June 2013 (3) - teething & not sleeping!

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

Happy New Year everyone, hope 2014 is a good one

Happy 2014 to everyone
I hope it's a good one all round. I've been thinking about the amazing developments ahead for our babies. One of my (few).resolutions is to appreciate the coming year as much as possible with my little family. DS will change so much and I don't want to get to the end of the year and wonder how the heck that happened!! I'm sure there'll be challenges aplenty but that's ok

Speaking of challenges, thankyou Madame for the nap reassurance. I think I'll just wing it for now.
We're having a pause on weaning. DS has continued to wake lots at night, screaming in pain-clearly having some sort of digestive woes. Pre-weaning he was fine

New Sherlock tonight I'm v excited!!

Happy New Year all!

Well my new year's resolution was to stop swearing in front of the baby. We opened the swear jar yesterday and are probably about £50 in debt already after a visit from some army buddies yesterday. Oops.

No plans for today except DH has insisted that I stay in bed and have a lie in. Bliss!

Happy new year all ! I hope we all have a great year watching our dc change and grow it should be fun !
I have posted my return to work request today but still hoping a miracle part time job appears before.
Poor OH has to do the first proper weaning nappy, I think he was a bit taken aback and mentioned getting some surgical masks

Happy new year ladies!

I am sorry for all the sick babies I am now firmly back in the camp too! Theiah has conjunctivitis (not sure where from) and rubbish skin again! Got an appointment with the doctor on Tuesday as we are going to request a referral I am not going to continue to put steroid cream on our baby indefinitely

Also has a red mouth not sure why tho so if that's still here on Tuesday will ask

I do have a question tho any ideas, Theiah is still swaddled as she has rubbish skin on her head and given her arms she would scratch till she bleeds also she flaps about and doesn't know what to do with her hands/arms - I wondered does it matter if she is swaddled? She'll grow out of it won't she? Eventually?

Pinkapples, would she wear mittens to bed or some babygros have the sleeves that roll over. I think the problem with swaddling when they can roll is potentially they could get stuck as they can't use there arms to help them. My dd was tightly swaddled up until about a month ago and I moved her into a ergo cacoon first of all and just left one arm out and when she seemed happy with that I left the other one out, obviously I appreciate your lo is swaddled for different reasons but it may work x

2014 is already proving to be a challenge. My Gran died yesterday after being taken back into hospital on New Year's Day. She had bloody good innings getting to 93, was such a shame to see her struggle at the end.
This now adds to my dad's troubles, as an only child he of course with the sport from mum and me has a lot to sort out. He also found out he has his heart op on the 25 feb, we just all hope the stress doesn't cause him any more issues before then.

On the plus side dd is full of smiles and cuddles which is fantastic and having her to focus on is a huge relief for me.

On wards and upwards, challenges are what keep us going.

Sorry to hear about your gran pinkbear, it was a good age to get to ! it is tough being an only child, mum is and had to sort both parents funerals and as my dad died before her parents she really was on her own. Having a lovely granddaughter will undoubtedly help him through it I'm sure.

Thanks curly, it certainly was a good age! Stubbornness has a lot to do with it

Dd is having a lovely nap on the sofa, she's been a star again. And the plus point from all of this is DP has said we can move closer to my mum and dad. Although only about 20 mins away by car, I don't drive, and it takes a good 45mins on the bus. So I shall start looking for houses to rent closer to my parents, I have hated being away from them so much, but have done it for DP and dsds but for me and dd it will be much better being closer to my original home, family and friends. Can't happen until march but still exciting except the thought of packing everything up

Oscar has just fallen off the bed OH was getting the bath ready and put him in his cot , which is against our bed, while getting clothes sorted and I was downstairs. Huge bang followed by screaming. Managed to get him on boob to calm him and he seems ok, laughing at the mirror and happily had his bath. I know OH will feel terrible but I am really biting my tongue not to go mad as I have said not to leave him like that. Will probably have a very sleepless nighr checking on him but it doesn't seem worth sitting in a&e all night having no signs of anything serious.

Oh no curly hope he's OK! It's easily done, and can happen even when you're stood next to the bed

We're off for our final Christmas visit this weekend, to stay with my sister. Small house, 4 adults, 6 children, 1 excitable dalmatian. What could possibly go wrong?! :o

Thanks Madame yea we have tried mits and even mits with fold over sleeves I'm sure she's an escapologist we've bought a cocoon thing to see if that will help luckily she goes straight off to sleep as doesn't roll in bed but I do want to eventually stop hopefully when we go to see the specialist she will give us something to help her skin and that will hopefully stop her scratching. When she can reliably roll from front to back we will be putting her on her belly to sleep (I read somewhere this helps develop communication) but she only rolls back to front at the moment

And sorry to hear bout your grandma pinkbear she did have a good innings but it doesn't make it any easier does it I bed your lo is cheerig everyone up to

oh dear curly. glad he's ok. and sorry to hear about your gran pinkbear.

have a fun weekend rue. i'm sure you'll be fine. we had dsil with family (3 kids) plus pil at ours for christmas and it all worked amazingly well.

rrreow, how is the potty training going? we are on day 1 here. so far one pee on trousers and none in the potty I'm still wondering if he can tell he's going or not. how many wet trousers do we get through before we give it up and try another time. he's 2y9m now so i was hoping he'd be ready...

Hi All
I haven't been writing for fear of breaking the happy spirit of this thread. God it's been a tough week though. Little girl has had a bad cold which involved a lot of crying and not a lot of sleeping. This of course coincided with DH being on night shifts so I was having to deal with it all myself.

I go back to work on Tuesday and the thought of going to work after one of these super crap nights is filling me with dread.

