April 2008 - the one where we have to babyproof everything!

[EllieG]

Am I first? Couldn't think of what to call it....

VS - I think she is hungrier, yes, I tried giving more milk, which helped, but then yesterday she spurned more milk for more food (I guess she can't take both) and she did sleep better last night. Woke once at 5.30 for drink water and then 6.30 properly. She is never hungry for her breakfast til about 8 though - does anyone else have this? Should I stop giving a ten o clock feed?

Clarissimo, how odd - I just heard a radio program recently that said long ring fingers were an indicator of likely success in market trading (but only high frequency short trades), again because of the link to high testosterone exposure...(look here)

Now some people might argue such traders (speculators??) were a drain on society but I couldn't possibly comment

I went out tonight. After work. For drinks.
Just like old times

My dsis and I both have long ring fingers. We are spectacularly unsuccessful in the business world!

Cor after work drinks! I remember those days...

Molly slept through for the second night running! Up at 6, but i don't mind.

She is SO clingy at the moment, will play quite happily, then notices I am there and moans to be picked up. She's never been clingy before, is odd. Now just wants to be on me all the time. Am trying just to call out to her and play and distract rather than picking her up straight away - do you think that's right?

Hmm maybe there will be at least one benefit to going back to work!

Glad to hear Molly is sleeping through Ellie. Gigi is as well - and it is a relief as I am sure you know! Some days she sleeps to 8am some days to 6am - I prefer the 8am days!

Gigi is also a little clingy at the moment and I do the same as you. Apparently this is the age where they go seperation anxiety - so I am presuming that is what it is.

Oh I don't even want to talk to you lot anymore - R's sleeping have gone downhill (if that was even possible!) and he's waking up all the time lately! Usual story really - teething AGAIN combined with a cold. I can see why sleep deprivation is seen as torture by the Geneva Convention! Seriously though, very glad for you all. (Yet still jealous )

Ladybee, impressed with you having energy for after work drinks - I'm falling flat when I get home lately! Hoping to have more energy as soon as Mr sleeps better and month end over.

Have to go out and buy R some more winter clothes today, as he seems to have grown out of most of his. Lovely day outside today, isn't it.

Anyway, hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Don't worry Sal LOL, I ahd all three until midnight (grrrr), ds1 screeching and crying (has a lot of phobias around bedtime- being alone and a fear of kidnappers being the most problematic) until 3, dh snoring and waking me hourly LOL..... then ds3 back in my bed for six!

Bas only woke to feed twice but frankly if he'd been up more it'd have amde little difference

Ladybee- I heard about that radio program, apaprently teh testosterone thing doesnt just link to ASD but many successful businessman.

Sorry you've had rubbish sleeps sal and clarisimo - never fear sal, I'm sure I will soon be back to join the ranks of Non-Sleepers Anon

She is SO grumpy at moment. I wonder if is teeth? My little smiling girl has turned into a clingy moany thing for the last couple of days. DH suggested we put her on ebay

She is napping now and DSD out with friend ahhh....peace for a bit...

Clarisimo, sounds horrid - hope you got a moment to nap today! Failing that, strong coffee.

Ellie, glad that you're on your way to have your priorities straight again Your rejoining of Non-Sleepers Anon is awaited with bated breath and puffy eyes...

Nap? PMSL. Coffee more my style, getting a fancy coffee maker for Moters Day lol

The guys at my new work commented on my coffee consumption the other day - apparently I start my day with "a pint of coffee" (Starbucks large)! They clearly have no idea about what it takes to wake me up lately, lol.

we've also joined the Non-Sleepers Anon group Sal - poor old B simply can't re-settle himself at the moment, I suppose the pain of teething is too much to cope with and wakes him completely and then he stands up in the cot and that's it - needs me or DP to get him back down and asleep again.

Has anyone found anything really good that seems to work with teething? Does the teething gel do the trick? Every time I've tried to put it on, DS just sucks it off my finger.

And come on those who have been before. Tell me this gets better? I want my lovely laidback, easygoing boy back

LOL at pint o f coffee! Nobody else here drinks caffeinated coffee- DH doesn't at all (drinks white choc options, horrid stinky things) and my parents drink decaff- I have to keep my own extra strong stuff at their house LOL. I wasn't too bad untiol Uni, 3 hour Philosophy of Theology sessions on a MOnday morninga fter a weekend with the kids- started every day with a double espresso and high sugar flapjack

Ladybee it gets better. Actually, it really does.

teetjhing- those granules are much better, calms them down immediately, for just long enough for calpol to work. Why we spend so long trying every gel going I never know LOL- calpol! The granule-calpol trick is a genius I tell ya!

Ladybee - we had a Dentist come round to our PN Group and she said that the gels do not work and that you are better of giving them Nurofen or Calpol. She also said the powders are a distraction - they enjoy having the sweet stuff fizz on their tongues, but they don't actually do anything either. Sorry

I'm really sorry you guys are having these troubles with your babies - I hope Gigi doesn't revert back - I don't drink coffee so have to rely on matchsticks to keep my eyes open - and the buggers always fall out!

Ah yes but the distraction is whay buys tou the time for calpol to kick in you see LOL (coz that 15 minutes or so can be Hellish!)

We ahd a good night last night, down for midnight and no wakings until 4.30am.

uhuh, so how do you get the powders on to their tongue? do yours cooperatively stick their tongues out and tip their heads back? I've been resorting to using a damp finger to try to rub the stuff into his mouth somehow.

