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....

Thanks Nickel I'll contact you in a couple of months about it as her birthday isn't til July and if I got it now I'd have to keep it for myself

ttl - i have taken to doing very down-beat "will you please just stop crying?" at her. in the gentlest sing-song voice i can muster.

@ fej

Happy Mothers Day everyone. Hope the baby Viroids have been spoiling Mummy Viroids.

mine got dh to make me a cake!

It's all gone quiet over here.

Dd has just had a spectacular tantrum because I wouldn't let her throw her spoon on the floor repeatedly. It was really really funny! Every time I gave her an empty spoon to play with she took it delicately and put it in her mouth properly. Every time I tried to either give her a spoon with food on or feed her directly she tried to hit the spoon or grab it and fling it away. So I said "no", not crossly but more firmly than I would normally speak to her. She threw a right wobbly!

ERTD got me today. because I wanted to take dd swimming. But I suppose getting to nearly 7 months isn't bad going.

Hey ladies!

We had a lovely Mother's Day - drove back from the NW where we had been at a wedding! DS was very well behaved. He had got me a card and a lovely Emma Bridgewater 'Mummy' mug. He and DH then took me to Pizza Express

Great news here, DS's MRI came back clear. We have to wait a couple of weeks on his genetic blood tests and now he has been referred to an oculaplastic consultant and a neuromuscular consultant. His glasses have arrived and were bent within 3 hours...he chews the arms...the only time they stay put is when he is in his pushchair with his fleece star on so he can't pull them but he them promptly falls asleep!

Esk - DS had got a good line in temper tantrums if things don't go his way. We go to Monkey Music and he throws a paddy every time one instrument is taken off him, even though it is replaced with something else...

Not sure it's the right thing to say but thanks for letting us know about ERTD. I keep thinking I am getting period pains. Have started taking the Metformin again now...would really like a 'free' baby. Can I ask, have you finished BF? We nearly have. DS has one boob at night. Went 36 hours the other day...don't really get engorged but was uncomfy so gave in and had a snuggle.

Hope you all have sunshine to enjoy x

Val that's brilliant news about DS. I'm really surprised he has glasses so young though. My brother has a significant astigmatism and is hopeless without glasses but even he didn't get his specs until he was 2 or so. This was 1980s NHS though.

Still bf here. Dd is on 3 meals and 3 feeds a day, then still has a cheeky feed at night. I need to start getting tough on that one. But one of the daytime feeds is formula. I'm considering switching that one back to bf, but tis really inconvenient when I'm cooking dinner to have to stop and feed, much easier if DH can sort out bath and bottle.

Only picked up as a by-product of his droopy lid. It has caused pressure on his cornea, hence the astigmatism (rather than the eyeball changing shape). I am hoping once lifted it will 'spring' back. No idea if this is what will happen though

glad he's got the all-clear. :)

i took DD swimming last night
i've been meaning to take her for ages but have been slow getting costume.
Mothercare in town has now got their swimming stuff in (for summer i suppose), so we used our vouchers and got 2 pairs of swim nappies (far too big! )(small size - will fit to 6 months), 1 uv swimsuit in a turtle deign and 1 set matching armbands.
she really enjoyed the swimming, but when we got back to the changing room, she started crying and wouldn't stop.
i couldn't even feed her to calm her - she just wasn't having it.
decided best just to get her home, and i managed to bang her head on the car door (she was crying anyway, so it didn't seem to make much difference!)

I am trusting you are all enjoying the sunshine! I have flip flop tan lines so I can only assume I am making the most of it all.

DS has a summer cold, poor poppet. He sounds like a pug dog I can't get enough of him at the moment. Hate thinking about returning to work and have taken to slinging him everywhere so I have constant cuddles (under the guise of it being easier for him to breathe being upright :)) Massively broody

we've been loving the sunshine too. Poor DS, hope his cold gets better soon. I too have been rueing the rate at which my baby girl is growing up, not helped by cuddles with a couple of very snuggley newborns recently. But I'm not ready to go through it again yet. Not a good birth experience followed by a hysterical banshee of a baby, it'll be a while before I'm really ready to face that again. We're down to only 2bf a day now, with a bottle before bed. Just this week I've cut out the night feed, not that dd is very impressed with this course of action!
On the other hand, dd is much more fun now, with her talky noises, little games, bouncing about the place, desperate to get moving. I don't really want to go back Tia tiny screamy thing, I think I have pink specs on as to what it was all really like!
When do you go oback to work val? I'm doing 2 days a week from June then have the summer hols, then have a new job working every morning from sept. trying to sort out childcare now for the September bit which is proving a bit of a nightmare as so expensive!

Not back at work until very end of Sept mat leave finishes end of Aug (DS was a very good boy and arrived the day after it started!) so with banks hols and annual leave I am lucky. Child care makes me weep. I really like the nursery we have found but it's going to cost £1200 and something a month for 4 days doesn't cover how I feel.

Hey lovelies - very quite in here! How are you all?

We are good here - few break throughs. DS has stopped coming into bed with us over the past 3 nights. We have managed to settle him in his cot when he wakes up at 2-3am. I hope it continues. He has however started regularly waking between 6 and 6:30...I shouldn't really complain but he used to always wake 8:30-8:45 so it is a bit of a shock He is desperate to crawl but doesn't really get it just yet. He is solid as a rock 99% of the time sitting. I have tried putting toys just out of reach but he has Inspector Gadget arms and seems to reach them without moving! He is very mobile though - if that makes sense?! I put him down in one place and he ends up all over the room via rolling and he must be shuffling too - albeit millimetres at a time!

