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 :).

Well, I never knew when they stopped beign a baby but a friend told me they are toddlers after one.

Does not help my broodiness one bit.

Congratulations on the job.

I wouldn't say they're toddlers until about 18 months myself if that helps at all. Maybe we need an inbetween word for when they're no longer babies but not yet toddlers. I was wondering when a toddler becomes a child as well. DD1 seems less toddlerlike every day which is a bit sad too.

I know. DD is such a little girl now. I know we'll have a good time together, but I like her being a wee one.

I think they're babies until about 18 months - and if not walking then probably longer (I'm not prepared to accept that the baby days are over quite yet! - Not having any more either so will string it out as long as possible!)
I reckon they stop being toddlers at some point between 3 and 4 depending on the child.

LaT - Lol at your comment about Daniel's laugh!
Greensnail - Alice's talking sounds amazing - hoover - blimey!! I get excited about Emma saying Buh buh (Blueberry) or Buh (ball) or Buh buh (banana) !

greensnail they have the crashmat thingys in Tescos for a fiver as well btw.

Fergus slept in his cot all night last night for the first time ever. He did have 2 feeds still but that is progress as far as I am concerned. Have got feeds down to 1 -2 a night and wakings are lasting a lot less time when I dont feed him now. He just crys for 5 minutes or less so things are getting slowly better here. Tonight we are going out and my sister is looking after him (its our anniversary) so he will have his first night away from us. Quite nervous but excited to see how he gets on!
Amazing weather here for last two days but today it blinking freezing. Went paddling with fergus in river yesterday and he insisted on going in up to his nappy. This is the same boy who screams when I put him in an inch of bath wtaer!

madamefreckle - yes, we're constantly amazed by the words she comes out with. I'm not getting too excited about it though as dd1 had a lot of words quite early too and then seemed to forget them all when she was concentrating on learning to walk.

Happy anniversary goodname! I hope Fergus enjoys his night away and behaves for his auntie - I bet he'll be just fine.

Wow, Greensnail. I managed to miss that. I thought I was imagining things hearing D say 'Hello'! Maybe I'm not.

Good grief all these words! Seb has none...should I be worried???

I wouldn't worry at all minimoo. As I say DD1 had a lot of words early on and her talking is definitely below average for a 2.5 year old now. I think Alice's speech is better than hers was though so maybe she'll continue to be an early speaker. Her new word today was "dance" which was accompanied by a little dance - very sweet.

I definitely need to go and buy those crash mats for the patio. She managed to nose dive out there this afternoon and ended up with a nose bleed. She doesn't learn though - I found her standing out there again 10 minutes later

Hi ladies, I honestly don't know where the past year went but I don't seem to have managed to post in all that time . My old moniker was meggymegmegs and I had a boy called Jimmy, hopefully some of you might remember me and you don't mind me crashing back on here a year on!

Going to have a read back to catch up with all your news. In summary for us, jimmy has just started sleeping through (thank the lord for controlled crying), we've recently moved house and I'm just starting a new job so things have been manic.

Ok, off to catch up on 12 month's chat!

:)

meggy! I remember you :).
Great news on the sleeping through. My ds has managed it 3 times in his life so far. 2 of those were in the last couple of weeks though, so that's promising :).

minimoo - def don't worry re words! My dd didn't say a lot until maybe 14/15 months iirc, and then around 18/19 months her speech really took off and within no time at all she was streets ahead of her peers.
My ds1 then barely said anything until he was well over 2, and it's only in the last 2 or 3 months that he has started to catch up a bit (he's 2yrs 8 months now).
Ds2 hasn't said anything yet (although is the youngest on this thread). But I bet he'd win a stair climbing contest any day of the week instead!

Ohh I think my J could take on your ds2 CSWS - first time he saw the stairs (a month ago) he crawled straight up them without looking back! But no words at all yet apart from the sounds!
Today is J's first birthday - can't believe the time has gone so fast. I am home this morning until break as a speacial treat, Family-IL round at tea time, but party on Sunday afternoon. To celebrate his birthday, J slept 7pm-6am last night - woohoo!!!

I'll let Ruth join in the stairs race- she started when DH was "looking after her", wondered where she had gone, and then spotted her near the top of the stairs!

I had been wondering how to teach her to cone down backwards, and not use her favourite sofa-dismounting technique of diving head first, but every time I tried to get her to reverse down a few steps, she would start back up again- like a wind up toy! I was so pleased last night when she randomly reversed down 5 steps.

To get out of the conservatory she just goes carefully forwards, but it is just the one step!

We've had lots of words, but the only one to stick is duck. She's obsessed, and has stolen one from granny's house!

Got to get her up now, as she has her first settling session for nursery this morning.

She slept through on Friday night, 10-6.30. But since 6.30 I haven't had more than 1.5hrs straight as she had a fever all weekend. Yesterday was the first day that she ate more that 1 strawberry, and we're still dealing in pieces rather than portions of pasta etc.

Ok, I've gone back to the meggy nickname, was confusing myself there with the whole bluesteel nonsense . Thanks for remembering me CSWS, the original pregnancy thread got me through some pretty tough times, I honestly hadn't even imagined it was still going, but am delighted to see all the familiar names.

Jimmy is a stair racer and a loo lover too. Also obsessed by remote controls, my iPhone, the laptop... can you see a technology trend? Cutest current thing is using everything as a phone, so for example, he holds a toy car up to his ear and says 'hiya' or 'ed' ('Ted', his cousin's name), then repeats with a teddy bear, plate and on and on.

