Dec 2007: Gummy grins give way to teething tyrants

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Morning all!

Ambi - great photo of your gorgeous dd, she's a great little smiler!

Aggghhhh! Still nappy issues! Stuffed the night nappy the wrong way around and it didn't leak but was paranoid it would so at 10:30 changed his nappy and fed him, while he was still asleep! Put new nappy(stuffed the right way around) on him, woke up at 1:30 and he had leaked big time! Soaked right through his sleeping bag onto his mattress sheet. I have been using Pampers bed mats, because of these leak issues so hopefully mattress is still dry. Couldn't face changing mattress so ds came into our bed and he slept until just gone 5am, which is actually good - normally he'd wake up at around 3.30, 4am. Unfortunately he wouldn't go back to sleep after I fed him.
Have found another forum where they use Drybees, once I found the releven posts, difficult considering the amount of bleeding tickers, photos and crap attached to the bottom of each one, which had some helpful advice.

Hi

Congratulations Lizzer what lovely news.

Well done Skidaddle I think that's perfect timing to get your new job, a lot of women worry about children hampering their chances of career progression etc but in your case you're doing fab!

Macdoodle sorry your end of day was so stressful, I think you should speak to DH and remind him it's your home and that you need to be able to rely on him. Yes if you have lots of other support then maybe you could just use him in emergencies etc but He is their Father and so him minding them whilst you work is great use of time.

I sometimes miss the kicks of pregnancy but I don't miss being pregnant at all. I felt a bit nauseous the other day and it reminded me of how I had a constant feeling like that the whole way through. However I really do think we'll have one more baby but wait at least another year before TTC.

Weather here is awful, so dull and looking like rain, just as I had finished getting in summer clothes for the DC as well!

Well apparently DD has now been referred to a Paedeatrician at the hospital as her kidney dilation has not self resolved. Will see where that leads us I guess...

buzzy - what a stress. I hope the doctors at the hospital can fix things without too much intervention.

Macdoodle - It will get better I am sure!!!

Lizzer - congratulations. Go for a big wedding - I loved loved loved planning mine, I would love to do it all again - if only I could lose the weight....

Buzzy - Sorry to hear that dd's kidney problems are still not resolved I hope it's all sorted soon

ambi - Your dd is gorgeous
We are not having a really big wedding, getting married at a Marriott Hotel at 4pm, having a small wedding with about 40 people there, just close family and friends followed by a drinks reception, then a big night time party. Did not want a sit down meal etc..too much fuss and money. Im still having the big dress, bridesmaids etc

macdoodle - Sorry to hear you had a bad day

Its a horrible day hear, pouring down, and i need to take ds1 to the doctors this afternoon, he woke up through the night and was really chesty, had no voice and can't stop coughing

buzzy sorry to hear about ongoing kidney problems - do hope paeds are helpful.
caz yes it was us struggling with the bottle. bought some latex nuk teats, and gave dd the bottle (empty) to play with when she was having something to eat in her bouncy chair (though as the solids resulted in total bum-blockage she hasn't had anything other than bm for five days now!), and dh managed to get 120ml into her on sunday when i went to work for some time out - he gave her the bottle to hold while she was sitting in her bouncer. hurray. still no progress with taking a bottle at night - tried again last night but all we got was total meltdown .

am struggling to get dd to nap at the moment (teething again, I think, now that bottom 2 are through!) and was wondering if anybody has a naptime routine, and if so, what it is.

also, for those with more experience than me, how slowly do you have to introduce solids, and how do you know when to move from one to two to three mini-meals > bigger meals a day? would ask hv but as her last advice was as wrong as wrong can be ("oooh, there's ner werh she could be teethin, she's just hooongry") not going to bother EVER AGAIN!

Oh no Buzzy, let us know what the Paed says.

Macdoodle sorry your day was bad, I think it was very inconsiderate of him to leave a mess for you to clear up-it's not like you get to just look after dd2 without doing anything else is it?

Ambi love the pics, DS has the hop and pop too, really likes it. Lovely house too by the looks of it, and what is all that clear floor in the background about? All my pics have toys, baskets of washing, dd's potty etc in the background!

Dundee - With ds1 i started just with a few spoonfulls of baby rice/baby cereal in the morning with his first bottle, then after a few days increased how much i was giving him, so say by the end of 2 weeks he was having a decent sized bowl of cereal first thing with just a small amount of milk, then a few weeks later introduced pureed veg..the same way just a bit to start with

Ethan however....tried starting him with a few spoonfulls of breakfast..but he ate almost a full bowl after a couple of days i think, left him with just that for a couple of weeks then started him with the veg etc...he now has his breakfast about 9.30, with abotlle about 10.30..then his tea about 6pm, with a bottle about 7.30 just before bed

thanks for fifisworld - the thing was it seemed to be going really, really well and dora was scoffing a whole ice-cube-sized portion of pear porridge/puree/rice two or three times a day, and getting narked when the bowl was empty. i think maybe we tried to introduce too many things too quickly. hmm.

