June 2013 (3) - teething & not sleeping!

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I broke the old thread! Step this way, step this way.

Sent that too soon! 7 months now! She says pretty much everything too cheeky lady! Today she's had

Bottle at 6am then breakfast weetabix made with formula at 8am

She hAs a bottle and goes to bed at 10 then lunch today she had cottage pie and rox

*rice pudding then bottle and bed at 2pm then dinner at 4.45 tonight was roast pork mash and carrots then she has her 4th bottle at 7.30 when she goes to bed

Also phoned hospital today for her appointment 17 week waiting list! When I said it was with the paediatric she said oh it might be a bit sooner then!

I had a letter last month asking me to make an appointment for M's 6-12 month development check. It's taken until today for the HV to actually ring me back, to tell me that there are no appointments available until March, when he'll be 10 months old already. Good job they give themselves a nice big window to fit the check in these days, when DD was a baby it was a 9 month check

Dd is usually offered food 3 x per day if she is awake but we are blw so sometimes nothing goes in. Yesterday she had weetabix, omelette with cucumber and tomato and bolognese for tea with greek yoghurt for pud. She is also bf on demand and feeds roughly every 2 hours. She is on the 91st for height and weight :-)

She started making real progress with crawling yesterday but decided to spend all night practising!!

What is this development check of which you speak?!

Hi everyone,

I'm so bad at posting at the moment but I do check in all the time to read what's going on for you all - it's very reassuring to know it's similar for us all!

Joe eats three times a day:-

Breakfast 7 or 730am - a whole weetbix made with a bottle and about half a mashed banana and then leftover bottle
Lunch 1230 or 1pm - some veg or a scrambled egg, some fresh fruit (raspberries and kiwi fruit current favourite) and yoghurt pot with lots of water
Supper 515pm to 6pm - some savoury food, loving chicken, cheese, ham, egg, broccoli, mashed potato, lots of fresh fruit and puree, couple of Organix carrot crispy stick things, a biscotti and some dried fruit (usually pineapple or mango), then a bottle again at 7pm.

I only just found out about this 8 month check thing too - can I just ring the GP for it?

We are off to hospital today for a contrast study as it looks like J has to have a balloon procedure to widen his throat at the operation site. He's perfectly well in every way but just needs it so he can eat bigger lumps of food. Don't suppose he can eat mushy baby food all his life, or at least not until old age....! I am not thrilled about having more operations but needs must, poor Joe.

He's got two bottom teeth in situ, had those since 5 months, but his two top teeth have broken through. Not the ones you'd expect, though. So not the middle ones, but the ones on either side. TOTAL VAMPIRE. I must take some comedy shots. No crawling but a hell of a lot of rolling in all directions except for forward. Just this morning he managed to get up on all fours, looked shocked and fell on his face. Graceful.

Otherwise all well with us, am back to work on a new contract Mon/Tues/Wed as of next week so we've a new temp nanny starting who is great. Actually might I recommend sitters.co.uk - they are brilliant, we've had nothing but aces babysitters through them, all ex- or part-time nannies. It's great being able to escape during the daytime, or at night, knowing that Joe is being well looked after and the rates are really reasonable.

Hope everything is great with you all out there....can you believe that this spring they'll be coming up for 1? Crazy.

HV offers the check round here, I had to call them directly and leave about a billion messages for them to call back to make an appointment.

Having said that, for DS1 they'd got rid of the development check unless there were specific concerns (he was prem so got one), and for DD she didn't get a 2 year check as again there were no particular concerns. Cost cutting measures apparently...

Not much happens at the check Sarah - they just check that eg LO is starting to move/sitting/rolling/crawling/whatever, that their muscle tone is OK, that they're babbling, interacting with you, and ask questions about their sleep, feeding, stuff like that. I think they re-do that PND questionnaire as well. It's a good chance to ask any questions you have if the weight clinics are like they are round here where you never see your own HV and are ushered in and out within about 10 nanoseconds!

