Nov '04 babies

[eidsvold]

I have lost track of who had what - either girl or boy and when.... thought I would start with a little roll call.... sad I know!!

me - had dd - no2 on 15 November.

Where does DS3 sleep Riebee? We couldnt take anymore a few weeks ago and put ds2 in the kitchen in his travel cot. He sleeps thru now from 7pm-7am and I am thrilled!! I used to wake up at every snuffle and cough and pick him up and feed him. Once they are on solids they do not need feeding at night and I just needed to get him out of our room but didnt want to put him in with ds1.

It is cooler in the kitchen too and we are all much happier.

DS2 weighs in a 19.5lbs and eats everything. No probs with lumps either and devours whatever I give him. He loves ice lollies too!

He has started reaching out for me when I put my arms out to him and he talks away as though he is telling me a story. I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone and that he is 7 months old.

We are flying to the UK on Thurs for a week so that should be fun with the 2 boys!

ds sitting quite happily now and rolling all over. Of his food at the mo as he's got a hideous virus. Took him to NHS walk-in centre this evening as his temperature shot up to 39.7*C

dosed up with ibuprofen and calpol on instructions of dr. and he's now sleeping soundly with next to nothing on. electric fan in bedroom and everything...
Turns out to be yet another "non-specific virus".
not worried about him wasting away though as he's nearly 22 lbs!!!

Hello everyone,

dd2 is still very chilled out, just started to sit up and very pleased with herself. She eats just about evrything I give her, but definitely not piling up the pounds, must have a very high metabolism (lucky her !!).

Have jsut stopped breastfeeding as it wasn't getting anymore anymore, and though I was sad at first I am now enjoying being able to wear normal bras again!! She is also drinking more milk, which is good.

Collision poor you, I hope evrything will be ok, and that you get some help!! Are you happy about going back?

We've done 3 fligths already with dd2 being 2 and 3/4 , 4 (Dubai) and 5 months. And dd1 4 years old. Once I flew on my own and even thought nothing dramatic happened, I was so stressed out trying to avert disaster that I got there completely exhausted
even if it was just a 2 hour flight!

collison ds3 still in our room which I know has a lot to do with his waking. He was destined for the 3rd bedroom but ds2 has just laid claim to it, having it kitted out for his 8th birthday. I was hoping that my eldest ds' would be sharing for a couple more years but ds2 needs his own space so ds3 is bedroomless for the near future. we are waiting to get plans for an extension so ds3 will have our bedroom eventually and we can escape to the new annexe and pretend we can't hear any of them . I think if the landing was bigger I would shove the cot out there but it's too much of a squeeze. The last few nights have seen a considerable improvement though, I have managed to get ds3 back off to sleep without resorting to feeding him and have pushed the time between the night feeding which I am hoping will soon be cut out altogether. ds3 is also holding his arms up to be picked up...i love it when they do that
Where abouts in the uk are you moving to collision? Are you sure you can put up with the lovely climate?

mum2max.... hope ds is feeling better he's a good weight too, looks like my ds3 is still the chubbster champ though!

Eidsvold you didn't miss me off,just thought I would add details

had all out screaming last night from 4am til 6am. Surely this is the peak of it. It's horrible to see ds in distress and not being able to do anything but shove calpol in him
thank god it's my day off today.

also have building plans. we're having a conservatory built in about a month hopefully. that'll make a nice play area for ds during day and escape for us in evening

Hi all,
I noticed Riebee (hi) had joined this thread with her early baby, so I thought I would too. My ds was due Nov 18th, but came in October - with jaundice poor sleepy old thing. So I think his adjusted age is about 7 months 1 week?
I am on the October thread as well, but I thought it would be nice to talk to mums at the same stage as me and Pog: my ds.
I'm in Edinburgh and today it's a bit grey, so we have been lounging around the house like a pair of lumps.
Anyway, hello to everyone and all the babies.

fever is over now and ds has been to nursery today which meant i had to go back to work anyway after 4 hour nap at nursery he's feeling great and temp is no where near 40*C (phew) no more vomiting or screaming. Scary for a while though....

Hello everyone, cor it's a bit quiet isn't it? I hope all the November babies are behaving.
Over on October babies we have an outbreak of pregnancies - anyone here?

God no! Not yet, really couldn't get my head round that right now. Surprise myself with the strength of my feelings about it actually. Really want some more quality time with DS before I think of that! You're not one of them are you?!

Life is still stressful now DS is moving about so much. Thought he had got seperation anxiety as he is putting up such a huge fight being alone in his cot (thanks GN!) but it is only at that time - I put him in his pram downstairs earlier and ran back upstairs, not a whimper!

Have gone back to work now, sort of. Really enjoyed it actually. Back to work again on Friday, hopefully have a nice day and a bit off with DP before then. Looking forward to catching up with everyone - how is the move going collision?

