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

[jollyjoanne]

the new thread for March 09 mummies

urgh Meep - poor dds and poor you ! Hope things have improved. Sicky, pooey children are grim .

wheely Seconded! DS1 had poo running down his pyjama leg this morning :-( Bleugh!

there is nothing worse than a sick baby and a bouncing toddler! Have been stuck at home all day - it is raining, dh is at work, and Rosie has still got the vom.

Dd1 is much better though not eating much - but has been covering me with stickers and demanding "look at my" - so I think she'll be okay for nursery tomorrow.

Rosie on the other hand will not be going anywhere until she can keep milk/food down - has had runny poo and sick on me 4 times - so no first day back at work for me tomorrow. I really hope they don't think I am taking the piss

sorry to hear about the sickie children meep and Lau esp. badly timed meep . Am sure work won't think you're taking the pee.. offer to take her in with you .

jolly - how did the riding go ? I too was an avid rider in my teens and haven't really ridden since. For my birthday last year I got a riding lesson from my bro but was pregnant (unbeknownst to him) so couldn't use it and still haven't. I had thought I might get the chance in the new forest but didn't. DD1 had her first proper riding lesson which was .v sweet, she got to rising trot but then almost fell off - not sure I should be encouraging it really given the expense !!

Now I haven't moaned talked about sleep for a while. Things are better in that L is sleeping through but waking like clock work at 530 (why do they do that, as if an alarm has gone off) and then is up. Am finding it hard - so hats off to those who are or will be holding down a job at the same time as sleep deprivation. Must try and get to bed early and then it won't be a problem but I'm not v. good at that.

Good luck going back to work when you manage it Meep !

wheely Rosie has been sleeping in - but I know it is just because she is ill. Despite this I am wide awake at 6am every bl**dy morning as I am so used to getting up with her any time from 5.30am. Any bets as soon as she reverts back to early wakening I will have readjusted to late waking! hey ho!

Raises a weary head and opens bleary tired eyes.

Poor HHB was Very Very Unhappy Boab last night. He's streaming with with cold since yesterday morning and because he was bunged up and couldn't suck his thumb, he screamed from 7pm til, oooh, well, 4am. Grim. Howling and howling and howling. Even took him out in the car at 9.30 to try and get him some sleep and of course he did and then woke up when we got back, despite best efforts. So I got 2 hours sleep then DH and I had a big rant this morning over nothing. DD2 has it too and she had spent ALL of yesterday screaming and whining as it turns out she was coming down with it. I was exhausted yesterday as it was as I had spent my birthday finishing the bathroom and organising the halloween party for all the kids in the village and then taking them all guising (not on my own tho). So I had really been looking forward to chilling yesterday and maybe going for a walk but with VVUB streaming and DD2 screaming and the weather just PISSING down to biblical proportions, it just made for HELL. DH and I were meant to be having a nice meal together last night and a candle lit bath in the new bathroom, but er, it was all spent eating re-heated curry inbetween soothing a very windy pissed off VUB. Hey ho.

I still have work on the bathroom to do and I have my neice and MIL coming up on Wed eve. Really, I have to laugh at my calendar sometimes or I'd just greet.

Anyway, better go, got to go and get the Diva from school.

Meep Hope wee one's ok and that you got back to work alright (and that it's not too much of a shock.)

Sorry not had chance to read everyone else's posts. Hope to later. xx

oh no, poor vvub

I am still here - rosie is still vomitting - has kept down most of one bottle - the rest has been chucked up on me

My dad came to the rescue and took dd1 to nursery so it has been a bit easier.

At this rate I won't be back at work till next week

slick hope your two get better soon - there is a nasty gastro/flu bug doing the rounds. We had the streaming nose last week. I hate this time of year!

How are the houses of vom, snot and poo today ??

Only been vommed on 5 times today ! Last 3 bottles have stayed down almost intact - so there may be light at the end of the tunnell. Horrid nappies from both of them though. And the snot seems to have reappeared..........

Work have been great and I don't have to go back till next week (though I won't be paid for this week) - so I can just relax and tend to poorly children!

It's very quiet on here at the moment - has everyone gone back to work ?

How is everything in eth wheely house?

Hello all - indeed work and life has gotten in the way of Mumsnetting recently - but I do check in every now and again even though I don't have time to post on everyone's news - sorry!

