November 2012 - Walking or not walking, talking or not talking, any other skillz?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2000561-November-2012-The-exciting-all-new-all-singing-all-dancing-fred

We have quite a range of ages and they each develop at their own rates... so what can your toddler do?

Morning you will be glad to hear that DD1 has managed to sneak onto my lap without the other two noticing. Will not last long, but she looks like the cat that got the cream. She usually stays up a bit later than the others and we have special cuddle time then. I am looking forward to when the other two are not so punchy and three on the lap is a bit let risky for all.

A bit late to the thread again

M was born 23/11, her due date. She started walking at 10.5 months and hasn't stopped since. She runs with one arm still and one flapping really fast that sometimes makes her lose her balance and fall over.

She can say quite a lot really, haven't counted the total words but I'd probably say between 30 and 50. Favourite words at the moment are breakfast, raspberry and more!

She knows a lot of names, grandma, grandad, auntie rachie, Trevor, my niece and nephew, her grandmas dogs and the childminders dog. If you go through photos with other people in she'll name them.

She can tell me the noises or names of quite a few animals. She can also do her wooden animal jigsaw getting the pieces in the write hole but not fitting in.

There's a few words she says more than one together, mainly "one, two, three" and "ready, steady, go"

She loves to dance and to sing baa, baa, baa to most songs. She also likes to cuddle and pats you on the arm saying "ahh boo"

She's a character, makes me laugh everyday being silly or cheeky.
She's not very good at using her cutlery, she can eat a you hurt and tries v hard at tea time. Mainly going "stab, stab, stab" with her spoon instead of her knife.

She's useless at sleeping through the night or managing without night feeds. Next thing to work on

Morning lovelies! Hello to absent chums!

I had my second girls night out in two years last night - with the playgroup girls. Was v lovely. Though I had two tonics and then started to yawn so was in bed by 11.15! So far that's my only real preggers symptom - I'm a bit more tired. Nothing compared to Jonas. I even did another test last week as was convinced my symptoms were disappearing so panicked about a MMC - but all good. So far its just a lot easier.

Jonas sensing a disturbance in the force / Mummy having a social life obviously decided to be up from 11.50 til 1 last night. It's my own fault as I thought ah DH can go in with water. He was refluxy from me having a KFC and cheese and chocolate and crisps over the last few days. It turns out reflux is not calmed with water and Daddy. As soon as I went in he was down in 10 minutes. Lesson learned my refluxy BF on demand baby goes "what the actual f*ck?!" when you try to force him in a routine and its quicker back to bed for all involved not to mess. I think it confuses him when suddenly I refuse to meet his needs I wouldn't be surprised if I see more of him tonight as I messed with his wee head last night. Anyway, he slept til just before 9. Am v chuffed as we've been up at the crack of a sparrow's fart all week.

Stunt I don't know what to suggest. I'd really struggle with your DH sometimes it seems as though he is being deliberately awkward and unhelpful. In times of shit sleep surely he understands its sleep by any means? He seems so rigid!

Kyz dried fruit and extra water or fruit juice? Poor wee boy. There are pots of purée fruit that are suitable for babies, or the pouches , and they go right through my girls and keep J regular.

Thought if post a separate normal post...

VQ happy for the lumps! M has had somewhat runny poo due to her antibiotics, not nice.

Hi fiat
at zamboni

Woohoo and well done to stormy

Enjoy your hols flouncy

Today M is exactly two years old!!! The beauty of IVF. Two years ago today I had my eggs collected and injected with DH's sperm and that was the start of baby M

I've got a phonecall later to discuss with the clinic my one frozen embryo. Need to ask some questions so I can think about what we want to do.

On another note, we bought a car yesterday! Finally! After nearly two years of shopping and changing our mind.
I also had my hair cut and coloured on Friday so I'm full of the joys of spring.

I suppose I better get out of bed, got a phonecall to make and I'm supposed to be meeting my friend for lunch in a couple of hours

Kyz a teaspoonful of brown sugar in a bottle of warm water caused a reliable poonami every time when F was younger.

Stunt my DH gave up his bed once for us this past week. First time ever. I also think it would be an idea to de-camp to Js bedroom with a mattress on the floor, a la BP. That is what I will likely need to do when boy goes in his big bed. Am hoping to keep him in his cot until 18 months. So looking forward to getting rid of the cot.

Stanley Snail so going today, and push along horse soon as they just result in fights and injury. I am finding the more kids you have, the less toys you need as they just play with each other.

The toys he is into at the moment are his musical toys, no surprise there, blocks, bricks and his Noah's Ark.

Ask away Fatima.

F was born 01/12 due 16/11 though!

He took first steps at 9mo, walked outside and stopped crawling at all by 10mo
Eats at a table & no highchair since 10mo
No bottles only drinks from cups since 10mo
Sings twinkle twinkle and happy birthday since 14mo
Says: 'iya! , Mummy, Daddy, Nanna, Ganda, Dog dog, No! (Argh), Ye, Willy, Stink, Milk, Gigi (his godfather), Ily & Mia (friends kids), Wuv oo.

Can play with duplo, stickle bricks etc but can't draw as just slams pen at paper. Makes pretend cups of tea, can blow bubbles with the liquid and wand etc.

Bless her vq :) I've noticed e getting a bit jealous I think. When my dn is here or my baby dsis and they come for a cuddle I have e hanging over my knee all of a sudden wanting to get up.

