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

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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.

Thanks all, you are all very wonderful you really are. Elyza has had another stopping breathing episode and her vein has broken down and she dislodged her cannula so has one in her foot now but if she gets this out she needs one in her head.

Sorry about your horse horsey and yay for e crawling. Chasing glad o is ok. Erm. How is j vq?

Is o doing ok in his brothers room detective? Is dd1 ok pr?

hope all is well quiche wide.

I had time to do some carrots and broccoli for e today for tea and I think he swallowed some of both and didn't gag once. Puree wise it was a bought pot of peach and banana. It has such a weird after taste. He ate some but wasnt keen.

ringing hospital again soon but hoping to catch up with the end of the last fred soon

thankyou all for the kind messages. I have shown mum I hope you don't mind I just showed her the well wishes etc related to her

Pass e loves the remotes to bits. He is always trying to get at them

Ah pennie I can't take the credit for that. That came from PP and made me proper giggle.

Thanks kyz DD1 is fine, but bad tempered as she won't nap during the day anymore. She did a dramatic reenaction of her fall for DH when he got home, with great pride. She's fine.

You sound more upbeat, that is good. Try and rest, and make sure mum gets some rest too. Is there anyone else that can go into hispital tomorrow for a few hours to let her go home and rest?

Interesting article. LO had colic, we both hated it. DH managed it better than I did, and his solution was exactly that. Turned the lights off, put the TV on very quietly and let her deal with it. I was much more stressed.

pass LO also loves the remote controls. When she is obsessing I give her one taht is not in use, normally for the DVD player as that is always off, and let her play with it. Her main obsession is my hair though...

pass O's current obsession is labels. Today I whistled to him for the first time - he looked at me in shock and started looking around trying to work out where the noise was coming from. Next door neighbour was blowing bubbles for the babies yesterday which they both loved. Must buy some.

Which also reminds me, I was going to ask you all for games etc you play with your babies as I am running out of ideas We play 'Where's mummy?' all the fucking time a lot. I hide behind a muslin/scarf and he pulls it off and laughs when he finds me.

Oh PR yes to the hair. O is pulling mine out in clumps at the moment

Bless her pr she sounds so funny! Mum wont. She breastfeeds elyza so needs to stick around anyway but she wont leave her longer than she did today when I got there and she went to the toilet and had a shower. She is going to run herself into the ground. She will not listen to me and has said I am the only one she can leave her with. I will try to get her to rest tomorrow and see if she will consider even just an hour off. Hope she will. She has not slept since sunday night and I am worried. I hope tomorrow when I go she will sleep. Mil is having e for me for a couple of hours

F has a bit of a love affair with my phone. The shiny light of the screen, the bumpy texture of keys (no touchscreens here).

Almond milk is nice. Thank fuck. Have just had a bowl of cereal. May have another.

Js favourite play thing is his willie. Like father like son. Obviously he only gets near it at nappy change and bath time.

J has not been sick at all today, just the odd posset. I do not believe in tempting fate He has only had 26 oz today, but that is still a great improvement on what he has been having. No fever, but cough is still horrendous. I am hoping he will be able to stay in the cot all night. I am fed up of sleeping on the sofa.

Kzy lots of love to you, mum and E.

Chasing he spends lots of time helping! I put him in high chair when cooking an give him plastic pots an wooden spoons. We sing and dance about kitchen too. I've learnt he just lies to be involved and near you.

Oh, and just found out that my pal, who was due the same time as us and miscarried at 11 weeks, is pregnant again!!! 8 weeks so early still, but so very happy for them.

Please slap me with quiche fish for the fact I'm very jealous of all the pregnant people around at moment.

kyz hugs, you sound like a great support to your mum.

DS loves my glasses. Loves to take them off my face. Over and over again. He also thinks a muslin over his head is extremely exciting. And a packet of wet wipes keeps him entertained for ages. Actual toys, he can be a bit meh about.

J loves his 3yo sister. She is very, erm, tactile. And loud. And in his face. I am forever telling her not to squeeze him, insert toys in his mouth, bend his fingers the wrong way, kiss him so he cannot breathe, lay on him etc, but he utterly adores her. The elder one tries, but she does not have the same effect on him. Boo was playing dentists with him the other day and had the little mirror right in there. The look on his face was a picture.

S is obsessed with remotes too, and my phone and ipad, basically anything she can't have she wants!
vq glad J hasn't been sick today, fc this is the start of him getting better.
kyz hugs to you, your mum and elyza, she's in the best place.

S WILL NOT sleep in her cot at all tonight. I put her down at her usual time and she woke straight back up and screamed, she never does that. I took her into our room and she fell straight to sleep on the bed. Put her back in her cot after half an hour so I knew she was in a deep sleep, and as soon as she touched her mattress she woke up and screamed again, put her back on our bed and straight to sleep, what the hell do I do?

