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Publication numberUS4013011 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 05/608,396
Publication dateMar 22, 1977
Filing dateAug 27, 1975
Priority dateApr 8, 1975
Publication number05608396, 608396, US 4013011 A, US 4013011A, US-A-4013011, US4013011 A, US4013011A
InventorsAndre Gabriels
Original AssigneeFabrique Nationale Herstal S.A.
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Throwing device for grenades
US 4013011 A
Throwing device for grenades by means of a weapon such as a rifle, a tubular casing extending the rear portion of the grenade, said device comprising a bullet trap housed within, wherein said bullet trap comprises two main parts, namely a hard mass under the form of a truncated revolution body and a bearing disc adjoining the large base of the said mass.
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What we claim is:
1. A device for firing a grenade or the like from a weapon such as a gun, comprising: a tubular casing affixed to the rear of the grenade; abutment means on the inner wall of said tubular casing; a bullet trap in said tubular casing between said abutment means and said grenade, said bullet trap comprising a hard mass under the form of a truncated revolution body and a substantially rigid metal bearing disc adjoining at one side thereof, the large base of said hard mass, the other side of said bearing disc engaging said abutment means, the small base of said hard mass being supported by a portion of the body of said grenade.
2. Improvements according to claim 1, wherein the mass forming the bullet trap proper is made of steel, the bearing disc being made of aluminium.
3. Improvements according to claim 1 wherein the bearing disc has optionally a central hole and passages therethrough provided adjacent its periphery.
4. Improvements according to claim 1 wherein a thin sealing wall is interposed between the mass forming the bullet trap proper and the bearing disc.
5. Improvements according to claim 4, wherein the said sealing wall with thin walls is made of a relatively hard flammable material such as, e.g. celluloid.
6. Improvements according to claim 3, wherein an auxiliary charge surrounds the main portion of the hard mass and the said bearing disc has such a configuration that it provides passages between the tubular casing, on one hand, and the auxiliary charge surrounding the bullet trap, on the other hand.
7. Improvements according to claim 3, wherein the said bearing disc has a configuration similar to that of the adjoining portion of the inner wall of the tubular casing, said disc being traversed by openings in any relative shape, number and disposition.
8. Improvements according to claim 4 wherein the large base of the hard mass is provided with a centrally located blind hole and the sealing wall is curved at its central portion and the curved portion is engaged in said blind hole.
The U.S. patent application Ser. No. 480,170, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,934,513 discloses a throwing device for a grenade or a similar projectile by means of a weapon such as a rifle, of the type comprising a tubular casing extending the rear portion of the grenade, a bullet trap being housed within the said tube. Said device is particularly characterized in that the said bullet trap comprises a steel mass undercalibrated relative to the said tube and provided, near each of its ends, with one or several centering projections bearing on the inner wall of the said tube or on a corresponding portion of the grenade body. An auxiliary charge is provided in the said tube about at least a portion of the said steel mass forming the bullet trap. In addition, the latter is provided with risers or passages allowing the gas flow from the rear portion to the front portion of the said auxiliary charge. Said main patent has also described various characteristics and modifications relative to constituting elements of the throwing device.
The present invention relates to improvements to such type of throwing device in order to modify some constituting portions thereof, while promoting practically and economically the assembling and mounting operation without any detrimental effect to the good efficiency of the throwing device. Another object of the present improvements is to condition said device so that it may be suitable for any type of ammunition such as a cartridge with a bullet or with a lead or steel core, tracer bullets, propellant cartridges and similar.
Still another object of this invention is to condition the throwing device so that the auxiliary charge may be introduced in bulk, previously packaged, compressed or under any suitable form or state. Still another object of the present improvements is to proceed so that the bullet trap does not mandatorily consist of a steel mass, it being understood that use may be made of other materials or hard materials.
There are still provided other characteristics which will be more apparent from the following detailed description of a non limitative embodiment, reference being made to the enclosed drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows a diagrammatic partial axial section of a grenade equipped with the improved device according to the present Patent Application;
FIG. 2 shows a view of the portion indicated at F2 in FIG. 1 on an enlarged scale;
FIG. 3 shows a section on the line III--III of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 shows a modification of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 shows a section on the line V--V of FIG. 2.
The embodiment shown on FIG. 1 comprises the grenade 1 the body 2 of which is extended at its rear portion of a rocket 3 the body 4 of which is itself extended by a tubular casing 5 namely provided with four stabilizing blades 6. The rocket 3 comprises an axially moving lock 7 the back portion 8 of which engages with an easy fit the axial passage of the rocket 3 so that the rear base 23 thereof is disposed in the plane of the bottom of the chamber 24. According to a main characteristic of the present improvements, the bullet trap comprises two essential parts, namely a hard mass, e.g. but not necessarily a steel mass 9 and a bearing disc 27, e.g. of aluminium or a light alloy. The large base 25 of the said hard mass is directed to the rear portion of the tubular casing 5. Between the said mass 9 and the said bearing disc 27, may be interposed a thin wall, e.g. under the form of a cup 26 preferably made of a relatively hard and flammable material, e.g. celluloid. The said disc 27 is substantially rigid and bears on a shoulder 28 which provides abutment means formed on the portion adjoining the inner wall of the tubular casing 5. According to another characteristic of the present improvements, the mass 9 is advantageously under the form of a revolution body the large base of which may be provided with a conically shaped central blind hole 17 in a preferred embodiment, the central curved portion 29 of the said sealing cup 26 having the possibility to engage the said blind hole. In the case it is adapted, the said conical hole 17 may have an inlet with a varying diameter, e.g. a diameter slightly higher than that of the propelling bullet.
From the above, it results that one of the main characteristics of the present improvements is that, contrarily to the U.S. Pat. No. 3,934,513, the bullet trap is herein made of two main parts, thereby simplifying the manufacture since the hard mass under the form of a revolution solid does not need any milling operation. At the level of its small base, the bullet trap 9 has an annular projection 13 engaging the said chamber 24 where it is covered with an obturating disc 22. A washer 14 is disposed between a felt washer 16 and the said obturating disc 22. Said washer 14 forms a damping device. It has an annular or truncated shape or other. The auxiliary charge 18 is provided in the space defined by the outer wall of the mass 9 and the adjoining portions of the rocket body 4, the tubular casing 5 and the cup 26 respectively. The said bearing disc 27 is namely, but optionally provided with a central hole 30. It may be variably outlined in order to form passages to the said axuiliary charge 18. Said bearing disc could have any geometrical shape, a quadrangular shape with cut corners 31 such as represented in FIG. 3 or still a circular shape could be adopted, in which case the bearing disc would be provided with one or several openings 32 such as those represented in FIG. 4. As regards the risers 20 provided in the U.S. Pat. No. 3,934,513, in some cases, they could be omitted.
These improvements have substantial advantages both economically and as regards the efficiency and the safety for the shooter and the shooting. In fact, according to the above-described improvements, the safety of the shooter is ensured namely by the fact that a breaking of the bullet trap does no more cause the breaking of the tubular casing 5, whereas the general configuration of the device is such that it very substantially alleviates or even prevents the projection of unburned products and molten lead towards the shooter. The safety of the shooting is certainly ensured by the fact that the speed of the grenade remains identical, the bullet or ball trap being broken down or not. Thus, in any event, the target will be reached. It results also that the sealing cup 26, e.g. of celluloid, will be no more in direct contact with the sleeve of the weapon. The vibration resistance is also improved. On the economical point of view, an easier and less expensive mechanization is provided.
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US4394836 *Nov 20, 1980Jul 26, 1983Fabrique Nationale Herstal, En Abrege F.N., Societe AnonymeRifle-grenade with bullet pass-through device
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U.S. Classification102/485
International ClassificationF42B30/06
Cooperative ClassificationF42B30/06
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Kuwait is also one of the Gulf's leading gas producers and targets to produce one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2015. Kuwaiti power generation/desalination plants and petrochemical industries require cheap gas feedstocks and consume more than the emirate currently produces, leading to a dependence on imported LNG from Shell and oil trading firm Vitol . Kuwait's complex Jurassic Era oil and gas fields have necessitated reliance on oil majors like Shell and BP to explore new reservoirs in the desert and in the Partition Zone with Saudi Arabia. Kuwait's Burgan is one of the greatest, biggest oilfields ever discovered in the Middle East , second only to Saudi Arabia's Ghawar oilfield. Burgan is a classic "elephant gusher", to use the language of Texan oil drilling wildcatters. However, Burgan is now in decline and depletion ratios are accelerating. This makes investment in upstream, storage tanks and refineries essential. Kuwait plans to invest $100 billion in energy projects in next five years, including the construction of a floating LNG storage and regasification terminals off its Mina Al Ahmedi oil port and source of the largest upstream heavy oil projects in the Gulf. This means Kuwait will have to partner with international oil majors, a strategy that could mean political gridlock with the National Assembly . Hopefully, since members of the Al Sabah family are on the Supreme Petroleum Council and the new oil minister is an elected member of the parliament, thus international partnerships should be implemented with less difficulty than "Project Kuwait" or the refiner/clean fuel project. After all, the Kuwaiti Cabinet has resigned and parliament disolved six times since 2006. Kuwait holds six per cent of global oil reserves and has traditionally been an ally of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Opec. This means Kuwait's planned output hike would be derailed by the surge in Iraqi oil (and post sanction) Iranian exports. Another one million barrels of extra Kuwaiti oil exports could well mean an oil glut. The Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) is one of the world's largest, integrated onshore and offshore state owned oil companies. Its subsidiaries Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company and Kuwait Oil Tanker Company are some of the most prominent players in the global oil trading, exploration and shipping markets. Kuwait Petroleum International has stakes in foreign refineries everywhere from the North Sea to Vietnam , Pakistan to China . It is a pity that half a century after oil was first discovered in Burgan , the Kuwaiti government budget is almost entirely dependent on oil and gas export revenues. The IMF has warned Kuwait to reduce its gas subsidies, estimated to cost $16 billion per annum. 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299 out of 403 people found the following review useful:
A misunderstood classic.
Author: ( from San Diego, Ca
8 March 2000
CALIGULA is a terribly misunderstood film. I believe too many people think of it as a cheap porno, and bash it due to that. "All porn is bad," right?
CALIGULA was a daring film experiment incorporating big-name, established talent, and the raw energy of under ground film techniques. What results is nothing short of a fascinating product.
All of the acting is very good. Malcolm McDowell plays psychotic villains so well, one can't help but think he's like that in real life. His portrayal of Gaius Caligula just drips with maniacal megalomania. The little-known Teresa Ann Savoy is convincing as Drusilla, Caligula's sister. And Peter O'Toole's Tiberius Caesar, whose diseased face is rotting away, is truly an oddity to behold...put he pulls it off well. The acting in general is all very good.
The use of music is also to be noted. There are original, evocative pieces written for the film by Paul Clemente, no doubt a talented composer.
While some of the photography is stilted in this film, for the most part it's gorgeous. A lot of people say the colors are "dark" and "washed out", but I think that lends to the grittiness of the film.
Danilo Donati's sets are big and well designed, it kind of shocks you to see someone getting a blow job in them. They look like they belong in a run-of-the-mill Hollywood produced film. Aren't all pornos supposed to be filmed in the director's back yard?
And that right there is the point of the film. To shock you; you can't believe you're seeing what you're seeing. Beyond the violence and the sex is a well written, acted, and photographed film.
I have spoken!
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221 out of 312 people found the following review useful:
The Ben-Hur of Porn: Gratuitous Sex, Violence, & Weirdness
Author: gftbiloxi ( from Biloxi, Mississippi
23 April 2005
Some describe CALIGULIA as "the" most controversial film of its era. While this is debatable, it is certainly one of the most embarrassing: virtually every big name associated with the film made an effort to distance themselves from it. Author Gore Vidal actually sued (with mixed results) to have his name removed from the film, and when the stars saw the film their reactions varied from loudly voiced disgust to strategic silence. What they wanted, of course, was for it to go away.
For a while it looked like it might. CALIGULA was a major box-office and critical flop (producer Guccione had to rent theatres in order to get it screened at all), and although the film was released on VHS to the home market so many censorship issues were raised that it was re-edited, and the edited version was the only one widely available for more than a decade. But now CALIGULIA is on DVD, available in both edited "R" and original "Unrated" versions. And no doubt John Gielgud is glad he didn't live to see it happen.
The only way to describe CALIGULIA is to say it is something like DEEP THROAT meets David Lynch's DUNE by way of Fellini having an off day. Vidal's script fell into the hands of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, who used Vidal's reputation to bankroll the project and lure the big name stars--and then threw out most of Vidal's script and brought in soft-porn director Tinto Brass. Then, when Guccione felt Brass' work wasn't explicit enough, he and Giancarlo Lui photographed hardcore material on the sly.
Viewers watching the edited version may wonder what all the fuss is about, but those viewing the original cut will quickly realize that it leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination. There is a tremendous amount of nudity, and that remains in the edited version, but the original comes complete with XXX scenes: there is very explicit gay, lesbian, and straight sex, kinky sex, and a grand orgy complete with dancing Roman guards thrown in for good measure. The film is also incredibly violent and bloody, with rape, torture, and mutilation the order of the day. In one particularly disturbing scene, a man is slowly stabbed to death, a woman urinates on his corpse, and his genitals are cut off and thrown to the dogs.
In a documentary that accompanies the DVD release, Guccione states he wanted the film to reflect the reality of pagan Rome. If so, he missed the mark. We know very little about Caligula--and what little we know is questionable at best. That aside, orgies and casual sex were not a commonplace of Roman society, where adultery was an offense punishable by death. And certainly ancient Rome NEVER looked like the strange, slightly Oriental, oddly space-age sets and costumes offered by the designers.
On the plus side, those sets and costumes are often fantastically beautiful, and although the cinematography is commonplace it at least does them justice; the score is also very, very good. The most successful member of the cast is Helen Mirren, who manages to engage our interests and sympathies as the Empress Caesonia; Gielgud and O'Toole also escape in reasonably good form. The same cannot be said for McDowell, but in justice to him he doesn't have much to work with.
The movie does possess a dark fascination, but ultimately it is an oddity, more interesting for its design and flat-out weirdness than for content. Some of the bodies on display (including McDowell's and Mirren's) are extremely beautiful, and some of the sex scenes work very well as pornography... but then again, some of them are so distasteful they might drive you to abstinence, and the bloody and grotesque nature of the film undercuts its eroticism. If you're up to it, it is worth seeing once, but once is likely to be enough.
Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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192 out of 255 people found the following review useful:
THE CLASH OF AN ARTIST AND A PERVERT: The Results Could Only Mean A Huge Disaster.
Author: emlodik ( from Denver, Colorado
17 August 2004
What started out as a massive, haunting and disturbing look at the corruption of bureaucracy ended up as a mere flesh flick, consisting mainly of outtakes and only two types of opinions from the viewers; "this movie is crap" and the infamous "I love the sex in that movie! It gives an erection every time I see it." All of these travesties, and more, are a major insult to the many talents involved in this production of "Caligula."
From what one can tell, it would have been an excellent film. Malcolm McDowell gives a performance of a lifetime, portraying an Emperor whose dedication to exposing the senate for what they are, a corrupt bunch of spineless bastards, ultimately leads to his descend into madness. Helen Mirren gives an interesting performance as Caligula's seductive wife, Caesonia and Teresa Ann Savoy is great as the cute and sweet Drusilla, the only voice of reason in the time of madness. The supporting cast is also top notch. Sire John Gielgud gives an awesome portrayal a stoic Roman aristocrat Nerva and Peter O'Toole is a true jaw dropper as Tiberius, the old emperor, a completely mad sex addict, plagued with syphilitic lesions. The rest of the supporting cast are unknown Italian actors, except for the B-movie god John Steiner, who plays the two faced Longinus, Caligula's treasurer.
The much talked about sex in the film was never meant to be in any way arousing. If one looks closely, he can see that most of the nudity and sex is handled in a very clinical, unappealing fashion. Tinto Brass did an awesome job showing how the Ancient Rome was so used to perversity, that a few people romping in a corner was just not a big deal in those days. Same can be said about the gore and violence in the film.
From the small hints remaining in the film, "Caligula" was well on its way to become a moody piece of paranoia, corruption and deep character study. There are some truly chilling and atmospheric moments. For example, when Caligula puts on the royal ring, you can actually see him losing soul, thanks to Malcolm McDowell's awesome facial expressions. Also, there is a haunting scene of Caligula asking the dying Nerva, who lies in a bath tub filled with blood, about the afterlife. And the humorous scenes of Caligula "judging" a land dispute between two whiny senators and one where a Senator says he would give up his life to cure Caligula's to fever, only to realize that Caligula has excepted his proposition.
But sadly, none of the points I made can be seen to a naked eye. When Tinto Brass got fired, the film's producer, Bob Guccione (yes, *that* Bob Guccione), tried to splice the film together himself, although he had no idea what he was doing. What ended up was a pathetic mishmash of truncated and misplaced scenes, out takes, rehearsal footage and some dull extra sex inserts with the Penthouse Pets, shot by Bob himself after the filming has wrapped, designed simply to promote the magazine. All the important subplots and story lines were deleted, making the film lose most of its plot and meaning, the pace is ruined due to endless pauses and there are maddening zooms that are obviously just raw footage of camera operators adjusting the lens. The movie is simply unwatchable because it is mostly cut together from the blurry, shaky outtakes. In other words, Bob Guccione stole a masterpiece and turned it into his own little wet dream.
Everyone who dealt with this film disowned it after seeing the finished result and rightfully so.
So, next time you watch the film and notice how bad it is, don't blame the actors, Tinto Brass or Gore Vidal. Blame Bob Guccione and the botched editing.
For what it could have been, I give the film a 10/10. For what it ended up, it receives a 2/10.
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184 out of 283 people found the following review useful:
Taste is relative, but pornography is REALLY relative
Author: Feelie from South Carolina
29 September 1999
It is funny.
As pornography, this film leaves a lot to be desired. To call it such is naive and absurd, and you obviously haven't seen any REAL pornography.
As a film, it leaves a lot to be desired. It lacks a number of things (dialogue, plot movement, etc) that make even a mediocre movie mediocre.
As far as a complete effort, it is fantastic. The attempt to even try something like this is outrageous and to have pulled it off (pardon the pun) as much as Guccioni and the gang did is amazing.
It seems as if the fact that some actual money was poured into this epic makes it bad, while something like 'Pink Flamingos' by John Waters is thought of as 'great' when it is just as likely to make a person squirm with its bad taste (again, pardon the pun and God rest Divine).
I really like this movie. It is like NOTHING that has ever been made nor will there ever be anything made like it. It is all at once historical (at least as much as say, Saving Private Ryan); it is thought provoking, it is strangely erotic, it is disturbing, and lastly, it is a movie that (love it or hate it) you will NOT forget if you do decide to see it.
I say see it.
Rating = 10
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125 out of 189 people found the following review useful:
Beyond the controversy lies a good film
Author: Mike Clarke from London, England
6 February 2000
This film, as with all, has good points and bad points.
In general, I feel that the good ones far outweigh the bad.
The film simply gives the story of the rise and death of Emperor Caligula in a very straight-forward manner. Indeed, it can be seen as shocking, but I think that this is a side-effect of it's desire to be realistic, rather than a deliberate act on the part of the film-makers.
The cinematography and camera work is awful. The huge sets seem at times almost claustrophobic which is an absolute crime considering the magnificence of them. There is also too much emphasis on Caligula himself, to the detriment of revealing some important traits in other characters, making them seem somewhat shallow at times.
The sex scenes are very well placed within the context of the film. I thought that only two scenes stood out as being unnecessarily overt, but for the most part, the explicitness is on the fringe of the focus of each scene, while also playing a major part in the atmosphere.
Never once did I feel that any dialogue was out of place, nor did the acting strike me as being bad.
By far the biggest problem with this film is the fact that the sexual content is widely advertised and therefore anticipated before viewing. This may cause people to focus dominantly on those scenes without really looking at the film as a whole. For me, it enhanced the film. Not in a particularly titillating way, but in the fact that there was no compromise during scenes of sexual acts. Roman orgies are regarded to have been extremely opulent and promiscuous - I found it refreshing to see one as it may have actually been rather than lots of fully-clothed laughing fat men pouring red wine over their faces and eating grapes while draped with female automatons.
In summary, Caligula definitely has it's place in film history due to it's controversy, but if you look beyond that controversy, you should find a rather good film which neatly tells the story of how power can turn someone into a madman.
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79 out of 109 people found the following review useful:
"A viper for the Roman people and a Phaethon for the world"
Author: Galina from Virginia, USA
13 May 2006
Maybe it helps to be familiar with the history, Art, and literature of the Ancient Rome because "Caligula" is surprisingly truthful adaptation of the chapter about Caligula in "The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, the Roman Historian. If you read the chapter dedicated to Nero, you'll be even more shocked because Nero was always fascinated by his uncle Caligula (he was a son of Caligula's sister Agrippina who later became a wife of Claudius who adopted Nero and made him the heir for the title and the power of Roman Emperor). Anyway, Nero made Caligula his role model and managed to surpass his uncle's' notorious fame.
The movie is notoriously famous for the plentiful scenes of real sex, including incest, necrophilia, rape, and orgies. The movie also includes quite nasty and gruesome scenes of torture, executions, murders, and humiliations but all of the events have been documented in the historical documents that still exist.
I don't think of the movie as a masterpiece or even a good movie for all of its 2.5 hours. It actually reminds the life of real Caligula. In his childhood and youth, he was adored by Roman people and especially by the army and he was a promising young man. When he grew up as a heir to the cruel and suspicious Tiberius, he had to hide his feelings and go through many humiliations in order to survive. Shrewd Tiberius said about his adopted grandson that "never humankind knew the better slave and the worse ruler than Caligula" and that he was rearing "a viper for the Roman people and a Phaethon for the world."
When the young man finally received an access to the absolute power it had absolutely corrupted him. It is also known that soon after becoming head of Roman Empire, Caligula suffered an illness and as the result of it, he became incredibly nasty, cruel, and suspicious man who had indulged in the worst acts of debauchery, cruelty, and sadism. The movie follows this pattern. I still think that it is an interesting movie with very good actors. Not every day you can see porn with Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, Sir John Gielgud, and of course, Mr. Clockwork Orange himself, Malcolm McDowell.
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must see
Author: ( from Australia
21 May 2004
Excuse the title of this review however the bottom line is, it has to be seen to be believed. The purely supreme cast is more than likely the only thing keeping the film from being well and truly buried in a basement. Historical revelations indicate that the content of this film probably does in fact (to a degree) reflect the lunacy rampant at the time and yes that means....meaningless executions, wild paranoia, incest and of course the gratuitous sex which could probably leave some soft porn movies looking very average (provided you get the right version). No its not a true classic but it dabbles with taboo, and dares go where other films draw the line. Its one i'll watch again and one you'd have to see merely to say you saw it. 6/10 scorpio
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What's with the poor rating?
Author: bhat962 from Cincinnati, Ohio
14 November 2001
This is actually a pretty good film. Perhaps the intense nudity and graphic-ness was not likeable but the movie was very closely tied to the facts and history of Caligula himself. You don't see many movies that actually stick with the facts instead of making it 'Hollywood.' I reccommend this to people who "know" about Caligula in advance so that they know what their seeing instead of going into the film not having a clue what its about. I don't think they could've made the movie any better that relates to Caligula- he was a psychopath and it showed in this movie.
Tons of great scenes, and it showed what the "real" Rome was like. Brutal and harsh and misgiving.
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A tasteless and overblown farrago despite the presence of great actor as Gielgud, O'Toole, McDowell, and Helen Mirren
Author: Righty-Sock ( from Mexico
6 September 2008
The film builds around one of the most notoriously decadent of the Roman emperors, Caligula… The movie covers his rise to power, his four-year rule, and his bloody assassination… His vile deeds include crashing a wedding and sexually abusing the bride and groom, playing erotic fantasies with his sister (who is also his lover) and turning the Imperial Palace into an exclusive brothel…
For a really big-money film, the treatment of the sexual scenes is daringly explicit, but somehow the obsession with it makes the film uneven… It blends very good actors, O'Toole and McDowell, with some simple-minded Penthouse models… The overall effect is disappointing...
Guccione does deserve a hand for the exquisite sets, costumes, production values, and very fine cinematography…
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The Truth Hurts
Author: thesandfly77 from United States
2 September 2009
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Ah, Caligula.
Somehow, in my early teens I managed to rent this all on my own from a small video rental kiosk attached to our regular after-school amusement arcade.
Whoever it was behind the counter (a woman in her twenties, I recall) had either never seen it or was nonplussed as to ratings.
As I remember this was just before the video nasty laws were introduced and heavy censorship blighted our lives.
It was the full-on no-holds barred version I watched jaw-agape in my teenage bedroom.
And, you might ask, how does one grow up from that rather turbulent early experience to NOT become a serial killer? Purely because, even back then, I recognised this as something rather special.
More of a pantomime staged in hell than a movie, the reason this provokes such polarised opinion is its complete and utter truthfulness.
Subsequent viewings over the decades have slowly revealed Caligula the movie's shameless audacity to be in line with all accounts of the time history can throw at us.
Each perversion, each shocking ultraviolent episode is delivered with much relish and much gratuitously beautiful cinematic execution, BUT, and this is the crux of the film's 'charm', BUT NEVER with judgement.
It is left to you, the audience, to provide your own moral compass and that is a device (or lack of) seldom permitted to be employed at all nowadays.
'Tell us what we're meant to think/feel/do!' your tenderised modern-western conscience screams. Porn! Violence! Outrageous melodrama from some of cinema's finest thespians! Sweeping epic sets, beauty and horror in abundance and very often side by side.
And Caligula the movie does offer no answer, merely a repetition of Malcolm McDowell's smarmy, sneery, deadly smile.
It'll stab you in the heart; it'll stab you in the back; it'll love you and rape you; it is still quite unlike anything I've ever seen. A truly 'adult' epic.
I watched it again tonight and I'm smiling too. At McDowells creepy, campy, over-the-top portrayal of Rome's darkest heart; remember, like Ledger's Joker interpretation, all the world really knew of Roman nobility was the imperial grace of the 50s and 60s blockbusting epics. To show an emperor in such light was brave, sordid, and shocking.
Where was the romance, where Anthony and Cleopatra? (scr*wing under a pile of bodies in at least one scene I'd hazard a guess...)
I still love this film (and the uber-sexy goddess Helen Mirren), in all it's 'glory'. Hardened to the sensationalism which enrapt me as a teen, I've no doubt that even 30 years later when everyone's seen it all and sees it all on the net 24 hours a day, no major Hollywood production could ever hope to get away with what they did back then.
So it is difficult if not impossible to apply any regular film critique to something which will always be more than a film.
I long for the day when someone breaks silence and we get the full diaries of events surrounding the production of this monster, because it sure as hell radiates off the screen that everyone was having the time of their lives. After all, don't you always disown your own most indulgent and raucous excesses? Thank you Brass, Gucionne, McDowall, Mirren, Vidal, O'Toole, etc, etc, etc right thru to the 'fluffers' ;)), for a most epically enduring epic and its all-pervading honesty and mayhem.
They sure don't make 'em like this any more, and I don't think they ever did; at least not outside ancient Rome anyway.
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Once upon a time there lived a lad who was so unhappy he could barely speak because he loved the girl who lived next door. He was a handsome, kind lad, if a little silly, but the neighbor girl paid him no attention, for she was busy thinking other thoughts and making her own plans.
One day the lad was walking through the forest when a strange man appeared out of nowhere. The lad noticed the stranger's ink-black hair and the horns that grew upon his head. He noticed, too, that the man's feet were not like ordinary feet at all; they looked very much like goats' hooves.
The lad was no fool. He knew this man must be the devil, but this devil was a friendly sort, so the lad did not run away.
"I know you love the girl next door," the devil-man said slyly.
"How could you know that?" the lad asked, alarmed.
"I know everything. And I know how to make her love you."
"You couldn't!" the lad shouted, overjoyed by the thought. What if this were true? He would do anything -- anything in all the world -- to make that girl love him.
"I can, and I will, on one condition," the devil-man said. "You must let me take your father and your mother and your sisters and brothers, and if you do all this, I promise that girl will fall head over heels in love with you in one minute!"
Now no one is sure if the lad believed the devil-man, but everyone knows the answer he gave. He said, "Yes!"
So the devil-man changed the father of that young lad into a beautiful fiddle, and he changed his mother into a long, thin bow, and out of the lad's sisters, he made long, thin bowstrings, and he changed the two brothers into slightly thicker fiddle strings.
"Now take this and play," said the devil-man. The lad moved the bow across the fiddle strings, and the moment he did, the birds stopped flying overhead and hovered to listen. The wind stopped blowing so that it too could hear this sound. The trees began to sway to the sound. The forest animals gathered around, and when they heard the music that the lad played, they danced. Soon the forest was awash in the most beautiful music anyone had ever heard. It reached deep inside, plucking at the heartstrings, moving everyone's souls.
So naturally when the girl next door heard the lad playing his music -- that amazing sound -- she fell instantly in love. Within days the girl agreed to marry her neighbor, and for several years they lived together happily, as happily as anyone ever has. This is because whenever anyone was feeling sad or afraid or angry or unsettled, the young man simply played his fiddle, and the music banished every bit of sadness, fear, anger and uneasiness. The music made each day more beautiful.
One day as the young man and his wife went walking in the woods, he grew weary of the weight of his fiddle. "I'll just leave it here a while, under this tree," he said, and propped it against the trunk. He and his wife continued on their walk.
Later, as the sun was beginning to set, they returned to fetch the fiddle, but to their astonishment, it was nowhere in sight.
"I'm sure we left it here," the young man said worriedly, and he and his wife went down on their knees, digging through leaves and moss, searching for their lost fiddle.
Suddenly, as they were searching, a big black carriage pulled by four black stallions swept into the forest. A hand reached out and picked the couple up and carried them away. No one ever saw them again.
A few years later, a Gypsy boy happened to pass by that tree one day, and he tripped over something under the leaves. His boot plucked one of the fiddle strings and a sound burst from the fiddle. And the birds hovered overhead, and the wind stopped to hear, the trees swayed, and all the forest animals gathered. The boy called to his friends to help him find the source of this sound.
The children dug through moss and leaves and dirt until they found the lost fiddle. They dug some more and found the bow. The boy began to play that fiddle, and when he did, the animals began to dance, the trees swayed in harmony, the birds twittered with joy, and the wind stayed silent to listen. The children realized that they had found the source of joy.
They ran back to their camp, and the boy played for his people.
No one had ever heard such a beautiful sound. And like the forest creatures, like the trees and wind and birds, the people fell under the spell of that music, and forever afterward, they were bound to that sound.
Other people learned to play, and they began to make more fiddles, and even today when the Gypsies play this music, the world stops to listen, and everyone's heart and soul swells and dances and sings.
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In the real world, where companies are allowed to fail, a big one is about to go down. Not surprisingly, Blockbuster is pretty much toast. It's the story of a company that wasn't nimble or forward-thinking enough to take advantage of its size and reach.
In a regulatory filing, Blockbuster says it will likely have to file for bankruptcy if it can't deal with its debt:
The "increasingly competitive industry conditions" have existed for years. Netflix started in the late 90's, and Blockbuster waited far too long to take the start-up seriously. In fact, in 2008, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes said: "I've frankly been confused by this fascination that everybody has with Netflix."
The fascination is pretty simple. People don't want to drive to the DVD store when they can get a DVD in the mail twice a week or download just about all the entertainment they can watch for $10 a month.
Keyes pinned his company's entire strategy on the assumption that customers would still flock to Blockbuster for new releases. Bad market research.
And then, lo and behold, someone came up with the idea of putting DVD kiosks in grocery stores, and Redbox drove the final nail into Blockbuster's coffin. Blockbuster does have a download deal with Tivo, but it's probably too little too late. From Daily Finance:
We'd bet that a big part of Blockbuster's problem is Keyes. The former 7-Eleven CEO joined the retailer in 2005, at a critical transition period for the company. Instead of embracing the digital revolution, Blockbuster has strongly resisted change. In 2008, at a time when in-store kiosks with $1 rentals started popping up everywhere, Blockbuster touted its brick-and-mortar business and dismissed the significance of new distribution models.
And while Netflix serves all-you-can-eat entertainment for a low, fixed rate, Blockbuster recently reinstated late fees and shortened the rental period for premium titles -- those aren't exactly the kinds of changes that will win new customers.
In fact, I'm pretty sure there are a few old Blockbuster customers who got screwed by overzealous late fee charges that will relish dancing on the company's grave.
Redbox is 20th century technology too. It will also eventually perish, unless it adapts to the creative destruction which has destroyed Blockbuster.
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I am one of those old Blockbuster customers who will gleefully dance a jig when this POS dies.
After being threatened with legal action for not paying a late fee for a movie I never rented, I paid it and was done with these non-customer service oriented twits for good.
Good riddance!
Netflix and Redbox meets the need of 90 % of the DVD view public with disply device of 47 in screens and smaller, but for those of us who have 77 in or higher displays (1080p projectors using Blu-Ray) the DVD and Netflix download (without 5.1 sound) is a step back. I love getting Blu-Ray from Blockbuster and showing movies on my 102 in screen with 7.1 sound. I know I am a small niche but everyone will soon get to that size and then DVD quality downloads with 2 channel sound will not cut it. Downloading 20 G Blu-Ray can not be done buy 95 % of the high speed services. Remember the service providers what to cap the amount of data you download.
That hi-rez may be here sooner than you think. With companies like Akamai, the forerunners to the technology may already be in place.
Big formats like blu-ray may not work for download services just yet, but would be trivial for either RedBox or Netflix (through the mail) to carry once demand is a bit higher. In fact, I'd say we're on the cusp of seeing them carry Blu-ray. This past holiday season was the first with affordable (for the masses) blu-ray players on the market; tipping point can't be too far off
Another 5-10 years and I bet download of hi-rez will be here as well, through more bandwidth, better compression, or both.
Excuse me not a twit. My store just closed down and we had many regulars and many happy customers. Except for the few hot heads who lost there tempers, and acted completely ridiculous about any late fees on their accounts. There is a difference between franchise and corporate branches though. Our blockbuster franchise will do anything to keep your account safe... id checks as well as commenting the account any time someone rents on the account. Well, thanks for doing your little dance while people lose their jobs.
This should be a case study for so many reasons. While the CEO should be blamed for much of this failure I think the Board of Directors should take the balance. I think anyone outside of a wood paneled room had the common sense and foresight to see that Blockbuster was doomed years ago. They pissed off their customer base and practically forced them to seek alternatives (Netflix and Redbox) by not embracing the realities of the marketplace. It amazes me that a ceo would actually stick his head in the sand instead of embracing or at least hedging against new technologies. So much for that MBA from Columbia. CEO with no vision = FAIL.
It's really in everyone's best interest for Blockbuster to be completely liquidated as opposed to filing bankruptcy.
Most people are sad to see a company die, but Blockbuster is probably one of the few where most will actually be GLAD to see it dead.
Anyone that still shops there is either a spoiled kid or someone who thinks the new millennium is coming. Time to get into shape and get out of Blockbuster.
I read the other Blockbuster article in Marketplace as well, but I find it more fun to post here. :D
Blockbuster was basically a dinosaur than couldn't adapt quickly enough to how the public consumes media. The same could be said for "Mom and Pop" video stores and smaller video store chains.
One of the smarter ideas Blockbuster had when imitating Netflix was to use their storefronts as drop points for their mail service. People who used and stayed with Netflix did so because they could get movies that a chain like Blockbuster wouldn't normally carry. Cult Classics and Obscure Foreign Films come to mind. Hell, they could have used that information to determine a local store's video inventory based on what was being mailed out.
Look at Gamestop which is another brick and mortar chain in roughly the same business. They make most of their money by reselling old games at $15 after buying them for $2. They also have a robust website that allows for people to order and pickup at the store to save on shipping.
Blockbuster didn't see that it's business model was no longer relevant in today's environment and it didn't have the clout to have laws written to preserve it's business model like the Telecomm and Cable industry does.
As for Redbox: I could see it being strictly a niche market for those who don't use/trust the internet/mail order and don't have some sort of Cable/Satillite service. Not something I'd bank on personally, but something people could still make money off of provided they get the real estate of Grocery Store/Walmart. (If they aren't bought out by those stores entire.)
I agree and disagree. Blockbuster didn't adapt, and a lot of mom and pop places also failed. But there is an independent video store here with about 3 locations that continues to survive and do well. They do this by stocking a lot of good movies, including a lot of niche films instead of just walls and walls of new releases. They also rent by the day, so you don't pay until you bring the video back. There are no late fees per se, you just pay like a per day fee for however long you keep it out. It's worked for them for years.
What your local stores did was adapt to the local Market which was something Blockbuster and Smaller chains refused to do. At least with the Netflix Model I can ask for really obscure things and it's likely they'll carry it or I can watch it online.
I've known individual owners, however, who didn't want to purchase obscure requested films because they didn't think they could get a return on them. Those owners also tended to run their store in the ground a lot quicker than Blockbuster did.
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While it's not a good game I wouldn't exactly call it a cash in, as it's clear that developer Terminal Reality did try to make a good game. Unfortunately they didn't succeed. The evidence that they did actually try is in the games features. As far as presentation goes the game suffers. Graphics are ugly, dated, and really do look like they belong on the PS2. The sound ins't much better, voice acting is generally pretty good and the fact that they got Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker to reprise their roles from the TV show is a great addition. But even their performances leave something to be desired. The story is decent but falls flat in the end as it never really does anything exciting. There are some moments that will bring a smile to any fans face, but their aren't enough of them. One moment the developers kept mentioning was how the game was gong to show you how Daryl received his crossbow, calling it "a big excalibur like moment". Well they lied, you do eventually get Daryl's crossbow, but it's just Merle giving it back. It lacks what I was expecting to be a pretty big moment. Speaking of Merle I was disappointed with how little he was in the game. So the story and presentation fall short, and unfortunately so does the gameplay. It's a first-person survival game. You'll have to manage supplies and survivors; scavenging for things like fuel to keep your car running and sending your group out on supply runs that they may not come back from. There's a surprising amount of player choice put in the game. You have to choose which survivors go with you, as there is only so much room in your vehicle. Speaking of vehicles, which are necessary in order to get to your next objective, you have to choose between vehicles that can either carry more supplies or survivors. On your way between missions your car could break down or run out of gas, or you could come across a road event. These optional events can give you access to new supplies, but can also get you eaten by walkers. You also have to choose which path you want to take to get to these missions, sometimes you can even choose between two different levels to play-through increasing replay value. This all sounds great, and it is in theory, but it's the core gameplay that brings the whole experience down. It's just not much fun to play, and can be down right tedious at times. Levels have you relying on stealth rather then you running-and-gunning your way through them. As a matter of a fact shooting guns will get you killed because it attracts tons of walkers to you so you have to rely on melee combat, but unfortunately melee combat is crappy. It takes to many hits to kill a walker, and while your hitting them they just stand there and take it. It's stupid, tedious, and boring. While shooting is generally not the focus, there are sections that practically require you to use guns because they send swarms of walkers after you. These sections are frustrating because the game puts a focus on avoiding large groups of walkers, and when they throw you in the middle of a small herd it can lead to a lot of cheap deaths. I could go on and on about how much Terminal Reality tried to make a good game but didn't succeed, but I think you get the point. It's worth a rental for Walking Dead just to see what it has to offer, but in the end it's a disappointing game that isn't worth your money or The Walking Dead name. Expand
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The graphics would be something I'd amire... However, I can't considering the fact the game was released THIS YEAR. The tiresome gameplay, and old DOS graphics make the game feel like a parody of The Walking Dead, not just a plain licensed videogame. Games don't get much more exausting and unpolished as this one is. Expand
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I had really high expectations for this game since it was the second game based on the show we all know and love the walking dead, unfortunately this is not even close to be as good as the one from telltale.
The gameplay gets boring after about an hour because you are always doing the same things over and over even if it's killing zombies with the same bad animations or if it's doing side missions, the story was not the worst i have seen but it was way too short and the ending was terrible.
But it's not only the gameplay and story that's rushed and dull, the graphics can be compared to something made in 2005.
And added to all that one of the main characters is almost never in the game!
Do not buy this game if where expecting a long and good story with survival elements!
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1. It's a cuckoo's nest that's nicely feathered.
2. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes, not least the notion that the marginal members of society - the ones who get spit out on the sidewalk with no idea of how it happened - might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants.
3. 75
4. Charms because of its natural, non-magical attitude toward humanity.
5. Reviewed by: Phil Hall
If anything saves Elling, it is the trio of supporting performances that are closer to the real world.
6. Heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on Petter Næss’ delicate, clever direction -- and a wonderful, imaginative script by Axel Hellstenius.
7. A witty and sophisticated sensibility brings individuality to the classic odd-couple comedy.
8. 90
Beautifully observed, miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama.
10. 75
A gentle comedy, brimming with hope and faith in human resilience.
12. 75
An enjoyable experience.
13. Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
A charming 2001 Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film.
15. 60
The natural chemistry between Ellefsen and Nordin keeps the film pleasant and inoffensive, but is there any question about where or when or how it will go?
17. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
Deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill.
18. Reviewed by: Gunnar Rehlin
A darkly funny, very human comedy.
19. Elling is nothing if not carefully controlled hokum -- both actors, the director, and screenwriter all worked it through first as a stage adaptation of a novel by Ingvar Ambjornsen.
20. Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
Bighearted audience pleaser.
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It was really good. A little sexual and there was some bad language. Other then that it was great!
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One of my my all time favourite movies! Saw it in the original version in Norway back in 2001. Great, great film!
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New LP "Through Our Darkest Days" Announced By Mercenary, Artwork Revealed
Danish melodic death metal act Mercenary announced that work on the band's seventh album is complete. The album will be entitled "Through Our Darkest Days." Mixing was completed on April 23, 2013 at Hansen Studios with long time collaborator/producer Jacob Hansen. The album is set for release through NoiseArt Records on July 27th (EU) and a week later in the US via Prosthetic Records.
The album's cover artwork (shown below) was created by Mircea Eftemie (guitarist of Mnemic), who recently created covers for Soilwork, Illdisposed and others.
"After a few sketches, we quickly locked on to the main motive of the cover below, which we felt was both iconic, mysterious and not least, oddly disturbing. Most importantly perhaps, we also felt that Mircea's artwork had managed in a natural way to combine something fresh with the style of our older album covers and their dark and atmospheric vibes.
"As our new album is very much a combination our latest material with a lot of the more traditional melodic and melancholic elements of previous Mercenary albums, we felt that this was a perfect visual expression of Mercenary's sound and identity in 2013.
The cover symbolizes a darkness that we have gone through as a band, which we feel that we have finally been able to put behind us. The title of the album is meant very positively and thematizes both the journey through existential darkness as a general theme and the ability to break through it. The lyrical universe is very much about making the most of life and not getting caught up in negativity.”
Eftemie added: “I wanted to make something that had a direct visual relation to the album title, but also follow the design patterns of the older Mercenary album covers, to keep their identity and brand intact. After swapping ideas back and forth, we ended with a piece not too abstract, but dark and disturbing enough to portray the concept of the new album. It was absolutely a pleasure working on this piece!”
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“I take the train everyday, it’s like a break from the pain.” –Ratking
Ratking is a favorite take away from a jam-packed CMJ marathon. The trio builds thick, ethereal beats under steel and concrete rhymes for a sound that is specifically New York City. Wiki, Hak, and Sporting life are Manhattanites documenting what it feels like on the trains and in the streets. Ratking tracks speed by you, then slow on the platform so you can board for a ride. Haunting vocals intersperse with cutting rap percussion over a video game soundtrack, dressed in plain sneakers and hoodies.
“Wiki” is the frontman that gets the crowd’s attention, spitting encyclopedic knowledge of city struggle. Wiki is also the pronunciation of whiskey in the Spanish Caribbean. It might have something to do with Ratking’s frontman missing significant bits of his grill. From his live show, it’s not hard to imagine an intoxicated Wiki getting into it and leaving a few teeth behind in the scuffle. Lyrics depict conflict and risk, contemplating electrocution by third rail.
With all its heavy, Ratking brings the energy, the storytelling, the feeling of easy companionship that comes with being young on the block. Their music is sharp and sly, full of light with a dark underbelly. Ratking is a story of shine cutting through daily grind and grime. Youth skating over concrete, playing by the tracks. Borrowing from rap predecessors, the group creates its vision of NYC hip hop now.
“6 milly-yon trains to ride, choose one,” RATKING.
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— A preliminary hearing was postponed Tuesday for three teenagers charged with murder in the stabbing of another teenager during a botched robbery three months ago at an east Modesto park.
Taylor Koplen, 18, Jacob Segura, 19, and Juan Garcia, 16, are accused of trying to steal a cell phone from Tylor Crippen, 18, who was walking with his girlfriend in Creekwood Park on Jan. 29 when he was attacked. Crippen was stabbed to death as he tried to escape.
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Dawna Reeves was in the middle of a trial, so her courtroom was not be available for the preliminary hearing. But the judge said in court Tuesday she was ready to find another judge to handle the hearing.
The defense attorneys, however, told the judge they would like to postpone the hearing so they could have time to go over additional evidence and conduct further investigation.
Reeves said she will decide whether to grant the defense's request today. If the judge approves the delay, it's unclear how long the preliminary hearing will be postponed.
The defendants remain in custody. Garcia and Koplen, both minors when the stabbing occurred, are being prosecuted as adults. At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, a judge will determine whether there is enough evidence for the defendants to stand trial.
They face charges of first-degree murder, robbery and two counts of attempted robbery, along with enhancements for allegedly committing the crimes for the benefit of the Norteño street gang. They have pleaded not guilty and denied the enhancements.
The prosecutor has said in court that the defendants robbed another victim shortly before Crippen was attacked. She said it's believed the defendants stole a pocketknife from the other victim and later used it to kill Crippen.
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How are you feeling about this? Do you have support? I'm sure this is very scary and I do hope that you have some IRL support to lean on.
I'm so sorry...healing thoughts coming your way
My son had 4 seizures under the age of 2.5. One lasted for over 2 hours. They never could come up with any explanation after a CAT scan, EKG, etc. The pediatric neurologist called them "atypical febrile seizures" and said he would grow out of them. He hasn't had one since and he is now 7. Although now we are dealing with possible ADHD/Asperger's, so I always wonder if these are somehow connected. I'm so sorry that happened to you and your son, it is so scary...I...
I wanted to comment again on this thread, it's been years since I first did. But I want to share what has worked for me. First off...I started medication. Wow, I wish I had done that a long time ago. I was so scared to take medication...what about side effects? Will I damage my body? What if it doesn't work? I should be able to do the natural thing! No. My brain was chemically imbalanced and I needed the help. Now I feel so much better that if I had to stay on...
I'm so sorry you are feeling this way. Do you get much time to yourself to think and be alone? Have any friends you can vent to IRL? Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone and I hope you can get to a better place!
Just wanted to send Sounds like you've been through a lot. Not sure if I'm much help about getting out of ruts because I seem to get into them often and can't stay out! I would say that since starting zoloft, it has helped tremendously. So maybe you need to go back to the doc and re-figure your meds? Hang in there....
How did it go Journeymom? I am in a similar boat as you, but I don't need a job for financial reasons...which makes it all the harder to go and find one. But I'm fairly sure that having one will improve my life.
I'm not much help, but just wanted to offer a Sometimes, I'm in the same boat and the only thing I can figure out that works for me somewhat is to just be able to get away and be alone for awhile. Well, that and talking to a good friend but it sounds like currently you don't have that option. I'm so sorry...I hope things get better for you.
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Hello all, come and add your babies to the list and let's see what adventures they bring! smile
Moffit: 15/02/12 DD Phoebe May weighing 4lb 7oz
Jezzabell: 29/02/12 DD 7lb 10.5oz
TroubleAndFyfe: 01/03/12 DS Fyfe weighing 8lb 5oz
BeeWi: 09/03/12 DD Erin
Winterland: 12/03/12 DD
KikiRC: 14/03/12 DD Ivy Wren weighing 6lb 15oz
KikiRC Mon 26-Mar-12 07:34:43
Hello! Gosh- lots of girls so far! X
BeeWi Mon 26-Mar-12 09:26:54
Ooh, good idea to start a post-natal thread! Hadn't realised how many girls there were until you said, Kiki!
Yeah, Fyfe's the only boy! Do you want to add Erin's weight bee? I couldn't find it.
Stogan Mon 26-Mar-12 20:06:23
Hi could someone add me to the list please my phone wont let me copy and paste and computer is down.
DD Ellyson. 11.3.12 7lb 13.5oz
Thank u and congrats all xx
Jezzabell: 29/02/12 DD 7lb 10.5oz
TroubleAndFyfe: 01/03/12 DS Fyfe weighing 8lb 5oz
BeeWi: 09/03/12 DD Erin
Stogan: 11/03/12 DD Ellyson weighing 7lb 13.5oz
Winterland: 12/03/12 DD
Broodylicious: 26/03/12 DD ? weighing 8lb 9oz
Done stogan! smile and broody's brand you edition! grin
blush new not you!
BeeWi Tue 27-Mar-12 22:00:26
Jezzabell: 29/02/12 DD 7lb 10.5oz
TroubleAndFyfe: 01/03/12 DS Fyfe weighing 8lb 5oz
BeeWi: 09/03/12 DD Erin weighing 8lb 7oz
Stogan: 11/03/12 DD Ellyson weighing 7lb 13.5oz
Winterland: 12/03/12 DD
Broodylicious: 26/03/12 DD ? weighing 8lb 9oz
Weight added for me smile
Pinkpiglet Wed 28-Mar-12 10:13:23
Hi all
Pinkpiglet: 21/03/2012 DD Isobel weighing 7lb 6oz
Congratulations to all the new yummy mummys. I hope you're all enjoying your little bundles of joy.
Kiraie Wed 28-Mar-12 20:17:04
Jezzabell: 29/02/12 DD 7lb 10.5oz
TroubleAndFyfe: 01/03/12 DS Fyfe weighing 8lb 5oz
BeeWi: 09/03/12 DD Erin weighing 8lb 7oz
Stogan: 11/03/12 DD Ellyson weighing 7lb 13.5oz
Winterland: 12/03/12 DD
Broodylicious: 26/03/12 DD ? weighing 8lb 9oz
Kiraie: 02/03/12 Alex weighing 8lb 13oz
Stogan Thu 29-Mar-12 07:23:16
Wow what alot of gorgeous girls this month ! Isn't it great being able to get out with the pram !! Must confess to needing L plates... Not a great pram driver gringrin
CatsRule Mon 02-Apr-12 09:31:51
Jezzabell: 29/02/12 DD 7lb 10.5oz
TroubleAndFyfe: 01/03/12 DS Fyfe weighing 8lb 5oz
BeeWi: 09/03/12 DD Erin weighing 8lb 7oz
Stogan: 11/03/12 DD Ellyson weighing 7lb 13.5oz
Winterland: 12/03/12 DD
Broodylicious: 26/03/12 DD ? weighing 8lb 9oz
Kiraie: 02/03/12 Alex weighing 8lb 13oz
CatsRule: 02/03/12 DS Aaron weighing 8lb 2oz
Still waiting on knitterati from the brewing thread then I think that's all of us and we can move to here!
Welcome to those of you who weren't on the antenatal 'brewing' thread, nice to have you here and nice to have a couple more boys, unless knitterati has one, mine was the only boy from the group!
Hope all is well with you and your babies. smile
All babies now born - I declare this thread officially open! grin
Moffit Mon 09-Apr-12 20:03:13
Hello ladies, I haven't posted much on the Antenatal thread lately, as I just don't have the time now!! Glad to hear about the safe arrival of the last babies we have been waiting for. I know that technically I should have moved to the February postnatal, but we still consider ourselves part of March family!
So apart from the sleepless nights, how is everyone finding motherhood? smile
broodylicious Mon 09-Apr-12 21:25:14
Wooo, check us out - post natal!!! Aren't we all clever? gringrin
My DD is called Poppy for purposes of the list.
We're doing good but dreading tomorrow as DH is going back to work. My parents are coming over for a short while to ease my fear!! Now we've got bf established, poppy is obsessed. She's started cluster feeding so is on my boobs for about four hours before she will go down. Anyone else going through this? It's exhausting!! X
broody Fyfe cluster fed between 3 and 4 weeks, it was so exhausting! Plenty of drinks and snacks needed! Also find something to do whilst feeding. I play 'draw something' on the iPhone or watch tv so I'm entertained. I'm able to feed Fyfe without thinking too much now, he latches himself on when I hold him to the breast and he's not cluster feeding at the moment. It will pass! grin
We've had a very productive weekend, got tons of decorating done! Fyfe has been particularly cooperative today and was happy to sleep/be alone for two hours between every feed so I got 10 hours of painting done which helped poor DH out! If I can manage it again tomorrow we may be on track for getting carpets fitted at the end of the week! grin
Hi moffit! Loving every minute of motherhood, totally amazing isn't it? Haven't had any sleepless nights yet, has anyone else? My worst has been 2.5 hours sleep followed by 2 hour feed then another 2.5 hours sleep the other night so counting myself lucky so far, I know they'll come at some stage!
Hope you are all well!
knitterati Tue 10-Apr-12 10:19:55
Ah yes...slow on the uptake here. Officially post natal - woo!!
Elena is cluster feeding at the moment and it's just knackering - between 7-11pm she's just insatiable and impossible to put down for even a minute! Hoping it will soon pass- DH goes back to work at the end of the month & I'm not sure I could manage that period without him if he has to work late!
Punk80 Tue 10-Apr-12 20:52:44
Hi, I wasn't on your antenatal thread but had a little girl Orla Annie on 19.3.12 so thought it would be great to join this thread for advice and support!
Orla is 3 weeks she's gorgeous but seems to be bf all the time it's hard going. Am hoping it's a growth spurt? Hope you all get some sleep!
Hi punk! Welcome! Orla is a lovely name! Fyfe fed all the time at 3 weeks too (5.5 now) it's so draining isn't it (no pun intended) he still has some long sessions but it's not constant at the moment. Lucky they're so gorgeous isn't it?!
KikiRC Wed 11-Apr-12 13:31:18
Hello all. Can't believe Ivy is a month old today! Interesting to hear about the cluster feeding- we've been going through a lot of that, too. I wondered if maybe I wasn't producing enough milk, but it sounds like it's really common. My DP who doesn't live here has been over a lot more recently and absolutely loves bottle-feeding her, and I have to say that 1 or 2 bottles in the day does give me a really welcome break. She's having much longer spells of being alert during the day, too, instead of just feeding & sleeping, which is really nice.
Punk80 Wed 11-Apr-12 13:49:56
Thanks Trouble! They certainly are gorgeous think you just have to go with the feeding, it's good to hear a few weeks on it calms down a bit!
KikiRC - hi! When your DP is bottle feeding have you expressed? I haven't tried that yet but think its a nice way for other half to do some feeding.
As far as I understand it they cluster feed as part of a growth spurt to change your milk supply (increase the demand) as will be needing more milk for growth so yeah, just go with it! Interestingly though, it's more about quality than quantity, the make up of each feed is tailored to your baby's needs, your baby passes signals through little sort of sensors on your nipples that he needs more of a certain vitamin/more fat etc. and your body adapts the milk accordingly for each feed shock amazing stuff! So if you're expressing and storing feeds in the freezer they only ever need 3-4 oz of breastmilk per feed all the way up to 6 months, doesn't increase in amount like with formula! I have 5 feeds in the freezer for when we want to leave him with granny and go out for dinner etc. but haven't done this yet. May do soon as it's our wedding anniversary at the end of the month and although we're planning a night away with Fyfe it might be nice to go out for dinner on our own that week too. smile
Punk80 Wed 11-Apr-12 20:27:35
That is amazing that your body adapts the milk how clever we are! Am going to have a go at expressing as its our wedding anniversary soon too. Will investigate pumps how glamorous smile Orla hasn't fed quite as much today so managed to get some painting done in between feeds!
broodylicious Wed 11-Apr-12 20:59:13
Wow trouble that's amazing about our breast milk! Our bodies are so clever aren't they?
I'm going to start expressing next week. I have a hospital grade one - medela I think it's called - so hoping it'll be ok. should make it possible for us to be out and about for a bit...I'm not sure I'm one for public bf by choice so expressing gives me a bit of freedom I think. Those of you who are already expressing - do you give it to your babies in bottles or little cups? My only concern about bottles is about the whole teat/nipple sucking confusion debate. Although I wear nipple shields to feed anyway (due to flat nipples) so hopefully poppy wouldn't have such an issue?
Fyfe has been feeding since 6pm! confused looked it up and this is another growth spurt time (6 weeks) so looks like I'm in for a few tough days again...so tired already, lucky there's wine and chocolate in the house! Art painting or decorating painting punk? I've been painting every spare minute for the last week, getting carpets fitted upstairs on Friday so has to be finished by then though Fyfe has seriously scuppered efforts tonight as I've not been able to do anything! broody the medula pump is one of the best you can get, you'll be fine! I have an Avent Isis IQ Uno which is working very well though need to be very relaxed to start getting the milk out, after that it is fine. Haven't pumped for ages now though, been too busy with the house. I'm fine with bf in public so haven't actually given him any expressed milk yet but will be using a bottle, have read guidelines, his granny or daddy will feed him as if it is a breast feed so he must latch on then lots of breaks to make the bottle last, 10 mins laying on one side then nappy change (like we do for bf) then 10 mins on the other side. Just to make sure it doesn't become a preference through it being easier. Bit nervous about trying it tbh but will be great if it works to be able to go out once in a while! grin
He's fallen asleep while I've been writing this...phew, a little rest for my poor boobs!
And he's awake again and starving! sad
BeeWi Thu 12-Apr-12 01:08:40
Hi ladies! What a few days it has been! So, in the ante natal thread, you know I said Erin has had dreadful colic? Well, followed your advice Trouble and got some gripe water (had already tried her on infacol to no avail), midwife had prescribed baby gaviscon which I got too...anyways, have ended up not using the gaviscon or gripe water because we went to see a cranial osteopath. He was freaking amazing...seriously, a miracle worker! I had thought Erin was just a grumpy baby from the start- you know she had real problems sleeping, cried a lot and then developed awful colic a couple of weeks ago? Well, the cranial osteopath manipulated her pallet which was apparently pushed forward and very flattened, manipulated a couple of her vertebrae and one of her ribs too. She is a different baby now! Last night for the first time we had an amazing night sleep- 10 to 1.15 for a feed and then 2 to 5.20. I feel like a new woman! And the colic has gone shock
Apparently the shape of her pallet was making my milk really frothy when she swallowed in (I thought I she was just full of milk aft a feed because she would end up with a massive belly...turns out it was distended with gas) and It would cause her loads of pain, poor mite. She is just so muh more settled now and content...absolutely blown away (and I would usually be a sceptic about that sort of treatment). So happy...I feel like I've really started to enjoy her as a baby now rather than feeling gutted at seeing her being distressed all the time.
Oh, and turns out her pallet shape is what did a load of damage to my nipples at the start too, not the latch. So going to start to try weaning her off using the shield now and going straight onto the nipple.
Broody- Erin has the occasional bottle of expressed milk and there's been no confusion for her. We uses thing called a chu chu teat which makes it a bit harder for her tg get the milk, so she doesn't start preferring the bottle. They use these teats in our local SCBU, so that those babies can still breastfeed when they're able. Also, with using the shield and having massive norks since giving birth I feel uncomfortable feeding in public so got a nursing apron and it's really good. You can see the baby but no one else can see.
Trouble - you asked about how I weigh her. The midwife still comes to see us until 6 weeks post partum, so she gets weighed at each of those visits.
So, has anyone got any smiles yet? I think we had one yesterday but not convinced it wasn't a windy one. I can't wait to get a sure smile!
BeeWi Thu 12-Apr-12 01:10:53
Trouble - meant to say, hope you're getting some sleep by now. Growth spurts are full on, right? I felt attached to the sofa at the 3 week one, surrounded by an island of remotes, bottles of water and snacks!
Thanks bee! Got to sleep just after 12 and up feeding now so feel much better!
That is wonderful news about the cranial osteopathy, you must be so relieved! My sis and her twins had that too as we'd read how brilliant it could be! I'm really pleased for you! grin
Oh yes, smiles, seen lots of practice ones, started in his sleep, now when he's awake too. There've been a couple of times when he has smiled right at me but then hasn't done it again for ages so I assume not the real thing, can't wait either, I can see how beautiful it is going to be from his practice smiles! smile
6 weeks old today! How did that happen?!
BeeWi Thu 12-Apr-12 05:26:28
Glad Fyfe let you get some sleep, Trouble! It's amazing how good you can feel after just a few hours, isn't it?! Would have never expected that before having a baby, having previously felt I needed at least 8 hours a night.
6 weeks as flown, hey? Erin was a calendar month a few days ago and it struck me that 11 more times and she'll be a year. Crazy.
KikiRC Thu 12-Apr-12 07:32:15
Good to hear re: the cranial osteopath, Bee.
Re: bottles- I feed on average one bottle of formula during the day & one at night to top up my supply- Ivy had to go onto formula at 5 days when my milk hadn't come in, but we've managed to swing it back so that she mainly BFs now. I haven't found any problems doing both, although I brought back some of those special teats from the SCBU, so they may have helped. She much prefers BF over the bottle, given the chance! I've fed in public & it's been fine, I don't think anyone even noticed.
Think we're going through a spurt here, too, Trouble- we spent nearly all yesterday PM & early evening feeding, & she took much longer than usual to fall asleep. Slightly dreading our hospital scan this morning- hope I can keep her fed enough that she doesn't scream the place down!
We've got some great pictures of her smiling, but I don't think she connects it to an emotion yet. Can't wait for that!
Punk80 Thu 12-Apr-12 10:02:23
Glad you got some sleep trouble hope the wine and chocolate helped pass the time! We're decorating, had hoped for it all to be done before Orla arrived but she was early as I was induced so still painting! Bought a baba sling on eBay which arrived yesterday as thought it would be good to breastfeeding in and still have hands free. Tried to feed and paint at same time yesterday think I need to practise! Are you going somewhere nice for your wedding anniversary?
Hi bee that's great that your little one is more settled that must have been a tough few weeks.
We're also getting smiles, they're very cute but agree they're prob not connected to emotion yet, will be lovely when they ate. Right off to tackle a nappy change!
Ah, same here punk, 3 weeks early when I was banking on at least 1 week late so still decorating! Nearly there with upstairs now, carpets being fitted tomorrow then it's all over upstairs, we'll have a little break before tackling downstairs I think (moved 2 weeks before baby was born so all needs doing) not sure re anniversary yet as ideally we'd like to go camping so will have to see what the weather is doing by the end of the month. grin
Hope the appointment went well kiki, really looking forward to meeting Ivy next week! smile
Got lots of smiles this morning but none since...
Punk80 Thu 12-Apr-12 16:52:39
Have been feeding nearly all day! Hope you got through your appointment kiki without a feed! We had friends round for lunch and she fed the whole time and is going for it again now, don't know how you'd go out when like this as she cries if not feeding. For little people they can eat a lot smile
broodylicious Thu 12-Apr-12 23:19:35
Oh blimey think we have a colicky baby sad she has screamed the house down on a couple of occasions today - about half an hour at 215, then during feeding tonight. She will latch on beautifully and feed v nicely then suddenly it's all he'll breaking loose. I'm hoping the infacol will help ease her obvious discomfort but I've read it doesn't work immediately. I just feel so totally useless not really being able to do anything sadsad
BeeWi Fri 13-Apr-12 01:19:32
Massive respect to you bth, Trouble & Punk; I couldn't imagine decorating with a newborn. In fact, if we manage to both be showered, dressed and out the house before 11 I feel rather proud and together! Managing to have a baby plus wield rollers and brushes is huge!
How did your scan go, Kiki? Hope all is good.
Broody - really hope that was a one off awful day for you. Colic was destroying me...just seeing her in so much pain was awful and being pretty helpless to do anything to ease it. Infacol didn't work for us, sadly. What you described with the evening feed was how Erin was- latching for a minute, obviously hungry, them pulling off and screaming, bending her legs up, thrashing. Awful! If it persists, I really could not recommend enough finding yourself a good cranial osteopath / cranial sacral therapist. Erin has been a different baby since we went- content, chilled, feeding calmly. I'm loving every minute rather than dreading when the next colicky bout was going to make her writhe in pain and scream the place down.
KikiRC Fri 13-Apr-12 08:09:13
Hello all,
Re: the hospital, it was OK, but a bit disappointing... the brace hasn't yet got her hips into the right position- they're going to give it another 2 weeks & then reassess- hopefully by then things will be looking better, but if not she may have to wear a plaster cast for a while and then go back into the brace for another 12 weeks... so it's all dragging on a lot longer than we had hoped. Just feels a bit of a shame that the last three weeks of the brace have all been a bit wasted, really.
Sorry to hear about the colic, Broody. My friend is also using a CO, but experimenting with Colief tonic, too- a chemist recommended it for giving the baby the enzymes to digest lactose (which many of them have not yet developed and creates the colic) I'll let you know how she gets on with it.
They sure can punk! I had to swap 3 hourly to 2 hourly nappy changes as he was so wet during the drinkathon hours!
Sorry to hear that broody! Maybe try some gripe water whilst you're waiting for the infacol to work? Hope it was just a one off!
bee I have felt like a terrible mummy this last week as have spent the whole time feeding him, settling him to sleep then dashing off to decorate. We haven't left the house since this time last week and I've had no time to appreciate him sad still, it's over now as carpets are going down today so no rush after this, my step dad will be laying the oak floor downstairs so no deadlines for decorating down here, we can take it a bit easier and I won't have to feel guilty! smile
X posts kiki, should've refreshed as started that post ages ago. Sorry to hear the brace hasn't worked as hoped, I imagine the plaster cast will be more difficult for bathing/dressing etc? Did you have a brace as a baby or did you discover the problem later in life?
KikiRC Fri 13-Apr-12 08:54:28
I had a brace, but they were completely different ones back then- a bit brutal 'cos they were huge metal and rubber things, and quite distressing to wear, but probably did a better job, in a way.
What's frustrating having read up a bit more is that when wearing the brace you're recommended to change BF position, not use a sling, and not to hold the feet together when changing a nappy- I wasn't given any of this advice, and feel like if I'd followed those guidelines then she could have progressed a lot more... I'm going to see if we can really improve things over the next couple of weeks.
broodylicious Fri 13-Apr-12 10:37:55
Morning ladies! Just wanted to ask how many of you are using slings? I'm tempted to get us a babasling.... Any advice/recommendations? Xx
How frustrating kiki, glad you know now I suppose but it makes you wonder!hmm
broody, I have been using two slings from day one, a ring sling for around the house as you can put them on one handed when baby has fallen asleep on you without waking them and a wrap sling for out and about, it is wonderful, really comfy. We don't have a pram so have worn it for 4/5 hour walks etc. love it.
The baba sling is like a ring sling, I wouldn't want to only have the ring sling as they're one shouldered so aren't comfy after hours of wear but it depends what you want it for really?smile
knitterati Fri 13-Apr-12 16:25:03
Just thought I'd chip in re feeding - I've been mixing BFing and expressed BM with the Medela Calma teat, which actually helped Elena to latch to the breast...amazing teat & she's not had any nipple confusion tho generally prefers boob for comfort I think. smile
Punk80 Sun 15-Apr-12 23:54:34
Hope you've all had a good weekend! My DH goes back to work tomorrow, I'm dreading it. Sure it will be fine I've tried to plan some stuff to do but like you say bee getting out and dressed is an achievement in itself! we've finally finished the decorating which is a big relief.
broody I got a baba sling recently so have only used it twice. There are lots of different ways to use it some of which are suitable for breastfeeding. I found feeding in it ok but need to practise. Orla seems to like being in it but trouble is right with it being one shouldered you couldn't wear it for hourssmile
Hope it goes well punk, I'll keep checking in today! Well done on feeding in the sling, I need to have a go at that as it was one of the reasons for getting a ring sling and there are days where Fyfe would rather not leave my breast, like yesterday, really happy and lovely all day but either feeding or sleeping on me, every time I tried to put him down or pass him to DH he'd wake up and want to feed again! Very cute and lovely to have cuddles all day but could not get anything done! smile
broodylicious Mon 16-Apr-12 14:35:49
Thanks for your advice on the slings - I think we are going for the caboo/close carrier after the DH started investigating them all! Our reasoning for getting one is the same as you guys - poppy loves to be close to me and, when she's in the mood, her daddy but it means we're a bit restricted movement wise when she's got a hold on us. I also want to be able to discreetly bf in public and not have to take ourselves off to our bedroom when she needs feeding but we've got guests. The caboo looks as though it offers quite a bit of support for her as well as me - as I've previously had sciatica and can suffer with back pain (not helped with my horse riding) I think I'd be better off with the support of two straps. We'll see how it goes!! Xx
Looks like a good choice broody! grin
Punk80 Mon 16-Apr-12 19:12:22
The caboo looks like a good one broody
I survived day one, we went to a group and met some local mums, think it will be good to get out each day as Orla was screaming this morning but stopped as soon as we went outsmile I have such respect for single parents. Those of you who are bf do you get comments about the amount they feed? Had in laws up yesterday and they were making comments and saying surely she doesn't need to feed again. Friends who bottle fed have also made comments, makes me think I am feeding too much but seems to be what she wants? Hope you've all had a good day
broodylicious Mon 16-Apr-12 21:49:54
Yes punk Oh thank goodness it's not just me!! My parents keep on saying "surely she doesn't need that much milk" and make comments about how long and often she is feeding. My mum bottle fed my sister and i and my sister, who has a nine month old, bottle feeds her son so they base their judgement on my nephew and his requirements. My dad makes comments about not knowing how much she's getting thru bf - my answer is always "no but you don't need to know how much she's getting because it's all good stuff" (and I threw in carlita's fact about my body tailoring each feed to her needs for good measure the other day!!) I am sure they think I'm just feeding her so I don't have to give her to them for cuddles haha!! Xx
Well done punk! Getting out is the key! We had visitors at the weekend and they commented on how much he was feeding hmm don't be put off, it is very hard to over feed a bf baby! Besides, in a couple of months their feeding will be much more predictable and less frequent. smile
KikiRC Tue 17-Apr-12 08:32:51
Interesting re: the feeding- I find if I stay at home then she wants feeding loads and feeds quite inefficiently- i.e. just for a few minutes & then dozes off at the breast (repeat, for hours!) but if I take her out she's more likely to have a good sleep in the pram etc and then when she wakes up she's really hungry and has a really good feed- which then means she sleeps better again. Difficult if you want to be at home doing stuff, and especially when the parents etc are around watching your every move...!
I think if they take in too much milk it usually makes them sick - so if that's not happening it's very unlikely they're being over-fed. Also, I find with Ivy that at the beginning of a feed there's loads of milk- i.e. she's really dribbling it, needs more winding etc, while later on she's getting a lot less, but she's enjoying the comfort of just being there, and almost 'snacking'...
I could've written that kiki, same here!smile
Had Fyfe's 6 week check this morning. He's doing really well. Weight and head are at 75th centile - same as when he was born, length at 50th - he has short legs bless him! He's in newborn/0-3 month trousers and 3-6 month popper tops (the washable nappies do add a bit of bulk too) pleased with his progress. HV was pretty surprised I was exclusively bf which is a bit sad, I know bf isn't for everyone but it shouldn't be a surprise! hmm
He weighs twelve and a half pounds now! grin
KikiRC Tue 17-Apr-12 18:26:18
When Ivy had to go back to hospital, Trouble they said only 5% of women were BFing by 6 months- I couldn't believe that was true, because most people I know seem to BF unless there's a medical reason... But maybe it's right..?
Yes, and, shockingly, the average time to breastfeed is 6 weeks! I've exceeded that by 5 days so have bf for an above average duration shock ! Still surprised it was a surprise at this stage though, more understandable at the six month check. smile
broodylicious Tue 17-Apr-12 19:12:49
Having an awful day sadsad poppy has been crying on and off pretty much the whole afternoon, even breaking off in the middle of a feed to have a scream. I am pretty sure it's just trapped wind (I say just, I know how painful it must be for the little mite) but I feel dreadful for not really being able to help her. Tried a load of different burping positions but not much seems to work. Awful awful awful sadsadsad
sadsad sorry to hear that broody! Poor poppy! I hope you both get some sleep. Tomorrow is another day. smile
Punk80 Tue 17-Apr-12 22:54:14
It's really hard going when they're like that broody hope poppy got rid of her windsmile and is feeling happier.
KikiRC Wed 18-Apr-12 08:52:53
Hope Poppy is feeling more settled today.
In slightly unexpected news, it seems I started my period again yesterday... spoke to the MW because it seemed very early, but apparently 'entirely normal' even though I'm mainly BFing. Nice to know things are back in working order, I suppose, but a bit scary that I could have technically got pregnant again about two weeks ago- Ivy's only 5 weeks old today!
broodylicious Thu 19-Apr-12 08:03:16
Thanks all for you best wishes. Happy to report that LO was an absolute angel yday so it totally made up for her possessed by the devil day on Tuesday! She fed from 5-10pm last night - back to cluster feeding with a vengeance - so woke slightly for a 10 minute feed at 2am and then had to be woken at 7am for a feed (she's happily been attached since!!) Of course, theres a downside to getting all that sleep... My poor boobs have grown to the size of footballs overnight and are leaking like overflowing guttering!!
broodylicious Thu 19-Apr-12 08:14:03
Wow kiki - I didn't think periods came back while you BF so was quite looking forward to not having to deal with that for quite a while yet! I was aware you could get pregnant again though as both the MW and our NCT teacher said we are at our most fertile right now grin
BeeWi Fri 20-Apr-12 06:50:53
So surprised about the stats for breastfeeding. Can't believe that 6 weeks is the average time to breastfeed...can you imagine getting to 6 weeks and then stopping? In the first few weeks I had cracked, bleeding nips, blocked ducts, mastitis. I'd be loath to give up now unless I had to, after all the pain I seemed to go through to get it established.
Shocked about your periods coming back, Kiki, and hoping that mine wait a wee while more to return. Can't say I'm missing them!
Erin had her 6 weeks immunisations today. It was awful at the time (goodness, you'd take any pain for them, wouldn't you?!) but it'll be worth it in the long run. There's a whooping cough upsurge here, so it's quite timely that the vaccine for that was included.
How long did your 6 week growth spurt last, Trouble? We're in the thick of it at the moment. Crumbs, it's knackering, isn't it?!
It was only 2 days for us bee, the really intense bit, but, he has since changed his waking and sleeping pattern too so prepare for that. He's much more awake during the day so can want to feed quite frequently unless entertained! He likes a rattle and being sung to, danced with etc. yesterday for example he was awake from 11am- 3pm then 1 hour nap then awake until 11.30 with an hours nap in there somewhere shock, he's sleeping for 4-5 hours at a time at night (x3) so all different! smile
I know, I can't imagine giving up feeding Fyfe but I guess those figures are the average of people who feed for 2 years and those who feed for 2 days. Has anyone got a personal target in mind? I'd love to feed him for at least a year, then I'd be really pleased with myself! grin
Haven't had immunisations yet, sounds horrid! sad
Have your babies got an amazing aim for grabbing your nipples?! Whenever he takes a break from feeding he waves his arms around and grabs at them! I have to quickly move him away as he's such a good aim! confused
BeeWi Sat 21-Apr-12 11:09:20
Goodness, Trouble, those are really gown up sleeping patterns! I am so looking forward to having longer stretches of sleep on a night time. Usually we have 3 hours from the start of one feed to the next, a couple of days ago that dropped to 1.5 hours but since the jabs she's been all over the place- really crabby, restless but only doing snacky feeds. She's been so crotchety this afternoon and evening, screaming and hard to settle. sad I do hope it passes soon.
With the breastfeeding I'd like to make it to a year ideally and then see how we're going. To be honest, it'll be a relief when she goes bigger gaps between feeds...I feel a bit like a walking milk factory at the moment, so much of the day is spent feeding!
I was shocked the other day when my mum told me she topped me up with a spoonful of baby rice every day from when I was 6 weeks old...can't imagine feeding that Erin this early!
BeeWi Sat 21-Apr-12 13:26:53
Grown up, not gown up blush
broodylicious Sun 22-Apr-12 02:41:37
trouble - yes on the nipple front!! But ive noticed that Poppy generally likes to really move her arms and hands about when feeding; She pulls my top towards her when she feeds, making a little privacy for herself as it covers my boob the way she does it. When she's really enjoying the feed, she puts her arm up straight towards my face then let's it fall on her face or just takes a really good hold of my boob. When she's had enough or wants a break, she spits out my nipple quite forcefully, rolls backwards and throws her outside arm up really straight and stretches, complete with old man face! There's so many things she does, I could be here all day and night grin isn't it lovely being a mummy? Xx
I hope Erin is feeling better now bee?
What a lovely description broody I can really picture her! grin it's so amazing isn't it? Greatest job in the world! smile
broodylicious Sun 22-Apr-12 08:39:59
Defo the best job in the world smile already decided I'm only going back to work two days a week and will pick up some freelance work as a supplement so I can spend the best of these early years with poppy - I don't want to miss a single thing!!
Punk80 Sun 22-Apr-12 10:43:00
Hey ladies hope you're all having a lovely weekend with your lovely babiessmile
It's my DH birthday today and Orla has smiled back at him this morning which was very sweetgrin I'm sure it's not just wind now as she will copy some faces and is starting to do it with a smile.
She is exactly the same with my nipples grabbing them and flinging her hands about she is funny to watch! Do any of you use dummies? I know opinion is divided but she just spent 15 mins sucking my DH hand which makes me wonder if it might pacify her a bit?
bee hope Erin feeling better after jabs.
broodylicious Sun 22-Apr-12 18:53:19
Aah punk that's so cute smiling at daddy on his birthday! grin Best present I bet!
It is a contentious issue with dummies and all down to personal choice. I'll throw my opinion out there but this is only my thoughts... I don't use a dummy and I don't really want to - my DH isn't so against them as he says it could provide comfort and it has been proved to help prevent SIDS. Poppy sucks her hand, our fingers and pretty much anything in front of her when she's hungry so as im BFing on demand, I think giving her a dummy may mean I miss those signals from her. I also worry about oral/tooth/speech development and becoming dependent on it if I was to give her a dummy. But hey, that's just my opinion and my thoughts for my daughter smile
Sounds good re work broody, had you decided pre poppy (was there really such a time?) or since she was born?
Ah punk, so cute of Orla to smile at her daddy on his birthday! Fyfe is now giving us lots of smiles, particularly in the morning but we haven't yet discovered the key to starting them off, we can get him to repeat them once he has started! grin amazing how proud it makes you feel isn't it? <soppy>
I don't use dummies and feel the same way as broody about them but know people who have sworn by them so whatever works for you! Fyfe only sucks when he's hungry (quite a bit wink) and I feed him then so would have no use for one. He did suck his thumb once when he was really hungry but we had to get in the car for 10 mins, very cute! smile
We had PIL to stay for the weekend which was lovely, they finally met Fyfe! He was a good little show off and was an absolute angel! grin
This week is seeing an increase in noises from him! Very cute! smile
broodylicious Mon 23-Apr-12 17:09:13
Pre-Poppy days...blimey seems an age ago! I used to think having a horse was tough and time consuming ;)
No, I hadn't really thought about work before she arrived - I didn't know how I'd feel - but freelance is something I'd always considered and now just feels the right time to take that plunge. I've been PRing for nearly 10 years, with 2 in marketing as well, so I should have enough experience to get me through.
Anyway, enough of work talk!! We met up with some of the girls I met through NCT classes this morning. There's only one other baby so far but it was lovely to see them and regale my birth storysmile They were v impressed with the fact I did it all drug free as I think it's given them hope that it's not too horrific. I did have slight bump envy seeing them though haha! We're going to make it a weekly thing which is lovely smile
Are any of you doing any classes yet or will be starting them soon? Which ones are you going for? Xx
We're signed up for two six week courses - swimming and massage which are both starting quite soon and signing which starts at six months which I'm sure will cone faster than I imagine! How about you?
broodylicious Tue 24-Apr-12 22:29:48
Wow. What a day. Poppy has made us very proud parents! She smiled at me three times this morning - defo not wind smiles - and then tonight she followed/tracked dh's movement when he moved his head to the right and then the left when he was holding her grin She also has had tummy time for the first time on her playmat (I feel awful, I didn't think we were supposed to do tummy time til later on but apparently she should've been doing it a bit every day since birth blush) and she lifted her head up! Very productive day in a four week old's little life!
Re classes - I haven't booked any yet. I want to do swimming, massage, yoga (same lady as I did my pregnancy yoga with), sensory and signing. There's so much out there, it's hard to know where to start! The local NCT runs a drop in coffee morning type session every Tuesday called bumps and babies so my plan is to go there, meet other mums and see if they have any particular recommendations. Our local sure start centres also look as though they run some good classes so I'm tempted to give them a try too as they're free. Btw, has anyone else been to a ss centre? I was a bit snotty to begin with as I thought they're for a certain type of parent/family (you know what and who i mean!!) but actually that's not the case at all! They seem v supportive and the classes look really good - the one I'm going to attempt to go to tomorrow is called discovering babies and it helps them build skills and teach us about what they're up to in terms of development etc and how we can help them through games or activities aimed at their age. Will report back tomorrow (if we manage to get there - Poppy runs the schedule these days and she's not too hot on doing things to a certain time wink)
Sounds great broody, well done poppy! I go to a children's centre breastfeeding lunch club and under one's club every week and they're great, will be starting lots more once Fyfe is a bit more in to things. I know what you mean about the preconceptions but they were totally wrong! blush
bee can you still get gripe water where you are? Fyfe was a bit colicy yesterday, we managed to settle him but it was all consuming and there's a shortage in the UK, it is selling for £15 a bottle on eBay! confused just wondering if it was worldwide?!
Punk80 Wed 25-Apr-12 08:47:26
Poppy and Fyfe sound like they're doing well. They're so interesting to watch aren't they! trouble and broody you sound like you have lots of good groups to go to. I meet some mums once a week and might start a rhyme time group next week. Thinking about baby sensory and swimming in the future. How are yours getting on with sleeping? Orla is sleeping 11.30pm till 4.30am but then will only go down for about an hour 5 till 6 which seems early!! She doesn't really go down early in the evening as she tends to feed a lot in the evenings. Hope the rain isn't too bad where you aresmile we're going out for lunch think I'm going to get soaked! grin
The rain is terrible here! Where are you punk? Fyfe is sleeping approx 10.30-3 then 4-6 then 7-9 then 10-12 if we haven't got up and out by 10 which we normally aim to do. That's just this week though, probably be different again by next week! smile
Punk80 Wed 25-Apr-12 11:14:10
That's really good trouble he's into a good routine. Will Fyfe go down in his crib for his morning naps? Fyfe is such a great name! Orla seems to prefer her pram or bouncer for in the day. I guess 5 weeks is still early for a routine each day is differentsmile I'm in Derbyshire and its pouring about to brave the rain now sad where are you trouble?
broodylicious Wed 25-Apr-12 12:49:48
Wow trouble that's a great routine! We are all over the place still - some days she cluster feeds so we get a good five hours sleep in one go, the next day she doesn't so will go 2 1/2 ish hours before waking for a feed. Yesterday, she set herself a "let's see how long we can be awake for" challenge - she woke at 7.45am and pretty much wanted to feed all day and only slept for about half an hour at about 1230ish when we went to asda to print out the first months photos. She ignored all my attempts to get her to sleep - off went the tv, closed the curtains etc - until 430ish when she finally fell asleep on me for two hours.
punk whereabouts in Derbyshire? I used to live near derby and now am in Leicester smile
Punk80 Wed 25-Apr-12 13:40:20
That's funny broody Orla sounds just like Poppy yesterday refusing to sleep for the day! She did sleep this morning probably catching up from yesterday[smile
I'm in Ashbourne about half hour from derby. How are you finding Leicester?
I'm in Hastings on the south coast. smile
broodylicious Thu 26-Apr-12 03:19:28
Ah I know Ashbourne punk, lovely little town smile Bet you stayed away from that crazy shrove tide football match this year, hey? That looks crazy every time I see it! Was the big pub - the George? - sold the other day? I saw on east mids today it was going up for auction and the locals were worried about who'd buy it with it being such a big part of town life and having all its heritage/history.
Leicester is a great city, always lots happening and it has everything you could possibly want. I was worried about moving here to start with but feel settled here now and like the fact there's amazing shops, restaurants and facilities as well as being close to some gorgeous countryside. We live close - about quarter of a mile - from one of the best primary schools in the city too so that will be great in a few years! I'll always be a derby girl at heart though haha! My parents live in uttoxeter, so not far from you but unfortunately 60 miles away from mesad
BeeWi Thu 26-Apr-12 11:29:32
Oh Punk & Broody, you're making me pine for east mids a bit! Although a Geordie, I lived in Nottingham for 5 years before we emigrated and worked in Langley Mill for a couple of those. Husband lived in Leicester before moving to Notts too.
Erin and I have been doing a 'Baby and You' course for the last couple of weeks. Last week a doctor came to talk to us in the class and answe questions, like when to call a doc, how to treat common ailments, basic baby first aid (good tip for us was about blowing into baby's face if they stop breathing- good because Erin is a terrible breath-holder when she's upset) etc. Today a health visitors came to talk to us all about feeding and sleeping issues. I must admit to being so envious of some of the women in the class whose babies are the same age or younger but who seem to be sleeping for good stints at night while we're still on the 3 hour cycle (or two and a half as it was last night).
In other news, I've now gone dairy-free to see if it'll sort Erin out. It is looking like she's suffering from silent reflux(has very fussy feeds, screaming inconsolably in afternoons and evenings, hiccups, gagging). It's a bit of a pain as I'm already vegetarian and husband loves meat, but if it stops her being in pain it'll be worth it. 4 days in and she seems a bit calmer. I'm going to give it 10 days and see how she's going and perhaps give her a formula feed then to see if it is that she's dairy intolerant. Apparently it's better to doit that way than test it by me having dairy as it would then take a while to get out of my system again.
Gripe water is still readily available here, Trouble. How strange that it's not in the UK. If you get stuck, let me know and I can stick some in the post. The nurse at the class today recommended Weleda, so have got some of that to try. Will see how it goes. Might be worth getting some of that in if they sell it in the UK?
Thanks bee, he was fine last night so hopefully was just a one off grotty night. Your course sounds good, we should be starting a postnatal course in about two weeks which I think will be similar. I want to join a singing/music group too as Fyfe loves it but I struggle to think of songs to sing him! Sorry the hear Erin has been upset, would a second cranial osteopathy appointment be an option? (it was you who had it wasn't it?) hope the diet changes give you some answers anyway! I'm vegetarian too and would find going dairy free quite tricky I think!
Fyfe had his injections today, he really screamed, bless him!sad seems fine now though!
BeeWi Thu 26-Apr-12 18:59:08
Aww, poor Fyfe. It's horrible seeing them in pain and not being able to explain why it'll be for the best for them in the long term, isn't it?! Glad to hear he's doing well now though. Don't be surprised if he's a bit weird on the eating front in the next day or so mind; Erin went really 'snacky' and stopped doing longer feeds. She was worst for that on the Sunday following the Friday but was back to normal by the Monday.
We went back to the cranial osteo and it did o some good but I still feel there's something not quite right, so hopefully the diet will fix things. A nice side effect is that it's making a noticeable dent in my baby weight in just a few days, which is nice! grin
Which songs are you singing with Fyfe? Erin gets really calmed by 10 Green Bottles for some reason, perhaps because it's so repetitive? I know what you mean about running out of songs. I'm not good at remembering lyrics, so they often end up being silly made up songs about Erin to the tune of popular songs.
Have you had any funny reactions to bringing up Fyfe veggie? I think the older generation here don't really 'get' vegetarianism and often seem really shocked that you won't be tucking into beef or lamb at every evening meal!
Thanks for the heads up about the feeding bee! He's been normal so far but will prepare for anything over the next couple of days. Since I posted about how he was sleeping he has gone back to sleeping for 2- 3, waking for 1 like he did from birth! Oh well, so unpredictable! He spent a whole hour singing with his daddy yesterday evening though and I had a really hot bath - on my own! grin
We've been singing horsey horsey, teddy bears picnic, little green frog, never smile at a crocodile, 12345, and yes, lots of songs about Fyfe to random tunes! Need to increase my repertoire! grin
I haven't had any reactions yet but not many people have asked! DH eats meat and we live by the sea so have decided we will feed Fyfe fish until he is old enough to make up his mind about meat. I wish I'd had it that way around as my mum knew from when I was 4 I'd be veggie (turned at 7) as wouldn't eat anything that looked like an animal! I'm happy for him to have fish a couple of times a week too as fish is very good for you! Will report back any funny reactions!
KikiRC Fri 27-Apr-12 06:51:33
Funny we're all singing! I've made up a playlist on Spotify which we play and sing along to- Ivy likes show tunes/ musicals (Wizard of Oz/ Mary Poppins/ Oliver etc) & things like 'Mr Sandman' (with all the bom, bom, bom, bits!)
I'm pescatarian (sp?), her dad will eat anything. I'm going to cook fish & maybe chicken when she's little & let her have little bits of good meat here and there & let her choose when she's older.
BeeWi Fri 27-Apr-12 08:28:05
All this talk of tunes is making me think I need to up my game! I didn't recognise fair few of yours, Trouble, will have to look them up. I definitely want to get to know nursery rhymes better too.
Funny that so many of us have veggie leanings. I was thinking of talking to her when she was older about how we love our dog and how he's an animal, to try and make sure she swayed more towards staying a veggie but perhaps that's unfair?! hehe.
Just wondering, is anybody having the odd drink now they're not pregnant but breastfeeding? Must admit, I've been having the odd glass of red wine on a night but do feel a bit guilty. Just feel I have so few vices at the moment- no coffee, cheese, chocolate...it's seems like my one real treat. I should probably be abstaining there too, right?!
Meant to say, Trouble, had a look at your profile pics. Oh my goodness, what a cutester Fyfe is! Some really lovely pictures you have there. really nice the picture of you both too smile. I have popped up a picture of Erin and added the frequent posters in this thread to be able to see. Let me know if I missed anyone and you're interested.
