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June 2013; Toddling into our second year!

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BeanCalledPickle · 15/08/2014 08:36

New thread ladies:-) I think we filled about ten threads when pregnant and this is only our fourth post natally!

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Mrs81 · 29/12/2014 15:31

DS had urticaria for a while (inherited from me alas). Not cold triggered but still... Pirotin helped a lot, quickly too. Available in liquid form for kids. Prob not much help this now but might be worth while getting some when you get back?

Much sympathy in the meantime!

cuphat · 29/12/2014 16:43

Ah, that explains it - I've never known anyone who gets a rash in the cold.

pinkbear82 · 29/12/2014 19:47

Oh Bean! Awful. Hope something can be sorted when your back. (have you taken pics. of the welts to show gp etc?)

My worst fear is that dd inherits a skin condition I suffer from. It's horrid and I so hope it misses her out. Horrid when they aren't well and we are stuck not able to do anything.

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BeanCalledPickle · 29/12/2014 19:56

Oh course when Welty can't get a bloody photo at all! I have chrons disease which is utterly miserable and I really hope she doesn't get that from me.

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Mrs81 · 31/12/2014 08:52

Morning all Smile

My exciting news of the day is that I think DS is finally totally weaned. No BF for the last two nights. He has been fine - still wakening at the same point in the night but I guess that will gradually improve once he realises that there's no mummy bf cuddles happening!

In less exciting news, he has just projectile puked over breakfast. Hopefully a one-off Confused

pinkbear82 · 31/12/2014 17:16

Well done Mrs. Mixed feelings isn't it. I was half pleased half disappointed when dd finally excepted it!

Wanted to wish you all a happy new year, and also thank you all for your support and kind, wise words over what has been a crazy year for me.
Hoping 2015 is a slightly less life changing year. Much love, happiness and all other good things to you and all loved ones xx

cuphat · 31/12/2014 18:44

Great news Mrs!

I hope the sickness was a one-off. DD hasn't been well at all for a few days, she's gone off her food and if she does attempt some is sick. She's very very clingy too, with a bit of a high temperature.

Thanks pinkbear, I hope you have a great 2015.

Wishing you all a happy new year!

Mrs81 · 31/12/2014 20:03

Thank you Smile I feel okay about stopping, better than I did in anticipation certainly - I think it's come at the right time for us which is ideal. I never thought I'd last this long to be honest. It's been remarkably difficult at times, but also a peaceful time at others.

Alas random puke was not one off. So far we have washed DS obviously , armchair, carpet, ALL my clothes and even my boots. Yuck and poor DS.

Brew /Wine / Thanks to all, especially those with poorly babes!

A very happy new year and I hope 2015 is a good one for you all, however you'd like that to be xxx

SunnyL · 02/01/2015 11:12

Happy New Year all!

Have broken my phone, ipad and laptop so can't really get online easily at the moment. Not sure if DH would appreciate me putting 'Mumsnet app' on his phone...

We had a fun Hogmanay party at my sisters house with Lily going to sleep in the travel cot upstairs. I thought it would be a good idea to wake her up after the bells and drive her home to sleep - after all my sisters house is flaming noisy place at the best of times without it being stuffed full of tipsy adults and over-tired children.

Sadly coming home was a BAD IDEA.

How do I know this? By the chunks of puke all over my party dress and shoes.

Still I started the New Year with a very clean bathroom!

Hope all is well with everyone. I'm hoping to spend next Hogmanay sober again with a little bump... Wink

Mrs81 · 05/01/2015 09:49

Happy 2015 everyone!

A question to the wise: do any of you give your toddles food/milk in the night or early early morning? DS has been utterly ravenous by 5am the last couple of nights. Yesterday he inhaled an Ella pouch and promptly fell asleep again. He is a bit of a hungry horace at the mo having been sick for 3 days last wk which maybe muddles things a bit?

This all coincided with stopping bf-ing which, while he isn't showing signs of missing, he probably benefited from the extra nosh.

We offer him food right up to bedtime but he is on his knees by 6.30pm so it's still quite early.

Any top tips??

cuphat · 05/01/2015 13:29

Happy new year!

I'm not wise but has it just been the last couple of nights? Has he lost his appetite due to being ill? If so it could just be related to that. 5am is early but not that early so I'd be tempted to give him some milk and see if you can get away with that. Hopefully he'll gradually sleep a little extra each day before he wakes up hungry. DD has a cup of milk when she wakes, but doesn't go back to sleep afterwards.

cuphat · 05/01/2015 13:31

DD is still not right! But she's getting better so I'm not concerned. She hasn't eaten her usual amount since Christmas Eve but she's improving. Good job we hadn't packed the muslins away; they've come in very handy over the past week!

cuphat · 05/01/2015 13:33

Oh and as it coincided with stopping bf at night that's probably played a part. It'll take him a while to get used to not having anything. Does he have milk before bed?

cuphat · 05/01/2015 13:38

DD has a cup of milk between 6-6.30pm with a bedtime story, then a bath, another bedtime story and she's asleep by 7pm usually. She sleeps through till 7-7.30am usually (sometimes later, sometimes a little earlier if she gets woken up). So the time he eats till sounds fine.

