January 2014 babies - The Teething Twilight Zone

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Apparently this is a short ride, they usually do about 140 he only started cycling in May this year and has lost loads of weight where I've just got fatter

I'd also like to know about toys. I think S is getting bored with hers even though I try and rotate what she plays with, but I don't want to buy more as it's so close to her birthday/Xmas. She now seems more interested in shoes, zips on things and pulling the CDs and DVDs off the shelf than her actual toys

The wanky treasure basket is the favourite still. That and the evil plastic front panel thing off the V Tech walker thingy

P doesn't like the wanky basket any more. She likes M's though, so I probably need to put different stuff in it. I suspect some sort of noisy, flashing plastic toy is the real answer though

M has an obsession with his sister's Little Mermaid and My Little Ponies

My nephew has some My Little Ponies and M loves them :o

getting how is H now? Hope he is much better and back home with you. How did the move go?

Haven't tried My Little Ponies yet, DD at least would be delighted. We are pretty boring here, and I often don't bother putting out his toys because he is so busy emptying cupboards. His favourite toy is the television remote control which he would sleep with if he could. He also likes shouting at soft toys and pulling DD's hair for the reaction. Also likes anything he can push round the house. He has turned up his nose at the lego cart though in favour of small items of furniture. Wish I hadn't given away the wheely bug though, he would have loved it.

What is a treasure basket?

Re toys, the washing basket is currently a favourite with M. The other week, M and Percy sat surrounded by toys on my living room floor, fighting over the laundry basket. I had to fill it with clean bibs and muslins for them to take out and put back in. Babies are weird.

Treasure baskets. M's has some of the evil plastic in, but also stuff like a wooden nail brush, silicone pastry brush, comb, flannel, loofah, silicone cupcake case, one of the rubbery dosing things from Persil, a wooden lemon juicer, metal spoon, scourer etc.

Remote control here! Seconded by "typing" on laptop, chewing mobile, chewing landline handset then treasure basket. Or pulling paper out of the ikea recycling bag. Evil Vtech noise maker panel remains popular. Why can't it have flashy lights but no sound??????

Oh dear. We have a mega drooling baby! Not had this with any of the other teeth. Hope it breaks through quickly.

Mmmm, slimy!

P's current favourite things are books, oddly. She likes to turn the pages, and she loves the lift-the-flap/peekaboo ones. Noisy books are already the best though. Apparently I was like this too, and I ended up being a librarian! As toby says, a basket of clean washing keeps her quiet for a bit as well. She just moves all the clothes from one pile to another and then back again. Little weirdo

book it's mega slimey! Never seen anything like it.

O loves pulling stuff out of baskets! Usually the nappies I've just carefully put together grrr.

Oh dear, three wake ups since 7. O is now downstairs with Dh watching in the night garden. Hopefully we will all get some sleep at some point tonight. Stupid teeth!

Nour is a complete slime ball here too, nature. It is unreal, there is baby slime everywhere. It is a mix of teething, a terrible cold and BLW. He also loves licking DH, which is driving DH crazy because he gets covered in snot and drool. Bleurgh!

N sounds like Darth Vader but I have left his snot sucker thing at MILs. Any ideas how to clear out his nose? A bit worried it might be coming from his chest now.

Hope you got some sleep nature.

Thanks for the treasure basket link toby. N seems to be following the DIY model and just heading straight for the kitchen cupboards and the bathroom. I am so lazy!

Oh, how did yesterday go another?

We didn't get much sleep. Dh and I took it in turns so sit up with her. She was in so much pain.

O is having her first visit to the dentist today. She fell and knocked her tooth at the hv clinic earlier. I can't tell if the gum is just swollen or she has knocked one of her top teeth back into the gum a bit. Hopefully it will be ok.

I'm having a sleep disaster. Partly teething. Partly my own fault as I should have learnt that Littlepuggle gets really scratchy if he has empire biscuit (I think its the egg in it) - but he was so cute standing and squealing at me for it I relented and gave him a couple of wee bits. Cue mega mega scratching, head all cut to ribbons. That was Sat, and on Sunday night he woke up every hour until 3 then every 45 mins after that. And not just waking up and wanting to relatch, everyone going back to sleep, no. Waking screaming and having to be picked up, latching on only to do the furious latch off nipple head turn.

I was hoping to start trying to get him to sleep in the bedside cot in the evenings rather than on my lap but can't decide whether there's any point when its all gone so tits up.
And I'm on call for work tonight and am starting to worry might have to stay late to sort an emergency......

Looks like the tooth has been pushed back into the gum Dentist is hopeful it won't have damaged the adult tooth because of her age. Need to go back in two weeks though as if the tooth starts to discolour it may need taking out

:( nature, poor O.

puggle maybe if you are not there he will just go to sleep without your lap. Babies are funny things, all of mine have settled with DH in ways they didn't with me.

First two days training done. I have so much energy. Sitting around listening to speakers and taking notes is so much easier than being a SAHM to 3 children. Once I actually do a 12 hour shift that will change I am sure.

We're off to the zoo. I'm so excited!

That's really exciting nature. Hope you all have fun!

Poor O nature, I hope the zoo takes her mind off the tooth.

So, my appointment for PND counselling has finally come through. Speedy eh?! They have arranged for P to go in a creche during the sessions, but a) it clashes with one of her activities, and b) if I leave the room she screams non-stop until I return, which means that c) I've never actually left her with anyone else. I don't know what to do. I've got to 9 months and we're all still here, so shall I just leave it? It feels like such an enormous hassle.

Can't you take her in with you book? I now turn up at fucking everything all drs and dentists appts with a toddler and baby in tow. They must love me.

We are potty training again and it's going ok. A massive difference to a few months ago anyway. Shame about the threenager attitude she's cultivating though/

Also, I I ever manage to have enough sex to actually conceive a child could someone remind me of the 8/9/10month no-sleep-shitstorm when I'm being smug about my 7 month old sleeping well as I must have blocked it out between dd and A.

getting how are you and H doing? I'm sure you must be very busy but hope everything is ok.

Might be worth going once Book - if its not helpful and you think "I'm well past this" then you don't go back. If its taken so long might be worth trying it at least once. Would you think about any more sprogs in the future either? Planning more would probably influence me to go, if I was definite no more ever I might be more liekly not to.

Yes, hope all is well getting.

I don't think I'd be able to have a useful discussion with P walking around the furniture and smashing up the office tarka. She is relentless when she's awake, never just sits on my lap or anything. I'm constantly having to leap up and stop her breaking DH's vinyl collection/electrocuting herself/eating cat biscuits, so it would be a bit of a difficult appointment with her there.

I'm definitely not having any more puggle, that's a good point. DH doesn't see why I need to go either. He is adamant that I'm not depressed but just tired instead. I have a bit of a long history of OCD disorders that have never been tackled, so he thinks that this is more like OCD anxiety than depression , and although I hate to give him credit for anything, I do think he might be right. So Operation (Wo)Man the Fuck Up starts now