June 2013 Commando crawlers vs Baby slugs

[SunnyL]

Hi all - the old thread was about to run out so I started a new one.

Little Miss was up to mischief last night. Thankfully it's DHs day off today so he took her into bed with him while I slept in the spare room. She is just so excitable when she wakes up at night. It can can 90 minutes to scrape her off the ceiling.

DD has gone from crawling, to pulling up, to walking (supported) and now climbing in about 2-3 weeks! It's one hell of a shock to the system! Cute though...it's so funny to be sitting on the sofa and suddenly have a little person appear next to you :-)

Still no movement here, but I'm not complaining! DD is just happy to sit and play. She'll stretch if something is out of reach but if she can't get it she'll just move onto something else.

I've started taking her to a baby group which she enjoys.

Lil chases the dog around the house trying to force feed the dog toys. She knows the difference between her toys and the dogs toys and is insistent the dog needs her toys at all times

Hi hi, sorry I've been lurking but not posting for a while! I'm back at work and it's been manic. I'm in my newly promoted role and everyone in the team is charging about a third in excess of their chargeable hours target. Everyone else is paid for a seven hour day and most are working eight or nine hours a day. Before I returned I asked to work four eight hour days and be paid accordingly which was agreed and implemented. Unfortunately no one told my immediate manager who then refused to allow it on the basis that it's not fair when everyone over works to have me being the only one paid for it iyswim.

This has made for a stressful few weeks where I thought they would adjust my pay down and I would lose several thousand but do the same job. Luckily he's now relented.

It seems pretty clear what's going to happen though. I'm going to have in excess of a full time workload. I'm going to do those hours in my four days and then I'm going to have to work through emails etc on my day off as well.

On the plus side polly is having a great time with her dad, who is on paternity leave. Except he's in the Lake District right now on a four day stag. Four days!! Hats off to single parents. It's hardcore doing everything on your own. She doesn't need a bath everyday right? And she can have a ready meal for tea?!?

DD has a bath twice a week and isn't grubby! And as long as Polly is being fed with something suitable, then a baby ready meal is fine.

Work sounds manic for you. Glad you got the pay thing sorted. If your colleagues want to put a flexible work request in, they can ask for the same terms. Your boss sounds like he doesn't get what a FWR is / means!

DD loves being with daddy too, though I get a very warm welcome on my return. :-) Then I have to stop her leaping on bump. Challenging!

Sunny, I'm so glad we don't have a pet. That'd be a recipe for disaster!

Oh, DD is BLWed so baths nightly as it's just quicker than trying to get the food off her any other way (couscous down the vest anyone?)

We have coverall things so DD doesn't get covered in stuff. Until she rubs food in her hair. :-/

Yeah we need a bath every night as I've yet to find a way to get ingrained Philadelphia out of her hair without! There is such a thing as a baby ready meal?! Polly had a usual grown up one complete with fat and salt. I am baking today to make up for it. And supplementing with micro chips:-)

DD has a bath every evening, but only because it's part of her bedtime routine. She enjoys it too; daddy gives her her bath every evening when he's home and they have fun. He's been away with work recently though, so I have to do everything then, although he batch cooks dinners for DD and freezes them in little pots so I just have to heat them up which makes it a bit easier for me.

My career break has officially been agreed now, I just need to book all the leave/ bank holidays that I've accrued so I get paid for that.

Yes, from 10 months you can buy baby ready meals!

DD doesn't have a bedtime routine, we stopped bothering before she was diagnosed as the tummy pain interfered with any attempts to do it.

She now just tells us when she wants to go to bed, usually between 6.15-6.45 (she's not allowed to go before 6.15 as she'd be up too early!) and goes to sleep within a minute of being put upstairs. She has her baths during the day after her first nap. If she was filthy she'd get extra, but daily baths aren't necessarily good for baby's skin (and I have ezcema, so DD's at risk of it too, and frequent bathing isn't good for that).

Ah yes I've seen them. I always look in amazement at those Ella's kitchen pouches supposedly from 10 months. Just lumpy goo. This child eats an entire roast dinner with her hands. If we gave her a pouch I don't reckon she would be impressed! Polly eats around six and bed at eight. Sleeps till 730 ish. She is filthy every night. Baths are not optional!

oh we have a coverall. We have several. Last night DD had a coverall with another bib over the top. She still had couscous down her vest (determined little mucky monster!!!) and yes, everything gets rubbed in her hair. Hungry, you might have one of those mythical 'clean and tidy' children that will make every other mother at school feel inferior...

Ha! She gets it on her hands and face, but not so much on her clothes / below the neckline. I must be lucky! :-)

Her snacks do end up rubbed on clothing though, so she's not immune!

Those who have seen the pic of my little lady on fb will understand why she has a bath every night....in fact I will post another from this morning after weetabix blw style ;-)

Weetabix sets like cement too!

