December 2012: 1st birthdays and 1st/2nd Christmasses

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Hales A pinches, bites and scratches. But the only times it isn't provoked (like the girl who was totally in his face at soft play) is with immediate family and 1 worker at nursery. It's not exactly a sign of affection, but he only does it when he's feeling safe and happy.

Bloody painful though!

hales she doesn't hate you - it's because she loves you! Because she feels secure with you she's able to test out on you. It's horrid for now but it will pass. Have you tried putting her in another room or her cot for a minute if she hurts you? She may be a bit young to get the connection though.

hales DS was really bad for biting and scratching about a month ago. He did seem to keep it especially for me and a bit for DH. H doesn't hate you, she might be pushing you to see what you do. I know they seem a little small for it but after telling DS no and stop he did seem to get the message when I would stop playing with him and move away out of his reach.

I think DS shares my weakness for cake, he does get a bit shouty if I I don't share with him. Otherwise it's carbs... Actually thinking about it we do give him the odd chip if DH and I meet at the market for a naughty lunch of sausage and chips on a Friday... And crisps, if DH is eating some... Hmmmmm better give the boy some more vegetable later to make up for it.

DS slept really well last night, but as usual slept between us from about 4 am onwards.
Dropping DS off at the childminder's this morning was still horrible he started to cry before I had even handed him over. I wish it was different, I hope he starts to enjoy being there more.

Well dd has an ear infection and apparently a bacterial vaginal infection. Although I'm a bit that the dr didn't take a swab.

Oh no spotty. Poor thing, ears are so painful. How did you/the dr know about her vaginal infection?
nutella does the cm say he's happy there after you've gone? Around this age dd2 used to cry every time she saw dm as she thought it meant I was going somewhere without her (was often the case to be fair!), but she adores dm.

I didn't feed T as much as normal this morning and have had a bruised feeling boob all day. Hopefully she's sorted it now.

Well her skin is always a bit red there but having seen a dr before we thought it was thrush/sensitive skin from wee etc but now she has a slight greeny discharge dp does her baths I feel bad I didn't notice sooner. We would never have known about the ear infection if I hadn't asked the dr to have a quick look today as I'd noticed she wasn't hearing very well!

Hope t has sorted your boob!

That's interesting spotty, dd2 had a bit of a greeny discharge a while back but no other symptoms. I didn't ask her if it was sore as she would have said yes regardless, and after a few days it went away. Wonder if she had an infection. Do they get it from not being great at personal hygiene?
Boob still feels a bit sore but hopefully it'll go soon.

Not ideal to do swabs in pre-pubescent girls as you would only be swabbing outside (and would likely not grow anything or just contminants) as would be inappropriate to do a vaginal swab in that age unless absolutely necessary therefore sensible to treat empirically and assess response by symptoms.

Not ideal to do swabs in pre-pubescent girls as you would only be swabbing outside (and would likely not grow anything or just contaminants) as would be inappropriate to do a vaginal swab in that age unless absolutely necessary therefore sensible to treat empirically and assess response by symptoms.

nutella dd took a while to settle at nursery and ds went through a phase at about 18 months where he'd get really upset about being dropped off but within seconds of me going was fine and clearly had been happy all day when I picked him up as sometimes wanted to stay & play some more! Also depends how many days they do - dd only does 2 days at nursery as my dm looks after for 1 day and apparently it takes them longer to settle than if they are there for more days a week.

Thanks ddas hopefully this will clear it up.

No idea how she's got it. She doesn't use soap there just water. When she was sore before we were told to bath every other night only.

Ds woke after twelve hot again. Took a while to go back down and now I can't sleep!

Quick post to get you back on my threads list. DS has kept me busy with teething and colds :(

Someone wants me to stop exercising.

Went downstairs for breakfast this morning (at the ungodly hour of 5am), and saw the back end of a mouse disappearing under the cooker.

So deep clean of the kitchen planned!

and DH is buying and putting down the mousetraps I've been asking him too for ages

We get them each autumn and spring in the roof, but haven't had any this year. That would be because they've moved in downstairs instead!!

So now I'll have to stop A trapping himself too. Grrr.

spotty I hope both DS and DD are feeling better soon.

beasty I hope your DS isn't as curious as mine.... He likes to actually climb into the kitchen cupboards... I'm not sure where I'd hide mousetraps if I needed to hopefully it will be caught sorted soon.

Thanks ladies, from what she tells me it takes a while for him to play and not cry. Although it is getting better. But usually when I pick him up he is hungry, tired and thirsty. I don't blame the CM I know he is a very willful little man. His first long day he refused all food. Food I left for him and food she had.
The plan is for him to be there three days a week. Although when we move in about 7 weeks, I'm not counting the days we will need to find a new CM

So looking forward to being in a little house! And having a much more practical kitchen.

Spotty i hope DD and DS are ok, and that they feel better soon.

Beasty, i hope your mouse is caught soon. When we went to Centre Parcs my sister saw a mouse in the kitchen and they called the estate services. They came and laid traps whilst we out and caught the mouse. My BiL use to owns rats and was so upset they hadn't used a humane trap. He was the only one who was upset.

Nutella, i hope DS settles soon for the CM, and that you like your new one when you find one.

Thanks for the reassurance re Heidi biting and hitting me i think i needed to read that.

Ds was up three times and on the third time I asked dp to go. He got in such an arse about it because he had a sore throat ffs

Spotty I make DH get up for every waking now. We agreed that if he went in there's a chance A will settle. If I go in he'll smell milk and there's no chance! It might involve some kicking gentle nudging to wake DH, but he doesn't complain.

Not a terribly good night though. Probably 5 or 6 waking. And a heart attack when I woke up at 4.15 and found DD perching on our bed. Although she went straight back to bed when I told her too. But of course, my alarm goes off 45 minutes later.

There was a mouse in one of the traps this morning. Fingers crossed it was an only, but the traps are staying down for a bit just in case.

My DP can be an arse sometimes of a night as well and it irritates me as hes hardly ever here. He usually realises the next morning though when i'm in a stinker of a mood with him.

Beasty i have my FX that there was only one mouse.

We'll see when I get home in a bit.

I'm not saying DH likes getting up, but he knows better than to complain. After all, there's a little agreement which goes I change all the nappies, he does everything else eyes giant pile of clean washing obstructing access to cookery books it's grown so high and not been put away

And I've got the DC'S cold, a day out in the pouring rain on site tomorrow and a job interview on Friday. Not a good mix!

How can I tell between conjunctivitis and sticky eye?

The eye is red with conjunctivitis.

Thanks beasty. They're only red at the bottom, so only when he's looking up can I see it iyswim?

DD and A both get blepharitis (the posh name for sticky eye) and the one time A had conjunctivitis the whole eye was pink.

I think you can expect a bit of red if they're rubbing it lots.

Hope you don't get a cold Beasty.

Spotty hope the DC's eyes clear up quickly.

H has a dentist appointment tomorrow and she has managed to fall over and bust her lip open on the toilet. I think the dentist may have trouble getting her fingers in and i really don't envy her trying to get her fingers in my little biter. She is the most accident prone baby ever she seems just to fall over or bang into things all the time. She's covered in bruises.

Ds won't go back to sleep. Well he will but only on my arms. Dp already told me he won't be helping tonight as his throat is so sore but he will tomorrow night as I have work Friday.... Wish ds would just sleep next to me