Good morning ladies
Borboleta I read a bit online about lip ties. No wonder Sebastian would not latch on at all when I tried to BF! Apparently children with lip ties find this difficult. I don't think Dominic has it, so I guess his not latching properly was largely my fault for not positioning him correctly or something.
It seems that ideally the tie should be cut as in toddlers it can cause:
- A gap in-between the two top teeth requiring braces (but then I always thought both my boys would have braces, as I certainly needed them)
- Cavities in the four top front teeth as food is unable to escape freely
- Speech issues
- Dental issues
I will have to talk to my GP about this. But the thought of
cutting anything on my lovely little pixie boy is horrendous! Submitting him for his vaccinations was bad enough!
As for the paci, yes we largely only give them for the night or naps. But we take them out with us too when we go shopping or to the park, so that if the boys get tired and upset, we can give those to comfort them. Sounds like we plug them to be silent but I don't think that is so, as we encourage all their shouts and hoots etc. and join in with them shamelessly (well not when they shout in shops etc but as often as we can). Plus they never have a problem with crying like mad while keeping the dummies in their mouths lol. But we don't just have 2 or 3 in their bed but at least 10 (!) so that they are never far from one when/if they wake at night. It really has made a difference to Dominic's sleeping. He often half wakes for a tiny moment, puts a dummy in his mouth, grabs his muslin and drops off again. If he has to search for the dummy and the muslin, he tends to wake fully and cry. Same with Sebastian though he very rarely cries. So we have two muslins in with the boys too now to make it easier to find one, too. I think we will take away their dummies when they are old enough to understand the story of the dummy fairy and the tree. Apparently there is a tree in the Zoo in Zurich full of dummies, where children can go and hang up their dummies
Cute idea I think! And maybe we shall do it there when we visit my mum one day
Sabrina yep, like Finn the dummy doesn't deter Dominic from biting either.
Glad you felt better yesterday and hopefully today will be even better and that the neighbours will go away for the rest of the nice weather!
Storm what a lovely place you went to and what a shame that the sleeping arrangements and your MS and the heat ruined it for you
Maybe people stared in the dining room cause you have such a beautiful lively child and they envied you?
I have such a fear of no sleep with the boys that I decided not to go to Switzerland this summer. Mum is sad but I just don't want to upset our lovely routine. The thought of the boys not settling down in a strange place and crying all night... horror! lol I don't think I will ever recover from the stress of those first 10+ months and I do not know how Leeze, Claire, Kosh and you still cope without going gaga!
Glad your dog is doing well though and I bet she will be happy for you to come home
How is your dad doing? And any news on your friend and his cancer? xx
Charlie for the smoothies I did add yoghurt and milk but the amount fruit we had wasn't enough so that the lollies just tasted of bland yoghurt. But I will try again
They certainly loved the fruit pot ones with honey I made them. Dominic had two in the time it took Sebastian to eat one. lol He is so greedy and Sebastian SUCH a slow eater.
Letting your OH sleep for 4 hours was extremely kind of you if he stayed up till 2 for no other reason than watching a film or something like that! And you totally deserved to eat his dessert and ice cream. lol
Kitty Aw shame for AF showing! I was hoping you might be preggers after all.
But how typical for it to show when you just went to your docs to have things checked out lol. But I still hope your obgyn can give you answers what was going on. When will they have the results?
And I can totally understand that you were disappointed that your doctor didn't ask after Blake. How odd of him not to! Unless he felt you talked about him already when you mentioned that he is a good baby etc? Still, he could have used that opportunity to say that it is good to hear he is doing well and so on. Hm
Claire I was thinking of you and Lucy (and Leeze and Kosh) when it got so hot and wondered if sleep would now deteriorate into even worse? How on earth are you still sane? lol
Hopefully her new molars coming won't bother Lucy too much. Sounds as though her teeth might suddenly be coming in fast one after another hm? How has she been with teething so far?
Leeze how wonderful to hear the Kia is sleeping better! I guess a late bedtime isn't ideal but as long as you get at least one stretch of a good few hours it does make a huge difference to the day, doesn't it.
Yay for AF and ttc. I really hope it will work as quickly for you as it did for Storm and Rowan
And yes, having two children is utterly wonderful, I assure you.
Though of course I realise that having two little ones of different ages will be a different challenge than having twins, which is actually not so hard any more now that they are older. At least not with mine, as they behave very well most of the time and sleep well too now. And maybe you will be lucky and won't have such bad MS as Storm does, the poor thing. I am crossing my fingers for you anyway.
And you are right about Andrea, it could well be that this is why she singled out Sebastian, even though she never said anything complimentary about either of them since they were tiny.
Rowan how lovely to hear from you! Any chance of some newer piccies of your cute MnMs?
I am glad that Martha seems to love Michael already and vice versa. I was wondering if perhaps she would get jealous. So glad that she isn't
And I do think next year will be great with the two of them.
And I am so impressed that Michael is already rolling over! Seems you have another little genius in him
Glad to hear that his reflux isn't so bad and that he loves the milk still
Does Martha still not sttn then, that you get up with her? I do hope you get the chance to sleep a bit from time to time you poor thing!
