Sept 08: They're under starters orders .... and they're off .... well, some of them!

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I thought I'd use this title as not all of our delicious babies are on the move yet, including mine

update......apparently they can sometimes fit in cars with under floor storage. You need one with a long leg.

my goodness, that looks so uncomfy. It looks just like the Britax one that goes from birth- 9 months then 9 months- 4yrs (1st class?). I can't see where the child's legs go, they'd be kneeing themselves in the chin everytime you went over a bump.

thanks all.

imo will definitely try booking a session for DS. Have googled the osteopathy for children charity that do free sessions. But they're in central london and not suer when I'll get a chance to take him. Otherwise it looks like it's around £50 for a session closer to home.

We're still rear-facing even though DS is now well over 20lbs. After forking out for all the replacements for our stolen stuff I need to earn a bit more money before upgrading to the next stage seat. Must look up max weight on our seat though.

On a positive note I am on my new laptop which got delivered today and DH is driving the car home from work this evening!!! Normality can resume!!! (sort of...)

digi I'm not sure when the next one is but it's worth a visit to The Baby Show. We've got great deals on all our car seats from there.

digi we got a good one from Kiddicare website for ds1 that was downfrom £100 to £50.
Yay, that you've got your car back

I have just had the most awful bedtime with my dc's. DS tantrumed for 45 minutes and screamed so hard my ears were hurting, "I WANT TO GET IN MY COT", "I WANT TO GO IN THE GARDEN", "I DON'T WANT A BATH" "I DON'T LIKE NIGHT GARDEN" "I DON'T WANT ANY MILK" shortly followed by "I WANT MY MILK" , "I WANT TO WATCH NIGHT GARDEN" and so on. He calmed down the moment I put his pyjama top on, he was tired but had really needed a quick bath as he was sticky and grubby, then dd started crying for a few minutes. It was awful . I half expected the neighbours to call the police as ds was so loud, although I thought that if they did turn up I'd rope them in to help . What a nightmare. I'm wearing ear plugs next time, ds has been a PITA the last few evenings.

right, deep breathes............. shower, pasta for dinner (with home grown runners on the side) and GU choc pud for afters.

lol at 'the answer to both of these is no btw'

for DG and second the craniel osteopathy idea (although the one we had was a bit of a nutter with some dodgy spiritual side, but the ones that are pure osteopathy are great!!)

for meglet too. We're having a horrid time with dd at the moment, she's dropped her daytime nap and is absolutly beside herself by bedtime. Dh put the dcs to bed on monday and was ashen faced when I got in from the trauma of it all, she's just so overtired. Today I also elbowed GF out and took the dcs for a drive on the ringroad so that dd fell asleep for 10 mins, it worked an absolute treat. She was tired enough to go to bed, but not overtired, and ate her dinner nicer than she has in ages.

We had a weird night last night, dd screamed in her sleep for an hour (dh ended up sleeping on her floor) then ds woke every 20-30mins from midnight to 2:30am. After lots of teething gel and calpol, each of which only worked for half an hour, I gave him a bottle of milk and then he was sorted. Poor love the amount of dribble he's got going on right now is not nice, those teeth are giving him lots of grief! We're the un-dead today though.

Ds is still rear facing. His head isn't at the top of the baby seat yet, and I have no idea if he's 9kg and ready for the brittax seat yet. Paul Stride in York do two rear facing toddler seats I believe.

Elsewhere in the news there is no house news

And I love the blog hopefully!

Starlight (and DG). I remember when DD1 was doing her Mum and Baby taster sessions at Nursery a little boy crawled up to me, sat on my knee and fell asleep (it used to take 90mins driving round to get DD1 to sleep for 10 mins in the day).

At that point I almost wanted to take that child home instead of mine

It's going to be a while before f is in his forward facing carseat, i had him weighed today, he is only 16lb 2oz, he was on the 25th line now on the 2nd.

I can't wait to hear back from ponymum about her night out and how sitters went!

yes I hope that nasty sorry nannynick hasn't spoilt it for her

We are still rear facing Robyn is only 16lbs and she has another 3-4in before her head reaches the top of the seat. Hoping she won't suddenly grow before mid August as that is the earliest we will get our new car and don't want to get a seat to fit this cat that doesn't fit the new car.

Robyn managed to stand up today. She was bouncing on my knee holdingmy hands whenshe just put all her weight on her feet. She had the biggest smile and knew she was being clever. After a min or so she flopped back down then did it again 3 more times.