Yes VQ - dsd sounds like dd2, F loves her from a distance, but is a bit twitchy about stuff going on to close to her. She is, of course, "timid"

Chasing will dig out the bubbles here tomorrow, quite excited! I sing badly to F, she likes to bob around on her feet on my lap. She will happily sit and stroke blankets for 10 or 15 minutes. Different day, different blanket! We play tickles, I start at her feet and sing "tickle tickle tickle" and work my way to her armpits. She likes

Oh pikz me too! I saw a pic of a pal on Facebook who is 6 months gone. She looked wonderful and I had this proper surge of memories - it was pretty overwhelming actually. Is it the same the second time? Does it feel so amazing?

Lovely, lovely news about your pal VQ. And good that J is getting a tiny touch better.

Bless you and your cotton socks kyz. Asking after people when you have a huge amount of your own to cope with. Your mum must be beyond herself with worry. I am not surprised she feels you are the only one who can care for Little E. I hope you can persuade her to have a sleep tomorrow. Is there a parent room? Even if she could be persuaded to sit in there for an hour she might doze off if lucky but she would get a short rest. Little E is in the best place but I can only imagine how traumatic it must be for you all. The only one who won't remember is the little lady herself!

PR your DD1 is so full of win! She must be a total soup of massive fun and completly exhausting.

Games wise . . . Ehm. If I have time I fly her around, go have a chat with the various babies and mummies in mirrors, kick her around the floor with my foot (she loves it!), use my tummy as a trampoline, play horses on my knee. That kind of thing.

She also spends a fair amount of time just on the floor with captain calamari and freddie firefly. She goes In her Jumperoo for a long time and now sits in her high chair. I also find that as long as I throw some entertainment her direction every so often, P just loves watching. She finds it particularly amusing if I suddenly burst into a vigorous dance routine while emptying the dishwasher.

Games? I just sing and dance with exaggerated gestures and make a tit of myself. As I do tat on my own anyway it is nice to have an appreciative audience.

One thing you can do is give them something to hold in each hand, then once they are pleased with holding them offer them a third thing and watch their reaction. It's a massive puzzle for them as they try and work out what to do. Granted the entertainment value is more for mum than baby but it's interesting. You can actually watch them think, looking at each thing they are holding and trying to see how they can get hold of the third thing. They can't, and generally just drop with both hands and grab the third. But it is sweet. A few months down the line they'll have nailed a system to deal with it and will be mega proud.

Erm other than that. Bubbles, plastic mirrors, DD1 and the dog are what keep LO entertained. She spends a lot of time in her pen just messing with her toys while I entertain DD1. As they get older they need more entertaining. Right now they are just discovering and learning, and at least for this part of their existence - play time - other than dancing and making faces from time to time we don't need to do much.

Me bplp I want to join in!

Oh yeah BP! Tickles! P now anticipates actions so if I wiggle my fingers in the air while she is on the floor she starts to wriggle and smile anticipating the tickle which she knows will happen. Songs that follow patterns are good for this - round a round the garden, this little piggy, incy wincy spider - that sort of thing.

I think it is much like what PR describes. Who is that guy? luis someone that does all the high kicking? I kind of channel that.

Yes DD1 is masses of fun, and knackering and infuriating in equal measures. Earlier on in the garden I was trying to get her to come inside and she was shrieking NON very loudly and running away laughing. When she is being naughty I often have to turn around and hide my face so she doesn't see me smile.

My second pregnancy went by in a blur. First time round if someone asked me how far I was along I could tell them in weeks and days. Second time round I was much more vague. Scans were the same. Except at the beginning when the first scan showed no heart beat and I had to wait two weeks for another one, having been told she probably wasn't viable, I can hardly remember the other scans. When I was told she was a girl my first thought was good, I've got all the clothes already. There was none of the anticipation of feeling the first flutter, as I was late feeling DD1 and so didn't worry when all you guys on the threads were feeling stuff and I wasn't. It was a nice pregnancy, and except at the beginning very nice but dull. Knew what to expect, right down to the c section. Plus, having a toddler meant that I didn't have the time to worry about anything other than the unexpected guilt regarding DD1. Was convinced I was ruining her life by having another child. Taht was the big dampener on the whole thing. Silly, with retrospect, but I believe it is a normal reaction for DC2's arrival. VQ had some lovely advice on the antenatal threads regarding that.

Treasure boxes are excellent. Full of anything. He just likes it?!

We go out every morning. Either do the 11.30 bottle out of at home. Lunch takes an hour so sees us to 1.30/2ish then dog walk, then bottle, then play. He rolls/crawls round the floor. Jumps about a bit

We sing songs, read books. He just likes being with me. Or dh. Or anyone who smiles with him.

Just got in from work to first wake up

I switch R between play mat, dj booth and door bouncer and we play aeroplanes, knee bouncing, muslin over face "where's Rafa gone? There he is!" and "where's Rafa's " plus singing. Or just snuggled up. Between walking out to the shops, meals and naps there's not too much time to fill thankfully

to all in need, yet again I've read and forgotten sorry