November 2012 - Babies are getting busy, busy, busy

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1858262-November-2012-In-which-the-babies-start-to-reach-their-first-birthdays

Not caught up as in Vom Palace. I have now joined the party so have been sent to bed

J did not manage to keep milk down for 24 hours but did have sips of water this morning so eventually peed. If he hadn't we would have possibly had to take him to the ward. Poor wee boy. This is on top of his bad chest he has had for ever it seems.

Anyway, how is everyone else?

Had a very quick skim and saw little one got burned so sorry to hear that. They are so fragile when it comes to hot things.

Nearly a year down the line I can say that three is lovely. Hard work, especially when they are all fucking ill, but utterly wonderful too. Had J not had his chest and eating issues, and slept, and me been younger and slimmer, it would have been a whole lot easier I am sure. I now understand why folk have 4 or 5 or more. Kinda

J still reacts badly to anything with dairy or soya in. Particularly in his skin. He had custard play the other day and his skin was dreadful. They said he did not eat any. I am therefore very reluctant to try him with anything to eat from those groups. It does not help that he is not well most of the time. He is always snotty.

I think it is time to go to the dietician. I think it is time to get loud.

I have read about successes with other babies on this thread and felt for them, but so for me and my J. He is still barely eating solids.

Oh no VQ, sorry to hear you have been struck down with the lurgy. May it be swift and not-that-bad.

The pigsty is all well, have just made a chilli and some spag bol so daddy pig & the piglet don't starve this weekend - I'm on call for the next 3 days which is extra as F is particularly lush and giggly and what have you lately.

I need to read this beaker fred, am sure it will cause much hilarity!

GT I suggest you in particular bookmark it for those long night feeds - just the sort of entertainment you need to get you through! I have to say I don't remember having sore nips with F, apart from when I had thrush (which was worse than childbirth imo) but I had some excellent advice and help with her latch in the very early days. I hope you can find a bf group somewhere close by you where you can get some help.

Poor J VQ - he has had such a tough few months with one thing and another. F loves homemade "yoghurt" - 200mls oatmilk heated with 1 tbsp cornflour and cooled (so it is thicker), mixed with some fruit puree. It's a good way to get calcium into her. Plus flaked rice (Sainsbos do it) made with oat milk - rice pudding that's not too lumpy/challenging.

Thank you BP. I will try those recipes. He is still on a lot of formula as he eats so little, but is nice and solid so is not at risk of fading away.

My girls were on regular meals by now and had pretty much cut out milk so it is really odd.

He is loving nursery though, and is really forming good bonds with a couple of the girls. He saves his kisses for me though

I think I am going to try to sleep now.

Night night quiche x and hope you have a good one GT x

I am now reading The Thread hilarious! A great way to spend a night in on my own! x

Now, do I fill the beaker or not? YW it was an entire leg of lamb!! (that, after his meal of beans on toast that night, was replaced by him with a vair nice farmshop lamb)

I am going with soup I think. And maybe a pizza for the boys.

Good evening lovely quiche, I am a whole pound fatter this week but two shits I give not. Has been a tough week and I know where I went wrong. E is doing brilliantly - he is having early mornings but I am ignoring them and focusing more on the fact he is eating well, has managed a whole string of six steps then fell flat on his face and has been a delight behaviour wise recently.

I have read everything, not much time for catching up though but..

fatima hope she's better soon bless her

yw I sometimes have shouty days, it can't be helped! Sometimes they make your workload twice as much work and then some!

No advice on your issue with the pooing sophia (well not your issue but you know what i mean) but hopefully it'll get sorted. It most certainly doesn't make you a shitty mum though, not at all, it's just a challenge as others have said and you'll get through to the other side of it :)

glad to hear F self settled bplp that's brill :)

yay for rolling misslaughalot :)

glad e's lesson went well eliza

yay for tooth 7 pikz

glad to hear the new routine worked well det that's fab :)

pp i reckon you'd make a brilliant peer supporter, you're very supportive on here :)

gt you're doing amazingly well, you really are. I am sure it is going to be very tough at first but then very rewarding as your boys get older :) You will manage fine, I have every faith in you :)

yay on the steps evil :)

gosh ditsy scary stuff

sounds like a bad night fruit but it's not your fault you didn't realise - i often think i wouldn't have the foggiest with e either if he woke hungry as he hasn't for such a very long time!

pass sounds like p is a brilliant little walker :)

gosh pr a flood of teggies!

I bet you kicked arse on your interview mm sorry I didn't read early enough to wish you good luck

not read the penis beaker fred but I want to find it and read if it's still about, it sounds hilarious!

