November 2007 - Sleeping babies, teething and dribble! Our babies are getting big!

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New thread here ladies.

HI ALL!!! been meaning to catch up with you but keep forgetting

Anyway its Callum's 1st birthday on the 25th!! And he is now walking the furniture and took 3 steps on wednesday. He can crawl upstairs and gets into everything now. He is very vocal and looks chatting.

he has another cough atm and I am getting hardly any sleep.. I wake up in the morning like a zombie... He is STILL BF, and I can't see him giving it up easily.

Hope everyone is well.
Congrats Febes!!!

Loopy - William's nose is very runny, and he's also not been himself, it's heartbreaking isn't it?

RG - I'm missing my sleep! Did you watch the channel 4 programme about bf the other night? i thought it was quite moving in places.

Sparkly - how brilliant that Callum's still bf - well done you! Can't believe the first birthday is nearly upon us already. Have you got anything special planned?

Greedy - I never have to wake William, I'm very of your sleep!

We're going to go up the spinnaker tower tomorrow in portsmouth, the weather looks good so the views should be amazing. It was sunny here for a bit today
Have a good weekend all.

Well, DD2's birthday is 8 days after Callums so am going to have a joint party this year. Am planning to get him a wooden walker for his birthday (though MIL thought she could steal my idea for a present )

Loopy - hope the snot clears up soon!!

sparkly - wow, a year already! Where has the time gone?!! Well done on still BF. That's fantastic.

Jet - yeah i watched it the other night. i think that's what made me wish i'd not given up so soon! Oh well, hopefully if we have another i'll do it for a bit longer than 6 months.

LOL loopy!!

Oh and we have tooth number 2 already!!

callum has no teeth yet at all!!!

SGK - i've heard that the later they come, the stronger they are!!

thats what the HV said, DD1 didn't get teeth till she was 13 months so not worried.

Excellent stuff!

loopy - yes we did, there's a pic on my profile page of the kids sitting on it! I thought it would freak DD out but we couldn't get her off it!

rg - it's weird, sometimes I wish I had stopped as William is so dependent on me that I wish he was a little less attached to me, but otherwise I enjoy it, and I'm too mean to buy formula!!

sparkly - I try not to tell my MIL what I'm going to get the kids as she always pipes up 'I'll get that', it's so annoying. Now I tell her what they need so I can buy what I want to.

It's been so nice to have sunshine this weekend, I've had washing on the line, and we had a nice day out yesterday. I could get used to it!

jetgirl, I know what you mean. She said 'oh you want a walker for Callum' and she then said 'what are you going to get him?' I said 'A WALKER!!!' She can think for once about what to get him..

I also find BF tiresome now, Callum is still very depentant on me and I cant go out in the evenings.

Hello only short one cos I am in a right grump - Adam has been to childminders twice now and twice has come home with a tummy bug so all my days off have been spent mopping up sick and doing lesson plans . Me and DH feeling dodgy now too. Adam is ok though thank god.

I have had a couple of nights out now but I can't go out till after 8 (after his last feed) and I like to be home by midnight - just call me cinderella! I am going to aim for a year then wean Adam off. I think I could probably wean him now during the day as he goes all day at the childminders without but I don't want to - when would I get a chance to read?!

I have also been feeling a bit drained by breast feeding. We had our bedroom plastered so have slept in the lounge for the past 4 nights.Anabel slept in her cot in the conservatory but she woke at night- quite chilly out there and I took her in with us and feed her to shut her up and send her back to sleep. Now its happened each night and I think I may have created a BFing monster. I was down to 2 feeds before morning and before bed. Now she is feeding about 4 times again mostly at night.
Also since I feel pregnant she has been biting me at the last feed of the day and my nipples are so sore!! I don't really want to give up BFing yet as I'm too lazy to mix a bottle, clean bottles, buy formula etc. Can I start her on cows milk when shes a year old for her bed time feed??? Only 2 months to go. It would be great to BF in the morning and then put them away till the next morning.

febes - we started DD on cow's milk at one year. She was never as clingy as William though, and would happily be put to bed by someone else with a bottle of ebm. William just screams until I stick a boob in him. I so rarely have a night out as I can't bear to think of him getting so distressed. He's silly really as he takes his bottles at nursery when I'm at work.

greedy - we have open evening tomorrow so I've just been preparing a powerpoint while feeding William. Sorry to hear Adam's been poorly. Do you think he's just getting used to the other bugs from the children at the cm?

hi everyone.

