May 2008 - gurgling, laughing and maybe even rolling!

[thefortbuilder]

new thread everyone!

Hello Niknak, I'm here. Hello to everyone else aswell.
Today DS2 can now definetley roll both ways, front to back and back to front. He is doing things earlier than DS1, but I suppose he has a role model and wants to get moving. He is 23 weeks today and I think will be starting some baby rice this weekend, he will be 6 months on the 12th November so will try and if not keen will wait another few weeks. He is a big boy, not sure what he weighs as he hasn't been weighed since 16 weeks but keeps outgrowing clothes.

DH just got back today after a week in Trinidad on business so pleased to have an extra pair of hands again, will make the evenings less boring.

Sorry for no personalised messages. Pina if you reading hope you had a great holiday in florida.

hey ladies!

yes very busy at the show last weekend and holiday before that

NSSA he needs a good kick up the - will chat with you separately anyway.

we use a karvol plug in vaporiser when the ds's have colds, and also if you have a gro bag karvol capsules squirted onto the outside are great.

that and medised

thanks for the compliments on the booties - and LM have you been on and looking? really well received at the show so hopefully will go from strength to strength.

anyway, loads still to do so will catch u properly and post more later

Flick Did DH manage to come with you on holiday? If not how did you cope with flying on your own?

LM, LOL, how bout HLD?

HLD? I can hardly keep up with the MN abbreviations let alone new ones!

I check posts every day but am getting crap at posting myself. I am finding the lack of sleep so hard - Nicknak your comment about sectioning made me smile! I like to know how everyone is doing though and it makes me feel like I've not totally lost touch with life.

Monkeybaby's still not sleeping properly. She goes down fine around 7 but wakes up around 130 and then every hour or so for food. If I have her in bed with me (I am breastfeeding still) it's easier but nonetheless bloody tiring. It seems to be teething related - there is a tooth just waiting to pop out. I am trying the Dr Marc routine again though tbh it mostly fits dd's natural routine but she wakes 4 or 5 not the 2 times he suggests at night . Last time we tried controlled crying to almost resulted in a fight between me and dp so we're doing the more gentle method. Fingers (& toes, arms, legs, eyes) crossed it works.

Dd went to bed at 630 so I had time to straighten the house & cook a beautiful prawm and aparagus risotto (if I say so myself) & open a nice bottle of wine, light some candles and have a shower before dp got home. He's revising for a work exam tomorrow hence me MNing.

Had fun at the HV having dd weighed today too. I seem to have the most sociable bubble ever which is very amusing to those who know me because I have a few very close friends and am not known for being overly friendly! At the HV she had the two HVs and the other 4 mums there laughing as she "sang" to get their attention and then smiled and laughed at each of them.

Oh - Flick - while I remember, dd wears her booties every day but dp poured a pint of guiness over her on Sunday (we've resorted to extreme measures to get her to sleep) & they got wet. Can I wash them? I am going to order the pink ones too when I get paid next week. I really do love them & get good comments all the time.

Macaco - thanks for your post on my weaning thread. Did you see what a fuss I started? I keep forgetting how political this mummy malarky is. It does make me a little bit sad really. When I was pregnant and first found MN it made me feel really supported & a lot less lonely that I was frequently feeling at the time. I fear that the lunatics will take over the asylum eventually and MN will get taken over by people who have a point to make at any cost. Hopefully not but I do wonder whether some of the women who are most in need of help and advice are afraid to ask for what they might start.

Dd held on to the table and stood up for around a minute today. She's sitting up too - only for a minute or two - but I am very excited about it and keep hovering around her with the video camera poor bubble. She's chatting all the time too and gets massively over excited when she hears any other Italian speakers (I speak to her in Italian) which got us a free coffee in a resturant on Friday night from an Italian waiter.

One final thing - does anyone from the ante natal thread remember Mumblesmummy? I suddenly thought about her the other day & wondered if we'd ever heard from her again?

Okay ladies, half nine which seems like a reasonable time to hit the sack seeing as I'll be up all night again!

Hope all babies are well & happy.

MM

Monkeysmama we also have a few more wakenenings than Dr Marc suggests and this seems the case with all babies from my antenatal group. so tiring isn't it? DS now snoring on my lap after his breakfast - now tell me why he could't manage this at 6! Grrrrr

I can totally sympathise, DS2 is having two bottle during the night after his 8pm feed and this morning decided 5am was a good time to get up. So our day has started early.

