June 08 - New Year same old sleepless nights

[hedgehog1979]

Bit bored so thought I would start the new thread

BDQ- I have a similar issue with excessive, nay practically OCD, handwashing and have found that smothering them in Lansinoh before I go to bed, then sleeping with cotton gloves/socks seems to 'bring them up a treat' as my nan used to say.

Rolf- I sued Sudocrem on a similar problem under babypearls' neck...

I can confirm that Luke sits ridiculously well- babypearls got tired of watching him last week and just chewed the toys instead On subject of carseats, Neenz, I noticed you were asking on another thread about the Kiddy Infinitypro- have yu ordered one yet?

Hello to anyone I've missed out. I might not have mentioned you but I follow every word, and know hat you are there xxx

Rolf anything with lanolin in should be good as well, I have another friend who swears by the Body Shops Hemp cream (she mucks out horses, outisde in cold wet etc)

rolf lovely to hear from you - and lol re the ilie.. and don't see why you couldnt use metanium on legs although any suggestions as to getting the stains out

Rolf I have lots of red patches, bit swollen, bit of a rash, broken skin (looks like cuts). Very itchy and stings when in contact with anything that has even sniffed the most gentle of detergents. Obviously lots of great suggestions here on good creams for industrial strength moisturising, but if I were you I'd definitely get a GP to have a wee look.

Mine certainly thought it warranted some prescription lotions and potions. She also said to avoid detergents wherever possible, not to put any kind of baby potions in DS's bathwater (we dont anyway). She recommended using gloves as much as possible to minimise handwashing. I've been looking on t'internet for boxes of latex gloves etc because I dont think marigolds are ideal for nappy changes

ouch - sympathies to those with sore hands , mine flare up every so often and I go through lots of rubber gloves in this line of work.

Puree - lol at your typo - sued sudocrem was all I read as I skimmed your post.

I've got pins and needles in my left hand atm, think I've trapped a nerve whilst sleeping with Ethan next to me after a late night feed!

Ethan's just lovely at the moment (apart from the waking in the night,but you can't have it all) He's rolling, sitting for short while (nowhere near 30 mins yet), laughing, babbling, and clapping his hands is his particular party trick,he surprised us tonight when he managed to blow a raspberry on his hand and made a really loud noise.He also loves stairs, if I carry him up he laughs and when I carry him down he farts!

Tell me what's lovely about your baby today?

deb thats lovely...MY lovely thing for the day - telling Isaac NO when he tries to get under the TV unit and him looking back up at me and laughing at me.

Sorry to everyone having problems with their hands. I must be lucky, I have never really suffered with bad hands, but I do get really bad eczema on the inside of my thighs when it is really cold.

Loving the idea of iLie

Took Isaac out in his new maclaren today and I love it, Bought some georgeous fleece to make a buggy snuggle coz I don't think I can justify (C)£50 for one

Hope you all have better nights tonight

Deb you sound like such a lovely Mum . I have a pain in my wrist too which I have decided is not due to excessive use of the itouch (I have been a fan for a while BDQ), but is like you because of feeding in bed and hooking my hand over Ps bottom.

What's lovely with my baby? Well he currently looks very comic in a dalmation spot effect babygro, his fat thighs make the spots stretch. We should never have bought it but mothercare had hardly any 9-12 month stuff. Last night he ate his tea v diligently in the kitchen whilst watching me cook. We are enjoying singing "zoom, zoom, zoom we're going to the moon" at the moment. It provokes lots of laughter from both of us...and...last night he managed to sleep for 2 x 4 hour stretches - yay- although it has all been a bit pear shaped since 4am

HH - I can imagine that happening here soon

Alli - Love the sound of the stretched spots! Hurrah for the 2x4 hour stretches, yesterday Ethan took hardly any milk in the day and managed to go 6 hours last night - maybe that's the answer for us, reduce in the day.

Have you seen this news octuplets - and she wants to breastfeed, is that possible neenz?

OMG - you'd just be a milk machine trying to breastfeed octuplets wouldn't you?!!

