April 2004 Babies - eight is great!!!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Was it you who cried, Dot? Was he OK? Hugs - not easy to leave them at all.

I bet they will do clapping though, all mine learnt to clap at nursery before we did it at home. dd3 currently loves "wind the bobbin up" - a very manchester, cotton-industry-heritage song, I never heard of it when I was young!

dot - they love it at this age at nursery - they'll get loads of cuddles and attention. my ds learns loads more there than at home. He learned to clap and point and practises his walking.

ds2 loves wind the bobbin up aswell!! I know - it's me being silly and emotional and I'm lucky he's got to 10 months being just at home...! Anyway, just about to leave to take him this afternoon - they'll have to give him his bottle and put him down for a sleep so we'll see how it goes....(gulp).

How was ds yesterday Dot. You were in floods but did he take it in his stride?

oh dot big hugs. Make sure you tell them what he likes to do, schedule etc as it will definately help in both of your transitions.
dd's nursery has the baby room where they go from 3 - about 10months or pretty mobile but not necessarily walking. Then they move up to what is called the sun room which is 3 rooms with groups of kids from 10-2.5 years split up into different developmental levels. It just seems so less personal than the baby room. They then have at least 2 or 3 different rooms for the older kids.
We are both sick at home today and dd has been very clingy and sleepy (3.5hrs already today) which is great for me when all I want to do is be in bed too. She has hardly eaten or drunk anything today so I hope she isn't coming down with anything horrible.
TracyK I would just let your ds have a power nap a bit later in the afternoon - maybe take him for a walk to force him to sleep in the buggy or something. dd sleeps different amount of time every day and every weekend - she just seems to sleep for as long as she needs when she needs to.
MrsD there is a MrsD dd name in dd's nursery room. It is quite unusual too isn't it. How is work going for you? Have things settled down?

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yorkiegirl the good thing is if she can do 12 hours once she can do it again (and again).

dot how was ds2's second visit to nursery? he is quite sociable isn't he so he might really love it when he gets used to it.

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Hi everyone,

I haven't been around for a few days hope all april mummies & babies are well. Has any of your ds/dd's gone from being quite a bad sleeper at night to sleeping through straight away or does it get better gradually & how old was your ds/dd when they did start sleeping through?

Dot1-Hope ur ds is enjoying nursery, more to the point I hope your feeling happier now,

Tracyk-My ds usually naps for an hour in the morning & an hour in the afternoon but the times vary.

dot ,hugs , kisses and love right at yes, I started my new p/t job 2-day and left ds wiuth dm for the 1st tiem 4 7 hrs and I found it difficult 2 if it helps !
naps ?? naps ? waht are naps ? If I am lucky I get 20 mins in the mroning and 1 he at 3 ,
Then bed by 9.30m , ( if lucky ) wakes @ 2 or 3 for 10 min snack , then either 4-5-6 or 4-7 so overall not good , we were doing sooo well until the teeth then it all went to pot. I keep waiting for him to get tired as he learns to do more, but so far no luck at all

Dolbear - what is the new part time job?

HMC working at a local gagrage , getting them through the ISO 9001 acreditation 2.5 days a week , ta v mucho for asking
its not much , but a start back in work place as I have not worked since Mar 2004 !! where did that go ??? did not want to leave it much longer as it seems if you are out of work for ovwer a yr your chances of getting works decreases a lot !
Hope today is better for you Dot and my thoughts are with ou , on a half day 2day so won't be as bad I feel

thanks everyone for the moral support - yesterday was a bit easier, although he's decided to stop drinking milk - including his bottles at home... Had none at all yesterday and refused his bottle this morning. Do you think it's just co-incidence?? Seems very strange 'cos he's always loved having his bottles and now he's not interested.

Anyway, he was fine at nursery yesterday - ate well and had a little nap, and he's back there again today for most of the day, so I'm just hoping we all get used to it...

Hi Dot - might be the change has put him off his milk although not really sure! How is your dp getting on in the new job? Ds is fully recovered from his stomach bug but is driving me mad because he is very whingey just lately. I think it's frustration he can't crawl but he's driving me round the bend!!

dp starts her job on Friday! So this week has just been settling in week for ds2 - his first full day is Friday, and then he'll be going every Thursday and Friday.

