FEB 08- Sore nips and no naps continued!!!!

[sarahmikeharryandrosie]

Hi Ladies thought i wouls open the thread but i have no imagination- hence the title!!!!

hello all.

we are feeling v sorry for ourselves over here. DS has a norrible cold and what do you know, he's given it first to me then to DH.

DS has had a very blocked up nose. I posted on another forum asking how to clear it (short of the famous snot sucker, which I somehow just can't bring myself to use ) and they said saline drops or breastmilk... but I didn't have any saline drops...

... so there I was in the middle of the night wielding a 2ml syringe of breastmilk and attempting to direct it up DS' nostrils. Unfortunately he clearly felt I'd thoughtfully provided him with a tasty little morsel of fast-food, and kept trying desperately to suck the syringe. I felt very mean for confusing him.

However, his nose did get better, so the breastmilk treatment appears to have worked.

think he is teething as well, from what rozzy says - horrible nappies, runny nose, and major chomping on everything! oh joy.

Egg - so pleased the night nanny did her thang with DD - hope the benefit is sustained!

Sarah, Gill - love the pics!
and Happy 6-month-day to Malc.

Right I am going to meanly go and wake DH up, he has been sleeping in the spare room. Not b/c we have been arguing but b/c of LO's night waking - it was taking its toll on both of us!

Oh Sally that sounds awful- i hope you all feel better soon and get some much needed sleep-

i am feeling really fed up today- no ide why though- just grouchy i guess!!!

I hope every one is ok-

haven't had time to read posts. just quick one to say we're off on holiday to france tomorrow for 2 weeks so if it's quiet from me that's why

hulloo all. i cant sleep because i have an insanely itchy scalp, how stupid's that? have already washed hair once today, not going to do again so am stuck here hoping i will get too tired to notice and can kip.

rozza, bizarrley i also thought i remembered bean's section date, tho' for some reason i thought it was the 29th?? so i guess not.

sally, lol re droppers of BM. dd seems to be teething i think and only thing we could think of was to give her calpol. i have never ever had any success with getting her to keep it down - usually she just swills it round her mouth, smiles sweetly and it all spills out againl. today tho dh and i nailed it -- shoved gave her a bottle straight after the drops and i reckon she managed to keep.... oooh ... 20% of it down. and he dilluted remains were significantly easier to clean up that usual.

egg - exciting re dd. how's she been the last couple of nights? what were this lady;s tricks? or does she keep them secret for fear of renegade night nannies stealing her methods?

gill - that waking at 2am just for a play is exactly what dd's been doing. we're thinking maybe she's sleeping too much in day? she can get four hours or so - a practice i encourage obvs cause you dont wake a sleeping baby and nothing to do with me really bloomin' liking it when she's asleep. how is your throat? my virus started there and in glands so be careful and do get dh to do some of those nighttime wakes if ds is just getting up for a play. it was a run of awful nights that sent me from mildly ill to unable to move. and it was dh taking over for a couple of nights that helped me get back on feet. felt v guilty in the middle of the move and he having to hold everything together, but all were better for me being well

have a lovely holiday princess. welcome back from holiday bessie

hello! hope you managed to get some sleep tyaca. this hot weather is a killer isn't it.

well LO is persisting in his ongoing efforts to crawl. so far he has got to the stage of rocking back and forth on his hands and knees (how does he know how to do that? we never showed him) but is most puzzled at what he should be doing next. So far the best he can manage is little bunny hops v cute. He still can't sit or roll (except by accident) so I wonder how long it will take him to really be able to crawl.

Hello ladies, v hot here. dh is clearing out the shed and wants me to say what he can throw away! I don't really care! its too hot for that kinda crap!

Ds also v eratic with sleeping , in last three nights he has slept from 11 to 7.30, 10- 2.30- 5.30 and 10.00-5.30- 7.00. He's very grumpy today (most unlike him) and has a runny nose again. Not ill as such so could be teeth (i'm ever hopefull).

Suppose i'd better go before he gets rid of something useful! Have a good sunday y'all

Tyaca you're probably right with beans lo's birthday - I'm not exactly on the ball at the moment!! (sleep deprivation has fuddled my brain).

I'm hoping for a late teether!! I think I've said before on here that I've never bf a baby with teeth before and have a bit of a fear of it!

Well, I finally made an effort to understand what BLW is about.

