December 2012: Now they're all 1

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We needed a new thread!

That's mega bucks spotty! We're lucky in that we got on the property ladder early before it all became so ridiculously unaffordable. We have a decent sized house now but teeny garden and hideous decor as we can't afford to decorate!

WillYou I'm stupidly unfit too need to try and get a bikini body for my holiday

Dd has woken with a temperature (which is odd as usually it goes in the morning and ruses through they day) she's had a fever the past three nights. Any way I can tell at home if she has a chest infection?

Dp isn't bothered about buying a house but I really want to. It's an impossible dream though.

Sorry I haven't been around for a couple of threads - I've really struggled with balancing almost full-time work, a horse and a baby, while DH is out of those house for 14h/d. I'm completely in awe of those of you who manage similar/ more.

Congratulations Utopian

Sorry your LO are poorly again Spotty. We're doing a bit better health wise here, after a period when DS seemed to catch one thing after another!

Am I right to think you're in the South East Spotty. If so, buying property is so hard. Even though DH earns a good wage we were only to buy a small 2 bed in an unpopular town away from where we wanted to buy. Even then, there were only very few options under £200k!

Jealous of clockwork baby Pidge. DS is not too bad, but can still decide to nap (or not to nap) at the worst times.

Spotty does she need to see the GP? I hope shes feeling better soon.

Equi welcome back, i hope your ok. i think it must be hard to get your work-life balance correct when you go back full time after maternity leave. I am lucky that i've managed to find a part time job that pays enough to pay the bills although it doesn't pay for anything else

H has been a nightmare today, she hasn't stopped whinging!

ohhh i've just noticed we can upload pictures to the thread via the laptop.

I'm in the south east and property is ludicrously priced. The only reason DH and I have our lovely home is because I inherited a lot after a very dear relative died. Believe me, I'd rather have the relative and rent!

Equi hats off to you managing all that! I came seriously close to buying a horse to keep at DIY livery and then I got pregnant! Close shave there...

Lucky escape coffee! Our horse was on part livery but got injured and could!'t stay at the yes due to needing flat turn-out. DIY turned out to be the option, so having to do him every day was never part of the plan. We are trying to sell him, as long term, it's not a practical arrangement.

Hales, is there any reason for H's whining, or is it just one of those days.

DS howled as soon as we pulled up outside the nursery building today, and was still going for it when I left. I keep thinking about calling to check how he's doing, but I know that won't help either of us, and I have to teach for the rest of the day!

Yes equi in part of the South Downs national park.

I don't know hales her temp isn't that high but she's certainly unwell.

utopian did you ever sort out the early mornings? The trade off for T sleeping through the night is getting at 5.10 - yawn. I tried for almost an hour to convince her to go back to sleep but she thought it was all good fun and was getting quite noisy and as I didn't want her to wake dd1&2 I took her downstairs. I was v proud of myself for fitting in a 2.5 mile run before the school run but I feel like shit now. Tea and bed for me. Had dd2s bestie (and mum) over for lunch and dd1s bestie for tea! Welcome to cafe WL!
spotty hope dd is feeling better.
Welcome back equi.

It was just one of those days Equi.

Spotty, i hope DD is feeling better than she was.

Like the idea of cafe wl!

Haven't fully sorted early mornings sadly - our best days are normally 6.30 now, which isn't so bad, although they vary still.. am just waiting for it to resolve on it's own really too soft and/or lazy to do anything else..

Dd has started to finally sleep through till 6am or occasibut that I'm happy with that.

Dd has started to finally sleep through till 6am or occasionally 6.30 and that I'm happy with that but ds who willl be 3 in august has suddenly gone from 7.30 to 5.30!!! Bloody typical! Those if you with older dc's any luck with gro clocks and from what age did you use them? Or experience with Jo frost's stay in bed techniques?

When dd started waking early she stopped of her own accord after a few weeks. Ds usually wakes between 6 and 6:30 but is still asleep!

I think dd is well enough for nursery today. Her cough is bad but she wasn't feverish over night.

I need to go and buy flowers for my Nan's seventieth birthday today

Operation stop the night wakings started last night. It was an unmitigated disaster. He screamed in his cot for an hour and a half until I gave in and fed him. Then he was wide awake so I was waiting until he looked sleepy to put him back in his cot. I woke up at 5:30 with him still in our bed. Oops!

