November 2014: The one that needs baby-proofing!

[ladydolly]

And maybe ends with 1st birthdays!!

DD says 'mum' quite a lot but I don't think she means me, I think it means that she wants food or milk. She definitely understands a few words, like clap, splash and kiss because if you say it but don't do any actions she then does it, so she's not just copying. I also got very excited last night because I think she signed 'bath'. We've been going to classes for 6 months and this is the first time she's done anything close to a sign, so I emailed the teacher and am looking forward to getting her first certificate on Monday! (She could just be waving her arms around but she has done it twice now when I've asked her what time it is when I'm getting her ready for her bath)

Slightly better night last night... I just put her in with me from first wake up at 10.30. I think she was probably still up every 90 minutes or so but I was less disturbed.

Dd is only just starting to wave but is not into clapping at all, smacking hands on tables, legs, water - anything that makes a noise, much more interesting. She understands kiss and for the last 6 weeks or so will bestow and open mouth on yours (actually quite gross) but is starting to close it now. She will only do it on her terms though, so never when we're leaving her but quite often when she's just woken up and is all cuddly.

How's everyone else doing?

anna is today your 1st long shift?

No tomorrow - God I'm dreading it! 7.30 - 20.30. Yay.....

And then I'm doing Sundays after that. Lucky to get it and all (Sundays are double bubble so ka-ching!) and the hospital is within walking distance BUT it has a hairy reputation so am a bit nervous. Am praying hard not to get A&E or ICU! Won't know till I literally turn up and it could be a different place every week!

Ah the perils of Agency work. But its the only way to work just one day a week so I'm glad to get it.

Have wine in for tomorrow night, lol.

Been away for a while, now catching up with everything, not brilliant nights here either. Looks like her 3rd pair of teeth are soon to appear, so neurofen before the bed time it is. There was one very odd night. We were staying with my sister, so had to improvise with DD bed. We pushed a love seat against the double bed, blocking it with wall on one side and chest of drawers on other. DD went down, we spent time chatting in other room. Suddenly - bang! DD started to moan a bit, went in to find that the big bottle of milk which I had left near DD was on the floor. The only way it could've happened DD should have thrown over the back of the sofa (half meter high) a bottle full of milk, weighing about 300g. She had half the bottle, I left it at the end of the sofa. We went to sleep to be woken up by DD at 5am (yay!) stirring, thought I will give her the rest of bottle and hopefully she goes down. The bottle's gone! Found it next to DD completely dry. Instead of waking me up she has had the bottle herself and quietly has gone down again. I wish I could finally shout out that she has slept through, but by the look of it, it's just me sleeping through...

DD makes lots of talking, but not really saying anything much. She says bye bye in my language with English accent and waves, but the rest I cannot even work it out which language it's supposed to be. They say that bilingual kids start to speak later, maybe.

Now she is chasing my parents cat around the kitchen. Poor animal...

strawberry what is your language? DS is going to a bilingual English/Spanish nursery in November.

We have a 2nd tooth here which makes sense with the shocking nights. Last night was good though. 8-5 and then a feed and back down till 7. Feeling great here.

We have no crawling and no rolling back to front. He is a super strong sitter and will fold himself double to teach things. Lots of waves and we even got a clap a few nights ago at celebrit big brother cheers. We have lots of mama baba but not directed at anything. X

Wow catg I didn't even know you could find bilingual nurseries, how awesome. I would love dd to have another language but unfortunately me and her father have nothing but English for her.

Sorry strawberry but it did make me laugh that you're the one sleeping through! Sounds like dd will be down the stairs making herself a cup of tea soon anyway ;)

Been to baby rhythm time this morning trying a few things on a fri on free trials to see if anything is particularly amazing and feel now back at work one morning should be for baby time I used to dedicate Mon morning to my first as only had Mon off and we did a group or swimming or farm etc.

I had to laugh at that too strawberry. Almost expect DD to invoice you for services now. Clever girl!

We're another bilingual family here (English / Dutch) but DD is going to a "regular" nursery (like Lady, didn't even know you could get bilingual ones!). We had our 2nd induction visit yesterday and they seem to be really hot on covering different cultures, languages etc and they reckon that if we speak to her enough in Dutch at home, by the time she goes to school, she should be fluent in both English and Dutch!

East let us know if you find anything that particularly stands out - I'm always o the hunt for something to engage DD / get her out and about with other children.

