December 06 - Light at the end of the tunnel

[weirdbird]

A new thread for us all

All I'd read Indith, from a no of sources, was iron starts running out at 6 mos. And yeah, we should all do what we think is right anyway. My first boy turned out alright, you know, he talks, sleeps and eats stuff with cutlery as well as his hands so I figure I can't go that wrong!
DS2 having nap!!! Why am I on here instead of doing dishes????

Because mn is more fun than dishes.

And yes theya ll turn out fine! Dp disn't talk or walk til 2 yrs old and he is perfectly normal (well, I say that.....)

Lol Eli

punctuation all fixed now!

Just remember Eli that little people are self regulating so if she wants something she will eat it.

I have no choice but to be chilled (in a lost, bad tempered, desperate for the phone to ring, hiding from RL on the internet kind of way). Nothing we can do! Can't pack, we need stuff/no space for the boxes, can't do anything! Should know by the end of the afternoon!

Ds been in a foul mood today, not sure why but after fussing all morning, sleeping for about 3 hours with the odd wake and scream before falling abck to sleep he woke up for more screaming so I shoved calpol down him and he is now merrily squirming and playing with my foot

Hi Indith, I had a look at the article on-line here but I guess it is truncated. Some wierd recommendations at the end, but they appear to be the authors. Theory with blw is they won't be able to pick food up and eat it until they are ready so theoretically you could start blw at 1 month old as they won't be able to do it!
I'm secretly a fly lady if I remember! But I don't go on the website, I write the 'missions' onto index cards and can choose a card when I have time. Has made me much more relaxed about cleaning, focusing on 1 room a week rather than trying to do it all every week!
Oh Indith, how your life can change in a week or two, who knows where your life will lead you next!!!! (hopefully you will by this evening

you are chilled, indith!

hugs,glassy.

awbs, the boys sharing is a bit mixed in its' success. i really want them to share in about a years time,but think as soon as house is finished I'll be seperating them again. we've got a lot of teething and first illnesses from ds2 to get through and a lot of wet beds in middle of night from ds1(unless a miracle occurs and he suddenly becomes dry the night we go nappy free)one ill/soggy/grumpy child is all i can manage at 3am it has been cute at times. ds1 woke spinababy up the other evening when going to bed himself and he sang his little brother back to sleep.
who knows maybe we'll keep them together.my main concern is ds1 not being able to play with his toys while ds2 has a nap as the plan is for him to have his main play area in his bedroom. s'pose i could bake/paint etc with him, but then when would i eat my cake and drink my coffee?

i need to look into blw. weaning time has suddenly arrived and i'm clueless to current stuff. (no telly either so im missing out on bbc breakfast.)

will prob go for mixed puree(it worked for ds1) and finger chips scenario.

I am just getting weirded out by all this stuff about blw v purees etc etc. I just want to stick my head in the sand!! What's a clinical psychologist got to say about weaning anyway? Not exactly the right field for it, is it?

Spina, thanks for that, really interesting to see what the pitfalls are. Luckily, we don't have any illnesses or wet beds (just poo pants all day long!) and i was going to make ds2's room a playroom in the daytime spare room at night so that solve the nap issue. Hmmmm. And did you mean you have no tv AT ALL? OMG!!!

ds gave me a fab birthday present at 6.45am - he'd slept through from 8pm until then! fingers crossed for a repeat - x
some would say it's cos he's on solids, i'd say it's just an age thang.
However he is now having elevensies early, hopefully he'll pop an extra feed in today and tonight will be a repeat?
Weaning, if it worked for you and baby1 then won't you just do the same with baby 2+, whatever the guidelines?

Awww happy birthday sacha xxx

We are not really getting anywhere with blw, ds1 gets so frustrated with the food coz he holds whatever it is so tight it either breaks up or flies out of his hand so I end up feeding it to him anyway

He has the gp's today coz he has not slept more than 2 hours at any one time and I just want to check him out before gong down the tough love route Not sure what to do as he is nearly 7 months and I have not had any sleep since I was pregnant. Well decent sleep anyway.

I don't know, I go away on holiday and you all move to a new thread! - is there something I should know?

Happy Birthday Sacha!

Well Margo, we didn't want to tell you this but you smell welcome back, hope you have had a good, relaxing holiday

Magnolia, really hope the visit to the GP goes well and that you manage to get some sleep soon. I am in awe that you are still functioning with the sleep you get combined with the number of children.

Well we still don't know where we are going to be. Early next week is now our projected time for an answer! So we have a van booked to move all our stuff down to Leeds on Saturday and we shall base ourselves in Dp's old family home (currently occupied by his brother, his mum having moved in with her Dp) and house hunt from there. Thankfully the brother is moving out soon so we are getting our phone and internet transferred to there so I shouldn't go awol for too long

feel I should mention ds in this post somewhere. Ds is fab!

Oh and I really want to get a high chair as he is seriously trying to steal our food so I want him at the table with us but not on my lap as that becomes a battle. But not much point this week as we already have far too much junk to fit in the van.

