November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

Oh dear, you have proper tornado at home.
Actually, when you mentioned bins... DD ate out of bin last week . The context of her constantly refusing food is the most offensive. We have a small bin in the lounge, i threw there bit of rice cake she chucked on the floor. Few hours later she was playing near it and then I just saw her bite off piece from the same with gusto.
She was very interested in the nappy bin, but it mainly resulted nappy change being a pain as she had to get on all four on changing station to have a good look at what I was doing with nappy and bin

Anna ds2 is exactly the same I'm everything climbing everything and a! Surprised we haven't visited a&e yet

Suicidal child here too. Climbs onto coffee table and launches himself off it into our arms or thin air if we'd let him

OMG. She did it again. Up at 10.30 and didn't go back to sleep (for more than 10 minutes) until 4.30. DP and I are in pieces :(

That's horrific! Massive hugs to you!

So last week (dunno if I mentioned it) I was working in a&e and we had a 15 month old in with terrible burns who'd pulled a cup of scalding hot tea on himself. Upset me terribly (the screams.....).

Anyway this morning I'd forgotten I'd left my cup of tea on the windowsill behind my chair and when my back was turned he slithered in behind the chair and pulled it down on top of him! Thankfully it was stone cold so he was unperturbed. But this was exactly what happened to the other kid!

Oh Anna it happens to us all into longer leave tea anywhere other than kitchen worktop although little bugger now moves ds1 steps across the kitchen and climbs up them I seriously need a cage - oh n he can't walk yet so goodness knows what's to come. Ds1 used to just sit and play oh how 2 children are so different

Oh no ladydolly - massive sympathy for you and your DP.

We had a pretty pants night last night (but nothing compared to yours) - DD was constantly coughing from 7-10pm, but must have been in her sleep as she didn't cry out. Then all was quiet from 10-12; then she decided that she didn't need sleep from 12-2 but did need to lie / sit on my lap until she eventually fell asleep around 2am.

Tonight hasn't started off any better - needed to have me sit with her for the 1st hour til I could put her into her cot bed asleep. She's been coughing her guts up since then (8pm) .

Teething has SO much to answer for - every. single. time. she has a cold and cough, a tooth follows........

ladydolly really hope last night wasn't as bad.

Oh anna that must have shaken you. Dp leaves his drinks in the handy cupholder in the back of DD's little tykes car. Only cold drinks but the carpet in that area is taking a beating.

Thanks for the support everyone! Last night was MUCH better. We decided to take shifts. DPs taking 7-2 and me 2-6. She only woke up 3 times, twice on DP's shift and once on mine and she went straight back down all 3 times. Thank fuck for that. I feel like I dreamt yesterday (although I was surprisingly productive at work).

She wept when I dropped her off at the childminder, she normally bounds in without looking back so this was really weird. I think it's part of this leap, separation anxiety.

Haven't how did you get on last night?

That sounds terrible ladydolly, hope you are feel better now. I was pretty broken yesterday too, but for very different stupid reason. Because DD had a fairly good night. Most of the nights she ends up in our bed about midnight and then wakes about 3am, drinks milk and then cuddles up with us until the wake-up time. So that night she slept so well she never woke up at 3am, but I was awake ready for it. First our I wouldn't try to fell asleep thinking there was no point, she would wake any time and then from 4am I couldn't fall asleep anymore because I must have been so used to her getting up on all fours and crawling into my armpit, that I actually really missed it. That night was the closest she has ever got to sleeping through 12am-6.30am, so why I wasn't sleeping?! I couldn't believe it was happening to me!