We're having early wakings but he pretty much goes back to sleep himself. Today he woke at 4.40 but I decided to see what would happen if I left him as he was babbling, not crying. He went back to sleep and then did it again at about 6 then finally woke at 6.40.
Slept between 8 and 9 and now he's up there gurgling away and playing with his toys. I'm going to leave him as he sounds happy enough and hopefully he'll drop off again for the second part of his nap.
Damn I'm tired! I work evenings the two days I do and don't get home til nearly eleven, so 4.40 this morning was not appreciated I can tell you!
NSSA how's ti going with your DH, is he being any more helpful?

Morning all,

I was thinking about mumblesmummy too? She had a lot going on in her life didn't she?

I agree with you monkeysmama on the whole MN political thing. Some people are unbelievably rude and tbh, quite nasty. They seem to forget there is a person at the end of the text, IYSWIM.

denny would HLD stand for Hopeless Lazy Dad BTW??!! .

Poor DD1 not well, just got a chesty cough but really quiet and subdued today and already gone back to bed :-(
DD2 woke up with thick green snot smeered all over her face (nice !)

Hope pina is having a good holiday!

DH came with me but in some ways was more of a PITA!!! the boys did really well on the flights though.

MM have only skim read about MN politics but i tend to stay away from a lot of threads because people are rude, but then the idea is that it's someone you don't know so if you don't want to value their opinion then don't, I suppose, not that it helps if someone is being horrible tbh.

MM about the booties - we say not to wash them but if you hand wash them and just make sure they are dried out in a warm place (not on top of radiator) they will be fine - we say not to wash because they don't generally need it but guiness comes in the can wash category

Just had to take DD2 to A&E as a catalogue fell off the kitchen units and landed on her head....right on her strawberry birth mark, which is very vascular, so it bled loads. Spirting out immediately....bit of a shock! Poor DD1 was very distressed seeing DD2 screaming so much and all the blood .

I dropped DD1 off at the CM and took DD2 to A&E. She's fine now. It's stopped bleeding and she's asleep in her cot.

Bit of a shock though...trust DH to be at work when I need him!

Men eh never around when really needed. Glad the 3 of you survived this am, does it have first trip to A+E in their baby books?

.....could also be hung like donkey depending on what mood ur in

LM - Glad DD2 is OK.. Must've been a shock and well done you for staying calm... I'm not sure I would have been as together to consider dropping DD1 to CM...

denny - it SHOULD include the first trip to A&E

Flick - You are right, lots of people are rude, but it's faceless, so I think it's easy to forget that it's a real person asking for advice... I recently asked for advice about DSD1's birthday party and some people were shocking - but most were well meaning!

Macaco - thanks for the thoughts.. DH back at work now. Horrid weekend here, but was better on Monday.

Just a stressful time, I think, but still.

Hi mitchell - hope you are still feeling OK after your early start!!!

Monkeymama - Was it you who mentioned baby cinema (if not, could that person please step forward!!?) I'd love to take DS!!

NSSA xx

OMG LM that sounds terrifying! Hope all is better now.
I am totally exhausted, what with work til 10pm last night and not home til nearly 11 then DS waking at 4.40, 6 and 6.40 finally and then refusing to go back to sleep for more than about 40 mins at a time I'm knackered. Tried to sleep during his pm nap but he was awake within 40 mins, just as I'd lain down. I'm supposed to be going out tonight for a friend's birthday meal, been loooking forward to it for ages and now I'm shattered. Still got to sort out stuff for tomorrow first as I'm working tomorrow and then on friday morning too.
Feel like I could die from tiredness, and I know that's nothing compared to those of you with multiple night wakings but I'm finding it soooooo hard to be back at work at the mo, even only 2/3 days a week.

macoco I'm sure once you get out for your meal out you'll be buzzing...it would be a shame not to go when you've looked forward to it for so long.

denny aherm that would be your DH, HLD.....IYKWIM!! For those of you who don't know, denny and I went to uni together and lived together for 5 years...I had the lucky unfortunate mishap to bump into Mr Denny one night on his way to the bathroom....let's just say no wonder she's got 3 kids .

at LM - I thought you were a good catholic girl

DS, dog and I are having a very pleasant evening and are thinking of calling it a night and going to bed... Do any of your LOs have a favorite toy yet? DS does - He is called Peter Fly (because, well, he IS a fly and Peter because he was Peter in 'Peter and Paul') DS just adores him - his eyes light up at this flying bug thing... DS obviously doesn't share my dislike of all things flying!!!

