Fab Feb 2009: baby coos, stinky poos - three months on...

[dinkystinky]

so here we go again

that should read... your little one's shock not your little's shock.... i know it was not a little shock

eh, both my older two rolled off the bed a few times, and we had tiled floors when they were learning to sit, and lived in a flat with concrete steps outside when they were learning to walk.

they is fine

probably

bumps on the head don't cause crazy right, so it's totally unrelated

[wanders off to hand her kids in to SS]

I know it was so bad.... She is two now and totally fine but what could have been is always in the back of my mind!!!!

please dont tell me bumps = crazy because dd is very accident prone!!

STW Jacob used to bring up clear liquid. If it's stomach acid, it will smell like acid. When he was sick though, it looked like milk. Same coming out as it was going in.
I really don't blame you for feeling crappy at the mo, it sounds like it must be a constant battle
Luke cries alot too, and I sometimes find it all a bit too much, but it really will get easier. Tell that gp to get on the phone to the hospital and get them to pull their finger out!
spotty Glad you had a good day today and at you up since 2:30! I really would lose the will to live if I ever had to start my day that early. Will have to remember at 4:30 mot mornings that it could be worse
MS I often find Luke like that in his cot, legs too and I have to take a minute to figure out how to free him without breaking him. Regretting the drop side cot now as there seems to be that bit of extra room on that side and he can get half his body down there!
lol at F holding an egg whisk. Havn't tried any of that, as would encourage ds1 to hit Luke with everything....... Luke is getting quite good at getting teething rings in his mouth though.
spotty STW and herb I wanted to call ds1 Sam. He was a rat-bag too. Not quite the same as Luke though who is a massive whinger, but ds1 had reason to be upset all the time (reflux), Luke doesn't (AFAIK)
bumps scary.

morning all,
PSL have replied on your thread

STW, sorry you are having a bad time, hang in there. H is being a little rat at the moment and I can't help but think he is picking up on my emotional state and reacting to that?

bumps Thank god she was ok and no doubt, as a result you are far more careful now as we all would be so hopefully no more bumps in your house

MS, H keeps doing that. He is in a crib at the moment that is supposed to rock but it just tilts really so he ends up with arms/legs hanging out. He therefore ends up in with me at night (which I think I need at the moment anyway).
Must buy a cot. Looked at them in Mothercare here and they are silly money. The cheapest cot is around £375 and the cheapest matress around £120. DH managed to find the matress on mothercare uk website for around £40 so tempted to buy one in UK and take it back. We really are being ripped off at the moment.

PT keep meaning to ask where abouts you are in Ireland. My mum was from southern Ireland and I'm ashamed to say I never went there as she moved over to England before I was born and although I kept meaning to go, it never happened. DH and I have around 5 days to ourselves (without DCs 1 and 2) at the beginning of September and we are thinking of flying over there for a few days before back to KSA.
Been looking at maps and trying to plan

Morning all. Going to be 81 degrees here today. Far too hot. I have to go to tescos and then go and pay council tax, but apart from that, might keep the boys indoors today.

Re meet up. I won't be able to make 23rd.

LBB 81 degrees is nothing! Its around late 40's here (don't know what that is in the other numbers but think way over 100)
Also, there has been a news alert that in the next two weeks the temperature will rise to over 60 degrees. So glad I'm leaving soon

PSL, ref our 'chat' on your thread, can't get into sodding facebook at the moment so maybe you could email the piccie to me
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late 40's is about 120 i think

mos, i'm currently in roscommon, my mother is from mayo and they live there now, i grew up in cork, two of my kids were born in galway and i've lived in dublin too.... ask me anything, i'm a regular walking tour book

hi PT, god, what is 60 degrees going to be like! Thank god I'm escaping in 9 days.

I feel so bad that I know very little about my mums family and background. I had kept meaning to sit down and talk to her and find out more and this summer she was going to stay with me for a few weeks and I was so looking forward to doing the family tree type thing.

