June 10 babies have arrived. Now we are all sleep deprived!

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Welcome to 'the other side' ladies. Long may we all continue to post!

ARRIVALS
27/04 (due 23/06) - SunshineDay - Faye - 3lbs 2oz
16/05 (due 02/06) - Meggymegmegs - James (Jimmy) David, 7lb 1oz
19/05 (due 01/06) - whenwillisleepagain - Alice Emily, 8lb 7oz
21/05 (due 21/06) - Gizmo - Hester Rose - 6lbs
23/05 (due 9/06) - greensnail, Alice Elizabeth, 7lb 2oz
24/05 (due 8/06) - Saucepanman, Gabriel, 8lb 4oz
24/05 (due 31/05) - minimoonumber2, Sebastian Robin
26/05 (due 24/06) - GibberingGinger James Alexander, 5lb 13oz, & Douglas John, 5lb 15oz
28/05 (due 30/05) - GoodName, Fergus, 8lb
28/05 (due 31/05) - mampam, Tilly May, 9lb 11oz
28/05 (due 4/06) - jo807bump - Hannah May, 5lb 7.5oz
04/06 (due 07/06) - perkster - Sidney James Perkins Berner, 7lb 11oz
05/06 (due 31/05) - dinosaurinmybelly - Zoe Leila - 6lb 9oz
07/06 (due 02/06 ) - AlwaysHopeful - George, 7lb 13oz
07/06 (due 07/06) - MrsC09 - Rufus Jack
08/06 (due 01/06) - PogueMahone - Magnus Gabriel, 8lb 14.5oz
08/06 (due 11/06) - woofie - Laurence Elliot (Laurie) - 7lb 11oz
08/06 (due 21/06) - sunworshipper - Romola Ann Bettina, 5lb 15oz
09/06 (due 08/06) - LittleRobbo - Summer Dawn
09/06 (due 09/06) - Boobz - Constance Ella Reed,
11/06 (due 02/06) - Justbeme - 'Nobody' (boy) - 8lb 9oz
12/06 (due 02/06) - roundabout1 - Lauren - 8lb 14oz
13/06 (due 18/06) - Virgo1979 - nameless boy! 7lb 9oz
14/06 (due 30/06) - monthlymayhem - Hayden, 7lb
14/06 (due 08/06) - MrsAlwaysRight - Alice Rose, 9lb 7oz
14/06 (due 15/06) - Millymollymoo - boy
15/06 (due 31/05) - RnB - Artemis, 7lb 9oz
15/06 (due 29/06) - playftseforme - Rory 6lb 4oz, and Fergus 6lb 8oz
16/06 (due 17/06) - Chestnut100 - Daisy Belle 6lb 14oz
17/06 (due 01/06) - Madamfreckle - Emma 6lb 6oz
17/06 (due 30/06) - MonkeyMargot - Atticus Fox 7lb 8oz and Rafferty Bear 7lb 14oz
17/06 )due 04/06) - Suzy1975 - Samuel 7lb 14oz
18/06 (due 23/06) - earlyonemorning - Edgar William 7lb 8oz
18/06 (due 13/06) - sobloodystupid - Stella 8lb 8oz
19/06 (due 22/06) - Gaelicsheep - Robin 6lb 14oz
22/06 (due 14/06) - Fillybuster - Mia Rae 9lb 3oz
24/06 (due 16/06) - Nizzynoodles - Samuel James 10lb 10.5oz
24/06 (due 17/06) - summerhols - Lilly
25/06 (due 17/06) - Barbeasty - Ruth Damaris Rose, 9lb
26/06 (due 16/06) - JoKettle - James Lennox, 8lb 7oz
26/06 (due 29/06) - MrsDmamee - Elyssa, 8lb 5oz
28/06 (due 26/06) - imkeepingmum - girl, 7lb 11oz
28/06 (due 12/06) - Georgee - Anna Rose, 7lb 15.5oz
28/06 (due 12/06) - Elena67 - boy, 9lb 5oz
29/06 (due 17/06) - bluesnowfalcon - Corey, 8lb 11.75oz
29/06 (due 18/06) - theperfectbaguette - Clementine Jemima, 6lb
29/06 (due 26/06) - RubyReins - Luke Douglas, 7lb 14oz
29/06 (due 25/06) - Ilovemyterrier - Jeppe Sebastian Fagerlund, 7lb 6.5oz
01/07 (due 30/06)- LaTrucha - Daniel Timothy, 8lb 11oz
3/7 (due 29/06) - CantSleepWontSleep - Jeremy Francis, 9lb 4oz

Sorry for your loss wwisa.

Just recording ds's weight here so that I have a record, as just weighed him at home. 9.6kg which is 21lb 3oz.

Sorry to hear your sad news wwisa

I'm sure your dad was very pleased to have had the chance to meet Alice.

WWISA such sad news. Hope you are all there for your each other this christmas.

cwsw wow - a big boy!
Our boys now weigh almost 17lbs each. Their growth has accelerated since starting solids.

