September 2014 - Into the new year!

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Shiny New Thread for a Shiny New Year.

Our room varies from 16 brrr to 20. I dress Eli in long sleeve vest baby grow and 2.5 tog bag. And now due to his fussiness he now sleeps on a fleecy blanket

He seems fine in that most nights but if it gets super chilly we put him in a fleecy baby grow. He doesn't have his hands covered as he always gets them out and he likes to sick his fingers or thumb!

We would love to go on holiday this year but we are buying our first home so it is unlikely. Maybe we will go somewhere when I am back from maternity (eek)

And Elijah is not sleeping through, he has on occasion but he usually wakes for a bottle between 3 and 4. Then sleeps through till 7 or 8.

b's room goes from 17.5-20 it went to 20.4 overnight so I had complete panic....plonker. it came down quickly tho. he is in babygro (hands uncovered cos he likes to munch them) and sleeping bag. sometimes I put him in a thicker babygro but most of time its a bog standard one.

On the subject of box sets...I have watched the whole of series one of broadchurch today. Productive day lol!

I have that on the planner to watch honey is it good?

Broadchurch is fab. It's my Tuesday morning treat at the moment & i don't get anything done until I've watched it.

We're off to South Africa in March to visit DP's dad. Not looking forward to the 11 hour flight but at least no time difference to contend with. Not sure what to do about formula, think I need to check with the airline to see if they'll add hot water for me as DS has Hipp & you need scissors to cut theirs cartons & you're not allowed scissors on the plane. It's my biggest worry about the whole holiday at the minute!

Tops I don't know if this helps, cause I am not familiar with all types of formula but I saw a lady with a baby had bottles and in security they asked her to drink some of it and they were Ok for her to take a large bottle then;
Also I would have thought there will be something in the airplane to allow you to cut the cartons? Surely they will cut it for you?

This evening I have spent twenty minutes chasing a sudacreamed nappie-less DS across the kitchen/lounge. He got a good speed up and managed nearly 3 metres on one escape attempt before I caught him.

The only good thing about this, is at least he didn't start doing it 2 minutes earlier when he had just done his biggest poo to date, so the streaks along the thankfully laminate floor were white and not yellow.

He now has a red spot on the back of his head from friction and is snoring heavily on me with a smile on his face.

No one told me he could be this mobile at this age.

AND HE STILL CAN'T BLOODY ROLL.

Red occasionally I look at B and think hmmm were you there a moment ago..... he has rolles twice. and nothing since.

he also has two big lumps on his thighs from jabs. to match his bruised willy and dry skin.

oh man...woken up by a screaming child. teeth?! nightmare? can babies have nightmares?!

Mine sobs in his sleep sometimes as if he's having a nightmare but not sure how their brains can formulate scary thoughts when they haven't experienced anything bad unless it's being just out of reach of the milk source!

I think they can have bad dreams. A few times DD has started screaming in her sleep. After some cuddles she calms and seems to actually sleep through it most of the time. She also has lots of nice dreams and her smiling in her sleep is one of the cutest things ever!

Tops - can you buy nail scissors air side? But I think Nazly is right, you can take on more than 100 ml of baby milk, but you have to be prepared to taste it! You might be able to buy the milk air side. I wonder if you can order online and collect from the boots airside? Otherwise I guess there is the risk that they don't stock the right kind of milk.

Sometimes DS wimpers in his sleep like he's really sad, but he just sleeps through!!

I really enjoyed broadchurch, it's a very good whodunnit. But, I did know who it was all along because MIL let it slip. But that goes to show how good it is because I still watched the whole thing!! I might watch Bones next. There are nine series on now TV. That should keep me going for a while.

Just done a quick google and it looks like airside isn't an option through the website, but you seem to be able to call the store and do it over the phone. Could be really helpful for holidays?

