November 2012 - Starting weaning, what does your baby eat?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1736112-November-2012-Does-it-seem-like-half-a-year

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[ChasingDaisy]

[ValiumQueen]

Morning! First waking so grateful. Offered 5oz instead of the usual 9 due to vomiting and perceived pigginess (we do not have huge dinner if we wake in the night surely) and not convinced if he will settle. By the time I got back upstairs from fetching said bottle, DH was wandering aimless as a cloud on the landing. Bless his big cotton socks. DS will cry. DH won't fetch bottle or rock DS. What does he expect?

Today is another day. Three joys await me - my mother, the dentist, and ranitidine. I hope it fucking works!

Quiet here tonight, which is good. Hope you guys are sleeping x

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Awake since 2.30 but not because of DD2. Because I woke coughing and DP wasnt home from work. Then got a bit distracted with fantasising about new cars.

S went down at 9pm. Woke at 11.30 and again at 3. Dont know how to break the cycle really. She takes 1-2 ozs before shes sleeping again. So she really is only feeding for comfort. But she wont take a dummy and if I leave her to settle over with no bottle she just gets wound up.

Sigh.

Yes VQ DP will just stand there when she cries, and if the first thing he tries doesnt work he gives up I have to tell him to try something else all the time.

[PetiteRaleuse]

Morning all. Not sure why but LO woke up once during the night. Was hot in the room though so could be that. I really need to sort out my insomnia as I have been awake pretty much since then. Then bang on 6 she woke up.

[Dixiebell]

Feel your pain on breaking the cycle, wanna. Teddy went down at 7.30, then feeds at 10.30, 2, woke at 4 but managed to self settle, and now at 5. No way he actually needs 3 feeds in night but not sure how to deal with it. He's currently doing suck, suck, chat.

[StuntNun]

Awful night here. The worst yet. The boys better behave today or there'll be trouble.

DH is going carting with his mate this afternoon. Must be nice to be unencumbered by a baby.

[kirrinIsland]

Morning all :)

N went down at half 8 and woke at 11.45 and then now. This seems to be emerging as her new pattern, which is great - definitely better than the every 2 hours or so we were getting not that long ago.

[TheDetective]

I just resisted a kitkat and ate a banana almost forgot about being good!

[Bryzoan]

Luis - that is lovely. Very lucky J is not 3 till sept. R is so very young for her age as well as young in her year... I'm finding the concept of sorting a school for her baffling.

I've been pretty lucky on the 'helpful advice' front. Occaisionally someone will go at R quite hard with 'say banana' or simillar when she is signing it - I just smile at them and R very brightly, sign banana back at her and say 'that's right, banana' cheerfully. And tell them later out of r's earshot that that isn't helpful if they have been a bit too persistent. My mil is rather suspicious of signing and has thought I am contributing to r's language delay with it (she'll talk if she gets frustrated). She has understandably just not wanted to see some of the challenges R is facing for what they are. But luckily we have broadly a good relationship so I've been able to say I take her concerns in board, but that we need to do it to keep her Language and other development moving (in my best 'non negotiable' voice). She has now started learning some and coming to a few of our private SALT sessions to get a better understanding. Which I am very grateful for because it is quite a shift in mindset for her. I have another friend whose son (the same age as your J) has a motor and mild global delay who has on occaision given me some very good advice but tries to treat r the same as her son when they are not the same. I usually then charge in and take over to show her what does work for R (which is what she has done in the first place trying to show me what she thinks I should be doing so we are quits!). We are in the same village and were together in Nct 3 yrs ago and I mostly find it really nice having a good rl friend around who understands what it is like when things are a bit different. I think mostly my friends see what we've been though (with the hip spica most obviously) and how hard we are working, and the support we have from portage, salt, physio, and at nursery - and know we are doing what we can. I am thankful that they are so understanding - and that they still want to meet up and play. A couple in particular are really great with r and that makes me feel very warm inside. There - might have been a quick question but not a quick answer!

[PetiteRaleuse]

Thanks for the link wanna I am in France so no, the spiders here are not much worse than yours, except for the biting jumping bastards, but I haven't been bitten by a spider Since I left Paris.

