May 2006 Babies

[AbiGilby]

I thought I’d start the ‘May Babies’ post natal thread. Hope that’s OK with everyone.

I’ve put together a list of who’s who using Hockeymum’s update on the ‘May Babies’ ante natal thread. I hope I’ve got it right! Feel free to correct me!

Babies that have arrived:
AbiGilby 20 April DS Isaac
Hockeymum 21 April DS Theo
Enid 26 April DD Beatrice
Tortoiseshell 01 May DS2
Seashells 02 May DD Tabitha
Helsi 03 May DD Charlotte
Mandymoo 05 May DS Tom
Louismummy 07 May DS Oliver

Still awaiting their arrival:
Bouj Due 29 April
Squidgeymiller Due 29 April
Snaggletooth Due 01 May
Monkeychambers Due 02 May
Cori Due 04 May
Evilstepmom Due 04 May
Xena Due 04 May
Grygielmm Due 05 May
Lovecloud Due 06 May
Crumpet Due 07 May
Asur Due 08 May
Faeriemum Due 08 May
Kittenpaws Due 08 May
Supersonic Due 08 May
Alicats Due 09 May
Mumsy32 Due 10 May
Imafairy Due 13 May
Fenny1 Due 15 May
Preggiemum Due 16 May
Mummyjojo Due 17 May
Nez Due 17 May
Inkyminky Due 18 May
Spoo Due 19 May
Cmac Due 20 May
Plama Due 20 May
Winkygirl Due 20 May
Bubbles28 Due 22 May
Momamia Due 23 May
Littlemisspiggy Due 24 May
Potpourri Due 24 May
Runtus Due 24 May
Zzoey Due 24 May
Jjules Due 25 May
Ladyoracle Due 25 May
Handbagaddiction Due 28 May
Sniff Due 28 May
Theincubator Due 28 May
Mula Due 30 May
Thebecster Due 30 May

Careful though guys on leaving stickers or the like on cars that don?t seem to have babies - we always put our car-seat in the boot when we go shopping (my hubby?s mate had his nicked would you believe?) and one time we came back to a really snotty note on our windscreen saying this is for customer?s with young children. We were a bit annoyed at that, because of the presumption. However, if I see someone arriving/leaving with no young children, I do say loudly to my hubby ?It?s a good thing these spaces are only used by parents!?

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that feels so strongly about such things. My pet hate is when you are forced to park in standard spaces due to people like this or no parent/child provision, someone always parks right up close to the passenger door so then I can even open in to get 2 small children in. Why!

Anyway! dd2 joined the rolling over club this week, which was a bit of a shock as I only put her down for one second and suddenly she'd flipped over. Glad it was only on the floor!!
She also started giggling especially when I'm dressing her, or singing to her.

Glad to here of all these people making a bid for freedom occasionally. I had 2 days off from being mummy this week. DH took the girls, and I spent 1 day sleeping and 1 day shopping 4 my hols. It was lovely, but I did find I'd missed them by the end of each day!

I feel so lucky 2 not have 2 go back 2 work.

hey all u may mummies and babies, hope you are all well and happy
roseyposey has a new favourite thing....her hands!she is constantly munching, sucking and slurping away on them to the point where she's really not interested in much else!!(not the teeth, please not the teeth....!!!)
she has taken them out long enough to do a few giggles though and can do the rolling over thing if she feels like it, though for the time being sucking hands is the priority.
for the last 10 days she has also slept through the night (woohoo!) and is generally still chilled out and lovely, which is good since evilstepmom (evil-bio-mum to her!) has developed a sad obsession with terry nappies and good folds to use...
feel bad that i only post sporadically but have broadband now so will hopefully be around more often.
happy thoughts to all

hello everyone - I've been OUT!! just cone back ftrom a wedding prty -fantastic, feel like me not a mummy!! oh |I love my vchildren though. Nice to be me and have people from work tell me they've missed me and that I look well. HQpppy hapy happy.

have fun with your wondergul babies

Glad you had such a good night out Hockeymum - your post was very cheery!

