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

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BabyGenius · 25/08/2008 16:47

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?

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BabyGenius · 25/08/2008 20:03

Well sometimes he has it mashed up, other times he has it cut into like strips so that he can put it in his mouth himself. I assume that's classed as finger foods. He also has baby rice and I tried him with a stage 1 fruit puree but he wasn't that keen so I sacked that. He has baby cereal aswell.

You're right Scottishmummy, I've commited every MN raising baby sin. People avoid me in RL because of my horns and hooves.

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BabyGenius · 25/08/2008 20:04

Gaviscon's just in his bottle for his reflux. It works quite well really, and the Domperidone. It didn't for a while at first but it must take a bit to get into the system. He's not sick off solids.

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scottishmummy · 25/08/2008 20:05

back in your box!the home of TV,MENSA,and gaviscon dare not speaketh its name here

Turniphead1 · 25/08/2008 20:06

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LucyJones · 25/08/2008 20:06

oh god I'm the last one to get into a weaning debate. My first was wenaed at 4 onths (the recommendation was 16 weeks now) and I know every baby is different etc etc
But what does the box of baby cereal say on it, from what age?

BabyGenius · 25/08/2008 20:07

lol Turnip, true.

Thanks for all the reponses.

Baby's back from his nana's. I'm off to put him to bed. Night all.

xxx

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Aitch · 25/08/2008 20:08

i've no research to refer to, BG, but i've heard a few mums of refluxy babies say that actually finger food wasn't that great for their kids as the lumps seemed to irritate and cause a worse reaction. i maybe would dial it back to rice alone if you're convinced it's helping his reflux.

hazeyjane · 25/08/2008 20:09

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

I really like that BG, I would like to use it as my family motto (I think there was a thread on that the other day) or maybe it could be used as some sort of guideline to users of mumsnet!

FlightAttendent · 25/08/2008 20:10

Steady Aitch - you don't want to be having ishoos here now

expatinscotland · 25/08/2008 20:12

Now, Aitch, if you have nothing nice and supportive to say you need to crawl back under your bridge .

Aitch · 25/08/2008 20:14

lol, yes. and here i am, so laden with dogma, that i'm trying to persuade someone to ditch finger food.

expatinscotland · 25/08/2008 20:15

Finger food at that age is just a gateway food to harder core stuff like chips and sausage rolls.

A slippery and dangerous slope indeed.

scottishmummy · 25/08/2008 20:16

dogma is that a finger food.nice with flat bread and hummus

Aitch · 25/08/2008 20:19

lol at dogma.

KerryMum · 25/08/2008 20:20

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columbolover · 25/08/2008 20:22

Can't think why a GP /HV would advise early weaning for reflux. Ds had it - until age of 1, he was still vomiting on solid food which we started at 6mo, until he was one year old. Its only a recent thing he's been enthused about lumpy food too.

Is slow weight gain not also a symptom of reflux - so can't believe your ds is 15lb at 14 wks. Not that I'm disbelieving your post, just well done if that is the case. Suppose they are all different. My ds didn't get to that weight until 6 months. He was also a tall / long baby.
But they only need milk at this age. lo's would swipe anything off your plate at that age - or maybe nearer 4 months - but they don't realise its food as such, its because you have it and they want it.

Riven - ds was on ranitidine for ages - am really worried now I have damaged him somehow - GP said the dose was so low he wouldn't get side effects

expatinscotland · 25/08/2008 20:22

that must be where i went wrong! DD2 went through this horrible growth spurt at about 14 weeks and all she wanted to look at was boob and all she wanted to do was suck boob.

ilovemydog · 25/08/2008 20:24

dogma: a dish best served cold

scottishmummy · 25/08/2008 20:25

aye watch it disnae stick in yer throat

CrushWithEyeliner · 25/08/2008 20:28

Why on earth do you think sleeping 11 hrs is an advancement? and all that stodge! Why?

Do you think his "smiles" might actually be grimaces or wind?

ChairmumMiaow · 25/08/2008 20:29

My DS must be dreadfully slow by those standards. At 14 weeks all he wanted was his milk from his mummy and people to coo at him. He could just about manage to sit in a bumbo.

Oh but everyone at his baby music group said how alert and interested he was. Can he have a medal?

scottishmummy · 25/08/2008 20:31

aye funny going-ons at MENSA-Gaviscon-weaning-Towers she's a bad un alright

lauraloola · 25/08/2008 20:37

I think people are being mean aswell - I think they are jealous. I wish my dd was like your ds

expatinscotland · 25/08/2008 20:38

oh, i'm definitely jealous.

i would have done must about anything to get a break from her hanging off my boobs at that stage.

lauraloola · 25/08/2008 20:42

Sorry, I read the wrong page!