September 2010 - meet-ups, pram addicts and the cutest babies in the world!

[Chelle1986]

Am taking the innitiative and doing the new thread! Bombs away...!

cinnamon - the EAT people seem to want you to do things really quickly - or is that just my interpretation? Surely he should be allowed a little more time to get used to each new food? Defo dont rush him - you are completely right - he is ready when he's ready!

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Olly has the tommee tipped beaker too cinnamon - he chews it as well! Think he is just about getting it now!

chelle I don't cut Orlaith's as often as cinnamon cuts Luke's, but about every fortnight.

banana I don't give Orlaith water at the moment because she's not been feeding much so I'd rather give her formula, but I was giving her water before, she'd take about 4oz and it kind of replaced a feed.

I think Orlaith might have major tongue thrusting issues. Maybe that's why I never got her to BF. She always pushes the bottle out at the beginning of a fee and it takes maybe 3 or 4 goes to get her to take it usually. Is that likely to mean she'll do it with solids when I wean her?

My mum's really good too chelle and banana she never tells me I'm doing things wrong or tells me how to do anything, unlike MIL!!!

Well DP finished work at 5 and has been out drinking since and I'm having the most boring night ever.

Is it rude of me to like how many of you are up at nights? Makes me feel better. DD1 slept through at 8 weeks so this time round at 19 weeks and still up twice (at least) I'm not taking it very well!!

I think it's quick chelle1986, much faster than I went with ds1 and he was almost 6 months but I've read other participants on mn saying it's quite slow!! They need them to be eating all 6 allergenic foods before 6 months in the required quantities but I don't want him to have a negative association with food, that is more important to me. Ds1 used that beaker for ages and when he drinks milk (not very often) he still wants it out of habit, that's what I mean about bottles! My friend had milk in a bottle until she was 6 and it's not good for teeth.

It makes it more difficult to get a reasonable amount of food into them if that have a strong Tongue thrust saoirse86 so it's usually better to wait until it's gone before you start as it's much easier. It shouldn't affect breastfeeding as the Tongue is pushed forward when bfing and under the nipple if you have the right latch.

mcfee I'm up between 1 and 3 times a night but usually 2. Ds1 slept through from 14 weeks so I'm similar to you!

mcfee there's a woman in one of the baby groups I go to whose DD has been sleeping 8pm to 7am from the day she was born!!!

Hellew! Phoebe slept from 11.30 til just shy of 7am last night! I hope this is a breakthrough. She guzzled her night bottle too - 7oz! I am still waking up at 4 am tho. Maybe I need sleep training now?
Doing nothing tonight - not so rock n roll these days.

Cinnamon Why do you say a bottle's not good for teeth? I was concerned about ds1 2.5yrs still having a bottle morning and night (I allow it because he's not a big drinker so at least I know he's getting some fluids). I asked my dental nurse cousin why it was bad for teeth & she said its not the actual sucking of the bottle but the sugar in the milk and in if they clean their teeth after milk before bed then its not a problem.
I also can't help but think you're not happy with the EAT study and weaning at this stage. Please don't carry on if you're really not happy. You'll regret it forever! and in response to you're being in the paper, I won't be mad with you, I'll just be excited to show dh that you're a real person & not an invisable friend like he thinks!!!!!

Hi

God I just cant seem to keep up. When do you get chnce to get on the computer. I can get on when Ds and Maia are sleeping otherwise I have to be BFing Maia with DS saying
"want Pocoyo"
"want postman pat"
"want pocoyo"
"want pocoyo"
" MUMMY WANT..."

Mini spring like weather going of here, hitting around 17/18ºc going for a picnic tomorrow, yeah cant wait. Ive made carrot cake and DPs in the kitchen now making mushroom pasty.

Thought Id share some photos

Oh and DS has named one of his teddies Maia Grace, he takes her to bed and everything so cute!