Why is it that DD sleeps for 1.30 hrs at MILs but at home she'll only nap for 30 minutes?!!! It's driving me NUTS, especially as she had me up at 4am with teething probs (again!).

I just want some chill out time!!!

sorry, rant over.

I agree RG!! Anabel has been teething pretty much all month and is just about to pop through her third tooth and she has been waking so much during the night. I need some me time I'm either at work or looking after her! I'm going to ask my sil to take Anabel for an hour or so on the weekend to have a break.

Glad i'm not the only one Febes! She was as good as gold yesterday but today she's been really whingey and "naughty" (if a 9 month old can be naughty?!!). She's finally in bed now and i gave her some Ashtons powders after her bottle, just in case lol. I know i shouldn't give her medicine as a precaution but i need her to get some sleep and i need some uninterrupted sleep/chill out time too!

RG - I completely agree, I think we are all over the honeymoon period and worn out and grumpy - well I am anyway! I love my boy soooooo much but even when I have an hour to myself to get my hair cut (which has only happened twice in 9 months!) I feel like I have to rush back to see how he is. No rest for the wicked.

Febes - with you too - either at work or looking after DC. And he is very clingy and feeding like mad on my days off. I feel drained in every sense of the word !

Sarah - Think i'm still in the honeymoon period with DD, but that doesn't mean to say i'm not absolutely shattered! She's only got to smile at me and talk baby ga-ga and it turns me straight to mush again! I'm with you on the haircut front tho. Got my second appointment in 9 months next Saturday. Hoorah!!

Loopy - that's the trouble isn't it - you never do know if it's worked or not! haven't given DD any powders tonight (i forgot!) so lets hope i get no hassles from her! You are terribly brave to have DD in your bed! I get really nervous about DD coming in mine because i'm convinced i'll sleep too heavily and she'll crawl off the edge lol.

Ofsted are calling at work next week - fortunately for me it's on the days I'm not in I was the happiest person in our emergency meeting today!

febes, greedy and rg - according to some people going to work is me-time for us mums!! because it's oh so relaxing being at work... I'm off to bed in a minute because last night was not good, both kids were up at various points - William for feeding, and DD woke up screaming at about 3, which woke William up again, so they both needed settling. DD has occasional nightmares, and I hate it because I feel so helpless, I wish I could stop them from happening as she is so distressed

loopy - William quite often ends up in bed with me as I sleep while he's feeding, then wake up 2 hours later! I have to say I quite like our cuddles, but I enjoy my personal bed-space more! I'm trying to feed him and put him back down to wean him off this habit, as he is so clingy and won't take milk from anyone else in our house. I have a bottle of EBM in the fridge, but I know he will scream instead of drinking it. When I was out on Tuesday evening he just screamed himslef to sleep instead of having the milk I'd left him.

Oh - and I'm still totally besotted with William - even at stupid o'clock in the morning as he smiles at me so adoringly. Amazing how I fit around his little finger really!

Jet -I'm also trying to wean Anabel off the night feeding/ snuggling in bed but what else do you do?? What do those of you who aren't BFing do to calm screaming babes in the middle of the night?? I think I'll have to feed forever to save having to walk the boards. A month ago I had cut out night feeds for ages like 3 or 4 months but now its back up to twice a night for the past 3 weeks and she's only got 2 teeth. 18 more to go.
I'm completly in love with her though and I'm sure if she sleeps through night I'll miss the little bugger.
BTW- Ofstead lucky you will miss them we had ours while I was on maternity leave

11 Steps??!!! bloody hell! she's only 42 weeks!!!