February 08 Babies October means 8 (months that is) - Page 3

[slgt]

six teeth.
did i mention that? 4 coming in at once - the upper laterals are brutal.
she bites. luckily not my nipples.

saw board book @ library called "teeth are not for biting" lol

nak

[salt_phoenix]

Originally Posted by slgt

saw board book @ library called "teeth are not for biting" lol

hahaha that's funny. It reminds me of when I was little, and my mom was yelling at my brother for talking with his mouth open. She says in a fluster, "STOP TALKING WITH YOUR MOUTH OPEN!"

Ember has no teeth. With her tendency to delight in torturing me all around the mammary glands, I am good with that. Sadistic little girl.

[True Blue]

Seeing Raina's week helped me out a little. We've had disaster after disaster here (ok, no lice, that sucks...but broken bike ending in completely skinned knee, football practices, ballet, swimming, an almost tornado, burned hand, clingy baby, broken dish with glass somehow ALL OVER THE HOUSE all while DH is underway kind of week). I can't keep up with anything. Laundry waiting to be folded since Monday. Homeschooling way behind (maybe not waaay behind but behind where I want to be), not doing all the stuff I want us to be doing. I got one shower this week since Sunday when DH left. The only thing I seem to manage is vaccuuming and mopping so Lucy isn't crawling in a mess LOL. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!!!

[True Blue]

Wait the dishes...did I mention the dishes? I didn't even empty the dishwasher yesterday. Just piled dishes in the sink. Got groceries between ballet and football...got the cold stuff away and that was it. Finally got the dishwasher emptied and the drity ones in teh dishwasher...but then I tried to cook a great lunch for the kids that they hated. So more dishes dishes dishes dishes. There are stilll containers of food to be put away forom the store on the counter....

[nolonger]

BabyBump i'm in Eureka and don't drive except for dire emergencies (Terran is very upset by the car abd i'm not crazy about global warming and wars for oil either) but i'd love to meet your sister if she's ever dowbn my way. i didn't know anyone here when i moved up from San Francisco, so i know how that goes, but it should be easier in Arcata since it's a college town with more comings and goings.

Carrie, i absolutely loved your postcarsd! i must get going on mimne; the only obnew i axtually finished was Jezzy's because the postcard muse kind of hit me over the head with a sledgehammer.

Terran doesn't sit either. He CAN, but it's totally not his thing. He does all that other eight month stuff (no standing or walking, though) so i'm not going to stress on it just yet. i am so over the "earlier is better" mentality and am more relieved than anything that i won't have a 9 month old "toddler" this time around, the way i did with dd.

Still no interest in solid foods, which is consistant with not much interest in sitting and doesn't worry me much. He has access to different kinds of foods in case he just doesn't like avocados, but that's still what i'm pushing for a "first food". My freezer stash isn't growing as fast as i'd like and i think i'll probably be feeding him his beets in the bathtub this winter since they're going to be messy.

Yes, Sharun, he's into everythihng and everything is into his mouth! Babyproofing is not going as well as I'd like; between the cat and a leaky refrigerator (the landlord told me to go to Sears and get an appliance brush and clean under it) there is ALWAYS "yuck water" on the kitchen floor, so I can't bring myself to let him down in there no matter how sick he is of being on my back. The teen leaves his dirty shoes and sometimes even pennies all over the floor and I'm not sure if it's carelessness or being deliberately territorial because he doesn't like sleeping in the living room.

None of us do and all of us have and when we move it will probably be to a SMALLER place.

Terran totally gets bored with hanging out in the bedroom all the time, although he was a great sport about it while I made his winter pants.

I gave him a keyboard of his own to play with, a stack of boxes, a stack of board books, and an empty vitamin bottle to roll around and let him call the shots as to when "floor time" was up.

ds1 saw one of those toys with the wooden beads on wire tracks at the consignment store that was EXACTLY like his and Jeanita's old one and wanted to get it. It was kind of hard to explain why i wanted to hold off on Terran's "toy virginity" for as long as possible and even harder not to be happy that Chris has fond memories of the QUALITY toys i got the kids when he was a toddler before the Power Rangers Action Figures and Beauty and the Beast(TM) branded merchandise and other as-seen-on-TV crap took over.

