April 2004 Babies - eight is great!!!

[Yorkiegirl]

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hello peeps

wleome GG , tried ds with a beaker ,did not grasp the concept of gravity and tipping so will try again , still sterilising though not sure why !!
ds only just getting the hang of finger food , more teeth seem to have helped as b4 he would try and eat too much in 1 go and choke , now he is ' chomping ' there seemd 2 b less choking - which is nice .

gorgeousgirl welcome, but actually if your ds is born in may but like all of ours he must be a month ahead not behind!

hd - I hope malvern was nice, it's lovely there isn't it?

dd3 has discovered pesto and pasta - she's already addicted, like her sisters and her mother. not sure it's salt-free but it's nice to be able to feed her the same food as the others.

MrsD - if I catch you on here quick enough, what shop in Banbury had the fleece? Going to Oxford tomorrow so could make a detour!

When I was pg I signed ds up for the baby research things at the Uni. He got asked to go to one tomorrow, it's all about word recognition and speech. I don't think any more help in that area will harm him

I feel so bad, I haven't brushed ds's tooth at all He's only had it for 3 weeks though, so it's still tiny.

Welcome to all the new people btw! It's getting busy here!

Was wondering - ds has four bottles a day (18oz in total, although tbh he's not having all of it) and I want to cut it down to three bottles - what timing shall I use? He has milk at 7.30 (when he wakes up, breakfast at 9, milk at 11, lunch at 1, milk at 3, dinner at 5.30 and milk at 7. I know it should be the 11 or 3 bottle I cut out but will I need to move his lunch? I'm worried about him getting hungry. Any ideas?

morning !
I have thought about brushing ds teeth , but he has 2 @ the bottom and 4 coming through on the top and he is in so much pain and so grumpy some days that on the good days I don't want to go near them in fear of causing a bad reaction - chicken I know , but he yells a lot at the mo anyway due to falling over and me stopping him doing all the fun stuff in life , like climbing stairs mean mummy

luvanix - does he have a particular bottle that he doesn't drink much of?
I stopped the 10.30am bottle first - purely so he'd eat more at lunchtime.
He gets bottle at waking, snack of fruit or biccie at 10.30, lunch at 12, bottle at 2.30/3ish, tea at 5 ish and bottle before bed at 7ish.
We had a fabby weekend as gparents were visiting and ds got loads of attention. Were out gardening and he loved being out with us toddling and crawling in the mud! can't wait for summer!
Naps were spot on - up at 6.30am and nap from 12.15-2.15, bed for 7pm. But won't be able to do that during the week as he's not picked up from nursery till 1 - bugger!

lunavix - our ds2 had his 4 bottles at exactly the same time as yours, but he chose to cut out the 7pm one! Now he has them at 7am, 11.30am and 4pm. He doesn't seem to need anything to go to bed with - just water with his teatime meal and then bath and bed! Not sure about which one you could cut out - maybe the 11.30am one? I find they get more hungry/thirsty as the day goes on.

It's ds2's first settling in day at nursery today...I'm finishing work early to take him - and I know he's going to love it but I still feel like it's a bit of a sad day... I'm hoping once I've seen him scooting around the place I'll feel like it's OK...

I haven't brushed ds' teeth yet nor attempted giving him milk from a beaker yet

He drinks so little milk as it is I don't want to risk it by changing his bottle just yet. However he does drink water from a beaker - although not sure how much he drinks as most of it goes everywhere.

With lumpy food it depends on ds' mood. Sometimes he'll be happy with chopped up pasta and rice, other times he'll refuse. He loves chomping on toast though.

Welcome gorgeousgirl too.

Good luck today Dot, I'm sure ds will be fine.
dd has just started in a new room at nursery and it is really sad not dropping her off in the baby room now. Not nearly as cosy, homely or cuddly. She was fine but I think it was harder for me today.

chuffed - what ages do they move up to the next room at your nursery? I think ds can stay in the baby room till 18 mo or so. I really don't want him to move up either - he loves the baby room.

Varies by the Nursery. My dd moved up when she turned 12 months.

whats the age banding? I think we only have 3 rooms. Baby room till 18mo, middle room till 3 and the others in the top room. One of my friends little boy is almost 4 and is in the same room as the 18 mo's! No wonder they complain that he's too loud and active!

