Ok - new word "MINE" :rofl: I wonder how she learnt that one!!
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Ok - new word "MINE" :rofl: I wonder how she learnt that one!!
Morning!
:lol: nai!!
ive been meaning to ask, how do your little ones go down at night? are they rocked/fed to slee etc.. do they take a bottle to bed?? or self settle?
DD has started a new habit of needed us to stay with her until she falls asleep :doh: shes gone from self settleing and sleeping like crap to needing us but sleeping muuuuuch better!
it can take me around 30 mins from feeding her to standing in her room for her to fall asleep, i dont like it, but it seems to be the only way at the moment, but id rather this to crap sleeping!
Olive - DD1 was like that and needed us to stay in with her but she slept all night. DD2 will self-settle but wake during the night occasionally and she wakes very early! She normally has a bottle before bed and will finish it in bed, chat to herself, play her musical aquarium and put herself to sleep. It can take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes.
Hi peoples been MIA a bit as so busy with work and sick DD. She is still not that well and has conjunctivitis. Still not liking going to bed and is howling for up to an hour. I think she is still stressed about being in hospital.
Before she was sick she went to bed very similar to Juliette, and would sleep through timm about 7:30pm.
Nai - How did G go with skiing? We are taking J next weekend, but not sure he will have to stamina to last the whole day in ski school. What did you do with J while you were skiing?
Malayna - that must have been extremely distressing for you. I am glad that he wasn't hurt.
I am on a new page, so can't see previous posts. I am sorry that you are getting stressed on your return home from sleep school, I hope things improve soon.
OP - How's Is going? Is her behaviour getting any better?
Shell - How are you? Feeling any better?
Ok better go. E is asleep and I want to get dinner organised as I have netball tonight.
With skiing, I wouldn't recommend all day ski school, just do the morning or afternoon. G ended up not liking it at all anyway so we got her private lessons which were much better but they are only for an hour. Then we went out with her. Miss J went to childcare for a few hours when we went out on a couple of days and the other times DP and I took turns in going out or looking after the girls.
I was thinking of putting J in for the morning and then he can ski with me in the afternoon as most likely one morning of hard skiing will be enough for unfit me. We have a holiday house in Bright, so we drive up each day. We hhave decided that E will stay down the mountain with my mum, but if we go back the following weekend we will need to bring her with us. Did you hire kids stuff in Melb or up there? J needs a ski suit and they cost a fortune really even to hire!
We bought stuff from Aldi :D You can borrow some stuff from us if you like depending on when you are going. I hired skis for G on the mountain.
Really? What does Aldi sell? James just needs a ski suit and not bringing E this time.
hey girls
still here!
i read most days but havent had the chance to reply- i am soo slack- sorry !!!
all good here
went to see my nan in cairns for the weekend - took both the boys with me- DD is scared of flying- it was awesome to get some sun on my bones!!! Boys were good as well
boof slept the whole way there and back- a legendary flyer- in fact slept more on the plane than he does at nights!!!
kaz- if it is any consolation boof is a bad sleeper as well. in fact all my kids didnt sleep well until they hit 3 year old kinder. The only way we get any sleep in our house with boof is to co-sleep. He only falls asleep on the boob, and he wakes heaps and i have to re feed him back to sleep again. I put him in his cot and he sleeps for a bit, and then he wakes- this keeps on going until i give up and chuck him in with me.
is this a hassle??? sometimes -but for me it isnt a stress. He will sort himself out when he wants to. He just hasnt learnt to resettle yet. I cant force him to learn- he will get it when he does! So please kaz dont think you are alone!!!!!!!
mind you my two non sleepers are now in their own beds sound asleep now- so it does eventually happen!!!!! Just when they are ready!!
shell- i hope you start to feel better soon- it must be soo frustrating@!!!!
Olive- hope you kids are feeling a bit better- you have had a rough trot
lilima- enjoy the snow- how exciting for mr J- he will love it- we still havent taken any of our kids to see snow yet- its on the list but just hasnt happened yet@!! Hopefully soon- we were thinking of going to lake mountain for the day
ali- not long to go till fiji- enjoy!!!
Malyana- what a scary thing to happen- so glad that he is ok- take care hun!!!
grrr- boof awake again
see !!!!