Terran still sleeps better than normal babies, but definitely not as well as he used to. He's usually ready to go down for a long stretch when i get back from making Foster Gramma's dinner and would really rather hang out in the kitchen, make dinner for myself and the kids and unwind for awhile, but i know i need to get down with him. i have trouble sleeping and wind up surfing n & ce if the pentium IV is up and running (i need to change my sig unless there's another little power outage and she dies for real this time) or just worrying if it's not. Then around 9 or 10 when the kids need to go to bed, he's up and wanting to play for a few hours.

He's still very vocal and becoming LOUD, which may make it more difficult to find more work (and i'm not desperate enough yet to work for someone who tells me to "shut that brat up or i'm not going to do you the favour of tolerating his existence" or calling me "dumb heddy" or blasting a teevee constantly or any of the other unhealthy environment crap i put up with during the first trimester of my pregnancy) but it's awfully cute at home and I'm glad to see him becoming more assertive. he's always been such an easy baby that i worry about his needs just not getting met.

About a week or so ago, in a fit of mommy-adoration, he put one hand on each side of my face, gazed lovingly into my eyes, and said (tonal patterns only, no consonants, and intelligible only to me) "Oh, just LOOK at you!" as if he were an adult and i was the cutest baby he had ever seen. it totally cracked me up!

Lincap I like the nursing necklaces at laughing starfish dot com and have heard good things about them. I don't have one, though, vbecause mine is locally made byn an artist who'd never even heard of them before I went into her store in a fit of desperation after my vbirth beads popped,.

Dea thanks bunches for the banking advice and please keep it coming! I am so like a child whe it comes to finances because nobody has ever given me credit for being able or willing to learn. I think my original credit card (Capitol One) had a $200 ceredit limit and this one might have been $500. I canceled capitol One because they advertised on that see bs story on "The dark Side of Homeschooling" several years back.

I rarely use credit cards for anything except online purchases and pay my bill in full every month, so my ctredit limit just kept going up and up. This month I put dd's wisdom teeth surgery on the card (not to worry; I sold stock to cover that and because we were running out of what we'd saved from the 5 part time minimum wage jobs during my pregnancy, so it was just TIME; I sold less than a week before the crash) so I'm terrified of what's going to happen when i pay THAT off in full.

I received an unsolicited offer in the mail for a $25,000 loabn on the day of the crash.

I'm not going to air dd's dirty laundry because she is an adult and I think her problem is much smaller than what most 19 year olds have and is every bit as developmentally appropriate as crawling is for an 8 month old; I'm just horrified by how screwed she really is and worried that some of you or my other 20-something and 30-something friends are probably screwed even worse.

slgt and Gen, I do think that the social isolatiion that babies and SAHPs experience in this society is not healthy and is why I let the emotional and financial abuse from my parents and ex get as bad as it did before I realized that THEY were the problem and not me and that the big kids really would be better off with a live, sane mother and a baby brother than a few shares of stock in corrupt corporations. It is hard to get out and meet people when it isn't the financial necessity of working and taking Baby with me, though. i feel for you and need to say that once again, i am shocked that ddc buddies who are social and friendly and delightful and such an important part of my life are describing themselves as awkward and shy irl.

I wish we had unlimited sources of oil and money so we could all fly out to a central location for a play date, but hey, isn't the internet wonderful? i've only been on line for 7 years (8 if you count my text email only device) and you ladies keep me sane! i don't really have any irl "mommy friends" other than moms of 8-10 year olds who used to admire me before Chris ran away and don't really know what to make of me now.

I'm sure I forgot someone or something but my sons need me to get off the computer now.

[operamommy]

Originally Posted by Mommy2Austin

Disconnect the doorbell, lock the door (with everyone on the other side) with a nice note () that says Do Not Disturb for anything less than Serious Injury/Illness, Death or Fire. Turn on some white noise (EX: TV, radio, or fan) to drown out household noises and relax.