Hey vq I hope you're all better soon, bless you :( I am sure J will get there and as you said he drinks lots of milk so is at least doing well even if he's not eating much solids yet. Does he still like to feed himself or is he ok with spoon feeding now? I don't feel like I know enough to offer any suggestions, but E ADORES raisins, maybe J might like some? I know they're tiny and not really food food, but when E has been difficult he's enjoyed playing about and doing his pincer grip thingy and raisins are a particular fave. Sorry if i'm just sounding patronising but I really don't mean to be

VQ I wish all the CMPI babies could be happily scoffing cheese on toast before they're one but sadly different kids grow out of it at different ages. Jonas won't be on dairy by one but fingers crossed he'll be able to tolerate it in my milk and we'll build up from there. I'm cross for you as you've been fighting for a diagnosis for months and the earlier CMPI is addressed and dairy excluded - the quicker they tend to respond and the lower the risk of oral aversion. Your HCPs have made me hopping mad . I'd be getting very shouty. But get well soon first xxx

Tomorrow is week two of the Gregg's pasty and Mars bar challenge. I'm so excited!

Good luck with the job MM

Hope you're feeling better soon VQ and J too - poor chap :(

I'll confess I've just seized on what VQ says about having three and filed it away for future reference! I really would like 1 more, though not just yet. I think though, that wanting another and actually having another is not the same thing!!
I have started giving some baby stuff away but it can be replaced

I have been feeling a little worse for wear today. Went out with some old work mates last night and got home a little later and more drunk than intended. Felt very strange walking over london bridge amongst all the city folk. Seems like a life time a go that I was one of them. It almost made me want to go back to work, until my mate ranted about work for ages and I remembered it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Think I'll stay at home for a bit lot longer.

vq Sorry to hear you have a poorly household again. I really do think you need to see a dietician. My one has helped E so much. She eats brilliantly now and has also started taking a bottle which seems a bit weird as at this stage I was weaning DD1 off hers. But as you know different things work for different kids. But I really do think your J will benefit greatly from a dietician.

kyz Lovely to read a happy post from you. Glad E is doing well. Make sure you recall moments like that when you think you're being a shit mum.

I've just discovered one of the mums from the baby groups we go to appears to be a MN'er!

I SO knew it. She's the type. Totally!

I mentioned her a while back, saying her baby was just like ours - and not the perfect sleeping through, never heard of regression, feeding properly babies every one else seemed to have!

Lost a big post. Fuck!

In summary:

More vom from me and J

Kyz you could never offend

Thank you for kind words

Etc

Goodnight. Again.

G'night VQ.

Get better. Soon. Very soon! :)

Sorry, been at work so just caught up and instantly forgotten everything

Good luck with the foot-stomping VQ and fx the vom tide abates soon

One of my yp is early upduffed, i referred here here

I can't copy the link as I'm on phone. But the words aluminium and formula sound worrying together.

Pennie reading around it looks like they think it is coming from the packaging. 200 times more than bf will probably be 200 times more than the tiniest amount and there isn't any real idea as to what too much would do to the body, if anything. Throughout our lives we are exposed to all kinds of chemicals, most dangerously the things we put on our skin and in our hair. I always take these studies with a huge pinch of salt and until the ombudsmen or whoever start pressuring the ff companies to change their packagin or whatever I won't lose any sleep over anything. I think there is probably less crap in ff, than even the best ready prepared baby food (and. I have given LO plenty of baby food) just because it will be exposed to less crap.

Just read it pennie and I would say that it is nothing to get too anxious about. They don't actually know what impact aluminium has on the body and the amounts they are talking are minimal. I agree that it bears more research and if it is possible to reduce it then efforts should be made to do so.

Hello to vq it is lovely to see you back. I agree that it is time to kick arse. Get onto the dietitian and see if you can push for a consultant referral. My interactions with the dietitian have been good but very much led by me - I have had no formal appointment and no suggestion of an actual plan. I wonder if you could push the line that J is close to a year old and nutritionally they need to be providing support for his weaning.

Good luck with the job mm. I am sure you have done a great job. It is horrible having to wait though.

We are off to Italy today to a market. Not really sure why - don't like shopping. Maybe DH has an urge to buy a fake handbag.

Pennie I haven't done any reading around however I will jump on prs bandwagon. I take all studies with a pinch of salt also. With each of my pregnancies and children there has been a scare or a study. You would drive yourself crazy. So you just carry in and mother with your best abilities and your gut instinct. We have to assume the stuff that is on the market is safe or move to a wood in west Wales (or Kintyre) (or here actually) and keep chickens in the hedge and try not to interact with the rest of the human race Think of all the stuff they say to do, or not do now that was common practice when we were growing up?

Sounds great pass love of shopping or no. Have a fab day.

Ok, so last night tried a new Zumba.

Comedy Zumba.

The soundtrack was like a heat of X factor.

The instructor was a chap. Who thought he was Lady GaGa. And had a pot belly.

The women behind me had a tick and kept involuntarily shouting out.

The women next to me was wearing a religious t shirt.

It was fun though and I enjoyed it.

O has started a frustrating habit at breakfast at just holding his beaker upside down and watching the milk poor out all over the table. More frustratingly is a lovely oak table and DH has an aversion to a table cloth (one of our few arguments he pulled the table cloth off the table in frustration at hating it so much so have decided I won't go there apart from on craft days) so all the boys have is large placemats with their names on.

Valve cup Sophia R can manage one now and i need to get more - i want him to have free access to water now he's dropping feeds but i only have 1 for going out.

Crap night, for me not him. Tendinitis in my left hand