October 2012... PELVIC FLOORS!

[Londonmrss]

Ready...
Steady...
And squeeze!

Blimey smiley that sounds scary, I hope she's better today. A little boy here whos same age as Smorglet had croup a couple of weeks ago and he sounded terrible. Doc gave steroids and he was completely fine in a few days.
squid don't feel responsible please! The good bedtime made up for the bad night time. Small victories and all that.

should I be worried that my baby isn't showing any signs of wanting to wean? I mean she shoves anything in her mouth she can, but she seems happy enough with just milk and she's nowhere near sitting up unaided. I was planning to wait until at least 6 months but hope she isn't developmentally behind. ah bollocks to it, she's fine. must stop comparing.

Morning everyone!
Thank you for all the congrats messages, yes i must be barmy cant remember who asked me how i knew - it was first month of ttc so i took a pg test on the day my period was due and guess what... i was completely shaking, could not grasp how we had managed it!
Dont really have any symptoms at all and im 7+3 so fingers crossed no sickness this time. Although orange juice tastes more sour than before haha.
Really tired this morning so thought id bring DD into my bed when she woke as she normally falls back to sleep after her first feed but it would seem she has other ideas...
currently laid next to me blowing raspberrys in my face!

Smiley you poor thing just seems to be so much going on for you :(

Turnwest really glad you came back and saw everyone is cheering you on.

Feel really tired today. Bean is still sleeping well praise be but waking once or twice a night for a feed. I think it's just catching up that I've had 5 months of night wakings. Once she's in her own room I like to think I will sleep more deeply.

Seem to spend all my time at the minute torn between thinking, 'Can't wait till she's 6 months and can go in her own room / be partially weaned' and 'Oh no! My little bean! You are growing too fast and I want to keep you sleeping in with us / keep you totally BFing / keep you so tiny and cute and pickupable' etc. Even her night feeds feel sort of nostalgic in the last couple of weeks, like I'm really watching her and trying to fix it the picture in my head for when she's older.

No comparing londonmrs!! All babies are different! DS can't roll to save his life but he can sit up mostly unaided now. All babies are diff.

Not looking forward to the mess of weaning but my gut tells me DS is ready for baby rice and simple purées.

london my baby is 20 weeks tomorrow so I think a bit older than yours. She can roll, stuffs things in her mouth whenever she gets the chance but definitely can't sit up unaided. So don't worry at all.

london mine is also nowhere near sitting up unaided, shows no interest in food and the rolling!? Well you've seen the vid, it's more falling to one side!

squid Totally agree with you about weaning, but like vaccinations and bf/ff (whether to try bf at all, I mean), many people feel official guidance is not right for their baby, especially when our parents did things differently. It can be a 'get the state off my back' mentality. And as someone suggested, I think a lot of HVs don't read much around their subject and they prefer to suggest something rather than nothing.

smorgs Yes, he will return between those trips so he can retreat to bed jetlagged when not at work.

I forget who asked about my new relatives. Yes, my mum's cousin is going to come round so we can share family photos. She never knew of Mum's existence as her birth and adoption were hushed up, though they went to the same school nine years apart and the family moved to within a mile of where Mum grew up. The cousin thinks she knows the identity of my grandfather. Older married man, shame of it, etc etc.

DD is at half-term gymnastics camp. She went along on Monday and loved it so much I agreed to another session today. 'Mummy, I can do a roly-poly!'

I never managed to do a forward roll in my entire school career. DD is not yet four. If I can spare her the hell of my PE experiences, I will have achieved something as a parent.

For the record, DS hasn't rolled for a fortnight and can't sit up unaided. On the other hand, he can pull my plate off the table and gaze intently at an iPad.

I found DD trying to spoon 'medicine' into his mouth yesterday. He played along quite happily. Found myself bookmarking a swede, potato and carrot mash in a Nigel Slater book. But in no hurry to wean. Nappies so much more revolting afterwards.

smiley sweetheart!! It is just one thing after another...
londonmrss your baby is fine. perfect. And yeah, after 10 rolls in one morning Jess can't be bothered to do them again...

Waiting on brother & family to arrive. He was going to get a train as his 2.5 yr old wanted to ride on a train, but the trains from Leeds to Sheffield are mad prices, so he is driving here. And then I will take everyone on a tram, because that's only £3. Now who said Yorkshire folk were tight...

DH is away this week on a course. I'm bored and the weather has turned cold again. But yesterday was sunny so took DD out for an hour's walk in the pram, it was lovely. Today we had a look round the nursery she'll be going to when I go back to work, probably around the end of July. Will come round too quick I think.

