MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 3

Crabapple

We have wooden lindam gates. They screw into the walls so there's no risk of them coming off.

And unless you can stop your little one getting to the stairs somehow (ours are in the living room so no doors in the way) they will attempt to climb them about a zillion times a day! Either you retrieve every time or put a gate on the bottom for your own sanity!

Mrshaworth2b

We have lindam gates, the ones that a few people recommended on here. We have one on the living room and top and bottom of stairs.

Hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather we are having. Off to work for me too

Bangton

Benice he has 2 teeth which came in just after he turned 6 months. His top ones are slowwwwwwly cutting now. I can feel the sharp point. His gums are much redder this time so i think these are more painful. On the whole he's happy and goodness he does have some golden moments where we melt. I think he's a little boy now trapped in a baby's body!! like sometimes it's very obvious he wants something but can't get it (like the car keys this morning) and he's now learnt that things can be inside things! I had a shirt on yesterday and he knew my phone was in my breast pocket so was swiping and crying to get it!

He's not hard work but he's changed for certain in that respect! I accept that's part of him gaining intelligence and wanting to explore things though - it can't be easy being a baby!

stairgates? I'm picking some up today. I have step downs from my bedrooms and then a flight of stairs so I've had a dilemma as to whether I should gate the rooms and not the stairs as potentially there's one step he could fall down if he crawled out of his/our bedroom but gating the rooms meant he couldn't get to the stairs.

In the end I've decided to gate the stairs as the slightly older babies we know can navigate one step easily (ie they don't just career of the step!) but I'm still worried he will when he first crawls. Not keen on gating his bedroom as it feels like locking him in!! Does anyone else have this?

I'm getting a no trip babydan gate for the top of the stairs and a pressure fit gate for the bottom. I do (or will when the darn joiner comes) have a door to shut him in so he can't get to stairs but figured when we have our food delivered/parcels etc shutting the door would be a pain as we have a tiny hall area by the door and him being a baby he's bound to make a move for the stairs. They don't cost much either so if it wasn't called for I've not really lost out and my thought is if he did climb up he might fall down rather than it just being annoying (although that's a good point!!!)

Bangton

Thanks for the nursery/nappy advice. It's also nice to hear what you send. I know I'll overcook the goose and send too many outfit changes!

forgot about suncream and hats! and winter items like wellies!

It all feels like such a big deal

*Nutella*

We have Lindam pressure gates at top and bottom of stairs (you definitely need one at the bottom unless you have a door you can close - if they can climb up, they can also fall down!). When she was younger we also had a gate to block off the kitchen - now we just have a lock on the cupboard under the sink, as it contains cleaning products.

katiechoc_2

We have stairgates at top and bottom of our stairs, Lindam pressure ones. We were going to take them off as they were left open anyway now G can manage stairs himself, but we've left them on to try and contain the puppy. We also had one on the kitchen in our old flat as it was so cramped in there, here he has full reign (cleaning stuff is in the pantry out of reach). He went through a phase of hiding in the cupboard under the sink!

I had a major bad mummy moment this morning - walking out to the car to go shopping the car door slipped out of my hand and jerked back, right into G's face, knocked right over backwards on to the drive. Poor lad has a cracking bruise on his eyebrow I feel awful. Not helped by him ducking, rubbing his head and saying uh oh when I opened the door in the supermarket car park

BeNiceToMySelf

thanks guys, knew I could rely on you lot for some common sense advice! Think I'll get wooden, screw-in, easy-to-use gates for top and bottom. I'll probably just get the top and then the bottom when I see LO taking an interest in the stairs.

Bangton nursery is a big deal! I can't imagine handing my baby over to someone else for 8/9 hours. I know it will happen, it just seems so strange. The nursery I've picked provide nappies but I'll have to pack a bag with some changes of clothes for LO.

katiechoc I've gotten my LO on the noggin with car door before. Someone wisely said to me, you know as a mummy when it's serious or not. When it goes really wrong, you'll know. Your LO has survived and it doesn't mean you're a bad mummy x

Mrshaworth2b

Evening all, probably shouldn't be writing this and should be concentrating on the football... (don't tell oh) but do your lo use dummies and if so when did you decide to wean them off and how did you go about it?

Lo is going through a phase of separation anxiety and it's hard, I generally sit in the back of the car with him and if I get out to pop in a shop or something he goes mad. We are also struggling with tantrums, if he isn't getting his own way he screams and I'm finding the behaviour hard work, to go from a "baby" to a little person screaming when I don't let him pull shoes off shelves in a shop or run around next to a main road or get in the pram if we're going in the car.

*Nutella*

Mrshaworth2b wrote: »

do your lo use dummies and if so when did you decide to wean them off and how did you go about it?

My LO (2 years + 1 month old) still has a dummy at night and for naps. In the last couple of weeks we've removed it completely during the day by explaining to her that she's a big girl now, that only babies have dummies, and that she can have it when she's going to sleep. She's accepted this surprisingly easily and will repeat 'big girl, not now, for sleeping' We tried to remove the dummy a couple of times in the past and it led to a lot of screaming, so for us I think doing it 'properly' (as opposed to a bit half-heartedly because we felt we ought to) once she was old enough to understand what we were doing and why, was the right thing to do.

*Nutella*

Mrshaworth2b wrote: »

Lo is going through a phase of separation anxiety and it's hard, I generally sit in the back of the car with him and if I get out to pop in a shop or something he goes mad. We are also struggling with tantrums, if he isn't getting his own way he screams and I'm finding the behaviour hard work, to go from a "baby" to a little person screaming when I don't let him pull shoes off shelves in a shop or run around next to a main road or get in the pram if we're going in the car.

I can empathise - it's a really tricky age, as they're testing boundaries and have very strong opinions on how things should be, but at the same time they're too young to be properly reasoned with I don't really have any solutions I'm afraid, but it does pass and gets easier the more they're able to understand and communicate. I found that giving LO choices where possible helped, and as for running around next to a main road (we live on one), walking reins are worth their weight in gold. I never wanted any, but they're fab - LO loves them too, as she's free to run as well as to explore with both hands, and they give me peace of mind knowing she can't just pull away from me and run onto the road.

She'd always stay in the buggy in shops until very recently, when she's started sitting in the trolley if we're doing the food shopping (which she loves) and I'm gradually letting her walk in other shops and it's going reasonably well - but again, she's wearing the reins, so if things get out of hand I can limit her running around...

As for separation anxiety, we've had a fair share of it and I agree it's exhausting For us, it's never lasted for very long each time though, so here's hoping your little man will soon be done with his too.

Sending you a big hug x