FEB 2010 Tottering into our second year...!

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A few first birthdays left, then we're full tilt into walking/talking and a mountain of mischief

Happy anniversary, Soc!
I love the image of your DD2 walking towards her dad when he got home!

I love it when your English is a bit French, SB!

Yep, PA, your DC2 will be decidedly more mellow, none of this running around at 8 months and refusing to sleep for more than five minutes at a time
I've ordered a mellow sleeper for next time round. I think that's possibly why the last one got sent back, they mixed up the order.
(sorry, twisted humour, no offence meant...)

I think DS night sleep isnot linked to his daytime naps! He had 2 naps today, 20 and50mn and he is now whinging in bed! Ireally don't understand!!

Sorry rant over

Feel sooooo fat, ate bugger all all day and just had takeaway curry. Over compensated.

SoC hope you have a good night!

PA I hope your DC2 is going to be a chilled out baby too!

Ok, DDs sleep is still a tad unsettled at night mainly due to coughing, but her daytime sleep I must confess is really good now. 9.25am and woke her at 10.05am and lunch times is now 1.10pm till 3.05pm. But she will only sleep at length in her own cot! We did attempt at staying over with friends about 6 weeks ago and she would not settle at all in the travel cot so had to come home. Luckily I had refrained from drinking...DP was mightily peed off but didnt make a fuss. She stayed awake in the car the whole way home and as soon as her head touched the matress of her cot went straight off! Little bugger!

Have a question...are any of you feeding milk in a bottle? DD has cows milk 1st thing and before bed and both she is cradled in my arms with me holding the bottle. Someone I know was at this and said why is she not feeding herself her milk? I said she likes it and if she holds it she will probably play with it and there would be milk everywhere!!
Should I still feed her like a young baby? After all if I was still BF I would hold her.....

DD is constipated still, prune juice not working very well. Any advice? She is barely drinking other than her milk. Tried everything! Her poos are like pelletts.

LBH DS hold his bottle but he has always been quite independant with this. If she's happy I would not worry as it's a moment of cuddles for the 2 of you.

Thanks SB that is what I thought. The trouble is I get used to doing what works and routines, suddenly I realise I need to move on a stage. (I am still sterilising bottles and dummies!)

I also should add hope you all have a lovely Mother's Day tomorrow. DD has made me something with the CM, I am very excited to open it!

SC it is a date!!! Hope you're having fun (and not home yet). Great on the walking.

On one of my rare visits to the thread... LittlebearH - have you tried beetroot for the constipation? I used to blend it with yoghurt to get dd1 to eat it but now she loves it on its own. Also, I always find bananas bung babies and toddlers up so would avoid giving them. I also still give dd2 milk in a bottle.

scones it is really common for babies to wean from BF when pregnant and come back when colostrum kicks in.

I think you should buy the tandem book as it is generally useful anyway, even if you don't tandem. Someone started a thread in the BF section asking for a second hand copy, maybe you could do the same. I was going to offer to post you mine when I had read it and then you post it back, but realised that would cost the same as you just buying the book.

Thought I'd log in to wish a Happy mother's day to all! Going to be a short one I think as I'm going to have an early night for once :)

scones we feed DD from the bottle during the day and boob at night. She's then not so frustrated yet still gets breast-milk to help with digestion etc. She also gets her post-bath milk in formula form, then breast-milk after as a chaser/top-up. She seemed to throw up more when not getting breast-milk when I was away on business for 4 days/3 nights.

LBH DD has only just started to hold her own bottle at over 14 months when she wants to, and still often likes us to hold it for her. I think we'll give her milk in a bottle for a while yet until she's good enough with a cup (juice comes only in a grown-up glass with our help, and water in a sippy cup which she can help herself to). We decided we'd rather make sure she gets her liquids than stress about bottles since she'll move on from bottles when she's ready.

IC very moved by what you and DH have written in your blog. You truly have a gift for writing well.

Wanted to thank whoever suggested cans for stacking! DD didn't take to blocks nor boxes but turns out she loves stacking cans. A few close shaves with her toes when carrying the cans but luckily all intact and unbruised....

Turns out my short post wasn't so short after all (well I guess it's short compared to scones')

LBH try Hipp organic 6+ months formula? It has these prebiotik fibres. We give it to DD occasionally when some help needed in that area. Seems to work.

LBH DD2 has cow milk in a bottle. She just started using the beaker yesterday properly, but still too messy for milk. She can however drink alone from a glass, but can't hold the bottle . She hold it straight and try to "power"suck the milk up .
They are still babies they need to suck anyway. Unless your DD takes hours to feed I wouldn't worry about the bottle. DD1 had one till about 2.5 in the morning because that meant we could both have breakfast together instead of me feeding her. DD1 could feed herself from 5 months onward though, I might get impatient if I still have to give a bottle to DD2 in a few months.

