Dec 06 - a new one for Indith and her rubbish dial up!

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New thread for our incessant chatter!

Jabber - I can't believe that they made your son sit in soiled pants either Poor little thing

BP - It appears that I also have a slothful baby - no teeth or crawling either.

Thanks everyone, that's what I love about this group - I get to vent and have someone take my side and you wouldn't believe what we are paying said preschool for the privilege of having ds1 sit in said pants

Also a bit - noticed I did my own prt peeve of "you're" vs. "your"

arghhh "pet" peeve

I've got a couple of questions if anyone cares to impart their knowledge ... is it 'normal' for a teething baby to wake up every hour during the night? (I never had teething ishoos with my other 2) ... and re. stairgates, is it best to have one at top and bottom of stairs or just top? (we lived in a flat before). Thanks.

Sorry to hear about poor DS1 Jabber. My friend's DS regularly comes home from school in soiled clothes so I know how upsetting it is.

Hope sinusitis better BP. I had it during last 2 pgs so know how awful it is. Though I'm not sure if the pain was worse than the ear infections I keep getting since DD2, my hazy brain can't remember

Hope you got some lovely specs for your DD FGS. I'm sure she will look really cute

With you on the uber press-ups Indith . DD2 does those. It's her way of going from sitting to standing.

Oh god yes castles!!!! Ds1 is waking every hour when a new tooth appears

We have a stairgate at the top but thats so dd4 doesn't fall down in the night when going to the toilet and to stop the dogs from going upstairs (its harder for them to jump while on stairs)

We will get one for the bottom when ds1 starts moving.

I've never used stairgates , so can't advise. I did, for a time, have a stairgate on DD1s bedroom door, but that was more about sleepwalking than stair safety.

Jabber, I have demonstrated nearly all of my grammatical pet peeves on here. Thank heavens we are a forgiving bunch. Although I have not yet confused 'less' with 'fewer', my ultimate, stand-up-and-scream pet peeve. My poor DH lives with a pedant.

lol at pedant bp

We always just had a gate at the top of the stairs for ds1 as we could close the doors to the hall. However, now ds1 has a tendency to leave the door(s) open and give ds2 a chance to go up. So, it looks like we might be installing a gate at the bottom as well.

We're doing an all-family drop off with ds1 today and dh is going to mention to his teacher that it would be advisable to take ds1 to the bathroom more frequently in light of his colon problems. grrrrrr at her. Dh told me last night that she said to him "I guess I should have reminded him to go to the bathroom before nap". I try to remind myself that she has other kids to look after but we did go over this with her in detail at the beginning of school two weeks ago.

BP, I could give you a long list of my pedant-ishness but don't want to get myself started

Thanks for advice. Might just put stairgate at top and see how we get on. Given that DD2 has been crawling for 3 months now I was kind of wondering if we might get away with it

Another question (sorry): does anyone use an Ergo Baby Carrier? Is it obvious how to use? (SIL is mailing me one to use in Scotland & she doesn't have instructions). Thanks.

Is anyone else constantly checking in here to see if there's any news re Peter/Misdee?

Jabber, If it's been discussed before he started then it seems very unfair if he was left like that

Castles, I have a wilkinet but found instructions on internet. Have you looked on the website?

I keep checking the misdee/peter thread too

we have 2 stair gates. Top and bottom. With DD1 we needed them both as she got everywhere. I agree you should teach them to go up so they get practice but when you arent watching have the gates up (dependent on adventurousness of child)

Jabbe - hope drop off goes well. Sounds like DH is doing the right thing. Can you have an agreed plan for how the teachers deal with his toiletting? Eg, ask every hour on the hour, and before naps, or something. Then the teachers wont be able to make excuses.

Funny, I was just looking at misdee/peter thread yesterday.

Is there anymore news on Peter yet?

Oops - just checked. He's out of theatre! YIPPEE! I wonder who's happier today - the lady who won the £34m or Misdee?!

bp - you've just put it in perspective for me. I definitely think misdee is the most grateful person today. the gift of life is worth much more than a lottery win.

