December 2012: 1st birthdays and 1st/2nd Christmasses

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willyou if you feel comfortable enough and you think he'll be quite settled then go. I'm not sure if I would but it depends on if she was likely to be asleep so bit miserable or missing me.

Beasty Congratulations on becoming an Aunty.

Willyou the poor thing he's having a tough time at the moment i would probably go, get a few hours rest yourself.

WillYou I hope you and DH managed to have your Indian.

MIL is having A and DD for a sleepover tonight. DD is massively exited, and has been packing her bags for the last 2 weeks (her oldest cousin is staying there too this week). I've not gone beyond checking she has her toothbrush and clean pants, so it could be an interesting bag seeing what's important to a rising 4 year old!

I'm exited at the prospect of the first chance for a good night's sleep in 14 months.

Beasty, i hope you have a great night and a great sleep.

We have a snot filled house, H is covered as am i and DP.

beasty I'm interested to hear that A is going for a sleep over - aren't you still bfing? How does that work. I keep chickening out of trying to get DH to put T to bed with a cup of formula. I imagine she would be a nightmare for any

One over night as she's back to wanting boob to settle. Will tackle that after this cold has passed - snot bump with hales!

A's being really awkward and refusing to eat lunch. Yesterday all he ate was 2 bananas, 1/4 slice of toast and a couple of spoons of yoghurt. So far today he's had about 1/4 slice of cheese on toast for breakfast and 1 spoon of veg/gravy at lunch.

He just wants to breastfeed all the time.

I've left him in the kitchen with DH to see if he can get some food into him. And then I think we're going to have to go for a drive and see if we can get him to nap before we drop him off with MIL (DD went straight there after church).

Beasty, i find that on the odd occasion H has a good day of eating the next few days she doesn't eat much.

WL could you not give T a bottle of cows milk instead of formula? We give H the occasional bottle of warmed semi-skimmed milk, and she loves it. Unfortunately we've noticed that if she has cows milk she gets really bad wind and it keeps her up all night, that's why she only gets it occasionally. It is far worse when she has whole milk though.

I've managed a night away from N, who is still bfing several times a night. DH got him to settle with cows milk. Apparently, it took a bit longer than normal but he wasn't screaming all night or anything. Think it is an out of sight out if mind thing with him.

I know at DD's 2yr check the HV said to think of what they eat over a week, rather than a day. But the 3 days a week that I'm looking after A he wants me and not food . And when he's skimming along the bottom of the weight charts, I'd rather he ate!

I haven't really thought about it from a feeding point of view, although like baby ISpy, I think it's very out of site out of mind.

Will just be cow's milk though, rather than formula.

And we went for our drive.

We were on a 1 track road and a car pulled onto the grass to let us past (the grass was their side, we had fence). They got stuck.

So DH went to help them and after getting spattered with mud, he fell face first in it!!

A slept though.

Beasty I'm sure your dh didn't think it was as funny as I just did

We've just been to bil's for a yummy roast. Mil told us she's moved out of her place with fil they're still together though

Hi all, sorry - I was reduced to mobile only for a while and lost you all!

R has self weaned, I was very very hormonal for a week or so before and after but it's definitely his decision so bedtime is now bath - pyjamas - sleeping bag - book - Ewan - self settle

pidj that sounds ace! I know a bit of me would be sad but I love the idea of self weaning. T is another who is all about the boob. She is fine when I'm not there but as soon as she sees me she's grabbing at my top.
How do you think mil will settle A at night beasty? That car journey does sound funny!

DH has annoyed me as he wanted to go for a 10 mile run, (starting from where we were rather than home) but we agreed 6.30 would be too late home to get everyone fed etc as he's going out tonight. So he said he'd do 6 miles. He arrived home at 6.25 having decided to do 10 afterall and not let me know. I was really worried about him as he was an hour late and it was pitch black. Idiot.

I haven't got any bottles as I threw away all the old ones from dd1/2.

Ds doesn't have a bottle at all. He only had one for about three months then I just used a cup.

That's really selfish of your dh I HATE it when dp is home late without telling me. It's worse because you'd agreed it was too late

When she's babysat here, she's rocked him to sleep in the pushchair. But he's better at going to bed now than last time she did that.

A has never taken a bottle at home or for MIL, and wasn't bothered giving it up at nursery.

We're all going into Cirencester tomorrow. DD wants to buy a book about monitor lizards (blame Bubble Guppies), but I think she might be disappointed!

Beasty, that sounds hilarious, although it probably wasn't for your DP.

Spotty, that sounds like an interesting lunch. I was watching something on this morning the other week about couples who live apart through choice it was interesting. The couple who were on said they doubted they would still be together if they lived together. They had been together 10 years were married and had children one of whom had Down Syndrome.

i forgot to say WL, i hope your ok and that your DH makes up for it.

I've forgiven him now, it's just that I was really worried that he'd been hit by a car running on the road or mugged on the tow path.
Mission re-establish self settling started tonight. T was not happy. I still love bfing her but I hate bring a human dummy - that's when i think about giving it up.

I guess luv

Stupid phone!
Glad I'm not the only one without bottles! T drinks happily from a cup and will go to sleep in the pushchair easily. Perhaps I just need to be brave and let DH give bedtime a go.

I guess living apart works for some people but I'd worry that we'd end up with separate lives. Isn't it the minutae that distinguishes your relationship from that with everyone else? Dhs aunt and uncle have had seperation bedrooms for years which they claim to be very happy with but I'm not convinced that there isn't a bit of facade going on.

Mil said fil 'had some things to sort out' it's definitely not permanent, if it is they won't be stating together. Unfortunately he prefers tennis over everything and was playing when his mum (dp's nan) died etc etc. Very sad I hope he sorts himself out.

Morning all, DS still has his mumps-like reaction to the mmr. His face is massive and his fever is awful. It's been 2 full days now and I can't find any info about how long this should last.

Willyou, could you get a GP appointment? If your worried its probably worth checking out.

H has woke up with a very sticky left eye and also sounds very chesty.

Just had ds' 1 yr check. He's on 25th for height and 2nd for weight (18lb!). Got some free books and advised about vitamins