November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

DD is offered a sippy cup with 11oz (!) of cows milk in at bedtime and usually has at least 7oz, often downs it all. TBH at the moment we are in a bad eating phase and she is surviving mainly on fruit, crackers and cheese so she does really need that milk. I'm just hoping this phase ends soon as it is doing my head in. I wonder if she's having a late wonder week 64? She's also being clingy and cries so easily. The only plus is she's going to bed at 7pm like a dream and mostly sleeping through as she's so exhausted by life it seems at the moment.

Our weekend in Ireland was exhausting... DD being such a clingy whingy thing and not eating, we only had a little convenience shop to buy food from so i couldn't get some of the stuff that I knew she would eat. She slept well in the room with us, but DH was coughing all night and I didn't get to sleep til nearly 4am each night we were there. I was broken by sunday.

I do think we must be mad going on 2x ten hour flights with DD in may. We barely got through two 1 hour flights. The worst part was trying to stop her kicking the seat in front! When sitting on my lap her legs were the exact right length to brace against the seat in front and she did it continually. The woman in front was clearly trying to keep her cool with us and I kept loudly going "no DD, no feet on the seat" so she'd know I was trying my best. I'm just praying there will be some spare seats on our flights in May so we can all get a bit more room. At least DD has a super cute smile/ head tilt so hopefully we can get some mileage out of that with the flight attendants...

Oh the most embarrassing thing - while waiting at the gate at Dublin DD was walking up to people with crisps, giving them a big smile and a wave and then holding her hand out for some. She's actually a beggar!

No milk drunk here at all - she has milk in her breakfast, in as much as she has either cereal, porridge or yoghurt; and I try to give her yoghurt for pudding at least once per day. When I stopped BF (Xmas day ), I tried to introduce a beaker of cows' milk but she wasn't interested at all. Now she has a glug of water and that's it.

Have come to the conclusion that teething is definitely a complete pile of shit. Another night of about 3 hours sleep with DH and I taking it in turns to sit up with her whilst she struggled to sleep. Have dosed her up with baby crack (Nurofen) before bedtime tonight, so am hoping that helps...

moggle at your chips begging DD. I bet people were laughing their heads off.

ds allowed me to look in his mouth yesterday (very rare that permission is granted) and he's had three teeth pop through without my noticing! They must be molars as they are quite far back, but looks like only parts of each tooth have come through...

Have any of you taken yours to the dentist yet? I know we were meant to do it at a year, but heard that was more to get them used to the experience... Which seems like bs to me, because surely they will forget?

Raining here, and ds still asleep... Might be a long day!!

He slept through!!!!!!!

That is all.

Well done BabyA!!!! How do you feel MrsA?

DD has done the last 2 nights with a brief wake up at 3.30 for a bottle and back down. This is huge progress for us. Weirdly she didn't eat dinner for those 2 nights so expected her to be up for more milk.

Posmork I took dd at around 7 months because I was going and they told me to come back when she's 2. I can't wait to see them try and look at her teeth... we have to play stupid games in the bath to get her to open wide so I can take a look. She has 12 so far, 8 at the front, 4 at the back. We think we can see canines looking ripe but nothing popped through so far.

Managed to get 2 bags of clothes for £30 from a friend last night, all White Company, John Lewis, DKNY. There has to be hundreds of pounds worth in there. Chuffed to bits!

Yay MrsA congratulations on the joy of a whole night's sleep!

haven't I agree about teething. We have been giving DD neurofen at bedtime, but it must wear off at about 1am which is slightly too early for another dose. Last night I was up 1.30-3am with her crying, hitting me then settling for a feed that felt like being nibbled by piranhas, appeared to fall asleep then would wake up and repeat the cycle. I had just fallen back to sleep when DD1 came and woke me up because she had wet the bed. It turns out the waterproof mattress protector isn't so waterproof or protecting after all so she then had to sleep in our bed (good job DD2 wasn't already in with us for a change) because there was nowhere else for her to sleep while her bed dried out. She and her pile of cuddly toys took up all my side of the bed leaving me squashed in a tiny space next to DH. They both woke up at 6 too.

posmork I'm taking both DDs to the dentist tomorrow. It is really DD1's appointment but DD2 will have to be there too. I don't know if he will even try to look in her mouth or not.

