Bear is still on the number 2 teat - he just doesn't like the number 3 ones. He drinks water from a sippy cup with silicone teat but doesn't like the hard one yet. Had only really just thought about wrestling a bottle away, but for the time being whilst he's content I've no plans to rock the boat. We use this sippy for water which he takes whenever he wants (left on edge of coffee table). Like moo's baybee, he drinks loads & loads of water.
cunty I'm sorry, it completely slipped my mind after your post last week. No, I do not think Rastus is obese. He is a super healthy, big (yep, no denying it!), active machine. He is not an immobile butterball - which you do unfortunately see from time to time. I think it's actually quite hard to over-feed them, I don't know how you'd go about doing it tbh. I was reading just last night that from 12-18 months their food intake decreases as they've now passed the "big" growth spurt, I see this already with Bear who has started turning his nose up at dinner and even his fromage frais! Previously he wolfed down every last bit of it. So see if that happens at all? This is also the start of power-games with food, and we should avoid all the "if you don't clear your plate, I'll tie you up and just you wait until your father gets home" bollocks. Obviously you don't want to put him on a diet (because that is mad) and you don't want to accidentally transfer any food "ishoos" that you might have to him, but maybe give him carrot/apple sticks as finger food rather than the ubiquitous Gregg's sausage roll. Don't forget too that he's going to be out on his BMX/Chopper/whateveritisthesedays with his friends, making goalposts from jumpers, climbing trees and chasing girls for kiss-chase - and boys do burn off their energy whilst girls just see their arse expand... anyway, upshot is - please don't worry about Rastus. He looks great (to me!).
medee Your afternoon out sounds lovely - get you with your fancy nails. As for your husband, yes, 'tis totally normal. Whilst they are good partners & fathers, they just don't appear to cope as well as we do. But, it's madness not to hand over the reins! If you can't trust your husband not to break the baybee, who can you?
medee We got a pretty basic cot from IKEA which has two heights and one side can be removed at a later date (6 months from now?) so it'll be a little bed. There has honestly only been about 3 week's worth of "back pain" associated. This is because that was the gap we had between hauling himself up the bars & frightening us, so we lowered the bed, to standing up all the time and so easy to lift up. But yes, it can knacker your back but I sure as hell don't know what the solution is. Perhaps be a teenage mum? They don't complain about creaky backs! I don't even do the stairs first with him, I need to go down once on my own to give my knees a chance. Oh, if only I'd been a statistic! 