September 2014 - Babies turn 1!

[lilone1234]

First birthdays are starting to arrive and our babies are becoming toddlers! What will the next year have in store?

Hee hee at your use of bold Team. Your toothless bundle of joy makes me smile. There will come a time when you'll never again get to see that toothless smile, it will be gone forever. Cherish your gummy bear

Nazly have you tried bandana bibs for drooling? DD wears them constantly as part of her outfit (I have so many they can be colour coordinated to go with what she's wearing) and I often go through 2 or 3 bibs a day with just an average amount of drool. More when teething or poorly.

Hope you and your DD sleep better tonight KitKat.

Thanks ladies, so if say he had tonsillitis, would he need antibiotics ? I am again unsure and confused about using antibiotics.... He hasn't got a fever any more though, so not sure about calling 111 .. i'll wait until tomorrow. I feel he very obviously lost weight

Fate, yes, we do have many of them too and for him it is also part of outfit, but this time the amount of water coming out was just too excessive... Apart from his shirts, the floor, his books, everything got wet !!!!

It is nearly 11 and he is not sleep yet ! But he seems well enough...

I think it depends if the tonsillitis is bacterial or viral as to whether they need antibiotics or not. I have to admit I'm quite shortsighted when it comes to antibiotics - if the gp prescribes them then i use them without thought. Though they did upset his stomach which was a bit grim. Hope you can get him checked out today, put your mind at ease.

Just back from the doctors. DD has tonsillitis with "a touch" of laryngitis Got antibiotics for her.

She did go to nursery today though and enjoyed painting!

How strange, tonsillitis is also what Jessica has (with also possibly a UTI). Why are all our babies getting ill simultaneously with the same thing?!

Aw Team your poor DD, hope she feels better soon.

Is anybody else starting to feel like the terrible twos are already incoming? DD's starting to really really kick off if I try and take things from her that she shouldn't have, walk in a direction she doesn't want to go in, or even just pass her to daddy sometimes. I feel a bit ill-prepared!

Oh my god yes Apples! Tantrums galore at some points!

We've been to the doctors to, but for conjunctivitis. Urgh. I'm going to get it aren't I?

DS definitely is starting to tantrum. It's quite amusing though, he goes rigid and won't sit up when I'm trying to put him down so I have to lay him down flat on the floor. He lays there looking very strern lol! He did it at a rhyme time in the library last week. He was the oldest child, the others were all tinies so the other mums were looking like .

Anyone else dreading the change of clocks this weekend? Luckily DH does d
Sunday mornings so he'll be up at the crack of dawn rather than me but still. I know some people alter bed time by 15 mins a night to compensate for it, does anyone have any plans or just wait and see?

We are trying to push bedtime back by 10 minutes a night this week, but DD really struggles beyond 6.45. I really don't fancy a 5.45 bedtime and 4.45 start to the day though, so I'm going to have to suffer the tears every night this week!

Yes to the tantrums starting too. It's mainly instants tears if she doesn't get exactly what she wants though, mainly around food. She's now totally refusing to eat my loving prepared food. It's not even like she tastes it and doesn't like it, she just refuses to even have the first mouthful So she's now surviving on grated cheese, yogurts, cream cheese sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches and enough fruit to maintain a whole colony of fruit bats!

I'm hoping that when she's fully recovered she goes back to happily eating whatever I give her. I think she's gotten used to me giving her whatever she fancies, just to get something in her whilst she's been ill.

One small victory though. At dinner tonight I managed to convince her that if she didn't want to eat something she should hand it to me, not throw it at full strength in a random direction and then shrug her shoulders with a look of innocence saying "uh oh".

I will not negotiate with terrorists a toddler!!! Yeah, right!!!

If it makes you feel any better we are having high chair battles here and refusal of most of my food (yet if its off my plate in a cafe he will eat the bloody lot!). Im thinking of buying a travel booster seat to try instead of the high chair but dont want to waste££ if he hates that too.

