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

[clairemow]

new thread here!

Hello all it has been a while ince I have posted, but I have been keeping up to date, lurking in the background

Only a quicky DH has dinner on the go and we wanna catch a film. What a treat!

Just spotted your question about biting Myrtle. My DD takes a little bite in themornings ( I think it is mostly cos she is too tired to realise i am not her soother!) But, when she does t and i know she realises what she has done, I pop her off and cover my boob, frown and avoid eye contact.
I read it in a magazine before she was born, as a good way to show that it is not funny.
I wouldn't give her the boob until she had stopped grining! Grinning, I ask you!!
Since then it hasn't happened except in the dead of night and I can forgive that.

I also checked with some other mums locally who agreed that I had done the best thing.
So I hope that helps.

My DD has no teeth yet so it is not really that painful, so sympathies for you and your pain.

Must dash DH has tea ready now!

Thanks for your kind words everyone. Cori, I remebered what had happened with your Grandad and that made me feel worse in a way, I had time where you didn't - now I keep thinking I just should have gone but deep down I know it's not that simple. No funeraly date yet so still don't know if I'll be able to go.

Bristols, thanks for asking, DS2 is still in good spirits. He took about 12 ozs total today so I think his good mood might be a bit deceptive. We're keeping a close eye on him at them moment - it a bit too reminiscent of how DS1 was when he was v ill and came down with pneumonia. My younger brother had 'failure to survive syndrome' when he was 3 months which is where they just stop demanding food, sleep more and eventually if no intervention they'd die through dehydration/lack of nourishment. The treatment for BF baby is to switch to formula to kick start the digestive system but not sure if already FF. I know he's no where near that ill but I suppose just having it close in terms of family history makes me more worried than I should be perhaps. Will ring docs tomorrow if no improvement - he can't go on surviving on 12oz a day.

On a happier note - I bought an new car today! My micra is on ebay and I now have a lovely 5 door skoda fabia estate diesel - very practical for family and long drives to my new job in april where I'll be doing 110 miles+ 3 days a week. I lurve it - it does more than 65 on the motorway !

Have been semi-lurking past few days.

Liquid - so sorry to hear about your Nan. Still miss my Mimi and Papa (Mom's parents).

After both of them gone, realized so much I'd wanted to ask but never did ... took the video camera on road trip to great-aunt's and interviwed her; she was my last tie to them; just wanted to ask how it was, growing up, etc. ... she died a few months afterward & grateful to have the tape.

Even when you know they've lived a good long life ... still difficult. So sorry.

Congrats on the car!!!

DH took boys all day today & I drew all day. My hand is killing me. I'm taking a break.
Drawings are area-specific to this show & based on research on subject matter incorporated as text ... fascinating stuff as everything in this area is connected to the Civil War. It kind of bypassed Texas to the north, so surrounded by everything now; learning a lot. Didn't realize absolutely everything here was burned to the ground in 1850s/60s; nothing left.

Mabel - Ow-ow-ow! sorry re; being bitten. Sounds awful.

Claire - So glad!! Look for a show called "Heroes" too if it ever comes; also runaway hit here. "Everyday people develop special powers ..."

Will def. post some pieces - plus pics I still have of the boys from Christmas once it's all hung next Sunday!

Munki - Glad you're moving!

Myrtle - They are SO cute these days, aren't they?? Really enjoying Jameson ... now if I can just keep DS1 from harming him

Yesterday: Baby suddenly screams. Me rushing in: "What happened?" DS1: "I hit his face with my Thomas train." (these are the small metal ones ) Me: "WHAT??? Why'd you do that?!" DS1: "Well, I kind of wanted to."

DS1 also picking up this accent while we're here: "I can't" is "Ah kay-unt!"

Sorry so long.

Evening all,

Liquid sorry to hear about your nan.

We are also are having a hard time just lately,
Auntie is still ill in the hostpital, i spend my days at home with the children and my evenings at the hostpital.

Marls know what you mean about your ds.
I asked ds1 the other day why have you bitten your little brother he replied well he put his finger in my mouth.

Ds2 is doing very well at the moment he is sitting well on his own for at least 10mins.

ooh, well done!
I was chuft that my DD sat for about a minute tonight!!!

Every time I put her in the nest she slowly works her way down to a slouch and is quite happy there.
Wee couch potato already (except for the telly watching part!)

Another sept mom checking in! DS was born on the 5th - i cant believe he's a week away from being 6 months!!!

Where did the time go???

hi Kaishay!

Marls - lol at the accent. Also the hitting thing, the one thing you can say about toddlers is they are very honest. We have had similar: Me: 'why is freddie crying?" Ds1 ' hit him on head'....I'd feel much worse if he started to lie about it!