Punk80 Fri 27-Apr-12 09:48:37
Hi all currently back in bed watching sex and the city again with Orla hard life grin sounds like you're all good at the singing, I'm a big limited with my range! But did round and round the garden this morning which got lots of smiles smile
bee whereabouts are you? I hope the diet is making things better. Have to say I've been having an odd glass of red wine my friends midwife told her a glass an evening is fine as it would help her relax, I don't think an occasional glass can do any harm. Sorry to act stupid but how do you view profiles, would love to see pics?
Has anyone had any problems introducing a bottle? I had a go at expressing for the
first time the other night and dh had a go giving bottle but Orla went mad screaming and spitting it out, took ages to calm her down and I found it quite traumaticsad an worried about trying it again but will do in a few days maybe.
broody I definitely stayed away from Shrovetide this year is a crazy football game! Glad you're settled in Leicester.
Hope you all have a good weekend wink
Show tunes sound like a good idea kiki! smile
bee Erin is gorgeous!! I must put up a couple more shots of Fyfe when I get on the PC, I have captured him smiling at last! grin
I can link you to the tunes if you can't find any of them!
punk you need to on a computer, not phone, go in to the thread click the person's name at the top of their post that will take you to their profile - then click on photos. I've just added you to my mates list so you can see mine. I had exactly the same thing with a bottle - felt awful! sad first tried Avent, next tried tommy tippee closer to nature - he was much better with this, didn't get upset or look so disgusted but still didn't suck it, just pushed it around his mouth with his tongue. My sis is sending me some tiny newborn hospital TUK bottles today so I'll try that! I think a smaller teat is what he needs as he jut looks uncomfortable! I'll let you know how I get on!
Re wine, hell yes, drinking as much as I like - several glasses some days, it's not a problem at all! I had a leaflet from NHS that said as long as you hadn't drunk so much you were vomiting confused you were better off breastfeeding than formula feeding as the amount of alcohol that gets to them won't harm them. Also better to have a drink whilst feeding them or when you know they'll not want to be fed for a while as it is strongest about 1/2 hour later. smile
KikiRC Fri 27-Apr-12 13:33:57
I've been recommended the Dr Brown bottles (also good for colicky babies) have ordered a starter pack and they should be here on Monday, so I'll let you know how we get on. We were OK with the tiny hospital bottles, but the Avent ones (even 0-3 months) are hopeless- they make a terrific mess.
broodylicious Fri 27-Apr-12 15:23:48
Re bottles - I've ordered a medela calma as it looks as though it's the closet thing to BFing as you can get, baby has to mimick the same action as they would on the breast. I have a medela breast pump and use the shields too so guess this is what they call brand loyal hey wink
knitterati Sat 28-Apr-12 11:34:17
Broody - let me know how you got on with the calma teat - I loved it!
broodylicious Sat 28-Apr-12 11:55:28
Ah, that's great to hear knitterati - I thought I remembered someone on here mentioning it (in fact, that may have been why I first looked at it!!) but I'm suffering dreadfully from post natal baby brain blush
How old was your LO before you started expressing and using the calma? Poppy is five weeks on Monday so just wondering if I'm still a bit too early and should wait a few more weeks?
Woo hoo! Fyfe took the tiny hospital SMA/NUK teat! He's just drunk an ounce and a half from it! So...we're off out for dinner tonight to celebrate our anniversary which is tomorrow and Fyfe is going to Granny's, what excellent timing! grin
ardenbird Sat 28-Apr-12 20:29:23
Hi all! Sorry for being MIA... It's just been a crazy month and i barely get any time with hands free. I believe DH popped in on the antenatal thread when Tessa was born (full name Teresa Mary) on 1 April.
I seem to not be able to do anything the easy way... A quick summary of events: birth was waters broke 29 Mar and Tessa passed muconium two days later so I was induced. So no birthing pool sad G&A worked a treat until my SPD kicked in with severe pain that increased each contraction, but never let up. There were positons that relieved it, but each time I got into one, Tessa's heart rate plummeted, so I had to stay where it hurt worst. So I got an epidural, but managed to have it come it disconnected at what we think was about 5 hours before the end, so by the time I was fully dilated and pushing no pain relief - I tried G&A, but it only took away the contraction pain which served to isolate the SPD pain which was much worse, so I preferred to feel the contractions to distract me smile Then Tessa wouldn't rotate and we did ventouse, a forcep (just one! Dr decided quickly it wouldn't work), and then emergency C-section. And, oh yeah, they gave me a spinal since the epidural had gone out. So we managed to do just about everything.
Since then it's still been a struggle - Tessa was jaundiced and lost over 10% of her birth weight, we got off to a bad breast feeding start at the hospital (grr, I won't go into details, but I'm rather miffed at the poor after-care), I got mastitis and milk production went down, we discovered in week 2 I should have been treated for anaemia but wasn't (they assumed I'd had a blood transfusion since I lost so much blood, but I hadn't), and I have cracks and fissures in both nipples which we've just found out have a Staph infection which is why they haven't healed yet. BF is still pretty painful, although massively better than in weeks 1-2 when I had DH play my labour music for me smile.
Tessa has not yet reached her birth weight but was close enough last week that the HV thinks we have 'turned the corner' and will do okay. Of course, I'm still paranoid that she's not eating enough/I'm not making enough milk, and probably won't relax until after next week's weigh. She constantly falls asleep when eating, so it requires both hands and all my attention to keep her eating, which is why I haven't been around!
A question for those of you with older babies - has BF stopped hurting yet? When? I feel like I could handle things if it just didn't hurt so much...
FlipFantasia Sat 28-Apr-12 22:32:10
Hello ladies
Mind if I join you? I've been lurking but Arden's post made me want to de-lurk! My DD - Maeve - was born on 25 March and she's gorgeous (and currently asleep on DH, which allows me to have some MN time!). I also have a DS who's 2 (another March baby smile).
arden crikey, sounds like you went through the mill during labour/birth! I had an EMCS after a traumatic induced labour with DS and also had terrible problems establishing breastfeeding - those early weeks were a toe curling, teeth clenching experience with a daily count down to the magic 26 weeks when I could stop (I hadn't expected any problems with BFing either, and think it was linked to the traumatic birth). I had terrible nipple trauma (caused by thrush in my case, which was undiagnosed for weeks despite going to breastfeeding groups etc) and once the thrush was treated my left side cleared up but I still had a terrible gash on my right side - I tried things like lansinoh, jelonet, silver cups, airing my nipple but it turned out to be a staph infection and at 10 weeks I got antibiotics which made all the difference. The crack cleared up (though I still have a scar) and feeding finally became pain-free. I went on to feed DS until he was 19 months and he self weaned because I was pregnant with DD.
It sounds like you're doing brilliantly in terms of addressing the problems you've been having so I really hope feeding will become less painful for you now the infection is being treated (and with antibiotics try to have yogurts/probiotics/acidophilus capsules to avoid thrush) . If it's painful and you suspect the latch then de-latch your DD and allow her to re-latch. This may also help with her sleepiness (DS was also a sleepy feeder and was a slow weight gainer, classic catch down growth as he started at a high centile at birth, just under 91st, and settled between 9th and 25th). The feeding section on MN is full of briliant advice, as is Kellymom and Dr Jack Newman (eg he's got some good videos on breast compressions that you can google). Also, you're still in the first month of recovery and things will get easier as you physically get over the birth fully. BTW I love your DD's name - Teresa shortened to Tessa is just gorgeous!
Otherwise I'm glad to hear that the other March babies are doing so well. I had a natural vaginal birth with DD, which went a long way to laying the ghosts of DS's birth to rest (I had planned a home birth with him but ended up induced at 42 weeks and having an EMCS). The recovery has been so much better this time, and I've had no problems with breastfeeding.
Also second time around I also know that This Too Shall Pass so we're trying to enjoy DD as much as possible, she won't be a tiny newborn for long! She's actually woken up a lot this past week, and smiles are starting - she's 5 weeks tomorrow. Though she also got her first cold (kindly given to her by her brother!).
Sorry for the ramble, Arden's post really struck a cord as I could have written something very similar 2 years ago (and probably did!).
broodylicious Sat 28-Apr-12 23:07:31
Blimey arden that is a birth story and then some! Makes me realise and appreciate what a straightforward and simple birth I had. Sorry to hear the aftercare you received was rubbish. I think it makes such a difference to these early days, especially for us first timers.
I've been really surprised at how many of us and other new mums have found BFing so hard. I know when i was pregnant, I had a rather romantic vision of BFing, where my newborn would be staring lovingly into my eyes while suckling merrily away....instead in those early days, I got a terrier like child bashing away at my boobs, ripping my nips and even bruising the skin around them! (she gave me love bites, as the MW said!) Thank goodness we are now established and I've kinda got my romantic vision back on track (the terrier is sometimes present if we've dared to go beyond two hours between feeds).
Hi arden, good to hear from you! Bf really should not hurt! Anecdotally a lot of people will tell you it does but they won't realise that there was something 'wrong' which eventually was changed before it got 'better'. I had pain for the first two weeks from a bad latch (he was getting tons of milk and the latch had been checked 2/3 times and been 'perfect') this was corrected (for free) by NCT bf
councillor and I have had no pain since (last 6 weeks) sure, it's a little sore from time to time but it certainly doesn't hurt. I had been at the point before of being in tears at the thought of having to feed him again! Otherwise things would have got better on their own eventually as bf is easier with a bigger baby because of space in their mouths. Hope you can find someone to help you, just keep asking! smile
Hi flip, nice to hear from you.
broodylicious Sun 29-Apr-12 07:30:08
I agree with trouble re consulting a bfing counsellor. Or your HV. Can't speak for the rest of the uk but certainly here, they are v supportive of BFing mums and would rather you pester the hell out of them than struggle through smile
ardenbird Sun 29-Apr-12 12:20:41
Thanks for the tale, Flip. So the antibiotics helped it heal? I'm also worried about thrush, as HV says the antibiotics can encourage it. But didn't get it last course (the swabs which showed the Staph would have shown it too, so at least I know we're starting thrush-free), so I hope we don't this time either.
grin at terrier, broody. I've been likening Tessa to some kind of animal - she sorts and grunts and growls. Terrier sounds like a good description.
I've called the BF people again - theyve been out twice and I've gone to the hospital clinic once, so I'm starting to feel like a bother (or incompetent...), but it's probably right it's better to be a bother/look silly than keep not having it work.
I'm starting to wonder if Tessa has tongue issues. I found this online: upper labial tie, which Tessa appears to have, and checking the mirror, so do I! Other places talk about it being connected to posterior tongue tie, but I'm having trouble figuring out just what that is.
On the more positive side, my SPD improved as promised, although I still can't lie on my side without jamming the sacroiliac joints. But I can walk, which is great smile. The NHS physio won't see people until at least 6 weeks after birth, so I've been to a private physio twice now who unjammed my pelvis for me. He also confirmed the weirdness with my ribcage - one bone in the sternum was pushed out of place. He put it back, but it keeps popping out so I have exercises to keep returning it. It was amusing how fun the physio seemed to find me, as that is apparently rare and coupled with my prior sternum injury he found me very 'interesting'.
broodylicious Sun 29-Apr-12 13:32:40
grin yeah poppy does funny noises too and then shakes her head madly (think of teenage boy putting his head between a pair of boobs and slapping his face with them - that's my girl!)grin She has always got herself into a bit of a state if she doesn't get fed within a few moments of her realising she's hungry - whoever mentioned the blowing on their face when they forget to breathe in their fury, thank you as it works a treat! - and that's when she is most like a terrier. Once she's on though she feeds beautifully and we rarely have issues. Keep at it hun, it'll all fit into place soon xxx
Keep bugging them arden! That is what they are there for, you shouldn't be suffering. I got the NCT one out to my house pretty quickly by crying on the phone! blush it is one of those things though that should just work, it is really hard when it doesn't. The tongue tie sounds well worth investigating, I thought Fyfe may have one as his twin cousins did but NCT woman was sure it was just a high palate and receded chin making things difficult and it seems she was right as all is perfect now. I did find out though that you need to contact your HV and ask for a referral to a tongue tie specialist. Keep us posted. smile
broodylicious Mon 30-Apr-12 14:46:22
I just did my first public breastfeed!!! grin so proud of myself. Was a bit blush at first as we were in a v busy m&s cafe but DD was screaming her head off for a feed so just did it and forgot other people were there. Did get a look of disgust from an older couple though angry
Well done broody, sorry about the older couple treating you like that. Stick with it, you'll get positive reactions too and people need to see it for things to change! smile
ardenbird Mon 30-Apr-12 20:19:07
That's brilliant, broody! I'm really impressed. And don't worry about that old couple - you've the right to feed your baby!
I stopped by the hospital breastfeeding centre today, as we were there for a hip scan. They thought Tessa's lip looked normal, but wouldn't recheck her tongue. I'm not sure what to think. She really looked a lot more like the 'problem' photos on the link than 'normal'. I'm also getting confused about the possible connection to 'high arched palate' and too-small upper jaw. I had the latter - as a teenager I had to have a palate spreader which (painfully) cranked my upper from nesting inside my lower jaw to the reverse, which is the normal state of affairs. This made room for all my teeth, one of which was coming in in the gums above another tooth (they had pulled its baby tooth to make room for the earlier adult tooth), and I got braces to pull it down into place.
The breastfeeding lady said that was caused by bottle feeding, not anything to do with the tongue, and that there is a whole generation where it is really common. I'm willing (and would love to!) believe that bottle feeding was the cause and if I BF Tessa she won't suffer this, but I'm a little skeptical as I'm not sure she completely understood me. I wasn't aware that palate spreaders were common, and I think she may have thought I was talking about braces (she talked really fast and it was hard to get a word in - I'm not sure how much she listened to me). I haven't met anyone else who had a spreader and most people I talk to have never heard of them. Are they in fact common? Do you all know people who had them? (it's this thing that goes across the palate and has a little crank that is turned and pushes the jaw apart a fraction of a mm every night for a year or however long is needed - I had to lie on the bed with my head hanging back and my Mum turned the crank, which hurt quite a bit, as it felt like my skull was cracking, which I suppose it was in tiny, tiny movements).
I really want to believe everything is fine and I don't have to pursue anything more, but it may be worth checking a little more in case doing something now could avoid dental problems in the future.
Argh, sorry to go on so long. It's just I find the whole thing so confusing and I want to take the easy way to just believe nothing is wrong, but worry it might be trading a little potentially annoying investigation now against a year of teenage pain.
Investigate until you are satisfied arden! I've never heard of a palate spreader and it sounds like you weren't being listened to. Can you call the NCT about the pain when feeding? They were brilliant with me, you don't need to be a member, I'm not, hadn't done any of their courses etc. You need to keep pushing, this is way too important for you to be ignored! angry
broodylicious Mon 30-Apr-12 23:14:38
Echo trouble about continuing to push. Also check out your local sure start centre - in fact, I'd recommend it to everyone! - as they have health visitors, MWs and other professionals dropping in all the time and so would defo be able to offer their advice. They also run free courses which cover loads of topics and BFing circles etc. Hang on in there, don't give up! smile [hug] xxx
ardenbird Tue 01-May-12 03:59:03
Thanks for the validation! I guess I'll feel satisfied once I find someone who knows what I'm talking about rather than dismisses it without understanding.
Exactly! smile
knitterati Wed 02-May-12 16:11:09
broody apologies for not responding about the calma teat sooner... I used it on Elena from when she was just a couple of days old. No need to worry about the flow because the milk will come at whatever pace baby sucks. smile
knitterati Wed 02-May-12 16:12:45
Oh and we haven't had any nipple confusion! smile
ardenbird Wed 02-May-12 17:41:59
Hey, does anyone have tips for removing poo-stains from clothes? We've had a few leakage incidents, and just throwing them in the wash after a rinse didn't work. I've now got some soaking in detergent which I hope will help...
I've been reading more and took another trip to the mirror - I actually have rather severe tongue tie! Amazing I never knew. I realise now that I don't ever stick out my tongue but just retract my lips instead. I find that encouraging because DD clearly doesn't have it as bad as I do, if she has anything, so the severity of my case may be related to the palate spreader. I'm going to keep investigating until I find someone who can confirm things for me, though. A nurse and a paediatrician today had 'never heard' of posterior tongue tie.
That's encouraging arden hmm! Both of Fyfe's cousins had posterior ties, made a huge difference when they were clipped.
We haven't had any poo leakages, one of the advantages of washable nappies! If the stains are on white or light clothes putting them on the line (wet or dry) in the sun gets the yellow stains out like magic (I do this with the nappies) smile
broodylicious Wed 02-May-12 22:09:49
Knitterati - no worries smile I've bought it but haven't used it yet as I've not started expressing. Looking forward to handing it and baby to DH tbh - she wore me out last night with feeding tons and she's been even worse today, with just an hour and a half off since 2pm!! I'm hoping this means a good long sleep tonight!!
Arden - aaah poo stains! we've also had a few but luckily they've come out with just normal persil and comfort at 30 degrees, no soaking or rinsing beforehand.
Note: I just had to put my phone down at this point and bath a v frantic baby...she was screaming so much we gave her an emergency bath to try and calm her down. She screamed all the way thru, got out just as she started to poo, and then majorly pooed all over my favourite (of hers) towel which was on my knee! There was such a lot of it, we had to bath her again and the towel has gone straight into the washer - with another outfit she territorially marked earlier - in the hope it won't be ruined! Babies eh, donchya love em?!
KikiRC Wed 02-May-12 22:10:25
We haven't had any major poo explosions yet, either, but if like me you don't have a garden, I find that soda crystals in the wash gets out most nasty stains. I haven't tried this with Ivy's things yet, but as they're quite 'chemically' would probably wash them in something gentler afterwards before dressing her in them...
Aw broody, it's exhausting when they feed like that isn't it? Hope you get a good long sleep! smile
ardenbird Fri 04-May-12 08:03:10
broody, I hope it's okay your bath story made me grin. I hope the towel gets clean!
We had new poo adventure yesterday. The leakage had been coming out the sides, so I was careful to make sure I got the nappy on snug. Then she did a big poo and it came out the top behind her back! Poo was getting everywhere, and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It got all over me, her, and our nursing pillow...
broodylicious Fri 04-May-12 08:40:48
Haha, arden no it's fine to have a grin at our bath story. Poo is providing a lot of amusement for us all, it seems! Poppy likes to wait to do a massive explosive poo until we've got her in a "going out" outfit or one we've purposely chosen as she's seeing the person who bought it. Typical!
knitterati Fri 04-May-12 08:55:29
Babies have great timing for poo explosions don't they! Elena's favourite trick is to wait until she's got no nappy on to do a big wee! Must be something about the fresh air! Also, we had to change from huggies to pampers after a number of leakages! I've heard that huggies are better suited to boys and pampers to girls - anyone else heard this?
Am currently trailing reusable nappies, but still not sure which one to go for as there are pros and cons to them all...
On the expressing front, it seems that Elena has forgotten how to drink from a bottle (with the medela teat) after a few weeks exclusively breastfeeding! Not sure if I should carry on trying with both bottle & breast now. Any suggestions?
I would really recommend prefold nappies with Flip wraps, they are cheap and amazing, no leaks at all as long a I change them every 3 hours during the day (longer at night is okay) I got my prefolds secondhand on eBay (they work better the more they are washed) and the Flip wraps were £11 each - you need 3. I have 30 prefolds so do 1 wash every 3 days. My sister also uses the Flips with the girl twins so good for girls too! grin
broodylicious Fri 04-May-12 12:14:16
We've chosen to stick to pampers as huggies leaked for us too. We bought a small quantity of both at first so we could try them both out. Pampers defo more absorbent and v few leakages.
Not sure if I've said this before or if you all know but worth saying again for disposable users.... We have subscribed to a delivery service from amazon. It works out cheaper and the nappies get delivered at a frequency we set (we have 2 x packet of 108 and they get delivered every four weeks) so we don't need to get them from the supermarket and save money! Check it out on amazon anyway smile
Have many of you/your friends had issues with BFing? I'm doing well and not finding it sore or stressful but others I know are struggling so much. Out of the four NCT babies born already, one has given up, one is on the verge and the other finds it sore (I'm obvs the other one!) it's so sad and I did have a little tear for the lady who's thrown in the towel as she was so strongly pro BFing and she feels like a failure now she's turned to bottles :'(
KikiRC Fri 04-May-12 13:26:50
We're staying with Pampers for now at least, as the sticky fixers seem much longer than other brands we've tried which make them much easy to put on with Ivy's brace. We haven't had any leaks or problems so far.
Re: BFing- I had loads of problems at the beginning- it was over a week before my milk came in properly, and that was a huge struggle and also meant Ivy was hospitalised for five days, so all a bit scary. I've been BF & formula feeding combined since, which seems to work pretty well.
Of friends who have had babies very recently I know a couple who have had no problems at all, one who like me is combining BF & formula, one who was very ill following a C-section & despite all efforts the BFing just didn't work out, and one whose son turned out to be allergic to milk protein, so couldn't drink breast milk & had to be put on a special formula. So quite a mix.
I found the first two weeks very sore but since then have found it very easy and rewarding. grin managed to feed him whilst walking the dog in the woods today, just getting easier and easier.
broodylicious Fri 04-May-12 15:51:33
Oh wow, trouble! Although that's just showing off grinwink
broodylicious Fri 04-May-12 17:45:27
Another question for you ladies.... Do your LOs go to sleep by themselves? In the last week or so, I have had to start to force poppy to go to sleep with lots of rocking and jigging about, even though it's obvious she is shattered. Previously she would feed then fall asleep quite happily by herself. Just wondered if it's Poppy character quirk coming out or if it's a five week thing or if this is actually what I'm supposed to be doing anyway? blush
Punk80 Fri 04-May-12 18:51:24
Hi ladies all your poo talk is funnygrin we're having some funny poo incidents and lots of wees when naked on her play gym! trouble that is so impressive feeding in the woods is that using a sling?
broody Orla is 7 weeks on Monday and this week we have tried to introduce a bit of a routine as she wasn't sleeping that much! We are leaving her to cry a little as she is not the kind of baby who always goes down straight away but she does stop although I can't listen to her sad she is now sleeping in the evenings and she had a nap this morning.
arden hope you get things sorted you're right to be pushy.
Hope you all enjoy the long weekend smile
FlipFantasia Fri 04-May-12 21:49:22
Evening ladies
A lovely hectic week here - PIL visiting from the US and we've been having a great time around London smile. Got DD some cute little knitted cardies in Greenwich market (I've accepted that my own knitting is on the back burner for the time being!).
Broody I'm not stressing out about self-settling. DD is 6 weeks on Sun, and still being fed to sleep or carried in the sling or rocked in arms. I think the 4th trimester idea is v sensible, so just treat the first few months as basically just an extension of the womb. Sounds like it could be a growth spurt - DD tends to get v grumpy and need lots of feeding (I think we just had one - had a couple of days/nights of constant feeding!).
On the nappy front, I agree with Trouble that prefolds and wraps are great. I have Flips too (which I bought when DS was 9 months for a month-long holiday visiting overseas family) and they're good, but I think the motherease and bummis wraps are better. But the prefold/wrap combo is totally bomb proof - no leaks at all. With DS, we used disposables for the first 5 or 6 weeks while I recovered from the EMCS (had loads of leaks) and then switched to Bumgenius all-in-ones, which were grand but still a bit leaky til he was bigger. We bought the prefolds this time as they're cheaper than buying more BG and I was a bit skeptical but I love them! I'm also going to apply for my Real Nappies for London voucher at some point and stock up on more nappies then.
I also use washable wipes for both DC, so much nicer than disposable ones (though we do use disposable wipes on DS when out and about). Also use washable breast pads.
It's such a shame when BFing doesn't work out. I struggled so much with DS then I can totally see why women would pack it in but I'm really glad I persevered with it as once it's easy it's so easy...and have had no problems this time around.
Hope all of you and your littlies are doing great. Happy bank holiday to all smile
ardenbird Fri 04-May-12 23:21:24
We found Huggies too big for now - we're saving the bag for when she ges a little bigger. Tesco is what we're using at the moment, although somewhere in the house is a pack of Pampers. Unless they're way better, we'll probably stick with Tesco, for price. We are interestied in reuasables, but not nearly organised enough yet! I can barely keep up with the washing as it is.
Re BF: well, obviously I'm still having problems. Not quite 5 weeks yet, though. I really want to make this work, so I'm determined to persevere. Of my friends who've had kids recently, and I called in tears a few weeks ago, all reported struggles for the first 2-3 weeks, but okay after that. I know my Mum gave up after 3 weeks, but now seeing the extent of my tonge tie, I'm not surprised - back then I'm not sure they knew anything about such things.
Re sleeping: it's gotten a lot better. First few weeks she'd often cry at the end of the day for no discernible reason - nappy changed, no more gas, and too upset to eat - and we'd have to settle her for an hour or more. Now she tends to fall asleep at the breast. It takes a little rocking to keep her asleep - otherwise she wakes, eats for about 1 min and crashes again. We've got a bedside crib, so I often reach out and put my hand on her chest for a while, which seems to help. If I take it away too soon, she starts wiggling. She's also recently gotten better at sucking her own thumb, which seems to calm her.
Up feeding DS after a lovely 4.5 stretch of sleep! grin he has very consistently been sleeping for 3 hours at a time recently which is fine but this is a bit of a treat! Fyfe falls asleep whilst he is feeding/in my arms cuddling broody, we're still co sleeping at the moment, I have a bedside cot which will be going up very soon, just need the chance to paint it! smile
punk this feed was whilst carrying him in my arms as had my wrap sling tied quite high but fed him in the wrap sling whilst on a walk earlier in the week.i still need to practice feeding in the ring sling at home but find it tricky to adjust once on...you tube feeding videos may be needed!smile
Nice to hear more support for prefolds flip! Sounds like wraps may be down to personal preference as I have a few bummis whispers that i got with ebay prefold lots but rarely use them as have had a few wet patches from them. Never tried motherease. I managed to get my real nappies for London voucher before Fyfe was born whilst we still lived in London and bought a load of next size up prefolds, happily a load more came up on freecycle here (with loads more bummis wraps and some swim wraps) so we're sorted until potty training time (though I assume the flips may need renewing at some stage).
Have any of you been swimming yet? I meant to go way before this stage but haven't got around to it for one reason or another. We'll definitely be going next week though, I've decided! Can't wait to see him, he's doing lots of swimming moves in the bath these days!
Good to hear you're sticking with the bf arden, well done! Have you managed to get hold of a counsellor or someone to help you?
knitterati Sat 05-May-12 10:11:54
When you say Flips, do you mean the Bum Genius Flip, or something else? Sorry for the dumb question...
KikiRC Sun 06-May-12 09:04:39
Hello all, hope you're having a good weekend. This is a question unrelated to those above, but something we've been pondering- have your babies changed their eye colour, yet? Ivy was born with very dark grey/ blue eyes and we spend an awful amount of time speculating as to whether they'll end up blue like me, or brown like DP. (Or indeed stay as they are). Mine were a much lighter blue when I was a baby, & her cousin who has 2 parents with brown eyes has a similar colour to her at the moment. We don't have any preference at all, it's just something that fascinates us in that probably-dull-as-shit-to-anyone-else kind of way. I think their eyes can change colour at several weeks or months, or in some cases even years. Just wondered if any of you have had this yet?
On a completely different note, I've discovered the series of 'Five Minute With' interviews on the BBC website.. perfect little bites to watch when BFing if you don't want to sit down to a whole programme/ film etc...
Anyway, happy Bank holiday- it's very wet here (South Coast). X
Yes knitterati, sorry, bumGenius Flip wraps, I got mine here www.babipur.co.uk/shop/p3088/Flip_One_Size_Cover_/_Wrap/product_info.html grin
kiki, Fyfe had 100% guarantee of blue eyes so we're no help there! Happy bank holiday to you too, may bump in to you tomorrow, if not then see you soon! smile
Hi all, how were your bh weekends?
Fyfe has turned a corner with feeding I think, he appears to be much more efficient, we got up at 11.30 (grin) he had a little feed for 5 mins and two more 5 min feeds between 12 and 3 shock but was awake and content the whole time. Just need to work up to him being able to sleep alone now so I can put him down for a nap and get on with things. --not in too much of a hurry though, prefer hugging my son to cleaning--grin
Punk80 Tue 08-May-12 19:36:48
Well done Fyfe wink gorgeous pictures by the way trouble and bee smile
We had a lively weekend we had friends to stay with two children under two plus Orla so pretty noisy but good fun! Orla was really good but think she is going through a spurt have been feeding a lot yesterday and today and she woke up at 2.30am which she hasn't done for weeks. She was also getting really upset but only seemed to settle if she was feeding but then woild come off and start crying again poor thing sad Meant we had lots of cuddles in bed today to make up for it though smile
I know trouble it's really nice to have cuddles and keep them close. They're only little. Just wary as my friends who stayed at the weekend are having a nightmare with their 11 month old who is still in their bed it's tough but 7 weeks is still early days for a routine and afraid I can't stick to any kind of routine as enjoying getting out and about!
Btw we are using one life reusable nappies which are working out pretty well doing a wash every 2 or 3 days.
Hope you all had a good weekend x
broodylicious Tue 08-May-12 21:08:08
punk - that's what poppy is like occasionally, crying then feeding then breaking off for a scream. It's horrid isn't it? sad It's trapped wind with her and tends to be ok if we wind her as soon as she starts doing it. Although the other night she was totally inconsolable and so we ended up bathing her at 130am!!
Nappies look good punk! smile
Fyfe does what you're describing broody and it is wind with him too. If he's inconsolable though we give him gripe water which sorts it out within a couple of minutes! I eventually managed to get hold of some at a normal price (had been selling for £15 a bottle on eBay as was hard to get hold of!) and have a few extras; if anyone here wants one let me know, they are £2.77 a bottle plus what it costs for the postage!
We took Fyfe swimming for the first time last night, it was brilliant, he loved it! I'd been meaning to go for weeks but hadn't got around to it. We stayed in the pool for just under 15 mins and did a mixture of bouncing and supporting him under his neck on his back do he can kick his legs, we do this in the bath too but it was amazing to see his swimming moves in the pool! I gave him the world's quickest feed in the changing room before getting him dressed and after the 5 min drive home he slept in his car seat for 2 hours shock which is totally unheard of so I think it wore him out! grin have any of you been going swimming?
Punk80 Wed 09-May-12 03:41:06
That's good to know about the gripe water, a friend has given me some so I might try that next time. At this exact moment she is feeding better than last night so fingers crossed. trouble did you use the normal leisure centre pool? I'd love to take Orla swimming just wasn't sure about the heat of the water as our local leisure centre is renowned for being cold. Fyfe sounds like he enjoyed himself! smile
Yes punk, normal leisure centre. The actual centre is very hot do the water was a bit of a shock, he cried for a couple of minutes but soon forgot about it once we got moving! It was good that the centre was so hot as great for getting changed but I also prepared so ha his towel by the side of the pool brought a baby grow so easy to dress him, and a big blanket to wrap him up in once dressed. smile
Glad to hear Orla is feeding better.
broodylicious Wed 09-May-12 08:40:43
I really want to take poppy swimming but am quite nervous about it. I'm a v strong swimmer, was school captain, so it's important to me to get her started early. But it's the absolute blind worry of getting out, dry and dressed that is stopping me - although you just made it sound quite easy, Trouble, by getting everything ready for her at the side of the pool so she'd be done before even getting back into the changing rooms. We'll see....
Off to docs for my postnatal check. And maybe her jabs, I can't remember if I booked that for today as well blushblush
ardenbird Wed 09-May-12 16:08:58
Wow, I'm in awe of the swimming! We just had the first bath without screaming today. It's been hard to find time for baths, as they say don't do it right after feeding, and since she takes 1.5 - 2 hrs to eat, eating every 2 hrs doesn't leave much time between!
I'm also in awe of the 5 minute feed... We're just constantly loosing the latch and starting over and spend so much time not eating. It's really frustrating. I've now got a GP appt Thu of next week and an orthodontist that Fri to look at her, but I still don't know if either of them have any idea about lip-tie or posterior tongue-tie. I'm not sure what to do - I'm wondering if it is worth it to explore private options. I'm pretty sure the lip-tie is real, and it will be really annoying to wait 1.5 weeks to just get blown off again, and struggling with feeding the whole while. I feel like things have actually gotten worse - she really doesn't like holding a good latch and slips to what I call a 'medium' one, then eats vigourosly. I've been letting her go some as she just gets really upset if I stop the eating and won't relatch for 15-20 minutes; but I'm also getting more sore and so am pulling her off more often when she slows down. Thus, the long feedings!
Or - are such long feeds normal? It just feels like we're spending much more time trying to get a latch than actually eating, but maybe this is typical of 5 weeks still?
Re eyes: DD also has grey-blue eyes. I've got blue and DH has hazel, so we expect either I guess. I don't know hazel works with genetics! I feel like they've gotten a bit darker blue over the last weeks, but it could be my imagination.
KikiRC Wed 09-May-12 17:44:19
Do you think she finds a good latch uncomfortable, Arden? My MW told me if Ivy didn't have a good latch to take her off straight away & start again, but it sounds like you have already tried that. A bad latch can make you so sore though- I do empathise- when my milk didn't come through at the beginning there was a problem with the latch, too, and it was very painful.. I hope you manage to sort it soon- have you exhausted all available help through MWs & HVs? I think that problems related to feeding you do need to be a bit pushy- I can imagine a whole week sounds like a lifetime away. Could you speak to a GP on the phone before then?
When I had the problems with Ivy's feeding early on I spoke to a number of MWs etc on the phone who all said they thought it would be fine, & when she was eventually seen she was really quite poorly & the doctors were furious I hadn't been told to bring her in sooner. I know your situation is different, but it did teach me that you sometimes have to be a bit more forceful.
I'm BFing & topping up with formula & do find them both completely different- it's almost like the breast milk contains a drug that knocks Ivy out after a few minutes. She does the dozing off at the breast thing, then wants a bit more a few minutes later and it all takes much longer than the bottle.
Really hope you get some good advice & help soon. X
ardenbird Wed 09-May-12 18:50:42
Yss, that's my best guess kiki. She seems to be getting less patient, too. She used to take the first let-down in the 'good' latch, but now barely stays there 10-15 seconds before blowing air out or wiggling around to get to the 'medium' latch. It's also hard for me to tell, as even the good latch doesn't feel great, which is part of what makes me wonder if she has some posterior tongue-tie issues. I've been letting her eat unless it gets to be hurting too much, then wait for a break and take her off. I remember way back in the first weeks, they said it would be easier when her mouth was bigger because she could get more breast in it, but I'm wondering if now that her mouth is larger, she doesn't have to gape as wide to make the milk come down, so doesn't bother.
And I remember your first weeks -- that was scary!
I've talked to the GP on the phone, and I don't think she knew much, but she might be willing to look at the papers I bring in from Dr Kotlow's site. But that was the soonest possible appointment. And she said referrals to consultants could take 'weeks'. I don't want to wait weeks! It was the HV who gave me the orthodontists' number, and so I made the soonest appointment with him too. I hope the GP isn't annoyed that I'm following two paths, but I'm not sure the ortho will know things, so don't want to cancel the GP appointment, as at least she is reasonably open. (She helped me get off-license medication for my heart, for example -- oh, BTW, that didn't cause any problems during labour other than my HR was nearly the same as DD's, so they had to have a trace on me to make sure they were measuring her and not me smile )
At least DD is eating, and gaining weight. She's tracking the 25th centile now, after starting out on 75+, but as long as she's following a line the HV is happy.
How did it go at the GP broody? Do you have any family changing rooms at your pool? DH, Fyfe and I were all in one so I only had his towel by the side of the pool, he brought the clothes from the locker whilst I fed Fyfe etc. would make the first time much less daunting? We've decided to go every Tuesday night so that DH can be a part of it rather than me going in the day, we'll start taking it in turns going in the pool though as was £8.60 for the three of us for 13 mins in the pool shock wouldn't want to pay that every week! grin
Think we may have just been having an easy few days as Fyfe is back to feeding lots this evening, has barely stopped since we got home at 5.
arden great you have appointments booked, see as many people as you can! I know exactly what you mean with the medium latch, Fyfe does that too, luckily for me it got much more comfortable as his mouth got bigger, can't remember when that was though! It does sound like there's something more to it for you. You should be immensely proud of yourself for persevering through all the pain, I really hope you get help and answers soon! Agree with kiki re being as pushy as needed! long feeds are definitely normal but not spending most of them latching. smile
KikiRC Wed 09-May-12 21:21:30
Ooh, Trouble before I forget- there's a special 'Disco hour' in the pool at Summerfields on Saturday afternoons that's apparently £1 per person all over the summer from now. Don't know if that includes the baby pool, too.
Arden- sorry, I can't remember if you have said already if you've thought about or tried expressing? Might this give you a bit of a break if you did it for a couple of feeds a day? I've not had any trouble with Ivy BFing & using the bottle in tandem- I've used the special little teats. It might just quicken things up a bit and make things less sore for you? x
Sounds good kiki, I'll look it up! Which teats do you use? I bought Fyfe a dippy cup today on HV advice so will see if it's any more successful next week or so. smile
KikiRC Wed 09-May-12 22:47:52
I still have the teats I was given at hospital- they don't have a name on them, so I'm not sure, but the 'nipple' end is slightly tilted and they're quite small. They came in little sterile packs- I only have three (I hadn't realised at first that at the hospital they're not allowed to reuse them, so they threw loads away- what a waste!) But I've been sterilising them and using them daily since then, and they're still fine... They also fit on other bottles (the hospital bottles are only 100ml..)
broodylicious Wed 09-May-12 23:08:30
GP was fine thanks trouble. Although I must admit, slightly surprised at the lack of interrogation from the doc. I imagined that because it's called postnatal check up, I'm a first time mum, had ventouse delivery and accompanying episiotomy, she would've asked to see my bits. Not that I wanted to get them out, but that was what I'd imagined would happen. She just asked what contraception I wanted to use (and gave me prescription for it), whether my cut had healed and how Poppy had been. No questions to check if i had pnd, although maybe she would be able to pick up on that in how i answered, or physical exams. Is this what everyone else has experienced or have you had a more thorough check?
Anyway, she did check (a very hungry) DD over and all is good. She frightened the life out of me doing the reflex test though! Not sure that throwing a baby up a few inches and catching her is the best way to do it?!?! I know the doc would not have not caught her (oooh bad grammar but as I'm not at work, I'm not going to correct myself hahahahaha!!!) but it still worried me nonetheless. Hey ho, nothing bad happened and they have to test somehow I guess.
Sounds like the TUK/Sma teat I tried that my sister had at the hospital kiki, I've reused it too though have another in its little pack still. Maybe he'll change his mind on Sunday (going to try once per week).
broody which reflex was she testing for?! confused My postnatal check was much the same, I had already asked the midwife if it would usually involve a physical exam and she had told me it wouldn't if you weren't having any problems so sounds pretty normal. Mine too was brief. Fyfe had a physical exam but no reflex tests/circus skills! grin
Punk80 Thu 10-May-12 10:30:24
I was also surprised at my post natal check as she didn't really check anything just talked about contraception. She also said that as I was ebf I probably didn't need to use contraception but I have heard of people getting pregnant really quickly again even though they are bf so don't think I'll rely on it. I had similar labour to you broody but with forceps and whilst didn't want doctor poking about would have been reassuring. Also think if you were feeling low that wouldn't have been great forum to get help. Ok rant over grin
Sounds like you're all doing well with the bottles and teats. I haven't tried again since first traumatic event but know I should give it a go!
* arden* you're doing do well persevering with bf you must be exhausted. Well done to you and I hope gp listens to you as you know your baby and what you're talking about more than them smile
broodylicious Thu 10-May-12 16:10:43
Holy moly punk was it the doctor who told you ebf = no babies?! So wrong!!! We are actually really fertile right now so could get preggo straight away!!
KikiRC Thu 10-May-12 17:49:06
Yes, definitely use contraception- BFing just lowers the risk, doesn't cut it out altogether.
My PN check was pretty quick, too- she checked Ivy's eyes & asked a few general questions. She didn't seem to know she'd been back in hospital or anything about her brace, so it wasn't especially helpful from my point of view, but I guess it's just a brief standard check. She has her first injections next week.
Ivy had another scan today- it's slowly looking a bit better, but the hips still aren't in the right position, so we have another 2 week wait until the next scan and check-up. It's dragging a bit...
punk we're not all doing well with bottles and teats! wink good luck if you try again. They are funny little creatures, I'm not investing in any other types of bottle/teat now that knitterati has said her baby stopped taking the fancy calma bottle! Someone in my post natal group was told she had to top up 1ml after every feed and do one bottle feed a day (hmm) and her baby has recently started refusing the bottle too, they were weighed yesterday though and she's doing fine without it so good on her! grin
Fyfe is now 10 weeks old shock and weighs 13lb 13oz so 3oz off of a stone! smile amazing to look at him and hold him and think 'I did that' grin
kiki sorry to hear that Ivy's treatment is dragging, it must be really hard her still having to wear the brace, fingers crossed these next couple of weeks make a difference.
Punk80 Fri 11-May-12 13:02:56
Sorry trouble thought most people were ok with it. How is Fyfe with it? Did you manage to leave a bottle and go out for your anniversary? Was going to try and get it sussed in time for our anniversary so we could go out but my mum who was going to babysit has broken her wrist so don't think it will be happening.
How are people managing visitors? We seem to have people up all the time which is lovely but hard going! Dh mum rung on tues and said we want to come and see our grand daughter on Saturday. You feel mean saying no but what about waiting for an invite?! At this rate we're going to have mine or dh parents here every weekend.
broodylicious Fri 11-May-12 17:18:07
Know exactly what you mean punk - Visitors to our home are welcome but at our invite only. A few weeks ago, when dd would've been three or four weeks old, and I'd invited my friends over, I was actually very straightforward and honest and said they're welcome but please could they keep the visit to just an hour because of feeding and my tiredness. It is not like me to speak like that, i never want to fall out with people or upset them and so because they know that and the way I worded it, they weren't at all put out and said they were just pleased to come and congratulate us and meet the LO.
Re relatives - from the very start, we told both families that we would be having "no visitor days" or "new family days" so that DH, DD and I could enjoy getting to know each other, slob about or just do what we want. That was important while DH had his two weeks off work, but now he's back and working four or five days a week, we want at least one day a week when it's just us. He works funny hours and any of the seven days (ie its not a 9-5, mon-fri job). My mum gets a bit sulky if we say we're having a NV day on a saturday or that we're not going to be around for them to see us (ie if we've agreed to see other people) but we just take it as they're our rules and we're sticking to them for now. Might seem harsh but it's what we want and what works for us.
Not completely sure punk! I got a bit in to him with the tiny TUK teat then left him with my mum for 3 hours, she gave him the bottle but thought I had already put the milk in it when I hadn't grin so she essentially gave him a dummy! He sucked it very happily and fell asleep! We may try again this weekend (with milk!) smile
X posts broody! Sounds like a good system. We've not had any problems really, my mum comes over most days whilst DH is at work and we go out for a walk with Fyfe and the dog and we've had friends to visit most weekends but they've only come for a day despite us encouraging them to stay for the while weekend! It's nice for us though as we've moved and want to show our friends round so want them to come for long visits so we can get out and about and explore.
Whole not while! blush
ardenbird Sat 12-May-12 09:58:42
How weird about the reflex check, broody. I'd guess it'd be the startle/falling reflex she was checking for? My DD exhibits it if you just lean her back fast, not sure being airborn is neccessary!
Best wishes for your DD, kiki. I hope the two week check shows lots of improvement.
And I'm afraid I'm horrid at expressing - the IBCLC said to pump anyway as the stimulation was useful, and I've been trying to. Five pumping sessions or so and I might have 10ml. But it also hard to do all these things and keep DD fed! I've found that, despite what they say about feeding to cue, that DD is better if I let her get a little desperate. She actually opens her mouth then. I'm wondering if opening wide is uncomfortable, so she's only willing to do it if she's really hungry. Makes me feel bad to make her wait, but I've been trying that the last couple feeds and we have less of a "fight" as it is easier to get her latched on. It does make for massively long feeding sessions, though, like over 2 hours, so I'm feeding nearly constantly. I think I need to learn to do things in 15 minute spurts.
I've been exploring private options for DD - phoned an IBCLC who had some advice and recommended a cranial osteopath. We have an appt with her on Monday. It was funny, as just that day I was saying to DH that people in the March thread went to one and I wonder what it is and why... But it sounds like it could be useful and might have something to do with why DD doesn't like opening her mouth. I've also used a "remote service" of a TT expert who does initial consults over the internet/phone. I've filled in their forms and a waiting to hear back now. They're not close, but perhaps a conceivable drive if we make a two-day trip and stop at a friends' place half-way.
We're not having trouble with visitors, as people we know are either really local or very far away. PIL were here for the first three weeks to help out, which was a bit crowded, but they were super-helpful and fed us and stuff. Local visitors have all been very polite about staying no more than half an hour or so. I actually wish people would come more often, as I'm feeling somewhat isolated. My Mum is coming in a week and a half, and staying a week, which will be more interesting. I hope she might be helpful, but she can be high-maintenance. Also, when she bought her plane tickets two weeks ago, I was sure we'd have DD's issues sorted by then. But at the rate things are moving, we might need to be traveling somewhere for something while she's here. Oh well, maybe she can make the trip easier.
DD had an hour of awake-but-not-hungry yesterday, the longest period in a long time, which made me quite happy! It's very disheartening when she just seems 'almost hungry' all of the time. Unfortunately she did it when all I wanted was a nap, so we didn't take the most advantage of it, and I just sat on the couch attempting to entertain her with toys (babies sure have short attention spans, don't they?) and eventually walked around the house and looked out windows (while I wished she fall asleep so I could too).
KikiRC Sat 12-May-12 20:25:58
Hope you're all having a good weekend- it's been lovely here. Just wondering how many of you have had first injections yet? Ivy has hers on Tuesday. Did anyone get a fever or anything? I was advised to get some Calpol just in case she had a reaction- haven't given her anything like that before, hopefully we won't need it. Also, next to the Calpol in my local Boots was a row of Gripe Water (both the branded one & their own make). Just thought I'd mention it 'cos I remember someone saying it was hard to get hold of a while back- maybe stocks have been replenished? It was about £2 or £3..
Fyfe had his two weeks ago kiki, he was absolutely fine, no fever. Thanks, yes, gripe water is back in stock! smile
KikiRC Sat 12-May-12 20:56:08
It's a funny thing to have a run on, gripe water, isn't it?! Good to see there's some about now, anyway. x
ardenbird Mon 14-May-12 21:42:02
Just back from osteopath. DD already a little better at opening her mouth, so I'm very encouraged. It was also nice to get validation that DD really is uncomfortable and I'm not just crazy and/or have bad technique.
Although, we managed to schedule the appointment, a 2 hr drive that construction turned to 3, on a growth spurt day. Oh my. It was feed in public trial by fire. We fed at: rest area parking lot, medical centre, Indian restaurant, (all afternoon at breastfeeding support group in that town), ikea cafe, and ikea parking lot. Phew. And I imagine I'll be up late tonight satisfying her delayed needs from the day. Hopefully next week won't have such a desperately hungry baby...
broodylicious Mon 14-May-12 23:18:47
sadwhat a hellish few days we've endured. DD had serious bout of colic on Saturday - to coincide with me driving the 60 mile trip to my folks of course. She woke up ok but after an hour or so, it was clear she was gonna be trouble and sure enough, on came the colic. Drive over to the folks was great as she just slept but after half an hour of us arriving, on came the screaming....hour after hour after hour - started about 2ish, went on til about 730. It stressed me out so much and I just broke down. I didn't want my folks to think I can't cope but in reality, at that particular point in time, I couldn't. They were great and took her for cuddles (with her screaming still) and comforted me too.
Today, she's been awake for getting on 14 hours. Constantly. Ten minute snooze after a feed this morning, tried to move her but she wouldn't be put into her bed, so I had to hold her but then she wouldn't go back to sleep - no amount of rocking, singing, quiet talking would do it. Then I took her for a drive; she fell asleep after five trips around the block but woke up about two minutes of coming back into the house. Taken her again at 930, again she fell asleep and stayed sleeping for 10 minutes of being home but now she's wide awake again. DH has her now trying to coax her to shut her eyes while I've come upstairs to rest. Ha. Not likely.
Please tell me this is just a growth spurt thing?!?!
Wow arden don't you just love those hungry days?! smile great the osteopathy has made a difference already!
broody sad that sounds really, really tough, poor you. I really hope you've all managed to get some sleep tonight?
The efficient feeding didn't last by the way, just a fluke it seems as back to feeding very frequently by the next day. The night feeds have got shorter though, now usually up for half an hour rather than an hour. Now that I've written that it'll probably be jinxed and never happen again! grin
Do any of you have any top tips to share by the way? I have two:
Buy plain yogurt to mix with cereal, it can then be eaten one handed.
Put baby down (if you want to) whilst drowsy,not when already asleep.
KikiRC Tue 15-May-12 12:54:52
Not a tip as such, but something Ivy loves is wearing a rattle on her wrist- if I lay her down with some music on she'll sing away & rattle along happily for up to about half an hour, especially if I'm nearby joining in the singing.. Means I can move about and get things done for short bursts when she's not sleeping...
Sounds good kiki! I'll look out for one! I forgot another one, Fyfe will happily lay naked on a changing mat on the bathroom floor whilst I have a shower and get dressed! smile
I've sent you a text kiki, let me know if you still have probs with your phone.
Bit quiet round here! Are you all having a nice weekend? grin
knitterati Sun 20-May-12 17:34:12
Yup! Having a nice w/e after going to the baby show in Birmingham on Friday - fabbo!
It has been quiet on here...
Anyone got any tips on settling baby to sleep?
Hi knitterati, the show sounds fun, did you get lots of things? smile
I feed Fyfe to sleep every night still, are you trying to avoid that or is that not working for you?
broodylicious Sun 20-May-12 21:50:19
Argh knitterati if only I knew... wink
BeeWi Mon 21-May-12 07:34:15
Hi ladies. How's everyone going?
We had quite an emotional couple of weeks here. My folks left last week after being here for 5 weeks, which was gutting. They were fab with Erin; my dad was the best person at getting her to do really long 'talking' stints and my mam was really lovely with her too. It's not that we can't cope without them, it's just sad that they'll miss all the tactile stuff with her as she grows- the gorgeous snugly cuddles and the like. Thank goodness for Skype though smile.
Knitterati - to settle Erin we usually swaddle then rock in our arms and sing or whisper 'there, there' until her eyes become slits. Whilst we're doing that, we put a couple of wheat packs in her bassinet, so it gets all warm. We take them out just before we put her in and then lay her down super gently and the keep whispering 'there, there' to her until she's fully out. Usually the does the trick but it can ake up to 10 mins whispering (I think the whispering may sound like the blood whoosh from in the womb). We always avoid making eye contact too.
Trouble - I used your tip about showering with Erin in the bathroom, except I kept her clothed and laying in a baby relax chair as it's getting cold here and our bathroom can be chilly. It worked a treat. Thank you for the tip - it's revolutionised our mornings.
My tip that you probs all know, but is to use heat packs in your baby's bed before laying them down. It makes the bedding nearer to body temperature, so it's not a shock when they're laid down / makes it seem like they're still being cuddled.
Also, I did a baby massage class last week and apparently if you rub your pointer finger along the flats of their soles from your left to right (if they're laid on thir backs with their feet towards you) it helps release trapped wind.
BeeWi Mon 21-May-12 07:35:59
P.s. Arden. - reading your posts puts me in awe of you! I thought we had it tough with Erin's reflux problems but you're a trooper. Massive respect! Hope things are improving!
grin glad it worked for you bee, it makes such a difference to be able to easily shower every morning doesn't it?! Your tip sounds handy, DH has nearly finished painting Fyfe's cot now and we plan to get him in to it when we start his bedtime routine next week, so far we have all been going to bed at 9 but we will do 7.30 bath, feed, bed for 8 so I will get a hot water bottle organised whilst DH is doing the bath to give us more chance. It makes a lot of sense as he does all of his day sleeping on me and I'm pretty warm I guess! Thanks! Keep 'em coming!
Fyfe broke his personal record again last night and slept solidly from 11-6! grin and we went back to sleep after a feed, oh the wonderful laziness of only having one child! grin
ardenbird Tue 22-May-12 12:44:47
Well, we've had an adventurous few days! We made the trip to the clinic to get Tessa's tongue-tie snipped. They said see the osteopath before and after to keep the tension from pressing her tongue down. It was across the country Friday to the osteopath, then down to spend the night in a hotel next to the clinic, clinic Saturday morning, then drive to friends and spend the night, back home on Sunday, and a trip back and forth to the osteopath again on Monday.
It's been an amazing difference: Tessa is much happier, and spends more time alert already. And she's more relaxed when sleeping. Feeds are taking only 45-60min, instead of nearly two hours! So there's actually time in between to do things. I haven't gotten to experience much of that yet, since we've been mostly driving, but at our friends I had my first sit-down meal with adults since the birth, and we stopped at a few tourist attractions on the way home.
She's got tongue exercises to do, and we have to stretch it twice a day. I don't like that as she cries, but she's getting over it faster. She has to learn to suck a new way, which they say will take 2-3 weeks -- one of the exercises is to have her suck my finger, and I can feel the difference between "old suck" and "new suck", which she goes back and forth between.
And then today we visited the HV for a weigh-in, and Tessa managed to gain 17 ounces in 2 weeks; enough to make the fact that last time HV plotted her weight one week too early still make it look like following the line this weigh. I expect she'll start boosting up the charts by next time smile
What's funny is it's like we're starting over -- I need to figure out when to feed her, etc, and what she wants all over again, and she needs to figure it out too. But I'm just so happy that everything looks to be getting better. smile
bee, oo, that heat-pack idea sounds great. Where do you get the wheat packs from? We went looking for those when I was pregnant and didn't find them, and we can't even find anywhere selling hotwater bottles (the last place I saw one was Woolworths!).
How's Tessa's feeding now arden? You did so well sticking to your guns!grin
Fyfe just had his second injections, he was very brave, just a little cry at each calming down again very quickly. One more lot to go in another 4 weeks. smile
knitterati Wed 23-May-12 12:46:05
Arden that's fab news!! Glad to hear you're getting there. I think most mums would have given in and given a bottle by now! So big respect to you.
Bee - thanks for the info. I've been feeding Elena to sleep, which all the books say not to do. There is the odd occasion we've been able to rock/bounce her to sleep from being put down all dozy in her hammock, but again, I've read that you create bad 'sleep associations' if you rock them to sleep, gah! It's a real minefield and I hate how I feel that no matter what I do to get her to sleep, it's not the right thing! Ah well. She sleeps, so I guess that's all we need for now. The tip about warming the bed/hammock worked for us the other day - mind, not that we need it here for the moment now we have all this lovely weather... Now we've got to keep these babies cool!!
Normal sleep for us is 10-3, 3.30-6/7am, not too bad, but could be better as I'm not seeing any signs that the 3am feed is getting any later/earlier in the morning IYSWIM?! Jabs next week so am fully expecting a grotty baby again. Back to growth spurt behaviour for a few days then.
Baby show was vvv good - bought close pop in nappies for £10/nappy rather than £14/nappy so have got myself fully kitted out for reusables! So far so good smile bought all sorts of other stuff much cheaper too! Think the next one is in Manchester, for those further north than me!
Hope everyone is enjoying this weather! X
broodylicious Wed 23-May-12 19:57:37
Hi all smile Poppy had her jabs yesterday. She was fine with then but I cried! The nurse was lovely and said many mums get emotional at the first lot. Felt a bit of a wally though!
She seems to be settling herself into a routine in terms of naps and feeds and she's getting a nice night-time sleep most nights, only broken at 3-4 for a feed. I'm happy to let her rule the routine for the time being as she's only eight weeks old so she can't manipulate us and just wants feed, changing, sleep or cuddles. maybe it's not what the books say (gina ford hasn't even had kids so [raspberry] to her!!) but it's what we're happy with. We rock her to sleep during the day but generally needs feeding to sleep at night.
We are going for a taster session at baby sensory on Friday. Really looking forward to that. Anyone else tried it?
sad broody! It is a bit sad! Fyfe had his second ones today and it was much better, he was very brave do it was fine for me too. He has one more lot to go in 4 weeks time. The routine sounds good, I'm happy to be led by him too, whatever he needs.
knitterati I've been told the same (at post natal classes) re not feeding/rocking/hugging but when I told my mum about this she looked very hmm and said she always fed me to sleep when I was very little and I just naturally started settling myself when I was a bit older, she never had any problems with it, guess like everything it will differ from baby to baby. I've decided he sleeps so well I'm not going to mess with it! grin
ardenbird Thu 24-May-12 09:12:02
I've heard that "you can't spoil a baby in the first three months", so I think whatever you do is right if it makes the baby happy smile
Wow, right now it's like the first few weeks again -- we have to make sure she feeds at least every three hours to make sure her tongue doesn't heal back. I'm wandering about in a sleep-deprived fog again. Had a scare earlier in the week when her tongue looked to be sticking down, and it turned out I wasn't being forceful enough when stretching it sad So now I'm trying really hard, but it makes us both cry. Good thing is it seems to have come loose again.
Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. It's nice to hear, especially when I'm bumbling along feeling like I can't do this right at all!
broodylicious Thu 24-May-12 09:56:40
Just a little praise for my hospital!! Xx
FlipFantasia Thu 24-May-12 13:24:22
Hi ladies
A flying visit from me - it's so hot here that I'm jealous of those at the coast! Back after a long, hot, sun cream sticky morning at the playground. At least DS keeps his sun hat on now...DD just stayed in the sling and slept!
Arden well done! That's great that it's been snipped and you've got advice on how to move forward. You've done an amazing job to get this far and continue to do an amazing job smile.
Re the feeding to sleep/rocking etc, I'm with Trouble's mum on this. Don't worry about it! Do whatever works in terms of getting them off to sleep or resettling. Our babies are still so young and it's normal for them to need help with things like getting to sleep. It's actually a good thing to rock a baby (see here).
I fed DS to sleep every night until at least 7-8 months, when DH took over and rocked him to sleep. I continued to feed to sleep for many months after that whenever we needed to (eg travelling or staying somewhere unfamiliar, or teething, or illness...). We coslept until 9 months. All naps were either in the sling, fed to sleep lying down (so I could nap next to him grin) or rocked in the buggy until 11 months, when I moved him to a cot so that he'd be ready for nursery. He didn't sleep for longer than 2 hours at a time until he was 9 months (strangely, I was more tired once he started sleeping for longer stretches!).
A couple of my NCT friends were Gina Forders, as was one of my sisters, and I got a lot of "advice" about how I was ruining my son, rod for my own back, I should let him cry it out etc. But it's rubbish, as he is a great sleeper now - at 26 months he does a 2 hour nap every day (which means me and DD get to nap together too smile) and sleeps pretty much 8pm-7.30am every night (sometimes he's up later or sleeps later).
One thing that did work for us was having a bed routine from about 4 months - bath and the same bedtime story book (we still use the same book now, all taped up, and it's a great sleep cue - it's in his cot and we take it with us traveling and he'll sleep anywhere with it). Also, for older babies, the No Cry Sleep Solution is great if you want a book to read.
We'll follow a routine with DD from about 12 weeks this time - she currently gets into her PJs at the same time as her brother and then sleeps on one of us until we all go to bed around 11 and then sleeps next to me.
OK, DD needs a feed!
Punk80 Fri 25-May-12 13:32:18
Hi all hope you're enjoying the sunsmile how are your babies coping with the heat? Orla slept quite a lot yesterday but hasn't so far today, she seems to want lots of little feeds and is enjoying her bouncy chair! I can't believe she will be ten weeks on Monday time is flying and I'm really enjoying it. Already thinking I can't go back to work full time think I am going to contact my boss to see about option of part time. How about you guys?
broody I cried too at first injections! Orla did a cry that she had never done before was awful and she was due a feed so a stressful experiencesad hopefully next ones will be better now i know what to expect! We're doing a baby sensory taster as well next week have heard really good things about it.
trouble any luck with the bottle? We tried again and slightly better than the traumatic first attempt but she only took a little bit. Meeting a friend this afternoon who is bringing some teats her daughter had in hospital so will give them a go. Hope it's working for you.
arden wow to you having to deal with all you have on top of all the normal baby things. Hope things keep getting better.
Hope you all have a good weekend in the sun! We're off to my mums for a few days as she needs an op on her broken wrist so going to help her out although not sure how much use I will be when I get there with a baby and our two very lively dogs!! Could be interesting grin
broodylicious Fri 25-May-12 17:09:21
We have just got back from baby sensory. Wow. It's fantastic! Poppy was a bit overwhelmed by it all and cried for a while but the group leader said it's quite common to begin with because of the new sights, sounds and smells so not to worry. Hope you enjoy it too, punk! xx
punk I've abandoned the bottle idea and have started using a tommy tippee free flow sippy cup, you can use them from 3 months, Fyfe took some water from it yesterday and wasn't upset about it at all- much more successful! grin
I'm not going back to work, we had planned it that way and were lucky as we're able to halve our mortgage when we moved so we can manage on just DH's salary. smile
Baby sensory sounds fun, we'll be going at some point! We went to a parent and baby cinema screening yesterday, it was so much fun!grin
broodylicious Fri 25-May-12 23:10:35
trouble can we give water after three months then? I didn't think they needed it if you ebf? blush
I bought some TT cups, spoons and feeding pots last week from aldi - never been in there before but had seen on tv they had a baby event on and got Poppy's bits, plus a pair of ugg type boots and ballerina pumps for £7! Bargain!
They don't need it broody! I just didn't want to express or defrost milk (and likely have to throw it away again in order to try the cup out and figured water wouldn't hurt on a hot day like that. I'll they with milk next time now that he has taken from the cup.grin
Try...not they.
broodylicious Sat 26-May-12 11:06:27
Ah phew! Was thinking I was denying her something wink
We've just been for a lovely walk; it's warm out there but there was a nice breeze so we didn't get too hot. Poppy has slept the whole time we were out so obviously felt comfortable - she had such a paddy when we walked over a country park on Wednesday!
Don't know about you but I am so worried about what to dress her in! Will she be too hot? Too cold? Should she still wear socks if it's not a sleep suit she's got on? The nurse we saw on Tuesday for her jabs said she's fine in just a nappy when it's this hot but obviously I don't want her like that when we are out and about! We are keeping her just in a vest when we are at home, how about you guys?
KikiRC Sat 26-May-12 12:30:40
broody, at the antenatal class we were told that the top of the back, under the neck is a good place to monitor temperature, if you're not sure if they're hot/ cold. Ivy's just been in a vest at home, and a thin dress over the top when we go out- plus a big sun hat as the strong sea breeze can mask how strong the sun is, here.
KikiRC Sat 26-May-12 12:31:43
PS- I've also given Ivy a bit of water in a bottle from time to time when it's hot.. she seems to quite like it...
Fyfe is wearing short sleeved shortie all in ones and a hat, no socks or anything else, well, apart from factor 50! smile
broodylicious Sat 26-May-12 15:13:53
Aaah yes!!! Thanks kiki - I think we were told that at NCT too but remembering isn't one of my strong points these days, haha! I think also by feeling their tummies you can get a good idea.
Think I'm going to invest in a few romper suits too trouble if this weather continues. Bit loathed as she will be in 3-6 stuff soon but there are some cute ones in M&S so guess I'll treat her!!
Why not get them in 3-6 broody, they're rather nice a little baggy in this weather, I've just moved him in to the 6-9 month ones that he would have been moving in to in about 2 weeks anyway and they're nice and cool for him! grin
ardenbird Sun 27-May-12 13:10:59
Yeah, I've been wondering if in the heat, do our bodies make more watery milk so the LOs can drink more but not overeat? It would make sense...
Tessa is doing well. I still hate stretching her, but she is getting over it faster, so it must not hurt as much. Oo - I have a tip! To get her to calm down, I've been holding her close, giving a little jiggle, and shushing in her ear as loud as she's crying. She often stops crying for a second at the first shush, and then slowly quiets down. I have to keep the sushing up, but quieter, once she quiets.
broodylicious Sun 27-May-12 15:59:51
arden our LO responds to shushing too. Other things we've discovered this week :
1) holding her close while bouncing on the yoga/exercise ball calms her down when she has a strop
2) putting my iPod on also has the same effect but we have to stand and sway and jiggle
3) putting her down in her bed when drowsy not fully asleep settles her far quicker and usually results in less tossing and turning
4) she is flippin nosy! When it's bedtime, we have to rock her in a silent, darkened room with very little to look at or she will keep staring, smiling or giggling at us or random objects around her. At nap time, we play my iPhone's tunes and rock and sing gently.
5) she adores mirrors and it keeps her happy for a little longer by playing in front of one! The one in our hall is hung head height so I dip below it then come up and pull a funny face to her reflection and she does such a high pitched squeal/giggle!
6) she doesn't like going shopping and doesn't mind telling me and the other shoppers....blush
I love this mummyhood grin
ardenbird Mon 28-May-12 11:38:39
And oh, returning to work... ack, I just filled out the HR form confirming my plans. Realising I'm now past the half-way point with Tessa before I go back -- I'm only taking the 16 weeks paid we get, as we can't afford it otherwise, plus I figured I'd be pretty resentful of my students for whom I have to do things like read a PhD thesis before I return if I used savings to have time off work and yet still have to do such things. Academics is odd -- I've heard people say thing like maternity leave is great time to get work done! I don't know what kind of maternity leave they spent, but it's not like mine... Anyway, going back should be pretty low-key as I'm planning to work from home and only go in once or twice a week for a seminar, and I put in an application to do a research project (at home) instead of teaching for the first semester. But I will have to find time to actually work with Tessa about! I have friends who have done this, though, so I know it's possible. (One friend went back at 6 weeks -- with her daughter in her office in a Uni-provided crib! Germany is so practical...)
RemembersButtonMoon Mon 28-May-12 15:49:28
May I join, please? My little boy was born on 17th March 2012... St. Patrick's Day (his dad is Irish) and the day before Mothering Sunday.
Gabeesh Tue 29-May-12 01:42:01
Can I join too - my ds was born 20th March at 6.22am and I delivered him myself in the hospital toilet!
broodylicious Tue 29-May-12 03:59:02
Welcome to newbies smile [waves] oh my goodness gabeesh! Would love to hear more about that delivery! Xx
Welcome Button and Gabeesh, how are your babies getting on?
Glad to hear everything is going well and that you all seem to be enjoying mummyhood! smile
Fyfe's cot was put up yesterday (we'd been cosleeping) as a bedside cot so with 3 sides, mattress meeting ours. We decided to start a bedtime routine for him as he's now 3 months so DH took him upstairs for a bath at 8.30, I fed him and he was asleep in his cot at 9.07 grin - pretty successful! We're going to gradually make it earlier and try going downstairs with the monitor (last night we just watched a programme on the laptop in bed) I realise some of you are probably way ahead with this but am quite excited! grin
broodylicious Tue 29-May-12 10:02:18
Well done trouble that seems a great start to a routine [thumbs up]. We are trying to give her the same cues every night so she's aware it is nighttime - so lights are low, tv volume goes down, DH and I talk quietly, feed downstairs til she's starting to drift off, rock her a little, take her upstairs and put her in her bed, no lights on but lit with light from landing. Doing it like this, she generally sleeps from about 11pm til 3am, feeds for about 40 minutes, then sleeps from 4am to 6/7am. It's all a bit trial and error isn't it?
In other news, poppy has got conjunctivitis in both eyes sad they both were quite gunky on Sunday, but not red, and she was scratching them a lot so I took her to the doctors yesterday. We've got eye drops for her so hopefully she'll be feeling better soon. Although I can't say it's affected her happiness - she was full of gorgeous giggles and squeals at 6am yesterday and again today!!
Thanks broody! He slept from 9-9 with feeds at 3.30, 5.30 and 7.30 and settled easily in his cot so I'm glad I didn't mess things up by insisting his cot was painted before it was put up (this took a few extra weeks but wouldn't have ever happened otherwise!). Sorry to hear about poppy! Did you know that you can treat conjunctivitis with breast milk too? Just express in to their eyes every feed! shock grin
broodylicious Tue 29-May-12 15:37:15
That's fantastic! Not at all envy haha! I hadn't heard about breast milk for conjunctivitis until this morning when I happened to be googling something about it. May well give that a try between her antibiotic drops.
Just got back from the health visitor drop in clinic as I needed to have her weighed. Devastated that she's only gone up to 10:2 from 9:14 in the last two weeks. I feel like all I've done is feed so I am totally deflated and sadsadsad Don't know what else I can do now. Well I could ff but tbh I will feel dreadful sadsad
sad sorry to hear that broody! Are they concerned about her? Weight isn't everything of course, if she seems happy in herself she may just be having a slow gaining period and may pick up again. Was ff suggested?
Punk80 Wed 30-May-12 09:57:00
Welcome to new peeps smile
trouble well done to you and Fyfe with your routine feels like such an achievement doesn't it?! Orla is being great too, she generally goes to sleep about 7.30pm has a feed around 10.30pm 4.30am and 7am and is in her cot in between. We've put her in her big cot now as she kept sticking her arm through the spindles of her crib! She looks so tiny in it very cutesmile. Sounds like you're enjoying the social side of being a mummy. I've found it a really good way to make friends.
We've just signed up for a baby massage course at the c centre. Anyone done that?
broody I'm sure it's ok that poppy hasn't put on loads of weight. How is she looking in the graph? I agree with trouble it could just be a slow weight gain time and then she'll have a spurt. You're doing a great job smile
In bed with a baby making a lot if bottom sounds! Going to investigatewink
Gabeesh Thu 31-May-12 14:29:47
Thanks for the welcome guys! My DS is currently passed out in my arms grinning his big goofy sleep grins that crack me up so much. He is really wonderful, my first and hopefully not my last (I'm 31 and had fertility issues plus fibromyalgia, but we're so happyi I think we'd like one more!)
Well, I had very bad blood pressure from 7 months so I was in hospital a lot. Finally, 11 days before he was due they decided to induce me as I was getting very poorly. However, they estimated I'd probably take 2 days before ds was born, so sent dh home that night. I had already gone into labour though, and timing my contractions thought I was in final labour by midnight. However, they kept saying I didn't look like I was in labour. I didn't know what to do with myself, was in so much pain and Si scared thinking it was only going to get worse. Luckily my sis and mum couldn't sleep so we were texting all night which really helped. At 5am they examined me and I was only 2 cm and waters hadn't broken yet. I was despairing! An hour later they came to check me again but when they took my pj bottoms off my waters broke. I suddenly needed the loo so sprinted to the toilet, had a cry and suddenly had to poop. Only a baby popped out instead! I was in shock, pulled the emergency cord and had about 7 midwives trying to persuade me to unlock the door (d'oh!) I knew they could get in so yelled "I can't stand up - you get in here, I've had the baby!" Wasn't angry, just in shock. Seconds before they all burst in the baby fell out down the loo but I caught him. His cord was wrapped round his neck so a tried to pull it slack (not easy, it was quite tight) then they all came in and took over, and I couldn't stop grinning! Awkward phoning DH to tell him I'd had the baby and hadn't even had a chance to call him. He was up in a shot! Whole final process took about 2 mins. If I could go back I wouldn't change a thing except to have DH there.
The midwives were really upset and felt they'd let me down, but I don't think they did. They were fab, no one could have predicted I'd go from 2cm to baby in an hour, and I genuinely feel it was just one of those things and if it hadn't been for their care while we were sick we might not have made it. I don't believe in blame anyway, and I'd hate for them to feel guilty when the outcome was so wonderful.
ardenbird Thu 31-May-12 16:33:41
Welcome to the new ones smile And, wow, gabeesh, that is some story! I'm glad it worked out well.
Sorry to hear about the weight broody - are they worried? I thought they said only weigh once a month after birthweight is reached, anyway, but our HV does seem to want us in every two weeks as well... Has she developed any new motor skills recently? Our friends told us about how when their DS started rolling he started slow weight-gain, which everyone got them all scared about, but it appeared he was just active and burning calories. He's now a still ridiculously energetic healthy six year old.
My Mum was here last week, left Wed AM. Phew. She helped a bit, but I think on sum was more work. I was surprised at how inept she was with a baby, but I guess I was spoiled by MIL who has three kids of her own, recent grandkids, and used to be a nursery teacher, whereas my Mum only had me nearly four decades ago. She was a lot less capable than I remember from when I last saw her in person a year and a half ago, which is sad sad She wants to come back in September again to "help", and I'm not sure what to say. I don't want to tell her she's more trouble than help, and I know she likes seeing Tessa, but I'm worried about taking care of her, the baby, and being back at work all at the same time. If my Dad came along, I'd feel a lot better, but he's terrified of airplanes and I'm not sure we can get him across an ocean.
What are you all doing about vitamin D drops? The HV gave them to me and said we could start them now or when she's a year old. That seemed horribly vague to me. I have no idea if I should start them or not.
RemembersButtonMoon Thu 31-May-12 16:59:18
Gabeesh, your son will love hearing that story when he’s older!
My birth was very different. I developed preeclampsia at 39 weeks, after suffering horribly with the PEP (Polymorphic Eruption of Pregnancy) rash. I was induced on the same day it was diagnosed. After three days of ‘labouring’ (if you can call it that) with an epidural and hormone drip, I developed a fever and had an emergency caesarean. I found being pregnant absolutely awful, although I somehow managed to continue to work until just over a week before my little boy was born.
Having him here at last is absolutely wonderful – I feel like we are in our own little sleep-induced magical bubble. I am often blissfully ignorant of time and day. Already broody and wanting another, people are right when they say you forget about all the pain of child birth!
Ardenbird – I have not heard about giving Vitamin D drops to the baby but I have been taking supplements when I remember so he has a good supply of Vitamin D from my breast milk.
I am so reassured to hear about your baby’s sleeping patters Broodylicious. My little boy has almost an identical routine to your daughter – falls asleep at about 11pm, sleeps until 4am and wakes finally at about 7am. I was worried his ‘bedtime’ may be too late as my friend’s baby of roughly the same age seems to be going to sleep at 9pm and sleeping through (either that or he’s fibbing).
Thank you all for making us feel so welcome!
Wow gabeesh! I went from 2-10cm in 30 mins but took a bit longer than you to actually have the baby! grin
arden glad you can get some rest now! Re vitamin d, you can give it now if you are bf and not taking a supplement yourself or, of you're taking a supplement (I take pregnacare still but you can take a normal multi vitamin) you can start her at 1 year. smile
KikiRC Thu 31-May-12 18:02:06
Hello newbies- that does sound terrifying, gabeesh!
Like the others have said, Broody, unless the doctor thinks there's a problem I wouldn't worry too much for now, I think some babies plateau a bit with their weight, and then suddenly have enormous growth spurts.. And her weight doesn't sound tiny, anyway.
Arden- I know exactly what you mean about your mum- mine is just the same, except she's only 2 hours away, so it's not quite the same issue. But when my parents come to visit at weekends (they stay in a B&B locally, so that makes things a bit easier) I find myself having to entertain them, and although they're desperately fond of Ivy they're pretty hopeless with her, and clearly did things very differently with me- i.e. ignored long bouts of crying (by leaving me in the pram in the garage) etc. I find them exhausting, frankly, but have worked out the things they can do to help (i.e. food shopping/ bottle feeding Ivy while I get on with things).
Nobody has mentioned vitamin D drops to me- not sure what the UK advice is?
X posts button! Nice to have a couple more boys in the thread! grin
X posts kiki, wow, I thought suddenly busy but actually just didn't refresh before writing my post which was a whole hour after button's! grin
Lawabidingmama Thu 31-May-12 22:43:37
Hello mind if I join in? [waves nervously] My beautiful dd2 arrived 18th march what a lovely mothers day gift grin.
I'm throughly enjoying doing the baby thing again although dd1 is only 2 so is still a baby too smile
Welcome law! Wow, how are you getting on? Is it easier or harder than you thought?
RemembersButtonMoon Fri 01-Jun-12 09:27:58
I just had a skim read through the entire thread and it was nice 're-living' some of those special experiences - first smiles, problems with wind, immunisations and those 'not-really-postnatal' 6 week checks!
Trouble - how is Fyfe’s swimming going? I am hoping to take my little one (Callum) in the next couple of weeks as I am a keen swimmer too, but have been putting it off due to a lack of confidence. On a different note, I love the name Fyfe!
How are the other classes going too? We have yet to join any but I am eager to. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Callum rolled over (back to front) in his cot last night, much to my surprise (and fright!). He has started reaching/accidentally getting hold of the toys on the bouncer too…. and trying to pull these to his mouth for a suckle!
How much tummy time do you give to your babies? I try to give Callum time on his mat several times each day, he holds his head up well but becomes upset if this is for longer than a couple of minutes. I have also become irrationally worried about flat head syndrome after seeing a news report so eager not to have him lying on his back, sitting in his bouncer for too long (but what is too long?).
Punk80 Fri 01-Jun-12 12:16:02
Welcome Law I went in to be induced on 18th march as I has oc and was hoping she would arrive that day (wishful thinking) but she arrived 19th. Good timing by your little girl! Mothers day will be extra special smile
That is some story gabeesh well done you!
* button * Orla has a similar sleeping pattern to your lo. How old is your friends baby sleeping through from 9pm???! Orla definitely needs her feeds at 10.30/11pm and 4am ish. She always seems hungry and am used to getting up now although the other night she woke at 3.30 and that did seem like the middle of the night compared to 4.30 when it is light!!
Any one got any nice plans for the jubilee? xx
broodylicious Fri 01-Jun-12 12:39:22
gabeesh that is an amazing story! Television stuff really! I can imagine that the MWs would be upset but like you say, who on earth could've guessed it'd have happened that quickly?!
button - I do baby sensory which is a lovely class. I'm going to be late for it though if I don't get off here and poppy off my boob, haha! If you google it you'll find a class near you as they're uk wide.
Lawabidingmama Sat 02-Jun-12 00:19:04
Aw thanks for the welcomes smile
trouble I am loving being a mama to my two girls do you know even though my eldest is 2 I still can't quite believe I'm a mummy! Sometimes I just stare at them in a stalkerish kind of way awe that I helped create these beautiful little girls! Don't get me wrong it's not all roses and rainbows we have our moments especially now my big girl has hit the terrible twos she's all miss independant! Somedays I wish I could split myself in two as they both need me very much but in different ways! I worried about dd1 how she would deal with getting a sibling especially as we are so close she's such a mamas girl! But she's been great my heart nearly burst the first time she asked where her sister was and the otherday she said " love you" to her I think with her being so young she's forgotten that it used to be just the three of us! She turned 2 two weeks after baby arrived.
Bf Emmie has been a different experience to first time though no chilling on the sofa I'm usually making tea feeding her sister running across the park/ playcentre/ toddler group poor Emmie gets milkshake! I remember first time being very discreet when feeding out and about no chance now!
punk I was delighted she arrived on mothers day especially as she was a week late and as my labour with dd1 had started the day after I was due I was convinced she would around the same I was beginning to think she would need evicted! Totally different labour too dd1 was three days of contractions no sleep twelve hour second stage two hours pushing theatre for forcep delivery this bundle was born less than an hour after arriving at hosp with only twenty mons gas and air three pushes!
It's flying by this time probably as my day is such a whirlwind can't believe she's 11 week on sun!
That's lovely law grin! My bet friend is having her second DD in July, her first will be 2 in October, she really wanted them close together but is finding the pregnancy/toddler combo very difficult, it's good to know it's going so well for you! grin
broodylicious Sat 02-Jun-12 16:22:01
Hi ladies smile
Quick question for you all - when your LOs are having a growth spurt, do they show the same signs every time (ie grumpy, sleepy, more awake etc)?
I ask because poppy has been v sleepy yday and today and on Thursday she ate for Europe, let alone England! This is different to previous spurts when she was a bit irritable, wouldnt sleep at all during the day and her appetite increased slightly. I've put these last few days down to a spurt rather than illness because her appetite hasn't decreased, she doesn't have a raised temperature and her nappies are the same, maybe just a little wetter. She seems happy in herself as she's smiling, laughing, chatting and gurgling as normal.
As i say, normally, she has to be really coaxed into napping so the sleepiness is a bit weird for me, hence my question! Xx
RemembersButtonMoon Sat 02-Jun-12 17:19:17
Hi Broody
How old is Poppy now? Callum is 11 weeks today and has been doing exactly what Poppy has for the past few days. During the heatwave he was unbelievably restless, waking throughout the night and hardly sleeping during the day too. I also found he was sick much more often after feeds than usual. However, it started to cool down on Thursday and he has done nothing but sleep – I put it down to him catching up on missed rest! Similarly, he is his usual smiling and gurgling self.
I hope this helps smile
KikiRC Sat 02-Jun-12 21:34:25
Funnily enough Ivy has been sleeping loads all day today- pretty much just fed & slept with only short bursts of activity in between. Very unlike her, but she certainly doesn't seem ill or anything, so I've just gone with it... She fed a lot the last few days, so I expect it's another spurt. She's 11 and a half weeks now. X
Weird! Fyfe slept loads last week, Tuesday and Wednesday particularly! confused
KikiRC Sun 03-Jun-12 13:15:38
I was worried Ivy wouldn't sleep last night after all the daytime kipping, but she went for 9 hours straight! Couldn't believe it. She's asleep again now, too. Funny kind of growth spurt... maybe it really takes it out of them when they get a bit bigger? Don't know if it's connected, but she's taken to sucking her thumb (not something we introduced her to, she just seemed to find it herself) and in the night I sometimes hear her wake, but then she finds her thumb & sucks it noisily and it seems to pacify her and send her back to sleep again...
Punk80 Sun 03-Jun-12 19:36:00
Snap kiki Orla is 11 weeks tom and is seeming to enjoy her sleep this week sleeping in the day and at night although not 9 hours straight. That must feel great kiki well done ivy smile do you feed her before you go to sleep?
Orla has also found her hand and spends time sucking most of it! You can hear her sucking away in her cot seems to soothe her.
Hope you're all having a good weekend it's pouring here sad
BeeWi Mon 04-Jun-12 09:21:53
Hi ladies. And extra hellos to the new ones smile
Arden - sorry for nt saying about wheat packs sooner...been a while since I checked back. We got ours from a local organic baby & woman shop but I looked on amazon uk and you can order them off there too.
How was everyone's jubilee weekend? The London celebrations have been big on the news here. Bit jealous of you all getting 4 day weekend! We have one extra day, so it's been nice for hubby to hang out with us for an extra day, especially as Erin has taken to going to bed at around 6pm. I think ut's because it's really dark by then, so poor thing thinks it's night. Not so great when she wakes a 4 or 5 ready to go for the day!
Was looking at a website today saying that from 13 weeks babies are classed as infants rather than newborns, so Erin has only got a few as left as a nb! How quickly 3 months passes!
Kiki - can I snd Erin your way fr a chat with Ivy? Her longest sleep so far is still only 5 hours! Mind you, can't complain...I dream feed when I go to bed, she then wakes once during the night and then gets up between 4 and 6.30. So it's not as bad as it used to be!
Is anybody still swaddling? I want to start weaning Erin off it but not really sure how to. Any tips?
KikiRC Mon 04-Jun-12 10:09:10
Haven't done an awful amount for the Jubilee- meeting some friends today & tomorrow there's a street party (though the weather doesn't look great). Bank holidays don't mean quite so much when you're freelance/ on maternity leave, do they? (DP is freelance, too).
Ivy did another 9 hours last night (8pm- 5am), though the bar down the street had a loud party 'til past 2am, so I still only got about 3 hours decent sleep! A lot of the time she's 'asleep' she sounds like she's chatting to Erin or someone, Bee- her finger sucking is very noisy! I was wondering when they stop being classed as newborns- I don't really think of Ivy as that little anymore, it's only when I take her out and about or catch up with friends who haven't seen her in a while that I realise she's still pretty small. She's just growing out of some of her smaller clothes, which feels a bit sad, but the big smiles make up for it!
I'd better get up- we're currently propped up in bed together like Morecombe & Wise!!
Punk80 Tue 05-Jun-12 15:29:01
Hi all hope you're enjoying the jubilee smile
As I'm sat doing a monster feed just starting to look for some toys or things for Orla as she is starting to grab things and is looking round at everything. Think I have a nosy baby! What do your lo's like? She loves her play mat and bouncy chair. Think I need to get a mobile or something for cot as she is starting to lie there and chat to herself.
Think we're having some wind issues angry One feed a day she gets really upset and is lurching on and off screaming in between. Seems to be a different feed each day so can't see a pattern with it. Not nice sad oh well off to the pub now she has finally detached herself!!
broodylicious Tue 05-Jun-12 17:20:41
punk poppy does that annoying screaming on and off thing - nearly always wind as, like you, there's no pattern to it. We give her dentinox as it needs to be given during or after feeds so when she's v bad I give her a little squirt of it.
Poppy is also v v nosy and is starting to play. She loves the laminaze toys as they're great sensory toys with noisy material, bright colours etc. however, in keeping with the common rule that kids prefer free things (like the boxes toys come in rather than the toys themselves), her favourite is the cuddly cow I got free when I signed up to the cow and gate baby club!! Never fails to make her smile!!
broodylicious Tue 05-Jun-12 17:57:47
If you're looking for cheap toys, my friend told me about www.sensorywarehouse.co.uk. I ordered a few things off there last night. They've got a great range of toys including the maracas and jingle bells poppy adores when we go to baby sensory xx
Punk80 Tue 05-Jun-12 18:31:49
Thanks broody will go shopping online later! We're starting baby sensory next week jingle bells sound like fun! Will check out dentinox X
broodylicious Tue 05-Jun-12 18:41:22
Ooh let me knw what you think to baby sensory. We love it! You'll soon know all the words to the hello song [waltzes off singing "say hello to the sun, shining down on me, I love the sun because the sun warms me....] grin
ardenbird Fri 08-Jun-12 04:08:07
Thanks, kiki, I'll check out amazon.
I know what you mean by noisy thumb-sucking! Tessa sounds like she's having a conversation with it...
We're finally off the every-three-hours schedule, but no massive sleeping through. She still needs a nappy change in the middle of the night -- why we're up right now, and boy she does not sound like she's planning to sleep again anytime soon. The sun rising so early does NOT help things. Well, I'm off to try to convince her it's still nightime.
smile arden, can you get a blackout blind?
BeeWi Sat 09-Jun-12 23:48:53
Anyone's baby go wappy after second lot of jabs? She was up feeding every 2.5 hours last night. It was like having a newborn again. She was okayish on Friday night after the jabs- woke up crying a few extra times but could soothe her back to sleep and she just had her usual dream feed at 10, woke at 3 for a feed and then was up at 5 but Saturday night was just dreadful. Every 2.5 hours and having long feeds at that, so it meant a few stints of 1 or 1.5 hours sleep at best. Just aching with tiredness...hope she's better tonight!
Anyone else find this?
KikiRC Sun 10-Jun-12 10:34:23
Oh, goodness, Bee, poor you. How did she react to the first set? Ivy's due her second set imminently, but the appointment has been messed up & the time they have offered her is the day before we travel up to London for a wedding. I think I'm going to postpone them, apparently it doesn't matter if there's a longer gap. Hope she feels better soon & you can catch up on some sleep! Ivy didn't feed more often especially after the first ones, but she was just generally quite grizzly & off colour for about a week, and the night of the injections we had to give her a tiny dose of Calpol because she just screamed inconsolably, which she never usually does.
Punk80 Sun 10-Jun-12 18:21:46
bee hope your lo ok and you get more sleep tonight. We have second lot on Friday not looking forward to itsad
We have a poo issue or rather lack of! She hasn't done a poo since Tuesday poor thing is not herself. Doing lots of massage and moving her legs and trying to get some water in her but she still isn't that receptive to a bottle. She is usually so smiley and happy but think the poo thing probably links in with her getting upset after feeding and she is bringing back more milk than usual. It's really hard seeing her get so upset. Going to baby clinic on Tuesday so will see what hv say although not holding out much hope. Have a lot planned this week but worried about feeding her when out and about as she is getting so upset although generally this happens with one or two feeds a day do we might be ok.
Hope you're all having good weekends. The rain has finally stopped and we have had a nice day here smile
broodylicious Sun 10-Jun-12 19:01:33
punk is your lo ebf? Many ebf babies don't poo every day and my HV said some only do one explosive poo once a week! Our lg goes two or three times a week. Dentinox makes her go a bit more though. [i never thought I'd be talking about poo with such authority!! What mummyhood does to you eh?] xx
KikiRC Sun 10-Jun-12 19:33:16
Punk- Ivy usually only poos once every day or two (most often two). We were worried that she might be getting uncomfortable, but actually she's fine, it just seems to be her way. Have been advised that a small amount of orange juice or prune juice (i.e. the small end of a Calpol spoon) can help, or else a few drops of juice in water, if she'll take it. Ivy seems to like a drop of juice on a spoon.The thing to watch out for is that she's not dehydrated. A tell-tale sign is the wee smelling stronger than usual. Since Tuesday is quite a long time, though- might be worth speaking to someone tomorrow, if you can? When Ivy was at hospital and hadn't pooed for three days they were going to give her a tiny suppository... she didn't need it in the end- I gave her tummy a very gentle massage that time & it did the trick..! X
Punk80 Sun 10-Jun-12 23:40:53
Thanks for the advice. Yes she is ebf and is having lots of wet nappies but I have noticed her wee has smelt stronger this last week. She doesn't normally poo every day normally every few days. Think there has to be an explosive one on the way x x
BeeWi Mon 11-Jun-12 11:21:24
Thanks, Kiki & Punk. Last night we were back to her normal sleeps, thank goodness. She's been much less fussy today too. Kiki, hiking back, the 1st set did make her fussy but we have them done at 6 weeks here, so it was hard to judge because she was a much worse sleeper and a more fussy baby altogether at that time. I hope Ivy's next set go well. I found it a lot less distressing taking her this time. It's still tough though, seeing your baby in pain. Mind you, with whooping cough being the way it is here, immunisations are a must IMO.
Punk - has it been hot where you are? Could be affecting Orla's pootine?
Erin's bum is all over the place...sometimes she'll go three or four days and then two poos will come along in close succession. Like smelly busses, I guess.
Punk80 Mon 11-Jun-12 19:40:06
She pooed this morning! Never thought I would be discussing poo in such detail grin thanks for the advice kiki and bee.