We have 4 rooms: 0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4

Personally I think the way dd's and ds' Nursery has done it is quite good. At age 22/23 months dd was getting bored with the 1-2 room and was very ready to move up to the 2-3 room. She moved slightly early and benefitted a lot from the stimulation of being with slightly older children when she first went up....I think they change and develop quite quickly when little ones, and so it's good to keep the age ranges in each room quite close together imo.

Not saying your Nursery is wrong though!

Our nursery has 4 rooms too. 0-18mo, 18mo-2.5yrs, 2.5-3.5yrs and 3.5yrs-school age.

Saying that our nursery will move the children when there is a space available in the next room and when they feel the child is ready.

our nursery is like HMCs. one room 4-12 months with 6 babies/2 adults. one room 12-24 months with 12 toddlers/4 adults. then two large noisy 2-3 year old rooms and one 3-5.

dd3 already looks slightly disgusted by the new floppy babies who've started recently, she's only interested in the ones who can crawl and move about, so I guess she'll like the toddler room when she moves into it in april.

What naps are your lo's doing these days?

Hi TracyK (and other April mums)

DS naps vary wildly depending on whether we're out or not. He has between one and three hours a day. If we're at home, he has a nap in the morning and one in the afternoon, but if we're out, he resists as long as possible, then wakes up after an hour or so. He's having sleep-crawling/sitting wakings at night sometimes - aargh!

Naps....ummmm. Circa 1-5 to 2 hours. Variable pattern. Sometimes in 1 or 2 biggers sleeps or sometimes spread over 3 mini naps.

Night time is still fun for me. 2.7 yr old dd has taken to joining me in my bed (dh then decants to spare room) in the early hours. Then ds wakes for a bottle of milk and will only settle with me.

So typical night last night: 12.30 dd joins me and dh decants.

03.00 ds joins me.

06.00 a bleary eyed trio get up and ready for work / day nursery

I'm just wondering how much to sacrifice for ds to have the ultimate napping?
Sat and sunday he was the happiest and the best sleeping through the night having a 2 and a bit hour nap no later than 12 noon.
Do I get up early, to get to work early, to leave early, to pick him up from nursery at 12.30? or do I ride it out till he's a bit older still picking him up at 1? It just means if he's there till 1 he doesn't nap as long and then is a bit grumpy at the end of the afternoon.
Am I worrying over half an hour unnecessarily and in a month or so he'll be able to go till 1 more easily?

Sounds complicated. You're giving me a headache

DS went from 9am to 3pm yesterday without a nap, then slept till 3.50. He went to bed at 8.20 last night and woke up at 9am. It was like magic and I don't expect it'll be repeated. He's napping now as we're at home, which will mean he may have a bit later this afternoon. I don't see any real correlation between when he's slept during the day and how well he sleeps at night these days.

But re whether or not in a month or so he will get to 13.00 more easily, I really couldn't say. Possibly but possibly not (that really isn't helpful is it). My friends 13 month old settles for a long lunch time sleep at 1.00 ish - but perhaps that's just her

tracyk I would let him be a bit grumpy it'll probably only last a few days. they change so quickly

dd3 still has variable naps, most often 20 mins at around 9 or 10am, then about 1.5 hours around 1-3pm. since moving into her own room she is back to doing a proper 12 hour night without waking between 7 and 7, which is what her sisters do - hurrah!

Oh dear - I found it so hard yesterday leaving ds2 - much harder than I'd imagined... The toddler bit of the nursery is really nice and I've never worried about ds1, but the baby bit seemed disorganised - they didn't really ask me much about ds2 - what he likes/dislikes, what he can do etc. I left him there for an hour and cried the whole time, then picked him up and cried all over again... I'm taking him again to leave him for 3 hours and I've already got a cracking headache just thinking about it...

But it's not practical to have ds's at different nurseries so we'll just have to get on with it. I just hate the thought of ds2 being there for 2 days a week with no-one asking him what a snake says and getting him to clap (his very favourite thing to do!).

Poor you Dot...

No nursery ever seems good enough for your child at first. But after a couple of weeks you build a rapport with the staff and start to gain confidence in the care that they are giving. You will feel better about it soon....

dot that sounds a bit worrying. will he move into the toddler room at 12 months anyway? dd1's first nursery was a bit like that - we moved her after a few weeks. but if you already like the nursery for ds1 then it's a bit different I guess.