April 2007 - there's cling ons on the starboard leg

[StealthPolarBear]

Yoo hoo - over here!

and T thinks you are fab - you are his entire world

parenting is the hardest job in the world

I'll second that Runny.

K keeps coughing herself awake - she is waking up every half an hour.

What can I do????

medised?

if she gets into a deep sleep, does the coughing still wake her?

Dh is driving me mad

Sil and niece are visiting tomorrow, and she text dh earlier in the week about meeting up. I've asked dh when we're meeting/what we're doing. "oh, I haven't spoken to her yet" Thing is, he makes out he's not bothered about seeing them (esp if their busy visiting all the family and friends etc) but he will be kicking himself next week, after they've gone home.

Previously, I have organised stuff (meeting for lunch etc) but my rule now is if it's dh family, then he deals with it

Yep, will give her that. I stupidly gave her Calpol at 5.30 so have to wait another half an hour befor medied. Last night she had medised at 1.30 and slept through. I just wondered if anyone had found a cough mixture that actually made a difference!!

You ok Runny. You haven't been on for a bit. Neither has MJ.

I'm ok Nothing exciting - just busy with life.

Think MJ has had quite a few long shifts this week.

evening just popping in to say hello, watching transformers atm

Runny, I adopt that very same rule!! Including buying and writing birthday cards etc! I remind him, but leave dh to buy things.

Where is everyone?

Are you watching Sport Relief? It is pretty tear jerking stuff.

Talking to myself now!

Just remembered a conversation I had with B this afternoon in Tesco as we wandered through the meat aisle.

Me: B, please stop touching all the meat.

B: I am not mummy, I am just stroking it!

Can't argue with that!

Popping in quickly while wading through yet more stuff for this new job - starting to feel a bit negative again, so probably need to stop and go to bed - am knackered!!

Hope everyone is ok - looking forward to seeing Bramshott and Ange tomorrow!!

DH is back from his course - good to see him , making me a little though as he is "sooooo tired!!!?"

Grrrrr!

Anyway, going to take my own advice and stop trying to wade through email (soooo many enquiries to deal with, so much to do before I can start dealing with them .... making me feel sick just thinking about it ....)

Anyway, I'll be back home tomorrow evening ... so "see" you then lovely ladies!

PS SPB and anyone else ... .... I find babies of this age very exciting and cute; but ultimately tedious, demanding and dull .... Like wine ..... they improve with age!! Just my humble opinion!

SOL, sorry to hear about K's cough. We've been giving D Benylin and his cough seems to easing a bit though I thought he was going to wake himself up again a little while ago.

Our internet and TV have been playing up, though they're back for the moment. Joked to dp earlier that we might actually have to talk to each other - yes, we do anyway - sometimes!

It's nice though to have the difference between the week and weekend back. Next week I'm taking Tuesday off - we get an extra day at Easter off work and I'm taking it early with permission so I can take Danny to "graduate" from Baby and Me.

SPB, I'm sure you're doing a great job. Isn't it a sign that T's more secure if he's happy to crawl off and be independent? - he knows you're around and he's safe and you will be there for him.

Hi to everyone else.

Morning!

Good luck with all the wading CD!

Hope there was less coughing all round last night.

SPB, just to second what everyone else says really. I think babies need love & security above everything else, and anyway if you continuously entertain them how will they ever learn to entertain themselves ?

What's everyone up to this weekend? Wish we could have a spell of really nice settled spring weather. I remember it was glorious in the weeks before I had ds last year - have memories of sitting out in the garden in the sunshine (no doubt whinging to dh about how I hate being pregnant ).

morning - better last night - all slept until ds2 up at 4am, fed back to bed then dts up at 6.30am & ds1 up at 7.50am

hair cut this afternoon - hurrah - had to cancel the last one cos dts were ill.

ds1 whining already - why doesn't nursery open on saturdays?

Morning everyone
SOL hope K's temperature is going down, I would also like to know whether there's a cough medicine that works, I bought some boots stuff but his cough got loads better then so haven't needed to use it.
elkie, I know what you mean about the weeks/weekends things, although I'm not desperate to get back to work I am looking forward to getting into a family routine. Now I know I'm going back in a few weeks I just want it to be over as I feel I'm waiting for it. On the other hand I also want to make the most of my last few days with him and don't want it over iyswim!
Thanks for reassurances about bad mum thing. It's more than just letting him wander off- i totally agree that I am contributing to his independence! I suppose I feel T doesn't communicate as much as other babies, he doesn't do any of the pointing / clapping / waving stuff they all seem to have perfected. Although I know all babies are different I worry it's because I haven't been doing enough with him. The big thing though is the food, he still seems to eat next to nothing. Still doing BLW with porrige before bed, but I don't think it's the BLW as if he has a good food day he also tends to eat porridge, and vice versa. Never mind, I think all this will sort itself out when he goes to nursery. I sort of feel as though I treat him as a great big, mobile, 8 week old - still bf on demand, anything up to about 10 times a day, don't worry about food or entertaining too much. Suppose I just need to decide what I want to do about that and do it!
liath, yes it was lovely weather this time last year (or maybe a few weeks later). When T was born I remember DH would be hanging his stuff out to dry about twice a day and it dried so quickly - I don't know what we'd have done if we copuldn't have done that!

oooggs keeping my fingers crossed that your better nights are the new routine!

In my quest for uninvolved parenting I let T empty our corner cupboard in the kitchen (his chewy bars, boxes of tissues etc, worst he could get is a box of cereal)
Well I turned round and just saw his bum disappearing as he crawled completely in

and where was that camera katy??????? would have made a good shot - at least he has the confidence to wander, many children don't even wander in their own homes

Morning.

