March 2013 - 6 months down, 210 to go!

[StormyBrid]

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Keep on rambling, ladies, we have a whole new thread to fill!

Morning all. You will note I have omitted the good, as I fail to see anything good about the torrential rain we are experiencing. Unless you are a newt, which none of us are, so that was a helpful comment. Not.

Stormy great stuff, sounds like mini-storm has got the hang of snack free sleeping. Life improves no end when the small people work that one out. Had a good night here too, despite the stomach issues. A couple of squeals at 4am and 6am, but nothing a cuddle couldn't sort which cheered me up no end.

Eco I'm so glad you've found a National Park willing to take you . Hope you get the weather for it. I'll heed your warning on the joys of babies sharing a motor home and never ever do a road trip. Shouldn't be hard. DH is a creature wedded to the idea of hot showers, central heating and clean clothes. I'd call him a wuss, but that would be rude he's a wuss

Yup, I'll hold my hand up to having been uncharacteristically miserable of late. It's the tummy trouble to be honest, I'm feeling a bit helpless. I'm also feeling a bit guilty as I have the world's worst digestion, and seem to have passed it on. It's rubbish, picking your food on the basis of what will make you feel least ill afterwards. I've never enjoyed eating, and consider stomach pain a normal part of life. I didn't want that for the worselet. I have good points. I'd rather she inherited those! But there's no point moping about, better to just do something about it, so it's prunes a plenty, and I'll try the massage you recommended.

SoYo I salute you. Having had very little sleep over the past couple of weeks I have no idea how you have coped with an unbroken 7 month stint. I hope the sleep training works for you.

Plonky it would indeed have been hilarious had you invited your nearest and dearest round for an arse unveiling. I suspect they'd have all been terribly British about it.... until they got home.... at which point

Interesting lunch here today. Chicken, sweet potato and leek casserole thing cooked without salt, herbs, spices, stock or in fact anything that might elevate it to appetising. What it lacks in taste it will make up for in it's perfect nutritional balance and suitability for tiddlers. Hopefully.

I'm not exactly sure when an apostrophe became a correct addition to the possessive form of it .... I believe never, but based on my post above

Grammar police. Shoot me now.

Morning all,

Last night was very similar to the night before. She went down from awake beautifully in 10mins, woke an hour later but a 5 min sit in and she was asleep. Screaming at 11.30 for 30mins but DH did the shushing that time and got there in the end and then wide awake for a feed at 5.30. I managed to get her back to sleep but only for 30mins so then she came in with me for a wee cuddle. This is all such an improvement from a few nights ago. If we could kick the midnight wake it would be amazing but only time will tell.

Wors, hopefully the tummy trouble is temporary. Lots of small ones develop intolerances to wheat, gluten etc that they then grow out of by 2 so hopefully mini-Wors will be attacking and enjoying food with gusto forever!

Well done on the night weaning Stormy.

Eco I'm so glad you're still getting some of your holiday. Plus I hear the Grand Canyon is overrated.

And that's as far back as I can scroll! Sorry!

Have a lovely Sunday everyone, I'm just about to crack on with a roast chicken dinner....yummy yummy!

eco I found Monument Valley far more WOW than the Grand Canyon, although the colours of the layers are pretty.

Glad the nights seem to be settling down for more if us now. DD went without a murmur till 6 when I gave her a quick feed and then back down till 8 (late for her). She only had a 20 min nap on my shoulder in church this morning so has had 3 hours sleep this afternoon

worse, I'm glad the walk helped the other day (yesterday? Friday??). We're still pretty rain-free apart from a shower up here (unusual for the NW

Oops better go. DH has made his legendary carbonara. Drool.

Well ds has had a lovely day. Slept in the cot Til friggin 7am! For a baby who has routinely woken for a 5am cuddle for the past three months this is an incredible feat. I do hope it's not just a blip. So he had cuddles and a bottle while we slept dozed and watched the f1, weed all over daddy, ate everything in the fridge and played Chucking Bits Off The Highchair.

