December 2010 - Merry Christmas new babies!

[Chooster]

Hi, I couldn't see a post-natal thread but as we grow in numbers we'll need a place to chat!

All good here... Jude is now 5 days old and such a wonderful good baby. Mind you he must think he's been born in the Arctic as it was -16 outside this morning in Edinburgh. Brrrrrrr - Its not always this cold Jude .

How's everyone else getting on?

Hello all :)

MrsS Chicken pox! My friends kids had it and I thought we'd get them here too but it didn't happen, not sure if thats good or bad. At least it's done now?

Owo Good to see you

So can everyone tell me how many times they are getting up at night? I am always up at the very least once but the girls are very early wakers, latest is 6.45am on a very odd occasion, often 5/6am!

Hello, and wave to OWO, Chooster, whatwillsantabring and Wholelottalove and all other returnees!

I am woken up 2-3 times usually between 2 and 6.30 am.
However when I was at Glastonbury I had my first ever night where Bob slept through!! The bad news is that he still seems to be on Glastonbury time and tonight he finally went to sleep at 10 instead of 6.30pm :(

Sorry to hear about the chickenpox MrsSnaplegs :(

I am trying to do some food play with Bob every day now and he's definitely eating some of it.

Kiwi - how did you find Glasto? It was hard going for me. We were diverted to the West car-parks but camping on the East side so I tried to move the car on the Sunday (after checking it would be ok with someone official looking in an information portacabin) only to be refused entry when I got to the East car-parks (I think I was there when the ambulances arrived for the dead Tory) and then when I drove back to the West they wouldn't let me back into the car-park I vacated but made me park in an even further away one! I was really upset, particularly as I had carried Bob and a full rucksack across the site and then had to carry Bob back in mid-day sun! He was ok (lots of sun cream and a hat) but I was shattered and only stayed on site a few more hours before going home. I didn't like family camping wither - too loud, rubbish food stall and lots of people who weren't there with kids. Ah well. I will definitely go next year (Bob loved it) but am thinking of getting a campervan instead.

Duelling - glasto was great but exhausting. we didnt actually camp, we only live 6 miles away so we went in and out. thursday - we got as far as the dance field and the wheels on our all terrain buggy jammed with mud so we left it in a lock up til sunday! luckily had taken a sling!! my parents looked after DD on fri so we watched U2 in the rain without baby! the rest of it she came with us and loved every minute. smiling and laughing at people - she loved coldplay! we did a lot of walking as we had to park practically in street!! sorry to hear about your nightmare on the sunday, could have done with a golf buggy aye?!! did you spend much time in the kidz field? i think i could spend the whole of glasto there!! it was ace.

lavita - am generally up once or twice, except for nights like last night when i was up every 2 hours -- arghhh worse than when she was a new born!! am a little worried that i am making an extremely long rod for my back by just shoving boob at her as i know that settles her back to sleep quickly (oh that and the co-sleeping!). oh well cross that brdige later!!

DF/Kiwi I felt for you guys at Pilton. Dad was working and in and out everyday. We are glad we left it this year, we watched it on TV and listened to it in the backgarden. I am no good in the heat and need my sleep at the moment as Bea is so demanding and active.

Bea still has 'our' bedtime. She goes to bed at 10pm with a bottle of formula 8 oz. We then wake her at 6am to change her bot and boob, she comes in bed with me and drifts off 'til about 8am ish. She doesn't really nap during the day though. Often we will get her napping at 6.30/7pm ish. Or like tonight we popped out for some girlie shopping and loafing in the park and she had a nap in the car on the way home and now she doesn't want to nap. I breastfeed at all othertimes and she only has a bottle for her 10pm feed, before that she was awake at 2am and 6am, I think the bottle fills her up and keeps her going through the night. If we didn't wake her at 6am, she would wake within the hour, we only wake her as DH is off to work and he puts her in with me.

We started weaning at 5 months, mainly purees and baby rice and she scoffed it up. She's now eating meals I cook for us, including pasta with ratatouille. She's happy chewing on things now. We do a mix of Baby led and spoon feeding which works well for us. However HV advised we should let her find her apetite and let her eat as much as she wants until she feels full and stops. She seemed to think this would be somewhere between 5 and 10 spoonfulls. Well she's eating way more than that. for tea she will eat the whole pot of food and a plum yoghurt and some fruit and a biscuit or rice cake. I don't offer her anymore as I assume she should be full by now. Breakfast is usually fruit and porridge and lunch is similar to tea. I am worrying that I am over feeding her, HV seems to be of a mixed opinion. She still has boob, usually a little while after her food as she hates to be taken off the nip for food and will refuse to eat until she finishes her boob.

