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

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New thread here ladies.

It went well, she had the home birth she wanted. Baby Sophie was born at 7:07am after a 5.5 hour labour weighing 9lb 2.5oz. She is so chubby and cute.. I didn't want to give her up...

Congratulations sparkly! Sounds like a nice quick labour. Maybe we could have some champagne as well as the wine...

Greedy - vomiting bugs are awful though as you become convinced that they're not getting any nutrition, fluids etc, at least William wants his milk.

William is doing so much better now, the inhaler has worked, and most of the time William has tolerated it without too much fuss. The cough is now mainly at night, which wakes him up, and me, and as he's not eating any solids he needs his milk top-ups. Better go, am being summoned!

Ta for the wine and sympathy LOM. I have about 2 weeks to find someone else . My manager is being brill and letting me work from home the next 2 Tuesdays while I try and get something sorted. I thought I had found someone but my friend rang me to say they knew them, had spent time in their company whilst minding and had seen some dodgy things like letting her own son take the pick of the lunch boxes, leaving them to their own devises a lot of the time, letting her elderly mum look after them while she goes out etc. That is what I mean about not rushing into things - if it takes me longer than 2 weeks to find someone good I'll just have to deal with it. For me it has brought up all my sad feelings about leaving him in the first place. I couldn't stop crying for days! Think was a bit of belated post-natal blues!

Think I am headed for crappest employee of the month award as, in addition to the above, had to come home today feeling sick. Think have Adam's bug - yuck!

Jet - yes vom bugs are the pits but at least you know they are more or less sorted within 24 hours. Glad William is on the mend.

RG - your birthday plans sound lovely. We might go to The Deep which is an aquarium type thing in Hull, think Adam will enjoy pointing at all the fish. His pointing finger is getting lots of exercise at the moment!

LOM - cant beat a friday night curry with a big vat of vino!!

Sparkly - congrats! How lovely!

Jet - glad william is being more tolerant of the inhaler, bless his little cottons.

Greedy - What a complete bummer re childcare. I truly sympathise!! Hope you find someone decent very soon.

Ellie's pointing finger is also getting lots of exercise at the moment too. It's so cute!

I just put my secret birthday pressie in a packet to send away tomorrow!!!! Hope my recipient likes it!
Greedy- What a nightmare. I love my childminder I don't know what I'd do if she stopped working. Anabel loves her too and is always happy there and never wants to come home at the end of the day. I realise how lucky I am that I don't have to worry about her while I'm at work. I hope everything works out for you greedy!!

Febes - how exciting!! Haven't even bought my pressie for my secret recipient yet! You are uber efficient aren't you?!

Well no Friday night curry for us. I was asleep by 9.30! Poor old T is feeling a bit grotty and was up and down all night. He's got an awful cough poor lamb.

Felt like a proper Alpha mummy yesterday. I took a stew round to a friend of mine who's just had a baby , made playdough and then had the NCT girls round for tea and cake. God it was exhausting. I'm going to spend today in PJs and eating readu meals to counteract it.

Greedy - I know what you mean re the delayed post natal blues. People say leaving the Lo's gets easier but I think it gets harder as it becomes more normal IYKWIM.
It's great that your work are being so accommodating though. With all that going on I'm not suprised that you are feeling are pants.

RG _ don't worry- I haven't done it either.

Sounds like all the LOs are coughing, spluttering and puking at the mo. Poor babes. I love going to bed early! My DH really resists it cos he thinks it means we are old and sad so I wait till he goes out, bath, pjs on and tucked up by 9 at the latest. Heaven!

LOM - ikwym defo re harder to leave them. At first it is a novelty and you are stressing about what they eat, how they will get to sleep etc and then when it becomes normal it is like - oh no, this goes on forever!

Febes - very organised! [greedy tries to work out who Febes is buying for - must be soon!]

RG - I haven't done that yet either. In fact woke up in cold sweat last night thinking I had missed the whole event . But no, just brain working overtime.

