Jan 2010 babies and mummies here.....can't think of funny thread title!

[crumpette]

... sorry couldn't think of a title that didn't mention how to get orange poo out of a white vest, or how to get jiggy post partum!!!

Hi All

WMDO - please please stop googling stuff! And please do not worry about Olivia! I am sure that she will be fine. to you. Hope the pills get to work and that you manage to get some sleep.

CTFN - How goes the weaning? Nico is getting to the stage where he gets full on milk but doenst seem satisfied. DS1 made it to 22 weeks before weaning, so plan to see how the next month goes. Gold star for yyou skyping at 7am! I have only just managed to feed my boys by then!

Ali - sandifers? Havent heard of that. Hope little Jacob is ok. I think Nico is teething too, he keeps grabbing my hand and pulling it into his mouth. Have ordered him little Sophie, hopefully that will help him.

Crumpette - how are you doing?

New - to you. You could try the pick up/ put down method with Jack. He cries, you pick him up. Once he settles, you put him back down and keep doing it. That is what I am doing with Nico. The idea being that eventually he learns to fall asleep out of your arms.

Hope everyone else ok. Am on tenterhooks waiting to find out about the election outcome. Plan to try and sleep as normal though and catch up on the news in the morning. On a positive note, my feature wall is nearly done. Looks fab! . Am most proud of my wallpapering skills.

MK Look at you and your supermum skills... I mean wallpapering! I just about manage to feed DS, express at every given opportunity, feed myself and if I am lucky, a load of laundry! You get a supermum/ superwoman badge too!

WMDO Really hope that it turns out to be ok for you. You could always get a second opinion but the girls are right - babies take what they need from you regardless. So even though I've been told that the guilt feeling is part and parcel of motherhood, I don't think you should worry about the impact on Olivia. You have done what is best for her within your knowledge. The best you can do for her now is to look after yourself so that hopefully you get the fatigue under control to be the best mum you can be to her. No one can ask for any more than that!

ali I guess at least we should be happy that he will chase up the referral. Fingers crossed that it takes you one step towards getting to the bottom of it all. If they can make him feel better, that would be bril, the poor dear.

DS gave in this afternoon and had a nap after nearly a week of giving them up and being a PITA fussy baby in the evenings! Meant to go vote before it started raining again as we'd already been dodging the rain all morning going to class and then to the doctors. So me fulfilling my democratic duty was entirely dependant on the weather and the son behaving. As it turns out, I did make it to the polling station.

Hello all,
I thought I would have all the time in the world after having sprog to toodle about on the computer...but I'm never here now! Quite happy in a way because it is due to being walking about and going to baby-type things. Anyhoo it does mean that everytime I come on I have many pages to read and no time to read them!
I hope you are all doing well xxx and will attempt to come on each day or two to stay in touch with how everyone is getting on.
My update:
No change weight-wise
Cara 17 weeks
Cut her first 2 teeth today
Enjoying every damn minute of being a mum!
Still looking forward to DD2/DS!!!
Not here yet tho.
flyingma thanks for the advice re laser eye surgery - I had my appointment with lens optician who have recommended a new lens at an extra £10 a month (twice my normal), so am even more keen to go for it! She did say that when you BF that your eyes become a different shape (or somat), like fluid retention when PG. I thought it was very interesting, not something I would have ever expected it to affect.
Take care xxx

Btw all, my hubby just reminded me to sign up with Aviva. I'd seen the advertising ages ago but forgot all about it till he said.

Aviva give you free £10k life assurance for the first year of bub's life. Even if you already have life assurance, this would be an added bonus and as far as I can tell, does not preclude you from applying for the free offer.

I suspect they might bug you at the child's first birthday to take out a policy but I thought I'd just mention it to anyone else who needs to pull their proverbial finger out to sort out such matters. This only takes less than a minute to complete.

Hey all,

Can I join you? I had a DD 21st January and have lost a stone and a half so far with a stone to go!

WMDO - trust me those pills will give you back your get up and go! Levothyroxine is MARVELLOUS stuff. I was diagnosed in Oct 08 and have been on the pills since. Is your Olivia developing normally (whatever normal is!) so far?

Welcome Blondieminx - the more the merrier. We're quite a chatty lot so make sure you log on regularly .