Mrs SL sympathy for the chickenpox, hope you have a large bottle of calamine and some scratch mits for hugh.

Hi Everyone,

I have a question about the size of everyone's babies. Everywhere I go people say "my he's grown" or after they ask how old he is and I reply "six months" the look like they've seen a ghost and say "Nooooo?!". Now I am 5' 1" and DH is... oh,,, about 4 inches taller at most. So, how on Earth could I have a large baby? So, today I measured him. He is 22 lbs and 72cm. I plotted it in my red book and he came up 91st percentile for height and 98th for weight.

Now tell me all your babies are taller and fatter... because if they are not I'm going back to the hospital to return this baby for the one that is actually mine.

pmsl Strix mine were early and I haven't had them weighed for a while. I'll let you know on Weds, but they are nearly 8 months (corrected age 6.5 months) & I would estimate that they are 16 &18lb. Apparently they can't measure them for height until they are 2 but zi think that is because they don't have the correct equipment!

I am on holiday for 3 weeks come Thurs, so excited

strix I felt the same way about DD - she's one of the youngest in her class and is still one of the tallest! I really don't know where she gets it from. Matty has been creeping up the percentiles on his weight too. Aiming to get him weighed on weds so I'll let you know after that.

MrsS hope the DCs are on the mend

hi OWO

Max Dd now back at school so yes better she was really good with it, we got a special gel which is the "new" calamine lotion called virasoothe and gave her an antihistamine so she didn't scratch
Hugh has only had a few odd spots as I think he is still protected from bfing and placental antibodies

Strix Hugh is the same size - length measured 12 weeks ago and he was 62 cm then and he is due to be weighed tomorrow but is always 98% for that. So he is still huge Hugh - I am 5'5 DH is 6'
He is over half as tall as dd already and weighs half of what she does and she is nearly 6
He continues to eat loads a whole weetabix for breakfast, main meal, yoghurt, fruit and a biscuit at lunch followed by 2 mushed rusks for dinner has about 8 oz milk in day and 8-16 overnight

He eats biscuits?

We do 4 mnth stained jar food (no yummy mummy allabel karmel going on in my house) and he eats one or two a day. Drinks quite a lot of formula though -- can't say I've measured it though.

I've never really understood why one has to go to a clinic to weigh a baby. I just step on the scale with the baby, put the baby down, get on without him, and do the math. For length Ilaid him on the kitchen table, made my mark (is an old banged up table so don't care about the pencil mark which has wash off anyway) and measured distance to the mark.

Strix Heinz do ones called biscotti which are finger size and shape so too big too choke on. They are too hard to bite so he gums them into submission
We just purée left overs of our own meals for his mains - he had spinach and Bombay potatoes recently

strix not sure how tall Bob is but he's almost 18 lbs. He is one of the bigger babies in my NCT group but I don't think he's particularly massive.

Weaning is going ok, I am trying to feed him twice a day in the high chair but it's often a struggle as we're out and about. Today I was congratulating myself on how well it was going and then all of a sudden he gagged and puked 3 times onto the table! It was quite scary but I will plug on. I am doing a mix of BLW with some spoon feeding though he prefers to jam the spoon all over his face into his mouth himself. All your babies seem to be eating a lot compared to mine but I am hoping that the food is fun thing passes and he starts eating more soon. We have attempts at crawling too. Still no teeth.

He's also just this morning had a lot of expressed milk from a sippy cup. He's got the hang of the cup quite quickly so it makes me feel more hopeful about expressing when I go back to work. I find the pumping so tedious though as I only have a hand pump.

DH has been offered a new job. I am pleased for him but he'll be leaving a long-term steady job for a temporary one which was advertised as temp-perm. It could all be ok, after all they wouldn't be advertising it as such if it wasn't likely to become a permanent job, would they? I just hope it all works out because come September I really don't want to be going back to work as the main breadwinner! .

Mine doesn't eat very much. Just likes his milk.

