What is/was your baby doing at 14 weeks old? Is mine quite advanced?

[BabyGenius]

I'll get hung drawn and quartered for saying this, but mine eats food- feeds himself with a spoon as long as I put the food on the spoon for him. His favourite food is banana, he loved it and cries when it's all gone and refuses his bottle for it sometimes. He feeds himself 'finger foods' (only very basic things at the moment).

He laughs.

He laughs at ceebeebies when the characters or presenters laugh.

When I say 'dada' he says 'ah-ah'. When I make gurgle noises he copies me. When I squeel he squeels and then laughs.

He sits up by himself.

He loves anything colourful.

He laughs his head off when anyone says 'boo'.

He sleeps 11 hours at night.

He holds his own bottle.

He wants to stand up allllllllll the time, he's very strong.

If you say 'kiss' he opens his moth for a kiss, and 'cuddle' he puts his hands either side of his neck. And if you say 'kiss baby' he opens his mouth to kiss his newborn cousin.

And loads of other stuff.

He just seems really advanced to me. Do all babies do these things by 14 and a half weeks old?

hmmm it's common decency to acknowledge when people have taken the time to answer your post seriously.

don't think it is actually common decency to just parrot "oooh that's lovely" ... what a boring thread this would have been if everyone had written that.

perhaps we should have a thread where we all list the things our children can do and everyone else says oooh that's lovely. oh no I'm thinking of a different parenting site there.

before i had a baby i didn't get new mums,endless photos,tales of baby did this/that.dull dull blah blah

LOL then i became that mum, morphed into a gushing photo carrying oh my baby....

BG I am sure he is lovely.

Shall I tell you about mine then? Shall we ALL do a thread about our children?

G&P we thunk the same thing there! It would be terribly dull and I be OP wouldn't want to read it!

lol that's what I'm like. I was always like 'eeeeeeeeeeew it's loud and snotty' (secretly thinking, not saying, might I add) but now I've got one I'm that awful mum who talks about nowt else

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Yes lets all do threads about our children... because this is MUMsnet, a support site for mums, and that's what we are. Mums.

Some things in life are nice and should be focused on. It's not all cheating husbands, murderous MILs and cat poo.

'It's common decency to go 'oooo that's lovely'.'

Nah.

The decent thing to do is to give them that half-puzzled, half-rolled-eyes look so that they realise as soon as possible that their constant boasting is tiresome and dull.

Thanks for your response G&P.

it's ahd to say 'ooh that'slovely' about solid food at 14 weeks though... it might be why your ds is unsettled in the night maybe?
anyway he does sound a love

sorry should read 'it's hard'

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My son sleeps through 11 hours at night.

It's not like I sit him infront of the telly 24/7, I just don't like him sitting on his own bored when I get a shower and such likes. Context people.

Nah I like these responses much too much I was just meaning in RL. I'd never go 'Oh that's dull, next subject please' in RL

hold dem glistening torches high as posse make way to BG house,oh she's a bad un alright

PPPPPAAAAARRRRRPPPPPP!

4!

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Well it's safe to say I'm not doing too bad a job because he's a happy baby and that's all I want, a happy baby.

He eats his solids one time a day, tea time. He has his bottles quite regular though.

think you'd better show some contrition the MN jury has yer card marked as bad un.

telly,weaning,bottles

you are going straight to the firey pit missy

ok-how does he 'feed himself finger foods' if all he is having is mashed up banan once a day?

he's happy with solids but he's on gaviscon?