DD fell asleep as I was dishing up dinner and wouldn't be woken up so has gone to bed without any. Could be a long night feeding her as she has eaten next to nothing today And has a terrible cold . She woke up as soon as I put her in the cot to change her for bed so I thought she could eat it after I had put DD1 to bed, but the bastard cat had eaten it! My baby who always wakes early had to be woken up this morning to get ready for DD1's first day at school, then had to be woken from a short nap so she could have lunch before picking DD1 up from the half day, then refused to nap again.

Good luck for tomorrow anna

Oh happy I hope you don't have an awful night.

What age to molars come through? I'm 99% sure I felt a tooth towards the back of dds mouth just now while rubbing Bonjela on her gum

13 months ark I looked it up the other day for the same reason!!

Can you feel something too? It would explain last nights 3 hour cry-a-thon....

Well dp did, I thought I could see a couple. She's had a runny nose and sore bottom too but seems in a fairly good mood?

My sister's son is 12 months and is getting a molar coming through, they are tough ones apparently and he's not sleeping well (so thats something for us all to look forward to then, as if my dds sleeping isn't bad enough already. I shouldnt say that, as i've realised that when you think it can't get any worse it can and it does!! Sorry, I'm tired and grumpy!)

Oh caz I hope you get a half decent night tonight at least!

Dd slept through! Thank god for that. She's just waking up now and blowing raspberries over the monitor. Downside is my back hurts from lying down for so long without getting up!

Well, she woke up every 2hrs which isn't terrible for her. We didn't have to be anywhere today so she woke up at 6am unlike yesterday when I had to wake her She was very hungry and ate twice as much breakfast as usual.
DH has a migraine and is vomiting today :( so just me and the girls and no last lie-in before starting back at work for me.
It's been a long morning already.

We had a similar night happy which is a gradual improvement on this weeks hourly wakings. I bought a slumbersuit thing from jojo which has also helped.

2 hourly waking here too. I'm hoping she's going to go down for her nap soon but she's started resisting naps until she's very tired now so I may have a bit more of a wait.

Thank god in heaven and tiny baby Jesus he slept through and I got a good sleep. I have 8 patients in advanced renal failure all on my own! Boy am I earning my money today.

(Have to admit its a total buzz being back at work though!)

Anna hope your shift goes really quick for you and great getting Sundays working one day and being paid same as doing 2 normal week days will make getting out bed easier.

My monkey baby has decided today is not for eating nor napping and coz one doesn't happen neither does the other equals vicious circle. He is in bed now anyhow.

Ds 1 got the weekly award at school for growing confidence and putting his hand up to answer questions and good work on their current topic which is amazing for a little boy who last year didn't talk to new,adults or in front of people. I think he likes being a "big" boy (albeit the youngest yr1 child) as when we went passed reception playground he said that's where the little kids play!!

Teeth 7&8 appearing at the moment so not much sleep.
Hopefully once this lot are through he'll go back to 1-2 quick wake ups.

anna would your DS like to give my DD tips on how to sleep all night to improve mummy's return to being a nurse? Hope you got on ok and your patients didn't cause you too much trouble.

When are you going back? I had forgotten how long a long day is. I came home and my feet and hips were burning. I'm knackered today, feel like I walked a marathon.

We had a very different night last night though. I came home from my shift, DH had managed great, baby in bed, all fine.....but the baby was really restless in his sleep which is normal these days. It bothers DH a lot though, and even though I said "Don't go up unless he cries" he was staring at the monitor and said "He's in an awful position, I'll just go up and put him right"

Well of course......he woke the baby up completely. Gogglebox had just started, we were drinking wine to celebrate my first day back.....DS didn't go back to sleep till 1AM!!!!!

It was horrendous. We basically took turns up there for 3 hrs. Our nerves were shot to hell. DS spent 3 hrs crying or screaming. We didn't let him CIO but I have to confess that at times I felt like trying it cos it felt like us going in there was just prolonging it all. He eventually fell asleep at 1am out of sheer exhaustion, face down bum up, like a sack of potatoes.

DH kept apologising all night to me and was so upset. He's actually still upset with himself this morning. He feels like he fucked up badly when I deserved an evening "off". He takes these things hard. I didn't really mind though and told him so - its just more "nursing" in my eyes. I had Alzheimers patients yesterday who were pretty challenging too! But its no consolation to DH.

At least I hope he's finally learnt his lesson about touching a sleeping baby!