Took her to weigh in today and she is 11lb14oz and 3 months old today! Can't believe how she is growing and changing. It's good to know her weight is fine makes the bf worth it smile
Punk80 Mon 11-Jun-12 19:42:05
bee btw liked the smelly buses idea! Will get ready for another one smile. Glad Erin is back to normal sleeping patterns.
BeeWi Mon 11-Jun-12 20:45:17
Hurrah for poos, Punk! I fully understand the interest. I try not to discuss these things with anyone apart from my mum friends- they understand.grin
Was she weighed post-poo?
That's a really good weight too. Nice one!
We're going for her HV check up today to get weighed, measured etc. Will report back. DH and I have taken bets on how much she'll be (how rock and roll, right?!) and I'm hoping for 12lb, based on where she was last time and worrying about that bloomin graph. We'd already dropped through one line, so hoping she'll just be tracking nicely now. Fingers crossed!
broodylicious Mon 11-Jun-12 21:26:09
Another congrats for the poo, punk!!
We are going to get weighed again tomorrow too. I'm loathed to go tbh as I do think it puts undue pressure on me - if she's not put on the prescribed weight (between 3.5 and 7oz a week) since our last visit, I know I'll be distraught and racked with guilt.
However, I got a good, sensible perspective from a neutral today... I saw my NCT tutor and the lady who shadowed her, a trainee if you like, at our official reunion (funny though as many of us have met at least once a week for the last seven!!) The trainee has five kids and is a breastfeeding counsellor - she said by all means go to get weighed but try to remember that a line on a graph is all very well but there is nothing like mummy intuition; if she is feeding well, likes playing, seems happy, what does that line matter?
She also, interestingly, told us that one of her children really struggled to get the hang of BFing. It was only because of her strong beliefs and obviously job as BFing counsellor, she didn't give up. It took a very long - and I'm sure quite stressful - four weeks but eventually baby got the hang of latching on. Just shows that even the pros struggle eh?! Hope for everyone else smile
Punk80 Mon 11-Jun-12 22:41:50
Thanks broody have a much happier baby! I really wouldn't worry about the weight. I hadn't weighed Orla for a month but was going by my gut that she seems happy and is not skinny so must be ok. The advice from your friend is right don't be feeling guilt or worry about that silly line as long as she is thriving and happy you're doing a great job x x baby sensory tom will let you know how it goes x
trouble where are you and mister Fyfe?!
BeeWi Tue 12-Jun-12 04:16:25
That sounds like fab advice, Broody. There's a drop in weighing every week at the centre we go to but I resisted the urge to weigh her between appointments because I know I'm the worrying type and would obsess over it if she came in low.
The appointment today was good - she's 12lb 5oz now, so still tracking along the 25th centile.
Second Punk's question, where are you Trouble?
I looked up baby sensory classes here and the only place that does them is in Wellington, which is a plane ride away, sadly! They look awesome too- v jealous!
blush sorry! I have been reading all your posts but not much to say for once! Fyfe is still fabulous of course! He's doing so well on his bedtimes and sleeping still. He's getting stronger every day and is fairly close to sitting up I think. The biggest change I think is that I can now cheer him up by talking to him and smiling even if he's crying or grotting! I can leave him with his Dad for much longer to get on with things too. He's such a happy boy! grin
He's really discovering his hands and arms too, he can just about hold things and is touching and feeling everything around him and slapping himself and me in the face quite frequently in his excitement!grin his swimming lessons start on Thursday so I'm looking forward to that! smile
broodylicious Tue 12-Jun-12 15:07:06
Just a quickie from me today - poppy has put on 11oz over the last two weeks smile HV says great gain and I should be pleased smile phew! She remains on the 25th centile so good for their graphs. I'm not going for at least four weeks now.
trouble let us know how you get on with swimming - we have a trial next Sunday. I'm excited but so nervous!! Xx
Hooray broody! Well done!
I've taken him swimming twice before, it was great but we only stayed in 10 then 15 mins, Thursday is 30 mins!
ardenbird Tue 12-Jun-12 20:09:40
Yeah, good to hear that, broody! Tessa also got weighed today, and has climbed from 25th to 50th centile (she was born somewhere just above 75), so the tongue-tie snip looks to be working well. She's still a terribly fussy eater - I suspect my dreams of discretely feeding during a seminar in a few months time are not to be - but at least now she's eating.
Tessa has also mastered rolling over - front to back, only. She did it a little while ago, but then it was mostly luck. Now our last 5 tummy-times have lasted less than a minute before she rolls over. I don't know if this means I need fear early crawling, or not - as she barely spends time on her tummy!
Punk80 Fri 15-Jun-12 06:37:24
Great weights everyone, we have hungry babies!
Currently waiting for news as one of my good friends went in to be induced on Wednesday and still no news??! She was having contractions yesterday morning but heard nothing since. Hope she's ok.
We have second lot of jabs this pm, am dreading that scream sad going to hopefully go out walking with a friend this morning if the rain stays off. Bad thing is walk still involves piece of cake at the endblush
RemembersButtonMoon Fri 15-Jun-12 07:35:26
Good luck with the injections Punk! Callum has his last night... his reaction, so far, has been much better than with the first round. For a baby who rarely cries for longer than 30 seconds, he was very irritable last night but slept well, no fever (touch wood!) and is feeding normally.
Punk80 Fri 15-Jun-12 08:36:04
By the way broody had baby sensory taster. It was great, Orla loved it and all the other babies to stare at! Started baby massage yesterday which was also really goodsmile
ardenbird Fri 15-Jun-12 09:11:30
Big adventure! In an attempt to give DH more time for his studies, we took the bus to breastfeeding group. Tessa was great, sleeping in the sling the whole way -- including change of bus. I had to phone for a ride home, though, as I didn't hear the alarm telling to me to catch the bus and didn't want to wait for the next one an hour later. Maybe next week we can go and return on our own.
I think Tessa has gas, or something -- she's started screaming in the middle of feeds; it started in the night feeds, and she's doing it some day feeds as well. I'm trying to wind her, but she just screams and screams, and if I try to feed her screams around the boob sad The breastfeeding group leader suggested either get a better nighttime routine (not sure how that's going to help the middle of the night feeds, but I'll give it a try), or that it was a phase she'll grow out of. Anyone else have such a thing?
I hope your friend & baby are okay, punk!
Sounds like wind/gas arden, have you tried gripe water or infacol before feeds? smile
knitterati Fri 15-Jun-12 10:27:18
Arden would try infacol before a feed - Elena does this from time to time & the infacol just manages to disperse the wind/gripes as if by magic.
Hello all!! Sorry I've been a bit AWOL of late - busy busy busy!
I've not long finished a baby massage course - Elena loved it and it's now part of our bedtime routine smile
Unfortunately, there's not a baby sensory around here for miles sad would love to go mind.
Hope all the babies are doing well! Xx
broodylicious Fri 15-Jun-12 15:14:30
Fab punk, so glad you enjoyed sensory! I'm actually investigating the possibility of running my own franchise as I love it and see how much the babies get out of it. I just can't see myself going back to work full time and running a sensory group means I can choose my hours so plenty of Poppy time smile
Arden - echo the gas/trapped wind prognosis. We use dentinox for DD but she has to feed first before we can give it, whereas infacol can be given before the feed. Both have worked for us but we personally prefer dentinox. Hang in there! smile
grin broody sounds like you'd be great at that!
Fyfe has his first cold! sad
ardenbird Mon 18-Jun-12 15:50:55
Oh, no trouble sad What are his symptoms? How did you figure it out? I wondered if Tessa's problem was a cold, as she was sneezing/coughing a bit, but her temperature was fine.
And thanks, all, the Infacol has helped a lot! I'm surprised that the woman at the breastfeeding group didn't suggest it, as she was some kind of nurse, I think. The suggestion of a "better" bedtime routine was a complete disaster -- by the fourth day Tessa screamed through the whole thing. It wasn't like it was long -- maybe 5 minutes of a nappy change and putting on her nightgown in a specific room, followed by a final feed in the bedroom, but for a baby with a 15-second fuse, I think she figured out that once we went into that room I wouldn't feed her until I'd finished in there, and she was unhappy about it. So last night I went back to our old way -- sometime after 9pm, put on the nightgown whenever she seems happy for it, carry her upstairs when she seems tired, and give her another feed if she seems hungry when we get there, otherwise put her in her crib. She screamed a bit when I put on the nightgown, but was otherwise fine.
What are other people's nighttime routines like? I feel like we're really casual about it, but it seems to work for Tessa. She has recently started cluster feeding at night again, and trying to insert (apparently) even a five-minute routine into that is hard. I'm not sure how you're supposed to reconcile feeding on demand and nighttime routines...
And kiki, I've been wondering - how is Ivy's hip doing?
He has a stuffy, runny, nose, a cough and sneezes, he has also vomited twice, once today and once yesterday. He has been awake for about 3/4 hours of the last 28 hours - just awake for changes and feeds really. sad poor boy. Think he's on the mend though!
As for his bedtime routine, his dad takes him upstairs at 8 and gets his night nappy and pyjamas on (he was bathing him too until Fyfe decided that water is the work of the devil about 2 weeks ago hmm) then I go up, feed him until he falls asleep and pop him into his cot for 8.30. He then wakes for a feed around 3 and 6 and we get up around 9. smile
KikiRC Mon 18-Jun-12 18:55:55
Hello all. Been offline a lot recently, just checking in..
Sorry to hear about Fyfe's col, trouble. Hope he feels better soon.
Thanks for asking, Arden- we had another scan and appointment last week & Ivy's hip is finally in position. Such as relief as it was looking like she'd have to go into plaster. So she has a new brace that she'll have to wear for about another 11 weeks, but it's much less restrictive, and for the first time since she was 8 days old she's been able to wear things with legs! So we've had a lot of fun dressing her in babygros, tights & soft trousers.
I took her to a wedding on my own on Saturday, in London about 2 hours journey each way by train... was a bit apprehensive (I sewed zips in the side seams so I could bf!), but took her in the sling & she was great- despite being wide awake the only noise she made at the ceremony was a sneeze. Stayed 'til the speeches finished and finally staggered back home just after midnight... We both slept most of yesterday- apart from when she discovered how to do big long laughs for the very first time & we lay in bed chuckling & giggling for ages!
Our bedtime routine is a bit haphazard, but generally I take her upstairs at about 6pm, change & wash her (she still can't have a proper bath) and give her a big bottle feed. Then shortly before 7pm I bf her & she usually falls asleep after a couple of minutes. She sleeps through until 4 or 5am, then another feed or two before we get up at about 9am.
I was going to ask you all a poo question! She usually has a dirty nappy every two or sometimes three days.. more recently it became daily, and the last few days she's had about 4 dirty nappies. They're a bit watery, but not offensively smelly or anything, and she's feeding fine & seems perfectly happy & well. Has anyone else had anything like this? I don't know if she's picked something up, or is just going through a phase, or her habits are changing... She has her second injections on Friday, so I'll check with the nurse if it's still happening.
Anyway, I'll stop- this has got very long & she's fallen asleep bf-ing...
Hooray kiki! That's brilliant news! grin
Punk80 Tue 19-Jun-12 06:07:23
Hello all my friend had a little girl Sunday evening! She was induced Wednesday so a long old labour!
arden we also have the wind issue. Glad infacol works for you it made Orla bring back all her milk. Its tough isn't it with the screaming after feeding. We use gripe water and warm baths and tummy exercises seem to help a bit. In terms of bed time routine we take her up about 6 she has a bath and then I bf her to sleep and put her in cot I feed her at 11 and the last two weeks she has slept through till 6.30/7am which has been great. Today she woke at 5.30 think it might be growth spurt time as she fed for well over an hour at 11pm when she normally only does 20 mins!
broody go for it with baby sensory what a great idea. Is the franchise available in your area?
trouble hope little Fyfe is feeling better that must be horrible for both of you sad
Kiki great news about ivy grin get out those baby gros! X
BeeWi Tue 19-Jun-12 08:08:59
How was Orla with her jabs, Punk? Lovely news about your pal's baby too smile
That's ace news about Ivy's hip, Kiki, and so nice she can wear leggy things. So will she braceless when she's done 11 or so weeks in this one? Sounds like Ivy did so well on the wedding day too- what a massive day out for her- such a good baby to manage all that time out.
And how is Fyfe doing, Trouble? It must be so miserable seeing your little one poorly. Hope he's well on the mend. Is Fyfe taking umbridge at water in general, so when you go swimming and that, or just the bath?
I wanted to ask you all what you're using in the way of bath products? I've used nothing on Erin's skin apart from warm water, olive oil and sweet almond oil since she was born. I'm keen to avoid man made chemicals but was thinking I'd be nice to use some sort of washing product in her bath. Do I need to? What is everyone else doing?
broodylicious Tue 19-Jun-12 15:19:04
Trouble - poppy had a cold a few weeks back, it's horrid isn't it? We used the calpol saline spray to unblock her little nose, seemed to work quite well. Although DH's sis in law said it did nothing for her dd so guess its hit and miss! Hope he's feeling better soon.
Bee - we use no products on Poppy's skin. We only use pampers sensitive wipes on her bottom when we are out, otherwise it's cotton wool and water all the way. Even in the bath, just plain water. We may introduce some products for the bath now she's 12 weeks but yes, defo not johnsons stuff as I've read and heard how many harsh chemicals are in them. My friend who is v allergic/sensitive likes an organic range from boots - little something? - so we may try something from there. I've always been a skincare addict so poppy won't get anything on her that I'm not happy with wink
broodylicious Thu 21-Jun-12 07:43:11
Hey all smile Another little breakthrough last night - we transferred DD into a new crib as she was getting a little too long for her basket. It took four attempts but she eventually went down at 11pm......and didn't wake til 6!!!!! That amount of sleep is just unheard of where she is concerned, so I feel very pleased and proud grin She's still in with us and this crib is only a temp measure til she moves into her cotbed in her own room - we just didn't want the hassle of taking down her cotbed, putting it back up in our room, taking it down again and then up again when she moves in a few months (it was £££££ so if we damaged it, we wouldn't be best pleased!!!)
ardenbird Thu 21-Jun-12 17:18:01
Good to hear about Ivy, kiki! grin That's great.
Oh dear, I didn't know about Johnson's chemicals -- I had used it as it was the stuff they used in the hospital. I just looked it up, and the "top-to-toe baby wash" doesn't have the two chemicals in question, which is what they used at the hospital, but plain old "baby wash" has one of them. Tricky. I'll ditch my baby wash and look for something else -- not sure if I'll go for top-to-toe or look at another brand. What are other people using? I haven't been using it long, but started last week as Tessa was getting cradle cap, and they suggest a preventative measure is to use a shampoo ~3 times/week, so that is what I was doing. (And it worked -- cradle cap went away). Hopefully 5 washes or so won't have given much lasting harm? sad
Congrats to your friend, punk! smile
Wow on the sleep, broody. Tessa's max has been 6.5 hours, but that was just once. Last night she did 5.5, and she seems to normally do something around 6 for the last week or so. I'm hoping for another hour added on, as then it would actually be close to a real sleep for me, and I could wake after her feeding and maybe do something in the AM as she sleeps. As it, I'm up for an hour or so feeding her, but then go back to sleep, and don't get up for the day until 9am or later!
Thanks everyone, Fyfe is fine, still a bit snotty but never once complained about feeling ill, I am particularly shock about it now that I have it- I feel like absolute death sad supposed to be going on my sister's hen do tomorrow, 5am-1am, really not sure I'm going to be up to it. sad
Yes, Fyfe hates all water, he has had two of his swimming lessons so far, screamed from start to finish at the first one but had breaks from crying an screaming in the second! It was very cool as the instructor dunked the babies one by one and pushed them to us under the water, amazing to see him coming towards me, eyes wide open, beautifully streamlined!grin
For bath time I can recommend [[ http://www.27skincare.com/1081.html]] - it's my sister's fiancées company and their stuff is gorgeous! smile
broodylicious Tue 26-Jun-12 14:00:10
It's all gone v quiet on here - hope you're all ok?
We went to our first baby yoga yday. Dd didn't appreciate it and spent the whole time either crying, feeding, facing other babies or (her latest trick) standing up. The teacher thought she was v funny and told me not to worry but I'll be miffed if she does that every week as I'm paying to learn stuff! Hey ho! Joys of being mummy to 13 wk old! Xxx
Punk80 Tue 26-Jun-12 18:43:59
Hi all am attempting a night out tonight without Orla in tow! Going out for drinks and dinner with a group of mums I've met. Really hoping Orla goes down at 7 as usual, last night she did an epic feed until 8.45! Trying to work out if I can have 2 glasses of wine?! Prob shouldn't as feed her at 11 ish blush
trouble hope you and Fyfe are both feeling better that must be hard when you feel poorly too sad
broody baby yoga sounds good. Know what you mean Orla cried and fed through most of baby massage last week! Is hard with these classes sometimes to get the timing right as each day is different.
Bit of a personal question blush have any of you had an episiotomy? Mine is still bit sore after 14 weeks it aches at times is that normal? My dh wants me to go to doctors but thought of anyone poking around after labour freaks me out. Am going to have to get over it soon as due a smear sad.
Anyway lo still feeding away and due out in 15 mins wish me luck wink
Thanks punk, Fyfe got over it really quickly but I still have it! sad
You can definitely have 2 glasses of wine! A friend told me the NCT say you need to be four tunes over the drink driving limit for the alcohol to even begin transferring. Even then it is in minute amounts! Enjoy your night! grin
KikiRC Wed 27-Jun-12 17:56:16
Hi all,
Punk- I had an episiotomy. Is it the area where the stitches were that's still sore? I still get aches, but it's not exactly in that place, oddly, more just generally down there. I'm never quite sure if it's connected... Anyway- hope you had a great night out.
Trouble- did you make it to the hen do? Hope you feel better soon.
Bumped in to kiki today, Ivy is just beautiful! grin
I just had my worst night yet by a long way, I realise it's nothing compared to most people but it's all relative right? blush
This last week Fyfe had added in a 1.30 feed to the lovely 20.30-3.00 then 3.00-6.00 then hourly from there thing we had going on...then, last night 20.30-00.00, woke for a feed then woke for 10 min feeds at (drum roll please) 1.00, 2.00, 4.30, 5.30, 6.30, and now! sad I suppose it is lucky that I went at 22.00!
He's 4 months on Sunday so I wonder if this is the dreaded regression...I definitely don't like it!
Punk80 Fri 29-Jun-12 10:22:02
Oh no trouble what's this regression? I have got used to my sleep again! Hopefully it's just a one off night and he'll go back to his normal pattern. You must be shattered poor you sad drink lots of tea and eat lots of toast wink
Thanks all I made my night out it was really nice and Orla was a good girl for her daddy (typical hey?!)
kiki it does kind of ache if I've been doing a lot guess these things take time to get back to normal. Think I'll have to brave the doctors for peace of mind sad
On another note I approached work about going back 3 days a week. They have come back with 4 days but think I will be basically doing what I did before in a five day week in four. Really don't want to put Orla in nursery for 4 days at 11 months. Don't really want to put her in for 1 day! Am seriously considering childminding as an option?!
Hope you've all got nice weekend ahead. I've got my two best friends up for the weekend which should be fun grin
KikiRC Fri 29-Jun-12 17:01:20
Lovely to see Fyfe looking so grown-up & cheery yesterday, too- and to get such a wonderful big smile! Sorry about the sleeping news though. Ivy's been waking up earlier in the night again- I hadn't heard of sleep regression- just looked it up & it seems to fit in with her recent patterns. Sounds like it's relatively short-lived, fortunately. Interesting to read that if they experience this you should encourage good bouts of sleep during the day so that they're not so grizzly if they wake up at night...
Punk- if you go for a check I expect they'll just look to see if the stitches themselves have healed- don't know if you've had them seen already, but when they looked at mine it wasn't so intrusive as a smear- it was done lying on your side with legs closed & the mw had a very quick peek from the back...
It's tough re: going back to work- I'm lucky in that I'm freelance based at home, so am going to have to do a lot of working in the evenings & be as flexible with dp who is also freelance- we'll have to juggle things between us as best we can. A good friend whose dd is exactly 2 months older than Ivy has just gone back four days a week- I'd find that terribly hard, but they seem to be getting on with it OK- her dp is doing the childcare 'til September, when she'll start at nursery.
We had the second round of injections this afternoon- hoping Ivy isn't as unsettled as last time- she seems perfectly happy at the moment.
Anyway, hope you all have a good weekend. X
KikiRC Fri 29-Jun-12 17:09:09
Oh, Punk- don't know if this relevant to you, but my friend who's just gone back to working 4 days- she's thinking of having another baby sooner rather than later, so instead of reducing her hours to a p/t contract, she's still officially full time, but taking off 1 day a week as annual leave until it runs out- it just means she'd qualify for a far better maternity package next time round...
sad about work punk, I hope they'll reconsider! Google the 4 month sleep regression, there's tons of info on it. I'm fairly sure Fyfe has started teething too as has been chomping on my fingers today and I can feel a spike under the gum, he really screamed earlier too for seemingly no reason! Stopped when I gave him my fingers to chomp!
Hope Ivy's jabs were okay this time kiki! Fyfe had the third lot on Monday, I think that's it for some time now! grin
ardenbird Sat 30-Jun-12 11:05:39
Glad your night out went well, punk!
Ugh, teething -- Tessa has been doing it for a few weeks now, which I thought was way early (2.5 months??), but apparently isn't, as they have a ways to move through the gums. We have our first dentist appointment week after next, which apparently is meant to just get the babies used to the dentist as a nice place smile
Oh dear, that sleep regression sounds worrying, especially as it sounds like it happens right as I head back to work! Tessa slept nearly 7 hours last night, and has been mostly doing around 6, which I've really enjoyed. Grr, work... they've annoyed me a bit lately -- my PhD student just sent me an email wondering "when are you available" and would I be "coming into the offfice"? Um, maternity leave, anyone? I told him I'd read his thesis, not that we'd be having meetings. But he can be excused as young and stressed at finishing, and at least he used my designated "secret maternity leave email". The School administrator who contacted my Uni mail, as if I'd be reading it (good thing I did, I suppose), even though she knew the other one, saying she noticed I hadn't nominated outputs for evaluation and the meeting was next week... I reminded her about the secret email and nominated outputs. Sigh. But if I spend mental energy stressing, it's my own fault, and I have a month left so I'll endeavour to not think about it!
Does anyone know of secure places to put babies as you do things as they get older? I'd been putting Tessa in her bouncer so she can watch me while I do things like load the dishwasher and cook. But she really likes leaning over the side (no matter how much I straighten her out), and I'm worried as she gets heavier she'll make it fall over.
sadsadsad another night of being woken almost every hour! He has never been like this, I was so happy with the fact that I got enough sleep every night from day one! sad
arden I have a playpen for Fyfe as a safe space, I know some people don't agree with them but as I have a dog running around I think it'll be great once the bouncer is not enough to contain him.
KikiRC Sat 30-Jun-12 20:30:58
Blimey, Trouble! Hope you all get more sleep tonight. Do you think it's regression, or teething, or both?
Arden- we'll also get a playpen at some point soon- my house is on three floors with really steep wonky stairs, so it's really important to have a safe place if I need to answer the door/ phone etc. At the moment I leave Ivy on her activity mat- she plays under the arch on a big pile of blankets, so if she unexpectedly rolls etc, she'd be fine. I was given one of those bouncer-in-a-door-frame things, too- which I think can be used from 6 months.
What a pain about work. Sounds like the admin people are just being lazy- surely they get an auto-response from your usual email address to remind them you're on maternity leave? As well as doing my own freelance work I'm a director of a small company, and although I've bowed out of our main events this year, I still get emails about really annoying small niggly things that take ages to sort out, and that end up being quicker to do myself rather than trying to pass them on to someone else, and then have to explain it all.. What I find really annoying is when work people arrange to drop something off, or call at a certain time etc and I get everything organised to make sure I'm ready, and then they're late and I have to hang around waiting, and by the time they turn up Ivy needs a feed or is just waking up or something... Grrrgh....
Much better night thanks! grin dream feed when i went to bed at 00.00 and feeds at 3.30 and 5.30, up at 8.00. Not as good as we had it before but much better than the last few nights! smile
broodylicious Sun 01-Jul-12 18:33:18
Oh this isn't good talking about work is it?! sad wink I looked into the baby sensory franchise, to do alongside returning to work two days a week, but it was just too much initial outlay for me so it's back to plan a - work two days where I currently am and set up on my own to boost the cash. I'm planning on being totally self sufficient/working just for me by next Christmas. Who else is freelance? What is it you do? Any advice greatly received! Xx
What do you do for a job broody? smile
broodylicious Mon 02-Jul-12 05:26:29
Marketing and PR hun and thats what I'll be doing that for myself grin xx
Oh okay, something I know nothing about! I was hoping to help you with some inspirational idea for working at home! Sorry you feel so sad about going back.
broodylicious Tue 03-Jul-12 23:32:56
Ok ladies, I really need your help as I'm coming to the end of my tether yet again with my dd avoiding sleep during the day. It's an absolute nightmare to try and get her to nap even though it is ridiculously obvious she is totally worn out. I've tried feeding her to within an inch of her life, rocking/swaying, singing, shushing, driving, walking and holding her in a way my yoga teacher taught us and bouncing on my yoga ball. Yesterday morning it took me best part of an hour to get her to sleep and put her in her basket. She had 50 minutes yesterday which is amazing for her as normally it's 10/15 mins if anything at all.
Today, she was knackered from 830am but was hungry so fed well, she broke off at about 915 and started to cry which I read as tiredness cry so rocked, swung etc etc for over an hour but to no avail. DH managed to get her to sleep (f annoying!!) but she only did 25 mins and so was grumpy straight away but refused any more attempts. I went into town with her this afternoon and she just cried, looked all around her everywhere, ignored my shushing and rocking, cried some more - I even took her out the car seat (on wheels obvs) and had her in our caboo carrier to try and tempt her but nope.
Im just so frustrated. I know I need to teach her but I'm just stuck as to how I should be doing this. Please help!! She's 14 weeks and ebf on demand.
BeeWi Wed 04-Jul-12 07:40:40
Hey Broody. Sorry to hear you're having a bit of a pain with sleeping issues. I know it's a bit of a contentious issue, but have you tried a dummy? Erin is still swaddled too, even for naps. I got her a thing called a wombie, which you can have enclosing the arms or just one arm out or with both arms out. She normally manages two 45mins- 1 hour naps in the day plus one two hour nap. I think we have it really easy though as her tiredness cues are really obvious - rubbing eyes being her earliest one and she has a distinctive whiny/chatty noise she makes, so it's straight forward to catch her tiredness window before she gets over tired. I appreciate we have that part easy though.
I was really anti dummies before but tried one when I was at the end of my tether. She only has it in the bedroom and I'm going to try and lose it around the 6 month mark when she's learnt to put herself to sleep better. I went from having to rock her for ages to being able to just lie her down and she goes to sleep in minutes. She's exclusively breastfed and there's been no confusion issues, which was another thing I was worried about.
In our news, there was an earthquake that was 7 on the scale and went on for 30 odd seconds last night. Jumped out of bed, grabbing a sleeping baby and jumped into the doorway. First one I've felt since early pregnancy and felt much more freaked out...having a baby changes how chilled you are about everything, doesn't it?!
I too need to make a decision about work in the next few weeks. I can have next year off but financially I should go back part time if we intend to have another baby. If I stayed off next year I'd wipe our savings and I'd be 33 when I went back, so would be a minimum of 34 before I could get maternity leave again. It's such a hard decision, isn't it? I'm hoping for a lotto win in the next few weeks to make it all easier!
How's the sleep going, Trouble?
Sleeping is all better thanks, was just the two awful nights! He's also had 3 good baths with no tears so seems to getting over the whole water thing..I'll see how swimming goes tomorrow! We started baby massage course on Monday too which was great! smile
Wow, the earthquake sounds scary bee! It sounds like a hard decision re work! sad
I can't offer any advice broody, Fyfe doesn't really officially 'nap' in the day as we're out most of the time so he just has little cat naps in my arms or in the sling/on my lap, he just falls asleep when he's tired. I hope you find something that works for you, it can't be nice if she's getting herself in to a state about it.
knitterati Wed 04-Jul-12 17:20:17
Gosh bee! Scary earthquake! I've been in 2 minor ones here in the UK...v weird feeling. Can't offer any advice on work I'm afraid - I got made redundant just before Xmas, which worked out to be the best thing really!
Broody with the naps, have you tried white noise? Works a treat with my LO ...even bought an app with it! I tap her bum, put white noise on and she's off! Also, have you tried BFing in bed on your side? Sometimes you can get them to sleep & doze...it's lovely! Hope you're able to get some naps in!
KikiRC Wed 04-Jul-12 22:27:24
This is probably not all that helpful Broody, but during the day we just let Ivy fall asleep when she's tired rather than having any kind of routine or putting her down to sleep as such - though usually if she drops off it's after a feed. When her eyes start going I just lie her down wherever she is (i.e. sofa/ bouncer/ on our bed etc) and cover her over if it's chilly, or if she's in my arms or DPs, she might stay there, or we'll gently put her down nearby, rather than taking her to her cot and making it an 'official sleep' if that makes sense. She sleeps far less in the daytime now- when she was tiny she'd doze off almost as soon as she went into her pram or sling, now she usually stays awake and looks around a lot more when we're out, or plays with her toys in the pram etc...
ardenbird Thu 05-Jul-12 19:40:12
Oh, broody, sorry to hear about your sleep troubles! It's probably not a huge help, but my friend from the States sent me a book called 'The Happiest Baby on the Block' by Harvey Karp. I'm not sure if it's available here -- he has what he calls the five S's, that are supposed to be able to calm infants. It's basically what you and others have talked about, but perhaps something about doing them all together is useful? The five S's are: (1) Swaddle, (2) Side or Stomach (hold them on your arm or against your chest, with their belly supported and them facing either down or out), (3) Sush (loudly! or use some sort of white noise/hoover/etc), (4) Swing (or jiggle or whatever) and (5) Suck (your finger or a pacifier). I've tried it on a few occasions when Tessa just seems really upset, and it does seem to work, although I've needed to keep the sushing/swinging up for a good 30-60 minutes to get her to actually sleep. According to the book, though, if you do it regularly, the babies start to recognise what is happening calm down as soon as you swaddle them. It might be worth a try.
We just got our second set of shots and got weighed -- she's now 13lb 11.5oz! Almost to the 75th centile line again. I'm so glad, and think will finally allow myself to relax that she's eating fine. In fact, her weight gain had best slow down soon, otherwise we'll be off the charts smile The next challenge is that I need to work on expressing again -- I've got a 2 hr meeting already in my first week back at work (gack, only 3.5 weeks left...) and want to be able to leave DH with something to assuage hunger if necessary. We'll also need to figure out how to give it to her -- they recommended avoiding any artificial teats at all to avoid her having the same palate problems I did. So I'd like to make sure I have a good stash in case of spillage. I'm hoping the early pumping difficulties (I managed a max of a half an ounce, usually only a few mls...) will have magically vanished. And if not, it will just have to be lots of small sessions added together, I suppose.
Has anyone else noticed things 'stopping' for the summer? The local Mums (and Dads -- one SAHD, which is nice for DH, as he'll be something like that) group is stopping for the school holidays, as is La Leche League meetings and Baby Massage (and apparently, not starting again as they are short-staffed sad ). The only thing left is the breastfeeding group, which takes me out of the house for 3.5 hours for only a 50 minute meeting (the bus gets me there 5 minutes late, and I need to leave 5 minutes early to catch the one home), which feels like a bit of an awful lot of effort for not much.
sad arden that time has gone so fast, only 3.5 weeks left sad. Some things here are stopping for the summer but nothing that will really affect us I don't think.
We had the HV on Wednesday (4-6 month visit) Fyfe has dropped from the 75th to the 52nd centile in weight but they are not worried about this, just want me to get him weighed at clinic in 4 weeks. He has also gone from the 50th centile for height to the 75th shock which may explain the weight difference a little! Anyway, she was really pleased with him and he is meeting all his milestones etc. grin
We're off to a wedding tomorrow in Wiltshire and Fyfe will be camping for the first time! He has a cute little suit to wear and I have done some sewing and added the bottom of one of the popper vests he has outgrown to his shirt so that it stays tucked in. He's going to look very gorgeous! grin
Pleasefiveminutesforme Sun 08-Jul-12 14:49:51
Hello ladies, I wonder if I can join you (rather late). A couple of you I recognise from the antenatal thread... I was Reallea. I had Charlotte who is now coming up to 4 months. She is fab! Ebf as expressing at night on health visitor's orders to keep supply up- she went from 91st percentile at birth down to 25th by 12 weeks. All else good although struggling a bit with having DS aged 2.1 as well.
Welcome five, I remember you - I was carlita. grin
BeeWi Mon 09-Jul-12 08:47:04
Hi Fivesmile
Trouble - is Fyfe quite an active boy? Could explain dropping down the centiles a bit. Some babies seem to kick about a lot while others are more sedate...if he's active he might just be using more energy? That's what out hv said to us a wee while ago about Erin.
And how was the wedding and camping with Fyfe? Will you put a pic up in your profile of him looking dapper in his suit?
So Erin started rolling at the weekend. She can only do back to tummy at the moment but it's her big thing. She can't seem to get enough of it, although she gets frustrated that she can't get back to being on her back and will cry after a wee while for me to turn her back. I try to give her time to get back over by herself because I want her to be able to, just for in future when she's in her cot, but can't bear to hear her cry/see her upset. Any advice on how to help her with this? Means I'm no longer slack about leaving her laid on the bed and am starting to think about baby proofing our living room!
Broody, I second Arden's shout on Happiest Baby on the Block. We saw a video of it at our parents group and his ideas work a treat. How is the sleep stuff going?
I didn't take any pictures of him blush I'm always holding him when we're out so it is hard to! It's my sister's wedding in two weeks though so I will make sure I get one! smile he is very active and had been especially so the week he was weighed!
I need to put Fyfe down on his back more, he is never on his back and I guess he needs to be to learn to roll! He rolls on to his side on the changing mat but there's no room to go further due to the inflatable sides, I'll have to find a big mat he can lay on in the living room! Must start that soon!smile
ardenbird Mon 09-Jul-12 15:08:18
Welcome five! I love your name smile
Tessa has stopped rolling now - I think she's gotten too heavy for it. bee, Tessa only rolled front to back when she was doing it, opposite of Erin... She stuck one arm up over her head and pushed with the other, and her knees propelled her over with kicking. The big fails came when she didn't get her arm above her head, but instead out to the side -- she'd push and kick, but her arm kept her from rolling! You might try encouraging Erin to one move arm out of the way (or do it for her) and push with the other?
Pleasefiveminutesforme Mon 09-Jul-12 16:37:03
Thanks ardenbird' This afternoon I discovered there's a Jill Murphy book called Five Minutes Peace so I just ordered it off amazon- I was doing the thing on _chat where you type your user name into google images and see what comes up- the front cover was my image but it sounds like a lovely story for DS who already loves Peace At Last
broodylicious Tue 10-Jul-12 01:15:50
bee dd has also started rolling but she only does front to back or from back to side. I'm so impressed your LO does back to front - that's the hardest for them! Clever babe smile
Sleep wise - eugh. sad still no joy during the day. She was knackered yday but refused everything I tried so was incredibly grumpy. Getting me down a lot tbh.
Plus - i can't remember if I have said this already - she hates shopping. To get me out the house on our non group/class days, I want to go into town or one of the out of town shopping centres (matalan or mothercare for example). She hates it and cries to be picked up out of the car seat that she's in on the wheels. I've tried putting her in the sling but she cries with that too. It's getting beyond a joke now. I'm just so frustrated and upset that I can't even do a little retail therapy - or just look at the shops, not even have to buy anything - without her balling her eyes out. We have the HV coming this morning so I'm going to mention it to her but pls any advice would be v welcome %23endoftetheryetagain
sad sorry to her that broody, must be really hard! Fyfe's not overly keen on shopping, I have to jiggle around with him in the sling or take him out and carry him (he's then totally happy) but then I don't do much hopping so it's not really an issue for me, I'm more of a cafe/pub person and he's happy sitting on my knee. Could you try her in various different pram positions? Laying down with dangly toys or sitting up in big girl position so she can see around herself? smile
KikiRC Tue 10-Jul-12 17:53:30
Trouble- just sent you a message.
Broody- could it be a temperature thing at all? Ivy used to cry in one shop in particular because it's always so hot- if she had any blankets on they all had to be peeled off. I also really have to watch she doesn't get the sun in her eyes. She's generally happier either lying down with the sun shade on so she's almost totally enclosed (when she's sleepy) or as Trouble suggests sitting up more, so she can have a good look around. She also has one of those cheap foil windmills that spins in the breeze- she loves watching that as we go along...
We had another hospital appointment today- the hips are still in position, so another check up in a month's time, and hopefully the brace will be off altogether in two months. Really can't wait. I think Ivy will be a bit late with rolling etc because she finds it quite uncomfortable with the brace to be on her tummy very much.
Great news kiki! grin
broodylicious Tue 10-Jul-12 21:34:53
Great news kiki
Re temp in shop - defo for primark! So hot in there always but not in the shopping centre. I wonder if it's just too much for her to see?
trouble I don't want to necessarily shop, more browse than anything, just nice walk and look around. She tends to be ok in pubs and cafes - prob cos i tend to feed her there - so maybe I should just stick to coffee and cake wink
Yes. More cake will definitely help! grin
ardenbird Fri 13-Jul-12 10:23:03
Hurray, kiki! smile
Hmm, broody -- my DD is the opposite. She doesn't like me to sit down or be still, we always have to be moving. I've had to stand up and walk around at parties otherwise she starts whining.
And she has suddenly gotten incredibly distractible! Nursing is getting hard, as she keeps going "ooh, look at that" midway through a feed. I can't tell if she's done when she comes off or just fascinated by something else. And she's having trouble falling asleep, too, when she didn't before -- just so much interesting out in the world. Then she gets all upset and crying and is hungry and tired and can't eat or sleep! I heard that this is a phase. I hope she gets over it soon.
Punk80 Fri 13-Jul-12 11:27:24
Hi all enjoying the rain? sad
Think we might venture out to Westfield today as nothing planned. We're going to Spain in a week and am panicking that dd has enough of everything. I know she does but may have to buy one more dress in the sales wink
broody the day time nap thing is hard. O will sleep when we go out but has to be well timed if you get me after feeds, play etc. she has often screamed though as we go to get food shopping someone said its because the floors are smooth and they like bumps! Will your dd go off to sleep after crying a little or does she keep the screaming going? If o is tired she cries for 5 mins or so. If I'm not going out she will sleep in her bouncy chair for her morning nap but the other day she didn't sleep from 11 am till 7pm. Would the bouncy chair work for you? It makes it a long day when they don't sleep.
trouble Fyfe sounds like a cutie you'll have to take some pics of him at your sis wedding.
kiki well done to ivy bet you'll be relieved when she's done with brace.
Has anyone had any photos done? My ds boyfriend is going to do some at the weekend. Let's hope we get smiles grin
Punk80 Fri 13-Jul-12 17:16:09
Omg nightmare day angry
broody I thought of you the whole way round Westfield. Would dd sleep? No way!! She happily fed and played in the cafe but let me buy a swimming costume absolutely not god knows what I bought! She has finally fallen asleep now but now don't want her to sleep too long as going out tonight and put her down at 7pm aargh!!! Have also just eaten a large amount of cake so will prob not even fit into whatever costume I bought today smile
sad poor you punk!
madscimum Tue 17-Jul-12 08:43:49
Took a (for the time being) last trip to the osteopath yesterday. She said Tessa was doing great, no more tongue-tie-related tension, just a little bit of teething tension (hah! so she is teething). She also provided a good tip for teething: dampen a muslin and put it in the freezer, then take it out, warm it up briefly (just in your hands, so that it isn't completely ice), and let baby chew on it. She says that works much better than the hard teething toys. She also said that osteopathy can help with teething pain, as they get all sorts of tension from it, so I'll keep that in mind too.
Return trip was unexpectedly exciting as the car broke down in the middle of nowhere! We had to emergency upgrade our AA membership, as the 10-mile coverage we had wouldn't get us anywhere of use. Expensive, unfortunately, but not as expensive as paying the tow rate to get back to civilization. I was glad I managed to make breastfeeding work, as even though the trip was extended by a good 6 hours or so (it took a really long time for the tow truck to find us), no problems feeding Tessa.
I'm wondering -- what size nappies is everybody in now? Tessa is just outgrowing 2's (probably did sometime last week, but I'm finishing up our packages), and into 3's now.
madscimum Tue 17-Jul-12 09:18:51
Oh, that's me, arden smile Name change...
Fyfe just rolled, front to back three times in a row! smile
mad thank goodness for bf! That could've been awful! Fyfe is teething too, I'm using a combination of powders and bonjela and teething toys and, similar to your tip, an ice cube wrapped in a muslin (good when out and about from the bottom of your iced coffee) smile I can now see his bottom two teeth under the gum.
As for nappies, we use washables but I know people with 3 month olds in size 3, my sister's 7.5 month olds are in 4+ and they go up to 5? Their growth in that area must slow down presumably? Fyfe's one size nappies are on the 2nd setting of 3 so again seems a little hmmconfused
Punk80 Tue 17-Jul-12 10:42:52
Go Fyfe!! Orla started rolling at the weekend too she finds it a bit tricky though when she has her bulky nappies on smile
That sounded like a bit of a nightmare mad. Bf is so handy. We were out all day Sunday at a food festival with my sister (basically in pub most of day!) and it was so easy to feed with no hassle and stay out as long as we wanted.
Right off to baby sensory for messy session think they fit to sit in jellygrin
KikiRC Tue 17-Jul-12 12:37:12
A sudden burst of activity on here!
I was going to ask about the nappies, actually. We're using pampers 'til the brace comes off, just because the sticky fixers are longer than anything else I've tried, so make it easier to change. But the sizing on them is really weird. Size 2s are loads bigger than size 1s- we started using the 2s but they're too big to contain some dirty nappies- but size ones are only supposed to go up to about 11lbs. I'm not sure of Ivy's precise weight at the moment (we have the HV coming on Mon, so she'll be weighed then), but she's been tracking the 25th centile, so she's not exactly tiny.
She can't roll right over in the brace, though she can do a half-roll, and as she can't fit properly in a bumbo etc I've been propping her upright against cushions & things, and holding her in a sitting position, and she sat unaided for about 20 seconds the other day. Her absolute favourite thing at the moment is playing with my old mini Casio keyboard- it's hilarious. She plays it really seriously- is completely absorbed in it, and plays the individual keys rather than just thumping it, which is what I assumed she'd do. If any of you have anything similar knocking about, I'd recommend it!
I suspect she's approaching teething, too- although her gums don't look sore yet I think they're giving her a bit of trouble- she's always chewing & dribbling. Can you give them Bonjela & the crystals before the teeth actually start coming through? xx
madscimum Tue 17-Jul-12 13:15:01
I found the pampers to be the biggest for each size -- Tessa outgrew Tesco size 2 a while ago! She fit in huggies size 2 only very briefly. They were too big at first, and quickly turned to too small. The pampers 3 look huge, I'll probably go back to Tesco for a while until she gets a little bigger, although I'm stocking up on Huggies and Pampers as Tesco has them on sale right now. I figure whatever appears to fit is fine -- Tessa is actually outgrowing the leg holes, as the rest of the Pampers 2 nappy would fit fine otherwise. She must have massive thighs smile
Yes kiki, you can give them bonjela and powders from 2 months (thank goodness)!
broodylicious Wed 18-Jul-12 03:49:07
punk - have you ventured out since your nightmare shopping trip? It's so frustrating isn't it?! Big sympathies for you xx
Dd is also teething and it's causing her some issues. Hands and everything else all end up in her mouth too. She loves having a frozen muslin, you can literally see her getting comfort from it straight away as it numbs her poorly gums.
We are going thru a horrid growth spurt at the mo. She's become incredibly fussy when eating, pulling away, screaming, going back for a few minutes then screaming again...it's really frustrating! The HV said its teething and growth spurt related so should pass soon. Just hope it's not too long!
Nappies - we use pampers 3 now, just changed. They're a bit big but as we buy in bulk from amazon, we figured it was best for us as the 2s would only be for a few weeks.
Punk80 Wed 18-Jul-12 07:40:28
broody is definitely frustrating!! Think she has been going through a spurt as well as she fed for ages when we got back from Westfield. We were out with her all day on Sunday and she was lovelysmile she did sleep in her pram for about an hour which was nice! I have read that they need 3 hours sleep in the day but my dd seems to think its not for her! Did you get any advice from hv broody? We're going in to town shopping today as have some last minute holiday bits to get so we'll see how it goes!
Teething sounds hard for all the babies sad the cold muslin sounds like a good idea. How do you know they are teething? Is it the red cheeks and lots of dribble?
Had dd weighed yesterday she's 13lb 8oz at 17 weeks. Nearly a stone can't believe it!! Time is going so fast.
Nappies - we're on reusables but have moved on to size 1 outer.
Baby sensory was fun smile although my dd was seriously unimpressed when I plonked her feet in cold jelly whoops wink
Punk80 Wed 18-Jul-12 17:41:08
Has anyone got any advice about bath time? Dd used to love bath time but this week she seems to think its the devils water and really screams. Hopefully a phase?confused
madscimum Wed 18-Jul-12 19:02:51
No ideas for bath time, I'm afraid. Tessa still likes it, although she's now seeming a little frustrated that she can't see the water. I have a little reclined thing that she used to lay and kick on, and now she tries to sit up, but can't yet, so just lifts her head. I've sat her up a time or two and she just moves her feet slowly under and above the wonder and stares in wonder.
I bet she might like swimming -- those of you who have done this, where did you find out about baby swimming?
Oh dear. News on the car is not good. Some kind of fuel explosion and parts of the engine have melted! We're waiting to hear, but it may not be worth repairing sad
We had been planning to go to an Olympic football match in Glasgow next week, but had been procrastinating on buying tickets. I'm really not sure now -- I had been a bit stressed about the idea of being out in public for so long and breastfeeding in the stadium, but took comfort in the idea that if things got to be too much we could just retreat to the car as a comfortable, familiar place (for her and me smile ). If we don't have a car it'll be a 3-hr journey on public transport just to get to Glasgow, and the same for a return, and at night. But then again, how many chances does one get to go to the Olympics? Argh!
punk that's exactly what happened with Fyfe! Yes, it's a phase, he's over it now, it lasted 4-5 weeks and we just bathed him once/twice a week as it was Si unpleasant for everyone. One day he didn't scream, it went as quickly as it arrived.
mad you should do it! Sorry to hear about the car!sad
Punk80 Thu 19-Jul-12 08:26:47
How funny punk that they've both gone off the bath. Glad to hear Fyfe went back to it smile
So took dd out last night which was interesting confused it was my dh end of term work do and he wanted us to be there. My lovely dd fell asleep by 7pm so I could load the car in the middle of a storm and she slept the whole way there. However she woke up when we took her in to the room which to be fair was really noisy and then carried on to stay awake looking round at everyone till 11.30pm! Another girl who works with dh had her baby with her a week younger than dd. Going to rant now! first thing she said to me was I heard from your dh that she's normally asleep by this time doesn't look like it does it? Her baby slept for most of it waking up for a bottle and then back to sleep while the parents looked smug angry whereas our dd was going round the tables of people looking at everyone bless her smile someone said she had probably sedated her baby and everyone was really nice getting me drinks while I was bf etc. Bonus now is that after a quick feed at 6.30 she has gone back to bed and is flat out after her night on the tiles wink
I don't know why people have to act superior. I did kind of think it was a bit easier for her as when the speeches were on and her ds woke up she whacked a bottle in swiftly followed by a dummy but my dd won't take either of those and wanted to talk while her dad was doing a speech whoops hmm
Sorry rant over!!
Punk80 Thu 19-Jul-12 08:27:58
Sorry again! Should be how funny trouble am sending messages to myself have officially lost it confused
madscimum Thu 19-Jul-12 17:49:51
punk, you were the one with the cute, interactive baby! smile
No news on the car yet, but DH is now trawling the internet for used cars in anticipation of bad news. This was not in the budget... Starting to feel like a hospice for cars, but I suppose that's what happens when you keep buying vehicles that are 10+ years old. Considering shelling out for a slightly newer model with the idea it might be cheaper than buying another one in a year or two.
And wow, I think the Olympics are off the table. The public transport links just aren't there. I'm surprised, as the bus I take into work originates in Glasgow, but the last one leaves at 5:30pm... the game starts at 5! Even taking other connections, it looks tight to impossible to make it back after even if we just go for the first game. I wonder if that is part of the problem they're having selling tickets -- they say they want everyone to take public transport, and made it a real pain to drive, but then the public transport isn't running after the events. I suppose it'd be fine if you lived in Glasgow, but not much farther afield.
angry she sounds like a right twat punk! One of those smile, nod and move on moments! Fyfe goes down without a problem every night between 8.15 and 8.30. At our friend's wedding recently he was up until 2.30...I think that's normal for a baby at a party! hmm
I know nothing about cars and don't drive mad!
Punk80 Fri 20-Jul-12 00:20:22
Thanks for the support! Twat is right wink
mad bad news on car front, I am also useless on cars. Hope you get it sorted and shame about the games. You would think they would put on public transport to get people there at the right time confused
broodylicious Sun 22-Jul-12 12:07:49
punk grrrr I am sick to the back teeth of smug parents!! And also when dd cries, I get "have you considered using a dummy?" Drives me mad! Babies cry, get over it already! I wouldn't mind but I am not a fan of controlled crying so pick her up straight away, comfort, then down again; she doesn't scream unless I've not understood what she wants straight away or is overtired. Or if I say she's not slept well it's "oh give her formula at night, your breast milk can't be filling her up enough" - she's a baby, I'm her mummy, I don't mind tending to her! It's my job! Yes I'd love 12 hours sleep every night but, again, she is a baby and it comes with the territory! Right. I've done my rant haha! Oooh. Feel better now smile
Re baths: have you tried getting in there with your babes to see if it makes them happier? Dd didn't reckon much to her baby bath but she loves it now cos either dd or I take her in our bath. We've done it for about six/eight weeks now and I think it got her ready for when we went swimming.
Mad - swimming lessons - we go to Water Babies every Sunday afternoon. It's a national company so I'm sure there will be a franchise near you. Our lessons are in the local hospital's hydrotherapy pool because they like to do the lessons in warm pools - under 12 weeks old or 12lbs, the water should be 30+ degrees, our pool is 36 so like a gorgeous bath! Hope you find somewhere as its my most favourite thing I do with dd and something DH can do quite easily with her (as opposed to all the v mummy led groups!)
Haha, broody, yes, I tried taking him in with me, nothing worked, it was just a phase he went through and he got over it on his own in the end! Just one of those things.
The things I find annoying are "are you feeding him again?" angry yes, I bloody am, he's a growing baby and this is all he eats, you wouldn't think it'd be that odd that they do it quite a lot! At the wedding at least one person said it every time I fed him! Also, I only fed him about 6 times in the whole day which really isn't very much for him as he was way more interested in the wedding.
Then "ah, look, he's tired" (not crying, not distressed, just sleepy) all bloody night...yeah, of course he's tired, it's 9,10,11 o'clock but hey, it's a wedding and he can catch up tomorrow, I'm not going to put my life on hold because I have a baby (I'd take him home if he was upset of course) grrrr...
That does feel better! grin
broodylicious Mon 23-Jul-12 17:31:02
Hi mummies. Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine with your LOs? DH has taken ours out for a walk so I could have a rest..,,and what have I done? Ironing, washing, polished the lounge and dining room and cleaned the floors! Typical!
Feeling v down atm as my darling horse died on Friday. Good job I have dd because otherwise I dread to think....sadsadsad
sadsadsad broody, so sorry to hear that!
madscimum Mon 23-Jul-12 21:09:04
Oh, no, broody sad So sorry sad
I have a cat that I didn't expect to see DD's birth, but she's still around. I know I'll be really sad when she passes, even though I expect it.
Tessa has developed a new vocal ability -- screeching! It's really high pitched, and very loud. It's really confusing as sometimes she seems to do it when unhappy, like a scream/cry, but other times along with laughing as if she's trying out this new vocal ability. I desperately hope this is a short phase. Anyone else's LOs do this?
Ah, I found water babies, thanks! The one near us only have it once a week, and it is the same day as the local village Mums (and Dads) group which will start up again soon. As Mums group is the only place I've actually managed to meet people, I probably want to keep going. There are some a distance away that seem to have times every day -- but I'm not sure about making such a long trip...(about an hour drive - assuming we have a car!). I think I'll phone them and find out when beginners are and talk it over with DH. It would be nice for DD to be able to swim, as both her grandparents and aunt/uncle have a pool.
BeeWi Mon 23-Jul-12 21:41:33
Oh Broody so very sorry to hear that sad you just make sure you get lots of cuddles from DP and LO and just take care of yourself. Really feel for you [hugs]
MadSci - Erin has recently started to do screechies too. She really seems to be experimenting with her voice. I know what you mean about it being hard to determine their feelings sometimes. Occasionally I'll think she's upset but she's screeching whilst looking really happy.
Is anybody still swaddling to sleep? We tried at the weekend to get her our of her wombie and it was a disaster, so we put her back in. Getting a bit worried now we'll never manage!
And has anybody though about what they're doing with weaning? I'd really like to go the BLW route but it's not very widely done here. Lots of the mums I know from my ante natal group have already started weaning but I don't feel LO is ready yet but feel like it's shaking my resolve because seemingly all those around us are spoon feeding and weaning already and we're not. I think we'll just do our own thing but it's hard iykwim?
In other news, we had a 3 feed night last night instead of our usual 1 feed night. Hope this was a one off and not the dreaded 4 month sleep regression!
KikiRC Tue 24-Jul-12 09:31:00
Sorry to hear your news, Broody. My old cat's been quite poorly & I've been feeling guilty I haven't been giving her enough attention recently.
Bee- we had a HV check yesterday and she was very firm that their advice is not to start any weaning until 6 months. There's been lots of World Health Organisation research, apparently, and they believe that 6 months is the time the body is properly ready. They should be able to sit confidently which means it's easier for the food to go down, plus breast milk apparently starts producing enzymes at 6 months which helps to digest food. There were various other things I can't remember off the top of my head, but they seemed to make sense.
We've also definitely had a bit of sleep regression. The last few weeks she has fed 2 or 3 times in the night, but she's getting back to her previous routine (hopefully!) I think it's an adjustment, too, because she went through a stage where she was only having cat naps during the day, whereas now she has a proper sleep in the morning & afternoon. She also makes a variety of screeches and squawks- sometimes I'm not sure if it's her or the gulls!
Trouble- do you have one of those sun tent things for the beach? I don't feel I can take Ivy out for all that long in this real fierce sunshine, despite sun hats & cream etc.
I've been mostly staying indoors kiki! blush i just feel it is too hot for him! When we are out we're been sitting under trees rather than on the beach!
I forgot the all important news from Saturday...Fyfe cut his first tooth! We now have a toothbrush and paste, it's terribly grown up! grinwink
Yes, he screeches too, lovely eh?hmmconfused
Oh yeah, I plan to do mixed weaning (at 6 months) BLW for the most part but with some purées of things I would have puréed as want him to get used to that texture too and to using a spoon. So purées will be potato, sweet potato, swede and carrot, squash, avocado (like guacamole) tomato (for pasta sauces) and some fruit purées. The rest will be finger foods and I plan to include him in our evening meal each night so he'll eat the same as us, with us. Basically I'm not planning to purée a lasagne etc.
KikiRC Tue 24-Jul-12 10:30:45
We've just been going out in the early evenings, trouble, when it's a bit cooler. I usually find a spot in the shadow of a boat or something on the beach, but even that's been too hot, really.
Good news on the tooth!
BeeWi Tue 24-Jul-12 10:43:09
Weeeeeee! Exciting news about the first tooth, Trouble. That is very grown up indeed! Is it on Fyfe's lower jaw? Bet it looks very cute. Have you noticed any change in breastfeeding? I'm a bit nervous about the full teeth/boobie situation! blush
Good to know about what the hv said, Kiki. Our local (rather gruff) nurse is in favour of weaning early as she's pretty old school. She also said they have to eat meat or they won't get enough iron. I feel like telling her to do one but it's hard when you have these 'experts' and you're a first timer. Also just the full peer group thing with the other ante natal group mums (who see the same nurse with it being such a small place) weaning early. Nice that you ladies are on here to give me some perspective!
broodylicious Tue 24-Jul-12 11:45:38
Thanks everyone for your condolences.
Re weaning - we are planning on doing BLW from six months. We had the HV come out last week and she left us a DVD on BLW and it all makes sense to us and seems to fit in with BFing so we will go with it. DH had done some research beforehand re best age to introduce food/start weaning and we had already agreed between us not to start til six months, unless hv came up with amazing reason to do it early. As it was though, she doesn't recommend doing it early because dd's tummy just wouldn't be ready and she has to be able to sit up straight and hold herself to aid digestion.
Think with all this parenting lark though, it's all down to the individual baby and what mum and dad think is best for him/her. We know our babies better than anyone after all smile
The DVD sounds interesting broody, what was it called? I'd like to see it.
At the moment the tooth is only a couple of mm tall as has only just cut so he doesn't look any different yet bee. I can't feel it yet whilst feeding but know two women who said the Lansinoh had to come back in to use for a while as they kind of chafe, it really doesn't sound too bad though and will hopefully make weaning easier.
What is the BLW stance on yoghurt for example? I want to do BLW but can't see how you get things like mash and yogurt in to them, does that stuff wait until they can use a spoon? I think I need to read the book I have about it as am getting swayed by all the people I know from groups giving purées and I really wanted to BLW!! They are all also weaning early, I can see that it's tempting but I am determined to wait until 6 months unless I truly believe it to be in his best interest. smile
I've answered my own question, I can put the puréed stuff/mash or yogurt on to a spoon for him which he can learn to feed himself with, that way I'm sticking with the principles (because I want to, not that I feel I have to) or he can pick it up with his fingers if he prefers! That way he still gets those textures I want him to experience. Does that sound right?
I've been thinking about this a lot recently so it's nice to write it all down and get a plan sorted! Sorry for the lengthy monologue!! blushgrin
kiki, sent you a text, will be in town at 12 ish so will give you a ring then. smile
madscimum Wed 25-Jul-12 18:17:02
No trouble, Trouble! I appreciate hearing your thoughts smile You've asked and answered some of the same questions I have. Do you have the Baby Led Weaning book? I was thinking of ordering that. I also saw a "Weaning Made Easy" book that looks like it covers a couple methods, and I'm wondering if I should get that also for some balance. And I'm interested to hear about this DVD, too, broody.
My thoughts are leaning towards BLW, although I'd like to be able to feed mushy stuff too. (And could they just lick it off their fingers in addition to a spoon if they wanted?) I should probably read some. Basically, BLW seems ultimately easier -- they eat what you eat, when you eat. And I'm all for easier smile No one has suggested early weaning here, but we are also at a bit of a disconnect as our HV has left and they haven't hired a new one. We've been told to contact the GP about the next set of shots, and I have no idea when they'll get a new HV for us.
And, oh, my, the screeching is really getting to me! I feel like I'm spending all day trying to keep Tessa from screeching. Someone commented that she was especially vocal, which was nice when it was "ooo" and "aah", but this sound is maddening! I do hope she gets over it soon. She does at least appear to be starting to modulate it -- the same sound but at a slightly lower volume at times. (She's doing it right now, and the volume just went through the roof...better hit post!)
Yes mad, they could just lick it off their fingers too smile it dies sound so much easier, that way you don't have to take food out with you or think about where/when you're going to feed them, they just get three meals a day with you. I have the baby led weaning book, not sure who it's by, small thin white book with a picture of a baby on the front. I'll dig it out and have a read. Saw kiki and Ivy today, Ivy's a little sweetheart! smile
broodylicious Thu 26-Jul-12 09:49:08
The DVD we were lent from the HV was a copy so I've not got any idea who it was by or whether it's just a Leicester NHS thing. Maybe ask your HVs or docs or local sure start centre if they have anything available?
Oh yes the vocal range of my 17 week old is also growing but all sounds only come in one volume - loud!! It is like she wants to outdo herself, particularly in the squeals department when she gets higher and higher every time. Apparently, according to the doc and two HVs, she will be an early talker. Sounds about right hmm
She does sometimes have comical timing with giggles...the other day, on our walk, a 7/8 yr old boy came shimmying and skipping towards us singing "I'm sexy and I know it" and then stopped in front of us and said "I am though innit? I am sexy!" before shimmying on past us, followed by two friends of the same age. Poppy happened to giggle and squeal at that exact point which actually made me laugh out loud! (followed by omg she will not watch MTV or know what sexy is at 16, let alone 7!!!)
madscimum Fri 27-Jul-12 16:45:31
Oh, I remembered what I wanted to ask, trouble - how do you brush the baby's tooth? I assume there are baby tooth brushes and baby tooth paste? Somebody gives advice on this, I hope. I hope we get an HV again soon... I did just get a message that we can go to a baby clinic and see another HV for weighing and stuff next month, but I don't think they'll be "ours".
We got the car back, for less than we originally paid for it, but DH thinks this is a signal that it might be time to look for a new one. I kinda feel like we just put a bunch of money into it, so I'd want it to continue to work. He's going to take a long drive next weekend with it, so if it goes well then maybe he'll feel better about it. At least we now have 50-mile towing from the AA if something does go wrong.
And I can't believe I start work again on Monday sad I have no idea how I'm going to do it -- at least I don't actually have to go anywhere, except for scattered meetings, so the fact that I can still barely pump 10mls at once doesn't matter too much. But getting work done with DD screaming nearby is going to be tough. I had been planning to get the kitchen set up as a home office but haven't done it yet. I asked the Prof who runs the weekly informal seminars if I could bring DD to them, and he said sure, so we'll see how that goes. If it goes well, maybe by the time the academic year and the more formal seminars start, she might be welcome at those too. Otherwise DH will need to entertain her.
And Tessa has just started another growth spurt, I think... Is there a 4-month one? She's really upped her feeding frequency, sometimes hungry every hour!
KikiRC Fri 27-Jul-12 17:26:06
Mad- yes, baby toothbrushes & toothpaste- but you need to check the floride levels in the toothpaste and get advice on which one to use for your area depending on levels of floride in the water locally. I guess you must have to wait 'til the teeth have come right through, otherwise the gums are too sore to brush?
Wishing you lots of luck going back to work- and I'll be watching with interest, because I'm really not sure how it's going to work out when my Maternity Allowance runs out (in December). Are you going to be looking after Tessa at home & working, or will DH/ someone else look after her while you work? I'm freelance and do a number of things usually, but am going to have to focus on things I can do based at home initially at least, and the hope is that DP (who is also freelance, but has a p/t office job too) can juggle things a bit if and when I need to go to meetings etc. My friend I met at a pregnancy yoga class worked from home full time (with the baby there) when her dd was about a month old (she's an editor) and it's been really hard, but she seems to have pulled it off, despite colic & early teething. She gets the laptop going at the 5am feed! I know there are some things (i.e. emails/ updating my website etc) that I can do during the day without too much problem, but more concentrated stuff I'll have to wait 'til she's asleep- so mainly evenings and a bit during nap time- that's usually when I sort out the house/ eat etc- so no idea if I'll manage... it will also be interesting to see how your meetings go. I feel Ivy's quite easy going and could go along to less formal ones, too. Anyway, blah blah, but I really hope it works out! Enjoy your last weekend & I hope things get sorted with the car. XX
KikiRC Fri 27-Jul-12 18:57:56
PS- really nice to see TroubleANDFyfe, too, and talk teeth! X
Yes, we use a baby toothbrush and paste! You need to start brushing daily as soon as the tooth erupts from the gum (even when it is 1mm!) as plaque will attack straight away!
broodylicious Fri 27-Jul-12 23:09:44
mad - yes we were told to start introducing the toothbrush and paste as soon as the tooth erupts. Just the tiniest smear of paste though to get the taste of it.
Four month growth spurt - yes defo!! Can't remember who asked that but yes it defo exists. Our dd was grouchy, constipated, pulling off during feeding for a scream, wanting to be picked up but then not, teething didn't help, still not sleeping during the day, awake every hour during the night, made out like she was hungry then lost interest after a few sucks....oh it drove me mad last week! Pinnacle was Wednesday when I was meeting my NCT friends at the pub - she was full of smiles as soon as we got there, ordered my drink and lunch, went to feed her and boom, off she went blush angry sad screamed the place down so much I had to leave after two sips of my coke and before my food arrived. The waitress was lovely and put my fish finger sandwich and chips in containers and wrapped them up so I could take them home! I cried some tears on that journey home I don't mind telling you!
broodylicious Mon 30-Jul-12 01:33:05
Grrrr I officially hate sleep regression!!!!!!angry
dd went to bed at 930pm tonight and woke at 11, 1130, 12.15 and 1.15. Driving me maaaaaaaaad!!
Anyone else up and annoyed?
BeeWi Mon 30-Jul-12 02:57:48
Oh Broody, you have my sympathies. LO's sleep has been all over the shop lately. First we had a mega growth spurt, meaning night time feeding frenzies a-go-go and she didn't seem to get herself back to her old self from that. Then at the weekend we tried to unswaddle. We just went cold turkey on Friday night and it was a huge mistake! She was up every 10 to 15 minutes from 2 until 6 and before that she'd only slept a solid 3 hours. It was miserable! She's now swaddled with one arm out. We'll then do 2 arms in a few days and then hopefully swaddle free by next weekend.
Aren't babies funny- you think you've got them sussed and then they'll just change again, keeping you on your toes.
We got a cuski in the post today that I'm going to wear during the day and then try and get her to use as a comforter, so she can self settle at night without me having to go and give her cuddles and rocking. We'll see how it works...anything is worth a shot, I figure.
Good luck tonight! I hope she lets you get some kip!
broodylicious Tue 31-Jul-12 09:48:31
Omg she's getting worse!!! Last night it was 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 1, 2.30, 3 - when DH got up and took her downstairs to sleep on his chest - then just before 6 because DH had to get up and ready for work. I fed her at 6 til 7 (she was feeding on and off with sleeping) and she went back to sleep for half an hour on me.
We saw the hv yday and we discussed this horrific nightmare.... I can't believe she said she'd never heard of four month sleep regression!! She thinks instead DD could be hungry so suggested maybe weaning early (defo no, thanks!) or giving a formula feed just before bedtime. Even though I'd rather not, we did give her a ff sad..... But it made no difference anyway, as the times above show!
Any advice?!
KikiRC Tue 31-Jul-12 10:27:49
Broody- I think it is just a (very tiring) phase as they readjust their sleep patterns. Ivy wasn't quite so extreme, but definitely went through a stage of waking a lot more often at night, and I remember Trouble went through a few nights similarly. Ivy still sometimes wakes a few times and doesn't cry, but is snuffling around in her basket, and we do use a dummy which gets her back to sleep. I know that's not for everyone, but I think in Ivy's case she's not necessarily hungry, just awake. Is she feeding more during the day, too? (Growth spurt?) And sleeping in the day? I've heard that if they don't sleep much in the day time, it can make them more irritable at night. I think sleep deprivation is the hardest thing- can you just plan an easy week so you can catch up a bit during the daytime? Hope it doesn't last long. X
sad poor you broody! It happened to us and we're now through it, sleep went back to normal again recently, gradually. I know it's hard right now but this too shall pass, I don't think there's any kind of magic solution, sorry your HV have you such bad advice! I don't know if it'll make you feel better but he now sleeps 1-2 hours in the afternoon too which he didn't do before so it's better than it was before the regression.
How long are you up for each time? With Fyfe I was lucky as he'd only be awake for 10 mins each time.
madscimum Tue 31-Jul-12 19:29:48
Oh, broody, sorry to hear all your troubles, but I must say it made me feel better as Tessa is acting like this too. She's only JUST started to sleep a couple hours at the start of the night again. We used to get almost 6, and I was thrilled last night to get 3! Then she wakes every hour for more. And feeds every hour or hour and a half during the day. Gah! No advice, but it does look like we're on the upswing after about 2.5 weeks of this, so there is hope that it can end...
hmm at your HV. How can she not have heard of it, when she's seen hundreds (thousands?) of babies and just with our small group we've all experienced it? I wonder if they just push weaning and then think no more... Good for you for standing your ground on that.
Well, back to work is working so far (although I really need to put in another hour tonight as I stopped early to watch Olympics blush). DH is home as well, working on his thesis, and on Monday he looked after Tessa for most of the morning, with me just popping in for feeds. By 2pm Tessa figured out that I was leaving her when I put her down and would have no more! She cried whenever I set her anywhere or gave her to DH. So I got on my sling and put her in. But then she insisted I stand (by crying when I sat). After unsuccessfully trying to type and bounce standing, I remembered my birthing ball! I sat on that and bounced, and she was happy. It's a little low for the table, and bouncy typing isn't exactly easy, but it seemed to work. We did that again several times today and she fell asleep after a little while. If this continues to be a solution I may go look for a larger one -- I think we bought the small or medium back when I was pregnant. Tomorrow is our first meeting -- 2 hours in the afternoon, and DH will come in with me and look after Tessa. I hope that goes well. Your friend's story is encouraging, kiki. From one month, wow!
Enjoying the Olympics -- I've managed to catch nearly all the gymnastics coverage and a lot of the equestrian. Very impressed that the 37 year-old Mum made vault finals! It's a bit bittersweet, maybe even more so than normal as I come back from barely even walking for 4 months, to see the gymnasts doing things I can't do anymore and so many more things I never could do... (My level of gymnastics was those little connecting moves they do in between their flips smile ) But I still enjoy it.
I really do think most people go through the dreaded 4 month regression and they all come out the other end too! <doesn't mention there's a worse one coming at 6 months>
My little baby is 5 months old tomorrow shock grinsad
KikiRC Wed 01-Aug-12 10:48:55
I can never remember exactly how old Ivy is any more, Trouble! I guess coming up to 5 months, then!
Well done for getting started with work, Mad! Don't know if it would work for you, but sometimes I put Ivy in her bouncer & rock it with my feet while I'm on the computer. From 6 months they can use those bouncers that hang in the door, as well- I remember my sister loved hers! I'm hoping that will keep Ivy entertained, soon. I'm finding a similar thing that Ivy wants to be held a lot more at the moment- I think it's partially the teething, but also she's in a funny in-between stage where she can sit for short periods, but not enough to sit on her own and play- and she seems to get a bit bored playing under her activity arch so much, which she used to love. I'm being given a bumbo, which I hope will allow her to sit and play with things in a way that's more interesting for her (if she fits with the brace straps). I don't mind holding her a lot, but dp has been away for a week, and I just don't seem to get much else done until the evenings.. Just really need to start working a bit, too- although I won't start technically 'til December, being freelance I need to have plenty of things lined up for then so the money starts rolling in straight away, otherwise it will take several months before I earn anything, which will be a disaster financially. Anyway, hope you're OK over there on your ball today, mad!
grin kiki he was born on the 1st so not too hard to work out! grin
Just had him weighed, 16lb13 now. Still on the 50th centile so they are happy with him.smile
broodylicious Wed 01-Aug-12 11:33:54
kiki at my mums yday, I put Poppy in a bumbo and she loved it!! She did get tired quickly but was quite happy in there with trusty Sophie the giraffe, her black and white noisy book and zebra rattle smile think it'll really help with her sitting development.
I was warned by NCT about those door bouncers as they can apparently be quite harsh on their little spines and hips - shame as I thought it'd be a good alternative to play mat and bouncer sad
You can use door bouncers for 10 mibs at a time, just not recommended for any longer periods. Fyfe's now ready for his but we have no architraves to hang it on! We set up his highchair yesterday though and he sat in it for the whole of dinner time which was great!grin
KikiRC Thu 02-Aug-12 12:35:37
Yes, I though door bouncers were OK for short periods as long as they're fitted correctly- the one thing the physio at the antenatal classes said to completely avoid are baby walkers- apparently there are hundreds of accidents with them every year, and they have to walk on their toes, which puts the wrong sort of pressure on the feet & doesn't really help them learn to walk. There wouldn't be the room in my house, anyway!
Can't wait to try out the bumbo- really hope she fits! Think we're getting an Ikea Antelop high chair- I've had lots of recommendations for it.
madscimum Fri 03-Aug-12 20:28:13
Phew, made it through a week of work! I didn't do the most useful work today, but I put in the hours... I am SO going to take a nap this weekend. If DD lets me. smile
DH left for the weekend this morning -- first time with me and Tessa alone! I keep reminding myself there are single mums and I see kiki above, you've been alone for a week, so I should be able to manage this.
Does anyone else's LO like to cover their face? Tessa has started pulling anything she can on her face. I've taken all but a cellular blanket away from her sleeping areas, as I keep finding them over her head. She puts it on her face, then kicks and waves her arms like she can't get it off. But I'm not sure that she isn't playing a game and trying to get me to take it off. Today she pulled a muslin over her face while playing on the floor, and I didn't take it off for her. She left it on for about 15 minutes until the kicking finally slid it off the top of her head. But it disturbs me, as I worry she'll place something that can suffocate her there sad I'm not sure if she's really incapable of removing them or not.
Well done mad! How's it going on your own? I have a friend whose baby likes to cover her face. I guess it's just important to control what they have access to, cellular blankets and Muslins only I suppose?
broodylicious Wed 08-Aug-12 19:19:34
Evening all smile how are we?
I met with my NCT friends today and we all had a collective emotional outburst. Turns out we are all feeling the pressure of mummyhood but we all thought that everyone else was coping fantastically so have never spoken up....until one of the girls piped up that's she's really feeling crap. Well, that opened the floodgates! We all spoke about our true feelings and how we question ourselves constantly and feel helpless on several occasions throughout any given week. It was such a relief to know that we are all going through the same and to have it confirmed that we don't need to pretend we are supermum, superwife, super self, super daughter, super sister etc. The NCT fee literally paid itself today as we'd have never met each other and opened up had we not signed up to those classes. I'm truly delighted to have realised I've got such lovely friends smile (bit of sick in mouth reading that slushy stuff back though haha!!)
Lawabidingmama Wed 08-Aug-12 20:31:14
Hello all I'm not a regular on this thread though I did pop on a few months back! Just after a bit of advice DD2 is not a very good sleeper ( yawn) she's ebf and is totally addicted to boob for comfort for example She will usually go down after a mammoth suck at 8 ish till 10 then till 12 but then I have three hours of her on off on off every half an hour its exhausting! I've tried co sleeping which makes me uneasy and guilty as I never would have dreamt of bringing DD1 in my bed (I've kicked DH out and removed the duvet and pillows but stil....) she also decides at random times of the day she needs a little suck and cuddle which is lovely mostly but if I'm out with DD1 in tow can be a challenge for example today we went to a farm park and I tried to feed her before we set off but she wouldn't feed as soon as we got in the car she kicked up a fuss we pulled over and I tried again she just kept pulling off when the milk came and looking about smiling then going on again but was not happy when I put her in seat to set back off. She then fell asleep with my finger in her mouth! DD1 never had a dummy but sucked her thumb from 9 week I'm not against dummys but don't want to force her as so far she just looks at me on a confused way and spits it out! She is also a bottle refuser but that's another story..... I bf DD1 for 9 months and loved it but feeling like its creating a need in DD2 given she needs to sleep with boob in her mouth! Sorry for the long post but I wondered if anyone else is experiencing this? Also she's not been great weight wise started off 25 th gradually dropped to just under 9 th by 16 week DD1 tracked the 50th and occasionally jumped to 75th.
She's very active though rolls the full length of the room has done for a few weeks and is starting to push up onto her hands !
broodylicious Thu 09-Aug-12 00:56:35
Hi law. Welcome smile
To me, everything you've described is a typical four month old - sleep regression and separation anxiety. Could she also be teething? My DD is pretty much the exact same as you've described and is being tormented by the teething demons too and so things are tough going. She also is a real tinker for using my boobs as a comfort and she isn't doing great weight wise either. Will yours nap during the day? Mine won't, even though it's obvious she's shattered and needs it. So infuriating!!
Lawabidingmama Thu 09-Aug-12 03:11:40
Hi broody no rare short naps here too! Not helped much by my 2 year old being her lovely but very noisy self! I would have thought it was sleep regression but tbh she's always been like this! Tonight (touchs wood) she's so far been great I'm only up for the second time and she's gone down quickly each time! Unfortunately DD1 has been up 3 times! DH has slept through though!
Just wanted to add that you are very right about mummy hood coming with a bucket load of guilt! I'm constantly worrying about my two and feel especially guilty that I don't have the opportunity to do everything the way I would like for my psb as I did for my pfb and that pfb has to share my time now as well!
KikiRC Thu 09-Aug-12 10:09:07
Hey Broody & Law. I don't know if I can offer any helpful advice, but completely emphathise re: lack of sleep. It's almost impossible to do anything when you're exhausted, especially over long periods. My DP does the bottle feeds at night/ early morning which I think has made an enormous difference to me- it means I start the day not feeling absolutely whacked. It works for us at the moment because DP is working 'til late so barely sees Ivy during the daytime & appreciates that bit of time with her. When I was BFing at night though, I did just keep her in with me & often fell asleep with her on the boob & popped her straight back on if she woke up. Probably not what they advise, but I always felt she was safe.
I feel Ivy's pretty settled at the moment, which I'm amazingly grateful for, but my big worries are getting work set up for later in the year- I just don't know if I can realistically get it all together & be working from home enough to pay the bills which worries me a lot. Also DP's son is set to move hundreds of miles away (13 hours journey) with his mum in the autumn, so DP is going to be spending a lot more time away- maybe 2 weeks a month, which is obviously going to be difficult in many ways (sleep levels included!) It ties in almost exactly with the time Ivy's brace comes off, so I'm half counting down 'til September and the rest of me is dreading it.
Anyway, just wanted to respond really. I think things will probably get easier soon, it can just feel impossible and never-ending when you're caught in the middle of it. xx
broodylicious Thu 09-Aug-12 11:43:51
kiki I agree - and hope - that it will get better soon, probably when we start to introduce solids. It's all about the exhaustion with me. I'm so conscious that I don't put on DH but if he doesn't get up with DD in the middle of the night (when she doesn't need feeding obviously), I am just a wreck the next day.
What is it you do kiki? (I think I remember you're freelance but in what?) I'm setting up on my own (marketing and PR) from January and I'm starting now to look at where I can get my work from. Its a bit daunting but exciting! I'm staying on in my permanent role for two days a week so I do have definite money coming in but I'm hoping to finish that by next Christmas if all goes well with my own biz.
KikiRC Thu 09-Aug-12 16:19:16
Broody, I'm an artist- spend part of my time making work to sell/ commissions etc, and the rest organising arts events and running workshops. The events things will be harder with a baby, because I have to be out and about a lot more- plus lots of meetings including formal board meetings etc and workshops are usually a day long, so would need childcare to cover those days.
broodylicious Fri 10-Aug-12 21:58:22
Evening all!
We had a little trip to the docs this afternoon after dd reacted very strangely to noise at our baby sensory class - she screamed high pitch but for a second at a time for a few minutes. The teacher was a bit worried, bless her, and so with her appalling sleep issues over the last few nights - 20/30 mins at a time, then waking - I decided to just get her checked out as i thought maybe she had an ear infection. Shes also had glands on the back of her head/nape of neck come up quite a bit and they hadn't gone down so wanted to get them seen.
Doc was fantastic and checked her all out (ears, mouth, chest, heart, temp, body for rashes etc) and shes absolutely fine smile He thinks she may come down with a little cold in the next few days and she's just showing the first signs in rather a dramatic fashion [proud look!] He said she has only been on the planet for 19 weeks so she doesn't know all sounds and so there will be some she won't like just yet (major one she objects to is ripping tin foil or anything too rustle-y) and the scream is the only way she can tell us she's not happy.
I asked whether the sleeping thing could be attributed to teething. Interestingly, he said that teething really doesn't affect babies half as much as its bad publicity says and that more often than not, it's just babies getting used to life outside the womb.
Kinda all obvious when I think about it but ya know ... ;)
milkymocha Fri 10-Aug-12 22:41:22
Hi everyone. I was on a march 2012 pregnancy thread - not sure if they are connected grin
My baby Vinnie was born 31/3/12, second DC, absolute little angel. Just wanted to introduce myself. Will be watching and nodding sympathetically along.
For all you first times mums... It will all pass so quickly. The good and bad bits, so try to enjoy them (as hard as no sleep is - i havent had a full nights sleep in 2.5 years grin !)
madscimum Sat 11-Aug-12 11:21:34
Welcome milky and law!
Glad to hear Poppy is doing well, broody. I'd meant to ask you how you were getting on with sleeping, but it is looking no different there, I see. Tessa has somehow forgotten how to fall asleep. She used to just nod off when she was tired, but now she screams and cries and just won't sleep, even though it is obvious she wants to sad She only sleeps if I nurse her down now. She has just started sleeping better at night -- 7.5 hours on Thu night!!! although only 4 last night -- so I am hoping this is a phase connected to the whole growth spurt/reverse cycling thing. It looks to me like she doesn't want the sooooooo interesting world to go away...
I made it through my alone weekend. Tessa was an absolute doll, and I think she really liked having my total attention. But when DH came home in the middle of the night, the next morning she gave him a big look of wonder and a grin when she woke up and found him there smile
And I've been scrambling through my second week of work. I have to admit, the Olympics have been more of a distraction than DD! So hopefully I'll be so much better next week. I took her to a seminar on Friday, and she blew some bubbles about halfway through then fell asleep after only a little grunty noise. People complemented me on how quiet she was, although I was all tense at those little noises she did make. My friend told me he had forgotten she was there until he heard a strange sound he couldn't quite place. Then we went to a meeting, too! A project I'd started was having its final meeting, so I asked if I could come along -- warning that the baby would be with me -- and she basically repeated her seminar performance of bubbles, grunts, then sleep.
Lawabidingmama Sat 11-Aug-12 19:42:27
Hello milky here's a brew cheers to no sleep for 2.5 years! Think we must have a similar age gap my DD's are 2 weeks short of 2 years apart! How are you finding the gap? We're muddling along nicely though a few hours extra kip would be heaven! DD's are interacting lots which just melts my heart eldest gets the most smiles and laughs from baby!
milkymocha Sun 12-Aug-12 08:12:43
Hi Law smile there are exactly 23 months between my boys. My eldest is amazing with the new recruit to which i am grateful for everyday. I have tried to do some things with him alone so he does not resent baby (eg take him swimming) but, he started crying on the bus home as 'baby no come swimming too' lol blush
So my plan backfired.
Iam surprisingly finding it very easy. Iam quite a laid back type (unless its DS1 colouring my carpet grin) so DS2 has sort of slotted in to our live nicely.
Vinnie (DS2) is VERY laid back so that helps, my biggest struggle is reminding my eldest to have patience.
I must have had sooo much time on my hands with just the one boy. I very rarely sit down now, but i am enjoying it and i just feel to cry knowing the newborn stage is over and he'll soon have teeth/be crawling/talking!
How are you finding it?
broodylicious Sun 12-Aug-12 10:37:41
It's really interesting hearing from you mommas with two babes. We were talking about it the other day and wondering how on earth I'd cope with two, especially if the next one was also a non daytime sleeper. My DH must think I'm superwoman cos he has every faith I would cope! Apparently "it's in the contract we have two children" winkgrin and I've always wanted two so they have a playmate anyway .... but it's the thought that in just six months, we would start all that trying again and in theory, by next Christmas we'd be a family of four!! hmm What is everyone else thinking about more babies and timings? Xxx
milkymocha Sun 12-Aug-12 11:39:31
I am very happy with the age gap between mine. They are close enough to interact on a 'babyish' level together but, my eldest is independent enough to feed himself/ be left for a few minutes doing a puzzle etc whilst iam changing/ sterilising/ dressing baby.
I think you most definitely would cope. I am honestly genuinely 'coping'! Iam really enjoying it moreso 2nd time round as i am not caught up on the little things like you do with the 1st and its absolutely amaxing to see the two of them 'chatting' and giggling together.
Saying that if all babies were like Vinnie then the world would be over populated. Hes an absolute treasure. I suffer from psb grin
Lawabidingmama Sun 12-Aug-12 20:34:39
Oh milky I love this age gap too smile I was very worried about DD1 being jealous as we are so close but she's not been resentful once! She is a lovely little girl though very loving! She has become a bit of daddy's girl now which makes me kinda sad but DH is loving it! DD2 is a yummy baby all blue eyes and big smiles she's not much of a sleeper but you cope surprisingly well on no sleep don't you think? I've not managed any one to one outings with DD1 as I'm bf and DD2 won't take a bottle hmm but still get plenty of mummy DD1 time when DH is home or DD2 is sleeping we paint bake etc she's also always asking for her "baby sissy" and tries to share her toys with her!
I also have no idea why I never seemed to have spare time with just one child I literally do not get a minute now! I would recommend this gap as already my two are interacting and especially as they are both DDs they will be into similar things also there has been no jealousy I don't think DD1 can remember her sister not being here.
I wouldnt describe my latest bundle as laid back as she very much demands being held by me and only me! But as long as she's with me she's a little ray of sun so I've just adapted playtime so it's all three of us doing jig saws, reading etc
Lawabidingmama Sun 12-Aug-12 20:37:18
Also broody I think your first is such a massive life change going from being independent to having someone totally depend on you 24 7 that other DCs just slot in! We are already talking about having DC3 I'm not totally mad though that will be a few years off!
madscimum Mon 13-Aug-12 00:49:25
Wow, broody, that is amazing to think on, isn't it?
For us, DH was not keen on children, but I negotiated "just one", figuring once one was in place, we could revisit the discussion. But curiously, DH has done a complete turn-around and is a devoted Dad, and might be more receptive than I had originally imagined. But now I'm not so keen -- I'm just not sure I could handle another pregnancy. People say the hormones make you forget the pain of childbirth, but it's going to take an awful lot of hormones to forget 6 months of SPD agony, and it's still not entirely gone. I hear that it starts earlier in subsequent pregnancies. So I think I need some more time at least before I can really think about facing it again. At the very least we'll need two incomes so that I can take more time off -- working so close to the end when I could barely even sit upright was mad, and I really can't do that again! I'm trying to enjoy every little bit of my daughter's babyhood, not sure if I'll have another one or not.
I know what you mean mad, I am planning a 3-3.5 year age gap as will need Fyfe to be fairly independent (and those 15 hours at nursery) in order to cope with pregnancy, no way I could look after a baby whilst pregnant! I feel happy with that though as feel I can devote myself to Fyfe now and give a new baby (eventually) lots of attention too. Also, there is a 3.5 year age gap between my sister and I and we are some of the closest siblings I know! I don't think the age gap dictates the relationship, in fact I know siblings with a one year gap that can't stand each other! Currently staying with a friend with a 3 week old and a 22 month old and she's doing great, it seems very doable. She had a very hard time in pregnancy though as got SPD (didn't have it first time) and foun it very hard to cope. Tricky decision! smile
Lawabidingmama Tue 14-Aug-12 22:03:16
I agree that the age gap doesn't dictate the relationship there's 2.9 yr between me and my elder sisters ( twins ) and 7 year with my little sister and we are all equally close I think a lot is down to how the relationship is nurtured! I found being pregnant with a toddler fine as I'm very lucky to have had two healthy problem free pregnancies! Ultimately I want 3 DC so wanted to get on with it! I don't think there is ever a perfect time as there are pros and cons of every gap!
Seeing as we discussed them recently thought I'd say Fyfe is currently in the door bouncer at a friend's and loves it! He is having a fabulous time and is not on tiptoes so no worries there.
Also, as from yesterday he is now properly sitting without support. He is very pleased with himself! grin
broodylicious Fri 17-Aug-12 19:25:48
Aaaah bless him trouble so cute! grin
We've had a few days in Devon fr a little break. Dd was well behaved in the main, although sleeping at night still seems to be a major issue. We came home yday, did the whole 615 bath, 640 feed, 730 bed routine as normal and she slept beautifully til 1030 when she woke as normal. It then took six hours to get her to settle again sadangryhmm she'd be rocked to sleep fine, put her down, five mins later she's awake again. On and on and on it went, til DH took her downstairs and let her sleep on him. She still woke after 90 mins but went back down a bit quicker. I just need this phase to end soon as I'm totally knackered!!!
madscimum Sat 18-Aug-12 09:46:28
Hi all! Hope you had a good week. Sorry to hear about sleeping, broody. It really is mad when they just won't do it! I think we've finally come out the other end of the sleep regression, after a good 6 weeks or so. She's still terribly distractible when eating, though. I need to feed her somewhere nice and quiet, and not talk and refrain from doing noisy things like eating an apple smile We're definitely not up for any public breastfeeding in this type of mood.
And thank you all for telling me about swimming! We went to water babies this week, and Tessa loved it. She was completely knackered afterwards and slept a good 3 hours in the afternoon.
I've taken her into the office a couple times this week -- arriving around 4pm and staying to 7-8pm, so if she's noisy she won't bother people. She did a bit of screeching before 5pm yesterday and I took her for a walk to see if anyone was bothered -- no one had heard, but the two grandpas who have offices in the next corridor also said they won't mind if they had. So that was nice. I'm still worried about the office below mine, but the fellow who has that hasn't been in yet. Next week will be a bunch of meetings that DH will take her during, but it was nice to know the two of us can manage in the office together, too. Although the plan is still mostly to work from home.
broodylicious Sat 18-Aug-12 17:18:41
mad we are five weeks into our regression - pls god I hope it is just a phase! - so fingers crossed we'll be back into normality soon...
