October 05 - First Birthdays

[Yokefleet]

Happy Birthday to Joey!

Hi everyone. We have had a hectic few days. My sister got married on saturday so in the run up I was helping with flowers, cake decorating etc and my two other sisters are still visiting so we are busy drinking cups of tea etc. Johnny was great at the wedding. My in laws live just a few mins away from where the reception was held, so they brought him down after his nap just in time for the photos and the meal. He just shared our dinner so had a whole range of exciting stuff that he has never had before! I then took him away after dinner to feed him and put him to bed. I got back just as the evening guests were arriving, so it worked out really well.
Had a disaster last night. The washing machine appears to have developed a fault. even switching it on fuses all the lights. FiL is coming to look at it today, but I think it will be declared not worth fixing. I think I will have to go to the laundrette. I haven't done that since I was a student!

mb hope you get the washer sorted soon, ours broke when Thomas was 3 weeks old and I remember my dh saying that we would have to wait until the weekend to go looking for a new one, I think I threatened him with divorce papers!!! Sounds like a great weekend mb (I love weddings! I have got married the last two olympic years and keep dh on his toes as we aren't that far off the next one! )
Hope everyone is ok. Thomas is really coming on quickly now and I just can't remember life without him Although the day I went into labour I do remember that, spent the day on walking on the beach with my parents, went back to theirs for tea and had a tuna bake (lovely) saved me some leftovers for the next day (which I never got to eat) we went home at about 8pm, watched a bit of tele then went to bed where dh started watching Match of the Day and my contractions started at 10.23pm. What did you do?

Oooh, I'm poorly sick. I was throwing up all last night and have been under the weather today. Misery.

MB - glad your sisters wedding went well. My sister got married in Aug and Evelyn was there all day, but in bits was quite teary as she was tired.

YF - re day. I had a section but I remember what I did the day before! I had a mad dash around town to pick my mums ring up that had been sent in for repair, and visited her in hospital as she'd had an operation. Then I had to dash to specsavers because they wouldn't give me a new pair of lenses until I'd had a test, and I hadn't taken my glasses with me and couldn't put my lenses back in afterwards, so was wandering around town, blind as a bat, trying to find my way home, while talking on my mobile to work as they couldn't work out something that needed doing! I think I looked like a bit of a banshee, and I was on the phone saying "I'm going into hospital toooomorrrrowwww!!"

Yippee - washing machine is fixed!!

The night before my section, I remember that DH had a bad cold and was in bed early. I was mumsnetting until the wee hours as I couldn't sleep, but i couldn't have my usual cup of cocoa as I had to fast from midnight.

Johnny was very cute in his bath tonight. We have a length of tubing which we blow into to make bubbles and tonight he grabbed the other end and blew a couple of bubbles himself!!

Feel better soon Elf - i've got a manky head cold, and i need to shift it soon, as the wedding's only 2 weeks away now!!!

Hmm, day before birth....again, mine was an elective section so i had a bit of notice! DP was working all day so i remember catching up with my Mum and wallowing for hours in the bath shaving my legs et al thinking 'i bet i won't get time to do this again soon'! How true!! And obviously trying to mentally prepare myself for my life suddenly changing beyond all recognition with a wriggly pink screamy thing

I'd do it all again in a heartbeat. NSNM x

I hope that you are feeling better soon

wow NSNM two weeks!! Get better soon!

Wow, I can't believe it's only 2 weeks away NSNM. It doesn't seem like that long ago you said December which seemed forever away.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but Johnny is having his first ever bout of diarrhoea. He has caught this from his cousin, via his Granny. It seems to have a week long incubation, so I won't know until next week if I am going to get it too. His cousin was ill for a week with d&v. So far, it has just been diarrhoea with no vomiting. My SiL and BiL and PiLs have all had it and the adults symptoms range from just feeling queasy to full blown d&v. Just what I need, eh? Had to cancel mindees as well. I must say though that I think we have done really well to get to 13 months without anything like this so far.

Johnny is such a sharing baby and couldn't let me go without his virus!! I feel like a prune from dehydration. I threw up several times on Saturday night and one bout was so violent that I fainted and hurt my butt on the bathroom floor. Johnny now has the cold and wants to feed the whole time. It just seems to be one thing after the other just now.

MB hope you are both feeling better very soon
nsnm are you all ready and sorted for the big day?

Hi all!

Well, we have progress! Becky has cut 4 teeth at the rate of one a week for the past 4 weeks, taking her total to 5!

She is also walking - she really isnt a baby anymore

Right.... do we think of number 3 then?! lol

Yay on Becky cutting more teeth! Joey's still stuck on the 4, but i live in hope every day...

Having a bit of a nightmare time at the mo (see my thread in the 'Sleep' section if you're interested/have any advice!). Since our trip to Norfolk last week, Joey has refused to sleep in his own cot at night, having previously been fine, and it's making bedtime very difficult, and quite frankly, something i've started dreading I just hope we can sort it soon, or he'll be spending our wedding night with us, rather thna my mum as planned!!

