November 2012 - The first fearless steps and the rest of us hoping our babies remain stationary for a bit longer

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1833979-November-2012-Teeth-Dont-talk-to-us-about-teeth

Sat here trying and failing to do marking that has to be done by midnight. Fingers crossed H has a good night after this. Took him ages to settle.

Got a shock today. He'd been in his highchair, got him out to feed him and found a bit of cellophane in his mouth! No idea where it came from. Its a good lesson for me to not try to do too much at once though as I was making lasagne and rice pudding, unloading dishwasher, tidying table and shovelling organix things at him at the same time! Has made me stressed all day though.

Hope good nights are had all round. Sorry, being too tired to name check.

pidj remember your selling points when you negotiate. It would be so good for them to have someone up the road with winter coming up..

Sorry to moan but.

WHAT MOTHERFUCKING BASTARDING CUNTING TOSSPOT DECIDED TO MIX FECKING TEETH WITH THE POX?!?!?!?

Bedtime just finished. JUST. After 4 hours And is it in Fs bed? No chance. Am tempted to line our beds with towels as there are serious quantities of drool and vom.

Daisy F manages to find every little bit of stuff going. There's only so much you can protect them against.

Ginge I love our open fire. LAst winter was a bit grim though. We got flooded into our village, if I had gone into labour the day before, we wouldn't have got to the hospital under our own steam...

Think I might head off to bed. Suspect won't be good.

Hoping VQ, izzy and det are ok, haven't heard from you lot for a while xxx

Ah, clocked the post from det. Still, hope you're ok and not too nervy about work.

Woo yes Det good luck for work. VQ, Izzy how's tricks?

I love autumn - my fave time of year. I almost miss the Rayburn from the island. A wood burner is on our saving up for list. I suspect it could be a while as the flue liner is extortionate!

YW order the flue yourself online and the fire. The fitting is the extortionate bit. I found I saved tons doing this and actually the wood burner has saved us £££££ in gas.

There will be 4 babies on my antenatal thread in nxt few days! A CS. An induction and a natural birth. Full spectrum there. Making me very nervous. Lots of kicks tonight.

Lo did something hilarious today.
He held out his bottle lid to me. Pulled my hand closer to him. Went to put the lid in my hand. Then snatched it back went "ahhh" then giggled. Then did it again Z few times. Was SO cute.

Had development check today. Lo was good showing off his brick banging skills. Then came the weigh in which triggered crying and whining for rest of the session. He is 98% so still a big baby. Been asked to go in again in 3months so they can check his weight.
Oh well. Lo got some free books so he is happy. He likes books and looking at pictures. Has distracted him from crying quite a few times this past week.

Sleep time!

So excited for you gt. Loads of luck :-). A corner of me is very jealous - though a third right niow would probably finish me off! Am ebaying baby stuff atm as we have agreed no more but my subconscious is screaming at me to keep it all!

R did 6-4:30

Hour and a half of yelling and he's still not asleep but at least i had the sense to snuggle down at half 9 lol

yw I took a picture of O in his nipper with the cosy toes on as he looked so snuggly the other day, just for you. I will put it on fb.

kyz we love you you are delicious.

pidg we love you too I hope you get what you want out of the Interveiws.

det is it work? Hope all goes well.

In operation switching to Rural NI time DS1 has on,y just appeared. O was up at 6:45 which is ace. He also seems to be getting used to lying in his cot for half an hour after he wakes.

I must clean our wood burner today we have already been using the l e in the kitchen/family room just in the evenings though as we haven't got fireguards yet.

Can't wait for an all day fire.

Blackberrying today. What can I make? Any thoughts.

Oh, pr you could do your damsons as a damson crisp bit like a crumble but use pecans, ground almonds, olive oil, and maple syrup for your toppings. I will pm you the exact details. Is yum and quite healthy.

I suspect our wood burner will be our main source of heating this winter, depending of course on how windy it is.

Well done mini fairies!!

PP that is a improvement... Come on mini PP give mummy some sleep.

Well after no capol and only half a bottle and refusing Togo to bed til 8.30 he slept til 7!!!! Wtf. This makes no sense now!

It never really does pikz

Thanks sophia . They aren't damsons but are mirabelles, which would work out well in any damson recipe. They are sweeter than damsons. I won't be making jam or chutney as we don't really eat either, other than a local strawberry jam occasionally. A jar lasts a year though...

Morning all. Not the most excellent night here in fact at 2am tried to post an 'i'm up too message' but the sodding site was down. LO was v upset this morning to go to nursery :(

DD1 ran off to the ball pool and didn't look back.

Sophia ice cream, crumble, crumble cake, cordial, wine, bramble jelly...

6:15-7:30. Calpol. Just need to sort out the nightly 4am screamfest now any tips or shall i post in Sleep?

