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

Wasn't worried as such.

Am on the

Good luck for the night shift Det

My dad's 2 year old lab already has arthritic legs, poor thing.

Yay for nursery settling pikz! That must be such a relief for you.

Hats off to anyone who regularly has to deal with difficult bedtimes. I stupidly let O have a 2 hour nap from 2-4pm today and he just wasn't tired at bedtime so it took ages and I found it really stressful.

I had to work so left R with my parents. Expected to get back at 7 to grumpy overtired baby demanding cuddles. Actually got back to baby slumbering peacefully in his car seat. So i strapped him in, still asleep. Drove home, still asleep. Put him in his cot. Still asleep

First time i haven't done a bedtime feed although nice to know he's able to cope :) but still he's getting all big and grown up and independent

It is weird pp. I find myself utterly torn between heart bursting joy and pride when I see p grow and just a tiny bit sad.

What I am currently loving though is the new fondness she has for running full pelt into my arms for massive cuddles. It is adorable. Earlier she sat on my lap with her chin on my shoulder for ages. At one point she looked up then turned her face right into my neck. For a wee person not keen on being still it was a rare treat.

Enjoy the pr. Personally, I think wine tastes best on a Monday.

P has been fine the last two bedtimes actually after my major panic. I do wonder if we should try to tackle it sooner rather than later though.

Ah well.

DH is currently writing a journal of our holiday from p's point of view. It is lovely.

Awww Pass your DH sounds lovely - I love the idea about P's journal!

Pass your DH sounds completely lovely! What a sweet thing to do.

He's a bliddy softie!

That is ridiculous. I was bidding on another ELC castle on eBay which retails new for £30. The bidding is now about £36 granted there are 4 or 5 extra peeps included by still. Stupid.

Sophia that is silly

Pass I love that idea! Your DH sounds lovely. Dp has entire conversations making up what L is saying when he babbles and I love it!

Chasing how is the flirting?

Good luck at work det.

I am in bed. So painful to swallow that I can't sleep. These antib better kick in sharpish. I am fed up with feeling properly rotten. Small person is also fed up of not having a elf dancing crazy mummy.

YW the walk sounds lovely! How was your run?

MM crossing everything for you on the job front.

PP it's scary how quick they grow isn't it!

Chasing we had about 3 weeks of hellish bedtimes. Ended up letting him stay up to 8/9pm as it was such a fight. We now probably get 1 in 10 of those and the rest are fine. No solution sorry

MM IMO you can be as unreasonable as you like to your P.

Flirting is fun. Already had one message calling me beautiful which is always nice to here. Chatting to another guy at the moment. It's a nice distraction - much better than my original plan for tonight which involved doing much the same as last night [hmmm]

much better then chasing!

Hopefully you will be back to full pan pipe mode soon pikz!

mm I'm trying not to comment on your OH issues but I really do agree with chasing

I am very thankful for gazelle who unknowingly got me through a v difficult conversation today.

Got to nursery today and LO was still asleep. At 5pm. I said go and wake her. But she needed to sleep, they said, can't you wait? I waited 15 minutes and then said we have to wake her. No-one (her or nursery workers) were best pleased but, just because I am on sick leave do they think I have hours to waste?

So she went down at 8 and DD1 at 9. Not too bad.

Dinner was yum.

Today was so horrible I am focussing on comfort food. Tomorrow I think a roast chicken is in order.

With hellish bedtimes I choose not to fight. They will knacker themselves out but once they are past a certain time -8 pm for LO and 9pm for DD1 I ignore them. They can play, run or crawl around, but it is my time, as long as they are safe of course. DD1 ends up taking herself to bed and LO, on the rare occasions it gets to that just drops off wherever. The last four weeks or so that has worked, except when we had people here Saturday. When they do show they want to sleep, ie dd1 goes to bed or LO shows sleepiness in her own way they get lots of cuddles and reassurance while we settle them. And an ounce or two of milk for LO.

PR tonight I am very thankful for you. A comment from you on my fb thread this morning helped me to pull myself together and actually get through the day.

Oh well chasing I am glad it helped. It wasn't a get a grip comment, I hate that expression, but if what I said helped then my day has been a success after all. I hope you feel better this evening, flirting or not

You just reminded me that actually I am strong. If I were weak I wouldn't be where I am now. You made me see that . Off to bed for me now, I have hardly slept a wink the past couple of nights.

Good! You are massively strong. Sleep, love, sleep in the knowledge you are a kick ass inspiration

Where did we leave the sleep dusting planes we used earlier this year? I need a good sprinkle. A is being a Velcro nipple munching baby feel like all ice done is feed him since 7pm.

Oh by the by. H still screams like crazy when going into the shower. I think it stems from Fh putting him under the shower after a pooexplotion. he screamed all the way through. FH is a prat.
But how do I undo this fear. Sis played with H with a big bowel of water. Loads of new bath toys. Then put bath toys in bath. He was fine until they tried to put him in the bath. In the end they held him in bath as well as they could n just chucked water over him.
What else can I try?

Gt - sending a plane with some sleep dust in over now. Dd went through a scared of water patch. Me bathing with her got her out of it. Might be worth a try?

gt I think showers can be quite scary for small ones all of mine hated the shower and now the girls will shower but only since she was 7. A bath is more gentle.

Rubbish night started off ace, keep fat, hit shower, shag then I dropped off, tote the back security light went on and woke me up and then it looked like a light shone in the window directly opposite. So I felt scary. Then my phone rang, in the middle of night. Unknown number. I was proper shaking. Then a text revealed it was my stepbrother's blue tooth playing up. Grr. I wonder if the second light was a mail or something coming in on ?DHs iPad.

Poo nights sleep anyway!

....when DShad a scared of the bath patch I called it the "wash down" from Thomas the tank engine. Shallow water quick in and out. Keep with the new toys and it should pass.

Morning
I just thought i'd pop in to say these people are looking for babies around our age for a pilot study. The main study is one of those long term ones - 7 up/ child of our time style idea

www.lifestudy.ac.uk/homepage

Just in case anyone is interested in that sort of thing.
I cannot believe F is nearly 1. DH is on paternity leave still but that comes to an end v soon. I haven't had much of a look-in here since going back to work as it was fairly full om for a while. It's calmed down again now and hopefully will stay that way.

Hope everyone else is ok, particularly Gt baby who i saw on facebook with 2 (!). might try and have a catch up later when dh at football

Hi jims Study looks interesting,will have a read properly when on the laptop later.

Sophia I ak easily scared but that would have properly freaked me out! We arent exactly isolated here but I felt much safer living on the outskirts of a rough bit of a city centre than in this 'crime free' ex PM security trawled village!

P must have taken my unreasonableness to heart as he is taking me to choose a new car today

Morning. Had a good night and I did so much yesterday that my to do list for today is just one phone call and load the dishwasher. So I have got a book and taken myself back to bed for the morning. There was a ridiculous amount of rain last night and guess who left the car window open. Fortunately one with no child seat next to it. Phew. Else there would have been tantrums all round this morning. As it was it was just me who threw a paddy :)