All I know, is that she was born in Galway (I think or maybe Cork?) and more recently the family that is left is in Waterford/Wexford.
There is a family jewellers that was started by her father and that is still running (I think by my cousin) that is in Enniscorthy.
I have met my uncle (mums brother) a few times but only when he has come over for funerals but my aunt I've met a few more times and hope to spend some time with her this summer. She always visits england for a month and stays with family so I'm going to invite her to stay with me the week she would have been with mum.
Am really keen to do the trip that I'd always promised myself I'd do, in her memory if that makes any sense. I never knew my grandparents and assume there is a family grave somewhere over there and I'd like to visit that and all her old haunts. Will find out more info from my aunt ie places etc and let you know. Could have a MN meet up over a pint of guiness!

My family are from Mayo PT

Re meet up, I could probably do any day in the week beginning 22 June - I have something I would probably go to each day but nothing that I can't miss, and I'm happy to do something different. Wed or Thur would suit me better for meet up but I know Dinky says she can't do Thursday.

Would anyone who plans to come be unable to do Wednesday 24 June? Or should I ask who can't make it that day? I don't suppose we can find a date to suit everybody.

I can do wed 24th

I can do 24th too.

Has anyone lifted the backrest of the pushchair yet? I ask because when I go shopping, I have to hang the basket over the handle bars, and as I fill it, it looks like it's too close to Luke's head, so I have been putting the back up. Not so he's bolt upright, just half/quarter way there and just while I leg it around tescos, but he seems to be happier like that than laying flat and I know they're supposed to be flat until 6 months, but he is propped up in bouncer and his mattress is propped up by a pillow too or he won't sleep.
I don't remember when I let ds1 sit up in pushchair, don't think i waited til 6 months though. Mother of the year, I know!!

Oh, weds 24th June is mine and dp's 3rd year anniversary. He's prob working anyway, so won't matter.

I know a lot of pushchairs that are upright say from 6 months but at their age now, if only for a short period of time and strapped in well should be ok

Hi Elkiedee - I'm like you, I have things everyday that I can go to (thankfully!) but nothing that can't be missed.

Am at the curse of the name "Sam" !! I told DH and he reminded me that he'd wanted to call DS "Nathan" but I overruled him - looks like I'm paying for it now! I know it will all get better soon and that he'll be a lovely little boy... just got to muddle through now though. MOS I think you could be right re. picking up on moods. I am on a very short fuse at the moment and am sure Sam can pick that up. I will really try and pull myself together - after all, nothing awful has happened and Sam's not seriously ill or anything.

Went to the GP this morning and she confirmed I have a fast track referral so am hopeful to see a paediatrician soonest (that was a bit of work lingo then, "soonest"!). In the meantime she has prescribed some ranitidine to see if that does anything for the potential reflux.

MS we've been giving Sam things to hold and he sometimes gets a few nasty surprises when he bashes himself. I've worked out he likes to hold something when he's going to sleep, just a muslin or sometimes his dummy, which looks sweet.

Dinky - sounds liek you had a lovely time in Brighton and a fun dip in the sea! A little while ago I think you mentioned sometihing about a CD you can get with white noise on it to help babies sleep for longer (if it works for them of course!). I thought I might give it a try - is there a specific one you could recommend?

Right, before I get too frustrated at the constant interruptions to my typing from my two very compliant children I will sign off now but try to catch u later. xx

Hahahaha MoS
I promise to keep a fair distance from all babies! (Can that include mine? lol)
I was about to say I haven't done anything stupid for ages now, but then remembered ds1 fell over earlier as a result of me yanking easing him away from a squashed Luke

LBB we've been advised to keep Sam elevated anyway because of the reflux so he's often raised in his pushchair. I think they are beginning to enjoy looking around now so it makes it a bit more interesting for them!

LBB, what pushchair is it? We bought a MacLaren Quest for ds1 at 3 months - they don't lie flat but recline a bit, buggy details say suitable from 3 months. We actually used it regularly from 4 months and he was fine.

I'm going to look at a secondhand Phil & Teds tomorrow, we have a double buggy but it's very unwieldy.

STW I had to keep Jacob upright for 45 mins after each feed. Serious PITA especially at 2am. I used to put him in his bouncy chair so I could go straight to sleep and set my alarm for an hour later to transfer him back to cot.
elkie Pushchair just says rear suitable from birth and front seat suitable from 6 months. I might let him sit up slightly for a while and just put it down when he falls asleep, will se how it goes.

We have M sitting up all the time. She hates being flat in her pram if awake... Diddn't realise we shouldn't.