May Babies... part 6! (keep up you April Mums... pfft!)

[GeorginaA]

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morning all. Libb, sorry to hearabout your granny. Both mine had/ have A'heimers' and I know it's absolutely amazing to have a moment of clarity like she showed over your DS. Do you think you might say something at her funeral?

Judd, lovely... these glimpses into life with two are just great!

DD was great last night. After a big avocado meal she slept 7-11 when I woke her for a top-up, the only woke at 3 and 5 before finally getting up at 8. Good for us anyway! Must be the cot toy....

The top I bought in TKMaxx is emphatically not a breastfeeding top, dagnammit. Tight so that when I pull it up my boobs are compressed and stick out like water balloons. Mastitis central...

So Quiet!

Well, I watched our clock do its clever automatic zooming round the dial thing last night. It was a sort of an impromptu experiment with the feeding at night business...because DD had three big meals yesterday I suddenly thought she ought to have a shot at not feeding during the night. I had already fed her at 12 before having this thought, but at 3 just reckoned 3 hourly feeding was a bit of a no-no. And so tried to settle her without. God, she's so strong! I started by just holding her and patting her back, but she was wriggling so much I had to put her down in the cot or risk dropping her! I suppose what I ended up doing was leaving her to cry, but her crying never sounded desperate or frightened, just angry. At 4.20 (old time) she drifted off and woke up again, at which point I gave her a bottle of water, which she took willingly (a first) and the sucking made it easier to go back to sleep. And she slept till 6.10 new time/7.10 old time!! So no feeds for 7 hours!! This really is a breakthrough of sorts, but I can't think how tough I'll have to be if I am to follow through the same method tonight and on subsequent nights. Feel I've almost started some sort of sleep training thing inadvertantly but if it's going to sort anything out one night isn't quite enough is it? Is it?... (Wind whistles across desert, tumbleweeds spin by...)

Sorry... I've got carried away on another board (photo message board/community site)

Ahem. Ds1 doing fine apart from him waking up ravenous at 4am this morning ... bah. Still he then slept through to about 9am... shame his brother was wide awake at 7am...

hi,
sorry to hear about your granny libb.

dd seems to have settled down a bit in the evenings. i havent been waking her at 11pm this week encase it disturbed her more. so our nights are going feed and solids 7pm, then a feed at 1am, dummy put back in at 4ish then wake and feed at 6-7am. i dont know if i should increase her food. ive been following gf and we're on 4-5 months solids routine. even though she was 19 weeks when i started, i started at the 16 week guide in the book. anyway yesterday she had 2 cubes pot and 1 swede for dinner and then tea was milk, 4 teaspoons rice and a whole yougurt[run out of apples] then more milk. that was at 7pm and when i took her up my mums she gave her 7oz milk at 8pm!! i think i should perhaps increase her solids.
shes been having potato all week up mil and yesterday was the first time i gave it to her. when id microwaved it, it looked horrible, really gluey, like wallpaper paste. it turns out that dp had pureed the potato instead of mashing it when we cooked the batch last week. poor thing, i cant believe shes actually been eating it so ive had to chuck it and do fresh tonight.

dd's gone terrible for fabric, she wants to touch all my clothes and stroke it. esp likes the cats fur and gets excited if she sees it. she starts bouncing, screaming and waving her arms about. and she loves paper. i gave her a leaflet to hold while i was doing dinner and i looked to see that she had ink all over her face.

hopefully this works
my little pumpkin

awww so cute kbaby!!! can i have a piece

had an expensive weekend. finally got ds a highchair and 2 new grobags. boy, do they look big!! but really cosy and warm and put him in with only a long sleeved shirt on - and nappys of course
in the beginning he was not sure about his highchair. but i think he starts to like it. he sits in it like in a throne
and just bangs everything about and makes lots of noise!
oh and feeding is so much better now - for me

he is getting so active!!! don't know what else to do with him! his legs and arms are waving all day long! and in his doorbouncer he just goes hyper!!! have to get him out after 15min!!

