June 10 babies are growing apace, teething and crawling all over the place.

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Here we are ladies. Let's see if we can manage to chat a bit more on this one :).

That sounds pretty good Filly. What else are you wanting her to eat? More protein? Maybe chicken soup, lamb broth etc pureed if you prefer. If she still likes puree, S always liked chicken pureed in banana when protein was difficult.

Faves here that seem to fit: pasta twists with flaked salmon and pesto; cheesy scrambled egg; lentil and vegetable soup (I do it with courgette, celery, carrot and a tomato. Only a lunch dish though).

Does she like rice? We have bolognese-type ragu sauce often with rice. Then you also have risottos.

TBH, D is not keen on meat. He does like fish but for meat we tend to go down the chicken soup route.

If I'm on the right lines, I'll think more.

Another thread just reminded me that tortilla always gows down well here.

And a spanish puy lentil and sausage thing. Everyone lieks that.

hi hope you don't mind me posting after all this time but I never seam to get the the PC any more! the older dc take up all the time with it. dd is nearly 13 months old now (wow that has gone so quickly) she has just self weaned from b/f and I am a little sad (I think its because I no I will never feed a baby again silly of me but there you go) she is crawling at speed every were and pulling herself up on the furniture but not walking yet. hope everyone is ok and the lo are coming on well.

Hi Sunshine - nice to hear from you.

Big news here: Daniel has left the furniture and started staggering about. He keeps looming in to view, arms waving, legs tottering. He falls down loads but is incredibly pleased with himself so just picks himself up and goes again. It's very nice. He's 10 months! DD was 17 months before she did this.

how sweet, that's great news about Daniel no stopping him now!

Nice to hear from you sunshine :)

The big news here is that Alice slept through the night for the first time ever on monday night. She only woke once last night as well and DH went to her so I've had two full nights sleep in a row after not having a whole night's sleep for over a year. The bad news is I feel more exhausted than ever, but I can remember that happening when DD1 started sleeping through until I got used to it so am hoping to feel better soon

What sort of things do you want Mia to eat filly? Neither of mine are too keen on plain potatoes, but love mash or wedges. They also love rice, pasta, cous cous and noodles so we tend to offer those more and don't often do plain tatties. To get more protein into her would she eat pepper sticks dunked in houmous or philly? How about mince, or scrambled egg?

I'm lucky that Alice still loves her food and has now semi-mastered the use of a fork, its very cute watching her try to spear things on it. She's now quite a nifty bottom-shuffler and can cover big distances this way. She makes a beeline for our patio doors whenever they're open and I think its only a matter of time before she manages to launch herself headfirst onto the gravel outside of them. Maybe I should install a ramp so she can get out safely.

Go Alice!!!! Really pleased for you greensnail!!!
LaT - wow - that's really something!! Jack walked on Saturday through the toy department in John Lewis (using a walker). At home he's been pushing an upturned laundry basket around and toddling behind it, but has no inclination of walking on his own yet! However he can crawl really fast!

Jack is eating huge amounts, and still taking a morning and evening breastfeed plus approx 10-12oz in the day whilst I'm at work. When I say huge, I do mean it. Today, for breakfast he will eat a whole weetabix with 4oz breastmilk, toast and a piece of fruit. At lunch he ate a jacket potato with small tin of beans, and roast chicken. He then had a banana in the afternoon. For tea, he ate a third of an adult portion of fish pie, peas and corn, followed by raspberries. Is this normal??? I'm trying to encourage him to use a spoon to eat himself - he's great at putting it in his mouth, but can't get stuff on it himself yet.

Definite walking now. He seems to think it involves waving his hands in the air. With that and his bandy baby legs he keeps staggering into view looking like Topol dancing

Bravegirl - if he's happy it's normal

Loving that image LaT.

Alice's birthday party tomorrow (actual birthday on monday). I have no real idea of how many people are coming, so am a bit nervous that we'll either have nobody here or so many people we can't all squeeze in, but I'm sure it will be good fun.

