Dec 08 it's time for sippy, tippy and doidy cups (& wee sticks!?!)

[Veggiemummy]

sorry could think of much and these where discuss on last page.

Just tried to bath DS1. It is like we are trying to kill him. We both got soaked and DH ended up getting in with him so we could wash his hair.

Hello all, is it too late to join?! For some reason though I post lots in other areas of MN I never joined the ante or post natal threads before.

Not sure what the etiquette is [waves nervously] - but DD was born 19/12 (a few weeks early, was very poorly at birth but - touch wood - fine now). She's a wriggly, rolly little thing. By which I mean she loves to roll, not that she's rolly-polly - she's a wee little thing!

I guess one of the things I wanted to ask is, are everyone elses DCs sitting now?? DD still isn't. She can, and sometimes does, but mostly just wriggles her way off in a more interesting direction. The girl CANNOT keep still...

Hi Kiwi!!

DS2 was born on the 12th and he still can't sit up. We had some crawling just before he turned 6 months but that has all stopped too.

DS2 has decided he doesn't want to go to bed anymore. Muggins here has been sat next to and in his cot for the last 45 minutes. I am really annoyed with myself but I have bought him downstairs.

Hi Kiwi, welcome to our basket. You'll get to know what that means. But basically any worries/troubles are shared on here, we are all here to help and lend a virtual sholder to cry on if need be. So sorry to hear your DD was poorly at birth, but sounds like she is thriving now!!

My DS was born 24/11 (he was due 03/12). He is a proper chunky monkey. He only learnt to sit in a sturdy fashion about a month ago, he has learnt to crawl in the past week properly and is now off and away. One thing we have all learnt on here is that no two babies are the same. But they are all equally loveable and trying at the same time

ola kiwi - dd was born christmas day (ugh) - sits, STANDS, talks, sings, can roll but chooses not to and HATES being on her tummy. they are all so different, aren't they? welcome!

Hello and welcome Kiwi!

Glad to hear your DD is doing so well after her early appearance. How early was she? I am no expert but don't think that not sitting at 7-8 months is a cause for concern. I have 3 kids and they are all very different and do things at different times, even though I do exactly the same with them all! Where exactly in the country are you? There are several of us in London /SE, a few in Cambridgeshire, few more in NE and lots of others dotted around. We even have a contingent from down under , though one is in Derby and the other Sydney.

Has anyone heard from Trace? She last posted in that terrible time at the end of last week. Hope you are OK my lovely and just lurking quietly.

WG, how is Madam now? And how is your FIL? Hope things are not too stressful for your DH.

Done a lot of home jobs today, but still lots left. Poor M was a bit indignant that I had not spent more time with him playing, but needs must. Will make it up to him later in week.

Must go, shattered. Night all. Good sleep

hello kiwi! welcome!

well it's night 1 of the NCSS "help your baby to fall back to sleep in her cot" project, she slept fine until 5.15 but is now completely awake. There's plenty of advice on what to do if nipper is upset and needs comforting, but nothing on what to do if nipper wakes up, nurses for an hour (ouch) as that's the way she usually gets sleepy again, and then decides that no, she's definitely not going back to sleep and even if she did, would need getting up in an hour anyway. Went back to bed to a snoring DH so have given up basically, not going to get back to sleep myself now, have left her playing i the cot to see if she'll tire a bit.

So do I now consider 5.15 to be the time she woke up for the day, and start looking for signs of tiredness at about 7.30 and try and get her to nap from then? The whole waking up so early buggers the whole 'routine' (hah!). Yesterday she looked sleepy (rubbing eyes, yawning etc) about 2.5 hours after getting up but after over an hour's nursing in a dark room was still hugely awake and resisting. And did the same in the afternoon - walked her for 2 hours during which she looked utterly utterly knackered but refused to sleep. And then you've wasted 2 hours during which she could have been playing and using up energy but instead was busy saying "Me? tired? [yawn] nooo I won't sleep...!"

Sigh...

Hello! Big hello to Kiwi! Where abouts are you? ds is sitting up but still wouldn't put him on a concrete floor and walk away! He was 10/12
Syb what about me? I'm from that hemisphere too!