oh and bought one of them bathseats. the one you suck onto the bath and goes in the big one! with 5 little poles through which his legs go! he loves it!!!!! so much more room for him to play and he was just so fascinated when he saw his toes!!! and the rubber ducky! giggling all the time

he is just such a sunshine! laughs all day long about anything and everything. the more people around the better! even on the streets he just laughs at strangers

and still can't roll back

kbaby - lovely pic - did you get that outfit from Asda? My ds (5) has it. Hope all is going well with work (I am back for the first time tomorrow - eek!)

That is v. sweet Kbaby.

Oooh good luck HD...

Went to a car boot sale and got lots of stuff for DD... supposedly... tho' I know she is still far too young for a Playmobil ambulance, bus and garage...I just wanted them, too much!

We had visitors so her feeding solids regime sort of went pear shaped... and then tonight she sicked up her carrots. I am thinking that she will be hungry in the middle of the night and it would be mean not to feed her. It's just going to be impossible to be consistent with this. Is that maybe one of the big parenting challenges, being consistent??

"Is that maybe one of the big parenting challenges, being consistent??"

Ooooooooooooh yes.

ohhhhh yes!! - and how hard it is!!
difficult to stick to feeding times (solids)
whenever i knew i was out i always take something mixed up with me. - and it's actually not that bad - there is always somewhere to sit down; or even in his pushchair. and luckily he is not a messy eater
but i realise it does help to stick to the times!

good luck HD!

had actually a quite good night.
went down right after dp left for work (9pm) and ds woke me once 3.30 (quick pat) and was awake at 5.30 - obviously didn't read about time change
but for once i took him to bed with me and we got another hour!
but somehow he is still tired; had his breakfast though and is now back in bed.
hope he'll settle into new time soon

so, how are all the working mums doing???
how is it being back to work?

We are so quiet... I presume the population's depleted by the workers? But where's old Egypt?

Susi, I reckon I'm going to have to start doing that... taking solid stuff out with me. Now that DD's firmly established on solids, milk just won't do for a meal.Unless I make like a herring gull (yeuch no) the wonderful days of body food are dwindling. We have a train journey to Leeds next Thurs. I can see the whole carriage being spattered with avocado. The main concern actually isn't her messiness feeding, but her sickiness afterwards. This reflux business is no joke when it comes to green and orange vegetables.

Hi everyone,

Libb- sorry about your gran

Kbaby-Adorable picture

Susi-Kiera's gro bags look ginormous on her! what size did you get? So can ds sit by himself, or is the high supportive enough that he doesn't need to? i'm still trying to convince dp that she'll be okay in one, and so far i'm loosing.

Okay so, Kiera is STILL not rolling but the other day i put her on her front, and she seemed to almost get up on her knees with her bum in the air!
We got our Bounty progress pack, and gave her some pear and apple puree from a jar, and she loved it. She won't eat apple or pear when i make it!
Our naps are still going increadibly well, which makes me feel extremly silly for worrying so much about them, and she didn't even seem to notice the time change phew

Take care everyone
xxxx

yes, very quiet

spots: in the beginning it seams really difficult. but after a short while you get used to it and it's really no big difference if you feed them home or out
sorry to hear about reflux. does she still have it really badly???

cats: good to see you again
ds' grobag is 100cm - almost fills whole cot
but he seams to be very comfy in it!
re highchair: nope, ds can't fully sit up yet. only about 5seconds unaided and then tumbles forwards and backwards like a drunk
you even could recline the highchair i've got. makes it easier for lo's still. and the harness holds them in place anyways
i just love to have him up on our height. and i don't have to bend down anymore. and he can see more too!

Prufock .. how's weaning going????

weighed DD today .. well she's 26 weeks old tomorrow (although her 6 month birthday isn't till thursday ) .. and she weighed 17 lb 4 oz

Twiglett how about your own weaning situation? did you continue?

