October 08 - Teeth n stuff

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Hadn't even noticed that we were close to filling the old thread!

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz - Fast and furious hospital birth.
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz - Em C-Sec due to raised BP and high ALTs from liver.
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz - Homebirth with paramedics due to meconium.
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept Oct) - CherryChoc - Boy - Ryan - 6lbs 11oz - 3 day labour with natural birth in hospital
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz - 4 day induction with 1 hour established labour!
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.
13th Oct (Due 15th Oct) - mum2jakeyroo/jrsqueak - Boy - Joshua - 7lbs 2oz - Delivered in car by dh!
16th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - rowanmac - Girl - Anna Ruth - 7lbs 2oz - 2 hours ARM to placenta delivery.
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz -
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz -
28th Oct - RachieW - boy
1st Nov (Due 22nd Oct) - SmudgeyDoodle - Girl - - 8lbs 2oz - Hospital water birth.
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz -
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz - Em C-Sec. Back to back and knotted cord around neck. 24 hours of labour first though, and don't you forget it!

Pistachio - You're human, you're tired, children are often the most infuriating creatures in the world. Tonight I told ds to pack a bag as I was going to get someone to take him away . He keeps hurting his baby sister and I can't fathom why. Tonight I popped out of the room to get his GoGo sticker book and came back to find him clapping his hands together on M's face. Poor little girl look so shocked! She did't cry but she is tough as old boots. I was horrified. DS got sent to his room and told to pack a bag as I would phone someone to take him away. I feel shitty about it now but I was so so so angry with him. He keeps shaking her by her belly (not proper shaking, just wobbling) putting his face really close to hers and shouting at her, it's scaring her and making her really upset. It breaks my heart because she loves him so much and gets excited just to see him. I am pretty sure he doesn't mean to hurt her as when I point out what he has done he gets very upset. He gets over excited and doesn't know when to stop. He is being punished, I tore up the GoGo sticker book , the GoGos I'd got him for getting full marks in his spelling test went in the bin and he is tidying his room on his own on Monday. So if you're a bad mummy, I'm a monster!
But of course you're not a bad mummy, you're a woman who is over-tired and pushed to the edge. Nobody is hurt and tomorrow everyone will have forgotten about it. Plan something to do tomorrow, I find that always helps. The days that go wrong are the days in which I have nothing planned.

Sounds like me most days pistachio. We can but hope that the next day is better.

MM - - you mean that I'm supposed to play with ds too. Bloody hell there's a lot to this parenting malarky isn't there . I'm aiming to encourage independent play - an important life skill that dd is sadly lacking. She wanted and still wants to be entertained every second of every day. Ds is thankfully much happier to sit and play with toys, or eat his activity station (!), or now roll about a bit. I put it down to him feeling secure after not being put down at all for those first 12 weeks .

He's been somewhat unsettled at bedtime tonight (after sleeping for half an hour fine before waking), hence my late arrival on this thread (and will no doubt have cross posted with about 10 of you, as I started this post ages ago). He's now ended up with gripe water and calpol, the latter because we're wondering whether it's teeth bothering him. They always seem to be worse lying down, and ds is generally ok once picked up. Anyway, we'll see how he gets on now. Hopefully he'll at least sleep through the Apprentice!

Had a good day out with him in MK today, and got the bits that I wanted from Ikea, which dh is just putting together now. Luckily I bought him a v small tool kit there, as otherwise he had none to do it with, as they all burned in the fire!

Oh dd does that shouting right in the face thing too MM. It's horrid and I too get v cross about it.

My parents visiting tomorrow, and bringing us a lawnmower that used to be my uncle's, so that's one less thing we'll have to buy with insurance money.

CSWS - DH puts together the Ikea furniture? Can he manage it? In my family only the women seem to be able to work it out! My mum and I do all of the Ikea furniture.

Evening all

pistachio and MM I'm so sorry you had bad days. I SO understand how hard it is when you have two to keep happy. I feel like i'm always fobbing DS1 off with something to get some peace to feed Ed / tidy up / cook supper / whatever.