Our fussy eating phase (I hope!) continues here too. No meat or vegetable shall pass! Cheese and fruit aplenty though! I'm working on trying to get DD to pass things to me if she doesn't want them too but not much progress so far! The poor dog has nearly been knocked out by her cup on many occasions. Well done on your success Team!

Tantrums here too, have had for a while. When something is taken away or she is moved away or she's told 'No!' Still, they're pretty momentary and amusing right now!

We had both tantrum and fussy eating for a while now; tantrum is getting worse and I am trying to come up with ways to overcome it; till now the only thing I keep trying to do is to stay calm, ignore the tantrum as if it is not happening and carry on as usual. It is not helping short term though,,, its just that my instinct says it will work long term...

Team well done how did you manage that ?

So this morning ds woke up after a very unsettled night and he was actually fine to go to nursery; I told his carer about past few days and not much sleep last night and he napped nearly 5 hours in the nursery !!! He also had half of his lunch and most of his dinner. But before he was picked up by dh and before I hear about his day at nursery, on my way back from C-London I ordered shish kebab just so he eats something after a while of low appetite; ordered two large one ; one for dh and one for me and ds to share; well, he left two or three pieces of a large meal for me and ate the whole lot!!! He Couldn't get the kebab in fast enough!! Its fair to say he is all OK now, so whatever it was, and I think it was some sort of sore-throat , it is gone now...

Ladies, where do I get wellies from for a baby ? He is very very tricky for shoes so I need a place which offers variety and various sizes

nazly I am looking for wellies for E too so i will keep an eye out :)

Oh E tantrums too, over pretty much anything he has bumped his head a few times because he has dropped to the floor so quickly he slips right through my fingers.

E went to bed last night at 8, and woke at 7, I am gonna keep that going for the rest of the week and maybe in Sat push it back to 8:30 or 9. Then revert back to normal from then on. Fx that works OK. Dh is away this weekend

I don't think we've hit tantrums yet. Jessica will whinge if something gets taken away from her, or we move her away from something she wants, but I usually just distract her with something and she gives up pretty easily. I'm hoping we don't get full-scale tantrums for a while.

We're still struggling here with sleep though. I've done a long rant in the sleep section of Mumsnet so I won't repeat it all here, but suffice to say she's still waking every bloomin' night and is up crying for sometimes 2 hours or more. It didn't help that I met some Mum friends yesterday and all of their babies now sleep through the night. Please, please, please tell me Jessica isn't the only baby left on this thread that doesn't sleep through the night yet? Misery loves company and all.

Oh also, (and this is a bit personal so feel free not to answer), but how much are you each planning to spend on Christmas this year on your DD / DS? We didn't spend much last year (she was too young to appreciate so mainly just got her some clothes), but she does enjoy toys now; but we also have some money issues at the moment, so am at the moment thinking probably about £50-80 worth of presents for her (I've got some things in mind which I've roughly priced up in my head). I know she will get presents from grandparents / aunties and uncles etc anyway. Does that sound a bit stingy? So many people I know spend £££ on presents for their kids at birthdays / Christmas and it makes me feel a bit guilty as I'd love to be able to do that for her.

Good god no Nazly I wasnt planning on even spending that much! He had so much for his birthday that I cant think of anything he could need now! I also buy stuff second hand through facebook, he had an ELC toy kitchen plus accessories worth £80 that I bought for 23. No sleeping well here either!

KitKat we will probably spend about £50-£70, we didn't actually buy him anything for his birthday we were going to get him a zoo pass but we haven't got round to it!

Sorry E is sleeping through. Do you know what is triggering the tears?

Oh no Lilly I hadn't clocked the clock change at the weekend. Eeek, dreading it!

KitKat DD's been sleeping through beautifully since 6 months old and then 4 days ago totally regressed back to how she was at about 3 months old and now won't sleep anywhere but our bed. It's been so sudden after 7 months of sleeping through that it's totally knocked us for 6! So basically, I feel your pain but have no suggestions. I'm sorry!