I love the stairs story Deb - farting on the way down eh? I usually find that if Luke is sleepy but won't go off walking up and down the stairs a bit sends him to the land of nod. Just trying to think of something specifically lovely about Luke but he is an all round bundle of yumminess! He looked very cute today in his Lock Up Your Daughters T shirt and laughing playing hide and seek with some pillows .

Have discovered he really likes Organix rusks to munch on and can eat 2 in one sitting chewing and swallowing. They aren't sweet like Farleys ones - worth a try for those not interested in food much. I think they taste vile but there's no acounting for taste!

Octuplets - wow! The parents have, quite rightly, asked for privacy but I would be intrigued to know whether these poor kids were born as a result of fertility tx. America is very irresponsible with their policy for returning embryos and will put as many back in as you want - with the resulting consequences.

Anyway, I wish her luck with the breastfeeding!

Thought I'd completely lost Alex this morning when I came back into the lounge to find he had totally disappeared! Found him hiding under my desk sucking a plug!

Mum is up this morning and we're going to finish decorating the dining room, then our computer stuff is going in there - Alex has an obsession with cables and I'm just going to have to get rid of them all!

LOL Sponge

My DH has an obsession with cables, but it seems to result in more and more arriving in our house, not getting rid of some.

bf 8

Ali, think your dh is going to have to re-think once Peter is on the move!

Debs ethan sounds like he's alot of fun at the moment.

DS was laughing like crazy last night when he was knocking over his tower of stacking cups. It was so cute to watch him.
I keep having to fish things out of his mouth and yesterday he found some plastic, put it in his mouth and grinned at me while pointing to it! He's very cheeky!!!

Rolf Love the iphone comment! I would use metanium for that. I remember I had to use some on DD1's neck as a baby as she used to get sore around it from dribbling milk.

Amber DS also loves those bisciuts and yes they are vile! I bought him some orange ones today and I'll see if they are any better!

Dh loves his cables too!!

Sponge - I laughed myself silly when I read your post!! Cheeky little devil that Alex!!

What is lovely about Jamie at the moment is he grabs your face with both hands and then snogs you with a very open droolly mouth! He also blows raspberries on your neck deliberately and giggles if you kiss his tummy.

That calpol article came out a while ago diodn't it? Jamie can thank his older brother's extreme excema for the fact that calpol has never passed his lips. Is that a bit odd?!!

Just catching up on my iPod.

What's good about my baby today? He's with his dad! hmm, can't do grin emoticons.

Need to go do some studying.

Deb, love this idea!

Fraser's lovely because he's started crawling and that's made him so chuffed that he's a giggly ball of fun. The past few weeks he's been so frustrated that we're all thrilled (not with the crawling as much as the contented baby!)

We had Fraser's baptism Sunday and it was so special, I'm all emotional just thinking about it! We've photos up at spiritofplace.com/2009/01/frasers-big-day/.

LOL BDQ!

That's lovely Aberdeen, loely pics, which one are you on the group shot? We are having the twins baptised a week Sunday.

Love the iLie idea!!

BFing 8??? OMG!!! Well I think my two were quite hungry for the first 7 weeks (wanting to feed every 60-90mins at night) - it took a while for my milk to catch up with their growth spurts, but at about 12 weeks I felt i always had enough milk for them. But by 5mths they started cluster feeding again at night and I felt that maybe my body just couldn't make enough milk three-hourly so I'd only have enough if they fed every 60-90mins again (I weaned instead!!). I could never offer the other breast when the first one was empty cos that breast belonged to another baby! That is just my theory anyway, I hope she will be able to offer them all at least some BM, but reckon it would be impossible even just from a time perspective to fully BF eight. Good luck to her, it was lovely to hear her story today and others from multiple mums ringing in on the radio.

What is lovely about my babies today - we went to visit gran in hospital and all the nurses and other people#s visitors started fussing over them telling us how gorgeous they are. It made gran's day. She is doing OK, looks well and has her biopsy tomorrow.

Aberdeen - your children are just gorgeous. What a lovely website and the commentary is very moving - made me feel teary eyed. I'm not a religious person but i get very emotional at things like that (ask Essie how I was at Iestyn's baptism!). I always have said I will wait for Luke to make his own decision but when I see how lovely others' baptisms are and how it feels more like someone is looking after them forever, it makes me wonder. Blimey writing this with tears in my eyes just thinking about it

I'm on the far right, with the hatchet-job of a short hair cut!

