APRIL 2008 - The One Where They Try to Escape from Cots & Highchairs

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Can someone please add "our babies" as my machine will probably blow up if I try it

Me too. It's gone ever so quiet what with LadyBee on holiday, and OMa and MHaH AWOL.

I think we should gang up on them and demand an immediate return!!! I can be a good stalker,you know...

Lol sal

And arghhhhh!!!!!

Hello all, managed to get out of the loop yet again (real life intruding) so will just say - PFJ, I'm really sorry you're having a rough time with dp at the moment. The first year with a new baby really is the hardest time in a relationship I think - me and dh really fell apart for a while and we didn't have half what you do to deal with. It all came good in the end though, I think you have to hang in there and make sure you keep talking.

I think my Xmas name is going to be Piccalillionthechristmasham.

Things are pretty pants here, Z is still not sleeping. I haven't had more than 2 hours sleep in a row in about 4 months. She's refusing solids too. I'm finding the whole thing so depressing, I just don't know what to try next and I'm back at work in 5 weeks which I absolutely won't be able to cope with on this much sleep. Feel like such a terrible mother.

Oh Piccalilli (love your proposed Christmas name btw!), of course you're a good mother. I wouldn't have coped with that little sleep, yet you sound well and composed! A lot can happen in 5 weeks - hopefully Z's sleep will improve. Fingers crossed.

On this side, I'm tired tonight. Have just put R to bed and will go do dinner now. Planning on gnocchi with carbonara sauce stirred through. Will open a nice wine to make up for total lack of effort. Oh, and the interview went well (I think) - I really liked the guy and the company sound great. Will find out tomorrow whether I got it or not.

VS, answered on your thread in a slightly more composed manner, but in here, between us, I think they're taking the p**s

Piccallilli if you want a more detailed work through of how I finally got A to sleep let me know and I'll give you my email address.

hi all! Nope, not back in blighty yet, this is a call for HELP!!!! from NZ.
Has anyone else's LO turned incapable of settling since starting crawling? Benedict was shuffling when we left london but is now doing a speedy crawl around my parent's house at every opportunity. He's started protesting really loudly everytime I try to lay him on his back for nappy changes or even to rinse his hair in the bath and when I put him down to sleep if he's not asleep already he WILL NOT stop flipping over and getting on his knees and rocking back and forth or crawling to the end of the cot and bumping his head against it. If he IS asleep when I put him down, within about 30 minutes he's woken himself up and is doing the same.
He does it in his sleep in the middle of the night, crying that he's not asleep, shouting that I'm not awake (I am, I'm just trying to pretend I'm not).
Last night I physically had to hold him down to stop him long enough to let him go back to sleep, and this morning I swaddled him - you can imagine how well he took to that, but at least he is now asleep and not waking himself up.
What am I supposed to do?
This is driving me crazy, I've now had 4 weeks of broken sleep after being jetlagged to start off with and I am not enjoying myself very much anymore.
Sorry for such a rant, haven't had time to read posts as don't get on the computer very much. Anyone pleeeaaasssee give me some advice or encouragement?

LadyBee, do you use a sleeping bag? I find A can't really crawl up the cot (and then wake up yelling because he has hit his head!) in his grobag.

Hi all
feel like a new person! my ds is now eating! hooray!!!! after a month of tears at every meal time he has now done a whole week (YEA!) of no tears and gobbling up everything!! think it was his teeth (4th one popped out). but thanks for all the suggestions- used them all and collectively all seemed to work. oh- and pjf- he LOVES hummous! sucks it off rice cakes and throws the rice cakes on the floor!!!

hi sal- where in sa u from? i go back there next week for 5 weeks!!! yeeeaaa! well done with the interview

ladybee-my ds did that too! apparently happens whenever they are mastering things. I agree with vs- try a grobag- works wonders. I also used to go in, pat him, walk out, and repeat. Try not pick him up out of his cot. persistance. good luck.

and yea- my ds took 2 steps this weekend!fast & shakey but went from gate to sofa with no hands! i screamed (delighted/shocked!) and he started crying! oops!!

