May babies no. 5 - crikey!

[libb]

Wouldn't we all be a nightmare on a rare ladies only night out?!

Are they proper fruit flavours or the raspberry pavlova/toffee crisp type which look nice but fail to satisfy?

I always think that you can go a good couple of days over sell by date with yoghurt anyway...

but give it a good sniff

me is back! was great to go out and meet friend with little twins 10wks
so quiet and not moving about at all!!! - can't really remember that time

egypt; thx for copying that thread! well, i think i'll wait it out then...

kbaby: ouch; that's even worse than my ds!!! hope formula will do the trick! - re weaning: start follow your instinct! that's what i did - and ds' lead for sure - pick fruits/veg which you think lo will eat. make a bit more up than you think lo'll like - nothing can go wrong!!
oh, and at the beginning: find some cover - for you that is - food will end up everywhere

georgina: you ARE doing the right thing!! start whenever you feel ready

cat: it IS weird! i think it might be solids. his system is trying to cope with it. only a phase

sandi: even if i wanted to (and i actually DO want to) keep ds awake, i couldn't. he falls asleep every evening 6-6.30!! how do you keep a tired baby awake????? - am i superman to try?
he is happy that way; i'll give him a bottle at 10 (he doesn't even wake up properly) and then he wakes for another 4ish. still haven't figured out what the 1.30 wake is for

but he is ever so funny all the time
laughing and giggling all day.

ds gulps 8oz milk in 5min - he always did!! that's why I had to start weaning. because i was already on 7x7oz and he still was hungry!! - otherwise i'd postponed it too!

and he is the same fast eater with solids!
was easy to get him to eat from spoon

oh, and i am not going back to work

and dp already expects me to do everything now

cat, re. milk feeds. ds never fed whilst in my arms. He would always wriggle and scream and arch his back. So i gave up and lay him down and he loves taking his feed that way. i even took him to an osteopath which helped things only for a few days and then he'd go back to lying down. So when he's not feeding, he loves to sit up, supported. When we used to eat, ds was fascinated. So 16 weeks came and I tried baby rice, which was quite a runny consistency. He took to it but not that well. So i tried carrot with a thicker consistency and he loved it. I think he prefers to actually munch on food. Whereas ds1 was the complete opposite, it took a while for him to take to solids. So try and let baby guide you. Just put a clean spoon to her mouth and see what she does.

susi ur ds sounds like golden when feeding. ds1 was a complete nightmare. He was a fussy feeder right until he was four. Now he eats anything from fish and chips to curries and chappatis. Before that he was very selective on what he would eat. Very very bland foods, so I'm learning lessons and will be introducing ds2 to a varied homemade selection.

i have a frozen apple pie that is a month out of date. Will sneak it out tonight and carefully place it at the bottom of the bin. As not to alert MIL

susi, i would love to be at home for another year, i do have the option to do that now, working for local govt, but we just couldn't afford it. but another MAJOR factor for me is the MIL. TBH i'm looking foward to going back because she's driving me mad but sad to leave ds2. i love spending time with both ds. dh works hard, so i often take them out at wkends, which is my precious time with them alone, away from the MIL. This wkend going to see a great exhibition in birmingham on the earth from the air and to watch shark's tale. Can't wait

sandi: can understand your dilemma with mil. it can be hard. mine lives 1 hour/car away - do you get on with here in general? bet it's mostly "childcare"! my family is far far away and even they tried to drive me crazy what to do with ds. but again - i don't have to live with them!
and our ds' sound very similar. mine never let me feed him holding him in my arms! always lying down (mil/mum worried about that ) - and now in his bouncychair - can't wait for him to sit in a highchair

won't tell on you re pie

morning! what a terrible night!!! fed him 10pm; went to bed myself and ds woke up every 2 hours aarrrrghhh
and decided to be hungry 1hour early in the morning (7 inst. 8) - what's going on?????

yes can someone tell me what's going on too? From a baby who was sleeping through he has suddenly decided that 3am is playtime. I've decided to drop the 10 feed and he slept thro from 7 till 1am, then 3am (i made 4oz then) and then he got up at 6.

He's very tired now. and so am i.

Libb,is DS now happy to drink from the bottle then?