My lord! First birthdays already. And my baby who doesn't want to be a baby.

Damn I'm broody.

Me too, lots of bumps at the party today. DH keeps reminding me they're all having their second babies though. Alice had a fab time today but I'm now exhausted.

Hello everybody. I popped in ages ago but then popped out and didn't post again. It's lovely reading through the thread and seeing so much stuff that sounds so familiar and that DS isn't the only one.

Our current battle is persuading him to sleep between 2 and 3:30 a.m. He seems to think that is a quick, overnight play slot. Oh well.

I'm trying to plan a birthday party at the moment. It's also DH and I's 10th wedding anniversary this summer so we're having a barbeque on the beach and relaxing in the sunshine, hopefully with lots of relatives to help keep DS entertained.

Spent today at the National Herb Centre which seemed to mainly involve me going on the climbing equipment with DS to stop him walking off the edges. What fun!

Golly has it really been nearly a fortnight since I last posted ?

Nice to see some oldies back - welcome :).

LaT - why did I think that Daniel was already walking before now? Must be going mad.
Jeremy took his first steps today too, so must be something about the youngsters on this thread! He's pretty much exactly the same age as his sister was when she started walking. She took 10 days to develop the skill and start walking everywhere. Ds1 took weeks and weeks from first steps to walking properly. Wonder which of their footsteps ds2 will follow in?!

Happy birthday to Alice. :)
Has she kept up the good sleep?
I still have absolutely no idea of what to get J for his birthday.

BraveGirl - IME they can really vary how much they want to eat, but particularly during a growth spurt can consume incredible amounts.

Arrgh - J awake and screaming so better dash - no nap this afternoon which always means we're in for a bad night.

He was taking steps if we got him going. Now he's going all by himself. Everywhere! He finds playing chase hilarious

Happy birthday Alice!

Congratulations on J walking.

TSGardener - is it teething? DD did that but sometimes for hours and hours. She wa son edge from the teeth despite calpol etc.

Happy Birthday to all the recent and upcoming one-year-olds. Alice was one on Thursday - I just took her to see my mum during the day and then we hurried home to open presents with DH and DS. I actually found it quite tough emotionally as I never ever imagined my dad wouldn't be around for her first birthday - but there's a limit, thankfully, to how much one can dwell on the past when you have 1 & 4-yr-old DCs

Finally Alice is starting to enjoy nursery, where she goes in the first half of the week. Interested lat to see your question about siblings sharing. We had total acting out of jealousy and a terrible bedtime with DS on Alice's birthday because he 'only got one present'. He's so lovely with her sometimes and a real dog-in-the-manger at others.

Really nice to see people back on this thread. Anyone know what happened to gizmo? she vanished a long time ago, hope all is ok with her.

Alice has no teeth yet and very little hair, just like DS. She's walking with the babywalker and climbed from bottom to top of the stairs the other day. I was running a bath for her so it was a shock to turn round and see her making a start on the climb. Nights are bad but to be fair DH and I have yet to be proactive. Greensnail I spotted you on a sleep thread and took heart from your experiences as described there and on this thread.

I'm not sure its teething Latrucha, when it's been that before he's been tired and cranky, now he just wants to play. Of course, it could be a new way of him teething, he seems to like to keep me guessing, ill have a good look around in there and see if i can spot anything. I'm going to post on the sleep thread as well I think.

Related question - how many naps is everyones DC having? DS has a long morning one which has been getting later and later and then usually, but no always, a second short nap later. Are your DC's on one nap or two? It's so confusing trying to work out what they need when heir is so much going on.

CSWS I have got DS a trampoline for his birthday, one of the ones with a handle to wear him out, unfortunately it will also build his stamina up but that's a later problem. Grandma has got him a scuttlebug to ride around on. Don't know if they would suit your DC.

