MSE Parents Club Part 12

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My_Fathers_Daughter

hammyhunter wrote: »

Beenie is missing in action, Caz is too - I hope they are ok

Can I ask your opinions please. Now D is getting more mobile we have been discussing home safety. I think that it is not worth covering corners of tables etc as the covers are easily pulled off and D should never be left unattended. I know there is a chance he could bang his head but I feel he has to learn how to be careful..... DH is horrified by this... am I really lax?

I bought corner covers from Ikea that are little hands and they haven't come off at all. I have only stuck them to 'sharp' corners (the ones that could have his eye out ) and I didn't do the dining table (which is what he walks into most frequently LOL) but IMHO they have been well worth it....and I have a reputation for being a lax mummy!

Other than that I have a fireguard and that is it. I agree that they need to learn - and I believe that part of that is giving them the freedom to learn.

Benjamin was an early crawler, stander and cruiser too - although he wasn't so quick to walk because he got around too quickly on his knees and could climb onto anything in a second!

Bless them - they grow up so quickly!

JAM1376

Thanks Jillie and MFD. Will try her with moo milk tomorrow - I'll just make sure no one comes on tonight with horror stories of babies starting mooing cos they had it too early :rotfl:

Hammy - I'm with you apart from our marble hearth which I cover with cusions. Everything else shouldn't cause her too much damage - she head butted the wall tonight from her cot (lowering it at weekend) and didn't seem to bother (it wasn't too hard - just a bump) so will just see how she goes with tables etc.

xxx

ladybirdintheuk

Evening all. Finally got on here after holiday - came back on Friday, but have been so busy with washing and life and stuff. What did I miss. I require an update please

We had a lovely time on holiday (asside from the fact that DH is a KH and I should have left him at home :rotfl:). The caravan park we stayed at was lovely - there were lakes, so lots of ducks and geese and things (all with little fluffy babies of course) and there was a swimming pool, a soft play area and a playground, so Izzy was happy. We had day trips out to various places, including a farm where we got to stroke bunnies and see a goat being milked and the pigs being fed. Izzy fell in love with the baby chicks

Oh, and we have a few more words - gone, bubble, kick, and possibly more too.

We have been trying controlled crying since we got back. I'm doing the version where you do pick up/cuddle/talk/whatever to calm them down when you go in, so I'm having to give her some milk when I go back in just to get her to calm down a bit (otherwise she just sits on my lap crying hysterically, rather than having a lull then getting upset again when I go again iyswim), but I'm sure we will get there. At the very least I'm getting to do 5, then 7, then 9 minutes of washing up/pratting around on the net/eating my tea, rather than not starting all those things till after she is asleep

Speaking of which my 7 mins is up!

hammyhunter

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

I'm the same, to be honest. We'll get some kind of stairgate and probably a child lock for the cupboard that has all the cleaning stuff in but I think that is about it. I can't believe D is pulling himself up already. He looks like a cheeky little thing!

Race for Life was fab today. I did it in 32 minutes which I was quite pleased with, although I was hoping to do sub 30. The person who came first did it in 21 minutes :eek:. I'm quite tired now though.

Well done on your victory, Krystal!

:T wow, well done Gisi, you should be really pleased with yourself :T

I agree about the locks on cleaning cupboards. I am currently thinking that we will def get a stair gate at the top of the stairs but I am in 2 minds about the bottom. He is obviously some way away from climbing stairs but as soon as he is capable I would hope I could teach him how to come down stairs safely too. Hmm, I have no idea if this is realistic though. HELP!

csh_2

hammyhunter wrote: »

Beenie is missing in action, Caz is too - I hope they are ok

Can I ask your opinions please. Now D is getting more mobile we have been discussing home safety. I think that it is not worth covering corners of tables etc as the covers are easily pulled off and D should never be left unattended. I know there is a chance he could bang his head but I feel he has to learn how to be careful..... DH is horrified by this... am I really lax?

K is pulling up, standing and starting to cruise about too. I'll be getting a stairgate for the bottom of the stairs after fishing him off the second stair yesterday but thats about it.
Hes constantly bumping into things but hes definately learning from the bumps. He used to randomly just charge about but now hes getting more careful after having a good few eggs on the head. If he knows hes gonna fall and I can't get to him in time, I can see him brace himself for the impact so he knows its coming.
When he started pulling himself up all the time and just letting go and falling either face first or flat on his back I started pulling him down to sitting position from standing so now when he is standing and wants to go away he sits himself down, turns round and crawls away!