WMDO - YOU SEE!!!! Doesn't Aunty CantThink make sense? Now BlondieMinx has it too and she's fine with a beautiful baby too!!!!

xx

Ok CTFN, your quite good !

Thanks Everyone, I am a panicker!

Welcome blondie.

Sorry, Yes blondie so far for a nrly 5 month old she seems 'normal'.

Your DD will be fine too as you were being treated. x

Help CTFN, I went in to nosey at blondie's profile and I notice a few of you have a block where you have to log in to view. Mine is open to the world. How to I make it more secure?

WMDO - not aware that you can make your profile "private", but your photos you can certainly tag each photo under the visibility tag to being open to all Mumsnetters, just your mumsnet "mates" which you have to designate, or being private. Mine's open to all MNetters.

thanks for the warm welcome

CTFN I will try and put up a pic to show you just how gorgeous she is hehe! which reminds me - must update my profile adds task to ever growing list!

We have germs in the Bobins household Jacob is a very hot snotty grumpy boy Dd has got tonsilitis and I feel yuck.

So glad I cancelled Jacob's jabs yesterday.

Welcome blondie (tries not to spread my germs)

ctofn - is your husband Mr Kipling? I only say that because you say you watch exceeingly trashy tv and at 4am this morning that came to mind

wmdo - i 2nd what everyone else is saying and I get how guilty you feel that you could have affected your LOs in anyway but we've all done the best we can and you tried to get a diagnosis before. Anyway, finger crossed the dr can give you some more info to reassure you and maybe be slightly more upbeat. On the plus side, it's very good to have you back

blondie - welcome to you. Is your DD your 1st?

mk - i'm going to go to the library in a minute and get out some books on routines to try and give me some sanity. I think that the pu/pd method would just really upset my little man but i am a complete loser and hate to hear him cry even if I could then pick him up and reassure him. How long have you been doing it with Nico and how is it working out for you?

ali - i hope you all feel better soon

I'm about to call the police. Somebody has stolen my lovely baby boy and replaced him with the unhappiest baby in the world, even boob doesn't calm him now. For the last 2 nights we've been up at 4am because he's screaming and I can't console him and before that he didnt go to sleep until midnight. He's not had a poo for 8 days now and even though i've givne him lactulose and i'm giving him water it doesn't seem to be budging. I'm hoping the baby who has taken over Jack will come out when he has his poo and he will be my baby boy again.

The only saving grace is that I got him a fisher price jumperoo yesterday for his 6 month birthday.(As he's a boxing day baby I want him to have his own special day where he gets presents for his birthday and not just Xmas presents if that makes sense) I tried him in it to check he liked it and oh my goodness i'm sure he's going to bounce out of it, he loves it so much and he's laughing in it, it's adorable to see. It does however mean my big present for him for his birthday he's had early but lets face it he has no idea whats going on!

Anyway, i was thinking about getting him a swing for the garden, has anyone got any recommendations?

Right lovely ladies, i'm off to the library and I may just have to get a chinese takeaway on my way back too. Comfort eater, moi? never. I think I will skip Mondays weigh in

I hope everyone else is ok. x

New - try cooled boiled water in a bottle with a smidge of brown sugar. My MIL swears by it and she used to be a Health Visitor. Now runs Royal Free Hospital in London. Wish she'd give me advice more often instead of thinking she doesn't want to interfere. Yes, I have MIL sent from heaven .

Update. Not very good at sticking to my own gently does it plans. Just gave Olivia some pureed banana with some of her special milk plus a tad of baby rice. She absolutely devoured it. Licking her lips, trying to eat her bib which had the taste on it. Very sweet. She is watching everything we eat now and is on a deffo growth spurt. She is now on 3rd day of taking 6oz bottles. Only Alibobbins will probably recognise just how mammoth that is.

Ali - hugs. Hope all in the bobbins household recover very soon.

x

Hi!

flyingma - thanking you for your kind words! . Well done for making it to vote, am finding todays events most unsettling. Goodness only knows what the outcome will be.

Hi Fraoch - hope we are one of the firsts to know when there is a BFP!

Welcome Blondie Ali - to you all. Hope you feel better soon.