Fairy - it was me that asked about the biting - I will try that, I am sure it's teething though. He's had both bottom teeth for over three weeks and it's only in the last few days he's been biting, i think i can see one of the top ones peeping through.

liquid of your car! I still haven't got one. DH has two mates looking for one for us, but nothing yet. I was so excited when i thought i was getting our friends old fiesta, that I feel fed up and trapped now and particularly as said friend now has posh audi a2

Well we had a good weekend, we went to the wedding reception on saurday, it was great fun and we even had a dance (compulsory at weddings surely!!), unfortunately I drank far too much coke and having not drunk anything containing caffeine since before i was pg, I was lying awake til 4am! DS2 woke up at 6am - so 2 hours sleep! I felt remarkable well for it though and fell asleep at 8pm that evening and went through til 7am ...i had to go in and wake ds2 up!!!! Unfortunately it was not repeated this monring and he woke at 5am.

Not posted for a while, but have been lurking.
Liquid - really sorry about your Nan, best wishes to you and your family at this time.
On the other front, hope your LO has picked back up on the milk front and all is well there. My DS seems to go off the milk (not that much, but some) when he has a bad spell of gum ache (though still no teeth), so hope it has been something like this, rather than anything serious.
Well, we are biting the bullet and starting on baby rice tomorrow (he'll be 25 weeks on Friday, but however much milk I give him, he still seems to want more and is hungry every 3-3.5 hours, so I'll risk being shot down by the Weaning posters, but know that you ladies are much nicer). Plus, at weigh in last week, the HV said "oh yes, just get him started on baby rice now [less than 24 weeks]" while also giving me a WHO booklet, stating 26 weeks!!! Even though he's now jumped up to 50th centile (born on 25th). Mind you our HV also said "Was he ever really vomiting", at which I had to be the model of restraint and not hit her over the head with my change bag, 'cos I don't think any of the medican professionals we have come across since DS was born have really been that helpful (although HV is really nice) and she just obviously hasn't understood any of the problems he's had !
I think quite a few of you are making your own food, can I ask what you do when you go out? Do you defrost it in advance, then take it out thawed and get it warmed while out, or what other options are there? Made my first apple puree today and am planning on carrot, parsnip, pear and swede (all separate) tomorrow, but we'll see what I actually manage !
Bristols, how is the no choc going? I've given up sugar for Lent (desperate attempt to fit back into my work clothes by 2 april, as I refuse to spend money on work clothes for me, when there are so many nice clothes for DS I could buy instead)! One week in and I've not given in yet (helped by starting to find more clothes in wardrobe that now fit), but am planning my splurge for Easter Sunday already, tee hee.

Oops, I always seem to end up posting really long messages when I do post !

Morning

Well, after talking about it happened...first period since pg!! I'd forgotten how yucky they are first one since...feel rotten & a having to change every hour at the moment (sorry if TMI)!! Now I know I can share this with you...I happened to stain sheets & pjs last night (that's not happened for years!) & DD being DD was most curious & kept on at me as to what the mess was...I just didn't know how to fob her off, it's not as if you can explain to a 2.5 year old about menstrual cycles!!!! Then she found a nice supply of Always in the bathroom & wanted to know what they were so in the end sort of said they were a kind of nappy etc to which she replied "Mummy's a big girl why need nappy?".....!!!!

Anyone listen to 5 live this morning? They were talking about flexible working etc & how Mothers are the most discriminated in the work place etc. It's amazing how heated people i.e none Mothers get about it. It's all rather relevant as I'm still waiting to have first meeting about my flexible working application. It should have been next week but they've postponed it until the following week which makes it longer than the 28 days they legally have to come up with meeting. Feeling rather uptight about it all.....they were so apalling with DD that I just don't know how they are going to swing this time. It makes me so cross that my company & an sure countless others are prepared to lose intelligent high achieving women with years of experience from their work force because they're unwilling to flex a little...

Spoke to an old friend from uni last night who is expecting her first in July. She made me laugh when she thought that the steriliser was a mini dishwasher also....! The amount of questions / doubts / fears she has made me realise that if only we could have second time knowledge & calmness first time around it'll be lot easier! Gosh, I must have been neurotic first time..

hi all,

been lurking a bit, busy couple of days.

Liquid, sorry to hear your news, and I hope Alex is drinking more now?

Cori, on the menstrual cycle! We must be synced through cyber space (or stopped feeding around the same time!). I had the same conversation with DS1 about pads... but didn't mention nappies as I was scared he'd tell everyone at nursery about Mummy's nappies... !