Feeling positive. DH has been doing bedtime and night duty for about a week as ds wasn't settling for me cos I smell of yummy milk (night weaned at 10m but fully weaned for only a couple of weeks). Last night I said I'd do night duty and he didn't wake up. Score!

Ds2 went to dentist for first time at 12mths you should take from about 6mths old to get them used to it really also I wanted his lip tie checked which she said would monitor but obv he has severed that himself! He has all 4molars 4th just a started to cut and other 3 are in varying stages of being through.

Oh n he knows how to pull a full on tantrum

He has been amazing with glasses at nursery wears them all day without a fuss

So tonight we got big strop about putting DD in the high chair. Ours is the wooden one you can convert in small table and chair. Did that and she was happily sat at her own table having dinner. Saw her eating at the small table with other kids in the nursery, sat on the low chair from which she can freely get off whenever she wants. Another step towards growing up?

Great news about the glasses eastmids!

That's lovely about the little table strawberry. I've got a couple of the IKEA Latt tables for ds to stand at and play, and he loves having something his height to put his toys on, he much prefers it to floor play. I like the idea of cutting off the legs to make it a weaning table, but he's happy enough in his high chair, though I wish I'd bought a trip trapp so he'll be able to get in and out of it himself when he's a bit bigger. My parents bought us our high chair, so I feel bad getting rid of it. They're very over sensitive and would take it as an insult!

Ugh, zombie after 2 bad nights awake for hours.

Eventually last night I piled some baby blankets on him and he finally went to sleep and now I'm wondering if being cold is at the root of it all? So adding toddler duvet tonight & GroBag as DH bought lightest duvet possible for some unknown reason.

This'll be Unsuccessful Theory No. 63, lol)

DS has seemed to want a little chair for a while but we haven't gotten round to getting one. But he keeps trying to sit on things and sometimes we just find him sitting on the bottom stair! We'll have to get one soon.

He's always had a booster-on-chair thing with a tray so he's always been like a big boy and quite happy with it. He's always hated high chairs as they slump too much.

Heading off on holiday tomorrow and it'll be all strange high chairs and strange travel cots and God, how I am dreading it! And the bloody plane, ugh!

Where are you off to anna?

For what it's worth, DP swears that the warmer the house the better DD sleeps. She has a jojo grobag with legs and her babygro on and her bedroom is 25c (according to the monitor). I swear by the pre bedtime banana. This week she's only waking once for a quick feed about 3am.

Last night I went to a spinning class for the first time ever. I nearly puked. I thought I was relatively fit by swimming 3 times a week and walking/running when I can. I was so wrong!!

ladydolly you most likely are fit, its just that the spinning is a bastard. In good old times when I was spending every hour possible in gym and would stay for 2-3 classes of aerobics in row and would cycle about 50 miles a day on weekends when out and about with friends. Spinning was still killing me and I was definitely fit 10 years ago.

Oh just off to the UK so an hours flight. But am being very melodramatic about it!

Strawberry You have no idea how much better that makes me feel! There were only 4 other people in the class, people only the insane would do it regularly. (I'm going back next week, I'm too stubborn not to) So if you never hear from me again it's because my body actually just stopped functioning in a spin class.

Anna the recommendations for toddler duvet is no more than 4.5tog don't ask where I got that from but ds1 had 4.5tog til he was 4 but couldn't find any guidance about when they could go heavier. So perhaps your dh had read similar somewhere.

Oh maybe. It's as light as a feather. No worries of him smothering anyway!