Nazly have you tried Jo Jo Maman for wellies? A friend got DD some size 4s for her birthday and they're nice.

Glad it's not just us with the tantrums... and oh Christmas! How fast is it coming round... Tbh we're not doing too badly for money this year but there is just nothing DD needs so I had earmarked 20 quid for some art supplies (she's just starting to get crayons), maybe a soft toy and a trip out, possibly to the aquarium, with me and Daddy.

Sleep is just shocking here too. Up every 2 hours from 12 most nights and then up about 6. He's just so unsettled, but I think it's partly just due to being overtired so we're stuck in a rubbish cycle. And we already cosleep!

I doubt I'll get him much for Xmas, will probably get a token toy for £20 or so and then see what else he gets. I'll probably end up getting him the next size up in clothes in the sales.

Not sure what to do about the clocks changing, I don't get in from work till 7 and just get him ready for bed asap as he's knackered but that's not gonna work if he feels like it's already 8. I might leave work early for a few days which would help massively but it feels a bit pfb

Hi all. I have a super cute pair of sized 4 wellies in yellow with green frogs on. Unfortunately I can't remember where they were from because they were bought 11 years ago and all four of my children have worn them! (so little use out of wellies when feet grow so fast, that they are still hardly used).

DD is definitely vocal when not getting what she wants, but nothing on a par with the 2 and 3 yo tantrums that will come.

Sorry about the rubbish sleep KitKat and others (I've not read the sleep board to see your thread yet). DD's cot is still in my bedroom. Mostly she sleeps fine and doesn't wake but occasionally wakes when teething or poorly. More recently she started refusing all milk in the day. As a result of having no bedtime milk and nothing to eat since 5.30 dinner, she was waking for a night feed. I have persevered and she's drinking milk better again now so this has stopped.

The point of my rambling is I just cannot be bothered going into another room at night. 3 times I've moved her cot to her room and 3 times I've moved it back within a few weeks. It makes a massive difference to my quality of sleep that if she wakes I don't need to get up properly. Sometimes just half asleep shushing from my bed is all that's needed. She's in her own cot so not infringing on my space or sleep in my bed.

Its not a solution to night time wake ups, but is a coping mechanism. Don't be worried about bringing the cot back to your room for the sake of your own sanity.

Kitkat £80 seems like a lot of money for our baby's age when they don't really have specific demands for toys and anything makes them happy; their happiness doesn't really correspond to the money spent on toys ; the best gift I bought ds was a £2 ELC ** drum (second hand, probably £10 or £15 new) and the length of time he spends on it is unbelievable ! He loves it!
I am not planning to budget for birthday and new year/xmas gift until he is much older and wants specific things; I'll save our money for other things and future.. Until then he'll get small little items from nearly new sale that I feel may make him happy; or we go out

Gosh now my DS had a temperature too , there must just be so many bugs going around. Or maybe it's these pesky molars, but I can't see in his mouth without getting bitten so I've given up looking.

We to have had a temperature and he has been very out of sorts the last few days. Seems to be getting better now though and I am putting it down to his teeth. Like Acorn I can't get in his mouth to check!

We haven't budgeted for Christmas yet, but i don't think we will be spending much. Like others, I will wait til he is asking for everything before I start worrying about buying him lots!

Sorry to those with sleep issues. We had them over the weekend at PIL but before then and since coming back he has been fine so I am putting it down to being in a 'strange cot' and also being in with us.

I am not setting a Christmas budget for DD just buying things that, from experience, I know I will be buying anyway over the coming year.

For example I know I need a new kids lawnmower (always gets lots of playing with in the summer). Even though it won't get much playing with until next summer, I still know we'll need to buy one. So I might as well buy it from Santa since 2nd Birthday will be at the end of summer, not the start of summer when it's needed.

There are various things like that. That I have had before and were well played with but now need replacing.

Hope your DS is better soon acorn

Haven't got a certain Xmas budget for DD yet either but agree there is no need to over spend when there will plenty more expensive years to come!