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?

Ellie - yay for Molly! I'm sure her crawling etc is nothing to worry about - she is just doing stuff higgedly piggeldy thats all

Going to attempt to paint the front room this weekend - better do it before our sofa comes. HATE painting.

Hello everybody, took ds2 for his second visit to nursery today. Only 10 days til he starts I never want to go back to work, its poo, I'm really banking on a lottery win this weekend so I can cancel my work return and never send ds2 to nursery. Preeeettttyy sure thing I reckon. I'm so scared he'll take his hearing aids out and eat them while noone's looking but I'm hoping that's me being ever so slightly neurotic I'm so concerned he will scream the place down when I leave tho. We've been pretty much joined at the hip since he was born and I've king of wrapped him up in cotton wool a bit since he was diagnosed so I really don't think he's going to appreciate me leaving him. How have all the other babies been for those of you who have had to go back to work?
Got a scan on Mon to get an accurate date of preg for the cvs. Scary, makers it all very very real.

You can't win it PM, we need it to get a house near the other shcool so Bas doesn't have to go there and I will be clear of the nutters forever LOL

We've got our 8 month check on teh 2nd; bet they check Bas veeeery carefully indeed after missing DS3 LOL!

Well did I mention ds3 has a school place in an sn unit agreed at last? Thank goodness! I heard the SENCO ask him to hut up today- now I don't have to play nice I said '$=4 years it took me to persuade that child to talk and now she tells him to shut up!'
REALLY loudly LOL

OOh we won a voucher for a local place in a raffle- come see here

PM haven't really left BAs yet either, he screeches if I do. I might go and join a local gyum with a creche now I have ditched the PTA and that will be interesting (sob).

(And in case anyone thinks I am posh mum who lunches LOL reason I am nto back at work is simply the SN bus drop off / childcare thing! Didnt want anyone thinking we were uber rich or owt)

PM (make sure you read all)- My LO had a proper day at nursery today (she had a shorter day last week). Was a bit worried cos she's only going 1 day a week, so thought she might've forgotten all about it! Don't know if it was fortunate or unfortunate that she did remember, cos as we went in, she remembered that her mummy leaves her there! I left quickly before she started to cry too much!
BUT apparently she soon forgot all about mummy, ate all her lunch & dinner, slept (very rare!) and happily sat and played with all the toys! So am now very happy about sending her there again next week !

Oh brilliant news, bumpkin!

Uhm sorry, and to everyone else too - I keep forgetting that I lurk more than most often and thought I've actually chatted to you guys more recently!

So glad it's weekend - anyone has anything exciting planned?

Hey all.

I think I must be mad.. have just heard there is a parachute jump thingy going on in my area and just need to raise £395 for sponsorship to do it..I am seriously considering it...

Oh go ahead VS, do it!!! (But don't get killed in the process, please!) I'd LOVE to do it, am so jealous.

Go ahead and do it VS - I've done it and it was one of the most amazing things I've done. If I was richer, I would take it up as a hobby.

Glad to hear nursery is going well Bumpkin. I live in hope that Gigi will adapt as well as your LO!

Thanks for all the pearls ladies - LR will try that the next time my sister visits. Just too strange!

Nice win Peachy!

Hello girls! PM, great to see you, and wonderful news about the baby. No here although DH did ask if we could have another one last night! Eek.

Peachy, I read that thread and don't flounce. I think it was a few tools versus basic compassion and humanity! One poster there in particular always irritates me and strikes me as an idiot (is it OK to say that?) I think you wrote really eloquently and kept your cool extremely well. So sad/just plain bizarre that people can think like that.

First week back went OK. Girls were very good given we all had flu the week before so settling in didn't really happen, and DD2 settled in really well. Had a 3 hour sleep today according to her book! She is trying to stand unaided, too, and I think she'll manage it quite soon. Not on the move yet, though.

Hoping to have news re redundancy on Monday. I think there's a pretty good chance. Then I can be a posh mum who lunches! Otherwise, Sal and LadyBee, I'm in Moorgate so you two will have to have lunch without me - don't think I can make it as far as Strand! If I lose my job I can, though. Nursery needs one month's notice and I'd be off immediately (although GET THIS they give you a fake office somewhere just in case you want to carry on going to work and don't want to tell your spouse!!!) so I could come and meet you and actually be able to start AND finish a conversation, unlike the other times we've met!

Have a happy weekend, wonderful girls. VS, the boozy MN girls love-in made me really smile! Oooh, booze. Now there's an idea. I'll sponsor you for your parachute jump! Make sure it's safe, though. I honestly think there would probably be a full percentage point drop in number of mums successfully BF (not to mention weaning at the right age) without you, so it's your civic duty to listen when they're telling you how to pull the cord.

Scorpio, hope you're feeling better. I think I might be more obsessed than you with whether you are joining PM in the club or not! I think we come just above family on the order of who to tell... OK, you can tell DH before us...

