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MSE Parent Club - Part 2
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i had bought calpol night a few months ago (same as medised and dozol), before i realised you werent supposed to give it to children under 2
I didn't know you were not supposed to give it to under 2'sfor bump I'm gonna try to go without and maybe get a few matching comfort objects (in case one gets lost) I'd rather they insist on carrying a little teddy around.
None of mine had dummies as I really hate them
Joshua sucked his thumb most of the time and he still does it now (he's 12). James never bothered sucking anything.
Charlotte has a quick suck of her thumb when she's dropping off to sleep but it's never in when I check on her when she's asleep. She sucks it on purpose to annoy us and cracks up laughing when one of us pretends we are angry and shouts "get it out" at her. She also went through a phase of sucking the trunk on a soft toy elephant, so he's got a wonky trunk now :rotfl:Here I go again on my own....0 -
I didn't know you were not supposed to give it to under 2's
its a relatively new thing i think - started maybe a year ago, because some parents were "overdosing" their kids or something. however i was giving it to Oz and didnt affect him at all, and obviously before these guidelines, everyone was giving it to under 2s, so i wouldnt worry!! if it had helped Oz to sleep i'd prob still give it to him.DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY
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It does help her sleep, but I only use it when she's really tired and can't sleep because she's poorly. The bottle must be well over a year old now and we still have some leftHere I go again on my own....0
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No dummies here either, not because I'm necessarily against them, just because my babies have never been interested and DD used to forcibly push it out with her tongue if I tried putting one in. Tom is a very keen breastfeeder though. I was planning to stop when he turned one but I'm not really sure how without a lot of tears!
Not trying to sound as if I know everything, and I'm sure most people won't do this anyway, but our speech therapist at school says a lot of problems are caused by babies learning to talk with a dummy in their mouth - apparently it teaches them the wrong position to have their tongue while making sounds and they make lots of "front tongue" sounds at the back of their mouth.
Tom will probably have a speech problem anyway as he has a tongue tie, though I have noticed that he is starting to be able to stick his tongue out a little bit so hopefully it may be ok.0 -
Both Jack and Mollly have dummies since newborns due to their reflux and being very sucky babies. Molly isn't as dependant on hers as Jack and I did say that i'd try to limit it during the day by 1yr as I did with Jack. But then Molly came along and he had it on demand again.
However with two of them I often find i do give them their dummies, esp Jack. Its his comfort thing and goes hand in hand with his blankie. I haven't got the energy for battles and have noticed he sucks two or three fingers also.
The way I see if is he not long turned 2 and he's still little. If he still had it during the day past 3yrs then I'd be thinking about restricting it to sleeps. I don't want to push him to grow up to quick if he's not ready to give it up. He won't have it by the time he's at school, i figure he'll do it when he's ready. And Molly well, she might go cold turkey when Jack does. Don't know.....i'm still going with the flow with them.
Took Molly swimming today and got chatting to a lady in the changing room. The two children with her looked close in age, apparently 1yr 1day and I thought I had it hard sometimes. Still its not forever.
I hope Daphne comes back, I really don't know what she meant by her comments and wondering if she's misreading into things or reading things the wrong way like you can without being face to face. Daphne please reconsider as I don't understand your decision.0 -
purplepatch wrote: »I was going to say that too! Except Olivia's version is
Twinkle twinkle chocolate bar
Your dad's got a rusty car!
Ohh you've just made a light bulb come on in my mind!! both versions are verses in a poem that is the first one in a book I had when I was little! I used o love poems I must have had about 50 poetry books!
EDIT: this is the bookhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Twinkle-Chocolate-Bar-Rhymes-Young/dp/0192761250
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I've alway had an issue with Chris's dummie I think I blame it for not being able to BF
well seeing as i hadn't even thought about it until my mum bought 2 just before I was due and had them sterilised ready when I brought him home and suck one in his mouth when he was happily in his bouncy chair :mad: I couldn't be angry at my mum so I've always projected on the dummie :rotfl:
I'm in the "toddlers shouldn't have dummies in the day" camp but not against them as I really don't want my child being teased through childhood for wonky teeth (as happened to my OH due to thumb sucking) and you can't remove their thumb - can you?
Chris has only been allowed dodo for sleeps since he was about 13mths, the plan was only sleeps for a month and then remove it completely but I never got round to the remove completely bit, we also insist he doesn't talk while he's got dodo in. I know its wrong but I can't stand lispssorry if anyone has got one! so I didn't want him ending up with one.
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Yes Daphne, do come back. I don't understand either. Everybody knows that Joseph is THE best and Agutka KNOWS everything BEST and Agutka is ALWAYS right and THEY are wrong and Agutka's opinions are MOST important.
So, to join in the latest discussion, dummies are great. I, in that all-knowing state you enter when having your first baby but actually having no clue, thought I wouldn't use dummies. Bad for the teeth etc. That lasted two weeks. He's had one attached ever since. BUT they were the first objects he played with incessantly. Really helped his dexterity. And now on 'advice' from MIL I'm taking them off him during the day (when I'm paying attention), so he can talk to us. He NEEDS them at sleepy times though. And at times of great upset of course. I don't know what or when the next step will be, but I cannot imagine my son giving them up anytime soon.
But then I've been known to give him chocolate :eek: so what do I know:D
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Funny you've said that about "Twinkle, twinkle, chocolate bar," as she's come home from nursery with that variation today and then mumbling the next line. She knows full well the 'proper' next line, so I wonder if it is something from nursery. Funny that she only sung it for the first time at the weekend though, had me and mum in stitches!
** Opinion alert ** I hate dummies, but Imogen ended up with one (I'm such a contradiction!). I can honestly say it was the best present I was bought. A friend who had a baby a cpl of months before I had Imogen bought her some MAM ones amongst other things and said, "I know you hate them, but you can always keep it in the cupboard..." Not long after and we were reaching for it as she was such a sucky baby.
I'm not against them for younger babies, just that whole 'big kid running round trying to talk with a dummy in' thing. Given that the latest evidence is that babies who have them to go to sleep up to 6 months have a reduced risk of SIDS, I will be giving one to TJ.
I know that you can't take fingers or thumbs away, but the LO would have to take these out of their mouth to eat, play, pick stuff up etc. It's a really hard one (and one I wrangled with personally) as I'd personally prefer to have something I could 'remove'.
An old friend of mine still had a rabbit she had to hold in the same hand as she sucked her thumb to go to sleep - and she was living independently at uni aged 21 :eek: It was a right trauma when she lost it if she was staying over somewhere. Can you imagine the embarassment staying over at your new bloke's house for the first time. "Sorry babe, just have to hold this scabby rabbit and suck my thumb so I can go to sleep. Don't mind me..." :rotfl: :rotfl:
Ooh, Sami, forgot to say that my SIL took my nephew's away when he was 1 and told him that he was a big boy now and that he needed to give it up for another baby to have. He didn't moan too much.
LOVE the ideas about the Easter bunny and the toy shop. Will definitely bank those if we struggle to get TJ's off him when the time comes.
Might PM Daphne with a plea to come back. What do you think? It's such a shame to lose someone over what can only be a misunderstanding.MSE Parent Club Member #1Yummy slummy mummy club member50% slummy, 50% mummy, 100% proudImogen born Boxing Day 2006Alex born 13 July 20090 -
I didn't know you were not supposed to give it to under 2's
Anyway, DS1 had Medised as a baby and so DS2 gets it too. :cool: Not often, obviously - in fact I can't remember the last time he needed it - but still. And anyway, I still have an old bottle that says 3 months on it. :cool:0
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