June 2013 (3) - teething & not sleeping!

[rrreow]

I broke the old thread! Step this way, step this way.

Glad I'm not the only one who has had to make a real effort to call LO by his actual name now! It's funny because I love his name, really love it - but the smiles I get when I call him toots, cookie, pudding, dumpling, cheeky... He knows I'm being silly and he encourages me (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)

We've just been to the dietician and have been told to start weaning properly. So that'll be fun.

We've been given a leaflet about milk free weaning which tells us what to avoid.

Mrs, I've looked online and can't find the booklet we have, but this: www.gwh.nhs.uk/media/151145/lactose_free_weaning.pdf looks similar. We weren't told anything other than is in the book, apart from we have to try her with milk early next year to see how she's doing with her intolerance.

Right, best get pureeing, I suppose. Sigh!

Oh, and sorry about the house, Sarah. That's shitty. :-(

Sorry about the house Sarah :(

MrsBri, I've obviously missed something - hope Amy is OK and weaning works, has she had issue with her milk?

Ah, yes, you missed the sorry saga of Amy being taken to A&E after refusing food in the most dramatic fashion possible, by screaming the place down and batting the bottle across the room.

She's lactose intolerant, so we've been on lactose free milk for about 6 weeks now. We're to give it another 6 weeks then try her with a small amount of milk and see what happens. If she's ok, we can keep upping it little by little until she's back on normal milk completely.

She's fine now though, thankfully.

Oh the wee soul :( you must have been worried sick.

So pleased she's doing well and they got to the root of it swiftly, my friend's DS is seriously lactose intolerant but as she was bf I think it was harder for them to spot - in the end she had to cut out all dairy from her own diet - he is now on special milk though. They went through hell. Weaning certainly settled her DS a bit, I know she keeps a food diary for him to spot any intolerances now and has found that helpful :)

Hope weaning goes well!

Thanks MrsBri DS is going to be dairy & soya free initially as it seems to be the proteins that gave him blood in his nappies.

I think it might be worth our while trying to push for a dietician appt at somepoint. I'm okay with what to avoid (esp as that's what my diet has become for now) but want to be sure he gets a balanced diet (calcium etc) and advice for re-intoducing stuff would be good.

Oh balls. I had a shot at settling her in the pram today without a walk. The good news is it worked. The bad news is it worked about 10 minutes before we have to go swimming.

She's going to have a melt down in the middle of the pool isn't she?

Cover your ears people in T minus 15 minutes.....

Oh Sarah that sucks! Same thing happened to us, seller got all incommunicative and then cancelled things. We ended up with a MUCH better property though. Hopefully it will turn out to be positive for you in the end.

With regards to sleeping at nursery, I'd say it's good to have a routine in place, but as for how they get her to sleep at nursery, they will have their own methods. I found that DS1 was way more prone to sleeping at nursery than at home (I generally still find that, he's much more compliant and good with eating etc at nursery). I mean, I used to feed DS1 to sleep on the boob, and obviously they couldn't do that at nursery but they still managed to make it work, precisely because they created their own sleep associations with him.

We call Zephyr Zeffie sometimes, and I also call him Poepie/Poepje (Dutch word you would use for a small cute thing). He's definitely called Zephyr most often though.

I need to sort out a passport for him and I've filled out the form, but the Snappy Snaps across the road from us closed down. I should probably use one of those online places but I cba to take a proper picture with the right background etc!

I've been feeding my sling addiction and got myself another woven wrap the other week. It's got musical notes on it so I thought it was really appropriate and worth it. DH keeps suggesting I sell the other wrap (and the stretchie, and the babybjorn...) but I'm too lazy to put them on ebay! He's much better at ebaying than I am...

Rreow - for passport photos it doesn't have to be in a passport booth. A friend just put her baby on a white sheet on the floor and took a photo of him. So long as the photo was the right size they will accept it. Wish I'd known that before we did ours. Cue DH sitting on the floor or the photo booth while I press the buttons and try to distract the screaming baby.