Poor baby Smiley! You're certainly getting more than your fair share.
What's stridor, just out of interest?

Squid, I'm the same with night wakings. Usually if DS wakes, he feeds for about 15 mins then goes straight back to sleep and I don't mind it at all. Unfortunately last night he seemed to need to fart or something and kept crying like he was in pain and taking ages to settle. I'm knackered today!

DS has no interest in food. Sometimes I give him stuff to hold, for the texture, like edamame or a grape or something, and it's about the only thing that doesn't go straight in his mouth. I'm always poised ready to catch it if it heads that way.
He is fascinated with drinks though, if I drink whilst feeding, he stops, stares and tries to bat it out my hand. I often give him my mug when I've finished and he puts it to his mouth like he knows what he's doing.

London, if I take the time to balance DS perfectly, he can kind of sit, albeit with his head practically touching his feet. Then all of a sudden he just topples to one side. It's rather amusing.

We went to the aquarium today for a bit of sensory stimulation. It's quite a long journey on the subway, so the plan was for DS to take a nap. DS didn't agree with the plan and grumbled all the way there, fell asleep on arrival and slept the whole way round the aquarium. I had fun though.

Stridor is ghastly rasping breathing, like Darth Vadar on steroids. DD had it with a particularly bad bug when she was 8mo. I'll never forget lying awake next to her all night, fearing she was about to die.

Tell me about it Cheesy, by April I have somehow got to morph into Supermum - getting places on time, doing my hair everyday, going shopping faster than my current "daytrip", not taking all day to cook dinner, thinking about things other than baby etc etc.
I'm so far from this right now.

Thanks Elpis. That's sounds terrifying!

If I wasn't married already I would marry the jumperoo. DD has been in it half an hour and is still going. She's never spent that long doing anything before...

We are also at the stage where of we position her just right she can prop herself up (tripoding?) for a few seconds but bean is one of the oldest in this group and tbh is quite a physical baby. I've started sitting her in the highchair and giving her an empty cup, she'll watch me intently, pick it up and chuck it on the floor. Not ready . Afternoon tea it ain't. I def want to wait til 6 months but partly as I can't be bothered yet, just want her to stay my little babe as long as possible.

Another weaning tale - lady I met at the children's centre was ref to the children's hospital when her first child was 4 months about something else entirely, was made to feel by the paeds that she was practically starving her daughter by not weaning her so did so. She said it was a nightmare getting food into her and she really wasn't interested until about 8 months. Then she started shoveling it down and jumped up to the 90 centile. This time she's def waiting till she's sure dd2 is ready...

Don't mind admitting the ocd in me is going to start making, cataloging and freezing purees in a few weeks

wooly i was thinking the same thing the other day!! my mum gave me a great tip- make whatever puree and then freeze it in ice cube trays- then you can take out as many cubes as you need and defrost ready for bean. part of me the ocd part wants to get it all ready now

I've gotta say - I tend to think baby rice, baby porridge, baby whatever are total bollocks. I don't know why you'd waste your money when you could easily give them regular porridge, or mash up some sweet potato or whatever if not doing baby led weaning, and if you are broccoli, cucumber, carrots etc work just as well. I tend to think "baby" anything when it comes to food is just a manipulative marketing ploy. And I say that as a marketing executive!!

No thoughts of weaning here, for at least two more months and only then as sensory/explorative/learning play. And do that for several months, with breast milk as his actual food. Not sitting unaided, rolling or playing of the clarinet just yet either

wow I'm suddenly really behind! what happened??

turnwest how did the doctor go? thinking of you.

weaning I'm definitely in the baby led weaning camp. partly cos I'm lazy as hell and partly cos it's lots of fun. ds1 didn't eat much til about 10m iirc then he really took off. can't wait to watch ds2 chasing stuff round the table

cherry edamame and grapes?? choking hazards deluxe! glad you're watching like a hawk! mmm edamame...

smiley bloody hell you deserve some kind of award for simply surviving what life's been chucking at you.

hm on phone and mind's gone blank.

I survived my first ever bathtime alone yesterday, completely unexpectedly. dh stuck in traffic. ds1 bathed while ds2 shrieked madly, read bedtime story, even managed to brush teeth (ds1 is a total nightmare with that), both in bed on time and without too much heartbreak. poor ds2 did have to cry rather a lot.

and today ds1 has failed to nap but we're all somehow surviving. it's not over til the fat lady sings though (that's me btw )

DS just drank 350ml of formula in 90 mins growth spurt, much?

Correction... 60 minutes

Make that 400ml

He then drank another bottle before bed and promptly threw up on himself. All is well in the universe then I guess?