Crawling, sitting, standing..... any Olympians in the midst? ;)

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Welcome back sassy. It's really good to hear from you, though sorry (some) things have been tough... Your life makes me wonder what I've been doing with all my time

Things have been good here - Louis has taken to food pretty well, likes pretty much everything, even (mild) curry. Still bfing, and we've given up trying to get him to drink milk from a bottle/cup, although he guzzles down water from a cup quite happily. He's shown very little interest in crawling but wants to stand all the time, and is starting to pull himself up. He's still around the 40th centile for weight. We've never had his length properly measured, but just about everyone we meet comments on how tall he is, and he is taller than several 12-15month olds we know (gets it from his dad, not me - your Chloe has bigger feet than me now!). He's just started in nursery 2 days a week as I'm starting back at work next Wednesday . He seems to be settling in well - bursts into tears as soon as I start to say bye-bye, but is happily playing before I've left the room and put my shoes back on, just seeing if I'll stay (little b**r ). He still wakes up between 2 and 6 times a night, though he usually resettles very quickly, so it could be a lot worse. Will be nice not to have to get up in the middle of the night one day though....

Good to see you back and lovely to hear how isobel and Jacob are getting on! One of my mums is going for a vbac and is getting no support from family, I have actually offered to be her birth partner as he husband won't go. She has similar reasons a toddler and a cs and the toddler is very demanding with her mum. Glad to hear the mole came to nothing but horrible you had to go through that first. Dh had an awful time at work and has been horrible to live with just couldn't put it away when he got home but after almost 2 months is resolved now. Ds1 is now having speech therapy which I am finding soooo upsetting as I feel I've let him down but thats a whole other story!!

So Luke... He was 20lb 5oz at 34 weeks, which was 75th centile, his head and length are on 91st centile and hv Sao his weight will probably catch up although he's been on 75th since few weeks old. He has very blob hair but not much and its a bit of a mohican. He has 5 teeth, 3 top 2 bottom. He has been sitting for a while, wants to stand all the time but can't pull himself up yet and really isn't mobile, can bum shuffle and roll but chooses not to most of the time. Took a while to get used to food but now loves everything, wasn't keen on curry the other day. Still bf but hasn't been feeding in the night for past 3 weeks but I am jinxed when I say it on here!!!! He is the smiliest baby I have ever met and loves people so much, he's always looking for a face to smile at.

mapletrees hi. so sorry you have to go back to work, i would be freaking out. i went back to work when chloe was 2 and use to spend time crying on toilets cos she would scream when i left. glad louis likes it.
cinnamon sorry sbout your dh troubles. onviously i don't know the ins and outs of your ds1 speech problems but my brother had to have speech therapy for a while and he can talk a bloody glass eye sleep. when dp first met him he said to me "god your andrews a talker" ha. dp is not, he doesn't speak unless he has something to say and acyually comes across as shy and timid to people who don't know him, which couldn't be more wrong. anyway, i digress. hopefully he will be fine. i think i need to be more adventurous with food after reading some of your posts. mine have a mixture of chicken, fish, meat and differemt vegies. i haven't gone down the curry chilli gravy route yet cos i've worried about the salt in them?

Hi sassy!! lovely to hear from you, and lovely to hear everyone's condensed updates, as I always seem to miss stuff!
It sounds like you've had a very full-on few months, so glad you're all ok and that the pregnancy is going well.
Life here seems to be so hectic, (I don't know how you are juggling yours) I'm struggling with a 3.5 yr old and 8 month old!
Flynn is huge, no idea how much he weighs but there doesn't seem to be much difference btwn him and DD!! He is cruising lots and very determined to get everywhere, constantly tumbling and bashing various parts of himself but just gets up and carries on!!
He is still BF alot and waking 2-3 times at night also eating well now after a slow start. He has two teeth at the bottom. Very fine hair coming now which looks strawberry blonde right now, just like DD's did, but then her's changed to full blonde. He has very dark brown eyes and crazy long eyelashes. And very cute dimples when he grins.
He is a chatterbox and makes some amazing sounds and has just started saying dadada and mumumumum.

i stopped feeding in the night a few months ago. i was mean and just ignored them and let them cry themselves back to sleep. (i give up on the controlled crying whilst still at my mums, it would make them cry more and harder) only had to do it a couple of times and then they slept though. they like to get up between 5 and 6 though!!!!! it was 5.40am this morning. had a lie in the other day as it was 6.21am! ha.

himellymooks crossed posts. jacob has been dadadadaing for a while but still no signs of mummumuming! umph. much to dp's delight. he has said nannannan a few times much to his 2 nans delight. but he won't stop crying for anyone but me, he will determinely keep screaming until i take him off whoever has him. he is a mummys boy. me and dp where talking about it the other day, we said that we thought that isobel has no preference between us, but jacob is a mummies boy.

