November 2012 - Weaning is (messy) fun, what does your baby eat?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1756625-November-2012-When-are-they-going-to-sleep-through-again

Please give your baby's favourite foods so we can get some ideas from each other.

Night has turned to shit here. Hysterical baby only calmed by mummy cuddles and calpol. Found out more inlaw shit which makes me want to take O and get away from here as fast as possible. I really think me and my boy would be better off just the two of us. P was trying to comfort him when he was screaming but he just wanted mummy.

Hugs pp

You ok chasing?

Why the fuck am I watching 24 hours in a and e when home alone...sobbing...

chasing I am a firm believer in a child needing both parents. Except in situations such as yours. I grew up in a house where my parents really should have split up well before I was born. It was horrible. Your DP can be a good father from a distance, but not when he is making O's mummy's life a living hell. I soetimes wonder that if my mum had kicked my dad out maybe he would have been a better father. I would certainly have been a happier more secure child. There's nothing worse than growing up watching your mum get trampled on by a twat, even if that twat is your dad. Well, I'm sure there are plenty of things worse, but not for a child iyswim.

DD1 is the same with E vq I'm constantly having to tell her to calm down, be gentle, not be so noisy with E but then I look at E and shes giggling away. She adores her.

kyz I hope your mum manages to get some sleep. Poor Elyza. Hugs for you all.

I feel really bad about how little E does. She plays on an activity mat and sits in her chair watching and playing with her big sis but that's about all. She loves bath time and I bath them together. We do eat meals all together and she loves that so I guess that's some form of game! I have a jumperoo burried in the garage which I wasn't going to get out until we moved but I really must dig it out. Thinking of all the things I used to do with DD1 and how E just isn;t getting the same attention. Don't get me wrong, she does have attention but of different sorts. I feel limited as to what I can do as that bloody tube is always trailing in the background and gets in the way. I'm giving myself a virtual slap and going to stop being so concerned about that tube and just let her be more free. It comes out reguarly enough anyway! We are starting baby sensory next month so looking forward to that.

Pr you said it so well. I have no relationship at all with my dad due to him being such a twat to my mum. I wish he had left earlier and I probably would have one.

Chasing s'up?

Pikz I had read that this weeks 24 hours was a bit of a tearjerker. Will reserve it for a day where I am not emotionally wrung out about 10 years time then

Evening!

O's obsessions are the laptop wire (any wire really) remotes, phones, laptop, hair grabbing and eating, basically, anything he shouldn't have - he makes a total beeline for. Adventurous I'd like to think? This week I caught him with the laptop wire wrapped right around his neck. And DP had balanced his laptop precariously on some cushions on the sofa. Caught O with his hand on the wire, about to pull the bloody laptop on top of him. Wires are now removed, and hidden.

Games wise, we do a mix of things. He has time in the jumperoo, his highchair, and on the floor with toys. If he is in the mood for it, the play mat, bouncer and swinging chair get use, but really, he's not as fussed with those any more. He likes his vtech walker. Basically, anything noisy gets the thumbs up from O. We do let him watch a little TV ignores fact it is currently broken about 30 minutes in the day. I'd say he doesn't really watch it continuously, but alternates between what he is doing, and a stare at the TV. I'll put music on the laptop, or on the TV as well. We do lots of tickling, peepo, bouncing on mummy, and singing. Singing being what he loves the most I'd say. I spend a large part of my day singing. Action songs wise, row row row your boat and the wheels on the bus get him going!

I've just bought him a few new toys today, he's tried out one this evening. The water pat mat. He LOVES it! Massive hit. So much fun for him! DS1 had one, and loved his too.

Oh, something else he enjoys is sitting in the pram, so if I am cooking or whatever, he likes to sit bolt upright, and pulls himself up on the bumper bar just watching me. I think he likes that he is at a nice level for world watching. That's why he likes the high chair too!