[Kyzordz]

Morning all, one of those shit days where I can't be everywhere at once, had to wake up to feed e so his bottles are at good times of the day as very busy. He does not like me to wake him, he is back asleep now. Tbf I don't like to wake him! Need to again soon though so he sleeps at nap time and whatnot. I wouldn't usually stress but I have to go to work for mum from like, 8am-12pm and dp has him and isn't so good at recognising signs of stuff eg sleepy

[BigPigLittlePig]

Epic fucking disaster of a night. I won't go into details, but it was bad. Just wish I knew why. I feel like I've been run over by a bus this morning. And the sacro-iliitis I had when pg has flared up again owing to dodgy sleeping positions, curled around a wriggly baby.

PR I know those spiders as funglies. They are revolting not as bad as house spiders though As for biting, jumping bastards?

[BigPigLittlePig]

I think I might start trying F with some purees. Just gave her a bit of my banana, all squished up, and now she's going batshit because the spoon she's nomming isn't actually edible.

[Pikz]

Bplp will you be our GP and then we can get rid of VQ bastard doctor.

LO is hilarious today. Architect soon to put in plans for extension... I must be mad!

This afternoon is purée purée purée

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Spiders that jump and bite.

[BigPigLittlePig]

pikz errrr sum total of reflux knowledge = quiche input sure!

What does one do with a papaya? I have one. It looks odd. No clue.

[PetiteRaleuse]

There's loads of biting spiders in the Paris métro. All my worst insect bites ever have been in Paris, and I live right out in the countryside now and other than the odd mosquito haven't been bitten as much

wanna they're only little things, the sort of thing you wouldn't probably kill if you found one in your house. Til you realise that the innocent looking spider in the corner of the ceiling has bitten your arm several times during the night. Twat.

[MadamGazelleIsMyMum]

Sorry to hear of crap night BP.

What wanna said about spiders.

Good luck today kyz.

Pennie that is good advice. DS has been showing some signs, so we're taking it slowly, letting him lead the way. Will give dairy and meat a long lead in though, I think.

DC at nursery today. We're going to a food festival basically to stuff our faces with yumminess before diet properly kicks in.

Oh, and I just totally pranked my boss. Finally sorted a date for my op for toenail woe. Called my boss to say I had some news. My secretary was in on this so emailed me to say he was actually twitching. Ha. He was worried I was pregnant again. Told him I was coming back for a week, then having op, and that I'd be recovering for 8 weeks. He nearly passed out! Then said I just needed an afternoon off, and lots of cake and sympathy for the week afterwards. Although he did make some comment about how a third maternity leave will just come with a P45. He's so wrong. But that is just his way of saying he cant cope without me. Plus I just ignore him. Although, despite our excellent relationship, I do keep a list for HR purposes should I ever need it.

[Passmethecrisps]

Are those ones with tiny bodies and long legs not called huntsmen spiders or something. That's not quite right but something like that. Look like daddy longlegs without the wings. Bleaurgh.

Quite right pennie. They don't all wake up bang on 26 weeks and we ready. P is 24 weeks on Monday and still a few weeks away I would reckon. Sitting might be a difficulty - huge noggin and skinny wee bum.

DH managed to settle P to sleep this morning! Hoorah! He was so chuffed with himself. Hi-5 to him.

[BigPigLittlePig]

Madam it is a fact that when one has had a toenail butchered operated on, cake and wine are the 2 things which will hasten ones recovery. Actual fact. Scientifically proven on me and everything.

Cat is coming home today whoop whoop. Wish I'd sorted pet insurance though. The vet thinks that some of his plastic blockage was either a pen, or a peg. FFS.

[Passmethecrisps]

Lol madam! My old boss always used to end interviews with "describe yourself in one word". We had had a run of pregnancies on the staff with 10 women all pregnant at one time - big running joke. So I ended the interview when he asked for the one word with "pregnant". Oh how we laughed . . . Followed by speedy assertions that I wasn't

[Passmethecrisps]

Umbilical stump BP?

[PetiteRaleuse]

I just googled huntsman spiders. Taht's not the spindly skinny spiders. They can be called daddy long legs, but to me that is crane flies, or cellar spiders. I fucking hate daddy long legs /crane flies. You swat at the bastards and they fight back and fly right in your face. Evil buggers. And when you kill them they wave at you.

Ugh.

Sorry I know that murdering insects and spiders isn't everyone's cup of tea but I hate when they come in the house. When we moved in no-one had been living here for a few months and we had to have a massacre before the movers brought our stuff in.

Ugh.

[PetiteRaleuse]

I was pregnant within six weeks of returning from maternity leave last year. I took great pleasure in announcing it.

DD1 has become obsessed with Mr Tumble.