Flouncy, no not me.
I'm just off to have an operation next week: a myomectomy. So no more babies until that's over and I'm fully recovered. I wouldn't mind another though, and then that would be it: two.
I'd quite like to adopt as well - my mum and dad fostered a lot until I was about 15, and I'd like to help a child like the ones we had pass through.
My ds just went to bed. He isn't sleeping too well at the moment and has red-rimmed eyes. Or he has an eye infection. Has anyone else had that?
He's not that keen on his granddads, and tonight my dp's dad came up to help move some stuff. Waaaaaaaaah! Shrieeeeeeeeeek!
I could hear him whilst I was in the kitchen and it went on for so long that I marched through and asked what was going on. He's fine with his grannies.
Dp is happy to leave him screaming in a kind of baptism by fire approach, but I don't feel very comfortable with that. What does everyone else do?
I didn't see that much of dp's parents before, but of course now with ds:Pog, they're up all the time, which takes a bit of getting used to. . I'm amazed at how differently I'm treated since having Pog, and how many people want to look after him, a bit strange for me.

maisie - if his eyes look a little infected - if you are still breastfeeding - squirt a little breast milk into his eyes and I usually rub it across dd's eye lashes.

I express some and it works great for dd1's blepharitis. Clears her red eyes up in no time. Just dip a cotton bud into the milk and rub it across her eyelids.

Breastmilk apparently is fab for that.... and it seems to work.

maisie. I've found with MIL and FIL that if ds is at nursery they don't bother coming round for a cuppa - what about visiting DH OR ME!!! You know, like they used to...

Thanks Eisvold, I am still breastfeeding and I will give that a try. Even if he hasn't got an eye infection, it will be funny.
I haven't ruled out tiredness yet though, his sleep pattern seems to have gone wonky in the last week.
DP was away last night and Pog and I woke each other up all night.
MTM - I know what you mean, it's like "Hello Pog...and who are these two other people with you?"
Most of my friends have been great and always phone before coming, and don't even complain when I turn up without Pog. But DPs brother and fiancee like to 'pop' round, unannounced, which can be a tad incovenient.
I suppose I'll just have to get used to all the sudden attention from DP Parents - they are nice, but I don't want to spend every other weekend with them. I'm mean.

Where are you all?

Ds is a darling and I love being a Mum second time round. He wakes up smiling and laughs all day and goes to bed smiling. No trouble at all.

His top two teeth are coming through as well as his bottom two and we Calpol him and give him teething granules which he seems to like. He is full of a cold but grins like a trooper!

He is rolling around the room and is in the crawling position but falls down at the last minute.

Ds1 loves him and they playfight all the time with ds2 howling with laughter.

How is everyone else?

Hiya - we're all doing well. DD2 is a delight, she's just learnt to wave and is really proud of herself. She sits really well too, but shows no inclination to move yet... which is good!! She had an ear infection last week and I felt terrible holding her mouth shut when giving her her medicine.. she hated it, and wanted to spit it out. Still cruel to be kind!

DD1 is now loving being a big sister and is delighted with all the new things her baby sister is doing. Hope everyone else is OK.

hello all.

Ds3 has started to clap his hands and sings very loudly to nursery rhymes...... its so sweet. He has just started to give nice big open mouthed kisses too which are incredibly sloppy but lovely. I've been taking him to baby signing classes for a few weeks and he is now doing the sign for milk, very amusing to see this little chap sitting there telling me he wants a bit of boob. I'm sure he is on the verge of crawling but we are hoping he will wait until we get back from holiday as we don't fancy chasing him around the streets of Barcelona.

Right now here's a big fat confession......wait for it......ok here goes.......I am secretly harbouring a desire to have another baby. WHAT I here you say isn't this the women who on earlier posts said she would rather walk on hot coals than be preggers again? Yes thats me. I really don't know whats happened but I have this awful sinking feeling when I think that ds3 is my last baby and I felt really envious when I recently found out a friend was pregnant. Now my rational side keeps telling me that it just isn't practical...house/car not big enough. Remember how ill you were last time, ds3 is not the easiest of babies, you want to start your own business, ds1 his just going to secondary school. However the other side of me goes all gooey at newborns, wants to go through another birth (?!) would just love to have four boys and thinks I'm 31yrs and could pop another one out before I'm too old then get on with everything else.
Could it just be delirium caused by lack of sleep?
Hope everyone ok

Reibee I do feel the same although I will be incredibly grateful for my AF when it decides to make it's appearance! Don't think I am due yet but it seems quite erratic. Really don't want another yet. I've brought a new buggy for DS and nearly left it till I came on - don't want to court sod's law!

DS is cruising about, no babbling at all though really. Sometimes sticks his tongue out a little way and blows raspberries of sorts. No word on the tongue tie referral, am going to see HV again tomorrow when we go for weigh in. He has been sucking his thumb more, or was, I've been at home now (no shifts available) for over a week, and it seems to have stopped. He is happy at home with DP but I wonder if me not being there means he has to try and find comfort elsewhere IYSWIM.

Think he's had enough of me boobs. Won't take from me when awake (got a sneaky night feed in last night though), and is overjoyed at being able to give himself the bottle - pulls it out every so often to grin his delight at this skill and shake it up and down over all near by...

