March 2008 babies: Why aren't humans born with teeth and other important topics!

[MarchNowFebMum]

new thread - old one getting too big for some...

Ewe as you are in a mid-life crisis mood i would strongly suggest purchasing one of these to protect your dds head

(Ok, i am kidding but think they are funny, it is perfectly normal and is fine on wood/laminate/carpet/grass just avoid slate/concrete/tarmac floors and hopefully the more exercise she gets eventually the more sleep you will get)

turtle glad the hv meeting went well as you were worried

CM good vibes sent, is your sis close to you? it will be nice to have cousins close in age to play together

Ewe- sounds like a plan. If we are ever over the lurgy let's let P+T attack trample terrorise a chidren's centre or something!!
You have my number, right?

Hate to say it, but my nephew walked at nine months. Not just steps, but walking. Terrifying for my sister b/c his balance and motor skills weren't really up to it so he fell a lot. So, I'm afraid it may not be usual, but it is normal.

Good vibes for your sister, CM. How fun for you to have a cousin for DD.

Ewe, LOL at your mid-life crisis. I'm not sure that's possible just yet - early-20s crisis maybe?? Hope you get a night out to yourself. Tell me what it's like because I've forgotten. I never go out without G and seriously need to.

No pumpkin bread recipe, HQ but will have a look for one. I will do the R&D and let you know the results.

Yikes! Anyone else have a baby like dd who doesn't move anywhere? Or show signs of it?

JFly, thank you for correcting me about the marshmallows I didn't mean to suggest that you would do such a thing! (althought aren't you slightly intrigued to find out what it would taste like?)

G doesn't really move. He sits up very well and spends most of his time like that. But doesn't crawl or roll even. He has rolled, but doesn't like to be on his front at all.

Don't worry about the marshmallows - I take it all in my stride. But don't mess with pumpkin pie, I tell you, or it's ON.

Thanks all. We are close emotionally but about an hour apart geographically. Hers is baby no. 3 this year - SIL had a little girl in July. Can't wait till they are a bit older - can shut them all in a room together at Christmas and they can entertain each other. just not in my house!

congrats Ewe and Turtle. how exciting. sincerely hope that dd doesn't figure out walking for a while. who said mobility was a good thing? am beginning to wish i had had one that sat and smiled and did nothing else until about a year, and then slowly rolled over! Ewe- which nursery do you use? A local one? I'm having to start thinking about finding one for dd in case i go back to work next year (Will depend on whether they can offer me part time or not...)

MNFM - when the HV said that about toast and fruit did she say whether you should just go with it or whether you should try and get other stuff in (and if so how... LO has learnt how to spit things out she doesn't like)?? that seems to be where we are now. oh, except she won't eat fruit. if it's not cream cheese on toast, forget it. she is even clever enough that if i mix something with the cream cheese she'll spit it out. even something with no particular flavour like scrambled egg. grrrrrrrrrrrr.

no way, don't worry- I'm pumpkin pie's second biggest fan (after you of course!)

Why do they have to get so clever, CM? G can tell from the spoon that it's something he does or doesn't want. Or if he's not sure, he puts one finger on it and if he doesn't want it he pings the tip of the spoon and the contents go flying. If he wants it, he grabs the spoon and shoves it in his mouth. Little so and so!

G's preferences seem to change from meal to meal, so I keep offering the same things to make sure I don't narrow his choices too much. I tend to have a least one thing (toast or yogurt) at each meal I know he'll eat, but try to mix it up otherwise if I can. Still, if he just wants toast, he just eats toast. And today at lunch he didn't want anything, just milk!

I read somewhere that we control what food is offered and when and they control what they eat and how much. Supposedly means that you won't battle about food later. But, they are still little, so nothing's set in stone. Frustrating, though, when they won't eat.

thanks Jfly - so glad it's not just me!!

mines like jfly's baby, with added grinding his face into the carpet as he tries to move somewhere else.

