November 2012 - Babies are getting busy, busy, busy

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1858262-November-2012-In-which-the-babies-start-to-reach-their-first-birthdays

Great news pikz !

I have just found Matilda in the dog's cage. I went upstairs for literally 2 minutes.

Other misdemeanours today include:

removing and feeding the dog the corner protectors
climbing ON TO the sofa when my back was turned
removing all of the magnets from the fridge
licking her finger then the dust on the tv then her finger again, over and over pretending this one didn't happen
removing the valve caps from TWO radiators

Can I have an immobile baby again please?

We also walked to the vets and back (a good 40 min round walk) to find they were shut for a 3 hour lunch

Pikz seems like he must be having fun!

Mm love the key board warrior... Why do they like our toys more then their own?

M has croup. Well he said he thought she might be too young for croup but then said viral infection of vocal chords which is basically croup and sent DH with a fact sheet on croup.
Typically her breathing and cough was loads better at the drs but went horrible again after. We've got a prescription for a steroid just in case but he doesn't think we'll need it.
I'm going to get it from the chemist anyway as she's worse today then yesterday, so I think she'll be worse tonight than last night.
She's happy enough though, just cuddly and keeps having a whinge.

She hasn't had a proper nap today so thinking of driving to my mums with the hope she naps in the car

fatima that sucks. Glad you're on top of it these things can turn nasty.

mm1 I also long for the days of immobile babyness. LO keeps trying to climb on to the coffee table. I am traumatised by DD1 doing that just a few months later and falling off headfirst. The floor is wood now not tiled, so it wouldn't be as scary, but still.

We're at the oh look, I can let go but still stay standing if I flap my arms enough for three seconds then i fall on my fortunately padded arse phase.

Hope she perks up soon fatima that sounds rotten.

You are doing ace gt you gave got loads further than I did. Proud of you. Xx

All my holding, being cut off when holding and having to start again ended in them saying my original comany won't insure me in NI, but it's OK because LV will and they are neatly double what I am oaying now. So I said FO and I am left trawling around fir car insurAnce again. Will I get a proportion of my money back for having to end early?

Fatima sounds well organised, hope you can make the most of a snuggly afternoon

Hmrc wrote saying i owe them £600 in underpaid tax that the jobseekers miscalculated. Finally got through this afternoon. Now they owe me money, apparently. I just wanted to know how to pay it off, not being a tax payer. Result!

Dp is on his way home from Yorkshire collecting a car he earned another V last night though. Got in from work, i said I'm sure I've forgotten to do something but I'm tired and and need a sit down, he looked horrified and said "but you've done loads!" Correct answer, MrPidj :o

What a nightmare Sophia. Try some of the supermarkets, after much stressing, Sainsbury's were cheapest by about £200 this year for me, and that included business use which the others didn't.

Penny (I think?) do not take out a SME cert. I did, after some dodgy advice from HMRC, and wound up only getting £30 a week MA. DESPITE making voluntary NI contributions and cancelling it the day I went over the threshold

PR we are at that stage too . She can crawl inside our coffee table (it has a little ledge). She has just pulled my string of heart lights off the fireplace, sending photo frames and candles flying everywhere. She is very pleased with herself. Good luck to my sister who is having her this afternoon, I am going to work for a rest!!!!

Ooh I ordered Next clothes for DD1 on saturday and it has just arrived. Free and fast delivery right on the edge of France. I say that's pretty damn amazing.

SME? small earnings exception!

Bah this mean Mummy has just yelled at the pup and the baby . they were taking the washing off the airer faster than I could put it on and running / crawling off with it and I lost my rag (after a long day of washing, cooking, cleaning and hoovering with their 'help'). Jonas looked so surprised and then his bottom lip quivered and he was bawling. He's asleep on me now giving me a great big cuddle so I feel like a total ratbag! God I can't wait for DH to get in from Aberdeen. I'm off to sort out a cleaner as soon as the bear wakes - life is too short to get pissy over house work and I don't want his memories of his childhood to be of a grumpy Mum yelling 'no' at him in a Stepford Wives house (ha as if my house is that clean!) Is it o'clock yet?

GT yep if he's only fed for 10 minutes on one side I'd be inclined to offer it again at the next feed to make sure he's drained it. I think most of us still BF had pretty shakey starts - J and I had jaundice, tongue tie, top ups, thrush, over supply and then the cows milk / reflux issues. But if you put the leg work in and let him build your supply in the early days - it will all come right if you want to keep it going. I love nursing J now - it's a calm bonding time when he's happy to cuddle and take a break from trashing the house / tormenting the pets.

Lily awesome news on the hip!

Bryz wah that's scary when DH and I met (at work) our company made heaps of folks redundant and our grades were those under review - it was a scary time (and convinced us it was too risky to both work for the same company) I hope its good news x

YW i have been very shouty with both of them today Matilda just rolls her eyes and laughs at me now

www.troublesometots.com/

Sorry posted too soon - that was the link for Brockle.

Self indulgant post alert.

Maybe I should post on the loads of shit everywhere thread.

I alluded to an issue I was having with DS1 last week. After being potty trained and all fine and dandy for months he has started shitting himself. Sorry to be so blunt, but I just feel blunt. I do not know what to do. I have tried the kind approach but it us not working. I gave got him a reward for shitting on the toilet, but unless he does I can't reward him. Everyday I gave to clean up the shit. And O can shit for the Northern hemisphere. So I feel like I am up to my elbows in it.