Sounds like everyone is having a tough time...

Sal, glad interview went well, and that you got good advice from doc. Believe me, one is enough, so just enjoy the time you've got with R before TTC!

PFJ - so sorry you're having a tough time. I never read it, not really my thing, but several people I know read a book called Babyshock which apparently helps couples struggling after their first baby. Worth a try? Failing that, get really pissed and have a really good chat - which is the way we always handle things

LadyBee - sorry, can't help. I can't imagine A crawling - she doesn't do anything yet!

And I am having a nightmare day too. A is poorly, and was up all night. I have just got her to sleep, with some help of medication brilliant mothering skills , but the nursery has just phoned and dd1 is ill too. Do you think I can leave A in the care of the builders, while I pick up dd1? Or is that Wrong? I can't bear to wake her...

And the fecking cat is driving me mad. I was away last night, and the builders left a hole in the wall, which the cat climbed into and then got shut in. I managed to get him out this morning, but he has no doubt pooed in the hole in the wall, eaten wires of whatever is in there, and is now unbelievebly clingy...

Hello folks!

Sal - how did interview go?

(Yes my xmas name is good isn't it? Couldn't think of anything myself not at all, and VS came up with about 3 options, clever girl).

PFJ - sorry 'bout your row hon - how are things today? Agree with sal about him sounding angry but not necesarily at you - I have been depressed in the past and it made me feel like I didn't love anyone, I felt blocked and angry all the time, no patience, sometimes I raged. Luckily at this time I didn't live with DP, so when was raging could go away to my gaff and howl and smoke til felt better. Plus had masses of therapy. Do you think your DP would talk to anyone? Depression made me very self-centred at times, and I know it was hard for my nearest and dearest to get through.

ladybee - no suggestions yet as Molly only just started rolling! Try tying him down maybe?

Piccalilli - you are a great mummy. Lack of sleep drives you slowly mad. What about getting one of those sleep nanny people in to help you? Didn't someone else do that on this thread? Can't remember who maybe sagitta (where IS sagitta anyway?)

VS - my sympathies. DSD's school are doing this - they made crappy things in class to 'sell' at the xmas fayre. But they all have their individual pics on so basically you are guilted in to buying your kids work. How crap is that? Didn't even want to go to the fayre anyway....mumble grumble.

DSD off school today with a sore tummy. Boo.

Umm, ahem, I am Sagitta!

It was Oma who got a maternity nurse...

Oh and hugs to you TheShipsCat - sounds like you have a lot on your plate today. Have a cup of tea and some chocolate x

Hmmm sagitta is not on our list - I think I am getting confused with my threads.

DSD is feeling better. Hmmm again. Methinks she was not actually ill but wanting to be. Hmmm. Had to pick her up from school and everything and cancel plans for lunch with friend. Her Dad is poorly at moment and I think she might have wanted a bit of not well attention. I have been very nice and loving but told her she is ill she has to be in bed doing quiet activities am not having her have a great old exciting time and deciding to come home from school every time she gets a tiny twinge.

Oooooooohhhhh right I remember now.....dur!!!

People shouldn't name change, it confuses my already much confused tiny brain!

At least that mystery is solved then.

Oh no, everybody is sad. Please cheer up, and look after yourselves.

Mimi is better now, so am I. She went to nursery for 9-1 today, first time for lunch and bottle there. NO problems , so pleased.

Did lots of Xmas shopping today. Got Mimi this, and a little 'star' stacker toy thing.

Boys have got ds's and games, ect. Got DH some ps3 stuff and a dressing gown, and diesel aftershave set thing. All good.

Am feeling very christmassy. Have got all decs up too and Reilly had nativity yesterday, he wasa fisherman in The Mousehole Cat story.

