June mummies '05 thread 12 - the one where they aren't babies anymore!

[katzg]

new thread!

Enjoy!

Congrats Jonah

[tribpot]

Welcome back Skyler and mandymac, two of my fellow 22nd Junies I do believe .. perhaps we can make it three and woo charleypops back as well?

[sfxmum]

hianother day of horrid teething!
the poor poor monkey

[NAB3]

Keep seeing June '05 thread and want to say hello! Not sure anyone will remember us. I had a boy on June 13th last year and have 2 older children. Hello!!

[bubbaloo]

Hi Nab-Your name rings a bell.Hope you are well.

Ds has been a little so and so today.He went for his usual 9.30 nap this morning and by 11.30 he was still awake in his cot,then finally dozed off.5 Mins later he started screming,so I flew upstairs to find his foot badly twisted and stuck in the bars.Had a real job getting it out and at one point I even thought it was broken.Anyway...he went back to sleep for all of 10 mins then I could hear him mubling away to himself.I left him thinking he'd fall back to sleep again and I could actually get some shut eye myself,but finally gave in after 30 mins or so and went back upstairs to see him.He was standing up in his cot,grinning at me,with a soaking wet duvet and his nappy thrown on the floor,grrrrrrr.
I wasn't amused,but couldn't help but laugh-he was sooo pleased with himself.

[tribpot]

Hello Nab! Nice to see you back.

Bubb, not to frighten you, but my dnephew did break his leg on the bars of his cot in the way you describe. They've put him back in a gro-bag to get round the problem, but it was a hellish time, particularly as the hospital thought it was an abuse injury

[bubbaloo]

Actually,now you mention it I think I remember you saying something about it.Ds has always had sleeping bags but for the last couple of months he's had a quilt.During the morning nap,he just lays on top of it as his room is really hot.He also normally sleeps with his boots on,but he's having new ones made at the mo,which'll be another 4 weeks,so he had nothing on his feet.
At least he's safe in a sleeping bag tonight(as I've washed the duvet)and maybe I'll use that instead now.Would be awful if he broke his foot etc...and apart from him being hurt,I don't thin I could stand the questions from the hospital a second time-it was bad enough when we had the other accident.
Thanks for reminding me!

[lummox]

i've gone in and found ds's foot caught in the bars of his cot - really worrying as he is in a gro-bag but it's a 0 tog one as it is too hot for anything else.

on this topic, is anyone else considering moving their lo into a bed with a guard? ds will be 16 months tomorrow, is that much to soon?

oh, and hello NAB3 - welcome back

[mandymac]

Thanks for the nice welcome back all! DD is now recovered and back to her cheeky self, although still not eating much. She had me in hysterics this evening kissing and stroking the TV screen while the Tweenies were on - I think she is in love with Mylo .

[tribpot]

That's what I was thinking, Bubb. The dnephew in question is the adopted one, and when the doctors said they were going to do a full body x-ray to see if there were any older injuries my bro and SIL were terrified it was going to find stuff from before they adopted. Fortunately it didn't (so at least we know drunken birth mother wasn't physically abusing him ).

It has been way too hot for a sleeping bag, maybe one good thing about the weather turning towards autumn ...

[tribpot]

lummox, I dream of moving ds to a bed with a guard, as it would mean I wouldn't have to co-sleep any more! During the summer months, it was too hot for ds to sleep upstairs, so he was downstairs on the mattress from the sofabed, so I had to sleep with him. It was ridiculous; during his naptime we couldn't move from one floor to another as the stairs are in the study where he was sleeping.

We eventually moved him back upstairs, but he absolutely loathes his cot, so now:

• he is sleeping on the double mattress from our bed in his room (with me)
• dh is sleeping on the single mattress from the spare room on the double divan
• there is nowhere for me to sleep! Or if I wake up in the night and want to read to get back to sleep (a la last night) nowhere for me to go.

[lummox]

that sounds really tough, trib.

[tribpot]

Seems normal to me, lummox. Dh and I have never been able to share a room because of the snoring/sleep apnoea. Now we could probably get by although the breathing machine makes quite a lot of noise.

Worst thing about it is never getting any decent sleep and having to work full-time, to be honest.

[2Happy]

Ooh, Trib, that doesn't sound good . And bubbs - sorry, but I really couldn't help laughing at your ds getting his nappy off. No doubt I will be repaid by my ds learning that trick sooner or later!!
Lummox - we were thinking about putting ds into a bed, mostly to free up the cot for the baby. But we never got round to giving bil & sil their crib back, so the baby'll be ok in that for a few months and I think we'll leave off moving ds until the last minute - he's a bit of a mountaineer at the best of times . (Which is why we're using grobags too, I swear he'd be out of the cot if it wasn't for the bag!)

