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heather38

kennedy has 7 teeth now and wont let me brush her teeth, but she does them very well herself. i sit her on the bathroom floor and i sit opposite her, and she copies me doing mine.
she's finally gone to bed but she is on antibiotics, calpol night, tixylix and her eye drops! she's like a medicine cabinet. i hope she'll be better soon as she isn't eating very well.

Becles

I can see the pictures now Susan - she looks beautiful :cool:

Sorry to hear about the other poorly babies. Hope they feel better soon.

I can remember my youngest son objecting to having his teeth cleaned. The only thing that worked was standing behind him with his body jammed between my thighs, then my arms over his shoulders with his head trapped between my forearms, leaving my hands free to squeeze his mouth open and get the brush in It didn't take long for him to understand if he stopped being so awkward and did it properly himself, he wouldn't get jammed like that!

Both my boys were nearly 2 before they got teeth, so they were a little bigger than the babies on here.

He's 8 now and just had a temper tantrum about teeth cleaning the other week, so I did it like that for him and said if he was going to act like a toddler, I'd treat him like a toddler. He was mortified and hasn't messed around in the bathroom since :rotfl:

Lu_T

Hi all

After some advice about stairgates please. We've not got any, but as Imogen crawled up the whole flight of stairs at her first attempt today we reckon this has become a priority!!

I'm looking at this gate from Toys R Us
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Product.aspx/BruHome/BruNursery/BruNurseryFurniture/BruSafetyGatesPens/708208

I don't want a bar across the bottom as I was always tripping on SIL's. They seem to fit the bill (and our wide staircase). Any views/ideas please?

Lu_T

Hi girls

I'm hoping this works. I'm trying to paste those pics in following Snaggles' advice! We'll see...

Snaggles

It worked! :T

Awww, what lovely photos, such adorable children! :A

Natasha got that Snowman book for Xmas, she LOVES it.

Becles

awww - they are lovely pictures.

Out of all her Christmas presents, these are the two that Charlotte plays with most:

A crab that makes noises and moves sideways when you push his shell:
http://www.elc.co.uk/toy-41459

and a triangle activity toy with loads of things to do on it:
http://www.elc.co.uk/toy-41911

purplepatch

Olivia used to have the triangle too - Izzy has inherited and loves it.

We got Izzy this as her main present (half price luckily!), and she has spent most of the last week sitting inside it playing. It folds flat too, but as it fits in a corner of the playroom quite nicely I expect we will leave it up to give Izzy her own little space away from big sister!

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Great pics everyone, what a bunch of cute babies we have.

Sorry to hear we are all still poorly, me and Jack are getting better but its slow. My ears haven't popped in days and i can hear myself chewing, its horrible.

LuT the stairgates are the ones we have, we got a couple of those in our safety pack from our HV and then a couple more off freecycle, so we've got 4 and not paid a penny. Might be worth asking your HV if they do a safety pack in your area. Although we got ours when Jack was about 5-6 months old.

The stairgate was anti-trip like the pic but made my Dan something, maybe Baby Dan, but it looks the same in the pic. They are extendable and you just lift (first typed lick) the catch (imagine that every time you want to open it!!!). My friend has one where you have to press a button and lift a catch at the same time and I still get a mental block on it until i've done it a few times. Plus on the stairs i always felt I had to be so careful carrying Jack and making sure I didn't trip up or down it. We also positioned our gates away from stairs top and bottom, but the layout of stairs allows us to do that, yours may not. That way, if we did trip there is a gap before crashing into the gate, plus it gives you room to maneouvre without standing on the stairs. Hope that makes sense.

Right got to go, its Mum's birthday and when Jack wakes up we are off for another family gathering.

Happy New Year everyone.

SusanCarter

Ah those are lovely pictures.

We've got a stairgate for Christmas from PIL but haven't got it yet as they're visiting on Friday so don't really know what it's like yet. We don't need one at the bottom of the stairs though because we live in a 2 up 2 down so can just shut the living room door when we are downstairs.

Becles

I need to think about stairgates.

I've still got the ones from when I had the boys up the loft. However we've since had all the bannister replaced and the plastic bits that you screw on got thrown away with the old stair posts

Also the new stair posts are not flat like the other one. It's like a very fat spindle so it's rounded rather than flat. Are there any stair gates that fit this sort of stair post?