Feb 2011- food food glorious food, all over the walls and some in their tummies!

[debka]

Ok bit lame but started a nice new thread cos I put the 1000th post on the last one!

[NeedToSleepZZZ]

Okay Borg, I'm not doing anything so here goes,

7am milk then play
8:30 nap for about an hour
9:30 porridge then play and nappy free time
10:00 milk then dress and out for a walk etc
1pm milk and a few nibble bits ( organix things and fruit)
2/2:30pm nap for hour/ hour and a half
3:30pm dinner (puree mush or sachets)
4pm milk
6:15 bbath and massage
6:30 milk then bed

These times are all approximate as you never can tell really! Hope this helps

[chocoroo]

emski I agree with tad I'm still sterilising milk bottles but don't worry too much and sometimes just throw some boiling water at them if I need one in a hurry. A dishwasher should get hot enough to sterilise them anyway and tbh R puts everything she can find in her mouth it hardly seems worth it! Oh, and at my mums we just pop the bottle in a Tupperware box and pop some water in tub then zap in microwave for five mins.

Boo to the poorly boys tad I find temps so scary. Hope they both cool and settle.

V jealous of the needto and reastie meet up. I think ponyo and ledkr are my closest MNetters on this thread and they're miles away!

ledkr Well done you on charity shop bargains. I should have a crack myself. I'm alway taking stuff but never think to buy! Oh, and I'm still on the warm side most of the time, I've put it down to my extra pounds though.

wiggles hope you're not too badgery!

Right. Better finish drying hair - just been for a run and need to make dinner while DP puts Romilly to bed. The big news here is she is now Properly crawling. Forwards. Backwards. Side to side. Need
To buy some stair gates!

[debka]

Hey everyone and well done all shredders :)

reastie and needto glad you had a good time, am also v , and also imagining you calling each other by your MN names! reastie you out of that dress yet girl?

Had a bloody hard day today, both girls up early and had masses to do, plus visitors. Gave away a load of S's 0-3mo clothes to a friend, had to Be Strong and remind myself I really don't want another baby! AND Imy has decided to regress with the potty training, we had FOUR accidents today. She didn't notice ANY of them.

borg

6.30 ish wake up and massive bfeed

8.00 ish ready brek with strawberries mashed up

8.30 sleep till about 10

10.00 get up, small bfeed

11.00 ish a breadstick or some banana

12.00 back to bed till about 1.30

1.30 offer a bfeed which she normally refuses

2.00 lunch of samdwiches, fruit, maybe a biscuit

3.30 sleep for 45 mins

4.15 up and massive bfeed

6.00 tea- tonight she had mashed up beans, bol (as in spag bol) and cheese, then yoghurt

6.30 bath

7.00 bed

ems no idea about steriliser, sorry- no bottles here either!

[chocoroo]

Sorry, x posts Borg, our routine:

6:30am R wakes up and is bribed back to sleep with White noise
7:30qm Wake up, change nappy etc
8am Porridge with some of milk from bottle
8:30am Bottle (180ml ish)
9am Play, watch mummy tidy and shower, make bottles etc
10:15 Nap. Usually on me or in car/buggy.
11am play or we'll be out somewhere
12 lunch - half a jar or mush, a fruit pot
12:30 - milk (150ml ish)
1pm - play, go for a walk, swings
2pm - nap
4pm - Sometimes a carrot stick thing, play
5pm - tea - half a jar of something/mush, yoghurt, rice cake if still looking hungry
5:30 - milk (150ml ish)
6pm - play while waiting for daddy. Watch In The Night Garden
7:30 - nappy free time, bath
8pm - Bottle (240ml)

She's sometimes in bed a bit earlier, sometimes a bit later and that will depend on naps and sometimes what time daddy gets home.

[wigglesrock]

Borg
6.30am ish - Anna up, little bit of bottle
7.00am Breakfast - bit of cereal, fruit, toast ( not all 3 )
7.30 - 8.15 ish - Play
8.15 - 9.15am - School runs
9.15am - 11.00am -Bottle - nap, usually in carseat/buggy
11.30am - lunch - bit of jar/scrambled eggs/yogurt/breadsticks& cheese
12.00 - 1.30pm - play, scoots about in walker etc
1.30pm - 3.00pmish - out and about, school runs, sometimes naps - there is a bottle in here somewhere
3.30pm - dinner - jar/pouch/pasta/creamed pots/veg & fruit, rusk
4.00pm-5.00pm - play
5.00pm - 5.30pm - bath, play with girls
5.30pm - 6.00pm - gurn
6.00pm - 6.30pm - bottle and bed

She gets up around 2/3am for a bottle as well. All this changes if we go away for the day, am up at my mums etc

[wigglesrock]

