I bought a high chair at an NCT sale a few weeks ago. It adjust in height which is really handy, £20. Bea is going full steam ahead with the weaning, however it's against the advice of our HV who is one of 'those' that follows the letter fully. She advises you can't do this or that because it's not the national advice but can't back up why. I'm logical and want to know the why's and wherefor's, so when she said mixed feeding [formula and breast] won't work because of national advice, I asked why and she spluttered and repeated it's against advice. Now she's not an idiot [has kids of her own that are at school] but I wonder. GP is happy though and asked her advice first. She's just on baby rice and fruit/veg purees. It's a delight introducing her to new tastes and textures. We've been mixing jars and homecooked. Pro's for jars are, fab to 'try' new tastes before I stock up on veg/fruit, the combinations [yes I've been writing down the % mixes] and convenience. Neg's are cost and how different it tastes to homecooked. I've prepared the basics like sweet potato, pumpkin, carrott, peas, pears, apples etc and frozen them in ice cube trays, price is really good but it takes up so much time. I am steaming and whizzing up with a hand blender, but Bea is really clingy again, and can spend short bursts doing non playing things, but it's really hard finding the energy some days.
She's really really playful and chatty. She is almost crawling, but she keeps pushing too hard with her feet and smacking her head into things and unbalancing herself. She loves to roll over and over and over. She wants to walk about when we stand her up. She does a little bit of the riverdance as well. She's way active and I am knackered keeping up with her. She doesn't nap more than 20 minutes once or twice during the day, but she will do an 8 hour sleep without a feed wake, 10pm through to 6am. I try taking her for walks in the pram to lull her to sleep but it just makes me knackered. Though I'm shifting some of the baby wobble, but I've still got the baby 'shelf' :)
Bea has now settled into her own weight band and she's steadily gaining, she's now out of almost all her tiny baby and newborn clothes, though the 0-3 month trousers/leggings/jeans fall down if I don't have tights underneath to hold them on. I don't think she will be in 3-6 month until the end of the summer though.
I'm amazed with those of you who have gone back to work, more so for juggling the time/work/family thing, It's my first and using that as an excuse :)
26minutes hope the wedding plans are going well, a small do is so much easier to deal with than a large one. I thought our's was large until I saw some of my friends wedding. We had 50 all in, including the wedding party. It was in the local church and reception in the village hall next door. Wouldn't change a thing, a lovely day. I hope yours goes smoothly and the sun shines for you.