My ds sat up very sturdily very early (before he was 5mo) and seems to have decided that he likes life from that position thank you very much. He'll spend no more than 2 mins on his tummy before crying and has forgotten how to roll - used to do it but now just flails.

The only time he does anything else is at Gymboree (ilgb - did you ever manage to justify it? ) where he pulls himself to standing to look in the bucket of balls and attempts to crawl to get a ball only to go backwards commando style and get very upset as he is further from the ball than when he started. In fact the first time he sat up and rolled were both at Gymboree and both involved balls. Typical boy!

HQ- I did until January! It is fab, dd esp loves the parachute and bubbles. Oh, and the balls too!
We have the same thing happening here: she knows how to roll and is very good at it, except in her cot where she gets "stuck" and cries until you go in and flip her over.

CM - I do use a local nursery, more than happy to give more info but would rather do it off board. Are you on turtle's facebook friends list? If so, add me or if you still have my email address then email me and I will tell you all about it.

I went out for wine and food this evening, was lovely and feeling much much better. Had a good debate with DP about politics, feel like me again, HURRAH!!!

Love the baby helmet, def want one!

I think we should organise an evening out without babies... there is too much staying in going on on this board!

the look on that babies' face, wearing the helmet. looks astonished and displeased and resigned to it all at the same time

Hello everyone,

Well you're probably all away as it's Saturday when I get a chance to MN a bit, although I really should be doing some cleaning up while DH is at the shops and DD is napping.

Cricketsmum - any news from your sis? I hope she had a good birth and is now cuddling her little newborn.

That's brilliant that you'll all have children so close in age, and your LO will have lots of top cousin fun.

My sister had a boy in July, just 4 months younger than DD. In DH's family his sister had a boy in April, his step-sister had a boy in February, and his step-sister-in-law had a boy last October. So DD has 4 cousins very close in age to her, all boys. We are going to DH's family for Christmas. It's going to be baby-tastic

LOL @ JFLy World Defender of Pumpkin Pie.

My first Thanksgiving in the States I was invited to a friend's birth family's dinner. It was so nice of them to invite me but it was one of the most awful meals I've ever had. The only thing near to me was marshmallow yams, which apart from sounding and looking disgusting, violates my firmly-held (some might say fundamentalist) position on the separation of main course and pudding. Nobody passed food around or offered anything to anybody else so I just sat there forlornly looking as they all scoffed the Turkey that was out of my reach.

I think that's brilliant that P and T are starting to walk. The daughter of some friends of mine also started walking at 8 months. I previously thought 9 months was about as early as it would happen. She's just over a year now and is a brilliant little thing. She's a silent assassin, just this tiny, quiet lady walking about and climbing up and down the stairs.

I'm surprised to hear complaints about movement. One way I can now get a minute to do something is to put DD at one end of the room and my phone on the floor at the other. I have until she gets it to it to do whatever it is I need to do

OK, one question. What is involved in babyproofing? I guess I should do something other than just watching her all the time to make sure she's not near anything that could hurt her.

Started weekend at the germ playground that is St Helier hospital as the Starbucks lurgy returns. More antibiotics and new pink-coloured vom for poor old P. DH away on retreat for next week. Anybody fancy meeting up with very ill child and nearly as ill Mum?

what did they diagnose turtle? poor P! get better soon!

babyproofing- no ignition devices (matches/lighters) wires pref out of sight, covered sockets, do not leave chargers plugged in but laptop/mobile removed as child WILL PUT IN MOUTH, nothing that can be pulled to topple over

am feeling unwell and am generally pissed off as out of 7 days in a week dh is home, for one hour before dc bed on two evenings, sat afternoon (morn lie in, evening work before dc go bed) sunday afternoon (as sat)
and i want some ME TIME but hell what would i actually do with it, feel asleep at 7pm last night!