Sorry to hear about the trouble at night willyou. We were much too wimpy to spend long leaving DS to cry/ shout so once we stopped giving him milk at night we often just took him into our bed at night when he woke. Sometimes we would try and settle him for ten minutes but sleep was our absolute priority.

spotty your nan is 70?! DH's parents are 72 and 70! Mind you DH is also 10 years younger than his next brother....

Thank goodness DS will fairly consistently sleep until 6:40. I'm almost 20 weeks so will have all of this to go through again soon . I swear I ordered a sleepy one last time...

How normal is a slight egg allergy? I think egg whites contain the bit they are often allergic to? Last night we had quiche - which was pretty good if I say so myself DS got a bit red in the face and then dinner time was over when he was crying hysterical.

Well it's typical that the one time I want A to wake and feed, he only woke once last night!

One breast hurts, but I don't know whether it's something sinister like mastitis coming on, or hurting because my glands are up anyway. I felt all tingly as though I had a fever etc, but I can't tell which is a symptom of which.

And I had the same a few days ago, but on the other side. I did wonder if that was a bruise instead, as A levered himself up on that spot throughout the night!

I'm definitely ill with a cough heading to a chest infection , but don't know if that's what's doing it.

Nice to get some sleep though, and I didn't have to get up at 5 this morning either. A stayed asleep until 6.15, which is amazing.

WillYou been there, done that. Frequently.

Spotty/ Nutella MIL turns 71 this month. And my Dad is in his 60s. Mind you, my oldest SIL turns 50 in a couple of years.

No idea about allergies I'm afraid Nutella.

Yes my nan is seventy, my mum turned fifty this year. On my dad's side I have a great nan who is 99 (either already or this year, can't remember). I'm inly 26 though

Ds is really coming along with his walking. Walks everywhere holding one hand, can stand for as long as he wants to and has been having a good go at walking unaided outside (only manages a few steps before deciding to crawl though!)

Willyou, good luck with operation Night Waking. I am still going with following what she wants if it means i get sleep. I am too lazy to change it yet.

Nutella i also have no advice about allergies as i don't know anything about them,

Spotty my grandad was 70 last year thats why we went to Centre Parcs. My mum is 50 in 2 years and i'm 30 next month. I hope your nan has a lovely birthday.

Beasty i hope your feeling better soon

Thanks.

I think egg is a common allergy, which children often grow out of, but I don't know which bit causes it.

I'd be tempted to carefully try him on something like a bit of scrambled egg, with nothing added and see what happens.

Then maybe try a few other ingredients if nothing happens with egg.

I don't know if there's much on the allergies or children's health boards.

Ds' been asleep for 2.5 hours I'm going to have to wake him up to go and pick dd up in a minute!

Thanks beasty I'll toddle over to those boards. I only know a little bit about egg allergies because my nephew had an egg allergy... I have in my head that it is a relatively common allergy and that they often grow out of it... We have given him scrambled egg and he wouldn't touch it

Hales your mum is the same age as dp

DS had a mild egg allergy for a while, it would show up as lots of red lumps round his mouth. You can do a skin test for it - basically rubbing some egg on a leg or arm. If they show a reaction then they've got an allergy. That said, DS never reacted on the simple skin test, he also never had a bad reaction to the egg really, just some rather alarming pfb red lumps/swelling. The dr gave us some piriton to keep in the cupboard incase he ever had a full on reaction, but he was fine and grew out of it by about 10m.

Sorry about early waking babies and non sleeping ones. DS used to wake between 3 and 5 for a feed, but he spontaneously stopped doing so about a month ago. He now sleeps 7-7 pretty regularly. Occasionally he'll cry out earlier, at around 5:30, but will stop within 5mins. Early waking is a common problem though, there's probably some threads on the sleep boards about it, either current or archived. I hope all the babies get the hang of sleeping real soon!

pidj I'm going to tell DH that as he was paranoid about being an older dad when T was born (he had just turned 42).
Proof that he has no clue about nighttime shenanigans here - he asked if I was ok after the 5am disturbance - actually I was getting back into bed at 5 having got out at 3.30!! 3.30-4 with dd2 who'd had a bad dream (we made a dream catcher after work so should be sweet dreams for her from here on!) and T from 4-5 willyou I gave in and fed her too. Thankfully after that she slept til 6.50. I think the variable night sleep so variable day sleep is now a vicious circle so the plan is to try to give her one lunchtime sleep of no more than 2 hours. It's going to be tricky some days as she'll be in car or pushchair before then but hopefully it will all come together. I met someone who's 10.5 WEEK old sleeps 8-7!!