Emski I stopped sterilising bottles last week, I just wash them in hot, soapy water, no dishwasher here, its the girls job

tadjennyp hope you can have some time to yourself when dh is home and boys start to feel better soon

debka Imy will be back on top tomorrow, I have given away some of my baby things too [sob]

Mr W borrowed Luther Series 1 to watch, he hasn't seen any of it, as you know I don't like to share Idris Can't decide if I'm cheating on Idris watching it with Mr W, or if I'm cheating on Mr W having impure thoughts about Idris. ledkr its the face-licker one on now [shudder]

NeedToSleep shredding away but finding it quite difficult this time, just can't get into

Well I look like "I've just stepped out of a salon" Olivia kept stroking my hair tonight, it was tres cute.

[Emski76]

Thanx for advice re sterilising, and thanx for link Need to.

Deb, don't worry about Imy, ignore it and remind her she needs to go in the potty/toilet. Ben started using the toilet over a year ago and sometimes still has accidents now if he's busy or too preoccupied!

Borg, our kind of routine is
6/6.30am- wake up
7/7.30am - Weetabix with fruit, small bottle of milk
8.30am - sleep, anything from half hour to hour and a half
10/10.30am - 180ml milk, rarely drinks it all, if still hungry I offer carrot stick or breadstick
12noon - lunch, usually mashed food, breadstick, carrot stick after
12.30/1.30pm - sleep, anything from half hour to hour and a half
2/2.30pm - 180ml bottle, as this morning
4.30/5pm - tea, sandwich and yogurt, sometimes mashed food
6pm - naked/nappy time
6.15pm -bathtime with Ben
6.30/7.00pm - 210ml hungry milk, sometimes drinks all, not often. Bed.

[ILovePonyo]

Ooh it is very interesting reading all these routines, here's mine Borg -

6.30/7am - up and bottle about 5oz or 6oz
8am - breakfast half a weetabix or porridge jar
9/9.15am - nap for 30mins
10am - bottle between 2oz and 4oz
Then get out for a walk!
12.30 - lunch some sort of puree or toast, yogurt or fruit puree
Nap for 30 mins somewhere around here (usually when out in pram)
1.30/2pm - bottle between 2oz and 4oz
4pm - bottle about 4/5oz
Another half hour nap here ish
5.30 - tea, puree and a rusk/fruit puree
Go out for another walk if whingy
6.30 - bath time
7pm - bottle and bed

Plus the odd dream feed about 10pm if she doesn't have much of her last bottle.

Reading that makes it sound v organised but trust me it isn't. Can you tell I've had to take her out 3 times for walks today b'cos she was being annoying Think she misses her dad, he's been about for 6 weeks and now its just boring old me...

wigs get a piccy of the new 'do' up then very cute about O stroking it.

I've finally seen who this Idris bloke is (there was a pic on the daily mail celeb section oh the shame) you're all welcome to him, not my type :)

ledkr for what its worth I'm more sweaty now, I put it down to the fact that I'm fatter, sure I didn't sweat this much when I was skinny.

Pleased meet up when well reastie and Needto! Do you live near each other then?

[reastie]

wiggles I love how anna has half an hour a day dedicated to gurning

tad hope things are more healthy soon

ponyo I have to admit Im with you on the Idris thing

I am now out of the dress - DH had to pull the zipper bit off completely to free me of it . I've only worn it a handful of times too, and it wasn't tight either

ponyo I drove to chez needto. It was about an hour and a half but it would have been quicker if i didn't get hopelessly lost

This routine thing is really interesting. I'll add our (v approximate) routine
7am - big bf then get alice up and changed
7:30 - play on mat etc
8:00 - alice breakfast (baby cereal with fruit)
8:15 - back into my bed and bf her to sleep . she'll sleep for maybe half an hour but only in my bed
9:00 - wake up and sit her in bathroom so I can get a shower
9:30 - play time
10:30 - bf
10:45 - play time
11:30 - walk her to sleep (half hour nap)
12:15 - lunch for alice followed by bf
13:45 - play time
3:00 - big bf, usually she falls asleep on me at the end and has a nap, sometimes of an hour (but only on me)
4:30 - put her in high chair in kitchen and attempt to entertain her with my bad singing whilst trying to clear kitchen and make tea
5 - dump her on mat in bathroom with dh while he has a shower so I can crack on with dinner
5:30 - alice dinner (tomato carrot stick thing, veg puree and then fruit puree and yoghurt) followed by bf
6:00 - naked time
6:15 - bath
6:30 - massage
6:45 - bf
7:00 - sleep in my bed until....
9:30 - bf dream feed
10:00 - transport to cot and keep fingers crossed for the night

I think I seem to give alice alot more milk than everyone else

[tadjennyp]

With you on the bf reastie. S has 4am, 7am, 9am, 11.30, 2.30ish, 4.30ish and 7.30ish. Still it's down from the 12 times a day he was having at one point!

