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

[GeorginaA]

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Oh another thing that I tend to tell people, which makes sense to me, is that I'd like another baby but don't think I really want another child, if that makes sense?

I really feel I missed out on this smiley, dependant, cuddly stage with ds1 because a) I think I did have mild PND in retrospect, b) I was constantly waiting for the next stage & the next milestone and c) the transition from being childless to mother really was a big shock to me. I don't remember an awful lot of what ds1 was like as a baby and he's only 3 now, ffs!

I'm enjoying DD a lot more than I did DS (though I enjoyed him too) for exactly the reasons Georgina states

no way I would go for less than a 3 year gap either

and I know I really want another baby but will have to think about whether I want another child .. hmmm

hello,
im on a late shift today. i have to cover the call centre.
i currently have dd on my lap, she is tired but will not sleep. mil keeps taking her out in her pram, about 3 times a day and i think shes getting used to sleeping while being pushed in her pram. dd sat up yesterday for 1 min unaided
i also met up with some mums from aquanatal and all the lo's were lying on the floor. dd turns over on to her belly leans over to one of the babies and pulls its dummy out of his mouth and puts it into hers. things with mil are going ok. she says shes doing what ive told her to. theres just little things that bother me ie the pram thing, giving her the dummy all the time even though dd doesnt need it and also she baby talks a lot. She calls sleep 'peep' and says to dd you going to peep. i know los like using words they can say ie dum dums for dummy etc but where did she get peep from.
oh well rant over. hope everyone has a good day.
HD hope your first week is going ok.

oh and were still waking in the night. feed 7,1.30 and 5.30

Cat, agree AD's just sometimes got to be the thing. Hope you feel some change soon.

I sometimes think it would be nice to have two very close together! Having a sibling playmate must just be the greatest gift ever. Not exactly planning to do anything about it yet though.

I'm with Georgina and Twiglett - I would love to have another baby, and I actually quite want another child as well, but there's just no way I could go through another pregnancy, physically or emotionally, and I don't think dh could cope with another 9 months of pregnant me.

Hi everyone

I hope i didn't offend anyone, when i said about people wanting another baby! it really wasn't a critism of you, but of me and my total lack of maternal instinct!
Thanks everyone for the ad support, it's appreciated.

So, after our blender blow up, i have no way of home making anything apart from banana. Apparently if they eat to much of the same thing at this age, they can develop an allergy to it. Anyone know if that's true?
So, she has baby porridge, or organic apple, bannana and orange cereal for breakfast and half a jar (bad mummy, bad!) from our progress pack at lunch. As well as her normal 210mls bottles. What are other people feeding their lo's? Sometimes i think i'm overfeeding, sometimes under, i can't decide!
When we get our replacemet blender, we can finaly start to use our shiny "bloomin marvellous" ice cube trays- which arrived on our door step the same day the blender blew up!!

Take care all!
xxxx

Cat - would she be able to manage mashed up pear?

DD so far has had carrot, swede, butternut squash, apple, pear, prune, baby rice, porridge, rice cakes. Have ordered avacado, banana and caulifower to come tonight.

Noooooo I wasn't offended! Just pointing out that it wasn't lack of maternality (is that a word?!) I felt exactly the same after ds1!

yesterday DD had half an avocado and a banana all mashed up at around 4.30 .. and she had carrot and sweet potato (2 ice cubes of each) at breakfast

we've only been doing this a couple of weeks so far she's had .. banana, carrot, sweet potato, avocado, plum, apple, butternut squash and baby rice (all home made) .. In Organix jars she's had the baby rice and banana, mixed summer fruits and a spinach, potato and cheese (she didn't like that one)

I'm a firm believer in jars

She's had quite a lot then considering twiglett.

Can I just give you all a word of caution. Be sparing with the prunes.... especially if your child is in a nursery where they send home after a certain number of loose movements.

she has, hasn't she?

I'm taking them at their word that you can do it quicker at 6 months

last night she went to sleep at 6pm .. grumbled at 4am then went back to sleep till 5.20 .. when she fed then puked it all up all over me .. so I put her back in her cot, went into the spare bed and she woke up again at 7.40 .... WOW

smelly smelly poos though .. I forgot about them

I'm becoming a very firm believer in jars also Twiglett

Bozza- She hates pear except when it is a blimmin' jar! why?! why?! why?!

So far kiera has had- (homemade) carrot, apple (she didn't like that) pear (or that) sweet potato (undecided) banana (sucess!) and avacado (truly hated that)
(jars and packets) baby rice (hates with a passion) Vegetable casserole (and that!) pear and peach, pear and apple, Rice pudding, organic strawberry and apricot breakfast, organic banana, orange and apple breakfast and baby porridge)

I'm guessing she's going to LOVE junk food

You could try mixing the fruit and veg (obviously when your avec blender once more).

Hi everyone,

Cat82, my dd1 was weaned on jars as when it was time to wean her I was back at work full time and didn't have the time to make my own baby food. She's grown up just fine.

this time around I was saying I'm going to do my own food since I'm off work for longer, sorry to say dd2 is now on jars. I did try to do my own food but all she would eat was blooming apple. The Hv said it was fine to just give her apple if that was all she would eat then in a few weeks try her with something else, didn't mention allergies. But I decided to buy jars after lots of refusals to the things which I had painstakingly made for her. She loves jars of Carrot and Sweetcorn, Potato,Parsnip and cauliflower, there was another carrot and something, I forget what, that she likes. She also likes the summer fruits, banana and pear?, yesterday she had peach dessert and today it was apple and blueberry. All going down a treat. The one that she didn't like was the Spinach, potato and cheese. For breakfast I give her babyrice mixed with some of whatever fruit jar is in the fridge so tomorrow it will be the apple and blueberry one.