Clio I ordered and got the two books you recommended and Sebastian sat on my lap and let me read the entire "Ten little fingers and ten little toes" one to him! He seems to really like that one. Dominic wanted to turn the pages himself but also seemed to look at the pictures longer than usual. But I think he preferred the "I love you through and through" more cause he kept flicking through it, even when we were done reading it and while Sebastian was studying "Ten little fingers". Usually he immediately wants what Sebastian has but this time he took his time with his own book. So yay and thank you for recommending them
Actually that reminds me of a
question I wanted to ask you all: Where do you keep your LOs books? Do they reside in a shelf accessible to them or do you give them their books and put them away again when you are done? And if the latter, how often and how long during the day do you let them have books? Our books are stuffed into our bookcase where ever we can find a gap and we give them books about maybe once or twice a day and put them away when they seem to move on to other things. The boys don't ask for books yet, or at least not as far as I can tell lol. Actually, Dominic's only word apart from Daddy (and maybe mummy) is gooyg which definitely means book. But he says that a lot about the soft fabric books too (those they have access to all day) so it isn't as if he asks that we give him books. We also give them books to look at when we change their nappies as this is the most effective way to keep them from wriggling or downright fighting us. I wondered if perhaps we should have a child-friendly small bookcase somewhere but I don't want them to just rip out all books, have them strewn all over the floor and bent backwards and then not even read. But maybe I am being too precious about them?
In other news, I prevented Dominic from eating a live woodlouse this morning
. I had the windows open a tiny bit in the sitting room all night to let some fresh cool air in and I guess the woodlouse must have come in that way. So this morning when I had put Dominic in the sitting room and went to get Sebastian as well, I just managed to rescue that poor woodlouse from his greedy little hand when I came back in! It was on the way to his mouth but my shouting stopped him with his mouth already open. lol Ew.
Last week or so ago we bought them this Wooden Shape Sorter box as we noticed that Sebastian was keen on putting things through the holes of their tunnel. He loves this toy! The yellow lid with the shape holes comes off too easily for him to actually push the shapes through and into the box but he does like fitting it onto the box. He also likes to hold just the lid and then try to push the shapes through that way. He so far only really manages to put the round one through but doesn't unerringly find the correct hole. But he does know unerringly that the round shape will only fit through if held upright. So I think this is a good toy to make him think and try things out. Dominic just likes the noise the shapes make when thrown into the box and it is a very satisfactory noise, I must admit.
They both like these stacking cubes but we only gave them the smaller 5 so far. They love fitting them into each other and rattling them around and Sebastian will try and build small towers with them, until Dominic wades in and knocks them over
It is quite clear that Sebastian is much better at focusing and playing by himself. Dominic wants noise and attention. He is best with games that involve us. For example he is much better at body parts than Sebastian cause it involves playing with us.
They both still have snotty noses but Sebastian's is worse. He wipes his face and the snot goes every where! I just wiped some snot-strands off his eyelashes and there was some dried on his forehead with some of his hair glued to it, ew! If they would let me wipe their noses properly it wouldn't be so bad but of course they hate this so much that they cry if I insist and fight with surprising strength! Actually Sebastian quite likes the nose suction bulb, the odd boy that he is but he won't hold still long enough to do more than extract a long strand, which he then proceeds to smear all over himself again. Sorry if that is TMI. lol I really hope that cold clears soon! We didn't go to gymboree yesterday cause of the quantity of smeared snot. Not fair to the other children I think.
Sebastian is starting to stand without support too now cause we make it into a game and clap when he does it for a good amount of time. And when we clap for Dominic he laughs and sometimes claps too and vice versa
Hm what else, oh yes we are going to try to drop them down to one nap today. When we put them down for their nap in the morning they now often sleep for an hour and a half or even up to an hour and fifty. But the afternoon nap is a different story. The last few days Sebastian has refused to sleep at all and often wakes Dominic by standing by the bars, by twittering at him and throwing dummies at him. But even when I take Sebastian out of the room when Dominic has fallen asleep, Dominic never seems to sleep much longer than 30 minutes. So maybe they are ready? I am expecting a very whiney Dominic come their lunch time but hopefully lunch will distract him and then they can sleep shortly after that, so around noon. We shall see how that works out. Wish me luck
Ok I started this post shortly after 6 when I got woken up and it took me till now to finish. I better go now and have another coffee before lunch is due.
Hope you are all well and am sending you
as usual
), luckily a BF adviser noticed it after all the failing advise re. why he could not latch at all 
we got a referal to the local hospital and he got it cut when he was 4weeks old. I was soooo worried but the surgeon was a lovely lady and teh whole thing took less than 2min. not only that but, listen to this, Gael actually slept through the procedure!! 
for more teeth for L!!! So now she is up to 7 or 8? 
smiley doesn't even come close! lol And of course the guy is about ten years younger than me and must think what does that old biddy want of me?! DIE!
re the doctor not asking about Blake
