July 2010 - The gang's all here, we're now getting started on our baby's first year.

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Starting our first post-natal thread since we are all over to the other side

some of your babies seem to sleep so much! our routine varies, but he tends to wake up between 8 and 9am. if we're not doing anything he will have a play for half an hour and then fall back to sleep till 11 or 12. however if we're going out, like we were today, he will be a bit grumpy at whatever activity it is, and will get fed at 10.30ish. then home and another feed. often he will finally have a sleep from about 3pm-5pm. i don't like to let him sleep past 6pm so often end up waking him. then he feeds on and off all evening. he never goes to sleep until 1am. he wakes up at about 5am for a feed.

i've missed out some feeds - it's about every 1.5 hours when he's awake, or every 3 hours if he's in the sling or whatever.

he's breastfed and he's 10 weeks old.

Chulita, just read out your dinner to dh and he made a noise normally reserved for special occasions. Lol. He's not nearly so excited about my beef stew and dumplings anymore!

Woodlands, your routine seems similar to ours. Gwen feeds about 1.5 hours when she's awake, although she does sleep loads, for which I'm so grateful. When she does wake and cry it's always at very inconvenient times, like dinner time or in church.

evening ladies, had a manic day, went shopping with my mum after sitting with my nan with dementia, think ive got to go docs this week as she attacked me again, tried to break my hand...again, and done sonething to my elbow, social services wont do fuck all, my grandad is registered blind and they class that with a carer dropping in twice adequate care eventhough she wont let carers touch her, they wont put her in home even though all family want it but her husband as hes her next of kin, so annoying! so we went for retail therapy, mum got lyndons x mas presents, got home and he has screamed for over an hour, dh is away for the week after an hour i looking in his mouth and i may be wrong but it looks like a tooth is about to come through!! so calpol down and hes finally dropped off!! so stressed havent eaten since 8am!!! grrr sorry for self indulgence, home alone with no one to vent to, dont want to put it on dh when he calls as dont want him feeling guilty, going to go to bed with a wine and have a good cry tonight i reckon!

mlic fingers crossed the seat works tomorrow, your casserole sounds lovely shame about the dumplings, never put cheese in them before may do that next time.
lyndon has finally dozed off, hes playing with bottle rather than drinking it and chewing his dummy like crazy, hope it isnt teething and hes just irritable hes just never like this, and sods law im on my own and got to leave for work at 6.30 in the morning
dh how did jabs go? were they his 1st set? lyndons are wednesday!!

Aw memphis the poor little thing. Really hope you get your sleep!
Tsc and stac thats the thing they're sayin wait that long but every baby is different. Im really weary of doing it too soon but i can see that some bottles aren't 100% satisfying her. But then im thinking she could be going through a growth spurt. Tsc im going to do puree. Start off on baby rice and then do up fruit and veg puree myself and freeze them in ice cube trays. Gonna just go as long as possible though. Decisions decisions!!!
Needle you would really never guess you were pregnant!
i've never had a dumpling! what are they?? you all seem so adventurous in the kitchen! since i started slimming world im spending more time on things and doing a few different things but nothing as interesting as monkey bread or anything like that!

KK the thing is re weaning is that most early weaning foods are much less calorific than milk so it's a bit of a myth that they'll satisfy a bigger/hungry baby better. You also need to balance any possible gains of early weaning with the risks that tsc mentioned about allergies.

It's worth having a look into blw and then making your mind up (if you're not dead-set on purees). We did blw with ds and it was fab - so easy and convenient. He's a great eater now (he's nearly 2) - he eats a far wider range of foods than dh actually!

you do need to wait til around 6m with blw though as they need to be physically able to cope with it. tbh, ds didn't seriously start eating any great quantities until he was 8/9m old - he still had bf poo til then!

chulita i didn't realise our age gap is almost identical (ds 23m and dd 9 weeks here!) Our toddler's routines are pretty much the same too.

I'm really struggling to leave dd to cry whilst i sort ds out so i end up running around between them trying to please/console them both.

using a sling for dd helps a lot but on day 1 ds accidentally head butted her when she was in it and day 2 she pooed all over it and it's been in the wash since!

Goodnight all. Hope you sleep well and all ill babies are on the mend!

Lol, like I said- Stepford wife gone bad. I aim for a nigella crossed with bree from desperate housewives- esque air of domestic perfection, but mostly I end up eating whole cakes before dh gets a look in and swearing at my sewing machine, and sneaking disposable nappies into my shopping trolley on the grounds that I just don't have enough time to wash the terry ones.