BBL
xxx
Hi girls,
Doing this from memory so apologies if I forget anything.
weight - DS is 10.1kg - they weighed him at sleep school so it's a recent weight.
going down at night - this is bizarre but he doesn't need any kind of settling at night. Almost all the time he goes straight from the bath, gets dressed, quick cuddles and into his bed. He goes straight to sleep 90% of the time. Go figure. I think that's why his overnight re-settling is so frustrating, he can do it during the day and to go down at night but just not on waking overnight so each wake up is 1-2 hours of effort to get him back down again.
words - DS doesn't have as many as the girls! He has quite a few but I've never bothered counting them. I am still working on him saying 'ta' when I give him something :wall: It's very hit and miss.
Det - Thanks hun. Rationally, I know I'm not alone and I know he will get it eventually but sometimes emotionally and in the middle of the night it's the end of the world! :lol:
olive - ooohh another bub? wahoo for you! DS hasn't had his 18month check yet but the paed at sleep school checked his ears so I figure he would have found glue ear? I've had DS to the Dr.s each cold/flu too over the past few months getting his ears checked cause I know you've had issues and I wanted ear infections ruled out.
Lilima - oh conjunctivities is so yuck! I hope it clears soon and that DD settles better at night times again.
OP - DS talks in jibberish sentences too. He's so earnest about telling me and I feel so guilty that I have no idea what he's said. Sometimes my reply seems satisfactory and other times he gives me 'the look' and I know I've got it wrong :)
Nai - DD2 is so clever!! She sounds way ahead of the typical 18 month old. Love all her words. You guys must be able to have full conversations!
Shell - How is your vertigo? Hope it's staying away.
Ali - when do you leave for your holiday?
AFU - We've had better nights the last couple of nights. Last night particularly was pretty good and I'd put the heater on in his room (really cold here atm) and he slept from 11pm to 7:20am straight :leap: So the heater is the new strategy!
I am off to get my hair cut this afternoon - finally. Has been driving me nuts but I could never get time so last week I cracked it and booked DS into extra care hours at his centre :redface: I figure it's kinder to him to let him play than stay with me stuck in the stroller and unhappy.
Hope you have a great weekend everyone.
you go girl kaz with the haircut!!! whoo hoo!!
boof snoozing on the couch at the moment lol
had him weighed last week- he was over 14kg !! definately still a boof
but he is tall for his age as well - 90%
talking- lots of words and sentences every now and then that we can understand- having siblings makes soo much of a difference to their language development
grr ye us stirring again
try again another time
Kaz - yay on the sleep and haircut!! You will feel like a new woman - and yes, much kinder to leave him at childcare (for both of you).
Det - wow 14kg! He is a big boy, all that good mummy milk :D I agree that the sibling thing makes a difference, especially when they have to talk to get any attention!
Evening ladies
Kaz - hope you enjoyed your pamper time. How strange that DS settles well during the day and at bedtime, but not overnight? I hope the heater helps - we have been leaving the heater on overnight for a while, thankfully it doesn't seem to be killing our gas bill too much as its central heating! But I think its helping - its been so cold overnight. Hope it continues to help... 11pm to 7.20am is great!!! :D
Det - sorry again for ditching MG today... I really did go back to sleep as DH was here this morning so I took the chance I could, got up at 9am and went to playgroup. My theory was that if my mum and sister were both there, I'd get extra help with DD, having them to run around after her while I fed/tended to DS, but somehow she still managed to bite a poor girl!
Then when I was changing her nappy after the session, she went to bite my niece (who stupidly had put her finger in DD's mouth... what's up with that?), I pushed Lucy's hand away and grabbed DD's hand and said "No biting!" and then she went to bite ME!!!!!! She had bare legs as I was in the middle of changing... and so I thought grrrrr gave her a little smack and said "NO!" very loudly. I'm a bad parent... :redface: I was just so angry!
Maybe I would have been better at MG???? Sigh...
Lilima - enjoy planning for your ski trip next weekend. Little kids are so cute in their snow suits!!! How is DD? How is her sleeping going? Poor little poppet, hospital must have been a bit upsetting for her...
As for DD's behaviour, see above... I thought we were getting better but then at our playgroups this week (Tues and Weds, plus a music session on Fri) she was back to biting and hitting. I know she doesn't mean it - its normally when she is frustrated because they have taken a toy she was playing with or because she wants what they have, but its so frustrating for me.