I took DD2 to be weighed yesterday. She will be 8 months next week, and weighed in at 21lb 4oz. Her sister weighed 20lb at 12 months. Hopefully when DD2 gets her act together and starts moving around her weight gain will plateau.

She's such a glutton, though. Yesterday, she had:

Breakfast: Toast with butter (most of it went down)
Snack: Banana. A whole banana. Scoffed.
Lunch: A plate of macaroni cheese as big as her sister's. All gone.
Snack: pear and a babybel that she nicked out of my hand.
Tea: Poached chicken with baba ganoush and brocolli. And some homemade potato wedges. And more brocolli from my plate.

I swear she eats more than me. Do you think babies of this age can overeat?

Lol BP.

I just weighed DD. She is 15lb 8oz. at 8 1/2 months.

Today she has eaten:

On waking : Breastfeed
Breakfast : 1 Banana, 1/2 piece of toast.
Snack - 2 x rice ckaes & water.
Lunch - 1/2 piece bread & butter, 4 strips cucumber, 2 slices wafer thin ham, 1 small pot carrot & broccoli puree

She will have breast milk this afternoon, a substantial tea and then breast milk at bedtime. Unfortunately she is waking up at 3 am for milk too

FGS, DD2 is breastfeeding constantly on top of the food. She has a long feed at 7ish, then another at 9:30, 1, 4, 7, 9, then nothing until 3am.

Maybe she'll just be tall

I had got DD down to 3 feeds but since she was sick last week she wants lots more, and in the night too. I'm hoping she is just catching up and it will stop soon.

I just checked our red book and she is exactly the same weght as DD1 at this age. (DD1 was 1lb lighter at birth) and she is on the 2nd centile.

Ds1 was weighed 2 weeks ago (he was 7.5 months then) and was 19lb 7oz.
He has b/f every 2-3 hrs day and night still (the 3 nights of sleep were to lure me into a false sense of security!!)

He has breakfast: weetabix and banana
Lunch: An Avacado or a sandwhich etc...
Dinner: whatever we have or if he can't then sweet potato mash with veg or something similar.

He has rusks, baby biscuits, fruit, breadsticks for snacks inbetween.

The boy can eat!

How much BP

I doubt very much she is eating too much, babies aren't daft

Ds still eats very little really, he certainly wants his solids and will complain if he doesn't get 3 meals plus 2 snacks but he doesn't eat much each time. Then there are the pretty frequent 'off solids' days where he screams. Mostly tooth related I think as he tries to eat but screams when he puts it in his mouth.

Typically he has

breakfast: Fruit and either half a yoghurt or quarter of a slice of toast.
snack: a dried apricot or small amount of fresh fruit.
lunch: quarter of a slice of cheese on toast or eggy bread and some celery or pepper to chew on. Fruit for pudding. Although today a pitta filled with cream cheese and spring onion then toasted went down very well. (been reading the blog for inspiration)
snack: fruit and half a rusk
dinner: Varies

Still bf first thing, before or after his snack, a couple of times in the afternoon, about half an hour before dinner and last thing before bed. Also lately 2 or 3 times a night . Lunch varies but sometimes he doesn't demand milk at it and is happy with food and water which is a pretty good sign I think.

We have been having a serious lack of poo until today. Not sure what is going on really, he eats loads of fruit and veg but we've suddenly gone from nice thick goo with plenty of evidence of what has gone in to the occasional little nugget and the past few days really tiny nuggets and skid marks. Today he has been a total grump though, punctuated with lots of grunting and a lump of poo so hopefully it is clearing out. In the meantime I continue to shove dried apricots down his throat

Ds has also managed to add to his bruises today by failing in an attempt to go onto his front from sitting and bashing himself on the nice sharp edge of a triangular building block. Got himself right on the edge of his eye socket too the poor boy. I feel like such a bad mother sometimes the amount of head bashing he does but I don't know what else to do. he is always so deperate to move. i don't leave him sitting as he is really not reliable and if he is toppling then I catch him but if he is actively trying to move then I try to leave him to it. Ah well.