Fantastic you liked water babies. Its undoubtedly my highlight of the week and I'd love to think its dd's too. The teaching really does work - we went to our first public swimming session last week and practiced a few of the moves and she was smiling and chatting as normal. We even did a tiny underwater swim! My friend who has been going for a few months longer than us thinks the same too - her dd swims independently for a few seconds and understands it when her mum says "hold on hold on hold on" (about week 4 lesson I think). Fab stuff!! Xx
It is amazing what a difference it makes Fyfe being able to sit up! He is more able to play with toys and we have been going on the swings at a friend's house and in the park. He was on them for 15 mins just now and I only brought him in as thought it was getting a bit too sunny for him to be our without a hat. He never normally likes anything for that long! I absolutely love this stage, he is doing something new each day and is just such a wonderful little boy! <soppy> grin
KikiRC Tue 21-Aug-12 19:30:55
Hello all,
Sorry haven't popped in for a while- but some good news! Ivy came out of her hip brace last week- three weeks earlier than we were expecting! Can't tell you how pleased/ relieved I am, it's been so nice just to hold her properly again and have a bath, see her legs fully extended etc and she started rolling almost as soon as it came off, so she's loving the sense of being a bit more mobile. We're taking for an X-ray in 3 weeks, to check everything's still OK, then hopefully that will be it. I'm taking her to be weighed/ measured tomorrow, because we haven't had an accurate measurement since she was a week old.
It's also been one of those crazy weeks where her hair's suddenly started growing visibly day by day, she's talking a lot more (she used to jabber on a while back, but then got to a stage where she just grunted and made baby noises for ages)- she said mumumum this morning, which had me in tears. So lovely. A few things have changed- she was sitting up very confidently with the brace, but is a bit floppier again now, I think she must have used slightly different muscles, so is having to re-learn that a bit. I'd say we're still in sleep regression though! She wakes up in the wee hours and is really jolly and chatty, but won't go back to sleep. She's beginning to have slightly longer daytime naps, though.
Have been meaning to ask- when it comes to weaning etc are you going to take 6 months as calendar months, or use the number of weeks since birth? (I think there's a discrepancy of a couple of weeks, or two). I gave her a bit of de-seeded tomato to suck on yesterday (she just sucked the juice out of it, and had a bit of a chew, but really enjoyed it). Made a terrific mess, though!
Hooray kiki! grin that is fantastic news! Sitting up will be really different without the brace but I'm sure she'll get it soon! Any sign of those teeth yet?
KikiRC Thu 23-Aug-12 08:00:53
I don't know what's happening with the teething... She still has one right at the back that is poking through a bit, but it hasn't changed in a month. Some days she's absurdly dribbly & it's obviously bothering her, other days it doesn't. There are a couple of little white dots beginning to show- one at the top front, which I think's more likely to show itself fully first, and the gums feel noticably hardly.
How are Fyfe's teeth coming on? Really can't wait to get her in the door bouncer, but she's not used to bearing weight on her legs at all, and I don't want to put any pressure on her hips really- not until she's had her X-ray in 3 weeks- once we're sure everything has stayed fine without the brace on, then we'll encourage her more with that kind of thing.
Had her weighed yesterday- she's just under a stone, so just dipped under the 25th centile (which is exactly what they predicted once the weight of the brace/ nappy etc wasn't taken into account). She looked quite small against some of the other babies, but nothing to worry about, I don't think.
Good to hear work things are going ok so far, Mad. Broody- you must be due some sleep soon! Must sign up for the swimming class now we're able to. X
grin you must all be so happy kiki! That's brilliant that she's the weight they predicted! Some babies are bigger and some smaller, they just need to be the right weight for them.
Just thought, there is a baby gym thing on on Tuesday mornings 9.30-10.30 (very early I know!) where a gym instructor shows you how to help your baby with whatever moves they are working on, may be of interest to you for building up Ivy's muscles. The swimming is brilliant! We really enjoyed baby massage too. I'm going to ring up about signing this week too as Fyfe is 6 months next week! shock
His teeth are fine, the bottom ones are now so noticeable when he smiles and laughs..very cute! smile
Oh yeah, we started weaning yesterday, lots of fun! grin
broodylicious Thu 23-Aug-12 11:18:41
Ooooh trouble what did your little cutie think to "proper" food? What did he have? Are you doing BLW or puréeing everything?
We're planning to start BLW in two weeks - she'll be 24 weeks then so pretty much six months. Fingers crossed the sleep comes with a fuller tummy....wink
We're doing BLW, he's loving it so far, he has had sugar snap peas, cucumber, red pepper, bread, a breadstick, pancake, a strawberry and a strawberry flavoured fromage frais! We have no food allergies in either family so I'm just giving him anything. He's very good at picking the food up and gets it straight to his mouth and chews! He's still spitting most of it out of course so not sure if he's actually eaten anything yet, I think it will take weeks or even months for that to happen so don't be banking on full tummies with BLW! It is so much fun though, he is very happy and sits in his highchair until all the food is 'gone' (on the floor, on his face, in the dog etc.) which is longer than it takes for me to eat my meal! smile the bibs with sleeves (poundland) are a must! wink I also got him a big plastic mat that sticks to the table to eat from. He did pretty well with a loaded spoon with his fromage frais too! We're having Rigatoni with tenderstem broccoli and cream cheese tonight so he'll have a little portion of that! smile
broodylicious Thu 23-Aug-12 19:15:23
Holy moly!! I was planning on baby rice for a few days then just one or two things a day. With fyfe (ha, my phone just turned fyfe into dude!!) eating all those different things on his first day, I feel a bit mean now grin
Yeah I think I may end up pureeing a bit you know, now you've said that. I need to get food in her tum and blw won't do that will it. Hmmmm. Need to think...
If it helps at all the people I know doing traditional weaning haven't mentioned a particular change in sleep. Is her sleep very bad at the moment?
Lawabidingmama Thu 23-Aug-12 23:43:13
Hi I think it was kiki that asked about weaning age the official guide is 26 weeks!! I know most mums start earlier though. I started DD1 at 26 weeks so will do the same for DD2. DD1 is celiac ( diagnosed just before she turned 2 with mild symptoms) this was a total shock as no one in either family has anything along these lines! So I will be extra careful with DD2! Due to the possibility of this type of disorder it's advised that if weaning starts before 26 week no gluten is introduced to the diet. They don't really know what kind of link there is with weaning and allergies intolerances or celiac disease but I was glad I had followed the advice as potentially my DD1 has a lower sensitivity to the gluten due to this!! It's a mine field though!
milkymocha Fri 24-Aug-12 04:37:45
I would say try not to introduce too many different foods and flavours at one time! I did yhis with DS1 who would 'eat' anything as it was exciting and it led to lots of explosive poos amd tummy aches blush
He also has severe allergies but thats another thread all together!
Happy weaning, its so much fun!
Fyfe is only 25 weeks but we started a week early as just got home from holiday so seemed a good time to introduce a change and as I say, because we are BLW he is not actually ingesting anything as yet, just tasting, chewing and playing. I am doing what feels right for us, sharing our meals so he tries a little of everything. smile
Just checked 'the' book to make sure and Gill Rapely says that as long as you wait until 6 months, with BLW, you do not need to introduce foods one at a time, just give them a bit of everything you are eating.
Obviously if you are going with traditional weaning/purées it is different. smile
BeeWi Fri 24-Aug-12 11:41:07
Hi ladies.
Trouble - can you believe that our little ones have got so grown up to be eating already?! I get such a buzz off all these new stages smile. It sounds like you're doing a fab job with the weaning. We're going down the BLW route too, so have been obsessively reading Rapley's book and anything else related that I can get my mitts on. I think the approach feels right for us because I can tend towards being a worrywart and I reckon I would panic if she wasn't swallowing enough purée...if she's in control it takes some of that worry away somehow.
Kiki - awesome news about Ivy's brace coming off! So thrilled for you both.
We're not really using anything like bouncers or bumbos at all. I saw a video that Magda Gerber made and it influenced me a fair bit. She showed the postural development of babies as they learned to move in different ways and she was a big believer in not putting babies into positions that they could not get into themselves. She was just into laying babies on their backs and letting them do the rest themselves. She was all about just observing and not rushing. It just kind of resonated for us.
Broody - so sorry that sleep is still hard at your end. I hope it improves soon. Everything is harder when you're exhausted. I would warn you though, everyone barring us has started weaning in our mums group and the common consensus is that it makes naff all difference to sleep. Those who seem to have crap sleepers still have them, sadly.
In our news, LO cut her first tooth today. She's been having a really tough time with teething. We're trying the amber necklace but not sure it makes any difference. Anyone having any success with any other natural remedies?
I like the Ashton and parsons powders, hard to get hold of but seem to help bee. Have also heard good things about bicciepegs, I have some but haven't tried them yet as they are from 6 months. Teeth a powders seem okay, more of a distraction really. He loves his Sophie the giraffe when he has sore gums. Hooray for the first tooth! Expect the second to cut in about 10 days. smile
broodylicious Fri 24-Aug-12 19:32:18
law my DH would give your post a big thumbs up grin he is v strict about when we are weaning exactly because of the increased risk of allergies that early weaning can bring! And also because their little tums aren't ready and the risk of adulthood obesity of course smile
bee thank you - still no real improvement on the sleep front since our last post. She loves spending time with us I reckon, that's why she doesn't want to sleep as she won't see us wink Last night, she slept 90 mins, woke for a feed and then it took another 90 minutes to get her back down. Exhausting, nasty, vicious circle. As she slept well at night before the four month mark, I'm still just hoping its a phase and she's not always going to be a crap sleeper!
Poppy seems to be picking up new habits every day now. She is quite into blowing raspberries at me and DH this week! I thought it was a cheeky thing she was doing and was a bit embarrassed out and about yday but the leader at baby sensory said today that we should encourage them to do it as its a precursor to talking - by blowing raspberries, she's apparently learning about breath control which means she will find it easy to start talking and more than likely be able to blow out her candles on her first birthday cake grin Interesting i thought because we blow bubbles in the water facing her at our swimming lessons and that's about breathing too. I remember all the way back at the 6 week check up, the doctor said poppy would be an early talker so maybe this is a bit more heading that way!!
Another "skill" she's picked up - only started yday - is lying on her back and lifting her head right off the floor and leaning forward, almost like she's doing a abdominal crunch!! Anyone else's babes doing it? She rolls happily front to back but hasn't mastered back to front so wondering if this is what it's leading up to? To us, though, it looks like she wants to sit up!
Is she sitting yet broody? That sounds like the move Fyfe is working on- sitting up from laying down; he can only sit up when placed sitting up if that makes sense. The raspberries are lovely, he thinks he is very funny with them! smile
milkymocha Sat 25-Aug-12 06:40:04
I wasnt tryimg to offend you trouble i was just trying to pass on a nugget of experience. My eldest was BLW too smile
Weaning was by far my favourite stage, their first christmas dinner is something quite magical. Couldnt have asked for a more magical present than a beautiful toothy baby munching on a stick of parsnips - wonderful! grin
madscimum Sat 25-Aug-12 09:11:15
Yeah, kiki! So happy to hear about the brace coming off smile
And the BLW weaning sounds exciting, trouble. I'm definitely leaning heavily that way now. I just finished reading the book. I think we'll do as the book says and let her start whenever she's able to sit up and grab for food. We're getting an HV come by and give the "weaning talk" next week -- I don't know what that is. I hope they're okay with BLW, but its not actually our HV (we've been told she's been hired, but needs to work out her notice at her last job and will be in place in a few weeks), so it will be easy to ignore if I don't like what she says.
Tessa's getting clearly more interested in watching us in the process of eating, and she's improving her sitting ability daily. A week ago I couldn't leave her if I place her sitting as she'd flop over and bonk her head; now she only rolls slowly. And she's doing those mini-crunches too!
I had my friend over last weekend, who is a paediatrician, and she was unsurprisingly great with the baby smile I have to admit I asked a bunch of "hey, what she just did, is that normal?" questions. My friend was very nice and reassured me that my baby is fine smile And I am reassured to know things like the annoying shriek is really just a part of her vocal repertoire and not some sign of horrible distress...
You didn't offend me milky smile just pointing out that I had done my research, all babies are different of course.
Sounds good mad, Fyfe had been grabbing at my food for about 3 weeks and learned to sit steadily last week at 24 weeks so was ready according to the book, I don't think it would've made any difference starting him then but I thought I'd wait till we were home as thought it a good time to introduce a change! Exciting stuff! grin
Lawabidingmama Sat 25-Aug-12 11:52:37
I will have to read gill rapeleys (sp) book sounds good! I read up on BLW before DD1 and went for a duel approach ie some spoon feeding Pre loaded spoons and sticks of veg as finger food etc. she's a very good eater now so might do the same for DD2 having said that she is forever trying to grab food and can sit unaided so is probably a good candidate for BLW! She has managed to grab a nectarine out of my hands and suck it and grabbed an ice cream cone out of her sisters hand too blush
broodylicious Sun 26-Aug-12 06:49:31
We went to kiddicare yday with the intention of buying our high chair....but we were so undecided, we didn't buy one! Anyone got any recommendations? Budget is up to £150.
KikiRC Sun 26-Aug-12 09:08:26
We're going to get the Ikea Antilop high chair which I've had recommended by loads of people- it's only £16 and a really nice simple design in white, red or blue.
God, ladies- struggling to keep up a bit this week- she's unexpectedly on the move! Was just writing an email with her under the activity arch next to me. Looked around and she'd rolled over and travelled at least two metres away in about 30 seconds by lying on her tummy and shuffling backwards. She looked delighted with herself! Argh! Wasn't quite expecting that yet. We're going to need a playpen pronto! She also cut her first tooth yesterday a bit out of the blue- at the bottom front, not where the white bit had been showing at the top. She was awake loads all night- not crying, but singing & squealing, it must have kept her awake though she doesn't seem in too much pain with it. Blimey though. DP's just gone away for four days, too, and I was trying to get some DIY & jobs done...!
KikiRC Sun 26-Aug-12 09:22:43
PS- any tips on safe places for them to be (other than playpen/ cot) while you're in the same room? Ivy sits in her moses basket like it's a boat, surrounded by cushions etc in case it tilts, and can play like that for a while, but I don't feel safe with the bouncer now unless I'm right there, as she bounces too hard & rocks it forwards...
madscimum Sun 26-Aug-12 09:44:14
Thanks for the high chair tip, kiki! We haven't gotten that far in our thinking - I figured she'd sit on our laps to start. And wow, at that movement! I was just dreaming last night that Tessa started crawling. I've been thinking of getting those things that keep your cabinet doors closed and letting her crawl around the kitchen while I work. I bought a "play tent" but I'm keeping it in the office.
Grr - annoying: I was video chatting with my Mum yesterday, and I was at the kitchen desk on my ball with Tessa as I had some things to finish up from the week (yick, first weekend work since return) and she wanted to know why we were bouncing. I explained that Tessa liked it and my Mum asked why didn't I put her in the bouncy chair. I said she wanted to be held. My Mum said I was spoiling her! angry Just because I pick up my baby when she wants to be held isn't spoiling her. Sometimes she wants to be on her own, too. Just then she was tired and wanted a cuddle. I tried to explain to my Mum and she just kept talking about spoiling the baby. Sorry for mini-rant, but it bugged me.
In funner things, has anyone tried bath toys yet? I've been bathing together with Tessa in the big bath, and yesterday I realised we had a floaty fish that she could play with. I gave it to her and she chewed it some, then let go and it floated. She tried to grab for it, and it bobbed away. She then spent a good 15 minutes (more time than I'd planned on bathing for!) utterly entranced by the fish and how it moved when she splashed. Halfway through she lifted her foot up and grabbed it, as if to check and make sure that still worked as expected smile
KikiRC Sun 26-Aug-12 10:12:47
Ha, the bath sounds great! We just have a well-chewed rubber duck, though the wild arm & leg splashing is her favourite activity...
I think mums don't realise they're being so incredibly annoying, sometimes! Their generation were very much the 'leave-them-to-cry' etc mentality, in my experience. (I was literally left to cry in my pram in the garage!) I had a few small comments about feeding on demand that they couldn't have realised were so difficult- made me feel like I was spoiling her, and over-feeding her. My sister's getting married in October and I'm going to be away for several days with the family en masse which I'm slightly dreading- there are already things i.e. I've said I'll have her to sleep in the bed with me, rather than use the travel cot provided by the hotel (they think the caution over sharing mattresses is an unnecessary, fussy fad, too). But then they try to be helpful- i.e. have offered to pick up one of those Ikea high chairs because we don't drive and they're not available to buy online. Brilliant- but then mum says she's going to keep it 'til the wedding because there isn't a high chair at the wedding venue- then we can have it afterwards. Which makes no sense, because the wedding meal is only one day (in two months time) which means we go without a high chair for about a month, which is then driven up and down the country, just for one meal- which she could of course very easily eat sitting on my lap. Madness.
broodylicious Sun 26-Aug-12 11:34:18
kiki re going away with the family - yeah good luck with that! We went to Devon last week with my parents and my sister, her DH and their 14 month old boy. Interesting times... I got "feeding her again?" "let her cry, it won't hurt her" "you're spoiling her by picking her up" "she'll be moving on to formula soon tho won't she?" and many more gems over the four days we were there. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved being with them - they all live 60 miles away from us so we don't see them more than twice a week at most - but it was a bit trying!
Plus, my sister has a v different way of parenting - cry it out being the disruptive one to us, as my nephew cries to sleep every night and of course we were in the adjacent bedroom trying to get poppy to sleepangry Think our parents have seen my sister and based on their own methods, just assume we should do the same. They say we're a bit new age with our style, all cotton wool and cuddles. I say we are building a bond and trust so our DD will be happy and know we 're there?
Another interesting thing was that my sister also lets her boy eat pretty much anything...chips, chocolate, biscuits...! His dad also gave him a scallop and bran flakes/ fruit and fibre too hmm He did eat good stuff too, loves his peas, but that cant be setting him up well for life? I love my food, I really do, but I'm going to be quite strict in terms of what I will give poppy. Mr Broody used to be a personal trainer so he's mega strict on food so he will be even worse.
broody we have a Stokke Tripp Trapp, got it for £80 on eBay, was our biggest splurge but we love it! It lasts until adulthood technically too, never any need for booster seats etc and is perfect for the BLW mentality of having the baby join you for meals as they eat from the family table not from a tray. It's very pretty too!grin
Yay for Ivy's first tooth kiki and grin / shock that she's making so much use of her new physical freedom! Eek!
Commiserations for those of you with 'helpful' families. My mum told me that it was proven back in the seventies that you cannot spoil a baby so before we were all born. Amazing how many people still hold on to it. I think most of those comments are guilt driven - trying to make themselves feel better. I always ask 'what am I teaching him and what is he learning?' by cuddling your DD when she wants it you are teaching her that you'll be there whenever she needs you, that you are listening to and will respond to her communication. She is learning that she can rely on you and that you respect her and think she's important. Personally I can't see much wrong with that! winkgrin
broody this has been bugging me, what's wrong with a 14 month old eating bran flakes/fruit and fibre? confusedblush
Oh right, too high fibre for a toddler. Googled. smile
KikiRC Mon 27-Aug-12 13:13:27
Hmm. Anyone given any thoughts to stair gates yet? I was given one this morning which was great.. but the problem I hadn't thought of was the cat. The bars are far too narrow for her to fit through. Basically we have a small house on three floors, so lots of stairs, and the cat lives almost exclusively indoors. She spends most time in the living room (first floor) but needs to go downstairs to use the tray. She's pretty old & arthritic (definitely won't be able to jump over it) and has had quite a few issues with protest pooing, especially when Ivy was born! So I really don't want to do anything to upset her on that score, including moving the tray.
Any ideas? I suppose the bars are that distance apart for specific safety reasons, so doubt you can buy wider ones. Looked it up online and someone said they'd raised their gate so there was a bigger gap at the bottom, and it was screwed in tightly enough that she felt it was safe enough.. not sure about that though...
madscimum Mon 27-Aug-12 19:33:45
I'd also heard the raised-gate thing. I guess it has to be low enough the baby definitely couldn't get through. Cats can squish themselves under some awful narrow things -- if her skull can fit, so can the rest of her, so it might not need to be as high as you imagine (unless she's too arthritic to crawl? Although my old cat squeezed herself into some mighty tight places). Or have you considered getting a second litter tray and seeing if she'd use that as offered, but without moving the other? Or would that upset her enough to poo outside both places? (My cat is having some elimination problems too, but she had a urinary infection and blocked glands which we just got cleared yesterday, so I hope she does better there.)
broodylicious Mon 27-Aug-12 22:33:15
I am actually seriously considering putting the heating on. I'm telling myself it's for Poppy as her hands feel ever so slightly chilly - in truth she couldn't give a damn as she is soundly asleep in my lap after a tiny top up feed! It says 21 degrees on her monitor but it feels more like 15 IMO! Brrrrr smile
broodylicious Mon 27-Aug-12 23:05:34
Revision : she is Not sleeping soundly now after her wee has come out of her nappy and gone all up her side, all the way up to her armpit! Poor thing. That change was definitely the loudest. Not surprisingly. It had soaked through a bodysuit, sleep suit and sleeping bag on to the pillow so must've been a big wee! Itll take ages to get her settled again now sad
Lawabidingmama Tue 28-Aug-12 01:13:46
Oh dear broody! Hope she settles quickly I put my heating on today! DH was grumbling about it being too hot but I was freezing! I'm having fun this week DH on night shift and DD1 decided to get up in the middle of the night last night I let hr get in with me what a mistake! Both DDs ended up awake on and off from midnight to 5! On a very happy note though my sister had a baby girl this morning smile she lives away so hot to wait till next weekend for newborn cuddles
Heating?! We slept with no covers and the window open, clearly we are having different weather!
Congratulations to your sister law! How lovely.
broodylicious Tue 28-Aug-12 13:02:30
Aaah congratulations, aunty law grin is it her first/your first niece/nephew? I love having a nephew, there's something wonderful seeing my sister as a mummy. Hugs for all xx
Lawabidingmama Tue 28-Aug-12 19:21:43
Thanks everyone grin yes it's her first I've got three sisters and she's the first to have a baby all girls in my family! DH had 2 nieces so already an aunty but having my sister become a mummy is so special gush!! Xx
Lawabidingmama Tue 28-Aug-12 19:22:55
Thanks everyone grin yes it's her first I've got three sisters and she's the first to have a baby all girls in my family! DH has 2 nieces so already an aunty but having my sister become a mummy is so special gush!! Xx
madscimum Thu 30-Aug-12 15:13:32
Congrats, law! smile
Both DD and I have ear infections sad I got antibiotics, but doctor said just use Calpol for DD unless she seems to be really bad (they gave antibiotics just in case, as the weekend is coming up). Had a devil of a time getting Calpol in her, though. Used a syringe, but it seemed she spit out more liquid than I put in! I hope she got some. Anyone have any tips there? Taking paracetamol myself, as it really hurts, especially when moving my jaw sad
Also had the "weaning talk" today. Not hugely useful. HV was an older woman, and seemed to be speaking about the pre-6 month guidance, with baby rice only to start for a few weeks. I did mention baby-led weaning and she said that was fine, but every piece of advice she gave (couched as "you must") completely ignored that. She referred mostly to two sheets that came from the dairy council; however, she did also give us an NHS booklet which is consistent with BLW -- basically providing suggestions for either purees or finger foods or a combination. So I think I'll read the booklet and ignore what she said. (And glad she wasn't my HV from the start! I really didn't like the "here's what we have you do" and "you must" phrases.)
Yes mad we have the calpol issue with Fyfe! My tip is put the dose in to an egg cup or similar..I then dip my finger in the calpol and rub it on to his gums. It takes a long time but the dose goes in! grin
broodylicious Thu 30-Aug-12 19:12:20
Poppy loves calpol! Her eyes literally light up when she has it! It's so cute grin I just use the spoon it comes with but would try the tommee tippee first weaning spoons if she had an issue with the calpol one as they're soft and bendy and she can touch it herself that way.
Sleeping update btw - ack, who needs more than three broken hours all day and all night anyway?! sadwinkconfused
BeeWi Fri 31-Aug-12 11:39:02
I always flip the thread and read the last messages first and for some reason read your message, Broody as 'Poppy loves calipo'...thought she was a bit young for ice lollies before I realised it was me being dense!
Scimum- I read a tip in the parenting section a while ago saying that when you give pamol to squirt it into their cheek when using a syringe. It totally revolutionised it for us now, if we need to give it, we find that doing that works. She won't swallow it otherwise.
Yesterday we had our follow up appointment with the dietician, which was really good and made me feel confident with when we'd been doing. I was a bit worried because LO's intolerance to diary hasn't disappeared yet and we're going to raise her as vegetarian until she's old enough to choose. But it put my mind at rest and helped me work through some ideas for weaning, so all good. So far she's had carrot, banana, apple, hummus (which I thought would be way too strong as I'd been a bit heavy handed with the garlic, but she loved and devoured it off he end of carrot sticks), egg yolk on a toast finger. Tonight I baked her some baby biscotti which is meant to be fab for teething and would be good to predip in a legume mash, I think. If anyone wants the recipe, I'm happy to post it up. Nice alternative to rusks and all those kind of things.
Spring has well and truly sprung here. Our magnolia tree outside is in full bloom and LO got to lie on the grass for the first ever time today. It's good to nearly be fully out of the winter...it was okay with a newborn as we just kept the fire stoked and wallowed in the dark, but I'm so excited that the days are getting longer and I have this little sidekick to take and show all the places where we usually hang out in the summer. Happy days smile
P.s. happy half birthday to Fyfe for tomorrow, Trouble
broodylicious Fri 31-Aug-12 19:15:21
gringrinHaha, bee It wouldn't surprise me if she will like calipos because in the first few months of pregnancy I ate loads of them - I found they were fantastic at keeping the sickness under control. Them and any food that was beige! Yikes, I do not miss those early pregnancy days at all - the secrecy and sickness drove me bonkers!!
KikiRC Sat 01-Sep-12 13:23:22
Hello all,
Re: Calpol, we use a syringe too, but find that lying her down makes it easier- and we do it a bit at a time rather than all in one go. Any that dribbles out we wipe with a finger and pop back in!
The second tooth came through overnight- she's been so lively at night- waking up all the time, but only cries if you try to put her back down to sleep- she wants to play! But- we've had much longer daytime sleeps. About an hour & a half in the morning and afternoon now. A friend says her son was exactly the same at this age and his teeth just starting to come through then and as soon as she introduced solids he started sleeping through the night again. Here's hoping!
broodylicious Sat 01-Sep-12 19:44:06
I'm desperate for Poppy's teeth to make their appearance kiki if that's what all this nighttime nonsense is all about! We are lucky to get four hours sleep a night. Been like this for about six weeks now, we're exhausted. She cries til you pick her up, stops when you hold her, falls asleep then wakes as soon as her back touches her mattress. Personally, I think it's four month sleep regression hanging around rather than teeth, even though she is clearly teething. Just driving us bonkers whatever it is. Weaning in just over a week so fingers crossed it is the answer to our prayers!
KikiRC Sun 02-Sep-12 08:16:47
Yes, Broody- I'd really appreciate one of those long night's I used to get a couple of months ago, too! What time do you put Poppy to bed? I've stuck with 7pm because she is always very tired by then, but maybe I should try a bit later. I think I might do a combination of BLW + a little bit of mushed food when we start, because I think it's going to take a while with BLW before she actually starts swallowing & digesting...
madscimum Sun 02-Sep-12 08:29:41
Thanks for all the Calpol advice. We've tried several things -- so far the best is lying flat on back with syringe and shooting it into her cheek, but I'm guessing she still only gets half. It reminds of me the early days when we were trying to supplement and simply couldn't get anything else into her. I'm thinking this is a big indication for BLW - she doesn't seem to want to ingest anything except on her own terms!
Wow. I really hate ear infections sad DD has spent nearly the whole past two days comfort nursing, which is fine, as I'm not up to moving much anyway. And glad we have Sky+, because we had to pause Dr Who several times for shrieking baby...
And, oh dear. DH has been looking at properties for sale, because he thinks its fun, and we'll eventually need a larger house with DD. Mostly he found things way outside our budget. But now he's stumbled upon something in budget and as close to perfect as I could imagine, plus some bonuses - like being literally next door to a livery (as I hope to have horses someday) and excellently placed: only ~4 miles from work, with a separate bike path all the way into town, and past the intersection where most buses turn, so public transport passing about every 10-20 minutes. As DH said, even if I walked into work, it would be a shorter commute than I have now! But, argh, I can't imagine doing all the work necessary to sell our own house and then move. I'm just barely managing work + baby, and I'm not sure it's possible to add clearing out house enough to be saleable and then keeping it looking neat. Yet life would be SO much easier if I spent 20 minutes a day commuting, instead of 2.5 hours. And I can't imagine we'd ever find a place so perfect and so close to work in our budget again. Don't know what to do... Sorry, just sounding off as it's a nice dilemma, but still a dilemma.
KikiRC Sun 02-Sep-12 10:13:15
Ooh, that's tricky, Mad. What work would you actually have to do on your current place? Is DH any good at all that?
qwerty11 Sun 02-Sep-12 10:43:06
BeeWi - I'd love the baby biscotti recipe if you're willing to share.
broodylicious Sun 02-Sep-12 12:04:56
kiki Her bedtime routine starts at 6pm with a bath, story, cuddles and sleep balm. Thats done by 630/40 then we stay upstairs and I feed and cuddle she falls asleep, usually about 715/730. She generally goes down for 2-2 1/2 hours but then stirs and basically that's it for the night.
She's really developed in the last few weeks - v comfortable rolling front to back as well as back to front, spends longer on her tummy, wants to sit up a lot, chattering away a lot (I swear she said mummmummm the other day when she was screaming as DH held her - I didn't say anything but DH said yday "she calls for you doesn't she? Mummmummm"smile) - and she rolls on to her side in the night so it's not hard to guess that maybe all this development is making her overtired so could be affecting her nighttime. Plus she still doesn't sleep much during the day and she will never be put down in her crib or elsewhere if she does nod off; it is only ever on me.
I'm thinking exactly the same as you on weaning. BLW sounds fab but she won't be getting anything from it for a good while yet so we are going to be combination feeding to start with I think. I'm so excited about seeing her with food!! We've narrowed the highchair choices down to the baby bjorn or the cosatto 3sixti so we are a bit closer now. Have you got yours sorted?
I guess you have played around with the routine broody? Putting her down later doesn't make a difference? Your routine does seem very long. Our post natal class said to keep it under 45 mins start to finish, otherwise it is meaningless to them, they can't link it with sleep as it starts so long beforehand. Ours is half an hour start to finish. Fyfe is still waking lots in the night, he'll mostly (not always) go for 4/5 hours initially then wake between every hour and every hour and a half most nights at the moment (yawn) but luckily only wakes for 3-5 mins each time and generally sleeps from 8-7 so although he's far from 'sleeping through' it's not nearly as bad as what you are going through. Maybe your DD will crawl early though then start to settle down through being active. For those of you pinning good sleep hopes on weaning, it hasn't made any difference with any of my friends, even those spoon feeding purees and putting rusks and rice in bottles(!) what we tend to forget is that their milk is really calorific and packed with nutrients, they don't need any food until they are one. I don't mean to be the voice of doom, just don't want you to be disappointed. One day we will get a full night's sleep again....one day! smile
I messaged a friend of mine who did BLW with her now 2 yr old to see how it went, she said she couldn't recommend it more, her DD is far from a fussy eater, they get comments all the time about what a good eater she is and she has always fed herself whereas some of the 2 yr olds at nursery are still spoon fed. Sounds encouraging! Fyfe had spaghetti bolognese tonight. Wow that was messy beyond belief fun! grin
mad you need to book a viewing for the house and see how you feel then, if it is meant to be you'll find a way! smile
blush hope that didn't come across as annoying and bossy broody, wasn't intended that way, just wondering if tweaking the routine would get you more sleep but re read and thought blush!
broodylicious Sun 02-Sep-12 22:05:04
No offence taken, it's what we are all here for isn't it? Peer support/advice! smile
But...No, we haven't played with the routine and wouldn't favour putting her to bed later - http://www.justmommies.com/articles/early-bedtime.shtml
I think that although it's frustrating and exhausting, her weird sleep boils down to her awkward age, teething, overtiredness and maybe a spot of separation anxiety. She was fine before she hit 4 months so hopefully she will fall out of it soon. She had these daytime naps today which is rare for her - just hoping that's going to be a regular thing!! Xxx
madscimum Sun 02-Sep-12 23:31:08
Ugh, broody, wishing nighttime gets better for you soon. With the ear infection we're back to only 2-3 hr sleep at first. And I used to be able to put her back in her crib after feeding, but now she wakes up after 30 min if I do that, and I end up cuddling her on my arm the rest of the night. I'm hoping we'll return to better sleep once our ears get back to normal.
We've been to see the house, but I think we'll go again. It got more real this weekend as DH just got the message from the mortgage advisor that we could actually get a mortgage. We've had our estate agent-solictors by, and so the next step is a surveyor in for our valuation and home report. But that is actually spending money and needs all the work: some minor DIY (grouting, painting, etc.), but mostly it's packing up stuff and putting it somewhere (garage, shed) so that people can move around. We've just got too much stuff for the house - for example, the pram currently rolls back and forth between the front door and the bathroom, depending on what we need to use!
I agree with the early bedtimes broody but could you start the routine later so it is shorter say 6.45 instead of 6? You're probably right though it's just a stage! Fyfe started day time naps around 5 months so fingers crossed for you. I find if he has slept well during the day he sleeps better at night too. smile
That's very exciting mad! Difficult timing yes, but exciting. We are (slowly) managing to get our new place done up, it does mean however that you will end up holding the baby a lot more so your DP can do DIY and clearing up in the evenings and at weekends. Sounds like it'll all be worth it though! grin
madscimum Mon 03-Sep-12 10:46:35
Thanks for the link, broody! Hmm, we may try an earlier bedtime. We've been going to bed around 10 or so. But we don't have a baby monitor, and I'd not like to leave her alone without one. Any advice on products, there?
Oh, also, I remember someone mentioning reusable wipes a while back: what are those, where do you get them? Now that most nappy changes are wee-only (she tends to do one big poo a day), I can imagine using something like that.
Yeah, I think we're going to continue pursuing the house thing. One issue is that DH has CFS/ME, so we have to be careful that he doesn't do so much he gets really ill (he's really bad at that, as he hates to admit he needs to rest and so does too much).
broodylicious Mon 03-Sep-12 11:47:54
mad we have a tommee tippee monitor with sensor mat. The mat, I thought, was a bit ott/neurotic as it sits under her mattress and flashes a green light with every heartbeat; if it doesn't detect movement for 20 seconds, the red light goes on with an alarm.
However, I can honestly say it has been a true life saver on a few occasions - little lady has fallen into such a deep sleep that she had stopped breathing. The science bit of those horrid occasions is that babies between four and six months are developing at such a rate of knots that they need their sleep to digest everything that's happening to them/they've seen/learnt etc. They are more likely to drop off into a dangerously deep sleep between this age as a result. Luckily the mat alerted DH and I to the fact Poppy had stopped breathing so we were able to intervene before it was too late - we gave her a shake (I don't mean child abuse shake by that, I mean a purposeful but still gentle wobble of her body while she was still lying down) and she stirred within about 10 seconds.
KikiRC Mon 03-Sep-12 13:09:07
Has anyone read that book 'French Children Eat Anything'? I've got it on order from the library, it's not arrived yet. There's a bit about it here: http://joannagoddard.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/french-kids-eat-everything.html
Bit scary about the breathing thing, Broody. We don't have anything like that mat.
KikiRC Mon 03-Sep-12 13:16:07
Also, is there anyone like me who's DP doesn't get in 'til late? I think the 'all eating together at mealtimes' thing is really important, but usually he gets in at around or after Ivy's bedtime, then we eat a bit later. If she goes to bed at about 7, her dinner time can't be any later than 6pm really, I'm going to have to work out if I shift to eating with her during the week..
mad, there are lots of online places to get them. One of the bigger brands is www.cheekywipes.com/ but they're very easy to make of course, you can use cotton or towelling, just cut up and hem if likely to fray. smile
We use a BT monitor. It is great as is so sensitive, we never worry about not hearing him, never had a scary moment like broody though! sad
It works well, we take him up for a bath at 7.30 and he's asleep by 8. This is creeping earlier, used to be 8-8.30 but we're trying to follow his signals of when he starts to get tired. Good luck with it. smile
broodylicious Tue 04-Sep-12 18:45:59
So I kept a note last night of dd's sleeping pattern to show you guys just in case you thought you had it bad. Is this damn regression ever going to end?!?!
Bath - 645-7 (accidentally a bit later)
Dress/feed - 7
Sleep 8
Wake 1030
S 11
W 1145 (fed, slept, woke when put back into crib)
S 1245
W 145 (rocked back to sleep)
S 2
W 240 (fed 20 mins, wouldn't be put back down)
S 330 (downstairs on DH)
W 530
She had a good few naps yesterday too - between 30 minutes and an hour - so a frustrating night.
I went to a weaning talk today and the group leader praised us for sticking it out this long without giving her food. I can't remember if any of you have weaned early so without wanting to cause offence, I shan't pass on her considered thoughts on the subject wink
I would love to have the recipe for baby biscotti pls whoever offered - it was suggested today as a great little snack or pudding. And I am awfully fond of baking so any excuse to get my mixing bowl, whisk and baking parchment out grinbiscuit
I feel (some of) your pain broody frequency of wakings about the same and a 5.30 start here too but wakings only for 5 mins so would maybe seem like a good night to you. I've really had enough of it though, thoroughly fed up with the crap sleep; just want one full night, would be bliss!
We starting weaning one week early (25 weeks) but because BLW he didn't actually eat anything. Still hasn't swallowed anything on purpose at 27 weeks so feel we made it to 6 months. I think it is very rare to do so, almost everyone starts early. I'd quite like to know what she said! smile
madscimum Wed 05-Sep-12 09:42:12
Oh, broody, how horrible! Wishing you some sleep! And not to rub salt in wounds, but Tessa slept 8 hours Mon night -- of course, I kept waking up in anticipation of her wakenings and perhaps slept less than normal since I didn't have nursing hormones to get me back to sleep smile Last night back to a 3.5 hr sleep, with following 1-2 hourly wakenings. But we're only up 30 minutes or so. I hope something changes for you.
Tessa is over her ear infection, but I had to go back to the Dr and get more antibiotics. I hate feeling ill. And it presents an interesting wrinkle about working from home: before, I'd make the decision that I was too ill and stay home, or go in and probably be less productive, but now I sort of think I should be working but aren't doing much and then feeling guilty. Feeling considerably better on second course of antibiotics, though. So hopefully that is over soon.
broodylicious Wed 05-Sep-12 10:34:14
sad thought it couldn't get worse.....
Bath 605
Feed 625
Sleep 720
Wake 935 - feed, rock
Sleep 10
Wake 1030 - rock
Sleep 1040
Wake 1045
Sleep 11
Wake 1130 - feed, fell asleep, won't be put back down
Sleep 1205
Wake 1230 - feed, fell asleep, won't be put back down
Sleep 150
Wake 205
Sleep 210 on me - can't keep battling!
Wake 445 - feed
520 - downstairs with DH
Sleep 550 on DH
Wake 645
Nap 815-930
KikiRC Wed 05-Sep-12 19:37:51
Goodness, sorry to hear about all these sleep problems & ear infections!
broody-can you mostly identify what's woken her? Do you think it is usually teething trouble etc? Unless she's really feeling poorly or especially hungry I'm fairly sure Ivy only wakes before midnight due to a sudden noise outside etc, or because she's woken herself somehow by rolling (we keep a rolled cellular blanket alongside her now, to minimise that) or by her basket creaking (I'm trying to get the paint job on the new cot finished!)... As long as we reach her in time, we can almost always settle her back with a dummy with this kind of thing. Other more sustained waking-i.e. hunger/ tooth pain she has a proper feed/ Bonjela rub etc. If this doesn't help, or if she wakes repeatedly we tend to keep her in the bed with us which minimises the waking-up-when-put-back-down thing & we usually all fall back to sleep quicker that way. It's not perfect, but we're getting by on that at the moment..
broodylicious Wed 05-Sep-12 22:59:24
There is no obvious rhyme or reason for her waking kiki. I did think the first wake - about 10-1030 - could be down to me or DH coming to bed ourselves (she's still in her crib next to our bed) so a few times I've stayed up here when she goes down to minimise the risk of disturbing her. I think her waking this regularly throughout the night though is teething, sleep regression, separation anxiety and just general 5 month old-ness. Whatever it is, it's flippin exhausting!! Xx
Okay broody, you have actually made me feel like I've got it good bring woken for 5 mins every hour ish. That's pretty horrendous, you poor thing.
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 09:10:14
How often are you changing your babies nappy in the night broody? MIL looked after my 5mo niece for the first time last week and mentioned baby waking up three times (twice more than normal). Thought it might be down to teeth or missing her mum.
Turns out she didnt change his bum from 7pm-7am because 'you didnt do it in her day?' angry poor mite!
Seemed really obvious to me but apparently not?
broodylicious Thu 06-Sep-12 10:47:02
Haha trouble! Yeah you know when people say "there's always someone worse off than you" - well, when it comes to nighttime, that's me!! wink
Oh. My. God. milky errr, thats a *%%23€ing good point actually blush we tend to only change her once overnight blush I haven't even considered it could be an uncomfy botty that keeps her stirring. I'm so blush with that! Could you have just saved us?!?! I'll tell you tomorrow morning... biscuit for suggesting that!
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 11:53:48
I dont want you to feel blush!!!! Might do the trick though? I cant tell you the amount of blush moments i've had in the past 2.5 years of motherhood lol!
Like when ds2 was about 8 weeks and he was really gulping his bottles and then coming up for air crying... Repeat over and over again for 3 days. My sister came over and fed him (she has no DC!) and said 'maybe you need to change his teats?'
Needless to say she solved the mystery of squeaky gulpy baby blush poor sod!
I thought about a hundred different reasons why something was happening that i forgot the obvious ones grin
Aw well, a day in the life of a mum!
I don't change Fyfe overnight at all, he is in the same (cloth with bamboo booster) nappy from 8-7 ish, but then I haven't since he was about 2 months old and he slept well until 4 months....? About 80% of the babies I know that are his age (including formula fed, dummy using babies who have been sleeping through the night in their own rooms for months) ate now waking every hour ish so thought it was probably just a phase/age thing?
Anyway, I decided last night just to try a few environmental changes, last night dressed him warmer than usual (no change) tonight we're going to swaddle and tomorrow we'll try nappy changes (good idea) just in case! Otherwise though, I think it's just something we have to get through!smile
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 20:04:31
I mean i'd never wake them to change them (i would like SOME sleep grin) but, they have no control over their bladders until around 18 months so I figure i wouldnt leave him in a wet nappy for 10/11/12 hours during the day so why at night?
Iam also an Anti-Rocker hahahaha! Babymilkys get laid down and patted instead of rocked in arms as i believe babies have an inbuilt system of eyes-wide-open as soon as the lie them down. Little beggars!
Hope you all sleep well tonight!
I know what you mean but during the day he feeds a lot, at night he doesn't, his nappy is not saturated by morning. How often do you change them at night out of interest milky?
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 20:25:00
Iam sorry i havent been following this thread that closely so not sure the personalities of all your babies.
I have a very easy going baby who goes to sleep at 8pm wakes at 2am (nappy change!) and then up for the day at 6-7am.
So only the once but DS1 was a milk monster who needed changing every 3 hours.
broodylicious Thu 06-Sep-12 21:01:41
milky I think you're right - I wouldn't change her just once from 630am to 530pm and the last week or so, she has been eating much more at night than she did before so she could be wetter than we think and is protesting but we haven't heard her properly.
We've received our copy of "the no cry sleep solution" today. Should be interesting reading - the author is anti CIO (as are we) but apparently offers a tear-free alternative to being "a sleep deprived martyr and roughing it out from dusk til dawn"....hmm
Good luck broody, let us know how it goes. I'm interested in your book too.
We are on our swaddling test night! He has been asleep swaddled on his back sine 8. Very odd for me as he has slept in a sleeping bag on his from since he was about 6 weeks old! grin
*since angry fgs!
Lawabidingmama Thu 06-Sep-12 21:27:14
Oh broody feel your exhausted pain ATM sad(((((((( baby law is keeping me up! Would not be put down between 11pm and 3.30am last night I even roused DH to 'help' cue screaming ( baby not him) she is VERY attached to me very rarely allows anyone else to pick her up! So I took back over settled her she woke an hour later so I gave in snuggled her in bed and toddler law came bounding in at quarter to six ready for an action packed day! She's never been a decent sleeper I visited my sister at the beginning of the week and newborn neice is sleeping for longer stretches than we get! I factor a lot of it down to our attachment she needs to be close to me at all times!!!
On a different note she's had green poos for a week now been to the docs today with a sample got to wait a week for the results has anyone experienced this?
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 21:33:02
Iam anti CIO too. I hope your book gives you some insight/advice/help. I know it seems like iam talking hot air but it will pass. Doesnt help you much now but, you will get a full nights sleep again..
.. Just dont do what i did and have another baby as soon as your 1st starts sleeping grin !
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 21:36:05
Law how is your baby fed if you dont mind me asking?
broodylicious Thu 06-Sep-12 21:57:35
Haha milky I said to DH earlier that if this book works and DD is asleep for 7 wtf are we going to do with our time?! And then laughed "not practice for DC2!!!!" gringrin
One of my NCT friends had a pregnancy scare the other week - her DD is only 20 weeks so it really would've been a scare!! I know we'd get by (i used to be a 8-9 hour sleeper before dd and am just about managing to live on the below routine so it can be done!) but holy moly I'd rather not try our luck just yet wink
milkymocha Thu 06-Sep-12 22:04:47
Hahaha ! My eldest slept through the night for the first time the night i was in labour with youngest!
Woke up 6.30 full of beans whilst iam rocking on all fours next to my bed. He says 'mummy what you find under bed?' cue him jumping to look under the bed lol
Off he toddles to get me a plastic tea cup and shouts TEA MUM?
Best pain relief in the world.
Sorry went off topic there grin should send you all to sleep though! Method to my madness!
Lawabidingmama Thu 06-Sep-12 22:41:21
She's ex bf milky the nurse at the docs was banging on about possible hind milk fore milk imbalance but I know it's not that her feeding pattern hasn't changed and my milk supply has been settled since she was a few week old? I bf eldest till she was 9.5 months and never experienced this!!
Second the advice to enjoy a little bit of sleep before DC2! DD1 did sleep through before DD2 but started getting up again after DD2 was born shes just started sleeping through again! <touches wood>
Operation swaddle was a success, he woke just three times, once just for a cuddle so less than a minute and twice for feeds (5 mins) grin I however, woke up at least 7 times to look at him and think 'wow, he hasn't woken up' my body must be so used to it now I suppose. Anyway, will try again tonight and see if it really 'worked' or was just a fluke! smile
law hope all is okay at GP. We have had that before but just put it down to too much fore milk which makes sense to us. I can see why it doesn't for you if the feeding pattern hasn't changed.
BeeWi Fri 07-Sep-12 08:24:52
Trouble - that sounds promising on the swaddle. One word of warning though, it took us 5 weeks to wean LO off swaddling. Mind you, she'd been swaddled from birth, so maybe it's different.
LO has also started waking more frequently since about a fortnight ago. We've gone from a blissful set up of 10pm dreamfeed, one night wake up and feed and getting up between 5.30 and 6am to waking every 2 hours and getting up at 5. Not as bad as you've got it, Broody, but still so hard to cope with. I had to get my husband to take a day off earlier in the week to look after LO so I could sleep. I'd been trying to rock her at 5am and then suddenly started retching and had to run to the loo to be sick. I'd got so run down and exhausted, I'd seemed to get physically sick. Awful.
I read that babies' sleep cycles change around 5 months so that now, rather than having light sleep cycles that last 45 minutes but which they can drift between easily, they now go into more adult sleep cycles where they wake fully at the end of each. If they don't know how to self settle without you, they cry so you come and put them back to sleep. I feel I've really shot myself in the foot by rocking or feeding her to sleep as now she always needs me to go and give her a cuddle and a feed to settle her. I've bought her a Cushkie to try and get her attached to it and have worn it to put my smell on it. She seems to like it, so hopefully she'll eventually be able to cuddle that to resettle. Like many of you, I'm buggered if I'll let her cry it out. Judgey as it is, I think it's barbaric. I can understand how people get so sleep deprived they would try it but it's not for us.
Anyways, enough babble, here's that biscotti recipe (LO loves it with mushed avocado or hummus or nut butter on it)-
Preheat oven at 170*C and line a caking tray.
Mash a medium sized ripe banana with 1TBsp of softened butter or neutral oil (we used oil) and 1 egg. Mash and mix until smooth. (Optional- you can add a pinch of cinammon if you want at this stage.) Sift in about 1 cup of white plain flour - do it a third of a cup at a time, as the amount you'll need depends on the size of the banana. If you're using gluten-free flour and the mixture goes dry, you can add water or milk a drop at a time until the dough holds together.
Put the dough on the baking sheet and (with floured hands) shape it into a long log shape which is about 4cm wide. Bake for 15-20 minutes until firm to the touch but not coloured. Remove and cool slightly on a wire rack.
Turn oven down to 120*C and once you can handle the log, use a bread knife to cut 5mm slices. If you want longer ones, cut on the diagonal. Arrange slices on the baking sheet and return to the oven until golden and crisp. Now, the recipe said to do this for 15-20 minutes but ours took much longer and I ended up turning the oven up, but maybe that's our oven?!
Anyways, I hope it's a hit with your babies too!
Yeah bee, as I said I reckon it's an age thing much more than something we're (almost) all doing or not doing! Although the swaddling seemed to help it may well have been just an okay night, we do still get them very occasionally! We'll all get through it I'm sure! smile
The recipe sounds great, I will give it a go!smile
milkymocha Fri 07-Sep-12 11:55:42
Ds1 loved being swaddled up until he was 4 months (i was led to believe that it was unsafe after this point due to rolling?) but DS2 hated it sadly. Too flappy and wiggly like a little bird.
Perserve ladies, its definitely the age! Happy weekend smile
Doesn't seem to be an issue milky from a quick google. Some suggestions of using rolled up towels to prevent rolling if the child is that way inclined. Fyfe is not much of a roller. He does it sometimes but not constantly like some babies, besides, I'm sure he'd cry if he got stuck. Interesting how some babies love it and others just don't!
It'd be lovely if someone could say when the phase would end wouldn't it? It'd be okay if they said 6 more weeks or whatever. Actually I feel okay about it all now...thanks broody! blushsad
I'm loving this sunny weather though have been indoors most of today, we went to the cinema this morning then gave Fyfe a massage now he's dancing in his door bouncer and I'm going to start cleaning ready for guests this weekend. grin
broodylicious Fri 07-Sep-12 20:50:47
Oh bee how I dream of two hour rests between wakings! That's an absolute walk in the park! envysmile
Re swaddling - we never really got into it because we had been told by three/four months you need to stop so figured itd be a battle. Dd sleeps in a sleep bag as she's not much a fan of blankets. She's just got a sleep suit on tonight though as its so warm.
Fyfe is very flexible, fine with swaddling, blankets, sleeping bags, my duvet, nothing and seems very interchangeable! Good luck tonight everyone!
Pinkpiglet Sat 08-Sep-12 09:07:00
Hi all, I hope I can come and join you
It's very comforting to read that you are all going through the same sleep wows as we are. We've gone from DD sleeping through 8-7 on the odd occasion to her now waking multiple times in the night and being ready to get up at 4am. It's so much harder entertaining a baby when your feeling rotten. I'm sorry some of you have it much harder.
I hope the phase ends soon, just have to ride it out for now!
Thanks for the Biscotti Bee, I'm going to give it a try today.
madscimum Sat 08-Sep-12 10:37:59
Welcome, pink! smile
Interesting about the adult sleep patterns, bee. I've noticed when Tessa wakes in the middle of the night now, it is much more of an "awake" awake, if that makes sense. Humming and making noise and such.
Yeah, and our 8 hours was a fluke. She's now waking regularly. Glad to hear its another phase, with hopes that it will end. And so sorry, broody, as perhaps the 4 month phase faded straight into the 5 month for you?? That's being optimistic that it still a phase that can pass!
broodylicious Sat 08-Sep-12 16:18:14
I'm feeling much better that other mums are rocking/feeding their babies to sleep - I thought many of you had wonderful LOs that went to sleep the minute you put them down! We do want to get out of the habit as its going to get harder as she gets older.
One other interesting point from the weaning talk the other day was to do with teeth. Apparently, there's thousands of 4/5 yr olds having their teeth removed because of the damage done at our LOs age...although many parents understand the importance of teeth cleaning from the day that first nasher appears, they give a bottle/beaker of milk to go to bed with. As milk - formula, cows and breast - has sugar in it, the babies teeth are under attack overnight. Therefore, she said its good practice to get into giving water as the last drink if possible.
I got a few goodies from the talk too, including a doidy cup. Do any of you use this yet?
madscimum Sat 08-Sep-12 18:33:16
Oh, broody, isn't it funny how we assume everyone is doing so much better than us? smile Yes, we're rocking/feeding to sleep. In fact, last night I put Tessa down when I thought she was asleep and then went to the toilet. She wasn't yet, and started making noise, and before I got back was in a full blown cry. It was really only like a minute or two. But, boy, was she upset! I tried to nurse her to calm her, and she kept sucking then popping off to stare at me and give a cry or two. As if to say, "See how upset I am! I cried and you did not come immediately! Don't think some yummy milk fixes this..."
And Tessa has now definitely said "da da". But not for her Dad, just something she babbles. Some "Mmmmm" but no "Ma ma" yet.
We didn't get a doidy cup -- we got one of those Tomee Tipee sippy cups. Does anyone know what is best?
broodylicious Sat 08-Sep-12 18:55:37
Oooh I've tried my TT cup out today!! We start weaning on Tuesday (DH day off so we will both enjoy seeing it for the first time smile) and I wanted to get poppy used to the cup so gave it her to play with. She seemed q interested so I put a little cooled boiled water in - v interested to see it move inside. I sat her on my knee and she took a big glug, let it all dribble out her mouth and then got v excited and pulled it towards her again! I tried a little formula in it tonight and ... success! She had what I'd put in there and cried when it'd gone!
broodylicious Sat 08-Sep-12 19:11:10
Re what is best - the HV who did our talk said the doidy cup is the "in" thing with speech development folk as nothing goes in the baby's mouth (as opposed to a teat or spout) that could affect how it develops. However she also said TT sippy cups are the most popular as they're nice to handle and are a great brand. So really, I think it's baby's personal preference.
milky - nappy changes not solved nighttime wakings but she was happier for the second change at 4am today (first was 12ish) as it was saturated! V rare for her botty to be red but it was a little this morning. Poor mite! Bepanthen calmed it down almost immediately - she even smiled and blabbed "mummmum" in gratitude smilesmile
I took poppy to my old livery yard today as I wanted to catch up with my horsey pals. She was fascinated with my friend's mare - stared and squealed and laughed!! It was a lovely distraction as it was the first time I've been to the yard since my boy passed away in July so I was naturally q emotional sad
BeeWi Sun 09-Sep-12 02:33:48
No worries, Pink. How did it turn out? Did your second bake take longer than the recipe suggests or was it just me? Welcome, by the way.
With regards to the giving water at night, I thought it was ropey to try and do that before 8 or 9 months? Last time I spoke to our nurse she said that whilst it's best practice to brush before sleep, it won't hurt too much if baby needs a night feed. I figure I'm not brushing her after every feed anyways during the day (just a morning and pre-bed brush) and nothing magically different is happening at night?
broodylicious Sun 09-Sep-12 06:30:46
I don't think she was suggesting we give water straight away as the last drink, just eventually that's where we want to be. I agree, there is no way on earth I'm going to get into the habit of brushing after every feed and particularly after a night feed - theres no way dd would ever go to sleep then! wink
We're just brushing twice a day. Fyfe takes little bits of water from a TT cup (can hold it himself now) on hot days, we started at 3 months. He will sometimes take a little expressed milk from it too but never more than a teaspoon of either. I figure seeing as he has never used a bottle we might as well try to skip it completely and just use a cup. I was thinking of getting a doidy, let me know if it's any good.
Had another okay night last night but he got up from 5.20-7 (with DH) before going back to sleep until 10 (!grin) so great for me, not so good for DH!
Pinkpiglet Mon 10-Sep-12 00:20:02
Thanks BeeWi, the biscotti worked out really well and it's been the most successful item of food to enter Isobel's mouth. But I'm pretty sure she's not actually swallowed anything yet!
Yes it did need longer for the second bake, I left it in for ~20 mins then turned the heat off and left it in the oven until it had cooled to allow it to dry out further. Next time I make it I may cut a few bigger bits for myself, it's rather tasty!
Ooh, I must do the biscotti today! Pretty sure Fyfe hasn't eaten anything yet either but he's having fun trying! grin
Biscotti turned out great, very easy with the food processor, thanks! grin
madscimum Tue 11-Sep-12 08:42:06
Those of you who have tommee tippee cups -- what do yours look like? I thought to get a second one, but I can't find any like the ones I got in my 4 mo bag. Mine has got a lid with a free-flow spout having 3 holes, and also comes with another lid that just has a little hole where stuff can come out (next step, I assume). Online all I see are ones with a flip down free-flow spout (that reviews say have 2 holes).
And perhaps I don't need a second one -- I was just worrying about confusion if it sometimes had water and sometimes had milk, so thought to get a different colour. But perhaps that's just a silly worry? I just made it up myself, no one told me that or anything smile
BeeWi Tue 11-Sep-12 10:14:37
Glad the biscotti worked well, Pink & Trouble.
Today I opened up a bank account for LO (been meaning to for months) and put in the money she'd been given by various relatives shortly after birth. Is anybody else doing pocket money for their babies? If so, how much are you doing? We've set up a weekly transfer from our account to hers for $2 (about a quid) as I thought it'll be years before she understands the concept of pocket money, so it can just be accumulating in her account, but it's a sum we'd not miss too much whilst not going too nuts while we're down to one income. Is that a bit stingy though?
No idea about cups, I'm afraid, SciMum. Only just started using one and the water mostly ended up down LO's front grin.
Is anybody's LO biting their nips at the moment? LO only has one tooth but in the last couple of days has had the odd chomp on my boob. It freakin' kills! I let out and involuntary squeal yesterday when she bit me and it made her cry...I felt so horrible but it was such a painful shock! Any tips on not scaring her but getting her to stop? She also bit me at her 5am 'let's get up an play, mam' feed this morning. I nearly took her back to the hospital to ask for a refund! wink
broodylicious Tue 11-Sep-12 10:40:52
Weaning starts today gringringrin v v v excited!!!! Cannot wait. Carrot and broccoli on the menu, possibly a finger of toast too. Yay!!!! We got the BLW cookbook last week - delish looking recipes in there that I can't wait to try.
We have two TT cups mad, one with a stand up spout with three holes and one with a fold down one with two holes. They are the same colour and I just tell him 'milk' or 'water' which I think he'll understand just as quick as he would learn to associate the colours tbh.
bee yes, it really hurts! sad push her in to your boob when she does it, she'll then open her mouth as you'll have restricted her breathing (sounds awful I know but it's just for a second!)
Yay broody! grin
I was wondering, when you pick up your babies from sitting in their highchairs for example, do you feel their bones crack? We do with Fyfe and had assumed it to be normal until I spoke to a friend at the weekend who didn't have it with her little boy...
broodylicious Tue 11-Sep-12 20:05:42
Well I would say our first experience with food was excellent grin She took a few minutes but she picked up a piece of broccoli and squashed it while watching it intently, then she stared at the finger of toast and watched DH eat his before picking it up and shoving it straight in her mouth with not a second thought! She sucked all the butter off it then chewed a bit round her mouth - I'm not sure she will have digested much but some definitely went down. Then she moved on to the carrot, which she sucked the living daylights out of for about 25 minutes! She didn't swallow any of that, I'm pretty sure as it was still the same when she finally opened her mouth and spat it out.
Tomorrow, we try porridge for breakfast. Has anyone else tried their LOs with it yet? I have a feeling it's going to be much messier than today!
Oooh on the sleeping front - last night was much better, waking only five times ("only"!!!!) between 640 when she first fell asleep and 530am. She was much better at going back down quicker. Today she has taken five naps between 630am and 630pm, most for around 30 minutes, except the first and last which were for an hour. We don't normally let her nap that late on but we have been to the races this afternoon as our racehorse was running and wanted to take her because it was at Leicester races and we live a mile away from the course so it'd have been rude not to go see our boy. He didn't win though sad
Sounds good broody.
I make a BLW recipe - porridge fingers, which Fyfe loves.
Mix 2 tbls porridge oats with 2 oz milk, (I use expressed milk, you can use full fat cow's milk) leave to soak for 10 mins. Spoon on to a plate and shape firmly in to a block with the back of a spoon and pat down. Tip off any excess milk. Put in the microwave for 1 min 30 then turn on I a cool plate and cut in to fingers. Once cooled they will be a flapjack consistency. Perfect for little hands and less mess! smile
broodylicious Tue 11-Sep-12 20:45:21
Ah yes I'd seen that in the BLW cookbook and wondered what it'd be like. I think I'll use formula in ours. We'll give her banana too I think - major issue with this though is that banana smell makes me gag confused I know also that anything banana touches goes black if it goes unnoticed and dries! Now is not the time to be thinking of my house being messy but hmm haha!
Lawabidingmama Tue 11-Sep-12 23:51:02
We have also started weaning! So far so good! Carrot and parsnip big success! I'm doing puréed stuff as I'm very mindful of watching out for reactions due to DD1s ceoliac (although this is actually an autoimmune disorder it's made me very wary of intolerances etc) she has had fingers if the puréed stuff at the same time and took it well! She's happy to self feed off a Pre loaded spoon! So cute!
Also this week she's agreed to take a bottle smile so relieved as I have an afternoon tea on Sunday for a friends birthday and was hoping for some child free time it's looking more promising! Though she's still very Velcro like (happy to play with DH untill she realises I'm not in the room :/) the tea party is only a five min drive away so I figure DH can bring her to me if need be?
trouble DD1 used to 'click' sometimes it was quite audible I noticed it at birth and mentioned it to my midwife who dismissed my concerns I brought it up again with my hv when she was a couple of months and we wee referred to a consultant oesteopath turned out to be nothing but I was pleased to have it checked! She only clicked on a few occasions but I found it concerning as it always seemed to be her right shoulder?
madscimum Wed 12-Sep-12 10:34:04
Oo, all the weaning sounds so very exciting! We'll probably start this weekend, when she'll be 24 weeks. I've been cooking meals in a way that DD could have parts -- cutting things into long strips instead of chunks, low sodium, etc., to practice.
I'm not quite sure what to do about dinner time, kiki -- we usually eat at 8 or 9pm, and I don't see that changing. Tessa does start getting fussy at around 7, but the times I've tried to put her down then she just takes a 1-2 hr nap and is then alert for a few hours again. Maybe she'll just have a late evening nap before dinner? The one night she went down for the night at 7pm she was awake for the day at 4am! That's too early for me...
Ugh. Tessa's ear infection has been gone for a week and I'm on my third course of antibiotics -- two at a time this time. I hate being sick sad I hope this time it clears up.
madscimum Wed 12-Sep-12 10:35:21
trouble, we don't have creaking but every once in a while there is a pop like knuckles cracking. But not consistently, and she seems happy. If I were you, I'd mention it to GP or HV and see what they say.
Yes, it's a pop like knuckles cracking, several times a day though...it had never bothered him, he's always very happy. I will book a GP appointment soon though!
Lawabidingmama Wed 12-Sep-12 18:57:27
Consultant oesteopath ooops meant orthopaedic consultant really shouldn't mn late at night blush I really hope this mush of a brain sorts it self out before I go back to work! Cannot believe my baby is 26 weeks where oh where has the time gone?????
broodylicious Thu 13-Sep-12 21:27:22
Evening all! Are any of you on instagram? Thought itd be nice to follow each other and share pix of our babies after all the chatting we do about them? (and also cos we had a family photo shoot today that I'm dying to show off!!wink)
I'm not broody but we could make a secret group on Facebook?
madscimum Sun 16-Sep-12 09:21:00
Yick. We're all sick. Me, DH, and DD have a cold, and I still have the ear infection. I had a bad reaction to one of the antibiotics so they took me off that one and will reassess on Monday. We had been planning to start BLW today, but with DD coughing and us barely up to making our own food, I don't think that's going to happen.
sad poor you mad!
broodylicious Wed 19-Sep-12 20:19:19
Hope you're feeling better soon mad must be horrid being poorly as a mummy to a six month old sadbiscuit
Has everyone had their first post preg period yet? Mine took me quite by surprise the other week! Guess I knew it'd come sooner or later but still was like "oh, flippin eck, not AF already" So in theory, we could start trying for broody offspring %232 now...... But bearing in mind we are so struggling with %231, I think not!!
milkymocha Wed 19-Sep-12 21:24:49
Sympathies mad, myself and baby both have chest infections. Not fantastic timing as Eldest started pre-school this week so have to be up and out very early to travel.
Iam eating lots of chocolate. For medicinal reasons wink
Not yet broody! smile
Lawabidingmama Thu 20-Sep-12 19:49:44
Nope broody I'm still bf though I didn't get mine back with DD1 till she was nine month and started formula in fact I got it on my very first day back at work from mat leave talk about depressing day ha!! When is everyone thinking of going back if at all? I'm already dreading it!
I'm turning 30 in jan so thinking after that! I went pt after DD1 would love to go even more pt but don't think the job would be manageable on even less hours sad
Oooh, bad timing law! sad
I'm not going back, it's quite a commute to London from our new house by the sea! smile that's a shame your job would not be manageable with less hours, would it work as a job share?
BeeWi Thu 20-Sep-12 22:41:47
Oh no, Broody, that has me worried now! Mine hasn't come back and long may that continue! I think we all have enough to deal with without all that carry on wink. Out of interest, are you mixed feeding? Also, would love to see your pics but am not on instagram. Could you upload them into your profile or put them on photobucket? Or can anybody see instagram, even if they're not on it? (I'm not very up on how it all works).
I've put up a couple of new pics into my profile of LO chowing down on some cannelloni - man, that was a big hit! Trouble, I tried the recipe for the porridge fingers (what an ace idea!) but I managed to nuke it too much, so just ended up with oats welded onto the bottom of the bowl. blush I think the problem was I hadn't managed to express enough milk as I'd just fed her, but tried to just put in fewer oats, forgetting that the depth would be different, so wouldn't need microwaving for as long. Hey ho, we'll try again when I've managed to express a more impressive quantity!
Mad, sorry to hear things are still rough with you. brew + thanks
Law, we're lucky because I'm a member of the union and part of the collective agreement here is that my job must be kept open for 2 years, so I'm not going back until February 2013. We're having to really budget though as I was the main breadwinner and if we keep spending at the same rate I'd only be able to take off 18 months. That said, in the time we've been off we've had a lot of one-off expenses for the baby as well as having insulation put in. Kiwi houses are generally really bloody cold (wood, single glazed, no insulation or central heating) and I felt it was worth just getting all that done so we stood a chance of keeping her warm over the winter. We're meal planning now though and I've started a veg patch, so fingers crossed we can live a bit more frugally. Plus, hopefully our energy bills won't be as eye watering over the summer (this winter they tripled from last winter as I was home during the day rather than at work).
Oh, in other news, took LO to the doc's earlier in the week as she hadn't pooed in 18 days shock. She's now only had one tiny (and so paint-strippingly smelly) one in 21 days. It was awful...the doc had to put the tip of her finger up LO's bum and she just screamed and turned bright red. It was awful. Poor little thing. So fingers crossed for poos - never thought I'd say that!
BeeWi Thu 20-Sep-12 22:44:06
Oh, meant to ask if anyone knows how to update my 'mumsnet mates' list so I could include the newer members of the thread, in case you want to see the pics in my profile...although I guess you may not have any interest blushgrin
Lawabidingmama Fri 21-Sep-12 00:44:40
Oh bee poor baby bee sad hope the blockage clears soon poor mite sad very jealous of the 2 years off though!!!
I really need to sit down with DH and work out how many hours we could afford me to do, I went back on 20 over. 3 days with DD1 which I increased to 23 over 4 mostly to keep up with the work load as inevitably I seemed to end up doing a ft role on pt hours hmm DH has said he would be happy for me not to go back but I would worry if something to Happened to his job? Also Im not sure it would be so easy to get back into my profession after a career break having said that with my baby brain I probably won't be able to cope with the law when I go back he he!
I am very lucky in that we live in a rural area in a lovely village by the sea with a traffic free ten minute drive to work though so must look on the bright side!
broodylicious Fri 21-Sep-12 08:48:26
bee I'm still bf even though dd is being weaned - AF arrived three of four days before we started weaning, so I think that's why it caught me off guard! I never got on with expressing so we make her porridge with formula. She will be given mashed potato tonight with it in tonight.
Re work - I'm not going back. Mixed emotions tbh. I absolutely love the team I work with, we are quite close and genuinely all get on. We're an offshoot of a very well known nursery chain and there's only 20 of us in our part of the business so we know each other well and most are good friends as well as colleagues. However, I have a commute of over an hour to get there and I'd only want to do two days a week so although my salary is great, and i love my job, is it worth the faff of getting dd into nursery - £££££££ - then driving over an hour away - ££££ - for just two days? Prob not. Instead though, I will be setting up my own consultancy so I can still work and earn good money but with loads of benefits (spend quality time with dd, never have to worry I'm so far away if she gets ill at nursery, no petrol costs, take on the work I want to, be with DH on his days off.... continue with our busy baby social calendar wink)
broodylicious Fri 21-Sep-12 18:26:20
Forgot to say bee that instagram is a free iPhone app - similar to twitter, you get the app and follow whoever you want to and you'll see any photos they upload through the News Feed. You don't need to upload any pix yourself to see anyone else's, just join and follow. You can also take pix using it or open an existing pic you've got on your phone and edit it or apply filters so they look older, brighter, black and white etc and save it. It's quite a nifty little app really!
There was a groupon we got the other day where you can print any of your instagram pix onto canvas. And you can even make an iPhone case with your instagram pix too!
Ok enough already, I sound like a pr for them!! grin
madscimum Fri 21-Sep-12 18:28:18
Thanks for all the sympathies! I'm finally feeling a bit better, and I hope I didn't overdo it today. Ended up at the ENT's earlier in the week, and spent nearly a whole day there waiting, getting looked at with a microscope, hearing tested (currently sucks! But they say it will come back, although not for 3-4 weeks). I'm not sure if DD has been sleeping better, or if I'm just not hearing her in the middle of the night, but we've had some 6 or even 7 hour stretches. At least if she wakes she must not get too upset, because I can hear her cry, just not the little awake noises I used to. The world on low-volume is weird.
So, I've been back at work since Aug. I'm lucky, though, in that I can work from home and that DH can look after DD a lot. I'm working in the kitchen on a personal project and go in once or twice a week for seminars. I take DD with me on fridays for the informal seminar, and DH takes her for other meetings. Went in this afternoon and DD was a bit fussy about 40 min into the 50 min seminar and I had to leave -- but even so a Prof complimented me later on how quiet she was! But it is hard. I pay attention to the time try to make sure I get 8 hrs in each day, and make it up if I don't manage (except this week, where I decided was "out" sick on Tue-Thu, which I hadn't done yet, and perhaps that contributed to me getting better! I should learn from that...). I tend to start work around 7-8am and finish around 6pm, so obviously it's very broken up. DD has recently gotten a lot better at entertaining herself making things much easier. I'd have preferred more time off, but I'm our only income so there wasn't much choice. (Actually, my current biggest problem is that I chose the kitchen to work in and have absolutely no self-control when it comes to munching and working at the same time. I really to have to stop that!) Oh, and I'll be going on my first business trip in a few weeks! DH is coming to look after DD, and I'll plan on popping out to feed her on occasion. It will be interesting.
And, eek, broody, periods already? I'm not ready for that... nothing yet here.
broody you've sold me on instagram. I've signed up. smile
Glad you're getting better mad and envy you're getting so much sleep!
broody, poppy is so cute! grin
broodylicious Sat 22-Sep-12 22:07:52
Aaah thanks gringrin we just need to crack this sleeping issue and she will be a corker smilesmile
Fyfe looks a gorgeously happy little boy. I love the pics of him with his dog - so sweet!!
And it's so weird we were in Krabi at the same time last April/May! V small world eh? Xx
broodylicious Mon 24-Sep-12 00:39:51
Having a dreadful time ladies. And feel like absolute shit. I just cannot get dd to sleep for love nor money. She's fed, clean, warm but nothing is going to get her to sleep. I've had nine friggin weeks of crap nights - often its been 30 mins sleep then 30/40 to get her back down again - and it's shaping up to be even worse tonight with just no sleep at all. I feel like I'm such a failure that she won't sleep and as I'm exhausted I am getting angry and then very upset with and for myself. She is only six months and I've obviously already given her a shit start in life in the sleep department or she'd nod off like all other babies. I just can't see a way forward right now that doesn't involve DH or me sleeping in separate rooms with dd on our chest as that's the only way she will sleep. This is the only time I've ever considered controlled crying but even in this very low haze I'm in, I know it's not what I want to do. I'm just so desperate sadsad
madscimum Mon 24-Sep-12 10:59:16
Oh, broody sad It's not your fault! Babies have distinct personalities and you got one who doesn't want the world to fade away, is all. If she will sleep on your chests, perhaps you can work with that? Maybe build up to something -- like have her sleep on your chest at first, and then on a folded blanket on your chest, and see if you can slide the blanket off with her on it once she's asleep? Just throwing out random ideas here.
It is most definitely not your fault broody! You have not given her a shit start in life for sleep, the way a baby sleeps does not affect how they sleep as an adult! Neither of you will even remember this in a year, hard to believe now, I know! There is nothing you could have done differently, you said before about regretting feeding her to sleep as a newborn but please don't have regrets, if you hadn't of fed her to sleep you'd have had battles then instead of now, I can't think of a better way to get a newborn off to sleep!
Also, whilst you have it really bad, Fyfe woke 7 times last night between 7.30pm and 6.30am and almost all the babies I know are waking frequently at this age, regardless of how they been raised, breast/formula fed, dummy using/not, own room/co sleeping so unless 85% of us all happen to be doing a different something wrong I'd say it has to be an age thing and therefore they will get over it!
Does she sleep in the day at all? Fyfe has two naps and I've been trying to take them with him since he's been waking so regularly.
BeeWi Tue 25-Sep-12 00:30:22
Oh Broody, you poor thing. I second what Trouble said- you have absolutely not given her a shit start and this is not your fault. From talking to friends, I've really come to believe that the baby you have is very much luck of the draw when it comes to sleep and temperament. People who say otherwise are a bit naive, IMO, and perhaps just a bit smug.
All of your posts about Poppy just glow with love and anybody can tell just how muh you adore her. This horrible lack of sleep is far harder on you than it is on her, so any shitness is only really felt by you, not her.
I've no advice, just sending you all the best vibes and hopes that this stage will pass soon for you and just want you to remember what a fab job you're doing in very difficult circumstances.
BeeWi Tue 25-Sep-12 00:36:53
Meant to say, though, a lady I know has a baby who was having problems sleeping and would only sleep on her husband's chest, nowhere else. This was when her LO was a month old though, not as old as Poppy. Anyways, they went to see a cranial osteopath (the same one who sorted out Erin's colic, as it goes- people in this town swear by him) and some of her vertebrae were out of line, so she was having sleeping difficulties and favoured one side for some movements. Anyways, he manipulated her and her sleeping got way better within 24 hours. Since then she's been down to one night feed and otherwise sleeping through. Could it be worth asking around to see if there are any good, recommended practitioners in your area? I know it's not traditional medicine, but might be worth a go?
madscimum Tue 25-Sep-12 21:15:54
Is anyone's LO crawling yet? Tessa is getting dangerously close, but I'm hoping still has a ways of practice to go! She sort of shifts around on her stomach now, but only a few inches at time, and spins in circles.
And I think I am almost over my ear infection. My hearing is still depressed, but much better, and it doesn't really hurt anymore. I can't believe this went of for 4 weeks!
Fyfe is doing exactly the same as Tessa mad! smile
Lawabidingmama Wed 26-Sep-12 21:59:38
Aw my little munchkin is so close to crawling she gets up on her hands and knees and rocks! She's been shuffling on her tummy for a few weeks and can make it right across the room backwards much to her dismay! She 'shouts' in frustration as the thing she's trying to get gets further away! I'm thinking she will be properly crawling any day! Can't believe how mobile she is DD1 didn't crawl till she was 9months I was hoping for a few months before I'm chasing two of them around eek!!
broodylicious Thu 27-Sep-12 19:52:57
Aaah thanks trouble and bee. I'm still feeling fragile but today has been better - she even took three naps!!
We are taking her to see a cranial osteopath tomorrow. I'm hoping something will seem obvious to the CO so we have a reason and not just she's a crap sleeper. My suspicion is silent reflux...
BeeWi Thu 27-Sep-12 21:57:50
Oh best of luck tomorrow, Broody. I have everything crossed that the CO will find something, fix it and her sleeping will improve. Let us know how it goes, yeah?
SciMum - nowhere near crawling for us yet, I think. She'll go too her tummy and she will pull up her knees, but she's not lifting off the ground or anything. I think she'll be happier when she's more mobile as she just seems to get so frustrated when she can't reach whichever toys out of arm's reach but she'll get there when she's ready, I guess smile.
Absolutely knackered today. Last night we got a knock on the door, asking if we had a cat. We don't but somebody had knocked over this cat at the top of our driveway and left it for dead. Poor little thing was struggling for breath and was obviously in a really bad way. Ended up ringing the out of hours vet and taking it there. Didn't get to bed until nearly midnight and then LO woke at 1.30 and was up at sparrow's fart, as usual. If I never have to see an animal in that much pain again I'll be grateful sad
madscimum Fri 28-Sep-12 11:35:43
OMG!! It could still all fall apart, but that's getting more and more unlikely: it looks like we're going to buy the new house! DF swooped in with enough help that we can wait on selling our current house until we move -- I'm eternally grateful and still can't quite believe it. It'll be tight with two mortgages until we sell, but I figure that's good incentive to get stuff done. We're just waiting for a few more formalities. I've been trying to not get too excited in case it doesn't work, but I think I'm finally allowed to be. We'll have the house in Nov, but I expect won't move in until Dec as we have the US baby-tour planned end of Nov and we'll want to do some painting, etc. Trouble, you moved right before LO or right after, right? Any advice on a new house with a baby?
madscimum Fri 28-Sep-12 11:37:16
Oh, bee, what a night! And how horrid to just leave the cat there sad I hope the kitty makes it...
broodylicious Fri 28-Sep-12 21:20:21
So we've been to the CO and she couldn't find anything obviously wrong - apart from a slight blocking feeling at her oesophageal area which points towards reflux. Something I had suspected for the last few days. (The silent type of course, as she's only ever been sick once in her 6 month life!) We went to the doctors tonight and he agreed so he's given us a prescription for infant gaviscon and she's started that straight away. Fingers crossed.
While we were at the CO she asked what I do for a living and if I'll be going back. I explained I'll be taking the last three months of my leave (Jan-Mar) unpaid and then starting my own marketing and pr consultancy - to which she showed a lot of interest in and was asking a few more questions.....and just like that, quite by accident, I have my first client!! grin
BeeWi Sat 29-Sep-12 06:06:10
Weeeee- that's wicked news, Broody (about the first client, not the reflux). Very well done!
How's Poppy taking to the gaviscon? Any changes? I found this website really cool http://www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz/ when Erin was really suffering with reflux (not silent, like Poppy) and found that cutting out all dairy really improved things and within two weeks she was like a different baby. I really hope the gaviscon makes a difference for her and you!
SciMum - squeeeee! That's very exciting news! Everything crossed that everything goes through without a hitch. And that's very cool of your dad to help- families can be ace, can't they?! My folks helped us when we came to get our house out here as my old house in he UK was really slow to sell. Stopped us having to get a crippling ly expensive bridging loan, for which I was so grateful. Good luck and let us know how it goes! Is it Germany you're buying in or did I just invent that bit in my head?!
Oh, and after all the cat drama, it lived. I was so happy and very nicely surprised...I was sure it was a goner. Got away with a broken leg and tail and the owners came forward today and were really stoked that it was alive. I love happy endings!
madscimum Sun 30-Sep-12 16:21:53
Yay, broody, about the client! How is Poppy doing?
Bee, that's great to hear about the cat. I'm sure those owners are so glad that you helped out! I would be.
And thanks, bee, we're quite excited. Just heard my Dad will be visiting the weekend after we get the house, so he'll get to see it! We've only got him for half of Saturday, as he is on a very busy business trip: he's pathologically scared of airplanes and is taking a boat from the US! So he's fitting in a decade's worth of meetings or so in the UK and the rest of Europe. We're only moving 15 miles down the road (Germany is where we're headed for a conference in two weeks), but it will be a vast improvement in lifestyle. I'll be able to do things like head into the Uni for meetings and leave DD with at home with DH. And the extras like the livery next door, the bike path all the way into town, the high frequency bus service, and the bird preserve visible from the window are things that are so unlikely I would have never even included them in criteria for a new place to live. I'm still a bit disbelieving that this is actually happening!
We've had quite an adventure this weekend so far. DH is in hospital sad They think it is just gastroenteritis, but are keeping him for more tests and on an IV, as he can't keep down fluids. Spend the night first at Out of Hours Dr, and then took an ambulance to hospital, and DD and I finally got a taxi home about 5am. I was going to visit today, but the buses are so infrequent on Sunday that it will be an hour and a half trip and now I'm feeling a bit queasy. I was slightly worried I'd end up as sick as him on the bus or outside the closed bus station in the rain. So far I'm still just queasy. And DD seems fine. Fingers crossed that DH gets better soon and it's nothing serious!
Oh dear mad! sad poor your DH!
About the house though grin OMG! That is fantastic news! grin
We moved in two weeks before Fyfe was born! I would advise making a work plan and if possible getting very disruptive jobs done before you move your stuff in. For example, we had all the ceilings replastered (artex) and we had all new carpet laid upstairs. I think the only difference the baby makes is that you don't want to upset their routine too much so planning work properly so she doesn't end up sleeping in a different room every night will be the key. What sort of state is it in?
We have lift off! He's crawling! grin
BeeWi Mon 01-Oct-12 20:32:13
That's brilliant, Trouble! Have you had to do much house proofing? Goodness, that's exciting.
Meant to ask how the BLWers are going with weaning? I'm loving it! LO is loving her food and I think she may have actually started to get some down her (not masses, but definitely moving into chewing and swallowing territory). Yesterday I finally got the porridge fingers to work - thanks for that, Trouble- and she loved them. For lunch she had cucumber battons with hummus and tea she had some vegetable nuggets (recipe on the BLW.com site), hummus again and pear pieces. She has two teeth now and she was really managing to chomp some bits off the pear and swallow smile. Hummus is her absolute fave and so cheap, easy and healthy to make. This year our lemon tree has gone nutso, so it's a nice way to use some of them too. Going to branch out and try making some different legume pastes for her to try.
Anybody else had any absolute fav recipes for their babies? It's nice to get some extra inspiration. LO seems to like most stuff at the moment, so long as she gets to feed herself.
Beens meaning to say too, Kiki and Punk, how you both going? smile
madscimum Tue 02-Oct-12 18:51:41
Oh, wow, trouble!! Exciting smile
DH is home now -- feeling considerably better, although, as he says, if he hadn't had the weekend he'd consider himself ill, now. I've continued to feel just a little under the weather but getting better, so I think I'm safe now.
And thanks for the advice, trouble. The house is in good shape, but there are a few things we probably want to change, like the colour of some walls and I want to add a shower to the tub. I'm trying to decide if I want to invest in one of those electric shower things you stick on the wall, or just replace the tap with one that has a shower head -- I've seen them in Homebase, the shower attachment sits on top of the taps like an old telephone handset. We currently have an electric shower, and I like that it doesn't matter if you've run out the hot water as it heats it up right there.
We just started BLW this weekend -- we'd tried a week after whenever it was we were all sick, but I think it was too early: I think Tessa was ingesting things already as her poos got really stinky and she acted like her tummy was upset. This weekend her poos are stinky again, but she is acting much happier, so I think she's ready now. We've been having vegetables: green beans, broccoli, and she really likes asparagus. She's also had some apple and homemade bread (so I know it's not too salty), and she just had some pasta today.
Does anyone else's LO mush the food up in their fingers first? I find the "chip-shaped" things don't stay chip-shaped for long -- she scrunches it all up in her hands before trying to eat them, and then is stuck trying to hold onto little mushy balls instead. But it seems to be working for her.
He's very slow atm so no baby proofing needed as yet! smile
He's definitely eating the odd bit but it still mostly goes on the floor. I expect it to take another month before he 'gets' it! Biggest eats are roasted pepper, a finger of cheese on toast, half a bread stick, a finger of toast etc. usually it is much less though his poo is different and I see bits of broccoli etc. blushgrin
I have found the whole food shop to be very useful as they sell a variety of nut/seed butter that is salt and sugar free and fruit spread which is jam without the sugar!
broodylicious Tue 02-Oct-12 19:04:16
Oh yes we are happy BLWers here too grin Poppy has had pizza toast tonight for the first time, with grated carrot and a few sticks of carrot. The toast went down a treat - anyone else tried it? It's yummy. She adores her morning porridge; we preload the spoon and give it to her to do the rest. She has learnt though that the spoon is a fantastic teether and an even better catapult/re-decorating tool hmm Shes excellent at aiming the spoon for her mouth but does like to snort the porridge or pretend its eye shadow. Bless her!
broodylicious Wed 03-Oct-12 09:04:08
Well, well, well as Jeremy Kyle would say.... We only went and had 7 1/2 hours sleep last night!!!!
Turns out little lady actually can sleep on her tummy in her crib. In fact, she quite likes it!! DH and I had been looking more at silent reflux and sleeping - more to the point, reading the, ahem, reassuring articles that said if dc has sr, generally no one sleeps....cos we didn't know that ourselves wink They kept going on about buying reflux wedges to put in the cot as the baby's head needs to be higher than the stomach to stop the food coming back up. I decided - after she woke for the 9th time in under 3 hours - to put a plump cushion under her mattress at one end so her head and upper chest would be raised. It frickin worked!!
Please please please let this be the solution we desperately want and need....
madscimum Wed 03-Oct-12 09:29:43
Yay, broody! Hope it continues!
grin yay broody!
After 3 months of waking almost every two hours we have had two fabulous nights! Bearing in mind his wakes are only 5 min feeds, on Monday he slept 20.30-02.30 then till 04.00 then till 06.00 and up for the day at 08.00 (usually 06.00! grin) and last night was even better, 20.30-02.45 then 02.50-06.00 and up for the day at 08.00! grin long may it continue, I feel amazing!smile
Meant to add to the BLW successful foods, he's had two organix baby biscuits and loved them, ate the whole things. He also ate 3 homemade onion rings today!
broodylicious Wed 03-Oct-12 22:51:26
Yay for both our bubbas trouble!
Poppy has been eating her proper food for a while now - its erm obvious that she's taking it in and digesting it iykwim wink Porridge makes her wee smell quite weird, anyone else had that? She had a kind of rash come up on her temples, both sides, when she had fromage frais both times. We'll try again but if the same happens again, we'll steer clear for a while. I'm just hoping its not an allergy or intolerance. Has anyone else experienced that yet?
broodylicious Tue 09-Oct-12 19:37:55
Just popping by to say hi - gone a bit quiet over here.... [looks round to see if anyone's hiding....]
grin hi broody! Just you and I left maybe?
broodylicious Tue 09-Oct-12 20:36:27
I think so, hun grin fancy a cheeky biscuit? Watching the great British bake off and I'm itching to get baking again but I just don't have the energy so scoffing shop bought is all I'm good for right now wink
Pinkpiglet Tue 09-Oct-12 22:31:21
Hello all, I've come along to join the evening party!
It's good to hear how all the babies are getting on. We've also been doing BLW for a few weeks and Izzy is really enjoying it. She loves her carbs (just like Mummy blush). She also had great fun with clementine segments today although more ended up on her than in her. I tried adapting the baby biscotti recipe today by adding steamed apple rather than banana and it's really nice. I have to say it wasn't as impressive as the Bake Off cakes. That show makes me hungry!
We're not getting anywhere as far as movement in concerned. Izzy will only roll so she can get off her tummy so no signs of crawling here. How is Fyfe getting along Trouble?
He hasn't been at all keen to practise pink so still has all the speed of a slug! grin our floor is being laid next week though so we'll be able to put him down downstairs at last! He then has full permission to crawl! wink it's odd him being so much more mobile though, he climbs all over us, it's lovely!
Fyfe loves carbs too (like his mummy) but I watched a video on you tube about some research that had been done into blw and they found one of the positive outcomes was the blw group preferred carbs whereas the tw group preferred sweet things. smile
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madscimum Wed 10-Oct-12 15:32:30
Hi everyone!
We've just had a an odd realisation, and it's too blush to share anywhere else: I think DD only poos in her bouncy chair! I had been concerned over the weekend as she hadn't pooed since Thu, but I know breastfed babies can go days without pooing. Then Mon AM I put her in the bouncy chair for the first time in days -- and shortly after, poo. I then thought back on all the last times she'd pooed (as in, when I had to rush to pick her up and try to save her clothes, and usually failing...),and realised they had all been in the bouncy chair. I put her in Tue and this morning, and also got poos. So now I'll make sure to put her in it each morning. But isn't that odd?
broodylicious Wed 10-Oct-12 16:09:05
Haha mad we also realised this - albeit a while back! Must be something about the bouncer eh? Poppy is also a fan of pooing in her car seat - we put her in there a few minutes before we want to actually leave because I'd say 7/10 times that she's first put in there, she will poo!
Poppy is quite poorly with a heavy cold today. It came on quite suddenly overnight and she's got so much snot and is sneezing and coughing quite a bit. Poor little mite sad
Can't believe I'm talking poo and snot! Vile!
Hahahaha! grin how funny! Not noticed anything like that here, then again I don't really know when he poos as can't smell it with the cloth nappies and we've only ever had two exploding ones, both of which were last week!
Hope the poo chairs keep working for you! smile
madscimum Wed 10-Oct-12 18:45:37
Oh, poor Poppy! sad How's the sleeping going?
I can tell when she poos as she gets this really "concentrated" look smile
broodylicious Wed 10-Oct-12 20:13:53
Yeah I get that look too - when she's finished she smiles at me like "right, we can go now!" or "sorry what did you say?" grin
Her sleeping Is much better than it was a few weeks back. We have been waking just 3-5 times a night, instead of 12, so we're all a bit happier. Think she just prefers sleeping on her tummy. We've also propped up the head end of her mattress as it helps with her reflux.
