May 2007 Postnatal, sleep and smiles only please babies!!!

[Mrsjaffabiffa]

Thought it was time for a new thread.

Hey well done Ella on a good night's sleep.
Lupin well done you for holding it together in front of dd. I bet she'll have a lovely time.
R had her last of jabs yesterday, 3 lots! She was fine after the others but she really was upset last night. I don't know whether it's anything to do with the jabs but she was crying like I've never heard her cry before and just could not settle. I gave her some Calpol and fed her to sleep in the end. She slept fine and seems fine this morning.

Morning all

Oh Lups bet little Willow looked so cute. Well done for not bawling in front of her, although mine have said to me "you didnt cry when i started school mom, dontcha mind then?" So much for keeping it in >

B went to bed at 7 and slept till 8

Lwatkins re the jabs, it sounds like C only got her 1st lot plus the new meningitis jab. They dont give that till baby is 3 months, all the jabs are drawn up and ready to go now, if C had had 3 lots at once they would have stabbed her with 7 lots of needles. Check it out.

How is the car AM? The link before was to twisted tee, will try and post another link for you.

Have to wait in for a courirer today to pick up the mutsy, i want a mountain buggy double now. Need some money though

I do think that she only slept through because of the baby rice! She also seems much more contented.

The car is lovely thanks, really nice to drive etc etc

Lups, you will have to post a picture of little W for us all to see

Whens this South meet up then?

AM I was just windering about the meet up too?

Alana slept right through from 8pm until 9.45am and still woke up smiling and giggling like usual.

Just joined facebook, already found a few old friends/boyfriends etc. Boy have some of them changed Look forward to catching up with them. Strange how we all seem to live in the same areas we grew up in yet never bump into each other

Well done Alana & Beau on the sleeping!!

Ella has just sampled apple for the first time. Slurped it all down and screamed - with tears - that it had all gone!! Me thinks she wont stay tiny for long

Well done on the sleepers

Cam - did you get my email?

AM - Arlen is such a happy little bundle since weaning, todays menu was butternut squash with carrot and baby rice, followed by apple and pear and baby rice - yummy

Mum2G - any good childminder would want your child to have a settling in period, just for a hour or so initially and then for half a day at a time. The settling in is for the childminder's benefit as much as the child's.

I asked all sorts of questions about routines, what other children would be around when my DS was, where the child would sleep, whether the CM provided food etc. What really decided it for me was meeting the CM's own 3 kids who are the nicest teenagers you could hope to meet - they babysit for us now.

Thanks BB for the advice, i know it might seem obvious but my mind was a blank when i was trying to write some questions down - how long can i use the 'mummy brain' exscuse for!

Re meet up i can do any day except for thursdays

Pebble, does your middle name begin with a J? Think I've found you on facebook but don't want to ask a random to befriend me!

Ignoring all the tales of sleeping babies. M was awake at 12.30, 1.30, 2.30, 3.30, 4.30, 5.30 and then up at 6.30 last night. I despair, I really do.

Anyway, just here to ask if anybody wants a brand new copy of that Bear Hunt book? We have a duplicate gift and I'm happy to pass it on to any interested party.

Ok now I'm really worried and confused. The HV yesterday who gave C her injections said that because she was late in having them that she could have all 3 done at once. She said the first one was for 5? different things, then gave her another 2 and said she wont need anymore for quite a while. The first 2 were in her left leg and the third was in her right. I was under the impression this was all of the shots she would need for a while. She was supposed to have a 1 shot, but at 3 seperate times,but was late in having them so got stuck 3 times yeasterday. Is this not common practice?

LW, firstly don't worry, see this site here, as LG&T says it sounds like the HV gave C the DTP and pneumonococcal normally due at 2 months PLUS the Men C normally due at 3 months. She will need a booster a month apart for the DTP to make it fully effective (boosters are needed to help build up the necessary protection in an immature immune system) but you will get a reminder in the post for that. If you want to check what she had, look in your red book and see what they wrote down.

SOH for your lack of sleep, have you tried any foods yet? Matilda's future Mr Tank has started waking up more frequently too..I was hoping to hold off the food thing for a while, but we shall see what the HV says tomorrow when we go for massive baby weigh in.

Lups I didn't get an email, sorry, maybe I wrote my address down wrong, stephensonkuk at yahoo dot co dot uk. As for Skype we use it a lot especially when dh is away on one of his missions. When you are in the middle of a call and it is the window with the person you are calling up, click on the small button that says menu and scroll down till you see something like see image or video or something like that, press it and then choose if you want small/big/full screen video, hopefully you should see each other.

Mathilda let your mummy get some sleep!!

