Hi everyone, hi Snowboo! nice to see you again - you're very, very lucky with your LO sleeping so solidly! My dd still wakes properly (crying for bf) once in the night - I do hear her other times wake and self-settle, and she can go to sleep on her own from being put in the cot awake, so at least she isn't fed to sleep.
However, I must say that this extended bf did come in very handy on Thursday. At bedtime, just after her nappy change, dd escaped and started doing her whirlwind impersonation (as usual just before bed). Dh was in her room getting her nightclothes ready, and I heard a sound like someone slamming their hand down hard the wooden chest in her room, and then a scream. Dh ran into the bathroom, white-faced, carrying a screaming dd - she had a bleeding open cut on her cheekbone, 2cm from her eye. What had happened was that dd had suddenly climed on her chair and launched herself off it, hitting her face on the wooden chest. I was absolutely shaking as I put on cold water compresses, dd screaming and pleading for 'aba' (her word for bf). Fortunately, the bleeding stopped in minutes, when I could then bf - worked like magic - dd even fell asleep. We saw that the cut was quite open and had to be seen to, even though it was only about 1cm long. We called the emergency GP, who said he couldn't come out as dd had to be assessed in hosp. just in case. DD had been asleep for 10mins, still latched on, so we somehow managed to work around her to put on her pyjamas (poppers down the back), and I carried her out to the car, still asleep and latched on.
However, she noticed, woke up and was her usual self! (she likes car rides). We had to take ds with us as we don't have anyone to look after him at the drop of a hat.
To cut a long story short, after lots of waiting around, a nurse came along with a teddy in pink pyjamas holding a helium ballon to distract dd whilst they did her treatment. She cried and struggled lots when they cleaned her up and closed up her wound with a couple of streri-strips, but was soothed instantly with a quick bf afterwards. She got to keep the teddy (the ballon had "I've been brave today" on it). Poor ds was so tired with all the waiting around he slept in the treatment room. We didn't get back home 'til 12:45.
dd is fine now. Apart from her cut, she's got a big graze going towards her nose, bruising and a bit of a black eye. I'm hoping it won't scar too badly. She's a nightmare for climbing stuff - she's started to climb into her cot now. I think it's time we got her a toddler bed, I'm scared she'll try to climb out of her cot and fall. DS was never like this! Also, dh said he'd been wondering if she'd wean soon, but after the other night, he said it's great that I was able to comfort her so instantly, and thinks it's a really good thing I'm carrying on till age 2 (or longer).
How exciting that you're thinking about another LO, BHM! I don't know any little babies - would love to smell that newborn baby-head smell again!
Snow - we had the MMR for both our children - ds had his very late, at 4 years old, before he went to school. I had to have MMR at the same time because I wasn't immune to rubella and I was planning getting pg at the time. ds had no side effects, I had several (swollen joints, rash on face and chest, swollen glands on the back of my neck)! Apprently, it affects adults far more than children. We
waited because we were worried about the risk of autism, but at the time he had it, loads of reports had come out saying it was unfounded, and we considered the risk of him catching the diseases far greater, particularly in a school setting.
We had dd's MMR done on time.
Phew, that was an essay and a half!