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January 2008 Shiny New Year Toddlers - first steps to mischief !!!

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Lilyloo · 27/01/2009 10:58

Hope that's ok all

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LaTrucha · 23/02/2009 16:02

Gingeme! I have just discovered that you've sent me all sorts of things on FB. And I have no idea what any of them are! Apart from Happy New Year - (and to you too). Sorry!

As soon as I think I'm getting to grips with that darned thing...

madmouse · 23/02/2009 16:13

Oh LaT, you and Facebook the thing honestly does not bite

LaTrucha · 23/02/2009 16:41
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madmouse · 23/02/2009 16:47

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madmouse · 23/02/2009 16:56

sorry guys if you wondered what was in the previous post I stupidly called gingeme by her real name i blame facebook

JustKeepSwimming · 23/02/2009 18:04

Done the sponsoring, good luck to both of you

Lily - oh that all sounds horrid. hope everyone gets better soon & gets some sleep. & you don't get it badly
You better all be better for Saturday! taken us long enough to plan it all!

madmouse - glad you got some sleep too.

we had a rubbish night here.
DH woke at 2.30 (woke me up) and tossed and turned until 3.41 when i (politely) asked him to go to the spare room! He decided he couldn't sleep so went downstairs to work
Then H woke at 5.20 crying, NOT like him, think it was his cough.
brought him in with me but he didn't go back to sleep.
DH came back to bed.
5.45 T up.
DH went down with both boys so i got a bit more sleep

He's so silly though as he was driving into London, doing a full day & night's work, then planning on driving home late so he can be here for pancakes tomorrow, yum. Silly man!

boys to bed soon, me not long after i don't think.

JustKeepSwimming · 23/02/2009 18:06

LaT - you mean me? beat you there!

Gingeme · 23/02/2009 18:37

Thankyou for the sponsors ladies
Lol LaTruche sorry to confse you
Madmouse intrigued what you posted now!
Oh dear ds3 ha just asked me why do people have to be dead? Right off to think of a good answer.
Bye for now. Wish me luck!!

LaTrucha · 23/02/2009 18:54

Oh good lord!

Sabela being really difficult to settle tonight. She was desperate to go in the cot but now she can't nod off. I've left her to it for a little while to see if that will help but I can hear her wailing.

We'll get there somehow.

Have to post about a friend that I'm really worried about. Just off to check Sabela.

madmouse · 23/02/2009 18:57

Ginge, nothing particularly glamorous, I wanted to explain to LaT about the things that you sent her on facebook. I am glad mumsnet HQ was very quick to respond

LaTrucha · 23/02/2009 19:17

Do they really do that? Blimey!

Sabela still not asleep. Rocking etc just seem to be making it worse, so we're on CC atm.

ANyway, my bf has a nearly 9 month old son. They have had a lot of problems - mostly relatively minor, but they're adding up.

When he was born, he lacked an enzyme needed to digest milk. It took ages to diagnose, so he was screaming all day long. Then feeding was difficult as they had to medicate him every time. He screamed almost non-stop for months. I went to see them at this time and even a day of it was pretty trying.

He's a very lively boy and rarely has slept at all during the day. He sleeps incredibly badly at night. They seem to be wrestling with CC ATM but he's just getting hysterical.

He's just had a two-week flu, followed by croup, which needed hospitalisation and steroids followed by gastro enteritis.

She seriously hasn't slept at all since Spetember, and not much before that. She is totally miserable. She has even asked me not to call her because she says she's so sad and tired she can't speak.

Is there ANYTHING I can do to help her, do you think? She's just had such a rough time. I know what it's like to be sleep deprived, but Sabela is an angel in comparison. And it was bad enough with her!

It's so rotten that her first year with him has been so tough.

LaTrucha · 23/02/2009 19:23

BTW - it is very unusual for not to want to talk. We're usually always on the phone in moments of crisis.

JustKeepSwimming · 23/02/2009 19:33

LaT - sounds bad that she doesn't want to talk my opinion would be not to let her shut herself off and hide in a hole. Talking about things, even if it makes her cry (& you) it can still make her feel better & supported rather than alone.
Simpson - any tips on food/milk?
Can you get her to write stuff down?
Maybe keep a more objective record of how the CC is going. Perhaps they are not sticking to it as they are wrecked from months of screaming. Or perhaps there has been progress but they can't see it.

Good luck to her

Is S asleep yet?

H crashed out early, only had 15mins nap at nursery - this from the boy who can nap 6hrs a day...

G - no way am i getting a tattoo! DH hates them! Did you see the pics of one of the Geldofs girls? has loads.
What did you say to DS3!?!

oh and btw, i pretty much delete all those extra things on FB if you ever send me one. don't know if it comes up on your page as ignored but i spend enough time on my laptop as it is!