PP we have the same at 4am usually. All we have found is music, dark room, milk and capol and cuddles.

We use this m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldI9XdIWQBQ&desktop_uri=/watch?v=ldI9XdIWQBQ as was given the album and it is lovely. We use it for every sleep to create an association. Don't know if it helps but it seems to calm L when it goes on.

I do dark room, white noise on Ewan and rub his back/hold his hand. Sometimes it works immediately sometimes he has to be left for increasing amounts of time till he's ready

Better than the 4 feeds a night i had a month ago, i guess...

Pidj there's not a specific food trigger for bad nights is there? It reminds me of Jonas' all night comfort feeds before his reflux / CMPI was dealt with. Ironically he sleeps much better on a medicine who's key side affect is insomnia!

I know some folks think CMPI is bollocks and dismiss as wind or over tiredness which is a bit galling when you've a baby coughing up blood but not all have symptoms as severe, and it could be another food in your / his diet rather than dairy. His sleep seems to be worse post weaning?

Ooh I forgot to gloat mention that I beat Luis at wwf last week. First time ever. Am running at a success rate of maybe 0.5%

If anyone is looking for clothes Boden are doing 20% off until the 12th using the code DIM5 at checkout. I've never used them but they sell baby clothes.

Sorry but I haven't been able to keep up with the thread so indiscriminate hugs / / and to those in need. I'm doing the MN low carb bootcamp at the moment so I'm off the which is a pain great for weight loss.

J's sleep, contrary to expectations, has got worse instead of better, even with egg completely out of his system and the reflux has consequently died down. DH and I are up several times a night with him for up to two hours at a time. It is now 300 days since I had a full night's sleep.

DH is away on business for a whole week from Friday then back for a few days then away for another full week so I'm going to be on my own for a lot of nights as well as having to organise DS1 and DS2 and manage the house move which is currently looking like it will be between those two weeks away. So tonight we start controlled crying as per this suggestion as there's no way I'll be able to get through the next few weeks on even less sleep than I'm currently getting. I really don't want to do it as I suspect J may have pain in the night but I don't see any other way. We did CC with DS1 and DS2 when they needed it but they didn't have these extended periods of crying in the middle of the night so it was straightforward sleep training with them. So now it's make or break time. At least DH is made of sterner stuff than me so it will be easier for him to go in to J without being unable to resist picking him up for a cuddle.

Makes sense stunt . I think not only you but LO will be better with good stretches of proper sleep. LO is always better after a good night. The odd wake up is fine, and normal. We all sometimes get thirsty during the night - I do. She went to bed early last night and woke up at two for a quick feed. She was doing her I'm hungry shout so I didn't quibble. But repeated wake ups and difficulty settling back down must be awful, and for both of you if you can find a way of managing it then life might start to slot into place again, iyswim.

Moooorning all!

Aww shucks, thanks guys

yw hope the solids avoidance has resulted in teef? Eric went right off food but seemed to be eating better yesterday and ate breakfast again this morning with teefs as a result

Good to know thanks eliza :) thought it would be weekly, or is it weekly once it's the 27th?

Gosh daisy wonder where he got that from?? E keeps scaring me to death ATM as he chews as he's crawling about and I keep thinking he's eating something he shouldn't! So far he hasn't but if I don't keep panicking and checking its guaranteed he will have something in his mouth that time!!

Eek pig that sounds horrendous!! Hope you managed to get some sleep in the end! Poor little piglet :(

Hope work goes ok det

Bless him gt that's so sweet! :) eeeeee so exciting!!! Not long now :D

Ooh well done mini-pidj! And mini pikz!

No idea what you can make sophia but nommomnom I love blackberries!! Sounds like sleeping is going well for o too :)

pr hope lo is ok today. Sounds like dd1 enjoys nursery then!

I hope it works/helps stunt it must be so sodding tough for you all I can't imagine :( sounds like you're going to be really busy the next fortnight or so too. Good luck with everything

Poor LO had another bad morning. We're going to slow down the adaptation process a little more....

Oh no ginger. Do they know what's causing it? Or nothing in particular?

Just prefers to be at home with mummy I think. This morning she was particularly distressed as another baby wouldn't stop crying. Am starting to think about resigning and staying at home with her full time and leaving DD1 in nursery. LO could try again next year. We're on week three and she is making progress but is weeks off doing full days. She fell asleep on her key worker this morning with pure exhaustion having cried for over two hours.

I know she could get there in the end if we persist, but it wouldn't necessarily be fair on her. Will reconsider at the end of next week. Going to keep going with at least half days until then. She would be better in a CM situation but (a) I can't afford one and (b) after the last experience I al not sure that I will trust another. Mine had the best reputation in the area and she was a real cunt, if you'll excuse my French.