yw my sister is like that. Her dd is 'the most advanced baby the hv has ever met with the best diet ever' and whenever E is coming up to doing something I get 'j did that months ago'. I don't understand it personally :( and actually think e was MUCH easier when immobile!

Glad she didn't eat any of it pr!!!!

pikz and I thought my day had been horrible, yours sounds far worse :( bless you :(

Good luck for your interview tomorrow mm

det what an arse!

I keep trying to do ta with e pp, no luck yet! Bless r, very clever! He obvs knows what it means too

Nice for there to be a sensible hv det!!!! About bloody time! :) ooh and I did give a a ham sandwich for lunch yesterday and he did really well and ate 3/4 of it, I did two slices of bread and one slice of ham. Can't remember if I said or not

pass that's brilliant! E drains am and pm bottles and has 3-5oz usually of the lunchtime one, so about the same I think! Haven't tried e with olives or anything, today he had some butter chicken curry with rice and loved it :) it was what we had yesterday, we eat too late to eat the same thing with him. P is doing brill!

Been meaning to ask izzy how is j doing? :)

kyz I sympathise - O has been whingy, clingy, grumpy and food refusing all week. He did have to choose the first week that I am parenting alone... Luckily, I haven't got too stressed by it and my spirits are being kept high by chatting to the lovely det and lily in the evenings. Plus, texting a lovely guy...

Hi all, sorry to hear of stressful days kyz and pikz. Gt l don?t know how to stop lo?s standing in cots, but l have the same issue in the bath. He won?t stop pulling hinself up on the sides.

pass l don?t know if you sorted your dizzy spells but dh just been diagnosed with condition where a tiny bit of bone broken off and bobbing round in his ear which can come and go (benign something something vertigp?!)

Yw believe me the competitive paarenting just gets worse ~ either that or pretty much every child at dcs school is either a MENSA member and/or sporting genius

Very excited tonight. Just got tickets to see Will Young in Cabaret in September. First time been to a ?proper? musical for about 10 years!

chasing yes I think that's normal. Since C has been teething some days he barely eats a thing.

Good luck with your interview mm

kyz Hard isn't it? C has been exactly the same today so I've been giving him ibuprofen every 6 hours. It doesn't seem to have helped a lot though. We have one of the big teeth at the top through and several more on their way.

det there are lots of strange people about!

Well we are asleep... No one know how long for. I feel proper sorry for him. These top teeth are huge and in the last month he cut all 4 which are now descending rapidly.

Going home up norf to catbag land tomorrow. Looking forward to it but it will be stressful to. Dp off to compete to be British champion.

Massive and hugs to all.

Sophia am off to look up the rainsuits now thank you.

Oh and what do we think of this house (bear in mind top dollar area)

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27654960.html

catbag is in the Dales somewhere. I miss her.

Detective I am very particular about medication - even the dog's - I have a notebook (per person) with who has taken what and when so I know exactly at any given time what is in the house. Kind of like a balance sheet. Each box of pills or medecine has a name on it - so each DD has their own bottle of nurofen for example. I know it is obsessive, but it started after a whole series of doctors accused me of taking too many nsaids to have the ulcers I had a pack of 20 prescribed at 1-3 per day at and 14 days had 10 left [bitter] so I was very pissed off at being told I had been abusing the painkillers

so now I keep a record. You can all judge me :o

Teething here too. Had to give nurofen tonight :(

Cross post pikz both thought of catbag !

pikz love the house but estate agents are clever with photo angles. It looks in perfect condition but small. Is there anything at the same price which needs minor doing up ie lick of paint? (I work in real estate. They are arses!) have a look and see but a smaller space than you'd like could work against you, especially if you want a dc2. Gorgeous house though.

Thanks Det hopefully L will settle into himself soon, he seems happier overall since crawling & cruising but sleeping has got much worse again.

Tonight we have bright yellow bastard snot in copious amounts. Done saline and snot sucking, Calpol and baby Vicks but he's still waking up and screaming every 1/2 hr. No point in elevating cot (I don't think?) as he moves around so much.

So it could be a bastard cold, fucking tooth (still none), the crawling or a cunting combination waking him up. No temp though. He is inconsolable every time it happens, cuddles not helping. Poor bear.

I am going for an early night. Love to the quiche and quichelings xx

Thanks for all the kind comments about J. He is the cutest wee boy, so cuddly and squishy I could just eat him! He'd keep me going for a week or so with those thunder thighs.

He's doing well with food. Some days better than others. AND.....last night he slept........ 5 hrs and 40 minutes IN THE BLOODY COT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Granted this still isn't much sleep but for us it's freaking awesome!! Hopefully it continues to improve further!!!

