November 2014: The one that needs baby-proofing!

[ladydolly]

And maybe ends with 1st birthdays!!

Dd is 10 months old today! Now she's cut that top tooth she's back to giving me a couple of nights sleeping through which is fab. She's still in a lot of her 6-9 clothes! Yet my friends ds is 4 months and just starting to go into 6-9 he's a proper chunk!

DD has been doing the wide awake for two hours thing for the last three or so nights. It must be teeth. I can't think of anything else as her cold is clearing up. She is making the yowly teething noise with her fingers in her mouth and waking up after 10 mins of resettling. I gave her nurofen last night in desperation. I can't believe how much of the stuff I am administering between teeth and various infections. Urgh.

Since having read this article about teething I feel wary about attributing too much to teeth but I'm very confused! DD1 never had any bother after she cut her first two, but DD2 really seems to feel it. Thoughts?

Greenstone im the same with the painkillers, she's only had one dose before bed while this tooth is coming through, and I've been alternating with calpol and neurofen and not giving it in the day if I can help it. I'm hoping that's not too bad

greenstone I read that article too and it really scared me but I see how much it bothers her and for more than a day or 2, like you said the shoving her hands in the mouth and pulling her ears. Imagine if we went to the doctors every time?? Calpol doesn't have a sedative in it so its not like we're just putting them to sleep! The alternative is to let them suffer. So I'm going to give it to her. I've never had to give it to her during the day for teeth but at night times she's needed it.

Dd has been doing long wake ups at night for the last few weeks and I think that's sleep regression, no other teething signs, so not given it to her but just had to ride it out.

RE teething article. Even if the symptoms (short term and not something as much as meningitis) believed to be teething is an infection, would probably still give a calpol, right? Because paracetamol is something doctors here prescribe for most of the things unless it is something very serious.

Big snack hit last days is Italian breadsticks, the owner of local deli always has a treat for clients kids. This time he gave breadsticks with onion flavour and DD crunches them as there's no tomorrow.

I think she is on some growth spurt recently. Last night she has for dinner Ella's pouch, big pot of yogurt, breadstick, organix crisps and slice of mango. I even bought her the special night milk as the regular one doesn't seem to cut it. Maybe it's because she is intensively learning to walk these day days and needs lots of energy.

strawberry, reckon my dd is also on some massive growth spurt as for dinner last night she wolfed her way through: a big bowl of cauliflower cheese with pasta; a whole nectarine; an apple rice cake; and 3 organix pepper snacks! !!! I think she'd still be eating if I let her

On a different note, she's now able to open the freezer drawer but not shut it

Had her 10 month check up yesterday. ..passed without any concerns (phew! )

Had our 10 months check today - also no problems. Had a laugh about DDs head circumference. We still get hassled about her head being off scale and today it measured 0,5cm less than mid September at the GP appointment. Now they should really worry about the babies head shrinking, right? It just shows how consistent all this head measuring business is.

Hi All, steuggling a lot here with DS going through some major development this week, right when I need it/can cope with it least.

Firstly, he picked this week to drop his afternoon nap. He now only naps from 9.30 - 10.30 in the morning and thats it for the day. This is about the fourth or fifth day in a row. So he's getting crotchety and tired from 5pm but its too late then so we just have to ride it out. It can be a really stressful couple of hours as of course dinnertime is in the middle of this and he's whining and rubbing his face (and rubbing food all over his hair) the whole way through. And then of course we bave to bath him cos he's got passata all in his hair but he's too tired so has a meltdown.

Secondly, he's 11 months next week and has just this week discovered full on temper tantrums. This has happened out of nowhere - he's always been an utter delight - and we're totally clueless as to how to handle them. He goes fucking postal whenever you do sometning he doesn't want i.e. Close the freezer door, tey to get him into highchair, take your shoe off him cos your trying to out it on. Total red-faced hot angry tears of rage. Inconsolable, cuddles don't work and actually he'll slap you away.

Thirdly, he's started standing independantly which sounds great but translates to "constantly injuring himself". He just keeps faceplanting on sticky out bits of furniture and giving himself cuts and bruises. He's also started banging his head on radiators. I think its to feel the "doinnngggg" vibration but of course he then starts doing it harder and he ends up hurting himself. Tears, tears, tears, tears.....

