September 2014 - Rocking and Rolling

[FATEdestiny]

Our babies are rocking and rolling, crawling and climbing into the second half of their first year.

Let the fun continue...

Oh your poor boy Lilly, hope he sleeps well and is better soon (and you are better soon too).

I have a dry, tickly cough. It is driving me crazy. I'm beginning to wonder if it is pollen / hay fever related. I have no other symptoms and the cough isn't 'productive' (it isn't moving anything off my chest). I just cough because I feel the need to scratch my throat, as it were.

Does anyone know if something like piroton would help with this? I've not got the usual hayfever itchy eyes or runny nose, no other symptoms at all, so not sure how much use it would be. I'm a hayfever virgin, never suffered before.

My hay fever causes an itchy throat so it could well be fate. Could be worth taking an antihistamine to see if it makes any difference. I find the itch is more at the top of my throat though so a cough doesn't really help it.

I slept so lightly with him in the bed that it feels like I've been awake all night. He slept though. He fell asleep almost three hours after his normal sleep time and granted me with an extra five minutes sleep past six this morning. How does that make any sense?!

Oh lilly poor little man and poor mummy. sleep here was dreadful last night, b is at the end of a cold and the coughing woke him up throughout the night. agree re the late bedtime/no later wake up. babies are confusing.

and so begins another day of sounding like a broken record. No, you can't climb the stairs, no, you can't get the sky box, no, daddy's bike isn't a toy, no, the bin isn't for climbing. who needs toys?

Oh yes holls! Totally more fun to play with everything you're not allowed! Toys are almost completely ignored here now, probably need some new ones. Any favourites with your LO's??

Yes it has been quiet here recently. I guess everyone is jut drifting back to work and don't have as much time to post anymore. I hope everyone is well though.

Lillybugg hope your little man is back to his normal self soon. xx

Fate I'd try an antihistamine for a few days and see if it helps? Hope you feel better soon. xx

Jessica decided to get up at 5.15am this morning. Lovely! I agree Holls that who needs toys.... Jessica has LOADS and yet much prefers to climb the furniture and try to find all the house's electric cables....

Thanks all for the nursery advice. I had a quick chat with her key worker, who is also the room manager. She was very apologetic and said she'd speak to everyone working in the room. DD was immaculate when I picked her up yesterday! It's such a shame as I'm so happy with the nursery and DD seems happy and settled there, but this one thing seems so sloppy and unnecessary!

DD has the occasional night that is far better. Last night it was just two feeds and she woke at 5.45. That seems to be her waking time, unless she does a 5am poo!

DD is very into emptying bins and eating remote controls at the moment. Toy wise, she loves her Tomy eggs and I got her a remote control toy to try to save ours! She's very into anything with buttons too.

She has a few half words that she can use in context. T-d is teddy, but used for any toy. B-b is blueberry, although she uses it for any berry. Ish is fish. D-d is duck and dada is used very specifically for DH, she's even managed daddy a few times. No hint of mummy though. Ask her where daddy is and she looks straight at him. Ask her where mummy is and she stares blankly into space

E woke up for an hour last night between 1:30 and 2:30, I think he was cold, but when I go in to sort him it makes things much worse E.g instead of him just babbling to himself he will shout and scream if I go to him. So I left him to it and put a blanket it on him once he went to sleep! He is napping now which is good as he has a nursery session this afternoon!

Ella at least you've found something that she will have.

Ooops, DD pressed send trying to grab my phone.

Toys are also boring here, new or old. I'm guessing it's a phase until they've mastered being mobile? FATE do you know?

Oh, I forgot to say earlier... Took DD to the dietician and we are now introducing dairy.

Whilst there I asked about the amount of formula she has as some days it is a fair amount less than 20 oz. She said that less milk is fine, but once they drop below 17 oz a day she recommends introducing vitamin drops. Apparently any brand is fine.

Thought that might be of interest to some of you as I remember us talking about reduced milk intake recently.

Oh thanks Team that's really interesting. Do they have to be baby vitamin drops rather than adult?

p.S. good luck with the dairy!

J's not into toys either at the moment, although he usually likes some Vtech noise in the background as he likes imitating the animal sounds whilst he is getting up to mischief.

He's crawling about everywhere and pulling himself up on everything now. Mobility and communication seem to have taken a huge leap over the past couple of weeks, and he's lots of fun, but does need constant entertainment.

Yes, I think you can get special baby drops. Not really looked into it yet though!

team we've tentatively started the milk ladder too. He's been having tiny bits of malted biscuits for a week now and so far so good tho it's such a tiny amount I doubt there's any milk in it so now I need to be brave and increase it.

I use the wellkid vitamins as they contain iron, which I think he's supposed to get as bfing still.

It's ridiculous how much space in the bed someone so small can take up! He rolls about so much in his sleep that I end up perched on the edge of the mattress and still get whacked in the face often.

