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starlover · 02/09/2005 21:37

thought i would do the honours!
was going to call it the exhausted and turning to alcohol feb mums thread
but thought i'd be a bit more upbeat! lol

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nik72 · 08/11/2005 14:34

Hi roosmum,
Our routine:
7am awake and into my bed for a snuggle if I'm not working.
7.30 breakfast
8.30 milk (6oz)
10.30 nap (1 - 1.5 hours)
Midday - lunch
2.30 milk (7oz)
3pm nap (1 hour ish)
5pm tea
6pm bath
7pm milk (7oz)
7.30 bed
What colour is your zapp btw?
How do we put photos on the member profiles, have quite a cute one?

roosmoo · 08/11/2005 14:42

thanks nik, that's exactly what i'm after!
for one thing, think we bath him too late (7-7.30ish, then straight down for milk & either play til 9ish, or - not usually tho - bed). other timings abt the same tho. he has dinner at 5ish, but often sits at the table with us when we have our dinner, maybe an hour or so later, & sometimes eats a bit more then (ate chilli tofu the other night, to my )

zapp is steel. love the footmuff, it looks so cosy. like an adult sleeping bag?? bigger than i expected, which is good - can't see the one on our mothercare 3wheeler lasting the distance sizewise.

photos?? dunno...starlover???
(i have a cracking photo of roo that i'd love to show off, but am nervous abt putting him on here, tho he does have a website of photos from when he was reeeeally tiny)

pjsmum · 08/11/2005 15:43

Hi all, some of the descriptions are really similar. Here's Polly's- huge blue eyes, lots of dark brown curly hair. Gorgeous beyond belief! Loves eating, drinking milk, her train, chasing the cats, getting hold of things she shouldn't have, singing, having a bath. Dislikes going to sleep, getting woken up if she is asleep, having things taken off her, being put in her pram or carseat, being ignored. She is a cheeky liitle girl who has her mum and dad (dad particularly) wrapped round her little finger
Roosmum, this is our routine at the moment
6am onwards wake and breakfast(weetabix &banana)
Play and then sleep
9am bottle(maybe sleep if at home)
12.30 lunch
2.30 bottle
5pm dinner
6.30 bottle
7pm bath and then straight to bed
Polly is usually asleep by 7.30. Hope that helps

Hazellnut · 08/11/2005 16:35

More lovely descriptions - would love to see photos... here's how - if you go into members profiles and start a message you then get an 'add picture come up' or that might be once you've posted it..... Perhaps I should start ball rolling and then I can tell you properly in case SL can't get on tonight...... bear with me...

As for routine - ours is a bit patchy but this is how it would go on a perfect day !

6.30 - 8: wake up

Bottle in bed with me

8.30 - 9: breakfast

sleep about 2 hours after waking up for 45 mins to hour

11-11.30: drink and snack

1: lunch

sleep 1-1.5 hours

3.30: sniffs at bottle

5-5.30: dinner

6.45/7: bath, bottle then bed

Sometimes sleeps all the way through, sometimes wakes up and needs settling, occasionly needs milk (which is always a shock as she never wants it during the day !) usually when not had much tea or milk on going to bed.

Oh dear, DD cruising round table, just decided to attempt the corner, almost made it but fell on ar$e !! Typically off \the spongey tiles/play mat we've just bought and on to wooden floor but she's getting v. good at holding her head up so it doesn't bang !!

Meant to tell you that at our music group yesterday dd got told she had an attitude !! I THINK she was only joking but dh was most upset when I told him. She's going through a bit of a phase where if you try and make her do something she doesn't want to do - like sit down - she goes off on one ...at least I hope its a phase.......

Right will be back in a mo with proper instruction son the photo thing but you must all promise to post yours if I post mine !!

Hazellnut · 08/11/2005 17:06

Right, now I've finally managed it .... here's how. Its quite simple if you're not a muppet like me ! Its not the best photo but it'll do.... Might change it in a bit for her in pumpkin baby grow and hat !!!!

Open a new conversation, and it will say click here to load a photo. Photo needs to be less than 100 K - you then upload it and click on 'send photo' or something similar and that is it !

Hope you make less of a hash of it than me !

Hazellnut · 08/11/2005 18:06

oh yes meant to ask Zapp owners - DH spent ages at the weekend trying to put the footmuff on and gave up saying it was so fiddly.... Is it ? Or is he just being useless ??

nik72 · 08/11/2005 19:06

Hurrah, managed to get a photo on. Pretty crap quality I'm afraid, over compressed it I think.

Dh did the zapp foot muff thing here, didn't hear too much swearing but he is the gadget-meister...