Bad mummy award to me: kids have been on cbeebies website for 2 hours now.

[Deliaskis]

Hi ladies,

We've been a diseased house here, so all has been a little stressful. C's D&V was improving Monday but then me and DH got it, my Mum had C yesterday but now she has it, me & DH are better, MIL is getting it (I think). So it's all a bit manic and the week has mainly revolved around finding appropriate non-sick person to look after C. I even had yesterday off work sick (never happens) but still had to send her to my Mum's as I couldn't leave the bathroom (sorry if TMI).

Feel totally fine now, C is on the mend (it's been ages though, about 10 days ). She's slowly getting back to the right amount of milk but I' being v cautious re solids, I feel like I'm starting weaning all over again, trying the things least likely to cause her issues. I think I'll do this until we get through Friday (nursery hopefully) and then go a bit more abundance declared on more normal food over the weekend.

C finally has her first tooth! It's been a long time coming but it is here. She's sitting pretty well (would still surround with millions of cushions a la reastie but prefers pulling up onto her feet, then the cheeky blighter tries to let go with one hand but usually ends up falling body straight in timber style, stoopid. No actual crawling here yet either - but she kind of makes efforts to get places - rolls, shuffles, wriggles etc. but not properly mobile.

I'm such a slack mner that I'm too far behind reply to everyone so a random selection:

Ledkr yes same problem with sweatiness and general temperature randomness.

reastie did you ever manage to get out of the dress? Sorry but really did lol (using that as everyone on AIBU was moaning about it earlier so thought I'd rebel, plus I really did actually laugh out loud, sorry reastie) at being stuck in the dress.

NeedTo what was it like meeting an almost stranger who was dressed a little bit...you know...[whispers] oddly?

wiggles I'm vicariously excited for your haircut, as I am desparate for one myself but can't get one as DH is working Saturdays at the mo so I am stranded with 'new mum chaotic seemingly doesn't care' hair.

Emski I'm still sterilising but I don't think it's as important now. I don't sterilise spoons etc. and if I was stuck, I would do bottles in hot soapy water and drop teats into a cup of boiling water (which is all I do with dummies and C's medication syringes). I wouldn't be bothering buying a new one at this stage.

Anyway, that's about it for now. Hopefully the plague will soon be lifted from our house and we will all be back to normal.

D

[janedoe25]

delia sorry you were all plauge stricken, glad you and c are better.

Hi tad could have been worse, they could have been on the netmums site!


Sorry folks but I have nothing to add to the routine posts.

I came across a thread in bereavement about a woman who also lost her little baby girl, god it is so heart breaking to think that people are going through the same horrors as I did. It has brought back a load of horrid memories about the early days after loosing Zoe, I really don't know how I managed to get myself through them.

[ledkr]

OOO wiggs ive not slept properly since the face licker,im so glad you now know im not weird talking about it.

D's routine
7am wake up have a bottle.
8am sit in high chair and throw toast around.
8.30 school run in pram.
9.00 shake head whilst i try and force feed her some porridge.
9,30 more milk then a kip.
10am yep awake again.
10-12 have a good moan and trash the house.
12 look at me as if im mental as i try and give her lunch-eat some bread and butter but chuck most of it on the floor.
12.30 another micro nap till about 1
1pm more milk and a mooch about the floor sometimes out and about may nap in car or pushchair.
2.30ish walk to school sleep in pram untill about 4
5pm meds and milk.
6pm rice or rusk or sometimes dinner with us.
6.30 bath
7pm big bottle and bed

As you can see she isnt eating much cos she basically isnt that interested,hope that after her op it steps up a bit.

I am still sterilising but cant say why,it just seems better than having them hang about on the draining board,i am not hysterical about it tho and will happily use awell washed one if needed.
Glad to know im not the only sweater,i have spent the day in a thin cotton top,me and mny friend were in hysterics today when looking at jackets as i kept saying im too hot for a jacket haha.
Am defo getting a thyroid test too cos my mum and sis have it so have one often.

[hubbard86]

hi ladies,
emski i still sterilise but only because i make up bottles in advance. You could always cold water sterilise with milton, only takes 15 mins.
borg
Wake at 6am bottle then back to sleep till half 8
9am breakfast then dressed
9.45 various playgroups during which she'd have a bottle
11.15 nap for 45mins
12 play for 30mins
12.30 lunch normally finger food and a small bottle.
Play till 2.30 half a bottle
Nap for 1hr to 2hr half a bottle
4.30- 5.30 play
5.30 tea
6 bath then bottle then bed by 7
choc i think i'm near you i think maybe. I'm in wolverhampton.

