October 2014- thread 8. Growing up fast, 6 months already!!

[MundayCakes85]

Morning all! A shiny new thread for Easter.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, I'm off to eat copious amounts of chocolate whilst hiding in the floor of the nursery with Ewan the sheep

igotta maybe it is! :)

Maybe once a week or fortnight I get an email with some of the highlights from the mumsnet forum. Does no one else get this or is it just me?! Butt I think your contribution was described as 'inspired'!

Ooh I'm loving inspired!!

Hi all thats me back from Turkey, we all had a lovely time, both children where so well behaved and had lots of fun.

Cant beleive how cold it is here for being practically june

My lo has been near enough diagnosed with having asthma . I have had her at the doctors numerous times regarding the noise that comes from her chest but was always told thats normal ?? Took her on friday when i got back as it got worse when i was on holiday, so doc said her chest and lungs where very wheezy and gave me an inhaler to see if it makes a difference, i have an appointment tomorrow to get her checked again.

Once i catch up with all my holiday washing, i will try and catch up on what i have missed on here

igotta i never get this round up email?! Maybe you had to sign up for it?

stigz glad your holiday was fun. hope you managed to attack the dreaded holiday washing....We are supposed to get warmer weather at the end of th week fingers crossed.

Ok so after an awful week of 2 hourly wake ups, co sleeping that involved no sleeping and N just snacking at the all night milk bar I decided enough was enough and had the strength to feed him in his own room and put him back down in his cot rather than bringing him in with me after his first wake. We've had 2 much improved nights when he's woken at 11pm i fed, 2pm i patted and shh'ed him back to sleep, 4am fed and back to sleep and starting the day at half 6ish... Then last night he woke at 11.30pm fed back to sleep, woke at 4am fed and back to sleep for 6.30am start again. So much improved... Will keep it up and eventually try and drop that 11pm feed. But for now 2 feeds is a mega improvement so I'll take that. Little steps...

Maybe I did. The last email's title was 'did you know jellyfish have a mouthbum?!' If that helps set the general tone! It's quite an entertaining read when doing yet another twilight hour breastfeed. The other mumsnet email I get features recommendations from MNers on anything and everything from clothes, cosmetics, groceries, cleaning products etc etc I think it's called 'mumsnet swears by..' That's a good read too depending what floats your boat!

Glad to hear sleep is improving sazzle it's been a long slog hasn't it. We're starting to get a few better nights here n there....light at the end of the tunnel.

Glad to hear that sleep is improving for some!

We've tried several new options with sleep, but I think that it's only really starting to improve since her cold finally got better and she became more interested in eating again.

Firstly we wanted to stop the co-sleeping, so had me move in to her room into a single bed, but this caused me to have to be MORE awake to sort her out in the night. In/out the cot etc. Got fed up with that after a week.

Then we had a weekend away where all three of us had to share a bed, and actually we all had more sleep than usual.

So, came home and have started with me going to bed early, Pip in the cot (where she sleeps quite happily most of the time), boyfriend doing the 11.30 feed and putting her in with me from then on.

I've stopped breastfeeding at night, and she seems to be getting around to only waking up once after 11.30 before 7am. This is getting later and later, and she only has about 60ml, so soon hopefully she'll drop it completely.

I think probably that the week of me being in her room was unsettling because I was also packing in breastfeeding at night, we're away again next week but after that it'll be her into her cot and me into the single bed once she wakes up after the 11.30 feed.

She's eating SHED LOADS of solids though, which probably also helps.

Nice to see you back goats and things improving .

Has anybody's lo not got any teeth approaching 8 months ? My dd seems to "teeth" a couple of days a week but still no sign of any of them .

Good to see you back Goats! Glad sleep is improving. My dd2 also eats shed loads and has dropped a lot of daytime milk (not nighttime though!).

Stigz hope you had a fab holiday! My dd2 has three teeth and seems to teethe a lot...and I actually rationally think teething isn't a 'thing' (I read some article about how there are only quantifiable symptoms for a day or two before a tooth erupts and everything else is just a baby being a baby!) but her sleep goes rubbish, her drool increases, she gets cranky and I find myself muttering 'c'mon you f**king teeth' .

