July 2010: Our babies are growing, they're grabbing their toys and soon they'll be throwing!

[stac14]

new thread ladies xx

Urgh, this servers me right for being lazy- I have a thing reserved at argos for gwen, I could have gone and collected it on Saturday, but I couldn't be bothered and now I have to go and do it in the rain. Blergh.

Looks like there's a common theme of none of us being thrilled about our bodies right now. Perhaps (as my dh keeps saying) we should give ourselves a break and remember we were the size of a house only 3.5-4 months ago!

Anyway, shocking night here (awaits trumping by chulita and mlic):

Couldn't sleep so stupidly mumsnetted til 12.30am. F awake from 1am til 3.30am wanting to come into our bed. Aurelia woke up with wind and then wanted a feed (v unusual) then both woke again at 6.30am (v early for F). So that's 3 hours in total.

Soooo looking forward to the day ahead.

H and D cups?! Mine are a C and thats at a push, one boob is bigger than the other so Im a B and C

I weighed myself yesterday, Ive lost just over a stone since giving birth, I put on 3 whilst pregnant...

Dylan woke up at all hours last night, I suppose my ONLY consolation is that he slept til 8:40am, I completely missed DP getting up, getting ready and leaving for work. I thought he was still in the bed!

I think Dylan's prob with sleeping is a combination of wind and wanting to be near me but at the same time wanting his own space, its a lose- lose situation really.

Mirfield isn't too far from me, CakeandRoses. Though it's a bit closer to Huddersfield and Bradford rather than Leeds.

M had her first spoonfuls of baby porridge from MIL and myself on Saturday, kkfairybrains. :) It went really well, she seemed to love it and it filled her up for an hour while she had her bath, which made a nice change from the normal manic cluster feeding every evening.

During the feeding M looked a little surprised initially and cried impatiently in between the first few mouthfuls, which as far as I can tell is because she's used to food being a continuous flow and she had to wait for the spoon! She soon got the hang of it though and was opening her mouth wide for the next spoonful and grinning at us. I was only expecting her to eat a tiny amount, but she ate everything I'd made up!

I'm going to stick with just baby porridge once per day for a bit at present, then maybe start to introduce fruits and vegetables in a few weeks. I'll probably just limit M to one meal per day at the moment, when she's at her hungriest, and keep her on milk for the rest of the time so she gets all the goodness from that.

Regarding weight, I have about a stone to lose here before I get back to pre pregnancy weight, and about another stone before I get to where I'd ideally like to be. I'm keeping my fingers crossed it falls off me once I stop BFing!

Considering I started a 34D and I'm currently in a 32J, a lot of the weight is probably in my breasts. I'm not entirely sure how my rib cage ended up smaller than when I started-!!

However I do have the unfortunate jelly belly problem that I am attempting to address with sit-ups...

morning all, how are you?

cakes i am on meds for my thyroid and they wont treat the pcos unless i'm growing a tache, mega spotty or trying to conceive. It also means i really struggle to loose weight but i just need to persevere

mlic quite right, i would let him do them lol

As i'm not bfing my boobs are like spaniels ears with a belly to match, hate it. Thank feck for good bras and control pants lol x

All, sorry to sound so evangelical but if you haven't already, I urge you to check out baby led weaning as it's just brilliant. We did it with F and never pureed or spoon-fed a thing.

Will definitely do the same again with A and it will be so much easier just sitting the pair of them down to the same/similar meals.

mlic bloody cheek! Cut all his cuffs off and tell him he's lucky it's not part of his anatomy !

We did go out in the end, mlic you're right, the thought of having hyperactive L running around was enough to get me out - plus I've got my lurvely new buggy to push :)

I second cake on the blw, we did it mostly with L apart from the time she decided she wanted to be fed but it was easy. Not good if you're starting early though, we started L at about 22 weeks.

and mlic I'd have been fuming too if dh dared complain about my ironing job - I get around it by not ironing a thing he wears uniform anyway so I daren't iron that, don't know where the creases should be and he'd end up with tramlines, lol!

stac hope you don't grow a tache, I used to work with a bearded lady and it was very off-putting!

I'm hoping to mix and match between spoonfed and BLW if I can. :) M has been pretty relaxed about what format she gets food in thus far, as long as there's plenty of it! As I've started her with (semi) solids relatively early though, it has to be pureed and spoon fed until the beginning of next year.

I did speak with the HV first and she's agreed with my judgement to start early, as M is not a small girl and I have been needing to feed her every hour and a half for 30-45 minutes from lunchtime onwards, until about 4-5pm when the feeding becomes one big cluster feed until bedtime. (And that's when she's NOT having a growth spurt.)

The baby porridge wins me an hour in the evening to bath and change her where she's not squeaking in hunger. And occasionally I can even have a moment to eat my dinner, sat at the table, with both hands!

You've explained before about M's appetite spirael and I don't blame you for starting now at all. Your little girl seems to have a voracious appetite (which might explain the enviable sleeping habits!). S doesn't feed half as well as that so there's no rush for me to wean him :) (I was just agreeing with cake but wasn't intending it as a comment on what you're doing!)

Just to be clear, I didn't mean it as a critism either spirael. Apologies if it came across that way.

My friend had a big, hungry baby and started her on pureed solids at 5 months and then moved 100pc to blw at 7 months when I started blw with F (he's a month younger than her dd). She managed brilliantly with that.

Heh heh! so much clarifying to be done with online stuff eh!?!

mlic I'm so sorry you've had a crap day with W, did you manage to get out? Crying isn't quite as bad outside in the open air. Hope he settles for you and gives you a decent break.

i have a sleeping baby on me, don't dare move him or he'll wake up! have just been to sainsbury's and stocked up on 6-9 month clothes for him while there was 25% off. also bought some stuff for myself!

sympathies to those still stuck in cluster feeding hell. luckily j's feeds have spaced out somewhat recently which makes life so much easier, and he's not showing signs of being ready for weaning any time soon. he was 16 weeks yesterday so am expecting the 4 month sleep regression any time now!

Mlic for what my opinions worth i think it would be a good option for you. He's over the 4 months now so theres no reaaon not to really as i really think it would make life a lot easier for both you and him.of course it doesnt really matter what i think but thats my tuppence worth

You know what, mlic? I'm usually Little Ms Guidelines but I think I'd try some v bland/milky solids in W's case - albeit after the appt next week and as tsc says, if you don't have any family allergies etc.

It's madness for you and Mr Screamy to go on like this if there's a chance you could improve things by giving him solids

evening ladies sorry thread has moved so much have finally caught up!!
had an awful weekend, i.have.hit.rock.bottom!! dh and me ended up having a huge row and i seriously contemplated leaving in the middle of the night, he says he doesnt know what to do or say, i dont know why i feel like this, i feel guilty as i have a bloody easy ride with L compared to some of you on here yet i cant cope with feeling like utter shit! this isnt me im a happy person all the time! im ringing the doctor in the morning and got hv on wednesday! sorry for self indulgence! i dont know where else to vent i ended up walking around asda in a lonely daze balling my eyes out!
on subject of weaning i started L last week but he still doesnt get it, screwing his face up, but his sickness seems to be improving!