Just a shame she's picked up this wretched cold cos I think the next few nights will go back to being v difficult. I've got the calpol plug in going (in the next room though as I thought it was a bit strong and she can still inhale it as its wafting about up there!), snuffle babe on her chest and back and she had a spoonful of calpol at 630, just before her bath so I've done everything we can. Fingers crossed. She's so snotty but really happy and has continued to give me lots of kisses today, even though she's been tired and struggling with breathing.
madscimum Thu 11-Oct-12 20:30:45
I've just been reflecting on being back at work - even though I'm with Tessa throughout most of the day even when working, I've noticed that on the weekends and evenings, when I can spend time with her AND give her my attention, I really appreciate it. I think I might actually appreciate getting to pay attention to her more now than I did before, as I have the contrast of 8 hours a day when my main attention has to be elsewhere. And I really like the breaks in the day for things like breastfeeding and even nappy changing (!), when I turn my full attention to her. Although sometimes I plug her in to feed and keep working, but if I can take a breather I do so - and instead of surfing the internet like I used to when nursing, I just look at her smile
That's nice mad. smile
Fyfe is building speed with his crawling now! Still commando style but covering distance much faster today, first time on a wooden floor (visiting PIL) grin we are getting ours laid whilst we are here so rather excited that he finds it much easier than carpet! grin
Lawabidingmama Fri 12-Oct-12 20:25:27
Hello everyone [waves] hows all the babas getting on? I see you've got a mobile little man trouble smile we also have lift off here! Emmie is full on crawling!!!!!! Eeek!! It's driving her sister mad! We're also doing pretty great with weaning full on meals going in now she's amazing with her food scoffs anything I give her and is self feeding fabulously! She's master pincer grip eating chopped up blue berries pieces of pasta etc can't believe it!!! Proud mammy here smile x
Pinkpiglet Sat 13-Oct-12 11:31:05
Happy Saturday all!
I thought I'd come on here and ask what all your little ones favourite toys are. We're going on holiday soon and I wanted to get Izzy some new things to talk.
The most popular things here are stacking cups, a Mozart musical cube (so I'm always humming Mozart!) and Lamaze toys.
Is there any smaller toys that any of you could recommend for us?
I've just noticed that Izzy seems to use the highchair as her "poo chair". I thought she was concentrating hard on her food, but no, she was getting rid of previous meals, lovely!
madscimum Sat 13-Oct-12 13:37:04
We've been successfully using the bouncy chair for a daily morning poo all week smile Although we're off to Germany on Tuesday (eek!), so I hope she poos somewhere else and doesn't just bottle it up for a week.
broodylicious Sat 13-Oct-12 18:42:30
Hi piglet Poppy adores her Lamaze toys too. She is most fond of her Buggy Buddy - its from mothercare and has a chime in it that sounds like a cow bell. It's £6 and has a red stripy bottom. It was the only thing that her crying on our long drive back from Devon a few months back - along with me singing the baby sensory hello song. She is also a fan of her plastic rings and a black and white sensory crinkly book. Then there's the That's Not My... book collection - pony is her fave but monkey comes a close second.
Where you off to? envy
Lots of fun eh law? smile
pink Fyfe loves his sassy sensation station and Sophie giraffe the best.
BeeWi Sun 14-Oct-12 08:42:27
So cool to hear about how mobile your wee ones are, Trouble and Law. LO caterpillars along, lifting her bum up in the air and scootching forward but she can't get more than a few inches. Progress is slow at this end!
Broody - the 'That's not my...' books are a big his here too. She only has 2 but they're much loved! Books are stupidly expensive, but luckily the public libraries are really good, so we go most weeks and get a fresh stock of books for her. She loves the Ladybird 'touch and feel' ones the most: Red Riding-hood and Jack and the Beanstalk have been the best, apparently, although their toned down storylines grate- R.Riding Hood ends with the wolf running away because he sees her dad and gets scared and granny, daddy and Red all have a hug hmm
Pink - started making a treasure basket for LO today. She's happily balanced when sitting up now, so figure it would be a nice thing to play with. Here's a link about them in case you're not familiar with them smile http://www.littleacornstomightyoaks.co.uk/Articles/Treasure_basket
Pinkpiglet Sun 14-Oct-12 08:44:30
Thanks for the ideas. We also have a well loved Sophie Giraffe and loops links. I'll look into the other suggestions.
We do have a vetch caterpillar that's really annoying but Izzy loves it!
Pinkpiglet Sun 14-Oct-12 08:46:15
I've not come across that Bee, will look at that too. Thanks Ladies!
We've done treasure baskets at a group, he loved it!
'That's not my...' Books very popular here too. I pick them up in charity shops, usually 50-75 pence.
BeeWi Mon 15-Oct-12 08:47:23
Yeah, it's pretty cool how much they seem to over homemade toys, isn't it Trouble? At the same group where she's played with treasure baskets, we've made quite a few homemade toys which she's loved. The most enduring favourites are a load of milk carton tops with holes hammered through the centre and linked with a piece of elastic (makes a fab clacking sounds when she tosses it around and is good to mouth, it seems) and a piece of netting which you can untangle from a shower scrubber thingy filled with marbles, corks and all shorts of things which you couldn't usually give a baby and tied at each end so that it's safe. Mind you, she hated the rain stick I lovingly made; it made her cry confused
Lawabidingmama Mon 15-Oct-12 22:07:08
Oh trouble I can't keep up with her!! She's now started pulling herself on things she's crawled to I turned around this morning and she was stood up holding onto the kitchen cupboard grinning at me! Thing is she's an absolute dot it looks so odd!!!
Fave toys apart from everything her sister plays with... Lamaze knot block Sophie the giraffe and tomy eggs which say from 12 months but are IMO suitable for now they are her sisters and she's 2.5 and still loves then £8 in tesco I've bought some for Xmas pressies! Also laugh and learn teapot by fisher price which is also her sisters and is still a big hit 2 years on!
broodylicious Wed 17-Oct-12 09:38:49
I am really looking to proper movement from dd. she's doing all the pre crawling moves and shuffles a tiny bit backwards and last night was shuffling on her bottom when she was sat up on the floor so I'm sure it won't be long. But then hmm mobile poppy.... grin
Did any of you ladies see this morning yday and the piece on the celeb sperm bank?!
Didn't see it broody.
I have discovered Fyfe will only crawl if nothing interesting is going on. He will not crawl if Granny is here and he will not do it for the camera (my phone is the most exciting thing ever) - rather annoying as I want my mum to see him do it!
How's everyone getting on in other areas? We moved Fyfe in to his own room two nights ago and it's going really well! smile
BeeWi Sat 20-Oct-12 21:46:26
Glad the over went well, Trouble . I found it way more traumatic than Erin when we had to move her into her own room. I dragged a single mattress in there and slept on the floor as I was scared not to be next to her, even though it takes me literally 4 paces to get from my bed to her room! Feel a bit silly in hindsight, how sad I was about it blush.
Still no crawling here from us but success this week was with swimming. DH took annual leave on Tuesday so we could take her to her first swimming lesson together. He went in the pool and I was on the side, looking on. Anyway, she howled through lots of the lesson. It was awful! She generally hates new places until she gets used to them and realises that everything is ok (think she might turn into a bit of a sensitive soul). I took her on my own on Tuesday and then we went as a family this morning and she loved the baths! She was kicking and splashing, so I think we should be good for her next lesson. Phew! She was the same with the bath at home- worst thing in the world at first and now loves it.
What was the celeb spermbank thing about, Broody? I've always thought George Clooney and I would make beautiful babies grin
Has anybody thought or been asked about Christmas yet? My folks were asking what I wanted for LO and I found it hard to predict what she'll want at that age. I asked for This for her. I have a couple of things stashed away for her too which are a bit too advanced at the mo. What to babies that age like? Any ideas? smile
broodylicious Mon 22-Oct-12 15:22:48
We are going to be putting dd in her own room tonight. I am dreading it because the only other time we tried - about a month ago - she got herself into a raging hysterical mess and was really unsettled for the rest of the night and following day and wouldn't be put down sadsad keep everything crossed for us.....
Good luck broody! Try to stay positive, she may feed off your mood? Fyfe is continuing to sleep well waking twice a night between 8-8 which is a vast improvement.
How is everyone who is doing blw doing on the weaning? He still barely eating anything really. Today he ate about 1/8 of a weetabix, 1/25 of a slice of toast with cheese and a cm of potato, cm of parsnip. Please can you give me a breakdown to compare? smile
BeeWi Mon 22-Oct-12 20:49:17
BLW. Is going well with us, Trouble, but it very much depends on how hungry she seems to be on how much she eats. Today for breakfast she ate maybe 2 porridge fingers but I've seen her wolf way more on other days (put some dried apricots in them the other day, chopped into tiny cubes and she loved that btw. Just another thing to try and get more iron into her). Yesterday at dinner I made some high protein pancakes - they had oats and bananas in the batter - and she devoured an entire one, followed by a few spoons of yoghurt. I was really surprised by how much she ate. But then at lunch she ate hardly any of her bean burger that I had made her. Mind you, because I'd left out the sweet chilli and bound them with puréed sweet corn instead, I think they turned out a bit tougher and may have just not been her bag.
So in short, it really varies and depends on how hungry she is! She's capable of eating a good bit but doesn't if she doesn't feel like it. I think that's positive though, and hopefully she's just learning to regulate her eating. It says in the book about it being between 9 and 12 months before they really start eating more substantial amounts of food, doesn't it?
How long before eating do you BF Fyfe, Trouble? I'm trying to leave at least half an hour to an hour between breastfeed and solid feed, just so she may be a but peckish.
She's recently started to sleep from 7pm until between 6.15 and 6.45 as long as I dreamfeed at 10ish. It's not every night, maybe half of all nights, but she'd never slept through before a couple of weeks ago, so I'm pretty stoked! Long may it continue (hope I haven't jinxed it).
Pinkpiglet Mon 22-Oct-12 20:56:02
BLW is going well here, Izzy loves having food to eat/play with! Our most successful things are broccoli (eats about 1/4 of the florette), greenbeans (1/2), many varieties of bread, favourite being bagels (~1/8), apples or pears (~1/4), pasta (1 shape), homemade breaded fish finger (tasted it). She also loves pinching my shreddies. There is definately plenty of food being consumed as the nappies have changed a lot! We went out for lunch today and she was so good in the highchair eating our food, I really enjoyed it.
I haven't been asked what she wants for Christmas yet. I'm hoping to get a nice dolly, a shape sorted and maybe some other musical toys as the rainmaker and tambourin are popular.
smile thanks both, I feel mug better about it again!
Long may the good sleep continue for us all!
*much blush
broodylicious Mon 22-Oct-12 23:48:41
Hmmm interesting. Poppy eats - and I do mean eats - absolutely tons!!!! She has porridge for breakfast (Ella's kitchen, 5 tablespoons mixed with formula) or half a weetabix with half a pouch of Ella's kitchen puréed breakfast, then lunch is fromage frais with half a banana, apple or pear and a few sticks of cucumber or carrot. Tea tonight was pasta twirls coated in Philadelphia with steamed carrots, sweetcorn and peas. She had about 10 pasta shapes with about a palm full of veg. On another night, she may have mashed or wedges of potato or other veg, with yoghurt, toast or fruit (depending on what she's had at lunch).
Eating like this, my dd should be absolutely sleeping through!!!!! Xx
Hi all. I haven't posted in here before but wanted a few pointers to see if I'm worrying for no reason.
DS was a late march baby do just 7mo. I'm not sure whether he's developing as he should be. He can sit up but wriggles and looks around so much he topples over so never sits for more than a few seconds. He is mobile but doesn't seem that interested in trying to crawl, he just rolls and shuffles. He can feed himself (we are doing combination of purees and finger food) but can't lift a beaker.
Do these things sound ok or should he be doing more?
Thanks. He is pfb so could be me worrying too much smile
Sounds perfectly normal to me english! smile
broodylicious Tue 23-Oct-12 21:14:56
Hi english welcome! smile
You sound like me - almost apologetic for worrying and being protective of my pfb! I'm actually make a joke of how I am, haha, so don't worry smile
My dd is a few days away from turning 7 months and although she sits very well independently, has great head control, reaches for toys etc, she doesn't do much rolling either. She may go on to her side if she gets a bit excited while playing but generally won't roll all the time. She made a few efforts of lifting her bum off the floor when doing tummy time (to make like a triangle shape) a few weeks back but since then, she's not done it again. Same as shuffling on her bottom.
I completely understand where you're coming from with your concerns because I worry whether she's on track too, especially now shes stopped doing her bum lift (ooer, sounds wrong!!) but I think the old rule of every baby is different is bang on here.
It is so hard though not to compare, isnt it? She doesn't have any teeth yet and the two things that people keep asking are whether shes crawling or if she has teeth! We did NCT antenatal classes and there are babies almost half Poppy's age who have at least one tooth. It gets me down often tbh but I know it'll come soon, I've just got to be patient!! Not something I'm blessed with though, unfortunately wink
broodylicious Tue 23-Oct-12 21:20:46
I forgot to ask if your DS was premature? I know sometimes preemies don't develop as quickly as those who went full term, near enough or just over. Have you seen your HV recently to discuss your concerns? Or had him weighed so there's an excuse to see one and casually drop in a few questions? Might be worth it if you are still worried in a few weeks? Til then, stick round here and tell us more about you and your LO grinbiscuit xxx
madscimum Wed 24-Oct-12 00:08:27
Hey, broody, I'm glad to hear yours doesn't have teeth yet, either. That was going to be my concern-of-the-day smile Although it was also my potential excuse for Tessa not eating much... She gums a lot, but usually spits it back out or just holds it in her mouth. Those who are eating green beans - do they have teeth yet? I think green beans are too tough for Tessa to chew. She likes them, but can't even seem to mush them. Maybe I need to really overcook them?
We survived Germany! The flights were no problem. Tessa slept each one, and also wasn't the only baby on board each time so I didn't feel so self-conscious. She enjoyed touring with her Dad while I went to the conference, and they came by every few hours to feed. I also got to visit with my friend in the maternity hospital - she'd just had her second, 2 days old! My, the new ones are tiny! It's amazing how much DD has grown already.
I have no idea what is normal for movement. DD sits but also flips over onto her tummy after a minute or so. But she can't get off her tummy, and then gets all agitated. She's started occasionally pulling a knee up, but crawling is still not here. I suspect your DS is fine, english, but if you're concerned it wouldn't hurt to ask the HV. I bet they're used to first-time Mums asking all sorts of concerns. smile
Pommes Wed 24-Oct-12 14:29:00
Hello all, mind if I join?
My DS was seven months a week ago. He has two and a half teeth (a top one has just peeked through) but only sprouted the first about a month ago – once they show they seem to grow very quickly. I’m quite sad not to be able to call him my ‘gummy monster’ anymore!
We’re doing a combination of BLW and traditional weaning. I have become quite obsessed with checking the sugar content on everything. I’m still breastfeeding so have been giving vitamins, is anyone else doing this? I give Vitabiotics Wellkid as he readily accepts these but was alarmed to see sugar listed as the second highest ingredient, no wonder he likes the taste!
English your baby sounds perfectly normal to me. My DS rolls backwards and forwards constantly but this is quite a new development – he rolled for the first time very early (at about 3 months, I think) but then stopped completely until about 5 weeks ago. He sits steadily and crawled about 6ft last week, but has now reverted back to rolling to travel around. It’s amazing what we worry about with PFBs, isn’t it? I remember analysing his ‘toy batting’ technique for many an hour, wondering if that was normal – looking at him now that seems like a very distant memory.
How are you babies sleeping? I was very impressed to read that a few of your babies are now sleeping in their own rooms. My DS is still tending to wake every 2-3 hours during the night after going to bed at 8pm. He wakes so often that we co-sleep for most of the night now. I was wondering if this was due to him being breastfed but he seems to only feed for a few minutes before drifting off again, so I thought it could be more of a case of separation anxiety?
Sorry for the long post, I hope you don’t mind me interrupting! smile
broodylicious Wed 24-Oct-12 15:48:42
Welcome pommes smile
Sleep is a very sore subject with me. Dd is just awful. We had nearly 13 solid weeks of incredibly tough nights, when she would only ever sleep for 30 minutes and then take the same to get back down again. Absolute misery.
Got a bit better for the last two weeks but to us that means waking 4/5 times a night - many people's absolute worst nights!!
Then two nights ago, we decided to move her into her own room and the crap nights have started again. Not 12-15 times a night though because she just won't be put down and will only be calmed with a BF so it's all on me as she will just bawl if DH goes to her.
It's all so stressful tbh sad I was virtually pulling my hair out last night with it all as the fatigue and worry and stress had really got to me and that created a massive row with DH - we never row normally - and he made a v hurtful comment. I've not spoken to him since. V tough times chez broody sad
Pommes Wed 24-Oct-12 16:20:41
Broody, I am sorry to hear you are struggling with sleep too. I really do sympathise. My DS does seem to sleep much better beside me, but I spend most of the night up worrying that either one of us will roll onto him (and then becoming very painfully stiff as I haven’t moved an inch in several hours!). Each time I have tried to coax him back into his cot I have failed miserably, through tiredness, by about 1am and he ends up right beside me again!
During the day DS is lovely, always smiley and pretty much happy with cuddles from whoever is offering them. When tiredness creeps in from about 6pm, however, he becomes very clingy and cannot by comforted by anybody but me. It does make it that much more difficult at night, I hope your DH offers a lovely big apology Broody (and a box of chocolates, or two).
How are you babies getting on with ‘speech’ development? The sounds that DS makes have become much more clear/defined recently. I was delighted that a lady standing behind me in a queue this morning thought that DS was calling me, I neglected to tell her that he also refers to his dad and the cat as ‘Mamamamama’ too! smile
Thanks for your reassurances , it seems like all of our babies are doing different things with regards to movement. I'm taking him to get weighed in a couple of weeks so I'll speak to the hv then. I think I need to stop comparing him to other babies tbh!
broody he was only a week early so I don't think I can use that excuse.
I think part of the problem (my problem not his) is that a lot of the mums I know seem to be rushing to get their babies to how up iyswim. Among FB friends and local mums they all weaned early, have their babies in walkers at 4 months, looking at stage 1 car seats etc. I'm happy for Sam to be a baby for a long time yet. He's my first and only so I want to enjoy each stage. I hope that makes sense. I'm not judging anyone I think I just want things to happen in their own time.
Oh, no teeth here yet either! He gets very angry with cucumber as he loves the taste but it takes forever to eat.
pommes my sleep is like yours. We moved Sam into his own room last week in the hope he would sleep better but no luck. He goes to sleep no problem about 7.15 but, without fail, wakes around midnight. He will go back to sleep but wakes every few hours unless he comes into bed with me. If I bring him in he goes out like a light and doesn't stir until about 7. Guess where he normally ends up sleeping? grin The worst thing is he slept through in his cot from 11 - 24 weeks. I think he's mocking us now smile
Anyone else having extreme separation anxiety?
broodylicious Wed 24-Oct-12 17:25:32
I see exactly what you mean!!!! I'm so pleased I've heard someone say that!!!! I thought In a weird way it might have been me feeling almost jealous of other people having babies that made me think they were doing things that only poppy and I had done a week or so ago, even if their LO is eight weeks younger. Iyswim!
I also think - blimey, I hope I've read you right on this score too english or I will look a right cow! Advance apologies just in case - that they would take any shortcut for an easy life so weaning early in the hope of better sleep, switching to formula to fill them up more so not as much pressure on mummy, trying cry it out rather than thinking baby just needs a cuddle, moving baby to their own room really early (like four weeks) just because they were disturbing mum and dad with a bit of snoring or farting or grumbling etc in the night.... Honestly, I do wonder if these people ever even considered before getting pregnant that babies are not dolls and are living, breathing things that will have some requirements from their parents. (I also think lack of sleep and frustration with mr broody is making me a bit ranty today haha!!)
broodylicious Wed 24-Oct-12 17:35:43
pommes yeah poppy doesn't like me leaving her for two seconds these days!! She had a massive strop the other day when DH took over so I could have a little rest (to do the garden, not sleep sad) and I ended up having to stop what I was doing and tend to her. It's the hardest at night for me because I now desperately need sleep - I know I'm getting depression and can't stop getting frustrated with Poppy for not going to sleep when I really need her to - but she needs me and only me and won't settle for DH. I get frustrated with me because I don't want her to cry but know I've got to stop feeding her at every wake because this is now learned behaviour and she will never ever ever ever go to sleep for longer than a few hours of she knows she can cry and mummy's boob aka Poppy's pacifier will come soon sad
broody I am with you. Sam is ff as I really struggled with bf and when it got to the point where we with spent most of the day crying we decided it was time to change. I think in a way that's why I'm so keen for everything else to take its time?
If only ff and weaning made babies sleep through! We didn't plan to co sleep but it makes us a happier family if we are well rested and I just don't have it ime to do cc, sleep training and the rest. It would break me sad
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We have a new arrival in the Mumsnet Classics Archive in our controversial debate on the benefits of Extended Mumsnetting. "It is the accepted norm for most Mothers to stop Mumsnetting at around the same time, 6-7pm," posted BEAUTlFUL, "But many others like to carry on until slightly later, 10 or 11pm." "I had great support for MNing in hospital," reported MrsBadger, "there were Patientline terminals by every bed which I found invaluable when getting MNing established." "I am still Mumsnetting and my child is 8," confessed Themildmanneredjanitor, "I don't tell anyone about it - only my husband and children know." "I think after a certain point, MNing is all about the mum," tutted Enraha.
What celebs have you seen in mundane situations? asked Maidamess, who worked at Ryman's in Regents Street and "helped Paul Daniels and Irene Cara from Fame to work the photocopier." Bran queued behind Graham Norton in Waitrose, "I didn't look at his groceries, but he had a very nice bunch of lilies." Wheresthehamster saw Dr Legg from Eastenders standing outside the Nurses' Council and absentmindedly "assumed he'd been to a conference." Susiemj used to live near Nick Cave, "I used to see him with his slippers on in front of the telly" while TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench had a similarly unlikely celebrity spotting when she spied Ian Hislop in WHSmith "buying Hello magazine."
Olives and foccacia aplenty this week as we discussed the wankiest thing we have ever heard; Margoandjerry's 5-year-old nephew asked her sister, "What's a Slush Puppy?" and her sister cheerily replied, "It's like granita darling." ConnorTraceptive recalled the time her mother-in-law informed her that she needed to put her 8-month-old son in a nursery because "he has no idea what to do in a group situation." Tiredlady cringed at the recollection of her son's rejection of the easter egg offered by his lovely childminder because "it's Nestle." TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench asked for peanuts in a "wanky gastropub" at the weekend, but was told that "We only sell upgraded nuts" which "turned out to be a tiny dish of cashew & pistachios, for £3.50. Upgraded nuts my arse."
Some mysterious answers to the question What did your last text message say? but none more so than ScotsLassDownSouth's text from her DH, "It had a head. Saw it twice. Not a sign of anything else. X" More familiar domestic dialogue was provided by Oliveoil's DH; "'Love you babe' swiftly followed by 'Get some bread.'" Squonk was texted by her auntie, "Have emailed you some pics from the weekend - switch your computer on" which rather baffled her "switch computer on? How little she knows me." MilfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo admitted her last text said "Congratulations! Your order has been dispatched today. Kiddicare" which prompted a "note to self: get more friends."
Am I being unreasonable to be furious that a cashier at supermarket told me off when DD ate a bite of an apple? asked Pavlovthecat "It came to 21p. She had taken two 23 month old sized bites. Which is why I was buying it in the first place!" "YABU," argued ex-cashier Misdee, "I remember once someone handed me a bananaskin to be weighed." FrannyandZooey offered a practical suggestion, "Next time, weigh her before you go in, then let her eat what she likes, they can weigh her again at the end, and you can pay." Elephantsbreath confessed that such behaviour was common on her shopping trips, "When DS was 2 I would pick out a little lonely ripe banana and give it to him saying 'THIS is a gift from Mr Tesco.'" Things not surprisingly got more heated when Xenia suggested that ""it just looks so tacky and working class to see parents letting children take bits from the food shopping as you go round. It is like wearing a sign saying 'We don't care about the law. We have children we cannot control.'" "Well, keep this going," encouraged a cheery Pavlovthecat, surveying the rumpus, "I am going to have a bath." Hopefully not with snaffled hotel toiletries...
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All We Are is Bullets Part 17
Julia's POV:
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Why do i fuck things up
Iv had a massive argument with my little brother, ex bf, mom, and my pal non of them will talk,to me if im like this at band practice il probably fuck the band up if i do this to a new relationship il probably fuck it up im a fucking screw up i can never get things right. Im just so fucking annoyed now i do not know what to do. Im confused, upset and angry i need help guys. Ive got enough shit on my mind
1. My grandads death
2. Test results
3. Death of my 4 dogs
4. My new relationship i dont wanba fuck it up and im sure the guy (not gonna give away the name) knows that i dont wanna fuck our relationship up. If u have advive on a way i can stop fucking things up mail me plz
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Kerrang radio
I want to listen to karrang out side but it wont work on my radio it 105.2 but its no working help
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Sorry guys no update pics yet
Sorry guys was meaning to post this earlyer never got a chance fell asleep now i have,a banging head :) can anyone guess who and which band this is
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Hey...Uh,,...*scratches head*
Hey, so...I'm a girl. Yeah. Just felt I needed to say that, since quite a few of you on here have thought I was a boy, thought I'd clear that up ^^ Hope this helps~
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My Worst Poem Yet:/
You write of a girl
Who has broken you,
A girl that has left a scar,
Who has tattered your heart,
You write that all women
Are alike in this way,
And I can't help but wonder,
What could she have done?
What could make you
Think these things?
I don't understand
How you can right these things,
How you could think
we are all the same,
I don't understand why
You can't just see,
That I've always been here,
And that I always will be.
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I'm gonna try to draw again tonight.
Really. I miss it. :( I'll show you guys my work when I'm done. ^_^
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My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
I always knew that, and I think you did too.
Because it is not a band-
it is an idea."
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i wanna marry them <3
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So on an activity I found this question. I immediately thought of Better Living Industries. The most amazing thing is that my teacher likes MCR and she put it as a correct answer :)
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So I have a trauma. Those japanese movies were so good. Now I won't sleep XD.
Well I will, but I'm sure I will not take pictures again.
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Im soooo bored
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8 is a bad idea
Amendment 8, also known as the Florida Religious Freedom Amendment, would repeal the state's ban on using public money to fund religious entities. Amendment 8 is a bad idea!
First, this proposed amendment is not about "religious freedom," a freedom that is already protected in the U.S. Constitution. The title of the amendment is a gimmick, designed to get votes from citizens concerned about religious freedom being curtailed.
Second, this proposed amendment could funnel much needed public dollars away from public schools and toward religious institutions. Moreover, the proposal requires no oversight or accountability. Any group could call itself a religious organization to get state funding.
Lastly, this proposed amendment is not necessary. Religious groups are already provided hundreds of tax breaks and exemptions. Why guarantee additional funding to groups that already have a huge tax advantage?
Amending the Florida Constitution is a very serious undertaking and should not be done lightly. The proposed Amendment 8 does not fit the bill.
Please vote no on 8!
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titanbite writes:
Come one,come ALL,bring your whacked out religious beliefs to FLORIDA!!
The taxpayers of the great State of Florida want to,
Wiccan's,Mormon's,Muslim's and Rastafarian's,cast your magic spells and toil over your potions,bring your spare wives and gold-lined under garments,broadcast your fatwa's and tighten down your hijab's,get out your patented Bob Marley bud grinders,spin up your best spliff and have a Cannabis cabal in sunny Florida!!!
Come on people,hijack a faith TODAY and make your home in FLORIDA,the only state in the union where promoting your personally chosen style of worshiping invisible,omnipotent superhero's can,literally,
Amendment 8 WOOOOO HOOOO!!!!!
PAREIDOLIA (Inactive) writes:
All one has to do is listen to nuts like Pat Robertson; and that's reason enough to vote down #8
eagle1610 writes:
Beyond the tired rants posted, the question is should the Gov't treat religous affiliated groups different than any other non-profit group?
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Step 3: Sharing is Caring
In the first two parts of our report, we showed that anyone seeking to build a secretly funded political group that can make some waves in elections has a ready option in the 501(c)(4) section of the tax code. Groups formed under its provisions -- officially, "social welfare" organizations -- are supposed to keep their political spending to less than half of their total expenditures (an unofficial, but widely recogized rule), which is easier than it might sound due in part to the IRS' apparently narrow interpretation of what qualifies as political.
bigstock-Traditional-Christmas-Santa-931513.jpgBut once an organization, awash with money, has exhausted most of its own political spending options, it can turn to another maneuver: It can put on a Santa suit and dole out millions in grants to groups with similar agendas -- as several of the politically active nonprofits in the Crossroads-Center to Protect Patient Rights network have done. Then the recipients can use the money to buy ads attacking politicians that both groups don't like.
The groups making the gifts thus can exceed -- de facto -- the 49 percent limit.
Take the Pennsylvania Senate race between Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey. In that 2010 barnburner, seven members of the Crossroads-CPPR network spent a total of $2.6 million to help Toomey, accounting for 18 percent of all non-party outside spending in the race. The network's top three spenders in the contest -- the Republican Jewish Coalition, Americans for Tax Reform and Crossroads GPS -- all gave money to or received it from one another that year, in the millions of dollars.
Here's how the RJC says it spent about $1 million in Pennsylvania -- an appeal to fear that found fault with:
That form also indicated it spent "$8 million in election related advertisements" -- only $1.9 million of which it reported as political expenditures in the same filing. As it happens, $8 million was just about exactly the amount ATR received in grants from Crossroads GPS and CPPR, the two groups at the heart of the network. ATR appears to have received a large influx of money from two politically active nonprofits, only to turn around and spend the money it received on politics -- functioning as a sort of proxy.
Crossroads' $4 million grant to ATR was one of 12 grants, totaling $15.9 million, that it handed out in 2010. Had the money its recipients spent on politics counted against Crossroads GPS' political spending, it easily would have caused the group to exceed its 49 percent limit.
As for CPPR, the "shadow money mailbox," it never spent funds on direct advocacy, so hasn't been at risk of transgressing IRS political spending limits -- if one buys the argument that sending grants totaling tens of millions of dollars to other 501(c)(4) groups (such as American Future Fund, which received $11.7 million from CPPR in 2010) is legitimate "social welfare" spending. If the group had given the same amount of money to super PACs, which in many cases run the same types of ads, its tax exempt status likely would have been in serious jeopardy.
Another example: The Republican Jewish Coalition diligently churned the money it oversaw. In 2010, the RJC's total expenses skyrocketed more than fivefold over those of the previous year, to more than $12 million. Little is known for sure about its funding sources, other than two modest grants from Crossroads GPS and the American Action Network -- $250,000 and $500,000 respectively.
The same year, the RJC gave grants of $4 million each to those same organizations. And it spent nearly $3.8 million for the purpose of, in its own words, "running issues ads that are intended, in part, to influence elections." Thus, the RJC spent about a third of its outlays on politics, and two-thirds on gifts to two of the most politically active nonprofit organizations in operation. RJC was counting the grants as "social welfare" expenditures -- or else the group would have devoted well over half its outlays to politics.
According to IRS rules, "the promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office." But the facts on the ground raise questions about how these organizations report political spending to the IRS and whether grants they give to other, highly political nonprofits are legitimate "social welfare" expenditures.
"The best practice would be for [the donor groups] to give the money specifically earmarked for the other organization's social welfare activities," said Ellen Aprill, a tax law professor at Loyola University. In reality, though, most of the grants are given for "general support" or some similarly broad purpose.
Because there's no rule barring coordination between nonprofits -- as long as they don't coordinate with any candidate that would benefit -- the groups involved in the Crossroads-CPPR network, which invested in 252 races in 2010, can, and sometimes do, strategize with one another about how, when and where they will spend their money for maximum impact. Some have been regulars at meetings of the Weaver Terrace Group, named for the street on which Karl Rove's house -- where the group used to convene -- sat.
One measure of the network's impact: In the 10 House races in which its members spent the most money in 2010, the groups' outlays made up an average of 64 percent of all nonparty outside spending.
In Step 4 of our series tomorrow, we'll look at what politically active nonprofits do in non-election years (answer: not much, which is telling in itself).
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But this is what the problem is... The cookie information also changes with every request. The code on which i am working is like all the pages are dependent on first page. so the cookie information is same for all the request according to my code. but i need to generate different cookie information with every request which should be same as the source is generating.
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Then, again, you will need to work out what your browser sends if you navigate the website, and, again, replicate what the browser sends from your script. For example, if you want to simulate "open page 1 in one tab", and then "open all linked pages in other tabs, from page 1", the ->back() method of WWW::Mechanize could be of help.
Again, you have not told me why WWW::Mechanize is insufficient. Please read the documentation and use it or tell us why WWW::Mechanize is insusfficient for your needs.
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The reason most nations dispute the legitimacy of the alleged Armenian Genocide is due to the war. The invasion of Poland, as terrible as it was, is not considered The Polish Genocide. The invasion of Spain is not considered The Spanish Genocide. The push for the US gov't to recognize the alleged Armenian Genocide is nothing more than an attempt to funnel tax dollars and grant special immigration status to the Armenian community.
1070 days ago
How is it disrespectful. The Armenians were part of the Ottoman Empire--and by showcasing an American-Armenian celebrity, it's a reminder of the genocide. How is this bad?
1070 days ago
Kim is only 1/2 Armenian anyway, the other half is plastic surgery and genes from her Pimp Mother gutter trollop. The whole family is gypsy trash that would do anything for a buck!
1070 days ago
She makes me sick. Now even more attention to her fat ass over this. Who CARES!!!
1070 days ago
I am an Armenian-American and see this as a non-issue. Who cares. Just like the non-issue with Kobe Bryant. Hey ANCA, why don't you instead focus on getting the media attention on Azerbaijan threatening to shoot down civilian flights over NKR. I think that's more important than this whore on some Turkish magazine.
Also, can someone please explain to me HOW and WHY these Kardashians are celebrities? Her dad was OJ's lawyer, she is friends with another dumb whore Paris Hilton, and she made a sex tape with some black dude? So her family gets millions, TV shows, and many young people adore her and her family for that? Is there something I'm missing??
I don't know much more about them and from what I see during their interviews with late night talk shows, they are one of the dumbest and sleaziest people I have ever seen. Do your father and half-ancestry a favor by dropping the IAN, and the rest of the world by disappearing.
1070 days ago
How on Earth can you be "disrespectful" to a chick who has a video of her taking it up her butt and having her face used as a toilet? HOW?
1070 days ago
Brian B.
WoW...I'm surprised!!
I wouldda thought Kim (aka fame whore) would have appreciated the exposure! I mean--she pimps herself to the whole world anyways, right??
1070 days ago
Armenian group is ****ing retarded
do they think they shouldnt put jews on german covers ??
1070 days ago
Brian B.
@ #55
Is that true?? Was her sex tape really that freaky / nasty??
1070 days ago
Brian B.
Kim's face is beginning to look less and less human by the MOMENT!! I swear...each time I see her--her face looks more & more plastic!!! She's more plastic than human flesh!!!
1070 days ago
Brian B.
That whole damn family annoys me...They don't know how to act civilized...and they're so damn vulgar!!
1070 days ago
Why blame Cosmo? Kim puts her breasts and revealing clothing out for the whole world to see. That is her image she portrays. She is disrespectful to the Armenian people who live in Turkey. Supporting a good cause by revealing T & A is an oxymoron.
1070 days ago
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Hah, LMAO. What a dumb ****. Probably has no idea about the history between the Turks and Armenians, even though she's HALF ARMENIAN. It's too much.
1070 days ago
en Todo Momento!!
armenians must be a crazy peoples, being that they are the ONLY ONLY ONLY!!! minute christian smallest ever tiniest minority in that very hostile and bloody, brutal region (the whole rest of the freakin jesus worshippers were slaughtered off successfully, yay!). i mean that is beyond survival instinct. that is a whole nother somethin else right there. look at a freakin map. 'survivors' looks like a freaking bubble gum play yard in comparison. armenians are the freakin best when it comes to what's up.
1070 days ago
en Todo Momento!!
oh, and did i mention: land locked, isolated and completely SURROUNDED BY ISLAMIC MUSLIM FOLKS WHO WANT THEIR ASSES SLAUGHTERED? oh, that must have slipped my mind there. but there you have it.
1070 days ago
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Just wondering which one is better?
In term of price V5600 is cheaper
In term of specs seems like V5600 is better
So I dont know why people still favor FX1700?
Who says they favour the FX1700? They may not know anything differently. I guide the purchases in mine and a few other areas, and if it weren't for someone like me, many people would simply buy something similar to what they had last time, or whatever DELL, HP or IBM sent them for the price.
The V5600 is pretty consistently better overall, but it does depend on what you're intending to do with them (apps, settings, etc) since there are some apps that favour one or the other.
Although I'd recommend the V5700 instead of the V5600 at this point, significantly better.
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Thanks. I think because Dell and HP use 1700, I thoght that it should be better. But I know that I am wrong.
I found this site
Since I am going to use it for UG NX, V5600 will perfrom much more better than FX1700
Edit-> Some how dell workstation cant choose V5600. I only able to choose the V3 and V7 series....I wonder why...
I will investigate about V5700. Thanks for the info.
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As for Dell limiting your choices, I know, we order from them here too, and sometimes you have to go outside the box for the best fit for your solution. The nice thing is usually it's cheaper that way.
IMHO the reason being that the V5700 is pretty new, so it might be they haven't added it yet, and removed the V5600 in anticipation of the new product (and avoid complaints). Of course they could also just be targeting those that offer them the best return.
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Benchmark Performance of Nvidia Quadro 600 and CPU
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I would like to know how much increased performance should I expect if I upgrade to a Nvidia Quadro 600 in applications like Maya from CPU rendering on a Intel Dual Core.
Is the performance increase significantly noticeable?
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Nvidia has the Quadro series and ATI has the FireGL series for Workstation graphics. You are going to want to do your homework on these cards to get what you need. The workstation cards are physically 99% like their gaming/desktop counterparts however they are engineered, mostly by drivers, to be optimized for 2d/3d applications. Gaming cards are meant to give you fast action graphics, workstation cards are ment to give you accurate detail and spend more "time" creating such.
The pro (Quadro, FireGL) drivers allow for more control over certain settings in CAD apps, and are geared to accelerate OpenGL pro apps instead of games. The last time I read a review with a gaming card vs. it's pro counterpart playing a game, the pro drivers tended to accelerate games slower than the consumer drivers, and the pro drivers tended to accelerate CAD apps much faster than consumer drivers.
Depends on what you define as CAD. I'm defining it generally as computer aided design - which includes 3d visualization tools like 3dsMAX and MAYA.
In these apps, the GPU makes a huge difference with viewport redraws, even in wireframe only mode with complex meshes. And pro card drivers help a lot in viewport refreshes that include textures and transparency.
When doing a final CPU-based render to an image file, the graphics card doesn't matter, at that point it's all CPU and RAM. The graphics card can absolutely speed up viewport renders, though.
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What are you upgrading from? How much does it cost? And what renderer are you using?
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Season 1 Episode 14
Seven Is Enough
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 03, 1997 on The CW
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Episode Summary
All three Camden generations dread the annual visit of Eric's parents, "The Colonel" and Grandma Ruth Camden. Tension mounts between father and son when the Colonel harshly criticizes Eric's children, then scoffs at Eric and Annie's desire to adopt a troubled 9-year-old boy who has been hiding out at Eric's office. Meanwhile, Annie makes a shocking discovery at a local store and struggles to deal with Lucy, who can't seem to connect with her grandparents.moreless
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• Eric's parents!
"The Colonel" and Grandma Ruth come to town to visit. They are cold, rude and sometimes just plain mean. The Camdens are scared of them. George, an orphan, comes into their lives and Eric and Annie want to adopt him. "The Colonel" and Ruth think that that isn't a good idea. They want to adopt him instead and George wants to go with them. While at the hardware store, Annie sees the clerk wearing her wedding rings that were stolen. Matt lets Mary drive and she scratches the van. Lucy wants to get close to Eric's parents and Simon entered a contest to win a Viper!
This episode was great! Eric's parents were kind of scary, but they are good people. I can't believe that Simon actually won! I'm glad that Matt got Annie's rings back! This episode gets a 10!moreless
• When Erics parents come to visit the tension in the house hightens immedietly and things become twice as difficult.
Wen the Colonel wants to adopt a 10 year old boy, who is orphaned adn homeless, his name is goerge. George has run away from the orphanage and is staying in Erics church for shelter. Meanwhile , in the epoisode , Annie discovers the fate of her stolen wedding rings when she sees a women wearing them on the streets.
Sam Saletta
Sam Saletta
George Grayson/Camden
Guest Star
Annie Abbott
Annie Abbott
Guest Star
Edith Fields
Edith Fields
Adoption Lady
Guest Star
Peter Graves
Peter Graves
"The Colonel" John Camden
Recurring Role
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush
Grandma Ruth Camden
Recurring Role
Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
• TRIVIA (5)
• Sam Saletta who plays George in this series is in real life the brother of Nicole Cherié Saletta who will be playing Deena (Simon's girlfriend) in Season 3.
• In this episode, Eric sneaks into the garage, but there is no window on the door. In It's About George, there is a window in the door with a curtain on it. Later, in the Season 4 episode Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Lucy puts paper on the door to cover a window so Ruthie would not peek in.
• In this episode Annie asks Eric if he want to adopt George, and Eric answers that they can't really afford another child, but two years later they have twins. They don't seem to struggle too much with paying for and raising seven kids.
• In this episode Anne tells Eric, "what are you 12?" when Eric doesn't to be intimate with her because of his parents being there in the house, but she did the same thing in the pilot episode, "Anything You Want", when Eric wanted to be intimate with her when parents were visiting.
• How would Eric know that Mary was driving without a learner's permit? He saw the scratch and knew Matt and Mary went out but it could have been Matt who was driving.
• QUOTES (8)
• Eric: (when his parents say they're going to adopt George) George is not your average kid. He's had a tough life. The adoption itself is gonna be hard on him. He's gonna need a lot of love and support.
Colonel: And you have a corner on that market?
Ruth: That's not true.
Colonel: Oh, and what does that mean?
George: They're all dreamers.
Ruth: There's nothing wrong with a little dreaming.
• Eric: (when he and Annie want to adopt George) I don't see where your opinion fits into this.
Colonel: You still resent me for not paying your way.
Eric: I know that, Dad. I get it.
Eric: And I'm happy to credit you accordingly!
• Annie: So you want him?
Annie: Then after Lucy.
Eric: Then after Simon.
Annie: And now it's after Ruthie.
Annie: We are crazy. We'll talk to the kids and George, tomorrow.
• Annie: Emma those are very pretty. I never noticed you wearing that necklace before.
Emma: Oh, well, I haven't had it for very long. I'm widowed and my husband never had the money to buy me wedding rings, so my son gave them to me about a month or so ago, you know, to kind of make up for it.
Mary: Hey Luce, I'm sorry about that.
Lucy: (whistpers) Look at the rings on her chain.
Mary: Mom, those look exactly like your rings.
Lucy: Yeah, they do.
Annie: I noticed. You see a couple of months ago, my son Matt and I were held up and the robber took my wedding rings and they look very similar to yours but, but they're not quite the same.
Emma: How terrible. You all weren't hurt, were you?
Annie: No, no, we were just a little bit shaken up...we'll see you, Emma.
Emma: Thanks. Take care, Annie.
Colonel: Annie, you think those are your rings?
Annie: I can't imagine Emma Hooten would be wearing my stolen wedding rings.
Grandma Ruth: Have you met her son?
Annie: No.
Grandma Ruth: Then you don't know what kind of boy he might be.
Annie: They're not mine. Really.
• (talking about The Colonel's driving)
Eric: He drives like he's leading the last convoy out of Saigon.
Annie: He did lead the last convoy out of Saigon.
Eric: Yes, but I didn't have to pay the insurance on his tank.
• The Colonel: We're headed out. Can we drop you somewhere? Like, maybe at the barber?
Matt: Uh, no thanks, I just got my hair cut a couple days ago so I'd look great for your arrival.
The Colonel: Oh, that is pretty, yes. Next time, have the guy use scissors.
• Eric: I can't believe I'll be teaching you to drive soon.
Simon: Your brother, too. George is your brother right?
Eric: Now that you mention it, I guess he is.
Simon: (to himself) Poor George.
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• Episode title: Seven is Enough
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Blacking out so hard you accidentally shit your-self. The morning after realizing this officially makes you a victim of a brown-out.
A. After eating taco bell extremely blacked out, "some dude" had a brown out.
B. After having a brown out, no guys would touch insert name of some girl anymore, fearing she might get drunk and crap all over.
C. Dude I browned out and woke up with more than just a bad hangover.
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After a long night of drinking one will black out from drinking large amounts of alcohol. If one wakes up the next morning remembering nothing, but with a shit in ones pants then one has "browned out."
"Dude I totally am going to brown out tonight. I just ate a ton of taco bell and plan on drinking a ton!"
by j8c11 November 30, 2009
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The tobacco equivalent of a black out or green out.
When you smoke so much tobacco that you throw up a pure brown mucus product.
Dude, I can't have any more of that cigar or else I'll brown out.
Last night I was so drunk I chain smoked a whole pack of cigarettes, now this morning I'm paying for it with a nice brown out.
by Qwes June 18, 2012
1 3
When one passes out while taking a massive dump.
"Dude I had a brown out an hour ago!"
"What the hell is a brown out?"
"It's when you pass out when your taking a really big crap!"
by boomjigger October 14, 2011
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Accidentally taking a dump in your pants.
Simon had a brown out on his way to work and had to return home to change his pants.
by Scrufty September 08, 2005
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A mixed drink containing Jagermeister and apple cider.
Damn, that is one rugged Brownout.
by Z. Wallace November 20, 2010
3 6
A term used to describe the accidental unwanted release of faeces when clothed. This can be during times of diarrhoea or when over zealously trying to push out a fart for amusement.
The plain meaning is that the Brown (faeces) came out of the body.
When a brownout occurs the unfortunate victim usually suffers embarrassment, shame and has the need to head home.
Antony was the victim of a brownout on the way to the store and had to go straight home to shower and change his pants.
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Player 2: That shot was a Chinese Baby because it barely nicked the edge of the table making it impossible to return.
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Parents: Stop fretting so much about which high school your youngsters attend or how they score on the SATs. If you want your student to make it to a bachelor's degree, it's far more important for him or her to earn at least B's in high school and reach for the best possible college. Oh, and saving a few thousand bucks by sending your kid to a community college could turn out to be an expensive mistake.
In the new "Crossing the Finish Line," William Bowen, a former president of Princeton University, argues that so many undergrads are dropping out (44 percent) that the country is in danger of losing its competitive edge to other nations.
He and coauthor Michael McPherson, former president of Macalester College, warn that America is likely to fall even further behind in the educational race because coming crops of high schoolers are filled with the kinds of low-income and minority students who tend to have the least educational success. In fact, despite billions of dollars in financial aid and scores of government and private efforts, the college graduation rate for low-income Americans who are the first in their families to go to college has been falling. "We're not doing as good a job as we should of creating genuine opportunity. We haven't continued to make progress the way other places have," Bowen said in an interview. (Harvard doctoral candidate Matthew Chingos also contributed to the book.)
The new research finds distressing signs that demographic factors such as gender, race, and parental education play large roles in determining a student's fate, no matter how smart or hardworking the particular student is. Those from families with below-average earnings or parents who didn't finish college, as well as African-Americans, Hispanics, and males, are failing college at disproportionate rates, even when compared with students with similar grades and test scores. Wealthy undergrads earn 11 percent more degrees from flagship universities than comparable students from the poorest income quartile, for example. White men are 6 percent more likely to graduate than black men with similar grades and scores. Women earn degrees at much higher rates than men. Failing to open educational opportunities to all students will endanger "the long-term health of our country," the authors warn.
Their findings about the actions that parents, students, and politicians should—and shouldn't—take to fix the problems are already sparking controversy:
High school grades are key: High school grades are the single best gauge of how well a student will do in college, no matter how "easy" or "tough" the high school's grading system is. "High school grades measure a student's ability to 'get it done' in a more powerful way than do SAT scores. . . . They reveal qualities of motivation and perseverance—as well as the presence of good study habits and time management skills—that tell us a great deal about the chances that a student will complete a college program," Bowen writes.
But the nature of the high school doesn't make much difference: The size, location, and racial mix of a student's high school don't appear to influence his or her ability earn a college degree, the study finds. Students who attend wealthier high schools do seem to enjoy a slight edge in enrolling in college. And elite high schools appear to help the very best students succeed at the most selective public universities. Interestingly, an analysis of eighth-grade reading and math test scores in North Carolina found that they were far more significant predictors of college enrollment than most other factors, including high school characteristics and student race. (The authors didn't research the correlation between eighth-grade test scores and college graduation, however.) That doesn't mean students or teachers should cram for eighth-grade tests, though, says coauthor McPherson. "The high scores identify students who study hard, pay attention, and do their best. It's these qualities that parents and teachers should aim to develop. And if they succeed in doing that, then those students are likely to do better in their eighth-grade tests and in later life," McPherson says. | http://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/09/09/which-high-school-students-are-most-likely-to-graduate-from-college | dclm-gs1-012200001 |
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Jerry Falwell Outs Tinky Winky! Musto Beat Him to It.
Here's a first: I'm totally aligned with the Reverend Jerry Falwell! I thoroughly agree with the guy that Tinky Winky is a Pansy Wansy— we only seem to differ on what to makeof this information. While Jerry's convinced that the Teletubby's supposed gayness is a menace to society, I feel it teaches kids the welcome lesson that it takes all types to make up the world, from purple, flouncy moppets to blue-in-the-face windbags.
Incredibly enough, I may be indirectly responsible for Falwell's remarks that Tinky is a cuddly receptacle for Satan. Early in '98, I told Entertainment Weekly,only half tongue-in-cheek, that Tinky's seemingly homosexual ebullience provides a great message to the impressionable— "not only that it's okay to be gay, but the importance of being well-accessorized." The comment went relatively unnoticed, but in their year-end issue, TV Guidegave it a bizarre "Jeer" that even raised GLAAD's ire, and this was apparently one of the media moments that spurred Falwell into his all-too-predictable blatherings. Never mind that press discussions about this subject started way back in '97 when the show debuted in the U.K. And forget that Falwell actually thought what TV Guidehad printed was an interview with the Teletubbies' creators, in which they unveiled their elaborate plot to perpetrate a gay kiddie character. (That's how Falwell's office explained his motivations to a toy store's publicist, as the flack later informed me.) Logic and real information go right out the window when you're dealing with thislevel of invective. Whether he's missed the bus or is just plain at the wrong station, Jerry simply has to vent.
And typically, he did so without much backup, readily admitting that he's never even seen Teletubbies. (Funny, it's designed for his intellectual peer group— and it's the only show on PBS that is.) "I believe that role-modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children," Jerry told the press, clearly nervous that, years from now, all those 'Tubbieswatchers will robotically choose anal penetration as a result of their babyhood viewing practices. Alas, Jerry's off on some of the details. In his esteemed National Liberty Journal, he wrote that Tinky's purple skin tone is the color of gay pride, "and his antenna is shaped like a triangle— the gay pride symbol." Pardon my rainbow, but I seem to remember that lavenderis more of an out shade, and a pinktriangle is actually the symbol— though I may be betraying my own Martha Stewartloving sisterhood here. It doesn't really matter anyway, since there are enough other queer signifiers to justify Falwell's gay panic. Tinky carries a patent-leather handbag, prances around in a tutu, and does pretty much all the same things that Ido. He's so gay, in fact, that he verges on a stereotype— he's as flaming as Richard Simmons, Bert, Ernie, and one of those kids on Barneycombined. (Come on, youknow which one.)
But Falwell should probably relax (just as a whole other bunch of idiots recently had to when they realized that one of the Teletubby dolls was actually notsaying "faggot"). Beyond those superficial traits, Tinky couldn't possibly get any action, since he has no orifices in the right places. The corporate types behind Tinky and his pals are probably sincere when they emphasize the character's conspicuous lack of sexual organs or drive. It's absurd, though, that they haven't at least copped to his effeminacy— are they even lessastute than Falwell? In the course of last week's media mayhem, a damage-controlling rep for the 'Tubbies' American licenser made a point of announcing that Tinky's alleged purse is actually a magic bag. (A fascinating distinction— I guess Boy George can pull a rabbit out of his Prada.) Another spokesperson repeatedly used words like sweet, innocent,and harmlessin defending the program's lack of gay content— the implication being, of course, that a gay character would be full of danger and blasphemy. A much higher-road approach would have been to say: "Yes, Tinky seems gay to some people, and that's fine. Femmes should be loved, too— if they weren't, we'd have to ban Hollywood Squares— and if a dwarf in a fuzzy suit who doesn't even speak intelligibly is all it takes to 'warp' a child, there must be real trouble in trailer land."
But despite all the spin control, I can't be all that mad at the Teletubbiesteam. Unlike Falwell, I've actually watched the show, and happen to enjoy the characters' diversity, their warmth, and the way they giggle under that big baby sun (though I could stand to hear "Again!" a few times less often). I even carry a Teletubbies handbag, though it's not a patent-leather one, and it's definitely not magical. What's more, I'm fairly confident that the Sexgate-era masses— who for the most part have rejected the ambush against Clinton's consensual sex acts— are way too sophisticated to heed Falwell's maligning message. These kneepad-sporting swingers have had their earplugs in ever since Jerry urged sponsors to abandon Ellen, and more recently, they shoved in some extra swabs when he said the Antichrist is a male Jew who currently lives among us. (Who— Buddy Hackett?) By now, when we hear this putridhot-air balloon spewing about some imaginary evil, most of us have learned to respond: Again? Again?
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Fernando Ortega is something of a rare animal in the genre of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Like the work of Sandi Patti, Steve Green, Karla Worley, or Bill and Gloria Gaither, The Breaking of the Dawn can easily be seen as a philosophical descendant of Psalm 95 or the music of Martin Luther. Its primary aim is not to explore human experience, or to entertain or instruct, but to extol, glorify, and exalt. The fundamental emotion it expresses is that of spiritual gratitude. But the other artists mentioned above are primarily vocal performers. The focus of their records is not so much on the quality of the musical composition as on the range and power of their singing. Not so with Ortega. Though he possesses a pleasant and smooth vocal tone, he is not a flamboyant performer. Nor does he equate musical bombast with intensity of feeling. Instead, he expresses his gratitude through a beautifully reflective brand of acoustic-based new age folk-pop with Latin and Celtic accents. John Andrew Schreiner's production is lush but reserved, striking a delicate balance between Ortega's folk and pop influences. And if Schreiner occasionally leans on CCM clichés, the general authenticity of the compositions is never compromised. The textured arrangements include gentle harmonies from Cathy Schreiner and Susan Ashton, sensitive fiddling by Stuart Duncan, versatile fretwork by Christian folkie Buddy Miller, and resonant piano solos by Ortega himself. This is praise music that feels uncommonly honest and unaffected.
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Guest chapter 1 . 3/14
Impressive... congratulations. This work has commendations...
VioletErin.26 chapter 1 . 3/12
:D awww how cute! :D
great writing!
Guest chapter 1 . 3/8
Well done!
Off topic; for some reason it made me think of a message like it, i.e. without any 'e's, being sent in code and a poor frustrated cryptographer trying to unravel it by using letter frequency.
BTW I am rather impressed that reading Shakespeare makes you think in iambic pentameter; your brain is obviously behind a far higher brow than is mine - which just repeats phrases or song refrains to itself when in rest mode.
librarywitch chapter 1 . 3/8
Well done and thanks for the giggles.
greenwings33 chapter 1 . 3/1
That's so cute!
And very, very clever
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2inchfish chapter 1 . 7/14/2013
Baby Mycroft in a suit. No, Schlock, I still wouldn't have recognized him. At least clothing grows when magically small humans do.
Shelly Darline chapter 1 . 7/2/2013
Wow, just wow!
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Author's note: After reading quite a few Naruto fanfics, quite a few amazing ones actually, I decided to start my own. I don't know if the idea has been done before, I certainly haven't run across it, however the story should be different from anything you've read before, or my name is Alfred (Which it isn't.)
IMPORTANT: This story is AU. That means ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. That means I can do whatever the hell I want and you have to suck it up and deal.
Pairings: I don't know yet. Feel free to suggest things but I don't do slash, yuri, yaoi, or harems. I will do love triangles. This story will not be about pairings though.
BTW: I don't own Naruto!
The Chunin Exams - Kakashi's Hesitance!
Two weeks after the Wave mission and Kakashi was at his wit's end. He wanted to know what the hell had happened to his team. Where was the excellent teamwork that lead them to defeat such strong opponents. Where was the concern for each other? Where was the determination? It was as though returning to Konoha had brought back their bad habits threefold.
Sakura was even more determined to get Sasuke to notice her. Kakashi had thought she would finally get serious about becoming a ninja after having felt so useless in the Land of Waves, but no, one run in with Ino and she had forgotten all about that. She also seemed even more determined to bring down Naruto than ever before.
Speaking of Naruto, the kid had actually started to quiet down a little a ways into their walk back. Oh sure he still talked, Kakashi didn't think a gag could muffle him, but he wasn't as loud, or annoying. As soon as they walked in those gates though an errant remark from a passer-by had sent Naruto into a shouting frenzy. Kakashi just didn't know what to do about Naruto, He had more potential than anyone he had seen before, and more determination, but he was always undermining his own talents by his actions. Not to mention that the fighting with Sasuke had gotten even worse, if that was possible.
And Sasuke, here Kakashi had to refrain from banging his head into the memorial stone he was currently kneeling in front of. Sasuke had become even more withdrawn. It might not seem that way to the casual observer but Kakashi could see it. If Kakashi couldn't get Sasuke to open up and let go of his revenge, well Kakashi feared that Sasuke would do something drastic, and that wouldn't bode well for anyone. At that moment Kakashi actually wondered in Sasuke awakening his bloodline wasn't more of a curse than a blessing.
"ETERNAL RIVAL! I FOUND YOU!" The sudden loud scream jarred Kakashi from his thoughts and nearly caused him to jump, nearly. Only years of training prevented it. How a six foot tall green spandex wearing overly loud crazy could sneak up on him would forever be a mystery, no matter how many times it happened.
"Ah, did you say something?" Kakashi said as he stood, flipping open one of his treasured Icha Icha Paradise books.
"How unbearably hip of you rival!" Maito Gai cried pointing a finger at the relaxed looking jounin. "That does not matter, I have simply come to tell you that no matter how bright the flames of youth might shine in your students those flames of my students shall always be brighter. My students will prevail over yours in the Chunin exam or I shall do ONE HUNDRED laps around Konoha's walls on my hands!" He finished off his exuberant, and loud, speech with a thumbs up and a scarily bright student.
"Oh, is it time for the Chunin exams already? I'd forgotten." Kakashi lazily flipped a page, not taking his eye off the book.
"I will not be fooled by that hip attitude rival!" Suddenly Gai seemed to realize the time. "Ah! I am late! NO! I don't wish to become unyouthful as my rival!" He then ran off, kicking up a dust trail behind him.
Kakashi sighed as he lowered his book, he had not seen a word after Gai had mentioned the chunin exams. The truth was he had forgotten about that. Damn. If he had to be perfectly honest, he didn't think his students were ready. Strength wise he thought they would be okay. After all Naruto had the Kyuubi and Sasuke had his pride, which while it might not keep him happy it would force him to become strong. Sakura he figured would drag through on the coattails of the others. But they just didn't have the proper attitude.
Besides, he didn't want his students to drag themselves to the finish line by the skin of their teeth. He wanted them to blow everyone else out of the water.
With another sigh Kakashi put his book away and turned to the Hokage's tower. He had to tell the Hokage that his team wouldn't be participating in the exams, and request a mission to last at least until the beginnings of the exam. Preferably one far from Konoha.
"Where is Kakashi?" The Hokage asked, only mildly perturbed as he had grown accustomed to the jounin's habitually tardiness. No one in the room answered him. He supposed that was to be expected. "Well we might as well start…" He was cut off as the door opened, admitting a one-eyed shinobi into the Hokage's office.
"Sorry I'm late." Although honestly he had only found out about the meeting once he'd arrived, those messenger chunin were getting rusty. "I left my refrigerator on and had to go back to turn it off." Nobody commented on the outrageousness of this excuse because, really, what would they say?
"That's alright. Let's get down to business though." He turned to address the others in the room as well. "Kurenai, Asuma, Kakashi, do any of you believe your genin team ready to participate in the chunin selection exams?"
"I, Yuuhi Kurenei, jounin sensei of squad eight nominate my team of Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, and Hyuuga Hinata to take the chunin exams." She had stepped forward as she had begun to talk and now stepped back as she finished.
"I, Sarutobi Asuma, jounin sensei of squad ten nominate my team to take the exams." He hadn't even bothered to take the cigarette out of his mouth.
There was a small lull as everyone waited for Kakashi to speak. Finally the Sandaime got tired of the silence and asked, "And you Kakashi? What of your team?"
"I…" Kakashi stopped and really thought about what he was going to do. He never thought either Kurenai or Asuma would nominate their teams. In fact he had banked on it for explaining his decision to his team. Now though… What if they hated him? What if they thought he was would them back? Well he was kinda holding them back but he had a damn good reason. In the end he had to think about what would be best for his team, so taking a deep breath he continued on. "I do not nominate my squad, squad seven for the chunin exams.
The silence that met his reply was deafening.
Author's Note Reprise: First chapter done. Yes it is short. No, they won't all be like this. The next chapter should be two to three times this length. This was just to set up the plot.
"Why the hell won't you at least let us try Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto screamed, his thoughts echoed on the faces of his teamates.
"Because if you took the exam right now, you'd all fail, miserably." | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3790310/1/An-Alternative-Path | dclm-gs1-012440001 |
0.093791 | <urn:uuid:8dcafc0c-5a6f-43f8-8e8c-7589faa96641> | en | 0.979153 | " You've all done exceptionally well getting this far." said the Hokage, puffing on his trademark pipe. The twenty one genin that had passed were assembled in the arena for the third exam. " You all possess great skill and determination, two things that will serve you well as a ninja."
" But, up until now, you have always had your teammates to help you. In this exam, you will fight one on one with an opponent. Teamwork, the ability to become more powerful with your allies, is the most critical ability for a ninja, but you often are forced to fight alone in the real world. Only the ten victors of this round go on to the final."
" That's less than half! And someone has to fight twice!" exclaimed Sakura, counting quickly. There were twenty one genin.
" Correct. Think of this as a war and they are the casualties." said the Hokage with a smirk. " The matches will be decided by computer…" he pointed to a black display board above, which lit up and names began to whir. " Good luck."
After several tense seconds, it stopped on Kabuto and Temari.
" I wanted to be first." said Lee, sounding disappointed.
" Me too." sighed Naruto.
" Everyone else, go to the balconies." said the new examiner, Hayate. The unselected went up the stairs as Temari confidently leaned on the large fan.
" Looks like I'm going to lose again." sighed Kabuto, adjusting his glasses.
" Really? That unconfident in yourself?" asked Temari with a smirk.
" No, more like I know your abilities from my info cards and know I can't win." said Kabuto, drawing one orange backed card. " Temari of the Sand. Daughter of the Kazekage, wields a fan made by the legendary Chiyo. Uses it for long range wind techniques and as short range club."
" That's some pretty good information there." said Temari, unfurling the fan fully. " Looks like I don't get to play with you before winning."
" I don't have a chance." said Kabuto with a sigh. " I'm a short range fighter and not a very good one. My focus is on medical jutsu. My only real chance was to go against someone weak."
" Your giving up? Figures." said Temari, sounding disappointed.
" Not yet." said Kabuto, hurling the card like a shuriken. Temari swung her fan, knocking it from the air. Kabuto began to run forward to close range, but Temari blasted him back into the wall with a powerful jutsu.
" Kabuto!" cried Naruto from above. He liked the guy, and didn't want to see him go down like that. " Are you alright?"
" M-mostly." said the genin, falling to his knees. " Looks like I was right. Sorry, but I forfeit."
" What?" shouted Naruto, mouth agape. " Don't give up! You got this far! You just started fighting!"
" I can't go any farther." sighed the boy, getting to his feet. " This is the worst possible type of opponent for me. I'm just going to get beat up, so I might as well stop."
" Winner, Temari." said Hayate, signaling the fight was over. The blonde kunochi shut the fan and gave a smug harumph before rejoining her brothers. Kabuto walked to the door, then turned and looked at the other leaf genin. " Good luck." he said, giving them a thumbs up.
" Thanks!" shouted Naruto, waving.
" Yosh!" said Lee as the board began to light up. " This is surely my turn!"
" Sasuke and Tenten!" read the examiner before coughing. Lee sighed, slumping dejectedly.
" Go Sasuke-kun!" cheered Ino and Sakura as the dark haired boy walked down the stairs.
" Hiya, pretty boy." said Tenten, summoning a kunai.
" Hn." said Sasuke coolly, facing her with his hands still in his pockets.
" So, you don't seem to interested in pinky and the pig up there." said Tenten glancing to Sakura and Ino, who began to yell out death threats. " What happened, did you lose 'them' on a mission or something? Or you just looking for someone hotter?" she said, winking at him.
" Hands off my Sasuke-kun!' shouted Sakura. Kakashi was having to hold onto her to keep her from leaping into the arena.
"…." Sasuke made no noise, continuing to stare at her emotionlessly.
" Begin the match!" announced Hayate
" Well, sorry pretty boy, but I'm probably going to mess up your face." said Tenten smugly, beginning to throw weapons. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and lazily began to deflect them with a kunai.
" I can see every weapons trajectory." said Sasuke, sounding relaxed. " I know where they will be, when they will be there, and how to avoid them. You'll need to do better than that."
Tenten scowled, then summoned a large two handed broadsword and raced forward. She swung towards Sasuke's neck, but he simply rolled his head to the side and dodged it hit. He leapt over the next swipe, landing behind Tenten.
" With my Sharingan I can predict everything you are going to do." he said as she turned around. " You're a weapon user who focuses on picking enemies off while her teammates engage them. You're a powerful individual, but a bad match for my eyes."
"Sharingan aren't flawless." said Tenten, throwing the sword, prompting Sasuke to step to the side to avoid it. She took out her scroll and unrolled it. " You are still limited by your bodies speed. Lets see how much you can handle."
Tenten swiped a bloody thumb across several seals and there was a blast of smoke. Before it dissipated a literal storm of shuriken flew out, arcing towards Sasuke. He finally got serious, gracefully dodging though them. Tenten raced out, holding what looked like an ocean mine, and threw it at Sasuke. He dodged, spotting the explosive tag on the back. It exploded a moment later, ending a number of spikes though the air. As he dodged Tenten tossed a pair of kunai. Sasuke deflected them with his kunai as he moved though an opening in the hail of needles to safety.
" Sasuke-kun is amazing!" cheered Sakura. No matter how many weapons Tenten threw or what weapons, the Uchiha dodged, circling around her as the floor became littered with blades of all types. Sasuke landed a short distance from Tenten, who was beginning to look frustrated.
" No way I'm losing to some rookie like you." she said angrily, throwing both scrolls into the air so that they unfurled.
" She's using 'it'?" said Lee in alarm. Naruto watched closely. If Lee's surprised, thought Naruto, it's probably her big attack. I better figure it out, just in case.
Tenten leapt into the air to the height the scrolls had stopped at, seeming to hang in the air. Two pillars of smoke rose from the bottom of the scrolls, circling around the scrolls and Tenten as they took on the shape of dragons. Weapons began to summon and fly up to Tenten's hands and she hurled the weapons even faster than before, raining down blades upon Sasuke.
However, Sasuke's eyes didn't fail him. He dodged and avoided the attacks at full speed, pressed by the attack. For nearly a minute countless weapons embedded themselves in the floor until it became nearly impossible to walk. Tenten's jutsu ended and she landed gracefully, despite the fact she was puffing hard from exertion.
" Damn…you avoided all that?" she asked, standing up. The now blank scrolls landed by her, discarded since every one of her weapons were now out. Tenten suddenly waved her arm and a katana sprung from the ground behind Sasuke, whirling at him. He barely ducked as Tenten began to twitch her fingers, kunai and shuriken rising from the ground and launching themselves at Sasuke.
" What the hell is going on?" demanded Sakura. " How is she doing that?"
" Chakra strings." said Kakashi, watching closely.
" Chakra whats?" asked Naruto.
" Tiny lines of chakra going from her fingers to the weapons." Kakashi replied as Sasuke deflected several shuriken. " It lets her reuse weapons she already threw. it's a good move."
" Wow." said Sakura, watching Tenten's fingers move. Even the taijutsu types have more chakra techniques than I do. I didn't realize I was this weak.
" Why can't I hit you?" Tenten shouted as Sasuke rolled between two katanas that that tried to catch him in a pincer movement.
" My Sharingan sees everything." said Sasuke, leaping towards her. She directly grabbed a sword and charged, swinging wildly. " I can see the chakra you attach to the weapons, so I know where the attack will come from." he said calmly, parrying with a kunai. " I can see how you move your fingers and decode the attack pattern. I can even see the taijutsu form you are using against me and learn it's weaknesses and strengths instantly."
Tenten gasped as he disarmed her, then caught her by the throat with his empty hand. With his other arm he held his kunai to her neck, signaling he had beaten her.
" Sasuke wins." announced Hayate.
" Sasuke-kun is the best!" cheered Sakura as Sasuke released Tenten, who growled angrily as she began to collect her weapons.
" I can't believe she lost." said Lee, eyes wide.
" The Uchiha is going to be tough." said Dosu. " My techniques might work, but I'd rather not face him at close range. You'd be the better match."
" Yeah." said Zaku, flexing his arms. " One shot at full power and he's down. Even with those eyes, he couldn't dodge that."
" He'll be fun." said Temari, smirking. Sasuke looked up to her as he walked up the stairs and nodded. " Ooh, and he wants to fight too. Finally." she said with a sigh. Gaara usually kills the good ones, so maybe….just once I get to beat up someone worthwhile.
" All right! It better be my turn!" Naruto yelled as the scoreboard began. An angry Tenten paced past them towards her teammates while an obviously elated (though he tried to hide it) Sasuke took position by the loud blonde and worried looking Sakura.
" Neji Hyuuga against Hinata Hyuuga!" announced Hayate as the board stopped.
" Crap." muttered Kiba. He turned to Hinata, who seemed to be shrinking in fear. " Drop out. I don't want to see you get beat up."
" Aw, come on. Hinata didn't come this far just to quit!" said Naruto loudly, looking towards the diminutive girl. " Kick his ass, Hinata!"
He believes in me! thought Hinata, sprits soaring. Naruto-kun believes in me!
" I will!" she said to Naruto without stuttering. She ran down the stairs as Neji walked towards them coolly.
" Hey." said Kiba, grabbing his shoulder. Neji turned to look at him. " Don't…don't hurt her too badly." Without a reply Neji tugged away and continued down. Kiba looked worried and Shino began to pace.
" What's going on?" asked Naruto, confused.
" Neji's much stronger than Hinata." said Kiba, peering down to where the two Hyuuga were preparing to fight. " And he hates her a lot."
" He hates Hinata?" asked Sakura, who had been listening.
" Her families in charge of his." said Kiba with a nod. " Sometimes she comes to practice beat up because her father made her fight him. She won't say anything about it, but Shino found out what was going on with some bugs."
" I did not expect to fight you, Hinata-sama." said Neji with a bow as he faced her. " It would be best if you quit."
"I-I won't." said the pale eyed girl, arms held in their usual tapping position.
" You are holding your arms in such a way to create a barrier between us." said Neji, sounding annoyed. " And I can see fear in your eyes. You know you are a weak failure and have no chance."
" Don't call her a failure!" shouted Naruto. He didn't really know Hinata, but he hated people calling people failures. The teachers, Sasuke-teme…why does everyone say that about people?
He…he doesn't think I'm a failure? thought Hinata, looking to Naruto in amazement. Naruto-kun…thank you! Hinata took a combat pose, prompting Neji to do the same.
" Begin!" shouted Hayate.
Instantly the two activated their Byakugan and raced at each other. Neji made the first move, jabbing forward. Hinata deflected the attack with a slap, dissipating the chakra before countering. They began to test each other, looking for new weaknesses. Neji had a number of small burns from Sasuke's fire jutsu that were slowing his right arm, while Hinata was virtually unharmed.
" What are they doing?" asked Naruto, watching the slap fight.
" You see that chakra?" said Sasuke, pointing to the energy that released when the attacks were deflected. " That's from their clans jutsu, Jyuuken. It drives a blade of chakra into you, cutting your internal organs."
" Why not just use punches?" asked Naruto.
" You can't train your insides to get stronger." said Kakashi in his bored tone. " It's a lot easier to cut someone's heart apart then beat them to death."
" They're trying to kill each other?" said Naruto in alarm.
" No. They can also shut the points of your body that chakra moves though, preventing the use of jutsu. Whichever one shuts the others points first wins." continued Kakashi. " It's more like a fight between their families houses."
Below, Hinata was though testing Neji's defenses. Making her first move, she drove forward a feint, making Neji block and opening him to a Jyuuken jab into his shoulder, shutting one chakra point. However, Hinata realized she had left a opening as she did this and he pressed forward, shutting ten of hers in rapid succession. She fell back, trying to defend herself as the onslaught continued.
" Crap." said Kiba with a sigh. " Once Neji starts hitting, he doesn't stop. She's not going to be able to defend."
" Really?" asked Naruto, watching. Hinata was being forced backwards, managing to block less and less as the attacks got though. " Hey Hinata!" yelled Naruto. " If he's gonna hit you anyways, don't try to defend! Kick his ass!"
" Did…she…" said Sakura, blinking.
" She did." said Kurenai, stifling a giggle.
Hinata, at Naruto suggestion, had completely abandoned defense, getting stuck several times but catching Neji off guard. She had rolled past him and come up in with a vicious boot to the butt. Neji stumbled forward, as he could never have been prepared for such a move. There weren't any vital spots in the posterior, so the Hyuuga usually ignored it in combat.
Thank you Naruto-kun! thought Hinata, rolling to her feet and lunging. As Neji turned she hit the center of the back of his spine where the most vital chakra point was, cutting his flow down dramatically. Since he is better at our clans techniques, I won't use them! What would Naruto-kun do next? She focused for a instant, drawing inspiration from the blondes unpredictability.
Neji had reentered his form when Hinata jabbed forward with both arms. He had caught her hands, but then she had head butted him with full force. His head snapped back for a second, stars dancing in his vision.
" Yosh." whispered Lee with a hidden arm pump as Neji went still, Byakugan nearly popping out of their sockets. Hinata had made her final move, bringing her knee up into Neji's crotch. Hinata gave him a tiny push and he fell over, still locked in position. Feeling triumphant, Hinata looked up.
Every male, Hokage included, had backed away one step.
" Hinata wins." said Hayate quickly, waving to the medics. They rushed over and put Neji on a stretcher, carrying him off the recovery ward. Sore and blushing from her finishing attack, she walked up the stairs to where the other Leaf genin were standing.
" Way to go!" cheered Ino.
" Good move." said Sakura with a smirk. Hinata blushed deeper.
" Hinata!" said Lee loudly, appearing by her. " I wish to congratulate you on your defeat of Neji! The fires of your youth burn most powerfully!"
" Thank you, Lee." said Hinata with a small smile.
" Yeah!" said Naruto with a wide smile, slapping her on the back. " He's gonna feel that ….." Naruto trailed off as Hinata went rigid, face blushing a intense pink. " Sorry, did I do it too hard?" he asked, pulling his hand back. Hinata let out a little happy squeal before melting and falling to the ground.
" Dude!" said Kiba catching her. " What did you do?"
" I don't know!" said Naruto in a panic. Everyone was eyeing him evilly.
" Isn't it obvious?" sighed Sasuke. Everyone turned to him. " She blushes anytime Naruto's near. She stutters more when talking to him."
" What does that have to do with this?" said Ino, confused.
" Here." sighed Sasuke. " I'll show you." Sasuke stepped once pace to the side so that he was nearly face to face with Sakura.
"S-Sasuke-k-kun!" said Sakura, face turning a shade that matched her hair.
" All girls do that when a boy they like is nearby." said Sasuke, moving back to his spot he watched the matches from. Everyone else was suddenly floored by the revelation.
" And what does that have to do with anything?" asked Naruto, not getting it.
" Naruto?" said Sakura, eye twitching.
" She likes Naruto?" said Kiba in disbelief. Nobody could see because he had turned away, but tears were streaming down Shino's cheeks.
" She what?" said Naruto.
" She...likes you." said Sakura, the thought still processing. " As in she'd like to date you?"
" Why?" asked Naruto, scratching the back of his head.
" Are they for real?" said Temari, sweat dropping as the soap opera unfolded across the chamber from her.
" I'll be back." said Kankuro, walking away from his brother and sister.
" Where are you going?" asked Temari.
" To do some reconnaissance." said Kankuro with a smile.
" But we've never even talked or anything!" said Naruto defensively. He was as shocked as the rest of them. Kurenai had moved the motionless Hinata to the side, grimacing. The girl was impossibly shy, so when she awoke and found out what had happened, she'd most likely faint again from embarrassment. She smiled as she looked down at her student, however. She's come a long way.
" Hey." said Kankuro, walking up. " What's going on?"
" Apparently the baka here has a girlfriend." said Sakura, looking to Naruto.
" Good going." said Kankuro, resisting the urge to roll his eyes. These guy's are morons! Why are they talking about this now?
" But I don't even know her!" whined Naruto.
" For the COUGH fifteenth COUGH time, Naruto and Shino, get down here!" shouted Hayate.
" Oh yeah!" said Naruto, leaping from the balcony to the ground below. Crap…I came to talk with him. He seems like the dumbest, so it'd be easiest to get information from him. thought Kankuro, leaning against the wall.
" Hit him a few times for me." Kiba whispered to Shino. Shino nodded before disappearing in a cloud of bugs.
" Finally!" said Naruto, stretching his right arm behind his head as Shino appeared in the arena. " I've been looking forwards to showing off how awesome I've gotten to everyone!"
" I am going to beat you most heinously." said Shino in a deadpan voice.
" Woah. He's pissed." said Shikamaru. " Naruto's in trouble."
" Yeah." said Kiba with a laugh. " All Naruto has is chakra, which is useless against Shino."
" Begin the match!" said Hayate. Naruto, not needing a second command, created a group of shadow clones which charged. Shino, not feeling like holding back, released a full swarm of his bugs which flew as a cloud, enveloping the clones and draining their reserves quickly.
" What the hell?" said Naruto as the bugs devoured the clones.
" My insects eat chakra." said Shino, walking forward and cracking his knuckles. " Your clone technique is useless against me."
" Yeah right!" said Naruto, jamming the jutsu together again. Forty more clones appeared and charged, getting caught in the haze.
" That's a lot of shadow clones." said Kankuro, whistling.
" That's only a fraction of what he can produce." said Lee, walking over to the puppet user. I can get a feel for this ugly guy's personality now, which will be useful if I have to fight him later. he schemed.
" Really?" replied Kankuro. I can use this freak for my recon. he thought, smiling as the strange looking ninja took a spot on the wall by him.
Below, Naruto growled as more clones were consumed by the ravenous bugs.
" They will never be sated." said Shino, slowly advancing on the real Naruto as the bugs whirled around him like a evil cloud. " No matter how many clones you make, they will eat them."
" I'll believe that when I see it!" shouted Naruto.
Everyone gasped as they felt the chakra pull into the jutsu. No way he can do that! thought Kurenai, watching the cloud begin to form. Hinata picked a hell of a boyfriend. Stamina like that…. She blushed slightly at her thought.
" This will be troublesome." said Shikamaru as clones began to pour forth. The kikai bugs began to feast and destroy them, but they just continued to appear, quickly filling the arena. Hayate and the Hokage leapt onto the stature for safety as Shino sank beneath the clones, struggling to get to the surface.
" Shit." said Kiba flatly. Akamaru barked something equally rude, but nobody understood it.
" How they hell can he do that?" Temari's jaw was agape as Gaara looked on excitedly. He…mother, this one is worth killing. thought the half crazed demon host, feeling his bloodlust rise.
There was a explosion from below the clones, destroying a number of them. Shino struggled into the void as the clones collapsed inwards, the bugs pouring into the hole first. More kikai began to pour from him, creating a black wall. Every clone that came in contact with it was instantly consumed and their numbers rapidly diminished. However, the real Naruto burst through, landing in the center of the chaos.
" Man…those things are like Choji!" said Naruto, picking one out of his hair and flicking it away. Outside of the black wall the clones continued their hopeless but constant assault.
" You forced me to use my entire hive." said Shino, facing Naruto. " I've never had to do that before."
" I've never had to use all my chakra in one jutsu before either." said Naruto with a broad grin.
" You are an impressive individual, Naruto." said Shino. " You could make Hokage with abilities like that."
" Damn rig…"
" If you weren't a incompetent, half witted joke of a shinobi." said Shino, a hint of rage in his voice. He was still ticked about Hinata bestowing her favor on Naruto instead of him. " Without your chakra you are nothing, since you have poor taijutsu and no planning abilities. I'm going to enjoy ruining you."
" Same here!" snarled Naruto, lunging forward and punching at Shino. Shino blocked with his arm, quickly spinning and driving a elbow into Naruto's stomach. He spun, hefting Naruto over his shoulder and smashing him into the ground. Naruto didn't pause a moment, flipping his legs up and wrapping his feet around Shino's head. He rolled, carrying the taller boy off balance and making him fall to the ground. Naruto unhooked his feet and leapt up, Shino doing the same. There was barely a moment of pause as they drew kunai, slicing at each other and meeting their blades in a hail of sparks.
" They're going all out." said Ino, watching closely.
" Naruto is not." corrected Lee. " He hasn't activated his secondary chakra."
" Secondary?" said Choji in alarm. " He has more?"
That…that sounds like trouble. thought Kankuro.
" Once Naruto does, it is over." said Lee, leaning onto the railing. He was watching closely for a clue on how to win against the two dangerous fighters.
" Shino'll wipe the floor with Naruto when he get serious." said Kiba.
" He's not already?" said Sakura in shock as Naruto barely parried a swipe at his jugular.
Bug boys better than I thought! Naruto thought as he leaned backwards, avoiding a fast stab. He back flipped, drawing a throwing several shuriken. Shino caught them and threw them back. Naruto didn't avoid in time and was struck in the arms and legs, making him fall to the ground.
" And so you lose." said Shino as Naruto struggled to stand. " It is best you suffer this defeat now so you learn your place."
" I'm…going to be Hokage." said Naruto, pulling a shurkien out of his right arm.
" You will not." said Shino. " The lowly worker may wish to rise in the hive's hierarchy, but cannot. Your position has been decided." I've wanted to say that to him forever. thought Shino with hidden glee. The fools ambition had always annoyed him. Naruto has little emotional control…if I can get him angry, he'll just rush forward and attack blindly. How will I do that…..
" I will be Hokage!" shouted Naruto, getting to his feet shakily. He was bleeding heavily, but fought off the pain.
" No matter what Iruka-sensei may have told you at those pity parties he threw for you at the ramen stand, you will not." said Shino. " He may be willing to turn a blind eye to your massive faults, but others are not."
" Here we go." said Lee excitedly, leaning out so far her nearly fell from the balcony. Sasuke activated his Sharingan, not wasting a chance to see the red chakra in action. Everyone else, concerned by the interest of the only two with firsthand knowledge of Naruto's ability, began to get worried.
" Take that back!" shouted Naruto angrily, the shuriken popping from him and his blood instantly replenishing itself.
" Unless he is stupid enough to believe you can accomplish your dream."
" Ooh." cringed Lee as the red chakra poured from Naruto, swirling around the room violently. Naruto lunged forward, grasping for Shino's throat. " Bad move."
" Don't insult Iruka-sensei!" he screamed in a unearthly tone. His hands were nearly to their target when something pierced his lung. A foot long spike had shot out of Shino's palm and he hand driven it into Naruto's chest, knocking him back. Naruto landed on all fours with a growl as the kikai, having finished off the clones, returned to Shino, who held his arms his arms up as a second spike burst from his other palm.
" Stingers." said Kiba with a smirk as the others looked to him for clarification. " The Aburmae use them when they have to go to close range. He doesn't like them, but he's deadly with them." But using them requires his bugs to keep healing his body with captured chakra, meaning he'll soon get tired. thought Kiba. End it quick, Shino.
" These people aren't ninja." said Kin, watching in horror. " They're monsters." For once, her teammates agreed with her.
Naruto snarled and raced forward, diving towards Shino. The bug user leapt to the side, kikai trailing in his wake and latching onto Naruto. The enraged Kyuubi host didn't even notice, leaping towards Shino again. The Aburmae met this attack, driving one of the spikes into Naruto's shoulder. Naruto howled in pain as he smashed a punch into Shino, who vanished in a cloud of bugs. Naruto spun, spotting the real Shino who had escaped with a bug replacement. The wound in his shoulder healing before the swarm could get in, Naruto leapt into the air, coming down at Shino with a punch. Shino sidestepped before Naruto hit and shattered the ground.
" What's happened to Naruto?" said Ino fearfully. " He's gone completely insane!"
" He's some kind of berserker, right?" asked Kankuro, wide eyed. Shino ducked a kick, sliced open Naruto's leg, rolled around behind and jabbed another spike though Naruto's back. Despite the copious amounts of blood pouring from his wounds Naruto fought on, roaring releasing a wave of chakra that forced Shino back and blew the kikai away. Shino, momentarily off guard, received a punch to the chest, knocking him back into the wall, which cracked under the force of the impact.
Not stopping a moment, the Aburmae dashed forward, leaping and stabbing at Naruto as the boy met his charge. He slashed brutally at Naruto while the blonde dug his claws into Shino's sides, tearing deep gashes. However, the kikai in Shino's body stimulated his healing with the stolen chakra, making the wounds close quickly. They continued, brutally hacking and beating upon each other until they leapt back in unison, panting and glaring at one another as they ravaged bodies recovered from their wounds.
" I'm glad I didn't have to face either of them." said Choji, shuddering.
" Kakashi, that's…." Asuma trailed off as the Copy Ninja nodded, indicating that it was the Kyuubi's chakra to the other jounin. " That's not good."
" Maybe it is." said Guy, joining the jounin. " It is his gift."
" I really…hate you." panted Naruto. " You always act so cool. You never seem to care about anything and use all those really big words just to confuse people."
" A large vocabulary is not a flaw." said Shino, standing up straight. " And if I annoy you, let me assure you that you have annoyed me far worse. You are loud. Idiotic. And proud of it."
" So what if I'm not smart!" roared Naruto. " Being smart isn't everything! I have a dream and I work hard for it! That's way better than being able to do math problems or something! "
" That's exactly what I meant." said Shino, assuming a combat stance. " Without brains, a shinobi is useless. You will be unable to plan for missions and will constantly power your way though them. This will increase the amount of fighting and casualties."
" Just shut up and fight!" roared Naruto, racing forward. Eagerly Shino met his charge. They slammed together, bashing each other to the side but quickly recovering. As Shino assumed a defensive stance Naruto created a five clones, which charged in unison. Be blocked the first punch and destroyed the clone with a stab, parried the seconds kick, but the third caught him with a upwards kick, knocking him into the air. The real Naruto came from above, delivering a downwards kick and knocking Shino to the ground. Shino used the bug replacement to escape again, reappearing a short distance away. His sunglasses hung from his ear, shattered and forgotten. The spikes slowly retracted into his arms as he felt his bugs chakra reserves get low, meaning his healing abilities were nearly gone.
" I'm ready to end this." said Naruto, seeming like he was having trouble standing.
" The same goes for me." said Shino, shakily assuming a taijutsu stance. With mutual understanding that this was the end, the two raced at each other, leaping towards each other with fists raised for the final hits. They swung towards each other, slamming their fists into each others faces and knocking each other back to the ground. Shino fell and stuck the ground hard, going limp from the impact. Naruto, however, flipped in midair and landed on his feet.
" Did he win?" asked Sakura. Hayate walked towards Shino and raised his arm.
" Winner, Naruto Uzamaki."
" Sweet." said Naruto, struggling to stand with the clones aid. He hobbled off with the aid of the clone, arriving back on top of the balcony. The clone vanished as he got close to his team, but Sakura caught him and helped him back against the wall.
" Way to go." she said the a smile. " How are you feeling?"
" I want some ramen." said Naruto sleepily, nodding off a second later.
" He's completely used up." said Sakura in surprise. " Shino must have been really tough."
" Hn." said Sasuke.
Crap…Shino usually beats me. thought Kiba. If Naruto beat him…I really don't have a chance.
" He's not hurt at all." said Ino, leaning over and looking though the many cuts and tears in Naruto's orange uniform.
" When he's using his secondary chakra he heals instantly." said Tenten, rejoining the others. She had finished sulking over her loss.
I get it. thought Kankuro, smirking as everyone checked on the unconscious boy. Don't make him mad. If you don't taunt him like bug boy did, he won't be able to fight. His powers useless unless he gets angry. Kankuro relaxed, knowing how to beat the blonde now.
" Man." said Shikamaru, looking at Naruto in shock. " When did he get so strong?"
" Yeah." said Ino, standing up. " I thought he was a loser."
" Don't say that about Naruto." said Sakura angrily.
" Forehead girl, do you like him too?" said Ino teasingly as the electronic board began to whir.
" No!" said Sakura defensively. " I like Sasuke-kun, Ino-pig! He's just my teammate!"
" Yeah right." said Ino, taunting her short tempered rival.
" Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno."
The two friends looked to the board in shock, reading their names. Hayate motioned for them to come down, so they began to walk towards the stairs in unison, growling at each other.
" What's their problem?" asked Tenten.
" They used to be friends, but now they hate each other." said Shikamaru with a sigh. " They always fight over who loves Sasuke more and troublesome things like that."
" Really?" sighed Tenten. She hated kunochi like that. They should focus on getting stronger rather that going for pretty boy. He doesn't even look at them.
" Begin!" said Hayate, starting the match.
