September 2014 - 6 months already?!

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new thread!

Glad B's temperature is back to normal now Holls. Hopefully he just had a bit of a big and feels better now. x

bit of a bug, not bit of a big!

Good to hear things seem better this morning Holls.

Meh about etiquette.

It totally depends on where you are posting and who you are talking to. If you are posting in an area like this where there are regular posters you know better then more stuff goes. If you are posting in a sensitive section to a distressed poster more stuff goes. If you are posting in AIBU then you need to be on your toes as people just wait to spot a weakness, any weakness in your posts. I quite like it at times but I do think you need to be confident in what you think, have good knowledge and communication skills and a certain level of experience with internet culture to not get flattened. I don't think that MN has hard and fast rules for that reason which is why newbies can find it intimidating and difficult to understand at first.

I am getting excited as it sounds like there will be a few explorers here soon to share stories of Tasmanian Devil Devastation with. Over the last couple of weeks I've realised that there are only so many things I can do to baby proof. DS is covered in bruises and there really hasn't been much I could do to prevent them. This morning he nearly got his knee up high enough to climb on the sofa without a prop up. As soon as he can do that, all bets are off.

and temp is back. seen nursr and calpol nurofen for 2 days hope it's just a virus

I dont post much but greek yoghurt with fruit puree is a big hit here for breakfast. I would give it with banana as finger food but banana constipates him. Strips of pea and broad bean (peas & beans mashed up before adding) omlette went down well today too.

holls DS had tonsillitis and an ear infection causing a temp a few weeks ago and we were giving calpol and calprofen to bring it down along with frequent small feeds x

Hi there polka! Good to see you!

Holls - Hope B is feeling better soon!

Hope B is feeling better soon Holls.

Ella DS loves Baby Tv, channel 623 on sky. I put him in the bouncer chair & stick it on when I hang out washing, run his bath etc. the programmes only last a few minutes each so they don't get time to get bored of them. DP is working away 5 nights a week at the moment so it's a lifesaver & means I can get some jobs done.

We do porridge for breakfast with different fruit purées added so it tastes a bit different everyday. Sometimes we mix it up & he has a crumpet or egg, either omlette or scrambled egg. I had beans on toast for breakfast the other day & he loved that too.

Can't remember who was asking about pasta but I made tuna & sweetcorn pasta salad for myself yesterday & DS wolfed it down, much more popular than the pasta in a tomato sauce I made him last week.

ella b loves curious george and peppa pig. he also loves nashville because thats my new favourite series!!!!

Blimey, your babies are getting their own choice of TV? .

Zero chance of that here. If the other children are home and its not xbox time, then they take turns with their choices of channel. When older children aren't around, with the exception of Bargain Hunt, DD gets to watch the BBC News channel.

We've noticed she turns her head for the theme tune for The Simpsons. We are yet to re-introduce CBeebies to our daily TV choices. 5 Year old has recently grown out of it, baby too young to ask for it.

I think Red has got it spot on with the MN etiquette. I have to say I quite like the atmosphere of no 'huns' which I didn't even know about before I joined. I'm contemplating a username change for that exact reason because it often gets shortened to 'Honey' which I know is a big no no for mumsnet. Any suggestions?! I do like that it's very adaptable though, I've found this board incredibly supportive and there are many others where posters are gentle and kind but as you've said Red AIBU is not for the faint hearted!

We often have the Simpsons on as it ends just in time for bath time, and DS likes looking at the bright colours. I do put CBeebies on sometimes but to be honest he would watch anything I put on. For those of you with older ones, at what age/stage did you start being careful about what is on the tv? I wanted to watch game of thrones at MIL's the other day and she was horrified, claiming that 'it's not suitable'. I'm pretty sure DS doesnt care at the moment, and I know it will be gradual rather than an overnight thing but when do I need to start filtering what I watch?!

Jessica does like CBeebies, especially 'In the Night Garden'. I don't let her watch it all the time, but it is handy for when I need to do something or have something to eat, as she's quite happy in her jumperoo for a bit watching TV.

Honey we haven't yet started filtering TV content either. Although I guess now that she's starting to repeat sounds we might have to start considering it. Me and DH watch quite a lot of stand-up comedy with the inevitable bad language / adult humour, but I reckon we've got a little while yet before we have to worry about it.

Honey we don't watch much TV but when we do it's GoT, Mad Men, etc., basically all unsuitable for kids. I'd not thought a thing of it but dd has started doing things on demand like clapping and high fiving and I'm freaked out because she obviously knows the meaning of words, so who knows what she's been taking from all this illegal underage viewing!!

We don't watch any grown up TV until the children are in bed. If there is something I want to watch on catch-up during the daytime then I will watch it when DD is asleep. Not just because of content but also because I want to watch uninterrupted.

This may not be the desired answer, but I don't watch anything with inappropriate content (even CSI or Buffy or similar) with any children around, including baby.

I guess though that this is just because that's how I have got used to things being over the last 10 years of parenthood.

But fate when did you start doing this with your youngest? I completely agree with not having unsuitable tv on with children around, I'm not sure I even want DS watching the news tbh (I know I know pfb) but I just don't know at which point I need to be careful. I hope that makes sense!

DD does watch a little bit of CBeebies. She seems to prefer things with real people though. So she seems most interested in show me show me, let's play and something special. She isn't a great sleeper so has most of her naps while we are out and about, so sometimes it can be the only way for me to get a few minutes to get stuff done.