As for your DS I would have a talk with him about his lack of preparedness for his day. Lack of preparation on his part does not (and should not) constitute an emergency on yours. He's old enough to be ready in advance and if he needed haircut money that bad he should have thought of it before you were putting the baby down. If he forgot, oh well you'll have to get one another time/day. Its not fair to you to have to deal with something like that when you are resting with the baby.

ITA!!! Peter is a very light sleeper (ugh) and so he sleeps upstairs, door shut, with a fan on for white noise. All of the kids (including even my 2 y/o) know they'd better be quiet when the baby is sleeping!

I have just a few minutes to read/post - ds2 and Peter are "playing" a game - ds2 has a wipe he's wetted down with water and is scrubbing Peter's head and feet with it. They are soooo friggin' cute together.

Ok, so I've been worried (especially in light of Julie's most excellant blog post) that people will think I was bragging about having some Christmas shopping done. Please know that I'm really excited about it ONLY because we don't have credit cards - everything is cash only. We use envelopes each month to budget for expenses like propane, holidays, property taxes, etc. It's just been such a relief over the last few years to be living completely and totally within our budget.

Love to all :

Must go....ds2 has disappeared with the wipe!

[sarahn4639]

Opera, no way, I think it's awsome!! I'm working on making some things but it's slow going. I think it's best to spread those things out over time instead of a making money spending mall trip just trying to get something for everyone. I think it's wonderful you are finacially wise!

So my second young mom had her baby this AM. I got a call at 5:45 that she was at the hospital....baby was born at 6:08!!! Apparently she slept crappy and then realized something was going on and needed to get to the hospital and there was a new staff there (residential placement) and she didn't call me so client had a nurse call me at the hospital. So I obviously didn't make it but I did set a new record of 1 hour from call to hospital room!! That is from a dead sleep, 2 sleeping kids, things ready, drop at sitter, drive 40 min and into hospital, yeah....that's a record! She's having a lot of problems with her blood pressure and hasn't seen her baby. She was only 33 weeks, he's just over 3lb. I now have two client's babies in the NICU at this hospital. I know I don't have enough control/power/influence/ect for it to be my fault but it sucks! So anyway, she could use some happy, healthy thoughts.

Our monthly update. I have no idea how big JAmes is, our scale is broken and He's only been to the doc at 4 months. I need to weigh him this weekend. We measured him on the growth wall (just the dinning room wall we mark Grace on) and according to that he's 26 inches. He's wearing mostly 9month, some 12 month stuff. He has his 2 bottom teeth. He loves food but I put him back on breastmilk only after his sleep went to hell. It's improved and he's had chicken, beef, and apples now. That meat seems odd but I'm just mama birding him and I've not really heard of meat allergies. It's going pretty well for now. He is a happy social and easy baby. I love him! His sister was a good happy baby also but she was somuch more work than he is. They were at the babysitters this AM after being woken up at 6AM and he was great, I think I'd be out of sorts! James has started pulling up on inanimate objects now. He's been pulling up on people for quite a while but he's now pulling up and cruising some. He likes to let go while standing but can't to it for very long without falling. I don't remember when Grace did all of this. He's still doing his rope climb crawl but manuvers well and quickly! Well he just woke up! got to go!

[Mommy2Austin]

Originally Posted by sarahn4639

Opera, no way, I think it's awsome!! I'm working on making some things but it's slow going. I think it's best to spread those things out over time instead of a making money spending mall trip just trying to get something for everyone. I think it's wonderful you are finacially wise!

So my second young mom had her baby this AM. I got a call at 5:45 that she was at the hospital....baby was born at 6:08!!! Apparently she slept crappy and then realized something was going on and needed to get to the hospital and there was a new staff there (residential placement) and she didn't call me so client had a nurse call me at the hospital. So I obviously didn't make it but I did set a new record of 1 hour from call to hospital room!! That is from a dead sleep, 2 sleeping kids, things ready, drop at sitter, drive 40 min and into hospital, yeah....that's a record! She's having a lot of problems with her blood pressure and hasn't seen her baby. She was only 33 weeks, he's just over 3lb. I now have two client's babies in the NICU at this hospital. I know I don't have enough control/power/influence/ect for it to be my fault but it sucks! So anyway, she could use some happy, healthy thoughts.

