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

[WeeJo08]

New thread ladies

I had The Little Mister weighed today and he was 18lbs and 1oz. He will be 24 weeks on Friday.

You lot seem to be steaming ahead with the "solids", Henry still not really finishing all his bottles. Today was better but some days it's a real battle .

Remember Henry is younger than everyone else! Ds is over six months now.

Dd was awful for drinking her bottles but loved solids. I wouldn't worry he looks happy and healthy and that's all that matters.

Wow FoD! Ds was 14lb8 at 24 weeks!

Emily it's only been the last 2 weeks that DS has been finishing his bottles. He went through a huge phase of eating almost everything one day and then only half of each bottle the next. One day he only had 14oz It's suddenly just clicked for us so fx for you

emily DS is bf but he's 24.5 weeks and only just starting solids because he started to get very angry when I had food and he didn't he only has 2 'meals a day' but he only eats about a tbsp at a time. I'm not pushing it, I wanted to do BLW but although he has some skill in feeding himself he's gets frustrated that his tummy isn't getting full. So it's spoon feeding for now :(

Urgh he's not going down properly again today. He's basically been a pain in the evenings since DH came back from India :(

ski and pidj I agree with you both. It's crap that lots of men, sometimes DH included use 'you're better at it.' As an excuse - as you say, lots of hard work and practice go into being good at it. However, even after 6 years of practice including regularly having days of sole charge, DH still misses cues that I pick up instantly and his relationship with the girls is more stormy. As ddas says though, we both bring different but equally important things to their lives. He is generally much more fun than me, they love the rough and tumble, but is grumpier and less flexible than me so gets more tears and tantrums! Generally they come to me for the nurturing stuff. I never knew my father, or had a father figure and sometimes I have to stop myself from sidelining him. Yes I could do it all without him, but it would be hard on me and the dcs lives would be less rich for it.

Been meaning to say spotty well done on the cv. I applied for a job a while back because it looked good although it would have meant some tough decisions re T - however I didn't even get a response! When the time comes I am going to shamelessly ask old work contacts if they have anything.

Hi all,

Had a very busy bank holiday visiting family and a christening on sunday. 2nd time dressing up for me since ds was born and I fely pretty good. Wore this top www.sainsburys-live-well-for-less.co.uk/tu-clothing/products/women/drape-blouse-red/ which was fab for bf.

Also ds' first tooth is coming through so he's been a bit grizzly and needing lots of cuddles which I'm happy to provide.

Thanks ladies, I forget lots of you are a good few weeks ahead of me, today was a good day, gina ford to a tee and no daily bottle fight! Lets hope it stays like that till 7am! Hmmmm. Anyone else doing the gina routine? I only use it as a rough guide but it has helped give me structure....I was all over the place before

Nope no Gina Ford for us... far too structured!

R is a) nearly 28 weeks and b) took to food really easily so I'm afraid i know very little about weaning except how to squish up veggies and shovel them in! I tried to be chilled about whether he ate or not, and he'd been sat in his highchair with a spoon and cup to play with for a few weeks before we gave him food, just to get used to the idea of meal times and so i could use both hands, nearly forgot how to use cutlery! He gets milk before every meal as that's the more important source of nutrition, then often afterwards too, especially after lunch as that's his structured nap time, and after his bath as that's bed time. He still wants milk 3 hourly on top of his food, although feeds are more like 15 minutes now not the hour long megafeeds of the early days!

It's really shocked me that I'm actually better (well, faster and more accurate!) than dp at meeting R's needs. I thought it was something any willing adult could figure out if they put their mind to it - and he's more than willing. He just gets it wrong/misses cues/forgets. Not deliberately. My hard and fast pre-dc rule was that i won't criticise him for doing things differently. Guess i didn't realise how obvious i would find the "wrong" stuff which other people don't see (i mean putting nappies on backwards, putting him down to sleep on his back when he's a tummy sleeper etc, not different words to wheels on the bus or cuddling him a different way!)

Evening ladies! As always it is nice to come on here and find that we are pretty "normal" :)
interwebs DS shouts at me when I put him in his bed. It normally means he is reallllllly tired! He usually quietness down (after much singing, giving him a little square muslin to play with, more singing, shushing, him rubbing his eyes and me repeatedly sticking the dummy back in) and goes off to sleep. But I get the feeling that he has to get the wringing out of his system first.

Isthat (I think) I get big sloppy kisses from DS... They are eeerrrrmmm lovely but oh so wet

DS is 21 weeks old and we haven't started solids yet... Or much of a routine; except a fairly concrete bedtime, and he normally wakes up at the same sort of time n the morning too.

*he has to get the whinging out of his system.

Return of narky baby day 2 but at least now i have a reason her 5th tooth has come through today. I'm just grateful she doesn't cry even though she puts me through a considerable amount of pain

Welcome back Emily . I'm not doing the Gina Ford either so no help sorry.

H is 24.5 weeks n i believe over 24lb i will get her weighed on thursday. But i couldn't get a 9-12 month dress over her today but i think that may have been down to badly placed buttons.

Utopian, my DP sounds the same as yours and in my case DP doesn't want to do the work because hes lazy I dread to think how we're going to cope when i go back to work full time.

Spotty i give 3 meals a day but its a variation of fruit, or yogurt or bread with lactose cheese spread on and also food from either jars or what i'm eating. I give her alot of the food i'm eating as she can hold and chew it quite well.

WL hope your throat is better my DP brought me some throateze tablets which numb the throat like when you go the dentist. There quite a good pain relief.

Well even after all that food and milk he still only managed 3.5 hours to wake up also have one really, really painful nipple no idea what it might be??

WL seeing as I'm only 25 and have worked where I am now for over six years there's not much to put on my cv hence why my personal profile is so important, luckily written English is something that I tend to find easy so I'm hoping it will sell me enough for an interview (although having two children and being sleep deprived certainly frazzled your brain ). I've applied for one job, I don't want to go back yet but I decided I can't let opportunities pass me by when they're so few and far between these days. We'll see though...

Bad latch spotty?
Will get some in for next time hales!
pidj pre dcs I was very much in the gender differences in parenting and in small children are social constructs and now I think the opposite! Not that I believe in determinism at all but I do think there are some basic differences.
I've had a lovely day, took dds to a little farm thing put on by a local children's centre, big 2 got to stroke goats,sheep, a cow, brush a pig! And hold a chick and a rabbit. T should have been asleep but wasn't and cried until I picked her up. She then merrily hung out and then fell asleep in the sling while the bigs played in the park. Then my mum felt well enough to come for tea and read the bigs bed time stories - they were so excited - me: would you like a treat as you've been so good? Dd1: grandma coming is always a treat! Mum stayed and hung out with me for a bit after dds were asleep which was lovely.

Latch seems fine I've been making sure as it's been so painful and I can't get back to sleep now.

It's lovely that your dd1 said that glad your mum is feeling a bit better

Could it be thrush or mastitis Spotty?

WL that sounds lovely, i'm glad your mum is feeling better

Wow hales what a big baby!

Sorry about you're sleep spotty. Do you think he's waking from hunger or habit? Or some other reason?

T does not want to go back to sleep. Have tried to put her down twice but had to get her back up for winding, now she's having a little sing song on the boob!

Not mastitis. Never had thrush

Up again. Not sure if it's hunger or habit but as the other week he was down to two wakings it must be hunger?

Oooh she's been sick in my bed! Too tired to care - will just try not to lay on that bit!

Or comfort spotty - teeth? Cold?