Dec 2007: Gummy grins give way to teething tyrants

[claraquitetirednow]

How about this?

i know, skid! It was my nanny who suggested the mid morning and mid afternoon water rather than BF, then milk with food and she really hasn't struggled with it at all. It makes life so much easier too, i just take a bottle of water with me if we are off out (same for the nanny) so don't have to worry about stopping somewhere suitable to BF her. Mealtimes we are sitting down anyway, so it is easy to BF and feed her first then eat myself. The only food she has refused is avocado, but wallops down carrots, green beans, cauliflower, spinach etc in addition to fruit. Dead lucky

skid- my funsize dd is has only been wearing 3-6 months for a couple of weeks .
kelbel - another bottle refusnik here too. we got round it by letting her play with an empty bottle with a nuk latex teat on it when she was having some 'real' food in her bouncer. everyone said not to bother with bottles at 6 months-ish, but it was taking soooooo long to get her to take anything from either a sippy or a doidy/open cup that i needed to know she'd take a bottle if i couldn't be there. only way she'll now take a bottle is if she's sitting up in highchair or on bouncer.

re. meals - dd guzzles two ice-cube chunks of pear and plum baby porridge made with EBM, has BF about an hour later, then BF every 3-3.5 hrs until about 5, when she has some kind of veg/fruit gloop (usually about 2 ice-cubes worth) and last 2 nights has had about the same amount of yoghurt (all v middle class, full-fat organic greek, none of your muller little stars here ). All this goes down very well, and she makes very sweet, chimp-type 'oook oook' noises when she likes something.

dd's latest trick at night is to flip onto her front and shuffle up to the top of her cot, then wedge her head in the corner. oh good. however, the waking every two hours thing seems to be easing off a bit. have started putting the fan on in her room cos i remembered that it seemed to help when we first did the crying thing. dunno why, but i reckon it must be helping.

evie is in to 6-12v month stuff just and that is partly because of her nappy.

Oh my Dundee - that is funsize, how cute! Have just looked on your profile, I assume that pic of her is not a recent one! I think you have the same breastfeeding pillow as us (from Blooming Marvellous?).

Skid - I just carry her around with me mostly. I now can't leave her in another room on her own at all (when she is awake), although she isn't too bad when her sister is there with her.

ds is just going into 6-12mnths.

thanks for the replies on the dropping bf, i'm full of cold at the moment, so think il think about it when i feeling better, feeling poorly and lack of sleep means no energy to persever!

another funsize dd here in her 3-6mth clothes mostly!

don't you find the sizes are so varied though? we are 6-9mth in tesco stuff cos it's wee and i think shrinks a bit too, but the boots mini mode stuff for example is enormous and she is still in newborn or 0-3!

good old M&S generally seem to come up right target though!

waterbabies day today, how are you getting on with that macdoodle?

kelbel we have a bottle refuser too, the ONLY one she has taken was the mothercare one, and even then only once when i did a half day at work and she'd have starved otherwise! i obviously had to be VERY far away for to take it.

oh - nappies with food in....yuck!!!

Hello...Just a quick post while ds1 is having his tea.

Ethan is still in mainly 3-6 month stuff depending on where its from, but most of his sleepsuits etc are 6-9 month

I think im going to change fom a bottle to cup soon. Ethan doesnt like being fed he likes to try and hold the bottle himself but can't get a proper grip and gets himself worked up.

clara No anxiety leaving Ethan, but most of the time ds1 is entertaining him.

A friend fom work has just had a baby girl yesterday so ive been buying tiny litttle baby clothes..it seems like ages ago since i was buying them

I am really f*king pissed off with myself...we have a move up day where the teachers meet the new class. I was not going in as I am still on maternity leave and my boss had this expectation that I should be goin in. There was no please when she asked me or any compromise on her part - it was like you are coming in for the 2 hours and that is that. Anyway to cut a long story short I said I would do an hour if she could find someone to look after Evie - anyway its not going to be an hour because she then she said and of course you will be in before to sort out your classroom and activity.... and then she ran away. Grgggghhh I hate her - there is no give from her its all take.

another fun-size baby here too, she's in her 0-3 but is just outgrowing them now, but in 3-6 as well but some are baggy. It's good that she's had plenty of wear out of her clothes.

I'm looking forward to a glass of wine shortly and my parents are having a party tomorrow so I'll be having a few then, I can't wait to let my hair down and there'll be no shortage of rellies to babysit.

Kelbel, I'm getting to want to stop bf too. Although DS has no probs with bottles, my problem is that he's such a bad sleeper that sometimes a quick boob is the only way to settle him. Bad habit I know. Tried boiled water and sometimes that doesn't cut it with him.

I've got a night in on my own tonight, DS has woken screaming 3 times since he fell asleep knackered at 6.30, I can't be arsed dealing with all that tonight. DH is in the pub watching the football with some mates from his old work. Am hoping he might get some gardening jobs passed on to him from it as his old work deals with bigger council type jobs not domestic and they often have enquiries from people.