2 more days of freedom left!!!

Sorry to hear about your gran, pinkbear

That sounds tough Sunny :( or depending on your preference! Good luck with your return to work. Are you going back full-time?

We've had a run of awful nights recently. Pausing weaning helped a bit (who knew spinach could be so "clogging"?!?) but I suspect the top two teeth are making a move judging by the lumps in his gum. I've been giving him calpol at night but surely I can't keep doing that?

Ah good luck Sunny. I guess it's just a matter of time now before the rest of us follow. However of all of us I always thought you sounded like you really enjoyed your job and had supportive colleagues. Hopefully it will be ok. Will you still be travelling much?

Shocking Christmas here. My brother is - was- a recovering drug addict. He fell off the wagon big time, disappeared and went on a major binge. Two weeks later he left thirty messages on my phone and also on DHs suggesting he was paranoid, delusional and suffering from psychosis. Had to get the police to find him. He's drying out now, and is in touch, but won't go home. He's unemployed, no motivation or direction. It's horrible. Ruined what should have been a lovely first Christmas with DD. Yesterday he told me he was gay. Why he felt he had to keep that from me for 32 years I have no idea. God knows what my mother will think. She's barely recovered from the fact her daughter is a liberal guardian reading vegetarian:-)

I'm back at work tomorrow. Half days for a week. I'm so miserable and keep crying.

Ah thanks ladies. And sorry about your gran Pink. My Grandpa is 94 so I can very much imagine the innings your gran had.

I'm going back part-time thankfully. Equivalent of 3.5 days a week as I'll do 3 days one week, and 4 the next. Seems to be confusing the hell out of everyone though.

I do like my job and I am kind of looking forward to going back. It's a bit intimidating though. I'm one of the longer employees but quite a few new people have started since I went on mat leave and I'm worried the dynamic will have changed. Also, one of my more junior colleagues has taken on one of my projects while I was away was making silly comments along the lines of 'I'll tell you what to do when you get back' and 'I'm going to get you to do xx when you get back' as if she was now my boss and was keeping my project. Little jumped up wee madam can feck off if she thinks part-time hours equals a demotion.

Anyway I'll let you guys know how it goes. Hawk I feel for you matey. You got the powersuit ready??

I've got a leopard print scarf!

Sorry to hear about your brother, Sarah. That sounds incredibly tough for all of you. I hope things improve; I suppose things do come to a head at Christmas when people aren't coping or don't fit into the happy families thing.
Hawk and Sunny, feeling for you. Good luck with the new circumstances. What are your childcare arrangements? One of my NCT buddies goes back to work this week too. I'm blocking out the thought of it ever happening and extended my leave up to the full year just before Christmas. So my return date is mid June, taking hols into account. Haven't asked for p/t yet as a restructure is underway and want dust to settle first and to know who to have the discussion with! Also, if there is chance of redundancy before I return then want to be a FT employee in terms of dosh!

DH is at home to look after the kids, so baby will be fine. Also she's finally started eating real food so I don't have to worry about that.

I'm sensitive because my last return to work was six months of hell before I resigned and there's been a massive restructure since I went on ML this time. I'm not even on the new organisational chart, though I am assured that I was sorely missed.

I'm waiting on confirmation of my return to work, but my cover has just posted on an industry forum looking for work so it looks like it will go ahead. Unfortunately full time but I am still looking for a part time job. I need to sort a childminder out now but am not to sure how to choose one.

Sorry about your gran pinkbear. Excellent age but still a tough loss to deal with.

That sounds like a tough situation sarah hope things go well for him.

Z has a constant cold. I think as soon as one lets up he gets another one. DS1 picks up everything from nursery and although he is now recovering much quicker from colds, Z gets the full-blown thing. They last about 2 weeks each with only a couple days reprieve in between.

Aloha sorry I remember you asked before but I never got a chance to reply! We tried for a week and then decided to put him back in nappies for the time being.

We were taking him to the toilet every hour (setting an alarm). It was going OK in terms of him going on the toilet and he was excited about his pants. But there was no learning curve at all with regards to when he needed to go. So every time he had a lot to drink he'd pee his pants. And he wasn't even really aware of that, he'd just be walking around with wet trousers and didn't even come to us to let us know.

He was having 3-4 wee accidents a day, and never did any of his poos in the toilet. We had 3 poo accidents, 1 poo in his night nappy and could also tell he was withholding from his usual poo-schedule because he didn't want to poo on the toilet/potty.

Nursery were quite adamant that once you start you don't stop, but to be honest I just think that's making a lot of work for ourselves. I don't think he's quite ready. Also we're going on holiday to the US in February, with the time difference, change of routine and lots of car travel I think it will be easier for all of us if he's in nappies then, and we'll try potty training again in March.

Sorry I'm writing a novel again. To be honest, with DS2 I might try and potty train him much earlier actually. Seeing as it all seems to be about taking them to the toilet all the time, getting them used to going on there for both wees and poos and slowly building up the connection of 'this is when I need to go'. Maybe around 18mo. It seems like it's either that or wait until they're completely cognitively ready which might not be for at least a year.

I actually wanted to do Elimination Communication with DS2 and I tried holding him over the potty several times a day for about a week when he was about 2 months old I think, but he just never weed (I waited about 15 minutes once!). He weed on me during a nappy change this weekend for the first time!

Work went well, I was being pathetic. Was amazing to sit actually AT a computer, do stuff with two hands and have a HOT CUP OF TEA!

Was also amazing to see her little face again.

However, setting some money aside from first full pay packet for a breastfeeding necklace. She keeps putting her fingers up my nose. How rude.