Penelope is now just over 7 months and going great guns. 2 teeth on the bottom and today I felt the top left tooth coming through! She does like to grate apple chunks with her 2 little teeth - so cute! She's on her knees a lot so I think she's going to crawl soon - which I'm dreading! I love plopping her on her arse and knowing she'll be in the same place when I pop back from the kitchen 5 mins later...

Not much else to report except work has been an almighty drag and my mum is sick (cancer) so have been up and down the motorway every weekend to Norfolk to see her in hospital. Looking forward to a bit of normality when we take 2 weeks off over Xmas and visit my dad in the states - 2 weeks of no work, no motorway driving and lots of lie ins as my dad can dote on his granddaughter in the mornings!

Oh, Pen had a photoshoot for Jojo Maman Bebe! That was fun - shots going to be in the Spring catalogue coming out on Xmas eve... lovely!

Hope everyone's going well. How many crawlers have we got now?

xx

Hi Boobz - t'was wondering how you were getting on the other day back at work and all. Sorry to hear about your mum. Look forward to seeing Pen in the JJMB catalogue. Apparently my DH was a baby model - you wouldn't believe it to look at him now.. hee heee...

Sorry R isn't better meep - the poor thing (s). Things here are fine, I think (grabs a large chunk of wood). L actually slept 7.30 to 6.50 last night . The only thing I can think was different was that she probably had a max of an hour's sleep in the day and stretched over 3 sleeps so maybe she just doesn't need much sleep. Apparently me and my brothers had given up daytime sleeps completely by 1. DD1 was 18 months which was bad enough.

L is also being a little minx at the moment. V. mobile and v. curious so can't take my eyes off her for a second it feels. In the space of about 10 mins this afternoon whilst I was trying to do something constructive on the laptop (and actually it was something constructive) she had almost poked her eye out with my pencil, knocked over my big cup of tea, turned the tv off (by remote control) and ripped up, and tried to eat, a load of paper. But she's very happy and content whilst causing havoc so won't moan much.

She very much likes the idea of standing too so is trying too (and sometimes succeeding) to pull up on anything which leads to lots of tumbles.

Right, must og and cook some dinner. Here's hoping for a vomit free day tomorrow for you meep.

Hey all - sympathies to the Houses of the Unwell - this weekend Rhys decided to add a fever to his 10th straight week of congestion and snot and coughing, so it's been a fairly exhausting few days. DP stayed home from work with him on Monday because I had to go to a meeting, and I stayed home with him yesterday. The fever has gone, so he can go back to nursery - thank god, because work is FULL ON - but he started howling the instant I dropped him off this morning.

No time to read, but selfishly do have a question: Here we are in November and R is getting EATEN ALIVE by mosquitoes. I counted 11 bites on his head and face this morning . He moves around too much now to use a mosquito net, so does anyone have any recommendations for baby-friendly solutions? Are those plug-in things that use tablets or liquid safe? Poor little man, he looks dreadful!

Back to the salt mines.

Corgi - am fairly sure the plug ins are safe. You used to be able to get little patches that you could stick around which were quite safe. They're quite difficult to find now but I will have a google for you. I even used them one year in sri lanka because I don't like the sprays myself. I'll be back....

can#'t find them corgi - they were called mozzie patch and i think just gave off citronella. I need to go out now on a ballet uniform search as I managed to throw dd1's out (5 weeks old, £15 worth grrrr). I'll have a better look later.

Hope the houses of ill are better !

Mummy panic now as Gabriel is one of the oldest on here and is showing no interest in crawling and cruising.

Don't panic Lau. They're all so different aren 't they ? DD1 was not showing any interest in crawlng or pulling up at this age but still walked at about 12 months. I have a friend who was similarly worried (her baby is 7 weeks older than L) and she has suddenly just started crawling at 9 and a bit months.

Just be smug that you're not chasing a baby round all day . L started up the stairs yesterday - didn't get very far but I will be putting up stair gates this afternoon. Grrrr.

Also, although he's one of the oldest he was quite early wasn't he ? Makes a difference I think.

lau please do not panic. Rosie got up onto one knee ONCE! All she does now is roll onto her tummy and very occasionaly rolls back. She has stood at the edge of the sofa holding on - only because I put her there and she has only just mastered the art of sitting up totally by herself - but needs lots of cushions round her as she still isn't that steady.

Dd1 NEVER rolled and NEVER crawled! She walked late and just bum shuuffled everywhere.

wheely eek at the stairs!

The meep house of ill is getting better. I am exhausted after what feels like weeks of looking after sick children (particularly with Rosie who cried if I put her down ) - my dh has been working until 9/10pm and weekends so I have been doing it all myself. And now that Rosie has stopped being sick she is waking up for a feed in teh middle of the night !

