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VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ACTIVE 8 MONTH OLD…?
Apr 27th
Question by ♥ ♥ ♥UKMUM ♥ ♥ ♥:
Very concerned about active 8 month old…?
My Baby Girl has been mobile for some time, and now pulls to stand however she sometimes falls and has on 3 occasions banged her head which has upset me a lot!!
I mean i am tron between allowing her to continue pulling to stand ( in a safe environment) or stopping her BUT she does it everywhere, in her cot she has fallen a few times and had a heck of a bang on her head.
I get so upset to see her hurting im considering buying her a safety helmet!
So mums what about your baby’s? do they do the same what can i do?
Thank you Ladies x
SS- OMG!!! thats my worst fear you must of been terrified!
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IS IT DANGEROUS FOR A BABY TO SLEEP IN A TRAVEL COT ALL THE TIME?
Mar 8th
Question by Becky:
Is it dangerous for a baby to sleep in a travel cot all the time?
Hi everyone,
My little one is almost 8 months old and has been sleeping through the night for quite a while now.
However, once we moved her to her cotbed she started to wake up during the night due to her banging her head on the sides of the cot. Two or three times a night we would hear a loud bang and then hear her crying, she moves about a lot and has turned over in the night and banged herself. Once or twice she has had quite a red mark from this.
Obviously, I dont like the fact that she keeps banging her head and someone recommended bumpers, however when I bought one to try it, she just uses it to pull herself up and I am worried that she’s going to fall out of the cotbed as the cotbed base isnt actually that low (even on the lowest one)
I put her in her travel cot one night after her banging her head and she slept through without waking up once.
I was just unsure about the safety of this as I have heard people say that this can be dangerous if they sleep in a travel cot constantly?
Any help would be great!
Thanks
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THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CHILDCARE PROVIDERS…. 10 POINTS TO LOOK OVER AND APPROVE MY PLANS!?
Feb 11th
Question by Daycare Mommy:
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CHILDCARE PROVIDERS…. 10 POINTS TO LOOK OVER AND APPROVE MY PLANS!?
I am opening a daycenter. Yes, it’s approved by the government. Right now, I am in the process (along with the people who opened it with me) to:
- hire employee’s
- organize which rooms are needed, where, what they are for, etc
- decorate rooms
Right now, I have decided to work on figuring out what each room is going to be for. I’d like those of you in a childcare bussiness to approve it. Look it over and tell me what your recommendations are. Obviously this is a stressful thing.
Little Ones Cradle (6 weeks to crawling)- We are only going to have 8 babies in her at the most. This room will have 8 little cribs lined up with the works, mobile, bedding, blankets, and comfort items. Of course we have 2 changing tables with each child’s diapers, wipes, etc. We have a 9 block cubby section with a basket for each child. This is to keep 2 sets of extra clothes, coat, and shoes. There will be a glider to rock the kids to sleep or feed bottles. In addition we have a feeding table up for those who are starting to eat foods. Then of course we have a play area with age appropiate toys.
Inch Worms (crawling to walking)- This room is similar to the Little Ones Cradle, however instead of 1 big room, there is a wall with a door dividing it. One side has cribs, changing tables, cubbies, gliders, and feeding tables. Then on the other side of the door, we have an entire play area. All are are appropiate and safe, plus the entire area is covered in a bright cheerful mat to keep the kids from hurting themselves.
Tiny Footsteps (walking to 3 years old)- This room has a mat flooring for safety reasons. There are lots of toys. Plus a story area for the children.
STILL NEED A NAME FOR THIS ROOM (3 years old to 4 years old)- This room first has a morning/afternoon circle. Then we have lots different centers for center time, science, math, blocks and building, library, ABC center, manipulative play, sand/water table, acting center (puppets, puppet show area, dress-up clothes, stage), play kitchen, dolls, and computers.
