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

[Yorkiegirl]

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Hi Mrs D. I got your post on the SN board - thankyou, it was lovely.
This is just a quickie post as getting very late, sorry to not have posted since your post but have been in Bonnie Scotland too at a wedding (first w/e away without dd!). Will be back tomorrow

i neeed some of that damson gin

whatever you put on lower branches of xmas tree will be stripped off by little hands. our trees are bare from the middle down, whatever we start with. they do look a bit silly.

Just would like to know whether Mrs D has a monumental headache today.......

I think it would be fair to say that one was feeling a little worse for wear the morning However I would heartily recommend it as it is truly scrumptious stuff!! I was sampling a little before Christmas - as one does.

Hello chonky

Hello Mrs D, did you like our Fife?

hi Chonky, how are you doing? like Mrs D i have been wondering how you and dd are getting on?

welcome Anonmum too - is ds still screaming at meals or did any mumsnet advice work? I also had a placid first and more demanding second child (and now a placid third one, I have to admit that's a relief).

so am I the only person to have a smelly, sweaty baby..?! (was hoping for lots of others to say they did so he didn't seem quite so... unusual!)

What a lot to catch up on with only a couple of days away. Well sitting in dh's office in New York with dd devouring a cinnamon and raisin bagel.
I have a sweaty screaming dd. she is remarkably sweaty and I too had heard babies don't sweat and she did right from a newborn. It doesn't really smell though.
dd also screams inbetween food when she is really hungry so mainly over breakfast and I just keep shovelling it in.
dd has just decided that she doesn't want anything spooned into her mouth apart from breakfast cereal, she just clamps her mouth shut and turns away. So as she hasn't perfected actually eating a lot from finger food she is waking in the night hungry. Oh well she is definately enjoying different foods, melons, bagels, toast and eggs, scones, burger, thick potato fries, lettuce (not that much gets swallowed.
Anyway have a great day. We fly back to London tonight.

uurg
ds has taken 2 waking up @ stupid times in th morning lately 5-4-3 causing a ruck 4 2 hrs b4 he will settle , v out of charector and v annoying maybe reething ?
ds sweats on his head and neck , no smell though- sorry

ps chuffed v jealous I love NY , is fab place and want 2 go back 1 day.............

have never had a sweaty baby! dd3 has smelly nappies after gorging on vegetables but doesn't smell bad apart from then! it must be just your ds, dot

I have just noticed this week that the creakiness i was complaining about a month or so has gone away - what about you others (chuffed?) who were experiencing this? I do feel a bit sprightlier lately.

would love a cinnamon and raisin bagel just now.

To everyone,
re screaming over dinner - have started giving him snacks between meals and he seems to have reduced screaming and feeding is much quieter - as along as I keep the speed of shovelling up. I probably have been starving him - inadvertently

Interesting that more than one of you today has talked of "shovelling" the food in. Don't think my dd is ready for this yet. Mind you, I gave her some toast with mashed banana on this evening which she rather enjoyed gumming
MrsD - welcome back! And hi to you too chonky - how are things with you?

to Dot1,
just thought i would let you know-feel better about smells - my DH thinks my DS - no2 smells of fudge. - so not sweaty.

Welcome anonmum! Hello again everyone else.
Dilemma, dilemma. Do I leave dream job, persuade dh to leave well paid job and rented house and live in beautiful place in Scotland that's affordable, go for similar job and no obvious opportunities for dh? Dh is very reluctant leave a new job with opportunity. I really would like to beable to afford a home and one with beautiful view and space would eb a dream.
hey spots are you lurking? Any ideas?

Oh and dd appears to be growing

Welcome anonmum! Hello again everyone else.
Dilemma, dilemma. Do I leave dream job, persuade dh to leave well paid job and rented house and live in beautiful place in Scotland that's affordable, go for similar job and no obvious opportunities for dh? Dh is very reluctant leave a new job with opportunity. I really would like to beable to afford a home and one with beautiful view and space would eb a dream.
hey spots are you lurking? Any ideas?

Oh and dd appears to be growing

Wierd! How did that happen?

Thank you April mums for 'lurking' on May mums and reassuring

how timely Mrs D., I was just going to say hello. Well I'm a bad person to ask in a sense. We moved over to Fife from Edinburgh primarily for the affordability and family house sort of stuff, perhaps similar reasons to yours. I love it here, it has more than satisfied those criteria. Because we are within commuting distance of E'burgh (by train, and lots of other places by car) DH can continue his work there, and for a newcomer there would always be job opportunities in the city. Fife for some reason is a bit slow to catch up with the commuter traffic (not for much longer I fear).

I suppose I would endorse it as fab place to live but the job thing's a biggy. What kind of work is it you do? and your dh? Has your sister found the move has been a good one?

I just always think people should move here!

also wanted t ask HD, do you mean that your DD takes food slowly? I liked how some one on another thread described their baby taking 'positively homeopathic' quantities of solids at first. That's us too. No shovelling here, oh no.

And I wondered how the childminding/working is going. I am looking at stepping up DD's out of home care next month and am worried it might be a difficult stage to do it at. But you have done it...Hope things are ok and thrush gone etc. X

Mrs D wouldn't it be a bit cold and rainy (as a manchester resident I could be accused of the pot calling the kettle black but I am adament when we move again it will be southwards towards the sun). how long have you lived in Oxford and do you like it? (most people seem to but isn't it a bit student dominated sometimes?)

big decision Mrs D - we're still debating about whether to move again, but probably only within a 1 mile radius - but so that we have a bit more space (could get cheaper property not very far away)...

dp's just taken ds2 to the GP about his permanent cough/cold which has got much worse again - his breathing's been sounding awful. After checking him thoroughly she said that he belongs to a special category of baby: "fat, happy and wheezy"...!! She said about 1/3 of babies like him go on to develop asthma, so obviously we've got to keep a bit of an eye on him, but at the moment he's fine - no chest infection, just happy wheezing along...

We love Oxford. Yes it is student dominated but we live in a little village outside and we don't go into Oxford very much anymore. Problem is, I am a bumpkin. I came from Norfolk originally and have always struggled with the lack of space and traffic 'down here'. I simply fell inlove with Fife.
I am a lecturer so would be looking towards a uni job, one advertised at present which raises the issue really. Houses are alot more affordable. The weather is not a major issue for me really. Dh is a Production Editor. Dsis has just married a RAF pilot, she is a teacher and now works in Dundee. She loves it, so far.......
Dh nearly had a hissy fit when I suggested this to him last night. He thinks we have ample oppotunity here and I know we do. I just want more space. It's a different quality of life really.