LBH I read somewhere that it's better if children don't learn to hold the bottle themselves as they can just learn the new skill of drinking from a cup and don't have to learn to stop holding a bottle. My DD now insists on holding her bottle (I only give cow's milk now) and refuses to use anything else. She never drinks water.

What the others said re the constipation, LBH! Also rice-cakes are worth avoiding too as they can bung up a bit.
We keep a sippy cup of water with us at all times so we remember to keep offering DD a drink. Now she helps herself ! If your DD isn't keen on water, you could try offering her diluted juice then gradually increase the dilution until it's pure water.....
I think a cuddly bottle feed with you helping is absolutely fine at this age! Enjoy!

Scones, when I've offered DD cow's milk, I do it from a sippy cup. But DD hasn't drunk from a bottle in ages and once she got into breast-feeding, she lost both the interest and the ability.

Thanks rainbow x
It's lovely to hear from you.

...and you, ECMR x

I hope you had a good date, Soc

Ooh, hello Stangirl!

...and Happy Mothers Day, everyone

The pharmacist gave me some more nystatin yesterday morning - have been taking it myself and giving it to DS (with a seperate dropper). He is still dribbling loads (a top will be sodden within 5 mins) and not really sleeping much. We gave calpol and teething gel as well in case it was the two premolars that are coming through as well. He won't really let me look in his mouth. I think I might have sorer nipples than usual but can't decide if this is psychosomatic or not. Anyway I'll ask the GP in the morning for the full treatment for both of us including cream for boob and hope for the best.

I sterilised all his plastic toys and cups and washed his comforters in the machine with biological powder.

LBH Sorry you had to come home from your friends. What a disappointment.

Soc happy anniversary.

Bethy Good luck with the party. Thank you so much for your advice and sorry for being all dramatic about what is really a small issue.

Happy Mother's day everyone.

Good luck with the thrush treatment, Bc. Sounds like you're doing the right things.
I'm sorry the sleep is rubbish at the moment, your poor DS. Fingers crossed you can get rid of the damned yeast ASAP x

Happy mother's day everybody

This morning we've been to see the ducks in the park. DS didn't walk by himself (to be fair the ground isn't levelled) but enjoyed shouting at the ducks and seagulls.

bc hopefully it will get better soon.

LBH give yourself a break and stop sterilising! (I stopped when DS was 3 months old)

bethy good luck with the party. Hopefully your cake will be a success.

SC how was your evening/night? (I'm too curious)

rainbow hi

DS only has one bottle of milk a day at night time. All his others drinks of the day are water from a beaker.

scones I wash DS teeth at bath time which is before dinner.

I'm curious to know what our French and living-in-France contingent have to say about this, an article in yesterday's Guardian talking about low rates of breastfeeding in France and the reasons behind it.

And anyone else who has an opinion, of course....but wondered if the French gang had any direct experience of the attitudes mentioned here.

Just interested...

Yepee, it's the end of the weekend! I normally don't want the end of it, but as DH was away, I dealt with DS by myself since Friday and I'm knackered!! He's on his way back, hopefully today the ferry won't sink a fishermen boat.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone or and
We had a lovely night out last night, thanks for asking. We go out for lunch with the girls fairly often and it had not occured to us that going into the city centre on a Saturday night may not be such a bright idea, especially with a football match on, and not having booked a table anywhere . Anyway, found somewhere that could feed us and had a lovely evening.
My mother's day started a little early though when dd2 was unsettled from 2am, I realised she was very very hot (temperature of over 39) at 3am, and it took us until 5 to get her back to sleep (with calpol and nurofen)... Of course dd1 was up bright and early to celebrate mother's day . Her present to me was that she joined me in the bath . We've had a very nice relaxing day with some bubbly at lunchtime (ill advised, but hey, it's our 10th anniversary ) and I was then allowed to have a snooze after lunch while dh entertained dd1. dd2 still poorly, slept from 12 to nearly 4 and just went to sleep again at 6. We are now having a special treat (oven chips! ) and dh and I will veg out in front of a log fire later...

Glad you had an enjoyable anniversary and Mothers Day, Soc. Here's to your DD2 getting well again very soon.

Told the ILs today, it was not the present MIL was hoping for but sod them. They upset DH though by not saying congratulations, just exclamations of OMG and how will you cope (I replies: just like everyone else does)

PA at your IL. I hope it didn't upset you.