Anna it must be terrible to see the LO in pain. The accidents unfortunately happen. DD fell off our bed and broke her wrist in November and she hadn't had a single bruise before because we were vigilant and she was a chilled out baby and then suddenly - boom! She shouldn't have been in too much pain, it took us 2 days to spot she might have some problem, she was just like always, she didn't even cry when a&e were touching her arm for initial check up, she was ticklish! Only x-ray showed a fracture. And because she was under 1, albeit 10 days to her 1st birthday, a&e had to report us to social services. The doctor was pretty apologetic and said it's very common and often goes unnoticed, but they just had to fill that form out. Fortunately, our HV had visited us twice and then seen us in weighing sessions several times, so must have thought we weren't killing DD slowly. She left me voicemail on Friday at 5pm saying she was calling about DD's fracture in a lighthearted tone and she would call me following week. She never called, as I expected. It has made us twice as possessed about making sure nothing else happens.

Oh god being referred must have been terrifying!

I don't do Paeds so wasn't in resus with the little chap. I don't know how people can do A&E Paeds! I'd be a basket case. Though the Paeds Nurse always says that if they're screaming their heads off they're not too bad so I always try to remember that.

I am a zombie today, spent half of last night in a&e. Dd hit her head when she tripped running to my mum yesterday afternoon, big bruise and lots of tears but fine otherwise. Then at 1am she started throwing up so 111 said to take her. Got home just after 5:30 this morning. They saw us as quickly as they could but God keeping a very tired dd awake and not screaming was hard work!

To be honest I was more shocked about the fracture to worry about SS. After 3 hours wait at 11pm DD suddenly ended up with the cast, and the practical life issues starts to flood over - cannot get bodysuit on, doctor cut the sleeve off, but then it's November night and you cannot take baby outside in a bodysuit with one sleeve only, how will she sleep, how will she cope with cast on? And so on... Who cares about SS?!
Once we got over the practicalities I was more angry than scared. We basically got blacklisted because I thought DD was crawling strange, there was not a scratch on her, junior doctor checked her out and said it was unlikely she had any issue, she wasn't at pain, there were no bones dislodged, no bruises, nothing. They probably thought I was PFB paranoia mother and we were left the last to be x-rayed after all the real problems were attended. I even told DH I felt guilty we were wasting a&e time because DD was happily moving around the place and attention seeking with every person possible while there were obviously suffering kids around. DH did remind me that GP sent us to a&e though. I wasn't angry at doctors for referring us, but about the system where baby Peter with obvious bruises and signs of violence happily floats through, but I get punished for taking my child to the doctors?! And if she would have fallen 10 days later, nobody would blink an eye because she would be 1 year old?! I think I would have gone bonkers if HV would have come around on a high horse.

Ark hope DD is fine? So sorry you had to go through this :(

Glad you had a much better night ladydolly - we did too - after I initially sat with her for about an hour she slept through til 5ish then after a bit of crying, slept for another 40 mins. So not bad at all! Just wish we could get rid of this awful cough - all you can hear for hours on end is her hacking cough.

Oh my goodness - some of you (& your DC!) have really been in the wars! Hope everyone is on the mend now.

Anna I am a paed nurse and children generally get better they go downhill quick but come back up just as fast very few children die, I haven't worked on a ward for 12yrs though I deal with healthy children now but a lot of safeguarding and emotional health work which is harder to deal with than hospital sometimes.

Well ds1 now needs glasses he had a divergent squint which corrected itself discharged from hospital 18mths ago with agreement yearly eye test so took him and he has astigmatism same as me and slightly long sighted putting drops I'm his eyes was fun imagine 3people holfiong down a screaming wriggling 5yr old anyway glasses are to prevent a squint as his eyes are working too hard to maintain his vision. He was fab chose his glasses fine happy to wear themick them up in just over a week. Also had to talks ds2 glasses back !asdivr scratch on lenses so pick those up then too, luckily have a spare pair.

Ark how is DD today? Did they think she had concussion or a stomach bug that just happened to coincide with the bump to the head?