A tip for those who have the Ikea Antilop insert. If you are going out for a meal to a place where they have those wooden highchairs that babies slip and slide around in? Take the insert with you. I took ours tonight, and it meant he could sit up at the table and enjoy it ignores fact he was so far over tired it was ridiculous fecking SIL and having a 1 year olds birthday tea at 7pm grrrrrrrr.

Bplp it's horrendous. iPad is soaked.

Forgot to mention, O's most favourite toy? The dog.

He adores her. She tolerates him.

When do they learn gentle?!?!

I've booked O's first birthday party . The lady who runs the baby sensory and rhyme classes does parties. They are awesome. He's having a baby sensory party! I can't believe I've just booked it... .

O is 6 months tomorrow. Which I don't understand. He was born on a friday. He is 26 weeks on friday, which is 6 months. So why is he 6 months on a thursday?! I'm sooooooooooooo confused .

kyz poor you and your poor mum Tell her that the quiche say she needs to get some sleep!

Found out that the inlaws have been ridiculing me for only feeding O fruit and veg and not letting him have sugar. Apparently they are going to take him to McDonalds when they 'finally get to look after him.' Fine, I can deal with that. But the scary thing is his 3 sisters telling P that he has lost the fire in his belly since the 'incident' and he needs to man up otherwise O will grow up as a 'delicate flower'. So they want O to grow up as the sort of man who beats up women?! They really don't see that he has done anything wrong and their views are so ridiculous it is scary. I can't let O grow up around these people. I just can't.

I've given j a bottle of EBM again in case it helps with sleep. Fat chance me thinks but hey ho I'll give it a go!

Det same date confusion here! O is 26 weeks next weds but 6 months on Tues. 6 months ago today (well 26 weeks ago) my induction was booked Can't believe that the little monkey who has taken up residence in my heart was in residence in my belly 6 months ago.

You know that they will undermine you every step of the way, will encourage DP in his shitty treatment of you, and yes, boys learn treatment of women from their dads. You've taken a massive leap towards your freedom today with that realisation. You're getting there. Well done you. :)

Det L shares Os birthday and I don't get it either...

Chasing... Twats all of them

chasing one more nail in the proverbial coffin? Fuck them. Fuck them all

Can we not send det, prison warden VQ, luis and pp's vvvdp down to sort him and his sisters out?

Last year was a leap year, but our babies were born after the leap?!

Chasing They are motherfuckingcuntingshitfacedarsehairedwankends. Thank fuck for sweary wednesday. They always will be. Limit contact. Limit limit limit. Move away.

Fs half birthday is Friday (born on a Saturday). Scary how quickly it has gone. This weekend we are going to do handprints, of me, dh, dsd and F - all on one bit of paper. We have handprints from when F was 6 weeks old. It really doesn't feel like she's grown, but she's three times the weight she was when she was born.

Det glad to see you post, was starting to think you'd gone awol.
Chasing nobbers, the lots of them. You are quite right to want to show O a different way to their twisted, bizarre views.

Good luck Izzy!

30 days in November......not 31

You can borrow dh to join the raiding party - he's 6ft 2, weighs 18 stone and is built like a brick shithouse.

One more nail indeed.

pikz that would be great wouldn't it?

I seem to be realising every day how fucked up their family is. I hate the values and ethics they have been brought up with and I am so thankful for my upbringing, even though I am not close to my parents. I will not let them influence Oscar. He is so perfect and so innocent.

Sorry! We went toy shopping today, then to DP's nephews 1st birthday. Which was a pain in the royal fucking ass.

O cried at everyone. It was his first time in a pub/softplay really. One of those Wacky Warehouses. Very noisy. O can deal with noisy, but it was a bit too much I think. She arranged it for 5.30 to start, but food was at 7pm. O started the meltdown at 7. I could rant about how DP got to eat his food in peace. About how I didn't want to eat as slimming world means food for me when out is so boring and shit. And how O only ended up going to bed at 9pm very over tired.

But I won't.

Hope he sleeps very very well!.

What a daft time for a kids party!

Contact has now been completely limited. There is no way I am allowing O to see them without me. Or at all if I can help it. I must make plans.