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Still brooking no argument whatsoever that these babies are happy, healthy and awesome for 2013 too.
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jaggythistle · 26/12/2012 20:46
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TooImmatureMincePies ·
04/01/2013 14:58
Have just weighed M on my bathroom scales and she's slipped back down the centiles. Last time I weighed her (at 8 months) she was on the 75th centile and now she's only on the 25th. 
Do you think I should take her to the HV? I did think she was looking longer and skinnier! Maybe I should get my sister to help me measure her height when she gets here. (Hello, come in, welcome, you came for lunch, but first, help me measure a wriggly baby because I am neurotic...) She has actually lost weight - down from 19 lbs to 16.75.
TooImmatureMincePies ·
04/01/2013 19:23
It was my bathroom scales both times. I hope they're accurate - I'm about to start weighing myself and dieting tomorrow after I eat this bar of Toblerone. I was about to say that I might take M to the weigh-in clinic on a Thursday afternoon but I will be at work so I can't! 
Dream, ouch with the teething/no sleep. 
I hope the teeth come through quickly and the twins' sleep settles down.
jaggythistle ·
04/01/2013 21:39
hey all. back home safe with my wi-fi connection. 
i so can't be bothered going back to work on Monday...
will update at some random time of the night...
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TooImmatureMincePies ·
05/01/2013 07:57
Oops, I dropped the laptop and the screen now has a funny green and black line on it. 
Maybe it will go away...
M sabotaged my attempt to will her back to sleep at 6.30 by producing an enormous nappy. 
So we've been up since then. She's scoffed a whole Weetabix and is now doing her impression of an Andrex puppy with a toilet roll.
PetWoman ·
05/01/2013 16:21
Too what centile has M been (roughly) tracking? Is she eating ok and getting plenty of milk? As long as she seems healthy I wouldn't worry much. Maybe take her to get weighed in a week or so if you're still concerned?
Hope the laptop recovers!
Welcome home, Jaggy !
I liked the first childminder I saw yesterday. The second was ok but just starting up so not very experienced. When I asked what she'd do with DS all day she said she'd go out with the buggy. Great for a bit, I thought, but all day?! Got another one to see on Monday, then I'll make up my mind.
Dream hope the teeth appear pronto. I dreamed that DS produced 5 in one night. Clearly a wish-fulfilment dream! Teething is rubbish, isn't it? We've only had one bad bout (and still no teeth) but I'm dreading the next.
musicalmrs ·
05/01/2013 17:42
Teething is truly rubbish Pet. Iz's first bout lasted four months, and I think we're heading into round two... eek! Five in one night sounds remarkable though.. 
Welcome home Jaggy! :)
Too, echoing what the others are saying - if she seems healthy I wouldn't worry too much. Did I read somewhere that she's getting longer? Could it be partly because she's moving around more, which is burning more calories..? I found that with Iz... Glad M's sleep is doing so much better. You and Scream are such an advert for CC! And re the job - yes, it does feel nice to have made a decision. I stil feel a bit niggly about it though, even though it's clearly the right decision (and everyone agrees). How's the laptop?!
Dream, also hoping the teeth appear pronto.
scarlet, sounds like a fabulous idea! Which way are you thinking you'll sway? If it were me I'd go for the qualification, but I'm a learning junkie - soooo desperate to do my PhD in the near future, purely for the love of learning! If I won the lottery I think I'd spend forever studying...
Also missing Biscuits! Looking forward to hearing all your news too Ninja when life becomes less hectic.
Scream, I hope DH's aunt managed to persuade him to stay for longer? Hope all's going as well as possible...
Feeling shattered at the mo. I'm on antibiotics for my cold (sinusitis), and I think they've zonked me out - woke up twice in the chair in Iz's room while 'settling her to sleep' at points last night. Oops. Her sleep is back to being shocking - think it's teeth again judging by the way she's pulling at her ears. :(
PetWoman ·
05/01/2013 21:06
We keep getting high chair poos, Jaggy ! Have to suspend feeding while the straining is going on.
Actually DS is being a pain with food. He was happy being spoon-fed most stuff, then he was ill/teething over Christmas and off his food, and now it's like a switch has flicked and suddenly he's aware of different textures and doesn't like them . For example, a fortnight ago, he liked risotto. Now, not. He'll eat his breakfast weetabix off a spoon (thank goodness) but for lunch and supper he wants to do it himself. I've only had success with banana or Philadelphia on toast. Tried eggy bread - yuck. He'll eat banana and satsumas. What else can I feed him? He's rejected baked potato with Philadelphia, courgette sticks, cheese omelette, potato and pea fritters... We had some success with fish fingers and carrot batons, but I can't just feed him fish fingers and toast, can I?!
musical and raaboo I'm no brooking for a swift return to health chez vous.
Dream glad you enjoyed your day. Good luck with the dairy challenge...
DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas ·
05/01/2013 21:27
pet, snap except total spoon refusal for S. He will only eat pasta and cheese sauce, so that is all I feed him for tea and he rarely eats hardly any breakfast or lunch (though he will have fruit and banana somtimes) and he doesn't hardly bf in the day, maybe once briefly, and he wants to feed all night ARGHHHHHH!!!! I've tried sweet potato wedges, cheese omelette (oh, just seen you said that), spaghetti bolognaise (won't even touch it), I do try flaking white fish and mixing it in his cheesy pasta, but not sure how much goes in, tuna mayo pasta, keep meaning to do something with lentils in effort to get iron and protein in him. And push him around in the buggy all day for the childminder?! WTAF? sounds like what my MIL would think is appropriate . IMO she should be taking him to some activities like playgroups, library bounce and rhyme things, to the playground for a swing- the kind of things a parent would do, surely, isn't that the point of using a childminder?!?!?! Glad you found one you think you like already, that's promising.
Incidentally he's just had his first wake up, has just about gone back down without a feed, but sounds a bit hoarse and was very cross. I bet he's getting another cough/ cold bug.
*jaggy, think that's an amazing effort for you to turn up to a birthday party that involves a 3 hour round trip don't know I would . Seriously, 3 year olds need entertaining?! and cringe for thre bad singing.
scarlet and biscuits, thanks for the talk of Homeland a while ago, I messed p at Christmas by buying it for dh but also totally forgetting I'd told mum we might like it... so dh got 2 copies but the point being, we're so hooked! It's great but a bit scary for my usual tastes
TooImmatureMincePies ·
05/01/2013 22:07
Biscuits, where are you? We miss you! Have just noticed you've unfriended me on FB - hope you're okay.
Am knackered and shaking in every limb - just restarted the Shred. Owww.
M has finally, finally accepted a spoon for lumpy/savoury food, thank God. Bloody BLW It means she'll now eat thick soup, mashed potato and, tonight, fish pie. Brooking that Pet's DS and Dream's S will follow suit soon! Advice from HV or no advice from HV, I might ignore BLW next time around and go with spoon-feeding - at least then you can get some food into them.
Dream, FX that the dairy experiment shows B to be okay with dairy now! And also Brooking that there is no more illness in the Dream household for the next 6 months at least.
Get well soon, Rahboo and Musical!
Musical, I hate the ear-pulling thing! Tonight I was cutting M's fingernails and toenails after her bath and she started really crying. I thought she was just protesting so carried on until I noticed blood on the hand I hadn't cut yet. She'd been pulling her ear and jabbed her nails into it so hard it was really bleeding, poor little mite. There was blood pooling inside her ear. I got quite a fright but when it was cleaned up it wasn't as bad as it looked.
The laptop has some extra blue/green lines across the screen, but seems to be working fine despite this.
The cc really did work here. It was absolutely horrific to begin with, but it has paid off so well. I guess I'm on the fence. I don't want to be going around saying 'do this, I did it and it was brilliant', because it might take some babies hours to accept it and fall asleep rather than M's 7 minutes. I suspect that if further babies are as bad sleepers as M at 9 months I'll be tempted to try it again, and I'll have DH/Mum/Dad/PIL/sister/Uncle Tom Cobbley and his grey mare all going 'do it, do it, it worked last time, what are you waiting for?' from about 3 6 months. I'll just have to hope that subsequent babies aren't as bad and the question doesn't arise.
Pet, glad you found a nice childminder!
Jaggy, am also looking at Monday with dread! I've managed to use that WundaWeb stuff to fix the hems on two of my work skirts by way of preparation so at least I've got some clothes to wear.
scarletfestivefingernail ·
05/01/2013 22:43
Jaggy that sounds a bit grim. You're a much nicer person than me, there's no way I'd do the preparation and stress of a 3 hour round trip for a 3 year old's birthday party. We did similar for a relative's 21st when DD was 3 months and that was bad enough but at least we didn't have to suffer a children's entertainer just a load of drunken adults prodding and fighting to hold DD
Fingers crossed you've found a good childminder there Pet. I'd also be a bit by the one buggy walker one. You'd expect her to have some idea of activities locally.
Yay for another Homeland fan. Dream, DH and I have serious withdrawal symptoms now the second series has finished. The 3rd hasn't been filmed yet and Claire Danes has only just had her RL baby so we might be waiting a while. At the end of the 1st series we couldn't work out how they'd make a second. But now the second has finished we can't wait for the 3rd. Best thing on telly for years.
We do a mixture of feeding techniques with DD. Mainly spoon feeding because she's still so tiny and only puts teeny bits of weight on every couple of weeks. There'd be nothing of her if I left her to her own devices every time. She wasn't even 15lb the last time she was weighed almost 4 weeks ago. I'll take her next week and pretend to listen to the waste of space HV see an improvement hopefully.
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Stacks ·
06/01/2013 11:52
Quick post to keep up with the lurking. T has been having some issues with wind the last couple of days, so a bit more challenging than his earlier eat/sleep behaviour. He currently sounds far easier than all the older LO's, though I thought newborn was meant to be the hardest stage for stress and sleep deprivation.
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