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Hi. My Subaru legacy is having problems with the automatic transmission. It is not responding to the accelerator at all. There is about a 3 second delay before it does change gears and often then it surges the car forward which I consider dangerous. It is a 2004 Subaru legacy wagon 2L petrol. No other problems with it. The fluid has been checked and is fine. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know what it is? Thanks.

Hi there - hope someone can jump in and maybe offer some alternative advice to what I have had. So, I have a ten month old baby girl who is our second baby. She was a fantastic sleeper at the beginning - so great, she slept all the time. I put her to bed awake and she just went off to dream land just so easily.

Step forward to about five months old. We went camping and she was pretty good but I made the mistake of taking her into my bed when she woke up - so she didn't wake anyone else around us. When we got home it was time to move her from her basinnette to a cot and this is when it becomes all my fault - she pretty much didn't like it and decided she much preferred to sleep beside Mummy and feed ALL night long. She would seriously feed about 5-6 times, sometimes more!

I know she has developed a sleep association but now need some really good advice as to how to move her back to her own bed. Here is a snap shot of what happens in our house before bed.

*Baby girl is fed between 5.00pm and 5.30pm

*Bath at around 6.00pm

*Pyjamas

*A story

*A breast feed just before bed at 7.00pm. Here is where it gets tricky. Sometimes she falls asleep while feeding and I put her to her own bed. Sometimes she is awake. If she is asleep, sometimes she is okay and stays alseep but sometimes she wakes as soon as I leave the room. Other times she is awake when I put her down and will cry as soon as I leave.

*After she goes to sleep she will wake up up to 5-6 times before we go to bed at around 10.30pm.

*Wakes up as soon as we turn off the lights and television

*I bring her to our bed because I am so exhausted, I do not have the energy to sit beside her cot and mother her back to sleep

I have successfully weaned her off ALL night time feeds. The problems are this:

*The frequent wakings before we go to bed and also while sleeping in our bed.

*The inability to get to sleep without my husband or myself in the room, holding her hand or sleeping right beside her.

*Naps are also a battle with frequent wakings, inability to get to sleep and are short.

She goes to home based care (care in another persons home where they have a maximum of four children to each carer) for 20 hours a week and naps okay there but does cry when put to bed.

I am reluctant to let her CIO but will do if I have to as a last resort. She is VERY persistant!

My son was the same and we let him CIO in the end and he is a wonderful sleeper now.

I practice very safe co-sleeping practices.

Any ideas or anyone been in the same boat???

Thanks

Just a really random question but I am curious to know - do yo make your own play-doh or do you buy it???

When it is your child's birthday and they are having a party, do you give them a goody bag too so they do not feel left out? If so, do you put exactly the same in it as you would for his or her guests, considering your own child would not know what is in the other goody bags? Or would you tell your child this is a gift from them to their friends as a special thank you for coming to their party and that is why they do not get one?

Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston and why?

As it is winter in my part of the world and not particularly warm, I am leaving my spayed, female Golden Retriever inside our house while I work. She is left at maximum six hours and that is it. Today it was 5.5 hours. So, today I walk inside our house and she is a bit quieter than usual (ie she normally barks excitedly to see me) and there is a large pee stain on the carpet and it smells just God awful!

This is a repeat of a similar accident in November of last year and the vet figured it was a urine infection and it was treated with no further incidents until now but her anal glands were also checked as a precaution.

A little about my girl - she will be nine years old in September. She eats a high quality, low residue pet food purchased only from a vet. She always has fresh water. She is regularly treated for worms and has her yearly shots. There are no ticks where I live and fleas are unlikely at this time of year and where I live which is not a hot humid place. We think she has lost a bit of weight recently but she still is extremely greedy as per normal for a retriever. She has been moulting a bit too but talking with other dog friends this appears to be common. Her breath often smells and is no worse than usual but is still stinky :-) She is fine within herself and seems happy and otherwise healthy. Her stools appear normal. She has had a lack of walks recently as I am nearly eight months pregnant and it is getting difficult to walk her but my husband gets her out when he can.

I am taking her to the vet tomorrow morning but wondered if anyone here had experienced a similar thing and also wondered how often can one dog get urine infections if this is indeed one?

Thanks

Hello

We currently belt our golden retriever into the back seat of our sedan car using a dog harness and the seatbelt. Soon we are going to get a station wagon and are wondering how to belt her into this as she will be in the very back of the car. We had thought of getting a barrier up between the back and the back seat but thought this would not be safe for her if there was an accident (it would protect the passengers from a flying dog but not our dog). So, we wondered if we should purchase a crate for her to travel in, bearing in mind she has never had one before, or can you get anchor points with a special belt to belt her into her normal harness? Any ideas? What do other people with station wagons do?