Hon....J is nowhere close to sleeping through the night. He is 16 weeks old, and on a really good night he will get a 6 hour block before waking (okay this has only happened twice ), but usually it's between 3 and 4 hours.
He will have a little feed (he's FF) and go back off again.
I have tried to give him more for his last bedtime feed but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
My HV suggested cutting out feeding him during the night and just settling him back to sleep as he will soon learn not to wake up. I haven't taken this advice, as frankly I don't think it matters if he wakes up a few times a night. He's a very content little boy, who is putting on weight steadily and I think things are fine. He's my third child, so I have learnt that eventually (when he's ready) he will sleep through.

Other news...We have had the final set of jabs now and it's been pretty stress free for J.

He has really changed since Christmas, he seems so aware and interested in his toys now. He's very smiley and will try and join in with conversations. He isn't rolling - oddly he first rolled right over a few times at a month old but hasn't since - so I think it was pure fluke.

I'm still loving every minute with him and am dreading returning to work in May/June .

Jay I am loving my days now - b a real little character!!

been to gp today. I mentioned that he was teething and got told it was highly unlikely. I also didn't understand the prescription she gave me for him.

Someone was asking about holidays in school time.

I'm a school governor so have some experience in the policy decisions here. It is different in each school but in fact the well publicised suggestion that if you take a holiday in school time you will be fined is not directly true. It is a muddling of two different policies and Head Teachers / Schools / Local Authorises and the Government quite deliberately do not dispel this myth because it works to their benefit.

I should add that taking children out of school during school time does have a profound effect on their education. You may try to justify it to yourself so that you feel less guilty - but it is absolutely true. At certain times of the year (September especially) it also have a proud effect on children socially if they have time out of school.

Personally, if we could not afford a holiday in school holidays they we would deem that we cannot afford to go on holiday that year and not go.

So the muddled myth. This comes from two policies.

(1) School absences due to holidays (and other similar stuff) will not be authorised. This does not mean leave cannot be taken, just that it will not be authorised so will show on their permanent record as an unauthorised absence (which is exactly the same as truancy is registered).

(2) Individuals with low attendances or high unauthorised absences will trigger an 'intervention' which could end-result in a fine. This policy will deal with pupils who truant (with or without parental knowledge) and also pupils who have a lot of time off due to illness. Levels for what the intervention is and at what point a fine is issued is a school decision.

So if you have a pupil with excellent attendance long term and with no previous unauthorised absences, then there is a good chance that the Head will just say "Have a great holiday" when you let them know.

If your child is often off sick (less than 95% attendance - about 9 days per year in our school) or has had holidays a lot in previous years - you might need to deal with some judgey letter and or chat with the education welfare officer. But that is probably it initially.

Holls Emily did that to me two nights ago it was the middle of the night and she screamed like a banshee louder than I have ever heard her make a noise before - just one long scream a couple of whimpers then nothing! She seemed to have been asleep the whole time but it scared the life out of me!

She has started chatting to us the last couple of days, it's very cute

holls Glad you are enjoying B !

I also had a suspected teething incident last week. J hadn't really eaten much all day and was more dribble than usual. He them had a screaming fit and tears for an hour in the late afternoon and was literally inconsolable. I took him to the Chemist who suggested teething granules and capillary but by the time we got home he was fine and has been fine since. So now I'm thinking it was trapped wind.

I'm half expecting teeth early, as my older son was 4 months and my nephew was 3 months when they got their first. My daughter was 9 months though so guess it's hard to predict.

There is a very strong likelihood the school will not publish to tell you at what stage interventions happen. This would be to stop any playing of the system.

If a parent knew they could take 8 days off without anything happening then they could think of it like holiday leave that you get from work: 'I have 8 days holiday to take so might as well use up the holiday days'.

This is what used to happen with authorised holidays. Some parents assumed their children got 10 days holiday a year, like it was something that was OK and encouraged. This was never the case. The government policy changed to make it unauthorised so that it became clear that it was in no was encouraged or allowed.

I know. I spoke to hv who instantly said teething! I can feel the bump!
Basically he has a bit of excema and today has thrush. she basically suggested that I should put his thrush cream on the excema. ..confused.com. asked hv and she was also confused. rang docs and they said had to speak to doc. can't get hold of doc.

He rolled and I missed it so we will just pretend it never happened!