Digi We are having pretty bad nights still but as long as i get some sleep i don't worry how she gets to sleep or if we co-sleep. Saying that I am tireder now then I was when she was a newborn

at 16lb babies. I reckon T has to be a good 22lb, if not more - I last weighed him about 6 weeks ago and he was 20lb then, and he's grown a lot. He has loads of milk and eats well, and doesn't move, but as long as he's not alarmingly obese, I'm happy.

Glad you like the blog Carriebo and sorry for your crappo night.

lol at the petite 16lbs babies. My little porker is probably more like 26lbs

Yesterday a friend came round with her daughter who is about 14 mo and is a little dot, quite small and a very slight frame. She picked up M (v tall and a chubster) and had a real shock at how heavy he was

When M is older I can see that people will expect him to be older than he really is.

DD is 18lb but really really short!

DS is being a total pain at the moment. Won't go to bed and once in there gets out lots of times in the night with various excuses. I'm shattered and beyond knowing how to fix it. I've tried incentivising, talking, sanctioning and shouting. Nothing seems to work.

C is about 1lb and is 10 months next week!! She's about 3 inches off the top of her car seat and it goes to about 28lb I think, so we'll keep her in it until she really outgrows it, then go for a forward facing car seat.

I've looked at the rear facing ones online and they are monsters! Common in Sweden but that's cos they all drive great big tanks volvos. My sister also said their legs are supposed to bend like frogs legs (her car seat was from Finland and can go rear or forward facing. Her 2yr old DD is forward facing). For the extra safety, I'm not convinced. I think we'll go for an isofix forward facing with leg stand for added protection, plus get one which reclines and put C in recline position until she's older.

Thing is, if the car gets hit head on then being rear facing won't stop whiplash completely.

DG hope you had a better night. As someone else said, look for cranial osteopath who works at a fully fledged osteopath's - ie a medical type centre rather than holistic. Ours cost £28 per half hour.

C is about 1lb - Of course, that's 19 lb!!

I have no idea how much ds2 weighs as all the baby clinics round here are in the afternoon (exceot one which is on a day I work) and getting an hour or 2 of peace while they both sleep is far more important to me than getting him weighed.
I was noticing the other day though that his trousers all seem to be falling down and I'm sure they weren't before so hope he's not fading away. Would be surprised though- apart from milk he eats like a horse.

I was thinking the other day that ds1 really should drop his afternoon nap (he's 3.2!) but I dread him being a horror at teatime and bedtime. Let me know carrie how long it takes your dd's bodyclock to adjust to the new routine (unless it's months, I don't want to know if it is!)

Debi I know every child is different, but SIL recently forced her DS to drop his afternoon nap (he was 3 in April), and he goes to bed a bit earlier, but she said he's actually better than he was before - it was like he was dozing and getting groggy and being grumpy all evening rather than being properly awake and going to bed earlier, she reckoned.

Hi all...still got dreaded lurgy...feel awful.

I have no idea what Toby weighs...I last took him about 8 weeks ago and he was 23.5lbs then Goodness knows what he is now!!! He is in 12-18 month clothes...

PIL and my parents are both away from tomorrow on hols so I REALLY need to get better..was so ill on monday dh had the day off work to look after me! Toby has got the sniffles but he is teething again and ds1 says his throat hurts, but no temps......hope they dont get what I've had

Havent had time to read all the posts...got to go and get ready for app at hospital re: endoscopy...should cancel it really but have done twice already and am worried they will bounce me back to the GP.

Hope all are well xx

DG - sorry you're still having such a tough time re sleeping... you said you were envious about my 1 week cold turkey with dd1 - but remember I didn't even try that til she was about 13months - until then, she woke about every hour for snacks, and the week or so of the pram method still involved me eing away 1-2 hours a night rocking & singing exhaustedly.

I got to a point when I had to do something, but didn't want to do cc or things like that - tbh I think dd1 was too determined - 1 time I tried just having her on the bed beside me, but not picking up or feeding, just patting - she sobbed for about 45 minutes til she threw up.

DD2 co-sleeps, yet is (touch wood, so far) not so desperate - she doesn't treat me as such a dummy, but does feed to sleep - I'm a believer in doing what is easiest to get the most sleep, and not thinking about the future too much - most kids will sleep better at some point, but they are all different and I agree with others that it's more about them, and less about your parenting skills choices etc.