December 2012: the little monsters continue to surprise us.

[MaMaPo]

I for one have a very surprising baby.

J's the same Maryland, loves food, hates milk. But this week he's having loads, must be thirsty from all the pooing!

I've not rung her again, I'm not a glutton for punishment. Think I'll tell her he's better tomorrow (he pretty much is already) so she can come and I can go and do the food shop. I quite enjoy doing it saddo but hate putting it away!

Glad he is better willyou. No doubt mil will suggest she could have taken him after all??!

So interesting mama how these babies are all so different! Does C have puréed food or finger food? We try to do both but I'm petrified about potential choking.. Ds loves his purées but is also good with rice cakes and biscottis and fruit. He just chucks veg on the floor!

DS loves skips and quavers I don't purée anything now just cut it up small.

Yep DD was weaned at 17 weeks, she was losing weight because she never drank her milk but thrived on solids.

H is the same as C Mama its really hard getting her to eat anything other than cucumber. She has just eaten 12 raspberries straight after each other though. We do a mixture of pureeds and sticks of food

I've got my smear tomorrow

Glad to hear J is better Willyou.

R likes Pombears

Tut tut Pidj

pidj outraged ;)
DS loves dried cranberries with bits of cake stuck to them

I haven't started giving him breakfast yet but if when I become an organised domestic goddess I will of course be making him beautiful meals...

Willyou glad to hear J is better! It's horrible when they are poorly.

I have a possible new plan, in the fight against napping... I might just not bother putting DS down to nap in the morning... or is that too radical?
We are picking up a playpen tomorrow so I can put him somewhere safe when I want to do something drastically selfish that requires both hands. ie cooking dinner.

Is or has anyone else's LO ended up with sore patches on their feet/toes from pushing themselves around so vigorously on the floor? DS is constantly on the move and can commando crawl rather fast now (hence the neeeeed for a playpen), lots of people are still telling me that when they start moving more they nap better .

Ha Pidj, ds loved Oreo!!!

Gah. The Little Mister is driving me nuts tonight! He is still awake and I have just dumped him, still grumbling in his cot.

In other news, I love our new buggy :)

Oh for one night that doesn't involve a large black stinky poo! Dream big fandango!

Maryland, I offer both purée and finger food. Mos finger foods get examined closely, squished between the fingers and thrown on the floor. Lots of the time they never approach the mouth. She is better with purée but has a low tolerance.

I have found that she adores plums though. Strains for them, cries if I take it away. Hilarious watching her chomp into a whole plum, she's vicious!

Gave her a baby biscuit yesterday, I think he quite enjoyed it.

Feeding at the moment - woke up to a tremendous cry. She'd got her foot stuck between the bars, and ha managed to roll onto her tummy. After rolling once about 5 months ago, she's stated doing it again.

Fx will you!

O is in sleeping bags so no feet catching at night but he managed it during a daytime nap despite the cot bumper..

First wakeup since 9pm! (Will prob now be up every hour following...)

Third wake up here. 3 lovely nappies! They are now normal again, just plentiful. Hoping this is a step in the right direction or I'm moving out before tomorrow night!

Utopian, c is also

Oops - also in a sleeping bag and still managed to get herself stuck!

After the night I've had, 5am is too early. Feeding now, fx she goes back down for a little bit.

nutella DS have himself blisters on his feet from his commando crawl. He also has a pretty good row of bruises down each of his forearms from where he bashes them against the floor during his crawling too I'm trying not to worry. You could put cream on overnight for any particularly sore bits. (I used lanisoh when DS burnt his hand on our hot wood floor, and for the carpet burn he go on his foot, just in case he managed to suck any off I thought at least lanisoh was safe for him to ingest).

Brilliant night here! :) 7-11, 11-6 I really needed a good night so I'm thanking DS a lot!

Today I have to run around like a blue arsed fly because a can thundered down a road that's in the middle of resurfacing and kicked a stone up that hit our windscreen. So we now have a crack. And on mon I'm doing a 5hr journey alone with 3 kids so I really need it sitting before then! The only appointment they had was today. I also have about 18 hrs work to do before mon. A whole house to clean before Sunday when mil comes to entertain ds2 so I can pack. And DH leaves for India for. 2 weeks tomorrow morning :( at least me and the kids are heading to my mums for most of the time!

Another terrible night here. Have been awake since 4 as baby lazza took ages to go back to sleep and then would only sleep on me & would wake the minute I sat down

Good to hear your weaning tales. Said to DH the other day I feel like I'm not making a very good job of it this time! She does enjoy eating though. Haven't found anytng she won't eat yet! Still bf though so not sure how it's effecting her milk intake. On that note, am off to get her weetabix sorted.

Oh no mama, back to me worrying then!

willyou glad baby willyou is on the mend, fx your mil stops being such a roaring idiot soon too..

Trying to find more breakfast ideas for O - how do you give weetabix? With milk and leave to pick up? Turns out gnocchi go down well here (not for breakfast I hasten to.add, not that O would care)

Crumble it up in milk utopian. Ds just has readybrek.

Ds slept 6:45-6am so that's good, actually I think he woke at 5:30 but I ignored him until dp's alarm went off.

Sorry for bad nights, glad J is on the men's WillYou.

Off to meet up with SCBU babies for lunch today (and their mums!). Will try to get a picture of all of them together. Ds weighed a good 2lb more than S who was the same gestation and born on the same day

utopian Yep, mix weetabix with whole milk (I warm it up). I spoon feed her this, but she often grabs the spoon and helps guide it to her mouth. I often have 2 spoons handy, one for me & one with a little pre-loaded for her. Or I let her have a little bit of toast to keep herself occupied. Other ideas....eggy bread or scrambled eggs (if you aren't avoiding eggs - seems to be mixed advice on this), mashed banana on toast, ready brek (with or without fruit puree), fruit, yoghurt.

Good to hear there are some sleepy babies around..,gives me hope!

Hope you have nice lunch spotty

another sleep breakthrough (after the odd nap exceeding 30 minutes) we have had three nights in a row of 'sleeping through' - at first just exceeding the 5 hour mark but last night he slept 11.30 - 6.30. first time in 8 months. now I just have to remember how to sleep through!

also shirking breakfast here - he's such a reluctant eater at lunch and dinner that I don't bother .

Ds's got the most horrendous sounding cough! I will get the dr to listen tomorrow as we've got his review appointment for his testicle...

Conducting experiment tonight...gave DD tea early, about 4.30. She ate more as not too tired & is now having mammoth, albeit sleepy, feed as not too full up from tea. Hoping it helps tonight.....oh bugger, she was asleep on mu. Cue dd1 barging in with a princess doll emergency....better start pacing

Ds has his dinner at 4/4:30 . These pesky older siblings, it's so frustrating!

N is eight months today and weighs 22lb 11oz, so is just 4oz shy of tripling his birth weight. No wonder I get sore arms carrying him round!