April 2004 Babies - eight is great!!!

[Yorkiegirl]

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We have severe teething - very disturbed sleep last night - dh and I are both shattered.
HD dd drinks from the white and green avent spouts and doesn't really mind which ones are served up.

I thought they were supposed to learn quickly not to bite. have our babies not read that part of the manual?

still, pain from bf is nothing new for some of us.

ds seems to think it's funny to bite - so I'm not taking the chance - I'll just express and give him it that way.
Teething was bad last week but seems to have calmed down this week (touch wood)

ds selpt 10.30-6 am !!!! I am practically high today , long may it continue ?

Fennel - sex drive, what's that then?!!

Lucyjones, I dimly recall having had one once.

TracyK is it not a drag expressing so much? I am still expressing on work days and it seems harder than it used to. I think cos dd3 is taking so much less milk but I keep trying to achieve the old targets.

dolbear that sounds very good.

it is a drag and i can only get about 3 oz at a time - but I really want to keep giving ds the immunities at least till the end of winter - maybe even until after his mmr.

Oh well done baby Dolbear for giving mum a decent sleep!

love from another mummy plagued by her childrens' nocturnal wakings
xxx

at the babies not reading the manual... (though well done baby dolbear!)
Chuffed - thanks for the info re the Avent spouts. There's hope for dd accepting the other ones then (I have this idea they are an advance on the large white soft ones but I don't know if that's true).
Just had a quick look at a thread entitled "I love my bumble" or somesuch. Thought it might have been started by MrsD but it's you lunavix! You cloth nappy users are all so evangelical. I feel I ought to try cloth nappies really but I have to say the idea of having more washing to do puts me off (I can't keep up as it is!).

Loads going on here!! It's fabulous isn't it?
Hi Everyone!!
It's been one hell of a week for us. I went down with a hideous sickness bug on Monday, completely knocked the stuffing out of me. Having been vomiting since 4am and still at it at 8am, dh had to get dd up and get her ready for nursery. This was complicated by the fact that dd and I were going to stay with my parents as I am off on A/L at the moment, the nursery were not expecting her. By midday dh was home again and sick too!! So that was our Valentines day, in bed together not ramantically but shivering with fevers and nausea Honestly, I had to pick dd up from nursery, how I managed it I don't know!! Thankfully dd was spared any such illness.

I'm sorry I didn't get back to you about the fleece Lunavix. I hope you have managed to get some now, I'll have to check out this thread that HD was talking about

I'm really have no idea about the bottle/beaker thing. As I said we switched from bottles and went onto a beaker, dd drinks all from that now. She has a two handled Tommee Tippee beaker (My First Cup), with a little help she can drink from it herself. Honestly there was no thought about it other than the fact she just seemed 'ready'! Slow to move but quick to eat is my dd.
Dd is still relatively immobile, bouncing around on her buttom, stretching to pull herself around.
I usually put her to sleep at night at 6, bath at 5.30pm. Dd doesn't sleep much at nursery, but she'll sleep for England for me at home!! I don't know why. The fact she sleeps from 13-14 hours at night means I can't complain I guess.
I really can't compare her to anyone else, quite simply because we don't know anyone else in the same position as us (apart from all you mummies,of course). I really am grateful for the wealth of knowledge and reassurance I get form this site.

Dot - I really feel for you, I am glad it is getting better

Anyway, I am sorry to gab on everyone - I am drinking sloe gin you know!!

Hey MrsD - sorry to hear about the bug. Are you better now? (presumably if you're drinking sloe gin ). Perhaps we should get together soon so I can marvel at your dd's eating and drinking and you can marvel at my dd's super-fast crawl . Her ability to get into trouble (pulling on drawers, finding inappropriate things to chew etc) is amazing. I'm sure my ds must have been the same but I can't remember.

Mrs D - sounds nasty - and just like the bug ds2's picked up...! Honestly, his first week at nursery - dp's first day at work today and he starts throwing up this morning and hasn't stopped yet..! So I'm at home looking after him - for the first time I'm the SAHM while dp goes to work (she couldn't very well phone in on her first day!).

We're supposed to be going on holiday on Sunday, but it's with another couple- one of whom's pregnant and they have a 2 year old, so if the bug's still rampant we might have to cancel...

Trying not to think it's fate that's made ds2 stay off nursery on his first full day!

