Feb '06 - Sausage roll anyone?

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Right ladies - the race is on to see which of our DCs can self feed a sausage roll first!

Oh, and some of you don't seem to have aged since we got pregnant, so if you've got closer to your telegrams from the queen then please let me know!

CAMERON, Birthdate 6th Jan, Due 28th Jan, Weight 5lbs 13oz, Born to Teuch, Baby no 1, Lives Inner Hebridean Island, Gas & air and morphine
PEYIA, Birthdate 23rd Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight 6lbs 12.5oz, Born to TicTac, Baby no 1, Lives Horwich, Lancs, Gas & air only
ALEXANDER, Birthdate 24th Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight ??, Born to Yeahbut, Baby no 3, Lives Holland, Elective c-section
CAITLIN ERIN MONICA, Birthdate 25th Jan, Due 10th Feb, Weight 8lbs 10.5oz, Born to Womba1, Baby no 3 (1 stillborn), Lives Eastbourne, Elective c-section
MAISIE, Birthdate 26th Jan, Due 7th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5.5oz, Born to ellenrose, Baby no 3, Lives Bristol, Induction due to SPD
JESSICA HELEN, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 5lbs 11oz, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 1.
EMILY ROSE, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 6lbs, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 2.
ELIZABETH GRACE, Birthdate 3rd Feb, Due 3rd Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Kando, Baby no 3, Lives Holland,
PETER, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 12th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to popmum, Baby no 2, Lives Herts,
LAUREN EMMA, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 22nd Feb, Weight 6lbs 14oz, Born to Morgan, Baby no 2, Lives Dubai,
PHILIPPA ROSE, Birthdate 8th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 9lbs, Born to CantSleepWontSleep (Tabs), Baby no 1, Lives North Herts, TENS and gas & air
LEWIS JAMES, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 31st Jan, Weight 9lbs 2oz, Born to lewsmummy (Cuffyj1), Baby no 1, Lives Barnsley, emerg c-section
SETH PETER, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 1st March, Weight 7lbs, Born to angedemarche (Jangus), Baby no 2, Lives NI, Elective c-secion
EVIE HARRIET, Birthdate 10th Feb, Due 29th Jan, Weight 9lbs, Born to Hotmama, Baby no 2, Lives Nottingham, emerg c-section
RHUARIDH GEORGE, Birthdate 11th Feb, Due 20th Feb, Weight ??, Born to MrsDoolittle, Baby no 2, Lives Newbury, Water birth
BEN, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 8lbs 4oz, Born to 3K, Baby no 1, Lives Gravesend, Kent, c-sec after failure to dilate sufficiently
OSCAR, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 13th Feb, Weight 9lbs 10oz, Born to Chloe55, Baby no 1, Lives West Yorkshire, Pethidine, epi & lots of stitches!
LUTHER, Birthdate 14th Feb, Due 6th Feb, Weight 8lbs 8oz, Born to NotAnOtter (4blue1pink), Baby no 5, Lives ??,
ANYA OLIVE CATRIONA, Birthdate 20th Feb, Due 8th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Popadopalis, Baby no 1, Lives Bedford,
BRAM THOMAS, Birthdate 21st Feb, Due 11th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to mustrunmore (Ixel), Baby no 2, Lives N London, c-sec
IMOGEN ROSAMOND, Birthdate 23rd Feb, Due 2nd March, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Ags, Baby no 2, Lives Kent, Elective c-section
EMRYS JOHN, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 24th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Flamesparrow, Baby no 2, Lives Bournemouth, Home birth
ISABEL ERIKA, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 3rd March, Weight 7lbs 5.5oz, Born to Amiable, Baby no 1, Lives North London, Gas & air and epidural. DH German
LEON JASON, Birthdate 26th Feb, Due 18th Feb, Weight 7lbs 13oz, Born to Jasnem, Baby no 3, Lives Waltham Abbey, Rapid labour, ventouse and episiotomy
SALLY ANIELA, Birthdate 28th Feb, Due 28th Feb, Weight 8lbs 13oz, Born to Thell, Baby no 1, Lives London, Water birth at home
RORY JOHN, Birthdate 25th Feb, Due 23rd Feb, Weight 10lb 2oz, Born to dewmeadow, Baby no 2, Lives County Tyrone, Ireland, emerg c-section
NEVE, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 8lbs 11oz, Born to Frizbe, Baby no 2, Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Water birth
ALFRED WILLIAM, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to damewashalot (Helen38), Baby no 3, Lives Warwickshire,

Do i keep trying Lewis with finger foods?