Our monthly update. I have no idea how big JAmes is, our scale is broken and He's only been to the doc at 4 months. I need to weigh him this weekend. We measured him on the growth wall (just the dinning room wall we mark Grace on) and according to that he's 26 inches. He's wearing mostly 9month, some 12 month stuff. He has his 2 bottom teeth. He loves food but I put him back on breastmilk only after his sleep went to hell. It's improved and he's had chicken, beef, and apples now. That meat seems odd but I'm just mama birding him and I've not really heard of meat allergies. It's going pretty well for now. He is a happy social and easy baby. I love him! His sister was a good happy baby also but she was somuch more work than he is. They were at the babysitters this AM after being woken up at 6AM and he was great, I think I'd be out of sorts! James has started pulling up on inanimate objects now. He's been pulling up on people for quite a while but he's now pulling up and cruising some. He likes to let go while standing but can't to it for very long without falling. I don't remember when Grace did all of this. He's still doing his rope climb crawl but manuvers well and quickly! Well he just woke up! got to go!

How do you give him meat?? I'm thinking of trying that with Steven first!

[lovetobemama]

Originally Posted by Mommy2Austin

As for your DS I would have a talk with him about his lack of preparedness for his day. Lack of preparation on his part does not (and should not) constitute an emergency on yours. .

Ummm...awesome advice!!

Originally Posted by slgt

She doesn't appear to be trying to crawl at all. My nephew was crawling & pulling himself up by 7 months, walking at 10 - I'll be surprised if DD is crawling by 9 months at this point.

She's very social, loves people, babbles all day long (no "mama" yet, though ).

One of my concerns is that she's with DH & I most of the time, and not around other people much. Could this be in any way contributing to slower development? Should I worry? I should add that both DH & I are overachievers, so it wouldn't be unlike us to be expecting her to be "advanced".

Just because she is not advancing on motor skills ahead of some same-aged peers doesn't mean that she won't end up being an overachiever just like you 2. DS didn't crawl till almost 10 mos, and was a late babbler, but is only 2 now and speaks like a 5 year old. Sometimes I think some babies are developing brain power so much that they aren't focusing their energy on other developmental areas.

**A note for all the mamas here worried about their babies not using any words yet: I know there are a few mamas here with unbelievably early talkers, but please know that first words usually don't arrive until between 10 and 12 months. I don't know if I've ever said this, but I am a speech-language pathologist, and, though I take the mamas of early talkers here completely at their word, I have never IRL encountered or even read about babies talking this early. Maybe a word or two might come out as early as the 8th month, but often the words are inconsistent and more like an experiment for the baby, and might fade back out again for a few weeks anyway. Research indicates that speech comes after or around the 10th month because, in addition to a myriad of other reasons, babies develop the muscle tone and coordination used for speech when they are eating. So a baby who can't successfully bite, chew, and swallow a variety of textures hasn't really had the motor practice necessary for intentionally producing repeated, familiar sounds. But usually by the time a baby is between 10 - 12 months, they have developed these skills.

Again, I take the mamas with talkers here at their word (like Rynna with a clear history of early speech development), but for the rest of us, until our little ones are eating well, their little mouths just aren't ready for speech.

*If you aren't hearing any babbling at all...like really almost none, then that can be a sign of a problem. But it can also be a sign of personality. Some babies are just watchers and thinkers.

So, to sum up my little speech here, to anyone who is worried, but I'm sending reassurance your way that this is the time to snuggle your LO while they are still little, and worry about first words AFTER the first birthday, if they aren't there yet.

Originally Posted by applecore

And the latest development is that she's saying "mama" a lot. : I would have thought that was quite an accomplishment at this age until I met you women and your super babies.

I think it is a great accomplishment!!! (See above rambling unsolicited sharing of opinion!)

Also, the body lotion sounds great!

Originally Posted by True Blue

Wait the dishes...did I mention the dishes? I didn't even empty the dishwasher yesterday.

Hang in there...sounds terrible!!!!

