The 7th Broadly Gemini Luxury Bus - Now with highchairs!

[AGnu]

Old thread here

Bibs at the ready, things are about to get very messy!

Oh bring! Look after yourself!

Just checking in to say I'm still alive... I think! I'm getting the same bug as the DCs & Runt is wanting to use me as a dummy for 3 hours straight every afternoon. I feel like he's sucking the life out of me! I have no energy to do anything. I couldn't even cook pasta for dinner last night because Runt was attached to me & screamed if I put him down. I just want a couple of hours by myself! This whole parenting lark really isn't easy for an introvert! Melodramatic self pity party is this way...

Hugs and sympathy for all you sickly bugs this evening, poorly children are hard but if your not well aswell... Ugh big sympathys! Agnu don't know how you do it without a tv
Pear I'm going to join you

Kitty ~ it was sooooo good :-)

OK so baby pear is now on Lactolose 2x a day. The constipation might be the reason why he's waking in pain a lot

Lots of nasty bugs. Hope everyone feels better soon

SOoooo much better tonight than last night and infinitely better than the night before that. Thank the 21st century for antibiotics. It was pneumonia and the fever was outrageous. Still coughing like an old smoker but thank f*ck the fever is gone.

Poor baby pear. Hopefully his little tummy starts to feel better!

How ya holding up agnu? Oh my life. Being touched-out by a sick kid is a bit torturous after a while. Hopefully your house is healing!

Just in case you haven't see it, This is 40 is like, quite honestly THE funniest movie that I've seen in my adult life. I can't stop laughing. Wine out the nose really hurts, in case you were wondering.

Pneumonia is so miserable. I had it just 7 years ago and I was flattened by it. I was off work for a month, and at its worst I couldn't make it to the en suite bathroom to pee and back again to bed without coughing so much I'd be sick. I couldn't lie down flat for about a week and couldn't lie on my right side for about 3 weeks. Misery. I was left so weak and breathless for a few weeks after the infection cleared.

Hope you're nowhere near as bad as that but get well soon.

Wow - pneumonia sounds horrific! Hope you heal quickly bring!

I'm doing much better now. Runt has decided that afternoons are for sleeping solidly now rather than feeding! The last 2 days he's slept for 6 hours & gone about 7.5 hours between feeds! No idea what's going on with him right now! Oh well, I shall enjoy the peace while it lasts! This new routine does seem to involve him waking me up at 5, pretending he's thinking about settling again & changing his mind every 5 minutes until I eventually give up & feed him at 6 so it's not all perfect!

His attitude to food is v different to his big brother. By 17 weeks Calf was obsessively staring at us whenever we were eating & took to being spoon-fed right from the first mouthful. Runt, on the other hand, is 20 ish? weeks & spits any food straight out & gets cross if I try to feed him more than 2 spoonfuls! He does seem to quite like one sippy cup though. He nearly drowned himself trying to suckle from a tommee tippee basic beaker but we've got another one with a valve in that he enjoys guzzling water from. Absolutely won't have any food though... Unless it's homemade tomato sauce. That went down quite well. "Quite well" in this case means he had about 3 tiny mouthfuls before shouting to be breastfed.

Oh no lor that's awful! That is the true definition of SICK. Thank you (ps, the cake looks heavenly. I just really want some cake right now....). My voice is starting to do something funky now too. Been coughing all day. I feel like that gross, sick, coughy kid from the daycare .

Haha, I like 20ish weeks. I have absolutely NO clue how many weeks M is now. Oops. Lost count. She hasn't had anything solid yet. She's very interested in what we're doing and she watches the fork move from the plate and up to our mouths, but she hasn't reached out for food yet and she's nowhere near sitting up on her own. We decided that she can start having solids when she can sit on her own in a high-chair. With the food allergies in both of our families, it's not worth risking it with her. Especially since she's already showing signs of eczema on her legs

Bring my dd1 had horrible excema all over almost from birth, way before weaning, she seems to have grown out of it now at 2 and we havnt had to apply any cream or anything for probably a year, the biggest thing that made a difference to her was switching to organic milk ( this was cows milk) I read a thing about children being 70% less likely to have it if they drank organic and it worked! I know it won't affect m now but good to keep in mind!
Kitten is loving food at the minute, practically had to pull her back 5 times from trying to launch herself to get dd1's Cheerios!!!

She's just munching on a piece of toast and is in heaven lol
Agnu she still loves the boob though aswell and it took her much longer to get to grips with eating then dd1

Hello all ds is loving food. He's grabbing for everything and shouting if it doesn't get in his mouth quick enough.
Will go catch up on what I've missed now.

Ds is about 27weeks. Almost 6 months already. Where on earth does the time go?
I hope you're feeling a bit better bring how's the tooth?

Frus ~ I know, where has time gone? Baby pear is over the 5 month mark now. I must say though I was very naive to think that by 6 months we would have a set routine I'm trying to stick to some sort of daily plan but then teething, hunger, wind or constipation gets in the way. Mission impossible

I'm still waiting for my dd1 to get into a routine. ok so she had one but lost it a bit like everything else including her parents evening letter and her marbles

Ds' routine involves a lot of food. milk at 7am, poo explosion between 8.30 and 9.30. Breakfast. Milk. Whinge. Nap. Milk. Play. Short nap Whinge for lunch at about 12-1, then milk, play for a bit, milk, nap, demands milk at 3pm, (school run) gets milk at 3.30. Play, dinner at 5ish, milk milk little nap, milk (sometimes bath) milk, bedtime between 7-9, then milk sleep milk sleep milk sleep until morning.