Determinedly, the two kunochi raced towards each other. Sakura used a burst of chakra to launch herself forward, striking at Ino first. The blonde girl blocked the punch and rolled under, flipping Sakura over her. The two landed and immediately leapt back towards each other, attacking and blocking in rapid succession. Sakura dodged away, since Ino was slightly stronger than her in taijutsu, and threw a pair of shuriken. Ino knocked them out of the air with two of her own and threw a kunai towards Sakura, who sidestepped out of the way.
" Boring." sighed Tenten, leaning against the railing.
" Why? They just started." asked Lee.
" They aren't trying to hurt each other." said Sasuke, seeming annoyed. " None of their attacks so far would have caused much damage if they connected."
Below, Sakura ducked a high kick. I don't want to hurt her. thought Sakura, swinging a punch. But I have to if I want to win! Ino blocked with her arm and swung a sweep kick to try to knock Sakura over. Seizing a small opening, she leapt over the attack and punched towards Ino, who tried to dodge. Unfortunately, her foot slid on the tile and she was unable to get out of the way. At the last second Sakura opened her hand so the punch became a slap.
Ino and Sakura stood there in shock, looking to each other. Ino slowly put her hand to her stinging cheek, feeling the red mark.
" This match has no point." sighed Tenten, head in her hands. " Why didn't I get to fight one of these idiots?"
" They need motivation." said Lee, looking though his notebook. " But I am not sure what to say to get them to fight."
" Get who?" asked Naruto, standing up.
" Sakura and Ino. They won't really fight each other." replied Sasuke.
" Hey Sakura!" shouted Naruto. " Don't go easy on her! Remember all the times she pointed out the fact you have a gigantic forehead!"
" Naruto!" shouted Sakura, a vein bulging on her forehead.
" And don't forget that she calls you a pig!" Choji added.
" Yeah!" said Naruto, nodding as the two girls looked to them angrily.
" Just fight." sighed Sasuke.
" Yes, Sasuke-kun!" squealed the girls in unison. They turned to each other, retying their forehead protectors.
" No holding back, forehead girl." said Ino, drawing a kunai.
" What was that? I just heard 'oink oink'." said Sakura, running forward. She formed three illusionary clones and leapt in a group attack like Naruto used.
" Ha!" laughed Ino. " If I know which one is real, that jutsu's useless!" she slashed at the original Sakura, but the blade passed though. Using a burst of chakra Sakura, who had used the replacement technique at the same time as the clone technique to confuse Ino, drove a powerful kick into Ino's stomach. The blonde girl was knocked back, rolling across the tile floor as the clones vanished. Without hesitation Sakura lunged for her friend again, but Ino got up and threw a handful of shuriken. Sakura parried them with a kunai and threw two of her own. The blades arced towards Ino, who dodged, but the moment she shifted her weight Sakura threw the kunai.
As Ino leapt into the air, the knife embedded itself into her leg. I guessed right. thought Sakura triumphantly. Her plan had worked perfectly and she had injured Ino without causing serious harm. Ino landed heavily as Sakura drew her last shuriken. If she could get it by Ino's throat and hold her for a moment, she would win.
Unfortunately, Ino was not yet done. She ripped the kunai out of her leg and threw it at Sakura. Sakura ducked and leapt towards Ino, but once she was at point blank range, Ino put her hands together in position for the body switch technique. I can't miss! thought the blonde girl, smiling as Sakura's eyes opened wide with shock. She fired the jutsu as Sakura put together the replacement technique. A log appeared in her place and the Sakura appeared directly behind Ino, who fell still.
" Did it work?" asked Choji.
" I win, Ino-pig." said Sakura, standing over Ino's motionless body.
" Not yet!" said Naruto from above. Everyone looked to him and spotted the kunai he was holding to his neck.
" Ino!" shouted Sakura, wide eyed.
" I missed you, but the baka got hit." said Naruto girlishly. " Quit now out I slit his throat."
" You wouldn't!" shouted Sakura angrily.
" Ino, what the hell…" Shikamaru began, but he was cut off.
" Come on, Saakuura." said Ino, drawing her rivals name out teasingly and pressing the kunai to Naruto's neck just enough to draw a faint line of blood. " Don't want to lose your precious teammate, do you?"
" He'll heal." said Sakura, flipping Ino's body over and holding the shurkien to her throat. " Will you?"
" H-hey!" said Ino, blinking rapidly. " It's a bluff!"
" Let him go." said Sakura. Naruto's hands formed a seal and suddenly he his eyes bulged open.
" Winner Sakura." announced Hayate as the medic's rushed over to Ino, who was standing with Sakura's help.
" I wasn't going to hurt him." said Ino, sitting down onto the stretcher.
" I know." said Sakura with a smile. " But I made it look good for you."
" She was gonna kill me!" said Naruto in a panic. " Sakura, hit her again! She's nuts!"
" Naruto, calm down and quit being troublesome." sighed Shikamaru. " It was a bluff. If Ino had hurt your body, hers would have been affected too."
" I don't care! Ino, you keep the hell away from me!" shouted Naruto, hiding behind Sasuke. The Uchiha looked mildly amused. Sakura recovered her weapons and turned to walk up the stairs as the board began to whir.
" Sakura versus Kin." said Hayate.
" I have to fight again already?" said Sakura, stunned. She was still catching her breath and had used a lot of chakra in the last match.
" Bad luck." said Hayate with a cough. The sound kunochi leapt down and faced Sakura.
" I've seen what you can do and I can tell you that your going down." said Kin with a smile. " You don't have any jutsu other than basic ninjutsu. Your pretty good with them, but they aren't real techniques."
" Begin." said Hayate, cutting off the taunting.
Kin immediately drew a pair of senbon with bells on them and tossed them towards Sakura, who ducked easily. She spotted the wires a second later and tried to roll away, expecting a triggered explosion as Kin yanked the wire. None came, and Sakura stood up, feeling confused.
A moment later the arena disappeared. She was in some sort of dark chamber surrounded by nightmarish monsters. Genjutsu. thought Sakura with certainty. She quickly canceled the jutsu, finding Kin striding over towards her confidently. I'll pretend like it failed. she decided, hurling a kunai in a random direction and acting like she was jumping away from something.
" I win." said Kin, leaping towards Sakura as she landed. There was a puff of smoke as she grabbed the pink haired kunochi's shoulder, revealing a log as it faded away. " A replacement? Your serious?" said Kin with a laugh, dropping the log and spinning around. " I'm impressed that you broke my genjutsu, but that's all you do? Run away?"
" No." said Sakura, holding a kunai to Kin's throat. After Kin turned she released the disguise jutsu she had used to look like a log and captured Kin, who was too shocked to react. " I beat you with academy jutsu. I might not be too good, but your not much either, are you?" Sakura said with a smirk.
" Sakura wins." said Hayate, ending the match. Sakura raced up to where the leaf genin were standing.
" Way to go!" cheered Naruto.
" I got lucky." sighed Sakura. I really shouldn't have passed. I got Ino who is almost as bad as I am and beat her by chance and only beat the Sound girl because she was so overconfident.
" No, you did great, Sakura-chan!" continued Naruto.
At least he still believes in me. thought Sakura with a smile. She could tell the others knew that she had only passed by luck, though they didn't seem to begrudge it to her. As the scoreboard began to whir, Sakura realized she was going to have to train a lot harder before the finals if she wanted to be even able to put up a fight. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4132008/2/Chunnin-Exams-Take-Two | dclm-gs1-012450001 |
0.033103 | <urn:uuid:71b10145-da6f-46eb-ba1f-a2a07da1994f> | en | 0.990806 | a/n: This is a new story I thought of one day but I didn't know exactly where to start it until a couple of weeks ago and I've also been procrastinating with it for a few weeks, and also school has taken up most of my time to write but I hope you enjoy this story.
edit: added a few little more details here and there.
Aged Love
Chapter 1: A Dream, A New Town, and a New School
In Konoha history two families have always stood beside each other, fighting in wars together, having fun together, even serving each other way before their families even became friends.
Some years back one of the families decided it was time for them to move on to a bigger city. Leaving behind the other one in Konoha where their family had and would continue to live forever.
Now one member of that family that moved away is moving back to their old home. Even after all this time their families had stayed friends with the other and they have allowed her to live with them while she goes to school there.
I lay on the cold cave floor, wounded and dying. Crimson liquid flowing slowly from my wounds, but its my own fault that this is happening. And now I'm slowly losing my life.
I looked over at the cave entrance and see him there. The love of my life, even when I'm dying I couldn't help but smile at him.
"Itachi." I said, relieved that he was going to be with me in my final moments of life. I tried to sit up to see him better but I cringed when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my body, so I laid back down against the cold stone floor.
He looked over at me with sadness in his eyes. I knew he saw that I was hurt and in pain. He ran over and knelt down next to me. Taking my hand in his.
"Irami, you're hurt." he said to me with a look of sadness in his eyes still.
"Yeah, I know, Itachi-kun." I told him and sighed. I didn't like to see him sad like this, especially for me. "But it's my own fault."
"No, it's not." he said to me, squeezing my hand gently and kissing the back of it. I smiled at him, he always knew how to make me smile, even in the worst of time.
It's my fault. I should've protected you more." he said, placing a hand on my cheek. "Let's take you home."
"No, Itachi." I said to him, shaking my head at him. I took a deep breath and starting to struggle to speak.
"N-no, I-Itachi-k-kun. I-I w-won't m-make it h-home." I told him.
"But Irami--" he was starting to say to me as he looked down. I knew he was about to start crying. And over me of all people.
"I-Itachi, p-please d-don't c-cry." I asked him, struggling even more with my speech. "I-I d-don't want y-you to. Especially for me." I said to him. Placing my hand on his cheek. "I-it ruins y-your h-handsome f-face, I-Itachi-kun."
"I-I know, but what am I supposed to do without you. You're the love of my life. I'll never love another person like I love you." he told me. I knew he wasn't trying to make me cry but I still did.
"I-I d-don't know…I-I d-don't kn-know what I-I w-would do if I-I l-lost y-you either. B-but promise m-me y-you'll t-try to f-find l-love a-again. E-even i-if i-it's n-not as st-strong as o-our l-love f-for each o-other." I told him. He was the only son of the Uchiha royal family. I couldn't let them die out.
He sighed. "I know…I just don't know what to do. I promise I will try my hardest to love again but I don't think I can ever love someone else as much as I do you. My heart belongs to you." he told me, I knew he'd keep his promise, he always did. No matter how heartbreaking they were too keep to him, but he still did.
I smiled at him. "G-good…I-I kn-know y-you w-won't. I-I l-love y-you, I-Itachi-kun."
"I love you too, Irami-chan. And I always will. As long as I live." he said back to me. He gathered me up in his arms, leaning over and kissed me deeply.
'Goodbye my love.' I thought to myself, kissing him back as best as I could. I felt a single tear fall from my eye because I knew this was the last time he would ever kiss me. 'I wish…I wish I would've told him.'
She sat in the back of the car look out the window. Not realizing that someone was calling her name, so she didn't answer. She was too caught up in her own thoughts to notice someone calling her name.
"Irami!" the woman in the front seat called her name again, but louder than before to get her attention. This time it was successful at dragging her out of her thoughts. Irami blinked a few times and then looked over at her mother.
"What?" she said to her as an answer. She ran her hand through her raven black locks, raking her fingers through it
She had long dark hair, like a raven's feathers, and the same colored eyes. Everybody at her old school thought that she wore contacts, well everybody except one person her best friend who had the same colored eyes as her, apparently it runs in both their families. But anyway, when she told them it was her natural eye color they treated her like she was a freak, even her friends treated her like she was the out cast. Well every friend but him, Seiji. He had just moved there and was treated differently because of his eye color as well. So they banned together. But now she was moving to Konoha where he family originally lived before they moved to Tokyo. The only thing she would miss would be Seiji.
"Were you daydreaming back there, Irami-chan?" her mother asked her.
Irami sighed quietly to herself, turning back to the window watched as the scenery outside the car go by. "No…I was just think about this weird dream I had last night. I can't get it out of my head."
"What was it about, honey?" she asked her, which annoyed Irami to no end when her mother tried to pry.
" 'Kaa-chan, you know I don't like talking about my dreams with anybody." Irami complained to her. Ever since she was a little girl she never liked telling people about her dreams, especially her mother, even if they were nightmares and scared her. She always kept quiet about them.
"Irami-chan, please just tell me." her mother pleaded to her and as usual whenever her mother begged like that, Irami gave into her and told her, every single detail about her dream. And I mean everything.
"Hmmm, that's interesting. It sounds like a story I heard when I was a little girl about our ancestors and the Uchiha's ancestors, Ira-chan." her mother told her after she had finished explaining her dream to her. Irami was curious and slightly confused. She has never heard a story about her ancestor before. So why was she all of a sudden dreaming about one?
The rest of the ride to the school was quiet. Irami just stared out the window of the car, thinking. Thinking of how she could possibly dream about something she's never even heard before.
She lost her train of thought when she saw the school that she would be going to for her senior year, Mangekyou High School, the most exclusive private school in Konohagakure. It was a huge school with three separate buildings to it. And a fourth on that said "Library" on it.
'Wow. This place is huge. It's way bigger than my last school.' Irami thought to herself as she started taking her bags out of the trunk of the family car.
"Well, that's everything." her mother told her as she took the last of Irami's bags out of the back of the car and closed it. "This is your new school. I'll go find Itachi-san and tell him you're here."
"Itachi?" Irami asked, blinking bewildered by her and disbelieving what she heard. Somebody actually had the same name as the man who was in her dream.
"Hai. Uchiha Itachi. He'll be your new guardian while you stay here. He's a teacher at the school. I pretty sure you'll have him for your Language Arts class." her mother answered her, glancing of at the clock on the middle of the main school building. "And since school seems to be almost over for the day why don't you go hang out there. And I'll go to tell Itachi where he can find you when he goes to leave the school.
"I see." Irami said while nodding her head and sighing. She turned away from her mother picked up her two purple suitcases and her backpack with her school materials in it and started walking toward the library. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5033591/1/Aged-Love | dclm-gs1-012470001 |
0.123163 | <urn:uuid:c7006aa3-4801-4da9-9bb6-32498d40f86a> | en | 0.988371 | Author's Note:
Written April 10th, 2011 in 1 hour with 1033 words
Edited Version: 1137 words.
Everyone had their own armour, what they use to avoid being hurt. Everyone's is different, in some way or manner, maintained to keep them safe and unable to be breeched. Unfortunately, there comes a time when someone manages to get through and past the barrier, no matter how well maintained it may be... and once that happens, well, there just isn't any point in even having it there any more, is there? Raven sighed, lowering her form lightly onto her mattress. With her bare legs unfolding from their tightly knit posture to stretch out at odd angles on the bed, she flopped back, knowing what her emotions, what she herself, was telling her was true. There just wasn't any point in continuing the charade any more... But, she wasn't really sure if her friends would be able to cope with her being... Normal.
On the other side of that coin, though, was the simple fact that, if they didn't want her to be normal, then they should have simply left her as she was. Not poked and prodded at her until her control was so good that she was master of herself. Her emotions were her own, to be freely used, abused or denied as she saw fit, at little to no threat to humanity, or any other aliens and animals populating the planet Earth (or beyond).
Scrunching her nose up, Raven slipped softly from her bed and stood up, sliding her pointer fingers under the edges of her leotard and tugging the material out further, away from where it had been creeping towards her butt, and sniffed loudly, followed by a yawn as she opened her sliding door and slipped out, leaving her clock flung over a statue where it had landed before she began meditation. The ever lovely Rude liked to have her input at times.
The hallway was quiet, but that was generally to be expected. It was a Sunday evening, and while crime could and did happen at any time without (or with minimal) notice, the weekends were usually fairly placid. Flicking her hair out of her face, Raven paused as the common room door hissed open and she walked calmly through, heading towards the kitchen area. She didn't look towards Beast Boy - or Changeling as he was now known - as she came through, but she did notice him. She also noticed him noting her over the top of the red apple he held halfway to his mouth. A slight smirk pulled about her lips, but she feared not of it being seen, as her back was to him.
Settling before the stove top, Raven brought her kettle forward, and old fashioned piece that whistled shrilly when the water had heated. It was her favourite, and she preferred its use to the more conventional electric kettle which just didn't have the flair of a whistler. Lifting the lid a little, she peeped under and confirmed that the kettle was, indeed, empty. Picking it up, she turned and stepped lightly to the sink, where she filled it. Turning back, she squeaked in surprise, then irritably ground out, "Garfield!"
The scolded changeling smirked lightly at the young woman he'd so successfully crept up on, one eyebrow rising slightly above his emerald eyes. "Yes?" He purred, almost literally, and Raven faltered for a moment, then huffed.
"Excuse me!" Side stepping around the young man and his half eaten apple, she used her powers to turn on the gas, and clicked the flame, lighting it up in a whoosh of flames circling about, teasing at the bottom of the of the now full kettle. Turning around, mouth open to speak, Raven blinked to find her green team mate was gone. Head pulling back a little on her neck in surprise, her eyes narrowed slightly and she flung out her senses, not wishing to be startled once more. She located him by the tv, resting lightly on the couch and nibbling absently once more on his apple. Raven blinked again, shook her head, and set about gathering her cup, spoon, tea and with a quick, almost guilty glance at Changling, she stole the honey out of the fridge.
Smiling softly to herself, the young woman rested a hip against the bench as she waited patiently for the kettle to whistle, picking absently at her fingernails as she did so. When it finally did whistle, she turned the gas off and picked up the kettle, poured some hot water into her cup and mixed her tea. Picking up the honey, she drizzled it in slowly, watching the oozing line with amusement as she swirled it above her cup, creating patterns before it vanished into the depths.
"Of all the things they taught you, they never taught you not to play with your... tea?" An amused voice murmured right in her ear, warm breath washing over her, and she squealed. She would also have dropped the squeezy bottle of honey into her tea if Garfield hadn't grabbed her hand lightly, curling her fingers back around it and laughing softly. "I know your secret."
Letting go of her, he stepped back, and moved away, leaving the girl to turn slowly and watch him in confusion. Gently setting the honey bottle down on the bench, she picked up her cup and followed after him. The green one had settled on once more onto the couch, crispy red apple once more held against his lips, which were hiding a small smile. She frowned.
"You know my secret?" Her voice was skeptical. "Honey in my tea isn't much of a secret. You know Cyborg buys it just for me." She sounded both amused and proud; she loved her honey and it was one of her guilty little pleasures to dose just about anything in it.
"I wasn't talking about the honey, Rae,"
She paused, confused, her cup of tea raised about level with her chin and a frown decorating her features. "I ... What do you mean?"
Garfield actually looked slightly pained, as he looked up. His forehead was furrowed into a frown, but his eyes sparkled with amusement. "Sweetheart, when you figure it out, you'll know."
Raven's eyes narrowed as he stood up, twirling his apple core between his fingers (when had he actually finished that?) and stopped beside her. He planted a light kiss on her cheek, then continued out of the room, tossing the core into the bin on his way past. Raven, her jaw a little slack, turned to watch him, then swiftly rose her tea cup to her lips, and gulped the sweetened liquid down, trying to calm her rapid heart beat and flurry of emotions.
She touched her fingertips lightly to her cheek, and a smile slowly brightened her expression. Two guilty pleasures in one evening. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6921528/1/Guilty-Pleasures | dclm-gs1-012510001 |
0.03749 | <urn:uuid:103f2bcc-2c16-463b-a3ca-c1344d54ba00> | en | 0.983384 | Title: Wedding Bells are Ringing
Author: mandygirl78/slave2free
Fandom: Facts of Life
Pairing: Jo/Blair and another couple... (It ain't Nat/Tootie!)
: R
Summary: Just before midnight, on June 24, 2011, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill legalizing gay marriage, making it the most populated state in the US to accept it. Blair and Jo were there to witness the historic event.
Hi everyone. I posted a challenge last month at Live Journal's Facts of Life Femslash page. For those who are not familiar, there were two versions of the challenge: the hard version and the easy version. The hard version goes like this:
1) Blair and Jo's reaction to the new law
2) Their wedding day
3) Natalie being into the latest fad.
4) Somebody from Diff'rent Strokes (could be more than one) in the wedding.
5) Flashback to 1985-86
a) Natalie being into the latest fad
b) Build up to their first kiss
c) Tootie singing (or lips-synching) Whitney Houston's "You Give Good Love to Me".
optional) Something that seems old now was new back then. Like a CD player, Stereo TV, Cable.
The easy version goes like this:
1) Blair and Jo's reaction to the law
2) Their wedding day
3) Flashback to 1985-86
a)Build up to their first kiss
Since this is my challenge, I'm going to do the harder one. If you are interested in the challenge, please join in. The more the merrier!
It was close to midnight on June 24, 2011 inside the Senate Chamber at the Capitol Building in Albany, New York. There were hundreds of people anticipating to hear the historic final decision coming from the state Senate, and thousands more outside near the front of the building. The general atmosphere was tense, as tensions and anticipations ran deep within the two groups: those who were for the bill and those who were against it. It would be a life-changing event for many involved, and the outcome would change the state and potentially the entire nation for years to come.
Inside the building as part of the forestalling audience were two woman who were on different ends of the spectrum on virtually everything, but they did agreed on at least two things, that they loved each other madly, and that the bill must pass.
"I hope all that work that we put into it finally paid off unlike two years ago," Jo said to her soul mate of over twenty-five years.
"I hope so too. I had to bend over backwards just to convince some of the Senators to get on board," replied Blair, a proud member of the Log Cabin Republicans (a group of gay, lesbian, bi, and transgendered Republicans).
"Well I'm glad you are doing it. I don't think I could convince a Republican Senator on anything."
Blair smiled, "Trust me dear, Republicans are not as narrow-minded and as stubborn as you make them out to be. You're with me, aren't you?"
"Yes I am, and my heart wouldn't want to be with anyone else but you, despite of our differences." Then she got closer to Blair and tenderly stroked Blair's left cheek, "And also despite that one particular similarity we share."
Blair just smiled, "Well what we share is very precious and special, and no stupid law or opinion will change that."
Jo responded with a firm yet caressing hug as she rested her head on Blair's right shoulder. "Yeah, no stupid law will change that."
At that moment, Jo got a text message on her phone. She pulled it out of her pocket and read it.
"Hey Jo, I got word from confidential sources that Michael Grisanti and Stephen Saland will vote for it, so there will be enough to get it passed."
Jo then got Blair's attention, "Hey Blair, Nat said that the bill will pass."
"Really? I hope she's right?"
"You know her skills as a reporter; she's usually right when comes to things like this."
Then Jo received another text message. It stated, "My iPad2 rocks girl! It really kicks the iPad1's ass, and the Galaxy Tab isn't even in its league!"
Jo just shook her head in disbelief over Nat's obsessions with fads. It was that same obsession that got them selling inflatable palm trees and plastic fishes with pens in them when they opened the store Over Our Heads.
"What else did she say?" Blair asked, knowing how many times Natalie texted Jo on a given day since she had the iPad2, enough to make a newsletter.
"Oh she's braggin' 'bout her new iPad2, as usual, sayin' how it's much bettah than the original iPad."
Blair has a puzzled look on her face, not fully understanding the different between the two. "So what makes the iPad2 more special than the iPad? They're basically the same to me."
"I dunno Blair. I agree with you, but she's makin' a big deal about it! You know Natalie longer than I have; she always has to get the latest junk that's out there. If you ask me 'what's the difference', then I'll tell ya the difference is 200 bucks!" Blair chuckled at Jo's small wisecrack. "And another thing is that ever since she got that thing, she's been textin' me nonstop! She might as well be her own news ticket or Twittah!"
Blair laughed at that one, "Well it looks like she's keeping you busy, I can't seem to get you off of your phone ever since she's got that thing. You're beginning to spend more time on the phone then with me," she said with a fake pout.
"Blair…" she sighed with her eyes rolling.
Finally the speaker came up to the podium.
"Joey, they're going to announce it right now!" Blair chirped. Jo turned her focus to the podium and looked as the secretary of the Senate addressed the audience with the final outcome.
"… Those who recorded the negative are senators Ball, Bonacic, DeFrancisco, Diaz, Farley, Flannigan…"
Jo muttered in anger, "That mother-fucker Diaz."
"Jo," Blair replied with a touch of disappointment on her lips.
"But I'm upset with him. I used to help him and his church out a lot when my patrol was stationed in his district. I feel like he just hawked and spitted on my face!"
"I understand, but honey there's not need to get upset about it. He was against it from the get-go."
And Blair was right. A few seconds later the secretary announced the total.
"Ayes: 33, Nays: 29"
Blair and Jo were totally stunned at what they just heard. Did they hear it correctly? 33 to 29? It was only two years ago that the bill was figuratively slaughtered. Now the everlasting dream of getting married became a reality.
They didn't say anything for a second or two, as the shock was still in effect, then suddenly they screamed and jumped for joy. Then they hugged each other like never before, not even the early days when their attraction for each other was new. Tears were flowing from the couple's eyes like the iconic New York natural beauty Niagara Falls and both were overwhelmed with the sudden explosion of happiness this has brought unto them.
"Oh my God, we finally get to put hyphens in our last names!" Blair joshed.
"Yeah I love to call myself Joanna Polniaczek-Warner, and that birthday/engagement party you had for me was not in vain."
"Natalie was right! I should give her a gold bracelet for it!" Blair said ecstatically.
"I know Natalie won't object to that!"
They had been engaged since 2005 (see the FoL fanfic: Joanna (I Love You)) and now they could finally and legally say that they were a couple. Their plan was to add the last names of their partners to their existing one, so Blair Warner will become Blair Warner-Polniaczek and vice versa.
Still rejuvenated by the wonderful news, the couple finally locked lips and kissed to show their love for each other. After they finished their kissing, a couple came up to Blair, "Oh my God, this is like so amazing! I can't believe this is going to happen, all thanks to you." The woman speaking was a friend of Blair and also a fellow Log Cabin Member.
Blair smiled then chuckled, "Well, if you know who you know, anything can happen!"
"All because of that speech you gave at the conference in the Poconos two weeks ago."
Two weeks ago, Blair gave a stunning speech to the Republican senators about gay marriage and how it was part of a Christian virtue of equality. She used references of Ruth and Naomi as examples where the Bible encouraged same-sex relationships. But the biggest one was that she made it clear that the Republican Party was about government out of people's lives, and that it was not in their place to say who should and who shouldn't be married. She emphasized that it was not a government nor a state issue, but a church issue. Apparently it worked with at least four of the Senators, they voted for it.
"We should give those two a call back to New York!" Blair exclaimed.
"We should. I wonder how people are reacting in Greenwich Village." as Jo reached into her slacks pocket to get the phone. But as soon as she was about to call, she got a text message.
"OMG! I can't beleive the day has finally come! I'm so xcited! We can finally get married!" One of Jo's friends texted. She was so excited; she didn't bother to correct her spellings.
While still talking to Blair, Jo texted back, "I know. Me n' Blair are crying over dis! So how are things over there?"
"A blast! The people r going crazy over here. Lady Gaga music is playing and the people are dancing, but hey, it's Stonewall Inn 4 crying out loud!"
The woman was texting from Stonewall Inn, the same place where back in 1969, a confrontation between the police and the patrons of the bar started and thus began the Gay rights movement.
"Well we'll be there tomorrow. Tell everyone thanks for their support."
"Will do!"
Jo then faced Blair. "There's no need, she texted me back. " She showed the text messages to Blair. Blair took the phone from Jo's hands and read it. When she tried to scroll down, she accidentally pressed the wrong button and instead music came out of it. It was the sentimental 80s ballad, "Hold Me", by Whitney Houston and the Teddy Pendergrass. It was loud enough that people near their surrounding heard it and started giggling. Jo quickly took the phone from her and turned it off.
Red as a cherry from the embarrassment, Jo gave a bashful apology, "Sorry about that." Blair was just as embarrassed but she didn't say anything.
"Isn't it too soon for something like that?" one stranger joked.
"That was an accident, sorry." Blair replied. However that song gave her a 'brilliant idea.'"
"Hey, this should be our wedding song. Remember you played that song on our special night?"
Now Jo was red for a much different reason. "Of course I do, that's when we truly became intimate."
"I can't think of a better song for our wedding dance, because I do want you to hold me – tight."
A mischievous smile formed on Jo's face, "Why not right now?" Jo said as she quickly grabbed her and wrapped her arms around the love of her life. Jo was firm yet still soft to hold. Blair always loved that about her, she was tough on the outside, but tender on the inside. Blair instinctively laid her head softly on Jo's neck and shoulder and wrapped her arms around her soulmate's waist.
Blair then started speaking from her heart, "Our love must be very special, because we're almost totally different, yet somehow we can't live without each other's love."
"That's because we complement each other." Jo said. "We look out for each other and we know that we will always be there for each other." Blair just nodded her head in agreement.
As the celebration was still going on, they continued to embrace each other, savoring the wonderful moment they were sharing.
Back in Greenwich Village at the Stonewall Inn, a short, natural wheat-blond girl in her early-40s with light brown eyes finished her texting and ordered another drink in celebration. She was wearing just a T-shirt with a pair of jeans.
"Hey bartender, give me another Red Bull and Vodka!"
"No problem honey child!" he replied.
Her partner came out of the bathroom. She too was a blond, but her hair was more like sunshine blond and she was a few inches taller as well. "So did it pass?" she said with a Midwestern accent.
"With flying colors honey! It was 33-29!"
"Great!" She responded with a kiss to her lover's lips. "This is one of the happiest days in my life." Now she started to cry, and it made her soul mate cry as well. Their blissful embrace added more to the joy that was in the air as there were other couples rejoicing on the good news.
Finally after their hug, the first woman said, "But honey, an even happier day will come later on this year, thanks to those wonderful 33 senators."
The other woman smiled, understanding what she really meant. "And who said all politicians are idiots?"
The coupled laughed, but then the latter got serious again. "I'm glad to be living here in New York, where at least there's an opportunity for something like this to happen. I can't say the same back in Kansas."
It also made her devoted partner sad as well. "Don't let it get to you, sugar. Eventually things will change. Your parents and relatives weren't accepting of me when they first heard about us right?"
"Right," she said while holding her head down. "And some are still not."
"That's because they're with that Westboro Baptist Church wacko, Fred Phelps. However, the rest of them now consider me a part of their family. One day, Kansas will finally see us as equals and one day other people will also be able to marry whoever they see fit over there." The other woman smiled.
"I can't wait to see that day."
"I can't either, but for right now let's talk about our day, we need to make a date to say 'I do'."
"I say we need at least six months to prepare for the wedding. I can get the invitations ready and you can work on finding the location."
"That's not a problem. I already know a place, thanks to Blair. I can call and find a spot for six months from now," the shorter girl informed her.
The other women had a huge smile when she heard that, "Oh that's so awesome! I can't wait for that day to come."
"Yeah, we can finally call ourselves Mrs. and Mrs. Cindy and Sue Ann Weavster." They ended with a smooch. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7204987/1/Wedding-Bells-Are-Ringing | dclm-gs1-012520001 |
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Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling. This story was inspired by the song "Jingle Rock." I do not own anything.
Author's Note: I can't believe the holidays are here already!
Time: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Genre: Romance, Drama, and Friendship
Rating: PG-13
Date Finished: December 16, 2012
Bold: Flashback
Marcus Flint walked across the snow covered Hogwarts grounds from the Quidditch pitch to the castle. He had just gotten done with the final Quidditch practice of the year. The holidays were upon them and that met that his final year at Hogwarts was halfway over. In twenty-four hours he would be back at his parents' estate in Devon and would be forced to suffer through Christmas balls. Time had a way of flying quickly.
At least, he had Katie to rely on to make him feel better. He had began to date Katie Bell last year shortly before Christmas. The couple had became public at the start of this term. People made jeers about their relationship all the time and told them that it would never last. They couple wanted to prove all of the haters wrong.
Part of the problem was that they were from different worlds.
Like most Slytherins, he was form a wealthy pureblood family. He was the result of his mum and dad's second marriages. His dad had been married to some crazy Polish woman for five years and they had a daughter, Alice. Alice was thirteen years older than he was and he had only met her twice. His mother had been married to his dad's brother for eleven years. Then, he was murdered by the Death Eaters. (His uncle, mum, and dad were Aurors.) His mum and uncle had six sons: Brain, Luke and Logan (twins), Shawn and Nathanial (twins) and Ryan. They were anywhere from eleven to three years older than Marcus. Well, Marcus's mum and dad overtime fell in love and got married two years later. A year later that Marcus was born. Then, four and a half years later Marcus's sister, Haley, was born. Most of the time none of them was around. His parents both worked seven days a week and were only off for holidays. His half-brothers moved out right after Hogwarts and only came home maybe twice a year. He and Haley were close. His parents' jobs also made the family move many times. He had lived in three different countries (Ireland (was born there), Italy, and England)and was fluent in Irish-Gaelic, English, and Italian.
Katie was from a middle-class half-blood family. Both of her parents attended Hogwarts. Her mum was a pureblood witch and her dad a Muggle. Her mum's family didn't approve of the relationship. They had two children: Katie's older brother, Anthony and Katie. When she was five, her parents got a divorce. Shortly after the divorce, her mum remarried. She had one son, Seth. Three years after it, her dad remarried. He had two daughters: Sierra and Zoey. Katie lived with her stepmum, Jenna, and her dad. She didn't get along with her stepdad, Mike. She had been born and raised in the Kent area. Her stepmum worked as a clerk in a shop in Diagon Alley. Her father worked at for the Ministry of Magic in the transportation branch called the Broom Regulatory Control.
He really did not care what the haters said. All that mattered was that they were together. Christmas was another issue in itself. He had no idea what to get her. The clock was ticking. Last year for Christmas, he had gotten her a Christmas bear and a book on a Quidditch. He felt that both of these items were not acceptable gifts. Females had always been hard for him to buy for and he really did not want to have to ask his sister to pick out Katie's gift. That was just too far below the belt for his liking. No, he wanted to pick it out for himself.
Marcus reached the castle and pulled the door open. This was going to require expert help. He was really beginning to understand why members of his gender did their Christmas shopping together. Unlike females, this was not a social outing; this was serious work. Christmas shopping for a girlfriend was the boyfriend's own personal hell.
He headed down to the dungeons. The good thing about being in a House that was located in the dungeons was that if offered more privacy. He had always felt that because the Slytherin House was isolated from the rest of the school allowed for a closer bond to be formed among each other. He could not even think about asking a Gryffindor what he was about ask, could not even dream of it.
The common room was packed with his fellow housemates. Their conversations buzzed about the upcoming holidays and the Slytherin's victory over Ravenclaw last weekend. Many people stopped Marcus to greet him and to wish him a happy holiday. It took many minutes for him to reach the staircase that led to his dorm. He hoped that the aid he so desperately needed was around. He really did not want to look for them in the packed common room. Plus, he did not want to be seen discussing this problem. It did not matter how close a house was. There was just some things that were not meant to be discussed in a public manner.
He opened his dorm door and was relieved to find Chris Derrick (Slytherin Beater) there and that Aiden Pucey had decided to pass the evening in the seventh year dorm instead of the fifth. Marcus closed the door softly behind him.
"You look like hell," Aiden commented.
Marcus threw his Quidditch gear down on his bed. "Not for from it."
Chris was reading a thick Charms book. "Why?" He did not look up from his book.
"Women," Marcus replied as he changed into sweat pants and a T-shirt. His muscles were still sore from practice and the last game.
Chris shut his book. "They always seem to the cause behind all of our sufferings."
"Can't live with them, can't live without them," Adrian remarked. "So, what seems to be the problem?" He rolled on Marcus's bed over so that he was facing Marcus.
Marcus rubbed the back of his neck. He was not sure how to address this. Most of his friends mocked him for dating a Gryffindor and a Gryffindor Chaser at that. People who were not his friends and people who he did not even know mocked him. Those he normally did not pay any mind too. No, he had to take that back. There was that one Hufflepuff who said something after Marcus had failed yet another Muggle Studies test. Marcus may had punched the kid and broke his nose and may had gotten written up for it. He tried to block out those mirror details.
"Marcus?" Adrian asked again. He was staring at the other boy.
Marcus stopped rubbing his neck. "Um, I need help."
"Try telling us something we do not already know," Adrian said.
Chris smirked over at them. "Be nice. It is almost the holidays."
"And I suppose you are going to tell me that I had better watch out because Father Christmas is watching me?" Adrian inquired.
Chris sighed. "It's not like he was going to bring you anything away."
"Hey, I am not the one punching little Hufflepuffs in the hallway," Adrian objected. He looked pointedly at Marcus. "That would be that one over there."
Marcus pushed Adrian off the bed. The other boy landed on the floor, swearing, with a bang.
"Are you ready to listen to listen to me?" Marcus asked Adrian.
Adrian climbed to his feet and narrowed his eyes at his friend, but did not say a word.
"I need help Christmas shopping." He paused. "I have no idea what to get Katie for Christmas."
The other two stared at him. It was clear that they did not know what to make of his request. They had never mocked him for dating Katie, but had never said that they approved of the relationship. Really, Marcus did not care about how they felt about the relationship, but he did feel that the owed him. He had spent many nights making sure they did not wander into the Dark Forest after getting drunk over some girl and listening to all things that they had/had not done with their current girlfriend. He had even gone Valentine Day shopping with them.
Sure, he had girlfriends before Katie. His last relationship before her had lasted over two years. He had cared about them, but they had not had the same chemistry that he and Katie had. It may had something to do with the fact that he was a Slytherin and she was a Gryffindor.
"Well?" Marcus asked.
Chris and Adrian exchanged looks. "Sure. What do we have to lose?"
"Our pride," Adrian muttered.
Marcus hit him over the back of the head.
"When do you want to go?" Chris asked.
"This weekend," Marcus answered quickly. This weekend was the last Hogsmeade weekend before the Christmas holidays.
"You want me to go Christmas shopping with you and give up my last Hogsmeade weekend?" Adrian protested tormenting tone.
"Or I could schedule practice on Saturday," Marcus shot back in a non-tormenting tone.
Frown lines formed on Adrian's forehead. "No, that is quite alright. I do not you to strain yourself." He paused. "You really should not be practicing anyway."
Marcus gave Adrian a pointed look. He really did not want to discuss that now.
"What's going on?" Chris asked. Marcus had not told him what was going on yet. Chris tended to panic rather easily. If he knew what was going on, he would not even let Marcus move.
"Nothing," Marcus and Adrian said quickly.
Chris looked at them. "Tell me."
"Um, it is not that big of a deal," Marcus stared it. He was already out and into the frying pan anyway. "They are just watching it after all. It really could be nothing."
"Watching what, Marcus?" Chris asked coolly.
"My stomach has been bothering me and there is a slight chance that I could be developing appendicitis," Marcus muttered.
Chris looked at him. "They do not know for sure."
Marcus bit his lip. He really did not want to talk it. He was stressed out enough about it and that was part of the reason he did not tell Chris about it. Chris would ask daily how he felt. "No, they still want to run some more tests."
Chris nodded. "Just take it easy."
Marcus nodded. "I do not want everyone to know, yet."
Chris nodded. "Okay."
"So, back to Christmas shopping," Adrian said changing the subject. "What did you guys get me?"
Marcus looked at his old friend. "If you keep on talking, I am going to take it back."
Adrian smirked. "I will be quiet."
Chris was staring at Marcus.
"No, I do not have an answer."
"If they have to take your appendix out, can you get some of those potions that put people to sleep and give it Adrian? We could use some peace and quiet."
"I will see what I can do.
Adrian flipped them both off.
That Saturday at Hogsmeade, the three boys wondered from shop to shop without a lot of success. At noon, they stopped for a butterbeer in Three Broomsticks.
Marcus allowed the cool drink to run down the back of his throat. He had hoped to find something for her by now. He had not seen anything that screamed Katie to him. Christmas carols played in the background as he watched people enter and exit the pub. Chris and Adrian were talking about this and that, but he found that he could not add to their conversation. His mind was elsewhere. His mind was back on the very first time he had kissed Katie.
Marcus had just gotten done with a rough practice and he was sore. Bole had hit him in the back of the head. It knocked him out for a few minutes. Even though he should have gone to the hospital wing, he hadn't yet. It was a place he tended to avoid.
Since he had to gather the balls up, he would be the last one in the locker room. If he took his time, then he would be the only one in there. He really didn't want to listen to the others complain about their problems. He already had a headache and really didn't want another one.
It took about twenty minutes to gather the balls. Slowly he walked toward the tunnel. His skull felt like it had been cracked in two. Instead of his head feeling light, it felt as if he weighed the amount of two bricks.
When he came out of the tunnel, he saw her. She was leaning against the exit like she had been waiting in him. Her smile revealed her prefect teeth. It was also the kind of smile that said she wanted something.
"Yes?" he asked.
She walked over to him. "You're hurt."
"What makes you say that?"
"Your pupils are dilated."
"It would take something really big and/or hard to hurt you're thick head."
Marcus smiled. "Are you saying that it's my brain that's big?"
She was really close now. "No." He could see every individual lash. "I'm just saying you have a big head."
Wait! Marcus froze. This was sweet, innocent Katie Bell. He couldn't do anything to her. Yet, it seemed like she was hitting on him. This wasn't right, but, yet, it felt so right.
"If my head didn't hurt, I would feel insulted by that little remark."
She leaned in so that their foreheads were touching. "So, are you going to do anything about it?" she whispered.
"Yes," Marcus whispered back.
"Stand here and talk to me."
No, I mean this."
And he kissed her.
The kiss was a shock, but she couldn't pull away. She was surprised that he had made the first move. She was surprised that he was kissing her.
She kissed him back and ran her figures through his hair. She was completely aware of the fact that at any given time anyone could see them. Yet, she didn't care. He was the only one she saw.
Marcus broke the kiss. "What about Wood?"
"We broke up."
He looked relieved. "Good, I didn't want him to kill me."
Katie laughed. "Kiss me."
And he did again.
Marcus did not really want to give Katie just a kiss for Christmas. He knew that some girls would enjoy kissing their boyfriend under the full moon and a night filled with stars with the snow falling fresh all around them. That just was not his scene and he was pretty sure that it was not Katie's.
"What about getting her a sweater or something?" Chris asked, interrupting Marcus's thought process.
"Nah, I don't think she is a clothes person and I am not sure what size she is," Marcus mused as he took another drink.
Adrian raised an eyebrow. "Not a clothing person, hey? I would like to be in a relationship like that."
Marcus gave Adrian a look. Sometimes his friends just drove him up the wall.
Marcus rested his hands on the table as he pushed himself up. He needed to get out of this pub and into the frosty air. Perhaps the coolness of the air would help clear his head. The deadline to find the perfect gift for Katie was coming rather quickly. He needed to find the solution to this problem and he needed to find it now.
"Are you going somewhere mate?" Adrian asked.
Marcus took a deep breath and inhaled the foul smells of the bar. "I need some air."
Adrian's eyes narrowed. "You? You never need air, even when you are so drunk that you don't know who you are."
Marcus threw some money on the table as he shrugged his shoulders. "Things change."
"I will say they do," Adrian muttered to Marcus's retreating back. "Someone is loopy."
Marcus pretended not to hear that as he let the pub door slam behind him. He stuffed his hands into his pockets as he roamed the streets of the village. Displays with a Christmas theme dotted the front of almost every shop and people singing Christmas carols stood at almost every street corner. The wanted posters of Sirius Black were almost covered up by the Christmas wonderland.
He put his head down and stared at his feet as he turned onto another street. He really needed to figure out what he was going to do about Katie's gift. She was really special to him and he did not want to screw this holiday season up.
Marcus leaned against the side of an empty building. People had always told him that the best gifts come from the heart. But what about those who could not come up with anything from their heart? If was not as if he did not have a heart; he was just not good at expressing what was in his heart. Stupid emotions...
His breath shone in the crisp air with every breath he took. All of this thinking was making his head hurt. He watched as a few people stared at him as they passed. He also hated whenever people stared at him; they probably just assumed that he was up to no good.
What made them think that?
Marcus pushed himself off the wall with ease. He was not going to get anything done by standing here and thinking about the gift. He actually needed to be doing and not thinking. He turned back the way that he had just come from and walked at a rapid pace. The faster he was moving, the more clear his head was.
Marcus passed shop after shop. A few he ducked into, but saw nothing of interest. He sighed. He was probably going to end up giving Katie some kind of crappy present. Defeat was coming to him quickly.
He ducked into a second hand store. He really did not know what he was looking for. He had only been in this shop a couple of times; there was something in here that was drawing him to this shop. The store was filled with all kinds of strange magical items that no one knew what they were or did no longer want those items. He strolled through the aisles with his hands in his pockets.
There was something here that he needed.
He approached a shelf with a many glittering things. The brightness from the objects almost blinded him. He narrowed his eyes as he locked at the objects. He moved a couple of the larger objects to the side until he found it. It was prefect, just wonderfully prefect. He pulled it out and went up to pay for it.
After leaving the shop, Marcus went into another shop that he had seen Christmas bears and bought one to go with his little trinket. He knew that she would love it. He knew that some things just were not an option for her with her background. She deserved to be spoiled every once in a while.
Marcus swung the bag as he made his way back to the castle. Christmas was going to just fine after all.
Christmas Eve
Marcus exited his family's manor in Dover and Apparated to Katie's house. Even though, he had turned of age last summer, the effects of this method of travelling still bothered him. He rested his hands on his knees on as attempted to regain himself.
After a few moments, he walked up to the Bell's two story home. It was just a simple place with nothing fancy. He could see the Christmas tree shinning through the window. He raised his fist and knocked on the front door. He stepped back and waited.
Katie opened the door within seconds. "Hey," she stepped back to let him. Her long blond hair was loose. She was wearing a blue and white sweater that brought out her blue eyes. "I was not sure if you were going to make it."
"They will not miss me for a few hours." Marcus's extended family was so large and they really did not know how was present at family gatherings and who was not.
Katie looked at him. "Okay, then." She stepped toward the living room. "I will tell them that you are here and we can go up to my room for a bit. Take your coat off too," she called as she disappeared into the room.
Marcus shrugged his coat off and draped it over his arms. He felt extremely awkward around Katie's family. He was not sure what they thought of him yet.
Katie came back out. "Okay." She led the way upstairs.
Marcus followed closely behind her. Once they reached the room, Katie shut the door behind them and turned on the light.
She went over to her desk and picked up a package. "This is for you." She handed it over to him.
Marcus nodded his thanks as he opened it. Inside there was a pair of gloves and a thick book.
"I am getting sick of holding your cold hand and I thought that you would find it very entertaining to read a Muggle fantasy."
It was a little known fact that he did actually read. "The Lord of the Rings," Marcus read slowly. He had never heard of it.
"It is a very good series," Katie said.
Marcus nodded and handed her gift. He was just going to have to take her word on the book.
Katie opened it and gasped. She was holding the bear and looking at the locket around its' neck. She took the locket off the neck. "Will you put it on me?"
Marcus walked to her and brushed her hair aside. He clasped the chain together.
She turned to him. "I did not put anything inside," he said.
Katie nodded. "I will just have to find something." She stood on her tiptoes and kissed him. "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas," Marcus said back.
She deepened the kiss as the soft tune of "Jingle Bell Rock" drifted up through the floor. After a few minutes, she broke the kiss. "We had best get downstairs before Dad comes up here and threatens to murder you in your sleep."
Marcus laughed.
Katie started toward the door. "Oh, the bear is the same one you got me last year."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Cocaine's latest alias, marked as "bath salt," is following in the line of banned synthetic drugs.
Experts say the powder, sold under various names in smoke shops, convenience stores and online, is actually synthetic cocaine.
It's been legal because it's labeled "not for human consumption."
But it's being snorted, smoked and swallowed, leading to a skyrocketing amount of poison cases across the state, according to Dr. Jay Schauben with the Florida Poison Information Center in Jacksonville.
Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General, filed an emergency order Wednesday banning all products containing MDVP, a substance which mimics the effects of cocaine or heroin.
Bondi said it's causing users to experience violent side effects, including hallucinations, severe paranoia, seizures and kidney failure.
"One of the side effects of this drug is it makes you think you're seeing monsters," Bondi said. "It also makes you think that you can fly and there are a lot of balconies out there with Spring Break."
The substances in the synthetic drug aren't regulated, so the effects vary from case to case.
Some side effects have been reported to last for days.
Although most of the state's cases came from Central and Northern Florida, there have been only two cases reported on the First Coast in the last year, according to Schauben. One was a nine-year-old boy.
The drug is inexpensive and does not show up on drug tests, making it popular with youth.
Florida Poison Control centers have reported 61 calls about abuse of the product.
Schauben said there could be more cases that have gone unreported.
"That doesn't mean it's not around here," Schauben said. "It just means that individuals are either not gonig to the hospital when they should be or they're showing up at the hospital but the nurses and the physicians aren't recognizing the toxidrome associated with this."
The Florida Poison Control Center began tracking the calls around March 2010.
Schauben said the recent surge in cases is likely just the tip of the iceburg.
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. john: the obama school board. >> they want a 20 million bk. the close the school. john: that's less per kid and they were spending on their own schools. >> no, that is what they get. we get about 10 million. it would get 20 million. on the close our school and get these of order kids back. john: so they would get more money because the charter schools is less. >> did less. so we have for our kids. someone had to step forward. i bought the space. i am on the space. can you imagine, american indian who buys property and must elises? [laughter] john: these are called american indian charter schools because your indian. >> i am american indian. john: as of schools for indians. >> that is against the law. that's against the law. i'm not breaking the law. john: you say the open bureaucrats just want the money and will get more money as they close charters because the state pays more to their lousy schools. but there is more to it than that. you, i'm sure, broke some of the rules. you did rent them property, you hired your wife, paid her money. you say to save money. maybe it's true, but y
. the same place where president obama spoke at a service on thursday. after that there will be an interfaith service at the growing memorial on boylston street, the site where the bombs went off on monday. in the newsroom, kira klapper, abc7 news. >> thank you, kira. >>> police are saying the tsarnaev brothers used an atm carb longing to a carjacking victim before the shootout on thursday. the car owner also told police the pair admitted they bombed the marathon and killed the police officer. their father said his sons could not have planned that attack because the fbi was watching them. but fbi agents say that is not true. they did speak to the older brother, tamerlan, back in 2011 after the russians informed them he had a radical islamist, but the fbi said they found no ties to terrorists. tamerlan was killed in the shootout thursday. police tackled him after he ran out of wall let's. they say dzhokhar tried to run down the officers but hit his brother's body instead, dragging it down the block. investigators say tamerlan's body was so badly damaged by bullets, they couldn't tell which gun
. >> reporter: on the national level, the shame on the senate call from president obama, my question is did the democrats did they throw in the towel too early on gun ban. >> absolutely. there is no way in the world they should have allowed the process of the so called don't continue to talk when you get into the filibuster, it's a don't continue to talk. the democrats should have wanted a continuation of conversation even until this day on this issue. they have only benefited from an expensive dialogue on gun control in this country. >> call these guys out. >> absolutely. call them. >> reporter: would that have worked in the public ranks or would they have had a split. >> the democrats that voted against it from states where 55% of the citizens own guns and they're up for reelection. people who gun activists are passionate about the issue. people who are not gun activists, they'll vote for someone who isn't on their side. >> there are only about 5 state as, north dakota, west virginia, arkansas. >> reporter: my question would be does harry reid and the president need their vote for other i
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Computers: The wifi is very unstable and slow in dorms but the labs are great. Black and white printing is unlimited and free, but color is 25 cents per page. No need for a personal printer though if you live on campus. There is a printer at the dorm lobbies.
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Weather: It's right next to the water so in winter and spring it's super cold!
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5 College Freshman
Campus Strictness: You get dropped from labs if you miss two out of the 9 days so no one really misses class. Other than that I don't think strictness is anyone's problem.
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4 College Freshman
Drug Safety: I haven't done any drugs or drank any alcohol (except for culinary reasons), but I don't feel left out at all.
3 College Freshman
Guys & Girls: Everyone's pretty nice. If you're in baking and pastry, expect to see no guys in your classes. A lot of culinary guys are okay I guess.
5 College Freshman
Academics: JWU is known for its culinary program, and there are so many opportunities for networking with chefs and business owners. There's not too much homework but I'm an honors student so I have a lot more homework and projects. There are no honors labs but you need to do an h-option assignment to get an honors credit. It's worth it though, because you learn more from it than your peers do from just class.
2 College Freshman
Scholarships: I wish I could get scholarships for academic accomplishments, but since it's a culinary school there are mostly scholarships for winning culinary contests. There are also faculty scholarship that the staff nominates students to get scholarships, so keep a good relationship with chefs!
College Freshman
Greek Life: I don't really know much about the greek life.. They don't really do anything.
4 College Freshman
Diversity: I haven't really thought about the diversity, but I guess it's pretty diverse in terms of ethnicity. I don't know much about the economic status or political views or religious background of people here.. I know there are quite a few homosexual guys.
3 College Freshman
Local Atmosphere: There is nothing around the harborside campus that I can easily walk to, but if you take the JWU bus to downcity it takes 15 minutes and there are tons of places to hang out and eat. The mall is in a 10 minute walking distance from the downcity bus stop. However, you need to ride the RIPTA (which is free for JWU students) to go to a grocery store, and I haven't done that yet.
College Freshman
Majors: I'm currently looking for an internship because it's a part of the requirements for my major. I've done two interviews so far and I'm attending a career fair to look for more places to explore.
5 College Freshman
Majors: I'm worried about finding a job after graduating because I know culinary jobs would not earn me enough money initially to be completely independent.
4 College Sophomore
Majors: I am a baking and pastry major. It was difficult to get into the program bacause it is such a small program and there are so many people who are trying to get in. I believe that the campus is becoming to small for the amout of student who are getting acceped and trying to find a major to fit into. The culinary program is the highlight of this campus. Theire is always more room for culinary students because its such a big program, as is the buisness major. I enjoy bien a BPA major and all of the opertunities that it opend for me. IU am glad that I did make it in the program.
5 College Sophomore
Majors: I love being a BPA major. There are so many ioppertunities that it opened up for me. It wasdifficult to get into the program and I see why. It is such a small program which is nice because we have small lab based classes and its easier to learn. I enjoy the hands on labs and believe that having that expierence in your freshman year is something unique that most colleges and compus dont have. The compassion the the teachers is impecable. they are so supportive and they are alwyas there to help, weather you are in labs or not. I am done with all of my BPA labs and I still keep in contact with my chefs. They like to hear what students are doing after they leave labs. They are always overjoyed to get visitors and they love being asked for help. I have had more than seven chefs help me get jobs, interviews, write recomendation letters ect. they are amazing. I truely believe the best part of this campus is the teaching staff.
3 College Sophomore
Campus Housing: The dorms are nice, they seem a bit small but thats because you share a room with someone.they have their own siks, showers and bathrooms in each room so its nice that we dont have to share commutal batheroms and showers like other schools. The buildin=g is generally pretty clean the cleaning crew clean it at least three times a week. The city View buliding is nice as well. More spacious and room to breath. We each have our own bedroom and sink and share common bathrooms and living spaces with the roomates. I believe that is is a bit leff clean and taken care of than the dorm. The garbage rooms are absolutely discusting and the hallways always smell bad.
4 College Sophomore
Diversity: I fell like yoy can be who you are at this school and not be judged for it. The diversity at JWU is huge. No one cares where your from, what you look like or your sexual preference. Its none of anyone elses buisness. My range of friends is very broad and each of us is their own person and is free to represent who thay are. We all have something diffrent going on in our lifes that we are fighing, so why judge someone on that.
College Sophomore
Drug Safety: I am not one to pick up a joint, but I dont judge who does. To each his own. I believe that at least half the students on campus participate in some sort of drug use out side of class and weather you try and stop it or not it gonna happen ayways. Students arent lighting up on campus so I dont see why is the campus's resonsibility to punish them if they are not harming anything/anyone on campus. Its what they want to do in their spare time. Its not bad to a point where is too noticible unless you know who does it. Other studentd dont seem to really have an issue with it. Its your life- do what you want to. I personally dont have a problem with it at all. As long as im not getting in trouble for your actions do what you want.
3 College Sophomore
Nightlife: Night time is when everyone comes out to play. The city is always full of people at night and the scenery is beautiful. The whole of uptown is lit up from the floor to the cealing.
3 College Sophomore
Scholarships: The school gives awya a generous amount of funding to their student, but still haveing a 40,000$ tuition each year ; what they give you doesnt help too much.
4 College Sophomore
Athletics: Athletics is nice. They are located in the WIldcat Den which means the facilities are open for everyone to use. The gymnasium is nice and open all day. The workout gym is brand new and I love being there. The front dest allows you to rend basketballs, volleyballs and other sports equipment while your in the gym. They have seperate rooms for you to do yoga and zumba, or just work out allone. The locker rooms and shower facilities are for players only- but thats okay because they have student bathrooms and your dorm room isnt that far that you cant wait till your back their to shower. When it comes down to it I believe that our athletic options in campus are wide range.
3 College Sophomore
Greek Life: In the Charlotte campus we just got greek life!! We had one frat that wasnt recognized by the school, and i see why. They are known for breaking laws with campus poliece, city poliece and being out of controll. They make their pledges do awefull things and getting in is hard unless you have an in with them already. The Frat house is discusting and the cops always get called to their parties and at least one person always gets arested; but since they are not recognized by the school it doesnt affect them at all. I am actually excited to be getting more recognized greek life and hopefully it wont be like the frat we have- Kapa Sigma. When we get more greek on campusI I plan to joing a nice, good sority.
3 College Sophomore
Local Atmosphere: Looking out my window at night I have a great view of the city. Its not to bad living here but it would be nicer if things were better. the crime rate is awefull, the parking is terrible and the noise of drunk people- even worse. Sometimes I fell like the downfalls of living in the city destroy the great things about it. The views are amazing, the culture is awesome and a nice walk uptown to the scenic waterfalls is all you need to clear your head for the day.
3 College Sophomore
Transportation: At JWU CHarlotte we are in the city, so their is always some sort of tranportation. Our gold rush system is free but only runs up and down the same street for 6 blocks- so unless your walk is a straight on trade it doesnt help. The bus fare is quite expensive-2.70$ a day doesnt seem like alot but it adds up. The monthly passes are even worse- 80$ a month, what college student on a budget has that kind of money to blow. Taxis in charlotte run at 2.70$ a mile, and when sitting in traffic in a taxi the meter just goes up an up! Talk about expensive, the meter goes up while the cash in your walet goes down. Luckly the campus is in a 5 minute walking distance from the underclassmen housing and 10 minute walk from the upperclassmen housing, but walking in the mornings alone for a 7:00 class isnt exactly a good idea here. There is also the option of having your car for commuter students- but parking now thats a hassle. The school doesnt charge more than $250 a term (3 months) to park our cars, but they dont have enough parking for nearly half of their students and city parking is a fortune, I pay 95$ a month to keep my car on campus in a non-gated, unsafe city lot- just so I can get to work. So all in all the commute to campus isnt awefull, untill you have to go somewhere, or park your car.
5 Recent Alumnus
Health & Safety: My parents were very impressed with the dedication to safety and security. They had a sense of comfort knowing I was being monitored if I had to be out late at night for any reason
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Academics: I had a great experience and would recommend JWU to anyone interested in a well rounded and prestigious school for Culinary Arts
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" must implement a to_app method" unless $mount->can('to_app'); $meta->add_mount( path => $path, app => $mount->to_app, ); } elsif (ref($mount) eq 'CODE') { $meta->add_mount( path => $path, app => $mount, ) } else { confess "Unknown mount $mount"; } } sub wrap { my ($meta, $middleware, %deps) = @_; $meta->add_middleware( middleware => $middleware, deps => \%deps, ); } 1; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME OX - the hardest working two letters in Perl =head1 VERSION version 0.04 =head1 SYNOPSIS The following describes the outline of how a model-view-controller application might be configured as an OX application. package MyApp; use OX; has model => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'MyApp::Model', lifecycle => 'Singleton', ); has template_root => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', value => 'root', ); has view => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Template', dependencies => { INCLUDE_PATH => 'template_root' }, ); has root => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'MyApp::Controller', infer => 1, ); router as { route '/' => 'root.index'; route '/inc' => ''; route '/dec' => 'root.dec'; route '/reset' => 'root.reset'; route '/set/:number' => 'root.set' => ( number => { isa => 'Int' }, ); }; =head1 DESCRIPTION OX is a web application framework based on L, L, and L. Bread::Board lets you build your application from a collection of normal L objects, organized together in a "container", which allows components to easily interoperate without any additional configuration. Path::Router maps incoming request paths to method calls on the objects in the Bread::Board container. Finally, at compile time, the framework turns your entire application into a simple PSGI coderef, which can be used directly by any PSGI-supporting web server. The philosophy behind OX is that the building blocks of your web application should just "click" together, without the overhead of an additional plugin system or "glue" layer. The combination of Bread::Board, Path::Router, and the Moose object system provides all that is needed for requests to be mapped to methods and for components to communicate with each other. For example, all configuration information can be provided via roles applied to the application class (affecting application initialization). Similarly, additional runtime features can be added by providing your own request (sub)class. Additionally, OX provides an easy-to-use "sugar" layer (based on L) that makes writing a web application as easy as writing any Moose class. The OX sugar layer supports the full complement of Moose features (attributes, roles, and more), as well as addiitonal sugar methods for mapping request routes to object methods. (See L, L, and L for more detailed information.) You're also free to eschew the sugary syntax and build your application manually -- see L for more information on going that route. =head1 FUNCTIONS =head2 as router as { ... }; Sugar function for declaring coderefs. =head2 router router as { ... }; This function declares the router for your application. By default, it creates a router based on L. Within the C body, you can declare routes, middleware, and mounted applications using the C, C, and C keywords described below. router ['My::Custom::RouteBuilder'] => as { ... }; By default, actions specified with C will be parsed by either L, L, or L, whichever one matches the route. If you want to be able to specify routes in other ways, you can specify a list of L classes as the first argument to C, which will be used in place of the previously mentioned list. router 'My::Custom::Router' => ( foo => 'some_service', ); router My::Custom::Router->new(%router_args); If you have declared a router manually elsewhere, you can pass in either the class name or the built router object to C instead of a block. It will be used directly in that case. If you pass a class name, it can take an optional hash of dependencies, which will be resolved and passed into the class's constructor as arguments. =head2 route $path, $action_spec, %params The C keyword adds a route to the current router. It is only valid in a C block. The first parameter to C is the path for the route to match, the second is an C to be parsed by an L class, and the remaining parameters are a hash of parameters containing either defaults or validations for the router to use when matching. route '/' => 'controller.index'; This declares a simple route using the L route builder. When the application receives a request for C, the application will resolve the C service, and call the C method on it, passing in an L instance for the request. The C method should return either a string, a L response arrayref, or an object that responds to C (probably a L object). route '/view/:id' => 'posts.view', ( id => { isa => 'Int' }, name => 'view', ); This declares a route with parameters. This will resolve the C service and call the C method on it, passing in a request object and the value of C. If C was provided but was not an C, this route will not match at all. Inside the C method, the C method will return a hash of C<< (controller => 'posts', action => 'view', id => $id, name => 'view') >>. Also, other parts of the application can call C with any unique subset of those parameters (such as C<< (name => 'view', id => 1) >>) to get the absolute URL path for this route (for instance, C<"/myapp/view/1"> if this app is mounted at C). route '/method' => 'method_controller'; Since this action spec doesn't contain a C<.>, this will be handled by the L route builder. If a user sends a C request to C, it will resolve the C service, and call the C method on it, passing in the request object. Variable path components and defaults and validations work identically to the description above. route '/get_path' => sub { my $r = shift; return $r->path }; This route will just call the given coderef directly, passing in the request object. Variable path components and defaults and validations work identically to the description above. route '/custom' => $my_custom_thing; In addition, if you specified any custom route builders in the C description, you can pass anything that they can handle into the second argument here as well. =head2 mount The C keyword declares an entirely separate application to be mounted under a given path in your application's namespace. This is different from C, because the targets are full applications, which handle the entire path namespace under the place they are mounted - they aren't just handlers for one specific path. mount '/other_app' => 'My::Other::App', ( template_root => 'template_root', ); If you specify a class name for the target, it will create an app by creating an instance of the class (resolving the parameters as dependencies and passing them into the constructor) and calling C on that instance. mount '/other_app' => My::Other::App->new; If you specify an object as the target, it will create the app by calling C on that object. mount '/other_app' => sub { my $env = shift; return [ 200, [], [$env->{PATH_INFO}] ]; }; You can also specify a coderef directly. Note that in this case, unlike specifying a coderef as the route spec for the C keyword, the coderef is a plain L application, which receives an env hashref and returns a full PSGI response arrayref. =head2 wrap The C keyword declares a middleware to apply to the application. The C statements will be applied in order such that the first C statement corresponds to the outermost middleware (just like L). wrap 'Plack::Middleware::Static' => ( path => dep(value => sub { s{^/static/}{} }), root => 'static_root', ); If you specify a class name as the middleware to apply, it will create an instance of the class (resolving the parameters as dependencies and passing them into the constructor) and call C on that instance, passing in the application coderef so far and using the result as the new application (this is the API provided by L). wrap Plack::Middleware::StackTrace->new(force => 1); If you specify an object as the middleware, it will call C on that object, passing in the application coderef so far and use the result as the new application. wrap sub { my $app = shift; return sub { my $env = shift; return [302, [Location => '/'], []] if $env->{PATH_INFO} eq '/'; return $app->($env); }; }; If you specify a coderef as the middleware, it will call that coderef, passing in the application coderef so far, and use the result as the new application. =head1 BUGS No known bugs. 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0.099045 | <urn:uuid:73e5ee8c-6721-4884-a87e-590442408a92> | en | 0.861067 | adjective, warmer, warmest.
having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
of or at a moderately high temperature; characterized by comparatively high temperature: a warm oven; a warm climate; a warm summer.
having a sensation of bodily heat: to be warm from fast walking.
conserving or maintaining warmth or heat: warm clothes.
(of colors) suggestive of warmth; inclining toward red or orange rather than toward green or blue.
characterized by or showing lively feelings, passions, emotions, sympathies, etc.: a warm heart; warm interest.
strongly attached; intimate: warm friends.
cordial or hearty: a warm welcome.
heated, irritated, or angry: to become warm when contradicted.
animated, lively, brisk, or vigorous: a warm debate.
strong or fresh: a warm scent.
close to something sought, as in a game.
uncomfortable or unpleasant: His opponents made things so warm that he decided to quit.
British Informal. well off; in easy circumstances.
verb (used with object)
to make warm; heat (often followed by up ): to warm one's hands; to warm up a room.
to heat or cook (something) for reuse, as leftovers (usually followed by over or up ): to warm up yesterday's stew.
to excite enthusiasm, ardor, cheerfulness, or vitality in (someone): The wine soon warmed the company.
to inspire with kindly feeling; affect with lively pleasure: It warms my soul to hear you say that.
to fill (a person, crowd, etc.) with strong feelings, as hatred, anger, or zeal: Restrictions had warmed the crew to the point of mutiny.
verb (used without object)
to become warm or warmer (often followed by up ): The room will warm up when the fire gets going.
to become ardent, enthusiastic, animated, etc. (often followed by up or to ): The speaker quickly warmed to her subject.
to grow kindly, friendly, or sympathetically disposed (often followed by to or toward ): My heart warms toward him.
Informal. a warming: Sit by the fire and have a nice warm.
Verb phrases
warm down, to conclude or follow a period of strenuous physical exercise by walking or gentle stretching.
warm up,
to prepare for a game, sports contest, dance, etc., by moderate exercise or practice beforehand.
to increase in excitement, intensity, violence, etc.: The racial situation was warming up.
to become friendlier or more receptive: No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't warm up to that proposal.
Radio and Television. to entertain (an audience) prior to a broadcast to increase receptiveness.
warm the bench, Sports. to serve as a substitute who rarely plays in a game: The young outfielder warmed the bench for the Yankees last season.
before 900; (adj.) Middle English werm, warm, Old English wearm; cognate with German warm, Old Norse varmr; (v.) Middle English warmen, wermen, Old English werman, wirman (transitive), wearmian (intransitive), both akin to the adj.; (noun) derivative of the v.
warmer, noun
warmish, adjective
warmly, adverb
warmness, noun
overwarmed, adjective
prewarm, verb (used with object)
rewarm, verb
unwarmed, adjective
unwarming, adjective
well-warmed, adjective
1. lukewarm, tepid, heated. 6. hearty, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, emotional, ardent. 7. friendly, close. 8. fervent. 9. annoyed, vexed, irate, furious. 10. vehement. 17. animate, excite, waken, stir, rouse, arouse.
1–3, 5, 8. cool.
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warm (wɔːm)
1. characterized by or having a moderate degree of heat; moderately hot
2. maintaining or imparting heat: a warm coat
3. having or showing ready affection, kindliness, etc: a warm personality
4. lively, vigorous, or passionate: a warm debate
5. cordial or enthusiastic; ardent: warm support
6. quickly or easily aroused: a warm temper
7. (of colours) predominantly red or yellow in tone
8. (of a scent, trail, etc) recently made; strong
9. near to finding a hidden object or discovering or guessing facts, as in children's games
10. informal uncomfortable or disagreeable, esp because of the proximity of danger
vb (when intr, often foll by to) (often foll by to)
11. (sometimes foll by up) to raise or be raised in temperature; make or become warm or warmer
12. to make or become excited, enthusiastic, etc (about): he warmed to the idea of buying a new car
13. to feel affection, kindness, etc (for someone): I warmed to her mother from the start
14. (Brit) (tr) to give a caning to: I'll warm you in a minute
15. informal a warm place or area: come into the warm
16. informal the act or an instance of warming or being warmed
[Old English wearm; related to Old Frisian, Old Saxon warm, Old Norse varmr]
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Word Origin & History
O.E. wearm, from P.Gmc. *warmaz (cf. O.S., O.Fris., M.Du., O.H.G., Ger. warm, O.N. varmr, Goth. warmjan "to warm"), from PIE *gwher- (cf. Skt. gharmah "heat;" O.Pers. Garmapada-, name of the fourth month, corresponding to June/July, from garma- "heat;" Arm. jerm "warm;" Gk. thermos "warm;" L. formus
"warm," fornax "oven;" O.Ir. fogeir "heated;" Hitt. war- "to burn"). The root also may be connected to that of O.C.S. goriti "to burn," varu "heat," variti "to cook, boil;" and Lith. verdu "to seethe." The distinction, based on degree of heat, between "warm" and "hot" is general in Balto-Slavic and Gmc., but in other languages one word often covers both (cf. L. calidus, Gk. thermos, Fr. chaud, Sp. caliente). In reference to feelings, etc., attested from c.1480. Sense in guessing games first recorded 1860, from earlier hunting use in reference to scent or trail (1713). Warm-blooded in ref. to mammals is recorded from 1793. Warm-hearted first recorded c.1500.
O.E. wyrman "make warm" and wearmian "become warm;" from the root of warm (adj.). Phrase warm the bench is sports jargon first recorded 1907. Warm up (v.) "exercise before an activity" is attested from 1868. In ref. to appliances, motors, etc., attested from 1947. Noun phrase
warm-up "act or practice of warming up" is recorded from 1915.
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Clouds clouds are another source of albedo that play into the global warming equation.
At times it seems he is warming to bec however his sister always talks him round.
A severe threat to the tundras, specifically to the permafrost, is global warming.
The underlying motivation for funding both companies is to help combat global warming.
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Conference of Engineers at the Menai Straits Preparatory to Floating one of the Tubes of the Britannia Bridge, by John Seymour Lucas, 1868
Names Engineer
Occupation type Profession
Activity sectors Applied science
Competencies Mathematics, scientific knowledge, management skills
Education required Engineering education
Related jobs Scientist, architect, project manager
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.[1][2] The word engineer is derived from the Latin roots ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").[3][4]
The work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their subsequent applications to human needs and quality of life.[1]
Roles and expertise[edit]
Engineers conferring on prototype design, 1954
Engineers apply techniques of engineering analysis in testing, production, or maintenance. Analytical engineers may supervise production in factories and elsewhere, determine the causes of a process failure, and test output to maintain quality. They also estimate the time and cost required to complete projects. Supervisory engineers are responsible for major components or entire projects. Engineering analysis involves the application of scientific analytic principles and processes to reveal the properties and state of the system, device or mechanism under study. Engineering analysis proceeds by separating the engineering design into the mechanisms of operation or failure, analyzing or estimating each component of the operation or failure mechanism in isolation, and re-combining the components. They may analyze risk.[7][8][9][10]
Specialization and management[edit]
Most engineers specialize in one or more engineering disciplines.[1] Numerous specialties are recognized by professional societies, and each of the major branches of engineering has numerous subdivisions. Civil engineering, for example, includes structural and transportation engineering, and materials engineering includes ceramic, metallurgical, and polymer engineering. Engineers also may specialize in one industry, such as motor vehicles, or in one type of technology, such as turbines or semiconductor materials.[1]
Several recent studies have investigated how engineers spend their time; that is, the work tasks they perform and how their time is distributed among these. Research[6][11] suggests that there are several key themes present in engineers’ work: (1) technical work (i.e., the application of science to product development); (2) social work (i.e., interactive communication between people); (3) computer-based work; (4) information behaviours. Amongst other more detailed findings, a recent work sampling study[11] found that engineers spend 62.92% of their time engaged in technical work, 40.37% in social work, and 49.66% in computer-based work. Furthermore, there was considerable overlap between these different types of work, with engineers spending 24.96% of their time engaged in technical and social work, 37.97% in technical and non-social, 15.42% in non-technical and social, and 21.66% in non-technical and non-social.
Engineering is also an information intensive field, with research finding that engineers spend 55.8% of their time engaged in various different information behaviours, including 14.2% actively seeking information from other people (7.8%) and information repositories such as documents and databases (6.4%).[6]
The time engineers spend engaged in such activities is also reflected in the competencies required in engineering roles. In addition to engineers’ core technical competence, research has also demonstrated the critical nature of their personal attributes, project management skills, and cognitive abilities to success in the role.[12]
The Challenger disaster is held as a case study of engineering ethics.
Engineers have obligations to the public, their clients, employers and the profession. Many engineering societies have established codes of practice and codes of ethics to guide members and inform the public at large. Each engineering discipline and professional society maintains a code of ethics, which the members pledge to uphold. Depending on their specializations, engineers may also be governed by specific statute, whistleblowing, product liability laws, and often the principles of business ethics.[13][14][15]
Some graduates of engineering programs in North America may be recognized by the Iron Ring or Engineer's Ring, a ring made of iron or stainless steel that is worn on the little finger of the dominant hand. This tradition began in 1925 in Canada with The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, where the ring serves as a symbol and reminder of the engineer's obligations for the engineering profession. In 1972, the practice was adopted by several colleges in the United States including members of the Order of the Engineer.
Most engineering programs involve a concentration of study in an engineering specialty, along with courses in both mathematics and the physical and life sciences. Many programs also include courses in general engineering and applied accounting. A design course, sometimes accompanied by a computer or laboratory class or both, is part of the curriculum of most programs. Often, general courses not directly related to engineering, such as those in the social sciences or humanities, also are required.
Accreditation is the process by which engineering program are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met. The Washington Accord serves as an international accreditation agreement for academic engineering degrees, recognizing the substantial equivalency in the standards set by many major national engineering bodies. In the United States, post-secondary degree programs in engineering are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
In many countries, engineering tasks such as the design of bridges, electric power plants, industrial equipment, machine design and chemical plants, must be approved by a licensed professional engineer. Most commonly titled Professional Engineer is a license to practice and is indicated with the use of post-nominal letters; PE or P.Eng. These are common in North America, as is European Engineer (Eur Ing) in Europe. The practice of engineering in the UK is not a regulated profession but the control of the titles of Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Incorporated Engineer (IEng) is regulated. These titles are protected by law and are subject to strict requirements defined by the Engineering Council UK. The title CEng is in use in much of the Commonwealth.
Many semi-skilled trades and engineering technicians in the UK have, in the past, called themselves engineers. This is now seen as a misuse of the title, giving a false image of the profession. A growing movement in the UK is to legally protect the title 'Engineer' so that only professional engineers can use it; a DirectGov petition[16] has been started to further this cause.
In the United States, licensure is generally attainable through combination of education, pre-examination (Fundamentals of Engineering exam), examination (Professional Engineering Exam),[17] and engineering experience (typically in the area of 5+ years). Each state tests and licenses Professional Engineers. Currently most states do not license by specific engineering discipline, but rather provide generalized licensure, and trust engineers to use professional judgement regarding their individual competencies; this is the favoured approach of the professional societies. Despite this, however, at least one of the examinations required by most states is actually focused on a particular discipline; candidates for licensure typically choose the category of examination which comes closest to their respective expertise.
In Canada, the profession in each province is governed by its own engineering association. For instance, in the Province of British Columbia an engineering graduate with four or more years of post graduate experience in an engineering-related field and passing exams in ethics and law will need to be registered by the Association for Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (APEGBC)[18] in order to become a Professional Engineer and be granted the professional designation of P.Eng allowing one to practice engineering.
In Continental Europe, Latin America, Turkey and elsewhere the title is limited by law to people with an engineering degree and the use of the title by others is illegal. In Italy, the title is limited to people who both hold an engineering degree and have passed a professional qualification examination (Esame di Stato). In Portugal, professional engineer titles and accredited engineering degrees are regulated and certified by the Ordem dos Engenheiros. In the Czech Republic, the title "engineer" (Ing.) is given to people with a (masters) degree in chemistry, technology or economics for historical and traditional reasons. In Greece, the academic title of "Diploma Engineer" is awarded after completion of the five-year engineering study course and the title of "Certified Engineer" is awarded after completion of the four-year course of engineering studies at a Technological Educational Institute (TEI).
Differences among countries[edit]
The perception and definition of engineering varies across countries and continents. British school children in the 1950s were brought up with stirring tales of 'the Victorian Engineers', chief amongst whom were the Brunels, the Stephensons, Telford and their contemporaries. In the UK, "engineering" was more recently perceived as an industry sector consisting of employers and employees loosely termed "engineers" who included the semi-skilled trades. However, the 21st-century view, especially amongst the more educated members of society, is to reserve the term Engineer to describe a university-educated practitioner of ingenuity represented by the Chartered (or Incorporated) Engineer.
In the US and Canada, engineering is a regulated profession whose practice and practitioners are licensed and governed by law. A 2002 study by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers revealed that engineers are the third most respected professionals behind doctors and pharmacists.[19]
In the Indian subcontinent, Russia and China, engineering is one of the most sought after undergraduate courses, inviting thousands of applicants to show their ability in highly competitive entrance examinations.
In Egypt, the educational system makes engineering the second-most-respected profession in the country (after medicine); engineering colleges at Egyptian universities require extremely high marks on the General Certificate of Secondary Education (Arabic: الثانوية العامةal-Thānawiyyah al-`Āmmah)—on the order of 97 or 98%—and are thus considered (along with the colleges of medicine, natural science, and pharmacy) to be among the "pinnacle colleges" (كليات القمة kullīyāt al-qimmah).
Corporate culture[edit]
In companies and other organizations, there is sometimes a tendency to undervalue people with advanced technological and scientific skills compared to celebrities, fashion practitioners, entertainers and managers. In his book The Mythical Man-Month,[20] Fred Brooks Jr says that managers think of senior people as "too valuable" for technical tasks, and that management jobs carry higher prestige. He tells how some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles to overcome this problem: a professional employee is a "member of the technical staff." IBM maintain a dual ladder of advancement; the corresponding managerial and engineering / scientific rungs are equivalent. Brooks recommends that structures need to be changed; the boss must give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow.
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b c d Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor (2006). "Engineers". Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition. Retrieved 2006-09-21.
2. ^ National Society of Professional Engineers (2006). "Frequently Asked Questions About Engineering". Archived from the original on 2006-05-22. Retrieved 2006-09-21. Science is knowledge based on observed facts and tested truths arranged in an orderly system that can be validated and communicated to other people. Engineering is the creative application of scientific principles used to plan, build, direct, guide, manage, or work on systems to maintain and improve our daily lives.
3. ^ Oxford Concise Dictionary, 1995
4. ^ "engineer". Oxford Dictionaries. April 2010. Oxford Dictionaries. April 2010. Oxford University Press. 22 October 2011
5. ^ A.Eide, R.Jenison, L.Mashaw, L.Northup. Engineering: Fundamentals and Problem Solving. New York City: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.,2002
6. ^ a b c Robinson, M. A. (2010). An empirical analysis of engineers’ information behaviors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(4), 640–658.
7. ^ Baecher, G.B., Pate, E.M., and de Neufville, R. (1979) “Risk of dam failure in benefit/cost analysis”, Water Resources Research, 16(3), 449–456.
8. ^ Hartford, D.N.D. and Baecher, G.B. (2004) Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety. Thomas Telford
9. ^ International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) (2003) Risk Assessment in Dam Safety Management. ICOLD, Paris
10. ^ British Standards Institution (BSIA) (1991)BC 5760 Part 5: Reliability of systems equipment and components - Guide to failure modes effects and criticality analysis (FMEA and FMECA).
11. ^ a b Robinson, M. A. (2012). How design engineers spend their time: Job content and task satisfaction. Design Studies, 33(4), 391–425.
12. ^ Robinson, M. A., Sparrow, P. R., Clegg, C., & Birdi, K. (2005). Design engineering competencies: Future requirements and predicted changes in the forthcoming decade. Design Studies, 26(2), 123–153.
13. ^ American Society of Civil Engineers (2006) [1914]. Code of Ethics. Reston, Virginia, USA: ASCE Press. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
14. ^ Institution of Civil Engineers (2009). Royal Charter, By-laws, Regulations and Rules. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
15. ^ National Society of Professional Engineers (2007) [1964]. Code of Ethics. Alexandria, Virginia, USA: NSPE. Retrieved 2006-10-20.
16. ^ [1]
17. ^ [2] NCEES is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing professional licensure for engineers and surveyors.
18. ^ APEGBC - Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC
19. ^ Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, 2002, Engineering: One of Ontario's most respected professions
20. ^ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, p119 (see also p242), Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2nd ed. 1995, pub. Addison-Wesley
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An improvised explosive device (IED) is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism. Roadside bombs are a common use of IEDs.
IEDs may be used in terrorist actions or in unconventional warfare by guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. In the second Iraq War, IEDs were used extensively against US-led Coalition forces and by the end of 2007 they had become responsible for approximately 63% of Coalition deaths in Iraq.[1] They are also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and have caused over 66% of the Coalition casualties in the 2001–present Afghanistan War.[2]
The term Improvised Explosive Device comes from the British Army in the 1970s, after the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) used bombs made from agricultural fertilizer and semtex smuggled from Libya to make highly effective boobytrap devices or remote-controlled bombs. An IED is a bomb fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy or incapacitate personnel or vehicles. In some cases, IEDs are used to distract, disrupt, or delay an opposing force, facilitating another type of attack.[5] IEDs may incorporate military or commercially sourced explosives, and often combine both types, or they may otherwise be made with homemade explosives (HME).
An IED has five components: a switch (activator), an initiator (fuse), container (body), charge (explosive), and a power source (battery). An IED designed for use against armoured targets such as personnel carriers or tanks will be designed for armour penetration, by using either a shaped charge or an explosively formed penetrator. IEDs are extremely diverse in design, and may contain many types of initiators, detonators, penetrators, and explosive loads. Antipersonnel IEDs typically also contain fragmentation-generating objects such as nails, ball bearings or even small rocks to cause wounds at greater distances than blast-pressure alone could. IEDs are triggered by various methods, including remote control, infra-red or magnetic triggers, pressure-sensitive bars or trip wires (victim-operated). In some cases, multiple IEDs are wired together in a daisy-chain, to attack a convoy of vehicles spread out along a roadway.
IEDs made by inexperienced designers or with substandard materials may fail to detonate, and in some cases actually detonate on either the maker or the emplacer of the device (these unintended early detonations are known as pre-detonations, "own goals," or "self-resolving bomb-tech removal" if the placer is killed in the detonation). Some groups, however, have been known to produce sophisticated devices that are constructed with components scavenged from conventional munitions and standard consumer electronics components, such as mobile phones, washing machine timers, pagers, or garage door openers. The sophistication of an IED depends on the training of the designer and the tools and materials available.
A vehicle borne IED, or VBIED, is a military term for a car bomb or truck bomb but can be any type of transportation such as a bicycle, motorcycle, donkey, etc. These are typically employed by insurgents, and can carry a relatively large payload. They can also be detonated from a remote location. VBIEDs can create additional shrapnel through the destruction of the vehicle itself, as well as using vehicle fuel as an incendiary weapon. The act of a person's being in this vehicle and detonating it is known as an SVBIED suicide.
Of increasing popularity among insurgent forces in Iraq is the HBIED or House Borne IED, coming out of the common military practice of clearing houses, insurgents will rig an entire house to detonate and collapse shortly after a clearing squad has entered.
Ernst Jünger mentions in his war memoir the systematic use of IEDs and booby traps to cover the retreat of German troops at the Somme region during the First World War. Another early example of coordinated large-scale use of IEDs was the Belarussian Rail War launched by Belarussian guerrillas against the Germans during World War II.[6][7] Both command-detonated and delayed-fuse IEDs were used to derail thousands of German trains during 1943–1944.[8]
IEDs were used during the Vietnam War by the Viet Cong against land- and river-borne vehicles as well as personnel.[9] They were commonly constructed using materials from unexploded American ordnance.[10] Thirty-three percent of U.S. casualties in Vietnam and twenty-eight percent of deaths were officially attributed to mines; these figures include losses caused by both IEDs and commercially manufactured mines.[11]
Northern Ireland[edit]
Marines beside a mud wall as an explosion goes off behind it
A brigade commander said that sniffer dogs are the most reliable way of detecting IEDs.[13] However, statistical evidence gathered by the US Army Maneuver Support Center at Fort Leonard Wood, MO shows that the dogs are not the most effective means of detecting IEDs.[citation needed]
In July 2012 it was reported that "sticky bombs", magnetically adhesive IED's that were prevalent in the Iraq War, showed up in Afghanistan.[14][15]
Hezbollah made extensive use of IEDs to attack Israeli forces after Israel's Operation Peace for Galilee campaign. Israel withdrew from most of Lebanon in 1985 but still kept troops stationed in a buffer zone in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah frequently used IEDs to attack Israeli vehicles in this area up until the Israeli withdrawal in May 2000.
One such bomb killed Israeli Brigadier General Erez Gerstein[16] on February 28, 1999, the highest-ranking Israeli to die in Lebanon since Yekutiel Adam's death in 1982.
Also in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, a Merkava Mark II tank was hit by a pre-positioned Hezbollah IED, killing all 4 IDF servicemen on board,[17] the first of two IEDs to damage a Merkava tank.
Controlled explosion of IED, US Army in Iraq
Beginning in July 2003, the Iraqi insurgency used IEDs to target Coalition vehicles. According to the Washington Post, 64% of U.S deaths in Iraq occurred due to IEDs.[18] A French study[19] showed that in Iraq, from March 2003 to November 2006, on a global 3,070 deaths in the US-led Coalition soldiers, 1,257 were caused by IEDs, i.e. 41%. That is to say more than in the "normal fights" (1027 dead, 34%). Insurgents now use the bombs to target not only Coalition vehicles but Iraqi police as well.
Despite the increased armor, IEDs have been killing military personnel and civilians with greater frequency. May 2007 was the deadliest month for IED attacks thus far, with a reported 89 of the 129 Coalition casualties coming from an IED attack.[1] According to the Pentagon, 250,000 tons (of 650,000 tons total) of Iraqi ordnance were looted, providing a large supply of ammunition for the insurgents.
In October 2005, the UK government charged that Iran was supplying insurgents with the technological know-how to make shaped charge IEDs.[20] Both Iranian and Iraqi government officials denied the allegations.[21][22]
United States[edit]
IEDs are increasingly being used by Maoists in India.[23]
On 17 April 2013, Two kilos of explosives used in Bangalore bomb blast at Malleshwaram area, leaving 16 injured and no casualties. Intelligence sources have said the bomb was an Improvised Explosive Device or IED.[27]
Home-made IEDs are used extensively during the Post-civil war violence in Libya, mostly in the city of Benghazi against police stations, cars or foreign embassies.[28][29][30]
During the Syrian Civil War, militant insurgents were using IEDs to attack buses, trucks and tanks.[31][32] Additionally, the Syrian Air Force has used barrel bombs to attack cities and other largely civilian targets. Such barrel bombs consist of barrels filled with high explosives, oil, and shrapnel, and are dropped from helicopters.[33][34]
By warhead[edit]
Explosively Formed Penetrator/Projectiles (EFPs)[edit]
Directionally Focused Charges[edit]
Directionally Focused Charges (aka Directionally Focused Fragmentary Charges) are very similar to the EFP with the main difference being that the top plate is usually flat and not concave. It also is not made with machined copper but much cheaper cast or cut metal. The contents of the canister are usually nuts, bolts, ball bearings and other similar shrapnel products and explosive.
By delivery mechanism[edit]
Monkeys and war pigs were used as incendiaries around 1000 AD. More famously the "anti-tank dog" and "bat bomb" were developed during World War II. In recent times, a two-year-old child and seven other people were killed by explosives strapped to a horse in the town of Chita in Colombia[39] The carcasses of certain animals were also used to conceal explosive devices by the Iraqi insurgency.[40]
IEDs strapped to the necks of farmers have been used on at least three occasions by guerrillas in Colombia, as a way of extortion.[41][42] American pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells was killed in 2003 by an explosive fastened to his neck, purportedly under duress from the maker of the bomb.[43] In 2011 a schoolgirl in Sydney, Australia had a suspected collar bomb attached to her by an attacker in her home. The device was removed by police after a ten-hour operation and proved to be a hoax.[44]
Suicide bombing usually refers to an individual wearing explosives and detonating them in order to kill others including themselves, a technique pioneered by LTTE (Tamil Tigers).[45] The bomber will conceal explosives on and around their person, commonly using a vest (or possibly a prosthetic[46]) and will use a timer or some other trigger to detonate the explosives. The logic behind such attacks is the belief that an IED delivered by a human has a greater chance of achieving success than any other method of attack. In addition, there is the psychological impact of terrorists prepared to deliberately sacrifice themselves for their cause.[47]
Surgically implanted[edit]
In May 2012 American counter-terrorism officials leaked their acquisition of documents describing the preparation and use of surgically implanted improvised explosive devices.[48][49][50] The devices were designed to evade detection. The devices were described as containing no metal, so they could not be detected by xrays.