He's also started to take tentative steps when standing (obviously we have to hold his hands. This balance thing is for losers). Having rolled over a grand total of six times in two months, this smacks of running before he can walk. Literally.

Ooh Wing carbonara you say? Room for a fat bastard small one?

Worse I'm with you on praying the dcs don't inherit my rubbish digestion. Or hearing. I swear I'll have a hearing aid before I'm 30. Though I think their guts are still maturing so digestive issues are bound to occur. How was the casserole? Is it bad that I read your post and thought it sounded yummy?

And next time I promise to get an arse tattoo. Just for you .

Shit, I think I just flirted with Worse.

Hahahaha

Well done to plonkobaby, on both sleeping and walking!

So, we got one of those bath seats for DD to use in the big bath. The man tried it out yesterday, and complained it was hard to get her in and she couldn't splash. I tried it this evening, and couldn't get her in it at all. She does a good starfish manoeuvre. Sans seat, she had an awesome splash. So that was fifteen quid wasted.

To whoever it was that asked: yes, I'm being a bit less healthy at weekends. But I figure a cream bun on Saturday is fine if it means I don't have one on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. My dad is not helping though. He keeps making me seriously tasty loaves of bread, and I just can't resist it.

Evening all. Another shocker of a night here, but I've had a lovely day with my mum and sis at the knitting and sewing exhibition doing something really cool. DH, however, on his first full day in charge, had a shocker. Apparently she screamed all day. Now, DH is prone to exaggeration, but actually I kind of believe him considering when I got home she was asleep, but doing those sad little 'I've been crying for hours' hiccups in her sleep. God only knows what the problem was. I'm voting a combination of tummy/teeth/separation/tiredness. DH of course is now really down on himself and thinks it was all his fault.

I'm going to start some kind of sleep training tomorrow. Not sure what is the best way of tackling the hourly wake ups for dummy returns though. Any ideas?

Vj my suggestion would be to ditch the dummy No seriously though, I don't know I'm afraid. :( Can you stop doing it and see if DD will self-settle without? It's the sort of thing I'd start a thread on in sleep or behaviour probably to see what the rest of the vipers MN think.

Sorry plonky, DD ate the last bit of the carbonara! And I think you and worse need to get a room
Thanks too for giving me your DS's milk intake. Not sure what to do about DD. Again today she had boob at 6am then half a boob feed at 11ish but was actually just v tired and fell asleep and no more milk until her bottle at 7pm. She ate tons though and is sleeping so much better at night so I don't think she's not getting enough food but I would like her to have more milk...

No suggestions from me re: the dummy, vj. We found a great improvement when DD figured out how to put it in herself though. Now the main issue is she drops the dummy and then goes breakdancing down to the other end of the cot, and then can't reach it. We've taken to basically ignoring her when this happens, although prolonged "Can't reach my dummy, thumb isn't cutting it, also I happen to be on my tummy, wtf is wrong with the world?" noises will eventually prompt me to go in, flip her over, and fish out the dummy from wherever it's ended up.

The other week, when I was being a dirty stop-out and didn't get home from my dad's until 5am, was a bit of an eye opener on the dummy thing. Up until then she'd pretty consistently woken and needed it returning around 4.30am. That night I wasn't home, the man didn't realise I wasn't home, and so she was left to her own devices. Actually went back to sleep surprisingly quickly, and it's since then we've started leaving her to it. She's also shown more of an interest in her own thumb since then. Possibly realising it's a suitable substitute in an emergency?

So, my advice would be just leave her to it and see if she sorts herself out. Use your own judgement when it comes to deciding whether she sounds okay or whether she's working herself up into a strop, but make sure you give her the opportunity to figure out how to sort herself out by herself. Then just cross your fingers, stick your head under your pillow, and hope for the best!

I spoke too soon. Hourly screaming battles. Bugger.

Persist, SoYo. You know she can do this. You've just got to demonstrate that this is how things are now, and screaming won't change that.