I was saying to MIL yetserday, I hate this stage cos they are unsteady on their feet and don't know their limitations and hes had a few crackers when hes fell backwards from standing, I think he'll be a lot safer when hes actually walking than he is now!!


MSE very slow for me too

hammyhunter

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I bought corner covers from Ikea that are little hands and they haven't come off at all. I have only stuck them to 'sharp' corners (the ones that could have his eye out ) and I didn't do the dining table (which is what he walks into most frequently LOL) but IMHO they have been well worth it....and I have a reputation for being a lax mummy!

Other than that I have a fireguard and that is it. I agree that they need to learn - and I believe that part of that is giving them the freedom to learn.

Benjamin was an early crawler, stander and cruiser too - although he wasn't so quick to walk because he got around too quickly on his knees and could climb onto anything in a second!

Bless them - they grow up so quickly!

Thank you. I was only looking at those hands at the weekend. We have a log fire here but as we only use it in the winter I will look at guards closer to the time.

JAM1376 wrote: »

Thanks Jillie and MFD. Will try her with moo milk tomorrow - I'll just make sure no one comes on tonight with horror stories of babies starting mooing cos they had it too early :rotfl:

Hammy - I'm with you apart from our marble hearth which I cover with cusions. Everything else shouldn't cause her too much damage - she head butted the wall tonight from her cot (lowering it at weekend) and didn't seem to bother (it wasn't too hard - just a bump) so will just see how she goes with tables etc.

xxx

That made me spit my wine out :rotfl:

Hmm, we have got a very large stone hearth but then we have a huge amount of stone all around - we live in a country cottage so he can't get away from it :rotfl:. We need to lower the cot too. I caught D trying to climb out earlier :eek:

csh wrote: »

K is pulling up, standing and starting to cruise about too. I'll be getting a stairgate for the bottom of the stairs after fishing him off the second stair yesterday but thats about it.
Hes constantly bumping into things but hes definately learning from the bumps. He used to randomly just charge about but now hes getting more careful after having a good few eggs on the head. If he knows hes gonna fall and I can't get to him in time, I can see him brace himself for the impact so he knows its coming.
When he started pulling himself up all the time and just letting go and falling either face first or flat on his back I started pulling him down to sitting position from standing so now when he is standing and wants to go away he sits himself down, turns round and crawls away!

I was saying to MIL yetserday, I hate this stage cos they are unsteady on their feet and don't know their limitations and hes had a few crackers when hes fell backwards from standing, I think he'll be a lot safer when hes actually walking than he is now!!


MSE very slow for me too

:eek::eek: I thought it took them ages to get to the stage of climbing stairs :eek::eek:. Oh dear. I. AM. NOT. READY. FOR. THIS.

Krystaltips

hammyhunter wrote: »

I agree about the locks on cleaning cupboards. I am currently thinking that we will def get a stair gate at the top of the stairs but I am in 2 minds about the bottom. He is obviously some way away from climbing stairs but as soon as he is capable I would hope I could teach him how to come down stairs safely too. Hmm, I have no idea if this is realistic though. HELP!

The trouble I found with Caitlyn was as soon as I tried teaching her to come down the stairs she just started climbing back up again, it wasn't until we were on holiday and there was just 1 step to the bedrooms that she learnt to climb down backwards...

She then applied the same logic to the sofa and is now happily climbing up and down... Although she managed to throw herself off it headfirst today and has a lovely bruise in the middle of her forehead...

Also, I'm glad she can't get upstairs on her own because I'm sick of following her round the three downstairs rooms putting things back where they're supposed to be, it would drive me to distraction if I had to do it upstairs too...

As far as corner protectors go, I put 1 on the corner of my coffee table which was face height for a very long time and she fell onto it and cut all her gum open before the corner cushion was there... Apart from that there's no other corners that really need protecting...

hammyhunter

Thanks Krystal, perhaps I need to be more careful than I thought.... DH is going to love being right :rotfl:

csh_2

hammyhunter wrote: »

:eek::eek: I thought it took them ages to get to the stage of climbing stairs :eek::eek:. Oh dear. I. AM. NOT. READY. FOR. THIS.

I did too, apparently not!! The only reason he can't climb on the sofa is he can't get his leg high enough! He makes a ruddy good try tho! My laptop was sitting on the arm of the couch and I went 10 ft away to pick his jacket up, turned back and he'd grabbed the laptop and was banging both hands off the keyboard, which is obviously what I do or so he thinks!!

I also lowered his cot to the very bottom the other day as he was trying to escape!

I do feel a bit shortchanged with his babyhood as hes such an independant wee soul. He was only 8 mths last Tuesday and I would have liked him to at least try to pretend to be a baby for a while longer!