Arti thanks so much for thinking of me! I've had a busy time with my (kiwi) friend staying but has now moved home permanently

Well we found out just in the nick of time before we signed on another, that the house we first wanted to rent was now available again so were given first refusal, and so back to plan A of moving to North Surrey

Managed to get a bit carried away cleaning the oven the other day and smashed the glass on the front when I took it off £170 later [angry. it wasn't cleaned properley when we moved in, so that really annoys me.

ds has started muttering what sounds like words but might be my imagination! Sounds like he says my dogs name over and over and does a funny kind of dadada too! Oh and we have a tooth!! A very sharp little one at the front!

Have had a very quick catch up but unable to retain much at all from the millions of pages I'm behind!

Lady great news on the house - I do hope they are not swayed by the higher offer of the flakey one's - fingers xed for you but I bet it'll be fine.

JJ nice to see you around again!

Oh and I waanted to bollock someone's dh, but I can't remember who??

pmk: yay for the tooth!

Welcome kiwi: DS2 is just about sitting (born 1 jan) and trying his best to crawl but no success as yet - he is v unsettled which is usually a sign of something happening but not sure what.

Morning,

PMK Might have been my useless DH who can't drag himself away from the tv to look after DS2.

Syb I think Trace was going camping, but not 100% sure.

I forgot to tell you while angrily posting about DH being selfish that DS2 pulled himself up to standing yesterday. We were giving DS1 a bath and DS2 was commando crawling around. He came into the bathroom and pulled himself up on the edge of the bath to see DS1.

PMK, I am so sorry to have left you out! I always think of you in conjunction with Raynes Park or possibly moving to Henly. So sorry. BAd luck on the oven door - ouch - but yay for the house! What is your actual moving date?

Jump good luck with NCSS. I really hope it works out so you can et S into a bit more of a pattern. And also get some sleep yourself of course!

Am just about to leap in bath having expressed a measly 1oz of milk. I had loads yesterday and yet very little now. Good job I uncovered a stash in among the ice age of my freezer. Also I suppose going back to work for just one day a week means that I won't need as much. Hey ho.

Happy Tuesdays everyone.

DS up coughing half the night! He has had this cough for weeks now. He also cries after coughing. I'm sick of it now so am going to try and get him into the Dr's today. I know they won't do much but he seems very wheezy and as I am asthmatic I'm a bit worried.

More later.

BTW I think trace was going away for a few days. I hope your doing okay if your lurking trace

LOL I was wondering after I wrote that - how many replies of "it was my dh" I will get! I know what you mean Kayz I was preparing a BBQ the other night with my friend who has a dc the same age and I remember running around making salad and found myself asking my dh if he could "do me a favour and get ds's bottle made" then I lol-ed and commented on it to my friend as though it's like I'm asking a favour of somedistant family relative or friend not his father! then my friend said "yeah, I have to do the same thing" which made me feel better since the other friend's dp was doing so much role model parenting in the bloody corner - however in saying that, the role model dp who was shushing and rocking the dc to sleep was making a rod for one's back I felt - and sometimes I feel the fact that dh does not jump and attend to ds and the sound of a small cry has been a blessing in disguise since he's very good at settling himself etc.
Sybsthat's ok moving day is Sept 1st! Perhaps then I should host a MN Barbie ala southern hemisphere style!! But only those with non-text book dh's and dp's are invited (that's all of you then?)

Thank you all for lovely welcome! To answer your questions - I am in London (SW), and DD was 2 weeks early, which if I remember my NCT classes correctly doesn't even really count as early! She had actute renal failure at birth, wouldn't feed at all and was in SCBU for a week but after finally feeding from me (rather than EBM) she got better by herself, leaving doctors, consultants and specialists completely baffled as to what the problem was and why it went away..! She still gets scans/tests and whatnot at the Evalina Children's Hospital every so often but all seems fine now.

Glad to see she's not the only non-sitter, my other NCT friends babes all seem to be sitting - but then again they aren't doing other things that DD is doing so I guess you just obsess more about what they can't do than what they can! She is also standing when holding on to me or cot or table (ie can completely support her own weight but has no balance at all). Hasn't yet pulled herself up but I guess she would need to do that from sitting anyway!

Naps have gone a bit haywire at the moment - yesterday she went for her first swimming lesson in the morning, and instead of being knocked out by it, as I thought she would, she went from getting up at 6.30am to 11.45 before she went to sleep! I think she's dropping the afternoon nap though, has gone without it probably 5 of the last 7 days.

Another thing I wanted to ask - the last few days she's had random periods of being really upset, and reaching behind her ears a lot. Does that sounds like teething pain? It's definitely not her actual ears so I don't think it's an ear infection (and she's happy most of the time) but I'm not sure what I should do? If it is teething, it's clearly not localised in her gums yet (teeth moving rather than cutting through?) so bonjela won't work I guess? Don't want to drug her up constantly on calpol for occasional pain either.

