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Congrats on the job offer ttl...hope the other one comes up trumps for you too.
Dd isn't quite crawling yet, but would very much like to. She is the queen of the Klingons at the moment, and has a meltdown the second I put her down, look in the opposite direction, or if someone else so much as looks at her. Not all the time thankfully, but definitely for part of every day.
On the bf thing, it's so personal.....I've just dropped doing the afternoon feed myself be cause dd is so distractible that she bobs on and off, which I don't like around other people, and now she finally has teeth the constant latch on/off was really hurting. I just bf once a day, our morning snuggle when she's nice and calm. I would be sad to give that one up just yet.
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Eskarina · 14/05/2012 20:10
He is ten 1/2 months. Poor wee lamb. He just isn't himself. His preferred food at the moment is broccoli?! Ate his own and mine tonight. Not many extra calories in that though 
I second teething powder (I use the Boots own brand). Also does your DS like strawberries? I froze them and gave them to mine which he thought was awesome!
DS has been pretty good with teething but these current two are really bothering him. For the first time we have horribly nappies (think a used tissue after a cold 
). He is off his food but thankfully still sleeping. Has been like this for over 10 days now poor poppet!
Nickel, he eats quite a varied diet..mostly blw. If it's something I would use a spoon for (yoghurt) then he is spoon fed. I'm not sure I do enough puddings. The hv was talking about putting cream in his mash and giving him custard etc. I normally just give him fruit if he is still munchy.
While I remember. I seen a photo on Facebook today. One of my cousin's, daughter's, daughter. Slightly younger than my ds. She was in a forward facing (ill-fitting) car seat, with her ears pearced and her face covered in chocolate. 
Everyone was commenting on how cute she was. I took one look and thought Aibu would have a field day with this!
Please excuse grammar on family explanation. I could see something was wrong, but too tired to work out what and fix it 
FFS HVs and their advice. Babies do NOT need pudding. Feeding them pudding after every meal just teaches them bad habits.
Also around the 9 months mark babies start to make the transition from milk as their main source of nutrition to food being the main source. Not that you'd know it by looking at DD! (it does take a while for some babies. Or not if you're my DS)
I just came on the computer to print a recipe out (Grilled Salmon with butterbean mash, yum), and DD has passed out in my arms, so I have to stay here. Darn!
Thanks for the advice. Considering I'm so gobby assertive most of the time, I always come away from the health visitor doubting myself.
I'm currently trying to plant the seed for another rear facing car seat. Ds hates being in the car, but safety first as far as I'm concerned. Not usually so manipulative, but I would like it to be dh's idea. His parents already think I'm a lentil weaving loon
As long as there is an inch above their head (and below max weight) they are fine in first car seat. Leg length doesn't matter. P.s. If you go on the mumsnet product section, avoid any crash test videos. Ds may be rear facing until he is 18 
I give DS 2 'courses'. Annoyingly he often says he is 'full' of savoury stuff but then gobbles down a yoghurt or fruit pot. He would also eat blueberries and raspberries until he exploded if I let him.
Routine-wise DS is now consistent-ish. I tried desperately to impose a routine on him which failed. The below has only evolved over the past, errr, 10.5 months (BTW - the timings are obviously not exact or the same every day!)
7 - wake, 210ml milk
7:30 - Mama goes on cross trainer for 30 mins/DS goes in jumperoo!
8:15 - Breakfast
9:30 - nap in bed- this is a good one normally, 1-2 hours
12:15 - Lunch
15:00 - 180ml milk
17:15 - Tea
19:00 - Bath/180ml milk/teeth clean/bed (normally takes 30 mins ish)
At some point in the afternoon he may have 45 min-ish nap, nearly always in his pushchair when we are out as I tend to be 'trapped' in my the morning nap.
The bits in between everything we are either running errands (so in pushchair), lunch out, play in the play pen or on the floor with me, swimming, monkey music, rhyme time and now the swings at the park!
