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

[Yorkiegirl]

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I hate work mornings too - although it's not been too bad as nursery give ds his b/fast - I just bfeed when he wakes and then he either goes back to sleep or comes into the shower with me and then watches as I dry my hair and put my make up on and plays with my blusher brush. hmmm..
I haven't had the cheek yet to take him nursery in his dirty nappy and pjs and ask them to clean and dress him as well as give him his bfast.

Did you get my email Mrs D?

Lunavix,

That sounds like a scary experience - glad he is okay now though.

Hewlettsdaughter - I don't find the morning rush around before work too bad. None of us breakfast before we leave (except baby ds who has a bottle), so its just a question of nappy changes, dressing baby and toddler and myself (with dh's input) and then leaving the house. I prepare baby ds' bottles for nursery the night before and leave them in the fridge. Nursery then feeds both kids their brekkie, and I go and get my breakfast from the canteen at work whilst reading the Daily Mirror (I know - not very high brow!).

Work itself is deathly dull. Have a very laissez faire line manager who can't delegate - downside is that I am under-utilised and bored, but upside is that I can do masses of mumsnetting on work time without her sussing what I am up to.

ooh Lunavix - I would have been v. shaken by this - glad your ds is OK now though - at least he won't remember it, even if you do..!

Ds seems to be cutting down on his milk now - we're down to making up 21oz a day (plus milk in his breakfast) and he's started completely refusing to take a bottle before bedtime, so I just bath him and fling him in his cot - much quicker - I can be downstairs for Coronation Street now!! It's weird, 'cos this was the bottle ds1 gave up first aswell. I think they're both just glad to get to bed for the night!

dot1 - dd3 is also cutting down on her milk - she's still just bf (+ solids of course) but not so interested any more - ungrateful child, does she not appreciate my efforts? she prefers real food and also playing to bf now.

lunavix - is ds OK now? sounds scary.

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lunavix , bless u , can only imagine the stress ! so glad all was good in the end. -
babies just seem to get eveywhere

dot - know waht u mean - rubber arms , I also have conan the destroyer - my coffee table went over yesterday ! Its the speed he gets up that i find so scarey

we do use ' no' in different tones in an attempt to demonstate how serious the offence ,
howver so far like Tracey K all he does is look round and smile , we have managed to steer him away from the radiator though suspect it may be more to do with it being hot than my disapline technic !

We were in Oxford Y-day for a book signing - Status Quo - dm being lifeling fan ds was sooo good , not one winge in the line !

Hi All.
I am glad I have not had the trauma of having to make the decision to stop bf. Dd did it herself, she would just lie there grinning at me and gnawing on my nipple. Seemed to think it was very funny.
Tracy - I did the same as you and bf first thing and dd would usually go back to sleep in my bed as I got ready for work. Nursery would give her breakfast at around 9. However now dd seems to think my breasts are rather amusing, I give her breakfast at 8 now.
Suddenly dd has cut down on her milk. It seemed like something had changed during the time we were away in Scotland and dd came back all grown up. Before we went she was bf and drinking all the milk in her bottles. She doesn't finish her bottle at night either.

Thankyou for your very enlightening e-mail spots. I got dh to read it to. I am going to reply

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Thanks everyone for your concern... yes ds has forgotten it already although he has a bandage on his ear. Not looking forward to having to take it off on Saturday...

He also isn't crawling forwards yet, just backwards so he is getting himself stuck quite a bit, under chairs and the sofa. Also after getting his new big cot last week and upgrading from his swinging crib, he's having lots of fun with cot gymnastics!

thello everyone,
it is soooo confusing gollowing this.
Lunavix - to make you feel better when DS no 2 was about 3/4 months old I left him on the bed and he rolled off then to make matters worse - my dh did the same a week or so later , then ds no 1 - who is 9 did the same again - how irresponsible we all felt - luckily we have a nice thick carpet and underlay and their appears to be no lasting damage.

DS no 2 is very poorly , wheezing as if he has smoked laods of fags, snotty and sore.

Not interested in BF at all any more and only wants solid food now and is always begging for food

next post I will read before clicking send my typing just gets worse - sorry

anonmum - this used to happen all the time with ds1 (the rolling off furniture thing), and has happened once - so far - with ds2...Needless to say have given up feeling guilty and have accepted it's all part of being a wobbly rubbery-type baby (and being Mummies with very poor reactions!).