Hey ho that was a long post!

Gah, reading back that post makes me sound like such a glass half empty person. it shoud of course have said Lawks, she slept for 10 hours in a row!

hello pmk, how exciting about the tooth!

Now then, discussion of cups etc - missed this while we were cast out into the land of wailing and gnashing of teeth (aka off line). DD has one of these cups and she's kind of getting the hang of it, grabs the handle and waves it at her face til it gets in the right place. her method of drinking is to pretty much latch on to the spout, suck like crazy and a lot of it squirts back out (!). Is this normal?! She's much less disgustingly messy with the boob

Hello everyone,

I'll have to be quick I'm expecting a man to deliver my shopping.

Has trace been in for a while? Hope everything is OK and you are just busy with L being off school.

veggie Bettys is OK, the Little Bettys is a better cafe but it isn't somewhere to go with kids. Lots of stern ladies who lunch! I can't imagine they'd be keen on DD throwing her food around.

JJ Sympathy on the non napping. DD was doing the same last week. She was exhausted and refused an afternoon nap. I tried putting her down a few times but she cried herself into wide awakeness. she has napped better the last few days.

daisy I'd go mad if DH tried to give away my pram! Just firmly say that unfortunately that DH was too hasty and you will still need it.

Sorry did I say DD was getting better at napping , the child has woken. Back later...

OOops just reread and see trace has gone camping, that's good.

I've replaced DDs dummy, lets hope she gets back to sleep for a bit longer.

kiwi Welcome! DD started teething at 3 months and now has 8 teeth and was v unsettled in the beginning. I used dentinox recommended by one of the lovely ladies on here. It really seemed to help.

Nope no more napping here, DD is shouting!

DS has a chest infection That would explain his random bouts of crting when he coughs. He is currently napping after I had to pin him down to get some AB's down him. Dr was very nice and said thw wheeziness was probably from the infection but if it carried on once he had finished the AB's to bring him back. He is young for infant Asthma, but he said it wasn't unheard of.

jj DS looks like he knows what he is doing with his cup - but most of it dribbles out or his favourite is to blow a big raspberry when he has a mouthful Pleasnt little things aren't they?

Right my ironing won't wait for ever (alas)!

Welcome Kiwi. Sounds like you had a hard time with DD - we had the same with ours, acute renal failure for not feeding, in SCBU for a week and then finally figured out breast feeding on her own. She never, ever bottle fed. If its any help to know it, she is now 2.3 yrs and is a perfectly healthy monkey. We also have a DS who was born on 20/12. As far as sitting goes, I think a lot is to do with personality as much as ability. DS has been sitting for a few weeks and is happy to be on his bottom, looking around and getting busy. If I remember rightly, DD could sit, but there was always something more exciting she wanted somewhere else, so every time you put her on her bottom, she would promptly tumble onto her front and go wandering off somewhere. She was also very keen on standing and cruising.

pmk - glad you have your house sorted and exciting news about tooth!

daisy - hope your DS is OK. Def worth taking him to the doctors. They may well give him antibiotics if there is an infection in his chest.

daisydora If it's not cheeky to offer advice when I've just turned up on this forum..! I had to give DD antibiotics for a throat infection a while ago and unfortunately they gave her a dodgy tummy (nothing serious, but it obviously was a bit uncomfortable) I think it's because they kill off all the good bacteria as well as the bad stuff. She wasn't yet on solids but if she had been, I would have given her a bit of live natural yoghurt - or probiotic powder if you don't give dairy. Anyway just a suggestion and hopefully it was just my DD's delicate little tummy being affected not your DS!

Oh, is anyone else here doing BLW?

On teeth - DS did lots of dribbling, wailing and even refusing to feed weeks before teeth actually emerged. Dentinox helped a bit (even though teeth weren't actually coming out yet) and we did have to resort to calpol as he wouldn't feed or sleep without it. Lasted for about 3-4 days and 2 teeth finally showed up without any fanfare about 1 month later...

sorry - forgot to say i changed my name but have changed it back - too confusing!

Theinvisiblehand That is really reassuring, thank you! there was a comedy moment at her last ultrasound where DH and I gasped and said "Oh no! What are those lumps?"

"err.. those are her ovaries" says technician.

Oops.