March 2009 - The crawling / walking / talking race is on . . .

[jollyjoanne]

the new thread for March 09 mummies

wheely I was always told BF on demand if they have a bug, if FF give 1oz every 10-20 min so even if they vomit some of the liquid gets digested.

Ugh, horrible morning, feel like I've done nothing but tell off the boys and counting the minutes til DS1 goes to nursery.

Anyone going through schools admissions this year? DS1 is starting Jan 2011 so admissions in our borough are opening Nov and closing Jan, joy! With DS1's disability we have to still apply for a mainstream school while getting him statemented, then ask to be referred to a special school later if we find one that suits. Yay!

Thanks Slick and Lau.

Well L had her best night ever last night after all that and slept until 7.20 (woke a couple of times but went back to sleep). I did put the karvol plug in on all night but also maybe if it was a bug then she just wasn't hungry in the night ! Hmmm...

Gopod luck with the school admissions Lau. That was us last year - many sleepless nights wondering what to do (without the extra issues you have). So far I think its worked out for the best (not least because the school is 5 minsround the corner and our other choice was at least 20 minsaway !!).

Thanks Slick and Lau.

Well L had her best night ever last night after all that and slept until 7.20 (woke a couple of times but went back to sleep). I did put the karvol plug in on all night but also maybe if it was a bug then she just wasn't hungry in the night ! Hmmm...

Gopod luck with the school admissions Lau. That was us last year - many sleepless nights wondering what to do (without the extra issues you have). So far I think its worked out for the best (not least because the school is 5 minsround the corner and our other choice was at least 20 minsaway !!).

Thanks wheely in some ways we have it easier than others because if our heart is set on a school (for instance the RC one round the corner) we can specifically name it in the statement and then the school would have to prove that either i) they categorically cannot meet DS1's needs or ii) having him there would negatively affect the learning of other children, so in some ways the process is a bit better.

Which is good because of the 7 schools near us, 2 are special measures, 3 are just on satisfactory and 2 sound possible!

wheely hope L is feeling better. There has been a vomit bug doing thr rounds up here - but hopefully she just had excess snot.

When Rosie had the vom I just kept offereinbg her little bits of formula - she threw a lot of it back up - but some stayed down.

I am happy to report that Rosie seems to have settled down. Have been puitting her into her cot on her tummy and she drops off to sleep without any howling and seems much happier for it. The cutest thing is when I switch the light on in the morning and she lifts her wee head up and grins.

She is also rolling rolling rolling everywhere! I still find it such a novelty and dd1 thinks it is hysterical!

School admissions ........... eek - have no idea when you sort it out in Scotland - slick can you enlighten me?!!!

oh and can I just say that I have added to my pram collection . Managed to sell my Bugaboo Cameleon for a good price and then bought a well used but functioning Phil & Teds for the girls. It is great, though dd1 freaked out because she couldn't work out where Rosie was but could hear her squalking away!

I have finally had to accept that Rosie + sling are not going to last much longer as she is tooooooooo heavy. I also had to accept that my side by side free cdouble buggy does not mix with going to cafes for a coffee!

And can I just dsay that MN is wonderfuil and I got the P&T from a local MNetter - hooray!

Have to go - am meeting my manager for a pre-return to work catch up! Luckily he has 3 young children so will not be phased by me shovelling gloop into Rosie while I talk about court cases !

Are you becoming a pram hun Meep . I must say though the Phil and Ted does seem to be the bees knees where double buggies are involved. My age gap meant I didn't have to go down the double buggy route though. I have now got our pram collection down to 2 though and actually am only holding on to the pramette in case my brother wants it in feb.

I haven't used a sling for a while either - L got a bit heavy and too wriggly ! We'll probably try her in the back pack next week as we are off to the new forest for half term and don't think the maclaren will stand up to the forest !

Hope your meeting goes ok.

L seems much better thanks - she woke up last night so she must be - ha ha. I probably think it was a bug as she was off her food for a bit (and slept exceedingly well !) but fingers crossed it isn't as I don't want it (or for dd1 to get it - arrrggh).

I'm a P&T fan too - I wouldn't be able to leave the house without ours. DD1 isn't much of a walker (despite being nearly 3 ) and M gets a fair amount of kip in it - plus it's small enough to get on the bus with AND fit in our miniscule car. Only bummer is the tyres which keep going flat - otherwise gold stars all round

Both DDs out of the house (DD1 at preschool, M at a friend's house being minded by her nanny) so I can get a bit of work done. So I guess I'd better make the most of it.

