March 2012 - Brewed to Perfection!

[TroubleAndFyfe]

Hello all, come and add your babies to the list and let's see what adventures they bring!

Oh, wow, trouble!! Exciting :)

DH is home now -- feeling considerably better, although, as he says, if he hadn't had the weekend he'd consider himself ill, now. I've continued to feel just a little under the weather but getting better, so I think I'm safe now.

And thanks for the advice, trouble. The house is in good shape, but there are a few things we probably want to change, like the colour of some walls and I want to add a shower to the tub. I'm trying to decide if I want to invest in one of those electric shower things you stick on the wall, or just replace the tap with one that has a shower head -- I've seen them in Homebase, the shower attachment sits on top of the taps like an old telephone handset. We currently have an electric shower, and I like that it doesn't matter if you've run out the hot water as it heats it up right there.

We just started BLW this weekend -- we'd tried a week after whenever it was we were all sick, but I think it was too early: I think Tessa was ingesting things already as her poos got really stinky and she acted like her tummy was upset. This weekend her poos are stinky again, but she is acting much happier, so I think she's ready now. We've been having vegetables: green beans, broccoli, and she really likes asparagus. She's also had some apple and homemade bread (so I know it's not too salty), and she just had some pasta today.

Does anyone else's LO mush the food up in their fingers first? I find the "chip-shaped" things don't stay chip-shaped for long -- she scrunches it all up in her hands before trying to eat them, and then is stuck trying to hold onto little mushy balls instead. But it seems to be working for her.

He's very slow atm so no baby proofing needed as yet!
He's definitely eating the odd bit but it still mostly goes on the floor. I expect it to take another month before he 'gets' it! Biggest eats are roasted pepper, a finger of cheese on toast, half a bread stick, a finger of toast etc. usually it is much less though his poo is different and I see bits of broccoli etc.
I have found the whole food shop to be very useful as they sell a variety of nut/seed butter that is salt and sugar free and fruit spread which is jam without the sugar!

Oh yes we are happy BLWers here too Poppy has had pizza toast tonight for the first time, with grated carrot and a few sticks of carrot. The toast went down a treat - anyone else tried it? It's yummy. She adores her morning porridge; we preload the spoon and give it to her to do the rest. She has learnt though that the spoon is a fantastic teether and an even better catapult/re-decorating tool Shes excellent at aiming the spoon for her mouth but does like to snort the porridge or pretend its eye shadow. Bless her!

Well, well, well as Jeremy Kyle would say.... We only went and had 7 1/2 hours sleep last night!!!!

Turns out little lady actually can sleep on her tummy in her crib. In fact, she quite likes it!! DH and I had been looking more at silent reflux and sleeping - more to the point, reading the, ahem, reassuring articles that said if dc has sr, generally no one sleeps....cos we didn't know that ourselves They kept going on about buying reflux wedges to put in the cot as the baby's head needs to be higher than the stomach to stop the food coming back up. I decided - after she woke for the 9th time in under 3 hours - to put a plump cushion under her mattress at one end so her head and upper chest would be raised. It frickin worked!!

Please please please let this be the solution we desperately want and need....

Yay, broody! Hope it continues!

yay broody!
After 3 months of waking almost every two hours we have had two fabulous nights! Bearing in mind his wakes are only 5 min feeds, on Monday he slept 20.30-02.30 then till 04.00 then till 06.00 and up for the day at 08.00 (usually 06.00! ) and last night was even better, 20.30-02.45 then 02.50-06.00 and up for the day at 08.00! long may it continue, I feel amazing!

Meant to add to the BLW successful foods, he's had two organix baby biscuits and loved them, ate the whole things. He also ate 3 homemade onion rings today!

Yay for both our bubbas trouble!

Poppy has been eating her proper food for a while now - its erm obvious that she's taking it in and digesting it iykwim Porridge makes her wee smell quite weird, anyone else had that? She had a kind of rash come up on her temples, both sides, when she had fromage frais both times. We'll try again but if the same happens again, we'll steer clear for a while. I'm just hoping its not an allergy or intolerance. Has anyone else experienced that yet?

Just popping by to say hi - gone a bit quiet over here.... [looks round to see if anyone's hiding....]

hi broody! Just you and I left maybe?

I think so, hun fancy a cheeky ? Watching the great British bake off and I'm itching to get baking again but I just don't have the energy so scoffing shop bought is all I'm good for right now

Hello all, I've come along to join the evening party!

It's good to hear how all the babies are getting on. We've also been doing BLW for a few weeks and Izzy is really enjoying it. She loves her carbs (just like Mummy ). She also had great fun with clementine segments today although more ended up on her than in her. I tried adapting the baby biscotti recipe today by adding steamed apple rather than banana and it's really nice. I have to say it wasn't as impressive as the Bake Off cakes. That show makes me hungry!

We're not getting anywhere as far as movement in concerned. Izzy will only roll so she can get off her tummy so no signs of crawling here. How is Fyfe getting along Trouble?