I feel like a shit mum because I can not get him to relocate his shit to the loo.

This always happens after tea, then he is just a maniac racing around, not calming down, not standing still. I now think he is picking up on my stress.

So today I thought, right I will toilet every half an hour, like when I was originally training him, from just before tea till when he poos and we wil catch it.

YES WE WILL

So what did he do?

He did it at 3. At his aunts. And she had to deal with it.

I don't know what to do and am having a very low self esteem moment, shit at being a mum and just about everything else.

Woe is shitty old me.

Sophia this does not make you a shit mum, all children throw these curve balls at us in one way or another. You will come through this challenge like you have every other one.
Can you do half hour toilet trips all day if necessary like originally potty training, go back to complete basics?

Oh heavens. sophia I know nothing about toilet training but I can tell you are at the very end of your tether.

Break it down.

Why would a wee boy shit his pants? Fear? Anxiety? Attention? Laziness? Lack of readiness? Likes the sensation?

Did he like going into big boy pants? Is he over busy and forgets?

I second your idea of revisiting th toilet every half hour or so until he regets it. It seems a bit like he thought it was ok as an idea but didn't see it as a long term thing. He maybe needs more time to take on board the fact that toilets are forever!

And for fuck sake woman! You are as far removed from a shit mum as is possible. You are patient and lovely. Give yourself a break and accept that children are little animals

So. Today in the sunny south of France . . .

P mainly wore a horrid diamanté vest bought by her granny
We walked about 6 miles up hill
I drunkenly admitted to thinking I would "have on another baby in a heartbeat"

Not a bad day all in all

Stop press: dairy free cakes on Bake Off right now!!

Sophia you are super mum in my mind. As pass suggests, there are numerous reasons for his step back; your parenting skills are not one of them. Go easy on yourself xxx

Evening everyone.

GT it’s so wonderful to hear you sounding more positive and confident about bf. Me and F had our fair share of troubles too, but I am so glad I worked through them as I really enjoyed feeding her. I too was too lazy to even contemplate getting out of bed at night to prepare a bottle lol.

Chasing I can’t remember if I said or not, but well done on the first driving lesson. And well done on not hitting anyone

Bry I hope the meeting isn’t what you fear it is.

Boo to illness Fatima - hope poor M is feeling back to her usual self before too long. And MM I am glad to hear there’s a visible toothy reason for the poor sleep of late….which leads me on to the miracle that is J sleeping through stunt - you must be delighted! Well done J! Now just to repeat that a little more often, and share the secret with izzys little man.

Pass glad to hear you’re having a lovely time - is the weather holding out for you? Sounds as though it might be if you managed such a lovely long walk. Any chance of a wee picture of P in the snazzy vest??!

Sophia not a clue I’m afraid, but (((hugs))) and I hope someone comes up with a bright idea for you soon. It sounds really shit rubbish.

Only one thing to say from today. F self settled at bedtime . This has not happened for A Very Long Time. It was not without some hysteria, and jack-in-the-boxing, but I left her to it, tried not to cry myself, tried not to let dh cry (clearly we’re both wimps) and within 15 minute she was zzzzing

Oh, and eliza how did Es swimming lesson go? I hope she enjoyed every minute of it.

Oh Sophia, another one here who has no experience of toilet training yet but just wanted to send you a ((( ))). Maybe a separate thread about your problem might get you new ideas?

So we're VERY late to the rolling party. Babylaughalot only rolled for the first time last week (at 10 months) and now she can't stop. 80 mins in her cot so far and all she's doing is rolling herself around and banging her head on the bumpers. Does the novelty wear off? She's tird, rubbing her eyes, but rolling, rolling, rolling. I don't feel like she's ever going to go to sleep tonight. Aaarrrrggghhh!

The novelty does wear off laughalot but then it's on to the next trick....

She's now overtired and screaming her head off. I hate not knowing if it's teething or not. I've given her Calpol or Calprofen every night for the last couple of weeks now if my hazy sleep deprived brain is serving me correctly. I don't want to give it to her if it's unnecessary, but don't want her to be suffering either

I'm sure our neighbours must think I'm just leaving her to cry when I'm actually sat here and she's screaming anyway. Oh well, one more week and we move!

bplp E's lesson went well thanks for asking. She did cling to me for dear life though but I remember her doing this on holiday until she was used to the water and then she was fine so I think it's just a question of building up her water confidence. I don't think she's going to be a mermaid like her big sis but hopefully she will at least come to enjoy the water and be confident in it.

sophia I'm so sorry I really don't know what to suggest. Sounds like an awfully shit situation, pardon the pun. I'd be at the absolute end of my tether. I was bad enough when DD1 went through a weeing herself fase, not sure how I'd cope with shit. It sounds like it could be an attention seeking thing to me. And you are not a shit mum, it is nothing that you are doing or not doing that's causing this.

I can join the shouty mum brigade tonight. DD1 had me literally tearing my hair out by the end of the night. She's being so obstinate lately. She literally will not do one single thing that she's asked to do without it ending in a battle. I know she's just testing the boundries and her independance blah blah blah but jeez it is absolutly infuriating. DH is off to spain yet again this weekend and I am just really not looking forward to having to deal with her all the time. What a horrible thing to say about your own daughter!! Still, I'm off to meet some of my old work friends tomorrow night so will drown my sorrows and hopefully the break will do me a bit of good.

Sounds like there are a lot of us having to deal with various crappy child releated issues. Better dish out loads of and here's some [coffee] for the non drinking ones amongst us. Cheers!