And now I know... it's a fancy way of saying "Only finger foods". Honestly, I will never understand why people take weaning so seriously!! I never did ice cubes of home-made puree and I'm not signing up for this madness, either. (I mashed fresh things, instead).

Coz frankly, I can't hack the idea of all the mess, so I'll do what I did with the other babies. We'll do all BLW as long as it's nice neat tidy stuff like rice cakes or even buttered bread, BUT I'm spooning all the messy stuff until I feel baby is old enough to handle a spoon. DS4 just doesn't have enough spare bibs+clothes for me to do BLW how can it be called ecological when it requires so much extra washing? Ugh. Dealing with their runny noses and bottoms is enough yuck for me.

Might be different if I had a dog to clean it all up.

Other than a few pieces of carrot and a chip we haven't started solids, really. Only got a highchair (finally) last week. DS4 has managed to ingest a bit of cake wrapper and a fistful of sand at the beach, mind -- do they count as first solids?

Crawling babies are a nuisance. That said, DS is mighty bored because he can't crawl so I spend most my day wearing him, which isn't really fun either.

But when he can crawl, I'll need to wear him for his own safety, so looks like my back is in for a bad year...

ach lljkk! you old cynic permish to get pfb and really v excited about weaning? the messing around on mumsnet research is half the fun. acronyms included.

Ty - had to look up pfb on the acronym list - but still don't get what you mean! Precious first born? huh? Bonus is that while i was there i found ffs which I intend to use alot!

Just had a row with DH as he shouts at DD2 in such a horrid way and expects me to 'back him up' about sending her to bed after he has shouted at her to go to bed - I said i would never back up a shouting person no matter what they were shouting about and he said he felt 'undermined' by me - FFS!!!! WhAAAAt is going on when 2 sane adults are being wound up by an 11 year old! All these joys of parenthood yet to come!

DD1 just in from hols in Croatia - so more dramas will no doubt be played out in our house.

Little Leila is an angel of course - though she is now old enough to start playing the 'get me out of bed' game after I have put her down for the night! She has rolled over twice and shuffled along about half a foot! (proud mum emoticon)

It was DS christening yesterday, there were 4 babies being christened at the church and there was only him that didn't cry - I'm so proud!!! He was passed around everyone all day and it didn't bother him at all, he is such a little star. I'll post some pics later.

The last few morning when I have gone to get DS up he's been asleep on his tummy. I had a feeling he'd be a tummy sleeper, he's now rolling all over the place all the time no signs of crawling yet, phew

How was your weekend Gill, hope you didn't get any nasty suprises when you woke up

Enjoy france princess, no holidays for us this year

lljkk I spent an afternoon pureeing veg and freezing it but like you I am giving DS fresh food mashed up so far, so it was a bit of a waste of time and freezer space!

Alkar- you picked a great day weather wise- glad you had a lovely day and DS was an angel for you, looking forward to seeing your pics,

Morning everyone- is it monday again already where are the weeks going??????

Hi everyone!

Nice use of acronyms omy!!

Lo slept from 7pm to 4am last night. Hopefully not a one-off although then I'd have to find something else to complain about!!!

More good news - I've lost another lb. I had hoped I'd be down to my target by the time ds3 was 6 months but he's 24 weeks today and there's no way I'll be able to lose 3lbs in 2 weeks. Ho hum.

Ds1 and ds2 are back at sports club this week so dh has just gone to drop them off then he's off to see his gran who's unfortunately in hospital again. The doctors took her off her blood thinning medicine when she had her fall in June as they were worried that if she fell again she would bleed out. But she was rushed in last week for an operation as she had a blood clot so they've put her back on the tablets again. She's also got altzeimers so it's really tough on mil at the moment who does all her care.

Hope everyone else is having a nice day. Only 3 weeks until ds1 starts school so I'm off to start labelling his uniform.

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weight loss pants - seem to have put it on despite being really careful about what i've been eating. Think i will have to go and sulk with some chocs, thunder storm starting here... don't you just love storms! I think all that power in nature is amazing!

ginger agree re storms! we've got distant lightening and some low rolls of thunder and am v excited. also just got a mamas and papas playnest from ebay for a fiver. result! wd on weight loss rozzy. alkar glad chistening went well - pics please

updating weight loss to include pound i lost weeks ago but been static since. am being v strict this week - poor dh is getting a bit used to dinners of fish and beans

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no weight loss this week (again) but seems a bonus given bad behaviour over weekend!