Thanks

Hi

I have a 19 month old son. He was conceived on the first try when I was 34 years old. When he was 17 months old (in mid January) we started TTC for baby number two. At that stage I was still giving my son one breast feed every day or every second day.

To cut to the chase, I did not get pregnant as I did the first time for our first baby and nor did I get pregnant the second month so I cut out the breast feeding altogether. That was six weeks ago and now it is the third cycle and AF has just turned up.

I realise that every month is different and that my age may be a factor but wondered if the fact I only stopped breastfeeding altogether just over six weeks ago may have a factor also. I used to be really regular before prengancy. While b/feeding they were random and now my cycles are slowly coming back and this is the second time in a row my cycle has been 27 days.

Any opinions?

We all know about or have learnt about the Japanese and German prisoner of war camps in world war two but you never actually hear about English prisoner of war camps. I presume the Allies captured prisoners during the war but where were they and what were they like for say German prisoners or Japanese prisoners??

We conceived our first child on the first try. I was 34. Now I am 36 and are ttc for a second. Just a bit of background - we started trying in January but I only stopped breastfeeding 6 weeks ago and even then I was only breastfeeding every second day or so.

My question - How old were you ladies when you conceived your second child and how long did it take?

Hello everyone - it has been ages since I have been here.

My little boy has refused his day nap for the last week. He normally goes down just after 1pm and used to sleep for an hour to two hours. The last few days he has flat out refused his sleep. I left him in his cot babbling away to himself for well over an hour. I kept checking on him and he did not cry - he just lay there happy as Larry, talking to himself, kicking his feet and standing up, but NOT going to sleep. I even tried cuddling him to sleep but he would have none of that either. I can not put him down to sleep earlier as I work part time and we get home just after 1.00pm.

It seems too early to be cutting out his day sleep as he is so tired by his 6.30pm - 7.00pm bedtime that he just drops off to sleep within minutes with absolutely no fuss.

Has anyone else had this happen to their 18 month old's day nap?

Is it too early to drop the nap or do some kids just do that?

Thanks

We are in the process of sleep training our little boy. He used to sleep with us but is now able to sleep all night in his own bed. Now we are working on getting him to self settle when he goes to sleep and if and when he wakes up.

Our little boy is taking 30-50 minutes to fall asleep after I put him down in his cot. He cries a bit, fusses and talks to himself too. I check on him every 5-10 minutes. During the night if he wakes he goes back to sleep within minutes and with minimal fuss - it is just getting him to sleep at the beginning of the night. Previously I had to sit in his room and practically had to hold his hand to get him to sleep so our situation has improved dramatically.

My question is - how long does it take for your little ones to sleep after you put them down and leave the room and do they cry or just fuss?

Thanks - just want to know what is normal for this age group and whether I need to get him to bed earlier to get him more sleep to make up for the time he spends talking and fussing.

Hello everyone

We have a 14 month old baby boy who I believe will be walking soon - going by what he is doing.

Our night sleeping has never been great - but it was getting better until recently. Now when I put him down at night he is constantly getting on his hands and knees and standing up. I put him back down and he eventually goes to sleep but wakes up often and every time I go in he is standing up.

At some point in the night he comes into our bed and he rolls over a lot and also tries to stand up in our bed too.

Anyone else have this and how did you deal with it?

Thanks everyone.

Hi

About six weeks ago my hubby had a bout of shingles. This was treated for about 5 days and it seemed to go away, although the marks are still faintly there.

About two weeks ago he noticed a small mark under his right eye and a feeling of pressure behind it. It spread to around his right eye and his right temple and down his right hand side of his face to the jaw. Then it spread into his sinus's and then left temple and then his forehead.

He also has weakness in his left arm and a bit of tingling all over his body. He has been to two doctors, one of them twice. Neither have any answers.

He has done research and has found that some of the symptoms mirror MS but the doctor has said there is not enough to go on but does acknowledge that is is not out of the question but has said to be wary of googling symptoms. He has however referred him to a neurologist later on. In the meantime my hubby is going mental over worrying.

I am not convinced about MS although I am not qualified to know this. I am however wondering if it is a left over from the shingles bout. Has anyone else had weird symptoms like this???

Any feedback would be great.

Thanks.

I asked this yesterday and only got two responses.

Our son is 11 months old. He was born in winter and when he was born we noticed a purplish mark on his leg that would come and go and asked about it - the ped said it was circulatory. Now that we are back full swing into winter the mark has appeared again. It is sometimes the same shape and sometimes not. When he is warm like straight out of bed it is not usually there. It comes and goes. It looks like your skin does when you are cold - blotchy or mottled. It is mostly on one leg but we have seen a similar thing on the other leg but not for ages. Is this normal? Doctors and nurses do not seem to be alarmed but I am a Mummy so worry WAAAAY to much.