So between all these things its been really upsetting. Today was particularly bad as DH had to go back to work so I was on my own and DS woke from his nap in a grump and then refused to be put down. Started crying no matter how I tried to distract him. He screamed in temper throughout my getting dressed as I wasn't picking him up, he screamed in temper when I was on the loo. He screamed in temper when I had the audacity to eat cereal standing at the sink. He screamed and walloped the shit out of me when I canged his nappy....it went on and on and at lunchtime i rang my sister in floods of tears and she came over and took control. He of course was wreathed in smiles for her.

I just can't cope with it all on top of Mom going, I just can't.

Right now DH is in making dinner and all i can hear is DS crying cos DH isn't picking him up (he's chopping vegetables). I'm hiding. DH told me to as I've had such a shit day.

Is it just my child? I know he's one of the older ones but has anyone elses shown similar behaviour yet? Has anyone any advice? How do I cope with this Jekyll and Hyde shit?

Oh anna I haven't experienced the Jekyll and Hyde stuff yet but wanted to send you lots of hugs. What an utterly shitty day

Anna so sorry to hear that. Hope the storm soon calms down for you .
DD gets into the right attitude in certain situations, most of them I can understand her. She is desperate to walk, so she gets very stroppy when we decide to stop walking her around and sit her down. Or when she is full but we still try to offer her all sorts of foods just in case she still wants something, arms and legs go flying all over the place.

Oh anna you poor love. I've had the odd tantrum, particularly the pick me up ones, I watched her go purple faced in front of me while I was on the loo the other day, it was 0-purple in 2.3 seconds, nothing I could do to help from where I was. To be honest she has them more often when I'm tired so I assume she's picking it up from me. Maybe ds is sad like you are?

She still needs 2 naps a day and sometimes comes back from the childminder at 5 needing another one and I let her, she still goes down at 7ish for bed. Might work for you?

I have no answers, frankly I'm dreading getting to the telling off/tantrum/hitting stage. I've read some Supernanny type stuff and some gentle parenting stuff and both make sense to me...

Oh crikey Anna, you really do deserve plenty of , and . Like ladydolly, I don't have any answers and am only just experiencing the beginnings of this I think: if I take her beaker off her when she has it upside down (and hence all the water is pouring out), you'd have thought the world had ended and she tries to throw herself out of her highchair. This is accompanied by red face and shouting but no tears. Yesterday, when I closed the kitchen cupboard drawer so she wouldn't trap her fingers, again, we had fall on hysterics...

My current response is either to laugh or join in with her by copying her shouting and throwing myself around the floor (bit like the ad that was on TV when the Mum rolled around on the supermarket floor)....so far, it has the desired effect, but don't fancy doing that in public.....

Anna, if it's any help, I see there's a forum under the "Child" heading for behaviour and development....could post / search there????

Oh Anna you poor thing.

DD2 has pretty much done the 0-purple in 2.3 thing since birth, so I guess I have acclimatised a bit by now. Picking her up and wheeling her around to look at something else is what works best.

DS is probably picking up on all of your grief and stress. That's not intended to guilt-trip, it's just is what it is, that's life and that's babies. He will be fine and this is 100% just a phase (with the shittiest timing ever). The other thought I had is that he sounds a bit like he's coming down with something. Since DD2 started nursery a couple of months ago she's had lots of bugs and the refusing to be put down thing is a major sign for me by now. Is that at all possible do you think? He's probably been around quite a few people in the last week? There's so much going around.

Oh I also meant to say that if he's dropping the afternoon nap then the ONLY way to stay sane is to go out at some point during the witching hour (early evening before bed). Bring him out in the buggy and go for a good old trundle. Does he like the buggy?

Yeah, he's fine outside the house. Today my sister and I brought him on a 3 hr walk in the afternoon and he was great. He loved it. But then as soon as we got home....

And tbh I'm tired. I don't want to have to walk miles every day. I'm not sleeping (obvs from the time of this post) and I find the thought of walking endlessly every afternoon utterly draining. But will have to do it I suppose.

I've done a load of googling and they all say the same thing: dropping down to one nap is normal even at 11 months, and also learning how to throw a fit is normal at this age too.

Not only is it normal but indeed you should be GRATEFUL! It means your child is a quick developer! And may grow out of the tantrums by 2.5 as opposed to 3!

Yippee.....

I just have to cope better with it, thats all.

Anna I think because of everything going on it seems worse as well

If he def won't have a second nap move the first one slowly til it's an 11 am nap n hopefully 2hrs so he has lunch later at 1pm ish or give him lunch at 11am n nap at 11.30. Move nap by 15mins each day n clock change may help a bit with this.