She actually bit Det's son boof on Tuesday... but in her defense he did headbutt her first :lol: I don't mind so much when she beats up boof as he beats her up too, most of the time... and of course Det is cool about it... but when she bit him, his crying was pretty heartbreaking!
My DH had come to playgroup as I knew DS would need a feed as soon as we got there and DH was home, so he came along... on the way home he asked me "Is she always like that?" and I said "Pretty much." He said "Wow, that's hard work, no wonder you stress about it so much". Its nice that he now knows what its like for me!!!
She'll grow out of it... or at least she'll start to understand a bit better and hopefully she will stop.
Olive - its so hard when its constantly changing, isn't it? Just when you think they've got the bedtime thing down... DD has been having a cup of milk before bed since she weaned herself, so we do our bedtime routine of night nappy, brushing teeth, into sleeping bag, saying goodnight to everyone, cup of milk, prayers, tucked into bed. She used to just go to sleep but now she often needs us to go in and put her back into bed, sometimes up to three times, before she'll go to sleep. But we don't need to be in there, which I think is pretty good. And all we do is go in there, pick her up off the floor, tuck her back in, tell her "Time for sleeping, see you in the morning" and we leave. We've tried to make "Time for sleeping" one of our sleep cues. Mixed success...
AFU: see above for my comments on DD's behaviour. It is really up and down.
She can be so cute when she wants to, really lovely. We had friends round yesterday and we were telling them how fast she is developing and how good she's getting at following instructions - we told her to pick up a plate that had a party pie on in and give it to "Uncle Hamish", she went to use one hand and I said "Two hands, use two hands" and she grabbed it with both hands and took it to our friend Hamish. It was tipping and I said "Careful! Keep it straight!" and she did! We all clapped and told her how clever she was - she then proceeded to grab another plate that had a slice of cake on it and try to give that to Hamish too - but we might have ended up with cake all over the floor :lol:
But when she's in a mood - its so tough. She just wears you down!
Det- wouldve been nice up in Cairns, especially getting some sun! Whats that I'm thinking most days with all this clouds and rain.
Kaz- Vertigo ok atm (touch wood). Its funny you mentioned the heater cause when you said he settles at the start of the night I was gonna ask if he gets cold, we have probs here with that, start of the night pretty warm upstairs but can drop heaps, never know what to put them in. Hope that works more. maybe that in combinatoin with what you're doing is helping. Enjoy getting your hair done too, you need somehting done for you.
Meg- I hope her sleeping settles, when that sorta thing hapens its just like starting back from scratch again isn't it, like the newborn days trying to get them to sleep better. Maybe once she is fully over everything it will settle, have fun at the snow, when do you go?
Nai- J sounds like she is doing great! Clever cookie!
Olive- move further out where?! Don't you already live on the edge of the suburbs? mind you I want to move further out than we are, would love to move to the dandenong ranges but DF flat out refuses.
As for sleeping Emily is usually good, has her bottle then we go upstairs to bed, have a cuddle, mini chat, put her music thing on, kiss and goodnight, used to sleep thru but being bit off last couple weeks has changed that.
Words I don't think she has as many as some of the toddlers in here but she does understand alot. And she sure loves saying no.
OP- you posted while I was writing. I know your DD will grow out of it but it is hard, good friends of ours have a 2yr old biter, last week they got called up by CC about it, they felt like being called to principals office. At the CC they just remove him from the situation and sit him on a chair with a book. I think once they get more verbal they grow out of it, its more frustration with not being able to express themselves. And its always handy when your DH gets to see what you deal with on a day to day basis!
Just lost my post. Can't be Arsed starting again. All I can say is e has been cring on and off for 1.5 hours nowxafter going to bed without a peep. A Long night for me I think
Hi girls,
Promise to try and catch up on the weekend.
DD is sick. She has been running a temp of 38.9 and fell asleep on me when we were out this morning!!!! Hasnt done that in almost a year!! Took her to the doctor and she has tonsilitis!!!! She has coped so well considering and was so funny at the doctors. He was doing all the usual checks and DDwas quite intrigued at the stethescope (sp?) he was using on her. He had a kids one in his office and gave that to her. She put it round her neck and then continued to put the round bit on my chest just like he did to her. She didnt laugh, just did it like it was nothing new then lay back down with her head on my chest. We were laughing. She was so cute.
Hoping she is better by next Sunday when we leave for Fiji.