SASSYYYYYYYYYYYYY we've missed you! Sounds like the twins are doing great and I'm so glad you & you dp have sorted things out. You've had a massively stressfull year, with the pregnancy new twins, house etc!

Olly!! He's fab, the most happy smiley chatty little man. He's got gorgeous light brown hair, has been crawling for about a week & is into every thing. 18lb 8oz (so the same as Isobel). loves his food but in small portions. 1 tooth, 1 possibly through but he won't let me feel. He loves playing with ds1 & they adore each other.

catch up properly soon. they're both in the bath & have let the water out!!!

hi banana. mine need a bath but i'm way to tired. will have to wait till morning. Also dp just phoned and about 5 mins after i put the phone down i got a banging headache. dpn't suffer with headaches usually, had to take 2 paracetomol. don't know whether thats the relief coming out or what! anyway hes on one of the bases until mon. apparently its all tents and doesnt even have a wall around it, very comforting! hes training until sat, sun is there day of rest and then he travels mon. he gets 30 mins to phone a week, so we decided to have two 15mins calls a week, rather than all at once. i put him on speaker for the babies and jacob was grinning away. i really hope they remembwr him when he gets back but im not sure they will.

oh, just cheered up considerably. remembered i have a double caramel magnum in the freezer. gonna give babies the milk and eat it in the relative quiet. cant saviour it though cos isobel can guzzle a 7oz bottle in less than 2 mins! what a lady hey?

Stupid Question: If I've bought chicken for example and frozen it, can I then defrost and cook what I want with it and then freeze a portion of it for Oliver? My thinking being that it has already been frozen once, but has been thouroughly cooked since.....?

Hi sassy lovely to hear from you. Sorry you've been having a shit time but glad all is ok now.

Quick update on me and grace, had her weighed at 7 months and she was 22lb which is 97th centile i think, she's off the scale for length and i have no idea about head circumference. She's got 8 teeth already and it seems like she's been teething since the day she was born. She's not crawling or cruising yet (but she's a demon in her baby walker) but can sit really well. She is very spirited and nothing can hold her attention for more than 2 minutes which is exhausting. I had to do controlled crying last week as rocking a 22lb baby to sleep twice a day was ruining my back, but she now self settles to sleep (thank god).

Yep, chelle you can, so long as it's thoroughly cooked in between

you can re-freeze after you've cooked it chelle!

Forgot to say - grace is doing ok with food, will try anything but can't handle lumps at all. She is fine with finger foods but for some reason anything slightly lumoy makes her gag!

SeaChelles I would say the opposite that once it's been frozen even if you cook it you shouldn't refreeze it but you can keep it in the fridge for a couple of days. If you use the Annabel Karmel books she says the same with the stock, if you make it then freeze it once you cook with it you mustn't freeze in the food you've cooked with it. I am always pretty lax with freeze thaw but from the food hygiene training I have done you shouldn't.

Sassy34264 I make my own curry and chilli (only dh eats gravy so I make him instant ) and if it the recipe uses stock I have the heinz baby stock cubes or homemade stock so the salt isn't an issue. Glad that Isobel is finally taking bottles must make life easier after your biting incident!

newmum I'd been meaning to ask how Grace got on with the controlled crying. I'm glad it's worked for you. How many times do you think you had to do it before she'd self settle?

cinnamon you shouldn't feel guilty about your DS1's speech problems. You've got some help now and hopefully that'll make all the difference.

While I've been reading this Orlaith's just stepped 2 feet between the table and the sofa without holding anything!!!! It's really strange because she's not one of these babies who holds your hands and walks. She's happy to stand and sideways step along things. (I bet I just MN jinxed it all now and she won't do it again for months. I'm definitely mentioning nothing about sleep now! )

Hi from me too, Sassy! Good to hear from you.

My quick update - Aphra is nearly 9 months old and has two teeth, both on the bottom, which only surfaced in the last couple of weeks. I'm sure she'll have quite a few others quite soon but none are breaking through quite yet. She's really keen on standing up with help from us or a solid object and can take a couple of steps with her hands held by an adult but no more than that. She wobbles around looking like Elvis or the dancing baby sometimes! She eats bits of our food but not as much as other babies do; her main food is definitely still breastmilk, but the quantity of solids she's eating is picking up noticeably. I'm not yet back at work, quite - am going back for 2.5 days a week in June and 4 days a week thereafter, so she'll be starting nursery very soon. I'm sure she'll be happy there because she's such a social little person, always smiling at people and liking meeting new folks.

I freeze, cook then re freeze!