That's a routine right?

Thanks Kitty There is an awesome farm down the road from us that is the only 100% grassfed certified organic creamery in our state and their milk is out of this world. It is so freaking expensive but at least we know exactly what we are getting. It's also cream-top I also agree with organics and food allergies (ie, eczema)!

The "tooth" (or lack thereof) is finally healing! Thanks for asking Frusso. better be, I ran out of the good drugs

Oh my goodness! So baby Frus is, what?, 6 weeks older than M? I've just been going on the date of the month instead of weeks... She'll be 5 months in a week.

Oh yeah, that is most definitely a routine. Milk + whatever + milk= routine.

5 months today! No real daytime routine and steadfast refusal to fall asleep unaided. Am choosing to say 'Meh' about it.

6 months in a week so little frus is literally less then a week
That's by the longer date of month aswell
Kitten spends all day looking for new things to throw herself around or out of interspaced by milk and food abit of vomiting for good measure and a lot of smiles

yup kitty less than half a week. I'm going by the date of the month too, I lost count of the weeks at about 8, and now have to use a calendar to figure weeks out. And he's so frustrated, he seems to want to be up and doing stuff, but as a typical man he expects to just be able to do it. He's developed this funny attempt at crawling, (bearing in mind I've had a funny kneel-drag-leg-not quite a bum shuffler, and a commando crawler) I now have a exagerated like a child learning to swim with arm bands on front crawl swimming style crawler. Oddly though he's got no inclination to sit by himself.

Any one else's DC do the kicking/pushing thing when they're feeding? I'm really hoping someone else's does this and it's not a sign of something else that I don't want to be seeing

Frus, b pear can wave his legs around if he's not tired. He has a quiet sleepy feed or a more energetic feed in the daytime. Occasionally he will mess about by rolling away, smiling at me and then roll back on...he thinks it's a game.

Runt seems to think that boob-in-mouth = time to dance. He flails around while clamping to make sure he doesn't pop off. I spend pretty much every feed trying to figure out how to pin down his increasingly large/strong octopus limbs while also keeping his head at the right angle & trying failing to stop Calf destroying the house!

Both DC seem to be a bit confused about day/night. Calf is in our room while we sort out carpet in his & has now decided that it's not time to sleep until at least 11. Runt thinks he needs to feed more between 8pm & 8am than he does during the day - in the last 24 hours he fed at 10.30am, 5pm, 8.30pm, 3.30am & 7.10am. Calf woke at 8.45. Both of them sleep for 3-4 hours in the afternoon. I've always followed their natural patterns but I might have to start waking them earlier in the hope that they'll sleep better at night. I feel absolutely wrecked today. The virus they've had is finally hitting me. I need more sleep than most at the best of times. I cease to function if I don't get lots of sleep when I'm ill! My nose is tickly. My throat is tickly. My ears are tickly... Are we allowed Beechams while bf-ing? I'm seriously considering drinking my own ebm if not! Gross! I'd try anything to avoid getting sick!

Oh dear, another sick mama. Sorry angu. Most medications for colds and flus are ok to take, just keep an eye on things that are for "decongestion" as they could increase the chance of your milk supply going down. Yikes. I hope the littles figure out the day/night thing. That's so hard to deal with when you just want some goddamn sleep.

M kicks against my legs when she's excited and trying to feed and nearly takes my nipple with her. I'm also convinced she's a cat in a baby's body because she's always scratching at me. It hurts! My chest is covered in baby scratches

LOL Fus I love the creative ways that the little mites figure out how to move. Just as long as they're getting somewhere! I think M is got it built into her that she's just going to take her time with things. She was 8 days past her "due date" and now she's just in no hurry to start rolling. I'm fine with that. Longer time I have to not worry about her getting into things...

Yes ds does the roll away roll back whilst still clamping on. But the kicking thing is against my leg or the arm or the chair.

Frus kitten does that to, really strongly! And pulls my boob so far out I'm sure it will come off
Agnu I started waking dd1 up after her nap in the afternoon, I always have as I'm sure she'd have 3+ hours so I used to let her have 2.5 or 2 but she started waking earlier and earlier so we've cut it down to an hour or less If she wakes herself or it was just in the car, she's now sleeping from 7/7:30- 7ish most of the time, she loved her afternoon nap but she was starting to wake up at 5:30 and I just can't deal with that as much as I liked abit if time in the afternoon

Calf is still confused re: day/night. It's only been the last few nights. I guess it's because he's in our room. Perhaps he slept well the first few nights because he was ill. I'm sooo glad he's feeling better!

On a more positive note... Just as DH & I were getting ready for bed Calf said what I think is his first 6 word sentence: "Daddy is putting the trousers off." That's one for the scrapbook!

Haha that is definitely the first sentence that you will remember for a long, long time.

One of my favorite things that DS1 has ever said is "Okay, dad, now I'm going to jump over your penis".