July 2010:Our actions get dafter, all for the reward of giggles and laughter!

[kkfairybrains]

new thread! thanks once again to spireal for the name!

memphis!

No, 28oz isn't bad vik. I think he should be having between 30 and 35oz so he's not far off. What is D averaging in a 24hr period?

And no cake, I think it's him who needed the sleep! Or whatever it is that's happened that's making him smile more and just be generally less miserable! He literally used to moan/cry/scream all day, then it became moan/cry all day, then moan all day with the odd cry. Now he is just a normal baby, with normal upset episodes but content(ish) the rest of the time. It's like he's become happier in his own skin or something

sounds like you and W have turned a corner mliff so happy for you

viks that is normal for weaning as they only know how to suck something to do with the tongue reflex.

dh i like your hair. R was weaned at 17wks due to her reflux

Just back from last minute shoping now have to start wrapping.

mlic thats brilliant about W, it looks set to be a very merry xmas in the mlic house!!
stac have you done any wrapping? i have 2 to wrap and im done, dh is off now til the 4th so im confident i will get my puds done and my house ready for santa as he can occupy L

mylife He is averaging about 33oz which is fine i think.
memphis Glad ur chilled out now.....forgive me but what happened to ur Dads hand?? glad u got ur money back, did the cow say for what reason she didnt like u??
Right im off to bed without dream feeding, whats the point if hes going to wake up for a feed anyway???
Hope we all have a Good night xx

Aw mlic that really warmed my heart to read that! good for you!
Stac never got writing to you yesterday but sorry about your mum and hope you got over yesterday ok x
memphis your mil sounds horrid!

and now i forget what everyone else wrote
oh yes tsc i think weaning sounds like a good idea. They take in so little at the start anyway. But it might just start to bring a bit of structure to your day soon.
Been busy still here and have a busy week ahead with appointments and then what happens.....my water froze. Im so mad!! just typical at my busiest time of year. So fetching water of whoever has it for bottles etc but don't know what we can do for showers and i hate not having one after a days work and plus AF is here so not good!! Oh well there's not much use complaining.

memphis i have now wrapped about ten pressies with about a hundred to go lmao. Your mil is an arse, just re-read what you wrote and that is so out of hand

Thanks kk i'm fine today getting in the xmas spirit, cant wait to get together with the family. Thats crap bout your water, what will you do?

Night viks

Have you all wrapped you presents?

I haven't started mine yet

Well I thik good days help make bad nights more bearable. It was a bit of a rough one last night - I went to bed just before 11 and he was up at 12.55 and I kept getting him off, getting into bed and within a minute he was crying again. This went on for an hour :(. Then he slept until 4.30 where he woke up starving and downed 5oz then he slept again until 7.40, but dh got up at 7.15. I feel pretty shattered today, but whereas I would have felt frustrated and upset and annoyed before if he'd done that, last night I just felt sorry for him.

No wss, I have wrapped a handful of present and had to stick pieces of paper on until I buy some gift tags!

I'm praying this delivery turns up this morning cos I want to go shopping.

I haven't even bought all my pressies yet...soooo disorganised - everyone here's getting them late :) Not to worry, Christmas isn't about presents is it [hopeful]
memphis that's shocking! at least she admits it...more than my PILs do even though it's so obvious.
mlic really glad you've turned a corner, that's fantastic :)
stac dh is off for a couple of weeks which is lovely.
Going home today, hooray!
and MIL yesterday was laughing at DH joking around at the dinner table last night, turned to me and said to me 'isn't he funny, this is how he used to me until he married you'

What is it with the MILs on this thread? I won't even tell you what mine has said about dh, her own son :(

morning all,

went for a chinese (my fave one) last night for the xmas meal my cousin, sister and I always have. had a great time but poor dh had an evening of it with F and A as she took ages to go to sleep (unusual) and F was downstairs all evening grumbling with his teeth hurting.

packaged Mr F off to nursery in the style of a grumpy reindeer (its his xmas party today) but not sure if i've done the right thing sending him in. He was only sick that once in the morning yesterday, did one loose nappy and was generally a bit sorry for himself and off his food but was happy to hare round the shops yday arvo. All points to teething but I hope I'm right!

not sure what to get the nursery staff as presents. was thinking of getting some nice chocs they can all share/raffle and then i'll put together little gift boxes/bags with mini champagne, chocolate and pretty xmas decoration for his 2 (old and new) keyworkers and the cook. anyone got any better ideas? i would have preferred to make something but can't see it happening now.

sorry you had a bad night mlic but it's great that the good days are making the nights easier to handle.

still have three presents to buy inc dh's main present as he was unsure of whether he wanted a new xbox til now (he doesn't so now i have to think of something else). have done about half the wrapping (looking gorgeous ) but behind on writing/sending cards

on the subject of MILs... we do seems to have more than our fair share of horrors on this thread. mine isn't actually a nasty person, i think she has a good heart but she has some very odd ways (e.g. bought herself a cheese sarnie to eat at our wedding as she 'knew' she wouldn't like the - frankly bloody gorgeous - food) and was used to getting her own way - until she met me . i think i have her under manners now but it's been a long and bitter war!

mlic you know you have to tell all when you make a statement like that here [see cake's unfortunate hair-gate a week ago]

what a cheeky cow she is chulita, i wouldn't be back in her house. Thats good dh is off.