CC really has been great for us on the sleep front, I resisted for ages thinking it would be traumatic all round. Tried, pick up put down, patting etc, but Jimmy just found it confusing and distressing and it was taking hours. Since we implemented CC he just got it straight away, I think it was the only thing that made sense to us all. I know it's not for everyone, but for us, yes.

Have loved catching up with everyone's news and can't believe they're all 1 or thereabouts. Jimmy was 1 on 16th May and his favourite present was this from my mum and dad. Just hoping for a bit more sun so we can enjoy it more (I live in the rainy north west).

Those crash pad thingies are a great idea. We have a set of stairs in the garden that Jimmy tries to walk down (because his cousins do), my heart's in my mouth and he just won't do the turn around thing that he's happy to do indoors.

Sorry for the long long post, over-excited to be back on board!

Well today was J's big day - by the time I was home from school at 5pm he was stressed out, tired and hungry so wasn't much in the mood for present opening. We had some fun though and have some lovely pictures to remember the day. Birthday pressie for mummy and daddy was J sleeping 7pm-6am!
1st month TTC didn't happen as AF also arrived today. What timing!

J is good at getting down off the sofa and the bed, but we've yet to train him on the stairs...

Well, your babies may be faster than D up the stairs, but no one's baby is stupider doing it than mine . He thinks going upstairs is so great that he has to stop every three or four to wave his hands in the air and look behind him to see who is watching. Not a good plan, Danny boy.

Hi Meggy I remember you too. How has the first year of being a mummy been for you?

I still can't believe how big and strong Danny is. DD is such a little dainty thing compared to him. She did pull him backwards off the sofa yesterday though so I guess she can give as good as she gets for now. He is incredibly jealous if I try and cuddle DD or read a story. He just stands and roars and roars at us. It can be very difficult.

Thanks LaT. I've loved being a mum thanks, of course huge ups and downs but I've been lucky to have a very supportive DH and family and Jimmy's been a good baby so I've had it easy. Would love to start TTC, in fact it was our plan to do so about now but I've been forced to change jobs so I'll need time to settle in and more importantly qualify for mat pay!

Totally know what you mean about the turning and waving lark on the stairs, have had that too.

Oh and Bravegirl, a very happy birthday to J for yesterday

meggymegmegs! Hello!! Good to hear you're doing well and enjoying it all.
Bravegirl - you are that - TTC already! It took me nearly 3 years before I thought that it would be a good idea. Having said that, I think having two close together would be wonderful but you'd need to be more organised or calmer in chaos than I am!

Barbeasty - I hope Ruth enjoyed nursery. We're at exactly the point you described with stairs - Emma is that wind-up toy! I pull her down 3 steps on her tummy and she just scuttles straight back up them...again and again!

Ruth did ok thanks. I stayed for the session on Wednesday, which she enjoyed. Then yesterday she did the same session but I left her to it. They said she cried occasionally, when she realised I wasn't there, but generally she was fine.

Next week she has two proper sessions (this week's were a bit shorter) and then it's two full days a week until she starts school!

It gave me a chance to go and get her birthday present and mooch around Cirencester child-free though, which I've never managed before!

Just a quick post to see if it triggers this thread to appear correctly in the new iPhone app.

Hi everyone, haven't checked in for ages but just wanted to wish all the June babies a happy birthday! Hope you've all enjoyed the first year amid the sleep deprivation etc

Laurie turned 1 on Wednesday and is basically into everything and great fun, though the end of the little baby phase is bittersweet since he's our last.

Have fun with the celebrations over the next few weeks!

Hi everyone, has anyone tried to introduce cow's milk yet? Jimmy was on the breast until I went back to work at 6 months, then formula since then, both with no problems.

He was 1 on 16th May, so for the past few weeks he's had cow's milk in his cereal and we've been gradually adding cow's milk ounce by ounce to his bottles, again, no problems.

Then this weekend we completely made the switch to cow's milk and all hell has broken loose. He has had awful diarrhoea and his bottom has been so sore he screams when I'm changing his nappy (which was about 15 times yesterday). We've now switched back to formula and the problem's getting better. He's well in himself and is eating and drinking fine but I'm debating whether to get the doctor involved. Has anyone had similar experiences or have they taken to cow's milk well when it was introduced?

meggymegs - you already qualify for stat mat pay. Is it additional pay from your company that you are waiting to qualify for?

Lovely to see you again too woofie. These birthdays do bring folk out of the woodwork .

meggy - all of mine have been milk intolerant, so def no cows milk introduction here. tbh your gp or even a paed is unlikely to do much if he can tolerate some degree of milk. You will just need to revert to formula (which is made from cows milk so if he can have this ok then any intolerance is mild) or another milk alternative (eg oat milk with added calcium), although note that alternative milks aren't such complete nutrition (though this isn't a real worry if he is eating a good diet too). Has he been having cheese and yogurt ok for a while?

Yes, CSWS, it's the extras I'll be hanging in there for, had to make do on SMP with Jimmy (due to working in male-orientated business with no family-friendly policies) and christ it's tight isn't it?

Thanks for the milk advice. Yes, cheese and yogurt no problems either so hopefully it is just a mild reaction. Will stick to formula for now and maybe try again in a few months. Really hope it's not a problem for him long-term, it must be so hard to steer them away from all that dairy loveliness for their whole childhood :(.

woofie lovely to see you back here, it's like 12 months ago all over again, I remember when we were all moaning about how tired we were and just hoping it would happen soon :)