Why can i never remember everyone?? I do read all the posts though not stalkerish at all

Had the vicar come round to talk about the christening and he has told me if i want tom to go to the senior school we like, we have to go to church every sunday until we are dead , i mean i do go once or twice a month but omg. He's only 2.10 he's not even started nursery yet. (only 11 weeks till he does though yahoo)

[hubbard86]

see it takes me so long to write one message (1hr) i miss loads of posts

[Deliaskis]

jane sorry you've been taken back there. I suppose that's just another of the difficult things, that you never truly 'get over' what you've been through, you just learn to adjust to it, knowing that Zoe will always be part of you. You did make it through those days though, I don't know how but you did.

[Deliaskis]

Sorry but Ledkr your routine cracked me up.

[Iamjustthemilkmachine]

Found you!! (it wasn't that hard, right at the top of the post-natal clubs...)
How interesting to read all your routines, I just read a book (no cry naptime solutions or something like that) and had been stressing terribly because it said that half an hour naps wasn't good enough... P only sleeps for 30 min at a time if on his own, with me he can sleep for 4 hours. But have given up stressing, surely 30 min are ok, as lots of your babies do that too.
hubbard wow, you better get down there every sunday like agood girl! for some reason I cannot begin to think about those things yet, round here there are no really good secondary schools and several people have asked if we are thinking of moving yet...!!!

[ledkr]

milk machine yes chill,you cant force them to sleep,i feel alot better since i stopped being so caught up in what she does and doesnt do.

[wigglesrock]

hubbard sorry thought christening was this weekend, at vicar, our priest had a quick chat about going to mass at some point between christening and First Holy Communion but that was it. They don't have anything to do with the school here anyway, all down to Education Board. We are really lucky - inundated with good primary and grammar schools.

Jane that must have been really difficult for you xx

deliaskis hope you are all feeling better, well done C on the tooth, we are still toothless here.

ledkr I'm a bit wigged out watching them again, boo to sweatyness, I love winter coats and unless I'm heading to the Arctic, don't think I'll need one, with all my internal heat!!

ponyo hope you have a good day tomorrow.

[WeAreBorg]

Jane I just think you are so brave and strong, and an inspiration. I would fall to pieces without my little Nut

everyone thanks for the routines, very interesting, and nice to know that they are all so different. Ha ha, the books are wrong! Will try a bit of tweakaging tomorrow. reastie and tad I'm with you on the frequent BF, although they do seem to be quicker and I think sometimes he is just pretending
delia glad the vomorrhea has settled, poor you lot. Nate is another one who doesn't seem to understand that he needs to actually hold on to something when he is standing.
hubbard your vicar sounds a bit keen, I remember frantic church-going before our wedding. I do actually go 1-2 times a month anyway for the free creche and tea but DH and I always had to make sure we were seen each time.

Bedtime for me, I think poor DH is finally home, he left the house to go to work at 6am , same again tomorrow and 12 hour night shifts at the weekend

[Grannyapple]

Hi ladies

Jane sorry to hear you've kinda had to revisit your traumatic time & experience...just remember that you did get through it, somehow. You are an absolute tower of strength xxx

ledkr your routine made me laugh!

Borg here's ours...

6.30 am..awake & bottle (sometimes only half!)
7am downstairs to kitchen..play in highchair
7.30 b'fast-w'bix/ready break/fruit puree with baby cereal
8.30am..washed & dressed, rest of bottle
9am nap for 1-1.5 hrs
10.30 playtime
11.30 lunch- meat & veg puree & fruit puree plus water (rarely takes the water!)
12.30 bottle then nap for 1-2 hrs
2pm out & about...
4pm...nap for 40 mins
5pm dinner-veg puree & from age drais & water
6.30pm bath, bed & sleep
10.30pm dream feed...barely 3 oz (thinking of dropping this).

If I'm at the gym, it's usually in the morning so I usually wake him so that his routine fits in with a 9.30-10.30 nap time (when he's in the creche) tho he doesn't always sleep when he's in there...too much distraction & then makes me out to be a fool when I say he's due a nap & then doesnae have it

reastie & need to glad to hear te meetup went well & people are normal on this thread

[ledkr]

add to my routine
sit on mn by back door having a fag whilst D screams in her cot!!!
fed up pissed off and at a loss

[tadjennyp]

Sorry, ledkr, that's rough. Hope she went down for you.

[ledkr]

Thanks tad your usual lucky vibe didnt reach me im afraid,she wnet dowmn at 2 and was back awake at 4.30 i have no idea how im going to get thru the day,she doesnt nap very well and is going to be tired,i have the worst headache too,dh has work soon. Its as if shes had a gramme of speed.wide awake playing on the floor