New - PU/PD works well for us, been doing it a while. I manage to put Nico into his cot semi awake for daytime naps and is starting to settle himself after a few PU/ PD's. After night bath and milk, put him in his cot wide awake. 50% of the time he falls asleep himself, 50% of the time he cries, we pick him up, he quietens and we put him straight back down. Then he falls asleep.

The other technique that is meant to help is touching the baby (stroking the feet etc) while making a shushing sound. The idea being that while the baby concentrates on the feeling of being stroked and the sound you are making, they forget to stop crying.
I remember with DS1 that I used to make the mistake of thinking that he needed cuddling when actually he was overtired and wanted to sleep. A big sign of overtiredness is if the baby is arching his/ her back when crying. All that worked was to put him down and let him cry, he eventually settled. HTH

Right - off to catch up on the latest re the damn election...

Hi all, not been on for ages so only had the chance to skim read posts.

Crumpette good on you for sticking to your guns re immuniation, but please be aware that the USA's immunisation programme is completely different to the UK, they have a ridiculous amount of cocktails they pump into their LO's, the UK doesn't have anything like as many. As such they are percieved as being safer... a bit anyway.

wmdo sorry to hear about the diagnosis, but still at leastyou know now and we can all hope you feel better soon.

Tobin and me have a cold for the last week...again. So being that he's 16weeks we got him some tixylix...ha! baad mistake, one dose and the world fell out of his small, yet explosive bum. I thought it might have been a fluke and with his cough not clearing gavehim another dose...nope, definitely the Tixylix, which we have now put away for when he gets constipated. so any of you needin things to get shifted...

Right, gonna dash and ... oh...well I was gonna jump in the shower, but someone's just woken up.

ctofn well done on 6oz bottles Jacob is taking around 5 each feed but is still having 6 feeds a day so I'm happy with that. Was going to try him again with some solids this weekend but with him being poorly I'm going to leave it.

Yesterday was my BFP anniversary

New Ds1 is 28th Dec and we always buy im something special in the summer. Hope whoever stole Jack brings him back pretty quick or we will have to send out the baby police

I'm feeling better just need to catch up on some ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz Jacob on the other hand is really not right his temp was 38 and he's just moaning

Have 2 moany's here too ali. DS & DD got a cold. Not good fun.

DS had almighty tantrum today leaving same friends house he had similar tantrum in last time!

She will be thinking he is always doing it but these were the worst 2 in his life - must be her house is too much fun to leave!

Im turning into a shouty mummy again. DS is going through another shit phase but this is really the worst so far. The rest have been easier but as he now gets near 3 he has learned that maybe there's another way - his way!

Not listening to anything I say
Looking for a row and enjoying it
Push push push

Familiar anyone?

Im turing into a right nag. Im bored of my own voice.
I never thought Id be one of those mums who bicker with their kids - how wrong was I. We turn into 2, 3 yr olds.

Need to step back, evaluate and think up new tactics. Feel free more experienced mums to give advice!

So far, toys have been confiscated, he gets put into cot and genarally I turn into a screaming nutter by the end of the day. I know, Ive thought of everything .

Forgot to say, thyanks Maygirl for weaning advice and reflux babies. Will go ahead next Saturday when she is 5 months and see how some baby rice goes down, if at all!

I feel a bit sad about it. It's came so quickly, they will all be toddling before we know it.

Olivia has turned that corner at 3 months and became soooo laid back and happy.
Girls were commenting on her chilled nature today.
She just sat in her car seat and chewed Sophie La Girafe while we had lunch and a natter which spanned over 3 hours (bad mummy smiley).

Im just so in Love with her, she's full of fun and easy going.

mistletoe asked if second mummies wondered what we found so hard first time - I KNOW, WTF!! Obviously it's the life change/shock first time, everything changes so dramatically and everything is new...

BUT If my mum has DS for lunch and I just have DD, Im like, great, feet up, loose woman, 60 minute makeover, baby, what baby - oh yes, here's a boob, down you go....I feel like im at a spa compared to having DS climbing on me demanding Mr Tumble type entertainment NOW.