He hasn't been at all keen to practise pink so still has all the speed of a slug! our floor is being laid next week though so we'll be able to put him down downstairs at last! He then has full permission to crawl! it's odd him being so much more mobile though, he climbs all over us, it's lovely!
Fyfe loves carbs too (like his mummy) but I watched a video on you tube about some research that had been done into blw and they found one of the positive outcomes was the blw group preferred carbs whereas the tw group preferred sweet things.

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Hi everyone!

We've just had a an odd realisation, and it's too to share anywhere else: I think DD only poos in her bouncy chair! I had been concerned over the weekend as she hadn't pooed since Thu, but I know breastfed babies can go days without pooing. Then Mon AM I put her in the bouncy chair for the first time in days -- and shortly after, poo. I then thought back on all the last times she'd pooed (as in, when I had to rush to pick her up and try to save her clothes, and usually failing...),and realised they had all been in the bouncy chair. I put her in Tue and this morning, and also got poos. So now I'll make sure to put her in it each morning. But isn't that odd?

Haha mad we also realised this - albeit a while back! Must be something about the bouncer eh? Poppy is also a fan of pooing in her car seat - we put her in there a few minutes before we want to actually leave because I'd say 7/10 times that she's first put in there, she will poo!

Poppy is quite poorly with a heavy cold today. It came on quite suddenly overnight and she's got so much snot and is sneezing and coughing quite a bit. Poor little mite

Can't believe I'm talking poo and snot! Vile!

Hahahaha! how funny! Not noticed anything like that here, then again I don't really know when he poos as can't smell it with the cloth nappies and we've only ever had two exploding ones, both of which were last week!
Hope the poo chairs keep working for you!

Oh, poor Poppy! :( How's the sleeping going?

I can tell when she poos as she gets this really "concentrated" look :)

Yeah I get that look too - when she's finished she smiles at me like "right, we can go now!" or "sorry what did you say?"

Her sleeping Is much better than it was a few weeks back. We have been waking just 3-5 times a night, instead of 12, so we're all a bit happier. Think she just prefers sleeping on her tummy. We've also propped up the head end of her mattress as it helps with her reflux.

Just a shame she's picked up this wretched cold cos I think the next few nights will go back to being v difficult. I've got the calpol plug in going (in the next room though as I thought it was a bit strong and she can still inhale it as its wafting about up there!), snuffle babe on her chest and back and she had a spoonful of calpol at 630, just before her bath so I've done everything we can. Fingers crossed. She's so snotty but really happy and has continued to give me lots of kisses today, even though she's been tired and struggling with breathing.

I've just been reflecting on being back at work - even though I'm with Tessa throughout most of the day even when working, I've noticed that on the weekends and evenings, when I can spend time with her AND give her my attention, I really appreciate it. I think I might actually appreciate getting to pay attention to her more now than I did before, as I have the contrast of 8 hours a day when my main attention has to be elsewhere. And I really like the breaks in the day for things like breastfeeding and even nappy changing (!), when I turn my full attention to her. Although sometimes I plug her in to feed and keep working, but if I can take a breather I do so - and instead of surfing the internet like I used to when nursing, I just look at her :)

That's nice mad.
Fyfe is building speed with his crawling now! Still commando style but covering distance much faster today, first time on a wooden floor (visiting PIL) we are getting ours laid whilst we are here so rather excited that he finds it much easier than carpet!

Hello everyone [waves] hows all the babas getting on? I see you've got a mobile little man trouble :) we also have lift off here! Emmie is full on crawling!!!!!! Eeek!! It's driving her sister mad! We're also doing pretty great with weaning full on meals going in now she's amazing with her food scoffs anything I give her and is self feeding fabulously! She's master pincer grip eating chopped up blue berries pieces of pasta etc can't believe it!!! Proud mammy here :) x

Happy Saturday all!
I thought I'd come on here and ask what all your little ones favourite toys are. We're going on holiday soon and I wanted to get Izzy some new things to talk.
The most popular things here are stacking cups, a Mozart musical cube (so I'm always humming Mozart!) and Lamaze toys.
Is there any smaller toys that any of you could recommend for us?

I've just noticed that Izzy seems to use the highchair as her "poo chair". I thought she was concentrating hard on her food, but no, she was getting rid of previous meals, lovely!

We've been successfully using the bouncy chair for a daily morning poo all week :) Although we're off to Germany on Tuesday (eek!), so I hope she poos somewhere else and doesn't just bottle it up for a week.

Hi piglet Poppy adores her Lamaze toys too. She is most fond of her Buggy Buddy - its from mothercare and has a chime in it that sounds like a cow bell. It's £6 and has a red stripy bottom. It was the only thing that her crying on our long drive back from Devon a few months back - along with me singing the baby sensory hello song. She is also a fan of her plastic rings and a black and white sensory crinkly book. Then there's the That's Not My... book collection - pony is her fave but monkey comes a close second.
Where you off to?