Just mumming (viroids 1)

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So we don't scare the viroids on the antenatal thread with horror stories of no sleep, chomped boobs and endless laundry or make them envious with tales of cuteness....

Major of the jumperoo. Dd has been in one at a playgroup and LOVES it. Sadly we have no space for something that big. She does have a door bouncer which has been fab but now I think she's getting a bit bored with just bouncing up and down and wants to do something whilst standing up. Might see if I can find a small walker thing and disable the wheels which would sort of do the same job but not nearly as well but DH is starting to put his foot down about how much space dd is taking up in the living room. I managed to make more room by putting away first the Moses basket then the bouncy chair, but I think it will be some time before we can have to of the highchair that has taken their place. Clearly we need to move house!

Esk, we live in a tiny 2 bed house with 2 kids. My poor DH, it really does his head in as it is so cluttered, so you have my sympathies.

Princess I think I've mentioned I used to be COAAF. DD is 7 &3/4 months. Crawling, standing (even badly attempting to cruise), babbling and kust generally being adorable (though still waking to feed a couple of times a night).

miffles of course! i've known you as princess for so long, i couldn't remember for the life of me who you were before!!

Not sure I have a concept of it's size! The bouncy chair and playmat ate going up in the loft. I think a blanket on the floor is enough for DS these days as he gives the stuff on the arches no attention! Have told DH that we don't have the space money for a coffee table yet so space wise we should be ok

We got rid of the playmat when I turned round to find ds had collapsed it. He was wrapped up like a pig in a blanket

Awh! Mine ends up rolling and wedging himself by an arch!

Very cute!

I have a very relaxed and contented baby today. Hopefully not the calm before another storm Bless him, he can't win really

very glad mine can't move yet!

she is very cute when she flays her arms and legs about when she's excited by something.

she's supposed to be learning about her hands at the moment - playing with them.
she hasn't yet.
although she does seem to be moving them more deliberately than before. but she hasn't put them together yet.

still, she's a cutey, so I don't care

Ds found his hands quickly, but his feet discovery was months later (way after the books predictions!). I love the arms and legs flying about with excitement stage. I have a ten minute video of ds doing this and hitting his play gym things by mistake

Awh Nickel....step away from the books!! Otherwise, one week you believe you have a prodigy, the next a special needs case! ;)

DS thinks his feet are THE BEST. Nappy changing rocks as his socks come off and feet go straight in his mouth.

Well, today he face planted out of his Bumbo straight on to the hard wood floor :( I then put him in his bouncy chair, went to the loo and cam back to find him hanging off the edge....Hurry up Jumperoo, have nowhere left to leave him!

On no, I'm dreading the escaping stage. I think your ds and mine could be good friends Val.

We would come back and find them crawling along the top of the curtain rail or swinging from the lampshade!

DS wants whatever is just out of reach, always. I don't think he has ever sat straight in his bumbo. Always crooked to reach something he shouldn't!

Today DD threw her self backwards on my knee and started stuffing her feet in her mouth while making, This is what these are for Mum noises. She was trying (and succeding) to stop me from looking at the computer. She normally doesn't care about the foot/mouth combo any more.

Hehe DD would be the older kid who taught them how to get up the curtain rail... Her personality is really coming out know and mischievious(sp?) is the word that comes to mind!

esk we have a tiny house so we got the Fisher Price Bounce and Spin Froggy (or something like that). Isobel LOVES it and bounces in there (on a good day) for up to an hour! Wahoo. Hands-free time for me . It takes up half the floor space of the jumperoo but does the same thing.

cc I totally sympathise. I had a crash and burn moment at four months. DD slept well up to about 3 months - 11pm dream feed, 3am wake-up for a quick feed, up at 6-7. Then all of a sudden she started with hourly waking. We brought a bedtime routine in, but that meant the hours of 6-8pm being taken up with feeding, bathing, rocking, feeding, rocking, etc, and then us being knackered, and then she still woke at 9pm, 10pm etc. She was suddenly so much more energetic, though she's always been energetic. I thought I was coping fine, then all of a sudden I was freezing cold and shivering, had a really high temperature, felt sick, and thought I was really really ill. A good night's sleep and hey presto, I wasn't ill, I was just knackered! Sometimes it all just gets overwhelming, doesn't it?

FWIW, the hourly waking has never really stopped at our end. We aren't up for controlled crying - how's it going val? - but we are thinking of starting the pick-up, put-down baby whisperer method from Friday.