Mrs81 · 05/01/2015 18:46

DS is crap at drinking milk which means that we don't offer it often. But we ought to. He never took to a bottle so it wasn't something that he got used to. He guzzles yoghurts to compensate which is fine by day. Less handy in the night.

Today he has, frankly, eaten like a horse. I think his multiple days of puking and hunger strike caught up with him and he's trying to catch up. He had a cereal bar just before bed so hopefully that will help him last a while!

Mrs81 · 05/01/2015 18:50

Sorry your DD has been poorly too Cuphat. The fluctuations in appetite are confusing at the best of times aren't they without illness being a factor too? One of the best things I read about this was to consider what they have eaten over a week or two, rather than meal by meal or day by day. The chances are it averages out to something quite reassuring on the whole...

AlohaMama · 05/01/2015 19:14

Don't envy you the 5am wakeup Mrs81. No advice here, sorry. We stopped BFing at about 13 months and have never done milk at night otherwise the nappies won't last the night. She has milk in the afternoon, dinner at about 4.45 and bed about 6.15. Wakes up at 6-7am and absolutely canes a huge cup of milk then. Maybe try porridge or something before bed that will hopefully fill him up? It does sound like with the illness, maybe he is just making up for lost time. Hopefully he'll have sorted himself out soon!

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BeanCalledPickle · 05/01/2015 19:18

I was getting a bit stressed about polly suddenly eating less. She's pretty much given up lunch! But friends told me to focus on the fact that she will inevitably eat when hungry. Which is true but I don't want that to be at 5am! She seems to fill up on popcorn and raisins. And she eats really well at nursery. Peer pressure accounts for a lot it seems.

Tried the duvet a couple of times. Major fail. Ended up not sleeping at all so I've abandoned it for now!

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cuphat · 05/01/2015 19:36

DD doesn't normally have fluctuations in appetite - she eats everything in sight! So we know she must be ill! Poor thing, she did try to eat normally days back but kept being sick (especially if she had a coughing fit).

Bean, I think that's the thing to remember - that they will eat if hungry.

I'm not too worried, it's just not very nice seeing her not be her usual self. She's better in herself, still has a snotty nose and cough though.

There's no hurry for duvets. We're keeping DD in sleeping bags as long as possible.

Mrs81 · 05/01/2015 20:06

So true that they will eat if hungry. And not if they're not. I don't know when the 'eating because it's tasty, but actually I'm full' thing kicks in but DS blatently doesn't have it yet.

As for the 5am wake up - it would be okay if that was the first wake up. But it isn't :( He usually wakes between 2 and 3, and can be resettled fairly quickly.

We tried weaning him off his reflux medication recently - but that brought the wakeups to an obscene number (5-6 minimum per night, and proper shouty/writhy ones too) and we were utterly exhausted by it. So 1-2 wake ups is good for us with quick resettling!

SunnyL · 05/01/2015 20:09

Huh! Lily will only apparently eat meals now if they've been fried (like sweetcorn fritters or tuna cakes) or on toast. All the healthy food she wolfed down just a few weeks ago are pushed away with a very firm 'No'.

Running out of recipe ideas and bored of fighting with her.

All she basically wants is a giant bowl of satsumas and that would be the child in heaven.

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BeanCalledPickle · 05/01/2015 20:32

The duvet thing is motivated by the need to get the cot back by the time the little one is four months old. So first step duvet. Then cot bed and then her own bed so we can have cot back. I'm buggered if I'm buying a new bloody cot!

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Mrs81 · 05/01/2015 20:33

Would that not give her the most terrifying nappies??? We ration DS to one a day and even then we still need to warn nursery sometimes!

Tuna cakes sound interesting Sunny. Are they easy? Our go to dinners are risottos (mushroom is a fave), pasta and pesto, and pasta with mushroom, creme fraiche and a little bit of bacon. Boursin and oatcakes is the best thing ever for lunch! At nursery he eats anything. At home less so, but he is gradually improving for now

cuphat · 05/01/2015 20:58

Oh dear Mrs, I hope he improves soon.

We haven't found anything that DD won't eat. DH makes all her meals - favourite dinners are fish pie, spaghetti - either bolognaise or one full of different vegetables, broccoli and cauliflower cheese and macaroni cheese. He even made her a mild curry a few weeks back which she ate. She has a bowl of natural yoghurt after her dinner.

For breakfast she normally has porridge or weetabix and then a banana. She said weetabix for the first time today!

For lunch she normally has sandwiches and strawberries. She loves strawberries - strawberries was one of her first ten words!

She normally has a bit of cheese and a satsuma/clementine etc after her nap, along with some milk.

Sunbeam18 · 05/01/2015 21:53

Mrs, when you stopped bf at night how did you get your DS to settle back down when he woke? I'm impressed with all these babies who go to bed before 7 and sleep all night - that would change my life!
We are sometimes just getting downstairs at 830 after putting DS down and he wakes every night, usually just after 12. One of us gives him a bottle and usually gets into the spare bed with him as he won't go back into cot. Anyone else as inept as us or have any tips to get us out of this??