December 2012: we need more chocolate and cake!!

[halestone]

New Thread

Desperate for him to have coke!!!

Dd is 3.5 and still hasn't tried anything fizzy...mean mummy

She's cuckoo Beasty. Driving me mental!

In fairness to her I think it's purely down to the mess he'd make!

We've had a good day. I had to test a packet I got from spicery.com, to check I was happy giving them as Christmas presents not because I ordered lots of stuff I wanted to eat so we had biryani for lunch. A wolfed it down. Then we took them both to a garden centre with a really good soft play area. £1.50 for an hour. Had to drag a kicking and screaming DD away when her time was up!

Just waiting for the storm to hit now.

We've been quite lax on the rules about food - I let DS have a little bit of biscuit or chocolate if I'm eating it. However the hospital really want him putting on more weight, they've prescribed him fortified high calorie formula and basically told me to feed him whatever he'll eat - including spoonfuls of Philadelphia and peanut butter from the jar... He's dropped from 75th to 9th percentile :(

We're leaving at 10, and get in for 3. However I think there's already a reschedule for our train to leave at 10:30. Also might take longer as there'll be speed restrictions on some sections of track. Really hope it's not stupid or DS is going to really struggle (as are we!). Such bad timing!

Stacks I think you'll be ok. Southern rail have cancelled everything before 9 but winds should be back down by 9am and all cleared by the time you're anywhere near poor ds does he like quavers? I know someone whose baby was underweight and they were told to give then quavers. Ds loves them!

DS1 will be 4 next month and still hasn't had anything fizzy to drink so I must be an incredibly cruel mother. He does have more biscuits etc than I'd ideally like at times largely due to DH being a complete soft touch but I am super strict about sweets and fizzy drinks.

We've had a lovely but very busy weekend. My cousin had a Halloween party for his DD yesterday afternoon which was really good fun, and it was my friend's DS's 1st birthday party this afternoon which was fab too. Hopefully now have two worn out boys who will not resist bedtime.

Well DD has gone to bed an hour early (so felt like the normal time). She tried a sip of orange juice & lemonade when I was pregnant, but really didn't like the fizz and hasn't wanted any since. She always asks for water with a straw, or occasionally milk, if we're out somewhere. Chocolate on the other hand gets kept totally out of her reach!

I have a running joke with my mum that whenever my back is turned she gives him red bull and haribo. She has given him a taste of pudding, biscuits etc but then so do we - 1/3 of a blueberry muffin in Costa because stupid mummy forgot to bring rice cakes will do no harm every so often, and he loves it when i break the tip off my cone and give him a mini ice cream!

It's raining here (Bournemouth-ish) and strong wind but no storm yet. Wish the media would stop scaremongering, there were numpties on the N3 braking for every spot of rain earlier

We've done the tiny ice cream too pidj! I tend to cook without added salt/sugar anyway, but let him have a bit of biscuit or mini cheddar if we're about etc. He had a bit of shortbread yesterday and Loved It.

We have a sleep problem - a week ago abs for the fortnight before that he suddenly started sleeping 8-5, which was ace. I have no idea why, and then a week ago he changed again and now I cannot put him down. I can get him to sleep as normal, but if I put him down, seemingly fast asleep, he wakes as soon as he touches the cot and cries. If dh does it, he's fine. If I get him to sleep, pass him to dh, and dh does it, he's fine. Why is this??

Also, more oddly and a bit worryingly he is eating lots at supper, I feed him before bed but he doesn't fall asleep and then seems to be trying to force himself to sleep by overfeeding and then is hugely sick. It's making me quite upset as I know it's impossible for a baby his age but manifests like some sort of eating disorder. I've been stopping him feeding so he won't be sick and trying to rock him to sleep instead but he keeps fightingfor boob so hard i assume he still is hungry, give in and then he does it again.
Does anyone have any ideas? It is really upsetting.

Utopian what time does he have his dinner and what time does he go to bed?

I'm not that strict with the dc, everything in moderation and nothing is forbidden, well not for dd really (apart from candy floss and pot noodles ) but ds doesn't know any different he didn't need a whole bloody chocolate bar

stacks why do they think ds has dropped? Is he just not wanting to eat/drink much? Double cream mixes into everything beautifully! Good luck for your journey.

utopian the putting down sounds a bit strange - seperation anxiety from you? It does sound like he's over feeding as he wants the comfort/suckling. Can you shift all his meal times earlier so there's more space for milk?