Security officials referred to bombs being surgically implanted into suicide bomber's "love handles".[48]
According to The Daily Mirror UK security officials at MI-6 asserted that female bombers could travel undetected carrying the explosive chemicals in otherwise standard breast implants.[51][52] The bomber would blow up the implanted explosives by injecting a chemical trigger.[50]
In 2008, rocket-propelled IEDs, dubbed Improvised Rocket Assisted Mortars (IRAM) by the military, came to be employed in numbers against U.S. forces in Iraq. They have been described as propane tanks packed with explosives and powered by 107 mm rockets.[53] They are similar to some Provisional IRA barrack buster mortars.
By trigger mechanism[edit]
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Victim-operated improvised explosive devices (VOIED) are designed to function upon contact with a victim; also known as booby traps. VOIED switches are often well hidden from the victim or disguised as innocuous everyday objects. They are operated by means of movement. Switching methods include tripwire, pressure mats, spring-loaded release, push, pull or tilt. Common forms of VOIED include the under-vehicle IED (UVIED) and improvised landmines.[47]
The British accused Iran and Hezbollah of teaching Iraqi fighters to use infrared light beams to trigger IEDs. As the occupation forces became more sophisticated in interrupting radio signals around their convoys, the insurgents adapted their triggering methods.[54] In some cases, when a more advanced method was disrupted, the insurgents regressed to using uninterruptible means, such as hard wires from the IED to detonator; however, this method is much harder to effectively conceal. It later emerged however, that these so-called "advanced" IEDs were actually old IRA technology. The infrared beam method was perfected by the IRA in the early '90s after it acquired the technology from a botched undercover British Army operation. Many of the IEDs being used against Coalition forces in Iraq were originally developed by the British Army who unintentionally passed the information on to the IRA.[55] The IRA taught their techniques to the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the knowledge spread to Iraq.[56]
Counter-IED Efforts[edit]
Israeli IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer, which is used by the IDF Combat Engineering Corps for clearing heavy belly charges and booby-trapped buildings and other civilian buildings.
Detection and disarmament[edit]
Military forces and law enforcement personnel from around the world have developed a number of render safe procedures (RSP) to deal with IEDs. RSPs may be developed as a result of direct experience with devices or by applied research designed to counter the threat. The supposed effectiveness of IED jamming systems, including vehicle- and personally mounted systems, has caused IED technology to essentially regress to command-wire detonation methods.[57] These are physical connections between the detonator and explosive device and cannot be jammed. However, these types of IEDs are more difficult to emplace quickly, and are more readily detected.
Military forces from India, Canada, United Kingdom, Israel, Spain and the United States are at the forefront of counter-IED efforts, as all have direct experience in dealing with IEDs used against them in conflict or terrorist attacks. From the research and development side, programs such as the new Canadian Unmanned Systems Challenge, will bring students groups together to invent an unmanned device to both locate IEDs and pinpoint the insurgents.[58]
Technological countermeasures are only part of the solution in the effort to defeat IEDs; experience, training, and awareness remain key factors in combating them. For example, there are visual signs that may suggest the presence of an IED, such as recently turned-over soil or sand by a road, or an abandoned vehicle beside a road. Recognizing these telltale signs may be as valuable as having sophisticated detection equipment.
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Nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) is a general name applied to a family of transcription factors shown to be important in immune response. One or more members of the NFAT family is expressed in most cells of the immune system. NFAT is also involved in the development of cardiac, skeletal muscle, and nervous systems.
The NFAT transcription factor family consists of five members NFATc1, NFATc2, NFATc3, NFATc4, and NFAT5.[1] NFATc1 through NFATc4 are regulated by calcium signaling. Calcium signaling is critical to NFAT activation because calmodulin (CaM), a well-known calcium sensor protein, activates the serine/threonine phosphatase calcineurin (CN). Activated CN rapidly dephosphorylates the serine-rich region (SRR) and SP-repeats in the amino termini of NFAT proteins, resulting in a conformational change that exposes a nuclear localization signal, resulting in NFAT nuclear import.
Nuclear import of NFAT proteins is opposed by maintenance kinases in the cytoplasm and export kinases in the nucleus. Export kinases, such as PKA and GSK-3β, must be inactivated for NFAT nuclear retention.
NFAT proteins have weak DNA-binding capacity. Therefore, to effectively bind DNA, NFAT proteins must cooperate with other nuclear resident transcription factors generically referred to as NFATn.[2] This important feature of NFAT transcription factors enables integration and coincidence detection of calcium signals with other signaling pathways such as ras-MAPK or PKC. In addition, this signaling integration is involved in tissue-specific gene expression during development. A screen of ncRNA sequences identified in EST sequencing projects[3][4] discovered a 'ncRNA repressor of the nuclear factor of activated T cells' called NRON.[5]
Breast cancer[edit]
NFAT transcription factors are implicated in breast cancer, more specifically in the process of cell motility at the basis of metastasis formation. Indeed NFAT1 (NFATC2) and NFAT5 are pro-invasive and pro-migratory in breast carcinoma [6][7] and NFAT3 (NFATc4) is an inhibitor of cell motility.[8] NFAT1 regulates the expression of the TWEAKR and its ligand TWEAK with the Lipocalin 2 to increase breast cancer cell invasion [9] and NFAT3 inhibits Lipocalin 2 expression to blunt the cell invasion.[8]
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6. ^ Jauliac, S; López-Rodriguez, C, Shaw, LM, Brown, LF, Rao, A, Toker, A (July 2002). "The role of NFAT transcription factors in integrin-mediated carcinoma invasion.". Nature Cell Biology 4 (7): 540–4. doi:10.1038/ncb816. PMID 12080349.
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9. ^ Gaudineau, B; Fougère, M, Guaddachi, F, Lemoine, F, de la Grange, P, Jauliac, S (2012-10-01). "Lipocalin 2 (LCN2), the TNF-like receptor TWEAKR and its ligand TWEAK act downstream of NFAT1 to regulate breast cancer cell invasion.". Journal of cell science 125 (19): 4475–4486. doi:10.1242/jcs.099879. PMID 22767506. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFAT | dclm-gs1-013030001 |
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We didn't lose this fight, Barack Obama was in law school when this fight was lost.
The role of Democrats should not be to convince people that government is great, it should be to help people reach their potential -- and government is a tool to do that. There has been a strain of skepticism about the government in the American character since the founding, only the New Deal changed that significantly; but we have been returning to the norm ever since then.
Like David Dayen, I wonder if a stimulus more appropriately tailored to the severity of the recession or a housing program that actually stemmed foreclosures could have changed some people's minds about that. I don't think liberals aren't aware of the ideological landscape of the United States, but part of the critique of Obama is that his presidency was a lost opportunity to turn the tide. After all, it was Obama himself who wanted to be remembered as a "transformative" president rather than a custodial one.
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1. Lack of Association of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 Gene Haplotypes with Bone Mineral Density, Bone Loss, or Risk of Fractures in Men
Journal of Osteoporosis 2011;2011:243465.
Introduction. The association of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) with BMD and risk of fracture was suggested by a recent linkage study, but subsequent studies have been contradictory. We report the results of a study of the relationship between BMP2 genotypes and BMD, annual change in BMD, and risk of fracture in male subjects. Materials and Methods. We tested three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the BMP2 gene, including Ser37Ala SNP, in 342 Caucasian Englishmen, comprising 224 control and 118 osteoporotic subjects. Results. BMP2 SNP1 (Ser37Ala) genotypes were found to have similar low frequency in control subjects and men with osteoporosis. The major informative polymorphism, BMP2 SNP3 (Arg190Ser), showed no statistically significant association with weight, height, BMD, change in BMD at hip or lumbar spine, and risk of fracture. Conclusion. There were no genotypic or haplotypic effects of the BMP2 candidate gene on BMD, change in BMD, or fracture risk identified in this cohort.
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2. Skeletal Site-Related Variation in Human Trabecular Bone Transcriptome and Signaling
PLoS ONE 2010;5(5):e10692.
The skeletal site-specific influence of multiple genes on bone morphology is recognised, but the question as to how these influences may be exerted at the molecular and cellular level has not been explored.
To address this question, we have compared global gene expression profiles of human trabecular bone from two different skeletal sites that experience vastly different degrees of mechanical loading, namely biopsies from iliac crest and lumbar spinal lamina.
Principal Findings
In the lumbar spine, compared to the iliac crest, the majority of the differentially expressed genes showed significantly increased levels of expression; 3406 transcripts were up- whilst 838 were down-regulated. Interestingly, all gene transcripts that have been recently demonstrated to be markers of osteocyte, as well as osteoblast and osteoclast-related genes, were markedly up-regulated in the spine. The transcriptome data is consistent with osteocyte numbers being almost identical at the two anatomical sites, but suggesting a relatively low osteocyte functional activity in the iliac crest. Similarly, osteoblast and osteoclast expression data suggested similar numbers of the cells, but presented with higher activity in the spine than iliac crest. This analysis has also led to the identification of expression of a number of transcripts, previously known and novel, which to our knowledge have never earlier been associated with bone growth and remodelling.
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This study provides molecular evidence explaining anatomical and micro-architectural site-related changes in bone cell function, which is predominantly attributable to alteration in cell transcriptional activity. A number of novel signaling molecules in critical pathways, which have been hitherto not known to be expressed in bone cells of mature vertebrates, were identified.
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3. Alkyl-Capped Silicon Nanocrystals Lack Cytotoxicity and have Enhanced Intracellular Accumulation in Malignant Cells via Cholesterol-Dependent Endocytosis
Nanocrystals of various inorganic materials are being considered for application in the life sciences as fluorescent labels and for such therapeutic applications as drug delivery or targeted cell destruction. The potential applications of the nanoparticles are critically compromised due to the well-documented toxicity and lack of understanding about the mechanisms involved in the intracellular internalization. Here intracellular internalization and toxicity of alkyl-capped silicon nanocrystals in human neoplastic and normal primary cells is reported. The capped nanocrystals lack cytotoxicity, and there is a marked difference in the rate and extent of intracellular accumulation of the nanoparticles between human cancerous and non-cancerous primary cells, the rate and extent being higher in the malignant cells compared to normal human primary cells. The exposure of the cells to the alkyl-capped nanocrystals demonstrates no evidence of in vitro cytotoxicity when assessed by cell morphology, apoptosis, and cell viability assays. The internalization of the nanocrystals by Hela and SW1353 cells is almost completely blocked by the pinocytosis inhibitors filipin, cytochalasin B, and actinomycin D. The internalization process is not associated with any surface change in the nanoparticles, as their luminescence spectrum is unaltered upon transport into the cytosol. The observed dramatic difference in the rate and extent of internalization of the nanocrystals between malignant and non-malignant cells therefore offers potential application in the management of human neoplastic conditions.
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Spirit Tracks' exciting new mechanics and classic gameplay make it one Zelda adventure that has got a full head of steam.
There is something immensely appealing about the simple act of blowing your train's horn in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. You'll find yourself making the classic "toot-toot" sound often as you travel around the world of Hyrule, reveling in the way it makes your inner 10-year-old kid giggle with glee. Playing Spirit Tracks brings up similar feelings; it's fun and familiar, basking you in the nostalgia of the Zelda series' well-trodden gameplay formulas while adding enough changes to make it feel exciting again. And while its look will undoubtedly bring up comparisons with 2007's superb Phantom Hourglass, Link's new adventure does away with its predecessor's repetitiveness and pacing issues, making Spirit Tracks the superior of the two Zelda games available on Nintendo's handheld console.
6241980NoneYou'll find plenty of new yet familiar scenarios in Spirit Tracks.
It not just an art style that Spirit Tracks shares with Phantom Hourglass. This new game is a sequel, and while, you'll play as a new Link, several familiar faces from the 2007 game make an appearance in Spirit Tracks (some as direct descendants of old characters and some as older versions of their Phantom Hourglass selves). Spirit Tracks takes place 100 years after the events of Phantom Hourglass, and the land of Hyrule is in peril. The demon king Malladus is stirring, threatening to break free from the Tower of Spirits (his prison for the last century) and throw off the chains that have kept him suppressed. These chains are actually the game's Spirit Tracks, a series of lines crisscrossing the world that the inhabitants of Hyrule have been using to drive their trains on. Young Link starts the game as a newly graduated engineer, off to see Princess Zelda and gain his official train driver's qualification. Once there, Zelda confides to Link her fear that Malladus may be on the rise and urges him to take her to the Tower of Spirits so they can both investigate. But before they reach the tower, they are attacked. The tower then breaks into several pieces, and the evil Chancellor Cole and his sidekick Byrne steal Zelda's body for use as the resurrected Malladus' new body. Zelda's spirit remains, however, becoming Link's guide as he strives to prevent the demon king's rise and to reunite his beloved princess back with her physical form.
It's certainly a first for the series for Zelda to die (for all intents and purposes) right at the start of the game and for her spirit to join you for the rest of the adventure, but it's not the only new addition. As well as being a Na'vi-like fairy companion for Link, Zelda can take control of phantoms, which are heavily armed guardians of the Tower of Spirits (and who players of Phantom Hourglass will remember as the near-invincible soldiers guarding the Ocean Temple). You can control both Link and the Zelda-possessed phantoms, and it's this new play mechanic that invigorates the tried-and-true Zelda formula. Similar in concept to the domination rod in Twilight Princess, Zelda-phantoms will dutifully accompany Link as he explores the tower, but you can also assign them specific paths by tracing a line on the DS's touchpad, or even get them to activate switches, carry items, or attack enemies. The cooperative puzzles you'll need Zelda-phantoms for start off quite simply--getting their invincible frames to block a column of fire so you can move Link past, for example, or hitching a ride on their shields to traverse lava pits--but by the end of the game they'll get increasingly complex and will require you to use different types of phantoms (each with its own special abilities, such as being able to roll through obstacles, carry fiery swords, or warp around levels) to solve problems. Even more tricky are several boss battles that require you to control a Zelda-phantom and Link. These fights are tense and exciting, requiring fast reflexes as you're forced to quickly switch between the two characters to find an opponent's weak points.
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The princess becomes your constant companion..
You can control only Link and Zelda in the Tower of Spirits, an area you'll have to visit several times to gain new maps that open up spirit tracks to different parts of the gameworld. Phantom Hourglass veterans who are worried that the Tower of Spirits is simply another name for the annoying Ocean Temple in that earlier game needn't fear; while you'll make multiple trips to the Tower of Spirits, the repetition and the time limits of the Ocean Temple have been done away with. You won't ever need to repeat the same levels. Outside of the Tower of Spirits and its dual Link-Zelda mechanic, Spirit Tracks plays similarly to most other adventures in the series. You'll venture into a multilevel dungeon, obtain a new weapon, and then use that new weapon to defeat a powerful boss creature at the end of that dungeon. Many of Link's weapons will be familiar to series veterans, including favorites such as the boomerang, the bow, and bombs. There are new weapons, too, including a hookshot-like whip, which Link can use to latch onto beams to swing across chasms Indiana Jones-style, and a special wand that can erect walls of sand.
Such adherence to formula may be the undoing of lesser games, but consistently clever level design and the tricky-but-never-cheap puzzles in Spirit Tracks mean the game is a winning experience at all times. Though the game doesn't stray far from what made the Zelda series great, you'll still feel a palpable thrill when you figure out the way to get that final dungeon key or use your newly found weapon to take down an initially intimidating boss. The game itself is not too difficult--there are only a few puzzles in the final two dungeons that may get you stuck--but the problems you'll have to solve are almost all uniformly engaging and make creative use of Link's abilities and weapons.
What's also surprisingly engaging is riding your train around on the spirit tracks covering Hyrule. You would think that having fixed railway lines to travel on would make moving from location to location boring, but the game throws enough variety at you to make most trips interesting. As well as using your train's horn to scare away livestock clogging up the tracks or using your cannon to blast away roving enemies, you'll have to contend with demon trains cruising the tracks. You'll need to plan ahead to avoid these enemies, keeping a close eye on your map and switching lines when necessary to make sure you don't end up on a collision course. Crashing into one of these enemies is the biggest negative of riding a train in Hyrule. You'll become familiar with the crushing feeling of inevitability that comes when you've made a mistake switching lines and are forced to simply wait until the collision. And every hit sends you right back to where you started your trip, resulting in a fair bit of repetition.
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Mars Rover Upgraded 132
Posted by CmdrTaco
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MrShaggy writes "According to a BBC article, NASA is upgrading their MARS rovers. The upgrade will allow the rovers to sift through the pictures of dust-devils, decide which is the most appropriate, send it back. 'Clouds typically occur in 8-20% of the data collected right now,' Castano said. 'If we could look for a much more extended time and select only those images with clouds then we could increase our understanding of how and when these phenomena form. Similarly with the dust devils.' The article also discusses upgrades to the Mars Odyssey. They plan to make it self-reacting to events on the planet as they are happening."
Mars Rover Upgraded
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• Old News (Score:3, Informative)
by maytagman (971263) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @11:22AM (#15420510)
I heard this reported on CBC radio SEVERAL months ago. I'm thinking it was febuary... The scientist they were interviewing was saying how hard it is to trust a robot to make the right decision even though they knew the algorithm they were using was pretty fool proof. Lets hear it for CBC radio!!!
• by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28, 2006 @11:25AM (#15420525)
Yes, they'd have to write their own JVM. They aren't the only ones who do this, www.pilz.com do the same for industrial software.
• by Avionics Guy (635626) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @12:02PM (#15420650) Homepage
The large majority of the MER software was written in C. The exception is a small module in the navigation code that used C++ with a custom memory manager. BTW, JPL doesn't "do" ADA and it isn't likely that Java will be used on the MSL, the 2009 rover.
• by MWales (686969) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @12:15PM (#15420707)
I believe the current ones would probably use C/C++ since they are using VxWorks according to Windriver [windriver.com]. If they are using a RTOS now, I think moving to something like Java would be a huge jump. I could see them moving to embedded Linux though, it's becoming alot more popular in the embedded world
• by kilodelta (843627) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @12:20PM (#15420730) Homepage
If you want, read Steve Squyers book "Rovign Mars". It'll give you a better understanding of why the rovers lasted as long as they did. They're built like tanks with proven technology. There was nothing flashy about what went into those robots, it was all tried and true.
They were originally supposed to last for 90 sols, or Martian days. They've now gone far past the origianl design goals and the benefit has been lots more data about Mars. Spirit is currently on it's 853rd sol. http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/ [nasa.gov]
• Re:What Upgrade? (Score:5, Informative)
by the_brobdingnagian (917699) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @01:41PM (#15420988) Homepage
The upgrade is a software upgrade. But it's not an easy task to do this at such a distance. Two way communication is a painbecause of the lag time. I can't remember the exact time, bu I believe the lag is about 20 minutes. They use a specialised protocal that was designed to handle such extreme lag. The protocol is PROXIMITY-1 SPACE LINK PROTOCOL (specs [nasa.gov]). They are verry carefull to make sure they dont have to reset the rover the hard way (A.K.A. reset-button) after updates and even during normal operation. I believe they build in all kinds of auto-reset features so the rover could reset itself.
• Not a PR conspiracy (Score:4, Informative)
by Tablizer (95088) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @01:48PM (#15421014) Homepage Journal
They were built with the idea that they could conceivably last this long but the mission profile (and all the press releases) were put together with the expectation that they'd last a couple months. It was the closest thing to a gaurenteed win NASA could do. Think of it this way, if GM marketed...
Hogwash. It is a combination of factors:
1. Nasa increased quality control effort and spending in response to the Polar Lander failure and two orbiter failures.
2. Wind has blown dust off of the solar panels. Many expected the dust to be probe-sticky and accumulate based on the Viking lander data.
3. Constructor contract payments were actually stipulated based on a 3-month survivle. It is not an arbitrary deadline.
• by glwtta (532858) on Sunday May 28, 2006 @11:33PM (#15422991) Homepage
Even considering the Arianne-5 failure, it's still more reassuring to know that a software system is developed in Ada than Java.
Arianne 5 was the result of pure, old-fashioned incompetence. An obsolete component - left on when even its original function would not have been needed - dumps debug info on the bus, that's then interpreted as trajectory data. And the backup system runs identical hardware and identical software to the primary (I believe the backup actually failed a fraction of a second before the primary).
The rover software on the other hand - written in C, btw - is a gold standard of excellent engineering and testing practices. Most of the time it's not the platform that counts, it's the development team.
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Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? 320
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First time accepted submitter clockwise_music writes "With HTML5 we're closer to the point where a browser can do almost everything that a native app can do. The final frontier is 3D, but WebGL isn't even part of the HTML5 standard, Microsoft refuses to support it, Apple wants to push their native apps and it's not supported in the Android mobile browser. Flash used to be an option but Adobe have dropped mobile support. To reach most people you'd have to learn Javascript, WebGL and Three.js/Scene.js for Chrome/Firefox, then you'd have to learn Actionscript + Flash for the Microsofties, then learn Objective-C for the apple fanboys, then learn Java to write a native app for Android. When will 3D finally become available for all? Do you think it's inevitable or will it never see the light of day?"
Comment: Re:Curiosity cost $2B USD (Score 1) 71
by 2.7182 (#42471435) Attached to: Rare Water-Rich Mars Meteorite Discovered
But we could have given it to condensed matter physics research, which gets way less than NASA, or other branches of physics, such as particle physics, yet has numerous applications, while still contributing to our fundamental understanding of the world, through applications of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.
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Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option 288
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alphadogg writes "People who want to shield their use of Google's Web search engine from network snoops now have the option of encrypting the session with SSL protection. In the case of Google search, SSL will protect the transmission of search queries entered by users and the search results returned by Google servers. Google began rolling out the encrypted version of its Web search engine on Friday. 'We think users will appreciate this new option for searching. It's a helpful addition to users' online privacy and security, and we'll continue to add encryption support for more search offerings,' wrote Evan Roseman, a Google software engineer, in an official blog post."
Comment: Isn't this just plain begging (Score 1) 121
by bkmiictian (#31658406) Attached to: Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google
Every other day there is a story describing how yet another b/w starved city/town is 'begging' google in an innovative way. Is begging the defining characteristic of our generation? Maybe, if someone can highlight a story wherein a town/city highlights how they can stand up on their feet with the extra b/w (not a bplan!), instead of a crazy marketing gimmick, google might actually initiate some action and live upto their motto of 'do no evil'. (Note that it doesn't necessarily mean 'do good')
+ - Your definition of Freedom?->
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bkmiictian writes "I have been feeling very suffocated living in today's society.
So, I would like to ask
What is freedom to you?
What level of freedom do you think is needed in this society?
Why is freedom essential?
Which is the best form of society structure that can give this (the one that you ask for) freedom — Capitalism, Communism; Monarchy, Democracy, etc?
Slashdot discusses a lot of issues and a lot of them usually have freedom at their core/fundamental level (NSA, GNU/Linux, OSS, Piracy vs patents, etc) but I have never seen a discussion on the meaning of freedom.
Also, given the fact that the number of funny quips on posts has been very high off late, (at the cost of some karma) I request the jokers to try and contribute something meaningful and let the funny quips be meaningful for a change.
Message to the mods: I do not know of a better link on this topic. If you are aware of one, please change it (assuming the story is put up). Also, I am not sure whether this topic has been taken up in the past, hence I am posting this (I have been visiting slashdot since a year now but that doesn't qualify me as a knowledgeable reader)."
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Comment: Re:the supercomputers advantage... (Score 1) 368
by bkmiictian (#20237357) Attached to: 10 Years After Big Blue Beat Garry Kasparov
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7342.html This book is written by the creator of Deep Blue. He describes the Deep Blue project (This was not the original name) from his time at Stanford to the games played with Kasparov. The tweaking of Deep Blue did not happen in game but only before and after games. The so called opponents of Deep Blue (a couple of GM level players) were recruited only to help in the preparation of opening book. Kasparov had asked for the log of Deep Blue because he thought that the move was not thought by the computer but by some human sitting behind the terminal (basically he wanted to verify Deep Blue's moves), but the event co-ordinators rightly judged it as unfair as Kasparov was asking for the complete thought process of Deep Blue. The Deep Blue team was asked to show the move list to the co-ordinators who were satisfied with the logs. The book is a good read and the review that I have quoted above describes the development in a very lucid language.
+ - Symantec sig updates causes chaos in China
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Hello Kitty writes "According to Computerworld, a signature update to Symantec's anti-virus software has knocked out thousands of Chinese PCs. Apparently the latest update for the AV component of the various Norton packages mistook two system files in the Chinese edition of Windows XP SP2 for the "Backdoor.Haxdoor" trojan. Piracy issues may complicate recovery, since once the "updates" are installed Symantec says the only hope for reviving an affected system is to re-copy the affected DLLs from the Windows restore disks. You... do have your official restore disks, don't you?"
Linus Torvalds to Microsoft: put up or shut up->
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Aw snap. Just when you thought the Microsoft / open-source relationship was getting bad, it's now getting even worse, as yet another turn has been taken in the on-again, off-again love affair between the two. Soon after Microsoft's General Counsel claimed that free and open-source software (FOSS) -- a bundle of which related to Linux -- violated precisely 235 of its patents, Linus Torvalds decided to fire back on behalf of the little guy. In an interview with InformationWeek, Mr. Torvalds retorted by suggesting that it is actually "a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does," and even noted that if "the source code for Windows could be subjected to the same critical review that Linux has been, Microsoft would find itself in violation of patents held by other companies." Of course, he backed his statements by stating that the "fundamental stuff was done about half a century ago and has long, long since lost any patent protection," and closed things up by insinuating that Redmond should put its cards on the table so that Linux users prove 'em wrong, or better yet, "code around whatever silly things they claim." As if you couldn't tell, them's fightin' words, folks.
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+ - Is Modeling Science?
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DanielMarkham writes "I've been watching the flame wars on Global Warming on Slashdot for a few months now. In an effort to ask a simple question without all the flame wars, is modeling science? That is, is creating a computer model the same as coming up with a new law of physics?
I've just got through posting a blog entry in which I make the case that the types of modeling we read about in the news is not science at all, or science as we know it.
This topic has all the nerd stuff you could ever want. Cellular Automata, Turing Tests, Philosophy of Science, nature of chaotic systems, modeling complex software systems in UML. If I've missed something, I'm sure you guys will let me know about it and I appreciate the critique. So what say you? Is modeling science or not? Can we at least agree on this point?"
Journal: Software patents, what is innovation? 1
Journal by ancientt
Recipes for chemistry are patented regularly. Consider dyes and solvents, there are dozens of easy examples. The question is whether they should be, not whether they can be, and that answer probably applies to software patents as well.
What Would Happen To Fanboys Remaking Raiders Of The Lost Ark Today?->
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Wired is running a fascinating story about a set of three 12-year-old friends, who became so obsessed with the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, that they spent the next seven summers refilming the movie shot for shot. It's a great story (in fact, so great, that there's actually a real movie being made about these three friends making this movie), but you have to wonder what would happen if the same thing were tried again today. You'd have to think that the three kids would end up in an awful lot of trouble, rather than being celebrated. Let's run through the list...
• Illegal taping: The friends were able to learn the entire movie by sneaking a videocamera into the theater and taping it. As you know, the industry has been passing stricter and stricter laws for anyone found video taping a movie. The latest law in NY would lead to a $5,000 fine (the boys made their entire movie for $4,500) and 6 months in jail.
• Copyright infringement: By copying the entire film, clearly they could be accused of copyright infringement. In fact, just last year, Paramount sued an amateur filmmaker who downloaded the script for an Oliver Stone movie and tried to film his own version using acting students. Ironically (or maybe it's just sad), it's Paramount that's making the film about these boys recreating Raiders.
• Music rights: The film apparently makes use of the original score, which is obviously a no-no for the recording industry, as witnessed by the fact that the famed sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati had to dub in generic music as it couldn't afford the rights to use the music it had licensed for the original show.
• Public performance: Despite being infringing, this film hasn't just been for private use. It was first shown in a Coca-Cola factory auditorium upon completion, as well as at a variety of underground film festivals since then.
Everyone seems to acknowledge that this film probably violates all sorts of intellectual property rules -- though both Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas appear to be fine with it. However, a set of kids trying to do the same thing today would actually find it more difficult. While the tools to do so have become much more powerful and much cheaper -- the legal regime has become much worse. And, frankly, doesn't it seem like something is wrong with the system when a bunch of kids can't do something like this? It wasn't just a tremendously fun project for the trio, but apparently a great learning experience. All three of the "kids" now work in the entertainment industry. On top of that, the film has a huge cult following and has made many people extremely happy. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a way that this "cost" the original creators of the content a dime (and, if anything, probably encouraged a few more people to watch or rewatch the original). So why is it that these same kids today would potentially face time in jail, both criminal and civil lawsuits and huge fines for doing the same thing?
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+ - Is 40 to old for IT or Software Development?
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An anonymous reader writes "I have read some stuff on Dice.com's message boards where some people are claiming that after age 40 or so that jobs become very scarce in the IT profession. I was wondering how prevalent this really is, and in particular I was wondering how hard it would be to actually start a career in IT or Software Development at age 40 or even later.
I recently finished up a degree in physics, and I have done some very basic IT support as well as some programming as part of my job working in an environmental testing lab. How difficult would it be to start a computer career at age 40, and what industries and fields will have the most problem with my age and which will have the least problem with my age?"
+ - Robot to journey to the center of the earth
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+ - Molecular matcher could lead to 3D search engine
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Plasma Droid writes "NewScientistTech has a story about a 3D molecular search engine that is a thousand times faster than anything previously developed. The researchers, from Oxford University, developed a lightning fast way to quickly match 3D shapes mathematically. This could not only speed up searches for new drugs, but lead to 3D search engines, for finding objects uploaded to platforms such as Google Earth, they say."
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#1082 HAMAP:MF_03115 mappings
Valerie Wood
O74821, an iron sulphur cluster asssembly protein has IEA annotations
GO:0010421 hydrogen peroxide-mediated programmed cell death IEA HAMAP:MF_03115
GO:0043066 negative regulation of apoptotic process IEA HAMAP:MF_03115
which does not seem to be correct for yeast?
I don't think this process exists in yeast?
GO:0010421 hydrogen peroxide-mediated programmed cell death
• ivo
Hi, sorry for the late comment, the issue finally find its way to me:
The GO term is actually assigned based on data in yeast from PubMed:19194512. I agree that it is still a matter of debate whether programmed cell death really exists in unicellular organisms (also a matter of definition, I believe), but the authors are in favor of it.
I could also replace the GO term by something more generic, e.g.
GO:0070301 cellular response to hydrogen peroxide
Would you prefer this?
• Valerie Wood
Valerie Wood
I don't know. We tend not to use
GO:0070301 cellular response to hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen hydrogen peroxide is usually a condition used to activate the "oxidative stress-response".
I think I would stick with the "iron sulphur cluster assembly" mapping until more is known. SGD have not made a stress response annotation, although they have noted it expression is increased in response to replication stress.
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I have a shell script, which I launch several times during work everyday. I do this by launching terminal, and launching the script from within. However, I would like to be able to launch it (from within a terminal) with a global OSX keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Shift+R say).
There are quite a few applications which work in this manner already (for eg. EverNote, RemindMeLater, even the default Cmd-Space which brings up the search utility) and hence, I am guessing this should be at least theoretically possible.
Could someone please tell me if and how this can be done?
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Instead of using a global shortcut key, maybe try creating an applescript that runs the shell script? So just open at AppleScript Editor, and enter something like this.
do shell script "//Your script";
Then save it as an application in the format drop down.
After that, you can run the script just by opening up the application with something like spotlight.
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We have an issue were the server session associated with a Flex client times out when the browse file dialog is open for a time longer then the configured session timeout. It seems that on some players, the playback is stopped when browse or download on a FileReference is executing. This also causes remote calls to be blocked and hence our manual keep-alive messages are not sent to the server, resulting in a session timeout.
I searched for some info on this in the docs and found a notice of it, but it does not explicitly list the players it does (not) work. Would anyone know were I could find a complete list?
PS: here are the links that mention this behavior:
While calls to the FileReference.browse(), FileReferenceList.browse(), or FileReference.download() method are executing, most players will continue SWF file playback.
While calls to the FileReference.browse(), FileReferenceList.browse(), or FileReference.download() methods are executing, SWF file playback pauses in stand-alone and external versions of Flash Player and in AIR for Linux and Mac OS X 10.1 and earlier
Anyone knows what is meant with an "external Flash Player"?
PPS: we tested this on Linux (10.0.x and 10.1.x) in Firefox where it seems to stop playback and on Windows (10.0.x) in IE where playback seems to continue.
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Nothing you can do unfortunately, it's a blocking call, and Player shares resources (incl threads) across multiple instances of the AVM when it can, to use less memory. Chrome, Webkit 2, and FF4 (3.7?) should be OK because they isolate the plugins in separate process spaces, and Player doesn't get a chance to do that. Unfortunately because it's blocking, Chrome will popup a dialog complaining that "a script is taking too long to execute" if you take your sweet time selecting the file :(
github.com/Adobe/FlashPlayer sure would be nice, innit? :-)
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THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Please be seated. Before I take your questions, I want to talk for a few minutes about the progress we're making on health insurance reform and where it fits into our broader economic strategy.
Six months ago, I took office amid the worst recession in half a century. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month and our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
As a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we've been able to pull our economy back from the brink. We took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market. And we passed a Recovery Act that has already saved jobs and created new ones; delivered billions in tax relief to families and small businesses; and extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who've been laid off.
Of course, we still have a long way to go. And the Recovery Act will continue to save and create more jobs over the next two years -- just like it was designed to do. I realize this is little comfort to those Americans who are currently out of work, and I'll be honest with you -- new hiring is always one of the last things to bounce back after a recession.
And the fact is, even before this crisis hit, we had an economy that was creating a good deal of wealth for those folks at the very top, but not a lot of good-paying jobs for the rest of America. It's an economy that simply wasn't ready to compete in the 21st century -- one where we've been slow to invest in clean energy technologies that have created new jobs and industries in other countries; where we've watched our graduation rates lag behind too much of the world; and where we spend much more on health care than any other nation but aren't any healthier for it.
That's why I've said that even as we rescue this economy from a full-blown crisis, we must rebuild it stronger than before. And health insurance reform is central to that effort.
This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don't have any health insurance at all. Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage if they become too sick, or lose their job, or change their job. It's about every small business that has been forced to lay off employees or cut back on their coverage because it became too expensive. And it's about the fact that the biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid.
So let me be clear: If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit. If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. If we don't act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day. These are the consequences of inaction. These are the stakes of the debate that we're having right now.
I realize that with all the charges and criticisms that are being thrown around in Washington, a lot of Americans may be wondering, "What's in this for me? How does my family stand to benefit from health insurance reform?"
If you have health insurance, the reform we're proposing will provide you with more security and more stability. It will keep government out of health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your insurance if you're happy with it. It will prevent insurance companies from dropping your coverage if you get too sick. It will give you the security of knowing that if you lose your job, if you move, or if you change your job, you'll still be able to have coverage. It will limit the amount your insurance company can force you to pay for your medical costs out of your own pocket. And it will cover preventive care like check-ups and mammograms that save lives and money.
Now, if you don't have health insurance, or you're a small business looking to cover your employees, you'll be able to choose a quality, affordable health plan through a health insurance exchange -- a marketplace that promotes choice and competition. Finally, no insurance company will be allowed to deny you coverage because of a preexisting medical condition. I've also pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our deficit over the next decade. And I mean it. In the past eight years, we saw the enactment of two tax cuts, primarily for the wealthiest Americans, and a Medicare prescription program -- none of which were paid for. And that's partly why I inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit.
That will not happen with health insurance reform. It will be paid for. Already we've estimated that two-thirds of the cost of reform can be paid for by reallocating money that is simply being wasted in federal health care programs. This includes over $100 billion of unwarranted subsidies that go to insurance companies as part of Medicare -- subsidies that do nothing to improve care for our seniors. And I'm pleased that Congress has already embraced these proposals. While they're currently working through proposals to finance the remaining costs, I continue to insist that health reform not be paid for on the backs of middle-class families.
In addition to making sure that this plan doesn't add to the deficit in the short term, the bill I sign must also slow the growth of health care costs in the long run. Our proposals would change incentives so that doctors and nurses are free to give patients the best care, just not the most expensive care. That's why the nation's largest organizations representing doctors and nurses have embraced our plan.
We also want to create an independent group of doctors and medical experts who are empowered to eliminate waste and inefficiency in Medicare on an annual basis -- a proposal that could save even more money and ensure long-term financial health for Medicare. Overall, our proposals will improve the quality of care for our seniors and save them thousands of dollars on prescription drugs, which is why the AARP has endorsed our reform efforts.
Not all of the cost savings measures I just mentioned were contained in Congress's draft legislation, but we're now seeing broad agreement thanks to the work that has done over the last few days. So even though we still have a few issues to work out, what's remarkable at this point is not how far we have left to go -- it's how far we've already come.
I understand how easy it is for this town to become consumed in the game of politics -- to turn every issue into a running tally of who's up and who's down. I've heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it's better politics to "go for the kill"; another Republican senator that defeating health care reform is about "breaking" me.
So let me be clear: This isn't about me. I have great health insurance, and so does every member of Congress. This debate is about the letters I read when I sit in the Oval Office every day, and the stories I hear at town hall meetings. This is about the woman in Colorado who paid $700 a month to her insurance company only to find out that they wouldn't pay a dime for her cancer treatment -- who had to use up her retirement funds to save her own life. This is about the middle-class college graduate from Maryland whose health insurance expired when he changed jobs and woke up from the emergency surgery that he required with $10,000 worth of debt. This is about every family, every business, and every taxpayer who continues to shoulder the burden of a problem that Washington has failed to solve for decades.
This debate is not a game for these Americans, and they can't afford to wait any longer for reform. They're counting on us to get this done. They're looking to us for leadership. And we can't let them down. We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice, and provides coverage that every American can count on. And we will do it this year.
With that, I'll take your questions. And we are going to start off with Ben Feller of Associated Press.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Congress, as you alluded to, is trying to figure out how to pay for all of this reform. Have you told House and Senate leaders which of their ideas are acceptable to you? If so, are you willing to share that stand of yours with the American people? And if you haven't given that kind of direction to congressional leaders, are you willing to -- are you willing to explain why you're not stepping in to get a deal done, since you're the one setting a deadline?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, before we talk about how to pay for it, let's talk about what exactly needs to be done. And the reason I want to emphasize this is because there's been a lot of misinformation out there.
Right now premiums for families that have health insurance have doubled over the last 10 years. They've gone up three times faster than wages. So what we know is that if the current trends continue, more and more families are going to lose health care, more and more families are going to be in a position where they keep their health care but it takes a bigger bite out of their budget, employers are going to put more and more of the costs on the employees or they're just going to stop providing health care altogether.
We also know that with health care inflation on the curve that it's on we are guaranteed to see Medicare and Medicaid basically break the federal budget. And we know that we're spending on average, we here in the United States are spending about $6,000 more than other advanced countries where they're just as healthy. And I've said this before -- if you found out that your neighbor had gotten the same car for $6,000 less, you'd want to figure out how to get that deal. And that's what reform is all about: How can we make sure that we are getting the best bang for our health care dollar?
Now, what we did very early on was say two-thirds of the costs of health care reform -- which includes providing coverage for people who don't have it, making it more affordable for folks who do, and making sure that we're over the long term creating the kinds of systems where prevention and wellness and information technologies make the system more efficient -- that the entire cost of that has to be paid for and it's got to be deficit-neutral. And we identified two-thirds of those costs to be paid for by tax dollars that are already being spent right now.
So taxpayers are already putting this money into the kitty. The problem is they're not getting a good deal for the money they're spending. That takes care of about two-thirds of the cost. The remaining one-third is what the argument has been about of late. What I've said is that there may be a number of different ways to raise money. I put forward what I thought was the best proposal, which was to limit the deductions, the itemized deductions, for the wealthiest Americans -- people like myself could take the same percentage deduction that middle-class families do and that would raise sufficient funds for that final one-third.
Now, so far we haven't seen any of the bills adopt that. There are other ideas that are out there. I continue to think my idea is the best one, but I'm not foreclosing some of these other ideas as the committees are working them through. The one commitment that I've been clear about is I don't want that final one-third of the cost of health care to be completely shouldered on the backs of middle-class families who are already struggling in a difficult economy. And so if I see a proposal that is primarily funded through taxing middle-class families, I'm going to be opposed to that because I think there are better ideas to do it.
Now, there are -- I have not yet seen what the Senate Finance Committee is producing. They've got a number of ideas, but we haven't seen a final draft. The House suggested a surcharge on wealthy Americans, and my understanding, although I haven't seen the final versions, is, is that there's been talk about making that basically only apply to families whose joint income is a million dollars.
To me, that meets my principle that it's not being shouldered by families who are already having a tough time, but what I want to do is to see what emerges from these committees, continuing to work to find more savings -- because I actually think that it's possible for us to fund even more of this process through identifying waste in the system, try to narrow as much as possible the new revenue that's needed on the front end, and then see how we can piece this thing together in a way that's acceptable to both Democrats and I hope some Republicans.
Q Is it your job to get a deal done?
THE PRESIDENT: Absolutely it's my job. I'm the President. And I think this has to get done. Just a broader point -- if somebody told you that there is a plan out there that is guaranteed to double your health care costs over the next 10 years, that's guaranteed to result in more Americans losing their health care, and that is by far the biggest contributor to our federal deficit. I think most people would be opposed to that. Well, that's the status quo. That's what we have right now.
So if we don't change, we can't expect a different result. And that's why I think this is so important, not only for those families out there who are struggling and who need some protection from abuses in the insurance industry or need some protection from skyrocketing costs, but it's also important for our economy.
And, by the way, it's important for families' wages and incomes. One of the things that doesn't get talked about is the fact that when premiums are going up and the costs to employers are going up, that's money that could be going into people's wages and incomes. And over the last decade we basically saw middle-class families, their incomes and wages flatlined. Part of the reason is because health care costs are gobbling that up.
And that's why I say if we can -- even if we don't reduce our health care costs by the $6,000 that we're paying more than any other country on Earth, if we just reduced it by $2,000 or $3,000, that would mean money in people's pockets. And that's possible to do.
But we're going to have to make some changes. We've got to change how health care is delivered to -- the health care delivery system works so that doctors are being paid for the quality of care and not the quantity of care. We've got to make information technology more effective. We've got to have the medical system work in teams so that people don't go through five different tests. Those are all critical to do, and we can do them.
Now, I understand that people are feeling uncertain about this, they feel anxious, partly because we've just become so cynical about what government can accomplish, that people's attitudes are, you know, even though I don't like this devil, at least I know it and I like that more than the devil I don't know. So folks are skeptical, and that is entirely legitimate because they haven't seen a lot of laws coming out of Washington lately that help them.
But my hope is, and I'm confident that when people look at the costs of doing nothing they're going to say, we can make this happen -- we've made big changes before that end up resulting in a better life for the American people.
David Alexander, Reuters.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. You've been pushing Congress to pass health care reform by August. Why the rush? Are you worried that if you don't -- there's a delay until the fall, the whole effort will collapse?
THE PRESIDENT: A couple of points. Number one, I'm rushed because I get letters every day from families that are being clobbered by health care costs. And they ask me, can you help? So I've got a middle-aged couple that will write me and they say, our daughter just found out she's got leukemia and if I don't do something soon we just either are going to go bankrupt or we're not going to be able to provide our daughter with the care that she needs. And in a country like ours, that's not right. So that's part of my rush.
The second thing is the fact that if you don't set deadlines in this town things don't happen. The default position is inertia. Because doing something always creates some people who are unhappy. There's always going to be some interest out there that decides, you know what, the status quo is working for me a little bit better. And the fact that we have made so much progress where we've got doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, AARP, saying that this makes sense to do, I think means that the stars are aligned and we need to take advantage of that.
Now, I do think it's important to get this right. And if at the end of the day I do not yet see that we have it right then I'm not going to sign a bill that, for example, adds to our deficit; I won't sign a bill that doesn't reduce health care inflation so that families as well as government are saving money. I'm not going to sign a bill that I don't think will work. And my measure of whether things work or not are listening to the American people but also listening to health care experts who have shown that in some communities, health care is cheaper and delivers a better result. I think we can achieve that.
So I'm confident that if we just keep at it, we keep working, we're diligent, we're honest, if we take criticisms that are out there and modify whatever plans are already working through Congress so that it meets those concerns and those criticisms, that we can arrive at a bill that is going to improve the lives of the American people.
And I'll give you one specific example. I think that there was legitimate concern that we had not incorporated all of the measures that could reduce health care inflation over the long term in some of the versions of health care reform that were coming out of the committee. Well, over the last week, working with not only health care experts but also members of Congress who are concerned about this, we actually have now gotten a commitment to incorporate an idea that has a panel of doctors and health care experts advising on how we can get a better value for our money in Medicare. And every expert out there says this can be a valuable tool to start reducing inflation over the long term.
So can I say this, though -- if we hadn't had any kind of deadline, that change probably would have never surfaced until who knows when. And so I want to do this right, but the American people need some relief.
Chuck Todd.
Q Thank you, sir. You were just talking in that question about reducing health care inflation, reducing costs. Can you explain how you're going to expand coverage? Is it fair to say -- is this bill going to cover all 47 million Americans that are uninsured, or is this going to be something -- is it going to take a mandate, or is this something that isn't -- your bill is probably not going to get it all the way there? And if it's not going to get all the way there, can you say how far is enough -- you know, okay, 20 million more, I can sign that; 10 million more, I can't?
THE PRESIDENT: I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is that unless you have a what's called a single-payer system in which everybody is automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual, because there's always going to be somebody out there who thinks they're indestructible and doesn't want to get health care, doesn't bother getting health care, and then unfortunately when they get hit by a bus end up in the emergency room and the rest of us have to pay for it.
But that's not the overwhelming majority of Americans. The overwhelming majority of Americans want health care, but millions of them can't afford it. So the plan that has been -- that I've put forward and that what we're seeing in Congress would cover -- the estimates are at least 97 to 98 percent of Americans.
There might still be people left out there who, even though there's an individual mandate, even though they are required to purchase health insurance, might still not get it, or despite a lot of subsidies are still in such dire straits that it's still hard for them to afford it, and we may end up giving them some sort of hardship exemption.
But -- I'm sorry, go ahead -- so I think that the basic idea should be that in this country, if you want health care, you should be able to get affordable health care.
And given the waste that's already in the system right now, if we just redesign certain elements of health care, then we can pay for that. We can pay for it in the short term, but we can also pay for it in the long term. And, in fact, there's going to be a whole lot of savings that we obtain from that because, for example, the average American family is paying thousands of dollars in hidden costs in their insurance premiums to pay for what's called uncompensated care -- people who show up at the emergency room because they don't have a primary care physician.
If we can get those people insured, and instead of having a foot amputation because of advanced diabetes they're getting a nutritionist who's working with them to make sure that they are keeping their diet where it needs to be, that's going to save us all money in the long term.
Q Back to the politics of it. You mentioned two Republicans in your opening statement, but you have 60 Democratic seats, a healthy majority in the House. If you don't get this, isn't this a fight inside the Democratic Party, and that Republicans really aren't playing -- you can't really blame the Republicans for this one?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, you haven't seen me out there blaming the Republicans. I've been a little frustrated by some of the misinformation that's been coming out of the Republicans, but that has to do with, as you pointed out, politics. You know, if you've got somebody out there saying -- not that let's get the best bill possible but instead says, you know, let's try to beat this so we can gain political advantage -- well, that's not I think what the American people expect.
I am very appreciative that people like Chuck Grassley on the Finance Committee in the Senate, people like Mike Enzi, people like Olympia Snowe, have been serious in engaging Democrats in trying to figure out how do we actually get a system that works. And even in those committees where you didn't see Republican votes, we've seen Republican ideas. So, for example, in the HELP Committee in the Senate, 160 Republican amendments were adopted into that bill because they've got good ideas to contribute.
So the politics may dictate that they don't vote for health care reform because they think, you know, it'll make Obama more vulnerable. But if they've got a good idea we'll still take it. And in terms of Democrats, the fact of the matter is that because this is a big issue, I think that a lot of Democrats have a lot of different ideas -- some of them have to do with regional disparities. For example, you've got some Democrats who are concerned that the Medicare reimbursement rates in their communities are too low and so they'd like to see the bill incorporate higher rates for doctors and providers in rural communities to incentivize good care in those communities. That's a legitimate concern. But the minute you bring up that concern then that adds money, which means that we then have to find additional dollars.
So this is part of just the normal give-and-take of the legislative process. I'm confident at the end we're going to have a bill that Democrats and some Republicans support.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. You said earlier that you wanted to tell the American people what's in it for them, how will their family benefit from health care reform. But experts say that in addition to the benefits that you're pushing there is going to have to be some sacrifice in order for there to be true cost-cutting measures, such as Americans giving up tests, referrals, choice, end-of-life care. When you describe health care reform you don't -- understandably you don't talk about the sacrifices that Americans might have to make. Do you think -- do you accept the premise that other than some tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, the American people are going to have to give anything up in order for this to happen?
THE PRESIDENT: They're going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier. And I -- speaking as an American, I think that's the kind of change you want.
Look, if right now hospitals and doctors aren't coordinating enough to have you just take one test when you come in because of an illness, but instead have you take one test; then you go to another specialist, you take a second test; then you go to another special, you take a third test -- and nobody's bothering to send the first test that you took -- same test -- to the next doctors, you're wasting money.
You may not see it because if you have health insurance right now it's just being sent to the insurance company, but that's raising your premiums, it's raising everybody's premiums, and that money one way or another is coming out of your pocket -- although we are also subsidizing some of that because there are tax breaks for health care. So not only is it costing you money in terms of higher premiums, it's also costing you as a taxpayer.
Now, I want to change that. Every American should want to change that. Why would we want to pay for things that don't work, that aren't making us healthier? And here's what I'm confident about: If doctors and patients have the best information about what works and what doesn't, then they're going to want to pay for what works. If there's a blue pill and a red pill and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?
But the system right now doesn't incentivize that. Those are the changes that are going to be needed -- that we're going to need to make inside the system. It will require I think patients to -- as well as doctors, as well as hospitals -- to be more discriminating consumers. But I think that's a good thing, because ultimately we can't afford this. We just can't afford what we're doing right now.
And just to raise a broader issue that I think has colored how we look at health care reform, let me just talk about deficit and debt, because part of what's been happening in this debate is the American people are understandably queasy about the huge deficits and debt that we're facing right now. And the feeling is, all right, we had the bank bailout, we had the recovery package, we had the supplemental, we've got the budget, we're seeing numbers -- trillions here and trillions there. And so I think legitimately people are saying, look, we're in a recession, I'm cutting back, I'm having to give up things -- and yet all I see is government spending more and more money. And that argument I think has been used effectively by people who don't want to change health care to suggest that somehow this is one more government program. So I just want to address that point very quickly.
First of all, let's understand that when I came in we had a $1.3 trillion deficit -- annual deficit that we had already inherited. We had to immediately move forward with a stimulus package because the American economy had lost trillions of dollars of wealth; consumers had lost through their 401(k)s, through their home values, you name it, they had lost trillions of dollars. That all just went away. That was the day I was sworn in, it was already happening. And we had 700,000 jobs that were being lost.
So we felt it was very important to put in place a recovery package that would help stabilize the economy. Then we had to pass a budget, by law. And our budget had a 10-year projection -- and I just want everybody to be clear about this: If we had done nothing, if you had the same old budget as opposed to the changes we made in our budget, you'd have a $9.3 trillion deficit over the next 10 years. Because of the changes we've made it's going to be $7.1 trillion. Now, that's not good, but it's $2.2 trillion less than it would have been if we had the same policies in place when we came in.
So the reason I point this out is to say that the debt and the deficit are deep concerns of mine. I am very worried about federal spending. And the steps that we've taken so far have reduced federal spending over the next 10 years by $2.2 trillion. It's not enough. But in order for us to do more, we're not only going to have to eliminate waste in the system -- and by the way, we had a big victory yesterday by eliminating a weapons program, the F-22, that the Pentagon had repeatedly said we didn't need -- so we're going to have to eliminate waste there, we're going to have to eliminate no-bid contracts, we're going to have to do all kinds of reforms in our budgeting -- but we're also going to have to change health care. Otherwise we can't close that $7.1 trillion gap in the way that the American people want it to change.
So to all -- everybody who's out there who has been ginned up about this idea that the Obama administration wants to spend and spend and spend, the fact of the matter is, is that we inherited a enormous deficit, enormous long-term debt projections. We have not reduced it as much as we need to and as I'd like to, but health care reform is not going to add to that deficit; it's designed to lower it. That's part of the reason why it's so important to do, and to do now.
Chip Reid.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. On Medicare, there are obviously millions of Americans who depend on Medicare, and when you talk about bending the long-term cost down, or when you talk about cuts in the current proposal on Capitol Hill, you talk about cuts in Medicare and they talk about cuts in Medicare, but there are never many specifics. Specifically, what kind of pain, what kind of sacrifice, are you calling on beneficiaries to make? And even if not right away, aren't future beneficiaries going to be getting less generous benefits than today's?
Q And a subsidiary question, what do you think about taking it out of the political realm and giving it to an outside body of experts to take the politics out of Medicare?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, on the second point, that's exactly what our proposal is. It -- called the MedPAC program. By the way, it was originally a Republican idea. I want to give credit where credit is due. The Republican Congress passed a bill that created a panel of health care experts to make recommendations to Congress on how we could get better quality, lower cost. The problem is every year it would just go on a shelf, and nobody would act on it.
So what we've said is let's give that body some power. Let's require Congress to vote on the proposals that they're making every year. Congress can still reject them, so it's not completely removing it from politics, but they have to reject or accept it as a package. And that I think would incentive and empower important changes.
But here's the thing I want to emphasize, Chip. It's not going to reduce Medicare benefits. What it's going to do is to change how those benefits are delivered so that they're more efficient.
Let me give you a very specific example. You've heard that as a consequence of our efforts at reform, the pharmaceutical industry has already said they're willing to put $80 billion on the table. Now, why is that? Well, the reason is, is because there's probably even more waste than $80 billion, in terms of how the drug plan in Medicare is administered. We might be able to get $100 billion out or more, but the pharmaceutical industry voluntarily said, here's $80 billion.
You know what that means? That means that senior citizens who right now have a so-called doughnut hole in their plan where after spending a certain amount on prescription drugs suddenly they drop off a cliff and they've got to pocket the entire cost, suddenly half of that is filled. That's a hard commitment that we already have.
So that's a change in how we are delivering Medicare. But you know what, it turns out that it means out-of-pocket savings for seniors. That's why AARP has endorsed this.
Christi Parsons.
Q Thank you. During the campaign you promised that health care negotiations would take place on C-SPAN, and that hasn't happened. And your administration recently turned down a request from a watchdog group seeking a list of health care executives who have visited the White House to talk about health care reform. Also, the TARP inspector general recently said that your White House is withholding too much information on the bank bailouts. So my question for you is, are you fulfilling your promise of transparency in the White House?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, on the list of health care executives who've visited us, most of the time you guys have been in there taking pictures, so it hasn't been a secret. And my understanding is we just sent a letter out providing a full list of all the executives. But frankly these have mostly been at least photo sprays where you could see who was participating.
With respect to all the negotiations not being on C-SPAN, you will recall in this very room that our kickoff event was here on C-SPAN, and at a certain point you start getting into all kinds of different meetings -- Senate Finance is having a meeting, the House is having a meeting. If they wanted those to be on C-SPAN then I would welcome it. I don't think there are a lot of secrets going on in there.
And the last question with respect to TARP. Let me take a look at what exactly they say we have not provided. I think that we've provided much greater transparency than existed prior to our administration coming in. It is a big program. I don't know exactly what's been requested. I'll find out and I will have an answer for you.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. You've said the recent bank profits indicate that there's been no sense of remorse on Wall Street for risky behavior, that we haven't seen a change in culture there. Do you think that your administration needs to be taking a harder line with Wall Street? And also, would you consider going a step further than your regulatory reform proposals and supporting a fee on risky activities that go beyond traditional lending?
THE PRESIDENT: We were on the verge of a complete financial meltdown. And the reason was because Wall Street took extraordinary risks with other people's money, they were peddling loans that they knew could never be paid back, they were flipping those loans and leveraging those loans and higher and higher mountains of debt were being built on loans that were fundamentally unsound. And all of us now are paying the price.
Now, I believe it was the right thing to do -- as unpopular as it is, it was the right thing for us to do to step in to make sure that the financial system did not collapse, because things would be even worse today had those steps not been taken. It originated under the Bush administration. We continued it because whether you're on the left or the right, if you talk to economists, they said that this could have the kinds of consequences that would drop us into a deep depression and not simply a very severe recession.
Now, one of the success stories of the past six months is that we really have seen a stabilization in the financial system. It's not where it needs to be, but people are no longer talking about the financial system falling off a cliff. We've stepped away from the brink. And that's important, because what it means is there are a lot of companies right now that can go into the marketplace and borrow money to fund inventory, fund payroll, and that will help the economy grow as a whole.
The problem is, now that the financial system has bounced back, what you're seeing is that banks are starting to make profits again. Some of them have paid back the TARP money that they received, the bank bailout money that they received. And we expect more of them to pay this back. That's a good thing. And we also think it's a good thing that they're profitable again, because if they're profitable that means that they have reserves in place and they can lend. And this is America, so if you're profitable in the free market system then you benefit.
But what we haven't seen I think is the kind of change in behavior and practices on Wall Street that would ensure that we don't find ourselves in a fix again where we've got to bail out these folks while they're taking huge risks and taking huge bonuses.
So what do I think we need to do? We've got to pass financial regulatory reform. And this is an example of where folks say, well, should the Obama administration be taking on too much? The fact of the matter is that if we don't pass financial regulatory reform then banks are going to go back to the same things that they were doing before. In some ways it could be worse because now they know that the federal government may think that they're too big to fail and so if they're unconstrained they could take even more risks. And so there are a number of elements of financial regulatory reform.
With respect to compensation I'd like to think that people would feel a little remorse and feel embarrassed and would not get million-dollar or multimillion-dollar bonuses. But if shame does not work then I think one proposal that I put forward is to make sure that at least shareholders of these companies know what their executives are being compensated -- and that may force some reductions.
For banks that are still receiving taxpayer assistance we have a set of rules that gives us some control on reducing unwarranted compensation.
And in terms of the last point that you made, which is the possibility of fees for transactions that we want to discourage, that is one of the ideas that is going to be working its way through the process. I think at minimum what we want to do is to make sure that to the extent the federal government is going to have to be a backstop, just like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, what everybody is familiar with, FDIC, the reason that when you put your deposits in your bank you can have confidence that they're insured -- that's paid for through bank fees. We may need to make sure that there is a similar mechanism in place for some of these other far-out transactions. So if you guys want to do them, then you got to put something into the kitty to make sure that if you screw up it's not taxpayer dollars that have to pay for it, but it's dollars coming out of your profits.
Steve Koff, the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Q Thank you. To follow up on Jake's question earlier, sir, so many Americans are concerned that this plan, particularly the government insurance, the public option, would lead to reduced benefits or reduced coverage.
Two questions. One, can you guarantee that this legislation will lock in and say the government will never deny any services; that that's going to be decided by the doctor and the patient, and the government will not deny any coverage? And secondarily, can you, as a symbolic gesture, say that you and the Congress will abide by the same benefits in that public option?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, number one, not only the public option but the insurance regulation that we want to put in place will largely match up with what members of Congress are getting through the federal employee plan. That's a good example of what we're trying to build for the American people -- the same thing that Congress enjoys, which is they go -- there is a marketplace of different plans that they can access, depending on what's best for their families.
Now, one of the plans that we've talked about is a public option. And part of the reason we want to have a public option is just to help keep the insurance companies honest. If the insurance companies are providing good care -- and as it is, they're going to be more regulated so that they can't deny you care because of a preexisting condition or because you change jobs or because they've decided you're too sick and not a good risk -- with regulation there's already going to be some improvement in the insurance industry.
But having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs, that you can get an even better deal, that's going to incentivize the private sector to do even better. And that's a good thing. That's a good thing.
Now, there have been reports just over the last couple of days of insurance companies making record profits -- right now. At a time when everybody is getting hammered, they're making record profits, and premiums are going up. What's the constraint on that? How can you ensure that those costs aren't being passed on to employers or passed on to employees, the American people, ordinary middle-class families, in a way that over time is going to make them broke? Well, part of the way is to make sure that there's some competition out there. So that's the idea.
Now, to get to your original question, can I guarantee that there are going to be no changes in the health care delivery system? No. The whole point of this is to try to encourage changes that work for the American people and make them healthier. The government already is making some of these decisions. More importantly, insurance companies right now are making those decisions.
And part of what we want to do is to make sure that those decisions are being made by doctors and medical experts based on evidence, based on what works -- because that's not how it's working right now. That's not how it's working right now. Right now doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there.
So if they're looking -- and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, you know what, I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out. Now that may be the right thing to do, but I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid's tonsils out or whether it might make more sense just to change -- maybe they have allergies, maybe they have something else that would make a difference.
So part of what we want to do is to free doctors, patients, hospitals to make decisions based on what's best for patient care -- and that's the whole idea behind Mayo, that's the whole idea behind the Cleveland Clinic. I'm going to be visiting your hometown tomorrow to go to the Cleveland Clinic to show -- to show why their system works so well. And part of the reason it works well is because they've set up a system where patient care is the number-one concern, not bureaucracy, what forms have to be filled out, what do we get reimbursed for. Those are changes that I think the American people want to see.
Q And what about yourself and Congress? Would you abide by the same benefits package?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I would be happy to abide by the same benefit package. I will just be honest with you -- I'm the President of the United States so I've got a doctor following me every minute. (Laughter.) Which is why I say this is not about me. I've got the best health care in the world. I'm trying to make sure that everybody has good health care -- and they don't right now.
Lynn Sweet. Oh. (Laughter.) Well, I said Steve Koff -- but he just stood up, huh?
Q Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's not fair. Shame on you. (Laughter.) All right, get in there real quick.
Q -- got the Cleveland connection, so I appreciate that. You cited the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinics as models for the delivery of health care in the past. The Mayo Clinic, though, has some problems with the House proposal saying they're not focused enough on patients and on results. What do you expect to achieve tomorrow by going to the Cleveland Clinic -- which hasn't stated an opinion -- and are you expecting some form of endorsement from the Cleveland Clinic?
THE PRESIDENT: I am not expecting an endorsement. The Cleveland Clinic is simply a role model for some of the kind of changes that we want to see. I think it's important to note that the Mayo Clinic was initially critical and concerned about whether there were enough changes in the delivery system and cost-saving measures in the original House bill. After they found out that we had put forward very specific mechanisms for this MedPAC idea, this idea of experts getting the politics out of health care and making decisions based on the best evidence out there, they wrote in their blog the very next day that we actually think this would make a difference. Okay?
All right, I tried to make that short so that Lynn Sweet would get her last question in.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Recently Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you and what does it say about race relations in America?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I should say at the outset that "Skip" Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. What's been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys, jimmied his way to get into the house, there was a report called into the police station that there might be a burglary taking place -- so far, so good, right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger into -- well, I guess this is my house now so -- (laughter) -- it probably wouldn't happen. But let's say my old house in Chicago -- (laughter) -- here I'd get shot. (Laughter.)
But so far, so good. They're reporting -- the police are doing what they should. There's a call, they go investigate what happens. My understanding is at that point Professor Gates is already in his house. The police officer comes in, I'm sure there's some exchange of words, but my understanding is, is that Professor Gates then shows his ID to show that this is his house. And at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct -- charges which are later dropped.
Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that, but I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact.
As you know, Lynn, when I was in the state legislature in Illinois, we worked on a racial profiling bill because there was indisputable evidence that blacks and Hispanics were being stopped disproportionately. And that is a sign, an example of how, you know, race remains a factor in this society. That doesn't lessen the incredible progress that has been made. I am standing here as testimony to the progress that's been made.
And yet the fact of the matter is, is that this still haunts us. And even when there are honest misunderstandings, the fact that blacks and Hispanics are picked up more frequently and oftentime for no cause casts suspicion even when there is good cause. And that's why I think the more that we're working with local law enforcement to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias, the safer everybody is going to be.
All right, thank you, everybody.
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MR. GREGORY: And that is where we will start. I'm joined here now in the very first joint interview by the heads of the House and the Senate Campaign Committees. For the Senate, Democrat Robert Menendez and Republican John Cornyn. For the House, Democrat Chris Van Hollen and Republican Pete Sessions.
Welcome to all of you for what I'm sure will be a spirited discussion about this balance of power in Washington.
Congressman Sessions, respond to the president. As he told Chuck Todd, our chief White House correspondent, this week, "It's going to be a choice this fall between the policies that got us into this mess and my policies which are getting us out of this mess." Do you think that's how the public's going to see it?
REP. PETE SESSIONS (R-TX): I think the, the public sees this as a long-term debt issue of big government, more spending. The president and the House, at least, are two-tenths through a big government agenda. And the bottom line is, is that people back home see it where government is doing quite well and the free enterprise system and jobs back home are not doing so well. I think change is in the air.
MR. GREGORY: But there is an argument from the president and from Democrats that you got to consider the choice here, there's the president's policies or there's a reminder of the Bush Republican era. Is that a scare tactic?
REP. SESSIONS: Yeah, of course it is, because Speaker Pelosi has been in charge for four years and denied the president the ability to continue doing what was successful in this country and that is making the free enterprise system not only more powerful but competitive with the world. Today it's about empowering government, and that is a mistake.
MR. GREGORY: Senator Menendez, you heard Charlie Cook talk about this incredibly ugly political atmosphere right now. Why is that the case?
SEN. BOB MENENDEZ (D-NJ): Well, look, there's a lot of people hurting in this country, and we realize that, and that's why we've been working to try to change the economy that we inherited. You know, but this will be a choice election because I know my Republican colleagues would like to have everybody forget that their candidates are on the ballot, but their candidates will be on the ballot. And it's not just talking about President Bush, it's the policies that they espouse that are in essence Bush's policies. Those led us to a 72 percent increase in the debt from $5.7 trillion to $9.8 trillion when Bush left. It led us to a massive elimination of the surplus that Bill Clinton gave George Bush, and he had a $1.5 trillion deficit when he left office. And so our Republican colleagues, who had their hands on the wheel and drove the car off the cliff into the Grand Canyon and the huge crater, don't want to take responsibility. It's time that they did.
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MR. GREGORY: But you--Congressman, if this is the reality, apparently the public is not yet keyed into it because here's where we stand, if you look at The Washington Post/ABC News poll, "If elections were held today, who would you vote for, a Democrat or a Republican candidate in your congressional district?" And you see the, the results there, the Republicans have an edge, 47 to 46 among independent voters, and this is something we'll talk about repeatedly this morning, a certain edge going to Republicans, 47 to 40. How serious is this climate here against the Democrats?
REP. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-MD): Well, David, if you look at that Washington Post/ABC poll, the most, I think, interesting fact that came out of it, and the one that was right on the front page, was the fact that the American people have a lot less confidence in Republicans in Congress than they do in Democrats in Congress, and that's not surprising. It's pretty fresh in their memory exactly what those Republican policies did to the economy. After all, during the whole eight years of the Bush administration, we actually lost over 600,000 private sector jobs. We're now seeing positive job growth. And the good news, I think, for the American people is our Republican colleagues are reminding people every day that they would adopt the same policies they had before. John Boehner, the Republican leader, just this week said that he's going to move to repeal the Wall Street reform bill. Now, Wall Street lobbyists have been working very hard to try and defeat that Wall Street reform bill, and what he's saying is, "Just wait, if I have the opportunity, I'm going to take care of it for you." So it's that kind of thing that's going to make it clear to the, the American people what kind of choice they have.
MR. GREGORY: Senator?
SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R-TX): Well, I'm wondering when our Democratic friends are going to take responsibility for the policies that they've forced down the throat of the American people, which have proven to be very unpopular, including the healthcare bill that the majority of the population think we ought to repeal and replace with something that will actually bend the cost curve down. The president's approval rating's about 38 percent among independent voters, and what we're seeing are independent voters who are fleeing the Democrats coming to Republicans because they believe that checks and balances are absolutely essential in 2010 because they want to restrain this, this unprecedented spending binge, the unsustainable debt and the government takeovers. And I think they see Republicans as the best bet to provide those checks and balances.
MR. GREGORY: Well, and we'll get into some of the issues. I want to go back to Congressman Van Hollen on some of the fallout from the news that was made right here last Sunday, Robert Gibbs stating what a lot of people in politics thought was obvious, which is that Democrats are in trouble in the House, they could indeed lose majority status in the House. But the reaction among Democrats to a member of the administration, a, a top White House adviser actually saying that publicly was not very strong. Bill Pascrell from New Jersey, as reported in The Hill newspaper on Thursday, said the following, "If the administration is trying to tell us `stay away from us with an arm's length,' they did a good job. We don't need a wake-up call. The White House needs a wake-up call on the politics of these issues." What impact did Gibbs' statement have, particularly in some of these toss-up districts? Do you think it sent the wrong message?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: Well, this is the distinction between a mathematical possibility and a probability. We have said all along this is going to be a very tough political election for all the reasons people have said. But we've also said at the end of the day we're confident we're going to retain a majority in the House. The Democrats are on the same page now. The Democratic leadership in the House had a great meeting with the president, it was positive, we talked about the agenda for the remainder of the year, and we emphasized the fact that voters are going to have this choice that we're talking about here this morning because the Republicans want to get away, essentially, with carping and whining about everything here without telling the American people what they will do. We're now beginning to hear a little bit about what they would do, and that choice is...
MR. GREGORY: But, but go back to the Democrats, Congressman, because there was a real sense among House Democrats that I've spoken to, over a period of time, frustration with the White House. I mean, here House Democrats took tough votes on health care, on climate change, on the stimulus, and they felt like, you know, this White House is not made up of very strong allies. This was really the icing on the cake, wasn't it?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: Well, we know the White House is a strong ally for this reason: The fact of the matter is the president and the White House know that they need a strong majority in the House and in the Senate in order to complete their agenda, to keep working on that agenda. They also know that the day after the elections it will be interpreted as a referendum on the president's policies in the press, whether they like it or not. So we are on the same page.
Now, David, there is some frustration. The frustration is there are lots of important bills to push for jobs that are sitting over in the Senate. But it's not the fault of the Democratic leadership in the Senate. I mean, frankly, you know, John Cornyn and his allies have been trying to block a whole lot of very important jobs measures. We in fact sent a piece of legislation over very recently that would remove these perverse tax incentives to ship American jobs overseas, that give American corporations a bonus if they ship American jobs overseas. Pete and his colleagues voted against getting rid of that loophole. It's not in the Senate. I hope that the Senate Republicans will join with the Senate Democrats and pass that kind of measure. So the frustration is that, while we've made important progress, we still want to keep working and moving forward on the economy. And there is a lot of important jobs legislation bottled up in the Senate.
MR. GREGORY: How, how--Senator Cornyn, to what extent do you see this as a repeat, potentially, of 1994? It's interesting, if you remember, Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America sweeping into majority status, winning 52 seats. And, at the time, Adam Clymer wrote this in The New York Times, which caught my attention: "Republicans based much of their push for major gains on the notion that the Democrats, who in '92 won control of the White House while retaining the Senate and the House, had since disappointed the voters. That made it possible, Gingrich said, to put out `one clear message from Washington' which could not be done in the '80s, when control of the White House and Congress was divided between the parties." I mean, here, just like 1994, Republicans have made a choice: unity of opposition to everything the president has put forward.
SEN. CORNYN: Well, I think every election's different, David, and this election'll be different from 1994. No matter what the actual count is, it will be a different election. But I want to say to my friend Chris, the--you know, the problem is the Democrats have been able to pass almost everything on the president's agenda, and they've been doing it with a "my way or the highway" approach without reaching out and seeking compromise and Republican support. And, as a result, the Business Roundtable, one of the big allies of the--of this White House, has come out and given a list of job-killing policies that have been passed, which make capital, make investment, make job creators sit on the sidelines. And if there's one area where this administration has failed miserably, it's been in creating an environment where job creators will make those investments and create jobs and grow the economy. And that's what I think the American people are reacting to, because people without a job can't pay their mortgage and they're losing their home. And we've seen everything on the Democrat agenda except for the number one thing on the mind of most Americans. That is jobs, "How can I keep my home? How can we restrain the growth of government when runaway spending and unsustainable debt?"
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MR. GREGORY: Senator Menendez, if you look at where the president stands, these are policy issues that the senator is bringing up. Here's the president's approval rating, it's upside down, he's at 48 percent disapproval. The Washington Post poll from this week that we referenced shows that six in 10 Americans lack faith in the president. And here's how the Post reported it: "Public confidence in Obama has hit a new low, according to the latest poll from The Washington Post-ABC. Four months before midterm elections that will define the second half of his term, nearly six in 10 voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country, and a clear majority once again disapprove of how he's dealing with the economy." Is November a referendum on Obama?
SEN. MENENDEZ: No, November's a--is a, a choice election. And the reality is, is I listen to, to John talk about the agenda in the Senate, the Republicans have been the job killers in the Senate. In essence, they have used the filibuster in an unprecedented way in the nation's history to stop progress on everything that we have tried to do. So, as we're trying to help the private sector grow jobs by giving them tax incentives, net operating loss, bonus depreciation, giving them incentives to small businesses to hire people, they have said no, no, no, no. Now, the problem is, is that in this choice election it will be far less than the president. It will be about whether or not we go back to the Bush economic policies that they espouse, the policies that John Kyl, the number two Republican in the Senate, said...
MR. GREGORY: But, but you just heard, but, but you just heard your, your, your colleague from the Congress, from the House say, "Look, it's going to be perceived as a referendum on Obama and his policies." How does it not?
SEN. MENENDEZ: Well, no. I think what, what Chris said, at the end of the day the results, regardless of what they are...
SEN. MENENDEZ: ...positive or negative, may be viewed that way. But look, when John Kyl says that you don't have to pay for $680 billion of tax cuts whatsoever, just add it onto the debt, but you can't even take care of $30 billion to have people who are unemployed in this country get through the emergency of the moment, you know, it's a big difference. And when we look at jobs, the reality is we lost 2.9 million jobs in the first six months of the president's time that he inherited from Bush. We created 860,000 jobs in the first six months of this year. That's a 3.7 million...
MR. GREGORY: Right. But, Congressman Van Hollen, here's the reality. In Newsweek, Howard Fineman in his column reports it out in terms of what Democrats are facing as a result of the president's policies. We'll put it on the screen. "Obama won over [male independent] voters in 2008, and they may be all that stands between Democrats and catastrophe this fall. ... The Democrats' support among that group has fallen to as low as 35 percent in some polls. And the reasons are clear. They do not believe that Obama's actions have produced results - and for these practical voters, nothing else matters. The $787 billion stimulus bill is widely regarded as an expensive, unfocused dud. ... Healthcare reform remains, for most voters, a 2,000-page, impenetrable, and largely irrelevant mystery. The BP oil spill has hurt Obama's ability to fend off GOP charges that he's ineffective as a leader. Democrats are hoping to win back this group with one strategy: attacking the Republicans, individually and as a group. ... The plan is not to blame George W. Bush ... but to warn that a return to the GOP brand ... would be a disaster." And we're hearing all this this morning.
REP. VAN HOLLEN: Well, what you're, what you're hearing is--as, as Bob said, look, we know that we have a long way to go on the economy. People are still hurting, that's absolutely clear. But we also know what the American people know, which is the day George Bush lost--left office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. And during the full eight years of the Bush administration we lost private sector jobs. We are now beginning to climb out. And what we are saying is yes, let's focus on the policies, because why in the world would we want to go back to the same economic agenda that created that mess, that, that lost jobs for eight years? And I think the challenge that our colleagues have here, Pete and John, is to say to the American people, how do you expect to do the same thing and get a different result? I mean, that, that's Einstein's definition of insanity, right?
MR. GREGORY: But, Congressman, is that fair? Is that what, is that what Republicans stand for today? Is it the party of George Bush? Is it the economic approach of George Bush?
REP. SESSIONS: First of all, it's not truthful. People had jobs when Republicans were, not only in charge, but George Bush was there. We doubled the size of the economy over 12 years. We did things that would empower the free enterprise system. Here's what the facts of the case are. There will be candidates who will be on the ballot back home facing the Democrats who have voted in the 90 percent realm with Nancy Pelosi to raise taxes and bigger government, and a healthcare plan which we cannot sustain and will quite likely bankrupt not only states, but business also. These candidates from top to bottom, whether we talk about Rick Berg and Kristi Noem, all the way down to David Rivera in Florida, are saying we must live within our own means, we cannot spend what we don't have, and we must be able to sustain what we're doing. That's why we're going to win.
MR. GREGORY: Well, so what is the message your candidates are going to send about President Obama? What has he done with government, to government?
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REP. SESSIONS: Well, well, first of all, they're going to run against the, the person who's on the ballot with them. And that person has voted for more spending and big taxes and more of an agenda that's about empowering Washington, D.C., not back home. They are going to say we should read the bills before we vote on them, we should make sure we live within our means, and, perhaps most of all, get behind an agenda where the American people are, which began for us one year ago in August when Republicans would attend town hall meetings and hear about health care.
REP. SESSIONS: Democrats fled.
REP. VAN HOLLEN: But, but, but, David, I mean, you heard the very beginning of the answer to your question, a defense of the George Bush economy and the George Bush years. And I don't think the American people see it that way, because they know we had a meltdown in the financial sector, they know we lost jobs. And so when they hear the Republican leader John Boehner say he wants to repeal the Wall Street reform bill, which is an effort to make sure that the American people and the whole economy are not again held hostage by bad debts on Wall Street, they recognize that they do, in fact, want to go back to those policies. They have, they have Joe Barton, the head of their energy committee--who, who would be the head of the energy committee, apologizing to BP. It's a, it's a big oil agenda. They've got, they've got the, the folks who oppose the legislation to try and remove the tax loopholes that help export U.S. jobs overseas. We want to shut those loopholes. They, they hear all this and they see that what they're going to get if you had, you know, Republicans in charge, is that economic agenda. And they, they can't answer that basic question: What, what are you going to get that's different?
MR. GREGORY: Well, Senator... what, what distinguish the Republican Party of today from the Republican Party under President Bush's rule with regard to spending, which is where it got out of control under Republican rule, that now conservatives are so upset about.
SEN. CORNYN: Well, let's look at a few facts. I, I, thank you for the opportunity because I wanted to respond to what Chris said. You know, in the last year that President Bush was in office, 2008, the deficit was 3.2 percent of the gross domestic product. Today it's 10 percent. Just--we just hit the $13 trillion cap on national debt, $2.3 trillion...
MR. GREGORY: Well, let me just stop you, Senator. Wait a minute.
SEN. CORNYN: ...since Obama...
MR. GREGORY: Where did some of that debt come from? The president of the United States was George Bush when they passed a, a huge TARP, which was to bail out the banks. I mean, that's what ran up a lot of debt, as well. You're saying that a Republican...
SEN. CORNYN: Well, you're ignoring...
MR. GREGORY: ...was, was somehow different.
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SEN. CORNYN: You're ignoring the stimulus that was--failed according to the own, the president's own standards. He said it was supposed to keep unemployment to 8 percent. A $2.6 trillion healthcare bill, which I agree with, with Pete, will bankrupt not only the private sector but the states and the federal government creating a new entitlement program. My point is that, you know, unemployment was roughly 6.9 percent when President Obama was elected. Now it's 9.5 percent. The deficit was 3.2 percent the last year President Bush was in office. Now it's 10 percent. The debt was $2.3 trillion lower when--in 2008 than it is now because of runaway spending and debt.
MR. GREGORY: So my question is still...
SEN. CORNYN: Those are some of the policies people reacting to.
MR. GREGORY: ...what is the distinction of the Republican Party of today vs. the, the Bush record that you're defending?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, I think what people are looking for, David, are checks and balances. They've had single party government, and it's scaring the living daylights out of them. It's keeping job creators on the sidelines rather than investing and creating jobs. That's why the private sector isn't creating jobs.
MR. GREGORY: Well, can't you understand people will see that as a strategy of saying no rather than saying yes to something?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, my constituents in Texas, I have to tell you, to all the bad ideas that they hear coming out of Washington these days, no is a good start. And then they want us to replace it with commonsense policies that actually make sense. But the problem is, the, the--our friends on the Democratic side, including the president, have passed one unpopular policy measure after another and told the American people, "We don't care what you think, we're--we know what's, better than you do, what's good for you." And I think the birds are coming home to roost.
SEN. MENENDEZ: Well, David, if the check and balance is to go back to exactly the same policies that gave us a 72 percent increase in the national debt to nearly $9.8 trillion. If the check and check and balance is to take Bill Clinton's $230 billion surplus and make it a $1.5 trillion deficit, if the check and balance is the malaise of the Bush years in which incomes for families remained stagnant and jobs were lost, if the check and balance is to be with big oil, big insurance, and Wall Street against the average individual, then that's where the Republican Party is at.
MR. GREGORY: Let me, let me have--before we take a break and we'll come back and we'll talk about some particular issues where the two sides will debate, I want to ask one last question about the president's standing and, and to what extent it has an impact. Politico's piece on Thursday was very interesting, the headline "Why Obama loses even by winning." And this is what they reported. "Thursday's passage of financial reform just a couple of months after the passage of a comprehensive healthcare overhaul should decisively end the narrative that President Barack Obama represents a Jimmy Carter-style case of naive hope crushed by the inability to master Washington. Yet the mystery remains: Having moved swiftly toward achieving the very policy objectives he promised voters as a candidate, Obama is still widely perceived as flirting with a failed presidency."
Congressman Van Hollen, this is not 1994 where Democrats were having a difficult time achieving anything. There has been major achievement here, and yet, are Democrats reaping the rewards?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: There has...
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MR. GREGORY: Reaping the benefits?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: There absolutely has been major achievement, and you've ticked some of those off; but the fact remains that the economy is soft. And when you have a soft economy, people, understandably, are anxious. And the question they're going to have on their minds when they go into that voting booth and face two different candidates is, who is going to best respond to the economy? And I have to say, we're some minutes into this discussion yet and we still have not heard from our colleagues what they would do differently than the Bush economic agenda which got us into this mess? We are now in positive job growth.
Let me make this point, we have the situation right now where our Republican colleagues are holding hostage an extension of middle class tax cuts. They've said we're only going support a continuation of middle class tax cuts, those for people under $250,000, if you also extend the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthy. And by the way, that $700 billion over 10 years--you hear all this talk about deficit reduction--that they don't want to pay for, they want to leave that to children and grandchildren, we can make great progress today if our Republican colleagues here agreed to allow those middle class tax cuts to be extended without having to add $700 billion to the deficit that our grandchildren and children will have to pick up.
MR. GREGORY: But, Senator Menendez, Senator Bayh, another centrist Democrat that said raising taxes on wealthier Americans by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in January would be a real mistake in this economy. Is that wrong?
SEN. MENENDEZ: Well, the bottom line is what would be a mistake is to add $700 billion of debt to the next generation. You know, when, when the number two Republican in the Senate, Jon Kyl, says, "We don't have to pay for that. We don't have to pay for it," you know, I am tired of listening to the lectures about spending and debt when they wracked up record debt, when they are willing to put $700 billion of debt on the next generation, and when you don't have to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country, but you can't help working Americans trying to get a job who presently are unemployed.
MR. GREGORY: Final point before break, is President Obama an asset or a liability on the campaign trail?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: Oh, he's absolutely an asset.
MR. GREGORY: So he'll campaign across the country for Democrats?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: Absolutely. And he's been doing that. He was in Michigan the other day at, at a car battery factory. He's been around the country. He's an asset, and he's also very clearly drawing the distinctions here, what the choices are for voters going forward.
MR. GREGORY: We're going to take a break. We're going to come back. We're going to talk a little bit more about the Republicans, what the prescription is should they get the majority in the House. We'll be right back. More of our debate on Decision 2010 and the balance of power in Washington right here on MEET THE PRESS.
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MR. GREGORY: The debate for the fall campaign. More of our discussion with the chairs of the four congressional campaign committees, right after this brief commercial break.
MR. GREGORY: And we are back, continuing our Decision 2010 debate with the four leaders responsible for winning congressional races for their party this fall.
MR. GREGORY: But, Congressman, that's a, that's a pretty gauzy agenda so far. I mean, what specific--what painful choices are Republicans prepared to make? Are they going to campaign on repealing health care, for instance, repealing financial regulation? Would you like to see those two things done?
REP. SESSIONS: Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.
MR. GREGORY: How do you do it? Tell me how you do it. Name a painful choice that Republicans are prepared to say we ought to make.
REP. SESSIONS: Well, first of all, we need to make sure that as we look at all that we are spending in Washington, D.C., with, not only the, the entitlement spending but also the bigger government, we cannot afford anymore. We have to empower the free enterprise system. See, this is where...
MR. GREGORY: Congressman, these are not specifics.
REP. SESSIONS: Oh, they...
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MR. GREGORY: And voters get, get tired of that.
REP. SESSIONS: That, that...
MR. GREGORY: You want to deal with entitlement spending...
REP. SESSIONS: They are...
MR. GREGORY: ...will you raise the retirement age on Social Security, will you cut benefits in Social Security?
REP. SESSIONS: Let, let--let's go...
MR. GREGORY: Will you repeal health care?
REP. SESSIONS: Let's go right to it.
REP. SESSIONS: And Chris talked right about it. He wants to diminish employers' abilities to be able to be competitive across this world. We need to make sure that we allow employers, which was in that 52-page report that was presented to the president of the United States by CEOs in this country, we need to go back to the exact same agenda that is empowering the free enterprise system rather than diminish it.
MR. GREGORY: Senator, I'm sorry, I'm not hearing an answer here on specific--what painful choices to really deal with the deficit. Is Social Security on the table? What will Republicans do that, that, that would give them--like '94, there was a Contract With America. What are voters going to say, "Hey, this is what Republicans will say yes to"?
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SEN. CORNYN: Well, the president has a debt commission that reports December the 1st, and I think we'd all like to see what they come back with. We've got three of our most outstanding members on that commission--Mike Crapo, Tom Coburn and Judd Gregg--and I--my hope is they'll come back with a bipartisan solution to the debt and particularly entitlement reform, as you, as you mentioned. But I...
MR. GREGORY: But wait a minute, conservatives need a, a Democratic president's debt commission to figure out what it is they want to cut?
SEN. CORNYN: I said we need to do this on a bipartisan basis. We've, we've had a, we've had a...
MR. GREGORY: But what is the Republican Party stand for with regard...
SEN. CORNYN: ...we've had a partisan juggernaut.
SEN. CORNYN: Well, I mean, in, in part, what I alluded to earlier is what people are tired of is the runaway spending and the debt, and I think that is a positive agenda--smaller government, living with their means.
MR. GREGORY: Do you, do you, do you campaign to repeal health care if you, if you have majority status?
SEN. CORNYN: I think repeal and replace it with a commonsense solution that will bend the cost curve. This bill has almost no reform. Individual businesses, individuals, and states are going to suffer a great financial loss as a result to the huge expansion of entitlements in this healthcare bill. We had alternatives, as you saw, at the summit that Lamar Alexander and others articulated...
MR. GREGORY: Right, and we're...
SEN. CORNYN: ...that the president...
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MR. GREGORY: We're not going to--we, we won't debate all the issues with health care, but I just want to get...
SEN. CORNYN: Well, you, well, you asked what the positive...
MR. GREGORY: What about, what about repealing financial reform?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, you asked what the...
MR. GREGORY: Is that something you think that Republicans would stand for?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, you asked what the positive agenda was.
SEN. CORNYN: And I think it's clear that, that Republicans had a positive alternative in health care. I think Bob Corker was very articulate in saying he hoped for a, a, a compromise that would actually make sense instead of preserving the too-big-to-fail and--doctrine and the, and the prospect of bailouts.
MR. GREGORY: So repeal financial regulation, yes or maybe?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, I think--I mean, this is a 2,300-page bill that not even Chris Dodd, the principal Senate author, knows--he said, "We don't know exactly how this will impact the economy or our financial systems for some time to come." I mean, that's part of the problem, as Pete said, passing legislation with unintended consequences and based on an ideological approach as opposed to, "Let's solve the problem" and to help encourage the growth of the economy. As the folks in the business roundtable said, the job-killing agenda of this administration is to make...
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SEN. CORNYN: ...is the reason why people are sitting on the sidelines--the job creators, the investors, the entrepreneurs."
SEN. MENENDEZ: Let me answer...
MR. GREGORY: Well, one...
SEN. MENENDEZ: Let me answer the question for you.
MR. GREGORY: ...but one thing that is fair, just to challenge you as well, you look at polling, there are a lot of voters out there who would like to go back and begin at scratch and begin all over and--rather than supporting the Obama economic policies. That's a reality.
SEN. MENENDEZ: Well, I think, actually, when you look at the choice between where the president has taken the country from what he inherited vs. what our colleagues espouse, which is in essence the Bush voodoo economics, the reality is, in that choice, they have a very clear preference for the president's economic policies. Let me answer the question that my dear friend John wouldn't. Yes, they want to repeal health care, and they say replace. Well, you'll have a whole host of issues that you enjoy today that won't be enjoyed anymore. You won't see seniors closing that prescription drug gap that they have, you won't be able to have pre-existing conditions no longer be a bar to you getting insurance; you won't have a child born at birth who now will be able never--if they have a defect--to no longer be denied insurance. And yes, we have cost controls in that bill. On Wall Street reform, look, two weeks before, two weeks before the Wall Street reform bill was passed, you know, a hedge fund manager ultimately raised a million dollars for Republican candidates two weeks before the bill was being voted on, and they tried to stop us four times in the Senate before we got the Wall Street reform. I think that people in America believe in a free market as we as Democrats do, but there's a difference between a free market and a free fall market.
MR. GREGORY: But, Congressman...
SEN. MENENDEZ: They would permit the free fall market.
MR. GREGORY: ...you do have exploding debt in this country, you have near 10 percent unemployment and the president made a major policy agenda built around creating a new government entitlement. That's hurting him with a lot of voters.