Havew put them both in nursery today - so that I can have a couple of hours child free - 'tis lovely!

Hay Y'all.

Am still exhausted as DD2 screamed all the next night and we had to call NHS24 as she was seal barking and sounding very croupy. They are still very snotty and chesty but doing ok. I have it a bit but just feel done in with everything that's been going on. And I have MIL and neice here too.

Lau still wouldn't panic - DD2 didn't crawl til 9 months and I have a friend whose 3 children didn't crawl at all but all just got staight to their feet. HHB's method is to crawl on his stomach just using his right knee for propulsion. Kinda like a dehydrated man in a desert.

He is working on his 3 tooth but it seems to be coming in the bottom next to his two bottom teeth which is a bit unusual but not unheard of.

Meep Hope everyone is feeling better now. I hate this time of year too. I just want to hibernate.

Corgi I know that Avon Skin-so-soft works really well on midges so maybe worth trying for the mozzies? You can get it on line.

Boobz So sorry to hear about your mum. How is she faring? What's her prognoses. I f*cking hate cancer. I hope she recovers and am sending lots of healing vibes to you and her.

Right better go and make tea for the masses. I really need a break! Maybe next weekend!

wheely he was a couple of weeks early (due 10 March, arrived 21 Feb). We're just hyper-sensitive after DS1's issues.

Laumiere just to reiterate what everybody else has said! James is 8-and-a-bit months now and is OK with the actual mechanics of getting into a crawling position and manoeuvering his way via shuffles a couple of metres along the carpet but that's it. He got the hang of it, seemed to realise he was pretty hopeless at it and hasn't made many attempts since, in honesty! If I plonk him somewhere and go to the other side of the room he'll strain in my direction and babble a bit, possibly go onto his tummy, but nothing more.

He can stand if he's helped up and will stay upright for a couple of seconds or so without support but he rarely shows any actual ability/inclination to walk, stagger or stumble. On the couple of occasions where he's attempted it, he's just collapsed in a heap.

Don't worry about it, they've still got plenty of time! I'm personally relishing his plateau in progress because I'm just getting to the stage now where running after people/stray pieces of paper caught in breeze etc is bloody impossible. It seems to have happened overnight - I stormed walked 7 miles the other week in a temper with no ill effects and now suddenly I'm almost useless after going up and down the stairs!

Hey loli! How is it all going? I was thinking of you the other day.

Gabe won't stand! If you hold him up under the arms he holds his legs out straight in front of him til you get tired ..... However standing up and holding my hands appears to be acceptable.

Bit miserable here as have a nasty cold and trying to sort self out for work return. I keep feeling like I'm going to be hopeless!

Damn lau, hope your sniffle clears up soon. I had one the other week and was terrified it was going to graduate into the dreaded oink flu but thankfully it went away.

I'm not too bad, 33 weeks just coming up. A bit pissed off because I'm almost guaranteed a section now, as Baby 1 has decided that it would be an excellent idea to not only remain breech (they were both breech, but the more co-operative Baby 2 spun around) but to descend so low as to virtually engage bum-first in my pelvis. It hurts like buggery and I've been told that I can only attempt a natural birth if either both are head down, or A/1 is head down and B/2 is breech. Sadly tis the opposite so unless A manages to spin around in what little fluid he or she has got to manoeuvre in, looks like I'm heading for a sunroof job. Had my last day of work on Fri which was a blessed relief - still not particularly huge aesthetically speaking, but my bladder capacity is virtually nil now and no doubt brain capacity would swiftly have followed. I'm no use to anyone at the moment!

Am seeing the consultant again in a couple of days, they've been absurdly vague so far as regards running through birth options but I'm expecting that to be the 'hot topic' this time round. Will be due another scan soon after that, I wasn't able to book one immediately after the last one. They were both around the 15th percentile last scan, am hoping things will have improved somewhat by now - I've upped my healthy food intake enormously!

Sorry for lengthy 'me me me', I hope all's well with everybody else. Boobz, I'm really sorry to hear about your mum and hope she makes a full recovery. It isn't bloody fair, is it.

loli don't worry hon, DS1 was born at 31w at 4lb 6 and he's a feckin' giant now Am sure mini-lolis will be fine.

Good luck with the next few weeks (months and years ) Loli !

Meep - hope everyone's better and that you've managed to get back to work and that it is going ok.

Nothing to report here just thoguth I'd pop in and say hello to everyone