Weetabix is the worst! I can't let DD have it if we're due to go out. She also only seems to get food on her hands and face (and sometimes rubbed in her hair).

Hi all!
Slightly scared by all the successful stair attempts, quite glad there is a stair gate on them already, admittedly to stop the dog, but has always meant dd stays away.

On the food wearing front, as well as an all covering bib thing, I have to admit to stripping dd down so clothing stays ok! Unless you for some stupid reason leave it in grabbing distance...

Dd had her development check the other day, gold stars all round.
4 teeth now. However she is currently producing snot like it's going out of fashion wishful thinking so either more on their way, or a colds starting.

Was meant to be doing a 5 mile walk today, however it's been tipping down all night and not sure I fancy a mud bath... We shall see how the weather goes for the next hour or so.

Hi all

Well the password reset caused me a world of pain and before that I was being a most antisocial lurker-not-poster.....but it has been great to read how everyone is getting on, and all the amazing progress the babies have been making.

Kudos, a thousand times, to the pregnant ladies - brave!!

It's been an utter whirlwind my end of things, hence previously not posting much, and taking so long to sort the password thing. Joe had another operation on his throat, I got married, went to the US and finished up a contract for work. Only now am I getting back to normality, trying to settle on the next contract, dealing with some side effects for J as a result of all the meds he had when newborn (eg eczema), working on J's eating, more surgical appts, etc.

Loving the return to longer days and lighter nights and pleased that J doesn't seem to bother about it with regards his sleeping. He's still on two naps a day - morning 9-1030am or so, and afternoon 3-430 or 5pm. Is that a lot? And can I ask advice about bottles? He's still on quite a bit of milk as he can't eat 'proper' food yet (BeanCalledPickle - afraid the pouch-style goo is what we are faced with still, although slowly making progress) - he has 3-4 bottles a day totalling around 500ml. Am I right in remembering that by 12 months or so they are generally having a bottle a day, usually at bedtime?

Other than that all is brilliant with J - 8 teeth, cruising all over the place, climbing everything including stairs. He's excellent at going backwards down the stairs so we need to work on the safely going up thing! We will be extending our kitchen this summer and I rather dread corralling him when the house is full of builders. He's still disconcertingly smiley and awfully close to Mama and Babbo (Italian for dad) on the words front. And freaking me out a bit by doing those puzzles where you slot things into gaps and shaped blocks into the sorter. Too soon! Too soon!

Anyway hope all is aces with everyone else.

Pink - particularly sorry to hear what a hard time you've been having but admire how you've strayed strong through it, and I'm sure T will be happier for it.

Ugh, I am a terrible mother DD missed her best friend's birthday party yesterday, for no reason other than I didn't look at the calendar. We've now realised and she's v v v upset, as am I. We've known the family since the girls were babies (met in our postnatal group).

Rue can you arrange something for dd and best friend to do... A sort of special birthday treat just for them, so to speak. Big it up as something special as only the two of them etc etc.

sure your friends will understand, as will dd eventually.

So Polly is totally self weaning. Little interest in her morning and before bed milk. I'd always planned to still feed her for a while yet but she's totally over it. Those still BF ing do you have the same? And bottle feeders how much milk do they have these days? We've been giving her a little bit of cows milk by day but not so much as it should have replaced mummy milk!

Oli, nice to hear from you and congrats on getting married. No more Oli, now Mrs Italian Mama yes?

Recommended amount of formula is 500-600ml per day. DD has 700-800, but she is a hungry / big baby!

We are waiting til 12 months for cows' milk and we have another dietician appt next month where we will ask how to go about it as while the lactose thing is improved, she's not 100%, and I don't think saturation technique with milk will help!

And congrats Oli! Did your family make it over for the wedding?

Bean dd has drastically dropped feeds but still loves her morning and bedtime feed as well as the middle of the bloody night one you may find it's just a phase so if you want to continue I would just keep offering and see what happens x

No, Bean - DD is still a boob monster! I can't see her self weaning. I'm going to feed her till 14 months and then start to cut down. I still have to feed her first thing, before naps, after naps and before bed. Still too many feeds to count. None in the night though - she's been sleeping through consistently.

After my last post, DD ended up with strawberry all over her sleeves yesterday, but they're too long and it was my fault for not rolling them up!

Congratulations Oli.

Congrats Oli!! Sounds tough with all those ops, hope it's all going well, poor little mite. Is there a point at which he'll be all done?

We're still BF morning and night, but I don't think she takes much. Just a few sucks then looks around hte room to see what else was going on. When I was away the last three days, I pumped and was only getting 3.5-4.5 oz in total per feed. But DH fed her formula when I was away and she took 8 oz 3 times a day, so I partly wonder if her lack of interest is due to lack of milk on my part. anwyay we'll keep going for a while...