April 2004 Babies part 6 (we can count correctly!)

[Yorkiegirl]

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As a matter of interest, has anyone started using the word "no!" with their babies? We had to start doing this early with ds1, as he crawled at 6 months, but we're just starting to introduce the 'no' concept to ds2, as he seems to have rubber arms that can extend out and grab just about anything!

It really worked with ds1 and even as an 8 month old would stop if we said no - but I don't know if he was just an abnormally responsive well behaved baby..!

Ditto dot Rubber arms!! Dd seems to be able to grab anything from anywhere. I have her changing station loaded with stuff. Suddenly she wants to reach out and pull everything off as I change her nappy. I put them back, she pulls them off, I put them back and she pulls them off again.. and so it continues

Have tried 'no' yet but might have to soon as ds refuses to lie still to change his nappy - keeps rolling over, drives me nuts but he thinks it's hilarious! No crawling here but he has just started sitting up on his own and is very impressed with himself
Anonmum - we live in Kent, ds is an April Fool baby! and he is our first

that should read haven't tried no yet!

Have been trying to avoid 'no' so that it means a lot later when we are sure to need it. Have used it once or twice with a harsh tone and she cried. We try to use very short sentences like when she has an iron grip on my hair 'let go please'.
She also has rubber arms and as she is also standing and cruising is just into everything.
Offered banana today for lunch as finger food as she won't take spooned food and no avail and she doesn't seem at all worried either.
dd occasionally buries her head in my shoulder but it hard to say whether she just wants a hug or is feeling shy.
No advise on the medised MrsD as dd hardly takes any of it. She seems quite keen on the stuff the dr has prescribed, it is probably full of sugar. I have been making sure her teeth are well brushed just in case.

I have been using 'no' for a while as ds loves pulling all the dvds off the shelf and eating the earth out of the pot plants. But he just turns and looks at me and giggles and goes back to what he was doing. Its all very cute - but I hope I don't lose the impact of 'no' for when I really mean it.
ds a bit snotty and had projectile vomit all over my bed this morning - but i'm hoping it was because he was swallowing a lot of snot with his milk and not a bug. he's been fine since and woofed his lunch.

Mrs D - ds also doesn't like Medised. He definitely prefers Calpol. We give them to him in a syringe, so he doesn't get much choice..! He grumbles and chokes a bit, but most of it gets swallowed - do you use a syringe?

Dot - Now there's an idea!! No I had never thought of a syringe. Dd has always taken the Calpol off a spoon. I think she knew it was giving relief from her teething pain because she would just roll back to sleep after I gave it to her. The medised is a different matter altogether - she just looked at me in disgust and then let it dribble back out.
I really don't want to force medicines on her though

Mrs D

If you do use a syringe, just aim it into the cheek (not back of throat) and give it at 0.5mls at a time (then wait few secs for it to be swallowed before next 0.5mls).

Thanks HMC, I can imagine her face already.

What a sort of stunned and appalled "Why is my mummy doing this to me???"

HMC - I tend to just plunge most of it in (I'm SUCH a mean Mummy...!)

Mrs D - you can get syringes from chemists - just say they're for medicine for your baby - I think they charge about £1.00/£2.00.

They're also very useful for self-insemination, by the way!!!

Exactly HMC

Dot,

I tried that but crafty ds manages to spit it out when its given in one go, but he 'submits' when I trickle it in slowly

I thought you'd use a 50ml bladder syringe dot?
I am not being rude, honest

50 ml???!!!!! Don't suppose you've ever needed to measure it out, but you don't usually get that much - trust me!!!!

Possibly heading towards too much information here?!

I guess
Anyway, I have a couple fo 5ml syringes.

I have to say though, the very first time we had a go, our donor looked very embarrassed and apologised for the lack of volume - but it turns out it just doesn't look much in a yoghurt pot!!

Right - will stop now...!!

Aplogoies in advance everyone... Dot I can't resist it

My favourite is dh's expression on a 'good day' so to speak. "Theres's enough for an African village here!"

Okay am definately stopping now

fab!! Yes, I don't suppose we really know how much our donor would produce in 'ordinary' circumstances!!!!!

(can you imagine how hysterical the whole process was for us - honestly, we never stopped laughing...!)

i suppose you don't need much it's the quality that counts.

dd3 is told "no" a lot by her sisters, as in "oi, baby, NOOO! whenever she steps out of line. not sure if she knows what it means though.

dd2 has been vomiting mildly and dd3 a bit snuffly - enough to disrupt our nights but nothing serious. am tired though. people at work irritating me by asking if I've seen the latest foreign films at arty cinema - as if I could stay awake after about 9pm!

Oh poor things to everyone who's got a poorly baby...

We've started using a sharp 'no' but ds either ignores us or just doesn't understand.

We had a traumatic incident in our household today, ds was sitting up (he can finally do it on his own :c) and he fell forwards onto a pile of magazines and bills. Normally not such a trauma, he was upset so I gave him a huge cuddle but he couldn't stop shrieking - and I noticed he had blood everywhere on his shirt. When he fell he'd cut his ear lobe (I have no idea what on, a serious paper cut? I still haven't a clue) and had sliced it open fully through almost entirely across his ear lobe. I nearly fainted :/ So we had an emergency family trip to minor injuries today to have his ear glued together - and a sharp lesson for me not to leave him alone for a second.

He forgot it all with a new toys and a ton of cuddles from everyone he's seen though

Eek! These things do happen though, don't they. Glad your ds has forgotten already .
HMC, my ds 'commando' crawled - he never did crawl on his hands and knees.
Yorkiegirl and HMC (as you started work again around the same time as me) - how are you finding it? For me, work itself is ok. I don't like rushing around in the morning though. DD is adapting to not breastfeeding between about 7.30 and 2.30/3.30 (she still won't drink much from a bottle).

dd is still asleep bless, down at 7pm, dream feed at 10.30 and still sleeping - bring on the weekend.
I think dd has given dh and I her bug as none of us are feeling 100%.
We use the syringe too for medicine, the small amounts at a time work better for us as dd just spits out anything she doesn't like even when we dribble it in.

Didn't have much luck last night with the syringe. Started off putting a little into her cheek and I was given a look of disgust before dd dribbled it out. So I tried to give it a squirt and she just threw her head around and spat it out - absolutely horrified. It took a little while for her to trust me and take her bottle from me before she went to sleep.
So I gave up on the anti-histamine and just gave her Calpol 4 hours later - much easier.

I hate the morning rush around too HD.