He knows wot to do with things (he's had toast, rice cakes and carrots mainly) they go straight to his mouth, but if he gets a lump off he pushes it out with his tongue, and he won't have the lumpier baby food either. I thought he was eating bits but now i'm not so sure.

I'm scared he'll be on puree food forever. Should i be worried or is there still time to get used to it?

Don't panic, he's only 6 months old. Don't stop giving him finger foods, just let him explore them and he will eat some eventually. Melon has been a big success here, as it's easy to hold (I wash it and leave the skin on) and he gets juice more than lumps.

Hello csws.

That's what i thought jas, about him only been 6 mth and i do keep giving him bits and i know that all babies are different but all the rest are doin so well with eating.

Was someone wanting this i just noticed it. Don't say how much tho.

Agree with Jas pg - we do need to keep reminding ourselves that they are only just 6 months or thereabouts - those jars with lumps that you were trying him on were from 7 months weren't they? They'll all go at different speeds but get to the same point in the end!

I think dm (or Amiable?) is reading that book already, and mrm would like to but is too lazy .

Jas - hadn't thought of leaving the skin on the melon - guess it would help it to hold together better? Might try that, as melon does mush so easily in her hand otherwise.

Ok, have drugged dd2 to sleep hate having to do that, but she wasn't dropping until I did, hope its teeth and I wake up tomorrow to find she has at least two of them.....
CSWS hope you get both of your sleep sorted tonight!
Hurrah for baby pasta, have found some today in Boots (Anabel Karmel range) had to bring some back from USA last time with dd1, as you couldn't seem to get it for love or money over here so hurrah!

Frizbe - can't you just cut up normal pasta?? Hope DD slept ok - did her tooth appear?

We made it 3 nights in a row!! Seems she only wants 10 1/4 hrs at night now rather than 11 though, plus 1.5 hrs during the day, so she's well under the average for her age, but seems happy enough on it.

CSWS, Boy is now in a routine (not of my making) of 2 hours total between 6am and 8pm, then 9 -10 hours overnight, waking once for a feed, so maybe they need less sleep already!

I'm off to Norwich to drop off the dds today, so not on 'til tonight.

Oi csws.. Im not too lazy.There's just no time to read!! Two kids, ebay empire, running, and dl back in my life (I guess that'd be the right thing to put for our rent free lodger?!)

I am too lazy .

Read and promptly forgotten the lot. . MRM - I'll have a chat with Psycho about Christmas do .

Back is still aching a bit, but much much better.

I had my first deleted post last night Completely forgot about the unmentionable, got all excited by a message bottle, and posted for all to see! Reported myself and said sorry lots.

Very tired and grumpy with DH. At the wedding at the weekend I had his workmate/boss guy telling me that one night a week DH should go and sleep at my mums because Emrys is waking so much that DH is coming in exhausted - WTF?!?! I am the one who gets up with him, DH rarely stirs unless I kick him to sort DD if she wakes while I am feeding. He is tired because he stays up til 1/2/3am playing on the f*ckin computer. Yes, this week he has been coming to bed before 1, but he's whinging that its not helping - of course it won't help instantly, his body hasn't been sleeping for so long it takes time. Today he was late again - I'm starting to wonder if he is trying to lose his bloody job because he wants one working in computers, but we can't afford him to start a new career right now - He won't get an entry level computer job paying what he is on, and we only just about get by as it is. Maybe in a couple of years when I am back at work. I don't know. I don't know what I'm upset about, probably just that he is spending all his time whinging that he is tired, when I am in bed by 11, up feeding at least twice in the night, caring for the hyper one during the day, cooking meals (not for him all the time, but HE doesn't then cook, he just doesn't eat), and all he does is get up, sit at a desk playing with resin, come home, read a bedtime story and play WoW. We have sod all food in the house because I am tired of either shopping with babies, or of going by myself when he gets home from work - he could go at the weekend when I take the children to my dads?!?! But, no, that is spent where - oh yes, THE COMPUTER!

Yes, I am probably PMT (without the M unless things suddenly change).

Sorry... should probably have posted that in relationships.

