November 2012 - Babies are getting busy, busy, busy

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

I have so advice but I wanted to come give Sophia a big hug, homemade banana bread and wine.

Pass I want to see P in her bling

Tooth number 7 just appeared.

yay for a full nights sleep stunt

((hugs)) brockle Hopefully its not redundancy, but I know its impossible not to worry.

sophia You have my sympathy. I have just been through similar with DD1 - although luckily with wees not poos. I have no idea what brought it on when she has been dry for months. I went with quiche advice and did the gently gently nicey nicey approach, lots of praise when she did it right and not too screechy when she pissed on the sofa and we seem to have come out the other side. I wish I knew what to suggest. You are not being a shit mum. It is apparently not uncommon for them to do this. Bloody frustrating though :(

glad E enjoyed the swimming Eliza

misslaugh I hate to say it, but i think the continually rolling at bedtime thing ends when they realise they can stand and they start doing that instead!!

Thanks for the eliza - the testing boundaries stage requires plenty of alcohol/caffeine. When does it end?!

Thanks all.

Tomorrow is another day. I will stay patient. Trek to the loo every half hour and hope we catch one in there. I suspect is a combination of tiredness and involvement/focus on what he is doing. Also they seem a little loose, I wonder if they are taking him by suprise a bit.

Anyway. misslaugh yep! the rolling is the start of it!

Night night all, let's hope for a positive 24 hours!

kirrin Glad your DD seems to be coming out of the wetting herself again stage. It's so weird how this happens after being dry for so long isn't it? Hopefully that's the end of it.

sophia sounds like a plan. I think lots of deep breaths tomorrow, take the softly softly approach and hopefully you'll see some results.

Night all.

Ello :)

Alive and kicking here.

Stupid work keeping me busy.

Starting to enjoy it again. Enjoy the job, hate everything else including several colleagues, who have now discovered that Detective grew big hairy balls and has put them in their places when they tried getting big bad and mean on me. :)

I like the confident assertive at work me. DP finds it amusing that I might not come across that way at work. I don't. I find confrontation/standing up for myself in the immediate face of an issue quite difficult. I hate bad feeling you see. But I seem to have lost that part of me recently .

I've been reading, throughout the day, but chances to post are less!

Just wanted to say we tried a new bedtime routine today. DP was at work and DS1 at his dads. So O had his dinner at 5.45 (bad mummy gave him a dippy egg, but he adored it...shhh!) then I got him ready for bed, gave him his meds, put him in the sleeping bag, and we cuddled up on the sofa to watch ITNG, while he had his bottle. He had half the bottle at the start of the programme, and the other half near enough as it was finishing. Then it was upstairs for teeth, and bed.

No problems. Worked beautifully. My intention was to make his milk earlier in the hope I could get more down him as he was pushing it away in favour of going to sleep. Also, I want to do his teeth after milk.

Will try it again tomorrow, and see how we get on. I'm aiming to get at least 15oz milk in him between his 2 feeds, plus milk in breakfast. He was beginning to either refuse the bedtime feed, or take just 2-3oz.

I love the fact he will sit quietly with me, cuddled up on the sofa. ITNG is the only time he will do this really.

So I figure it's not so bad. I don't have any issue with TV in moderation. :) I used to have free use of the TV as a child. Had one in my room etc. I watch very little TV now.

banana bungs R up a bit he's getting it every day atm to counter the teething poo would that help? At least make it easier to clean up

I kicked ass at kickboxing tonight. And finally got through to hmrc who told me i owed them £300 from a few years ago. They owe me from last year and as far as i can understand the heavily accented nice chap on the fellytone, they owe me more than i owe them :o I'm hoping for coffee and buns out of it, maybe even some nice non-boob-accessible clothes from Primark :o

Off to meet a friend tomorrow who has knitted R some longies, must remember to take his outgrown clothes, her ds is 8 hours older but shorter and I've some nice second hand to us Next etc for him as a thank you

What a day!

Soph it's not long till we will all be obsessed with potty training. Is there anything we should know about potty training now?
I do wash H hands every time we change a nappy. A good habit to learn. N with all the crawling makes sure his hands are not too dirty.