Do you say sitting? Oh no, chunk doesn't even roll over. He's almost there and he wants to sit up. He has a good moan, but you have to hold him up. I think that big belly is a bit too much to stabilise. weeble wobble weeble wobble

Oh god I clearly have a monster
We can't leave Hugh on the bed as he has fallen off from the middle of the double bed twice this week - he gets on his tummy then shuffles backwards like a reverse caterpillar. In fact this morning he body surfed off on a V pillow (he was sat in the middle of 2 of them a bit like a nest in the middle of the bed - I only went to clean my teeth )
He won't lie on his back now, has to be sitting or standing with support, trying to pull up on cot sides as well so that will be dropped down to lowest level at weekend.
Strix - big belly is good once they are sitting - they look like buddha nicely balanced
I think because he is DC2 we are a lot less cautious than last time but then his sister walked at 11 months so clearly he takes after her.
I just wish he would learn to sleep - only 1 nap in the am and then up several times in the night - I am knackered at work!
Speaking of work it is horrendously busy at the moment but love the odd times DH pops in with little man nice thing about living 5 mins from work.
DF we only give Hugh the spoon after he has finished as he does the same thing - we give puree first then finger food for him to do. His fine motor control of his fingers still isn't great which is why we went with the biscotti - he can grab them in his whole hand.

Oh jeez, my man is definitely slow then. No way could he manage reaching forward, grabbing something, and intentionally putting it into his mouth. Oh well, he'f fat and cute and I love him!

Although the older two both hit all their milestones a bit later than the books said they would/should. And both are doing very well at school and are generally very capable children. So I think I just have late bloomers.

Oh, but the exciting news is that DS2 slept until after 6:00 today. Yippee.

So, everyone who is giving finger food, waht are you giving? And are you still feeding purees or have you moved on to chunks in the food?

Well Bea is moving onto slightly chunkier purees and have made ratatouille and those itty bitty pasta stars from AK. I also feed the purees and then let her have finger foods. Those heinz biscotti rock, bea loves them, mini rice cakes too. This week we have slices of watermelon, v messy but she loves it and not much left over. She is si blooming active she burns it all off rather than putting weight on. She is just below the bottom line for weight but 25th percentile for height.

She has rolled off the bed so many times, but today pulled herself up into sitting from lying on the change table and overbalanced and backflipped onto the kitchen tiles. Jeepers did I ever, almist feinted, DH rushed and picked her up. She is fine though a little shocked, landed on her botty.

Tried a new baby group today and it was lovely, felt welcomed and had much more in common, all the other babies are around the same age. Phew!!

Any tips on stopping her pinching while BF'ing it really hurts and she pinched a nerve last night and it was awful pain all day. I have clipped her nails really close, but she twists at the same time. Tried taking her off everytime, but she just smiles at me.

Matty weight 20lb 14oz on Weds - he's well over 91st percentile but not on the next line (as yet). We worked out he weighs at 6 months what DD weighed at 9 months . He's mastered sitting up now although he still has the occasionaly topple. Not showing any signs of crawling, but DD didn't crawl until 3 months after she started walking, so I'm not suprised about that. He's eating well and has dropped another bottle, so he's down to 3 bottles a day.

We had DD's 5th birthday party today - all went well until one of the kids had a collision with another one and broke her toe! . I feel really bad about it but I keep reminding myself, it was just an accident. We left Matthew with my mum as we thought it'd be a bit manic (it was!) and apparantly he had a wobbly lip and squeezed out 2 tears after we left - bless him. Mind you, as soon as they gave him a toy truck he perked up and seemingly forgot about missing us

Hope everyone's having a nice weekend.

Bob got to touch an Owl today! We have been buying him Owls ever since he was born and if he could speak he might say 'oh mum, what is it with the owls? give it a rest' but he can't so we have decided he is in to owls Anyway, we went to the local carnival and there were Owls there and he got to touch one. It was amazing!

He keeps getting mistaken for a girl though! Not sure why, he's not particularly girlie and today he was dressed in blue; It may be because I dress him in leggings sometimes?

Still trying to feed him twice a day and I have been doing a mixture of purees and BLW. I spent ages making some lentil puree thing which he loved but which smells of Glastonbury portaloo.

We're here for the weigh in! Did it on the home scales. Hannah weighs 9kg or 19lb 13oz. According to red book, she's jumped from 75th centile to 91st centile. Can that be right? Might go to HV on Tuesday to check that out.

kellestar I've had the boob pinching too. It brought tears to my eyes... ouch! I throw a muslin over my shoulder now so she can grab that and wave it around.