Big hugs flame What is it with men and computers? (she says ignoring the fact that she spends half of her life sat in front of the thing)

Frizbe, yey re baby pasta, used to get organix baby pasta when ds1 was tiny, so much smaller than any other stuff and easier to chew than chopped up stuff, then when ds2 was born couldn't get any anywhere shall check our boots

Is it really easier to chew dwa? I know there have been hundreds of threads about baby pasta, none of which I've read, but I thought the thinking was that it was just an expensive way of buying it? I think I've seen the Annabel Karmel stuff in one Boots near us, but have def seen (and bought, but not yet used) the Peter Rabbit pasta loads of places (Waitrose and Boots definitely). That is still quite big though, so would need to be chopped I guess, whereas the AK was pretty small to start with IIRC.

Flame - know exactly where you're coming from, although thankfully DH has been a bit better the last few weeks (still LOTS of computer time, but has been helping more with DD too), so big hugs to you.

mrm - rent free . What's that all about?!

So it sounds like boy, Bram and Pippa are all below average for their sleep quotas - must be the northern lot who are all sleepy .

Bram is well below his quota!!

Rent free is a very long story. I will be rewarded for my saintliness one day...!

With ds1, I used to use that tiny pasta that you use it soups etc, whose name I cant remember at the moment.

It was so much smaller than any other stuff i could ever find and def easier to chew than chopped up other stuff, did buy the really thin little straight stuff you put in soup as well for ds1 but nowhere around here seemed to do it for ds2 or now, just the tiny shells for soup which are ok in a few months but a bit too chewy now. IMO that is.

I bought babypasta back from Sain. 41c for 250g. Little letters and a packet of stars - just like the Baby Organix stuff used ot be only much much cheaper

Of course, BabyDragon turns out to be perfectly happy with a standard sized pasta twist prvovided she thinks I'm not watching)

Funnily enough I just went to chop up some left over pasta for DD, and it is really hard to chew! We normally have wholewheat pasta here, which is quite different, but did white for a change because of DD. Have decided not to give it to her now! I've given her corn pasta before (pre 6 months hence avoiding gluten) and that is MUCH easier to chop and chew, so may I recommend that for them if you can't get tiny baby stuff. All supermarkets seem to sell it these days in their 'free from' sections.

It was a wholemeal pasta twist she gummed to death too - BabyDragon is just plain contrary

I blame the parents SD .

Okso I'm really sad and it's amazing what a person will do to avoid house work but I googled and found baby pasta!

Argh and all I said was I brought a packet
CSWS dd1 found it easier with the stuff I brought back from the USA, that was the star stuff that Soupeys brought, its great for lobbing in with a bit of heated up cream cheese (Pasta n sauce!!) a good old two second meal

Flame, I know what you mean there.....what is it with WOW, that old cry, I'm just going down a dungeon/the mines.........dh assures me the problem is, you have to join a que to go to certain places, hence they end up playing until early hours, as you have to wait your turn......(Ha! no wonder they're always knackered......) good job we don't do it too eh, or else who would look after the kids/feed people, clean house, washing etc etc

MRM, free??? charge that lodger! watchya selling on ebay then?

We've had a nice day out at Chatsworth today, a bit off the cuff this am, but as it turned out so nice, we loaded car up with two friends and my kids with picnic and did the farm park a fab day out for all, just tea, bath and bed to come, and then I have to pack the tent etc in the car for our 'camping wedding' which we're off to tomorrow! so if I'm missing for a few days you know where I've gone back later tonight no doubt tho.

Oh Frizbe, I cant charge him; I absolutely adore him. He lived with us for 4 yrs before going away with work (plus we had ds1!), but now we've moved into a bigger place and the boys will share a room anyway. And he's in a right mess; completely self induced, but dire straits nevertheless. Plus now he will owe me his soul, and he makes the place look pretty He'll make it all even in the end.

Oooh yes - queuing for battlegrounds, and then you have to move every few mins when you are in there or you get chucked out, so you can't possibly change a nappy........

Oh, and most ebay stuff just ended; bumbo, buggies, travel cot, seat to go, tamsit chair harness. Got loads of playballs on there not doing very well, and have got a few clothes to put on... Verbaudet tracksuit and Oilily trousers etc. Then I'm giving up for a while to free up some time!

Yet again, none of you are around when I am! Am going off in a huff now, to join the rest of the sleeping family!!