Skidoodle I apologise on behalf of all civilised Americans for your substandard Thanskgiving experience. It has obviously left you scarred even years later. I can offer you some post-traumatic stress counselling, should you require it. Although it may involve pumpkin pie therapy, so steel your nerves! [I promise to stop talking about pumpkin pie now.]

{{{turtle}}}, hope you're both better very soon. Is P vomiting all the time or is he able to keep some fluids down?

Lol at the headgear - think mine may need it soon, he can sit up now without keeling over at inopportune moments onto the laminate, but he's so squirmy he may end up jumping out of our arms at some stage for a skydive.

Have succumbed to baby jail...one of these Liked the funky colours on this, must be my hormones again, as I'm normally a beech or birch wood type of person. He can be in jail until he's walking, then it's going round the tv/surround sound system as I can't baby proof that any other way. LO can spot cables from 50 drags paces and makes a beeline for them. Is playing games with his gran now - heads for cables, turns round to look at her with disdain when she shouts no, and goes straight back to them. We have too much cr@p clutter and laptops etc around downstairs to keep tidied away so into jail he must go

Saw E's photos today from last week's waterbabies shoot. Not as good as I thought though they were only 6x4 proofs, but they look a lot better when enlarged so went way over budget and ordered a canvassy type one. Sigh, money is flowing out quicker than i can earn it at the moment!

how come some of these strikeouts work and some don't

fnf1-Actually, the vom isn't too bad. Just that new medicine tastes (and smells) rotten so it projectiled straight back first time. Poor old thing.
It is his ear again, as they didn't give him a very strong antibiotic first time round apparently. Joy. The only thing he will eat is jars of first food(can't do lumps and am bored of wasting lovingly prepared organic proper food.) Can't say I blame him though. He can barely swallow. Unless it's breastmilk. We did a total of 6 hours after bedtime last night...how is that possible?
On the plus side, trapped under sleeping baby with laptop got my xmas shopping sorted.

6 hours? Fark! You're amazing, I don't think I could go back to selfless cluster feeding again. Sorry to hear P is sick again, it can surely only get better!

I am resorting to a prison playpen - they are so bloody expensive though!!

Oooh and despite it being a bit chilly today we took DD to a new playground near us and she absolutely LOVED the swing and the roundabout (on my lap). She was chuckling for England, it was fab.

And I think I have found a new (mould free as it is brand new) place to live. It's a gorgeous apartment with a roof terrace - I have lovely visions of chilled white wine, light evenings and good friends, come on summer!

Morning all

Skidoodle - thanks for asking about my sister... not going well... 36 hours in and nothing is happening. they have some weird CM setup that she is supposed to be on for 20 minutes every 4 hours but being the NHS she keeps being left on it for 2 hours at a time cos they forget about her. she says it's like a huge tubigrip that goes over her belly and is really sore and bruised from it... wtf? i had CM for most of my labour and it was nothing like that and definitely not painful. Just been on the phone to her, both in tears - she is knackered, sore and not getting any answers. First pessary did nothing but they want to leave her for a day and then try another one, but won't let her go home for the day. My mum and SIL (a doctor thankfully) are near to the where she is and are going in today to try and get the midwives to answer some questions... why just another pessary? why not break her waters/try a drip? would a Ceasar be the way to go at the moment?? She is 12 days overdue today... Makes me so mad that she is just being left without anyone actually taking the time to talk to her and explain what is going on and their logic. i think they forget how stressful it is when your baby is at stake!! Grrrr. Rant over. Close to jumping in the car and going over myself but dh keeps pointing out that I couldn't add anything to my mum and SIL.

Ewe - good news re the flat. sounds great.

Turtle - hope you and P are doing better today.

Am starting to think i need to try pumpkin pie to see what all the controversy is about!!!

CM- Thanks He's a bit better.
They usually have to do the pessary thing like that. If they go for the synto/ARM bit there is no going back, iyswim. Poor thing, though. Why is she being induced?