Gingeme · 23/02/2009 19:43

LaT I second what JKS says realy just keep reassuring her your always there for her and she need not worry about ringing you just to talk about the weather or whats on tele or something. I wish her all the luck xx
JKS I said to ds3 if people didn't die then all the people in the world would be realy squashed because there would be no room for all the new babys that were being born all ther time. He kinda looked at me funny then carried on playing with his truck
Yes my DH isn't too keen on tattoos but hey its my body I can do what I like . Besides I have my tats in places where they can be covered with clothes if need be . Ok I get the message re facebook

madmouse · 23/02/2009 19:44

LaT I would worry about depression - she may need to see a doctor.

They also need to push to see a paediatrician as that much trouble with sleeping and no daytime sleeping is not good for babies and there may be an underlying cause.

She may be too tired to do that, so maybe you can gently push for that.

You must feel pretty helples, I assume she is in the UK?

madmouse · 23/02/2009 20:03

by the way anyone see nthis

am very not impressed

I sometimes feel cbeebies is a bit pc, balamory for example does my head in with the number of boxes it ticks, but to complain that a disabled presenter scares your kids

LaTrucha · 23/02/2009 20:11

Sabela is asleep - poor little mite. She's so bunged up, she's had another molar though today plus she's got an incisor coming, she had wind. Just all too much for her.

Thanks for your advice. Just wanted to check I'm doin gall I can. I might bring up the paed. She was very wistful on the phone the other night because I told her there are no HVs in Spain, only paediatricians. She said, 'That must be great. Someone who actually knows about babies.' So you may be right Madmouse.

Yes, she's in Kent.

That was a good thing to say, Gingeme. You have a 'boy' way of thinking, it seems to me!

Lilyloo · 23/02/2009 20:17

How is this esp the link from the lo's mum. Have just been crying reaading it.

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simpson · 23/02/2009 20:19

LaT - is an insisor the pointy tooth at the top?? If so is what Molly has got first

Think Molly finally has a tooth maybe even 2 but they are not even a milimetre through the skin yet, you can see they have just cut through. Hopefully the misery is finally over

What milk does your friend's LO drink?

Sorry not been on today but an knackered from DD and DS!! Cannot wait till tomorrow as DS back at pre school.

Today everything I have suggested to DS is "yucky and brown & smells of poo" so we have got to that stage. Grrr...

simpson · 23/02/2009 20:22

Lilyloo - can't see anything, says item been removed...

JustKeepSwimming · 23/02/2009 20:37

Lily - such a sad story

Madmouse - i agree, 'scared' by her is totally ridiculous.
but...
i do not think that she is very good (the bloke is even worse) and i wonder how much kudos they thought they would get by employing her, i mean she does tick some boxes.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but i liked Chris & Poi, i even like Sid & Andy who are slightly mad
I like Simon, Sarah-Jayne, Justin, etc.
I think the new chap is beyond cr*p so not sure what boxes he ticks!

I try to ask myself how much is resisting change versus not liking her

Anyway, i wouldn't be stopping the DCs watching beebies just cause of her, silly!
And have to say Tom has NOT noticed AT ALL so it's hardly scaring him is it?!

G - good line!

right am off to bed, tired

Lilyloo · 23/02/2009 20:45

Simps ebay removed the listing but it was bascially a couple selling 'their souls' for their 4th round of ivf. They have paid for 3 but cant afford another.
But it was the link to the womans story about her little girl who died just before she was 1 someone linked it half way down.

Just seems so sad that the nhs wont help them at all just because her new husband has two grown up children. Poor woman.

MM i have to agree with JKS they are very rigid and wooden tbh. We hardly watch cbeebies other than Charlie and Lola but i think the fact it might 'scare' children is horrendous!

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madmouse · 23/02/2009 21:35

Must say i am not terribly keen on her as a presenter. But as mum of a disabled child I do not exactly get happy if this is the attitude of other parents out there.

Only some other parents of course.

I put something about it on facebook and most of my mates seem to agree, they do not like her, but are outraged at the comments made.

Gingeme · 23/02/2009 22:48

Thankyou LaT 'a boys way of thinking' must be rubbing off on me after all these years. Maybe thats why I have dreams that I have a penis
Could not get that link about Ebay. Says item has been removed.
We were talking about the new CBeebies presenter today. Its not her arm thats scary shes just a bit useless as far as presenting concerned realy. But I can't see her lack of appendige being scary realy unless the parents go telling horror storys about it to their kids
Well its bed time. Fingers crossed for another good night for us all.
Sweet dreams

Lilyloo · 23/02/2009 22:53

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