I decided that if Luke was happy to be weaned then I was happy but if after another week he's still not enjoying it then I will stop trying, thanks for the support bananastew. The problem with bottles from what I have read is the way the fluid whether it be milk or juice gets around the teeth more than if it comes from a beaker. With bottles children tend to hold it in their mouths and kind of suckle on it rather than drink and put it down. Your saliva can clear the acid produced by sugars in around 20mins but if over a long period of time you are adding fresh sugars it's never cleared and damages teeth. There is also the same issue as with dummies that if bottles spend a lot of time in mouths the palate actually starts to take the shape of the teat and then causes teeth to grow in differently and can lead to needing braces and speech problems. Having said that if they are given for short amount of times and with brushing after then the risks are reduced. As I bf both boys I didn't want to introduce a bottle for drinking as they rarely had one anyway, to avoid the risk of them wanting to suck on one frequently especially as the guidelines are to remove them totally by 1 year and never put juice in them.

Hi all. So I implemented 10.30 feed last night (after 7pm bedtime) in the hope that Arlo would then sleep through till 6 or 7 like he used to do before when I just put him to bed at 10.30. As you can see it didn't work!! Still up at 3am. Hope at least it'll only be one bight feed rather than the two we've had recently. It used to be so blissful not getting up at all in the night, but I guess the payoff is DH and I have the evenings to ourselves now.

Arlo rolled over from front to back for first time on fri! I was v impressed. Not sure he realised what he'd done though, and he hasn't repeated it yet. He hates tummy time, so takes a bit of persistence to get him on his front even trying!

14 + 6

And still up before 6.

Cinnamon I can understand that if they're bf! No point starting them. I never understand why people put juice in bottles. I wonder if thats maybe why ds1 took a long time to drink water. I have the kind of opinion that bottles are only for milk! I once saw two children in a double buggy aged around 1 & 3 whith what looked like coke in one bottle (the 3 yr old) and chocolate milkshake in the other!

Well, my dr obsessed friend is taking her ds to the drop in centre again today! he's wheezy & has got a cough! Ds1 has had croup, a raging temp & now a horrible chesty cough! Am I a bad mummy for not taking him to the dr?!

You lot do like to talk.
After deciding to turn Lucy's cot into a bedside cot we took the side off and fixed a piece of wood along the bottom to support the 2 ends. And when we got into bed I nudged the end with my knee and the mattress base slipped off so another night in our bed. 10.30 till 6.30 so not too bad. Going to have another look at the cot today to see if we can improve it and stop it falling apart. Bloody IKEA. If we did it with dd2's cot it would stay up fine but don't want to upset her anymore.

Banana I agree with bottles, absolutely hate seeing them with juice and fizzy in. You can change the teats for spouts from 6 months so they get less dependent on the teat. DD2 was put onto the doidy cup and a tommee tippee cup from 6 months and she has never had a teat. She still likes a bottle but they are all hard or spouts now so she can't suckle. She never had juice until she was about 16 months when she stole her brothers bottle. Now she occasionally asks for juice but always asks for water if she is really thirsty.

She likes her bumbo and will happily sit there for upyo 20 minutes. Am thinking of getting the tray so she can use it when we start weaning.

Oh no dixiebell, I tried and it made both mine more disturbed! Occasionally Luke wakes around 10 and he will go 7hrs from then but if I wake him at that time he never does!

bananastew and debs75 I agree about juice and fizzydrinks! The hv I had with ds1 told her daughter that what she had in her beaker was juice although it was water! Fine until shetastes actual juice! Ds1 stopped drinking water when I started childminding and the older kids had squash, he'd bring me the squash out of the cupboard :( buy he does drink water if he's really thirsty too! Sorry to hear about your bed disaster debs75, I love ikea stuff Maybe it depends what you buy.

Last night was one of those where Luke woke at 10 he then slept until 5.30 and I woke at 9 and everyone else was still asleep! Must go swimming more often, knocked all 3 boys out!!!!

deb75 where are you,we have a bedside cot were thinking of selling...