Susi I don't know how bad is bad; I'd say no not bad because it's never stopped her being a good weight but it is messy! It's supposed to get better as their stomach muscles strengthen towards sitting but there's no evidence of that in this one.

Feeling virtuous... I wrote 2028 words today!! So I'm allowing myself some mumsnet time.

I have also made a decision, ds2 is getting solids on Saturday. He's not 26 weeks until the following Tuesday, but we've got a nice clear unhurried weekend and I want dh to be around with a camera . (The following weekend is chocka with ds2's naming ceremony and a birthday party of one of ds1's friends so not a great time to start on solids).

Well he wasn't sure about it at first. We've done pear, carrot and now apple, and he gags, and blows whenever I put food in his mouth. BUt today I got lots of apple mixed with rice down him. Sweet potato tomorrow! He also really likes chewing rice cakes.

libb - I'm so sorry to hear about your gran. Mine died in June after a few years of Lewi-Body disease (a cross between alzheimers and Parkinsons) and sometime I still get teary - today ds was playing with a teletubbies roundabout thing that she had bought for dd and I really wanted her to see it....

Back at work so managed to catch up on all your messages. Spots how've you been doing at night? DD fed three times last night despite having 15 oz of formula during the day plus morning/evening breast feeds and 3 meals. Feel like I ought to be putting a stop to this.

Libb sorry about your grandmother

Bozza, hello there. Hope work is OK (What sort of thing d'you do?) I really am being very softly softly at nights. You saw my 'method' on the other thread, but really I'm unwilling to subject DD to anything if there's a chance she's genuinely hungry so I really shouldn't be talking as if I do the same thing every night. I am seeing a real difference in her after solids, and that seems to get better the more she takes. So am giving her the benefit of the doubt. Three meals a day is still quite rare.

Well decided to leave the night thing for a bit and introduce teeth cleaning and a story after her bedtime breastfeed so that she gets used to not being fed in bed by me before she goes into her own bedroom which I'm planning for two weeks time when she is 6 months. Didn't want to try too many things at once.

She actually seems to be taking less at the night feeds and I've been just giving her one side and it hasn't made any difference to her (ie not waking more because of hunger) so I really think it is habit. Was twice last night (plus once to change DS's sheets). Also yesterday she had 15 oz of formula plus morning and evening breastfeeds and three meals.

I'm a computer analyst btw. Its fine - we're not too busy so no pressure. Although this evening is my first on call so I'll be trotting home with a laptop tonight.

I feel so broody

Good god Twigless You must be very maternal!
I'm still at the "i never, never, never want another baby. Ever" stage. I guess my puppy will be my second baby
Well it's finaly happened, i admitted defeat and went to the doc's who has decided i should be the proud owner of a particulary shiny packet of ad's. I feel a bit better about today tho (i already had a huge rant on my feeling low thread) Hopefully it won't be for long.

Kiera had a lovely giggly moment the other night, which we filmed and, if anyones interested, i will post. It was lovely

Anyway, hope veryone's doing okay!
Ta ta for now

xxxx

Good for you Cat (sorry haven't been following your feeling low thread) but I am a firm believer in the efficacy of ADs when needed ... hope you're feeling better soon

Lets hope they kick in soon Cat. And don't forget that Twigless is on her second baby and IMO and IME it is much less of a life-changing shock than the first. I had a moment of broodiness when my nephew was born but it wouldn't work. We would be poor for ever and I don't think DH could cope.

I feel broody again already too, and there was NO WAY I wanted another child EVER AGAIN after ds1 was born!!

However, I know that I personally wouldn't cope with a toddler + a newborn so definitely not having another one yet. Also, I'm not sure that practically a third child is a good idea in our family (financially, space wise, time wise, health wise... it would be an issue).

I tend to think that my broodiness is a way of mourning the fact that ds2 is already growing up so fast and that chances are that he is the last baby I'll have.