We are struggling to keep his glasses on...they only really stay put when he is in his fleece starfish as he has no hands! That said he can still pull them down.

Had a horrible moment last week as he fell off our bed (wooden floors). I was in the room too which made me feel even worse. I sort of saw it coming. He was rolling around and the just went. I could never imagine how anyone could let it happen before but it was just like lightening. He cried for about 30 seconds and was then fine. No lumps, no nothing. I have never felt so sick and scared in my life though.

I think we may be teething again as everything is fair game for a chew!

We are lucky enough to have a £50 M&P voucher that work gave me when he was born. I don't know what to spend it on. Clothes are an idea but I want to buy something I wouldn't otherwise - if that makes sense. Any suggestions?

In other news, off to a nutritionist on Friday to see if a diet overhaul will get the ERTD back and sort the PCOS out. Bit keen on number 2

Well DS walks holding fingers and talks a bit. He says banana which bizarre because I have a phobia of them plus the usual mama, dads and also eau! I'm slightly gutted his first 'recognisable' word in one language is French. The others could be either.

Childcare costs a bloody bomb. I don't know whether to continue working when we come back but not working would kill me. I love DS but the sheer domestic drudgery and APing 24/7 would kill me. Plus it's good for DS to have an attachment to another adult.

In other news I'm really back on the JS thread. I know the newborn phase is a bit of a PITA but u think sooner rather than later would be better...

God, I LOVED the newborn phase. DS was a breeze for the first 8-ish weeks, then a bit fractious (pardon the pun!) and then a breeze for another few months. I miss breast feeding and the sleeping. Yes, kill me now. I am sure he will be a devil as a toddler/teenager to make up for it though

What childcare do you use Frak? DS will start nursery in August for 4 days when I return to work. I really want to spend more time with him but financially if I do less than 4 days all my benefits get impacted. The cost of nursery is just Even if I did stay at home I think nursery a few mornings a week would be needed for that very reason. I don't want him to get to 4, start school and not have any experience of that sort of situation IYSWIM? Plus, he has no sort of attachment issues with me He loves everyone else, charming!

We're going gang busters here. DD has started standing up without holding on to anything for up to 10 seconds or more at a time. And this morning had a crack at using her spoon properly, loading it herself. She soon decided it was easier to tip the bowl on her lap and eat with her fingers though

It's school holidays here and I must say I am missing my DS free mornings.

Frak how old is M now? He must be nearly a year now. (and how exciting for TTC!)

1 in 10 days!!!! Need to organise his birthday party.

OMG - I cannot believe how quickly this year has gone!! I remember you giving birth and me thinking 5 more months to go

Birthday cake. YUMMY!

Wow birthday already! I was in hospital at the same time having stupid stop/start going no where contractions. It's another 6 weeks til DD.

Are you having a party? Any ideas for prezzies?
I'm really struggling if I want to do a party or what to get.

Hello viroids! katee here [waves to all the viroids]

Sorry for going awol, I've been a bit busy - I don't know about you lot, but my social life hasn't been this good in years!!

Having great fun with DS, he's such a smiley little thing and into everything! He's 6 months now, as of last week (where, o where has the time gone?) and we're full into weaning, which is amazing fun, esp as we have gone straight for BLW. I agree, broccoli is the best if not the messiest...

Congrats to Bam and how long now for you princess?

Any one a bit 'meh' with BLW? I realise that is a blasphamous statement on MN!

I have always combined both schools of thought and to be honest DS has never had puree - from the shop bought meals he has always had 7-10 month type food! Plus the finger food.

I find BLW very frustrating, as does DS. Fruit and veg are fine but I struggle with proteins. Things on toast seem to be a staple or strips of chicken.

I find it impossible to give DS 'just a bit of what we have'. Especially if it is soup, salad etc. and I make most things we eat quite spicy. Plus I eat a lot of protein plus veg.

Sorry - frustrated as will continue but just want it to be a bit 'easier' IYSWIM?!

Ooh active thread again

Another blasphemous one here. I loved the idea of BLW but it didn't work for us in its pure form. Dd gets too frustrated if I try to get her to feed herself, she loves her food and wants me to get it in quick!
She has a lot of finger foods, usually lunch is entirely self feeding, breakfast a combination and tea is mostly me feeding her followed by self fed fruit.
She also doesn't have a bit of what we're having. The idea is that its less stressful, but I find it more so as we don't eat til much later. Occasionally I will give her some of our meal the next day if it's suitable.

I had a real wibble about BLW a few weeks back as DD seemed to stop putting on weight (and she isn't a chubby baby to start with). However I realised she just needed more food. Started giving her one or two snacks a day (depending on naps etc) and she's chubbed up again. Some meals she eats lots some most of it goes on the floor but I can see over the course of the day she's getting what she needs. I'm also probably not BLW in the strictest sense, but I (like to) think not far off. It helps she eats with DS, so I can cook for them and then for DH and I later. If I swing it right the kids have left overs the next day. I should batch cook, but just never seem to manage it.

Val things like soup I load the spoon for her and let her get it to her mouth herself (or near/over her shoulders/all over the floor). This is still counted as BLW as they don't start loading the spoon themselves til they're older (DD did a few times one day at breakfastr last week, then decided grabbing muesli with her hands was still easier).

(okay I try to help guide it to her mouth, but she is in control otherwise she pulls the spoon out of my hand and the food def goes over her shoulder!)