Bit worried about the amount of head bumps DS is collecting at the moment, every day he seems to collect at least 2 nasty knocks, mainly because he is trying to run full pelt when he has only just mastered walking. Anyone else thinking of buying a helmet?

Sorry for the typos. On phone in the car while DS sleeps. Easier to find a good view and MN than wake him.

TSGardener - DS is mostly on one nap in the middle of the day for about an hour. He's always up by 6am, often much earlier, and always seems to want to go to sleep around 9.30 but rarely does in fact. If he does, he has another around thre but only for 20 minutes or so.

We haven't considered buying a helpmet, but we have totally babyproofed our front room - in a stlye you proabably won't have seen before. We have strapped pipe lagging to all sharp edges and corners with masking tape. It's DH's idea and execution and I let him do it as if DS has a bad fall and I've not let him do it, I'll be in for it. I figure, I have most say over the DCs as I'm with them all day, so he can do it if he wants.

BTW on the sleep front. Both DCs are down to an average of one waking a night, DD often none so YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. They also both stay in their beds. DD seems quite happy now she feels she and DS are either treated equally or are companions - I'm not sure which one it is. What she can sleep through is miraculous, and even if he does wake her up, she's not making a scene. Putting them in the same room really paid off.

That sounds really familiar Latrucha. DS is usually up around 6, and then seems to want to sleep 3.5 hours later. This has then been leading to me having a battle with him for half an hour to get him to sleep, and him then sleeping for 1.5 to 2 hours. Today he went through that tired bit and seemed to come out the other side so maybe that is a battle I don't need to have.

I'll try that and see what happens, thanks for the advice. I'm going to miss that long morning nap though, I can get so much done in that time.

As for baby proofing, we have baby-proofed in terms of locking cupboards and attaching things to walls, but he usually manages to bash his head by having impressive falls and I'm not lagging the entire floor. We haven't got sharp corners on our furniture so I'm hoping he'll learn quickly that bashing into things hurts instead.

Glad to hear things are going well on the sleep front, you don't realise how valuable a good nights sleep is until you have kids.

Thanks for the birthday wishes.

Yes, CSWS, the good sleep is continuing. She's consistently waking once a night now but the time she wakes is different each night. If it happens before about midnight then I consider that as sleeping through the night as she then goes through until at least 6am. I've not fed her overnight for a few weeks now which is great as it means I can happily leave DH to sort her out some nights.

Alice is generally having 2 naps a day, although sometimes it is just one. She also wakes up around 6am and appears tired at about 9.30am. I've discovered that if I put her down for a nap at 8.30 she goes down much more easily and sleeps longer than if I leave it until she actually seems tired at 9.30.

I have seriously considered a helmet for Alice. She falls and hits her head at least once a day and the sound it makes as it hits the floor makes me feel sick every time. DD1 is possibly the most cautious child ever so she didn't really go through this phase. Think I may have to reconsider our childproofing strategies.

Can I bring this petition to your attention?

Petition to restore funding for Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Thanks.

Happy Birthday to our babies!!! Seb was 1 yesterday - oh how I cried! We have really been through it this year so I am really really proud of our little family. We just had a party at the local sandpit/park with 3 other mums all of whom have older children ds1's age and younger ones Seb's age so perfect. Oh I did manage to forget to put suncream on him tho - poor little thing had quite red cheeks yesterday, I felt truly terrible so at least I won't ever forget again! Dh also went out last night - first time in ages - to celebrate although of course I got emotional and he wanted to talk about work!!

So very many happy returns to everyone - 1 year on - wow.

Haven't been on here for AGES - hello to everyone - nice to hear that everyones babies are coming along - and that I'm not the only one with a naughty sleeper. A is really suffering with his teeth - he has 7 now - he's been getting me up every 2hrs after about 0100 and I find often I have a little nap in the morning when he sleeps (about 0945 ). He's crawling and climbing - found him standing on the picnic bench the other day and I keep having to shut the bathroom doors as he has a thing about toilets!!!!