IGotta I used to get the round up email but don't anymore. Glad buttwing made the round up (Butt, you know how to write posts that make me snort my tea out with laughter!).

Spent a great morning at an amazing garden centre with the baby in the sling while the other two were at preschool. Reminded me why New Jersey is called the garden state! Preschool moving on ceremony tomorrow so made the most of only having one kiddo before the long summer of three of them!

Also did my first fast day yesterday as am dipping my toe into 5:2 (with extra fast day calories for breastfeeding). Went ok so we shall see. I would like to lose 2.5 stone (and then, crucially, keep it off!).

STIGZ - DD has just cut her 3rd tooth which means 4th will follow shortly since they usually come in pairs.

There are several babies on the September PN thread with no teeth yet, so I wouldn't worry if your LO has no sign.

Like Flip, I think teething is made out to be more of a 'thing' than it actually is. We have two tearful days (or more specifically nights) the day before a new tooth and the following day. But all the rest of other days DD is in a rubbish mood for one reason or another, I couldn't reasonably put it down to teething, even with the benefit of hindsight.

DD up on her feet a lot more now. Found her eating a dog biscuit she found on the kitchen floor today

Hi, been lurking a while. Now DD is more active I have less MN time! She's getting the hang of commando crawling and her little knees are getting red
Hope everyone is taking advantage of the lovely weather, we're off for a walk after lunch is over.

Hi all, seems like everyone is doing well. No teeth here yet, nor any sign of them! He crawling like crazy though, little red knees (char woman's knees my mum calls them).

Poor wee bugger is ill at the moment though, nasty cold. He's been snotty for a couple of weeks and now sounds weird and hoarse. Do you think I should get the doctor to peep at his throat?

DD has had a really snotty nose for a few weeks too. Hoarse voice can be a sign of a sore throat, because obviously baby can't tell you he has a sore throat. I'm really not sure the doctor can give you anything for cold symptoms like this. But they usually have no problems seeing babies just for reassurance.

DD does a regular throat-clearing cough, like when you have frog in your throat. For a while we thought it was a copied noise since she always does it if anyone else coughs. I feel certain this is how she 'learnt' to do it - copying just like she learnt to blow raspberries. But I am beginning to worry about why she keeps making this sound.

This may come across as irrational, but my Dad had dodgy heart valves in the years before he died and he developed a throat-clearing cough as a symptom of this. Seems silly to be comparing the symptoms in a baby with an old man, but every time I hear her "fake coughing" (as we call it), I think of my Dad's persistent throat clearing and doctors telling us it was because of failing heart valves.

I've spent a few hours today copy and pasting my posts from the antenatal threads - I didn't keep a diary while I was pregnant, or from early baby days, and am already forgetting stuff.

Hilarious... all the stuff you say and think while you're pregnant that turns out to be absolute nonsense. Slightly embarrassing!

I wouldn't beat yourself up about it goats. I am pretty certain every lady pregnant with her first child has these rose-tinted amazing expectations that yes, it will be hard and tiring, but I am quite capable of doing things right so will not face any of these problems I hear about on the sleep board/feeding board/weaning board/behaviour board and so on.

It's not embarrassing, just normal. I know I did this with my first.

I am in awe of my Mum who has successfully managed to keep quiet, not criticise. She would only ever gently and helpfully suggest things when asked as DSiL and I had our first children. I look back now and I know she was right and she was only trying to help. But when I wasn't crying with exhaustion I often nearly laughed in her face with some of her "old fashioned" suggestions (like swaddling and dummies) when I considered Attachment Parenting as the modern way forward.

I find myself questioning now if I would be able to be as supportive as my Mum was to my own children, when I am a grandparent. I fear I will be one of those interfering 'I know best' parents new mothers hate.

I really hope that by the time I am a grandparent I have mellowed somewhat, because I don't want to be that person.

goats that's a great idea! I'm going to do that too! Wish I'd been on mumsnet for DS, his early weeks in intensive care are a complete blur so I'd love a diary to reflect on. But nice I've got it to go back on with DD. It'll be a more 'normal' and enjoyable read than DS's wouldve been anyway.

