Sept 06 Babies - trying to sit and roll....

[clairemow]

new thread here!

Cori, good timing!! I stopped feeding Dec 28th, and had my first one yesterday... so what's that, 7 weeks or something? Also had a coil fitted yesterday. Not a good day on the pain front...!!!!

Cori - I had a very small bleed about five weeks or so after stopping BF but that could also have been because I had to take the morning after pill It only lasted about 2 days and was very light so I'm not sure really. Sorry if TMI

I have been struck down with a throat infection. I feel dreadful! Its such hard work looking after a LO when you're poorly, isn't it? I wonder how long it'll be until DS gets it. It seems to have been one cold after another for me lately. Must be all these germ-y children I'm mixing with nowadays

DH has the afternoon off work today so I'm going to have a little kipette in a minute.

Claire, thanks for the info on the play nest. I think I might invest. DS is kind of sitting up now. He'll stay upright for a good 10-15 seconds before toppling over. The playnest might just give him a bit of extra support.

Right, I'm off for a Beacham's........

helloooooo mummies! wow its been absolute ages since ive been here. i went to the last thread and panicked for a moment, thought you had all gone away as the last post then was on the 14th, i think....needless to say, i finally made it to the top of that thread and suddenly felt the village idiot! but of course! a new thread. im terribly sorry but i dont have too much extra time to read up to here: my estranged mom has been visiting from texas and its been...interesting, but thats for another thread or maybe a chat show! haaa!

anyways, i'll start my re-entry onto our lovely thread afresh. ds is 21weeks now and progressing just fine. he amazes me everyday with something new. (i love being a mom...;;;;sigh;;;;) he has a tooth and is desperate for my food...but im holding out still. hes rolling over back and forth, and he's discovered his knees and with that, possibly on his way to crawling? im not ready to baby proof just yet!

however, it doesnt look like i will have to seeing as we may be moving (((AGAIN))) in a months time. leaving our little bierut (no offence to anyone) of a ghetto in the wirral and moving to a nice area of northern wales. a little punk was breaking in the business next door during the daytime and then bolted fast when he heard the unit approaching. he did see us and threatened us. and the day prior, ds was wide awake at around 3am, so i got outta bed to tend to him, peeking out the window on the way...only to see about 5 lads running away from some havoc they'd already caused up the street. but the last fella jumped all over our bonnet and roof and kicked in our windscreen! ohh lordy. that repair certainly wasnt in the monthly budget. sooo, now im sleeping with a bat near my bed and extra locks on the doors. well, loosing sleep really...and we all know we cant be great mummies with little to no sleep! ::::::sigh:::::: so, were moving. i know crime is everywhere, but the area is particularly frightening.

ok ok...rant-issue over. i promise next time i'll create a 1-woman thread to bitch and moan about everything non-baby! hhhehehe.

on that note: how is everyone?!?!?
i've missed being here!!!!

OHOHOHOH, and a huge welcome to anyone that has joined since ive been away!!

quick questions for mums of sept babies - have you all weaned already?
dd is 5 months (plus a few days!) and I havne't yet, will waiot a few more weeks more out of sheer laziness than anything else, I can't bear the thought of getting into all that mess just yet ( she's number 3)

Not yet, Hana. My Ds will be five months and three weeks old on Sunday. We're thinking of starting him on Sunday. Don't think the week will make much difference and he has started to wake in the night/early hours. Not sure weaning will make much difference but we'll see.

hana - not yet here either, only BM so far. dd is 23 weeks tomorrow...we'll def wait until March if not longer...

she's got a terrible cough at the moment wee poppet

and is feeding A LOT

pistachio if you're there i liked your thread and thought it'd be good to support each other as we wait, but the weaning threads scare me, especially as i may start before 26 weeks. just wanted to say hi though and sympathies on the 2 hourly feeds, it's tiring isn't it?

Also not weaning yet, still BF.