Spots, he doesn't mind the bottle (I am using the NUK ones) but he hates formula . . .

So now I touting Avent bottles with me Muller Corners!

Another bad night here again.
DD fell asleep at 7.30 but wouldnt go in her cot until 10pm which meant I ended up splattering her with my sweet and sour chicken

Fed at 7.30 from both boobs and then 7ozs formula at 10pm, boobs at 3 +6.

She also woke about 1ish but we were able to settle her and then at 5.45 she was wide awake and grizzling in her cot. I brought her into bed where she thought it was playtime and kept talking to the sheet, so back in her cot for 30 mins where she then started crying and came back into bed at 6.30 slept until 8.
Do you have those mornings where you just think ' may as well just get up'

When DD woke at 5.45 I needed a wee so came downstairs and the cat made a run upstairs, I chased him and bought him back down only for the other cat to run upstairs. I bought them both down and walked in the kitchen to see that one had pooed by the back door so by now I was wide awake.

Im off to the doctors today as I've lost my sense of smell. It went about 2 years ago but then I got pregnant and didnt see the point in going to the gp. Its strange 99% of the time I cant smell anything and then I may walk into a room and smell the air freshener but then as soon as I think that its gone again. I nearly set the kitchen alight on Sunday which is whats promted the visit by not smelling the fact that the oven glove was on fire!
Since having DD ive also got a constant congested nose and I sneeze all the time. Its far worse at night. Makes me almost think im allergic to dd. It hasnt been helped that ive now got a 2nd cold since having dd.
DD seems to be snuffly at night but ok during the day, so hopefully hers wont get any worse.

oh kbaby, hope the GP can help you. I don't have any experience, but does your sense of smell eventually come back?

libb: one step after the other; now you just have to find the right formula
kbaby: i feel with you!! same here lately - and exactly that kind of day today - ds also thought 6am is a great time for playing; so took him into my bed but he kept playing! so i got up in the end grmpf - but his morningnap was uninterrupted so far and almost 2 hours - well, no wonder with all that waking up during the night!

K baby- Poor you about the cat, what a night Hope your Gp will be able to help re nose.

Libb- Car boot sale of avent bottle and muller corners?

Susi- ds1 feeding experiance, was it really that easy? dd, is improving and LOVES banana, but still not sure she knows to open her mouth for a spoon yet.

Dd, has had a grand total of 25 minutes afternoon nap today....but it has occured to me that a baby sleeping 12 hours a night MAY need smaller blocks of sleep in the day, so i guess i could be stressing over nothing. It's just that she won't drop off very easily any more, which is very frustrating.

Hair washed (leaving a small wig behind in the bath in preperation on haircut this afternoon...stupidly excited! lol

Am feeling much, much, more human today thank god, my eye has stopped watering, and i can breath once again. Hurrah!

Hope everyones okay!
xxxx

wohoooo - ds is 5 months today - gosh, time just flies by

doc says i have a alergy and have some spray to use for 6 weeks and if it doesnt work a referal to the hospital.

susi i wish my dd slept 2hrs in the day. im lucky if its 1hr and thats in 30 min blocks.

trying a different approach today! since ds falls asleep every day 6.30ish and that's him for the night - but he keeps waking 1.30/4/6 - i let him fall asleep on the couch instead! since he moved everything 1hour forward - he's just fallen asleep! let's see what happens next ...

Kbaby how exciting... to maybe get your smell back... suppose you can't taste food so well if you can't smell? Oh what treats are in store for you as you experience nappies, baby sick and the smell of not-got-done housework...

Cat I get very excited about haircuts too. let us know how it turns out!

Susi are you counting calendar months or four-week months? I am constantly confused about this.

DD had a sleep in her cot today. For an hour and a half! I was thinking again about the sleep training. Surely it can't be a bad plan to try getting her to 'settle herself' (horrible euphemism for crying to sleep I suspect) during daytime naps and just continue current pattern of leniency at night; then it's not so knackering for everyone else and she only has to do it once as opposed to numerous times over a 12 hour stretch.

So yes, I tried that. She never got really distressed crying... that would have had me through. And I knew she was tired. I kept thinking it was less stressful for her than doing it during the night.

