MSE Parents Club Part 16

CL

My cousin is a GP and she said babies and pre-school children in a nursery with other children have on average 10 infections of some sort per year and it's nothing to worry about.

pigpen

I didn't give mine food at 16 weeks.. it could be a growth spurt or teething (anbesol liquid!!!! stuff of legend), a last bout of colic before it is outgrown, boredom, Squeak is VILE when she is bored.. a whole variety of things. I'd check these before offering food.

We started food at 5.5 months but she is a whopper of a baby on the 99th centile.. she woke 2 nights running for food and I am NOT getting up in the middle of the night.. I don't like her that much! .. she we had a couple of spoons of slop at about 4pm and she slept through fine didn't get tummy ache or constipated and took to it like a pro.. She is 7 months and had her first gingerbread teddy today and wore most of it, she had cucumber too, licked it and threw it on the floor lol she had hot cross bun yesterday, we feed her 2 meals a day and she goes in the highchair with other bits to nibble while I do dinner.

But i agree you should discuss it with the HV she can see baby and make a better judgement than we can.

CL

Thanks Pigpen. I think I'll hold off a bit. TBH I suspect it could be boredom and I find entertaining her quite tedious (does that make me a bad mother?) I have discovered that BabyTV will keep her quiet for 15-20 minutes, her Jumperoo 10 minutes and now she is rolling over as soon as I put her on her gym I have to watch her like a hawk when she is on the floor. She hates the Bumbo seat. I am fed up carrying her round most of the day.

pigpen

We move Squeak from room to room.. new surroundings etc. She can sit now which has very much improved matters.. it brings a whole new set of toys in to play! She went in the bumbo maybe 3-4 times and they never look comfy. She loves the jumperoo and spends ages in that.. she has her chair and we pass her stuff to fiddle with.. a crisp packet is favourite followed by her lamaze dragon and Emily and her sophie giraffe and her nuby monkey. In the kitchen she gets foody bits to play with, if she eats fine if not it keeps her quiet.. spaghetti (she hated!) bits of fruit, bready things (hot cross bun, toast, scone) she tends to just kill stuff rather than eat it.

I think small babies are the most boring things in the world.. after business studies teachers.. they do get more interesting at about 7-9 months when they start becoming people rather than pink blobs of drool

Becles

Good to have you back Smartie xx

Hello to all the new mammies *hugs* Lovely to have you with us.

I think all babies go through a funny phase around that age CL. They seem to get bored with laying on their backs and are desperate to get away and explore, but they lack the control in their bodies to do what they want. They seem to have a short attention span and it's hard to know what to do with them at times.

I moved mine round the house with me and they watched me do housework while I chattered on or sang to them. That seemed to keep them amused.

delain

My Squeak seems to be very interested in the table. You leave the room for 5 minutes and she's rolled over to it and is biting chunks out of the leg! I don't polish it anymore for fear of the baby being full of polish :rotfl:

All mine did the bored thing at around that age too. CL it does not make you a bad mum, it can be really really tedious! With DD1 I was bored to tears quite often. When the twins were babies she played with them (21 months gap) so not so bad.

With Squeak I've hed to do it all again myself :rotfl: but she loves the cat and would watch it for ages if it was about when I put her on the floor.

They've 'met' now, every so often when Squeak's around and pulled up on her front, the cat goes up and sniffs her nose. She only got close enough to have her hair pulled once

pigpen

Is it not normal for the cat to go roll about on the baby and sit on her back when she rolls onto her front then? They rub themselves n her when she is sitting and knock her over too. They wil sit and have hands full of fur pulled out too.. Noel is a bit thick.

She is doing peekaboo for daddy with her cardigan his morning adnd hyperventilating.. she is his friend today she usually dislikes him so this is a novelty for him.

delain

pigpen wrote: »

Is it not normal for the cat to go roll about on the baby and sit on her back when she rolls onto her front then? They rub themselves n her when she is sitting and knock her over too. They wil sit and have hands full of fur pulled out too.. Noel is a bit thick.

She is doing peekaboo for daddy with her cardigan his morning adnd hyperventilating.. she is his friend today she usually dislikes him so this is a novelty for him.

Aww that's lovely

My cat is not a people cat

jennynoo

SusanC wrote: »

I hadn't thought of the fact that there might be geographical variation in prevalence of bugs.

I also wonder how they count them if they appear to be continuous.

My thought is just that the number of viruses you catch will be dependent on the number of new viruses you are exposed to so if you live in a crowded area, with lots of visitors as well, you will catch more colds. Especially travelling on the tube. That's why babies suddenly get more colds when they start school/nursery.

jennynoo

whispywillow wrote: »

Hello guys

Nice little thread this, very handy for someone like me, im a new(ish!) mum, my little boy is 2, he's hard work!

Basically, he's just started doing something new when he gets very frustrated and that is biting his fingers. He puts them all in his mouth and he bites down really hard, so hard that he leaves substantal dents on his poor skin! He's only started doing this since Sunday, i've never ever seen him do it before then. When I took him to nursery yesterday, i pointed it out to his nursery teachers, and they responded by saying "oh thats a new one! We know he slaps his face when he's frustrated but he's never done that one before." What!? He's never ever slapped his face when frustrated in front of me - why wouldnt they have told me that he was doing that!?

So I was wondering, does anyone have any advice on how i could stop him from biting and slapping himself? I've tried distracting him, but when he's having a massive tantrum there is only so much i can do in that respect..!

Anyone know why he's doing it? Its so distressing..

There were a number of mums on here and one dad who had babies who would bang their head on the floor. If I remember correctly the verdict was that nothing could be done about it other than trying to shove a pillow under the LO's head (maybe putting gloves on in your case but not easy!). If you want I can go over to the facebook group and ask for advice.