Reading backwards through the thread, while seeing if DD can settle herself for a nap (hmm, unlikely!)
Hannah1890 site re baby led weaning www.babyledweaning.com/ Beware though they are very pro waiting until 6months (or just a little before) and approach only really works from then. I had thought a month ago I would start DD weaning today (17 wks), after reading a few things, have decided to hold off. Sounds like your DS enjoyed his first. Hope uni trip works out.
good luck with course pelvic
blanche brave you still co-sleeping. I sometimes bring DD into bed if we are too early to get up (so OH can keep sleeping, dog hounds him for her walk, once DD and I get up), and she can give me some good thumps with her flying arms. She has taken to hitting me at times when feeding, hoping she gets more coordinated soon!
Friends promised us their bumbo, put they gave a short loan to someone else to try and they can't get it back.
blanche asked to be referred or if you can self refer for physio re pelvic floor. They can be loads of help. Leaflet here www.acpwh.org.uk/docs/leaflets/ACPWH-PelvicFloor.pdf
beatofthedrum nice new name! Oh poor your nipples, but good he can take a bottle. DD now refusing, mainly as we haven't offered her a bottle often enough, as I have been struggling to find time to express. Thinking we might just go onto cup. Seen the doidy ones, but also read that mini glasses work quite well too. Still have one from the hospital and we have two brilliant sized after shock plastic ones - might get black mark against us for that..lol! Just read re chickenpox, poor wee one.
Naps intersting here!. DD will scream (and I mean a horrid sound as if I am putting her down onto a bed of nails), or just lie wide awake and giggle, until gets fed up and then start grumping. Tried pre tired, timing, winding down, BFing, white noise, swaddle....All really hit and miss. Some days great. others not so. Yesterday she woke at 730, had 10mins in car on way to swimming, 20 mins on way home, 30mins in buggy while out with dog, then 1 1/2hr just before bedtime! And I had tried to settle her down at other times. She will sleep for longer after car rides or walks, so guessing if she needed it yesterday she would have kept sleeping.
Night sleeps also gone from waking once/twice to between four and six times, but she feeds and falls asleep quickly, or she'll wake talk to herself and then fall back to sleep. Thankfully crying at night has mostly stopped.
ready if DD can roll back and fore fine, then she can sleep on side/front, but if she can't they recommend returning to her back. But if you are with her, then I'd leave her to sleep as you are checking up on her. Jealous that DD is relaxed enough for you to go to a hen do and can't believe there were issues re you taking DD to evening do if you are a bridesmaid. Our wedding is in 10 weeks (yikes!, no outfit for me or DD yet, done very little apart from book do at hotel), and we will have a 2 mth old, a 4 mth old, a 6mth old, a 13 mth old ,a 2 year old and three 4 year olds (and two teenagers), will be like a creche! It is quite a small do, so kids will be very much part of it. But I know that a couple of the adults will be more of an issue. Wondering how in the world I will manage to be a bride and BF - will be a bit odd! Hopefully DD will have stopped crying whenever someone else tries to hold her (or if she is tired, even just look at her). She has started this over the past month and OH's mother is quite upset about it.
cadlecrap a real holiday - how lovely.
Have reached top of pg 15, DD still asleep (nnedeed help to get there), so feel I should go do something else other than chat! Must try and come on more often than have such a long thread