Weaning is going great and we're on to Stage 2 chunkier porridge and I've made the purees a little chunkier. Tried her with a little scramble egg this morning, but she got a red rash around her mouth. What's that about? It's gone now though...

I've been busy with trips to Ireland and Portugal. Both were fantastic and DD loved the sea and the pool. Wish I'd bought a smaller and lighter buggy though. And now, I'm decorating the spare room into guest room/nursery. However, it's taking ages cos DD only naps for 40 mins a time. She'll have moved out by the time I finish :) And since Portugal, her nighttime routine has gone by the wayside. I put her down at 7.30 but she now wakes every 30-40 minutes until 9.00 or 10.00. I'm absolutely exhausted and feel like I have no evenings. I'm in a Feed to Sleep nightmare. Nothing else gets her down. She just plays with a dummy. I tried Shush/Pat but she got hysterical . I'm trying a bottle of formula at 7.00 but she only drinks 2 ounces. Also trying Attachment Toy technique with a fluffy toy. She loves rubbing the ears on her face and my boobs but it hasn't made her sleep any longer! Any other ideas? I trawl the Sleep threads but I'm so tired I forget what I've read...!

What games are you LO's liking? Throwing Toys From Throne Highchair, Trying To Grab My Eyeball and Arms Out and Swipe Things are three favourites!!
Hope you're all having a lovely weekend. :)

Ok I weighed the heffalump on our scales as he missed this months weigh in last week so not sure about the accuracy - he's 10kg which is 22lb and about 96/97th percentile. So he continues to be huge Hugh not surprising with the amount of food he is putting away
Good to hear everyone is ok, we had a really busy week last week with work dos so v expensive with new clothes, tickets and babysitters. Now covering mine and my bosses job for next 21/2 months as well so busy at work. Currently resting out the Wii a we were selected as one of the MN testers. My wii fit age is 79 better start spin some phys
No signs of teeth here yet anyone else got any coming?

I've just found this section, my DD was born on the 8th of December 2010, same day this thread was started.

She has just got her first tooth MrsSnaplegs, just poked through the gums in the last couple of days and seems like another one will not be far behind it there is a dark patch on her gum next to where the first one is coming in.

Hello Heidikat - welcome

welcome Heidikat

no teeth here either MrsS but DD didn't get any 'til she was 11 months so that doesn't suprise me.

Matty started waving his arms around like an aeroplane when he's sitting playing with his toys yesterday. DH & I were lol when he first did it. It's probably his way of regaining balance if he feels he's toppling, but it's funny to watch

Steno Matty loves playing with his toys, way more than DD did. He'll sit and bash them about for ages.

I had to supervise DD writing 22 thank you notes this afternoon. Only took 3 hours!!!!

Just found out DH will have most of August off - woo hoo! Can't say I was desperate to be the sole entertainment for the duration of the summer hols, so he'll be a very welcome spare pair of hands.

On a sadder note, one of my chickens died this week.

Hello Heidikat

Not even a sign of a tooth here!

My DD gets mistaken for a boy all the time - even when in a dress!

about your chicken maxpower Are they pets or do you em... eat them? (Hope I havent offended)

Hi all!! Still getting up at night here too... Jude's sleep is still not great and I've fallen into the trap of feeding to sleep. He normally goes until about 1am but then wakes to be fed... I feed to sleep and then try to pop him back in his cot. If he wakes again after that I bring him in with me just out of sheer tiredness and the knowledge that I've got a full on day ahead with the other 2 DC. But I think because I've not been a bit tougher he know wont sleep unless he's had some boob! Mmmm.... this one is trouble . Not sure what he weighs either but I'll maybe try it tonight - although this will involve finding out how much I weigh - yikes! Not sure I'm ready for that yet. Perhaps that can be DH's job .

Jude is doing great though, naps quite well in the day, usually 3 naps and had now started full on crawling. He was shuffling for a while but now he has picked up speed and can be across the room in no time. So no longer can I rely on just putting him down to get on with something. Stair gates for us after hols! Speaking of which we're off to barbados tomorrow for a week. Really really hope Jude is good on the 8 hr flight! He's a noisy little bugger once he starts moaning and crying and I know I'll feel embarassed! The older 2 were much quieter and gentler that Jude. We'll be in business class as DH works for the airline we're travelling on and I know the other passengers are goign to watch us get on and groan!!!

Right better get on with packing!!! Hope all LO's are doing well x