Very quiet on here this weekend.

Greedy - I'm with you on the early nights. We have a saying that when we get up on cold shitty mornings we make the bed promise . We promise to get back into bed as soon as we can. Before t was born I'd often get in from work and snuggle up in bed for half an hour before I did anything else.
Now my big bed time thing is listening to the ten o clock comedies on BBC 7.
I hope next week goes well for you and things start to get sorted X

hi everyone

Ellie was being a little whingey this afternoon because DS phoned me on the house phone which for some reason always wakes her up! () Anyway, i decided the best course of action was to "sling her up" (i.e. stuck her in the babyhawk) for a while and she settled down and had another snooze after a while. Anyway, while she was in there, she seemed to choke on some of her own saliva and then kept gagging for ages!! It was really odd and quite upsetting for her! bless her. hope it's not the start of something more sinister!

Anyway, better check the yorkshire puds - we're having roast tonight! yay!!

Anabel took her first 2 steps today!!!!!! We were at my friends house for her sons 1st birthday and she took 2 stps and everyone clapped I was so proud I cried!! My friend who lost her baby last week was walking with her so she loved it too. What a special day!! She had loads of cake and took about a hour to get to bed tonight but hey!

awww congrats Anabel!! What a clever little girl!!!

Ellie let go of her little walker thing tonight while she was standing and it wasn't by accident either! She did it 3 times and you could tell she was testing the water.

Well done Anabel!

RG - I bet Ellie looked very pleased with herself Hope your roast was yummy, we had one too, no yorkies though

William just doesn't have the balance to stand by himself yet, and has become very quick at crawling, so I think it'll be a while before he's walking. He has started pointing at things and making a noise which I think is meant to mean 'What's that?' It's just so cute, along with the waving which he has also mastered this week, and he says bye, or something which resembles it when he does wave. I can't believe how much he's developed in the past couple of weeks.

LOM - yes, it definitely gets harder leaving them. Weirdly, i am freaking out about DD starting school in September, even though she's been going to nursery since she was 5 months old. I think it's the thought that someone else will be responsible for her education, not me.

greedy - hope you manage to get childcare sorted soon, it's an added stress you just don't need isn't it?

Going to buy my secret birthday pressie this week

I LOVE THAT COOKER!!!

RG - That sounds scary. Hope you saved me some yorkshire puds.

Febes- well done Anabel. And when I think of this time last year...

Loopy - Love the cooker - all the better for baking cakes!

Well I'm buggered after work today although I only two lessons. I never sleep properly when I'm working and was awake from 3.30.

So sorry that I am hardly ever on here but were in the process of trying to move back to America! and I am being made redundant- so a bit stressful the past few months.

I need some advice/help please. My DD has been gorgeous, fun and indpendent all along. In the past few weeks she has become a clingy hysterical mess anytime I set her down. The worst part is that picking her up doesn't seem to cheer her up very much. She goes to nursery 4 days a week and they say she's a delight. When she's with my husband or family members she's fine. However, when I am around she's needy and upset. She isn't ill and doesn't seem to be teething.

I used to race home from work to be with her and now I am starting to dread it a bit.

Please help- it's starting to wear me down- especially with all of the other stresses going on.

Thanks.

Loopy - love the cooker! No excuse to not be a top notch chef now (not that you weren't already, you understand).

Cape - hello and welcome back! sorry you've been having troubles with DD. I reckon she just has separation anxiety which is absolutely normal at this age. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it other than give lots of kisses and cuddles. sometimes when Ellie is whingey when i want to put her down, i end up just sticking her in the sling/carrier and she is as quiet as a mouse and often has a snooze too. is this something you could do with your DD?? She is absolutely gorgeous, btw!!

