November 09 - solids and crawling underway but sleepless nights still here to stay!!

[scarlotti]

New and shiny thread

Ursi We are getting in professional packers thank god! Wow, 8 teeth! Very impressive, Millie doesn't have any yet!

I've got so much to do and have written two to do lists! Thing is, everytime I strike something off the list I end up adding more!

Where is everyone?

helips we've had packers before when moving house and it's a godsend.

Still no teeth here although huge lumps in his gums so it must be soon surely?!

Moving on to sandwich type lunches now as so much easier in the heat and he loves to chomp away on bits of bread. Afraid we're just going ahead with any dairy here, so it was cheese on toast for a snack tonight and probably tuna mayo sandwich for lunch tomorrow. He just loves to feed himself now and wants whatever we're eating. Am amazed at how quickly we've moved through the puree stage and onto 'proper' food. It's such a relief though as we're away to Menorca next week and it's all inclusive so he's going to have to eat normal food!

DD has her prom on Thursday so have to finish her dress before then. She's got some friends coming over before they leave so we'll get to see them all dressed up!

Still no teeth here either, and also going on with the dairy - having tried cutting it out of my diet before and having seen no difference am not too concerned, though am hesitant about using cows milk outright.

Scarlotti I hope the prom goes really well Did you managed to sort out a shall for her? I still have mine here as I mentioned a while ago if you can't find one. Pictures, please! And am of your holiday. I hope you enjoy it.

Helips ohh how exciting! Hope today was more relaxing for you.

Longway good luck with the job And with the house. DP and I have started looking vaguely for ideas of what we both want - I hope you find somewhere!

No teeth here either. I can't even feel any lumps on his gums. DS1 would be red cheeked and a dribbled loads when teething. None of these signs with C. We get a couple of bad days a week and then back to normal.

Sorry for not responding to posts. We've had a stressful couple of days. DH came home on Sunday and went back to the office on Monday and to be called in to an urgent meeting yesterday. He has been made redundant . He has 8 weeks left at work and officially leaves at the end of August. He is with a good company that look after their staff and will recieve an excellent pay out, if he chooses to take it. There may be other positions with the firm, wordwide, but nothing that fits his experience atm. An unsettling few months ahead. The best scenario would be to get the money and then walk in to another job. In the current climate we can only hope.

We also had our first school visit. Some of you may recall that I was very unhappy with the school we were given. This was DS1's first time he's seen the school. He liked it but came home upset and scared of the big change, which is normal. I still feel mixed emotions about the school. I just don't feel it's the right school for DS1. I'm phoning school admissions today to ask a few questions on possible alternatives. I doubt they will be able to help me, but worth a try.

I will try and catch up with you all

Scarlotti so glad to hear things have improved for you and dh and that dd's exams are all over.

Fruit sorry to hear about your news what a stressful time for you and dh. Hope something appears on the horizon soon

Thanks for all your kind messages regarding milkgate. Alfies eczma has calmed down and no more blood in his nappy so far.

I have a fully mobile baby here and I am exhausted. He can cross the room forwards now in seconds so can't be left for a moment. Argh!

Just the one tooth though.

Fruit am so sorry to hear that

Fruit, I'm so sorry about your husbands work. But maybe it was for the good and he will find something even better for him. And at least he will get a good payout. Does he have to work until end of August or do they make him leave earlier so that you would even get unexpected time together? Anyway, I hope that he will find something new soon so you don't have to worry anymore.
And I'm hoping that the school situation for your DS improves too somehow.

fruit sorry to hear of unsettling news for your DH and good luck on sorting things out with school. What a lot of stress.

Milkgate

Had my first training afternoon for new job yesterday. Was all right but slightly pointless, in that I'm the kind of person who researches a job and finds out all about it before I even apply so learning what the programme I'll be working on entails was a bit pointless. However, got lots of shiny new resources to have a look at! [geeky teacher emoticon]

I am a bit concerned though as the job is 0.6 FTE and I was led to believe this would be 5 mornings, which i think works out as 0.6 as am longer than pm. Now the maths coord who was at the meeting is trying to tell me it means 6 sessions, so I have to do an afternoon . Have looked up with NUT and it definitely goes by hours not sessions, so....will have to sort out. Either I work 5 morns or I get paid more. Not great to be starting a new job with pay and conditions dispute... Any other teachers have exp of this?