I am the meanest mummy as dd1 is 6.5 and never had fizzy. Tbf she's had a sip and didn't like the fizz but even if she loved it she'd only be allowed it parties. They do have biscuits/cakes/chocolate etc in moderation and as bribes

I'm currently trying to get T down which she is resisting most vociferously while my friend waits alone downstairs. Come on buba T.

utopian R has dinner 4:30-5:15, bath 5:15-5:40 then milk and cuddles to sleep for 6. Have you tried feeding him more earlier in the day, either milk or solids, so he spreads things out a bit better? It's only now that I've got the snacking sorted that everything else is falling into place, however i appear to have birthed a bottomless dustbin (he does stop when he's full, he's just empty again really quickly. Dp's the same when he's well)

Since he dropped his day feeds last week I've been giving him cows milk with dinner, he has water the rest of the time. I keep a non-spill cup within his reach when we're at home and to hand when we're out. He's getting better at finding it instead of biting my clothes and pulling at my top for milk i offer him a rice cake too if he's at that stage because it's usually due to me fucking up the snack times

Our full day is (approximately)
6:30 up with daddy. Weetabix with cows milk and pureed fruit
7:15 bf
9:00 snack eg 1/2 slice of toast (while i eat my breakfast)
11:00 small snack eg a biscuit if we're at a group and the other children are having something
11:15 nap
12:30 lunch plus fruit eg a pear or apple which he likes to eat whole
1:15 nap
2:30 snack eg rice cakes, cheerios, fruit - this is the one i usually mess up
4:30 dinner, yoghurt and banana
5:45 bf

The Poor Little Mister has been absolutely screaming tonight. I have never seen him so uncomfortable. I am assuming that it is his teeth but I haven't been able to help him at all.

Poor little mister fod. I'm assuming Ts resistance was down to teeth, baby nurofen is good stuff.

I just went to check on T before I went to bed and straightened her up in the cot (moving her head away from the bars) like I always do and she woke up with an awful pained scream. Have boobed her back to sleep but think her teeth must be really hurting her, poor lamb.

More nurofen and boob at 2.30 then up at 5. Wide awake and full of beans. The same cannot be said for her parents.

Dh settled at 9.30, 11.30 and 1, I settled at 3.30 and tried unsuccessfully to put him down until 5 when I passed him to dh who then also had problems. There's no evidence of pain from teeth or anything else causing discomfort. Could the night weaning have made him clingy instead?
I only started it to try to get fertility back but before that night feeds and settles were easier and only 1/2 a night
Feel like we've gone a million steps backwards.

Oh dear utopian. No idea really!

I feel crappy and coldy with no outward symptoms so maybe T has been too - maybe same for ds utopian?

Sorry Utopian, much sympathy but no practical advice here.

Hope you all feel better soon WL.

I'm tonight. Finally picked a nursery, someone on fb asked me which one so I told her e.g happy nursery. My uncles wife who is a complete know it all has just text me "happy nursery at A-town????". So I've said yes, no response. How irritating, she is one of those people who hates it if you do things differently to how she does it. She's forever saying "you HAVE to do x, y & z". Which obviously makes me do the opposite. Annoying woman.

Sorry utopian no advice.

WillYou that's annoying especially with something like that! When does he start nursery?

January, so still a while yet. Just wanted to book a place. Have not booked place yet but unless she comes back with actual proof rather than I've heard blah blah, I will be.

I know 2 people with kids there who love it and I know 2 of the staff so I have done my bloody research.

Don't let her shake you if you are happy with it and know others who are willyou. Some people just like being superior.

Little man fell asleep in the car at 6.30 and just wanted boob and straight back to sleep when he woke up. He normally goes to bed at 8ish so something is definitely up. He's just woken and very calmly let dh and I tandem change him and is now having more milk seeing as he's rather skipped supper. We've both decided to ditch the night weaning as although it was going well it might be what was making him clingier about being put down and we'd rather one happy baby now and dc2 later than planned than dc2 conceived at the expense of a sad and unsettled ds.

So yay for milk again! let's hope it works