LadyBee - Hello It has happened to every one of my babies, the whole hard to settle/change/everything with once they start crawling/walking/cruising. It does stop, could you try giving him a toy whilst you change him, or hang a chime or light catcher above where you change him. Mimi has a big bumper on her cot like this so she doesn't bang her head, though she does wriggle everywhere, so we have recently swapped to a Grobag. I cannot believe i have never used one before, they are fab.

I have a very poorly little boy

Alex? What's wrong?

He has what I had. He's got a fever, a really bad throat (sounds like he smokes 60 a day and can't cry)a cough, red eyes and a snotty nose.
He can't sleep because he wakes up coughing, he can't eat much cos he can't breathe and he doesn't want to be put down.
Plus his top tooth has half cut through.

Not looking forward to tomorrow, I have a meeting in the morning, then breastfeeding support training, then come home and my boss is coming to show me how to work the server (I was supposed to be going in but dp's grandad has fell off his bike and needs a hip operation so MiL is going to have the boys in the morning (with my mobile ready to be called if I have to go home), then watch them here in the afternoon so she can go if there is any trouble without me having to cancel, then I have someone coming to pick up a bed in the afternoon.

Ahh, VS, that's exactly what my two have got...dd1 is watching telly, so OK, but dd2 is having a nightmare time. Sounds like you've got it tough tomorrow...

And we were all in a car crash about 3 weeks ago (all fine) but today is the day where we have to change cars back, as our is repaired, so I'm having to run out all the time to move car seats, clear up 3 weeks worth of orange peel, biscuit wrappers, vomit and other general crap. And swap our lovely big hire car for our crappy, tiny Fiesta...

VS thats what we have all had, and what Mimi has just got over. We bought some karvol drops for her, my boobs are huuuge now as she was feeding so much and they have caught up iyswim...

TSC - when our car got vandalised they gave us a tiny car! We had a citroen c1, lol. For us and the boys.

Guess who's coming back.....

who? who?

Me - lol (don't get too excited now!)

Hello all - went for what was meant to be a lovely facial today, but of course, me being me just can't lie back and enjoy - no - I have to start getting strange pains in my back and end up in so much pain that we couldn't continue! Typical! The Beautician reckons it cos I've been so poorly and haven't had a chance to relax and get better, that the moment I relaxed my body started letting out toxins. Great. And I actually feel worse after my facial than I have all week. No pleasing me hey!

Gigi is now sitting and when not sitting, prefering to spend time on her tummy (I think she has figured she gets to see more/do more that way). Oh and she is now doing something very annoying too - blowing raspberries at everything I offer her to eat. It was funny to begin with, now its annoying! How do I get her to stop this? I am getting tired of being covered in food! She is still not sleeping brilliantly - really hope that starts to improve sometime soon - I can't continue on like this.

Sorry to hear A is poorly VS - hope he is on the mend soon.

Sal - did you hear back yet re interview?

Sorry to hear about you and DH PFJ - hope you work things out.

LadyBee - try the grobag - it might work - keeps Gigi contained and snug. Hope you start enjoying your much deserved holiday soon!

Whoooohoooooo, I go away for a day and come back to loads of posts!!! It's ok, I can go away more often, I get it now

MommyHasaHeadache, so glad you're back!

Now to read all your messages properly - in my over excitement I scan read and now can't remember what really important replies I planned to blabber about!

Oh, and interview went well, had feedback from agent this morning, apparently the client was really impressed, I'd be a perfect fit for the company, but it's still between me and one other person (they've got more qualifications, I'd apparently fit in better). They called for extra references, I think (well, sincerely hope, whether I get the job or not) mine'll be solid, so now just wait and see. I quite liked this - even if I don't get the job, it's nice feeling I didn't scare the guy off completely.

Oh, R pulled the hallway mirror over himself It could have broken and cut him! Damn, this weekend is babyfying weekend, no more waiting. To those of you with no-crawling babies: Be grateful. Be very grateful.

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