Happy Birthday Sacha!

Well Margo, we didn't want to tell you this but you smell welcome back, hope you have had a good, relaxing holiday

Magnolia, really hope the visit to the GP goes well and that you manage to get some sleep soon. I am in awe that you are still functioning with the sleep you get combined with the number of children.

Well we still don't know where we are going to be. Early next week is now our projected time for an answer! So we have a van booked to move all our stuff down to Leeds on Saturday and we shall base ourselves in Dp's old family home (currently occupied by his brother, his mum having moved in with her Dp) and house hunt from there. Thankfully the brother is moving out soon so we are getting our phone and internet transferred to there so I shouldn't go awol for too long

feel I should mention ds in this post somewhere. Ds is fab!

Oh and I really want to get a high chair as he is seriously trying to steal our food so I want him at the table with us but not on my lap as that becomes a battle. But not much point this week as we already have far too much junk to fit in the van.

Oooops

Happy birthday sacha.

Mangnolia - you must be at your wits end

I'm now going to rant. We are going away this weekend - off to a festival in the rain. I spent today buying new wet weather gear for everyone (don't ask!) DH is sitting downstairs with a glass of wine.

WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AM I PACKING FOR EVERYONE?

Is it not enough that I make the tea, do the washing up, sort out the tumble dryer .....

Rant over

Happy birthday sacha, hope he does the same thing for you tonight!

Magnolia, am too in awe, but you prob. don't care about awe, just want sleep!!! Have you considered cranial osteopathy as a possibility? If he came out cramped etc etc? Only cos so many people have raved about it.

Indith, sounds like a sort of plan, chilled lady...You could maybe have something like this instead of a proper highchair, cheap and fabbo, take anywhere! I think I do have ds1's old highchair actually, if you're in need. It's a wooden folding thing (tho god knows what state it's in

I took him to an osteopath but it didn't really help. The gp has prescribed phenergan Ok its only a mild sedative but it's still a sedative. The gp's perspective is that even if we give it to ds1 just once every so often, if it works it will give me at least enough sleep to function for a bit longer
I am sceptical and dh thinks it will be a god send if it works. Think he wants his wife back to human instead of a zombie

Welcome back Margo, hope you had a great holiday xxxx

Whatever gets you through magnolia, you don't have to use it everyday. You said you were feeling like taking the ad's you were prescribed, maybe this will avoid that?

To be honest I think it is either drugging him or me, awful way to put it But yes if helping him sleep helps me sleep and funtion then I will give it a go. I gave him just half the dose they said and will see if it helps at all.
Its horrible coz I have had 4 children and never had so little sleep before. They all had their moments etc.... But this is nearly 7 months with 2-3 hrs being the longest stretch.

It is a helluva long time to go with so little sleep, torture really. You need sleep in order to keep everyone else going, I guess. Hope the half a dose is enough to give you some kip tonight! Does dh sometimes take over in the night with a bottle?

No, although he would, BUT HE STARTS WORK AT 6AM AND HAS TO DRIVE HEAVY MACHINERY oops sorry shouting. And I wake no matter what so would just lay there awake while he sorted ds.

You must be the Bionic Woman, Magnolia. I don't know how you function. Hope the half-dose works.

NOW LOG OFF AND GO TO BED

aq - i have that booster seat. it lasted me all the way through dd1 and now dd2 has it. all the bits go in the dishwasher or washing machine so its easy to clean too

Yes, it's brilliant, isn't it! DS1's using it now cos it reclines a bit and ds2 has another folding booster seat that we can take on hols.

Happy belated birthday, Sacha

Magnolia, I hope you got some sleep - thats a horrible amount you've been getting, even dd2 sleeps longer than 3 hours (admittedly only during the first part of the night when I'm still awake, the minx) and I wouldn't be surviving, even blearily, if dh didnt' do most of the 6am shifts. Hopefully the phenergan will break the cycle, and ds will start to benefit from longer stretches too?

Bit awol again, due to dd2 having huge headcold. Beginning to give up on them having chicken pox (half glad, half frustrated - dd1 seems to be immune ) but urgh, the snot

Oh, and last week's low for me seems to have been pms

I'd half thought I'd never have a period again, given my age and messed up hormones, but this is the second attempt (very light) my body has made and I'm still feeding twice a day

I think that is the sort of thing my mum is getting for their house AQ. Thinking of putting in an order for a high chair so it arrives in Leeds about when we get there.

Magnolia I really hope you managed more sleep last night. I know it seems horrible to drug him but if it gets him in the habit of going longer stretches it must be worth it.

Poor Ds had a clingy moment last night. Woke up at 10.30, moaning and desperate to go back to sleep but couldn't. He fed, vomited, had a gro bag and a nappy change, was carried around in the sling....Finally got him to sleep in the sling and put him down but he woke 5 mins later. Ended up falling asleep on me and slept til 4.30 between dp and I. Not that I can complain as after that he fed and went back to his cot where he stayed til about 8.30

Right, wake up Indith, packing starts today and I have piles of papers to file!