ETA- Why the F word do they make antibiotics bright red??? DD just spits it out and it goes everywhere staining everything!!
is she on ceclor (sp) ali?? might make her hypo too, hope shes better soon darl
BBL visitors today
Ali hope she's not on flucloxicilin, DD was on that when she had an infection in her eczema and it seriously tasted like diesel. :spit:
Hope she's better soon and also lilima hope you had an ok night!!
Bum, can't remember what's going on!!
Ali - love all the fb pics of Fiji!! Looks like you guys had an awesome time.
How was DD with everything? We want to go soon and were wondering about how a toddler would find it. We're thinking about going when DD is about 3, DS will be about 20mths then. Do they have baby seats in the cars?
And you have to tell us the engagement story!!!
Shell - how did the MRI go?
Nai - how's the new job? Been meaning to chat to you about HR... Maybe if we have a catch up!
Olive- how fantastic about your little sleeper!! All your hard work has paid off :hug:
Lilima - are you and DS all better? Glad you had fun at the snow! Your flood photos were impressive.
Kaz - how's DS going?
Can't really remember anything else sorry... Hi to everyone!
Not much to report here. DD tried to bite someone again yesterday, a solicitor - I was signing a power of attorney for my parents and the lady was trying to stop her banging on the curtains. I really thought we were getting better... :(
Sorry OP I did find myself laughing at her trying to bite the solicitor! Lucky she didn't sue!
I survived the MRI no one told me how noisy they were it was horrible the noise, I can understand why most kids need to be put out to have one. Get results this arvo.
I wanna hear Alis engagement story too!
We have no Internet, modem stopped working in power outage and virgin don't do broadband anymore so looking for new provider til then gotta try keep up on my iPhone. Much harder to write replies!
Hey everyone, just checking back in. It's pretty quiet in here. I haven't been in BB for a while and when I've popped in it's only been brief. Apparently a heap of posts went missing?......
Anyway hope all is well for everyone and their bubs and their bumps!
OP - Sorry to hear DD is still at it. I also thought, "hope she didn't sue".
Shell - How did the MRI turn out? Any answers?
Ali - Your photos are amazing! Please tell us the story. I love hearing how people are proposed to.
AFU - DS has been well until last night. Only one sleep through since sleep school 5 weeks ago though, although having said that things are much better with re-settling. He was up vomiting last night and has hardly eaten anything all day. He was car sick on Friday too for the first time ever. Even better, it was someone elses car!!!!! :redface:
There is always something. Makes me think that parents with lots of kids must feel like their kids pass a baton around as to who's turn it is today to be unwell lol!
Hey Kaz :wave:
I'm round often but on the iPhone so it's difficult to write a long, meaningful reply!
Sounds like you guys are slowly slowly getting there with Master J. I really do admire your strength and patience with it all. I imagine it might not feel that way when you are right in the thick of it but I just think you're amazing!
Ali - still waiting for the story!
Nai - how's the new job?
Hi, I too am around, but have lost motivation with posting! Naughty me!
Had a wonderful time at the snow - thanks to Nai lending J an outfit!
Also saw Miss Ash and Miss Emily yesterday. James is in love with Emily, and said that he is going to marry her!!!
Us Melb girls really need to organise a catch up, esp now the weather is better
Meg- that is so cute! We better arrange a marriage but he'll have to deal with her mood swings! And when we unpacked the car after the party realised I didn't give u J's presnt! Will have to send to you.
And a Melb meet sounds great idea, def should organise.
OP, I'm in yr boat iPhone replies hard! We're waiting for our new connection.
Kaz, how is J? Hope being unwell hasnt stuffed up the settling. How you going with work and getting up to him in the night?
MRI results all clear, next step is a balance test in 3 weeks.
Now I have bloody gastro and the sorest bum. At least there is no nausea, I reakon that's worse than anything else.
Just gotta add how similar my girls are, Every time I go mchn they are same weight/ height at same age, even their looks are so similar for that age. Personalities different.
That is so cute Meg!
I agree that a Melb meet is a great idea!!
Shell - my girls are SO different, in every way! They are different in pretty much everything except head circumference - they both have big heads :rofl:
Shell Ash and Em really do look so alike. The way J has been acting you wouldn't want him in your family. I hope you didn't think he acted up too much at ash's party.
Nai G and J really are polar opposites in look. But both really pretty girls in different ways. I must say G is stunning. And such a lovely little girl.