Went punting the other day with Rosa and another friend and her little one - plus DH and DFiL to help out and...er.. well, DO the punting - Babies aboard FB album coming soon!

Thank you kind ladies. It will take a while to sink in. We both feel like it's not really happening. Ursi luckily, DH works for a good company and they treat their staff well. He will work for 8 weeks, then be on garden leave for Sept (basically gets paid to stay home for a month) and then receive the pay out. If he gets a job quickly after he leaves, the money will help us move home and improve our life greatly. I have every faith in DH and his abilities. I'm sure he'll dust himself off and get on with it! I start back to work in Sept and we'll have some income.

MissI Hope you sort the work hours out

Ninja I'm not looking forward to those crawling days. They are fun but very tiring!

The schooling scenario is an uphill struggle. There is a school I didn't consider at the time, which DS would be number 1 on the waiting list for. I didn't really want this school as it's not any better than the one we have, but it's closer and smaller. I am going to try our luck and see where we get. Meantime, we are 2nd for the school I really wanted for DS, so some hope.

With all the struggles, I know it will all get resolved. It could be so much worse. We have our health and 2 lovely little boys

Fruit sorry to hear of your DH's news, what line of work is he in?

MissI not what you want when you start a job, but definitely something to sort out. Can you get back in touch with the maths coord and someone a level up and explain what you've found out - almost in a 'can we uncross our wires?' sort of way?

Ninja go Alfie 'tis tiring though!!

Thanks scarlotti. Just found out I'll be going in on Friday next week and the maths coord has made a list of 'things to sort out' and my afternoon is on there so will sort it then. Pretty sure the Head is on the ball with the hours thing and it's just the maths coord trying to act up IYSWIM.

Hope your DD has a good prom this evening! My sis has an interview for a new job today. She's just qualified as a lawyer and her firm are mucking her about with hours and salary. I know everyone's ion difficulties at the moment but they are really taking the p. She needs to remember how capable she is so hoping that a positive response from this will be the confidence boost she needs.

A bit of a duller day today. Maybe just do a spot of Wimbledon watching later after Under 1s group at local chn's centre.

Hope all you lovely ladies and gorgeous babes are well

Sorry to hear about your Dh's Job Fruit hope something good turns up for him soon!

Am just so bored today. I need adult company but both mum and mil are away so neither of them are an option. Cabin fever is setting in!

Hello all,

Fruits really sorry to hear about dh's job, I hope something good comes along soon. What a nightmare schools are, I'm constantly feeling guilty about whether I've made the right school choice for ds1. Hopefully someone (or2) will drop out and your ds will get a place at your 1st choice.

Hen has been a nightmare this morning, he has refused all solids and just had breast but lots of it! He has screamed when put down for his sleep so much that I had to get him up and feed him to sleep I so didn't want to get into that.

Oh right on que Hen has woken up, its going to be a bad day

Thanks all. DH is back to work today. He is being very brave and getting on with things. Scarlotti He's in a managerial post in IT hardware for an investment bank.

Tigger Is H teething? C gets very grouchy and tearful after lunch time. It must be the chewing of lunch thats sets the teething off. Had to give him a dose of calpol, teething gel, boob and he's now sleeping.

Juicy I have days when I really need adult conversation. Being at home with the children can be a lonely place at times. I'm thankful to my nearly 5 year old as we can have some nice chats

fruit Im used to my mum being home four days a week so can usually get one or two trips to see her during the week and then a visit from mil as well.I feel selfish saying this but I need them to be there!

Scarlotti I've been so caught up that I forgot to say, I'm glad to hear things are improving for you and DH. Your holiday sounds like just what you both need . Where are you going?

Pav Hope you're doing OK and getting some sleep. I miss reading your posts. Come back soon.