Our son is 11 months old. He was born in winter and when he was born we noticed a purplish mark on his leg that would come and go and asked about it - the ped said it was circulatory. Now that we are back full swing into winter the mark has appeared again. It is sometimes the same shape and sometimes not. When he is warm like straight out of bed it is not usually there. It comes and goes. It looks like your skin does when you are cold - blotchy. It is mostly on one leg but we have seen a similar thing on the other leg but not for ages. Is this normal? Doctors and nurses do not seem to be alarmed but I am a Mummy so worry WAAAAY to much.

Hi

We part time co-sleep with our 11 month old baby boy. He sleeps in his own bed from 7.00pm until anywhere between 10.30pm and 2.30am and then comes in with Mummy and Daddy. However, he has now started to perform acrobatics in the night and I fear he will fall off the bed (although I sleep with my arm around him) and he wakes us up. He also wakes up about 2 or 3 times to feed - apparently since I sleep next to him he thinks he has free access to the cafeteria all night long.

So, my question is when did you put your little ones in the cot all night long and how the heck do you do it without too many tears and tantrums????

Oh, and if you are against co-sleeping I would appreciate no rude or "helpful" comments please. Thanks.

Hello all

My little boy has never been a good sleeper. When he was born he would sleep four hours straight - now at 8 months he rarely does that. We are lucky to get three straight hours. Consequently due to my absolute exhaustion we have now begun co-sleeping. Even then, he is lucky to do three hours at a stretch.

Last night we had a terrible night with our little one screaming for a couple of hours. He would feed a little and then scream. Finally my hubby and I took turns at walking him around the house which quietened him until he went back to bed and then scream again. I even put him in the car at 4.00am with the intention of going to the urgent doctors who were closed. I did not think it was bad enough for the ER so went home. He fell asleep in the car and was okay until about 7.30am and when he got up he was all smiles. I took him to the doctor today who says he looks perfectly healthy - he looked over him throughly felt for hernias and checked for ear infections and nothing there. We summised it might have been a tummy ache as LO was farting a lot.

Anyway, I got to thinking and maybe he has a silent reflux which is getting worse - maybe he has always had it and that is why he has never slept well except for one or two occasions?

Anyone had experience with silent reflux and do you think it is possible for it to go undiagnosed for 8 whole months???

Thanks - love to hear any stories.

Okay, shamelessly asking this again. I got a few answers last time but wonder if ear infections can be missed by a family doctor?

Below is my original question.

A while ago I noticed a lot of crying and ear pulling on my then nearly 7 month old son. He was found to have a small amount of fluid on his ears and was given some antibiotics to clear it up. Apparently the ears are last part of the body that antibiotics reach so it takes a while for them to work.

Anyhow, my son is now 8 months old and I have had him back at the doctor a couple of times as he still crys a lot at night, wakes frequently and pulls at his ears. Sometimes he crys excessively at night in bed (we co-sleep, no rude comments on that thank you).

The doctor says there is still a bit of fluid on his ears but is reluctant, quite rightly so to give him more antibiotics.

Probably no one here is an expert but I wonder if anyone has had experience with this. Do you think he can still have a problem (more than just fluid) with sore ears and simply not picked up by my family doctor? Family doctors, bless them are fantastic but they have to know so much about everything that it would be impossible for them to specialise in everything. Or am I paranoid and it simply teething (sometimes I think it is) and normal night awakenings?

Your experience would be well received thanks.

Hi there

A while ago I noticed a lot of crying and ear pulling on my then nearly 7 month old son. He was found to have a small amount of fluid on his ears and was given some antibiotics to clear it up. Apparently the ears are last part of the body that antibiotics reach so it takes a while for them to work.

Anyhow, my son is now 8 months old and I have had him back at the doctor a couple of times as he still crys a lot at night, wakes frequently and pulls at his ears. Sometimes he crys excessively at night in bed (we co-sleep, no rude comments on that thank you).

The doctor says there is still a bit of fluid on his ears but is reluctant, quite rightly so to give him more antibiotics.

Probably no one here is an expert but I wonder if anyone has had experience with this. Do you think he can still have a problem (more than just fluid) with sore ears and simply not picked up by my family doctor? Family doctors, bless them are fantastic but they have to know so much about everything that it would be impossible for them to specialise in everything. Or am I paranoid and it simply teething (sometimes I think it is) and normal night awakenings?

Your experience would be well received thanks.