H still hates baths. Screamed the house down today. glad it was my mum n dad dealing with it

I think he is teething as he has been a right grump today. I had to put him down for nap as no one else could settle him. He has hardly eaten. He has been stuck to my dad like glue. And FH came to see him today, h refused to let go of my dad. FH made a joke of it. But think he was a lil upset at least he knows how I feel when H does it to me! And he tells me I'm over sensitive

I have loads to say/ask. But need to sleep. Will txt later in my daze of night feeding.

mm was it? With the dose of painkillers every evening? Youcan give painkillers ever six to eight hours, so if one dose every 24 hours over a few days is helping I wouldn't worry. Won't do any harm.

sophia I would guess, it being a poo, that it is attention seeking. He's a boy but a nb sized dolly with nb sized cheapo nappies got me through toilet training with dd1 and still helps now. Oh look, I need to with LO. Why don't you do whatever with your dolly. I'm convinced it helped give her a purpose. And now DD1 is toilet training her dolly. Sounds mad, but she demands a sweet for dolly every time dolly goes on the potty. I don't agree every time, not that stupid, but try and readwhen it would be appropriate. Dolly has been useful in toilet training and in don't-hit-the-baby training.

Det R isn't interested yet but i pop cbeebies on after lunch for a bit of quiet playing and books as part of our sort-of routine. I think down time is a good habit to be in :)

R has had nightly calpol for weeks now i told the dr when we went about his sore winky and he prescribed 5 bottles so i think x1 per day must be ok?

Or SnowfairyBoy :)

*For! Ffs, bedtime!

Oh, I didn't have to shout all evening. A record 12 hours including 7 hours of creche with no raised voice. Maybe dd1 is coming down with something...

I shove cbeebies on for the night hour. I'd put it on earlier but I love come dine with me so can't

I think the rules re painkiller dosage is up to five days at max dose before going to a doctor. Who will note it but say to keep going. A dose each eveningfor a while is fine.

det who really wants fully cooked eggs? I think if you can guarantee the quality of the ggs and they are fresh that's fine. I've been unfussed about non choking hazard post 12 month food for a while now. I have to be: nursery give them unpasteurised stinky cheese and paté.

Quiet night and morning. Hope that's a good sign.

Pl good tip for pull ups. H has been a nightmare during changes recently

I am literally a zombie this morning. Killer headache after an awful night sleep. Fed from 1.30 to 4.30.

Is it Wednesday ?

Fuck shit bollacks wanking fucking crap.

Morning all

Sorry GT, that's when milk production is at it's best it's all working well though if he's doing a good long feed like that

As I'm going to be a sahm i pondered training as a peer supporter if it's not expensive would i be shit?

Re post my list post.

Pp that's a fab idea! Why do u think you'd be shit.

Lets assess. What would you recommend lady with painful boob/nipple. Using a shield and using lansinoh.

I just wonder if I'm a bit too bossy!

I'd say, if it works use it. Bathe in lansinoh, and if you need shields at every feed so be it - baby's getting breast milk!

pp I'm not entirely sure what a peer supporter is, but all your posts here have been very constructive and supportive so seems like it could be for you. And it doesn't do anybody any harm to be a little bossed about now and then

Well I'm pleased to say DD1 has been better this morning. She's now at nursery and E is asleep so I'm basking in the silence.

Arrggh, F pulled a full cup of hot tea over himself this morning, in a frantic frenzy I stripped him of clothes and straight into a cool bath (cue more screaming at the cold) an ambulance trip to a&e and now a little bandaged arm and I think my heart rate is just dropping to normal 6 hours or so later.
Here is a warning - I put the drink on the dining room table, usually a safe out of reach zone - but a combination of growth and tippytoes and determination led to him getting the cup in the seconds my back was turned making his breakfast. So reassess your safe areas and make sure your cups of tea are up very very high! its been a very stressful day.

pp could be for you. Do you do it online or in person?

Success. We have had a poo on the toilet. Please let it continue. Am pleased you seem to be coming out of it kirrin it is so draining isn't it? You think you are all sorted then they regress completely.

My main potty training advice would be don't do it till you know they are really really ready. If your gut feeling after trying a couple of days is that they are not then don't be afraid to go back into nappies for a couple of months and then try again.

Potty training is my most hated thing ever. I dread it.

Very quiet here today. Os routine is all over the place at the mo because of settling in at nursery. He is doing ok there, can get a bit tearful but I think ok. DS1 doing brilliantly, I am getting lots of lovely comments. Feeling proud.

We are having a cosy afternoon at home to facilitate re potty training, it is freezing outside and has been blowing a gale, a man delivered the winters wood so he have banked up the wood burner and done some crafts. I have out O to bed for an hours illegal snooze while DS 1 plays with his poo prize and I sit down to actually catch up on a bit of Alan Tichmarsh News

Poor old you ditsy it happened to us the other week, though we didn't need to go to a&e. Like you I thought the coffee was out of reach.

Hope he recovers so, am sure he will. Xx

Nothing like a 50min feed with no MN connection to cheer u up.