Both boys have another chest infection and are on their second course of antiobiotics in 3 weeks. Also on steroids to help them breathe as Atticus in particular really struggling. The joys of having an older sibling in nursery bringing home every virus going.

It's our 8th wedding anniversary today - god I feel old.....

I was thinking the same - Jack still hadn't reached 6kg by his 6 month weigh in!
I do wonder at times whether I'm doing something wrong, but he's still feeding 6 times a day (but not at nights at the moment) for 15 minutes to an hour at a time - I can't see how to get more calories into him alongside the BLW!!

Yes all of mine have piled the weight on in the early months. I expect he'll slow down the growth once he starts weaning.

Wow! Big baby CSWS! George's weight actually dropped in the last month - only by 2oz, but enough to make me get very upset at his lack of interest in his bottle or in solid food. He had a bad cold for a week or so, which has passed now, so I'm hoping things will pick up again on the weaning now.

Anyone else's baby waking up in the night from the cold? DH and I are tucked up with a 13 tog duvet and poor George is in a 2.5 tog sleeping bag... it doesn't make any sense to me. He is in a long sleved vest and a babygrow with a fleecy blanket over the top, but he's still waking up around 4am. If I bring him in bed with me, he instantly goes back to sleep, but won't settle in his own cot, so I'm putting it down to the cold. His little hands and head are really cold, but his tummy and legs feel warm, so I don't know what to do.... don't want to cook him, but he does sleep better when he's warm - like now, all bundled up in his car seat!

Merry Christmas everyone, in case I don't get back online before Santa comes. Hope you all have a lovely time with your little ones and loved ones.

Hi everyone, I've not been on for what seems like ages, as we've been making an epic journey up to Shetland for christmas. We had delays, diversions, cancellations, lost luggage, damaged luggage and plenty more excitement along the way but we're finally here and reunited with all our beongings!

WWISA so sorry to hear your sad news, will be thinking of you and your mum over christmas.

Alwayshopeful Alice also loves to be toasty warm at night. She's currently wearing longsleeved vest, fleecy jammies, 2.5tog sleeping bag and is under a couple of blankets too. At some point in the night she usually ends up in our bed still in the sleeping bag and she's perfectly happy. It worries me enormously as DD1 was the complete opposite as a baby and once overheated and stopped breathing while sleeping in her coat in our unheated porch on a freezing day, but we get no sleep at all if Alice isn't all wrapped up.

Alice's growth has also accelerated since starting solids, and she weighed almost 16lb at her last weigh-in a couple of weeks ago (the same as our turkey )

She's loving her food and seems to be dropping milk feeds left right and centre which is slightly worrying as she's pretty rubbish at drinking water from a cup, so her nappies don't seem very wet at all at the moment. I'm sure she won't let herself get dehydrated though, I suppose I just have to trust that she knows what she's doing and keep pushing the cup practice.

Hope everyone has a great christmas. We have DD1's 2nd birthday tomorrow to get through before we can get excited about christmas. Last year we were so exhausted after her birthday party that the thought of christmas the next day was a bit too much! Hopefully I'll have a bit more energy this year as I'm not pregnant, and possibly none of our party guests will make it through the snow to get to us anyway!

Am really enjoying my first non-pregnant christmas since 2007 (I hope - have been feeling a bit queasy all week but am putting it down to wine and possibly a bit of a bug! Will think about that a bit more after christmas if it persists!)

Hi Greensnail - you said Alice has started dropping milk feeds since starting solids: is this what they should do? Tom has been having a couple of meals a day, picking away at toast, porridge, veg and bits of whatever we're having and he seems to be slowing down a bit on the milk too. The Book (!) says feed milk first then the solid food so I can't get my head round how he will 'know' to reduce - does the solid meal sort of carry over to affect the subsequent milk feed?? I seem to have spent so long trying to get weight on him and now I'm worried that he'll be getting too much or that he'll stick to milk for ever and never get to grips with solids (which he does love, btw)!
Sorry to go on a bit but any advice will be welcome.

Happy Christmas everyone - it's ever so different with a child about!

Hope your dd had a good birthday greensnail.

at Alice being the same weight as your turkey!

Merry Christmas everyone .

Happy Christmas ladies and June babies

Elena yes, eventually they should be dropping some milk feeds and replacing them with solids, but there's no rush for them to do this. Milk should remain the main part of their diet for the first year, at this stage its just about getting them used to food. So, as long as he's enjoying it that's the most important thing.

The Book does say to give milk before solids, but I've always just continued to feed milk on demand and offer food whenever we eat, so sometimes this means Alice gets food before milk but generally not. I think the theory behind it is that in the early days they don't understand that food can satisfy hunger so if they're hungry they won't feed themselves food, just sit there wanting milk. Once they get the hang of the fact that food is for hunger too then I think its fine to offer food first and then milk later if you're keen for him to reduce his milk intake and up the food. Or you may find he'll start to refuse milk or take less, knowing that there is still food to come afterwards.

Alice has never been too keen on milk and has always just seemed to take the bare minimum that she needs, so I suppose its no real surprise that she's cutting back quite quickly. We had 7 children here for christmas dinner and I think Alice took just about the most of any of them!