You need to tell us now mliff lol

Nope wss i made a start last night but nowhere near finished lol can't believe xmas is saturday

My mil isn't too bad although my big thing is she treats J different from the other 2 i know this is because he isnt dp's son but none of my family do it. Have told dp i expect them to be treated the same and if not they can feck off. She also tends to ignore current advice regarding R cos she didnt do that. I better stop now cos i have to spend xmas day with her lmao x

I couldn't possibly, not on a public forum.

memphis I'm taking the opportunity of having to be stuck in waiting for this delivery to do my cleaning. Why you want a dog is really beyond me! Between E emptying all his toys across the living room floor at the exact moment I brought the hoover out [helpful toddler emoticon] and the dogs making all the floors disgusting from the snow/slush outside, getting under my feet while I'm trying to clean the kitchen floor and just general unhelpfulness/messiness I'm about to scream. Not to mention all the splattering up my kitchen cupboards from where they come in and shake themselves down. They make so much mess and dirt it drives me insane. I do love them but it's so different from having dogs pre-children to now, let me assure you!

cakes your wrapping sounds gorgeous. Idea for nursery is a good one as you say they can eat them or raffle them. Tesco is doing a large box of thorntons for £6 i got them as part of mil xmas

Very intrigued now mliff what bout fb? [nosey emoticon]

Nope, sorry stac :)

must be bad lol

stac sorry I meant how early was R born? Should have been clearer! How is the weaning going now?

mlff go on! Could you not tell us in the private discussions on fb, she'd never know

Im snowed in today :( I really hate snow and DP still went to work.

Dylan and I got up at 9 but hes been really tired since then, I know he could go to bed earlier but thats easier said than done.

Morning all. :) I've not posted much lately (as all is fine here) but I have been reading and silently sympathising with all the struggles.

Christmas shopping and wrapping was done here last week. I'd done the bulk of it by the start of December, but a Lakeland package was delayed. Can't complain that much though as it made it just in the nick of time and they refunded the presents part of the order!

I love the sound of your wrapping, Cake. I've gone for plain white wrapping paper here (which has just a hint of sparkle in it, rather than printer paper...) with midnight blue and silver ribbons/tags, all writing done with metallic pens. Any tape use is double sided and hidden under the folds.

I'll go for warmer colours next year, I think... Though it has turned out strangely appropriate this year!

A weaning query to the enlightened... I'm still having the opposite feeding problem with M compared to most! She now happily wolfs down at least three meals per day and is fine with fairly hefty lumps in the food because I'm lazy with pureeing and just mash with a fork. She still guzzles down at least ten 30 min milk feeds as well! My whole day revolves around food...

She is 6 months on the 7th Jan (but was born 2 weeks early), how soon can I stretch this to start offering finger food, gluten and all the other stuff she's not meant to have until 6 months? Do I get put into the Bad Mummy Corner if I'm at all early?

I ask because it's getting more and more difficult to a) Fill her up and b) Stop her from stealing MY food!!

Also, is a tiny bit of chocolate for her going to be ok on Christmas Day, as a special treat? Melted (and cooled!) into porridge.

Lastly, not all inlaws are bad. :) I get on great with my inlaws! Just spent a lovely festive weekend with them all, down at SIL's new house.

spirael (nice name change btw) I wouldn't personally give chocolate but then I'm the type of mummy who is very strict with treats. Less so now, but ds1 never had chocolates or biscuits until he was nearly one! As for weaning - are you still on just fruit /veg or are you giving proteins? Protein fill you up for longer so I would suggest (as I'm fairly sure you're not vegetarian?) doing some recipes such as this, always a winner for ds1 or this and see if it fills her for longer?

Yay, just phoned and my delivery will be here by 1pm(ish) so I will be able to get out this afternoon after all!

We're vergetarian, MLIFF. We do eat meat, just not very often because I'm not that keen on the taste/texture.

So...it's just been fruit/veg/yoghurt for M so far, though that has included potato and sweet potato, which I thought might fill her up more than they did. What about chickpeas? Are they ok if I puree them? Is cheese ok yet?

I'm not too worried about treats for M, as long as it's just one small thing occasionally. I just wanted to make sure I'm not going to be poisoning her or anything with chocolate at this stage. It won't be much... Maybe a chocolate button's worth?

Father Christmas is conveniently bringing her a toothbrush and toothpaste, what a nice guy.

Hello spirael! I agree (boringly as we always seem to) with mlic. It's not that much earlier so think you could try some of the kinda things that mlic linked to.

The blw 'rules' about finger food readiness would still apply to a spoon-fed baby (I'd imagine, non-blwers feel free to jump on me) which in a nutshell is if they can do it then they can do it iyswim! Ie if they can sit up with a steady neck and manage to pick a piece of food up and get it into their mouths then they're ready to deal with it.

Also agree re chocolate (mlic and I aren't the same person honest!) Unless you're going to be v laid back about 'treats' then imo, it's worth having a 'strategy' about when you'll give them chocolate, biscuits, sweets etc - if only to fend off well-meaning haribo-wielding old dears! F didn't have cake and biscuits til 1 (and until recently only rarely) and has only really had chocolate since his advent calendar this year! The upside (if it matters to you) is that he'll happily eat less sweet things whereas most of his buds who had chocolate regularly from early on will only eat proper chocolate etc and turn their noses up and stuff like organix cookies etc as they're not very sweet.

Not that one chocolatey porridge will change anything...

... I've yet to see M turn her nose up at anything. Even broccoli and turnip!

I think I may have inadvertently given birth to a bottomless dustbin.

gah! x-posted

we're veggie too and F had lentils (eg lentil soup with bread fingers dipped into it), home-made hummus from 6 months i think - just have to go carefully as some things like this produce some interesting wind effects

yours,
the lentil-weaver

yes but spirael toddlers and babies are different species!