And sarah its major shitty news about your house. While the Scottish system has its own foibles I'm bloody glad people can't pull out of sales once they've put an offer in. Mind you saying that it took the couple that bought our last place 5 months from putting an offer in to sort their mortgage out.

sarah sorry to hear about the house, hopefully it wasn't meant to be and had awful neighbours/subsidence/ghosts and you will find your forever home soon.
rrreow what fabrics do you like for slings ? I am being bought one for birthday/Christmas and have seen some bargain cotton/wool blend but not sure if it's best to keep to cotton for now. I have a stretchy he has grown out of a cotton ring sling and mei tai so far

curly I have a 100% cotton (Didymos) which is nice, but definitely needed some breaking in. My new one (Natibaby) is 70% cotton and 30% linen. It feels much thicker but was really soft already from the start (expecting it to become more floppy as it wears in more).

Cotton/wool blend sounds lovely and warm. I'd be scared of ruining it when washing it though (I don't wash my wovens regularly, but do just the once to shrink to size). Although I wash my 'dryclean only' lambswool jumpers in my washing machine successfully so it should be alright.

It's an addiction isn't it... so many pretties.. Are you on the FSOT group on FB? Maybe ask on there, lots of people seem to know what they're talking about there.

I am on fsot and asked and a friend is coming down with her collection for us to have a play with next week. IIt's good to get as many opinions as possible though !

It would appear I am now looking for a job, current witch boss has declined any form of flexible hours so if I go back I have to do the same full time hours as before including 9-7 Friday and every Saturday so while I do still have a job I am looking for something more family friendly and at least gets me home before bedtime every night. So if you hear of a vacancy for a Dispensing Optician in the Midlands let me know !

There's no flexibility in my job either, so I'll be lucky if I get to see Amy awake during the week.

I'm probably going to look for something part time more local to home.

Crap, isn't it?

Curly and MrsBri that is truly shit. Surely your employers know that this means they are likely to lose you completely by denying you any flexibility?

It is a condition of the particular job I have that it's full time.

If I had any other role I could go part time. They've also told me unofficially that they won't allow me to work from home, which is what my ideal situation would be, on a couple of days a week.

So I'm not left with much choice. They may change their mind if I resign, but I'm not sure I want to work for them anyway as they believe in value for money (i.e. you have to work extra hours from home as a given, including a lot of the weekend). I can't be arsed with that!

I have heard of a possible position pt closer to home so will be sending a cv asap and crossing everything, this is the first time in 10 years one has come up in the town I live in so it sounds too good to be true at the moment.

I feel for you ladies with work being a pain. Mine haven't gotten back to me about hours, but seeing as twice I've gone from part time to full time I'm hoping there is some allowance for me. That and I was doing a manager role for no extra and helping them out majorly.

To be honest tho, it's not the best job in the world, and I don't live so close to it any more, so if it becomes awkward I doubt I'll debate over what I'll do, hand my notice in and find something closer to home, or look at other options I might be able to do that would suit better.

It's horrible having to battle to sort things out, I hope you do manage to sort things, and what ever that is, that it suits you and your little ones.

I haven't got round to talking to work yet, I left working 3 days a week, I'm assume I'm going back on the same, but in which practice /covering which market, who knows... as I'm at the stage of applying for schools for DS, I have had to think about the logistics of drop offs for him to school breakfast club and then DD to nursery (assuming we get our first choice of school), then some sort of childcare for after school (ahhh!!! need to find a childminder for that). I came to the conclusion this week I need to ask to start my day at 9:30am rather than 9am. I just don't think I can do it otherwise. Then there's the cost, I'm pretty sure with 2 lots of childcare to pay, I'm not going to make any money, and that's a bit scary. I've always earned my own money, but I'm coming to the conclusion the best thing to do would be to resign and be a SAHM. But I find hte idea of that terrifying so I'm not thinking about it just yet...

I'm really grateful they've given me part time hours. There are only 2 employers in Scotland that could employ me to do what I currently do and one of hem is my employer .

In the long term there is a possibility that I could go independent. Technically I'd end up working half the amount I currently do for the same amount of money. However it is highly risky as will end up meaning some months without any work and some months working way too much. At the moment we need a steady income. Plus I like working in an office with other people. If I worked from home all the time I'm not sure I'd get much done work wise but the kitchen would be sparkling

OMG poonami!

I had to strip M completely nekkid, change him with DS1 holding his hands out of the way, get him dressed again, then go and strip me completely and get clean clothes on - he got my top, hoodie, jeans he also got the carpet

The washer is already on!

Impressive effort there!

What food caused that then? I'd advise avoidance. :-)

Lovely poonami !
Osk is hair pulling, his own while feeding and mine the rest of the time.

That's not a poonami. That's a Poo-Magedon.