September 2014 - Into the new year!

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Shiny New Thread for a Shiny New Year.

Kitkat I was going to say the same thing as Hon; I opened the door for delivery with ds latched on!

Holls are you still burping him? have you tried to keep him upright for a little while after feeding?
Although not sure why a baby would develop reflux at this age

Are you sure it is not a bug? Ds had a bad vomiting diarrhoea which lasted 2-3 weeks until it cleared out...

Think he has had a bug....

Yes burping etc same as usual.

I'd definitely recommend the IKEA highchair. I don't have that one but if I was buying again I'd get the IKEA one.

Lovin' the #boltbabies

Holls, the sick. How much are we talking? Like projectile vomiting everything he has drank? What kind of proportion?

a not particularly huge amount almost a sicky burp. mucusy with milk in it. not every feed.

In that case Holls, I really wouldn't be worrying about the bringing milk up. All babies do this and sometimes it will be mucusy (that is to do with how well digested the posseted milk is). All of my children have done sicky burps, sometimes more than others.

It's not anything to worry about in itself. Perfectly normal

Actually I am very jealous Holls that you just now are realising babies could bring up milk after these few first months!! You had it very good then ... :)

Third day on a row now that DD has decided that 4.30 is the best time to wake up and do her daily mega poo, which obviously means she is then wide awake. I love her to bits, but this child is killing me with nights. She's not too bad at the beginning of the night, but from 1 onwards she is just a nightmare. Is there such a thing as supernanny for baby sleeping? At the moment I'd happily sell a kidney to employ someone over night, every night

So...for the last two nights my usually good sleeper on has simpered and moaned in his sleep...loud enough for me to hear it next door. The sooner he realises he can use his thumb to other himself the better!!

Looking at nurseries today. I shall cry.

son whimpered * soothe

Stupid autocorrect

Good luck Holls. I have got as far as getting a list of local nurseries, but keep putting off booking appointments and looking in too much detail. I will also cry when I do eventually get around to visiting them. I dread the day I go back to work.

Oh thank god it's not just me :-) not looking forward to today.

Holls & Team

Have you tried a dummy? Lovely sucking comfort in the middle of the night to calm and soothe baby to sleep.

Nothing evil about a dummy, it is just a replacement nipple and offers a lot of comfort to a tried baby.

Cumbrian I am also dreading returning to work. I can't even think about it - and I will be going back in May/June time. I only work 22 hours and my family are going to look after J so I am lucky in that respect, but I am going to miss him so much .

What is Jumperoo? Jumperoo is not only a toy or baby device; it does so many other things; gives you a break to take a good shower(not a 3m rush one), then after you come out you can have a sneaky look in the lounge, baby still happily jumping; so you go get on with styling your hair for some time ; come back to a tired but still very happy, who does not even bring his hand up indicating wanting to be picked up, so you go spend sometime on makeup, then suddenly it is very quite, so you come back to a baby napping in there!
Omg! This has never ever happened to my son, not wanting soothing before nap?!? Not nagging or crying??! God forbid!!!! So pick him up give him a short kiss and cuddle and put him in his cot to nap... He goes to sleep in 30 seconds....

On the subject of leaving baby I have been going on here before; i feel I am going mad; yesterday went to dentist (had to fork out £550 for one tooth, aagh) and left ds with dh; after the first half hour I was constantly thinking about ds; after one hour I was miserably missing him; after two hours and coming back home I had crazy thoughts in my mind, like what if a car hit me now, what if ...& ...

Waiting for my first choice nursery to get back to us... Dreading not being accepted cause the other nurseries I looked I did not like at all...

Aww bless you Nazly! You deserve to catch a break from your DS being high needs.

DS loves his jumperoo, but its proved not a good idea straight after he's eaten sadly.

Nazly, don't you qualify for NHS? You get free dental care for 12 months after giving birth if you do....

I am so lucky to be able to put my child in my own nursery, he will be right next door to me! Sadly it will be ridiculously expensive so he will only be going 2 sessions a week. Then one day with me (fx) one with dh (fx) and two with my mum.