Dundee - Is she not eating anything now?

The last couple of days was just thinking ds seemed to have turned a corner and become happier then this afternoon all he's done is cry! Maybe it's to stop me wanting another...

Dundee with dd I didn't really make a conscious decision to offer more meals just offered her bits off my plate and went from there. She wasn't really interested in food though so it was easy for me to do that

hi all!

just to say loucee SORRY SORRY dh got door bouncer to work, SORRY! We have massive thick door frame bits and i couldn't pull the clip wide enough open but he got it!

re food - we are going to offer some tomorrow - a week early but next week i have to a half day in work, and dd still won't take a bottle, so i'm thinking maybe dh could give her porridge or rice made up with ebm and get food into her that way, and i don't want the day i go to work to be the 1st day she tries it! other than that though i think it will be blw al;l the way, am going to roast some sweet potato sticks tonight to see if she fancies them tomorrow!

oh just reading through - buzzy so sorry to hear that we will be keeping fingers xd for you

You can buy the Lindam one in Tesco for £20.
Ds was chuckling and bouncing away in his while I had my lunch, kept looking at me as to say "watch me, mama!" So heart-meltingly cute

Hi all,
buzzybee-oh i'm sorry, but you had guessed it right hadn't you.. I hope your paed was as nice as ours and plans little intervention but careful monitoring-I'll cross everything that you get that outcome too

Amani-yes i do miss being pg, totally jealous of women with bumps!!

Thanks for your congrats everyone, really kind of you all A pic of the ring is here Clairey but my phone camera's too crap to focus on my hand! I heart it, v contemporary but very me

I'd love to bore tell you all about the plans fifi and ambi, i'm sooo clueless i may have to start a help me thread
I'm hopefully not a bridezilla in training though

Macdoodle, so sorry you were having a rubbish day, your ex is a twunt for being so unhelpful...

Dundee, hope you get the weaning cracked, i don't think you did it 'wrong' but each lo is dif, so maybe yours will be more ready, i have to say ds rarely eats more than 2 icecubes in a meal even though he's been weaned for a few weeks but i'm still bfing every 2-3 hrs too....

Skid, congrats on the job sounds great, when will you be re-locating?

Noooooo! that link is wrong ring!! ITs the 4th row, third ring down

hello all,
bit frantic back at work: lots of readjustments- I need some military precision! It is getting easier though- (macdoo) just have to establish a new autopilot IYKWIM.

Well, millie is on solids. I wanted to stag on to 6 months, but i was sitting having a slice of bread and a cup of tea with her in her tripptrapp (i would go for natural colour BTW) and she started being grumpy. Gave her a taste of some yoghurt, but she kept wanting more, so i decided to try her on some baby rice, which she gobbled down and wanted more! I am now giving it 2 times a day and planning to introduce a new food every 2 or 3 days: when i get the time to prepare some!

Hi everyone, it's really interesting to read everyone's experiences of weaning. My dd2 was a little slow to get going but now woolfs down her purees and I have just started giving her a little bit of toast and marmite (a tiny tiny bit!), plus she has chewed on a slice of mango today and had a couple of small spoonfuls of dd1's unwanted orange jelly.....Which she seemed a little confused by!

I will be very interested in hearing how people get on with baby-led weaning. I am doing a combination (i know, blw purists say you can't do both, it's either one or the other but personally I think ALL weaning is baby-led - you try forcing a baby to eat! What I really mean is a combo of purees and finger-foods) but have found that when I give her food to eat by herself she finds it hard to hold as it tends to be a little slippery! She also gags quite a lot and has thrown up things if the lumps are too large for her.

Buzzy - sorry about your dd's kidney problems. Hopefully it will just be one of those things that need keeping an eye on and not anything that will effect her.

Suey - did you have a nice time in Spain?