I was lucky with gwen, I didn't really show until about 6 1/2 months, then I got really big really quickly! By the time she was born my wedding ring was almost cutting off my finger and I had to go up a shoe size! We were married 7 months ago and I haven't had time to stop for breath yet.

I've just had to cancel our Christmas holiday- we were supposed to be going away for a week to a big manor house in Wales with a big group of friends and their dogs and children, but the person we wanted to look after the tea house won't do it and dh won't leave the place unattended. I'm absolutely devastated and sooo sick of having to let people down because of dh's security paranoia. I hate letting people down, and I never had to do it before I met him. I love him, and I do understand, but it seems so unfair.

mlic it's two nights unfortunately, one this end cos we have to have the beds packed up for 8am tomorrow and one tomorrow night cos the movers won't deliver til the following day. DD's going to be a right pickle and she'll wake everytime Sam does - if last night's anything to go by that'll be every 2 hours then [mn really a sleepy face emoticon]

cake I thought I'd struggle to leave Sam to cry but although I did the first few times I've had to so often I just get on with it now. I don't like it at all but it's got to be done!

needle is there no hope of finding someone to housesit? there's still time and missing out on that sounds crap!

kkfairy how old is your LO? babies go through an absolutely mammoth growth spurt at around 12 weeks. If you're bfing that's the point you feel your milk's drying up cos no matter how much you feed them they want more [dreading it emoticon] but after a bit they settle back down again. Some last as long as 2 weeks but they do settle. If you can hold off on the weaning for a bit longer it's better, as cake says, milk has a lot more nutrients in it than baby rice or mashed veg which will stodge them up but not give them much good stuff iyswim.

memphis yeah they were his first even though hes 11.5 weeks old (cock up with changing docs due to moving flats)
He cried when they put the needle in but I fed him after and he was fine, sleepy in the day but bright as a button this morning!

Mlic, there's only one person he trusts- he's sooo paranoid. I'm more angry with the other guy for refusing to do it. We could have taken the dogs and everything.

Morning all, think my poor girls in for a cold. Also got her letter for yorkhill so i've to phone for an appointment regarding her reflux. Shes not being sick now but does bolk (sp?) a lot. Glad you gave kk the info re - weaning as I was thinking about it for rileigh due to her reflux and being hungry all the time. Think we'll persevere for a while longer.

Good news bout the change in milk mlic. You said you were putting w in a chair, is that the buggy bit?

cake what is blw and how does it work?

needles thats rotten bout hols, could you not get someone else to look after house or you and gwen go?

chulita is dd better? Just think by the weekend you'll be all moved into the new house and at zumba lol

Hows everyone else? Ds isnt well, not that ill that he cant play his ps3, kids eh? X

memphis meant to ask hows lyndon? X

i've decided being a mother-of-two isn't for me! what a bloody mare!

F still being sick although thankfully has fallen asleep on the sofa whilst watching Desperate Housewives (strangely appropriate at the mo). I never put the TV on in the day so he fought sleep for ages to make the most of it!

A is still mid-feeding-frenzy so I'm either mopping up F's vomit, bf A, or washing milk or sick covered clothes at the mo.

There's no end to the glamour in this house.

Oh and DH has literally just started a new job (same company but a promotion) so is really struggling to be home more to help out.

stac BLW is a poncetastic name for Baby Led Weaning, really it's just letting the baby feed his/herself with fingers foods from day 1 of weaning - that's why they need to be physically ready to do it. It saves having to do any pureeing/spoon-feeding and in theory produces less fussy eaters who don't have issues with textured food (like lumps). It's particularly good for 2nd (or more) children as you can just plonk them down to feed themselves when your other child/ren have meals.

Here's the 'official' website: www.babyledweaning.com/forum/

Lots of threads on MN too.

tsc can I (naughtily) ask you if you actually are annapinkbaskets or whatever she/you is called? (from another thread re public bf that i just saw)

Made me

well james and i both have colds, as does dh. i thought bfing was supposed to give him antibodies against bugs i catch? oh well, it's a very mild cold and j is just a bit snuffly and grumpy. am considering giving him calpol but don't think he really needs it. hope we all get better soon!

HELP! I need to buy a present for dh's 3 year old nephew. Going to hamleys, budget of about £25.
HELP I say!

or a variation depending on what he likes, they do construction/pets/cakes etc

Or Brio trains, they always seem to go down well, especially if you get the motorised one!

Sorry, meant to put 'moon sand' in the first link, rather than just that :)

Hey ladies my wee chunk is 14lb 6oz and 12wks tomorrow so chuffed with her. The hv was concerned she would struggle to gain weight due to reflux but think as her meds are working shes doing great. Also hv says she can go into her buggy so long as it can lay back. Very proud of her x