March08 mums- tummy and teething troubles!

[fitnfortyone]

new thread for Merry...

[turtle23]

skidoodle-glad mine's not the only cot creeper. Tummy time is just that. Time on their tummies. Builds up their arms, neck/head control, etc. Top tip is to keep your hand on their lower back and bum as it corrects their centre of gravity.

[merryberry]

as it happens just turned down lovely juicy bit of work today (3mths info modelling, NHS with public health slant, and LOCAL!). but i'm not ready to leave gg and i'm certainly not losing my summer this year...lawd i hope i get offered something good when i am ready

[MissingMyHeels]

We've signed DD up to nursery and it's costing about £1000 per month - ouch!

Don't go back until Sept but will be doing full time hours - rubbishhh

skidoodle - I work 1-2 days per week from home at the moment but think you're prob first to properly go back. Well apart from preggersagain who was back in after a week or so as own business!

DD loves sitting up and is always trying to sit up/dragging herself up with my hair. It's a while before they're likely to sit unaided though I think. She hates lying down now though which isn't good as she has a carrycot on the Xplory and think the seat is meant for 6mth +

[fitnfortyone]

MMH, we didn't bother with the lie-flat bit for the xplory, and the normal seat bit lies pretty flat so it's fairly good for having the baby at a slight upward tilt so they can see a bit without knackering their back too much.

Got friends arriving tomorrow staying until Friday, don't think i have the energy to be sociable. Despite having a good night's sleep now, it's more hard work during the day!

[merryberry]

they are so expensive aren't they? i loathed the one i tried for ds1 when i went back 3 days a week. i walked out with him 3 hours into it (all staff were agency which is NEVER good in any form of work, all kids had supposed individual care plans, not one of them looked at his, there was generic and very poor kiddie handling going on ). the nanny we found for him instead only cost an extra 20 quid a day! And luckily i'd arranged nursery for 4 weeks vefore i was due back, naively I thouhgt i'd be getting a bit of a break then still looking out for that break...

[wearehipsandmakers]

DD slept through, tra-la-la! First time tho' hopefully not the last. I would be even happier if I hadn't got the most atrocious cold. And she seems to be going 4 hours between bottles during the day. My little girl is growing up.
For those of you who are on 2nd or 3rd or even 4th (we salute you!) child- did you have any problems with the older ones? DS is really good with DD- doesn't seem to resent her or anything it's just that he will not give me a minute to myself (unless his dad is home in which case I get trampled in the rush to get to him). He used to play by himself for 30 minutes or so whereas now I don't even get 2 minutes to have a wee. I know I should be glad he hasn't regressed re toilet training or sleeping but it is so tiring, and I find myself getting so much crosser than I used to.

[merryberry]

now ds1's naps have gone we've instituted 'quiet time' where he plays for up to 2 hours on his own in his room after lunch(but he has the personality for it, tbh). there are a few special toys kept back just for that time, puzzle type things, his garage and cars. and often he just sits in there singing and reenacting the morning. he also knows what is coming up next, to look forward to. if he comes out in the first hour, i just keep gently returning him. i set off my phone alarm when i'm done with what i want and pretend that is telling us it is time to get together again.

[JFly]

Turtle, is that down to EBM in bottle or formula? I am very jealous!!!

[turtle23]

Jfly-We haven't exactly cracked the bottle thing. We are still breastfeeding, but he has bottle of EBM for his evening feed followed by a top up from breast as he still wont do more than 3 oz from bottle. Who cares though, had one really good night then last night he went 9-3, 15 min feed then to 630. It's all moving in right direction. Wish he'd do 7-7 like so many babies younger than him.

[skidoodle]

turtle thanks for the tummy time tip. Will give it a try. I did more tummy time today. She makes the funniest noises while she's on her front. I don't really know how long to leave her like that for as she can't really change position if she's getting uncomfortable but when she started fretting I picked her up.

Also: 7-7? Surely no babies are doing that this early? Wow I thought we were blessed with 11.30-7. TBH I think I'm not going to worry about the late evening feed for a while and just assume she will be feeding then for the foreseeable.

merryberry I didn't see the word "info" when I first scanned your post Thought you must be doing a lot better than me on the tummy front.

MMH your DD sounds very advanced My DD likes sitting up in my lap now but she can't pull herself up to sitting or anything and she's still more than happy in her pram.

She's obsessed with ceilings. I brought her to Sainsbury's the other day and she freaked out with excitement. I leave the hood down so she can see and when there are interesting things to see she lies with her arms pinned by her sides and her feet kicking around madly and her eyes staring. She was hilarious in the supermarket, she was beside herself the whole time we were there.

[merryberry]

mine does 9.5 hours every night for last 3 weeks. shame they are and will only be (despite trying hard to nudge him later): 7 til 4am. On really lucky days my ear plugs are enough for me to ignore him after a feed and sleep some more. But basically, I am still going to bed at 9.30

Have just been sat on the loo, plotting, as you do when you don't have a toddler coming to share the joy, about what needs doing when to move them into this larger room together. stimulated by fn41's groovy spave room on facebook

[PurlyQueen]

Matthew has started sleeping through again from 9pm to about 5.30. Never thought I'd see the day when I would be grateful to stay in bed until 5.30am but there you go .

He has also started drooling like crazy. HV confirmed that this is the start of teething

[JFly]

Gah, I'm lucky to get a 5 or 6 hour stretch at 11.5 weeks! And that's at the beginning of the night, so I'm up at 2am feeding again. Thankfully he only feeds for about 10 minutes and then it's back to sleep. Still, I get up at least twice a night, and more like three or four times. Was thinking dream feed at 11 or so might sort him out, but then I wonder if I should just let sleeping babies lie.