Liath, ah yes, I remember those warm days as we waddled around heavily pregnant!

Oooggs, that sounded a better night. Enjoy your hair cut

SPB, I don't think you do hugs, but am sending you one. You sound stressed. I think the best thing to do is do as you please. T is obviously happy, thriving and curious (pmsl at climbing in to the cupboard!) It is hard when you see others doing x,y and z and you think, why isn't my lo doing that. I often find myself comparing K to other babies and then getting stressy about it. We need to stop! They will do x,y and z when they are ready.

Lecture over

Morning Elkie

All ok here. K was unsettled until about 11.00 and then I managed to get 2.5 ml's of medised down her and she slept until 6.30. She had a high temp in the night, but it seems to have dropped a bit. She isn't right though. So much snot, coughing loads, and she cries in pain sometimes. I had a panic that she might have mumps as that is going round nursery

Right, need to get my act together. See you lovely ladies later. xx

morning! Looks like a nice day here, lightly overcast but very mild. So much I would like to do today but very hard with dh at work and N to look out for. I find I can't really get into anything more than basic cleaning will also keeping an eye on him. Is this a skill that will develop?

Really need to clear our attic out and bag up some clothes, tedious but very necessary chores but the attic is not a suitable place for N so.. not sure what to do there..

SPB - I do know what you mean, I am not really 'teaching' N 'tricks' either. His cousins all knew how to hold up their index fingers when someone said 'how old are you?' in the run up to their 1st birthday but I can't be arsed sitting there teaching him His aunts are not very impressed that he is bucking family tradition.. He doesn't clap or point or make cakes yet but T sounds like a very independant happy little soul. He crawled so early and no doubt finds loads to amuse himself, if you sat there and tried to teach him patty-cake I get the feeling he'd give you a withering look along the lines of 'what the hell are you doing, mother?' and crawl off

Morning all

Hectic here as usual! Dh decided yesterday that he was going to Hull to watch the football with a mate, so we are on our own.

Can't rememeber much.

SOL - Hope K is better soon.

SPB - I agree with everyone else. You are doing a great job. Try not to compare because children all do things at different times. PMSL at T in the cupboard, Izzy climbed into the shower cubicle the other day

Looking forward to seeing Dippy and Bramshott later, sorry you can't make it SOL.

Back later I expect!

SOL - hope it isn't mumps - poor little K and poor you!

SPB - the cupboard thing is so cute! Have I ever told you about dd1 and her 18 mth check?? Don't think so - here goes: at the 18 mth check they ask you how many words they can say. Dd1 was not very verbal for a very long time. She would use one or two words (inc 'eh-o' - Teletubbies - oh the shame!) and the rest was looks and sounds. So I just made that bit up! Then we got onto building a tower with bricks - no problem. Then the hv asked her to point to her nose, mouth etc. Oh dear - we'd just never done that! It hadn't occured to me that a baby needed to show a hcp where her nose was! The hv started to look a bit serious and then I had a flash of inspiration - 'she can point to her shoes' I said - HV gave me a grumpy look and said 'where are your shoes then dd1' Result! She pointed and we 'passed' - just. 2 minutes later dd1 wandered over to the cupboard and started to open it. I told her not to and she obeyed (we did a lot of that one ) HV said 'oh she's fine if she can do that sort of thing'

(Proud mummy boast) Dd1 is now incredibly articulate and on the G&T register for her school (not that thats of huge significance) but still - I look her and think - this is the baby whose talking I fretted over becacuse she was far less chatty than her friend?

Dippy - hope you got a biot of work done to your satisfaction and have a good journey home

Enjoy your meet up everybody

Don't think GMM and Caz have been around for a few days? Hope everything is ok. Ange too.

Right better go pay attention to the rest of mumsnet my children

Oh there you are Ange!

Hi everyone
SOL how is K now?
Maveta, how do you know he doesn't make cakes? Have you ever let him try?!
NL LOL at you not realising that pointing at bits of your body is an essential skill - have you never played Simon Says?? Seriously, thanks for the reassurance everyone. I'm not too worried about his actual development as I know they are all different, he's growing, alert and into everything. I'm more bothered that the fact he doesn't do the communicating thing is because I don't do enough with him iyswim - in short that I'm a lazy mum and a the moment it doesn't matter too much but it will in the near future. If you see what I mean. I think I'm probably thinking too much! I feel better after talking to you lot anyway.
And on the eating thing I think I should share that T has been eating loads more solids recently, and he even had lunch today! How do I know? Well I'm judging by the contents of his nappy

So quiet on here today!

Hope Ange, Bramshott and Dippy enjoyed the meet up. Sorry I couldn't join you.

SPB, K is ok when the Calpol and nurofen kick in but as soon as it wears off, her temp shoots up again. Dh called NHS direct just to check it out and they have just said keep an eye on her. She is stil coughing poor love. Getting stressed that dh is off at 8.00 a.m. tomorrow for 5 days.

What have you all been up to today??

SPB, love the climbing into the cupboard story. I'm beginning to believe each baby does what seems most important to him or her at this point - I saw an April born baby walking quite confidently and well 2 or 3 weeks ago, and he's ahead of D on that even allowing for the 3 week age difference but I suspect D does things he doesn't too.

We went to a demo today - an important occasion as D's first one - I was a bit disappointed that it turned out to be a rally with a tedious line up of speakers. But we met a couple of friends with kids now aged 14, 13 and 10 that I can remember as babies (eek!) and they (1 boy and 2 girls) adored playing with D - we all spent a couple of hours together and they spent the whole time wanting to push the buggy, hold him on their laps, give him food and milk - I just wish we'd been able to march to a park instead of staying on crowded central London streets - much more fun for the little one.