He's generally very good about it but he is so overjoyed when DH comes home and someone will give him some proper attention

Star Sorry to hear about the pasta incident - it's so scary isn't it? I remember DS1 finding finger food much easier than lumpy purees initially. I think with purees he'd got used to them being smooth and he wasn't expecting a lump, so would gag on it, whereas with finger food, he was in control and he would spit it out if he couldn't chew it beofre he got to the gagging stage.

I've recently read a lot on BLW too - i'm not doing it but it does explain a lot about how they learn to move food around their mouth and chew etc. It may be worth a look if you haven't done so already.

Had a lovely day with Ed today. DS1 goes to the childminder on Wednesdays so Ed and I have a bonding day! He loves just hanging out at home without noisy big brother around, and he's been so mellow today after the nightmare of the pub lunch yesterday. I guess he gets overstimulated easily and likes to be in his own surroundings.

I roasted some fingers of sweet potato, carrot, courgette and peppers for him at lunchtime, and he managed a bit of a chew. Don't think he actually ate anything though, but he had apple and pear puree with baby rice for tea and managed a fair bit of that, so I think we're getting somewhere. I now have a freezer full of chopped veg wrapped into portions ready to roast for him so I'm feeling very domestic goddess-like tonight

MM the best game to play is hide and seek, I put DD2 in the cupboard then about 2 hrs later I find her again haha!!!
Actually, she is very good, she loves dd1 and also baby tv but she loves her musical piano thing that goes over her and also me blowing very loud rasberries and making the most ridiculous noises possible , the other one is holding her up in the air and blowing rasberries on her tummy or just aeroplanes, DH did this with DD1 when she was afew weeks old did explain this was a game for slightly older babies

DD1 doing the in the face thing to except she sticks her tongue out and says bluh la bluh la blugh la etc very loud and for a very long time and its bloody annoying but DD2 actaully seems to like it I however DO NOT! DD1 thinks its great fun to do it to DD2 first thing in the morning which actually does freak dd2 out slightly when a 3.5 yr old sticks her face in your cot from out of no where and blah de blahs in your face

MM - don't beat yourself up either. it breaks my hear to watch Joe's face light up when he sees DS1 just as DS1 snatches a toy off him, pretends to hit him, sticks his tongue out at him etc. Joe just smiles and laughs as he does it, as he loves ds1 so much, he doesn't realise his brother is being mean. However i don't think ds1 realises he's being mean either. He's just a bit confused/jealous/angry etc at his little brother. there are times when ds1 is so loving too but soon Joe is going to snatch stuff back/hit out etc and all hell will break lose. Joe pulled DS1's hair and you'd think the sky had fallen in - oh the joys of sibling rivalry - you have all the to come hmm

CSWS - ds1 also wants to be entertained all the time and will not play on his own - Joe however loves exploring toys on his own which also makes me sad that he is so self-sufficient. ds1 takes up a lot of time so i guess he's had to be . he is such a happy child now and always smiling but i feel we neglect him a bit as he is so laid back - unlike his brother who is in the throws of terrible threes fuelled by huge amounts of testosterone (he's grown loads recently). He is obsessed with swords/guns/fighting all the time - all very phallic i think freud would say

oh and gave DD2 tonight chicken, broccoli and chips and she adored the broccoli, it was all over her face, high chair and floor (thank god for our mobile hoover the dog but I let her have fun which is soooooooooooooo hard when you are OCD about cleaning!!!!

Jenwa - now that sounds like a good game, the cupboard one I mean. I would have to put her under the stairs and go up stairs for a lie down, otherwise I'd be able to hear her crying as she is bloody loud. Ds is nearly 6 so he really should know better than to behave like that.