Ooh, Oli, I have Vampire Baby too :o

Glad work is sorting itself out and the nanny seems good.

Rue - glad to hear J isn't the only one!

Do you think that I maybe don't need to take Joe to the 8month developmental check cause he's seen every 3 months by the Consultant Paediatricians at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital? They check all that stuff....

MadameJ glad you shared that, our routine is pretty much the same (offer food 3 times, BLW so what goes in varies, breastfed every 2 hours pretty much and haven't had him weighed but he's in 12-18mo clothes).

I don't think DS1 had a check around this time. I tend to just ignore stuff apart from vaccinations though. If I have a concern I'll know where to find them.

Rrreow, I had dd weighed about 3 weeks ago and she weighed 20lb 4oz and she wears 9/12 months.

Oh and the check round here is done at 9 months old and the hv comes to your house!

Just checked our book and the check is 8 months here, with either the health visitor or a doctor. I'm not sure if they send appointments out (like with the vaccinations) or if I need to call, so I'll mark in on my calendar. Ok, so I take back that she won't get weighed for a few months (how annoying!).

When I last took dd to be weighed the hv said he'd be round to do a 10 month check and pretty much said not to worry about in between weighing unless I felt there was a problem.

I last had Amy weighed by the HV at the 4 month check / weaning chat.

She's growing and weighs a bloody ton, so I'm not worried.

Then was was weighed in November at the hospital and we are there again next week. That's plenty for me.

I think our HV mentioned 10 months at home too. If the child is in nursery, do they come at the weekend? Not that it's an issue for us, I'm just wondering.

Suppose I should get up now as Amy is chatting away being cute in her bed and it's time for breakfast. :-)

Our hv said 12 months so not for another 6 months yet

We got the tape measure out today. Little girl is still a giant on the 98th percentile. Might explain the amount of porridge the little girl can chuff down in the morning. Think she is a bit like DH and has hollow legs.

Amy is joining your DD on the 98th centile now...it seems we are breeding giants, Sunny!

Dietician went well. We have to keep trying Amy with milk products every 6 weeks until she's hopeful grown out of the intolerance.

She did tell us to go to the HV clinic for weighing every now and then though. We shall see on that one!

You've inspired me to get the tape measure out here too. Ds is a dinky 64cm long. Think that's somewhere around 2nd centile. He'll save us heaps of money at this rate; he can stay in the first stage carseat for ages yet

Aww what a wee pet you've got there Mrs81. Lily the giant was61cm at her 6 week weigh in

That's made me smile Sunny.

Isn't it amazing how different all our babies are, already!?

Glad the dietician appt went well MrsBri.

Oh, DD is tiny! I've not measured her, but she's got her mummy's stumpy legs. However, for the last 3 generations of woman in my mum's family, each woman has been 1 or 2" taller than her mother, so DD will be 5'1" or 5'2". (I do hope she books the trend)

I got her weighed today, took her along in a pink snowsuit, took her out of that in the HV room and under that she was wearing a yellow and white strippy wool dress and white tights. The Health Visitor asked if "it" was a boy. Am I allowed to declare her a fuckwit or do I have to give her the benefit of the doubt that I look like the sort of mother who'd cross dress her baby boy and/or my girl is very manly?!?

(and yes, she did say "it" in relation to my child.)

What?!?!? That's the silliest thing I've heard all day Don'tmind. Your hv clearly needs more training!

It reminds me of a stranger coming up to me and admiring ds (dressed in a LOT of blue at the time) and asking me about my daughter

People are strange.

Well, I don't really mind, but it was just the insanity of the idea anyone would dress a boy like that. Perhaps it could have been a hand-me-down snowsuit, but still - dress?

Anyway, HVs are all pretty crap.

DD has one tooth now, but still dribbling like a broken tap, guess another one is coming through, poor baby girl!

Not wanting to miss out on the fun I just measured evie. Turns out she's a teeny one. Have no idea how much she weighs as hv had to cancel last week and I've not been able to go to a clinic. I am curious now though. Such a change from my giant ds!