I am giving her wee tastes from my smoothies though. Her face is such a picture when she first takes it, then she is leaning forwards in my arms desperate for another wee bit!! Every thime though, her face scrunches up when it touches her tongue. so I am looking forward to giving her plenty other things, but I think I will hold out for the middle of march and the 26 weeks.

She has been getting me up at different times through the night too though, for the past few weeks, but always goes back to sleep so I am not worrying. Also she is putting on lots of weight so it must be that she needs that extra feed to do all this growing.

People are commenting on how much bigger she is, though I don't see it, too close I guess. But it is good that she is getting bigger all the time.

She is bring her knees up too, Munki, I keep thinking that crawling must be on the cards, but it has been a few weeks since she first tried and no such moves yet. Though I have moved everything out af crawling reach Even bought a fire guard! But not put it up yet.
It is such a shame to see her try and to see that wee nose getting smushed into the floor everytime!!

And there I am beside her going, look darling this is how you do it!!
We do the silliest things!!

fairysnuff - dd2 was crawling at 5 months, sounds like your little one isn't far off - keep the guards in place!!

Hello,
Has anyone else's LO taken to grabbing their feet and sucking them? DS is constantly doing this, its very cute
He was up again at 3:30 last night It would have been fine but I have trouble getting back to sleep and had a very strange dream where I was on Strictly Come Dancing and I only had a few hours notice so I didn't have a clue what the moves were and I went on and just froze in front of millions of people watching on TV!

myrtle - I haven't broken the early morning waking habit yet.
Yesterday he woke up at 4.15am again, I did the same tactic as the other night, tried him on cooled boiled water, and rocking him, but after about 20 minutes I gave in and gave him a very small feed (literally let him feed for 1 minute), he wen back down, but unfortunately woke up again at 5.30am as he'd done a poo!, This morning it was 5.30am, again he'd done a poo, I need to try and change his poo timing, as 5.30am is just not convenient!
Oh and Ds is grabbing his feet and pulling his socks off.
He does bring his knees up when he lies on his tummy, but along way off from crawling (I hope!!!), Ds1 crawled a 8 months.

Munki - it sounds pretty horrible where you are at the moment, I wouldn't be able to sleep if I thought that was going on outside, I bet you are glad you are moving!

Morning everyone
Munki - I'm not surprised you'removing either, it does sound very scary! What will you do in Wales? Are you buying or renting? I used to live in Aberystwyth for a while and loved it there.
We've started weaning this week. Dd is 23 weeks now and i'm quite impressed we got this far!! She likes banana so far and yesterday had some sweet potato - lovely nappy afterwards

Mabel, perhaps you shouldn't even offer water & just let him cry it out? As you say if he only fed for a minute then he is just waking for a mummy snuggle & out of habit I think!!! These boys...

Yep, Jack is finding his feet & trying to get them in his mouth..so so cute! He doesn't however have any inclination to roll over & like being on his tummy..the difference with DD at he same stage is quite vast...

cori - i did consider suggesting to DH that he gets up in the night to DS, as it might be that he can smell milk and want a feed, when I go to him, but as DH does the last feed at 11pm so I can get an early night, it seems a bit unfair to ask.
I am determined that I will get him out of it! DS1 has done it on and off from time to time in the past.
have to gho DS1 is deermined to do a bit of typing for me

Liquid - just saw your post on the 'dilemma' thread. I wish someone had banned me from going into the sluice when I was pg!

dd lies and holds her feet too, very cute! I don't remember ds doing the same but then I have a shocking memory (blame sleep deprivation - still up at least once a night here too!).

I'm determined to wait until at least March and 24 weeks before starting weaning but I does seem like dd has fed a silly amount today. She'll wake from a nap, have a good feed and then an hour later want more and feed well again. It's fine until you need to do anything...

We had a lovely morning at toddler group where there are about 5 other wee girls the same age as dd. So cute to think they'll all grow up together and nice to have RL friends at the same stage.

hello everyone,

Munki, don't blame you for moving - it sounds really scary, esp as now you have a little soul to consider... Don't worry about talking about non-baby stuff, it's all interesting to know a little more about you all.