Had the most horrific dream last night, in which someone stole DS1 from the park in a van, and I couldn't remember the number plate. And then for some reason I went to a hotel and just hoped he'd turn back up. ???? Then felt tremendous guilt for not looking harder. Woke up shaking and am trying hard not to cry even now. I think it came because yesterday afternoon he did a runner at the gym and went out of the door from the bar area into the squash courts, and we had words about running off without waiting for Mummy. I was afraid he'd run into the carpark though, not be taken by someone. When do you start to talk about not going off with people???

Forgot to say DS2 has his first taster session at nursery today. Also about that, and don't want him to go...

clairemow, he'll be fine! Jack stared last week & loves it...is he going to the same one as DS1?

he's going to the one that DS1 used to go to - they only go there up to 2, so DS1 moved on to the next bit last May. I know it's a great place and he'll be fine, it's me that won't be!!!

I know how you feel, I really do!

BTW, how did your meet go with the other Mnetters?!! Do you think we'll ever meet up, the Sep group that is? I often wonder....

it's on friday, i'll let you know...!!!

ClaireMow and Cori - how many days at nursery do your DS's do? DS had a taster session last week and another this Friday and then I'm back at work next week so will be leaving him for 3 full days in a row. I'm fretting about it as it seems such a long time to be without him/him without me and I'm starting to have second thoughts...

Myrtle, he'll be there 2 days a week. I am fretting too, because I remember how tired DS1 used to be after 2 days, and he had turned 1 before he went. Are you happy with the nursery. I was a bit reassured this morning, as I know some of the staff from when DS1 was there, and feel comfortable with them, must be a good sign if they're still there 2 years on...?

hi all,
just a quicky...
did anyone see the thread about post and antenatal threads - basically saying that those of us on them went running back to them to slag people off, when we had been shot down on one of the other threads and weren' the people aware that it is apublic forum - same old posters, same old story - change the record!

DS1 seems to have decided to potty train himself - he has stared taking his nappy off and asking to go for a wee, no prompting from me, so not sure whether to just go with it...i was intending to wait til spring.

We are down in london for a couple of days, me DH and DS2 (DS1 is going to say with my mum) am excited about the change of scene, shopping and hopefully meeting up with an old friend.

Cori - totally agree with you about losing decent femail workers. My old company were so awful to me I couldn' face going back, to I resigned and they re-employed the guy they'd sacked before they employed me!!!!

not really a quicky

Oh my goodness, I hate the thought of those horrors reading our thread!
Must be cos of the profile pages, oh lordy! It was probably mine!!

Where is that thread Mabel?
(oh, so sorry I got the name wrong earlier re biting I remembered it was one of the M's! My memory was never good, I swear it is heaps worse now!)

My DH gets quite cross about MN at times because of those people being so controversial to the point of nasty, all in the name of fun (for themselves), he just doesn't feel that that is what the site is intended for. Sometimes tells me to stop bothering with it but then this thread is just a safe haven that I can't. That they have to be that way.

Mabel, I cannot believe what you are saying re work! In all honesty it sounds as though you are better out of that company... but what an apalling example to set. Re the other thread...no, haven't seen it - where is it?!!

So, who will be watching the GF programme on Monday?! The friend who I mentioned before expecting her first assumed I was doing she who musn't really be named, as both the children were in bed by 7!! I said no & she said that her pg & parent friends are split 50 50 with regard to what is mentioned.

Myrtle, DD has been doing 3 full days since she was 5 months. She settled really well & tbh we've never looked back. I for one (gosh, nobody shoot me here either!) think if you are going to get them into nursery etc - whether working or not, then best to let them sample it before the clingy phase sets in which generally is 7 months on. I think infact it's worse for us Mothers than the children!!! DD has cried maybe 3 times in 2 years....DS, so far, loves it He'll be fine I'm sure, the interaction & stimulation is fantastic & as long as you are happy with the nursery then I think you just have to brave those first few days when you go back to work... I know how you feel....I've got it coming 2nd April & wish I could push it further away!

Cori & Claire - thanks for the reassurance I am very happy with the nursery,the people are lovely and my friend's little boy goes there as well (he is 1 week older than DS) so I'm sure my little man will be fine Its just me that might be tearful.

Guess what!? DS SLEPT THROUGH!!!! for the first time ever last night
He fed at 11pm then slept til 6:20. I heard some grumbling at 3:30 and thought he might start crying but he went back to sleep. I really really hope it wasn't a one off. He had formula at 11 which we don't normally do and had a good 5oz so maybe that helped. I wasn't too engorged either this morning so I might start stopping breastfeeding now.