Originally Posted by operamommy

Ok, so I've been worried (especially in light of Julie's most excellant blog post) that people will think I was bragging about having some Christmas shopping done. Please know that I'm really excited about it ONLY because we don't have credit cards - everything is cash only. We use envelopes each month to budget for expenses like propane, holidays, property taxes, etc. It's just been such a relief over the last few years to be living completely and totally within our budget.

Um, you are so cute!! That didn't even cross my mind! In fact, it just inspired me to get on with my own plans to get gifts taken care of!

Sarah: Congrats on another birth, even if you missed it I will keep both LO's in my thoughts and prayers!

NOS: whenever the toy virginity feeling passes for you in it's good time, it does seem sweet that your teenage son found something he wanted his brother to play with! So cute!!!

RasJi7: Good luck with the exciting changes coming your way!!

SP and SLGT: good luck with those LO's!

Two kids sleeping...I get to rest today!! Hooray: Gotta run!!

[flapjack]

Hey, I'm here.

Rynna, I didn't get round to saying this but spacers only rock when you have the mouthpiece if baby is, well, a baby. I maintain, however, that nebulisers are bad and evil and foul and disgusting and really bad and stuff
Monthly brag: we have two teeth and two teenyweeny little edges of the top incisors pointing through. He spent today being worn on my front in the babyhawk, so I got a very good view He stands up, babbles with vehemence and eloquence, labels a few things (isah, dat, da (please) cake, that kind of thing- isah is a word when your favourite brother is called Isaac), eats dog food, tips water everywhere, swings wii remotes and nunchuks round his head like daddy with the real nunchuks, climbs onto and falls off sofas and is generally turning out to be a little bit of a handful It's great. Oh, and he pinches my boobs too, so it's not just a girl thing.
You already know about my week, but basically it stunk. I've been late for everything, melted my mooncup, AF is now later than I was intending (see moan #1) and generally it's just been chaos. He's eating a wide and varied range of solids now (no nuts, obviously) including undesirable things that other people are nice enough to leave near him : he scored some birthday cake this morning :
On development- trust your instincts. Isaac wasn't mobile at this age, Skye was only just getting going and at this point in Alex's life he was taking his first unassisted steps . They're all different, y'know? Keep observing, but don't get worried yet. It's just too darned early.
Operamommy, I'm down with the early Xmas shopping. I have two birthdays in November (Alex and Skye) and it was so nice in 2005 when all the shopping was finished by the end of October and I could just hole up and enjoy Halloween and bonfire night and never-ending prodromal labour and snuggling newborns and Christmas. I'm helping out with Holiday Helper this year, and I've got a couple of shoeboxes to pack and send for operation Christmas Child, so you know- it's getting close However, our Christmas is going to be quite expensive, because i have a promise to keep : Alex is riding his bike independently, and I promised that when he could do that we'd buy him one that really was big enough for him : I am so freaking proud of him right now.

[Gunter]

remember me? i have been mia since our babes were born, it feels like! miss you all. no one told me that having two kids under the age of 3 could keep a mama so busy!

buxton is kinda crawling around but more commando style or whatever it's called. she got her two bottom teeth on the week of aug 23rd, her 7 month birthday. she pulled up on her own all day on monday of this week. i want her to slooooooooooow down and be a friggin baby! gawsh. she's eating lots of food and nursing lots. unlike her older sister, she is the babe who likes to explore things with her hands and mouth. when i sit her on the little potty, she puts her hands right into it. and, she likes to put all kinds of things in her mouth. i am still surprised she has not choked, yet. just a minute ago she put a large rock in her mouth while outside on the patio. she sleeps well and is very content for the most part. my favorite difference between her and her sister is that she is a cuddler! since she was real little, she will snuggle and even hug us, especially in the sling or when we are holding her. i so love that.

i have been going to births as a doula, again so bux took a bottle of breastmilk, which was REALLY weird for me. i started going to births when ez was 14 months so i never expressed milk for her or gave her a bottle. seeing my milk in bottles and bags is just still kinda weird for me. thankfully, my BFF lent us 3 glass bottles so i didn't have to worry about the whole plastic thing. and, bux takes them fine when i am gone with a client. DH actually brought her to me during one labor (it lasted 2 days) and i nursed her outside the hospital on a bench!

hope to catch up with you all more. i certainly need some mama support and inspiration. i have missed connecting with you mamas who were with me through my pregnancy!

