November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

The thought crossed my mind looking at all the pictures - how such cute babies could cause us all those sleepless nights, ah?

Evening all. Very sleep deprived and full of cold and cough here so will keep this short as feeling spectacularly rough and sorry for myself

Dd still absolutely full of snot, cough and gunky eyes. Am convinced it's due to bloody teething - no child should be able to produce the amount of drool she does.

Only able to bring temp down by the maximum doses of calpol and neurofen each day - this has been going on for about 4 days now of yo-yoing temp....doc reckons another virus, best friend who's a doc, reckons teething...

Haven't got the energy to work out how to put a photo on here, but all yours look lovely - really like the spagetti look ladydolly

Oh god. Terrible mother alert. I put dd in the living room with stairgate locked while I was in the kitchen, when I brought her snack in the gate was open and she is no where to be found. I was shouting for her with no reply, finally found her in my bedroom on the top floor, 2 flights of stairs up!!! I have never been so scared in all my life but out she crawled, chilled as you like, wondering what her mother is panicking about!!

Dp is away this weekend so of course dd showed zero signs of tiredness until 8 tonight and it still took me an hour to get her down. Urgh, so much for a lovely quiet evening watching a boxset.

Oh ladydolly that must be sooo scary! Clever DD worked out to open the stair gate! It does scare me how clever these babies are, surely our mums have said similar thing years ago. Does it help? Nope!

Just been and had some photos done of boys ds2 wore his penguin dungarees and looked so cute.

I have got a set of these frugi reversible dungarees in 12-18mths New with tags if anyone would like them they are £24 New but happy to sell for £15 plus £4 to cover postage and PayPal fees. :)

Morning all, had been crazy busy these last few days. Christmas is so full on, isn't it? For example I had to just get sticker books for my nieces & nephews. Simple task, right? It turned into the most horrendous afternoon battling huge crowds with a pushchair and since when have sticker books become so bloody expensive??!

Everything at this time of year seems so much harder cos the shops wre packed.

Have been working a fair bit too. In A&E. Enough said.

DS has discovered his shadow. Its very cute. Every evening under the glare of the kitchen lights he plays chase with it. Patterns are big right now as well, trying to lift the pattern off the wallpaper for ages. Adorable.

His sleep has been ok. His mornings have gotten later which does help us psychologically. And the other night he was awake from 4am to 5.30am but (miracle!) didn't start to cry, just moaned a bit and played and we never got out of bed. In fact, I slept through most of it but DH heard it all.

Not counting my chickens yet though. Oh shit, he's just discovered the first aid drawer. Must go!

Advice needed: is this normal or should I be worried?
So dd has had a viral infection since about last Sunday. Temperature has been all over the place and only brought down by a combination of calpol and neurofen (doc said this was ok to do). Think teething is the culprit and nursery bugs as she's had really rosy cheeks and has been drooling for England.

So, today her temp has been really good (under 37), except for first thing (38.7) & just now (38.2). The thing is she's basically slept all day so far - maybe awake for an hour between long sleeps. ....is this normal for a one year old who's been pretty ill for the last week? ???

haven't I'm not sure but that's a fairly long time to have a temperature. Would you bring her back to GP just to lay it all out how long it's been going on? Probably just a nasty viral illness, but it's definitely more than teething I'd say. DD1 had a bug the other month with a 4-day long temperature and that was the longest I've experienced.

Disclaimer: I'm sure the actual nurses here on the thread will have better advice, I am actually fairly clueless about all this!

Poor little DD - hope she feels better soon.

That's what I thought halfstar but took her to the docs on Fri and he said viral infection. ...nothing on her chest and just had to sit it out. ...

Just make a nuisance of yourself. That's a low level pyrexia of 7 days.

It is most likely viral but at this stage it's 48 hrs later and there's continuing temp & lethargy so that would warrant being annoying about it.
Tbh he prob can't do anything - a hospital would have more drugs so if you're really worried you could go to A&E to get bloodwork done and actually get a diagnosis and treatment.

I wouldn't be worried about the temperature on its own especially with teething and nursery bugs think over past 3mths we have used calpol or nurofen several times a week some weeks every day however I would be concerned about the drowsiness today only being awake for an hr it could be her fighting off the virus but would have her checked.

Has she been drinking? Wet nappies in past 24hrs?

Thanks for the advice Anna - we're going to see how she is tomorrow morning and I'll go back to the doc if she has a high temp again...she napped for a total of 4.5 hours today....but she has started eating a bit more; her temp is generally lower than it has been; and I haven't had to give as much medicine as I have been doing. REALLY hope we're over the worst now.

eastmids, yep, she's generally quite good with drinking water and today we've had wet nappies (yesterday was a bit like a drought, but that was a one off). Also had a very good BF tonight before bed, so fingers crossed!