[merryberry]

spave=space
dream feeds really worked for us for a while, then ran out of mileage with them in that he was having deeper, onger, fewer feeds ovr 24 hours, and i experimented a few times to find the dream feed was down to making only a 30 minutes diff...so idecided to go to bed mysef then.

mind you i have to be up at 0615 in the week anyway for dp to see the kids and do the school run etc so...0430 is ok if it has to be

[evie2000]

hello all, new name...Previously imjin...one day I'll explain why but anyway - i'm here!
love to you all.
i'm doing dream feed at 10.30 and then he sleeps till 7. Personally I'm planning on keeping the dream feed for as long as possible so if he gets hungrier as he gets bigger I can top him up to hopefully prevent late night or early morning wakings. expect i'm living in dream world but hey ho!
have good sleeps all.
love and hugs

[3madboys]

i do a dreamfeed with ds4 at about midnight when i go to bed, so he goes down at 8, then i feed him at midnight and he then goes through till the morning works for us, well for the time being anyway.

R has been a little unsettled the past few days, he seems to be sucking his thumb less and wanting to be cuddled more, so i have had him in the ring sling. i think its a combination of things really, the hot weather, teething ( he is drooling for england) and the fact that he wants to be upright to see what is going on, plus he can roll from front to back so when i put him on his front for tummy time he flips straight over onto his back, but then gets REALLY cross as he cant get back over onto his front ,he is nearly there, but just not quite.

and as for coping with four? um it has its moments of madness and ds3 has been REALLY hard work at time, getting gradually better but its two steps forward, one back and there is NO way i can leave him in the same room as ds4 and say go to the toilet or anything as he likes to poke/pull him etc, he can be very sweet and pull faces at him, sing, chat to him but also a bit a swine and will even try and pick him up which given that ds4 now weighs 18lb is a feat in itself for a three year old

so its hard work, but manageable MUCH easier now ds4 is on bottles, which is a total turn up for the books given that the others all bfed well into toddlerhood, still got to do what works

[timmyinatizzy]

Just thought I'd swing by and say hello. i have no idea where the weeks are going? I can;t believe that you are already going back to work skidoodle, weren't you one of the last ones to give up work too?

DS has tummy time too, but that is of his own doing. He has been rolling himself over now for a good couple of weeks, and can even propel himself forward. He reminds of a skydiver most of the time though, ie Head and legs in the air. He can only manage to get back on his back if he is on his cot as it is springy and not the floor.

He had his 3 month injections today, and he was a star. Just a little cry then back on the boob for each one. Sorry to hear people are still having probs with feeding. DS loves being bf and I love doing it. Especially as he now is sleeping around 7 hours from about 8pm, then a 20 minute feed and then goes through to about 6.30.

MB thanks for the birthday wishes on Facebook

[turtle23]

Anyone else have a crap night interesting night with their baby? It was so hot he woke at 2, then 4, then tried to sleep but kept waking for a drink then sleeping and grumbling. Must remember to bring aircon into our room. Yawn.

[MissingMyHeels]

I didn't have a great night, she didn't fall asleep until twelve and woke at six which isn't too bad but by her standards is a rubbish night! Also been really fretful and grumpy. She has nodded back off now though. The combination of this weather and her second lot of immunisations hasn't been fun.

[wearehipsandmakers]

DD isn't sleeping thru', apart from that 1 blissful night, but seems to be having last feed at 6.30 then going through to 3-4 o'clock. With DS we did the dreamfeeds and that seemed to help but as we are up by 6 anyway these days the incentive is less to stretch the morning and having all evening to ourselves is lovely! having bottle of champagne tonight I think as we will exchange contracts at 9 o'clock this morning!
Last night DH went to pub at 7 so was all set to spend a while walking DD around room but no, she went down like a lamb and DS decided to be up till nearly 9. Sod's law I think that is called.
mb 2 hours quiet time sounds lovely but DS doesn't do 15 mins quiet time at the moment never mind 2 hours.I was just having a day yesterday, hopefully today will be more chilled- he has a play date which helps.

[merryberry]

sods law here too - managed an extra 2 hours sleep last night and have that hit over the head with a brick feeling. hard to stay even tempered like this. have two mums of babies over in half an hour, lovely women, just not quite in the mood for a toddler who is joining us. and breathe...

[merryberry]

talking of quiet time, yesterday ds1 fell asleep during his. i thought he might as he had pruple patches under his eyes. he made himself a nest of all his pyjamas form his drawer right in the corner of the room, i found him curled up on those with his toy trumpet pulled over him for cover. priceless moment

[merryberry]

just made the mistake of chilling with a crap mag to be affronted all over again by one of those

'how i keep my flat stomach and perfect legs' type articles. in this case the twinkie concerned is NINETEEN and has never had kids. I mean, how hard can it be at that age??? Grrr.

[wearehipsandmakers]

I'd agree, but that would mean I was implying that at 19 I had flat stomach and perfect legs and I think I can safely say I had neither. I was always reasonably proud of my boobs tho' and that ship has sailed off into the sunset . maybe what they lack in quality they make up for in quantity.

[MamaFormerlyKnownAsGlam]

Hello all.

Sorry to hear about rubbish nights. I am in no position to complain about the 5am-6am starts though as I get 11/12 hours so I will shut up right now.

Big baby alert. Saw an ad for a prog on itv tonight entitled Britain's Biggest Babies. We may have a few contenders for that accolade on this thread. However, it clashes with the final of the Apprentice at 9pm so I'll download it tomorrow. In between sky+ right now. Thank you Sky for creating fictional and apparently uncloseable accounts in my name.

Hope everyone has a great day. I'm expecting a visit from an old friend who I haven't seen for years as she moved to Bristol.