Give Dinner/tea earlier at 3.30/4pm and just some snacky bits at 5ish if that's when u eat our baby has some bits with us at 5.30 but has own tea at 3.30/4.

How are baby eating these days

We have 3 bf a day (7,5,6,.45) + overnight although he slept all night last night ssshhh don't tell him though :)

8.30/9am porridge (will sometimes have few dry cheerios before that) and 1/4 piece toast

10/10.30am snack of fruit or rice cakes or some cold pasta twists

11.30/12 lunch cooked meal like casserole, roast dinner, curry (fav is chicken biriyani), paella followed by pudding of custard or fruit + has few finger bits like bread sticks cucumber etc

1.30/2 snack usually custard at nursery if at home it's pouch or pot fruit

3.30/4 teatime which at nursery is beans on toast or scones n veggie sticks etc at home it's same as lunch

5.30 when we have dinner he will have some bits like veg n meat/fish on his highchair which is generally eats.

He has 4 bfs at 0600 or waking, whichever is later, for morning nap, afternoon nap and bedtime.
Breakfast is whatever I have so porridge, toast, cooked veg breakfast or occasionally cereal or crumpets. Often followed by fruit.
Lunch is again whatever I have so sandwich, salad / houmous wrap (bits from) or leftovers.
Dinner I often make his own meal so pasta bake, omelette and veg or bits from our dinner.
He eats huge volumes of food especially at dinner. Practically adult portions. If he likes something it gets shovelled in quite quickly!
Risottos have been the surprise hit recently. Easy and cheap and if bunged in oven not too time consuming.

2 or 3 BFs (depending upon whether she sleeps through the 2nd one) at whenever she wakes up (normally around 6.15); 1.30pm and 6pm before bath time.

Meals: breakfast (around 7.30) - toast / yoghurt and fruit puree / raisin bread / bagel. Has recently suddenly refused porridge

Lunch (anytime from 11.30 - 12.30) - cooked meal from one of the mass batch cook-ups I've done - could be lamb, chicken, beef, fish with veg, or a vegetarian option. Usually followed by fruit or yoghurt and more recently have also been giving rice cake as she still seems hungry!

Dinner (around 4 - 4.30) - same as lunch. Not sure when I ought to be moving to more "snack" things like sandwiches, beans on toast etc.....

So content of meals seem to be very similar to you eastmids...Although not giving any snacks in-between meals as she doesn't seem to need them...

DD has 3 daytime bf's, 7am (sometimes she drops this one too), 5pm and bedtime around 7pm. If I jump in the bath with her she'll feed on and off through that too.
Solid food she's a grazer so she has porridge for breakfast and I make her a pack up for childminder with sandwich/pizza/pasta, banana, pear, pepper sticks, rice cakes, chunk of cheese and a seafood stick and rarely does anything come back. Her dinner is much lighter, usually what we're having unless it's spicy or I just make her a couple of little snacks.

Last night I got 8 hours sleep. She still woke for feeds at 11.30 and 5am but still, 8 hours!!! Last week I was only getting 3!!

I have found he needs the snacks as his silent reflux flares up if doesn't eat every 1+1/2-2hrs think the a acid must build up.

For ds1 at home he always had cooked meal lunch n dinner and pretty much at 5 still does has school meals and cooked meal at home and childminder in eve.

Wow ladydolly!!!! 8 hours! You must be chuffed to bits with that . It's amazing how quickly it can change from one week to another!

We dont seem to need snacks here either.

He has porridge or weetabix or Ready Brek mixed with almond milk and fruit for breakfast, or if he decides its a "no spoon" day, then its toast and fruit.

For lunch its something like a tuna or ham omlette or pasta twists. He'll have fishcakes quite a lot. Potato farls are bloody handy also.

Dinner is pretty big and whatever we're having. It was stew last night. We eat a lot of rice and noodles and that goes down well. Oh and we've learnt to always have gnocchi in the cupboard as it takes 5 mins and is easy to hold.

If in doubt, we slather stuff in pesto as he loves it.

And then he has usually a bottle upon waking, a bottle after his nap (though he often drops this one so I play it by ear) and a bottle around 4. And then he falls asleep on a bottle at bedtime.

We use the Ellas Kitchen book a lot for ideas.

Morning.
Operation night cold turkey definitely taking its toll on dh but mainly cos he's still going to bed late and struggles getting ds back to sleep after 0500. We had 3 wake ups last night so we're still quite far from the illustrious sleep through. Dreading the clocks changing.