December 07 - I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, no!

[Wizzska]

Hello people, is anyone there?

Oh no don't feel bad Caz! If she did wake, I would not change her unless she needed it.

I change her when she wakes!

Feel sh*t today. We live on a lovely road, with lots of young families and generally t is a nice place to live. But last night the house accross from us hosted a BBQ and it continued til 0230 this morning. I feel like I have been up all night! And because it was warm we had all the windows open, so Izzy woke up a few times, and Freya (DD2 2.5). So, all in all I am pissed off! Honastly, they were drunken singing, laughing, screeching - I really fancy just going over and ringing the doorbell like 20 times (they are all in bed - blinds firmly shut) and see how they like it. Sorry girls this is turning into one of those AIBU threads!

Nope - I don't change DS until morning though his night nappy is heavily boosted - I only change if it has leaked or he has pooed, but we haven't had many leaks recently and it has been weeks since he last pooed in the night.

no nappy changes here either. And we have now dropped the late feed (yeah)

Sorry to hear h is being an arse macdoo. as if you haven't enough going on

Proud mummy moment....

DS drank water from a doidy cup - holding it all by himself as well, and what's more it wasn't bathwater!!!
Another battle won!

hooray!
we recently won that battle too with one of the tommee tipee basic cheapies

very messy but so cute to watch!

Caz can you pop along to chat?

Hello everyone, sorry I've not been on for a while, I've got loads to catch up on.

Caz - poor you. This is my last free week of maternity leave. I go back on 23rd but we're off on holiday to America. I'm dreading work, I am so upset at having to leave DS I know I'll really miss him. He'll be nearly in bed when I get home at night.

Jewels -snap - we had drunken singing next door too. I'm knackered. It's such a nightmare when you have to choose between roasting to death and hearing all the noise. Even with earplugs it was loud. Luckily ds didn't notice.

Poor Lily is teething, snotty, hot, runny tummy, sore bum and covered in the most spectacular rash, not eating and not drinking much either ...didn't even want boob offered in day (not much done now)
As a medic myself can I just say that those docs who say teething doesn't make babies ill are talking crap, DD1 was like this and DD2 was the same with tooth no 1...2 bad nights so far am shattered, would quite like my lovely placid smiley sleeping baby back now

I'm back at work now, so will be even more sporadic posting than before.

Lolly is "talking" in her own little language, no teeth yet, no crawling or rolling, she half does bum shuffling though. Feeds really well, can stand quite well, can feed herself with her transition bottle (hurrah!) No clapping, but lifts her hands to be picked up (very cute).

Macdo, bless her I hope she's better soon.

Caz, I don't change her in the night as it seems to wake her more,

Poor Macdoodle and poor Lily, my friend's baby is just the same when cutting teeth, terrible sleeping and horrible diarrhoea.
Hi Ambi! Good to see you! Hope you enjoyed your night out and that you have a great time with the Liverpool MNers

ambi that does sound very cute her reaching up to you when she wants to be lifted up - and the standing is great! Surely she has surpassed crawling and rolling etc if she is standing? Izzy still backwards crawling and saying 'dadadadadaaa' lots (always in supermarket - get lots of looks from men and keep having to say "no sweetie, that is not daddy ha ha ha."

Hope the teething is settling down MacD, I agree about the being ill thing. Freya had a really bad cold before she got her first one.

Hello, after claireybee found me on another thread and shouted at me I thought I'd come back over and say hi!

how you and lo's are all doing ok, Toby doing great crawling and pulling himself up as ds1 didn't even move till 12 mo! we now have a playpen so I can have some sainity and ds1 can play with his toys with small pieces without Toby crawling over and craming as many as he can in his month

just recovering from few weeks of no sleep - now have 6 teeth, 4 came together typical, ds1 got his last teeth at same time so they just tag teamed each other throughout the night and we got through a hell of a lot of calpol

sorry I disappeared, missed hearing how you were all doing but just didn't have time to get on here - now ttc no 3 so have been on here search for ttc related answers

just so I'm not confused anyone had a recent name change???

We've got a playpen too for DS. He started crawling last week so my mum brought my old playpen down. It's funny, I can remember being in it myself, and playing with the abacus on it.

DS has had his bottom teeth for a while now, but he seems to nearly have 2 top ones too, but not the top middle ones like I expected, but the ones next to them. The first teeth gave us a couple of bad nights, but so far ok with these ones.