We still have no teeth at all! A bit of nappy rash in recent days and perhaps slightly grumpier, but nothing to see in his mouth yet! I think he is going to be very strong willed, attempts at touching his cheeks or trying to see if he bites me results in my hand being forcefully swiped away.

Trying to say 'No' to him to stop him ruining our books or rolling over in the bath... Not much joy yet. He dosen't understand I don't think. But we are going to my mum's for the weekend soon and she won't be impressed if he really is running havoc. It is hard to know what is best to do isn't it?

Thats my essay anyway girls. Wish me some periods my way, and hope with me that telling DP of the possibility of another expensive baby will make him, err, a little more contencious?

Blimy all you mentalists at wanting more babies!

DS is really hard work atm. Crawling and cruising everywhere (stairs n all) with absolutely no idea of danger, just hangs onto things for dear life until he decides to let go and then crash! Coupled with DD (3 in sept) suddenly wanting to pick him up / pull him around, I can't leave him anywhere atm. He is a fab smiley baby tho, very rythmic, likes clapping hands and rocking back and forth tomusic, follows his sister I think!

Our living room has been out of bounds whilst we have been decorating for the last month so we have been confined to the kitchen, dining room and conservatory, which is plenty of space but in the heat the conservatory regularly tops 40 degrees, even with an a/c unit, so its been really hrd.

Its not al bad tho, DH is taking me (without the children - eek!) to Barcelona tomorrow for our 2nd wedding anniversary (I had flowers as well - v spoilt this year!). Children are staying with my mum (their own 'holiday') but I am dreading leaving them tomorrow

Since going back on the pill last month after finishing b/feeding I haven't stopped bleeding, which I think is a cervical erosion. If it carries on this month the doc will take some swabs. All good fun then

So will update you all next week aboput my trip without the kids and let you know how many hours I didn't cry for. . . (be positive, be positive!)

x

Hi All,

dd2 is as lovely as ever, though not so placid anymore...she's into everything and although she doesn't crawl, she tries hard to, and also to get up, but she gets on her knees and the collapses on the floor. She's been a bit difficult to put down for the night recently, she screams and screams and we have to go back a few times before she finally settles. Her bedtime used to be 7pm and some days she doesn't sleep till 8.30 9ish pm!!

She's still gorgeous though, and smiley all the time, she laughs at dd1 making funny faces for her and the two of them together are the sweetest thing ever, I can melt just by looking at them!!!

DS2 is crawling! Well, not exactly crawling... more of a slither really but he gets about and is driving ds1 mad as he wants his dinosaurs all the time.

He has 4 teeth and has started waving. Eats everything and sleeps thru the night.

I have no desire at all for another which is good as DH would leave me I think!

We are moving back to Cheshire in September so we still have some time to pack.

Where have the last 8 months gone?

Riebee........you are mad!!!!!!!!

yes I think I am mad! I am tearing my hair out today. We are off to Barcelona tomorrow and ds3 is teething...ahh the joy! DH has just taken him out in the car so I thought I would sneak on here.
He is desperate to crawl but keeps collapsing face down. He is doing round and round the garden like a teddy bear on his own hand which is really sweet apart from when he's doing it at 5am.

Collision...whereabouts in Cheshire? thats where I am from originally. I used to live in a village called Weston and my sister still lives in Haslington, both not too far from Crewe.
Well I guess I better carry on packing the kitchen sink.

Hi other mums
wow! impressed with all the waving clapping babies. My baby:Pog doesn't understand waving, he just stares and moves his fingers a teeny bit (maybe that is waving?)
On the other hand he was totally focussed on crawling, and has been flying about since June, now he pulls himself up to standing and moves along the sofa. Aaargh!
Do you think babies focus on one thing at a time and so other things get neglected?
He has his 8 month check soon, do they wave at the baby? Fail!

hello all, long time no speak! My quick update:

dd will eat only finger foods -I have to allow almost an hour for her to plough her way through all the food on her tray. she refuses everything from a spoon except yoghurt.

Recently we had trouble settling her and realised she hated her grobag because it stops her sleeping on her tummy.

she babbles well - lots of mama, dada, baba, wawa etc

She shows no inclination to move - can roll but not yet craling or pulling up to standing.

She is lovely and my favourite thing EVER in the wolrd is watching ds make her giggle. Pure happiness watching them together

Riebee, I'd love another baby but am determined to lose the baby weight first - I am going to Slimming World and hope to be size 12 by Xmas. I also need to give some thought to my pelvic floor - it hasnt recovered well after dd!

I just cant beleive they are 8 months already - where did the time go??

bunnyXX

Just a quick one ds3 crawled yesterday . He waited until his brothers came back from their holiday and crawled across to them, it was lovely and they were so thrilled that he did it for them.

Also just asking...Am I the only one whose baby doesn't sleep through?, please tell me I'm not!

Riebee - DD has never slept through yet. We are still waking at 2am, 4am and 5am.

I am really proud - DD took her first step at the weekend!! She got really excited and fell over tho ... She can stand really well without any support now and loves to roam the room using various things to hold!