RH33

2.5

My son hardly spoke until his sister was born in April. Then all of a sudden he started conversations, prob because there was competition!

Any movement Swarley?

I agree, my friend still has her 3.5 year old on one of the sensor monitors.

Yup, Ruairidh was climbing the stairs from around 10months. I've never had a stairgate on the bottom and allowed him to go up supervised. I have a stairgate at the top...he just squeezed underneath it and went down on his belly! Feet first not head first He's never fallen down them yet.

Know how you feel, my son was 3 weeks early but my kind consultant speeding things up couple days after due date!

I have one that we don't use. It's a Tomy wireless one. It's crap.

Back to work today.

Pub king, were you up every couple of hours checking her?! Toddlers don't get that the clocks going back=extra hour in bed.

I go back to work on Monday But Niamh has loved her time settling in at the nursery this week. Ruairidh is so excited about her starting!

I found that even if I could get a 6 hour unbroken sleep I could function!

Buy ear plugs for the sake of your sanity!

So the dermatologsit yesterday, another 2 types of creams added to her assortment. We've to monitor her skin and use the creams as we see fit. Peadiatrican today, another medicine for before her feeds. She's costing our surgery a fortune in pescription! She's sitting up on her own now for around half an hour at a time if not more and the two of them are really starting to play together! Niamh hero worships Ruairidh!

I was in labour with my first by that stage! Just two trips to the hospital this coming week!

My clothes all packed in the car ready for journey south and I end up with 3oz of baby sick on me. Bloody reflux! Hardly a bit of ezcema left on Niamh, I've been able to cut her down to the milder steroid cream and the parafin. Can't believe the difference.

I am, she's gone from being so red raw that she was bleeding to normal skin colour since her appointment on Tuesday afternoon

Before and 2 days after first dermatology appointment!

Her skin is much better already

i read that book a few years back and thought it was fabulous. I've just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire. Waiting on my father in law reading the final one but I might steal my dad's copy next week. Really enjoyed them, not a genre I would normally read.

So I have come home from hospital appointment today with a mummy baby! Head to toe in bandges. She's on stronger creams, eumovate on face and betovate for her body and liquid parafin all over and then body bangages all over. She has sever excema and it looks like our pet dogs days with us are numbered.

Missed this yesterday, I asked about Carobel and my HV laughed at me, cheeky cow, and said they don't prescribe it any more which is bull shite.

Boys are slow speakers so I wouldn't worry about it. Try nit to compare your child to others as they are all different.

Get your wife to put a drop of breastmilk up her nostrils. Wee bit of snuffle baby on a hankie and tied to the cot. Into the bathroom with the shower on full heat to steam it out. You can get nasal aspirators from Boots.

Don't know where my 'laprophamine ' went to in last post. I def typed it in! If I hear the phrase 'but shes gaining weight' or 'aw look at her smiling away there can't be much wrong with her' one more time I may punch someone (you're warned Debs lol!) Last week her neck was weeping on a couple of occasions it was so red and sore. One of the cream, double base, the first time we used it she went bright red and she started screaming. We had to get her straight in the shower which go the cream off her but made her redder! I'd been using cotton wool and water on her aat bum changed thinking it would be better for her sensitive skin not realising that that was what was making her bottom red. I've switched to wipes now. I'm back to work in 3 weeks but thankfully the nursery are fabulous and I've already had a long chat with them about it all and I have no worries that they will be totally supportive. Thankfully none of it is serious illnesses in any way. But the constant backing and foring to GP trying to get them to take me seriously is wearing.

We are on gaviscon and on a(not spelt right!) too neither helping much. They said by 6 months it should start improving....it's getting worse! We've just started solids....she's bringing them up too!