Loopy - wow, that cooker is amazing.

capecodder - William has gone through the same separation thing recently. He's not bothered about being left at nursery, but hated being at home without me - DH was here obviously, I didn't just abandon him! He would refuse milk from his bottle, scream himself to sleep, and wake the second he could tell I was back. Last weekend I went out and he was the perfect angel, so he has got over it, but it did last a couple of months. Sorry if that's not much help, but I want to reassure you that they do get over it. Sorry to hear about your redundancy

LOM - 2 lesson day for me too, though with the worst 2 classes I teach so it feels much longer. I rarely get really annoyed with particular students, but today I really had to bite my lip and not say to one particularly vile child, 'Just f* off you little twat.' I don't think it helps that I didn't get a great night's sleep, but yours sounds worse than mine! Oh well, no work till Thursday, William's birthday, so I feel like a bad mummy for being at work that day.

It's jabs day again on Wednesday for William, Hib and Men C booster, the day before his birthday, lovely!

Cape - Lovely to hear from you again but sorry you are having such a tough time. T is going through a clingy phase at the mo too - it can get wearing.

Jet - I used to over come that problem by going in my cupboard and swearing. I don't have cupboard big enough at this job though. Somethings I have done to overcome such frustrations with twattish kids are :

• Give them the V sign but do it behind a book or hold you fingers with the other hand.
• Graffitti the desk where they sit with some suitable XXX is a w**ker or some such. This worked really well in my last school when some kid always complained about everything being gay. Four people who taught him wrote "XXX is gay" at the desk he sat at. He stopped it after that!

I know it's childish and I know it's stooping to their level but it makes you feel so much better. Another tip is that when you give the kids a wordsearch put a word on the list that isn't in the grid. It buys you an extra ten mins as they look for it.

I've parceled T of to the CMers with his Dad as I've got a weird 12 - 7 workday. Poor lamd he's full of cough and cold. I feel awful. Bring on SAHMhood.

Anabel had the most awful night last night I swear we were all awake most of the night between 12 and 4 thankgoodness she crash and went through until my alarm at 6.45. I feel like poop. Its parents evening today at school and although I haven't got a class I have to be here until 7. Life Sucks!!!! I feel like death warmed up. The other pregnant woman at work was allowed to only come in at lunch time but I guess she is 26 weeks and I'm only 16weeks and she has a class and will be talking non stop until 7 and I don't but she doesn't have a devil of a one year old and I think that makes all the difference.
I hope you all feel sorry for me.

PMSL @ what you teachers get up to!!! It makes me want to become a teacher just to be able to graffiti on the desks and get away with it! You would have hated me at school. I was a bit of a rebel. you'd never guess would you?

Febes - sorry you had a crappy night. Much sympathies flowing your way. xx

Love the graffiti idea! I had a horrendous day with my lot yesterday; constantly talking, whingeing, bitching, swearing, texting and generally being cowbags. When I sent someone out for using their mobile phone after several warnings she was like "OMG!" Vicky Pollard is not an exaggeration; I teach all her daughters.

Febes - that sucks. My boss is very good and has said I don't have to stay late for parent's evening this year, I can see them up till 5 or offer them a phone appointment as I have to get home to feed Adam. Getting slightly embarrassed now about using the bfeeding thing as an reason for going home on time, I can see people thinking - isn't he about 10 now?! Hope you have a much better night tonight.

LOM - hope T is feeling better soon, I hate leaving Adam when he is under the weather, soon you won't have to .

Loopy - cool cooker! I'll have a Sunday roast and an apple and blackberry crumble with custard please.

Cape - hi, sorry to hear you are having a stressful time. I have days like that with Adam where nothing I do seems to please him but when I put him down he whinges and pulls at my legs to be picked up. It is a phase, it will pass, pour yourself a well-deserved glass of wine and congrats on your gorgeous daughter btw! I wish I had better advice than that. Sorry!

Oh btw, think I may be getting somewhere with the childcare situation, someone who Adam already knows through his old childminder has offered to change her ratios to be able to look after him. Visited her today and she seemed v.lovely. I am being very thorough this time though and checking references etc and seeing a couple more just in case. Fingers crossed.

Keeping fingers crossed for you Greedy!