Sept 08: the thread for when they may start crawling, and there will definitely be some separation anxiety bawling ....

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Welcome ladies

Well, there's no crawling going on in our house, but there's defo some separation anxiety bawling going on .... tears, screaming, the works - oh joy!

DG I'm going to offer ds his post-nap ff in a cup today and see what happens. Good luck, I'll be thinking of you!

Hi, just a quick one...do any of you know where I can get a bed guard for a double bed?

Thanks! xxxx

whassa spud gun? something to do with firing potatoes?

My witholding of the post-afternoon-nap-breastfeed didn't go too well. I just got the call about this freelance project and DS woke up towards the end of the call. So by the time I got to him he was very upset at having been left for 5 whole minutes. Took a sip from the cup but kept crying and pawing at me, so he won!

I have a meeting tomorrow in the late afternoon, so he'll definitely have to go without. But at least I'll be around to do the lunchtime feed.

Then I'm away for most of the day on Wednesday .

plusonemore can't help feeling a teeny tiny bit smug as I am determined that C will never have a rusk, despite the best efforts of DP and MIL! I knew rusks were sugary evil

Oh and he discovered his willy today. So nappy changes are even more fun than when he started attempting to roll.

busy last few days here so not been on here much.

Was ds1's 3rd birthday on Sat so spent 2 evenings last week making his cake (there's a photo on profile page, i was very proud of it). Then spent Saturday playing with playmobil and his new bike and Sunday he had a party here which was good fun but a very hectic day. He enjoyed it all though.

My Granny has just had major heart surgery too and is up in Aberdeen while my dad is at home 60 miles away on his own because my mum is away in Russia so thats all a bit stressful too and I'm trying to figure out how to get up to see her and when I should go.

Very impressed with cake Debi! DG I am just beginning to phase out daytime feeds - dropping one this week, will drop other couple over the next few weeks. My plan is to be doing morning and evening only, as well as (pleasegodno) any night feeds, by about 9 months.

My mother is happy to 'settle' T, but all this means is that she picks him up, walks round till she gets tired, then gets me to feed him . I'm being mean, she's mostly very helpful, just annoyed me last night.

I saw the thread that Becaroo started and was really shocked at the venemous responses tbh. However MN being MN, if she posted exactly the same thing on another day she would probably have had a totally different response.

Yawn, M had me up lots in the night due to teething. His head was red hot and he really didn't want to feed much, so I know he was feeling rotten.

I read the thread started by becaroo. I am so shocked at how horrible some people can be. And I think this is agaist the MN Talk code, which says we are supposed to be helpful, encouraging, and respectful (or something like that).

That reaction is exactly why people like me are scared to post questions. It is as though there is a small band of toxic MNers roving around waiting to pounce on innocent victims who post something they can find a way to be offended by.

Saw becaroo's threads - some people just want to pick a fight I think.
Can people remind me not to bother posting on any MMR or homeopathy threads please - it's like teaching pigs to whistle (doesn't get you anywhere and only annoys both you and the pig...)

A has yet more snot and teething, so last night wasn't good at all. Gave up and met friends this morning so we got fresh air and sunshine and I hoped he'd then nap on the way home and for a good hour or more. He went to sleep fine. For a whole 15 min. So much for me napping at the same time. Bah.

NorthLondon meetup - any conclusion on when? Starlight which parts of London can you get to easily?
Croydon meetup - I can get to most places. I suppose I could drive... never driven with just me and A in the car...[nervous emoticon]

Hmm, new health visitor spent 15 minutes calling a nude DD "he", in a lecture I got after she was weighed today as her weight has plateaued (sp??). Doesn't give me much confidence in her abilities to be honest...

Notcitrus, which side of the argument are you on by the way?

jenbot - MMR is way safer than the risks of the diseases it prevents, is not linked to autism in any way (and people claiming it does is hindering research into what might be causing what looks like a real increase in autism, as opposed to increased diagnosis), and Wakefield's very tentative paper triggered totally unjustified media hysteria which has cost lives. And homeopathy is at best the placebo effect (which is a very amazing thing that should be encouraged in ts own right) and at worst quacks out to make money out of desperate people via a pile of bollocks.

{and breathe}

Right, time to get down to the post office. A will probably nap there and back and demand playing as soon as I get back...

NC you should just copy and paste that next time there's an argument you can't resist!

starlight how is your resolve going to only post here?

I left ds in a creche for an hour this morning at a group I go to, and he started bawling about half way through. I don't know if it was the nappy change, hunger, or missing me. When I went to him he didn't stop crying until I gave him a muslin to hold and he calmed down long enough to find his thumb. Neither of my children have ever shown separation anxiety or the slightest hint that they realise I'm different to any other person in their life, so it felt almost nice in a way!

becaroo wow, think you did well to respond to some of those comments!

debithescot very good cake, are you a regular baker?

DS seems to have resumed the morning and lunchtime nap , but we did go to playgroup this morning so he was probably knackered from listening to all the screeching. Does anyone else have a non-screechy baby? He's started saying 'ababababa' but quite low-key and he has never shrieked other than when we've ripped off a sheet of foil (which he hates and immediately cries). In fact, if it's generally quiet and a baby shrieks, he cries and has done for months.

Right, am off for my meeting in 15 minutes - boobs will probably fill right up on the way there. Will have to buy breast pads for the first time since I was pregnant. Am I mad to give up the afternoon feed today and then the lunchtime feed tomorrow?!

nc I'm on your side.

dg and hopefully thanks. i'm not a regular baker, thats only the 3rd fancy cake I've ever made (a train for ds1 last year and a rocket for a friend a few years ago). One of the mum's at the party didn't believe I'd made it and when she was eventually convinced she commissioned me to make one for her son's birthday.
DS had a big stress today at lunchtime when I went to cut through 'Olly' the octopus's head! He was very upset. maybe we shouldn't have named it!

notcitrus I'm with you, I was just curious where you stood!
Star That makes sense, poor us outside the M25!
digitalgirl DD has recently figured out how to shout which she thinks is great fun, but she makes a short loud "AH" sound and not a high shriek like some babies at babygroup do, thankfully... so far anyway...

Hello lovely ladies

So nice to be on here where - even when we disagree with each other - we are respectful and accepting of other poeples opinions!!! MN can be scary!!! That will teach me to start an AIBU thread! Am genuinely shocked at some of the replies I received, but the general consensus was that I was BU, so I bow out gracefully

Hope "they" are not giving Foxy too hard a time?

Anyway, got a fab cold virus type thing so feel like pants, Toby is teething and Tom's Tummy hurts..oh the joys!!!!

star thanks again for your support...very much appreciated x Am desperately trying to locate a spud gun for you

...by the way, does anyone know of or have seen a baby toy that is basically just lots of different coloured labels on a sort of furry toy? Toby LOVES labels and I am sure I saw one - long before he was born - and now cant remember what it was called or where I saw it....thanks x

There is a brand called Taggies , and they do blankets and books, they may also do toys.

ooh thanks, will have a look x