Hope she feels better soon haven't.

So I'm really doing this then... on my way to the airport and not back until Friday. 4 days without dd. My heart is breaking. On the plus side at least 2 nights of unbroken sleep ahead. She's back to waking every hour or 2, last night was hideous, I probably only got 3 hours sleep tops.
So here's the dilema, now would be a good time to stop bf. I'd only planned to do a year, dp can deal with her at nights while I'm gone, I can drink at xmas, we can try for another baby in the new year, she might sleep better if there's no boob when she wakes up.... but I really don't want to stop, I love it so much. I'm going to be one of those women who breast feeds their kids til secondary school aren't I?

ladydolly that's got to be hard.

ladydolly that is difficult. Don't stop if you don't need to. How many feeds does she have? I am ready for a night away from DD but more than one is another matter - you are brave and it will be wonderful when you see her again on Friday.

When DD turned 1 I decided I'd no longer bf her in the night if she woke; we've only had to give her cows milk once in the month since. She then was having a bf first and last thing; then a week ago I decided to drop the evening one as she was not spending much time on it and my boobs were getting a bit confused! now she just has it when she wakes. Useful on nursery days because we don't have to give her any pre-breakfast at home!

DD has suddenly "got" walking this weekend, after taking her first steps on November 1st! She finally realised it can be a more efficient way to get around and spent a couple of hours on saturday evening walking back and forth between me and DH and the catflap in the back door :-) she was so proud of herself! it was one of those lovely times when you just sit there beaming at each other about the wonderfulness of the little life you created (soppy alert!).

We had the 13m jabs yesterday, she hated the jabs obviously but recovered pretty quickly with a few chocolate buttons and some great distraction techniques from the nurse. She was unsettled in the evening but no temp and eventually went to sleep, and seemed fine this morning, so I guess we just have to wait for any side effects in a couple of weeks time.

ladydolly does she still have boob during the nighttime wakeups?

Finally got DH to find the wire to put photos on the computer. This is so I can make the photobooks of the DDs that we give my parents and in-laws for Christmas. The photobook websites are always a fucking nightmare but today none of them will even load up. I've tried 5. The deadline for Christmas delivery is today on most of them. I might cry.
So, instead I can add a photo of DD here. This is her last week at the nursery Christmas party. All the other recent ones of her show her all snotty and gunky eyed or crying so aren't very nice.

Ah happy she's lovely! I know what you mean about nice photos - most of the recent ones I have taken she's either streaming snot, crusty snot, tears, or rash!

Ark - just spotted this on my/our local board! thread for you

Apparently the non-sleeping wonderchild slept all night on Saturday and Sunday. I worked all night on Saturday and Sunday so wasn't home to appreciate this and didn't get any sleep on those nights. Obviously, the miracle was not repeated last night when I was at home. She woke up when I was about to go to bed but not for too long, then she woke up about 4.20 for nearly 2hrs. DH is now very smug and proud of himself because he got her to sleep through (even though on Saturday I put her to bed before I went to work so it's not like he did anything to make it happen). He said "at least we know she can do it now." I thought surely that is worse when she doesn't sleep but we know she can.

lady enjoy your trip away. Enjoy your sleep, and decide when you get back whether you want to carry on BF. The answer might depend on how she gets on while you are away and whether your feelings change after 4 days away. If you decide to carry on, she can clearly go long enough without being fed for you to have a few Christmas drinks and not feed her if you want, and, if you aren't feeding her loads, it should be possible to conceive again if you want otherwise you wouldn't ever hear of mums tandem-feeding.

Oh ladydolly, thinking of you . I'm in a similar boat about stopping BF. Before DD I didn't even consider BF; then she arrived and I thought I'd give it a go (seemed less hassle than bottles); then it got really tough (but I was too stubborn to stop); then we both got the hang of it; and now it's just something we do together at the end of the day before bedtime.

I really thought I'd stop when she hit one...that was at the end of Nov. Now I'm saying I'll stop over the Christmas holidays and we'll give her a beaker of cow's milk instead....not that I'm procrastinating or anything...

Lady a little unknown secret you can drink and breastfeed just don't get shitfaced!!! A couple is fine barely anything if any passes into breast milk

Thanks moggle ! It was funny when she recognised me!

Any thumbs up for waterproof things? Am looking at some jojo dungarees....

I have the Jojo ones. They're easy to put on, and work well. Packaway tiny.