Macaco I hope you enjoy your night out... It's hard when you don't feel like it, but as LM said, once you are out you will feel better!!

ANyway, off to bed for me - Going to try to download an entry form for the moonwalk tomorrow and get it off first thing - see if I can secure a place. I've done it twice now (2006 and 2007) I didn't do it in 2008 because it coincided with DS's arrival! Anyone fancy joining me? It's a great night!! It fills up fast and (sadly) I didn't think of it in time for the online entry so got to give the postal entry a try but hopefully I'll get in!! I've also registered an interest in the Edinburgh Moonwalk (in June) so the scottish contigent need not feel left out!!!

Night all!

NSSA x

LM: that must have been so scary, how is DD2 now?

NSSA hope you manage to do the moonwalk

Macaco how did your night out go? Have you been getting anymore sleep?

Flick hope your sales start picking up after your positive babyshow

Monkeysmama hope things start improving for you

Hi Everyone, I havent been on in ages but i wanted to ask a question, well get some thoughts because im worrying about my DD.
I did ask on the health forum but no response.
since my dd was about 4 months i notice her right hand is often very red and hot just up to her forearm. Its like lobster red, the left hand is normal. She also tends to have very cold feet and when you hold her for a while her feet turn bluish and her legs are quite blotchy. I saw the gp a month ago and they refered her to see a specialist but that app is not until the 3rd of next month. But i took her to be weighed yesterday and my hv saw how red and hot her hand was and started asking who she was seeing at the hospital etc. Then today my hv rings me and says my gp wants to see my dd in the next 7 days before her hospital app.
She is falling off the lowest growth centile on the chart, but was only 5.4 born. I really worried now, should i be and any ideas what might be wrong? shes otherwise happy in herself.
Its not constantly red btw, some times it appears perfectly ok.

Babylove No advice just letting you that I am thinking about you, hopefully you will get someone at the hospital to put your mind at rest.

Babylove... Sorry, no advice, but DS's legs get a bit blotchy now and again and I find massage works well. Was your little one born by CS? Apparently it's more common (I don't know why)

DS also gets cold feet (not blue, more white) so I have to keep socks or shoes on him. I find flicks booties work a treat (sorry for shameless plug) - the natural ones are so soft and comfy he often wears then in the house - I put them on him as soon as I take his PJs (sleepsuit) off.

Can't say anything about the hot hand.... sorry, but I am thinking of you too.

Mitchell have applied fro the Moonwalk... Hopefully I'll get in!!! It's in May, and the one in Edinburgh is in June. It hurts like hell but is a good laugh and for a very good cause.

NSSA xx

nssa yes i'm interested in the edinburgh moonwalk

babylove fingers crossed your DD is ok - possibly raynauds syndrome? but this is random guess
I've no medical knowledge

sorry babylove, I don't really know what to suggest. The only thing I can think of is a low grade infection?? (for it to have been there so long).

I wouldn't be as concerned about the blue feet and blotchy skin, both my DDs were like this. Babies tend to have very cold extremities and certainly my DD2 seems to always have bluey blotchy feet.

Thank you both. Because she is on the small side for her age ( weighs 12lb2 will be six calendar months in 2 days time). a lot of her socks don't grip her ankles well and they fall off. Although it doesnt seem to be affected by what shes wearing, recently i have bought some of the more colourful all in ones with feet in that she can wear in the day too, no socks to loose then

She was born at 37 weeks, normal, well actually rapid delivery. But i was induced partly because she wasn't gaining weight and i had experienced a bleed. so they thought at 37 weeks better out than in.

when i saw the gp last month i felt reassured because the appt for specialist wasn't for a month when it came through and i assume if the gp was worried then she would have been seen earlier. Its just after the hv seeing her yesterday and then calling me today to see gp wants to see her again.
She's also not rolling over and although the hv seemed to be making a fuss i have read on other groups that its not so unusual.

what are flicks booties?

FWIW, I think DS has Raynauds syndrome - both DH and I get it (me REALLY badly with my hands!!) but (IME) the hands turn white because of lack of circulation (that's what happens with DH and me and I would liken that to what I see in DS's feet.

Flick's booties are www.babiesinsheepsclothing.com/ here they are extremely cool and my DSd2 thinks they are baby uggs!! haha!!

GW - Keep your eyes peeled fro the Edinburgh moonwalk - the date hasn't been fixed yet. I think Edinburgh must be a lovely city to see at night!!!