Not in the same league, but Fartypants woke up before 6am and has been talking to herself, loudly, ever since. Argh.

Plonky best offer I've had in ages , although if you're thinking of inking 'for worse' on one butt cheek, it might be an idea to balance it up with 'for better' on the other. Just to see your DP's reaction like

You were right about the casserole though, it was yummy. Bloody yummy in fact. I was stunned, yummy does not normally fall within my repertoire. I must try a bit more of the bunging various components in a casserole dish and leaving them to it style of cookery, as the effort to result ratio is really quite pleasing.

on the bad nights. I have no idea re dummy returns but logic would suggest gradually weaning them off them. How that is done is beyond me though, so that's helpful. Not. Just to balance the equation we had the first unbroken night in ages here, which was a god send. Not sure why the change, given there is still no nappy, but who am I to question it. I'm just hoping for another one (and a nappy).

Speaking of which I'm even adding prune juice to her bottles now. Something has got to work. Soon. Hopefully. GP tomorrow if nothing though as this is a little beyond normal adjustment trouble imo.

Looking out of the window I think it will be a lovely bright dry day. Yay. that's me happy

Morning all

Soooo much to catch up on.

Well done on sleep training soyo and stormy. Glad you have seen an improvement. We have gone down to 4 scoops of milk in 6oz bottle and continues to wake at the same time. Considering ds is not waking up more at night due to diluted milk is suggesting to me hes waking up out of habit.

worse dont feel guilty about digestive problems worselet has. She is justbtrying to get used to tge transition to more solids than milk. Our nappies have certainly changed. Ds pooh has turned to rabbit droppings. Whilst changing ds turned to crawl away from me and a poo rolled on to my bed. I cried. I certainly didnt want to deal with that first thing in the morning.

vj sorry not much advice on dummy returns. Although i have done what stormy has done before and found ds was able to settle himself without a dummy. However i have felt so guilty thinking he must have been so exhausted struggling to find his dummy that he fell asleep. As stormy says only you can judge if your baby is sooo distressed she needs her dummy or maybe after a couple of whimpers she can settle herself.

stormy admittedly it had been a struggle to get ds into the seat but once you have found the technique its very useful to have. I try to rest ds on one arm whilst trying to get the legs through with my other hand.

plonky well done on walking. Next will be the refusal to sit down.

eco sorry about the closures. Your trip sounds amazing still. Meeting about work was rubbish. Extra work same pay. I think part time is the way forward if it is accepted.

Because you are the only people who might actually be interested.... prune juice in the milk works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you were.

Bet you never imagined you could get so very excited about poo, worse.

Don't know what's got into DD today. She's just eaten almost an entire pot of 4m+ pureed fruit! She was opening her mouth when she saw the spoon and everything! Is this what it's like to have a baby who understands the concept of food?

Great poo news worse and Worselet. Things will seem even more sunny now.
We just dealing with fourth wake up tonight. It might be the cold. Poor baby. We'll be back to desert soon with opposite problem. BAd parents.
ANd wing, yes, monument valley rocked! Awesome.

Hi all .

mini farmer still has No teeth but I'm sure i will know all about it when they do eventually decide to appear .
no crawling here yet but he can roll from one side of room to the other in a flash he's also fantastic at moving backwards ay a spectacular spead !
I've also been wondering about mini farmers milk intake , he has 150 ml in with his porridge and then approx 120 ml at around 11pm .i offer milk during day but he's not interested.
sips of water through out the day .

he now has a cold again this is his second in the last 4 weeks but done well getting to 6 months before he had a first cold

we spent a lovely day on the beach yesterday eating yummy ice cream it was beautiful and sunny .

hmm hearing aids i have 2 and I'm always loosing
them !

How do i upload pics to mumsnet profile ?