Hello all,

I'm going to try and get back in touch with this thread. We've had a rough time recently, so I've dropped off the end.

WWISA - I add my condolences. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I have just lost my own father too. He died at home from his pancreatic cancer on Novemeber 19th. I'm finding things very difficult right now (not helped one bit by V+D bugs going around here). I've lost two parents in exactly two years and life is feeling rootless and strange.

DD (now nearly three) was very upset by being away as I helped to care for Dad in his final weeks, and then even more upset by me going to his funeral alone with Daniel. We've had terrible sleeping issues. Daniel is now waking up a lot too, so exhaustion reigns in LaTrucha world.

Daniel is lovely though, and DD is delightful with him. She's hit the terrible threes (never really did the terrible twos) so she's not always delightful with me, but they do have to go through it so,,,,

Anyway, not a happy post, but I wanted to jump back in!

Introducing solid food looms....

Can anyone tell me why babies seem to put on weight pon the introduction of solid food when generally what they are givne in less calorific than milk? I have a super skinny DD, so it never made any difference to us, but I don't want to see DS's delightfully chubby legs disappearing. I love them too much! It doesn't make sense to me though that they wouldn't lose weight with the introduction of foods.

Hmmmm

My babies have all stopped piling the weight on once on solids LaT.

That makes sense to me, but many mums have told me the reverse and I don't get it.

I'm really sorry to hear of your dad latrucha- it must have been an incredibly tough few weeks for you.

Both of mine have piled on weight and started sleeping better after starting solids. But Laurie is certainly having as much milk as ever alongside his meals at the moment. In fact he's pretty much reverted to a milk-only diet during the last week, as he's got a horrid throat infection and an impetigo sore behind his ear... Started antibiotics today He's still smiling though- what a trooper.

Are you worried about Daniel's lovely chubby legs getting too chubby?! Not quite sure I understood... I hope solids might help you get a bit more sleep anyway.

I hope everyone enjoyed the first Christmas with their little one. Ours was ace despite all of the bugs.

Sorry LaT - I didn't mean to ignore your mention of your dad. Read that post when I didn't have chance to respond, and then just commented straight away on your second one.
Very sorry to hear about the loss of your father.

No problem CSWS.

Are you sleeping, BTW? We are NOT.

We absolutely are not. At all it seems. Lots of teething (though no actual teeth) and general misery at night.

So sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad LaT, and to hear about the effect its all had on your DD. Hope you get some more sleep soon. We're not sleeping here either.

DD1 continued piling on the weight when she started on solids (she's my chubby one). DD2 has always been skinny but is starting to look quite a lot chubbier since starting solids. Not making any difference to her sleep though. I think I felt a bit of tooth this evening , but she won't let me look so I can't be certain.

Oh, and about the legs - I am worried about them disappearing as I don't understand why they would put on weight when starting solids.

Teething here too. Bloody nightmare, all night.

Hope everyone had a lovely 1st christmas with their newest LO

LaTrucha & WWISA so sorry for the losses of your Fathers not easy any time of year but at christmas its tough.

Our 1st christmas abroad was very quiet and I felt very lonely even with 3dc's and Dh.
I think we all felt lost with no visitors and no family to visit and celebrate with.

Starting weaning Elyssa day after xmas on her 6 month/half birthday

1st few days she was a bit puzzled but the last 2 days she has been opening her mouth for the spoon. Which I was delighted about even had to call DH "look look she's opening her mouth"

I feel out of practice on this whole weaning thing and am also worried about the dropping a milk feed. So I think im just going to leave things the way they are until she is actually eating 2 meals a day. Not just spitting food back out and making a face at me

HAPPY 2011

Golly here comes 2011....can't be as exciting as 2010!
Sorry to hear about your Dad LaT - I don't know how I would cope, the thought brings me to tears.

I fear that having broken free of the 19 week sleep regression, we have come up against teething and learning to crawl now messing up J's sleep. Throughout Xmas we've had dribbles galore, to the point of cheeks red raw from his rubbing. We've had to administer calpol for the first time and gone through a pack of teething granules. Still no sign of teeth.
Last night DH went into him to find him on his front, in a crawl position. He's been rotating a while and goes backwards on a hard/slippy surface.
I'm hoping he will cope out of this when he's good and ready, but at the moment he's waking alomst every hour in the night. I just pop the dummy in and he goes back to sleep easy. (Daren't let him have his hands at the moment to self settle for fear of him ripping his face further to shreds!!!)

Happy new year all!

LaT so sorry to hear about your Dad. Very sad for your whole family. Lovely to have you back with us, though. Wouldn't worry about the loss of chubby legs - DD grew into a proper little pudding when she weaned onto solids.

Happy new year to everyone! I am struggling to type on DH's Christmas present - a new laptop where all the buttons appear to be in the wrong place!!!!

Major acheivement in our house today - George pulled himself up to standing in the bath! He's been trying it for about a week and finally cracked it today. Seems too soon for me to have to be worrying about him pulling furtinure over on himself, but I think the time may have come to grow eyes in the back of my head!

Happy new year everyone!