Mabel, sounds like you might have to get tough on the night waking if you are suffering. We had to go through a few nights of some crying with Fraser. But I never left him for all that long... Better say that, or I could get shot!

F is also holding his feet while on his back, but only without a nappy on (we're using real nappies so they're much more bulky). He can roll too, but again only naked or in a disposable, so not much! I remember DS1 used to bring his knees up under him when he was on his front, so it looked like he was about to crawl - but he just used to rock, and crawled when he was 8 months.

He's going to be 6 months next week! (We were v. early September) - and we have started weaning. He hasn't dropped any of his milk, still drinking at least 25-30 oz a day. He'll gobble up 5 or so cubes of puree at lunch and tea, and breakfast as well... Like his big brother, he likes his grub. So far I'm quite proud, it's all been home made.

Night all, off to make dinner, curl up on the sofa and watch Ugly Betty later - Marls, I only started watching it after you recommended it, and we love it! So thank you!

I am actually meeting some other local MNetters next Friday, bit nervous... Has anyone else met anyone in RL??!! I hope they're nice...!! F will be 6 months by then, so I don't need to feel bad about the food....!! Still, no petit filous...

Well things are just getting stranger and stranger here. After a few days on the new milk and gaviscon doing really well, DS2 only drank about half what he noramlly has yeasterday (after being slightly down on wednesday - not about mon/tues as at nursery) and today has drunk about a total of 6 oz. Slightly softer poo than normal but not really unsusual and still seems very happy. Only other unusual thing is that he's sleeping loads during the day. very strange - getting to point where if tomorrow's the same though he really won't be eating enough and will have to call doctor.

Also very sadly today I had news than my Nan has died, she's been poorly for a long time and was in here mid-80's. She had short term memory loss but I still wanted her to meet DS2 before she passed on but obviously it wasn't to be. She and my Grandpa live in Weymouth so it's a very long drive for us especially with the kids - just feels sad as we were planning to visit in 5 weeks. Ah well, cycles of life go on as they must I suppose.

Mabel - if def sounds like he's just waking for snuggles. I have to say we were a bit mean once we realised we'd got to that stage and he just got left with his muslin. Has your DS2 got something that he could snuggle to soothe him when he wakes up?

Bristols - that's one thing I was very pleased with the health & safety guys about!

Munki - I'd no idea you were living somewhere like that. Definitely time to move - have you got a particular place in wales you're going to - I used to live in Bangor and it's pretty nice there - quiet! (If you get really stuck it's hard to move to a bad area in Lancaster )

Clairemow - welcome back - I'm very , I've neer skied in my life and would love to learn! Very glad you enjoyed yourself though and that DH managed without you!

Liquid - sorry about your nan. My mum died when I was 12 and I feel sad that she will never meet my DS but I like to think that she looks over us and she sends the sun out on important days for us like my wedding day and the day DS was born Both were gloriously warm and sunny.

We went to the nursery today and DS had a settling in session. I left him for an hour. Apparently he was fine and was playing and giggling and then I got back and picked him up and he started bawling! I felt a bit inadequate although I knew it was because he was hungry and he hadn't had his nap so he was overtired but he would have to go and start screaming as soon as I picked him up...

liquid - sorry about your nan, it is a shame she didn't get to meet your lo.
I am trying very hard to get tough with DS2, but for the last couple of nights it's been a 5.30am feed, then he goes back down. this morning i left him crying for 10 minutes but then DS1 started shouting 'daddy' and quite bizarrely 'pop the weasel'!! I rushed in to get DS2 to try and shut him up so DS1 would go back to sleep. So had to feed him, he then went back to bed til 7am, I am going to keep leaving him though and hopefully we will get nearer and nearer to that magic 7am!
how much are your lo's eating now? DS2 seems o havew suddenly found his appetite and nearly polished off a whole banana yesterday for tea.

just need to add....is anyone else getting bitten nipples?