Packing for tomorrow, and DH and I are realising there's no room for our own stuff! We're going to have to stuff every stitch into our carryons. Madness!

By the way, a friend of mine once fell off their bike in a dead faint in a spinning class. I've had The Fear of it ever since.

Another thing to "tick off" the list: ear infection....first one DD's had and it's really knocked her for 6. Not so worried about the high temperature as have got used to those and know that the Calpol / Neurofen will work to a degree; but what really threw me was the complete lethargy she has. So she slept for 11.5 hours last night; woke up around 5.30am and came into bed with us; where she fell asleep on me for another 45 mins (unheard of); and then at 7.45 I took her on the 5 min drive to nursery and she fell asleep in the car . They phoned me up around 12.30 saying she really wasn't herself / not interested in anything / constantly tired etc etc, so picked her up and went to the docs who diagnosed an ear infection and prescribed antibiotics. Gave her the 1st dose which she immediately spat out . Then she almost fell asleep in the bath....

She's gone off her food too, but not so worried about that - more the lack of wet nappies so am keeping a close eye on that and doc said to go back of she didn't have one every 6 hours or so......

Anyone else with similar experience???

Not had an ear infection here (amazing actually considering she has glue ear in both ears) but we've had two lots of antibiotics and the Flucloxacillin we had for the hand foot and mouth was vile and she would not swallow it no matter how I tried to disguise it. The other weekend she got bitten by a rabbit (!) at a petting farm and it got infected oops, so she had co-amoxiclav this time and she gobbled it down and asked for more!!

It is really hard at this age when they can't really be bribed or reasoned with at all.

Ah, so it's not just us then Moggle? - it takes 2 of us to get the antibiotics into DD: I have to hold her (and practically pin her arms to her sides) whilst DH squirts the stuff in . Woke up this morning to find that she'd been sick at some point in the night after 12.30 and at 6.30am I found her asleep lying in it.....I felt awful. No breakfast at all; the smallest sip of water you can imagine and then an absolutely horrendous nappy. She's had half an oat bar and has had about 50ml of water since then....currently napping (although every time she coughs I'm paranoid that she's been sick...).

I know people said when I was pregnant that the constant worry starts then; but I never thought it would be THIS much worry.....

Oh no :-( we were lucky in a sense- as it was just the rash round her mouth that'd got infected they agreed to prescribe antibiotic cream instead so we didn't get to the pinning her down holding her nose stage :-(

havent what our constant worry will be like when they are teenagers and start to go out late? I dont dare to think...

How's DD doing this afternoon haven't? I've not got much advice on antibiotics really, not if she hasn't got an appetite. We give a few spoonfuls of yogurt and then sneak in a spoonful of antibiotic while her mouth is still half full, it's normally most of the way down before she realises.

Milestone this morning, DD's first scrap. She was desperately trying to get to the cuddly toy in her sing and sign class and the little girl next to her was doing the same, ended up with them shoving each other and pulling each others hands away, they looked so hacked off. Luckily the other girl's mum was sat next to me and this is her 3rd child so she was pretty chilled about it, good job because I was pissing myself laughing at them! She redeemed herself by giving a child without a toy one of hers later on so she's not totally evil I don't think...

I daren't think that far ahead Strawberry!

Have had an "interesting" day: 3 naps (!!!!) - one of which was laying on me for an hour immediately after lunch (if you can call 2 teaspoons of yoghurt a lunch); tried to Skype mil (always a great distraction tactic), but no sooner had we started to talk then DD puked all over the laptop . Have had at least 4 absolutely revolting nappies (mil reckons it's the antibiotics) bless her...

However, after the 3rd nap gave her some Calpol (temp of 38.8) and within the hour she had started to become more active and passed me her coat - the sign that she wants to go outside...

Still bugger all eaten for tea, but she does seem perkier. Really hoping she has a good night and has broken the back of it.

Ladydolly, "first scrap"! That made me laugh