Busy Bees (4 years old to 5 years old)- This room is almost the same. It has a circle area for the opening/closing circle. Then there are many centers for the kids to play in inculding science, math, blocks and building, library, ABC center, manipulative play, sand/water table, acting center (puppets, puppet show area, dress-up clothes, stage), play kitchen, dolls, and computers.
Hungry Home (lunch room)- This room is obviously to eat lunch!
Mighty Jungle (Indoor Gym)- Huge room with slides, mats, and climbing. It replaces our outdoor area on rainy days.
Sleeping Beauties (nap room)- This room is just an empty room that will have cots for the kids over 2 and a few cribs for the kids under 2 but in Tiny Footsteps.
Little Picasso (art room)- The art room is a joy for most the children. We have fun projects for them to complete each day. They begin going to the art room then they begin to crawl.
Motzarts In Training (music room)- The kids have lots of fun in this room. They learn to play instruments, sing, dance, clap beats, and move with music. All kids come to this room starting when they begin to crawl.
What do you think? Also if anyone can think of a name for 3 years old to 4 years old I would love it!
blondie- Yes, the Inch Worms will be eating in their room. I concur way to hectic for them to be eating in the regular lunch room.
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I FEEL BAD – DID I DO THE WRONG THING?
Jan 17th
Question by My baby falls asleep smiling 
:
I feel bad – did I do the wrong thing?
Hi there,
I just spoke to my Mum who’s looking after my five month old tomorrow for a few hours (maybe 2hrs at the most) while I go to the Dr to have a procedure done. My baby usually just naps in his pram while he’s there & we’ve told Mum that we’re going to buy her a port-a-cot to keep at her house. While I was talking to her this day she mentioned that she’s taken a second hand cot from a friend of a friend who used to use it for their Grandchild & that my Father is currently at home sterilizing it! Even though she was well intentioned I was not happy, I do not want my son sleeping on a second hand cot, I have no idea how old it is, whether or not it’s in good condition, whether or not it meets the safety standards or even my standards but more than that it’s not necessary, my husband & I are well off, we do not need her to take a second hand cot & I was just offended that she did not ask me about it first! So I told her pretty much that & now she’s offended & upset & I do not know if I was over reacting as I tend to be over the top when it comes to my son (but aren’t we all?).
Just wondering who out there would have felt the same way or if I am being silly?
Thank you!
ETA – A lot of blended views but it’s a second hand port-a-cot not a cot where I can just change out the mattress. I do appreciate them & I did not yell at my Mum (she’s my ideal friend!) I was just expressing that I was not comfortable with what she’d done & I wished she had have asked me first as I could have saved her the time & effort. My son is really big, he’s over 10kgs & only just turned five months yesterday so the ‘port-a-cot’ needs to reflect that & we wanted to get one of those tent type ones (like this – https://www.urbanbaby.com.au/epages/ecomm5000.sf/secLjTwaEg8BK2/?ObjectPath=/Shops/UrbanBaby/Products/KKOT/SubProducts/KKOT-0001) that are on the ground with the blow up mattress so that we could introduce him to it slowly & have it at home for him to get used too first.
https://www.urbanbaby.com.au/epages/ecomm5000.sf/secLjTwaEg8BK2/?ObjectPath=/Shops/UrbanBaby/Products/KKOT/SubProducts/KKOT-0001
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WHAT DO I NEED? LIKE EVERYTHING. NEW MUM.?
Jan 5th
Question by <3 Mummy of 2 <3:
What do I need? Like everything. New mum.?
Ok, I am 20 weeks with a little boy and I will breast feed for a month or two but due to medications that is the limit (I chose to be off the medication for 2 extra months so my little man can get the colostrum). What I want to know is exactly what I will need…
Bottles? how many? what sizes are necessary?
Clothes? exactly what sizes for the first 6 months? (I am unable to shop for baby clothes where I live so the only chance to get clothes will be when we go away to have him. He will be a winter baby (In Australia) born in June.