I'm very impressed that we're all managing to escape!! Felt a big groggy yesterday for some reason not helped by the fact that DS2 thought it would be a very good idea to wake up at 4am, and DH and I only got to bed at 1.30am!! DS2 is doing lots of giggling, and it was the sound I woke up to this morning, which was so lovely.
He's loving shoving his hands in his mouth too, and indeed yesterday managed to make himself throw up by shoving his fingers down his throat! (a very wicked part of me wants to start a thread entitled "Do you think my 15 week old is bulimic?" but am not sure everyone would get my humour )
Hockeymum - hope you managed to get a bit of a lie in this morning.

At work tomorrow - not looking forward to it! So worried - can I express enough, will DS feed from a bottle etc. Still, only for 6 weeks and then I am a SAHM!

good luck at work SAHM, it's only 6 weeks - by half term you'll be home with your lo every day - hooray!!

Hi all - feel very chilled out after my night of freedom with DH! Only went to cinema and home for a nice bottle of champers (was a pressie when DD was born) but was lovely. Felt quite bad coz we didn't call my b and sil to check she was ok and didn't pick her up until 12(ish) the next day, but was soooo happy to see her when we did pick her up. It was lovely to be an adult again though .

Re the parent and child spaces, DH and I use our carseat on our pram when we go shopping so it sometimes looks like there's no child in the car (apart from the baby mirror and baby on board sign), but I really hate it when people park in these spots without kids. I saw a middle aged man park in the expectant mums spots at Asda when I was pregnant and made comments to him. He looked completely baffled and was quite rude until I pointed out that these were the spots for parents and mums2be, at which point it genuinely seemed like he hadn't seen this and loked pretty embarrassed - so I felt pretty vilified!!

DD has also made herself sick a couple fo times with fingers down the throat. Have started her on Baby rice the last few days coz she just seems soooo hungry and had started waking up 2ce for night feeds again. She's loving it and is wolfing it down, so we'll see how she gets on!

Thought I'd do a members profile image of my big girl starting school today!

my big schoolgirl

I'm so glad I've got ds at home with me to keep me entertained with his babbling and keep my busy pureeing butternut squash for him (his favourite).

Now am off to cry into my bar of dairy milk now my big girl is all grown up...

Hockeymom she looks beautiful I hope she had a lovely day at school they look so cute in there uniforms don't they

I am thinking of weaning Grace she is only 14 weeks but she has started to fed constantly over the last few days the HV has invited me to a weaning party at the health centre should be interesting never been to one of those before

Oh Hockeymum, hope you're not too sad at your little girl going to school. she looks so happy in her uniform! Hope she had a great day!
DS2 woke up at 6am today and giggled himself back to sleep (is there an emoticon for a feeling so full of love you could burst??)
Sniff - maybe your little one is having a growth spurt? I'd suggest leaving weaning for a few more days and see if she calms down (I posted on the weaning thread about a week ago and it was suggested that I just up DS2's feeds which I did and now he's happy and content again)

so happy to hear others thinking of weaning - was thinking it was still quite early for dd but she's been SUPER hungry recently and is now really enjoying her baby rice.

Question for those that have other kids - how long does each stage last? I was thinking of doing baby rice for a week and then doing baby porridge in the morning and baby rice in the afternoon for a week, and then moving onto proper foods like mashed potatoes / pureed carrots / swede etc.... Is this the right sort of timeline to go for or is this prolonging each stage too long / not enough? I've got Annabel Karmel's Top 100 baby puree's but she doesn't really tell you how long to stick with the baby rice for. I was thinkin that because I'm weaning her quite early (16 wks) I should stick to easy to digest foods for a couple of weeks.

Do you think that's the right thing to do?

Sorry to ramble

sniff - a weaning party sounds like fun - do they serve champagne?

squidgymiller - your idea about weaning sounds fine. Theo is now on week 3. week 1 was baby rice once a day. week 2 was pureed vegetables and baby rice either once or twice a day. Week 3, I am going to do one veg & baby rice meal and one fruit meal a day. With dd I went straight from baby rice to apple and she pretty much stayed on the apple for a year! so I've made much more of an effort to get theo to have the savoury things for a couple of weeks first. He loves his butternut squash though. It stinks when you cook it, like cheesy feet! but he wolfs it down.

