April 2004 Babies part 5... we're catching up fast!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Also had the foot thing but also the knees. I think it is something they should warn you about can you imagine how many gp's time gets wasted with people worried about it. I was ready to go to the gp until I saw a post about it on here.

chuffed - would love to have xmas in NZ. We went to Oz for xmas when dd1 was a baby. we are going to the New Forest for a week at xmas this year.

Yorkiegirl - I might be interested in the Leeds xmas meet up, I don't think Manchester is having one (actually the Manchester mumsnetters sound a bit scary I avoided last year's one and it did sound quite controversial )- Dot, would you be interested in going?

HMC - did you go to the doctor about your tingly feelings? I found that thread of yours last night while searching for advice on car seats, bizarrely. I would suspect your tingles, like other creaks and tingles we all seem to be experiencing, are to do with having had a baby recently. let's hope so.

Metrobaby - dd3 only has several short naps during the day, a couple of 20 min naps and sometimes a 40 min one. my others had a longer after lunch one at this age. but am not going to mess with her sleep patterns as she's so good at night.

HMC - yes the mess of dd3's self-feeding is awesome! Her eyebrows get quite crusty.

OMG
Thank you so much everyone I feel a lot better! I've been so worried and I was doubting every spoon I put in his mouth. Especially the meal before she arrived was when I decided to up his food. The only good bit of advice she gave me was saying that if I'd upped his food he probably wouldn't want his late bottle (10.30pm) and I could try cutting it out, which we did.
So now he's on 20oz of milk a day, which to be honest if he's happy on solids I don't mind but I think she's ridiculous. All baby advice is at least 1 pint of milk a day - which is 20oz. At least. And he's on the 91st percentile too bless him.
Metrobaby - ds has probably 20min at 9am, 40min between 11 and 1, then 20min at around 3 and another 20min at around 5.30pm. He's a good sleeper at night too though, goes 8pm - 7.30am, and if he wakes up he just plays for a while. If he misses a nap though he will be in a terrible mood for the next day or two.

dd a terrible napper, usually gets about an hour to 1.5hrs a day but sometimes they are in one lot, other times 2 or 3 small lots.
It seems to depend on what is going on, she doesn't like to miss anything during the day at all.

Oh lunavix... an extra PS. A friend of mine's baby was on the 95% line of the centile charts. When she weaned him he would eat whole icecube trays at a time. He didn't crawl/walk until later than all our babies because he was a little bit tubbier than the others. But you know what? He's three now and looks perfectly proportioned and slim!

Just enjoy your baby, sweetie - you'll miss those cute little thigh folds when they're older

I think mine's the only one without many folds at all.

GeorginaA - you've made me breathe a big sigh of relief - our ds1 has always been quite slim (positively skinny now) and never had those thigh folds - ds 2 has them in buckets! And we've not seen his neck in months..! I worry he'll always be on the fat side and as I am, I'd hate for him to grow up being/feeling all big and fat - so I'm glad he might have a chance at stretching out and losing a few folds as he gets bigger..!

Fennel - re: meet up - not sure!!! I'm a bit shy about these things - I'll have a look at when it is and who's going..!

Dot - didn't you put your name down for the Manchester one last xmas? (I was lurking on that thread).

dd1 and also d niece were both total porkers at 6 months, now dd1, age 4, is quite slim and d niece, age 2, is getting slim quite fast. Fatness now really bears little relation to future body shape.

yorkiegirl, if you're around, what would you do with a 3yo in Leeds for a couple of hours? Dp is going tomorrow (to a windsurf shop) and wants to think of something nice for dd2 to do after.

I was going to, but then pulled out! I like the idea of going to things like that, but actually find them quite terrifying -which usually means I have too much to drink..!

I have a confession....

OOOH what I'm dying to know

WHAT??!!!!!

are you expecting no. 2?

Chuffed - that's what I'm guessing aswell!!! Can't work out when it'd be due - but can you imagine, our April Baby thread having a baby - aarrgghh!!!

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I'm jealous if that's what it is.

awww - Chuffed - it'll happen for you! All fingers crossed here for tons of April Baby babies..!! Then I'll be hugely jealous..!! Mentioned the possibility of no. 3 to dp the other day and she nearly fainted - it was a definite NO!!!!

Gosh no not yet.
I feel terribly guilty... I took today off work and kept dd out of nursery because I couldn't bear to let her go
She is obviously developing a cold. She smiled at me this morning through weepy red eyes and bright red cheeks. I couldn't bear to let her go. I started crying too.
She is sleeping now.
I have been so good for six weeks now, why am I having this trouble now?
And I WANT ANOTHER BABY!!!

come on then what is it ??

sorry typed over you Mrs D
bless you . not sure on that one
although have felt closer to ds in the last month than before
motherly instinct type thing ??

I'm finding it really hard as well. I think at first it is hard but a little bit of a novelty to have time out but now it is just getting really difficult and I don't feel as though I'm getting enough time with her.
[hugs] to you both...just consider it a mental health day!

Thank you Chuffed and dolbear!

(((hugs))) to you Mrs D and Chuffed too. it does sound hard.
having a 2nd baby doesn't get rid of the guilt though. you will then be able to feel guilty you don't love the first as much anymore. or that you don't love the second as much. or that you don't have time for either of them!

I had to laugh at everyone's first thought though