MSE Parents Club Part 16

keelykat

Becles wrote: »

Keely - have you tried giving Elliot a clean dry cloth? Charlotte loves having her own cloth while I'm busy and she wipes things with it.

Hey, yes i let him have a clean duster to let him help me out it's a shame he hates the hoover, i'd let him have a toy one to play with with. Quiet tidying is good though.

pigpen wrote: »

DS3 didn't say a word until he was 3.5 and DD4 didn't until she was 3... he ended up going for speech therapy as he has dyspraxia which affected his speech but she came home from a day at nursery and was singing and talking and reciting nursery rhymes... it was as though she had been sneakily practising for weeks and suddenly decided to share it with everyone.. I actually have her singing on video it is pretty amazing!

DGS as 2 in February and says maybe half a dozen words.. fish, daddy, spoon, please and not much else.. since he has been coming here 3-4 times a week his speech has come on in bounds.. loads of praise and encouragment and repetition.. which is basically the whole gist of speech therapy.. MAKE them talk don't give them what they want as which they want.. you want red or blue? keep it out of arms reach if they point ask again.. you want the red one? Can you say red? Red one! Here is the red one for you.. is the red one nice? I like the red one too... it feels REALLY boring like your brain will melt but it does work.

That's great advice, thank you I do keep asking him questions-and encouraging to pick an answer, some days he just doesn't want to know though and gets all upset with me! His reply to that is 'nnoooooooo!' and puts his hand out to push me away lol.

I'm feeling sorry for myself today, serious pmt and just had to give in and have some chocolate this morning!

keely.

MERFE

afternoon everyone x

My daughter had a speech delay, she had some speech therapy but really just grew out of it at school age by which time it was only the odd sounds she struggled with, F and S always came out D so my son shaun was known as dawn for a while. Her first word was when she was one and she was pointing out the window at snow but it sounded like no. Frog and dog were really confusing for a while and I had to make her do their noises to know which she was talking about. I do think it was partly because all her needs were just meet and she didn't need to talk but also that she was just better at other things. Her fine motor skills are excellent. DS on the other hand has never shut up - if he has nothing to say he is singing but his fine motor skills were really poor compared to DD until he was about 4, then he caught up too.

We are just back from taking Bob swimming for the first time, he loved it. It was a little cold but Bob didn't complain. Plan is to go every thursday now.

delain

Glad he enjoyed it Merfe

Dinner is on, getting the hoover out now then school run, ah the joys.

Squeak slept for three hours :eek: so now downstairs is almost tidy

SusanC_2

keelykat wrote: »

Hey, yes i let him have a clean duster to let him help me out it's a shame he hates the hoover, i'd let him have a toy one to play with with. Quiet tidying is good though.

You might find getting a toy vacuum cleaner helps. We never realised the connection between Alice getting a toy one and her stopping being scared until we moved house and were vacuumed at the old house when her toy one was at the new house.

Mazcabs

tsstss7 wrote: »

Hi Maz - Archie has had a big boy pillow now for ages but we've just come through a year of constant colds and they really helped him breathe so I think thats why he liked them. Other times he'll quite happily sleep on the flat without a pillow - however he likes to moan also - maybe its their age but he is rather contrary at the mo and it's VERY annoying.

It much be their age Tsstss, nice to hear from you and about Archie... cant believe they are 3 !!!

SusanC wrote: »

You might find getting a toy vacuum cleaner helps. We never realised the connection between Alice getting a toy one and her stopping being scared until we moved house and were vacuumed at the old house when her toy one was at the new house.

Funny enough Henry got a toy hoover for Christmas, it has helped a bit as he doesn't scream anymore although he is still wary of the hoover.

keelykat

Hello, me again. Well Elliot has always hated bananas, loves the look of them untill you peel them then he goes yuk still (used to make him heave when he was smaller). I have just made some banana and date mini-muffins, and guess what? He ate two! I'm a sly mommy lol.

keely.

SJP

Hi all

I really dont know how these women bring up babies on their own - I take my hat off to em..... :eek:

OH on nights this week, so feel like a single parent.... Up through night, can't sleep through day, forgot to make DS snap for school etc....

So I decided I was doing nothing today, i've watched rubbish on tv, i've lurked on here and done nothing round the house :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

How's everyone else???

pookie5488

Hi all just wanted to chip in and say matthew is nearly 17 months now and has only about six words and you literally have to prise them out of him lol. He is still not sleeping through the night and has only three teeth. As you can probably guess i dont bother with milestones anymore lol
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Make-it-3

delain wrote: »

Squeak slept for three hours :eek: so now downstairs is almost tidy

Lucky you. I never thought I would be so keen to do the ironing - there is such a backlog of household chores that I don't get round to because LO seems permanently attached to me. It's even worse today as OH has been granted his first night out since the birth so I'm on my own all day and night, briefly see him in the morning and then another day on my own tomorrow.

It's been a tough week, had my stitches redone on Monday, (its still painful sitting down :eek:), DD was weighed and still not back at birth weight and she's six weeks tomorrow, so had to see BF counsellor who says latching is all wrong and she's not getting enough milk. But finding it really hard to get her to change her ways, so have had to introduce some formula

Also feeling a little bereft of company here, where are all the new mummies from the pregnancy thread?

SusanC_2

Make-it-3 wrote: »

Also feeling a little bereft of company here, where are all the new mummies from the pregnancy thread?

The transfer rate from the pregnancy thread has always been pretty low.