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

*Nutella*

Continualdiamond, she's gorgeous Sorry to hear you've been feeling down after your family left, but keeping busy will hopefully help. Yay for swimming and massage (and yoga!)! We also did swimming and massage whilst I was on maternity leave - I really enjoyed both, as did LO I think. I'm planning to sign LO up for toddler yoga as soon as she's old enough - am hoping it might help with her attention span, which is approx. 3 seconds at the moment!

Big hug to you x

lazywife

Lovely pic cd. She's a cutie. We love swimming, don't worry about being a little older, we didn't start until T was 9 months. Baby massage and yoga will be lovely and relaxing for you too. I think the time you miss family most is when they've just left. You'll be back to yourself in a week or so. Nice for OH to be with you today though.
Toddler yoga sounds brave Nutella... do you have to tie them in one place to do it?!!?

Getting into bad habits with napping here. We'd had an evil time with sleep a couple of weeks ago when he was on party mode with his cousins and just wouldn't settle. Now night time is ok, but naps are struggling. He no longer has a feed midmorning (which used to drift him off), so he's falling asleep in the car as we tend to go out in the mornings then napping sill on bf in the afternoon. If we don't go out in the car in the mornings, he won't nap just by jiggling, so I have a grumpy baby until his afternoon nap... ho hum, I'll just get it cracked and he'll change again!
L.xxx

continualdiamond

Thanks Nutella and Lazywife.

I've been doing the baby yoga for awhile now. The 2nd block started last week but of course I couldn't make it. I'm pretty sure this will be my last block I am able to do with her as the next class from 6mths+ starts I think when I return to work.

I'm hoping to not work Fridays as the swimming classes are a Monday and a Friday. At the moment I signed up for Mondays but am keen to keep going so will move it to a Friday if I manage to be able to work part time.

I on purpose signed up for swimming as soon as I could once my family went home. I enquired about classes before they visited as well as tinytalk baby signing classes, but at the moment feel I could be taking on too much at once.

As it turns out I have swimming on a Monday, massage on a Tuesday and yoga on a Wednesday for all of March. So committing to anything else would probably see me having a melt down, hahaha.

amus

lobey wrote: »

Hi ladies! Yes it has been quiet recently hasn't it?! All our LOs keeping us busy I guess.

Katie congrats on the move and hoping G doesn't get too upset about daddy not being there.

Nutella I have fridge envy!! We had an 'animated discussion! When we moved in as to which we should get and OH won with a boring one one day the dream fridge will be mine haha!

Hope A is enjoying he sunshine Saff and wearing her new shoes! Enjoy the rest of your trip!

We are having a surveyor in tomorrow to see what could be done to our kitchen/conservatory. The plan is to extend the wall out so we use our alleyway (terraced house) and gain more space for an open plan kitchen/conservatory we can actually use as our current is absolutely boiling in summer and freezing in winter! Has anyone had any seriously disruptive building work done with LOs? The value it would add to the house is worth doing it but with at least 4 months disruption and us effectively having to move out I'm not sure...

We had an extension built this time last year, whilst it was hard going at the time it was well worth it for the space we have now, especially with 2 kids and a baby. We moved in with my mum for a month whilst the worst of it was being done.

katiechoc_2

Beautiful pic CD. Sorry you're feeling down, I'm always the same when ever my mum leaves - and she's only the side of the country so I can barely imagine you're upset. It'll get easier though.

Nutella what does toddler yoga involve? I didn't do baby yoga either, but someone told me a gym near our new home does toddler yoga. I'm about as flexible as a very inflexible thing, and G can't sit still for longer than 4.5 minutes without scooby or fireman Sam on the box.

We've been baking today, ended up decorating cookies right before bedtime which could have been a disaster - nearly a whole tube of smarties and a good few handfuls of sprinkles went down before we were finished! Luckily no sugar induced frenzies though. Yet

*Nutella*

Toddler yoga - some places will take children as young as two, some will ask you to wait until your LO is three, but you do it together and it's meant to be good for coordination, balance and concentration - some people even claim it can help with tantrums and disruptive sleep, but I'm not entirely convinced! Classes involve movements, sound, stories, music etc. I'm planning to look for a class once we're settled into our new house - here's hoping I find one nearby that will take two-year-olds

Katie, baking sounds like fun We made bread rolls yesterday and it was all going very well until LO decided to make shapes in the flour on the worktop and then push it onto the floor - I blame all that messy play at the nursery! We're making pancakes for breakfast tomorrow - it's my LO's absolute favourite food. The batter is all made up and ready in the fridge - I'm feeling very smug and organised

*Nutella*

Katie, forgot to ask how G coped today with your OH being away after a weekend together? Hope everything was ok. How much longer have you got before your OH finishes his old job?

fran-o

Thanks for advice re snotty baby! He's been ok through the days but snotty by night so think I will try and get some drops ready.
Having a horrible night. Hubby gave a bottle feed at 10pm then I took over so he could sleep (he had a few days off but back to work today). Baby wouldn't sleep til 1.30am. Woke again at 5 and been fussy at the boob and snotty. I feel wretched on so little sleep!

On the upside baby had hearing test yesterday and passed it. I had a good few days with hubby off work (except the moments when I was feeding and he was gaming/ watching tv etc and I was just wishing he'd do some of the mountain of housework!) - I sometimes struggle with the fact that he has choices still whereas my day completely revolves around baby. I wish I could accept that a little more, would be easier on us both.
No plans for today other than my mum popping by to check all well.

Bangton

babamoose sorry I haven't replied sooner. Is your lo's sleep any better? For us naps were a disaster! So no he didn't have longer day sleeps. Then again he's never been easy to settle for naps!! I'm not sure what's happening with the regression now. He's up most nights babbling away for upto an hour, that turns to cries, I feed him and then he kicks off. . Or babbles some more and won't go back down in cot without crying. A mum I met suggested we get a mobile so he was less likely to want us in the night. He's too old for a mobile as he's 5 months so I got a light show yesterday ( or rather my mum did! !) He fell asleep with it after 20 mins. Darent even hope that continues! !!!! I keep seeing glimmers of hope with the sleep though. .He's slept through a couple of times recentlly and some days his naps are a cinch (except they are alwsys on me or in the pram/car seat. I've tried him in cot but he'll only sleep for 25 mins

delain

OH bought a blinking massive freezer... I'm not kidding it's more than 6 feet tall and wider and deeper than a normal upright freezer. Because our house is titchy it has to live in the living room I'm sat next to it as I type!

Little miss has been changing a lot recently, she seems to not be a baby anymore