Morning all. While I am grateful to my mum for buying us our double buggy it is a bit crap, which I should stress is not her fault, but mine. We were together when I chose it but I didn't look at enough of them, I got it from Babies R Us and the break feels like it will snap any minute. I keep meaning to take it back. It's also a bugger to steer because DD2 goes in the front and it makes it sooooo heavy. Also her front seat doesn't recline. And the straps are crap and easy to escape from. I'm a bit mad because I saw a much better one reduced in Mothercare and I really wish I'd got that instead. Don't know what to do about it really. We have another one which I can add a buggy board when DD2 is old enough but that's a while away yet I think.

Meep and Lau Schools are different up here so I can't advise for you Lau but all I know is up here the intake - in terms of getting them on the list for the school year is in the November before, then they start the following August. Bit different for High School, but that's a way off for you Meep.

But I have to say, we got DD1 in her school very last minute as we moved over the summer so she was lucky and then when we moved to where we are currently, she joined her new class in the October after the break. She hasn't looked back which is great. But yes, definitely seems to govern everything in life - where you live, what the feeder primary is for the secondary etc etc.

Anyway, got to go. Tiling and grouting calls. The guys are now a day behind as they hit a stumbling block yesterday with some rogue pipe sizes of days gone by....

Later Y'all.

OMG wheely maybe I am a pram hun ! Until last week I owned 5 prams and 3 slings. To be fair I only bought the Bugaboo, a McLaren buggy, and the Close sling - the rest were all inherited!

Phew - thanks slick at least I don't have to do anything for dd1 right now! We're weighing up having to buy in a decent catchment area (small house for lots of money) against moving to a decent house anywhere and going for private school from Primary 1 (which will cost about the same as what we currently spend on nursery).

Meeting went fine - I multitasked like the seasoned pro that I am - one hand shovelled gloop into Rosie, one hand fed me coffee and I chatted about work in a reasonably adult fashion !

Bah, HV is now worrying me as Gabe is now 8 mo and can't get from lying to sitting on his own (he's amazing once you put him in a sitting position). He's not delaying already is he?

(Mostly stressing because of DS1)

good grief lau your HV is a loon!

DO NOT WORRY!

I have NO expectations of Rosie getting from lying to sitting at 8mo - I can't remember when dd1 did it but it was way past that age - she just sat or lay and didn't do much else and she is now running around like any other toddler.

Lau, Mae is also 7.5mths and no sign of getting from lying to sitting at all. It annoys her but she doesn't seem to know how to do it all, she just shouts until mummy comes to get her!

Lau Eh??????! What a load of Sh*te! Tell your HV to piss off and go re-train. What a load of crap. Way too early.

Thanks guys, I needed the reassurance!

Yes meep I think she may well be a loon!

Right off to buy a cake at the nursery bake sale.

Yes another vote for your HV being a loon ! L can sit v. well, crawl (in her own inimitable style) but can't get from front to sitting either. DD1 certainly couldn't until at least 9.5 months (probably even a bit later) and was walking at 12. Mad as a box of frogs.

L's sickness was a bug - DH has got it. How he managed that when he wasn't there for the vomit I don't know !

I have never caught the vomit bug from my dd's and I am the one who is normally soaked in the stuff. Dh always manages to catch it (and every other ailment brought home by our petri dish toddler!).

Rosie attempted to crawl today - eek - was very cute to watch and she looked very pleased with herself even inf she only got up onto one kneee and whirled around in a circle!

meep and wheely I don't know whether to envy or feel sorry for you with crawling LOs! G is showing no interest yet.

I think I'd like to either get sitting or crawling sorted so that she can entertain herself a bit more - my left arm is tired from lugging her about!

dd1 is very excited about the crawling - I think there are going to be lots of games of "chase" around the house!

Lau HHb is just only starting to get his knees up, he's not on them yet, but he's trying. God help me when he does get going. One going one way and the other going, er, the other.

DD1 was crawling by 7.5 months, but DD2 didn't crawl til she was 9 months. In fact DD2 took ages to do a lot of things. Now she's speaking like she reads War and Peace every night! It's incredible the speech she comes away with at the moment. Much quicker than her big sister. It's interesting how they are all so different. HHB is only really now just showing signs of starting to babble - which is age-appropriate I've been told but the girls started wayyyyyy earlier! I guess us girls like to talk!