He is an absolute sweetheart at the moment, he laughs like a drain at anything, especially peek-a-boo. He also does the shake head thing and has lately started playing blinking.

hi everyone, can't write much as dd1 on my lap. have tried to keep up with thread but struggling a bit. we are ok, dd2 also pushing 4 teeth through at once so lots of night time waking and high temps. glad to hear we are not alone! dd1 started nursery today and screamed and clung to me i feel so crap, we have turned her life upside down, taken her away from all her friends and much-loved child-minder and everything she knows and loves....and now i am sending her off on her own three mornings a week...for all those going back to work now, one positive is that it is probably a lot less traumatic for the lo's to be left as babies than when they are toddlers...or is it just more traumatic for the mums, i don't know...

morning all
at all the teething problems. Millie is still entirely gummy, but i have had to give her some calpol the last 3 nights as she has been in pain. But she has slept incredibly well- and so much better since we dropped the late feed. On friday i had to go and wake her up at 8.30am!

Hi Insy good to have you back. DH and i had the discussion last night re no2. I wanted to start right away, but he has a massive 3 month trial next year and wants a summer holiday. So we will start trying at christmastime. No danger at present- still BF and no periods yet

palypens- millie has had one for the last 3 months or so- but now whinges to be out of it! Was a little worried in the kitchen as we have an aga and she has touched it and got a bit of a shock, but we are just going to try and go with it

hi all,

welcome back insy!! TTC no.3 already - i am a little bit although I know it wouldn't really be a good time for us. Just saw a friend's 11 day old baby yesterday. She was 5lb and is so teeny tiny and gorgeous - makes DS look like a monster!

hi clara, sorry to hear about DD1 and nursery. I know it is awful now but I'm sure in a couple of weeks she will be looking forward to going, and it will mean she will slowly build up a whole new group of friends and loved ones. Must be so hard though, big sympathies

suey - another one talking about next baby! good luck!

hi wizz - I agree this is a gorgeous age, glad Rory is doing well

hi macdoo - hope Lily gets the teeth through soon, poor thing

hi ambi - good to see you back, hope the hangover is better

caz - I am back fulltime for two weeks and I agree it is RELENTLESS - I absolutely hate it. I have a new-found respect for working parents - I find my evenings are now taken up with all this crap like making sandwiches, preparing breastpump and bottles, making sure everything is ready for the DCs - there is no time for fun

DS has tooth number 2 just peeking through which hopefully explains his recent night wakings. When I went round to see my friend with an 11 day old, he DD had actually woken up less the night before than my 8.5 month old - now that is just not right!

Just a quick one from me!

Haven't got an office atm so am working at the desk of our R&D manager who is on hols, and expressing in what should be my office which is currently being used by another colleague on hols, but my boss told me he will be moving out so I can have that office!
Expressing has been a pain, only managed to get about 3oz, just as well ds refused his milk today! So 6oz have gone down the drain
He ate loads, though and drank water from his doidy cup and has had some sleeps as well. He was crying when I picked him up but he'd just woken up from a nap, and calm down pretty quick.
Mad dash home, bring him in, feed him do all sorts fo crap, am now going to bath him!
Sympathies to all those with teething babies! Same as suey - none here! And Claraq sorry dd1 is still unhappy, but she is young and she will adjust, we moved when I was 6 (admittedly not as far as you!) but I adjusted quickly to new school and friends!

Insy - good on you. I am slightly I worried I may be pregnant, although I am hoping I am not. I just keep feeling slighty sick in the mornings Dh will kill me

well I too was back at work and dd did her 1st day at nursery. It was Ok although I forgot to put breastpads in as my bike had a flat tire and about 12.30 I started to leak milk.

oo no cazzy!
I have never had to use them, thank goodness

I am foreever leaking breastmilk - yet when I express I get bugger all!!! GRghhhhhh...I have put them by the door this time though

I've never leaked since ds was tiny either!
Cazzy - how was your dd at nursery? Was it strange being back at work?

hi suey - well I stopped bfeeding at the beginning of July but no period as yet so the ttc is purely hypothetical as yet!

clara - hope it gets better with dd1, I'm sure it will, they change so quickly, how old is she?

I'm taking a year off but already worried about juggling children and work - feel for you skid, bt, caz and all others back in the office, relentless is exactly how it felt when I returned to work after ds1

OK I am panaicking less about the no periods. I really don't want to go on the mini-pill as I went right off sex last time which kind of defeats the point

Dd3 was fine at nursery apparently, but what she will be like tomorrow we shall see? Work was a bit strange but it was nice to see everyone. I just need to come up with more topics of conversation rather than boring everyone with news of dd3

Cazzy - I was wondering the same thing about today!

Luckily was enough things going on, customer complaint, recruitment issues etc., to keep me occupied!

Just because I thought DS was being fine with his teething, we had the night from hell last night. Screaming and no sleep. Now another top tooth has come through, that makes 4 teeth now.