REP. VAN HOLLEN: The fact is, as the CBO has, has scored, which is the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, that if you look at a 20-year period, you actually reduce the deficit by $1.4 trillion, which means if you do what they want to do and repeal it, they're actually adding to the deficit. If, if I could just go make a couple points here because Pete really said what we're saying. I wrote it down. They want to go back to the same agenda, the same agenda that got us into this mess. Now, the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy in 2001, 2003, we know they didn't create any jobs because at the end of that eight-year period you had a loss of private sector jobs, and that is fact. And why in the world we would want to go back to that agenda, I think, is a mystery to me and it's going to be a mystery to the American people going forward. What he, what he--they do have some creative ideas, including the guy who's their point person on the, on the budget committee, which is the road map plan, and what they would do there is go back to a proposal to partially privatize Social Security, which is something Pete has supported, and, and we, we can have that debate, but the American people need to know that. And they also have a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program; you give the senior the voucher--by the way, the value of that voucher is going to decrease substantially--and we're going to throw you over to the insurance industry. Those are the ideas their point person on the budget committee has, and people need to...
MR. GREGORY: Congressman...
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REP. VAN HOLLEN: ...to understand that.
MR. GREGORY: ...Congressman Sessions, I want to ask you some, some political operative questions, as well, that, that play a role here. Some of it has to do with money and how much candidates can raise. It affects both parties, it affects the ability to get out the vote, which is very important, as you know, in a midterm race. Why is it that in this political environment that we have been--all been talking about, it has been difficult for Republicans to raise the kind of money that Democrats successfully raised when they were challenging Republican rule in 2006?
REP. SESSIONS: In 2006, Republicans had more money, and we lost. And one thing that, that is very apparent is the American people are not after money, they're after progress. And the progress that's being made in Washington is what Democrats will be judged for. The progress that they're making, despite what is being said here about George Bush...
MR. GREGORY: So--but so raising money doesn't...
REP. SESSIONS: ...is about...
MR. GREGORY: ...raising money doesn't matter?
REP. SESSIONS: You know, during the last few months Republicans have raised more money, and we will probably be outspent maybe even 1.7-to-1. But the American people understand what is happening in Washington, D.C., and this is an agenda that's out of control.
MR. GREGORY: I want to talk about the tea party as well, Senator Cornyn. The impact, whether it's Sarah Palin or some prominent tea party candidates--we'll put a few that are running in Senate races, ones to watch this year in terms of tea party impact: Sharron Angle running against Majority Leader Harry Reid, of course, in Nevada; Marco Rubio running against Charlie Crist, who is now an independent running for the Senate, and we're still waiting to see who the Democrat will be; and of course, Rand Paul, a Republican in Kentucky. And yet, there are some real debates going on about the role of the tea party and whether there are racist elements within the party itself. The NAACP had its meeting this week and talked about--called on the tea party to really stand up to some of those forces. This is how it was reported in the Kansas City Star this week. The headline, "The NAACP resolution addresses tea parties." The organization "passed a resolution Tuesday calling on all people--including tea party leaders--to condemn racism within the tea party movement. ...
The resolution asserts that tea party supporters have engaged in `explicitly racist behavior, displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Obama specifically.' ...
The tea party movement is not just about higher taxes and limited government, the resolution says, `but something that could evolve and become more dangerous for that small percentage of people that really think our country has been taken away from them.'" Is this a problem?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, I think it's slanderous to suggest that the vast movement of citizens who've gotten off the couch and gotten--showed up at town hall meetings and tea party events, somehow to smear them with this, this label, it's just, there's just no basis for it. But I think the--what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing. And if, if folks like in Nevada, for example, 14 percent unemployment since Harry Reid--now that Harry Reid is running for re-election, 20--after 27 years in the United States Congress, if you want to continue those policies and those sorts of results, then go ahead and vote for Harry Reid.
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MR. GREGORY: Well...
SEN. CORNYN: And if you want, if you want change, if you want people who are willing to live within their means and to rein in this runaway spending and debt, then, then they have an alternative.
MR. GREGORY: Well, you talk about Nevada. Let's look at the latest polling out of Nevada...
SEN. CORNYN: Mm-hmm.
MR. GREGORY: ...that shows, in fact, Senator Reid pulling now ahead of Sharron Angle. And we can put those on the screen. He's now up 44 to 37 percent. This comes after a time when Sharron Angle has made some pretty extreme statements about a slush fund, calling the BP compensation fund a slush fund, something she later backtracked from. She's talked about Second Amendment remedies for her political opponents. And the criticism is that the tea party is, in fact, injecting candidates who are too extreme to actually win re-election. Is, is that a concern for you?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, let's, let's look what Harry Reid has said. He's called the former chairman of the Federal Reserve a hack. He declared the Iraq war lost and the surge a failure before it even started in 2007. And he called the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff incompetent. I mean, Harry Reid is known for his gaffes. But this isn't going to be about personalities, I believe, this is going to be about policies. That's really the--where our colleagues don't...
MR. GREGORY: All right. But that, but...
SEN. CORNYN: ...on the other, side don't seem to understand.
MR. GREGORY: But this is different. This is a question of whether some of these tea parties are too extreme.
SEN. CORNYN: It's the policies are unpopular.
MR. GREGORY: You've got Rand Paul who got into trouble with extreme comments, and you have a movement of tea partiers who, in effect, are arguing that they should govern when they're fundamentally opposed to government. How much of a problem is that?
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SEN. CORNYN: Well, I believe these are, these, these are citizens who should not be demonized and marginalized. These are people who are concerned about the direction of the country. They have every right to participate in the political process and to make sure their views are represented in Washington, because they see Washington running away with, not only their present prosperity, but also the burden it's putting on our children and grandchildren.
MR. GREGORY: But, Congressman, you, you heard Senator Lott say this week that if they're elected they should be co-opted by the Republican Party, or should there be a tea party caucus in the House?
REP. SESSIONS: I think it's clear to me that what--when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country. And Chris talked about how the federal government will see this $1.2 trillion surplus, or least the diminishment of the debt, but they're passing that on to other people and diminishing employment at the same time. This agenda is outrageous, and the American people are seeing in our candidates where we're going to talk about balance.
MR. GREGORY: Congressman--all right. But, Congressman Van Hollen, Van Hollen, what is the impact of the tea party in the fall?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: Well, it's a, a mixed bag for the Republicans. On the one hand, there's a lot of energy on the tea party's side. On the other hand, it is driving a lot of their candidates farther and farther to the right. Most of the districts that are in play are the swing districts, they're centrist districts, and what the tea party movement has done is take a lot of their nominees farther to the right. We saw in a special election last year in upstate New York, a seat that had been held by the Republicans since Abraham Lincoln was president, that the tea party movement drove the more moderate Republican candidate out of the race entirely. And Bill Owens ran a good campaign, focused on jobs and the economy, and won a seat that had been held by a Republican since the Civil War. So there's a real danger for them in moving farther to the right, but that is the reality of what's happening.
MR. GREGORY: Senator Menendez, did the NAACP go too far?
SEN. MENENDEZ: Well, I think they expressed their views based upon signs, statements, and other things, and so I'll let their judgment as the nation's conscience on race stand for their own proposition. But I will say this about the tea party. Look, it's not about marginalizing people. I'm glad to see people get involved in their government. But there's a reason that my colleague here wanted Sue Lowden vs. Sharron Angle. There's a reason he wanted Trey Grayson in Kentucky vs. Rand Paul. Because he understood that the people who won those races in the tea party movement are too extreme in their positions even for their state. When you want to put radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain, when you want to phase out Social Security, when you want to abolish the Department of Education, it's not going to sell in Nevada. When Rand Paul, you know, says that it's un-American to pressure BP to do the right thing in the gulf, it's not going to sell. So, at the end of the day, it's not because they are part of a movement, it's because their positions are too extreme for the general election environment.
MR. GREGORY: We've got about a minute left. I want to go around the table here. Senator Cornyn, I will start with you. A prediction for the fall, what kind of pickups do you think you're looking at, if any, in the Senate?
SEN. CORNYN: Well, we're leading or tied in about eight seats currently held by Democrats, and, if the election were held today, it'd be a pretty good election. But we've got almost 100, a little bit more than 100 days to go, and it's anybody's guess. But we're looking for a pretty good November 2nd.
MR. GREGORY: How many seats do you think?
SEN. CORNYN: I don't know.
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MR. GREGORY: Senator?
SEN. MENENDEZ: Democrats in the Senate will be a majority after this election, despite midterm election history and headwinds. We are competitive. Six weeks ago we were sitting here with you. We are competitive in a series of races that we weren't in--that a Republican held that we wouldn't have said that six weeks ago.
MR. GREGORY: Do Democrats hold the House?
REP. SESSIONS: I think our candidates are going to take us from good to great to victory, and I think Republicans can win in November.
MR. GREGORY: How many seats?
REP. SESSIONS: I think we're going to be slightly over 40.
MR. GREGORY: Slightly over 40. That means the majority's gone. Where do you see it?
REP. VAN HOLLEN: I know these guys are popping the champagne bottles already over there, but the fact of the matter is the Democrats will retain a majority in the House. We know that it's going to be a tough election. But the fact of the matter is when voters focus on the choice before them, whether it's to continue the progress we've made or go back to the policies that got us into this mess to begin with...
MR. GREGORY: All right.
REP. VAN HOLLEN: ...the choice is clear.
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MR. GREGORY: We are going to, we are going to leave it there. Thank you all very much. We'll have you back before election time.
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Sound waves are invisible to the eyes. The only way you can pick up sound waves is trough ears and some sound waves can be felt. Since sound waves are traveling longitudinal pressure waves of audible sound.
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sound wave
a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
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Sound is a mechanical vibration that travels through any matter as a waveform. Most of the time we think about sound moving through air, but it can travel through any matter. Basically, something pushes the particles in the air and that causes them to bump into each other in a chain reaction. This allows the energy of the sound wave to travel while the air itself only move a little bit.
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The time is mid-October 1868. The place is Ellesmere Island near Greenland. Fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother Sulu are on the edge of a thick ice floe hunting for seal when the floe breaks free from the shore. The two brothers are set adrift with only each other, the supplies on their sledge, and their lead husky Jamka to keep them alive. To make matters worse, they face this danger on the eve of the long winter darkness. Snow is already falling and will continue to fall until June.
Theodore Taylor tells the story from two perspectives - that of Alika and that of his village of Nunatak. As the boys' parents search for them in kayaks, the brothers fall back on the survival skills they have been taught. They build themselves an iglu, continue hunting for meat to keep themselves alive, and fend off a nanuk, or polar bear. They also remind themselves of home by retelling village legends and the story of the only other person they know who survived life adrift on an ice floe. The boys are haunted by the unknown question of how long they will be trapped and wonder if they will survive this ordeal.
As the two brothers struggle to keep themselves alive, Taylor is also educating the reader about life in the Arctic Circle. The thrilling story is full of information about native animals and the harsh, yet beautiful seasons. Each of the characters in the tale also learns something about themselves, their ability to survive, and at heart what is most important to them in life.
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Sagarin still tweaking his new formula
Apparently, Jeff Sagarin doesn't think his new and "improved version" of his new formula for the BCS to use is improved enough. He made a significant change to it again during the week, so now the data that appears on his site is very different than the data that was used by the BCS last week.
You may recall that last week, Sagarin introduced a new version of his Elo-based formulas. I wrote then that the column named "Elo Score," which is now described as including margin of victory, bore a very strong resemblance to the "Elo Chess" version it replaced, which Sagarin clamed did not contain MOV. Meanwhile, a new non-margin version called "Pure Elo" was introduced and would be the version the BCS would use.
However, those results were very counterintuitive. Seven FCS teams were in the top 25, led by Bethune-Cookman at No. 4. However, because of Sagarin's mid-week change, the Wildcats are now 67th, but still the top-rated FCS school. That's a pretty dramatic change.
Among the top 25 FBS teams in his system, which are the ones that receive a BCS score, Oregon State and Virginia Tech switched spots. In the official BCS release, and in Sagarin's original rankings last Sunday, the Beavers were sixth and the Hokies seventh. Now, that's reversed. That would have improved Virginia Tech's BCS score slightly, but not enough to improve the Hokies overall BCS ranking. Sagarin was already the highest rating for OSU by far and is thrown out, so the Beavers' score doesn't change.
So, is this much ado about nothing? There's no way to know. His formula is secret. His process is unaccountable. It should be noted that the name "Elo Score" didn't last a week. It is described the same way as before, but is now called "Dimin Curve." Also, that rating, as well as his "Pure Predictor" ratings were also tweaked as part of his changes this week.
Hopefully, he's done, but unless he makes mid-week changes again, we'll never know. When he does, we can see different results with the same data, so we know the formula changes. It's disconcerting to know he's not satisfied with his formula yet and that it may continue to change.
I have contacted Jeff, but have not yet received a response. When I do, I will update this post.
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PARIS -- The obsession of the American foreign policy community, as well as most American (and a good many international) politicians, by the myth of Iran's "existential" threat to Israel, brings the world steadily closer to another war in the Middle East.
The debate over Iran takes for granted that the country soon will have nuclear weapons and would use them. The debate back in 2002-'03 over Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of nuclear weapons did the same. After the United States had gone to war against Iraq, no such weapons were found to exist.
The actual winner of the war that followed the American invasion of Iraq was Israel, which saw Iraq, its principal regional rival, destroyed at no cost to itself. The military victor of the war, but politico-strategic loser, was the United States, which destroyed Iraq, a country in no position to harm the United States, at a trillion-dollar cost, enormous human suffering and waste, and the effective transfer of Iraq to Iran's zone of military and strategic influence.
The present debate over Iran's nuclear program, like the pre-2003 debate concerning Iraq's non-existent WMD program, has never extended to the most important question in the matter: What difference would it make if Iran did have nuclear weapons? What could it do with them, considering the nuclear deterrent force possessed by Israel, generally thought to be the fifth or sixth largest nuclear power in the world?
Between the start of the nuclear era to the end of the Cold War, tens if not hundreds of thousands of earnest scholars, strategists, pacifist activists, journalistic commentators, politicians and prospective victims of nuclear war brooded over how nuclear weapons might be used in war. So far as I know, the only conclusive answer we found (I was, on occasion, one of those people) was that they were only useful as a threat to deter someone else from aggression. They cannot stop the aggression, but they will exact a serious penalty for it.
The best known of these thinkers was undoubtedly my late colleague Herman Kahn. He made a professional career of lecturing to military staffs, scholars, politicians and concerned laymen about how in the last analysis nuclear weapons had no real military or politico-strategic utility against another nuclear-armed power, other than when one actor possessed an absolute monopoly of these weapons, as was the case of the United States in 1945.
The U.S. used its monopoly to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki and put an end to the Second World War (over-used its monopoly -- one would have been enough; indeed the Army Air Force might have dropped a nuclear bomb on an unoccupied island or deserted atoll, and told the Japanese to watch, or to go afterwards and take a look at the hole).
Kahn's characteristic conclusion was that the only future constructive use for nuclear weapons lay in creating a Doomsday Machine, the Ultimate Deterrent. It would be a thermonuclear device that would destroy the entire earth if a nuclear weapon were ever exploded anywhere in the world or in surrounding space.
The Iranians, a highly intelligent and well-educated people, know all of this perfectly well. If they intend to produce nuclear weapons, it is to possess a deterrent to foreign aggression. The Israelis, another highly intelligent and well-educated people, also know nuclear history. Their present policy is not based on fear of a nuclear attack by Iran (or by an Iranian proxy). It is calculated to prevent the United States from imposing on Israel a solution to its relationship with the Palestinians. They do not wish a permanent legal frontier dividing them from some new and recognized Palestinian state -- a frontier sponsored and also guaranteed by the United States, as well as by international law.
Such a border, and such an internationally guaranteed Palestinian state, would stop further Israeli expansion into Palestinian territory, and possibly reverse the expansion that already has taken place. Continuing expansion is the present Israeli government's policy, as President Benjamin Netanyahu stated in the presence of the international press at Davos, at the start of the first Netanyahu government in 1996.
The propaganda concerning Iranian nuclear weapons is deliberately promoted by Israel and its allies in order to inspire an attack on Iran by the United States, or more likely, to rationalize such an attack by Israel itself. An attack, by either government, would undoubtedly provoke Iranian retaliation against American troops, ships and installations in regions neighboring Iran. It would also distract the United States from the Palestinian issue.
This explains recent efforts by the American military to dissuade Israel from such an attack. At the same time, others in the American government, and all but one of the present Republican candidates for the presidential nomination, irresponsibly promote such an attack, against the interests of their own nation.
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RE: So, to clarify
By Alexstarfire on 1/6/2010 7:45:04 PM , Rating: 2
Nothing needs to even be cracked. It's not even a roadblock.... more like a pothole. You just kinda swerve to avoid it, but if not it's all right anyway.
RE: So, to clarify
By DarkElfa on 1/6/2010 11:18:41 PM , Rating: 5
Pirates don't get their crap from Netfilx?!! Hell, almost every new release the pirates do is out 1-3 months before Netfilx even gets them.
RE: So, to clarify
By Samus on 1/7/2010 2:01:05 AM , Rating: 5
That's what I'm saying! Seriously, in the torrent community, almost everything is sourced from retail. Do they actually think pirates are going to wait 3 days for the DVD in the mail?
And if you're going to argue the pirates they're after are just the home users that rip for their own collection, go ahead and argue. Because as stated above, if they don't want to buy it, they'll just get it from Blockbuster.
This is amazingly stupid of Netflix. Who's going to wait a month for a DVD release when the video stores have it? Basically, we're going backwards. As in, we're going back to the video store domination.
RE: So, to clarify
By frobizzle on 1/7/2010 8:38:11 AM , Rating: 2
If this wasn't so pathetic, it might actually be funny!
Almost any movie (worth seeing) is usually available to download weeks or months before the DVD/Blue Ray comes out. Another impotent action by the movie studios!
And as the OP pointed out, pirates do not bother getting their movies from Netflix!
RE: So, to clarify
By Cypherdude1 on 1/8/2010 7:17:01 AM , Rating: 2
When I first read this about the 28 day delay, I thought it was a joke. Apparently not:
There is no way customers who rely on rental DVD's will standby and take this delay. I have been a Netflix customer for 1.5 years and have always wanted to see new rentals ASAP. Since I can no longer do this with Netflix, I will cancel my service. I will either return to BlockBuster online or simply occasionally go to my local independent rental stores. Maybe I'll just use Redbox, especially if they put one nearby.
I can't believe Netflix will leave this policy in place. I just know that thousands of their customers will dump them now and Netflix will back down.
RE: So, to clarify
By akse on 1/7/2010 3:18:03 AM , Rating: 5
Lol yeah.
So now people that would use netfilx get their movies later and start to think "the hell with the waiting I just DL from torrentsite X and get the movie today instead of month later"
Stupid move which only increases piracy.
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not that i rent dvd's or BR any way
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0.055825 | <urn:uuid:5f706f74-e736-41f9-89f0-346d48ef6c61> | en | 0.969476 | LOS ANGELES—Space shuttle Endeavour was finally lodged at its retirement home Monday following a slow weekend parade through city streets that turned out to be a logistical headache.
After a 12-mile weave past trees and utility poles that included thousands of adoring onlookers, flashing cameras and even the filming of a TV commercial, Endeavour arrived at the California Science Center Sunday—about 17 hours behind schedule.
It sat on the grounds of the museum for several more hours before finally moving toward a hangar.
"It's just a crazy thing that we did but we pulled it off," said Kenneth Philips, curator of aerospace science at the museum.
Movers had planned a slow trip, saying the shuttle that once orbited at more than 17,000 mph would move at just 2 mph in its final voyage through Inglewood and southern Los Angeles.
But that estimate turned out to be generous, with Endeavour often creeping along at a barely detectable pace when it wasn't at a dead stop due to difficult-to-maneuver obstacles like tree branches and light posts.
Despite the holdups, the team charged with transporting the shuttle felt a "great sense of accomplishment" when it made it onto the museum grounds, said Jim Hennessy, a spokesman for Sarens, the contract mover.
"It's historic and will be a great memory," he said. "Not too many people will be able to match that—to say, 'We moved the space shuttle through the streets of Inglewood and Los Angeles.'"
Transporting Endeavour cross-town was a costly feat with an estimated price tag of $10 million, to be paid for by the science center and private donations.
Late Friday, crews spent hours transferring the shuttle to a special, lighter towing dolly for its trip over Interstate 405. The dolly was pulled across the Manchester Boulevard bridge by a Toyota Tundra pickup, and the car company filmed the event for a commercial after paying for a permit, turning the entire scene into a movie set complete with special lighting, sound and staging.
Some 400 trees had been removed along the route, but officials said most of the trees that gave them trouble could not be cut down because they were old or treasured for other reasons, including some planted in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
At every turn of Endeavour's slow-speed commute through urban streets, spectators jammed intersections as the shuttle shuffled past stores, schools, churches and front yards through the working-class streets of southern Los Angeles. Sidewalks were off-limits due to Endeavour's enormous wingspan.
Endeavour's arrival in Los Angeles was a homecoming. It may have zipped around the Earth nearly 4,700 times, but its roots are solidly grounded in California. Its main engines were fashioned in the San Fernando Valley. The heat tiles were invented in Silicon Valley. Its "fly-by-wire" technology was developed in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. In 1991, it rolled off the assembly line in the Mojave Desert to replace Challenger, which blew up during liftoff in 1986.
It was scheduled to go on display starting Oct. 30.
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Tom Cruise is a lot of things. Doting father is one of them. Good Samaritan is another. So it's hardly surprising that he was reunited with daughter Suri in New York City just hours after she and Katie Holmes escaped uninjured from a fender-bender.
Frankly, we'd be surprised if the knight in shining armor hadn't popped up in the Big Apple this morning to spend time with his 6-year-old for the first time since word of their split broke more than two weeks ago.
MORE: Suri and Katie sideswiped!
While getting caught by the paparazzi was inevitable, the 50-year-old movie star didn't stay out in public for too long, and was only briefly spotted while carrying Suri (herself carrying a stuffed animal) from his car to their hotel. He only arrived in the city this morning.
A source confirms that this is the first scheduled visitation between the duo, but that while they have not physically been in the same place, there has been "near daily" contact between the father and daughter. In any case, today's face time is no doubt preferable to what was originally on the books, as today was the scheduled date for the first hearing (canceled in light of a settlement) between Tom and Katie.
Though Suri and mama Katie have been making the rounds in NYC on a daily basis, Cruise has spent the past two weeks filming his new sci-fi flick Oblivion in California.
From the adorable look of things, they've clearly missed each other's company.
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Scariest Scarecrows
07/06/2011 - 3:54pm
It's actually sort of insul
07/05/2011 - 3:53am
Derek is adamant that in order for Scott to gain control of his animal side, he must stay away from Alison. Scott tries and fails, so Stiles promises that he will help train Scott. Scott's transformations seem to be linked to his heart rate.
07/04/2011 - 1:55pm
The F.E.A.R. series has always been a strange on
07/03/2011 - 7:17pm
Harris wants to vivisect the alien that Tom captured; Anne wants to communicate with it. She shows it kindness by offering it water. The alien reaches for it tentatively, but then Harris rolls in with the corpse of another alien.
07/02/2011 - 5:14pm
Sookie is both annoyed and scared that Eric has bought her house. He claims he did it to protect her, but he wants power over her. Against her better judgement she goes to Bill for help. Bill had previously "covered" for her while she was in fairy world, telling people she was on an errand for him so other vamps wouldn't get wind of her sweet, sweet fairy blood.
06/28/2011 - 4:39am
Lydia sends Jackson into the video store while she waits in the car. Inside the empty store (because who the hell rents at the store anymore?) Jackson finds the clerk with his throat ripped out.
06/27/2011 - 1:49am
I think at this point, we have all seen the first eight minutes of the episode. Sookie is in the fairy world and she discovers that the fairies are "harvesting" those with fairy bloodlines to keep the race alive. Sookie discovers grandpa Earl is there and when she stands up to the fairies, they turn evil.
06/27/2011 - 1:40am
Base camp has been set up in the high school. The colonel arrives with news of resistance groups in city centers across the country. A new doctor and old friend of Tom's, Harris comes to camp.
06/23/2011 - 11:43pm
As we reported earlier in the week, WB Games and Net
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1 Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart
A tribute to the punk hymn and to the man behind it, Patrik Fitzgerald. Includes previously unreleased information.
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Aug 21 08
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* "Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart" has a subtitle stating it is a love song, but a love song for what?
* Which of the following statements is NOT taken from the song's lyrics?
* Which of the following is NOT a correct statement regarding the "Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart" EP?
* Which is a Patrik Fitzgerald poem treading along the very lines of "Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart" by heavily criticizing what has become of punk?
* What is the subtitle of the Patrik Fitzgerald anthology CD issued by Anagram records in 1994?
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Is this a good buy for $400?
#1Papi_of_CornPosted 2/10/2014 7:58:12 PM
DELL U2410
ntel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Kentsfield 65nm Technology
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz
DFI Inc. LP DK P35 (Socket 775)
DELL U2410 (1920x1200@59Hz)
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ (EVGA)
139GB Western Digital WDC
Optical Drive:
ATAPI iHAS220 6 ATA Device
On a very big case, so it's possible to upgrade with ease.
Corn and porn rhyme, guess what I'm doing/eating right now?
#2SlaynPosted 2/10/2014 8:08:43 PM
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#3phantasyPosted 2/10/2014 8:11:00 PM
that monitor is really good. But the rest of the stuff is outdated. Maybe $300 and to play some older games
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#4Hi CPosted 2/10/2014 8:11:22 PM
$400 for that antiquated crap?
You'll be my John G.
#5mikewu1Posted 2/10/2014 8:13:26 PM
#6Papi_of_Corn(Topic Creator)Posted 2/10/2014 8:24:20 PM
I thought it was worth it since the Screen was so good.
#7AftCometPosted 2/10/2014 8:28:45 PM
A giant resounding NO.
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#8DarkZV2BetaPosted 2/10/2014 8:30:12 PM
The total parts may be worth more than the price paid, but the computer is essentially worthless aside from the display.
god invented extension cords. -elchris79
#9MaximoomPosted 2/10/2014 8:50:07 PM
No, at that price I would suggest a PS4.
If you really wanna join pc gaming I highly reccomend starting with a minimum $600 budget.
There is not much you can save from those parts. The monitor, the psu (if it can handle a 9800, it must be at least decent), case and optical drive, you can also use that HDD, as a slave one. The motherboard is most likely not compatible with DDR3 memmory, those ram sticks are terrible and not compatible with new motherboards, that processor is five or six generations old and also not compatible with new motherboards, that gpu is eight or nine generations old (even though i think it can run mostly any games at medium settings yet) and runs very hot.
#10PsythikPosted 2/10/2014 9:25:04 PM(edited)
I am about to sell a higher spec'd machine for $100, so no, that's not a good buy in the least bit.
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Asked: 4 years ago
Prestige class?
How do those work? I know from what I've read theres quests but do you need to have been a certain level in base classes for them? If so what are the requirements for all of them prestige classes?
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From: pyromite 4 years ago
Gladiator- Dragon Slash (sword ability) slimes while fully maxed on tension.
Paladin- Successfully use Whipping Boy (Warrior ability) to take damage for your teammates.
Armamentalist- Put up a Wizard Ward and have that fighter kill off some metal slimes.
Ranger- Kill off hocus chimaeras with the poison from Toxic Dagger (knife ability).
Sage- Kill off some great trolls (found primarily in Realm of the Mighty, final story dungeon) with Frizz (Mage spell).
Luminary- Kill off a moai minstrel (found only in high level nature or water grottoes) with Hot Lick (Minstrel ability).
And before anyone complains to me for stealing the above answers, I'm basically summarizing and clarifying things.
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Gladiator- Need someone with dragon slash and ability to get super high tension (quest giver in in basement of alltrades abby}
Armamamentalist- Ability to cast wizard ward (quest giver is the guy in red near jack of alltrades}
Ranger- A thief with toxic dagger ability (quest giver is at the base of Zere rocks)
Paladin- A warrior with whippingboy ability (quest giver is the lady on the roof of Gleeba castle behind the fountian)
sage comes later in the game and superstar is after you beat the game.
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Sage you can get by reading a book in the gittish empire. You have to have a mage of a decent level so it is strong enough to kill the enemy it tells you to (i think it was a boss troll)
Superstar can be found in the dance hall in gleeba. I forget what you have to do to unlock it though.
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Asked: 3 years ago
Grotto Percentage Info?
I've noticed that there are some percentage information in the bottom right hand of the top screen when looking at all the Treasure Maps. The top on is a percentage of the map explored. However, the second one seems to be a drop item, however the percentage doesn't go up after receiving the item twice, so what is that percentage recording? Additionally, I have no idea whatsoever about what the third percentage is and I'm horribly curious. Please inform me!
Accepted Answer
From: rpbancroft 3 years ago
Grotto bosses are very interesting.
Each grotto boss actually has four (4) drops (I think all of them do; can't confirm this with every single one). They have two really common drops (which you can steal from them; one example is the Tactical Vest from Excalipurr). These two drops ARE recorded in your bestiary, but ARE NOT recorded in the information section you mentioned (the one you see on the lower-right of any grotto map information screen).
[Note: As far as I can tell, the two rare drops I'm about to discuss do NOT appear in your bestiary. They might if you haven't gotten the lower quality drops, though.]
Then there are the two rare drops. These are the two drops recorded in the information screen you mentioned. The first drop appears with a drop rate of anywhere from 5% to 10% (it depends on the grotto boss - most are 5%). The second drop, the rarest of the rare, almost always has a 2% drop rate (according to the Brady Games strategy guide). This includes such things as Sensible Sandals (Elusid) and the Spring Breeze Hat (Fowleye). These are usually the lowest rung of the best of the best pieces of armor in the game (which allow you to start the chain of alchemical upgrades to the absolute best armor).
The percentage you see on each grotto map never changes; it's based on the drop rate of the rare equipment that the particular grotto boss gives you. In this way, the standard grotto bosses are different than the legacy bosses, whose drop rates improve as you level them.
Hope that answers your question!
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It is the chance you will get the dropped item. The boss has two drops, one common and one rare, but they only get recorded after you've received the item.
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Please report any overly-slow GHC-compiled programs. Since GHC doesn't have any credible competition in the performance department these days it's hard to say what overly-slow means, so just use your judgement! Of course, if a GHC compiled program runs slower than the same program compiled by another compiler, then it's definitely a bug.
1 Use Optimisation
Optimise, using -O or -O2: this is the most basic way to make your program go faster. Compilation time will be slower, especially with -O2.
At present, -O2 is nearly indistinguishable from -O.
GHCi cannot optimise interpreted code, so when using GHCi, compile critical modules using -O or -O2, then load them into GHCi.
2 Measuring Performance
The first thing to do is measure the performance of your program, and find out whether all the time is being spent in the garbage collector or not. Run your program with the +RTS -sstderr option:
$ ./clausify 20 +RTS -sstderr
42,764,972 bytes allocated in the heap
6,915,348 bytes copied during GC (scavenged)
360,448 bytes copied during GC (not scavenged)
36,616 bytes maximum residency (7 sample(s))
81 collections in generation 0 ( 0.07s)
7 collections in generation 1 ( 0.00s)
2 Mb total memory in use
INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
MUT time 0.65s ( 0.94s elapsed)
GC time 0.07s ( 0.06s elapsed)
EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
Total time 0.72s ( 1.00s elapsed)
%GC time 9.7% (6.0% elapsed)
Alloc rate 65,792,264 bytes per MUT second
Productivity 90.3% of total user, 65.1% of total elapsed
This tells you how much time is being spent running the program itself (MUT time), and how much time spent in the garbage collector (GC time).
If your program is doing a lot of GC, then your first priority should be to check for Space Leaks using heap profiling, and then to try to reduce allocations by time and allocation profiling.
If you can't reduce the GC cost any further, then using more memory by tweaking the GC options will probably help. For example, increasing the default heap size with +RTS -H128m will reduce the number of GCs.
If your program isn't doing too much GC, then you should proceed to time and allocation profiling to see where the big hitters are.
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When you are really desperate for speed, and you want to get right down to the “raw bits.” Please see GHC Primitives for some information about using unboxed types.
This should be a last resort, however, since unboxed types and primitives are non-portable. Fortunately, it is usually not necessary to resort to using explicit unboxed types and primitives, because GHC's optimiser can do the work for you by inlining operations it knows about, and unboxing strict function arguments (see Performance:Strictness). Strict and unpacked constructor fields can also help a lot (see Performance:Data Types). Sometimes GHC needs a little help to generate the right code, so you might have to look at the Core output to see whether your tweaks are actually resulting in the desired results.
One thing that can be said for using unboxed types and primitives is that you know you're writing efficient code, rather than relying on GHC's optimiser to do the right thing, and being at the mercy of changes in GHC's optimiser down the line. This may well be important to you, in which case go for it. | http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/index.php?title=Performance/GHC&oldid=1506 | dclm-gs1-015950001 |
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Seasons 52A new fresh grill and wine bar called Seasons 52 is planning a 9,000-square-foot restaurant to replace El Torito Mexican Grill in front of The Fashion Mall at Keystone. The chain, part of Orlando-based Darden Restaurants Inc., has 11 locations in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The restaurant's menu changes seasonally and comes with a promise that none of the choices has more than 475 calories. Offerings include carmelized sea scallops, garlic chicken flatbread, grilled rack of New Zealand lamb and char crust filet mignon. The parent company of the Olive Garden and Capital Grille concepts filed permits on June 10 to build the new restaurant at 8650 Keystone Crossing. The new restaurant probably will open in 2011, as the location is not included among four Seasons 52 restaurants slated to open this year. An employee at El Torito said the restaurant will close in the next few months.
• Great News!
This is a terrific restaurant, and it will be a nice addition to the restaurant scene in Indianapolis.
• too bad
I'm sad to see El Torito go (again) - they had the best brunch in Indy. It's even sadder to see that it will be replaced by another chain restaurant.
• Hooray!
Hooray - this is a smaller chain that is actually really good glad they are opening here! Have been to the one in Atlanta a few times and it has always been great...delicious fresh food, prompt and courteous service, etc.
• fantastic
Have eaten in the ones in Florida many times. Excellent food, terrific service and moderate prices.
• You won't be disappointed
El Torito was a chain also. I promise you won't be disappointed with Seasons 52. It will be the best restaurant in the Keystone at the Crossing area. They also build a very classy, elegant, first class building.
• Eh..
Eh... over-priced tiny portions. How do you think they keep an entree of filet mignon with mashed potatoes under 475 calories? Don't believe me, go to their website and pull up the current menu. I'm sure there will be some comments regarding what I just said... yeah, our portions are typically too big... but if you haven't been here wait until you see how small some of the portions are. Been here in Florida and not impressed. I guess they picked the best location though, the Fashion Mall... the only place in the city where people expect to pay more and get less.
But good luck to them, someone in the building is better than no one in the building.
• Who's opening this?
Does anyone have any contact information for who is opening this? and when its opening?
• Hate to lose El Torito
That corridor has now lost two great Mexican restaurants with El Torito and Adobo both closing. All you've got there now is Don Pablos and the so called "authentic" places. All that's left now for the diner wanting higher end Mexican food is Adobo's downtown location or Abuelos. After that it is very slim choices for Mexican in this city. Sad...
• Indy Mexican
"After that it is very slim choices for Mexican in this city."
Luckily (and uncharacteristically), there are many excellent, authentic, independent Mexican restaurants in Indy, mostly owned and frequented by Mexican immigrants. Just look along the near westside around Washington St.
• enough empty buildings
Why is Darden restaurants building a new location when they still own empty restaurants on the northside? Bahama Breeze on 96th is theirs and it has been sitting empty for years. Also the old Smokey Bones in castleton. Seems like they should focus on doing something with these eyesores before doing something new.
• Castleon Smokey Bones
FYI, Darden is renovating the former Smokey Bones in front of Castleton Mall into a Longhorn Steakhouse.
• Bahama Breeze Building
The Bahama Breeze building on 96th street has been sold to steakhouse operator from Chicago.
• Sad to Say
Sadly, I predict the low calorie menu will not go over well in Indy. I see too many locals that base the quality of the meal on how big the portions are. If you don't believe me, check out the long lines at the Cheesecake Factory every night.
• brunch
but will they continue the great sunday brunch tradition on that corner?
• Good, fresh Mexican food
IndyTodd, have you tried Red Habanero at 96th & Gray Road? Semi-fast-food, but made to order with quality ingredients and a touch of style - delivered with a big smile. It's my Mexican-food-of-choice on Indy's northside.
• Chain City
As stated in the Indianapolis Monthly "The greater Indianapolis Metropolitan area has one of the greatest concentrations of chain restaurants per capita of any market in the U.S...44% higher than the national average."
To those where local communities are not priority, enjoy your new Darden cookie cutter. For the rest, find out the facts of the impact at
• Chains
"Blah, blah, blah, the world is going to end because of chain restaurants". Until more good independent restaurants open up here, this trend will continue.
You can not expect independent restaurants to be supported just because they're independent. People are not going to spend their money at a crappy restaurant just because it's "independent". I have been to too many independent restaurants here that are just plain awful. And then when they close, they and others cry "people in Indianapolis only like chain restaurants". No!... the restaurant wasn't supported because of one, or a combination, of the following reasons: service was awful or food was awful (preparation and/or ingredients). Don't get me wrong, there are some good ones here... but not many in Indianapolis.
As for me, I'll take the Cookie Cutter restaurant over a crappy independent restaurant any day. What I spend my money on is more important to me than if a place is locally-owned or not. I could care less if it's owned by someone in Florida... American is Amarican, doesn't matter to me if it's Indiana or Florida.
And to some of you, what is your definition of a chain restaurant? Is it based on the number of locations or is it based on whether or not the restaurant is owned by a company? If it's based on the number of locations, then what's the magic number that makes them a chain... because some people on this this blog (maybe not this thread) spout off "independents" that have multiple locations. If your definition is based on if it's owned by a company... does it have to be a public corporation? Finally, how many of these so-called "evil" chains started as independents?... quite a few. How did they grow so large?... by putting out a consistently good product (consistently being the other key word).
If you put out a good product you will grow... if you don't, you will become stagnant or you will fail, plain and simple. So, quit whining about chains and open up some more good independents if you want to win the battle!!!
• Chains
Indy Guy,
Most people tend not to seek out independent restuarants because they do not know they exist. Most cannot afford the advertising and prime locations (where large scale chains can). I don't think Indianapolis has a large amount of awful independent restuarants, I think it has more to do with people wanting the familiar and a lot to do with laziness. We've had many great indepents suffer due to people not seeking them out and trying them, and not due to having poor quality, service, ect. Not everything is black and white.
• Chains
INDY GUY- The world is going to end? Did you thread here from a different blog? A blog where you were looking for an equally lonely INDY GIRL that was looking for a hot date to a chain restaurant perhaps? Does your Mother know that youâ??re playing on the basement computer again? How does the crappy chain restaurant stack up to the great independent? Is your independent glass ever half full?
No doubt this is an experimental city for large restaurant chains. No doubt that Indy Guy is a living example of why. What came first, the chain restaurant that could give a hoot about the community? OR the customer who could give a hoot about the community?
I guess it doesn't matter much, both end in a community with no identifiable character or sense of sustainable social harmony.
"Good enough" is no longer good enough in the restaurant with anything; the free market will determine who succeeds and who fails. Your argument is accurate to a point, but at some point Wal-Mart breaks the back of a local grocer that offered a superior product, patronized his neighbor's business and gave back to his community. Like Shane says, chains are savvy and their pockets are deep...for every chain that fails in Indy, they can counter by another store in another state. Independents don't have that privilege, and some think it deteriorates their signature character to multiply (think St. Elmo's). That spot would have been beautiful for Harry & Izzy's...a potentially growing group of restaurants that is family owned and operated.
• Chains... cont.
I'll accept Shane's argument. However, a great or above average restaurant doesn't need to spend a lot of money on advertising to stay open or require to be in a great location. Granted it is a disadvantage when starting, but when you start out there is typically someone with ahead of you that has an advantage. Anyway, point taken Shane.
But, as for you MH... you only get upset and attack me for your argument... so, I'll go ahead and assume that you were an independent restaurant that put out a crappy product; and now are upset because you thought it was a chain that put you out of business. Exactly the independent I was talking about. Look in the mirror, buddy. And to your, "Good enough" isn't good enough in the restaurant biz... well, a lot of independents think they can stand on "good enough" just because they are independent and that doesn't cut it. Yes, the big chains can afford to be just "good enough" to survive... but, they've built up to that. If they started out at "good enough", they would have never become large chains. And if I can't get it through your thick skull that people are not going to spend their money on something that they don't think is a good product/service, regardless if it's independent or not... well, then you're the independent that will fail time and time again. And next time, read more thoroughly... I never said a great independent is not as good as a chain. So, quit your whining, and try again.
• I Agree
Indy guy - i could not have agreed more with everything you wrote. I wish more people were like you!
• Big Seasons 52 Fan
From an previous insider... I've worked for Darden restaurants and the company rocks. There are benefits and insurance from day 1; college assistance, pet insurance, spouse/partner insurance,training, vacation pay, disaster or family assistance fund program, and discounted dining programs at all the sister restaurants.
Plus for all skeptical of the portion sizes.. Give it a try! The portions are medium. NOT like cheesecake factory where you can share with 4 ppl one entree and leave in a yummy food comma. INSTEAD Seasons 52 is winning ppl over with the cooking style and level of service. I have been to at least 3 locations. They grill over an open wood fire grill AND use no butter, no fryer. Instead they caramelize the food to bring out flavor and mix the freshest ingredients to please the palate. My only suggestion is make a reservation. I've been to the Orlando, King of Prussia, and Perimeter restaurant. The place stays busy. I love the concept and all of Dardens other brands. Seasons is my favorite.
Indy Guy-- Try and let me know what you think!
• Chain Restaurants
Chains: Indy Guy. I agree completely with you that a restaurant is good or it isn't, whether it is a mom and pop or a chain. I am not certain why anyone would criticize someone being successful, but they do. â??They sold out,â?? the crowd mutters. Yes, the chains have identical food in each location...why is that evil? I have no idea. Do we really want to play Russian roulette with our meals? We have our favorite foods in our Mom and Pop eateries and our own kitchens, why canâ??t others have favorites in the chain restaurant? Don't we blast a restaurant if the quality is inconsistent? I prefer the non-chain most of the time, simply because I like to try out new food and styles of cooking; but do not hate chains. Some are quite good (Bonefish Grill, Ruth's Chris, Palamino, et al.) Being a chain does not necessarily make an eatery bad; anymore than being a lone entity makes one good. Many factors make, or break, a restaurant. If their favorite independent were to open a second outlet, would they stop patronizing them? What a mess Indy foodies are in...they are upset if you are a chain, they are upset if you close your doors. They want you all to themselves and not be successful and open more sites...there is no solution that I can see, except pick a restaurant based on the quality of food, service and atmosphere, regardless of how many cities enjoy them also. Cheers to Seasons 52 for moving in Indy and offering jobs in this god-awful climate of nonemployment and my wish is that Darden is successful here and brings more jobs to the masses who need one. There are enough people for all the good restaurants, little or chain. Welcome to Indy Seasons 52!
Elizabeth J. Musgrave
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Written on Anderson community members react to Preston buyout:
I mistakingly used the wrong word to convey the word "complain". I will now attempt to get my point across without said adjective. What I said was: The money used to pay for the lawsuits between CW and JP could have been used to pay for some on these projects. Perhaps the whole council should have been replaced and a new government formed that enjoyed the trust of the people. I am sure there are many people in Anderson who are tired of the same old same old and they want to see their hard earned dollars going to something besides a continuous slinging match between the county administrator and council members who don't agree with the way he does the job. To those of you who would have been offended by the said adjective used to convey the word "complain" I do apologize.
Written on Anderson community members react to Preston buyout:
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Written on $45k in bonds holds Anderson man until alleged victim returns from Iraq:
Why not just send him up to Camp Lejeune and let the marines sort him out, or better yet, call his bluff.....send him off to Afghanistan or Iraq as a "marine" and let him take his chances. There is no punishment that will ever make up for the stealing of another person's identity and to pretend to be a marine is sacrilege!
Written on The Storyteller: One pastor's generosity:
Well, huzzah, you get the gong for spoilsport whether you wanted it or not. It just beggers believe that the only time some people want to read a newspaper is when it is full of murders or some other type of crime or tragedy. Sometimes people just want a "feel good" story to make all the other horrors happening in the world today seem a little less so.
Written on Honor our veterans:
I stand corrected. I have just moved on in my daily "read" of the paper and see that there was a program at the monument. I was too early to see it and I had to keep travelling on to my destination. Thank you Anderson for remembering those who have served past and present. We, veterans, also salute you for standing by us.
Written on Honor our veterans:
I was born in Anderson and had the pleasure of being there on Veteran"s Day. As a veteran what wasn't so pleasant was my inability to find the Veteran's monument. After several enquiries to numerous people I finally found it tucked in behind some government buildings off the beaten path. I found it looking lost and forlorn, without any flowers or signs of remembrance other than the plaques themselves. Maybe it was too early in the morning (9:30am) to expect anything to be happening so soon. I hope so. I don't understand why who ever made the decision to put the monument where they did didn't put it in a more easily accessible place to find. Most towns you go thru have their monuments right on the main entrance(Belton)in a place of pride. Why isn't Anderson's? Can someone tell me the story as to how it ended up where it is?
Written on Anderson Circuit City store won't be closing:
I hope they close the CC up here in Fayetteville. They have the worst customer service and you can't walk in the store without your ears being blasted off by the electronics/stereo department trying to sell yet another car system to people who will be deaf in 10 years time let alone the innocent people in cars around them who are subjected to the noise at intersections and homes nearby. I hope all their stores go out of business but I do hope those who are "good" at customer service find jobs elsewhere!
Written on None:
The US may not have any jobs but I bet a US dollar that China sure has all its people employed. Some day maybe the US will wake up and smell the coffee(that is if it isn't being produced elsewhere)and then realize that giving away all of America's resources to other countries for the sake of cheaper labor has left the US penniless and its people in "third world" status.
Written on Pickens County moves in to protect residents from "furren" languages:
Jeanne, I think you got this one wrong. I am all for people of other origins holding on to their birth culture but if they choose to live in a country that speaks another language than their native tongue then they should be required to at least learn that language if only at a basic level. Learning the language of one's chosen country doesn't mean that they have to give up their heritage, it means they can speak to be understood. For all sorts of reasons they need to be able to communicate. One example which will be forever in my mind is an incident that I witnessed back in Australia. A little child was playing along the sidewalk outside the mall while her mother chatted to a group of friends, the child wandered onto the road and into the path of an oncoming delivery truck, myself and others were shouting for her to "stop" but she just kept on walking, the delivery driver couldn't stop in time. She died. The mother screamed at everyone that she(the child) couldn't speak nor understand English!!! She wondered why someone didn't grab the child out of the way. We didn't have time and our question was why didn't the Asian mother, first of all teach her small child a few important words of English and secondly, why didn't she watch what the child was doing. No amount of blame would bring that child back, being able to understand a few words of English would have. As another poster commented there is a need to speak the language of the country you reside in. I am sorry it is such a hot issue for you but there are good reasons for it maybe some people and places go to extremes to enforce the reasons.
Written on With top down and blue sky above, joy ride with friend was memorable:
Treasure those memories Salley, all too soon our elderly are taken from us. It is such a rich and rewarding experience to just spend a little time with older people. All too often younger people of today don't seem to have the same reverence for the sage wisdom that comes from these older treasures.
Written on Supporting Bryant for Senate:
I should think that if a person works for someone then they have an opportunity to get to know that person first hand. Are you saying in this article that just because she works for him her opinion should be disregarded? What about all the people who see Dr Meadors as a patient are they meant to disregard their opinion of him just because he treats them as their physician? The same can be said of those who do business with Kevin Bryant's pharmacy. How better to know what a person is like than to hear comments from those who are closest to him. I think the record of both men stands for itself and people will vote based on what that person has done to represent their values and ideas to the government they live under.
Written on Upstate butterfly migration in full flight:
I really enjoyed this article. It was informative and told me something I did not know. How refreshing it is to read the newspaper and read something that isn't just related to the latest crime or continuous council member bickering. Thank you for sharing this.
Written on T.L. Hanna athlete faces $1k fine for assault :
When I was in high school T.L.Hanna high was "the" school. It had the reputation of being the school of the upper class and the majority of students who went there went on to professional careers and wealthy lifestyles. Obviously it has changed. Putting aside the people who attended, the school had a top notch reputation in and out of SC. Shame its image has to change and its standards have been lowered to accommodate trouble makers for the sake of winning a football game.
Written on Meadors announces education advisory group:
After reading the lead story about lack of paper in the Anderson schools somebody needs to do something to help the people of South Carolina. Good luck in your campaign Dr Meadors and after you win perhaps you could downsize the administration department to cover the cost of providing progress reports.
Written on Horse illustrates problem for Anderson County:
in response to nwalukewicz#270262:
The fact that everyone has a clear understanding of the problem and many of us are working together to find a solution insures a positive outcome. Animal abuse, neglect and maltreatment are a sad occurrence in our nation. Those who work to address these problems face an uphill task, most especially in this economy.
The cost of materials and labor for the large animal facility we proposed was in the forty- thousand dollar range. Our plan did not include needs like grading the land or fill dirt and cement depending on what flooring the county ultimately decided upon. That is the reason for our statement the facility could be built for less than one hundred thousand dollars. We expect the project will come in well under that price. We do not expect that our rendition of what could be built is what should or will be built only that we offer a possible solution to each problem we identify.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting PEARL and the cost of rehabilitating the horses. Without your support we are hard pressed to be able to provide the county with this service. The cost of vets, farriers and feed are extremely high.
#34 formerly known as Tootsie is doing well. She will need to have her front feet x-rayed because of a mild lameness she is exhibiting. She has seen a farrier once and pending the outcome of the x-rays will hopefully have a program for her hooves to insure she is comfortable. Once her body weight is brought up and her health is improved she will receive her vaccinations and have her teeth filed. We have a possible adoptive home if the outcome is a healthy horse. She is all ready putting on weight and is on a parasite control program. Like all starvation cases as her health improves her personality comes out. As an Arabian mare, she is going to be both beautiful and fun.
Great article Ms. Carey. Thank you.
Nicole Walukewicz
I commend you on the work you are doing with these and other animals as you say times are hard and not everyone has a loving, caring nature towards animals who are not their own. Are there not situations where businesses could donate services and supplies to causes such as this and then write it off on their taxes as charity? I would hope that there is and that building supplies could possibly come from donations and therefore save the county hundreds of dollars and at a minimal cost to the suppliers who one would hope would do this out of the goodness of their hearts.
Written on Man fined for road rage:
He should have had his license revoked. Babies and children should not be allowed to drive cars. He seriously needs anger management classes!
Written on Grown-up or groan up? Caught woefully between geriatric and juvenile:
Jeanne, I can so relate to this story. I went thru the same thing with my sons. I chose to have a career first and then children. As you do. I have never regretted that and do still wonder when I see the younger Mums with their children at school whether I had done the right thing. I have learned to smile when "carded" and argue when I am wanting that Senior Discount even though the salesclerk is saying I just DO NOT look old enough to qualify for one. As you say, they are just doing their job. It is a shame that grey hair has such a stigmatism attached to it.
Written on Anderson police captain fired:
in response to mj1938:
Why is it that when a black person does wrong and admits his wrongdoing, the hue and cry is always "racisim"?? Why can't a person who chooses to live outside the law take responsibility for their actions? No, because it's always "whitey's" fault, no matter what the wrongdoing is. Respect is something you earn. It is not "given" to you in any race. Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that stated "The buck stops here". I am Native American and I don't whine about my ancestors mistreatment, nor do I expect repatriation from the government. I am responsible for my own actions and other races should do the same instead of playing the blame game. If you agree, I would like to hear a response. Thanks.
I agree! The uniform he wore was the same color as everyone else on the police force. The difference in this person's case was that he was in a higher position of authority and as such should have conducted himself accordingly.
Written on Community organizer speaks:
in response to quy:
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Thanks for letting me know a little more about the situation, quy. Just don't let the man ruin everyone else's health over it. I think you and all the people who want to make sure the public is aware should continue to do so because so many people like me who love Anderson and want to see it prosper can understand. Thanks again and hopefully come election day he will be gone. Just don't make yourselves sick over it okay.
Written on Community organizer speaks:
My goodness, does Joey Preston control and occupy the minds of the people in Anderson so much that not one single article can be written without someone bringing his name into it. I don't know the man and although I was born in Anderson I no longer reside there. I do know one thing though, I would NEVER let any one person control my mind as much as JP seems to control the people in Anderson who do not like him. He must be a powerful personality to have the control over the people who comment on the articles in this paper. Why do you all let him determine how you will react to every little thing that is written in this paper. It is as if people are obsessed with his every move. Whilst it might cause him stress and you may be happy about that I'll bet he rubs his hands with glee to know that he has the power to make you all hate him so much. If you want to get rid of him, take his power away thru elections and if you have legal proof of his crimes. Otherwise you are all just pawns on his chess board. And before you accuse me of working for him, don't, because I have not lived in Anderson for over 30 years. I don't have any informed right to comment for or against him but I do have an opinion on human behavior and it seems to me he has a lot of people tapdancing.
Written on Independent-Mail Editor Kausler to leave on Nov. 3:
Well said Nick. I for one have always been impressed with how the AIM has evolved. When I first logged on to read the AIM online from 10,000 miles away I was over the moon that the paper offered so much about what was happening locally in my hometown. Mr Kausler I wish you all the best in what ever your future holds and you can rest assured that this reader thinks you have done a fantastic job!!!
Written on Kohl’s announces grand opening of Anderson store:
We have a Kohls store here in NC where I live and it is fantastic. I LOVE shopping there. The bargains are the best I have seen anywhere and their turn over in stock with reduced prices cannot be beaten. NO, I don't work for them, I just shop there a LOT!!!! People you will love it.
Written on Happy Birthday Jake Grove:
Happy Birthday, Jake and many happy returns of the day.
Written on Two charged with child neglect in Anderson:
Yep, they sure must be stupid! BTW Welcome back, srpoppa3.
Written on Largest land gift in school’s history triples Anderson University’s size:
Nit picking I know but I was always taught " i " before " e " except after " c ".
Written on Gas prices jump in Anderson area:
Here in Fayetteville, NC we paid $3.79 a gallon for regular unleaded. There was a sign on each of the pumps requesting people to limit their purchase to 10 gallons because of a "shortage of gasoline" down the eastern seaboard of the US. Luckily for us our car only holds about 10-12 gallons. That was a Kangaroo Station but others had already started raising their prices. They know they will get the price they want even if they only sell 5 bucks or so at a time. Pity the people with the large 4 wheel drives.
Written on Cale’s mysterious angel called modern-day miracle:
in response to Sabby:
I thought this was a website for the news, not for religious propaganda?
Here you go again Sabby and I quote Mark Twain,"It is better to keep your mouth shut and "appear" stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. This is an online newspaper and I refer to the bar across the top...News,Sports,Weather,Life,Entertainment, etc. etc.
Written on Two killed in Pickens head-on collision:
To quote Mark Twain "It is better to keep your mouth shut and APPEAR stupid than to open it and remove all doubt"
Written on 9-11 anniversary prompts vivid memories seven years after the event:
It was after 9/11 that I finally understood why the Australian Government insisted that if I wanted to accompany my husband on a posting to the Middle East(Syria and Israel) it was advisable that I become a dual citizen. So, in 1998-2000, much to my dismay I was unable to stand out and shout to the world I was an American because the people whose country I was a "guest" in might have tried to harm me or my family. It was only after 9/11 that realized the depth of the hatred some people have for Americans. I have grown accustom to being a "dual" but I know in my heart I will always love my home country. God Bless the USA!
Written on Council candidate says no discussion has taken place about getting rid of Balloonfest in Anderson:
Well, Ms Carey, it seems you have opened a nasty can of worms here, don't you think it is time to pull this story?
Written on Three women, defense attorney paint picture of troubled Inman:
If you have a rabid dog you don't sit back and watch it bite people, you put it down!
in response to 8000milesfromhome:
Man, y'all have too much time on your hands. Do anyone of you need a job?
8000milesfromhome I couldn't agree more! Some of these people would beitch if their ice cream was cold!
Written on Tight economy calls for borrowing, not buying, books:
The Anderson County Library is one of the best I have ever seen. Although I am not a resident of Anderson and therefore don't have borrowing privileges I do go there often to do research in the Carolina Room upstairs. It is so rich with the history of Anderson and to this old heart of mine, it is a blissful walk down memory lane. It is an attractive and well maintained building and is a real joy to visit. Thank you to the staff and volunteers.
Written on On Tap: Sometimes things aren't as exciting as you think:
Jake you should have invited Bobby Flay and had a Throwdown Challenge take place. At least you got to taste the BBQ. I missed the whole event and only had the AIM to fill me in on how it went. Next year maybe.
Written on Choose Obama, choose change:
"If I Could Turn Back Time.........." How I wish it were possible to do that but we all know we can never go back. I would take the good old Anderson days of going to The Chicken Shack with my friend Janice and dancing with all the boys from Oakway and Seneca. Now, all we have to entertain us is more and more arguments over who is the best politician. I hope the next President will have reason to pause and reflect on where the United States stands in the world today regarding its image, how its people are being driven to the poor house because of our over generosity to foreign countries, but most of all how most of the time the hand we extend gets bitten time and time again by countries who want our help and wealth but despise us as we give it to them. On the day, God help us, let the best man win.
Written on Anderson’s Waldrep enjoys first visit to GOP’s big show:
Actually, Comeon I did not call you a jerk and if you served in VN then I salute you. My brother also did 4 tours in VN and I myself served 10 years in the US Army of which I am very proud of. My husband has just finished serving his 28th year in the Army. Any person who has ever worn the uniform of the United States of America deserves respect for that service time and that is what I am pointing out to you. Denigrate the Republicans til the cows come home if you must after all that is what the fight for freedom of speech is all about. Just show a little respect for the man's time in service is all I am saying.
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In response to my own comment, after rereading it I realized how insensitive it must sound to others. I would like to clarify that I wasn't saying that "a pregnant teenager" wasn't something to be concerned about. What I mean is that the media should not try to use that against the Republican VP candidate in such a way as to throw a slur upon the daughter's or her mother's character. I think the fact that the family stood behind both teenagers says a lot for the parents.
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Well, I'm stumped! We all have our "senior moments" and guys you can laugh out loud. I just posted my comment about another article in the online AIM to the wrong article. That's what going without sleep for two days will do for you. Otherwise have a great conversation. I'm going to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzz's!
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Written on Anderson’s Waldrep enjoys first visit to GOP’s big show:
in response to Comeon:
republicans are maggots. they feed off of others. go ahead and vote for john insane. he was brainwashed by ho chi minh and hasn't got over it "my friends".
By all means Comeon, have your political preferences but please, do not denigrate the man's five year prisoner of war incarceration. Walk a five year mile in those shoes before you mock him. Yes, that was the price he paid for you, your parents and the rest of America during the horrendous Viet Nam War. You should be ashamed of yourself.
The media should be more concerned with how America hopes its next president will pull them out of the downward spiral that the last two parties have landed us in. The two Democrat terms of office with Clinton saw a large number of military installations stateside as well as overseas shut down and the defense force downsized. Along come the two Republican terms in office with the Bush administration and due to bad foreign policy planning the US has ended up at war in two foreign countries. Soldiers are dying left and right because of the need to put a "hasty, large quantity Army together" to fight terrorism and all that is newsworthy these days is " a pregnant teenager", please give me a break.
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in response to srpoppa3:
maybe herenow can remember it but i do --remember my dad talking about a liers bench where they all set around before work or during breaks at the old anderson mill shooting bs well the way i see it all politicians need a bench because none are going to do what they promise especially graham
Yep, srpoppa3, I can see it in my mind's eye right now. I think you're right. It is a good thing we all still have that memory in our minds because more and more politicians are outsourcing America's resources to overseas countries while good hard working Americans are living on diddly-squat. Anderson was a thriving town back when our daddy told whoppers on that lier's bench and hey, I bet when the mill shut down he took that bench home with him, don't you. Hopefully the next president will start bringing back to the US all the manufacturing and other industry it has sent overseas to cheap labor-exploited foreign countries.
If you can permit me to have an "outsider's" opinion here(although I was born in Anderson)based on someone who no longer resides here, I would tread wisely on your vote for the next president of the USA. Any Commander-in-Chief can surround himself/herself with a bevy of knowledgeable people without having the right knowledge themselves. The difference here is in the power that the person has to accept or ignore that advice and how to act upon their decision. It is not just America who will need to interact with this person but also the rest of the world. Of course, the person chosen should be first and foremost 100% focused on what is best for America and its people. Your country still has to maintain its place in the rest of the world and right now there are too many countries who want to bring this great nation down. Choose wisely and vote for someone the rest of the world can deal with on all foreign policy issues and who can keep America strong and in the #1 spot it stands in today.
Written on Without food, Good Neighbor Cupboard in Anderson closes temporarily :
in response to newsdog:
Let's do more than talk. I am contributing $100 today to Good Neighbor Cupboard. How about it FLASH,HERENOW,NIBLITS. Ya'll write everyday about solving problems. The challenge is will you do something to help solve this problem.
I think that is a grand idea newsdog. I shall be in Anderson the week of September 16th and DO intend to go by and make a monetary donation to the food cupboard. Thanks for suggesting it. All the other suggestions I have made, alas, I have no way to actively help or change, sorry. I am only here in the US until the end of the year and then I return to Australia. BTW I was born in Anderson and have benefited many times in my youth from these types of charities because I had a father who walked off and left my mother and her six children, aged at that time from 14 months to 12 years. My mother did washing and ironing for people to buy us food and clothes. Been there done that and now intend to do the same to try to help others.
Sadly, it is a sign of the times. There was a time when a box was put in the school classrooms and children were asked to 'anonomously' drop something in the box and when it was as full as the teacher thought it was going to get it would go to the school office to be collected by a charity group, same with used clothing. Now you see people out in their fine, new cars going to feed there already oversized bodies at the one hundred and one restaurants around Anderson and they could care less if someone else is going hungry that night. A lot of people would say, "well, they brought it on themselves, they should have saved for a rainy day". That is not always the case and who are we to sit and judge who should receive help when they need it. The old morals and values of compassion and helpfulness have been replaced with suspicion and greed. People just don't look beyond their own noses anymore and no amount of professing to be a Christian and giving to the church fund can make up for what we as human beings should be feeling for our fellow man. So come on Anderson, take 'theflash' advice and step up to the plate(no pun intended) and show people you are one of those who care!
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Can someone please tell me what 'funnel cake' is? I have seen it mentioned in lots of the articles about local celebrations and I'm curious to know what it is. It sounds like everybody loves it and I sure do want to try it before I return to Australia.
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I wish the USA would adopt a system like we have in Australia called Medicare. It might sound like socialized medicine to some but whatever the system it works. Every citizen in Australia who has a job and earns money pays 1 cent(a penny) of every dollar into Medicare regardless of what you earn. You could earn millions or minimum wage it would not matter. However, as you can see the person earning millions is likely to pay more into Medicare because they earn more. A person must be a citizen or a legal resident of Australia to benefit from this program and if you do not have a government issued Medicare card then you have to pay for your medical treatment or hospital costs. When a person goes to a doctor and this also includes any specialist doctor they present their Medicare card and the center will then advise them of any gap that is due and they will send them the bill for it or the person can choose to pay up front.If the person has no money to pay the bill then the center does whats called "bulk billing" and the person pays nothing at all. For example, I need to see my doctor because I have a bad cold. I call and make the appointment, see the doctor, upon leaving I choose to pay the scheduled $35.00 fee up front. I leave the doctor's office, walk across the street to the Medicare Office and present my receipt and I am refunded $30.00 because Medicare covered all but $5.00. If I had no job or no money to pay the next time I went then I would be bulk billed and pay nothing. Every person in the whole of Australia has access to medical care and no one is ever turned away from casulty because of no insurance. Hence, a healthier society and a workable solution to health care issues. Not saying the system is perfect there are still those who complain about the 1 cent of the dollar they have to pay. If a person chooses to have private insurance then the government gives them a rebate at tax time for providing more coverage to their health plan. I don't know how that would work in the US because there are those who won't see the value in a plan like this, but it sure works in Australia. BTW medical students in Australia can choose to be subsidized by the government and given a free education in return for working in remote or small rural towns for a certain period of time. A lot of doctors choose to do this and it solves the doctor shortage problem.
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Language was not the issue for stopping the vehicle in the first place, according to the officer's testimony, driving "suspiciously" was. As far as D. White "getting" the officer to admit that Vargas-Luna didn't understand English when read his miranda, that is a blatant insult to the officer's authority to carry out his job. Vargas-Luna was stopped for a traffic offence and if the officer had a reason to search the vehicle then it doesn't matter whether the driver spoke English or not if he had nothing to hide he should have allowed the search. People who travel thru airports or cross borders all over the world are subjected to security searches regardless of the language they speak or understand IT IS THE LAW. For an attorney to represent his/her client by trying to denigrate that law is shameful and the biggest shame of all is that the accused is here illegally anyway and the officer is somehow made to sound as if he broke the law.
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What a brave choice she made and hopefully it will encourage others to push for further testing. Sadly when an insurance company has control over what test a person can or cannot have it reflects on society's greed as a whole. There is also another form of breast cancer that is seldom mentioned due to lack of publicity and public awareness and that is Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC). This is a form of cancer that has a greater chance of being detected by an MRI. It doesn't present with "breast lumps" and can be missed by the routine breast exam as well as a mammogram. It has different symptoms all together and I would encourage everyone to look this up on the internet, talk to their doctor, get as much information as they can find. The most recent death reported from this disease was of a 16 year old girl. Not trying to be a scare-monger here, just wanted to add more information about the types of breast cancer out there.
Written on On Tap: Today's youth are not the devils we old folks make them out to be:
in response to tdr1945:
I grew up in Anderson in the early 60's. I remember the boys drinking beer when they got a chance, usually girls that I knew didn't. Drugs I never heard of but they may have been around some.
I know we were more scared of teachers. I still quote Miss Cathcart at Mccants Jr. high. I tried getting out of trouble in her room by talking back only one time
tdr1945, I know what you mean! Miss Cathcart could freeze you with just a stare. I also talked back to her once and once was enough for anyone who knew or was taught by her. Having said that, she was a good teacher and so were other teachers at McCants back in those days. Teachers could show children they cared without being worried about it being misconstrued or mistaken for something more sinister. Children were taught to respect and be guided by teachers, now they look more to their peer groups for what is acceptable behavior and how they should "act" to fit in. There are some really good kids out there today who genuinely care about respecting others and how they themselves behave in order for people to have respect for them. We just have to remember to praise when praise is due and show love and guidance when a child goes astray. | http://www.independentmail.com/users/herenow/comments/ | dclm-gs1-016120001 |
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Publication Date: August 2002
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Sleepless In America: Zeo's Got Bedroom Eyes
Technology's pervasiveness doesn't stop at the bedroom. The Zeo Personal Sleep Coach combines wireless, the Web, and an intelligent design to bring sleep data and therapy to the masses.
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The Zeo Personal Sleep Coach is starting to change one third of my life, and that's heavily influencing the rest. What's best: All I have to do is sleep. But that last part can be challenging.
The world is filled with distractions and temptations and even sleep disorders, each conspiring like ghastly nightmares to interrupt or steal that precious life necessity. The health repercussions are dangerous. That's why the best thing about Zeo isn't its ability to measure brain activity in a consumer-friendly device, but the software and coaching that can help its diligent users achieve sleep fitness.
How Zeo Works
The product's simplicity masks its achievement. While it looks like the everyday alarm clock (this is actually the Zeo Bedside Display), Zeo includes a headband with a round Electronics Module placed in the middle of your forehead when you sleep -- it's sort of "miner chic." It measures brain activity and knows when you're in the three different phases of sleep (deep, light, and REM). The headband connects wirelessly with the alarm clock using a proprietary 2.4-GHz technology. If you've set it for, say, 6 a.m., it will detect a nearby time (within a defined parameter) when you're in light sleep and wake you up then -- thus ensuring that precious REM or deep sleep aren't disturbed.
The Zeo headband gets docked (and re-charged) on the alarm clock, and your scores are fed to a memory card. The clock also displays some of your crucial sleep data, including your overall score (called your sleep score, or your "ZQ Score"). You can extract the memory card, put it into a special USB device, and upload the data onto your personal Zeo site (MyZeo), where trends are kept and tracked. The site also includes a personal sleep journal which prompts you for information about your day leading up to sleep, and the day after. More on this in a moment.
Most consumer devices like this simply detect actigraphy, or body activity, including movement and temperature. While those devices can signal sleep phases, they simply aren't as accurate as measuring what's going on in your brain, which is the source of sleep, according to Zeo and other experts we talked with. Brain activity is typically measured only in a lab using a Polysomniograph (PSG), which measures brainwave frequencies (low-frequency delta waves of 0.5 to 4 Hz are present during deep sleep, for example, while during REM sleep there's a decrease in muscle tone (essentially paralysis) and eye movement, both of which Zeo detects. (Sleep spindles occur in light sleep in 11- to 14-Hz bursts.)
For a fun video demonstration, watch this video. However, note that in the video, a sleep doctor at USC's Keck school of medicine incorrectly identifies what Zeo is measuring. A correction is provided in this video.
The ability to get this device into the home became a mission for co-founders Ben Rubin and Jason Donahue while they were sleep-deprived undergraduates at Brown University in 2003. In class, they heard about a U.S. Air Force study in which fighter pilots slept in cockpits, were woken with an alarm, and asked to take off immediately. In the study, the pilots made crucial errors in judgment, the outcome of being woken during the wrong sleep phase.
Rubin and Donahue kept testing, with the primary goal of being woken during the right phase (they called it a smart wake function). They tried carbon fiber and pennies on the forehead but ultimately found that a silver-coated fabric used to dress wounds in the military provided the best results -- silver is especially conductive and "not sensitive to the skin, flexible, and comfortable," Rubin said.
The brainwaves they picked up were real, but "messier than medical grade," Rubin said, so they built an algorithm to train Zeo to act like a PSG. They attached both the Zeo and a PSG during sleep, and the system scored the input from both systems. The algorithm told the Zeo the right answer and mapped that answer to the Zeo's messy signal.
Since finalizing the technology, Rubin and Donahue have had Zeo validated in clinical settings. The complete product (alarm clock, smart wake, sleep coaching) was launched in June 2009, thanks to a couple of rounds of financing, some driven by winning a Brown business plan competition and using the Brown network. Venture funding in 2007 ($5 million from iD Ventures America) produced the financial capital to develop the actual system; Rubin and Donahue received a second round (f$8 million) from Trident Capital in 2008.
Dr. Kenneth Wright, director of the Sleep & Chronobiology Lab at the University of Colorado, said that in his own validation testing, the Zeo provided a "good estimate" when compared to a full sleep study with sensors attached to the scalp, face, torso, and chest (to measure respiration). Disclosure: Dr. Wright is now on the board of Zeo.
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2011: HIV, failed career define Morrison
• Kansas City Star
• Published Monday, Sep. 2, 2013, at 10:54 a.m.
• Updated Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2013, at 11:46 a.m.
Editor's note: Originally published Feb. 13, 2011
Tommy Morrison is in Wichita, cutting into a cheap ribeye steak on a plate he has covered in ketchup. The ideas come out between bites. You have to listen carefully. The rough Oklahoma twang will spell out all kinds of ideas, things that would blow your mind if they existed outside his reality.
Telekinesis, for instance. He hasn't quite figured it out, but he'd rather be invisible, anyway. Just think of all the stuff he could learn. One time he teleported himself out of a bar, and did you know the human body can re-grow limbs?
His face is worn and his skin sags in places, but he insists he's in the best shape of his life. He's going to be heavyweight champion again if boxing lets him back in, and this brings up HIV. It always comes back to HIV with Tommy, even over breakfast, so he chops up his $12 steak and eggs and tells you he is the victim of a wild conspiracy.
They stole his career, he says, at least a $38 million contract and who knows how much after that? They stole his good name, too. Made him admit to the world he has HIV. But that was before he found out that HIV doesn't exist. It was invented to control people, he tells you, and he can go on and on about this all day.
Five years ago, Tommy told anyone who would listen that he was launching a comeback. He was fit and sharp and seemingly committed, ready to take on the world.
In the time since, he's had only three fights of dubious quality and created a desperate reality consumed with an unwinnable debate against the medical community.
You have to squint hard to see the man who once fought Lennox Lewis and beat George Foreman for the heavyweight championship.
-- -- --
His girlfriend, Trisha, answers the phone and hears that Tommy didn't show up at the gym today. He is supposed to be here - was supposed to be here 15 minutes ago - to work out and pose for a photographer.
Trisha doesn't know where he is, but she warns me not to give the photographer Tommy's cell phone number. She's asked why.
"Would Mike Tyson give his cell phone number to a photographer?" she asks.
-- -- --
Tommy Morrison thinks about that old life sometimes, the one when a comparison to Tyson's fame and skills didn't sound so silly. The old life is still vivid in Tommy's memory. Back then, he had what felt like an endless supply of money and what looked like an endless supply of women.
He told friends he wanted to be as famous as Elvis, and for a while, boxing was his way. His first fight came when he was 5, on his mother's orders over a Coke at a drive-in movie. Tommy beat up the older boy and realized he found something special.
When he was a teenager he went to Kansas City to train, and the stories are legendary. Westport became something like his playground, his trainer pleading with him to cut the alcohol and drugs, or to temper his sex life.
Tommy was clubbing opponents on his way up the boxing ladder. Blonde, tan, and built like a brick house, he became a cultural phenomenon. Sylvester Stallone cast him to co-star in "Rocky V." The boxing highlight came in 1993, when he beat Foreman for the vacant WBO heavyweight title. This was Tommy's masterpiece.
Everyone expected him to trade punches with Foreman, but instead Tommy used his agility to fight at a safe distance and won a unanimous decision. A tattoo on his bicep is a reminder of the day Tommy stood on top of the world.
The rest is a sad fall that began the night of a tune-up fight before a hugely anticipated bout with Tyson. Two hours before a scheduled fight with Arthur Weathers, Tommy's manager told him he had failed the prefight blood test. He couldn't fight.
Back home in Oklahoma, a bunch of his buddies sat at a watch party, stunned. Most of them figured it was steroids.
"But I thought right off the bat there that he could have HIV," says Brian Elder, a childhood friend. "I thought that immediately. I think he had ideas that he had it before then, so it wasn't that big of a shock to him."
For a while, Tommy tried the speaking circuit, talking about the dangers of unprotected sex and HIV. But it didn't feel right to him.
That wasn't the reality he wanted, so he created a new one.
-- -- --
Tommy Morrison figures you won't believe him, but he'll tell you anyway about the time he teleported himself out of trouble.
It was in a dark and shady bar in Springfield, Mo. Daytime. A group of people sat around a table in the back corner, and Tommy instantly felt like he'd walked in on something. He says there was "an overwhelming feeling of evil" in that room, and he knew he had to get out. So he lowered his head and shut his eyes and when he woke up he was standing outside in bright daylight.
"I know it sounds (messed) up," he says. "But I'll tell you what, it happened to me. It's real. But things like this don't work for anybody that doesn't believe it."
-- -- --
Tommy has spots all over his hands and arms. They're distracting when you meet him. You can't miss them. He blames his boxer puppy. Only the spots aren't bite marks or scratches, and so now Tommy says they're mosquito bites. Mosquitoes love him, he says.
Except it's the middle of winter, and the marks look a lot like the HIV symptom of lesions or Kaposi's sarcoma.
Tommy wants to talk to you about HIV. It's a farce, he says. An invention by a scientist who wanted to make money, a lie kept alive by a government that wants to scare people. He doesn't have HIV, never did, and besides, it's not the deadly disease it's been made out to be.
What he says sounds crazy, but there is an obvious and undeniable fact sitting in front of you: Tommy Morrison is still alive and apparently healthy, 15 years after testing positive for HIV. Magic Johnson tested positive five years before Tommy, but Johnson has wealth and the best medical care.
Tommy isn't broke, exactly, but lives a paycheck-to-paycheck sort of life and says he's never taken any medication for HIV. In fact, he served 14 months in prison for drugs and weapons charges in the early 2000s, talks of past methamphetamine binges, and was arrested on another drug charge as recently as last year. This is not a man who follows doctors' orders.
He speaks with such certainty, such conviction, and even has a negative HIV test from last year to show you. That test has been disputed. It could be someone else's blood, and his name is on failed tests, too. Still, it's hard not to wonder enough to call a doctor.
Joel Gallant is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and one of the leading HIV specialists in the country. He says there are slow progressers, people who do fine without treatment, so Tommy's apparent health "doesn't tell you much one way or the other," and that "he's not cured; that's not one of the possibilities."
Tommy has been divorced at least twice, and it's Trisha now who is by his side every day. They talk about getting married someday, but for now they fight together. She and Tommy look up Gallant on the Internet and send him an e-mail.
They correspond nine times over six hours, Morrison at one point insisting that a poppy-seed bagel could trip an HIV test. Gallant calls it "a silly debate" and "the works of various crackpot former scientists."
He cannot be clearer. Morrison reads something else entirely.
"You have just confirmed to me that there does not exist a test that confirms or dispels whether I or anyone has the HIV VIRUS 100%," he writes to Gallant.
If you felt out of options, how would you react? This is Morrison's path.
-- -- --
Tommy Morrison is on time for his second meeting with the photographer. He apologizes for the earlier mix-up, says he got caught up running some errands. He's exceedingly nice, even charming, but, damn, he forgot his boxing boots at home.
He gets in the car and almost immediately comes back and sticks his head out the window. He can't remember why he left.
"Your boots, Tommy," the photographer says.
"Right," he says, and scribbles "BOOTS" on his hand in black ink.
He says he'll be back in 20 minutes. It takes an hour.
-- -- --
Tommy Morrison says he's in the best shape of his life. If taken literally, that's ridiculous, of course. He was heavyweight champion of the world at 24 and is now 42 with mangled hands and reflexes that he admits aren't what they once were.
This isn't the man whose announced comeback five years ago raised at least a curiosity in the boxing world. Muscle memory and natural talent mean he can still beat the stiffs he finds to fight him. The last one came two years ago in Wyoming, a first-round knockout for Morrison that looks staged and sad.
You can watch it by searching for "Tommy Morrison fake fight" on YouTube.
He has had a handful of fights scheduled and canceled since. He says he can beat anyone in the heavyweight division, and names the Klitschko brothers specifically. They'd be easy, Morrison says. All he needs is a chance, for boxing commissions to stop singling him out. He has applied with the Nevada Athletic Commission but is frustrated they ask for additional tests.
He won't do it. Sometimes he says it's because other boxers aren't required to do the same.
"If I do that, that's letting them win, don't you think?" he says.
Other times he says it's because the tests are meaningless, that they don't detect HIV.
"So why would I do that?" he says.
In this way, Morrison has built a comfortable and eternal conflict for himself. This is a perpetual fight to prove the unprovable, a man with a scrap of his former name recognition joining what's looked at by most everyone else as a rogue HIV denialist movement.
He speaks passionately, occasionally contradicting himself, but continues to work out and train and find boxing matches in places that will put him in the ring against fighters who look past the potential risk. A scheduled fight next week in Montreal is now likely canceled.
Fighting is what he's good at, and he figures he's got two more years to be good. He's assigned a bigger meaning to all of this. Calls it "unfinished business," which he thinks will be a good title for his autobiography someday. He wants so badly for everything he's saying to be true, and to him, there is no doubt that it is.
Even if the boxing and medical worlds won't take him seriously, Tommy does, and for now that's all that matters. So he'll keep promoting.
He'll keep fighting.
"I think about boxing more now. I'm better," he says. "They're not used to that. A white guy that has hand speed, power, charisma, and can talk in complete sentences? (Shoot). Sounds like a gold mine to me."
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One of History's 'Most Important Documents' Goes on Sale
The Magna Carta—signed by the King of England 700 years ago—established the rules of law that are basic to the United States and other governments all over the world. There's only one original copy in private hands, and next week it's going on sale. We hear what it will cost and how important it is to debates about civil rights, national security and Guantánamo Bay. Also, a possible compromise out of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, and "The Steroid Era" of Major League Baseball, including reaction from former team owner George W. Bush.
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"The climate in the climate conversation has changed a bit." That’s from Germany's environmental minister at the Bali conference on global warming. Yesterday, there was diplomatic bad blood between the US and Europe. Today, the head of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change says they're "on the brink of agreement." Andrew Revkin, author of The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, covers the environment for the New York Times.
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The Magna Carta Goes on Sale ()
As the White House, Congress and US Supreme Court debate the rights of prisoners during the so-called "war on terror," an original copy of the document that established such rights is going on sale in New York City. The Magna Carta, signed in the 13th Century by the King of England, established the right to a speedy trial by a jury of one's peers, no taxation without representation and habeas corpus—which protects against unlawful imprisonment. Seventeen original copies have survived for 700 years, and all the others are publicly owned. How important is it? How rare is it? What's the asking price? What's the relevance of a 700 year-old sheet of animal-skin vellum to the rule of law in the modern world?
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Yesterday, former Senator George Mitchell said that players, managers and virtually everyone else involved in Major League Baseball for the past 20 years were responsible for what he called "The Steroid Era." President Bush, former part-owner of the Texas Rangers, said that as a fan he was troubled by the allegations, but cautioned against jumping to conclusions against individuals named. According to MSNBC, Roger Clemens, the all star most prominently mentioned by the Mitchell Report, has a standing invitation to visit the Bush White House. He built a horse shoe pit at his home in Houston for former President George H.W. Bush. We get perspectives from a radio commentator, attorney and sports historian.
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The government had previously announced it would join the whistle-blower lawsuit brought by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis under the federal False Claims Act. Tuesday was the deadline for the Justice Department to file its formal complaint.
"Defendants were unjustly enriched to the extent of the payments and other benefits they received from the USPS, either directly or indirectly," the complaint said.
Armstrong, who in January admitted using performance-enhancing drugs after years of denials, has argued that the Postal Service's endorsement of his team earned the government agency far more than it paid him.
Armstrong attorney Elliot Peters called the government's complaint "opportunistic" and "insincere."
"The U.S. Postal Service benefited tremendously from its sponsorship of the cycling team. Its own studies repeatedly and conclusively prove this," Peters said. "The USPS was never the victim of fraud. Lance Armstrong rode his heart out for the USPS team, and gave the brand tremendous exposure during the sponsorship years."
Landis attorney Paul Scott dismissed the idea that profits to the Postal Service negate the claims of fraud because the agency is forever tainted.
"Even if the USPS received some ephemeral media exposure in connection with Mr. Armstrong's false victories, any illusory benefit from those times will be swamped over time immemorial by the USPS forever being tied to the largest doping scandal in the history of sports," Scott said.
The complaint said that for years, team officials assured the Postal Service that the team wasn't doping.
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The PP said it well!!!!
I don't think your legal advice is completely true. Yes, a court may decide that he has no rights. However, he has every right to TRY, and you do not need a lawyer to go and file paperwork. It is damaging for kids not to know the truth about their parents and situation, I really hope that you start the court process asap; hopefully they will appoint a guardian for the child, who will ensure his best interests are met. Good luck!!!
Have you made a therapy appointment yet? He cannot and should not be alone with the other kids, which will be stressful. I'm sorry you are having to deal with this. It is possible that with counseling and therapy and lots of work, it may be a safe environment at some point. But in the meantime, no, not safe at all. I would put a door alarm on the outside of his door so you will hear if he opens it at night (they are cheap), and keep your kids in your bedroom until you...
Is your husband also reinforcing that they are not to parent the 5yo? While some of this is normal, yes, it sounds like the 15yo is not understanding the guidelines or is understanding and thinks he knows better (also common, lol).
I pay 20/month unlimited talk/text through airvoice wireless. If you have an att phone or any gsm unlocked phone that takes a sim card, all you do is buy a sim an then pay each month. I have the 10.00/month plan for my son :) Anyway, airvoice, straight talk, and others are good and you can get unlimited for 20.00 or less. Totally worth the cancellation fee in my opinion.
I hope that some wise mamas chime in! I have experienced this a bit in that dh's ex is a "buddy" parent, but since we only have dss about 20% of the time it isn't as much an issue as it is for you. It still comes up, though, like dss doesn't do his homework and gets crappy grades yet has no consequenses for that (or anything else). It's so frustrating to be so powerless, I can certainly relate to that.
Your family has gone through a HUGE change, I would be surprised if everything was going smoothly! It is normal for there to be chaos and behaviour issues with this type of transition, an of course you feel frustrated! It will take a while for everyone to adjust, what is important is routine, consistency, and communication. Is your partner able to help? Do you both agree on house rules and how to implement them (such as no rough-housing, name calling, bullying, etc) and...
I'm so glad you found a solution that works for everyone, seems like a great plan!
I was reading and could see both sides until I saw that the step son is only 6. Is this right? If so, um...he doesn't need his own room nor should he get to make that call. I assumed he was closer to teenage, and had been used to having his own room for 12+ years, and entering the teen phase is a rough time to go from your own room to sharing. But really, it is silly NOT to have him share once your little one is in his own bed/room. I think your compromise in using the...
I can see where you are coming from; that he won't back you up, and a simple "I don't want to discuss this" with her would be backing you up. There is no real reason for her to "have" to speak to you, and rather than dropping it, she is asking your dh to ask you to unblock her. Do I have that right? He could easily take himself out of it by refusing to discuss it, or by actively backing you up; instead, he is doing nothing. Unfortunately, men who defer to their exes is...
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post #21 of 27
I had the copper IUD placed at my 6 week PP check up after DD was born. I can't do hormones because of migraine headaches, so Mirena was out.
The insertion was fine, really. It stung, but much easier than the labor I'd just been through.
I bled - off and on for weeks, and I personally really hated the cervical mucus panty-sneeze that happened every few days. Also, it always hurt during sex. For months.
I finally had it removed because it was making sex so unpleasant there was no real reason to keep it in.
post #22 of 27
I have a Mirena IUD and so far, it hasn't caused any problems. It seemed like the best option considering we think we're done with our kids but I don't feel ready for DH to get a vasectomy.
It took THREE visits to get it in! The first time I went but I wasn't menstruating because I'm breastfeeding. The doctor checked it out and said insertion would be too painful. So I went on the pill and went back the next month, but on day 5-6 of my period. Again, he said my cervix was cramping too much. So on Take three, I went back on Day 3 of my period, and took Percocet beforehand. I was nervous, anticipating it would be painful, but I had paid $350 for the thing and couldn't return it. Well, insertion wasn't bad at all! I had a bit of cramping but no sharp pains. I was surprised when he said, "It's in. That's all."
Now that it's done with and working, I'm pleased with it as a birth control choice.
post #23 of 27
Even though I have had 2 kids, the insertion of the Mirena IUD was VERY PAINFUL to me. I had to use my deep breathing techniques that I used in labor just to relax my muscles enough for the gyno/midwife to get it in easily. After it was in, I had cramps for a couple of hours and spotted, but nothing too painful afterwards.
I later had it removed, because the side effects were bothering me too much.
(single mommy to Emma, 4 years and Angela, 2 years)
post #24 of 27
The insertion felt like a pinch that lasted less than a minute. Slightly painful, nothing bad, and short-lived. I do NOT have heavier bleeding or cramping during periods, but I occasionally get random cramps that I didn't used to get. Again, not bad, and short lived.
Edited to add that I have a Paragard. No hormones for me!
post #25 of 27
The IUD is getting really popular among my group of friends.
We've had a range of reactions to insertion, everything from barely a pinch to 24 hours of intense pain. When I got mine, it hurt fairly badly for the minute or so it took to insert it (enough for me to go "OW! OW!", but not enough for me to ask them to stop).
The hormones in birth control pills make me an insane emotional crazy woman, but the hormones in my Mirena are much lower and I don't get any emotional side effects from it. I spotted for two months straight after insertion (very unusual), but after that my periods got much lighter, and disappeared altogether around one year after insertion. I was pretty unsettled by the thought of losing my period, but I've come to really love the lack of hassle. No more missing school/work for cramps and nausea! I've had my IUD for two years now, and I love it. It was absolutely the best choice for me.
There are some bad side effects, and if you have an extreme version of any of them it can be quite unpleasant... but if you get through them you have five years of extremely reliable, no-maintenance birth control. In my case it was worth it, but I can see how it wouldn't be for others.
post #26 of 27
I had the copper because I didn't want hormones and wouldn't recommend it.
The mirena might be better and I've heard it is.
My periods were erratic on the copper IUD. The cramping was nearly unbearable, as bad as labor though not as closely spaced. My period was so heavy I went through a super tampon and a super pad each hour for 1-2 days then the rest of the period was normal though it lasted for almost a week each time.
Sometimes the cycle was really short (3 weeks) or long (5 weeks), more often short with breakthrough bleeding in between.
It was not at all nice going in but thank God it came out without a problem.
post #27 of 27
I got a Mirena put in a couple of months ago. I wasn't on my period (it showed up the next day) and my cervix was tilted, so the NP had to put a little clamp on it to hold it in place. Even with that, it wasn't bad to get it inserted. A bit of pinching during the sounding and the insertion, enough to make me catch my breath, but very quick. It took all of 5 minutes start to finish.
Unfortunately, it got pulled out a week later. I guess I didn't break the suction on my Diva Cup completely and it came out. It felt like I was in transition for two hours until I got an emergency appointment to get it taken out. I'm getting another inserted in a few days. I hope everything goes ok this time (no more Diva for a few months!). I didn't have much cramping at all. I only felt kinda yucky for a day. Besides it coming out, the only problem I had was that with the combination of the IUD going in and out, plus starting the pill the day it came out, my body went crazy and my period lasted 10 days, giving me a bit of anemia a few weeks later.
I'm looking forward to getting the Mirena again. I chose it over the copper because it can help control my PCOS. I can't wait to get off the pill because I've been having some trouble with depression, which is really getting to me. I've been off the pill two days now and I already feel better.
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