Bless you yw glad you enjoyed yourself out :)

vq he's been having a fruit pouch every day :( and I've not done sugar water for a bit bplp but he's had some diluted pure orange juice too. He has fruit for pudding at least once and then again for a snack too, and he's still either going but struggling and crying or just not going :( I will try brown sugar water again. I will try fruit pots too vq as it's only pouches he's had not the pots for ages now. Dried fruits wise he eats raisins regularly but I'm not sure if he can manage anything else. Maybe I should try apricots again now he has more teeth. Chopped up? Any other good ones?

Fruit wise for example yesterday he had an orange with breakfast, a box of raisins, a fruit pouch, a kiwi and a handful of halved grapes.

Yay for new car fatima and go ahead with your questions though I'm not sure how much use I'd be answering them!

E quite likes musical toys vq but he's not much good at them! just bashes away! He learned how to blow the recorder the other day much to my distress

Just trying to keep awake today so you'll probably be inundated with posts, sorry!

Maybe try some prune juice kyz?
Isles well done you. Remember you have so many people cheering you on. you will be fine, more then fine you will be great!
Soo tired. We are working on a sort of hybrid between staying in F's room with him when he wakes and CIO. I go in settle him, stand very still until I think hes asleep and sneek out the room. If he wakes either then or after a few mins I leave him to cry for a few mins and then go back in and settle again and wait for him to be asleep and sneak out etc repeat until done! Its taking less then an hour which is better then the 2 hours it was taking when I sat by his cot, and I'm not singing or giving him my hand to hold so its much more him putting himself to sleep.
I am however shattered. the last 3 weeks of just 2 sleep throughs is catching up with me. I am a bit of a zombie.

Is he drinking lots of liquid kyz? Dried fruit will only help if it can retain water in the bowel, so if he doesn't drink more with it, then they won't necessarily have the laxative effect you desire. Tinned prunes? Soak dried apricots in water to up their water content?

DS1 is going on his first trip to the cinema to see the Lego mobie with daddy. hopefully all will go well.

kyz I would do fruit purée too! lots of water like bpsays and maybe a warm bath! always helps to relax muscles.

What car did you go for in the end fatima

Just spoken to the lovely Sister at the IVF clinic. I need to speak to someone at the lab re. The frozen embryo.

At the moment we have one blastocyst embryo frozen from our cycle with M. It's frozen until March 2015.
We want to use it definitely as it may be our only chance of having a second but I'm not sure when I want a second.

Those of you that have more than one, when/how did you decide you wanted another? And those of you that have one, do you want a second? And if so do you have an idea of when?

I love just having M at the moment but then in the back of my mind there's always this deadline of deciding what to do with our second. That's if it was even successful.

Ideally I want a Spring/Summer baby for my second as I felt a bit stuck in side with M and rubbish weather.
But I don't feel ready to go for treatment this summer. So we could go next summer 2015 which would mean paying for some extra storage time. Or just use it jan/feb 2015 and have another winter baby.

It's good that we can plan with the IVF but then it adds an extra pressure. The frozen embryo might not even work anyway.

Arghh there's too much to think about, I might post a thread in infertility?

Sophia we've gone for a C-max. The one we wanted was at a different branch so it needs to be sent up but we should have it next weekend

I love hearing about the other quiche babies and their little personalities. They all sound adorable.

Isles We are all so proud of you. You have done incredibly well to get yourself away from that toxic relationship and build a better future for you and m.

Busy day yesterday. We went out for breakfast. C sat still in a highchair and fed himself toast. Flirted with the waitresses too. He loves the ladies, this one. Then we went to the next town which is by the beach. Was a bit chilly so we went in the amusements, put C on some rides, had a warm drink then came home again. Was lovely though.

I'm waiting for my sainsburys shopping to be delivered. Have done a meal plan for the week using my slow cooker recipe book. Will be prepping the ingredients later when DP is home from work, putting them into freezer bags and labelling them all up ready.

fatima I know I would like another next year but not sure when to start trying. Sometime between May and the end of the year but I keep changing my mind. A spring/summer baby would be nice for the reason you mentioned but it took 11 months to conceive C so I can't base everything on it being a summer baby.

FIL is having his op today I think. BIL apparently won't send any money because, shock horror, people will actually charge him a tenner to get the money to him and won't do it for free. Disgraceful excuse. He has tried to call DP a few times but DP hasn't answered. Said he doesn't want to talk to him and listen to his excuses any more.

Does anybody else's babies get their words mixed up? He mainly gets it right but sometimes C will call DP mum and whenever he sees a fire he points and says stop instead of hot.

pennie she sounds perfectly normal and very bright to me. You aren't letting her down at all.

fatima ideally I'd wAnt at least one more. Hopefully I will one day.
stunt I thought his slept improved? Has he regressed? I'm really sorry that your husband is unreasonable :(
apple good luck to your fIL.

I know several people who only have one child for various reasons - only wanted one, relationship breakdowns, infertility including infertility caused by cancer. That could happen to any of us but I would never willingly not have another if it's possible. I love C and my little family but I have a strong feeling that it isn't complete yet.

Fatima does the embryo have a use by date? If not, then I would just put him on ice for as long as you can, and to hell with the cost. I personally think I would regret not using it, more than using it. But I always knew I wanted more than one.