Back to work in the bathroom. Am sooo tired.

Hope you're all ok. xx

Hallo! (waves and smiles at all)
Can't remember who asked, but the rooibos tea I give B loosens his stool, wonderful stuff. Since he's started eating preteins his poo has become more solid, and sometimes he sits and strains with an acute look of concentration on his little face! We laugh, but I'm sure it's hard for him.

Just saw the new emoticons ha ha

I've been on the go this week, spent two days at my sil with baby as they were putting in a new boiler, my house is a mess but I'm going jogging in a while, can't be bothered at the moment. And we went to Ikea on Tuesday and Ben loved it, loved the free baby food especially! Couldn't get enough of it, and he grabbed our croissant right off the plate and stuffed it in his mouth. We were delighted! (And took it back - it was ours!!)

Wow, kanga wonder how you flight was with your brood. I still can't quite get my head around five...

Lau agree wholeheartedly with the others, what a loon. And so insensitive?! Ben is almost crawling about but he is not near close to sitting up from a lying down position. Dh had to put up the stairgate (sounds like a sf movie) this morning, can't believe we're already there.
After the jog I'll spend my day baking as we have a coffee morning for charity at the church tomorrow.
And Monday it's back to work ...oh well.

Hi all ? already a week back from hols and wishing we were still away.

Miraculously, we emerged from Provence no sicker than we were before we left -- not quite what I'd hoped for (I thought perhaps removing Rhys from the festering petri dish that is the creche would allow him to shake off the cold(s) that have plagued him for almost two months, poor little sausage), but given the fact that we were harbouring someone with swine flu(!), I call that not a bad outcome. We went to some lovely wineries, and Rhys was a star both on the long trip down and back and on our various wine tastings (though he does keep trying to grab the wine glasses...). In fact, he shocked us both one day by grabbing a glass of apple juice from DP and drinking from it. He only spilled about half of it down his front?

Rhys didn't get sicker while he was there, but the return home has been difficult -- he quite liked spending 24 hours a day with us and was NOT impressed by having to return to the creche!

He?s clingier than ever?will howl if set down anywhere, be it on the floor, under his gym, in his swing, on his changing table. Is this normal for 7 months (well, it?s been going on for almost 2 months)? It?s to the point where even the people at the nursery say they are having to hold him a lot because it?s unmanageable with his squalling. Plus he?s coughing all day and all night, so the syrups the paed prescribed aren?t working. No fever, though, and no stomach issues. Small mercies, I guess. He just seems really unhappy most of the time ? we have to work to get a smile out of him, and it?s like he?s forgotten how to laugh ? but I suppose that if I were sick for two months straight, or a third of my lifetime, I?d be out of sorts too.

Lau, Rhys is just short of 7 months old and shows no signs of being ready to crawl or sit up on his own, let alone shift from horizontal to vertical! Glad to hear everyone chiming in to say babies do things on their own time.

Wheely, I LOVE the phrase ?mad as a box of frogs? and plan on using it as much as possible.

Slick, hope you are seeing the light at the end of the renovations tunnel.

And thanks to whomever pointed out that bananas are constipating! I really thought they were supposed to have exactly the opposite effect.

I leave for a three-day work trip to Prague on Sunday ? this will be the first time DP has been totally on his own with Rhys, and I?m quite positive he has NO clue about a bunch of things. Wish him luck?

Ok have just attempted to upload a youtube video of Mae trying to crawl. She is so nearly there, but it is really hard to film her becos every time she spots the cmera she stops and poses!

So if it all works the link should be here

I'll now go back and read what others have to say . . .

Mdavza, hadn't even thought about stair gates although I suppose now she is moving round we better had.

Meep I have to say the sitting thing was definitely useful as now I can just plonk her on the floor with some toys and get on with jobs in the same room without getting an aching arm or back from holding her all the time.

Slick hope all the bathroom DIY is finished now, big respect to you for getting it done.

Corgi poor little Rhys it must be so miserable having been ill for so long. Although on the positive side once he has had all these germs surely he shouldn't get them again. So he'll probably be superhealthy as a toddler or something!

Well done, Mae! She's adorable, and her little dress is so sweet!