Glad that calpol/nurofen are getting the thumbs up, I dither everytime about whether to start on it as I feel like we're using it so regularly, but if there isn't a better alternative I won't worry about it too much.

I'm also dithering about feeding at the moment. Basically, almost every time I go to settle DS he starts clawing at my top and 80% of the time he won't settle til I feed him - he'll quieten and I'll go to put him in the cot and we get the real tears and anguished cry. The problem is, I don't feel completely sure of my supply at the mo' as am only doing mornings and nights and having gone back to work I'm a bit worried that my supply might have dropped because of the change in my routine/eating/drinking. He doesn't seem to ever come off himself because he's full in the evenings, he just sucks until he falls asleep which is often quite soon because he's knackered from being at the childminder.
hummm, don't know what to do..don't want him to get into habit of always needing me to feed him to sleep through the night, but don't want him to be hungry, equally don't want to lose my supply by making my body think it's producing enough if it isn't.

I should probably post this on the BFing thread

Welcome, Ladybee. My sympathies and a double espresso.

R now has a cold (probably damn teething's fault) and has done the whole puking thing again yesterday. He does this when the phlegm gets too much, but it is rather annoying. Everything covered in drying laundry at the moment. Have run out of Calpol, so a trip to Tesco on the books as soon as it opens.

Oh, after his first vomiting session yesterday he was all cheerful again, and when he laughed I realised another 2 teeth has cut through - I didn't even realise! So now 4 top, 2 bottom through, with two about to come through at the bottom - red and swollen with just a hint of white. Hmm, sounds like a dodgy wine discription, doesn't it?

MommyHasaH - interesting re the dentist, I have wondered about medical opinion on it. Gel makes no diff to R, but he seems to calm down a little with those powder sachets. Will combine with said to-be-bought Calpol and pray for peace and quiet!

Clarissimo, you made me actually lol with your "had a good night" comment - what have life changed to when we have to be overjoyed with 4 hours sleep!

I do the licking finger, dipping it in powder, rubbing on R's gums (he likes to bite down on it) thing. Sometimes I'll lick, dip, press on tongue, but to be honest, find directly on his gums the best. Tried pouring on tongue way back at the beginning, but that resulted in extreme unhappiness!

Sal, I need a pint of coffee to start my day as well! The girls in work now know that if chipmonkey doesn't start the day with coffee, it's because she is pregnant!

LadyBee, I find that if I give her an initial lick of the powder off my finger, and then ask her to open her mouth, she usually obliges! Although Gigi teeths and teeths, she has no teeth yet!

Sorry to hear about R Sal - poor little mite! It's good he is getting the phlegm out thpugh - when Gigi had her two colds recently, I sort of wished she would have a little puke up so she could get rid of the phlegm that was clearly bothering her.

Man, I am SOOOOOOOOOO cold today! Just can't seem to warm up which is strange as normally I feel the cold, but not this much! Better not be getting sick - espeacially as we leave for SA in a week and I want to go feeling healthy!

DH birthday today and we went for a lovely lunch in the quaint old pub we know in the villiage down from us. Was really yummy, but it means no dinner for me tonight - well maybe a fat free yogurt and some fruit as I don't want to really bugger up all the work I have done so far with my diet. Sigh - I really do love food and wish I was one of those chicks that could just eat anything and never put on weight!

That does sound lovely, hope you managed to find something more substantial (if not more calorific) than yoghurt & fruit for dinner though.
(You have my sympathy, I once was on a 1100 calorie diet for ages, did lose a lot of weight (needed to, still do), but I just remember missing that 'full' feeling)

We're having a good night so far - DS has been asleep since 7 and not a squawk...I have of course, just jinxed us, so should probably go to bed now to ensure we get some sleep myself.

I'm trying not to drink too much coffee and still ask for decaffeinated drinks occassionally just so that when if I do get pregnant again, it won't be immediately obvious!! I already feel the great unspoken question ("so, do you want more children") hanging in the air.

Am very excited, a friend who writes has asked me to read some of her chapters. I did her first draft and apparently gave good constructive criticism...she obviously believes I haven't completely lost my critical eye in the intervening years. Hope I still can summon up an opinion - I might have to drop out a bit while I get through the reading when it appears.

Oh no MommyHasaH - drink loads of vitamins and Zinc just in case!

Ladybee - how exciting! And of course you'll still be as good as always.

I probably left it too late too, but am rushing off to be before it all falls apart. Night, all.

I am huge coffee monster. but do switch to decaff when pg, but always lapse later on

It's my wedding anniversary today! Am proud owner of a new white gold diamond ring; and a 1500g, yes, 1500g, box of thorntons . We are off out tonight too. yay!

Happy anniversary, scorpio! Gosh, remember this time last year! All of us with our big bumps and your lovely wedding photos!

I do keep thinking of last year also, a bit [sd] that it ahs passed so quickly! (Have tried nagging dh for a dc5 but that's a definite no go LOL, even though kids have begged also )

Scorpio congrats!

Have a slightly ill ds4 home today, didnt want him to be but there's a kid with cancer in his class so not worth the risk.

lol at asking for dc5 hope you don't feel too sad?

Yes this last year has gone so fast. I was 29 weeks this time last year, and getting married around now actually! Who knew how beautiful our babies would be?