I have a cot, change table etc. I do not need to buy any of that.
But what about sheets and blankets, how many sets should I have, like how many bottom sheets, blankets, trow rugs?
We will be using a bassinet so how many sheets and blankets should we get for that?
What about safety? Is it really important to have a monitor? we do not have a huge home but the walls are rather thick? When would you put catches on the cupboards?
We are using cloth nappies/diapers (my mom has already got them lol) what do we need for them, liners? etc.
Anything you can think of PLEASE. I am going out of my mind,
What toys would you get for a new born? links if possible.
Sorry for asking so much, it just hit me that I am half way there and according to my medical condition and family history he could be here any where after 30 weeks so that may only give us 10 weeks to get ready, I am hoping and keeping my chin up that he will be full term and there is no problems so far, I just really want to be ready just in case.
Thanks
to answer your question, we live on a small island in the middle of Bass Strait (Australia), we have to travel on a 45 minute flight to get to the hospital. I do have pre-natel care here however they do not have the equipment here for ultrasounds or delivery, we travel on the flight 4 times throughout the pregnancy and a month before the due date payed for mostly by the government.
We have a small clothes store but nothing really under size 0 and the prices are catastrophic.
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CAN I GET A WELFARE CHECK ON MY GRANDDAUGHTER LIVING WITH HER MOTHER AND SEEMS VERY UNHAPPY AND NEGLECTED?
Dec 23rd
Question by paula g:
can i get a welfare check on my granddaughter living with her mom and seems very unhappy and neglected?
My fourteen month granddaughter has lived with me until two months ago, when she moved in with her mom and boyfriend. Since then she has become very pale and red eyed, and refuses to look at her mom on her return. We have to force her to let go of me and I have to leave whilst she is screaming. I know her mom will put her into a travel cot around 8pm to cry herself to sleep and then has her strapped into a pushchair for most of the day. The child has no high-chair and is left to feed herself from a bowl on the dirty floor. can I request a welfare check for the baby’s safety and my peace of mind?
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I DON’T KNOW HOW TO HELP HER?
Nov 10th
Question by Mysterious_Chick:
I do not know how to help her?
My sister moved home a couple of months before she gave birth to her baby boy. He is 7 weeks old now and obviously is still sleeping in my sisters room in his cot. My sister has told me that for weeks now when she puts the baby down to sleep he will stay awake and look up like he can see something looking down at him. His eyes follows this invisible thing around the room and my sister is getting uneasy now as it’s like he’s in a trance and when she tries to get his attention it’s like he can’t see her at all. It’s only when his eyes finally stop following this thing that he then looks at his mum as if nothing has happened. She said that he also plays with this thing and laughs and smiles at it ( he has only just started to smile and laugh, he’s a early developer i think!) My sister has called me for the pass couple of days sounding increasingly worried about this. I think she has been telling me this because she knows i have an interest in the paranormal but i am not a professional or anything, it just interests me. I have not told my sister this but i actually hate the atmosphere in her bedroom and basically the whole of the upstairs but particularly the bedroom and have done ever since i first saw the house. At first my sister just thought that is was our granny (who died just after i was born) visiting her and her baby but the thing is no one in our family has ever felt the presence of her after she died so i was sceptical about that idea. Now though she is getting worried for her baby’s safety and asked me if i thought she should get someone to check her home for ghosts and i said that i think a lot of those people just make it up so it’s not worth the money, I do not know what to recommend her to do. She is not religious, she has never provoked any spirits like played a ouija board so i really do not know what it could be. I told her to look in her baby book to see if this behaviour is something else but she said she already looked and found nothing related to it. What should she do? My email is Mysterious_chick13@hotmail.co.uk if anyone has any looong comments on this. thanks
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WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON PREVENTING SIDS???
Nov 10th
Question by Cindy; mum to 3 monkeys!:
What is your take on preventing SIDS???
