October 2011: Gaining teeth but still losing sleep.

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hope this works! the pressure is on at 3.30am!!!!

am impressed by Jessica, A is trying so hard to crawl but not quite there yet! He's sitting quite happily now though which I find so much more fun in terms of games we can play

I've been so quiet I lost you all the thread dropped off.

Wow - well done Jessica! I keep finding Leo somewhere away from where I left him, like on his face at the top of his cot when I placed him on his back at the foot. But he never moves when I'm watching! Sneaky boy

L loves his Exersaucer. I will post a photo on FB. We had a great night last night with just 1 wake up. Tonight we are back to usual, first feed 11.30pm, expecting 2 more (please no more!).

I know what you mean about sneaky babies, the other day I wasn't sure if Amotai had moved or not, it was only the trail of vomit blobs that gave him away!

pink it sounds like she is in proportion so that's good, do you think the lip tie has affected weight gain?

PA - Yes, I think it may have done - I don't think she latches on particularly well, and getting the milk out is tiring so she falls asleep during almost every feed. She is a lovely happy baby between feeds though and sleeps brilliantly at night, as she's awake almost all day (when not feeding!) - and is flapping and kicking about loads so maybe she's just burning off all the energy. I'm short with small bones, and size 8/10 so I think she may take after me, despite that though I would like her to be growing a little more than she is.

I need to go back and read to catch up but in the meantime I wondered whether anyone had seen this thread about socket covers? When we bought this house they were everywhere (and we bought the house off a Doctor) but it seems they are actually really bad.

www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/index.html

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1438572-to-remind-you-that-SOCKET-COVERS-ARE-DANGEROUS?pg=3

DD was/is a small one and in hindsight it is just her. Sounds the same with your one. Did upset me when she got to 0.4th but professionals were unconcerned.

Thanks for the bio oil recommendations I got some yesterday. Babies are amazing! You wouldn't think William had had surgery a couple of weeks ago, hes back to normal, throwing himself around and getting cross because he can't quite get where he wants to go :o if it was me I'd still be sitting on the sofa feeling sorry for myself!

:o for Jessica, sounds like she'll be getting around under her own steam in no time.

pink as long she is well and active which it sounds like she is I wouldn't worry too much. You know what's normal for M by now as well so will be able to tell if something's wrong.

Apologies to anyone I've missed, I'm sure I have but I'm on the IPad and scrolling back is tricky. Hope you are all having a good weekend :)

Thanks PA and strawberry! :)

Hi all, just a quick check in. Survived the flight fine. She was better than I thought she would be!

Just had bit of a disaster though... Was using the steam pots on the cooker for bottles/cups/dummys etc. wasn't big so having to do few at a time. Didn't give it much thought that the water level would need topped up so by time I was doing cups and dummy's, there was a tiny bit left. Went back to check 10 mins later and the kitchen was full of smoke!! It had all melted into the pot . Whole house is now smelling of plastic

Oh no Fuzzzy have you ruined all of your bottles?

Cheshire I had no idea about the sockets thank you! I would have bought loads of those

Pink agree with others that if DD is ok you should trust your instincts as you know her best. She's probably going to be gorgeous and petite

Strawberry glad W is feeling better

lp bottles fine thankfully. Just her wee tommee tippee cup and a dummy. Couldn't believe how it happened! Think I'll stick to Milton tablets from now

Hope everyone is good

pp agree, dd will probably just be a wee petite girl. Have the HV shown concern over it?

Thanks pebble and fuzzy - developmentally M is doing everything the HV would expect of a 5 month old and she was smiling away during her weigh in. It says "monitor weight" in the red book, yet again, but as weaning is so close I don't think the HV is too concerned at the moment.

pp it must be hard though to think that in 5 months she has only gained a little amount but as you say, with weaning soon I think you might find weight goes on much faster. I know in the 6 or so weeks that S has now been 'eating' she has jumped a few lines on the charts going from 9th at birth to around 35th when I had her weighed on Wednesday. She is the same for length so is in proportion, just a bit petite . When do you plan to start weaning? Have they advised you early?