MIL due in half an hour & dh has gone off to a meeting till late and is working late tomorrow evening. Great. Any ideas for MIL entertaing? Might go to an Ancient Egypt exhibition on thursday if it's not bucketing rain.

Hazellnut · 08/11/2005 19:15

where are you Nik - not sure I know ? can't you just get her to watch dd whilst YOU go out and enjoy yourself .

Tipex · 08/11/2005 19:57

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roosmoo · 08/11/2005 20:07

thanks mummies for putting up baby routines...am really going to try & get something like this going with roo (shhhh, he went to bed tonight at 7.30!!! unheard of...dunno if he'll stay there).
BUT, how do you manage when you go out to baby groups etc?? do you just always have to be home for naps etc, or do you use a buggy for out&about naps. see, i've just let roo sleep/feed/eat etc whenever he fancies but now he's a bit older think some routine would help (esp since i have to do some work in the new year!).

photos are lovely, but i'm still shy/nervous abt putting roo on. could maybe do as tipex suggests...

Hazellnut · 08/11/2005 20:37

Have been wondering about this myself Roosmoo - most of our morning activities aren't long so can fit round naps but on friday I am venturing to my first ever mother and toddler group (yikes) and it will mean dd will have to miss her mid morning nap. This is fine as long as she just carries on which she may do as she will be with other babies so in party mood and then I will just put her down when we get back ..... TBH our sleep routine has only really become one in the last few weeks which no doubt means it will change soon !!

pjsmum · 08/11/2005 21:57

Oh the pics are lovely. can you take them off too if you can id put dd up. DD hates sleeping in the day and cries when tired before sleep takesover, which she fights til she's exhausted herself. a pain when out and about. When at home i puther in her cot and she does go off alot easier then. Our routine is mainly based on her food. If we are home then she's in her cot if out then she generally forces herself to stay awake. She is sooo nosey. She goes to nursery on a friday and doesn't sleep at all. Utterly exhausted when i pick her up. Never plan anything on a saturday cos she's usually cathing up on her sleep!!

Hazellnut · 09/11/2005 08:27

PJsmum - I dont' think you can take photos off but you can change them to something different - take a look at mine now !

Although I think Popsycal from teh March board is going to tell Angeliz all about a way of us putting pictures somewhere that only us lot will be able to get into.........

pjsmum · 09/11/2005 08:47

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pjsmum · 09/11/2005 08:59

How do you make picture smaller 100K or less?

Hazellnut · 09/11/2005 11:37

You need a programme to do it - I had one with my digital camera which I use but I think there are free ones you can download but (as I have proved) I am not very technologically minded so maybve someone else might knwo ?!

futurity · 09/11/2005 13:50

I missed all this photo business..how do I join in?

gossifer · 09/11/2005 14:10

can't seem to make my picture small enough, have new sophisticated camera thats 8 miilion mega pixels and v.large pictures.......

nik72 · 09/11/2005 15:44

I used adobe photoshop & saved the photo as a jpeg file which is much smaller.

Hazellnut · 09/11/2005 16:49

dd is back futurity !!

Would love to see the other babies if you can work out how to resize..... sorry can't be more helpful !

roosmoo · 11/11/2005 15:40

hello mummies...

wondering where SL is? computer problems maybe?

am fairly sure roo now says 'drink' - well something like it,ie 'dink'. possible? or am i reading too much into something that sounds like a word??

still no great sleep here, how are you going tipex?? (sooo glad i'm not the only one with a non-sleeper, at the lot of you!)
but maybe getting somewhere with routine, now down to approx 4 bf per day, plus one after bed - as long as before midnightish, which is def. time for last orders chez roosmum! also getting him off to bed a lot earlier these days, sigh of relief!!

nik72 · 11/11/2005 16:00

Sounds like a proper word to me, roosmoo !

MIL gone now, poor woman had a bit of a crap stay tbh. DH was working most of the time, I was in the process of developing a stinking cold, dd still has diarrhoea and was pretty clingy & miserable. She also seemed to take an instant dislike to MIL (must be getting into the wary of strangers phase) and cried every time she went near her....Oh dear!

Hope her tummy settles soon, this has been going on more than a week now. A lot of the babies at her nursery are down with it apparently.

Tipex · 11/11/2005 18:18

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roosmoo · 11/11/2005 18:24

tipex - i've given up feeds post 12pm (last feed seems to be about 10.30-11pm), then np feeds til 5ish. he wakes for this pretty much on cue, dh goes & gets roo, he feeds, puts his head on my pillow & all 3 snooze til 7ish - at which point he insists we all get up (he bites, licks faces, laughs, climbs on us - despite grobag, etc.). he wakes in the small hours but dh settles him, as milk is banned. it's sort of working atm, it proves at least the he doesn't need a feed...

Tipex · 11/11/2005 18:37

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