[Skyler]

Helloo
Oooo I say keep them in their cot as long as possible. That way you know where they are. DD1 was still in a cot when dd2 was born. I think we moved her at 2.10 yrs. However it never crossed her mind to try to climb out so I knew she was safe. I get the feeling that dd2 is going to be a different proposition. I have already found her standing on the dining room table laughing at me on more than one occasion. She pulls the chairs out and climbs on up! DD1 never did anything like that.
We have had the nappy whipped off too during nap time unfortunately with a poo in. It was everywhere. This is another area where the dd's differ. DD1 took her nappy off and pooed in her cot and when I found her she was at the opposite end of the cot slightly freaked out about it all yelling for me. dd2 played with it. Yuk! She is younger though and the poo was in the nappy not done after IYSWIM. Anyway there are two things I never imagined having to deal with when embarking on motherhood. Catching poos in my hand whilst trying to cure nappy rash with nappy free time was another.....
On that note I will be off I think but will just say:
Hi to Nab. Is it you who lives on the top of a hill in Kent and whose dh nearly got snowed out??? or have I my wires crossed?? If so didn't you have some worries with your dear bump? Hope you are well and things worked out.

[2Happy]

Yup, Skyler, I've found ds on the dining room table more than once too. Why do they look so pleased with themselves for it?!! [exasperated emoticon!]

[Skyler]

Sorry x posted with you all. There is nothing on TV tonight is there lol.
Trib that sounds dreadful. You poor thing. Wish there was something I could suggest.

[tribpot]

Honestly, does it really sound dreadful? We just do it.

Sky - catching poo with your hand - so not a story to share with childfree people. I have a hundred of them

[sfxmum]

welcome back NAB i was only around on the post natal

trib - that does sound tiring hope you manage some 'me' time at some point.

junior bed- well we thought about it but she is still in our room and the cot is big so we will probably wait till next summer.

she does climb on everything, she does remove her nappy, runs away pees and shouts PEE pointing and giggling

she sleeps in a bag and she does constantly stick her feet throught the bars(tribs nephew always on my mind, esp in summer when she was out of it or it was partially unzipped.

about naps she will not sleep in her cot at all unless we put her there when already asleep. she does go to sleep in her buggy weird baby

[sfxmum]

oh catching poos! yes have fished them out of the bath on a couple of occasions.
like trib says
perhaps not a tale for my single childless friends visiting tomorrow.
i have been avoiding them and making excuses they have never seen dd and we have not met face to face since i was about 6m pg.
i am really an unsociable old cranky

[Skyler]

Good Luck tomorrow SFX!
Lynny - Forgot to say how clever your dd is!!! Sorry. Got caught up with other poo activities.

[bubbaloo]

Sfx-My friends little girl who is 2.7 years old will not nap in her cot either.She has to put her in her buggy and either leaves her in the living room or wheels it into her bedroom.

Was also thinking about a bed,as we'll need the cot for the new baby.So far we've worked out that if the new baby stays in with us(in the travel cot,like ds did) for about 4 months,then by the time he or she will need the cot ds will be about 26 months and hopefully ready for a bed.

Skyler-that nappy incident sounds yuk! When my friend was potty training her dd last year,she had a facination of pooing and smearing it all over herself,inc her face and head.Certainly not looking forward to it myself.

[lummox]

we've just been on a week's holiday with dh's brother and his wife and baby. on day 1 we had to introduce a one pound fine for discussing poo or we would never have got round to talking about anything else.

[sfxmum]

lummox- do not want to be even more skint

friends here soon oh dear rock chick and animal rights activist (of the sane variety)

what did i used to talk to them about? but they are lovely really

my bank apparently wants to downgrade my account on the grounds that i will no longer be able to maintain the required balance for this accountmust get to the bottom of this

[tribpot]

It is really difficult, isn't it sfx? You don't want to be a baby bore and talk about teething, first steps, poo (obviously), fussy eating, i.e. all the stuff we talk about here! But equally when that consumes about 90% of your waking life it's hard to develop opinions on the latest books, films, political developments in Outer Mongolia, etc.

[eastyorksmum]

hi mum hugsssssss afternoon

lol im finally on my owm pc grrrrrrrrr wont be long for long though stupid thing, had a talk with hubby said he ll get me my own laptop finally about time grrrrrr lol married to an IT expert you think he could sort something out, stopped ranting now.

Hiya sklyer hunny hugssssssss welcome back its so nice to see you i hope your little girls are ok, and Hubby is safe , hope your settling in fine in good old England lol has it rainnned yet???