The 8th Broadly Gemini Bus- The one where the babies refuse to sleep!

[bringonthetrumpets]

Numero 8!

Hoping for some actual sleep tonight!

Their little skulls are made of steel, they are totally made to get through falling over at this age. No doubt incredibly heart-stopping and scary for you though! They are such little tricksters getting themselves into horrible situations. Hugs for you!

Home from another birth this morning. Twas lovely!

DH is reporting that little M is eating WAY way more food when he's with her than when I'm with her. She's always just trying to snack off of me instead of eating normal food. Little stinker.

Thanks

There have been no attempted escapes tonight

It must be v special to be part of their birthing experience bring...do you leave them thinking I know what the next 24hrs is going to be like It's fascinating how different our monkeys are with other company

Pear, it's horrible when they have accidents but believe me there isn't aparent out there who hasn't had a fall off the bed or off something or a Cupid tea pulled over them etc,they are stronger then we know but frankly I'm amazed he could do that in a bag i cought tiger when she was about this age pulling teddies to climb on to get out the cot but it was a nap when she just had a blanket,if have never thought they could get any height in a bag

He's really annoyed that we've lowered the bed and he's still trying to hang over on tip toes Why do I get the feeling he may be sleeping in a real bed by age 2?

DH actually had to rock him to sleep last night as it looked like it was going to happen again. I just don't know where he gets the upper strength from! This morning he wanted to walk and did a couple steps whilst I was holding his hands but then went back to crawling!

Kitten is not interested in walking at all! She goes all bandy legs when I try like no mum I can get there quicker like this, tiger had allready taken steps on her own at this age so she's definatly going to be slower, I hate crawling tights are a complete no go and she ends up so dirty

Kitty, are tiger and kitten any better now? The bug you describe sounds horrible Bpear has yet another cold and cough. I just want to wrap him up in cotton wool. We're getting no sleep over here because of it! I feel like if we stopped seeing other babies he might get better. I just can't handle the endless disruption it's causing the little angel. I hate seeing him so sad

Pear yes they are over the bug thanks for asking and yet kitten has another cold and I've developed a coldsaw I don't even know where kittens cold has come from other then me but can you catch the same cold twice??? I'm so over it now

What can the doctor do about bpear bad cough? Probably nothing

Probably nothing pear but you can try!
Frus bought frozen for tiger yesterday,she keeps calling it cold lol the perfect Disney for sisterly love

Calf's favourite bit is "I don't care what they're going to say". We had the paddling pool out a while ago & he refused to get in it but stood at the side swiping his hands across the water & spraying water sideways while singing it. It actually did look rather like he had jets of water coming from his hands! He often shouts "Mammy don't care" when he wants me to sing it. Goodness only knows what the neighbours think of that one! They probably already think I'm beating him after this evening - he decided to climb onto the dining room table while I was bringing food in & when I walked in he was backing towards the edge but clearly wasn't going to land back on his chair. Cue me shouting at him to stay very still... shortly followed by much wailing of "Mammy did go bump" "Mammy, I bumped my head". All I did was tell him to stay still & then run around the table as quickly as I could while he ignored my instruction & threw himself on the floor! This is a bit of an ongoing issue - stay still = try to undo the thing you shouldn't have been doing as quickly as possible, apparently!

That's really clever that he thought to do that with his hands Agnu, I imagine he was pretty pleased with himself
Tiger read most of the book I read to her tonight from memory( it's very short really and rhymes) but I was so impressed with her

Hi. Sorry I've been quie. Had my parents over last week which was great fun. It's lovely when they get to spend time with DS.

Agnu, how you doing now? Hope you're feeling a bit better things.

Hope everyone's coughs and colds are easing off.

DS starts settling at nursery tomorrow. Just an hour tomorrow and gradually building up to doing three full days at the end of next week. Then I go back to work on Weds of the following week. Eek.

Oh man agnu of course they make it out to be your fault when they launch themselves off the table. I agree, learning the game "freeze" is a good one to work on with him.

So....I got rear-ended tonight on my way to pick up the kids after antenatal appointments. I'm just so incredibly thankful it happened before the kids were in the car and that I only walked away with a sore neck and mild concussion (I had to go to A&E to get it checked out). Now my car has a giant dent in the back end of it. The kid who hit me was very polite and was obviously very upset and sorry that it happened. His parents even showed up and made sure that I was ok. They were very sweet. I hope that's all the drama I get for this week. The weekend was ridiculous. A super fast birth at 5 am on Saturday morning which we immediately left afterward to go to another birth that ended up in a c/section on Sunday morning after we learned there was no way in hell that baby was going to fit through an extremely small pelvis. Mom and baby ended up with an infection... it just wasn't good at all. Now trying to recover after an all-nighter...and I feel like I was hit by a truck (oh yes, b/c I actually was!).

Lor I bet this little guy will settle right in and have a great time! It'll be nice for you to get back into the adult world again (I know that I have been thoroughly enjoying having mothering time off!)

