December 2012: Everyone loves nap time.

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Started a new thread for us before we run out of room.

I think it's better waiting till they're older maryland, a tiny baby will just be confused and scared. We haven't done sleep training on O (apart from one disastrous week when we decided we couldn't do that to him ever again,) and he sorted himself out about 6 weeks ago on his own. It will come!

Two rocket lollies has worked wonders. He can open his eyes and is attempting to smile. It's made me realise quite how poorly he was earlier. They go downhill so quickly when they're little.

maryland I agree with others - it has to be done when you and they are ready. Ime doing it once doesn't meant once and for all. With all of mine I've had to do it again at different stages after something has upset the balance.
willyou I hope he's enjoying the lollies.
Such a nice surprise, I came home from work to fed, washed and happy babies!

That sounds better WillYou

Yes a blue and a brown. She didn't say it was asthma. She's good at taking it just gets a big confused with what's breathing in and what's breathing out

Spotty would suck and blow be easier to understand? And has she got a spacer? I find it much easier to use one.

DD was amazingly good today. I heard rustling in the kitchen earlier and wondered what she was up to. She'd taken the clean washing out of the machine and pegged it out on a clothes horse. She was really proud. She also tidied her room of Anthony's mess and the sitting room.

A on the other hand had to be put in the cot when he decided to bite me. He came at me, laughing to himself and bit my leg twice. He was still biting as I carried him up. It was like putting a lobster to bed!! Not much of a punishment- he went straight to sleep for 2 hours...

Oh beasty how cheeky! Yes she has a spacer. She understands the in and out as we've exaggerated the noises I think she will get it completely after a couple more blows. The dr said to use the ventolin four times a day but the pharmacist said as needed up to four times a day?

I know when I had pneumonia the label said up to 4 times a day, but the Dr said as and when and as much as I felt I needed. Maybe see if she feels she wants it 4 times a day? Although I'd expect before bed and either before or after any physical exertion is when she'd need it, so not evenly spaced like the antibiotics.

And hopefully she won't need it as much as the brown one builds up its effect.

Maybe check with a Dr at work what they think, or phone your practice to confirm?

A got his comeuppance eventually- after I put them to bed DD put classic FM on rather loudly and subjected him to a "dance class".

The dance class must have exhausted him. For the first time in the 17 months since he was born, A slept through the night!!

So why, oh why, did DD have to come and tell us she couldn't sleep at 04.11?!

But he slept through. And I had to wake him up just before 6.30 too.

I'm shattered though, I didn't get back to sleep after DD woke us up.

Oh no Beasty, the pitfalls of having 2 little ones. Hope the day isn't too hard for you.

DS woke up at 2:30 for toast and then slept until 9. He's now ramming down toast and watching Dora. He's much better but still too weak to stand. Have made him a little couch bed and prescribed shitloads of kids tv.

This was one tummy bug too many for my tumble dryer though. He's given up the ghost!

Love the dance class beasty! We have all this to come..

DS woke up at 5.30am and DH went to see to him. When I woke up at 7am I found them curled up in each others arms on the spare bed in the nursery. Feeling a bit loved up this morning.

Where did my teeny squish go? 85cm and 91st centile for height That's nearly 4" in 3 months!

willyou yay! So glad that DS is better. Pity about the tumble dryer though

beasty DS sometimes likes to give me a nibble. Fortunately he also comes running over and throws himself at me going "ahhhhh". I love those cuddles sooo much!

utopian that does sound so sweet. Bless them.

pidj blimey! What are you feeding him? :) it's funny how they grow though. My friends little dd and DS have 4 days between them. They are almost the same height (she is a teeny bit bigger) but she has a good three kilos on DS. She looks very solid when they stand next to each other. We also get them to kiss often, because it's so cute :)

I had to get up silly early for a second diabetes test this morning. I was fairly sure that the nurse at my dr managed to bridge the result by letting me have a glass of water after the juice drink they give you. Anyway, got the all clear (hurrah). But it has made today feel soooo long! Roll on DH coming home, and bedtime!

Ds just vommed everywhere

Yay beasty!! Am so incredibly [jealous] though. We are very much one step forwards and one step back. Up 3 times last night. Am v tired cumulatively and feeling a bit down. Doesn't help that I spent my lunch hour at the dentist and am now £175 poorer. I want to retrain as a flipping dentist.
willyou so glad ds is better - cuddles, tv and whatever he fancies sounds like a good plan to me. Too weak to stand sounds awful though.
spotty fx it was a one vom wonder!

Willyou how is DS today now? Somehow he has passed his bug to Spottys LO?!

spotty www.sign.ac.uk/pdf/pat101_children.pdf

Hope that helps.

Hope with ds it was a once off vomit and that willyou ds is continuing to get better. Not sure how considering ds is nearly 3 but we've manage to avoid a true vomiting bug so far with both of them. Not a fan of vomit as involves even more washing than normal and the smell seems to linger eugg.

beasty I think sometimes mine tag team for who's going to wake mummy up tonight. Normally dd but on the odd night she sleeps in longer ds wakes up.

He's at XP's but apparently MiL stuffed him full of fruit and he has spewed everywhere again . I told you she had fucking food issues. She always has to know best. XP knows how pissed off I am.

If he's not 100% better tomorrow then we're off to the doctors. My friend is a paeds nurse and she told me off for not taking him into A&E yesterday. I think it could have been very serious had I not discovered the rehydration power of the rocket lolly!

I'm still up working, the pressure is truely on for next weeks meeting.

Thanks ddas. Dd hasn't coughed once since starting the inhalers!

Ds was fine after he was sick. He serves him right for stealing dd's big cup of squash and drinking the whole thing.

WillYou she is ridiculous is exdp going to hurry up and move out? My friends dd stayed with her stbxh (also at his mums) and they told her she had chicken pox. When my friend got her back she realised they were flea bites everywhere!

Glad it was a one off vomit Spotty! And great news re inhalers :)

Willyou if stupid mil keeps doing things like this, can you tell xdp that DS CANT sleep over??

Flea bites. Urgh.

Glad the greedy monkey is okay Spotty.

I think she was just completely clueless on this one, as in she had no idea what to feed a sick child. She must have thought fruit is healthy, I'll give him that and obviously it's just too sugary and acidic. He'll have been starving and will have kept coming back for more and she must have kept giving it to him. I meant to tell her to give him mash or plain waffles but completely forgot. Hopefully he'll be okay when she drops him off and I can start building him up. XP is desperate to be out if there but there are very few houses for sale atm.

And double urgh to goes bites. That's horrid!

I've just received a letter from the school dd's going to. They've got a breakfast morning for the parents and children on a Tuesday when I work and then four settling in sessions for the children 10:45-1 when I work. What on earth do they expect working parents to do? I'm really upset and feel like I'm completely letting dd down

Could your stepmum take her Spotty? Maybe you could book a holiday for one and someone take get to the others?

Hopefully my step mum can but I wanted to do it myself all my annual leave is booked up already as my parents have been on holiday for three weeks (they're my childcare) and then were on holiday and honeymoon so it's gone

Would anyone swap a shift with you for the breakfast one, then ask your stepmother to do the rest?

She won't be the only one being taken in by someone else- I bet there are a few childminders dropping children off, or even preschool/ nurseries doing it if a few children attend one.

We're still waiting to hear anything from DD's school, and I'm pretty sure they do something in June. Not much notice really.