I remember now, a mistake I made with dd's frozen ice cubes of food a few years ago. I managed to confuse a cube tray of butternut squash and one of papaya. It was only last week that I realised that papaya was quite nice and didnt smell of cheesy feet. I was really surprised when dd turned down a bowl full of apple and butternut squash mixed together - I thought "she should love apple and papaya - whats up with her!" poor girl. I wonder what crazy mixtures of food I'll absent mindedly make for theo.

Today was dd's first whole day, she had to line up on the playground with her lunchbag with all the big children and file into the school, she looked so big and so small at the same time. There were several of us crying, trying to be brave. It's a weird feeling because she's ready, happy and loves going, and I'm pleased to have more time with ds on our own, but it feels such a momentous time that I get teary! how long can I blame pregnancy hormones for?!!

thanks for your thoughts re weaning hockeymum, you must be sooo proud of your dd. Can't imagine my dd going to school, but I bet the time has flown by since your dd was ds age and seems like only a few weeks ago??

can't believe the talk of weaning - feels like it wasn't that long ago all these babies were arriving... They grow up so quickly, won't be long till these babies will be heading to school...

I'm holding off on weaning though, going to do BLW, seems like a good option and I think DS will like it. Plus we only have a tiny freezer so no space for puree - barely enough room for me to put bottles of milk when I manage to get time to express!

Oh, DS rolled over this morning. Couldn't believe how excited I got by it, he didn't really know why he was getting praise but he liked it! He also got his 4 month immunisation today - he barely noticed and even smiled at HV after it! Maybe he was just happy that he doesn't need to see her again till he's 13months!

whats blw please

Louismummy - it's Baby Led Weaning..I don't actually know much about it, but there's a thread here about it
HTH

thanks imafairy

sorry about that louismummy, it's funny how you just get so used to using acronyms for things that you don't even realise you're using them. I sent an email yesterday and used DH and DS - got a reply asking what I was talking about

asur is he not having the new pneumoccocal jabs? 2 needed.

Well, the inevitable has happened, DD1 has dropped DD2 (unintentionally). No harm done but much howling from both girls. DD1 was very upset and the more she howled the more it upset the baby. All quiet again now. Mummy traumatised too, but recovery aided by some marshmallows! ( Would have loved a glass of wine, but DH is on nightshift tonight and I feel odd about having a drink when I'm in the house myself.)

I've bought a book called "Three shoes, one sock and no hairbrush" about having your second child. I'm enjoying reading it as it makes me feel I'm not the only one who feels that I'm always needing to be split into two when both the girls need me at once. How are other second (and 3rd, 4th )time mums coping with this?

Hope eveybody is enjoying the nice weather this weekend.

Recommendation - blow a raspberry on your babies tummy - little fat, lovely tummies

I agree it is dificult grace is constanly feeding (starting baby rice soon) and I feel a bit stuck when the boys want to do something James has wanted to make a space mobile all week and I just havnt found the time to sit with him and do it I feel very guilty

yes plama, it is hard with 2 isnt it? I find the hardest thing is not getting irritated by dd when she keeps whining for something. I will happily do whatever ds needs in terms of feeding, changing etc but find myself mistakenly putting dd second and seeing her as a bit of a nuisance. I feel really bad about it. I think she got really really bored in the holidays as we didnt go anywhere and were stuck in a lot around ds's feed and nap schedule (was trying to get him into a good daytime regime). Now she is at school and I have a lot more patience as I get my dose of baby time while she is at school and put her first then in the afternoon when she gets back.

I'm finding the easiest way to stay organised is to have a very big changing bag with everything I need for all of us for each day ready the night before, I lay out all our clothes the night before, make dds packed lunch, so the bottles and all the baby food pureeing etc in the evening before sitting down (or I wont get up again!)

I'm trying to laugh about all the craziness (like when they are both screaming - poor you with that story plama) and realise that this crazy stage wont last forever and at least they'll be able to keep each other occupied when they are a bit bigger.

Second time mum here and i have had a very bad week with feeling guilty that im not spending enough time with dd (3.5 yrs) as ds (4 months)is just taking up SO much time!

We're now starting to wean and soon my day will just be filled with pureeing and feeding!

Havent even looked at the housework this week - trying to lower my standards but its hard. Especially when you have a sis in law who is the perfect super mum