Morning Littlsez. Am a veteran of snotfests here - karvol drops on tissue under cot, raise the mattress with a pillow and rub snufflebabe on their chest and use muslins not tissues to wipe their noses (Danny screams at tissues, loves playing peekaboo with muslins while I remove the snot) and nurofen childrens (not calpol) at nighttime are my top tips. Stairgates - I would REALLY recommend getting one which screws into the wall for the top of the stairs (mates little boy managed to remove a nonfixed one and fell down the stairs and broke his arm aged 1) but you can use a pressure mounted one for bottom of stairs. Try not to get one with a bar at the bottom as is a tripping hazard (especially when you have your arms full). Otherwise they are much of a muchness. I have a wooden Lindam one for upstairs (no bar at the bottom) and a rollerblind one for the bottom of the stairs as we only put it across when we need to and otherwise can freely go up and down the stairs. Bumpto3 stock some and you get your MN discount with them so may be worth looking on line.
Want to say HURRAH - for the past 2 days Danny has taken his bottles of formula, 11 oz in total and has made a MASSIVE change to his nocturnal wakings. No more being awake for hours on end - just a couple of wake ups for a quick drink and then back to sleep: in true baby fashio, he is now waking at 5.20 but that I can cope with as know it will eventually stretch back out to 6am. Am so relieved.
And DS1 is really enjoying nursery. He vaguely knows a little boy in the downstairs nursery room from a playgroup he went to - this little boy also started this week but hates it (he cries when left there and most of his morning session there) - apparently yesterday he was in the playground and saw him crying on his own at the side and told him to stop crying and to come play with him. The teacher told the other little boy's nanny this. Makes me so proud of my caring little man.
So all in all, all is pretty good in the dinky household today.