Is there something wrong with my laptop? Seems too quiet to be true on here today. It has only taken me 4 posts to catch up. Where is everyone??

Yes.. very quite. I hope you're all too busy doing fun things...

I finally got around to adding myself to the meet-up calender. Talk of it's gone a bit quiet on here - is there anything on fb I should know about? (Sorry to be such a pain)

quiet, even

Ohhhhhhhhh bozzy eyed now after a mamouth catch up!
Just put J to bed and have my fingers crossed he'll sleep better with 3 tspns of baby porridge in his belly from this afternoon.
DH wants to try carrot next. He seems to take Annabel Karmel as gospel..... slightly annoying but I can't fault his hands on efforts. Oh, except for the fact that yesterday he had Jack for most of the day while I helped my sister wedding dress shopping....... came home to find the house totally upside down! Love how he boasts about everything they'd done but I picked up 4 wet nappies, 3 empty bottles, 1 lot of dirty clothing and toys and talc everywhere!
Still not been swimming yet though today we did get a few giggles in the bath so things are looking hopeful after Jack's indifferent start to water.
Loving my new Urbo so far and have give away the moses and crib to make space for my pram collection!
debs Jack still not into his Bumbo for longer than 5 minutes but I'd recommend the tray just for the safety of poor toys who usually get chucked overboard.

Whoever mentioned 6month + teats...... Jack went onto them at 16 weeks and it definitely helped tho he is by no means a greedy chap.

Jack 17 weeks tomorrow
xx

given!

I was a bit shocked by the lack of posts! Just waiting for the March dates to fill up mapletrees and then we will decide, actually not sure I posted the march one here If not its here.

I have to say that ds1 enjoyed carrot much more than baby rice beaditAli and I loooovvvveeee Annabel Karmel she has some fantastic recipes, some of which we have eaten (unpureed of course!). It sounds like your dh did a great job , as long as Jack has a clean nappy does it matter that you live next to a nappy mountain or that there are no clean bottles to refill after a day?!? My dh is happy to do baby things but only if I'm not in the house! If I'm around he gets really stressed as he doesn't do things as I do and feels that I'm critising even if I say nothing!

I took Luke to the park today, no-one else wanted to come with us so ds1 and dss stayed home with dh playing lego. Luke went on the swing for a bit and I then put him down the slide a few times and we came home. So nice to see a bit of sun and not be totally frozen!

18 weeks tomorrow and still hating food, few more days and I think we may leave the EAT study or at least postpone if they can allow that.

I'm soooo upset! I knew getting my baby weight off would be diffcult but this just takes the . I started Weight Watchers Online last week and have installed the app to helpme on my Iphone. Since last Monday, I still have weekly points left even though I have used all my daily ones, i have done a step, zumba & a combat class which I workreally hard in and come out lole a beetroot. I've weighed my food, cut out chocolate, crisps amd biscuits and still managed to put on 3lbs which is more than I put on over the festive season. Do I have to friggin starve myself in order not to put on any weight???? I'm so confused. If I'd have done this before beong preggers, i would have lost 3lbs not gained it. Does your metabolism and ablity to lose weight just stop after child birth? I'll give it another week I think before trying more drastic options.

I just feel really disheartened. I'm gona leave LO with DH for a little bit this morning and take the dog out for a jog. Good job he works from home most days.

On a brighter note, I'm off to Huddersfield today with Harlyn to stay with my friend who has a liitle girl Olivia who is ten weeks older. Really looking forward to it.

Any post natal dieting tips much appreciated.

like a beetroot. Too many typos!

Aso had a shite night with Harlyn. He went to bed at 9, didnt settle into a deep sleep till almost 11 then woke at 2:30. 3:00 & 4:40. I then gave up and bought him into our bed where he slept till 7am. What's going on? So after weighing myself and having broken sleep I'm feeling very teary!