I agree Twiglett the dirty nappies are so smelly and we seem to be getting dirty nappies after every single feed, aagghh!

Dd2's sleep pattern has gone a little wonky. She went to bed one night last week at 6.15pm and slept right through to 6.30am that was good. But she has had the odd night of waking at 3am. This morning she got up at 5.30am I thought she was just cold as it was a little chilly but no she wouldn't settle without getting her bottle.

Dd2 still loves to roll over but not as much as I thought she would. She doesn't roll over every day. Probably because once she's rolled onto her tummy she wants to keep moving but hasn't figured out how to crawl yet, obviously as she's too young, but she tries to swivvel round on her tummy and that doesn't work so she gets cross. I put her to bed tonight and after a little while she started crying and seemed as if something was realy bothering her so I went to check on her and she'd managed to roll onto her tummy and then move sideways so she was wedged across the cot and couldn't move, lol poor baby I really shouldn't laugh.

I got my new glasses today, dd1 had her eye test and the optition said that her eye sight is perfect. I think she was a little sad that she wasn't getting glasses. You should have seen the card he got her to read. It has these tiny little dots on it and he asked her what letters they were and she could read them! Honestly he showed me the card and they looked like a full stops. He said that she might go short sighted when she's older, which is what I am, but thankfully she's not got eyes like Dh, one of his eyes is really bad, practically blind in it.

Going to the big bonfire and firework display in town tomorrow night, we go every year. This will obviously be dd2's first one. Is anyone else going to a display or getting fireworks of your own?

hello everyone!
what did i miss?
spots: hope lo is getting with being sick
georgina: well done on your 2028 words

seems that everyone is on solids now!
so far ds had potato, sw.pot, suede, but.squash, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, courgette, apple, pear, mango, avocado, peach, melon, banana - all self made. - from organix they do a real good fruit puree (4 pots each). i mostly mix it with rusk to give it more texture.
jarwise i decided not to bother with make meat myself; give a few spoonfull something meaty of a jar and mix it with homemade veggies (love hipp most! - tastes the best )
we are already on 2nd stage jars though
also tried some cereals but try not to give it too often. just for variety (too much sugar)
we are not pureeing anymore - everything gets mashed up now. ds is getting on really well
he is not a fussy eater though - he would eat everything
ohhh, and he just lovesssss his joghurts! (atm danone baby ones - but soon i switch to fatfree "normal" one and just mix it with fruits)
we also tried some fingerfood: breadsticks, bits of toast, cucumber - still needs some practice

ds gets 3 meals a day now
breaky: semolina with fruits
lunch: meat/veggies + fruits + joghurt
dinner: meat/veggies + fruits/rusk + joghurt
and about 26oz formula in total

he struggled quite alot with time change! fist night he went to bed an hour "earlier" and woke of course up earlier grmpf
next evening when i was feeding his solids at 5ish he actually fell asleep on my
in his highchair!!! (really cute)

still no change on "rolling over" - only onto tummy but no sign of rolling back onto his back!
so still calling mummy for help
and preferably at 3 in the morning!!!

today we've been to babymeeting. was quite nice for a change. but only because 3 of us went for a drink afterwards where we fed our kids. and well, took us about an hour
monday i might start with babysigning!
and i'll be looking into babyswimming now!

re bedtimestories: what books do you read to your lo's???

omg, broody
how can you think of having another one already???

cat: hope things work out for you
and foodwise: you don't need blender for banana, avocado, potato - that should do until blender arives - and again: organix does do fabulous fruit purees!
oh, and when she refuses apple/pear try either mix those 2 together or add a little bit of cinnemon

pheww, i shouldn't stay away for so long.
takes ages to catch up again

Well done on 2028 words?!!! I'm on 8000+ words now I'll have you know

phew...pant pant pant,

hellooooo! our pc died on us last week and have had to suffer without you all. it was awful! withdrawal symptoms were seriously setting in.!

anyway, havent read your messages fully as its cold out here in dad's outhouse! but hope all's well. what's happening with meetups?

dd went 3 nights with only waking once after her 10/11pm feed. then it all went pear shaped when we arrived at mum's last night. here for the w/e for a fireworks bash.

weaning going well. have so far tried brocolli (the fave) sweet potato, butternut squash, pear, apple, (pull a funny face) pawpaw, carrot, swede, and naughtily some banana until my sister told me off. 2 meals a day, but i think she is almost ready for 3. eats loads.

sorry about your grandma libb.

xxxxxmissed u allxxxxxx [happy]

what's wrong with banana Libb? its a wonderful and convenient baby food

oops meant Egypt of course

sorrry Libb

Nothing worng with banana now egypt - it's just quite a solid food so can cause constipation in v. young babies.

Cat - until you get your blender try steaming veg/fruit until v. soft and then pushing through a sieve. You might find that dd prefers this texture anyway.

Ds has had. Apple (yum,yum) Pear (yum), sweet potato (mmm)parsnip (yuck) and courgette (yuck, yuck)

My computer has died too! I am at work so can't stop . . . glad you are all well xxx

The only problem with banana is cleaning it off clothes once it's dried and squished in... shudders

Starting weaning tomorrow, I'm so excited! 4 days off 26 weeks, but sod it... want to start at a weekend so that dh can take lots of pictures

weird ... she's now starting to turn her nose up at food .. and she's developed this lovely trick of banging her arms up and down as soon as the spoon goes near her .. inevitably leading to mushed carrot flying through the air .. what fun