I am not having a good time right now. VERY upset about J's behaviour and feeling very unsupported. It has been 2 years since my cousin lost her full term baby. I think I get more upset with each passing year. I can't even imagine how my cousin is going. I really can't move on from her loss. And it wasn't even my baby.
Having panic attacks again. Just not going well.
Meg- J was great, didn't think he played up at all, think my nephew enjoyed playing with him.
I can't believe the 2 yr anniversary has come up with your cousins baby. Have you spoken to councillor or anyone about it?
Lilima - :hug: I'm sorry you're having a rough time. Maybe talking to someone like a counsellor will help......thinking of you.
Shell - yuck on the gastro. I think DS has had that too but he was going long periods between spewing. No spew now for a couple of days so :crossfingers: it's over. Hope yours nicks off soon too. Seems like lots of people have it. Am less tired now than I was between April and August when he was regularly waking multiple times a night and taking 1/2 to 2 and a 1/2 hours to re-settle each time. Tonight he doesn't seem to want to sleep, been a bit of a pattern lately in the evenings again. Panadol is my friend as it seems to be the only thing that works. He's still awake in there now.
Nai - :rofl: at big heads!! DS's head is quite large too and he loves looking at it in the mirror :lol:
AFU DS has been a bit unsettled and weird since he started vomiting on Sat night. Much more quiet, less chatty/smiley, more prone to crying and clinging (even in care where he is normally quite well distracted and having too much fun to be grouchy). Not sure what is going on. Don't have typical signs of teething and he hasn't vomited in a couple of days now. I want my happy boy back! Bit worried as I don't know what's going on, he's not obviously sick anymore but not himself either. We have his 18month review with the CFHN next week so will see how he is by then. Work has been really full on lately too, just in terms of dealing with colleague dramas/difficult personalities and also the type of clients I've been seeing have been pretty complex and difficult. Also, DP is really sick so I'm doing most of the work at home and in terms of DS. It's not his fault but still extra stress for me and I'm worried about him too. Plus I have a sore throat and feel like I'm fighting some kind of cold.
Wow, what a whinge-fest!! lol. Things are generally ok and I am feeling alright in myself. Definitely noticing the extra sleep over the last month, even though it's still broken every night.
Hey ladies,
So sorry I'm a bad buddy at the moment - I do read everything but its hard to get on and reply, I'm lost in a world of BF and screaming toddlers!
Kaz - how's Mr J going? Gastro has definitely been doing the rounds... hope he is feeling better soon and back to his chirpy self! :hug:
Meg - you know I'm struggling with I's behaviour ATM as well, I know how hard it can be. I am at least feeling a bit of support - DH has been here this week which has been great, its been quiet at work. But its still tough. Can you get some support? What about an occasional care, just so you can have a time out from him? I use my IL's for a bit of time out... I find it makes me better able to handle DD.
As for your cousin, I can't believe its been two years either. I think talking to someone would definitely be a good idea... :hug:
Shell - how's ya bum? :rofl: I am allowed to poke fun because I've been thru it too although our version of gastro involved more :sick: Poor little DS is still struggling with it ATM... thought it had passed but then just now he had another bout of vomitting... which in turn lead to me having to get completely changed, including undies, everything was soaked eww.
Glad the MRI was all clear! What does a balance test involve??
I'm up for a Melb meet - can we go somewhere enclosed so that DD doesn't run off on me? She does that a bit... oh and at least you ladies all know about my dramas with her behaviour so you'll be a bit more sympathetic if she attempts to administer the "hug of death" on one of your lot... :shakehead:
AFU: We've had a rip-snorter of a few days here. We're all still recovering from gastro etc... me Thurs/Fri, then DH Sat/Sun, then little DS yesterday... DD wakes up with goopy eyes Tuesday, seems ok yesterday but goopy again today... and she has been an absolute exhausting bundle of WHINGE since about Monday.
DH (thank GOD) has been really quiet at work so has taken all this week off, which has been great because I seriously don't think I would have coped with her on my own. She has just been pushing every single boundary, not sleeping well, miserable because of her eyes and whatever else and just not happy.
Every nappy change is a fight. Most attempts at eating are a fight. Getting dressed is a fight. Getting to sleep is a fight. Her favourite word is NO and it is always said loudly and with definite meaning. She basically incapacitates one of us, as we have to be with her constantly to make sure she isn't into something she shouldn't be.