Morning ladies! How was everyone's night?

Fuzzzy, that's great that S was so good on the plane, especially with your trip to Canada coming up. Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Strawberry, I'm so pleased W has recovered so quickly .

PP I bet you'll be the same as Fuzzzy and see a big jump in weight when you start weaning.

I'm still battling with the bottle, she's a cheeky wee rascal and still refusing it. I think I might have to either call in the big guns and get my mum through to help (I think DH and I are giving in too quickly!) or just jump in the deep end and go out for a good few hours so that she (and DH) have no option but to use the bottle - sink or swim!

We're going to a pot luck lunch today with a group of friends - any ideas for me? There will be 10 adults there and we're not allowed to consult each other about what we're bringing. What can we take that no-one else likely to bring?!

MrsH what about a really nice cheese board? involves no cooking I love buying interesting cheeses, nice grapes and celery and posh crackers.....

Or you could do a lemon tart my friends gave me the easiest recipe in the world and it's the yummiest cheesecake/ lemon tart I've ever tasted... If you're interested I'll dig out the recipe....

Brilliant ideas LP! Thank you!

The lunch us at 1pm today, if you think I'll have rime to shop for and make the lemon tart before 12.40 then I'd love the recipe! (In fact, I love lemon tart so much I think I'd like the recipe anyway! Only if it's no hassle to find.)

Fantastic!

I've just reread my first post from this morning...

I'm still battling with the bottle...

Don't worry, I've not be driven to drink yet!

MrsH it is dead easy! Ingredients: ginger nut biscuits, butter, lemons, cream and condensed milk.
I've found it online (but use ginger nuts they make it taste lovely)
www.food.com/recipe/easy-lemon-tart-133665
Raspberries on top make it look pretty but aren't essential.
Might have to make it myself now....

And yes you'll definitely have time to shop, make it and for it to chill.....it takes about ten mins to put together don't tell everyone that though I like to pretend it takes me hours

MrsH - that pot luck lunch idea sounds great! I love the fact that there could just be loads of puddings - yum!! :)

M will be 6 months on 25th and I'll be away for some of this month so will start weaning the weekend before her half birthday - I don't want my DH to miss out on seeing her having her first taste of food! She tries to chew everything so I think she'll love bananas and cucumber - plus we're already starting to do some fruit puree in preparation - I'm actually quite excited about it.

we had a go with cups last week but no joy yet

I never understood why people said BLW was messy. DS has just had porridge, now I get it DD was just a neat eater, plus foods we had at the time were hard.

oh DD went down in centiles when she weaned although she also started to walk in those 3 months.

Hi all,

Not been on for such a long time (since the antenatal board) as I had bad SPD so transferred over to an SPD support thread then since I had my boy I've not been following. Just checked in as I've been feeling a little bit down lately and I know someone else on here who said they'd found your support really useful.

Keep getting this weird sinking feeling, don't know if it's the generic stress of going from being at home with my baby to being a working mum (2 weeks left until I'm back part-time), but I keep getting sidetracked by gnawing feelings that I've done it all wrong. I used to feel so calmly confident with motherhood but that seems to be slipping away.

Some of the ridiculous things I stress about: Why isn't he rolling (he can rotate himself in a circle but no sign of a roll)? Why does he just expect me to play with him when he's lying on the floor rather than attempting to explore his surroundings? Have I messed up his sleep ability by always feeding him to sleep? Could I have done something to prevent him developing excema... And on and on, until I want to cry. And there's this gorgeous boy lying on the floor, peacefully, looking at me adoringly, who smiles at me whenever I smile at him and I feel like I can't enjoy him sometimes. I'm starting to always feel like I've never managed to do enough or be efficient enough (a big frustrated fail) whereas before i felt like wonder woman if I managed a few chores as well as looking after him.

I hoped writing this down would help but it's not, it's just making me want to cry a bit more. Oh well I'll get the sling on, attempt some chores and go for a walk with him.

Lovely to read how you're all doing and hope you'll accept me back after such a long time