July 2010: Better child-proof the home, it won't be long now 'til our babes start to roam!

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New thread.

As you were

nixster good on you for sticking to your routine, if you pull her from the routine are they going to be there to soothe her when shes all over the place babies feel calmer in a routine and you are doing so well on your own and coping so well!!! i know i would be all over the place im on my own monday to wednesday next week and so worried about it!!
had such a busy day at work and mum brought L in so i could show him off! im back in tomorrow which im happy about as mum will have to take pushchair in to be fixed after allmy threats!!!
tsc im surprised you havent strung dp up by his balls!
i cant wait for the end of the month my birthday and getting away i know we will be only an hour away but the great thing about center parcs is no one can turn up unannounced im sick of dh's family thinking they can come over when ever usually when dh is at work and expect me to drop everything when im usually up to my neck in it! sorry had to get that off my chest!!

the thread was so sad wasn't it ladies but i was so impressed by the way so many rushed forward to help. Soz should have said it was long.

nixster you are totally right to keep dreya in her routine. Do you follow a diet to? If so what one? Good to see you back.

mlic it must have been good reading back on what we were all like at the begining of our pregnancies

nixster meant to say my af is so bad to, loads of pain and really heavy. Tires you out doesnt it

memphis that would bug me too. It is very rare anyone would come to ours without ringing, could you not ask them to do that. Just say you've been out and about loads and dont want people to have a wasted journey. Then you decide if you want company

stac not really a wasted journey when i can see fil's house from my bedroom window, we live next to school so sil and mil pass door to pick up and drop off kids!! his mum phoned last week and said oh your in i will be 2, put the phone down, i was in process of cleaning all kitchen cupboards (i have about 15) and the contents of all of them was in the middle of the floor i was wearing my apron and marigolds and proceeded to stay for 2 hours without dh here i cant get on with things even though its obvious im busy, when they knock at school start time its breakfast for L and he wont eat if there are others here as he is so nosey, my family would never just knock on and dh wont leave the door if we are busy!!

Stac my diet when i lived in st lucia which was how i lost 3 stone and got pregnant (and then fat again!) was pretty basic natural foods.

i ate eggs for breakfast or bread and cheese, fish or chicken soup with loads of veg in it for lunch or dinner. loads of fruit like mangos from the tree in our garden (wistfully remembers mango tree )
I'm trying now to make everything from scratch with loads of protein so fish or chicken and no red meat.

I found this book helpful re PCOS and it says in there that cutting out processed food and eating whole foods like nuts and pulses reduce pcos symptoms altho i did it by accident overseas and proved the Dr who said i'd never conceive naturally just a tad wrong

memphis i make it clear to everyone that they have to call first before just turning up. i hate unannounced visitors as my home is my sanctuary and i would never just show up at someone's door without calling first.
i'd also hate to live within spitting distance of any of my family as i'd feel like i was being watched.

memphis feck didn't realise they were so close to you. Could dp have a word? Outlining L's routine so they dont come at those times. Its a pain in the ass when your busy. My lot and his would just hang about but they always call first. Just out of curiosity are they trying to help?

nixster thats one of the reasons i want to move, we only rent but our house is so private and nice apart from when we got burgled when L was 1st born, only problem is we would have to downsize as we get reasonable rent and where i want to move would add an hour to dh's journey to and from work which in normal circumstances would be fine but some days he drives as far as scotland in a day and back from the midlands, just getting me down at the mo, our house has no windows downstairs at the front and huge metal locked gates to the side so it is a great sanctuary but dh wont leave door if it knocks, ive decided now i know its not me being unreasonable that when he is at work im not answering the house phone (not that i do very often as only 5 people have the number) or the door!! i kow if it knocks its his family, fil even dared suggest the may book center parcs same week as us but even dh would say no to that!!

stac they dont help, if he needs bottle, or change he is passed to me! they just hang about wasting my time, i think its becasue they dont have a lot in their lives, dont get me wrong sil and fil are lovely, the less i say about mil the better

thanks nixster i got the rosemary connellys low gi diet but i havent had time to read it let alone put it into practice

nah well thats shit memphis no wonder you want to move

Aw mlic thats nice! would actually love to hear from everyone that was on the thread at the start to see how they're getting on! There's actually very few here that were there from the beginning. Will read back someday when i've nothing else to do!
memphis imagine they booked it! oh holy god that would be awful!!
went to gym this eve. Feeling pretty good after it! it'll probably be another 6 months before i go again though!
fingers crossed that everyone has a relatively good night tonight!

evening all. well, i expressed some milk for dh to give a at her bedtime, tried A out with the tommee tippee cup (semi-success), made dinner, had a look at did my homework and then drove half an hour to my evening course. Only to find the floor in darkness. It's doesn't start back til next bloody week! . smooth, cake, smooth.

Of course I won't own up to any of this next week when i go back

mlic nice of the doc to suggest you're force-feeding w how about him congratulating you on keeping him eating enough to survive ffs?

have just uploaded a pic of 'the coat'

now they are saying exclusive breastfeeding is BAD for babies! Omg they just cant make their minds up here

DP's dad has agreed to look after Dylan next Fri night, woo! I finally get a night off, cant wait

LOL cakes nice one

Dylan has got really bad at night now, he doesnt always want feeding but thats the only way to get him back to sleep so am a bit concerned how the whole formula feeding will work, I dont want to give him a bottle then have to bf him to sleep, kind of defeats the object.
He slept so well when he was ill

morning all, R was up twice so quite good if i could manage to sleep before 2am it would be fab lol. I have not fed her during the night.

nixster i started a thread in big/slim/whatever losing weight to get tips. Cant post the link as i dont get my laptop back till sunday.

dh you poor thing. I wish i had some advice. Will you get a nap today?

No stac prob not, Ive got my breastfeeding group at 10 then going to meet a friend straight from there, maybe get a nap late afternoon if Dylan wants one.

I was going to ask everyone, how many naps a day does you LO have and how long are they each?

Oh yes mlic i forgot to say about that. Ffs if you didn't try your damn hardest to get it into him he wouldn't get enough! You just can't win with them.
Good enough night here. 8-8 With about 4 dummy runs. God i hate that dummy. Can't bring myself to take it off her though!

the way i see it dh is that the study is questioning the weaning time rather than bf per se.

Previous studies said weaning before 6m put babies more at risk and this latest one says otherwise (with gluten anyway). Sigh...

In my experience, very few babies aren't introduced to solids until 6 months. I think mothers are guided by their own instincts as to when their baby is ready, i guess the good thing about this new study is that it supports that.

My two both seemed perfectly happy with just milk and didn't show interest in anything else so it seemed natural and easy to wait for 6months. Other babies do seem to want solids earlier.

oh re naps, A has 3 or 4:

9am: 30-40 mins

11am: 30mins to 1.5hours

The afternoon is a mixed bag, sometimes she'll sleep for 2 hours in her buggy and sometimes she'll have two shorter naps.

tsc congrats to your friend

A still bf every 2-3 hours in the day but i guess you wanted to know about babies who were having solids.