MSE Parents Club Part 16

*BigBird*

Could be. I think his top 2 teeth aren't very far off coming through and that was my first thought when he wouldn't settle last night. But he's been bad for nearly 24 hours now so I'm starting to think he is actually ill. The bottom 2 came through with hardly any fuss at all. Could the top 2 really be that much worse for him?

pigpen

Yes.. I had one in hospital with bronchiollitis getting 2 of her teeth, they cut she was absolutey fine.. i had another who would get pneumonia every time she thought about teething and the back teeth she got croup as well as the pneumonia!

Squeak was really sicky for about 3-4 days before her 2 cut.

*BigBird*

Oh dear I hope the damn things cut quickly then! Does teething gel do any good? I'm going to have to get some more calpol tomorrow, so might give the teething gel a go if it'll help him.

pigpen

I use the anbesol liquid and have used them with the teething granules/powders.. the gels are sucked straight off so have no time to work so they are next to useless.

gizmodo_2

I didn't go to NCT classes either being the tight @rse I am. I went to the free NHS classes which were great. I didn't make friends with any of the girls on the antenatal classes, but we had 4 classes after our babies were born and all of us exchanged details and have set up an email group and we meet up for walks/pub/rhymetime etc. It's good for me as I don't have any friends locally.

DD slept in her room last night :T She woke at 4:30 for a feed, so I'm quite happy with that.

Nephthys

Evening everyone. Hope we're all ok!

We have taken Chunky swimming and to Jo Jingles (music class) and he has loved both of them. Its been good for me too as it gets me out of the house and meeting people. I can be very shy and awkward meeting people and he is a great wee ice breaker.

Giz - that's brilliant news! Sounds like you're on your way. I found it really hard to move DS but was also pretty happy at having our room back!!
BB - we look to be working on tooth number 7 (and probably 8 as well - he has a habit of 2 at a time) and he is a miserable wee grump! We use cold teethers or basically anything he can get his his mouth that he can bite - my hand most of the time! We use calpol (or calbrufen at after dinner as it works for longer) but only if he needs it. Like PP says he seems to suck the teething gel which kinda defeats the purpose of using it! Daft child.

gizmodo_2

Nephthys wrote: »

Giz - that's brilliant news! Sounds like you're on your way. I found it really hard to move DS but was also pretty happy at having our room back!!

She's still in her moses basket, but it's a start. Maybe a week of that and then I'll put her in the cotbed? It was horrible for me last night. Made me sad seeing the empty moses stand next to my bed! I miss her!! But at the same time I don't want a child who thinks it's normal to be in mum and dads room. I just wish I could have at least kept her in my room until 6 months.

Nephthys

We kept Chunky in with until 6 months but that was only because he had a crib which he fitted into and couldn't rock out of! That's the way we did it - we put him in his room in his crib for a few nights and then progresses to his cot. it worked for us but I am a great believer that different things work for different babies. Your DD just needs to get used to the quiet of her own room and then used to the size of the bed. Its easier to get her used to one thing at a time (I think - others may disagree!).

If it makes you feel better my DH works nights and sometimes of Chunky refuses to go back to sleep when he's restless then i take him into bed with me (naughty mummy!). I know I shouldn't do it as he will get used to it but when you are desperate for some more sleep then anything goes! So sometimes he doesn't finish his sleep in his room! I don't feed him at night anymore and haven't for a few months - we managed to get him over that after he first slept through the night.

I am rambling again!!! Am very aware that I talk a lot. Its as if I know exactly what I want to say but I can't make the words come out properly and then I have to wonder if I've even managed to say what I was going to! Sorry!

gizmodo_2

Nephthys wrote: »

If it makes you feel better my DH works nights and sometimes of Chunky refuses to go back to sleep when he's restless then i take him into bed with me (naughty mummy!). I know I shouldn't do it as he will get used to it but when you are desperate for some more sleep then anything goes! So sometimes he doesn't finish his sleep in his room! I don't feed him at night anymore and haven't for a few months - we managed to get him over that after he first slept through the night.

I am rambling again!!! Am very aware that I talk a lot. Its as if I know exactly what I want to say but I can't make the words come out properly and then I have to wonder if I've even managed to say what I was going to! Sorry!

I can totally understand that. We did all sorts to get some sleep. I have to say so far DD can sleep through anything and 99.9% of the time she goes back to sleep straight after a feed in the night. In fact since the first 4 weeks which don't count IMO, she's only had one night where she wouldn't go back to sleep.

Annoying she was sleeping through (9:30 till 6:30) from 7 weeks till about 15 weeks old and now it's pot luck. Sometimes she sleeps through, sometimes she wakes once and rarely she wakes twice (those nights do not make me happy!)

Last night was pretty good, but I didn't really sleep until 1am because I put her to bed about 8pm, but she didn't want food (and hadn't eaten a proper breastload since 6pm), so I spent the night on tenderhooks waiting for her to wake for food and she managed to sleep from 8 - 1am. Then back to sleep till 7. Which is just nice because I can get up at that time and do some tidying while she sleeps again

I ramble too

We're going swimming today. OH is on hols so it's his first time coming swimming with DD. We're also using the free schwim with schweppes! :money:

Becles

pigpen wrote: »

squeak lays with her legs akimbo feet waving in the air if she sees the clean nappy.. she is not dignified at all.

Charlotte is not dignified either. She has started wearing a nightie for bed instead of pyjama's and we frequently get flashed at when she's rolling about on the sofa or her bed

When I got to bed on a night, the nightie is usually rolled up round her armpits and she's got no covers on. Have mastered the art of pulling it down and tucking her in without waking her though!

Yesterday I learned about a premature baby who was born in 1938 and only weighed 10oz.
http://www.baby2see.com/Marian_Chapman_LBW.html

This bit made me think:

nursed by Dr. D. A. Shearer, who fed her hourly for the first 30 hours with brandy, glucose, and water through a fountain-pen filler

Many of us have sat here and gone through all the angst of bottle v breast milk and being made to feel like we have failed if we don't breast feed.

There is a baby who was born in extreme circumstances, raised on alcohol and she survived!

Maybe we're not so bad after all if we pick formula milk, rather than raising the baby on brandy