Ha ha OMa - bet you will have another one especially if no more job.... seriously though - a fake office??!! Glad your dd's are enjoying nursery - a 3 hour sleep?? Mimi manages about 1/2 hr at nursery. The other day i went to get her at 1pm and she was soooo tired but wouldnt give in to sleep there. I gave in to booby at home in the day and she slept for ages. Are you still BF too? We are just morning and night now.

DH has gone training; cannot wait to see him [have been ill emoticon]

Oh yes, ta, am much better now. will announce pg in due course.....though in rl am not telling until scan, and i think i know someone on here in RL....so that makes it hard. Can always do a group email, lol

Oh & i will be in Woking in May. (not far from london emoticon) VS is that far from you?

although there is a bonus to all this illness - am now skinnier

OML - What a great idea, having a fake office - think I may have to apply for a job there (but don't imagine the pay's very good)! Hope you get the redundancy, if that's what you want.

OMa, fingers crossed for that redundancy! (Feels such a strange thing to say in this day and age, but I know you'd like it, so you know what I mean.) Lunch would be great, but will be quite jealous if we have to rush back to work and you can still have a nice day!

I was quite shocked to see your company has a "fake office", but then remembered someone I once worked with got made redundant and he didn't tell his wife for 3 MONTHS!!! Only told her once he got a job again. How strange - I still wondered what he did with his time all day - couldn't exactly hang around the house (his wife doesn't work).

Peachy - just read back to see your post re what that lady's baby was being assessed for, and went into your link again re your raffle prize - that looks lovely! [jealous]

Anyway, jealousy aside and back to what I originally looked for - do you know anything about coeliacs? (Or anyone else on here?) I know you've got quite a lot of food intolerance type knowledge, so thought I'll take a chance. Am off to search internet now, but you always find these links that tell you we're all dying tomorrow, so I tend not to really believe internet medical sites! Hmm, maybe should try NHS direct or something.

(wanted that to be face btw)

wish me luck, ds1 is having 3 friends over for a sleepover tonight and I'm bringing them to a movie tomorrow. I'm exhausted just thinking about it!

My word, you've got guts! Hope you survive it in one piece. Maybe you should keep a glass of wine within reach just in case

How did it go TL? Are you still in one piece?

I am going out with DH tonight! DSD at sleepover and DD being babysat by my Mum, so me and DH are going out with friends yey! Am ridiculously excited - sad really as in pre-baby times this used to happen all the time , but in new life is a Big Thing. And frankly, I have neither the stamina or money to go out very often now.

Peachy - at SENCO telling your DS to shut up!
And I think you are well posh, and all that childcare stuff is just a front cos you can't be arsed to work and spend your days having affairs with your tennis coach while you palm the kids off on the nanny.

VS - brave, foolish lady.

PMSL @ Ellie's take on Peachy. I was mildly suspicious after seeing that lovely hotel your school pta group met that time, there might be some truth to this new suggestion...

Oh Ellie, that sounds great! It's been ages since we went out with friends - have planned a couple of times but has seemed to go wrong every time. I don't think I even know how to socialise anymore...

And see how quiet she is this morning? It's cos she's having a champagne breakfast at Clarridges or summat. Not like me, who's ignoring both kids and sitting on internet - that's proper parenting.

Molly is hitting her little train with a ball in a sad ignored way, probably should go interact with her.

Can I ask - sometimes I think I don't play enough with her - she sits and plays, I get on with housework etc, and I chat to her while doing so, and then when done I will sit down and see if she wants me to play, but am not constantly doing messy play or similar. And if she is happy on her own I will just sit and have a cuppa and chat to her while she plays. Am I going to stunt her development? I quite like it that she is happy to play independently for a bit, but when she isn't, we tend to get out of the house rather than me organising activities inside, as I get bored. I do read with her when she is done playing before her nap as is nice quiet cuddle time. How much and what does everyone else play with them?

oh Ellie, please don't start playing - then I might feel guilted into it too! Nope, i'm pretty much the same as you - BabyBee happily plays with toys, gets one out of the basket, examines intently, bashes a bit, puts to one side, gets another out of basket..etc etc. Personally I think this is excellent for his development, he's exploring at his own pace. I sometime demonstrate what a toy can do if he hasn't worked it out and then leave him to try..or I'll make huge encouraging noises, clap him when he does something etc but I think it's good for them to see me reading to myself etc. or doing stuff with him not being the centre of all my attention all the time.
I read with him a couple of times a day, normally after meals as he's still a bit splurty so I want him to be upright and a bit still. Then the books go down on the floor and he spends time looking at them by himself.
I get down on the floor and crawl around after the ball or balloon we have, batting it back to him - he likes that. And if he picks up one of the musical toys I'll grab something else and sing a nursery rhyme with him.
But I'd say 60-75% he's playing by himself with me watching and having tea or folding washing or something.

What is messy play and how does one do it?