March 2008:A new thread before they start crawling!

[turtle23]

Thought it was about time....

For those of you with teething issues I can't recommend Baby Orajel highly enough, it's a US product and stronger than the likes of Calgel. It's totally numbing!

Not for everyday use but certainly good for tough teething nights - they do a nighttime solution too which is also fab.

i hate teething for babies. do wonder what the evolutionary advantage of going through all this, twice, can possibly be for the human race. poor little sods.

I hate it. Been up since 4 with teething P. Am ruined. Why is it taking so f-ing long? three bloody months, this is, four teeth swollen and bleeding...arggggggggggggh

{{{hugs}}} turtle, we lasted until 5.35 which is pretty good after a swimming night. Though may have lasted later if the dog hadn't scratched on the bedroom door in a "little timmy is stuck down the well" kind of way - then I realised the baby monitor was still downstairs and E was crying his heart out. I'd like to think that was the dog's motive for scratching the door, but more likely it was "hmm, baby crying, mum's getting up to stop the noise so I can have a comfy lie on their bed in the meantime".

And how much snot can one child produce? It was all matted in his hair this morning, ew

am i the only one with a still toothless baby?

littleducks - my DS got his first tooth 3 weeks ago and then a second last week so they are a very recent occurrence.

i'm not sure if i should say this (might get lynched!) but we finally have a sleeping baby. it is about time though, after 6 nights of increasing awakeness due to congestion (including us getting up at least 8 times on sun and mon - we lost count at about 4am ). if you have a snuffly baby, i can heartily recommend a pan of boiling water with olbas oil in it put somewhere near the cot (but obviously out of the way of clumsy sleepy parents ) - it was still smelling strong this morning and it clearly helped a lot as he isn't actually better and it was the only thing we did differently. he woke 3 times between 7 and 11, i put the pan in at 11 and we only heard a whimper at about 5 and then he slept until 7. i could kiss mr/mrs olbas

i've caught DS's cold though, and on top of that my period has finally returned today . All I want to do is sit on the sofa and eat chocolate and cake, but we are going away to egypt on holiday next week and i have been doing really well on my diet (lost half a stone since september ) so don't want to ruin it now!

no teeth here for littlemmnfm! lots of grizzlies, chewing, snot and poking of gums with finger but no real screaming like pain yet so I fear we are a ways away yet. my cousin's baby just got her first tooth at 13 months, I didn't think that was possible but apparently it's quite normal.

hq i bow down to mr/mrs karvol for similar reasons and ewe, am all about the oragel! am going to the US next month if anybody is interested! (hopefully they'll all have teeth by then?)

Littleducks- sorry to hear about your handbag. I'm doing lots of daft things at the moment. Must be tiredness. And no, you're not the only one with a toothless baby. DS is still toothfree and he is one of the oldest on here. He'll be 9 months in a couple of weeks.
HQ, I was going to feel empathic re your cold and period but then you mentioned Egypt .
Turtle, sorry to hear the time you're having with P. It's so difficult when there's no rhyme nor reason to the waking/feeding patterns.
Hello to the new people as well.
Merryberry- yes I'm still going to the Christmas do. Going to wear my boring but flattering black dress and see if I can fit into my Spanx as I'm at least a dress size bigger than I when I bought them. If I suddenly collapse on the night it won't be casued by excess alcohol, it'll be because my stays are too tight. Smelling salts will be in my bag. .
Ewe, Have a great time in NYC.
Anyone else, sorry If I missed you. Gotta go, DS complaining.

when i ever get a chance, I'm going to go right through all our threads from the start, as my memory now can't remember what i did 2 minutes ago let alone a year and a bit ago when i got up the duff...Apart from that, we've had loads of name changes so I need to go back to work out who's who!

need new thread for mb - please continue conversation here