Spoke to upstairs neighbours, and he said they could hear her at nights. They have 2 kids of their own and one a bit hyper so he was v. reasonable about it but it doesn't make me feel good.

I read on a CC thread that you ought not to do it during daytime naps but don't quite understand why. NB I don't count this halfhearted 'getting her to settle herself' as actual controlled crying, because I know if she really roared I'd go through to her. Still feel like a bastard even just doing this.

Well I'm back on the scene. Taken ages to read through this thread and thanks everyone for your encouraging remarks last week about DD's weight but with all thats happened since I've not really thought about it.

Had a bad day Sunday when we found out that SIL had developed obstrectic c.... the liver condition Prufrock and GeorginaA had, and were told her 38 week baby only had a 50% chance of survival. DH v. upset and went off to see her. Then it all calmed down and she was just being monitored and thanks to my diligent reading on here I was able to explain to DH about it. Went on hols (caravan in Scotland) on Monday but DD's chicken pox getting worse and worse. DH and I both developed colds. Couldn't get DD to sleep except on me all night and waking up lots. DH sleeping with DS. No bath in caravan and NHS Direct advised bathing DD 3-4 times daily with bicarb in the water. So we came home yesterday. So only on hols for two days out of five.

BUT it does get better. DD is improving although another bad night last night. And SIL was induce on Tuesday morning and gave birth to a gorgeous little boy yesterday afternoon . We went to visit in shifts today because of DD not being able to go. And DD looks enormous. I was holding DN in the hospital and DH was outside the window with DD and she is huge.

Haven't started weaning yet but think I might soon. DS was done at 17 weeks and DD is already 21 weeks. We have been spoon feeding her water because she has diarohea (sp?)and she has taken to the spoon really well.

Also she has got her first tooth - yesterday. So she has been teething, had chicken pox and a cold simultaneously. Think I might cancel next week's injections. How much can one little bod take?

My goodness Bozza, what a time you've had!! So glad everything went okay with your SIL - it's so scary when they first give you the OC news.

Think you're probably making the right choice delaying the vaccination - sounds like you all need lots of tlc and recovery time!

Huge hugs

G.

good to have you back bozza!! although very sorry about your hols
but good to know that dd is doing better! and congrats on dn

spots: i am starting to count in "calendar months" now - but i always keep week number in the back of my head - so ds is 5months or 20+6

was very busy with freezing veggies today! done potato, sweet potato, squash and chicken. peas, carrots, zucchini to follow and fruits tomorrow - i finally got them icecubs with lids - they are really great!!! - dp even helped; he had the honourable job to squash potato through a sieve

and we also tried to keep ds awake longer! he normally falls asleep at 6.30; today we distracted him (was not easy! lots of eyerubbing) till 7; then bath, sleepsuit and bottle - he watched us doing the veggie thingy and at 8 dp decided it's late enough and put him to bed. we could hear him giggle for about 15min and then he was gone!!!! - worked really well! let's see if that makes any difference to him waking at nights!

had bumps/baby meeting today, but was a bit boring. or it might have been that i was really tired (woken up every 2hours at night) and i just couldn't get myself to talk much. and most of the babies are much younger than ds is. - there is always a next time

Oi! kbaby - Mishkin, our cat, pooped in our bedroom for the first time ever today - you know anything about this? (just kidding, not really cross!)

I am beginning to ponder about weaning, DS spent the whole afternoon griping about something but I am not sure what - soon I won't recognise what he wants at all, the childminder will be letting me know . . . I am torn about work and like the idea of adult company (my colleagues have sorted a lunchtime gadabout to the nearest pub on my first day to celebrate my return - I was nearly in tears when I read that via e-mail, must get some cream buns in the staffroom as a treat on day 1 - along with the breast pump and milky freezer bags! luvly) but then I can't stop gazing at Reuben ... he so handsome. Oh gawd . . .

Susi, DS was born on the 14th so your darling must be practically the same age? Cat82 and I go miles back too - she is ace, and her DP is very sweet, we go even further back (Before anyone gets ideas, I met her DP by chance in the hospital the same day our darlings were born - that is how cliquey we are)

Bozza, I hope things get better for you soon. your DH sounds wonderful. xxxx