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October 2010: Giggles and Wriggles

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SeaShellsDreamingOfSummer · 09/02/2011 14:37

Here we go again!!

Welcome everyone :)

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SeaShellsHasSandInHerShoes · 21/03/2011 16:43

((hug)) Tyson what's up?

Mn is the source of my sanity at 2am :)

CheeseEnforcementAgency · 21/03/2011 17:02

Anything we can help/commiserate with Tyson? Quite happy for you to rant here, I doBlush

TysonNobdie86 · 21/03/2011 17:35

Dh had left a tube of adult bonjela in ds's reach, ds ate it Angry
The GP said it should be fine and just to keep an eye on him.
Dh is at work so much and he promised he would be at home more after having Sophie but he has made no effort to cut his shifts down.
Ill of made up with him by tomorrow :)

Elsa123 · 21/03/2011 18:02

Ooh Tyson that must have been worrying for you. I hope your DS gets over it quickly. DH's can be supremely annoying!

Lovely weather here too. I could not believe it was 17c!

Elsa123 · 21/03/2011 18:03

Ooh Tyson that must have been worrying for you. I hope your DS gets over it quickly. DH's can be supremely annoying!

Lovely weather here too. I could not believe it was 17c!

CheeseEnforcementAgency · 22/03/2011 17:21

Shock tired, hope he's ok now?

Moved dd3 into big bit of pram today. She was v pleased with herself but was v confused waking up as she couldn't see me :(

Dh has an interview on Friday

Oh & is anyone having trouble feeding when out? She's far too nosy. Went in a cafe today & had to give up & sit on abench behind a tree in a park Hmm

CheeseEnforcementAgency · 22/03/2011 17:22

Sorry meant TysonBlush

TysonNobdie86 · 22/03/2011 17:35

Everything is fine now thanks Cheese, dh and I are friends again :) and ds is well. :)

Elsa123 · 22/03/2011 18:01

Thats great Tyson.

Cheese, yup, had my starbucks tea and cornflake cake sat in the car so DD could feed and break off and coo at me/look around at will! Apparently its classic at this age. On the plus side DD is getting quick at feeds. When she was newborn she was taking an hour, now its as little as 10 mins. Although I miss the snuggles.

She's 5mths and one week and yesterday was very interested in my mango so I pureed some and gave it to her. She seemed interested in the taste and some of it did make its way down. This afternoon at lunch though she tackled a banana without mashing. She needed me to help her hold it, but was very insistent on putting it in her mouth and sucked and gummed a fair amount. I think BLW will be the way forward.

Those people who co-sleep, how do you do it? Do you use a duvet? Where do you position your DC? What do they wear in bed? I'm curious as a few times when DD and I are alone in the week she winds up in bed with me and I worry about whether I'm doing it right iyswim!?

CheeseEnforcementAgency · 22/03/2011 20:05

I lay dd3 on top of the duvet in her bag but I spent all night moving her away from our pillows , we are co sleeping on bad nights rather than regularly though.

Dd3 whipped some cucumber in the cafe today & liked that so I bought her some for tea. She has taken to throwing stuff off the high chair then squealing for it back. She's come back from illness with a double personality & lots more voice. Spent a lot of time in the garden today, watching frogs, laying on the grass, sitting in the pram & yelling at trees!

floozietoozie · 22/03/2011 23:19

Elsa I have dd in her sleeping bag directly on the mattress with her head up v near the headboard, level with my head. The duvet just goes over me and i keep the pillow away from her.

SeaShellsHasSandInHerShoes · 23/03/2011 01:10

I do the same as floozie...generally speaking it ends up with dd with half the bed and dh and up squeezed into the other half! I tend to move her back to the cot as soon as she settles, ad I not trust myself not to "hug" her in close.

We are all ill now, it sucks, although Ds must be getting better as henjust sat and ate yoghurt for the first time in 3 d (it's 1am, he always gets his appetite back in the middle of the night!)

TysonNobdie86 · 23/03/2011 09:58

Cheese we must have alot in common, our thread sharing yesterday Grin
Dd nearly rolled yesterday half way there. My dc always take ages to roll and sit up Blush although i must add ds is very smart.
As you can probably tell im getting impatient Grin

Elsa123 · 23/03/2011 10:25

Tyson i'm thinking that gross motor development has nothing to do with intelligence...can you tell my DD is the same as yours?! She rolled from back to front ages ago and has never done it since. She rolls on her back to left and right and can scoot around 360 with her head in the same place and tries to crawl, but cannot roll from front to back. Probably because a dratted random limb defiantly stays perpendicular to her body!

We're well behind the drag curve here. 5 months and 9 days old and DD is having her 3rd set of jabs today. She's dressed in new clothes, navy blue leggings and a navy blue and white striped t-shirt. Quite the matelot....

Seashells I'm pleased your DS is felling better- shame about the rest of you.

Thanks for the feedback on co-sleeping. I've done similar to Floozie. I was wondering as other people have said how their DCs feed in the middle of the night helping themselves and I wondered how as I'd have to move DD downwards.

Elsa123 · 23/03/2011 10:26

That would be feeling not felling. I'm sure your DS is not a lumberjack seashells.....

CheeseEnforcementAgency · 23/03/2011 10:53

Dd3 has her jabs next week elsa be good to have them all done buti hate it!

Elsa123 · 23/03/2011 11:47

Yeah cheese me too. We're back and she was a little star. cried at first then fine the moment I cuddled her. 3 jabs at once can't be pleasant.

TysonNobdie86 · 23/03/2011 14:31

Grin Elsa your dd's defiant limp sounds similar to Sophie's problem.

Elsa123 · 23/03/2011 14:36

Grin DH tried to move her arm to help her and she just cried! I doubt she''ll be incapable of rolling over when she's 30 Grin....

tiredfeet · 23/03/2011 15:02

elsa I co sleep by having ds in sleeping bag and I wear two layers on top, duvet just covers my bottom half and not him at all, so he stays at breast level and does sometimes just help himself

I am so pathetically proud of ds this week as he has figured out how to feed himself fron a spoon and now eats his baby rice and mashed food that way, I just load it onto spoon. He makes a complete mess but is so clearly enjoying it. The only thing is. He hates being wiped down afterwards.

Ds not a big fan of rolling either, he does it intermittently but I think mainly by accident

Elsa123 · 24/03/2011 08:59

Good on your DS Tiredfeet. I think that is something to be very proud of. Good table manners!

DD is allowing me a leisurely breakfast this morning which is nice.

Gosh we are slow on this board at the aren't we?! I don't mean cerebrally....

It goes to show we're all at the same stages as at other times we're all posting like mad!

My sister sent me this link for non slip mats that she swore by for my DNiece for the highchair. She said it was particularly good for those slippy wooden restaurant highchairs.

tiredfeet · 24/03/2011 09:05

Those mats look excellent elsa thank you for the link!

CheeseEnforcementAgency · 24/03/2011 10:57

We cut up a cheap ikea bath mat & dd3 sits on it in her chair.

Today dd3 has enjoyed sucking on cucumber from the fridge,think it's cooling her gums. She is also v keen on being outside so we've got a big picnic rug for on the grass as she was trying to reach off her mat to eat yhe grassHmm

TysonNobdie86 · 24/03/2011 20:32

It is slow isnt it Elsa, and to think how quick we could get through a thread when we were in late pregnancy! Grin

Elsa123 · 24/03/2011 20:45

Smile a lot of the time I'm reading it but am feeding DD and my hand aches to single type!