Ok, I've seriously had enough of being up so bloody early every single morning. Everyday she's stirs at around 4 and us really unsettled. She won't take milk, so is not hungry. I try bringing her in with us, and sometimes that works, but most often (like this morning) the only way to keep her asleep is to hold and rock her. I've tried leaving her to it in her cot, but she is then wide awake and screaming by 4.15, no way I can get her back to sleep, which screws up our entire day as we are both tired and grumpy. I've tried putting her mobile on and leaving her to it, but that ends up with exactly the same ting, just delayed by about ten minutes. So she is on my lap, with me sat in the nursing chair rocking her. Occasionally she stirs or seems to have a bad dream, then I have to stand up to do more vigorous rocking! Any ideas what I can do. This is really starting to get to me. I need more sleep. Being up at 4am is not good for me. FATE, you are the sleep goddess, so I'm hoping you might have some amazing pearls of wisdom to save my sanity. Just over a month until I'm back at work and I don't see how I can do it if I'm up at 4am every day.

Oh, and been weak willed with chocolate this week. I'm so tired and crap

Team our unsettledness starts at 3 so I feel your pain . Do you use white noise? I still cosleep so just feed him as much as possible and put the white noise on loudly as soon as he starts to stir and it helps. If the white noise stops then he stirs again. It's frustrating cos if we can make it through the stirring then he'll sleep well from 5am till 6.30 or 7am. Saying that, last night was great he only woke/fed at 11, 1, 3 and then up at 7am. It's ridiculous that that's a good night!

Acorn, I find it quite amazing how similar out babies seem to be, the sleeping, reflux and cmpa!

I was using white noise, but it didn't really seem to make a difference. Maybe I'll try putting it on when she wakes at 4am, see if that helps. I just need some more sleep. Last night she was quite unsettled from 10-12.30, fed at 10.30 and 1.30, then unsettled again from 4am. Thank goodness DH takes on the first part of the night so that I can at least get a bit of sleep. After seven months I'm really ready for her to start sleeping better!

• our babies!

I hate that the iPhone/Pad autocorrects real words and replaces them with different words. So often I look back at my posts and see a large number of embarrassing autocorrect errors. I feel like I need a PS containing an apology on every single post I make!

Fate having spent yesterday with a 5-year-old who's been unable to sleep since watching Monsters Inc., I now agree with you about inappropriate content and kids, even babies. I hadn't thought about it at all, but you can see how, even from such a young age, they start to take everything in and process it as only their undeveloped brains can... it's amazing really but also frightening because you obviously can't control everything they see.

Very jealous of all of you in the south having lovely sunny weather. Up here in deepest darkest Yorkshire it's grey and barely warm enough to go out without a coat!

apples it's quite nice here! not overly warm but the sun is out and washing on the line!!

I watch stuff that won't scare him (partially cos I am pathetic when it comes to scary stuff!). he doesn't watch nashville just likes the music to jig to!!!

his favourite toy is a monkey so we have just watched a you tube clip of a monkey. b thought it was v funny.

been back to doc today after a pretty bad night. doc can find no reason for temp and sent me home with call 111 if not better over weekend and get him seen by out of hours....

lol @ sleep Goddess Not really, I can just tell you what I do.

Team - 4am I would be treating as a night feed. Is anything different about this wake, even if not intentional. The timing may mean you are slower to get to her, for example. I find the longer I take to respond to DD in the night, the more awake she becomes.

We are in the process of dropping the 11pm feed I wake DD for. On the nights I don't wake her for this feed, about half of the times she goes through until 6.30-7.00 ish (which is fine for us) and about half the time she might be up at 5ish. I start with a warm bottle and sometimes that works. Then I do dummy and some patting or tickling or hand holding - generally reassuring her I am there (while I'm lying in bed).

Often that's enough and she'll go back to sleep. If not I wouldn't be sitting and rocking, I'd bring baby into bed with me. Whether she sleeps or not isn't the point of bringing her to bed, it is just so that I can doze on and off. It might not be proper deep sleep, but dozing in a warm bed and relaxing for a couple of hours is definitely better than being out of bed, cold and awake. Often after half an hour of being cuddled up to me but ignored, she goes to sleep.

But fate when did you start doing this with your youngest? I completely agree with not having unsuitable tv on with children around, I'm not sure I even want DS watching the news tbh (I know I know pfb) but I just don't know at which point I need to be careful.

I watched the box sets for all seven series on Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the first 4 months (ish) of my PFBs life. .

There are lots of inappropriate content on the news! I often switch it over if there are any disturbing images.

I don't think I do anything differently. I stroke her head, hold her hand and/or put her dummy in, just like I usually do to settle her.

She usually has her second feed around 3.00, so I don't think she's hungry. I have tried to give her more milk, but she'll just spit it out.

I don't think I'm slow to get in there either, particularly as I'm often awake at that point (I find it difficult to get back to sleep sometimes after the 3am feed).

I do try to take her in with us. Sometimes she will go back off until 5.30-45, but sometimes she just wriggles about and whinges, wakes up crying, which then wakes DH.

I'm fine with her waking at 5.30, I'd just love to sleep past 4am. 6am would be a lie in!!!

At some point, I will get to sleep again, won't I? If nothing else, she'll go to university and then I can sleep? Or will I just lie awake all night worrying about her...