I have a course starting tomorrow. I'm going to train to be a BFN volunteer supporter. My family think I am crazy!!!

BFN? Pardon my ignorance izzy. Glad he's doing well, and nice work J on the epic sleep.

CHasing excited re: date or not-date date or whatever we're calling it now.

Pass F has 3 bottles now, but 3 whopping bottles! Glad she is getting on so well with the CM, sounds brilliant. And she's eating like a complete superstar.

Det changing room lady sounds bonkers. What a total fruit loop.

Kyz hope you weren't/aren't too lonely whilst dp is away. It must be very strange when you're used to sharing your room with 2 snoring snuffly people, and suddenly it's just you.

PR glad dd1 didn't manage to munch on any pills. Every cloud and all that.

VQ glad dd2 has been temporarily tamed! Long may it live lol.

Stunt I hope the packing/move will go as smoothly as possible for you all. I don't envy you that.

Sophia all the furniture/floor/tile picking sounds very exciting.

I might need the quiche fish, although not sure.

I am getting a bit worried about Fs chatting, or total lack thereof. She hardly laughs, it is a rare rare thing, although is happy and smily enough. She used to make lots of cooing and mooing and aahing sounds, but now doesn't really "say" anything. Her reflux doesn't seem bad at all, so not sure I can blame that, but it's starting to stress me out a lot slightly. When should I worry? Sure I'm being silly, so feel free to slap me fishily.

That is brilliant Izzy! Well bloody done J.

Just scrolled back and realised the post I wrote at about 4am didn't post. It was mainly to VQ about the cocking soy. Hope you are doing ok. xx

Breastfeeding network. Sorry!

jj cocking soy!! Sounds interesting and if anyone was to cock soy I'm sure vq would know!

izzy great news re the sleep - look at it as massive progress for him - and you - you don't need to compare it to anyone else. I, like mm am so chuffed he is eating solids. I am particularly chuffed that you managed it yourself, on your own instincts, and didn't need the useless HCPs as much as they though you needed them. DD1 had thunder thighs too, which I loved. As they grow unfortunately they stop being so thunderish but you have lots of pictures so won't forget. I don.t know what a BFn is but best of luck for your course xx

jj yellow snot sounds like a cold - I'd still elevate the cot in case he finds a position which is more comfortable for him iyswim. Maybe a thin pillow under the sheet at one end. He might kind of gravitate towards it. Or he might do the opposite and end up head down. Could be worth trying? Snot sucking at this age is horrible isn't it? I gave some nurofen to LO in a syringe earlier (desperate last measure as I am scareed of it) and struggled so much. I was wondering how you lot all cope with giving calpol that way too. Suppositories are soooo much easier. I wish sodding nurofen would do suppositories. Tehy'll probably develop one in about a year by which time I won't need them anymore.

pig if she already did some sounds I wouldn't worry. DD1 was very slow - I know it's hard to hear people say their babies are making clear syllables or even words, but DD1 maybe made two or three recognisable and repeated syllables between 3 and 19 months: Gay, Re and Da. The paed says taht despite some doctors stressing parents out about that kind of thing she doesn't worry unless there are no recognisable words before three years old. My brother didn't speak til he was at primary school and is in med school now, albeit as a mature student, but got A Levels and GCSEs in scary things like philosphy at grade A at the usual age. In short, at 9 months (or less?) it's not some thing I would worry about. Consider yourself slapped.

Night quiche x

Thanks PR - just seems like every one else I know (here and in RL) has right chatterboxes, and F, bless her soul, is quiet as a church mouse. I know I'll be wishing she was quieter at some point in years to come, when she keeps asking "why why why"....

Izzy that sounds like a great idea. The BF counsellor (sp!?) at our bf group asked if I wanted to do training to be a support person, but I couldn't put the commitment in as I was going back to work full time. Shame as I would have enjoyed it.

Night everyone xxx

FFS.

Flicks.
Off.

As you were.

Not caught up. Just wrestled J to sleep. Refluxy, skin on fire, full of snot. Beyond a fucking joke. When will this end?

Good night quiche. It helps knowing you are here x hugs to anyone else having a shit time of it x

pig O rarely laughs either. It takes a big effort from me. I also found that once he had perfected a sound he stopped doing it and concentrated on something else - rolling etc

((((((((((VQ and J))))))))))

Jonas laughs at virtually anything his Dad does. Me I have to literally try to eat his stomach and sides and proper nibble his belly to get even a giggle. He's a tough crowd ungrateful little bugger who doesn't realise that Mummies are far more wonderful than Daddies.

I'm here vq. Last night was clearly a fluke as we're one on the 4th wake up since 10pm!

And again. It's gonna be one of those nights :-(