I think whatever you do re: feeding you wish for something else. We're still BFing and weaning is not going fantastically (she doesn't really want to eat anything, though we manage a bit each day). And I would now LOVE to give her a bottle of FF - so I could get a bit of sleep occasionally, so I could go out without her just once in a while, or so I could know that she's okay at nursery and not going hungry. She's always hungry when I turn up to feed her and it unsettles her. I do like my sneaky visits though

Welcome back princess! And wahoo! Amazing news re: the BFP! And on getting over the first trimester. Yay, another JSing baby to look forward to.

Evening! Thanks for the welcome. Great to be amongst friends again, although nickel has done a sterling job of keeping me company!

Lovely hearing about all the bubs. It is only a little bit scary, as I figure if you've all managed to live to tell the tale, surely I can too! And the adoration and love in your posts...good to be reminded that it's all worth it.

Have had a tough day myself. Still working fulltime and feeling heavy and tired. What worries me, is I'm only 5 months and if I feel big now, what'll I be like in 4 months?! But we go on holiday on Thur (final pre-baby holiday to Egypt, whoop whoop!) and hopefully a week's rest will restore me for the final stretch.

Is it ok to complain this early?!

Controlled crying really worked for us. The first night was awful, the second infinitely better, the third better still. Occasionally patchy but it has also really helped getting him to nap, in his cot, during the day. The past couple of nights he has finally stopped his waking up 30 mins after being put to bed. I never thought I would be one for trying it but it has literally transformed us. I still wouldn't say to everyone "Oh, you must try it" as I think both you, your DP and your baby have to be in the right place for it and we just were. He still wakes up once or twice for a night feed but since this is one of our only BF sessions I actually like it That said we started weaning, more formula and controlled crying all at the same time and as he approaches 6 months I just think he has finally settled into himself. If any of that makes sense.

Bit worried about him over the past couple of days. I think he may have a little tummy bug. There was sick yesterday and today every nappy was a dirty one and it started to get mucousy (TMI). That said, it was like this at about 8 weeks old when he first showed teething signs so I wonder if it is teething mark II?

While there is mention of poo...what should ds's nappy be like now he has started solids? Not sure where it is now, but I don't think the poo chart goes up to six months anyway.

Gross, just gross. Seriously. There is something to be said for breast feeding until they are old enough to wipe their own arses!

Seriously...if my experience is anything to go by they do smell, as we put it in our NCT group, like human poo. Bad human poo. Much more solid too. To begin with you can pretty much tell the veg coming out too . In our case they are stupidly frequent. DS used to give me one pooey nappy every 8-9 days. I now have 3 or 4 a day....

His aren't very frequent, but they wouldn't make Gillian McKeith happy . Worried they are too solid so going to offer more water and feeds around meal times. Don't you just love having poo conversations!

princess this will probably be one of your main conversation topics when your little one appears! Life is glamorous as a mum.

ah the poo. The poo talk never seems to end either. At practically 4yrs (!) DS still talks about poo. His current thing is he's a bit afraid of pooing as he thinks it will block up the loo. I hate to think of such a small person making a poo big enough to do that! DDs are all over the place (well not literally) in that they change in size apperance, texture and frequency depending on what she's eaten, how much (usually not much) if she's teething again (currently working on number 8, I just wish she'd stop for a while!) etc etc. DS was much easier at this age.

Number 8 tooth or poo FVP

CC DS' are very solid in comparison to breast milk poos but not like and adult's if that helps?!

I am also one of those bum smelling mums now...as in I smell his bum. I hope I don't actually smell of bum...although...

Spoke to soon! Two massive poo explosions and all is well again. They looked much more normal.

DD has already learned that farts are funny

Not for daddy, though, who has become crap at nappy changing now he only gets to do 2 or so a day.
She had 3 nappy changes in the space of an hour last night just to give daddy some practice mummy and DD thought it was hilarious.
heeeheeheeeheeeheeheeeheeheeee

I met a guy at the weekend who had only ever changed 5 nappies. His ds was 6 months old .

bloody hell!

that's not quite as bad as my dad, though, who, when meeting DD for the first time, proudly announced that he had never changed a nappy in his whole life.
and he managed to add at another point in the day "so you're happy now you've got your little doll"
lovely, dad, showing yourself up to be the bigot you truly are.