Hope everyone is ok ,

Christi x

Christi I think they're supposed to be on a pint (ish) of milk a day, so you're around 298 mls shy bloody working in the drinks industry The only reason milk should be hus main drink is still is because its fortified with lots of goodies and easy to digest, so perhaps a trip to the gp to get a supplement? I presume you just put drops in the bottle.

Worse that'll go with my love and hate knuckles, spiderweb knees and teardrop cheeks. If I ever have to do time I'm gonna get tatted rate up. Yay for poo! I love that were all cheering dirty nappies.

Stormy when you say talking to herself, how loud is it? Loud enough to put you off going for number two? You have my sympathy though. In fact anyone getting woken before 7am deserves a big pat on the back and lots of . I mean .

Well I am going to have a great big glass on Pinot tonight. We had ds's first nursery session today. It was short and sweet, were easing him in gradually over the next 9 days (4 short sessions). My god I was a snot faced mess afterwards. And then, like the twat (sorry) I am, I decided to go to effing IKEA afterwards to buy a sodding throw and scatter cushions and god knows what else.

Consoling self with miniature daim bars.

I must not go on a massive feminist rant at FIL. I mustn't. Deep healing breaths. Argh. Why is he splashing his misogyny over my facebook wall? Why does he think putting a smiley at the end makes it okay? Aaaargh!

christi I'll second the suggestion to talk to an expert about vitamins and so on. Plonky beat me to the numbers, but I know they're meant to have 300ml of full fat cows' milk from a year old, and you're not even at that. Don't go panicking yourself though, if he's growing and healthy and regularly producing something that should be outlawed in his nappy he's probaby doing fine.

Speaking of criminal nappies, we just had another explodey-back one. Had all that lovely puree at 2pm, and at 3.30 I struggled even to get five flozzes down her. Gave up and left her watching Perfection and beating up Mr Scrunchy Caterpillar while I nipped out for a fag. Came back to a particularly eggy aroma. After a full strip and change she was quite happy to finish her milk off, so I'm guessing bum-related drama was putting her off. Good thing too, as I spent the entirety of that fag wondering how to cope if every mouthful of mush is going to mean less milk drunk.

christi are you on a computer or a phone? No idea how to upload photos on a phone. On a computer, scroll right up, there's a purple button that says "My mumsnet" in the top right. Hover over that and select "my photos", and it's pretty self explanatory from there. Just make sure to set your profile to viewable by everyone, because the default setting doesn't let us see photos.

Plonky there's a thought, with two of the buggers they'll be talking to each other when I'm trying to sleep, won't they? I well recall sharing a room with my sister when I was little, and my brother forever thumping on the wall and shouting at us to shut up so he could go to sleep. Hmm. I shall ponder that one.

Damn, I want a Dime bar now. It would distract me from the urge to rant like a crazy person at FIL.

Went to visit a friend today who has a 6 day old baby - I was worried it might make me broody despite my determination to stick with DD but as it turned out it had the opposite effect! Yes she was cute and tiny but they are just blank sleepy things at that age and my friend looked so exhausted by the whole thing. I looked at DD (who was trying to grab everything in sight!) and was grateful she is well passed that stage and is turning into her own little person.

vj let us know if you come up with a solution for weaning off dummy or at least night time dummy replacements. We have similar issues here!

Sorry i didn't explain properly its only the last couple of days he's not been intrested in his usual quota of milk which is usually between 500-600mls per 24 hr along with his 3 meals per day .
I'm putting it down to him having the cold . He is still having his 3 meals per day.
yes he has approx 3 lovely big stinky nappies per day and plenty wet ones so I'm not worried .

I use my phone for mumsnet etc ... its a pain in the bum i can hardly see the writing its so small !
Thanks for explaining how to load pics
Christi x

I wouldn't worry too much Christi. Madam really went off her milk and just messed about on the boob when she was ill. She was soon back to normal.

Thanks Soyo :-)

I was pointed in the direction of these

Love You Forever .. by Robert Munsch. Poem

On The Night You Were Born .. by Nancy Tillman.Book

See what yous think :-)

Christi x