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Posted by The Wanderer on February 18, 2008, 7:32 am
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:06:18 +0100, Ursula Schrader wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> it's me again, this time I'm looking for a pattern for a work basket. Sounds
> so oldfashioned, but since I'm running around with my hand sewing utensils
> all day long and already dropped my precious crane scissors I can see the
> wisdom of our ancestors. ;-) I had in mind something made from some cotton
> fabric and timtex, not too big, with one or two pockets on the inside, total
> dimensions perhaps 20 x 20 x 20 cm with a handle for easy carrying. Thanks
> for suggestions.
Hmm, having read the other posts in this thread, perhaps my suggestion will
sound like heresy, but......
I use a cheap plastic makeup box for my workbox. I've seen them around for
about £1-£2. There's a removable tray with half a dozen small compartments,
needles kept in a manufacturer's paper fold case, needle threader and seam
ripper, tape measures, scalpels, machine needles, bodkins, common threads
(a reel of black, white and cream), dental floss (you don't want to know,
honest!), and the handle for the tray also accomodates that oh so useful
extending magnetic picker, together with half a dozen long large head pins.
Into the bottom goes scalpels, scissors, various modelling spatulas,
flexible bodkin/threader, small pliers and cutters, tweezers various,
marker pens, false eyelashes waiting to go on a doll, and some of the
various other bits and pieces that I've found useful over the last few
years.
As I said, it cost a very small amount from one of the cheapy stores, and
it's done all I want.
--
Richard
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net
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Posted by Ursula Schrader on February 20, 2008, 7:00 am
"Sarah Dale" wrote...
> Ursula Schrader wrote:
>> Haha, I wish I would get all this done, currently I'm only planning. But
>> I hope that exact planning will enable me to do what I want in those
>> hours when the little darling is asleep, which are currently quite many.
>> Unfortunately, I still can't tell where the day has gone and why I
>> haven't managed to do more. Sometimes I feel quite drained (literally,
>> still breastfeeding, though we try to introduce something solid now).
>
> You lucky swine - your DD sleeps? Mine didn't know the meaning of the
> word.... and we still have trouble.... I'm still breastfeeding DD (once a
> day) so I know exactly where you're coming from. DD was a champ - we used
> to feed for up to 3 hours at a time..... I didn't get anything done for
> months.......
Oh dear, how old is she? Ours was born on 10 July last year. She hasn't
started walking or even crawling, but is more of an avid talker. I'm not
worried about that, she'll start with all this when she's good and ready,
and the doctor says that nothing is amiss with her, her development is quite
normal. For the first few days she did nothing but sleep, even when she was
supposed to be drinking, so we couldn't leave the hospital as soon as we
would have liked.
Then she took to sleeping only a few minutes during the day while sleeping
almost 7 hours at a time at night (I loved it, as you can imagine), only
that was mainly all the sleep she'd get. I started to get really worried
because 7 hours is not enough, even for me sometimes. Moreover, she had
developed the habit of yelling at the top of her lungs at any opportunity,
and unconsolably, too. You could tell that she was dead tired and could
'catch sleep' as my mother calls it.
When she was about four months old, the clinic sent round the offer for a
course for parents with 'Schreibabys' - babies who'd cry at any opportunity.
I went there and learnt a lot about sleep, rythm and other things. They
recommended these two books:
- 'Crying and Restlessness in Babies: A Parent's Guide to Natural Sleeping'
by Ria Blom
- 'Your Self Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural
Abilities - From the Very Start' by Magda Gerber and Allison Johnson
The first one is in favour of swaddling, as they were (it is an
anthroposophical clinic, which explains a lot). Although I had swaddled her
for the first six weeks, I had thought it to be cruel and outdated for any
older infant.
However, not long before Christmas, we were visiting friends
who lived in a very old house. No proper heating but just
one fireplace in the living room, several degrees Celsius below zero
outside, walls that were almost a metre strong. It felt like a walk-in
fridge. In the first night I found that I couldn't keep her little hands
warm, so I made an impromptu swaddle. The result was that her hands were
nice and warm (I could put away some of the clothing next night) and she
slept like someone had hit her on the head.
That was it. From then on, we put her to bed in a dark room once or twice a
day, depending on how long she slept in the morning and what our/my schedule
says. Bedtime is at five or six in the afternoon. She has about 5 meals a
day, one as early as 6 a.m. (after which I put her back to bed), one at
11a.m., then it's back to bed for one or two hours. After her nap, we try
some mushed veggies such as carrot, parsnip, zucchini or pumkin which she
doesn't really like. But we have to try, haven't we? Remember the toddler's
apron thread? Well, it is a full-body experience, for both of us.;-) Next
meal is at about 5, 5:30 p.m. before she's off to bed. The last meal of the
day is at about 11 p.m. when my husband and I are off to bed.