I love our jumperoo, Eli is just getting the hang of it but our flat is so tiny it lives at my parents till we move.

These jumperoos sound amazing. Shame we have nowhere to put it!

Took A swimming this morning. He was a little nervous to start with, but ended up loving it. Was really kicking and smiling. Had hoped it would mean a nice long nap afterwards, but he woke as soon as we got out of the car, and is still sat here wide eyed and babbling away at me!

jumperoo is great but have renamed it jumperpoo as it regularly reaps the rewards when we have had a day of no poo!!

so....LOVED the nursery. family feel. knew two people who worked there. its 800 a month though and includes the holidays - I get 14 weeks holiday per yr so was hoping to go to 1 day a week then in order to keep costs down. and a waiting list. seeing next one at 2pm. ho hum. oh to have mum round the corner!

Red he is getting surprisingly easier as time passes; but I still was not expecting him to fall sleep in there! He is amazed by the musical bit and keeps playing the music; interesting cause one month ago he was more interested in simple moving parts

I have exemption for dentists but I needed a crown and the nhs version is, mmm, how to put it politely, mmm, not very nice? I don't pay for their work but had to pay the massive fee for a better quality crown... I never go to dentists in the UK; always go to my own dentist every year when visiting parents so this was an eye opener !

team, lewis is a dreadful sleeper, up every 1-2 hrs all night. r u b/f? I am and am coping much better now I have pushed cot against bed and removed side of cot. I just wriggle across, shove boob in, so we only half wake up, so easier for us to both go back off to sleep

I've just read the thread MNHQ have highlighted about childcare costs. I'm staggered.

We hadn't looked at any figures but were fairly sure, me returning to work was pretty out of the question.

When I got pregnant I was considering the option of my Mum doing some childcare if she was willing, but we've fallen out recently over things connected to that. I have real concerns about her ability to look after DS. Unfortunately she doesn't appear to be fairing well with age and I'm concerned about her health. After a few too many occasions of her walking straight past us in the street (with us shouting across the road) without noticing us amongst other concerns about memory/awareness I don't think we have much choice. And obviously raises a few more questions about the future with regard to her future. My Dad may also be looking at retiring soon which may complicate things. I'd have less concerns about leaving DS with my Dad, but it depends on who would actually be looking after him... I don't know where we are going to go with that one tbh.

My MIL who we don't have a terribly great relationship with and have differences of opinion over parenting has been the one who has babysat - without me worrying. But she lives too far away to be a childcare option.

I also have to get a job to return to, which is obviously easier said than done.

I saw that too Red. I can well believe that you need to earn at least £26k pa to make returning to work worthwhile. The nursery we've applied for is nearly £50 a day. I'm lucky in that my boss has agreed flexible working meaning that Jessica will only need to be in nursery two days a week despite me working full-time, but that still means nearly £400 a month in nursery fees. If I had a Monday-Friday 9-5 like DH and she had to go every weekday that would be nearly £1000 a month. If you're a lower wage earner (e.g, minimum wage) by the time you've paid tax etc it really would be pretty pointless bothering working if you needed to pay for full time childcare. And that's just for one child, I imagine if you have more than one child the cost would be crippling.

I'm having a bit of a down afternoon. DH still doesn't feel able to do childcare etc post surgery. Haven't physically been away from Jessica in weeks as no-one able to take her for a bit. I love her dearly but just want a break for a few hours. I'm having fantasies about going to a café for an hour or two and just reading and (god forbid) eating a sandwich in peace, or being able to book a nice massage for an hour with my spa voucher my mum gave me for Christmas. i just want to be 'off duty' for a bit. Oh blimey I've actually got tears in my eyes now I want a break so much. Probably doesn't help that I really need a wee and Jessica has been asleep on me for about an hour and a half now. I just don't think DH gets how relentless it is for me. I know he's in pain etc and he's suffering too but I think sometimes he doesn't get that it's not easy for me either.

I'm not bf-ing any more, and DD does a combination of co-sleeping and occasionally going in her Moses basket.

Full time fees for our local nursery, where DD will be going, is £1250 a month