What are you supposed to do about it? I never had this with DS1 as I stopped feeding at 5 months and he didn't have any teeth by then. Was in absolute agony this morning when he decided to chomp on me!

Liquid, so sorry bout your Nan. Understand how you feel as my Grandpa died two days after Jack was born - circle of life eh? I look back at the photos I took of DD with him & feel immensely sad that he never got to see him. My Grandma told me that his face lit up when she told him we'd called him Jack as that was the name of his favourite brother...he then died 12 hours later.

Clairemow, ugly betty is fab!!! I've been watching from the first episode, think it's quite hysterical!!!! Saw the Devil wears Prada the other day too...very funny...I love Meryl Streep!!!

Mabel sounds like you may be getting there? Do you think you could just ignore him or would it be too hard hearing him cry? Without wanting to get shot again (!) we used cc with both DD & DS (although DS cottened on really quickly) & we actually didn't have to let them go that long....

Mrytle, Jack started nursery last week! Had three morning sessions which were paid for in advance when we thought I was going back to work mid Feb. So even though I'm at home until 2nd April (an extra 6 weeks unpaid)thought we may get him used to it - or rather me getting used to being without him!!! He loves it...we've had no tears at all. Probably helps that his sister is there at the same time & that I'm know who I'm leaving him with this time etc!!!

Beginning to fret a bit about going back to work....

cori - i am leaving DS2 as long as i canreally. I don't like him waking DS1 up as he is a different kettle of fish, once he's up we all have to get up, so i am trying to ignore him for as long as i can risk it IYSWIM. But you are right...5.30am is a big improvement on 3.15am....so i feel we are heading in the right direction, and i remind myself that once i had a job where i started work at 5.30am , so i know i can cope with that!

Claire - you are brave meeting fellow mnetters...I have thought about meet ups before, but been too scared, i hope they are all nice and none of them off the weaning thread

DS was up at 2:50am last night so its got a bit earlier I am going to try the cc tonight. DH is away so I won't need to worry about him. I'd really like to get him sleeping a bit longer before I go back to work which is a week on Wednesday!!! I am beginning to fret about it too Cori.

Hi all - just wanted to say trip went well getting DD to take her naps took patience, 40 mins + but by the evening she fine, went down at 6.45 and slept till 6.30
She has been out of sorts last few days though Seems her teeth are playing her up and she has cried more in last 2 days than the whole month before!! Has anyone else experienced periods where thier LO is really not themselves??? please tell me it passes and I'll get happy DD back?

Hope everyone else is well and good

Jam - glad the trip went well. The anticipation of these things are always worse, isn't it?

Liquid - sorry to hear about your Nan. How's your LO getting on now? Did you have to go to the doctor in the end? Hope things are getting better.

Mabel and Myrtle - good luck with the sleeping tonight. My DS has taken to waking in the night again too. We have started weaning (he'll be six months next Sunday) and he has taken to it like a duck to water. Has only had baby rice so far but we're moving to the dizzy heights of apple puree tomorrow.

Claire - can't wait to hear how you get on next week. If you don't have any PF to take, how about giving LO a swig of coke as a treat?? I'm sure they'll all be lovely. Wouldn't it be great if all of us could meet one day? Its funny how you can know so much about people who you've never met.

I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself at the moment. I have tonsillitis and it's quite bad. Feel dreadful and just want to curl up on the sofa with the 'poorly blanket'. Have been taking most of Boots' stock to try to make myself feel better. DH has gone off to play football and DS only slept for an hour at lunchtime (normally has two) and is a right misery. I took him out for a walk in a bit to get him to drop off, to no avail. I've tried everything to cheer him up but he's lying on his play mat moaning as I type. I feel incredibly guilty because I don't have the energy to jump around and play with him like I usually would. Bit cross at DH too. I know it's his day off work, but when's my day off? Anyway, rant over. Dh is very good and I know he'll completely take over when he gets in.

Off to do 'This little Piggy'. Never fails.

Have a good night, Ladies