Don't think it was easy, in the beginning she wouldn't fall asleep that
easily, and there are still days when this wonderful scheme doesn't work for
some mysterious reason. But she is so much more likeable since she sleeps
properly, and we can leave her to herself for almost half an hour at a time.
She plays with the cord of her pacifier or some other toy and talks to
herself. There have been evenings, though, when I was so exhausted and worn
that I sat down on the stairs in front of her bedroom, her crying inside and
me in tears on the outside. My husband is a great help here; I sometimes
feel my patience wear in times like that and then he comes and picks her up,
makes her burp, whatever is necessary. Not a great nappy-changer, he is, but
otherwise his patience is far greater than mine.
Mind you, we never let her cry more than 30 minutes, but she hardly ever
does. Mostly, she grumbles for a couple of minutes before she drops off. If
I wouldn't swaddle her, she'd keep herself awake by playing with her
pacifier or her feet. And one more thing on those books: I don't follow
every little detail of their instructions. Especially since they contradict
eachother on the topic of swaddling. However, the one by Ria Blom is my
current reading, while the other one covers later stages in the life of an
infant. I just pick the llittle raisins of wisdom that suit me out of
everything, just as my intuition and common sense like them. And I just have
to take one step a ta time. ;-) I don't know if this will be of any help to
you, nor if you wanted any (must remember Sharon's sig, not that you are a
pig, but anyway... ;-)) but I thought I should share this with you, so
please don't get cross. ;-)
> Glad you are well up on safety precautions -
so are we but DD still pulls surprises out of the hat!
Hah, since she hasn't started moving around, I'm sure that I am in for a
couple of surprises, too, sooner or later. You're right, you can't think of
everything, but then, mommy is always around to keep an eye on the little
tyke. ;-)
U.
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Posted by Kathleen on February 20, 2008, 10:39 am
Ursula Schrader wrote:
> The first one is in favour of swaddling, as they were (it is an
> anthroposophical clinic, which explains a lot). Although I had swaddled her
> for the first six weeks, I had thought it to be cruel and outdated for any
> older infant.
>
> However, not long before Christmas, we were visiting friends
> who lived in a very old house. No proper heating but just
> one fireplace in the living room, several degrees Celsius below zero
> outside, walls that were almost a metre strong. It felt like a walk-in
> fridge. In the first night I found that I couldn't keep her little hands
> warm, so I made an impromptu swaddle. The result was that her hands were
> nice and warm (I could put away some of the clothing next night) and she
> slept like someone had hit her on the head.
My daughter was jumpy as a newborn, and behaved as if her hands belonged
to someone else. When she would cry, for whatever reason, she would
wave her arms around and several times managed to grab her own ear and
then forgot how to let go. Then she would cry because somebody was
pulling her ear.
I had her checked for an ear infection (all clear) and the pediatrician
recommended that we swaddle her for naps and bedtime. It worked like a
charm. I could do a decent job of getting her all wrapped up and tucked
in but if swaddling were an Olympic event, my husband would take the
gold medal. He could make a "baby burrito" in less than ten seconds.
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Posted by Sarah Dale on February 20, 2008, 4:46 pm
Ursula Schrader wrote:
> Oh dear, how old is she? Ours was born on 10 July last year. She hasn't
DD is now 25 months..... we swaddled, we rocked, we breast fed to end
all breast feeding records..... etc.
She will now sleep up to 12 hours straight in a night - but not every
night. She's had a bad go at chicken pox, and still not right, so she's
picking up every single germ going and making a full blown meal out of
it.... I went to work on Monday having had less than 5 hours sleep - and
that was five hours broken - I think my longest continuous stretch of
sleep that night was 1.5hours.....
The swaddling sheet is still in use - to control her hands while we
breast feed! And to keep the security teddie's tucked up close. I
unravel the swaddling when I slip her into the cot, so as not to
constrict her or cause strangulation hazards.
Thanks for the reading tips. You might like to try:
No cry sleep solutions for babies or No cry sleep solutions for toddlers
and pre-schoolers - both by Elizabeth Pantley.
A very sensible lady who does NOT advocate leaving a baby to cry it out.
Her books have given me what sanity I have managed to achieve so far on
the sleep front.
Now all I have to do is get rid of the breast feed to sleep association,
and I can stop breast feeding finally!
Sarah
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Posted by Joy Beeson on February 21, 2008, 1:02 am
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:00:02 +0100, "Ursula Schrader"
> I don't know if this will be of any help to
> you, nor if you wanted any
Usenet is like my half-gallon jar of odd buttons:
paw through it and take what you need.
Joy Beeson
--
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ -- sewing
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
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