I was a lunatic with my first! And out and out nutcase. I'm about to admit something now and run for cover. dd1 was a Gina baby. Ok now feel free to hit me with a stick. Hard.
I remember sobbing at the bottom of the stairs because she wouldn't nap at the right times and waking when she finally did fall asleep because it was the wrong time. Now when I look back I just think what the bloody hell did I do that for?!
She did actually end up in Gina's sleep patterns mainly because she was shoved but all my others have ended up in similar patterns anyway so she probably would have got there by herself anyway.

fate re your daughters cough that's really tough I'm not surprised it niggling in the back of your mind.

goats that's such a lovely idea will be really nice to have that to look back on. I imagine my antenatal posts will be lots of moaning!

We are braving it and taking the kids to mass this morning as I have to ask the priest to finally baptise babywing. I ended up a sweaty mess with scratches last time we went, wish me luck!!

Buttwing every time I take DD to mass I end up as that woman with the shouty, busy baby! So I've given it a miss today as DH is at a stag do and baby is down for a nap! Hope it's not as sweaty an experience for you today
I think my parenting style was helped by the fact that I read NO baby books and haven't had much contact with babies before. So I was completely naive to what would happen. Luckily I had you lot to help guide me through the last 8 months Think I would have pulled out more hair if I'd done it alone.

My SIL was going for Gina Ford with her first. She had such a horrible time but at least it was short lived, it didn't last past 6 weeks.

Hope Mass goes OK Buttwing. Has babywing got a cute lovely outfit for being baptised?

Well we survived! I bribed the older kids by promising we could go to Starbucks afterwards.
munday we are the family no one wants to sit next to!! To be fair babywing isn't a problem it's toddlerwing,he was pretty good today.

fate we have the outfit that ds1 wore which is lovely. I also have my christening own that my gran made for me but it is quite long and girly plus I don't think it will fit him.
I bought some soft white shoes with diamanté crosses on for ds1, I was strangely drawn to them, not my usual thing at all. They look like they should be on my big fat gypsy christening, I love them

Back to school for us tommorow got that horrible Sunday night feeling. I hate it when they go back.

It's not so much the stuff about what I thought it would be like, or what sort of parent I thought I'd be - I had such low expectations of everything, I was almost dreading it. Even when it's been shit, things have mostly been alright really.. certainly the first three months that I was dreading were ace compared to my expectations, I think I enjoyed them.

It's more the stuff that I spent so much time worrying about - mostly 'things' - items, faff over buggy, faff over slings. FFS, what a waste of time.

My SIL and a good friend were both Gina Ford enthusiasts, and both of them had children who slept through from 6 weeks. Thing is, now those children are older (7, 5, 4 and 2), it's noticeable how clingy and needy they are compared to other children I know. I get that it might just be personality, but their common denominator is Gina Ford. My health visitor told me that GF is one of the leading causes of PND in my town - women desperately trying to get their child to fit in, then thinking it's their fault when it doesn't happen.

I did wear Pip a LOT when she was tiny, but more through wanting to get on with things than through a choice regards attachment parenting. Similarly she only sleeps with me because it's the easiest way for us all to get some sleep.

One thing I do wish is that I'd been firmer with my boyfriend about my expectations of HIM... reading back, he slacked off when I was pregnant, and I should have seen that as a warning sign. Now I'm starting to do days back at work there are going to be some 'conversations'. Ha.

No christening here as no religion. Not going to go down the naming ceremony route either. Poor child!

We haven't done christenings or naming days either. The only time I go to church is Remembrance Sunday and Christmas, so couldn't claim to be religious. Naming days don't sit well with me. They feel like 'I can't have a christening/baptism so I'll have this instead' - as though some form of grabby present-giving event is absolutely necessary.

I do like to go to other peoples christening/baptisms though. I love a good traditional service, much like a wedding.

Hello! No teeth here either despite thinking he was showing teething signs months ago. I think maybe instead of teeth he's opted to grow fingernails that get long and sharp within seconds of being filed.

We're not bothering with christening etc either.I did consider a naming ceremony because I recently went to a very lovely one, but no I don't really feel like we need to do it.

DD has two razor blades teeth. I know of a toddler who didn't get any teeth until she was over a year old poor love looked just like that emoticon!!
After a period of improved sleep, DD has now gone back to 3hrly waking . And the toddler is wetting the bed most nights having been dry at night for weeks. Every night is like a merrigoround!!! Whats going on??!!