On a more positive note, i had my hen night on Saturday, which was briliant. A group of my nearest and dearest went for a chinese then clubbing (my fist time since before i got pregnant with Joey), and it was very fun, even if i did have to spend the night on the sofa as my beloved was in bed with my smaller beloved and i couldn't disturb them!!! NSNM x

Aw NSNM. Cant help re the sleep thing as Evelyn is going through the same thing. We can get her in her cot for sleep but between twelve and three shes screaming and only settles when in our bed. I'll have a look at your sleep thread in a min for some help!!

Sorry, NSNM I don't have any ideas re the sleeping thing either. Hopefully it's just a phase.
JARM - well done Becky on the teeth and the walking! Is anyone elses LO still not even on their feet yet? Johnny is not showing any interest in getting on his feet at all. He didn't crawl until he was 11 months so he will probably be taking his time with the walking too and in the meantime my arms get muscles like Arnie from carrying him around!
DH and I are over our D&V but poor Johnny is still not right. He had three dirty nappies before 9am this morning and they were very soft and yellow with an infected whiff to them. He is mostly ok, but he's just not quite his usual cheery self and is very pale and a bit clingy. I spoke to the HV yesterday who said to hand in a poo sample if there is no change by tomorrow as that will be a whole week since the first bout of diarrhoea. I am so glad he's not been vommitting as I can cope with just the bottom end!!

MB How is Johnny now? feeling better?

Thanks for asking YF. He is around 95% now I would say, but he didn't have a dirty nappy today so i can't say for sure. I was able to sit him on the floor and walk away without him howling and holding up his arms to be lifted which is progress after the super clinginess of the last week! Also, he napped 2hrs this morning and then wouldn't nap in the afternoon at all compared with 2x2hr naps whilst he has been ill. This has been awful and I hope this is the end of it.

mb thats good news, hopefully back to normal soon

Glad to hear Johnny is feeling a bit better.

Evelyn seems to be losing her voice?!! I think its a sore throat, bless her.

I never thought I would be so pleased to see solids in a nappy!! This morning's one was completely solid, and although it wasn't quite the right colour, I do feel like we are almost there.
I had to cancel my mindees for the whole of last week, so it's back to work on Monday which will be a shock to my system!!

Glad to hear Johnny's on the mend, Mawbroon. Joey had a very runny tum the other day, but it transpired that he'd helped himself to an entire punnet of raspberries whilst in DP's care!

6 days to go till i get married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take care all, NSNM x

Glad to hear Johnnys on the mend MB!
Oooh, 6 days - how excited are you NSNM?!

Hope everybody else is okay

Elf

Hi ladies, blimey I haven't been to this thread for ages.

Sorry to hear about all the poorly babies. Hope everyone is on the mend. We've been quite lucky so far, ds had quite a nasty cold but he got over it quite quickly.

Congrats NSNM, hope you have a lovely day and Joey is sleeping better so your mum can have him.

Anyone else putting their tree and decorations yet. We moved house last year about a week before christmas, and having lost the decorations and tree base in the packing and being knackered with a 2.5month old baby we didn't really do Christmas last year so we are going a bit mad this year to make up for it

We're not going mad this year either, I have a small metal silver tree that I will put up which has baubles etc but I wont be putting up my big tree. Part of the reason is that we will be at my mums for Xmas. However, my CM put her tree up on Friday and let the kids help, the tree is huge and Evelyn is already planning her move up the tree...

Good God, Evelyn has just vomited all over the bedroom carpet
She'd picked a bit of fluff off the floor and tried to eat it and it did not agree with her...
Gross. I hate sick.

I hope that was a one off with Evie Elf!
I am not doing anything for decorations this year. I am leaving it all up to my mindees. They love doing arty/crafty things and will make loads of stuff I'm sure. We started cutting out green handprints to make one of those trees where you stick all the hands on the wall rather than put up a real one as there's no way Johnny could resist a real one! I told them that we need 100 hands - should keep them busy for a while!
What do you all do about naps for your LOs? I have had Johnny on 9am and 2pm naps for ages and ages, but of course he's not tired at 9am any more. I have not had any mindees for the last 2 weeks because of holiday then illness, so I was sticking to his 2 naps, but having them later in the day. This won't work when I am minding because I have to collect them from nursery/school at 11.20 and 3.10 so it means lifting Johnny from his nap which is a no no for me. (Let sleeping babies lie I say!!) I don't know if I am brave enough to switch to one long nap say from 12-3pm because he will be exhausted by 1030 and a nightmare for the rest of the morning. It also means having a ridiculously early lunch. Any suggestions?

MB nap wise Thomas goes down for a nap around noon but only sleeps usually for about 20mins then in an afternoon at around 3.30-4pm I put him down again and sometimes he sleeps and sometimes he just lies quietly chattering to himself this can be for anything from 15mins to an hour. He is asleep now so I really should be getting some jobs done instead of being on here!
I wanted to ask how your lo's are getting on with feeding themselves? Thomas is great with finger food but doesn't yet want to feed himself from a spoon, where are you lo's at?