Not sure when to drop the afternoon milk. He is not fussed by it but then he has never taken to having a snack (which I was told to give him when I dropped the morning milk feed.
routine, CC ?
5am DH gets up for work.
DD starts scratching and writhing and wanting food
5:50am DH leaves the house
DD is still scratching and writhing and wanting food.
continues like this (swapping over and going in and out of sleep) until about 7 ish when I give up and put the telly on.
DD continues to eat on and off until the alarm goes off.
I fall asleep (the alarm goes off in 9 min intervals from 8am until 8:45)
8:45 I struggle to get out of bed.
from 8:45 to 9:35, I get washed, dress DD, get ready for work.
In this time, DD writhes and scratches and whinges a lot (and cries when I dress her)
9:40-9:45 we leave the house.
On the way to work, we see lots of people and end up chatting, so get to the shop at about 10:10.
Open shop.
If I'm (very) lucky, DD will sleep after pram ride for about ½ hour to 1 hour.
then she'll be hungry, so she'll scratch and cry a bit. (as she wakes)
Today, DD has not slept, so she's crawling around on her mat, trying to eat important bits of paper.
and a bit of a play with me maybe
11:00ish DD has a milk feed.
11:40ish Fake sleep for about 3 seconds then crying and rubbing and scratching. (soothing from me and trying to rub more cream on which just results in cream being all over my clothes)
12ish nappy change
play time for DD
1sh more milk
trying to get actual work done
3ish more milk.
normally DH comes in from work between ½2 and 3 o'clock, so I feed DD while he makes sandwiches. DD eats a bit of bread and a few bits of veg (i mean "eats", not eats)
and then i hand DD over.
and then DH does nappy change and i try to work (esp away from the till).
4ish cup of tea
4:30 ish DH tries to escape to practise the organ.
if he manages, i play with DD and take her around the shop with me to work.
5:30ish close shop.
6ish get home (collect DH on the way)
feed DD milk
DH makes dinner.
7- 7:30 we sit down to eat (dd now has a little chair for food at home)
2 more nappy changes in the evening including a change of clothes because they're covered in spit and blood.
we try to get DD to sleep at about 8o'clock (usually by a mixture of milk, cuddles and walking around the house - staying absolutely still and silent in darkness doesn't work because she scratches)
we go to bed at 10-10:30.
DD still wide awake at this point, so she scratches and cries until i'm changed then she pounces on my boob like she hasn't eaten all day 
DD feeds/sleeps through the night.
last night she didn't wake till 4:30, but then she didn't sleep till gone midnight.
i know, because i was the only one still awake.
on Fridays, we try to squeeze in This Week Eleanor Loves....
PS - I haven't missed out the naps. there very rarely are naps.
Thank you both. That is actually really helpful. I know I shouldn't laugh, but the 'fake sleep' is well known in my house .
Nickel does your dd go back to sleep between 7-9am with you?
Val the problem we are having is ds can't go that long between naps. He gets all grumpy after about two hours. Sometimes after an hour in the morning.
Will share my routine soon. Have acute tonsillitis and I'm not a good patient.
Your routine looks very like ours used too. We would be trying everything to get ds to sleep and he would be having none of it until I went to bed. Then he would need a big sleep in the morning to make up for it. I eventually starting going to bed earlier and early and then sneaking back up without him. Was very hit and miss though depending on if he wanted to cluster feed and if the 'pantley pull off' worked. I have silently commando crawled out of the room too many times to count Btw, this isn't advice, more observation as ds was up again until 10pm last night too.
Val I'm very impressed by your cross trainer effort!
we, as a family, went to bed at 9:15 on sunday night.
dd didn't sleep until after 11.
she's asleep now.
she's had 3 feeds (since 10:50 with playtime in between), and has fallen asleep on this one.
she's been asleep about 20 minutes
it's been an hour.
can't move, she's on me .
i have made the mistake of moving her in the past. i'm not falling for that again!
DH is here, so is packing up my school order (i need 6 of that - )
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