Real Nappy Bores of mumsnet - we could all congregate on the Smug Mummies thread!

Dot - not a good start to the new regime really? dd1 was the same, was off sick her first proper day at nursery.

TracyK I am beginning to actually believe the stuff about bf and immunity as dd3 has been so healthy all winter. we went to the GP this morning as she has conjunctivitis and the GP asked if we were new to the area as the baby had not been to the doctor's before! (she did go to the clinic once or twice as a newborn, I'm sure...)

where are you going on holiday dot? is dp going to be on leave for her first week of work then?

Good morning. dh at home with dd today as she is now on antibiotics as she has a 'throat infection' according to the dr. Not sure where the throwing up comes into that but there you go.
She has been in and out of the dr so the bf hadn't worked miracles for us unfortunately.
dd has one of those tommy tipee cups too MrsD. She has also just learnt to drink out of a straw which will be good for out and about.
Have a good weekend all!

dot - hope ds2 recovers quickly and you get to enjoy your holiday.
Fennel - have you tried breastmilk for dd's eyes?

have not tried squirting breastmilk into her eye no, we used to try that with dd2 who had a habitually gunky eye as a baby (blocked tear duct) and it didn't seem to work.

I have conjunctivitis now too - am sharing dd3's eyedrops do you think that's a bad thing?

dot how are you enjoying the SAHM day?

I think there is something in the bf and immunities. Ds has been bottlefed since he was 2 months-ish (his choice!) and our doctor knows us VERY well and we've only lived here since October!
Having said that, half the time it's me causing us to be down there, mostly with recurrent conjunctivitus too. Hey does breastmilk work on adults?

Ds is saying mamamamama now! I don't think he means me, he can just say that, babababababa and vavavavavavava but I'm working on it Ear infection is still bad, he's still so clingy. MIL is having him saturday night and wants to take him swimming, am I right in thinking they aren't meant to go if they have an ear infection?

I don't think I have a place on the smug mummies thread, ds did the biggest poo he's ever done today which went EVERYWHERE (although the wrap suffered, it didn't leak which I am very pleased with!) I have been cursing that I have to wash everything instead of throwing it away!

oh lunavix that is the reason I still can't think of doing reusables. I'd avoid swimming with an ear infection too. dd gets all clingy when she isn't feeling 100% I put her in our backpack on Tuesday so I could get some stuff done in the house.
I'd share the eyedrops Fennel, no point in clearing one up if the other has it.

Ds is far too heavy for any carriers, he's 24lb! (probably a bit more now )

We've been doing so well, not had any major poo incidents for a week or two. Oh well.

I've tried that breastmilk in eye thing before - not sure if it's worked for us tbh. But I know some people swear by it!
lunavix - commiserations re the poo!
dd's fave babble is dadadadada. No mamamamama as yet.

trying to get ds to say woof woof and point at the dog. so he points at horses now and says woof woof!
He's def down to one nap now. Try for 1-3pm after nursery. Have been leaving work at 12.30 sharp and getting home for 1. Snuggling ds on the couch with some Wiggles and milk and he goes out like a light for 2 hours.

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what is Wiggles? (food, tv programme?)

dd3 says "ma" to call me I was really proud but I think she also uses it for milk and food. such is my role in her life

I did read a study where they used breastmilk for cancer patients to drink to boost their immunity. it seemed to work but the problem was that people thought mothers would not donate breast milk for this purpose, only for premature babies.

I would not take a baby with an ear infection swimming, when I get earache then swimming makes it much worse

yorkiegirl, snotty eyes makes a change from snotty noses, I suppose, but dd3 has both. she looked truly gross when I took her to the GP today (especially as I hadn't had time to wash her face thoroughly as we were rushing to get to the surgery early) - snotty eyes, nose, dried food everywhere. ran into my very chic childless neighbour on her way to her accountancy job, she looked as though she'd stepped out of Vogue and dd3 and I looked as though we'd stepped out of Fungus the Bogeyman. she looked quite horrified at our state!

Fennel - I doubt there is a problem sharing eye drops as long as you both get the full dosage out of the same bottle!!
The issue with antiobiotics is often people assume that because their symptoms have cleared they don't need to take the full course of antibiotics anymore. This is not true. I'm sure you know all this anyway.........
Anyway ladies, what's this smug mummies thread?

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