Am supposed to be revising for my exam next Thurs but am too tired. DS still waking loads at night.

Post very boring and very rambling sorry. I think I need a snooze on the sofa. Oh what have I become...this is Friday night ffs!

aaargh cazzy that is a nightmare

i went in for ours last week BUT it was totally my idea because we can get paid if we do up to 10 formal "keeping in touch days" so I did a half day and got paid for it. But it took almost all of the bl00dy day before to prepare the lesson in-between feeds etc. I wanted to go because of the money and also because it's a new stage (Yr 6 ) but it was TOTALLY me who volunteered.

What is your boss like re leaving early etc? I don't think mine is v keen, there is quite a late working culture etc in our school which was fine before but not now...

know how you feel Wizzska and in fact until you said it, I didn't even realise it was Friday! aaaaaaaargh!!

wizz - guilty of that here too, suppose its a habit i got him into and only wy of breaking it is to let him cry????seems so unfair

on a happier note, i've had my part time request in and my boss rang to say its been approved! i requested mon, tue wed and theyve given me exactly what i want, go back in sept so gonna make the most of my time. its gonna be weird working part time. ive always worked full time...and the rest!

oh fab news kelbel i am jealous! hoping to go down that road soon though! what do you do?

DS just woke screaming again...Calpol this time. He's taking some time to settle tonight and I hate the crying. You're right Kelbel, it seems so unfair and horrible.

Oh I hate the talk of work, I don't want to go back. Got until September but haven't got childcare sorted yet . I'll hate leaving him. Would like to just be a sahm for a while and help DH out with the gardening stuff but all the constant stuff on the news about teh credit crunch makes me worry about giving up a steady salary.

argh is he teething?

Caz, would seem the obvious one wouldn't it. He is dribbling and chewing a little bit and did have one squidgy poo today, but his bum isn't sore at the moment. Who knows. I'm finding it hard to get him to sleep in the daytimes these days so it might be that he gets massively overtired and then his sleep is disrupted.

caz - im over the moon, my work has quite a clear policy to follow, had to disciss with line manager, then fill in a formal request to change work pattern, because lo is under 6 years they are obliged to consider it and would have to put together a v strong business case to reject it. i was worried because i am the first manager to request it so i worried they would set a standard, but they came back without a fight!

Well there is a working late culture but she also likes us in early. Well I don't do early but I do do late which she finds annoying. Anyway Ishall just be bitter about it - and my lovely classroom assistant is going to look after Evie.

that's fab news kelbel. I've only done ft too so working from home will be very strange when I start back, though I'm looking forward to having some money again. Most of our convos lately are prefixed by "when you're earning again, I like to buy a......."

Wizz, I hope that last night wasn't too bad for you.

Just quickly

weldone Kelbel on your job change

Wizzska - hugs to you, hope the teething calms down.

cazzy - glad you sorted your childcare out - how nice of your teaching assitant to so...

another rough night, same old story....

Amani/Wizzka - hope you have a better night tonight!
I hoping I'll have the same...

ooo ds in his own room for first time, aw my baby's growing up!we live in hope for first full nights sleep in 6 months

hope on stopping bf - only fed twice today and the rest of th time he drank from cup!

Skid don't, I feel so guilty that it has been so long!. It isn't just tiredness but the fact that there is no time at all in 24 hours where I know ds will be asleep for x amount of time-it's very hard to get in the mood when I've constantly got an ear out for ds! If there was a time where I felt I could switch off from being mummy then it'd be more likely but as it is I feel like I'm constantly on call...

Ds has always been quite sicky too, it calmed down for a while but now he is on solids and is still drinking the same amount of milk on top he is sick a few times a day again.

RE Clothes-ds is in 6-9 bottoms mostly, tops he still fits (just) into 3-6. Haven't got any in 6-9 so that's the main reason he is in 3-6!

Kelbel glad stopping bf is going so well and well done for getting him to use a cup! Hope he sleeps well in his own room too.

Wizz sorry for the continuing bad nights...hopefully we will both get some sleep soon. DS has been slightly better the past couple of nights, still up loads but fussing less and feeding lying down which is so much easier for me!

Kelbel - well done on your cup success! How are your boobs? Hint for you if you are wanting to stop bfing completely - decongestants can dry your milk up.

Been feeling pretty low, ds has been refusing to be spoon fed now - so I guess it will be BLW! Basically he keeps snatching the spoon off me and throwing it around. I'm worried that je won't be eating enough solids when he goes to nursery, that he doesn't have any kind of recognisable routine, I can't seem to get him to the bed at the same time every night, and that he is waking up before my bedtime of 10pm, so I feel as though I'm losing my evenings. He used to sleep 7pm - 10:30 which was great but he is waking up earlier.
He is totally inconsistent in terms of getting up time, naps and feeds and it's starting to really get me down. Is there anyone else who feels routineless and am I worrying unnecessarily? Just feeling like a crap mum, especially as DS has never slept through the night since the day he was born!