Amber - the local church near us does baptisms and blessings, where the only difference is in the vows the parents are asked to make. It might be worth looking into. I've copied and pasted the details here (sorry for the length!)

"The Church of Scotland has a ceremony for the thanksgiving for and blessing of a child. It is freely available to all, and a number of parents in XXXXX have participated in it.

Sometimes parents who are not church members and who do not wish, understandably, to make the important promises required of parents at the Sacrament of Baptism (including ?by prayer and example to bring your child up in the life and worship of the church?), yet wish to mark and acknowledge the significant and ?wonder-full? event of the birth of their child in some way that they are comfortable with.

This new ceremony of Thanksgiving and Infant Blessing takes place at morning worship. It follows the same pattern as that for Baptism, except the wording is different, the promise is different, and no water is used. The attraction of this is that nothing is required of the parents in either church commitment or belief, and their desire for a ceremonial recognition that their child?s arrival is important and significant to them, to others and to God, is gladly met and happily acknowledged.

The ceremony begins: ?N and N have had their lives enriched and blessed by the gift of this child N. Today they have come to thank God for his/her presence and the difference he/she has made to their lives. Also, they have invited us as a congregation to share in their joy and on their behalf to ask God?s blessing upon N and upon them, that they may worthily face the challenges and privileges of parenthood in the years ahead.?"

your children are beautiful, AH. Glad it was such a special day.

The ILie was inspired by my original lie-detection method. I told the children that /i could smell their thoughts (I think that's bad parenting isn't it?) Last night DD1 was telling me a fib and when I glared at her she sniffed the air and fessed up

AH those pics are lovely.

amber I am with you. I was baptised at 11/12 when I dedided I wanted too, whereas DH was christened and his family are nagging us to when we will have it done. I am not at all religious now and it seems a bit hypocritical to take them to church when you do not go on a regular basis - This is not aimed at anyone here. It is my personal opinion.

re BF8 DH was wondering about this this morning, and then got onto how you can BF a toddler and newborn - think he is thinking about number 2 already

SBBP I lost Isaac like that although he was under the reclining leg bit of the sofa.

DH has a meeting in London today so we all went and I took Isaac to Hamleys and treated him to more new toys, we also went to the National Gallery and walked back to the train via St James Park - where there are pelicans in the lake. Was a lovely day with a sleeping baby until the pushchair toppled over on the train and we had a screaming baby.

But he is now lovely again and we played peekaboo on the train to cheer him up

ah.. just catching up and some really lovely posts on here.. Ah gorgeous photos - the last one especially -they are just gorgeous.

Amber am with you and hh re christening but do think I should do something to mark edie's arrival ...trouble is I'd be ok with a naming ceremony but worried it'll be a bit ethnic (and my mother making disparing comments about my dss doing this didnt help). I did enquire re our local church but basically you get the third degree about going to church etc etc as it attached to a school. Whilst I accept that vicar is entitled to be sure of parents for spiritual reasons etc I really resented tone/way he goes about it as it was based around local school (basically you have to go for so many months, he does an interview etc etc and its all based around apply to the School which edie won't be going to as has a place somewhere else and there are so many local kids going there that most ceremonies are based on 6/8 kids being christened at a time - is that normal?). left me really about it ...sorry bit of a speel there -can you tell I've been doing jobs/contending with teething edie today?

deb ehtan sounds cute. also sensible move re buying fleece (we did splash out on buggy snuggle in fit of pfb ness ) and its too long for a maclaren ..whatever they say about it fitting all pushchairs , its a bit of a push to get in a maclaren.

well edie talks while she eats and laughs at hereself when the food comes out -also seems to find me going in/out of kitchen cupboards hilarious..

BDQ you can do emoticons on the iTouch (if you can be bothered) . From the alphabet interface, go to the numbers and on there there is a button that takes you to a third interface with more symbols on it. It is a bit of a fag, so I generally only bother when on the iTouch if I am really really or really really . Can you tell that I am on the big computer at the moment? The giveaway is that I have bothered to put your name in bold