There must have been something magical about the house we stayed in in Wales, because the non-sleeping wonderchild slept both nights!!! I managed to get her to sleep, get her into the travel cot and then she slept until morning. It was incredible and not at all what I was expecting. I don't know why or how, whether she was exhausted from busy days out and from the sleepless night before we went even though she was napping during the days or what, so I can't replicate it at home. She did wake me up a couple of times last night crying but when I went over she was still asleep.

happy and strawberry dd is fine thankfully though they did think she was perhaps a bit concussed but I was quite happy to monitor her at home and she was so pissed off and fed up by this point it was better for all of us to just go home. Upside to all this is I have spent the whole day snoozing and cuddling her in our pjs. It was a friends still borns remembrance service this morning and I have just never felt so lucky to be lying on the sofa with dd asleep on me. I know they drive us up the wall with all their mishaps and toddler-ness but we really are lucky that we've all got healthy tots.

happy obviously the answer is if you want any sleep you will have to move to Wales

Ark I am definitely thinking we need to move to Wales! Though it will be an expensive and inconvenient mistake if it turns out she will only sleep in that particular bit of Wales. We can't move there, because it was in the middle of nowhere and I can't drive and it would be a very long way from any jobs.
So, clearly, she didn't sleep all night last night though she wasn't awake for too long (by which I mean less than half a hour each time, which might not be other people's idea of not too long).

This morning we stopped giving a bottle in the morning. Since the time change he's been waking an hour later at 7.30 (bliss) but had started refusing breakfast. So we realised the bottle was the culprit. We gave a beaker of water instead and he demolished a banana and weetabix.

Down to barely 4oz at bedtime with half water/half formula anyway so I expect that could go 100% water and he wouldn't notice.

Is it wierd to be a teeny bit sad about it? ??

We had Friday night out of hell here, TMI warning before I carry on. DD started to toss and stir at around 2am and nothing helped to calm her down, in an hour she started to cry, so we ended up switching the light on and giving her some toys while sat in our bed. She had bloated tummy and was farting like an old man. About hour later she puked all over DH pillow. Fortunately he was in loo at a time. So we ended up changing bed and bathing DD at 5am on Saturday. DD started farting while in bath, then suddenly DH stopped half word a childish comment about it and there came a scream "she shit in bath!" from the bathroom. We ended up showering DD praying she doesn't soil the shower as well and disinfecting the bath. I hope this is about as gross as it gets rising a child... Could have done with better things to do on early Saturday morning...
She didn't repeat the carnage last night, although she ate lots of garlic marinated chicken on Saturday and was blowing up smelling of the chicken, for a moment I thought she might have puked the dinner up how bad it was.

Oh gosh, sorry to hear about all these injuries and illnesses, lots of cuddles to you and little ones!
Not much to report here, except we're getting many more tantrums. Yesterday we had a full on screaming session before tea because he didn't want what I'd given him (spaghetti hoops with added veg and ham). He screamed for ages, but then as soon as daddy took a bite of it, he decided to wolf it down. Then, this morning, tears because we wouldn't let him wash up (he soaks himself and the floor and it was only 7.30 in the morning!).
I did get a blissful 5 hours to myself yesterday, built ds a little nature area in the garden. 3 raised beds for herbs, strawberries etc, a mini rockery for bug finding, and a sand pit is arriving later in the week. He'll probably never look at it!

Garden area sounds ace. We only have a yard but a park just over the road thank god. We have a week off each coming up to cover CM annual leave. DH is off next week and me the week after. DH will be palming DS off on his mum and painting our house (it really needs it). So he's fine for plans etc but what am I going to do to entertain DS for a whole week?!

Oh Strawberry someday you may laugh about it. Or not. My mate still gets a glassy haunted look in her eyes when she tells the story of the "3 am thunderous diarrhoea sprayed all over the cot" story.

mrsA we find you have to have two excursions per day. Morning pre nap, and then we go out again at around 2-4. We have a garden so one of those is usually "throw him out the back with a spade" . If you have a park still definitely buy a wee spade or fork or some implement. They don't actually dig, they just prod the earth so it won't do any damage.

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