I forgot to say earlier, Olly has finally mastered rolling back to front. Flamin MN curse, I only said 3 days ago that I can still leave him if he's on his back. Not now! Nappy changes are a nightmare. I blame myself for laughing at my cousin & friend saying "mine never do that, they always lay perfectly still for me!" I took the nappy off, turned round to get a clean one out the bag, turned back again & he was half way accross the room!!

banana you need to get one of these they are a life saver!!

www.kiddymania.co.uk/rabbits-safety-harness-changing-rabbitts-p-726.html?osCsid=d5d66c5e7f3a0

hi newmum chloe was in the 98th percentile, cos she was 9 lbs 12 born. this stomach has since stretched to fit 2 babies with a combined weight of 14lbs so dreading what this baby is going to be! i might be screaming for that c section.
hi comix mine are not very sociable at all. they cry at most strangers, but thats probably cos they have spent mpst of their time at home with me. been a bit of a hemit over winter cos i didn't want them to pick things up. i have started to go to a play group now though.
i have put two new pics up on facebook of isobel anf jacob. ngt. x

Welcome back Sassy!

Has anyone signed their LO up with a dentist yet? I thought you were supposed to do this as early as poss. However, phoned local dentist yesterday and the receptionist said they don't take children until they're 3 'as they don't have any teeth before that'?! Anyone know if this is standard practise, or do I need to find another dentist? To be fair Arlo has literally no teeth yet, but I'm going he will by the time he's 3!!

Loving reading everyone's posts!
Welcome back sassy I ditto everything already said by others about how you manage!

Jack 8months + 6 I think
at 32 weeks was 19lbs 5oz and still on 98th for length.
Rocking his Plagiocephaly helmet with pride and doesn't seem to notice it's there at all. Got an NHS letter saying that they've now decided a neurosurgeon needs to take a look..... in 3 weeks time by which time he'll have been having treatment privately for around 9 weeks! AND by the time NHS treatment started he'd be over a year old! Double
Crawls and commando rolls around but not getting upright by himself yet. Does love standing more than anything tho and feels very strong on his long, skinny legs. Not a roll/crease on him yet.
Now wears 12-18 months sleepsuits to accommodate his pins! Also vests as when his nappy is full the poppers are literally busting open if he's in a 9-12. They hang off him in terms of body width/torso tho.
Smiles constantly and doesn't seem clingy at all yet.
Adores my parents but if they take their specs off they're total strangers.
Flings his arms open and lunges to get to people he wants to cuddle.
Eats everything except of course egg! Still waiting on blood tests for that one.
Loads of gorgeous dark hair now especially at the back. Think the helmet is helping it grow.
Two bottom teeth and very hard gums at the back now too. Not had much trouble with teething. TOUCHING WOOD!
Sleeps 7.30pm to 5am, has 6oz then sleeps til 7-8am.
Brekkie then a nap for around 1-2 hrs approx 1 1/2 hrs after brekkie
sometimes takes 3-4 oz before this nap.
Lunch around 12 ish
6oz between 3-4pm and a nap in the afternoon for about an hour.
Dinner at 5-5.30pm
6oz at 7pm.. story then bed. Self settles very easily every night as we put him to bed awake..... tho just.
Has slept on his tummy since the second day of wearing his helmet
Adores watching birds and furry animals, playing with my feet and is exteeeeemely ticklish.
sitmi: poos vary from peanuts to limes! Size not colour! And stink to high heaven.
Considering a dc2 conception on our 10th anniversary in May 2012. Together not married! Worked first with Jack so we miiiiight get it

Gosh.... sorry for monster post!

Dixie We took ds1 for the first time in April 2.6yrs. My friend has been taking her dd since she was 18m. Of course they have teeth before they're 3 but I guess generally they don't have any problems. Our dentist encourages it if only to get them used to sitting in the chair & the big light. Pretty scary for a toddler.

Thanks for the link melly that looks usefull!

Sassy the twins look gorgeous. I love the pic of them both. Very cheeky!

I'm going to have my eyebrows waxed this morning. I'm trying to work out the last time they were done & I'm pretty sure I wasn't even pregnant! No wonder they're so wild! Also having my toenails foiled! Can't wait. I've given myself the morning off!

Oh and I absolutely love the fact Ollys waking up even earlier. 0455 this morning. It's great I hope he carries on, I'd hate it if he started sleeping till 7!!

Jack

Here's my scrummy lil man.

That's such a lovely photo beadit. He looks like a grown up boy!

Dixiebell our dentist told us she didn't want to see ds1 until he was 3 but to bring him along with us to get him used to it so he's been going and getting a sticker since he was 5 months!! Luke has been with me once too. Registered ds1 at the check before we were planning to take him for his check. A friend of mine didn't start brushing her dd's teeth until she had them all though so you never know what people think and perhaps dentists should look earlier rather than later!!