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December 2012: Sunshine, saliva & sleeping more...we hope!

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WeeJo08 · 06/05/2013 20:25

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halestone · 21/05/2013 20:12

We sort of didn't really have a choice about finger foods as she grabbed a chip off my plate and merrily munched away on it so we give pureed stuff occasionally but alot of her weaning food is actual food. But soft food IFYSWIM she loves strawberries, and mango. Today i was eating homemade carrot cake so she had abit of the sponge which she adored. We do give her Soy yogurts as well though and i do give her soft bits of my tea.

Stacks · 21/05/2013 20:45

I think I'm going to start weaning on 25th June, the local 'weaning workshop' is that day, which is also T's 6 calendar month mark, so I'm taking it as a sign. However, I gave him some banana today to shit him up so I could eat my lunch which I held while he very happily licked, sucked and gummed it into mush. Not sure how much he swallowed, but he really seemed to enjoy it. So my plan is to not 'wean' with mealtimes etc, but if I've got a thing and he's screaming I might shove it his way to explore. I can't see me doing it often though, as I'd still want to avoid dairy and gluten and whatnot for a while. DH cooks all our veg to mush, so he'll probably end up with the occasional bit of that.

We co sleep and sort of always intended to. Not pre pregnancy or early on though, but out nct teacher was very pro co sleeping so we decided to look I to it ourselves just before DS was born, and try it and see. It worked well for us, so we stuck with it I sometimes wish we hadn't though. The ISIS website also made me feel like it was more 'natural' to co sleep and 'bad' not to. They talk about instinct and evolution and stress levels in babies 'abandoned' in their own bed to sleep alone (not quotes, just how it reads between the lines). Though I don't think others are bad to do sleep training etc.

SpottyTeacakes · 21/05/2013 20:47

At shit him up poor ds

Stacks · 21/05/2013 20:48

Haha! shut him up, definitely "shut"...

Barbeasty · 21/05/2013 21:04

Ski could you get something like a bumbo with a tray? Did that a few times with DD (on a plastic sheet).

I got fed up with A's vomiting today, so I've doubled the ranitidine dose and reintroduced the domperidone. Welcome back grumpy baby.... Straight from the first domperidone dose he went from happy & smiley to miserable and writhing.

He passed the banana test today though. Only ate a tiny bit, then got bored and pushed it away if offered again.

WLmum · 21/05/2013 21:33

All good points ski.
Def ok to not have a highchair for a bit. Bouncy chair is fine, or on your lap at the table which would work better for finger foods. As pidj says, Los get tired quickly in highchairs to start with so iften end up on laps anyway.

WLmum · 21/05/2013 21:36

Poor little A beasty and poor you. Bit of a lose-lose situation. Have you tried gaviscon? It works well for us, keeps vomiting to a manageable level and doesn't seem to upset her system at all makes her poo lovely and formed and clean and tidy

WLmum · 21/05/2013 22:01

Tabs has been trying to crawl today! Getting her legs up under her but ploughing her nose into the playmat - poor baby!

halestone · 21/05/2013 22:09

WL H does that her poor arms are nowhere near big enough to support her yet. But she is getting frustrated by it, i can just tell she wants to be up and away.

Also today she has just wanted to sit up and gets narky if i lie her down or try and recline her slightly.

FriendofDorothy · 21/05/2013 23:05

Just out of interest. How many if you guys to co-sleep - either intentionally or because that's how you sleep best!?

halestone · 21/05/2013 23:16

I did while i was breast feeding but have stopped since she was FF.

IsThatTrue · 22/05/2013 00:06

FoD I co-sleep if DS refuses to go back into his own bed. It tends to be around 3/4 am. I try not to though as I literally don't move when he's in bed with us and it causes all sorts of problems with my joints. His cotbed is right up against my side of the bed though so he's pretty close even when in his cot.

SpottyTeacakes · 22/05/2013 00:17

No co sleeping here. I think it would be really lovely but I love a duvet so it would never be an option for me

halestone · 22/05/2013 00:53

I am probably going to ask the most stupid question asked on this thread but H has started shaking her head quite violently from side to side when fighting her sleep. (We call it the Stevie Wonder when she does it). Do you think she'll hurt herself doing this? Like in a shaken baby kind of hurt. Obviously theres nothing in the cot she could hurt herself on.

SkiBunnnnny · 22/05/2013 01:06

That looks great Pidj! Even if just for out and about. Do you have one?

Thanks WL, that's reassuring to know. You're poor face planting LO, but sounds like she'll be on the move soon!

We have an activity centre that also bounces ( this one ) and LO was trying to munch on bits of it while jumping and has bruised his wee lip .

LittleFeileFooFoo · 22/05/2013 01:22

Hi all, I was on here a few freds ago, but living in a no mat leave country I'm not on all that much.

FoD, I am still cosleeping, it wasn't intentional initially, but I haven't been able to get the Kidlet into the sidecar yet. He's so snuggly! And very heavy to move in the middle of the night.

halestone, I don't think a child can cause enough force to hurt herself. She could probably pull a muscle, maybe.

LittleFeileFooFoo · 22/05/2013 01:25

For feeding, I have been using this for the Kidlet

SpottyTeacakes · 22/05/2013 02:17

A great five hours followed by two

LittleFeileFooFoo · 22/05/2013 02:32

5 hours! was that straight through? I'm jealous!

IsThatTrue · 22/05/2013 04:30

5 hrs spotty ?! we've been feeding most of the night

IsThatTrue · 22/05/2013 04:37

I put him in his cot while I went to the loo, and he's settled. He was wide awake, I just needed a safe place boy he's asleep! < does a little dance >

utopian99 · 22/05/2013 05:01

Hurrah isthat and spotty!

Poor Tabs, WL. O is the same - the spirit is more than willing it seems but the arms are not there yet. He can shuffle his bottom up in the air and in fact get his top half up and supported into a crawl stance, but any move forward results in face plant.
He does a mean backwards caterpillar though.

utopian99 · 22/05/2013 05:04

Oh and ski we don't have a highchair either - bumbo or lap, depending on the mood he's in.

On the co sleeping, we didn't until lack of sleep and this thread helped persuade me that it was safer than risk falling asleep while feeding upright. These days less of an issue unless it's a 5am feed and I'm zonked, although he's going back in his cot after this one as slept from 12.40 until 4.30!

FriendofDorothy · 22/05/2013 05:50

Well that was a shit nights sleep. The Little Mister slept ok but I didn't!

SpottyTeacakes · 22/05/2013 06:15

Oh no fod!

Yes five hours straight (second night in a row). He was down at 7 woke at 12, 2 (stirred at 4 but went back to sleep without me getting out of bed) and has just woken up now. I'm just waiting for it to all go downhill again now!

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