Worst is that she hits Xander - I think because she knows it'll get an immediate reaction from both of us. We're wise to her now though and we simply move him out of her reach when she gets into a mood.
Today was the worst - she had a really broken night's sleep, our fault as we were out at my parent's house, normally she goes down fine there as we've been there at least once a week if not more since she was born, then we go home around 9 or 10pm, and she stays asleep, normally. Not last night. She woke then refused to go to sleep when we got home. Eventually did, was awake off and on all night and awake for good at 6am. Completely beside herself though and by about 8am we'd given her some panadol (she kept saying her eyes were "ow") and she fell asleep on DH on the couch. Put her in bed, she slept and seemed brighter when she woke. However as the day wore on, she got ratty again but refused to have another sleep. Eventually crashed on DH again at 4.30pm and when she woke around 5.15pm she was DELIRIOUS.
Screamed, cried, tried to hit and bite both me and DH when we tried to cuddle her better, told me to go away when I offered to just sit on the floor with her until she calmed down. She ended up in her room, on the floor, just screaming. It was terrible - we didn't know what to do.
Eventually got her to have some more panadol around 6pm and it was like we'd flipped a switch - she brightened up immediately. We don't know why - maybe pain, maybe teething?? Don't know but it was horrible. We just couldn't comfort her.
She's in bed now, took a while to settle and has already been awake twice since then. I think we're in for a long night...
The only positive ATM is that last night, DS had a feed at about 6.30pm, a massive vomit fountain spew at about 7pm, fell asleep about 8.30pm (without another feed) and slept right through til 5.30am :o Tonight he's had a feed, another vomit fountain, another feed and asleep again by 8.30pm so :crossfingers: he's falling into an awesome pattern. Now if only DD would sleep!!!!!
Update: DD is now on the couch watching the Footy Show with DH. Alternating between grizzling and sitting quietly. Sigh!
Sorry that turned into such a long rant!
OP have you looked into diet with miss I????
colourings/preservatives/additives etc... or high salicalyate (sp) foods??
or food intolerances??
sorry been bad too, reading but not posting.
Kaz i hope J perks up again soon darl, have you thought about putting into a big bed to help with sleep? does he have a pillow?
Meg sounds like J had a great party!! its hard to believe how fast the past two years have gone :hug:
Olive - no we haven't, worth a try.. What would you suggest - elimination type thing? Cut out stuff and watch for any improvement?
What's salicytes??
Hi girls... wow
Lilliama - :hug:
OP - you certainly have your hands full.
Gastro has gone through here to, as well as a cold on top of it - was really weird.
Still have to take alex for his 18mth check up (and he's 19mths now)... although when he went to get his 18mth check up he's just passed 10kg - still in size 0 clothes, beginning to wonder if he will ever grow big!
Have started to go to the gym four days a week - mostly so i get time to myself (for an hour) while Alex gets to socialise with other kids - enforced fitness! I tried one childcare place but they said it was almost impossible to get him in at his age, which is why I go to the gym!
Struggling here a bit at the moment, but I'm just chugging my way through it, because I know things are going to get better.
Alex is so cute and very helpful - he packs the dishwasher (usually with clean pots and pans, apples and clothes), likes to sweep and mop the floor (and the cats if they aren't fast enough). he will also mop the carpet and then sweep the wet floor. he helped me wash the car the other day (gets sponge out, wipes the car down, mum rinses car, then the sponge comes out again to rewash the car). He loves to be helpful and he loves to watch me cook tea and always wants to be where the action is.
i think tomorrow we will go for a walk through the local mall before we go to the gym, because he's usually asleep in the pram by the time i leave.
Oh and the non-routine baby finally has a routine! And he is still really difficult to get to sleep - i.e. i only get one chance at it.
Malyna sounds like your enjoying the gym, A sounds like a wonderful little helper!
OP check out Fedup website, heaps of info on additives etc... take some or all out of diet, especially flavour enhancers and see how you go
Thanks olive, off to check it out now.
OP - :hug: sounds tough mate. No advice but plenty of :hug:
Malayna - Great to hear from you! Whoot on going to the gym so regularly.
olive - his bed is one of those cot-converts-into-toddler-bed thingos. He doesn't have a pillow. I'd been planning to wait until he is 2. Do you think a pillow would help?
no worries OP :hug:
Kaz it might help :dunno: DD has had one for quiet a while now, does the cot have both sides off now??