[nolonger]

Emily, you were who i forgot and i always seem to even though you never forget me and it's just the typing, not the appreciating, that gets forgotten! Yea, i thought it was sweet too and if Chris had money of his own, we'd probably have brought the bead maze on home. I'm hoping to make it past Christmas now that i don't have to worry about my mother.

I'm glad Molly is another easygoing kiddo; she sounds so much like Terran and such a joy! I hope her name is growing on you; it kind of is on me. After the reaction I got from being excited over Phoenix's "Mama!" at four months, I've pretty much decided not to mention the early talking except for here and only because Rynna brought it up first and reassured me that I'm not crazy. Terran is sometimes intelligible to others and sometimes only to me, but not remarkably advanced in any area except possibly his interest in the printed word, but that's probably just wishful thinking because i was an early reader and a crappy reading teacher to my "normal" kids who didn't even care that they couldn't read by themselves when they were six years old.

Operamommy, I think it's fantastic, both that you aren't using credit cards ansd that you're on top of things. Both of my sons have January birthdays (Christopher on the 3rd and Terran on the 18th) and last year was kind of a special "Christophermas" since it was his final year as the youngest, but I know things have to change.

I give up on exy's stupid competitiveness, for one thing; he enjoys buying mass market consumer goods and i don't so i am done. I did okay with letting exy get the ipod and while i gave Chris a book and three pairs of socks so I can do it again. The kids also don't enjoy exchanging gifts with my parents, so i'm going to try to be done with that too: I already ordered a meaningful and inexpensive gift for Mom and didn't tack the kids' names on to it, nor do i want to nag them about writing thank you notes for what feels more and more like "charity boxes" from her every year.

dd and i probably won't be exchanging gifts and will be migrating away from consumerist Christmas and towards a spiritual Solstice and i just don't want to start with Terran, but Christmas as a special family day with longstanding traditions means too much to Christopher and me for us to just stop. I tried the year he was 13 and we were both miserable, so i have some extremely minor presents put away that should do it if we're in a serious depression (fancy soap for the big kids' stockings and a pair of boxers for Chris' wrapped under-the-tree present) and we've talked about non-gift non-money traditions that are important to him, like tearing one link off the paper chain every day to count down to Christmas and making an ornament that represents something special that happened to us as a family that year.

So if you ever wondered what happened to the cup and the syringe.....

:

[nolonger]

GUNTER!!!!!!! Welcome home! I've missed you and been wondering how things were going. I'm still a total failure at pumping and am in awe of you birthing goddesses who are back to helping mamas and little ones already.

[True Blue]

Hey...just because it's so crazy unbelievable....check out my blog for pics of the waterspout/tornado that was right by my house Tuesday (just more of the crazy week I had). Someone just sent me some pics taken from my neighborhood.

[BabyBump]

RasJi7 It all sounds wonderful. Best of luck.

Jezzy Ignore those who think a bottle formula is the magic trick to sleeping! Since my pregnant body couldn't keep up with making milk at the same time, Eli is on formula now. He's far from sleeping through the night. He goes done around 8, wakes up around 11, and I can get him back to sleep but once I lay him back in his crib, he's up instantly. However if I or Tim brings him into our bed he's back to sleep instantly and stays that way until 5 or so. Then he wants to eat again and sometimes falls back asleep for a while, sometimes he's up. Formula doesn't make a baby sleep through the night, that's all up to the baby. Eli will occasionally sleep through the night to tease us.

NOS I'll give my sister your MDC name if you don't mind. I'll feel better if she has someone in the area to contact. It's a big move for her and my nephew who is almost two. I worry even though she's 27 almost 28 and a big girl.

Has anyone heard from Juise lately? I notice she's been absent from the threads.

Kendall wants me to put this picture in my post because she's cold :

[lovetobemama]

AMY: So glad that you guys were safe!