Very little signs of talking here, just dada really and that's aimed at anything. He does mimic some sounds and weirdly as I've been watching a lot of one born every minute (its on daily) he mimics the labour sounds while it's on . I'm really hope it's just coincidence and I'm not mentally scarring him! At least my labour was quiet so it's not giving him flashbacks of being born

Our local surestart sell baby vitamin drops, or you can get children's multivitamins from the chemist.

Must have been the night for waking up last night 'cos DD woke at 4am. Likecookie, I think DD was cold. I have amended bedtime attire from tonight more suited to the actual temperature now, rather than the heatwave last week.

DD is more into doing things rather than playing with toys. Or she uses toys in different ways. So she has started pushing cars and things with wheels around on the floor, rather than just biting and shaking them.

She has a large rubber-ring playnest thing. It used to be for sitting in and batting dangling toys. She now likes picking up the whole playnest and putting it over her head, hiding under it, moving it around the room and flipping it over. That kind of thing.

I also like to sit her next to her downstairs toybox and let her rummage and find stuff herself. She often climbs into the box and entertains herself by removing the entire contents one by one.

Mimicking labour sounds - eek! They're not pretty noises!

I use the wellkid drops too. They do have to be specific baby drops. That guidance is same as NHS I think - vitamins recommended for breastfed babies over 6 months old and formula fed babies once they are having less than 500ml formula daily.

Jay - our babies definitely seem to be in sync with mobility. I do feel a bit bad for her though that now no longer has to worry about toppling over sitting she now has to worry about dropping when standing! She did a pretty spectacular fall from holding on to the coffee table earlier. Luckily DP's rucksack on the floor broke her floor or it would have been a bad head bang!

Hi all, just popping in to say I read here everyday but don't get a chance to write... Thanks Lili for saving us yesterday from having a post-less day! That would be terrible!!!

Team glad you managed to talk to the nursery staff. I have watched the nursery room so often (through camera) that I was surprised about what you said... It is one basic principle of nurseries I'd say. Ds does not come home spotless but he is clean enough and wiped. The days they do messy play I inevitably find colour or some other stuff behind his ears for example. And as I know him too well I know how impossible it would be to clean him properly after a mess without giving him a bath!!

By the way, ds sort of settled now in the nursery; he is now like one of those babies who cry for a few minutes after we leave and then is fine until we come back... He is still not over the moon about being left there and gets happy when I go pick him up, but he is settled, plays, eats, and naps well there. I now think one day he may even be very happy being there... It happened some time ago, sort of overnight - I mean it was very gradual (took us 3 months) but at the same time it seemed sudden, like one day he decided not to be stressed about being left there as much and after that every day he got better. He is still there very little time, just some mornings. But I plan to increase the time he is there from late August within a month until he is there full time...

Your nursery has a constantly-on camera?

That's really cool. I would love to watch my children interacting without me like that.

Oh I bought so many toys for ds in nearly new sale that our living room is now like a nursery room. He is very much interested in his toys, his favourites are the musical instruments, he has a tiny baby piano and tiny baby guitar, a couple of drums, quite a few other simple musical stuff plus his interactive toys, he got as a gift one of those Vtech baby laptops which he keeps playing with. He also loves moving his car around now.
I bought four boxes from Ikea for his toys, I hide some of his toys in the deeper boxes and the shallow boxes are in his reach- he keeps emptying the boxes (getting really fast in emptying his toy box now) and playing with them; every months or so I hide some toys and bring out some other toys; it is like having new toys for him.
I have used a changing unit to organise toys, one shelf is for toys, the other one is for books. He now loves his books. He take them out, sits and turn pages and look and touch. Every day half of his book library is emptied on the floor.

Having said all that - he is really more interested in anything that he is not supposed to touch. It is also interesting, (I didn't expect this to happen so early) but if I say no to something, he definitely gets encouraged to do it when I am not looking of even when I am looking !!

Team, I laughed to your face about where is mummy question :) haha.

Ds does not say much, just dadada and that's aimed at air... But he very much talks with me with hands, shouts, smiles, etc. One day I had a very, very long day at work; when I came back he first got really happy, but when I picked him up he started shouting at me and banging on me for quite a while very angrily. It was so obvious he is telling me off for being late, but I would have doubted myself if my mil didn't confirm it too... !! Poor babies

Fate yes,a CCTV camera , on continuously in the reception (you can't get access to it outside the nursery) but I have spent hours and hours sitting in the reception watching , during the very long settling time he had... as sometimes I only left him for 20 minutes and then gradually increased it...

Nazly, great to hear from you. And a massive yay that your DS is now happier in nursery

Nazly - Great to hear your DS is settling in better at nursery now! Must make things a bit less stressful for you now. I'll have to try some instruments with DD. She does have a cake tin to use as a drum!