Oh bollocks, M is awake . That'll teach me to sneakily watch The Apprentice when I'm meant to be saving it for when DH is home.

pistachio oh no, I know how you feel, some days its so hard to handle when they are like that and you feel shit! DD said once she would tell her daddy what I did when he got home I did however say, "I will tell YOUR daddy what YOU did to make mummy cross" that shut her up
I do feel bad alot too but the reward chart is really helping and DD1 is realising mummy can be nice when she is nice to her

Thanks Loulou. Unfortunately boys don't grow out of it and ds, who used to hate guns/fighting etc, spends most of his lunch time play fighting with his school chums.

M appears to have either gone back to sleep or been taken away by the pixies. I'm not risking going up there, she'll wake up instantly!

mm hide and seek great when you have a cellar and your bedroom is in the loft oh 3 flights of stairs !

Oh dear, is that what little girls are like? DS wouldn't dare tell DH about anything I'd done. He is a big mummy's boy and regulalry tells me about things DH does. Bugger, the shoe is going to be on the other foot. I too warned ds that M will soon be able to hit him back and I will not tell her off if she does.

Little girls are made from suger and spice and all things nice apparantly !

Clearly a man wrote that little poem.

yeh and men know "shit"
My DH away and I know its bad but I am not missing him should I be?

I don't think it's a bad thing not to miss them if they're only away for a short while. I don't miss DH if he's away for a couple of nights, but boy do I miss him after this 8 week stint.

ahhh, sorry, he is away alot isn't he

I just enjoy the house being as it is when I left it rather than messy when I come down in the morning and all the washing he seems to have and his lazy body lying on the sofa taking over the remote

Awww, you'd miss him if he was away for ages. DH is back for good after next week! YAY! Hope that I can cope with him being back, it was strange over Easter. DH just seemed to get in the way

how odd, I posted back and its not there!
Basically I said how you get your own routine when they are not there but when they come back you expect them to slot in and help but they dont always

Right, bedtime for me. No more sounds from ds for a while now. Only posting really so that I know where I've read to, and don't have to navigate lots on my phone if I log on in middle of night!

Can I join the bad mummy club?
I physically tipped DD2 off her chair and threw her out of the kitchen yesterday. She is still doing the tummy ache crap at meal times. I just got fed up with cooking for her and getting it rejected. It turns out that she is doing it at pre school.
I had an interesting chat with my favourite nursery nurse. She had a day of training on Monday about behaviour. Apparently a chlid can/will hold out for 7 days, a parent will give up after 3 days!!!!!!!!!
The most common issues are bedtimes, food and toilet habits.
Sound familiar??

Star William really doesnt do lumps. He can eat finger foods or proper food and purees but no actual lumps. Also your reaction will have a big impact upon how Q feels about food. Keep it as relaxed as possible. Take away a food that has been rejected and give something else. Go back to just purees. No lumps.

I had to take William for another blood test today. He apparently has no measle antibodies. Not sure why it is a problem. I had spent the evening looking up stuff and by all accounts by 9 months all babies lose thier antibodies. The ideal time to immunise is at 9months. But only for measles. Not rushing to the doc though!

Hi just a quickie cos I'm completely knackered. Pistachio/ MM, I'm sorry to hear about your nightmare days! You've certainly made me think twice about my baby plans! Great news about DH MM.

Poppy likes bubbles and playing cards!

Aargh my P on my laptop isn't working properly! And properly (and laptop - and Poppy!!!) is really not a good word when this happens!!!

Have just finished a load of ironing, am off to bed. Got most of my weaning stuff today, just got it all from Asda. Just need a handheld blender now and we're all set for Friday!

I got dried apricots in the end, they were in the cooking section in a plastic bag and they are orange (contain a few chemicals) - are these the right ones and what do I need to do with them???

Star, you make me really nervous about weaning with your choking episodes! Hope you get it sorted!

Night all!

HMM, I meant to tell you the hand blender I have is a Braun. It has lots of different attachements. So you can make cakes with it too. It has a little pot to whizz up stuff and also hand masher as well.
The choice is huge.
Do you have the sieve?