Reverse gear has been found (sort of). The uber press ups are being used to shuffle backwards. He managed the whole length of the rug today. Shame he was trying really hard to move closer to the rattle in front of him

Awww bless him, it's horribly funny when they can't reach what they want

Had to call an ambulance for dd4 today. She fell off my mums sofa and banged her head and back, collapsed, stopped breathing for what felt like a life time but was only a short time, Her eys rolled back and then she went rigid. She finally started breathing properly, went pink again, and screamed
I shit myself, my sister called and ambulance who took 10 minutes to come What if she had stopped brathing completely?? I know 10 minutes isn't that long but it felt like forever.
Anyway they checked her over and came to the conclusion that she hadn't hit her head hard (no bump, not sore or anything) and it was the shock of the fall that made her have a funny turn. So she was allowed to stay at home.

Sorry long post but needed to get it out
She is fine now and sleeping peacefully

She kept saying earlier 'Mummy did I scare you?' Mummy did my heart stop?' 'Mummy was I dead?'

Bloody hell, Magnolia, that must have been terrifying. You poor thing, no wonder you want to get it off your chest. Thank goodness she is okay. How are you now? at her questions afterwards, bless!

Ds1 and dd came back from my mum's today. Hooray! It was lovely in a way to be without them - we had friends over, went shopping, went for lunch and just chilled out but it was also too quiet and I really missed them. Ds2 did too, he was much more demanding of my attention without them around. They had a great time though and my mum has finished potty training dd so poos are now on the toilet not in her knickers [bleurgh] and she's had 3 completely dry days. AND dd has given up her dummies. Mum ALLEGEDLY 'forgot' to give them to her on the first day and just distracted her if she asked for them after that and she hasn't wanted them day or night. I was a bit pissed off when she first told me because I know she did it on purpose, mainly because she's done nothing but go on about how dd is too old for dummies for the last year (she's not even 2 yet!) but I guess she's done us a favour as dd hasn't asked for them since she came home and she's gone to bed without one.

LOL at Indith's uber press ups, ds2 does them too. Makes me laugh, the other 2 didn't do them.

He's also dicovered he can get to other rooms in the house now. Until recently he was content just to crawl round the playroom, now he follows me around and goes for little explorations. This morning I was catching up on Peter/Misdee and realised he'd gone quiet. I found him in the hall eating the soil out of the plant pot .

Foodwise, he has:

Wake up: bf
Breakfast: shreddies soaked in milk then put on his high chair tray
Snack: bf and rice cake or bisciut or banana, etc
Lunch: toast and butter, fruit, yogurt
Snack: same as morning
Tea: usually a jar but trying bits and pieces, depends how tired he is as he won't eat solids when he's too tired.
Bedtime: bf
then bf every 3 - 3.5 hours though the night.

Indith, ds2 has a similar bowel routine to yours. It's a pain as he has a really grumpy few hours before a huge poo (or 3) makes its appearance. It doesn't seem to be constipation as the poos are still soft and wet (TMI? ) so I'm putting it down to his bowels getting used to new foods.

I have absolutley no idea what ds2 weighs and I missed the clinic today but I do want to know now. He's still in 3-6 mo clothes with growing room at 7.5 mo so he ain't huge .

Jabber, sorry to hear ds1's school are being so useless with is toiletting - be firm with them, it's not acceptable to let him soil because they're too busy to take him then not change him. I'd be fuming!

Has anyone else been in tears with the whole Peter/Misdee saga? I missed the initial is it going ahead/ isn't it this time but spent all of Weds checking for news. Everytime there's another positive step I well up. Seems odd to be so emotional about someone you've never met in RL but I was as anxious for news of him as I would be about a RL friend. Odd old thing, this cyber world, eh?

Poor you Magnolia & DD4. I hope you have recovered. No doubt it has been worse for you!

LOL at DS2 following you about the house Oli, and eating the plant pot soil - DD2 does that. I have decided it's good for her immune system
Similarly finding the whole Misdee/Peter sitch extremely exciting and emotional. Funny how close we feel to our cyber pals. Maybe 'cos we say things we wouldn't say in RL?

I've also got no idea either what DD2 weighs but she's pretty big and will happily chomp away on anything. What is 'the blog' Indith? Is it something I should be referring to?

Castles, it's Aitch's BLW blog, here. There's lots of good ideas on there, although I always get distracted by the commenty bits!