I knew it was too good to last - ds2 was up at 4am, 4.30am and then 5am, when we left him to cry, which he did, very loudly until 5.45am... Then ds1 woke up at 6am (v. unusual for him) and then ds2 again at 6.30am. AARRGGGGHHH!!!!

dot - bad luck !
ds is waking @ 4-4.30 every morning now , since he was ill , I think it is nw a habit that i will have to break , he has cut his 1st tooth but I do not think that it would wake him on the dot every night ? around 4 so am considering water instead of milk and doing it myself , cos if dh tries to settle him it seems to take over an hr ????
If that does not work then onto the cc i feel

I've decided that we won't get up with ds before 6am, so other than giving him Calpol (which we tried at 4.30am 'cos his cough's so bad at the moment) he has to stay and cry I'm afraid - I think it's the only way... He seems to sleep longer when his cough's not so bad, but unfortunately it's come back again...

I've decided that we won't get up with ds before 6am, so other than giving him Calpol (which we tried at 4.30am 'cos his cough's so bad at the moment) he has to stay and cry I'm afraid - I think it's the only way... He seems to sleep longer when his cough's not so bad, but unfortunately it's come back again...

Oh no those are all such early starts. dd is back at nursery today, hoping she will be OK. Had to wake her at 7.30 to get her ready. She goes down at 7, wakes wide awake at about 10.30, has a dream feed and then has trouble settling back into sleep but probably manages around 11.30, so we've got a different pattern now.
dd wolfed down 2 rusks yesterday not a crumb wasted so have just bought a big box of them as it seems to be something she'll eat.

we're also having early starts mainly due to dd2 refusing to stay in bed after about 6am (since the clocks changed, before that we had them all sleeping til about 7.30am - total bliss). we are ignoring her but she is a very strong minded 3 year old and screams the street down til we finally let her get up at 7am. very stressful. and she wakes dd3 up too.

all the sleep training books say a few nights of being tough works but for my dd2 it's usually about a month! aagh.

MrsD just noticed you aren't able to get to the Christmas city lunch...bugger thought it would have been a fab time to meet.

ds is still early waking - 5am this morning and wide awake - not that hungry - so just brought him into bed and he went back to sleep at 5.40. He just lies there staring at the ceiling but all the time trying to get his fingers up my nose or in my mouth - very scratchy.
Poor baby only got milk yesterday as I had a stinking migraine and felt . queasy at the thought of making him some food - and also I think he was a little poorly too. I eventually threw up at 4pm and then felt better. Could have killed for fish and chips then - but had to play up for getting some sympathy from dh.

Hi Chuffed, I'm sorry too. One of the reasons why I wanted to go to Lunch in the City. I am going to the SW London meetup with Oldiemum who is also in Oxford. So lots of exciting prople to meet
Dd is unwell too, she has now developed a really grotty cough. She is also waking early. She was awake from 1am til 3 am Tuesday night. Dh took her downstairs in the end to watch tv. He then came back up again as he was afraid all the sex on t.v would corrupt her !! I just keep giving her regular Calpol but she is just whingy at the moment so she must not be feeling well. Like me really! I have a cold, headache and a cough.
Still can't get her to take the Medised though Just refuses point blank!

Just realised why I threw up - the milk I used in my coffee to try and get rid of my migraine was 3 days past its sell by date - yuk!

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TraceyK - nice ! have just tried to make coffee with lumpy milk !!!! mmmmm lovely - sorry to hear about yr migrane , must b realy tuff with a bb as well !!
yg ds is also poo-ing early morning - sometimes during the night , bless him it had brokem the skin and was not v nice , felt sooo guilty !
well we got 2 5.30am as opposed to 4 this morning , the water seems to be working although ds is not impressed
I teel yer my admiration to u guys whose kiddies have woken up early all along knows no bounds !!! I don't know how u do it as my bro would say - respect

With regard to early poo-ing - there is another thread somewhere about what you give your lo for tea is whether they poo early or not - I think it was fruit. so avoid fruit last thing.
although ds had a pot of fruit last night as he refused everything else on offer and he didn't poo till 11 - but boy did he poo when it came out!!

Hi all! can i ask you a quick weaning question? Baby is now nearly 7mo and has been having solids for about 3 weeks. So far he's had - rice, carrots, courgettes, cauliflower, potatoes, apples, bananas and pears. Any suggestiosn for what next? preferable something i already have in the house, as i don;t plan to shop this weekend.

Can he have peaches or cheese yet? Havent tried bread or pasta yet as his brother is allergic to gluten. When should i try them? Gluten free is very limiting