November 2012 - To sterilise or not to sterilise (bottles that is)

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1820625-November-2012-Thinking-about-first-birthdays-Already

Det I was saying the same to DH. Jonas is suddenly a chatty wee boy who plays with toys and chats to them and conducts proper little rants with gesticulations and intonation. He definitely has Mumum, Dada and hiya and babab which seems to be his word for the cat! He kisses and waves when asked too. Most of the time but not to heartbroken Daddy! He's also moving all over but primarily still by rolling and commando crawling. He's much less of a lump of baby observing the world and more a wee person trying to participate.

Woohoo Chinese and and another hour or two of work

at people being proud of me.

Linky to HP thread please! Mahoosive fan.

I concur. chasing you are incredible. Staying would have been the easier option but you put O first and decided you wanted a better life for him. You both deserve so much better than what XP could offer you. It's his loss and I hope he is starting to realise it.

Haalllooooo.

Your wee one is walking pennie? Amazing!

P climbed the stairs this evening with the motivation being my iPhone which was always two steps above her. She is all over the place though - attention span of a goldfish so it will be a long time before she can do that without my hand on her arse!

chasing I hope you are doing an "I am a champion" dance.

I love Harry potter.

2 push chair naps today sounds great pp! P almost never sleeps in the pushchair. Too nosy.

DP is in the kitchen cooking which is a nice change. Aubergines tonight - my favourite.

C can say mama, mum, dada, baba (daddy) and na (no). He seems to have a good understanding of Farsi which I'm pleased about. We into a shop a couple of days ago and DP's iranian friend was working there. He spoke to C in Farsi and told him to give him a hi five and he did You're right det all of a sudden he seems all grown up

*we went. Duh!

How old is your LO pennie?

Also no chatting or proper sense of understanding here yet. I am very impressed with bilingual skills apple!

I remember reading Harry Potter 4 in the tube when I was working in London once. Well before 5 came out. I remember we broke down and a) I was pleased and b) found myself briefly wondering why we couldn't just be magically removed from the tunnel.

One of my favourite things to mutter under my breath at rude people in supermarkets is "oh, I seem to be wearing my invisibility cloak!"

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/a1827997-I-love-Harry-Potter-but#40969380

He sleeps on me or in the sling, buggy and car. I can transfer to car seat in the living room but not cot. So i don't bother. Pick your battles and all that

M is very chatty. She says: hiya, dadadadada, daddyeee!, rara (at my sister Laura) and we have had a very distinctive woof at my mum's dog.

Today she has giggled non stop. Every time Aulay puppy moves she loses it to the giggles.

We sure have some clever baybeez. O says bobobob which I think is dog. And when he is pissed off, he shouts mumum He can wave in context, high five when asked and give things to you when asked. Nowhere near walking though. thank goodness

MM that sounds lovely

DP just put O to bed.

7 failed transfers, and one cold dinner later....

I always do bedtime. DP does it occasionally. Very occasionally. I am not usually here if he does it.

When I put O to bed, every night without fail DP starts crashing around the kitchen putting dishes away and doing the washing up. I have asked him to do it once O is alseep. But he does not listen. Ever.

So tonight, DP got a taste of his own medicine. And I didn't even have to do the dishes!

Oh god, Sirius just died

Hello everyone.

I hope you don't mind me coming back. I've just read through this thread and think I can safely come back because there isn't as much mention of wonderful sleeping babies. I was just getting so depressed at everyone's babies sleeping and eating so well that I almost felt like a failure and at times was shouting at the iPad screen because I was jealous of people moaning about one wake up.

J is now accepting small amounts of food. We started last fri after DH and I decided to just offer food twice a day in the hope he would get used to it and realise that it had to happen. He will now happily have some wheat flakes with neocate for breakfast and dinner his hit and miss. Purée is the way to go for us as he won't pick anything up and eat it. Sometimes it takes putting the spoon to his mouth 5/6 times before he will accept and open up but he is getting better. Glad I trusted my instincts and didn't listen to the fuckwit nurses!!

I went to GP regarding the forumla debacle. Got the dr who most people not so affectionately nickname Dr chocolate teapot! He wasnt really listening I don't think but it worked to my advantage. He's put the neocate on the repeat slip and I will now get 8 tins at a time!!! Result!! I have arranged with chemist to have them do all the legwork so all I have to do is pop in to collect fortnightly. They'll do the same with the omeprazole and the Gaviscon.

So feeding is going well but sleeping is a disaster zone. He has coslept with us for the past fortnight which i hate. He no longer has a night feed, except very occasionally and it takes me ages to figure out thats what he wants! Hs naps are still atrocious, however he does nap for maybe 30 minutes in the sling which I like as my hands are free. We need to get him sleeping in the cot. I don't know how to though as he screams on transfer. I think he just hates the cot, I'm not convinced its reflux related any more as when he cosleeping he sleeps huge chunks.

I think that's all I have to say. Sorry for not namechecking anyone or replying but there was just too much!!

Waves pompoms at Izzy Did you get your new slings yet? Mine have arrived at home but I won't get them until I get back from Manchester on Wednesday.

Izzy welcome back love! Great news on the eating and on the repeat prescription good skillz! Fingers crossed the sleeping comes good too. Don't know what to suggest but I agree it sounds as though the neocate / omeperazole has sorted the reflux and the sleeping stuff might be behavioural now. How was the transition from BF to FF? Any tips? - it's looming large for us - he'll be one in October . God that's come around quick.

Hiya stunt and Hiya yw

stunt yes I have both wraps in my hot little hands :-) Love the blue dahlia but I'm not convinced on the gaia one. I ordered a 6 and a 7 as i panicked and it seemed like I'd need a 7 for some of the carries I wanted to try.

yw J did really well moving from BF to FF. We had started giving him neocate at night slowly increasing the concentrations. I didn't express for those feeds so that my supply adjusted slightly. He went away overnight and had bottles only for that time so seemed like a good time to stop. He never had 'set' feeding times so I couldn't just swap a BF for a FF so we just choose a late night feed to be my last and moved him straight to the formula. That way seemed less confusing for him as he didn't have boob one time and bottle the next. It worked for us. I just expressed a little off for comfort and used good old savoy cabbages and ibuprofen! Discomfort lasted a week tops. I still have milk I've squeezed to check and it shoots! but J stopped the nuzzling quite quickly which was good as i was worried he'd root around a lot. I slept in a bra and tshirt for a week or two so that I didn't smell so much of milk when doing the many trips back and forth to settle him or when he was in our bed.

Helloooooo. All progressing well. 1 house all packed up and somewhere on the Irish Sea as we speak. We are sitting n the queue at Holyhead. Tired and smelly. But at least the boys are asleep.

Off to catch up.

Welcome back izzy! Glad the Bf to FF transition went well and that you have sorted out prescriptions and starting to sort food.

I was just dozing off but am now awake wondering how drunk DH will be when he gets home. Said he wasn't staying out late. Just another few after I left him at half 8. He'll be leathered

Good job izzy you made some great headway there. Impressive.

I need a weeeeeeeeee.

We are still awaiting to get in the ferry.

I need a she wee.

Argh why do I do this? I could be enjoying catching up on se sleep in an empty bed, instead I keep on dozing and then waking with my heart racing wondering when DH will be home and how drink he'd be.

Bloody anxiety.

fatima have you got a good book to read? Any shite in tv worth watching?