Lljkk am with you on the BLW. No point in handing a bowl of mush to LO it will just go straight on the floor.

Rozzy well done on pound and sleeping. Only a few pounds off target ain't too bad! I'm still way off.

Alkar - no unpleasant surprises - in fact waking up in campsite was pure joy with LO - he was just so amazed by it all and also slept well in the tent. We had a fab weekend with plenty of sun, a swim in the sea and a day's rock climbing.

Am paying for it today and had a really low day - feel so unable to cope with DS who is back to being very grumpy with nose and bottom problems. DP was exactly the same when he got back from work (unable to cope that is not bottom problems) His parents have just got back from three weeks climbing in the Bolivian Andes and are in better shape after that than the pair of us after a night in Dorset. Bad stuff.

No storms here yet - have a yoga session planned in the park with friends so presume they will arrive in time for that!

Have put some christening pictures on my profile and an underwater photo. I don't have many christening pics on my camera (too busy chatting )

Lost another lb, its coming off very slowly...

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Sally START 75kg CURRENT 73kg TARGET 68kg
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Gill START 9st 9lb CURRENT 9st 4lb TARGET 8st 7lb
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morningglory: START 7st10 CURRENT 7st10 Target 6st13
Omy: Start 70 kilos Current 69.5 kilos Target 63.5 kilos
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love the pix alkar. Was the underwater oone part of swimming classes? We go to 'littledippers', someone told me that they offer a photo session as part of the classes but haven't heard anything about it.

Storm didnt amount to much, which was a shame. Lots of heavy rain and a few rumbles.

U ok gill? LOL at dh and 'bottom problems'.

blimey its getting quiet on here. I blame the hot weather, everyone must be out and about/in the garden etc. unfort for us it has the oposite effect as its too roasting to go in the garden or to take the bus anywhere, and so we are sitting inside in the nice cool house in front of a massive fan!!! (and the internet natch)

LO is 23 and a half weeks and really I did mean to wait until 6mo before introducing solids BUT he grabbed a bit of my lettuce BLW stylee and chewed it and I thought he didn't swallow any of it BUT the nappy test suggests otherwise - lots of shredded up little green bits in the poo!!! (sorry if TMI but it is a new mothers prerogative to witter on about her baby's poo to anyone who will listen!)

what age did you / do you all intend to start solids?

sally i intended 16 weeks the same as i did ds and started at 17 weeks, we love weaning here so all well!!!!

DD has taken to food very well, she has 2 solid meals a day and 4 6oz bottles of milk- hope that helps-

right must get ready for work

oh Sally meant to add- she is now 25 weeks old OMG

Rozzy! great news on the weight loss. I have given up weighing myself as I seem to stay the same - even though I am toning up at the gym - muscle weighs more than fat you know!! And great news on the sleep. I hope you slept too and didn't keep waking to check on LO! Sounds very rough for MIL and gran

Gill - Yoga in the park sounds fun! Your weekend sounds great too!

Sally - I have started offering food to LO and she like to suck and chew stuff. Doesn't eat much though! She is 24 weeks!

DD1 has been home 3 nights and spent 2 of those nights at friends houses - feeling quite rejected! Though I don't blame her. she has to get her socialising in this week as we are taking her to darkest wales next week!

btw have finally uploaded some pics to my profile. have made them MN mates only so let me know if you can't see them and I will add you!

Hi everyone we're back!

Well i've just had a quick skim through and glad to hear that you and all the lo's are well.

We had a fab time at sis's and we couldn't have asked for better weather although the nights were a bit too hot for Ds2, he seemed quite unsettled at night and has also ended up with a fungal infection on his widge it's made him a bit grumpy which is understandable and he is teething like mad! using the bottles to vent his frustration

We went to the Natural History Museum because they had a big dinosaur exhibition on and Ds1 was well chuffed with it, i'd recommend it and being free to get in was a bonus as well, we had a picnic in Hyde Park and also went to Windsor which is a beautiful place. The rest of the time was spent in the huge paddling pool that my BIL bought Ds's, we've really been looked after needless to say i'm not weighing myself this week i've had far too much booze and food and loved every minute of it. My sis even got up with the boys for a couple of mornings so i could have a lie in...bliss

i'm off now to have a proper read back and have a look at all your photo's...i'll try and put some on later x

sally, started weaning at 16 weeks 'cos he was a very hungry boy! ds good, loves his food!