I didnt speak to the hv before starting the weaning thing, as i was expecting them to tell me that i should wait til 26wks and especially as she was early blah blah blah I figured that she must be hungry if she was waking so much in the night. Day 4 and i have a much happier baby

I'm with you April, I'm going to start giving Boy a small bit of food this week because I think he is ready for it. I know the HV will try to tell me not to (or perhaps I'm being unfair? )

April, I was in Africa with the other 2 and no HV to talk to and weaned at 4 months, because they were waking up at night, the result was happier babies all round, I don't know why I want to wait this time and ironically I think my HV is going to say DO wean J I think I am a bit lazy....

MrsJB oh potty training guru, good to hear Maddie is doing well, now what advice do you have for me to get ds1 (3.5) out of nappies at night?

Hello all

LW - you do really need to ask again re jabs as everyone else says. C had 2 (1 in each leg) at 8 weeks, 2 (1 in each leg) at 12 weeks and 3 (2 in right leg and 1 in left leg) at 16 weeks.

Re weaning, we have a visit from a nice community nursery nurse on Monday who didn't really have much to tell me that I didn't know and DD2 was showing off so much I could hardly concentrate. As C is sleeping through and seems content we will be holding off a while although he does like tastes of ice cream and milky bar! .

DD1 just been up crying about starting big school tomorrow - "the work will be too hard and its going to be so different to primary" - no kidding!!! We were very symphatetic of course but she probably won't get to sleep very well tonight.

Mum2G - i am currently paying a cm £15 a week to keep a place for C in January. She is going to have him for shorter periods in December then two whole days a week from 24 January. I had a whole list of ?s to ask her - things like will she take G to baby groups etc, do you have to provide buggy/car seat for transport, does she provide food or do you need to take it. Most of the things I had to ask she told me before I got to ask them anyway. Just go with the flow and see how she feels and interacts with G aswell.

Well I completely forgot to take M for her jabs today.Stoopid Mummy..will get told off tomorrow when I call the Dr to rearrange..

I looked a regular disco dolly April I must say..inappropriately short skirt with absurdly high heels..but I say if you are going to go for it you might as well go the whole hog..

South meet up?!Will it be London or further afield?

I dare not go on face book..my DH is on it and there is too much chance of a few of my shady secrets comng out of the woodwork in slightly too public a fashion ..though I think DH may have set me up on it anyway as I get the odd email saying someone has requested me as a friend?(ive no idea how it works?)

L has been very good today..shocking!As its just me and my little ladies in the house I have been having a nice tea courtesy of M and S and have watched one or two OC's...lovely..

Im sure they wouldnt have given anything that would harm L LWandL..But call them to make sure eh?You will never rest easy till you do..
Love 'The way we were' BTW..I cry my eyes out every time..ditto Love Story..

Actually think I must be having a hormonce crash or somesuch as I had to actually pull over the car today becuase I was listening to the widow of the snooker player Paul Hunter give an interview and I couldnt stop sobbing...Kids thought I had gone mad!I was never like that before I had nippers..

SOH its not me ive put my maiden name down as my middle name so old friends can find me

Some arse has just let off a bunch of fireworks mainly bangers right outside my house I had just got Alana to sleep (she had her jabs today and wouldnt settle)and they went and woke her. Ds2 heard them too and came rushing in to see what was going on. A couple of minutes after the last one went off I heard a car roar away so think it was a bunch of teenagers being stupid.

Alana has gone back off now but is very fidgety so have a feeling she may have a restless night, poor thing. She had been so happy this morning, giggling away at the dr's when all the receptionists were fighting over her and then the nasty nurse jabbed her, twice, and she broke her little heart. I dont think it helped that she's teething so shes been a bit off colour anyway.

Must point out that said 'shady secrets' are by no means current..I am a very respectable married Mum of two nowadays..realised that may have given the impression of some questionable activities NOW...None of that...I wouldnt have the energy, even if I had the motivation...

Scoot welcome to my world, i sob at the slightest thing lately. I was reading a story in a mag earlier and had to wipe the tears away before ds1 and his friend saw I think im worse now than when i was pregnant lol

Bloody fireworks should be made illegal..I suppose we are just now coming into the season for it..horrible kids chucking bangers and things..how I hate it!

Poor little A..Teeth and jabs..enough to make anyone feel a bit fed up..

I dont mind fireworks as long as its on firework night, they just annoy me when idiots let them off for the sole purpose of being a nuisance. They ruin it for others.

Wish I had 'shady secrets' that may come out into the open lol, my life has been pretty boring so no chance of it happening to me. Had my fair share of disasters in my love life which most people know about but thats about it (ooh and a small incident with the police when i was 14, not my fault though so it doesnt count)

I've just joined facebook and LG&T, AM and SOH I have asked you to be my friends and have also asked to join the mumsnet group. Is that all I need to do? Haven't got a clue how everything else works or what the point of it is really, just didn't want to miss out

Will have to think harder about who the rest of you are!

SOH you found me, just re checked facebook and you are now one of my friends, oooh ive got 3 now lol