BBL How is the sleep going?

Fruit thanks, you have enough on your mind without trying to remember my woes!

Tigger we have the same here although Ioan won't take the boob either. So far today he's had about half a slice of toast and 2 yoghurts Is just so miserable and the only thing that works is calpol. Poor lad has a huge lump on his gum so I'm just hoping it breaks through soon.

Agree with those craving adult conversation. Working is a godsend in that respect. So nice to talk about things other than babies or domesticity. Having said that, when I'm there I'd rather be at home or doing something else!! Am never satisfied me, wish I was one of those people who loved their job.

Fruit meant to say, I get almost all my jobs (IT) through jobserve.com so might be worth your DH taking a look. Am sure he knows about that one anyway!

Have finished the dress, thankfully. Ioan was a star and slept for 2.5 hours after lunch so I managed to get it all finished then

fruits scarlotti I did wonder if he could be teething again, he has his 2 bottom teeth so maybe we are due the top ones??

I ended up putting Hen in his pushchair at 2pm and just walking, he was quiet until we got to ds1's school until... what nightmare! Ds1 came out of school in a foul mood and had a tantrum in the playground because I wouldn't buy him an ice cream, ds2 ran off and when I found him, he too had a tantrum and to top it off Hen screamed so much another picked him up out of the pushchair for cuddle Only thing was he cried again when we put him back in .
Anyway he had a nap on the way home and has then eaten a yoghurt and thrown mashed potato and carrot all over, no crying though.

tigger Sounds like a tough day you've had. I hope your DS' have all gone to bed and you're relaxing. Sounds like teething to me. We've had to give another dose of calpol and teething gel, bf to sleep and hopefully he won't wake for a few hours. I may have mixed you up, but are you a childminder?

scarlotti how is your new job going? Thank you for the website advice, I will let DH know.

tigger [sad} for you on your tough day.

Today must be a grizzly teething day. Only yoghurts seemed to soothe here today too, maybe they're so cold they ease the gums?

Fruit job is good thanks, it's very nice to use my brain again. Am wondering what I want to do longer term though as know this isn't it. Think it's also as I know I'm not having any more dc's so no more maternity breaks to look forward to! Am a bit all or nothing type of person so find it hard to just go with this for a while until Ds' are older and stress levels drop - am my own worst enemy sometimes!

the crawling is driving me mad!!!!

Wires, X Box's and chair legs are the objects of desire.

Yesterday he unscrewed a nut on a speaker stand.

two seconds peace would be a joy.

Just booked our wedding. 23rd April 2011

Hope things cheer up soon Tigger

Ah Ninja the delights of crawling. Isn't it amazing how fast our babies are growing. It only feels like yesterday that we were all talking about scans, morning sickness and backache!! How exciting having your wedding booked. Have you got in mind what type of wedding you would like?

We have our 8 month development check next week. HV is coming to our house. I'm sure she will try and lecture me about sleeping through the night! I will be telling some little white lies

Hello all,

Things seem much better today thank you. Very sorry for the moaning yesterday.

ninja I'm with you on the pains of crawling, Hen is into the fire, pulling the dvds out and picking up every tiny speck from the carpet.
Congratulations on booking your wedding

Hi all,

feeling a bit emotional today. Just had my antenatal group of friends over for a farewell tea and cake morning and am now a bit teary. I hate goodbyes. Singapore had better be worth it!

ON the upside both the kids are now asleep so I can mumsnet!

fruit Millie is still not sleeping through and I don't think it is that unusual for there age (especially from what others have been going through on this thread!) so ignore the hv if she has a go!

Tigger glad you are having a better day today

helips, I can imagine how you feel but I'm sure it will be worth it.
fruit, well we are far from sleeping through and I even feed her at least once at night, actually twice, as it is at 11 and at 4 or 5.
I met my HV just yesterday and she said: You know, from 6 month they don't need to be feed at night anymore but obviously if it is best for you, you just continue
I did decide though to try stopping those night feeds... and was very unsuccessful last night.