Ha, thats DD crying just to prove im wrong!

wmdo I find myself being a very shouty mum especially with Dd she's 9 but she is really difficult at times. I find myself getting sucked into childish arguments with her and have to remember I'm the adult

Hi all, I still havent caught up on the news (sorry)

Babymoo slept from 10pm to 7.30am!!! My boobs were like Jordan's this morning!! I am not expecting it to be a regular thing though.

I have a feeling she is teething already - My question - For those of you breast feeding have you noticed teeth when you feed IYSWIM? I am dreading babymoo getting teeth and biting me. I always said I would stop feeding when she got teeth but I am enjoying it so much I dont think I will.

Dd1 is 2 next month and we are starting to think about playschools. I actually got upset just now when I thought about leaving her with people she doesnt know (crying again now!). Please tell me it will be ok

I am more broody then ever at the mo! We need a bigger house before I have anymore though.

I hope you are all ok and the babies are all doing well. I will catch up properly this weekend

mk - when did you start doing PU/PD with Nico and how long did it take for him to understand what he needs to do? Ctofn, don't you do PU/PD or is it shush/pat you do?

wmdo - as you can tell from each and every post that I put i'm not an experienced mother What kind of things is it that DS is getting annoyed/ frustrated with? I'm afraid the only words of "wisdom" i can offer are courtesy of that rather chubby supernanny on channel 4 who can't say unacceptable properly. She advocates the naughty step an reward charts etc. I reckon though a good stiff drink to mellow you might be a better option

mama2moo - i know what you mean about playschool, i'm looking at nurserys now for Jack for the end of this year and i keep putting off going to look round them. The only thing that gets me through it is knowing that from what i've seen with my niece the social aspect of nursery has helped her so much with her speech and confidence but also with certain milestones like potty training because her friends are all trained. My main fear though is that whoever you leave your DC with needs to respect the values you want your child to have and that they would offer the same care and attention you would. I do have to hold my hands up and in my crazy mind I have thought about bugging my child when he goes to nursery so that I could hear what they're oing with him etc but I then figured that I needed to go back to my padded cell. Besides that, i'd have to enlist the help of someone out of James Bond or Austin Powers to come up with some sneaky device that they wouldn't see

Anyway, i've just typed a lot of ramble in this post so feel free to completely ignore it. Sleep hysteria has set in and even though DS is in bed i'm still sat here typing, WTF?! The good news is he had his poo so lets see if overnight the nice baby fairy comes back and does the switch

New- at your posts. Don't worry I have been known to give DS plastic bags to play with- he likes the rustling sound they make NB do not try this at home!

Well I am just here to say- he took a bottle yesterday! whoop whoop yeaaah!! Breastflow- thanks for recommending it- he didn't take the whole thing but chewed it and sucked it a bit and seemed to be able to manage it really well, no screamery involved.

I know what you mean about nurseries etc, if I am to go back to work I seriously need a nursery place for at least 3 days a week, but I live in an area where you need to put your name on a list as soon as you discover you are pregnant it's absurd. I have no idea what I'm going to do!

blondieminx welcome!!

Unfortunately the latest news from me is that I have discovered ocado which makes purchasing wine AND carrot cake AND ice cream all too easy...

Tobin takes 7oz bottle every night (which really equates to nearly 8oz iykwim), in fact he squeals when he's finished it like he wants more. The thing is the rest of the time when he's on booby he takes as much as he wants and normally goes into food coma so I have no idea how much I'm producing , maybe it's that and not the biscuits that are causing the weight gain!

How you guys are coping with the thought of nusery I don't know...I'm currently thinking that 4yrs old is way too young to start school!

Ooh 4 somewhat It's funny in England isn't it, you don't have a choice. Most kids are 5 here I think as you can keep them back if you want.

DS is ok, he is a May baby and will be 5 years and 3 months.

DD would only be 4 years 8 months so I will keep her back a year, id hate not to have the choice.

Im covered in sick today, I actually smell. DD in my room so don't want to disturb for clothes. Gawd she is sicky. Im swithering about giving her some rice in a vein attempt to ease this reflux. No doubt it will just be thicker sick!

Great news crumpette. Underwired bra's are creeping ever closer!

Felt bloody weird today. Really really dizzy, still do a bit. Was SO desperate I phone my in-laws to come down as there was no one else. They sat for a few hours with the kids while I tried to stop the room spin. No idea why.