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

[stac14]

new thread ladies xx

stac could you add veg or fruit to the rice? how is she with pear? i mixed brocolli and pear yesterday and he liked it then today he ate brocolli?! or what about adding a bit of formula to it to water it down a bit so its not so thick?

great news mlic x

OWWWWWWWWW! Dylan keeps half heartedly going to suck my nipple but getting a bit of my boob instead but still fully sucks it into his mouth- VERY painful.

I bumped into an old friend today in town and spent the entire day with her. Shes at uni and couldnt have a more different life to me!

Intriguing tsc do find out and let us know.

thanks ladies, maybe i havent thinned it enough. As she didnt seem fussed with the taste, can you use formula for thinning veg?

thats great thanks mlic at least i can try that tomorrow

Nosiness getting the better of me tsc lol

mlic fab news!!! Really pleased for you!

tsc I can't believe he NEEDS to feed ALL evening so I reckon you could try getting tough with Frankie re bedtime. Pick a time - not too early, say 10pm, and try to settle him with shush and pat. If you manage to get him down then gradually bring it earlier. That's the 'method' we used with felix and it took a few weeks to get him down from midnight to 7.30.

Or throw everything in your arsenal at him at the time babies are often ready for sleep (6-7pm). So cluster feed late afternoon, then bath, massage, bf, shush, pat, white noise. And just keep at it until someone breaks!

Sounds like things are better with clara tho?

Is xmas day going to be his first meal then? :-)

Intrigued about fb pic - will have a look when I get on mac shortly

Re kate m - surely she can't be - what would they do about wedding date?

Morning all. That's interesting about the handedness, thank you! I won't rush off and buy any left handed scissors just yet, then.

I seem to be having the opposite problem to most here with food. I can't actually shovel the food into M fast enough. I was going to go slower with introducing meals, but she's now wolfing down three meals per day and still wanting a lot of BFing!!

The other evening she fed on me for 30 mins, then had not one but two bowls of baby porridge, then fed on me for 30 minutes again! The books I have say that she's not likely to eat more than one or two spoonfuls at present.

Can anyone offer any advice? Should I be worried about this and try to limit her intake, or just let her eat as much as she wants? She's dead on the 50% for weight and 75% for height.

DH is a stick insect with a seemingly fast metabolism who can pack away all kinds of food and not gain weight from it... Should I just assume she's taking after him??

Mlic sorry that the appointment was such a let down. Just whem things were starting to look up. What a ridiculous thing to just decide on a whim. What veg has he started to take? hows the new bottle going?
Stac did you try the veg? i startef ellie on rice 2 days ago and she doesnt like it at all!! but as tsc days its horrible stuff so cooked some sweet potato last night to try her with today. She's at the child minders so hopefully it goes ok.
Memphis i was reading your post yesterday about the squealing and literally just as i was reading it ellie started squealing and hasn't stopped since! she's bunged up with the cold so was awake a few times last night and she thought it would be great fun to start squealing and ooowwwing at half 2 and half 4!

Prince Wills and Kate are having their wedding next spring/summer, I have a feeling theirs will out-do mine

mlic go with your instincts. its a positive thing that he has been better today
spirael last week L wouldnt eat, this week he has a pot of porridge and then a pot of pear mixed with rice then 10 mins later wants a bottle!! last night i got brocolli out he ate that cried for more, i hadny froze the sweet porato so he had a pot of that then ate pear after! when my hand gets near he grabs it and pulls it in, he doesnt realise the food is on the spoon not on my hand!!
kk maybe ellie was reading the post and thought ooh i can do that too! this morning i propped him on bedwhile i watched the news i must have closed my eyes for 2 mins i heard him squeal then i looked at him and he grinned so the cheeky bugger knows what hes doing!!
advice needed again please, my little sis has had tonsilitis, went back to school today only been on medicine since monday, should i risk L going to their house tomorrow while im at work? im in 2 minds i dont want him to get ill!

i dont think you can catch tonsilitus memphis i get it a lot but the kids and dp dont. X

Really dont have a clue about that memphis. Maybe just to be safe dont send him. Or else just make sure ur little sis doesnt really hold him or anything until she's better as i dont think its an airborne thing.
Mlic thats really good that he's better today. I grt the feeling that you think its best to do what your doing by weaning and tgen to change to normal milk and tbh i think that your right. And then if thats really not working then maybe talk to cons again. You know him best and if thats what you feel is right then go for it

mlic S was like that yesterday, woke at 7 and wouldn't go for a nap, we had to go out and he didn't sleep til gone 11...for 15 mins. Argh! today I'm fighting back cos we're waiting in today so he's been going down after 90 mins awake whether he likes it or not. So far he's given me 2 decent naps, hooray!

memphis I wouldn't risk it with tonsilitis just cos I'm a bit paranoid about my children getting sick and ruining their already crappy sleep 'schedules' but it's entirely up to you. He most likely wouldn't catch it.

dh your wedding will be fab and most likely not the ponciest wedding in all of Albion (unless you're hiding your millions from us) so I wouldn't worry!

soz memphis i didnt think it was contageous as i have never passed it on although if you have a chest infection flu or cold i would have thought you'd get that, must watch next time i get it

cheers for advice everyone menyioned it to hv and she said if i think she will insist on holding/kissing him which she will as she is a kid not to risk it, didnt want to but wanted other mums perspective to make sure it wasnt just my paranoid anxiety taking hold!
dh just think your service will be short and sweet with the people you love there, not 3 hours and everyone there who you dont know!!

hullo from prague, am having a lovely time although trying to take him out for dinner wasn't terribly successful!