Caz 10 - if you are going to give food but no milk (have I got that right?) just remember to offer water as well, especially in the hot weather. We have got a little tommy tipee cup with a free-flowing valve which we use for water, she doesn't get loads but if it's really hot I also give her water from a bottle (which I know is not an option if your dd won't take a bottle!). Sorry just re-read that and it sounds really dictatorial! I am just very aware of the water issue as we took dd1 to jamaica when she was this age and the HV really drummed it into us how important it was that she got water in the heat.

morning all,

thanks for all the congrats - you are all so nice

we'll be moving to oxford as soon as I hand in my theis in so in theory that is November but more realistically it will probs be more like january...

clara and anyone else who knows the area - if you have any tips about nice but cheap places to live either in or close to Oxford that would be fantastic - moving from one of the cheapest regions of the UK to one of the most expensive won't be easy...

macdoodle - sorry to hear you had such a horrible stressful day at work. Like suey says I think it does get easier. i was lucky in that DS was fine but I know how awful it can be from my experience with my DD. Hang on in there and I'm sure it will get better

ambi - gorgeous photos

clairey and fifi - at you mean DHs not wanting more children! It is still early days though, my DH said no when DS was tiny but now he is keen to have another. Maybe when you littlest are walking and talking they might change their minds?

Re weaning - must work out how many weeks old DS is - haven't thought about solids for ages... seems like such a hassle now that his growth spurt is over and BF is so easy again

Thanks all for your messages of support. Its really hard to believe there's anything wrong with her, she looks so bonny and healthy. Anyway its a waiting game at the moment as have yet to get the appointment from the hospital sent through.
Lizzer - My GP told me to expect them to propose doing the same procedure your DS had to track the blockage with the radioactive dye. So its really helpful for me to know how you found that experience - I remember you being quite anxious about it beforehand but in the end it wasn't so bad??
In the meantime I'm going to take a head in the sand approach I think...

They have just introduced a new vaccination in New Zealand for pnuemococcal disease (leads to pneumoniua/pluerisy and is apparently the number one cause here of hospitalisation of babies). Which sounds a great idea except that Bea was born 2 days too early to qualify for free vaccination (babies born from 1 Jan only!) so it will cost me GBP40 per jab. If I wait until she's 7 months then she only needs 3 jabs instead of 4 so have decided to do that - does that make me a bad mummy? I feel like I should pay for the extra one but its only a few extra weeks and up until this year hasn't been available at all.

Oh and Claireybee I don't envy you on the smoking dilemma. I think if it was me I'd refuse to allow them to go there if she smokes anywhere near them but I know that's very easy to say in the abstract!

There's a lovely mum on MN called Welliemum who is a trained paedeatrician and can provide loads of links to authoritative research on these sorts of topics if you're remotely interested in drumming up a bit of evidence to support your side of the arguement

Clairey - On the smoking issue...no-one on dp's side of the family smokes, but my dad does. He never smokes in the house when the kids are there though, he'll always go outside, and i dont let anyone at all smoke in my house, i dont care who they are they go outside and if they dont like it they can leave

oh buzzy - sorry I meant to say about your DD - it must be awful waiting but I hope it turns out to be fine - as you say she looks healthy so that is a good sign. And no you are not bad for waiting a few weeks so she only needs 3 jabs, i would do the same

buzzy and fifi- I think it is me with the smoking dilemma not clairey - or do you have one too clairey? I would not let anyone smoke in my house either but it is more difficult when it is their house. Before I had my DC my mum smoked in her house and I wouldn;t have dreamt of saying anything because it was her house. But now I have my DC I think she should stop smoking inside when they are there, and I would have hoped she would also want to for their sake but obviously not. I will have a look at what welliemum has to say although it will probably terrify me for myself as my mum smoked 20-30 a day when she was pg with me and all through my child (and adult) hood

Buzzy, oh i thought you'd got away without that one, damn it. It was far worse thinking about it than doing it, ds didn't know what was going on but i suggest you try and time it when she's due a nap as they have to lie still for 30mins. The worst bit was seeing the canula in ds's hand but the ladies who did the actual scan were lovely..Take someone with you though, i wouldn't have wanted to be on my own... I think ds needs another next yr and the one where they go up through his penis (ouch) but again i'm head in sand-ing it too til the time comes... I'm glad they're keeping an eye on it though, much better than ignoring. i recently met a woman who's dd had kidney reflux-not discovered til she was 4, very poorly she was by then too

Sooo, either ds is having a growth spurt or his last set of jabs yesterday have knocked him out cos he's sleeping so much (he slept 9pm til 8am,fed and went back down til 10am and back asleep now!)and i'm bfing every hour or 2 y'day and now today so far. wtf? boobs are sore and my milk will double in volume no doubt...ah well i'll just have to eat more choc

Yeah skid, i thought it was you too Gah its such a prblem, up until last yr there were lots of smokers on dp's side (I had the odd one too ) but luckily they all quit when the ban came in (and other reasons) but i can't imagine how to approach it with your mum, have faith that it is the right thing to do though, she must be more aware of the dangers now?