Gunter!!! Welcome back!!! Your LO's sound wonderful.

NOS: You just gave me such a sweet, lovey, friend feeling! Thanks for the personal!!

Helen . BTW, I love hearing all of River's food scores! Oreos...birthday cake...that little boy is cracking me up!!

Mommy2Abigail: Meant to say earlier that Ella sounds so adorable! Good luck with the possible early walking!!

BabyBump: hope you are feeling well!

[eilonwy]

I'm totally convinced that a lot more babies talk than most people are aware of. I can't tell you how many 8-12 month olds I've heard say things and be ignored or dismissed... but I'm paying attention, because I'm rather fond of words. That said, I want to reiterate that there's a difference between expecting a child to speak and expecting vocalizations. Babbling needn't even sound like English gibberish at this point (though most babies go through a stage of primary language babbling), but coos and gurgles are absolutely appropriate. That said, I seriously need to get Bear on camera. *sigh* It's going to have to wait until he's feeling better though.

Today's update: Bear has two infected ears. Yay. He still has the poops but he's not dehydrated, and his temperature has remained moderate (max 99.8 F, rectal). The doctor wrote for azithromycin and had her nurse call the gastroenterologist to get him in for an appointment sooner than December, because this pooping thing is just. plain. ridiculous. He'll go back Tuesday for another look in the ears and a check up to make sure he's not dehydrated. : Meh.

Bella's still "using" the albuterol six times a day. I'd be a lot more concerned about her breathing if I thought that she was actually *getting* the albuterol, but I'm pretty sure that she isn't. Meh again. I'll take her back Tuesday as well, if I must.

[Dea]

Hi Mamas!
Did I tell you I've started ECing with Trixie. I held off 'cause I wanted to get her formula situation sorted out, then it was one thing and another, so I just started. She's doing it! YAY! I had a toddler potty and it was okay, then I got the little bjorn potty and it's so much better, perhaps it positions her better? Anyhow she's my little peeing and pooping queen! My mother's group has a couple ECers in it and we laugh that we get so excited about poop in a potty....
NOS you'd be surprised at how many people are clueless about credit. And it's horribly unfair that credit granters totally prey on the clueless, well on everybody. I think the biggest thing that people don't realize is that banks and other credit granters are businesses, and they want your business, so make them earn it. Oh and the other thing is that credit isn't an extension of your income.
lovetobemama, thanks for the lesson! That was really fascinating! It makes sense that the talking muscles are the same as the eating muscles.
Gunter! I remember you! Welcome back!

All of the other Mamas, I swear I read everything you write... how do you do multi quotes?

[flapjack]

You click on the icon in the bottom right hand corner of the post between Quote and Quick Reply, the one with the plus sign on it, then move onto the next post. Then hit Post Reply.

And Dea, you have no idea how excited I'd get about poop in a potty : Skye looked up at me before bedtime last night and said "I did a HUGE poo" and I waited. Then I asked "in the toilet?" and she said "no. On my feet." It's true, and best of all? I was out of the house so I didn't have to deal with it Daddy stuck her in the bathtub to clean her up when parenting solo with all four kids out of bed, I was quite impressed with him Potty training is brutal, and if I could spot River's cues, I'd go for it myself. Saying that, the middle-of-the-night poos have stopped since he's been imbibing much solids.
And guess what? He STTN last night!!!!!! He was tucked in with us, but I feel like a superstar right now

Rynna, You're not living next door to a nuclear power plant or a bacteria factory or anything like that, are you? Your family seems to be having the most horrendous luck recently.

NOS I think I'm missing something, but why are you feeling so strongly about toys?

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Flapjack, if you'd like to try EC, you could just keep him nappyfree for a while, maybe after a feed, and see when he goes (I know, much easier when they're smaller and non-mobile!). DD stopped signaling to me around 3 months, so we go by timing (she wees about every half hour, or less in the morning, and just after a feed or waking up). She waits to poo when at home and on the potty now. We catch most wees (and poos, of course) most days. Usually have between 1-3 "misses".

BTW, EC is the ONLY part of motherhood I've found easy so far!