Hope everyone is doing well.

DH has booked a hotel room as a surprise and I love the fact he hasn't thought it through at all. Has put a big grin on my face as he really doesn't think. Bpear will be sleeping in the room with us. I ask "So, what happens when we put bpear over tired bpear down at 8pm (because we won't be able to eat before 7pm) and then bpear wonders why we haven't left the room?" His reply "I hadn't thought about that". I guess we will be hiding in the bathroom and then creeping into bed at 8:30 (he's also forgotten that there is no mobile reception so he won't be able to play on his phone!).

Sounds so romantic pear! Have fun!

Ha ha pear, when we've gone away if the bathroom is big enough we've actually put the cot in there, it has worked on many an occasion, it was a lovely gesture atleast, what's the occasion??
Bring how are you? Feeling ok? Thankgoodness you were on your own, how does it feel getting back into the swing of work again?

bring sounds very scary! Hope you're feeling ok.

pear sounds lovely. kitty that bathroom suggestion is hilarious but good!

I'm sitting here feeling a hit tearful while my heavenly DS naps. We've started settling in at nursery. It's only day 2 and I'm already finding it hard. I kind of thought is find it ok. Silly me.

Yesterday we did an hour of stay and play and DS loved it. Didn't want to leave. Today was a two hour session ending in lunch. I stayed for half an hour and then left DS painting and happy. I came back after half an hour to see if he wanted his bottle. He took a bit then crawled off again to play which is great. They said he was really happy. I was sitting in the 'parents' room' reading a magazine and popped into the toilet, which is hear the baby room, about quarter to 12. I could hear crying and was fairly sure it sounded like DS. It took all my strength not to go straight in but I wasn't sure it was him and thought they'll handle it or come get me if they have to. Anyway I sat stressing for a while and went in just before 12. DS was sitting at the table they have lunch at sobbing his eyes out. He was all red faced and puffy and looked like he'd been crying a while. No one seemed to be interacting with him or comforting him at all. The baby room supervisor (his key person) was feeding the other kids and just looked at me and said 'he won't eat anything'. I was really surprised because he's a great eater. He turned and tried to clamber out of the chair to get to me. His poor little face. Anyway I sat on the floor beside him and picked up his bowl and put bigger pieces down in feint of him to pick up and eat and he started munching them. I then spoon fed him smaller pieces from the bowl. He was starving! He was fine really quickly too. I had told them yesterday that he needs to feed himself or feel like he is. If he has some finger food he'll take spoon food too, and if there's no finger food to give him then if he has a spare spoon to play with he'll usually take food from a spoon. I don't think she'd tried these things at all. She was just trying to spoon feed him like the other babies.

I know I'm being totally pfb and this is all part of the process. I just felt really upset. He's doing four hours tomorrow so I'll have a good chat with her about what happened today when I get there. I want to know what she tried to get him to eat and remind her that he needs to feed himself.

Feel free to tell me I'm being silly and this is all normal. I don't want to start having reservations about the nursery as we're stuck with it for a bit now!

Aww Lor that's not silly at all! They really should be considerate of the little guy's preferences. They're not going to get anywhere with him if they don't treat him like an individual. Hopefully someone was paying attention to how you fed him and took note for next time. It's so freaking hard trusting someone to watch over your kids. I'm getting really nervous about how DS1 is going to do in kindergarten with a new teacher, I'm always nervous about how my sensitive DS2 is at preschool, M has just started with a daycare provider and she seems to be very content there.... all you can do is just keep on letting them know, keep communicating, keep up telling them so they know you mean business. You have every right to be the annoying parent, this is the piece of your heart wandering around out there!

Feeling ok. Had some chiro-work done on the neck b/c apparently I got a bit of whiplash as well. Urgh.

M won't stop chewing on rocks whenever we go outside.

It's normal lor, it will be a settle ing in period for him and then, they will learn his patterns but likewise he will learn then, it's actually the opposite to mine where they encourage them to eat themselves but I have learnt that every child i know does things differently, I know so many mums who say there child won't eat something at home but they will there or their child won't go to sleep at home in a cot but at nursery they do and it's just that they learn this is what we do here, it is true my dd1 hated banana at home refused it but at nursery always ate it because that's what they have at snack.
Nothing beats a mums intuition so it's important to feel happy but I'd say give them abit longer to adjust to each other, it is hard to remember how each child likes different things until you start spending a lot if time with them x

Thanks. I know deep down this is part of the process but as you said bring, it's a little piece of my heart they're looking after! I suppose I just felt like they were ignoring how upset he was and that was hard for me. I just want to know if he's upset that someone will comfort him.

I need to get assertive with them too. I'm feeling a bit nervy at the moment whereas normally I'm happy to let people know what I think!

Sitting in a cafe not quite knowing what to do with myself as ds is at nursery for the afternoon.

We arrived just before nap time so I stayed while they attempted to settle him. Took about 40 mins. I know it's normal but it's hard. He does love playing there though.