Our australian guidelines for preventing SIDS seems to differ quite a bit from other countries. What were you told about SIDS when you had your babies or what do you think you can do to prevent SIDS?
I was told a lot about the sleeping safety like,
No cot bumpers, quilts, pillows or toys in the cot
No netting around cot
Always place baby on their back (use a sleep positioner if you want to)
Place them with their feet at the end of the cot with the excess blanket tucked under the mattress (never in the middle unless they are older and wriggle around)
No loose bedding, tuck everything securely or put baby in a grow bag for warmth
Avoid cigarette smoke
Dummies can help to prevent sids
I always seem to see docmentarys and photos of people in america and other countries with their cots full of fancy frills, bumpers and toys when we are told never to use any of those things until at least age 1 when SIDS deaths seem to lower dramatically.
What do you think?
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HOW DO I STOP MY 6 MONTH OLD FROM ROLLING OVER ON TO HER TUMMY IN HER COT?
Nov 3rd
Question by leanne:
How do I stop my 6 month old from rolling over on to her tummy in her cot?
Baby has slept through the night since 2 months old (lucky me) but ever since she has been in her cot she rolls onto her tummy and then wakes up during the night 2-3 times and only goes back to sleep if I give her a feed and has gone from having a couple of good day sleeps to pretty short ones. Ive got a safetsleep but that doesnt seem to make any difference. Ive even tried safety pinning her clothes to the safetsleep but she still rolls over and then gets all tangled. Any help would be great.
First of all thankyou so far to those of you have offered your help and opinions. Can I just say though No1. I had safety pins in my cloth nappies for the first couple of years of my life and no disaster happened to me that I can recall. No2. On the safetsleep website they actually advocate for wiggly babies that you can try safety pinning them. No3. To “Hannahs Mommy” why do you use such a condesending phrase as “I cannot believe what I just read”?. Was there any need for that at all. Are you the most perfect mom in the world and if you are congratulations. I am not an idiot and would never do anything that could harm my most precious baby. I was asking for advice, not for someone to respond in such a nasty way. Have a great day.
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PARENTS WHO CO-SLEEP/SLEPT WITH OLDER BABIES…?
Oct 29th
Question by Bee ~Brit Mum~:
Parents who co-sleep/slept with older babies…?
My son (10 months) goes to bed in his cot, but he wakes up in the middle of the night and I bring him in with me. We used to co-sleep completely, then he wanted his own space, and now for the last few months it’s been like this, which is fine by me! Just wondering for those of you who’ve done this with older crawling babies – when you get up in the night for the lavatory or a drink, do you leave the baby in the bed or transfer him/her to the cot while you’re gone? It’s just me, and on one side of the bed is his cot bed pressed up against the side which acts as a bed rail (it’s extremely heavy and can’t be moved easily, so no gap to fall down into) and then I block off the other side. I am just always worried that when I wake, as I often do, if I leave him he’ll roll off as he’s a faily fidgety sleeper. I know rolling off the bed will not kill him, he’s done it before, but I’d like it if he did not and I am sure he would too lol! Also, do you have any good ways of preventing the baby from crawling off the end of the bed? I often wake in the morning to find him crawling down to the foot of the bed, it must be an instinct or something that I wake when he does it lol but I am sure one of these days I will not wake and he’ll crawl off the end! And I can hardly put bed rails all the way around my bed! I have put a safety gate on my door as he can open doors now and I am worried he’ll somehow get off the end without crying and go and let himself out and down the stairs lol, so that’s not a worry any more, but once again I still want to prevent him falling off the bed if I can! Any advice?!
*I meant it’s just me in the bed, as in no partner, if that bit was not clear by the way!
fairly fidgety sleeper*
sorry I can’t type this day lol!
Belinda – I will let my son co-sleep until he’s ready to stop. Even if that’s in a few years time! As I said, it’s fine with me, and I am a single mom so it is not like I have a sex life to ruin! If you do not have an answer for my question then please do not answer!
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