I think dp's really looking forward to it, although she's nervous!!

It's weird, 'cos ds1 did almost the same thing with his milk - just decided one day he didn't want any more - and it was before he was 1. Maybe it's a genetic thing??!

dot1 good to hear that the second day went better. no idea about the milk, but they don't really need it so much any more.

I have a question. I wonder does anyone know about switching from breastfeeding onto milk at around 11-12 months. if I do just move dd3 straight from being bf (with some expressed bottles or cups) to being totally cup-fed, in a few weeks time, will she then take less milk than if I switch her to bottles? cos it seems to me that she takes less from a cup than from a bottle though she will drink from either. and dd1 certainly took far less if it was offered in a cup.

Does this matter? Is it better at this age to give a cup (for the reasons people said earlier on this thread) with less milk than bottle with more milk?

I would post on the bf and bf threads but I just know it could start a "they should be bf til they're at least 2" debate and I am just not interested in bf a toddler whatever anyone including the WHO says...

I think you've done amazingly well to bf all this time! Feels like I stopped a million years ago...

But no idea - sorry... we've been trying to give ds2 milk from a cup for the past couple of days - since he's been on milk strike - but no luck really - just a few sips...

I agree bf this long is amazing...

YG - sorry to hear about the rough night!

So ds is being a little nightmare with the crawling! He's still not going very fast with his lopsided commando crawling, but he's a) broken a key on the laptop b) stuck something in the video slot c) phoned someone! and d) licked an electrical plug! He waits till I run upstairs to do something, pegs it to whatever he wants to destroy, then retreats and looks innocent when I come in! Stair gates and babyproofing this weekend I feel!

He's also got an infection in both ears, poor little guy.

dot - i do feel i must be a bit of a masochist to have got this far! and it hasn't even made me thin . i am now looking forward to giving up, but after we go to spain for 2 weeks at easter as I thought it might be easier on the beach than bottles.

but some things are easier 3rd time round. which is just as well really.

lunavix - definitely time to put lots of things away on high shelves and start childproofing.

that's easier 3rd time round too everything is high up or knackered now.

lunavix - babyproof a bit but what we did was just move things around a bit. Put things lower down that were ok for dd to get into like dvd's containers and put some of her emergency food jars in the draw that we used to have plastic bags and cling wrap in as she pulls everything down that is within her reach. The flat looks like a bomb site. As we are renting we can't drill holes in anything for babyproofing so we have just shuffled.
Agree about bf while on holiday it is so much easier Fennel. can't compare the bottle/cup unfortunately but dd has just started to cut back on her milk the last couple of days. I am wondering if it is her cold or whether I should start making 4oz cups of formula instead. Cups will be easier for transitioning won't it. Well done on getting this far.
Sorry for your tough nights yg and your napless days dolbear. We have been pretty lucky on the sleep front really although with two parents who love to sleep it is hard to imagine anything else (although she doesn't nap much). dh and I got told by a friend that he didn't know how we got anything done the amount we had to sleep.

We're frantically moving things around here to try and get them out of dd's reach...
Fennel - I am probably going to cut down/stop breastfeeding at around a year (though if dd carries on biting like she did this evening it might be sooner than that!). At the moment she has a little milk from an Avent bottle with one of the large white soft spouts when she's with her childminder. I was thinking of changing to one of the smaller spouts soon.
I think the advice these days is if you've got this far you should probably go straight to cups/beakers and thus avoid having to wean from bottles later. You know dd3 best, though. Go with your instincts.

HD - yes the biting is not nice is it? i think I would ramp down the bf now if it weren't for the spanish trip coming up soon.

also I am fed up of having no libido and no energy - am sure bf affects my energy levels and it would be nice to get a sex drive back. still, dd3 has been amazingly healthy and only had one day sick in 6 months at nursery so maybe it was worth it.

think I'll try cups but if she doesn't like them will resort to bottles.

lunavix how is the ear infection? they are so painful aren't they.

Only expressing here! biting too dangerous and too often! so he only gets 4 or 5 oz ebm and the rest formula, sometimes from a cup sometimes from a bottle.