September 14 babies - bring on the weaning!

[KitKat1985]

New thread for the Sept 14 babies. :)

sleepless I now find if b falls asleep on me and I put him in his cot he will wake up confused an hour later. this afternoon I put him in when he was tired (had had to have urgent bath due to leaky nappies) but awake. sat in the room with him - I was sorting stuff out - and he dozed off. the dummy has been my saviour.

Last night he was screaming - hands in mouth, dribble, wouldn't take bottle. I said oh he is teething and, as he was so upset, gavr calpol. 10 mins later out came the biggest burp ever. yup. I medicated for wind.

oh...and my other bad mummy moment - 2 poonamis these last two days. ..realise his nappies are WAY too small. I am terrible.

Holls I would be lying if I said I had never given calpol thinking it was teeth, only to be greeted with a lovely strawberry smelling burp about 10 minutes later

I definitely have a 4 month growth and developmental spurt on.

DD has been rolling front to back for a week or so and today started she back to front rolling. She just needed to do it once now there is no stopping her

This explains the night waking induced by mammoth increased hunger.

More milk Mummy, I have growing to do!

Hello all :)

Elijah won't go into his cot awake and go to sleep. He just isn't there yet. One day he'll do it!

cookie dd won't go into her cot awake at this stage either, but like you I have faith she'll get there eventually.

holls I'm glad it's not just me. Is it wrong I'm also starting to think of Abney and Teal as my friends? I can't confess this to my IRL friends!

Apple cookie same here; i know in theory it is better to leave them so they can learn to self settle which means they will also self settle during the night, but I am not prepared to let him cry now

Calpol, our policy is no calpol unless very sick and dr advises so, he had it maybe 3 times till now. But then I have the same policy for me, no pain killer unless absolutely necessary which means I can count the number of pain killers I have in a year with my fingers. Not even sure if it is a good thing but we are sticking to it. When teething pain starts with clear signs like red cheeks and runny poo and etc. I will try to stick to local painkillers only; lets see if I can.

I have a problem here with sleeping time ; by around 6pm ds gets tired ; if I take him to bath and do the bed time routine he will give us a hard time with over tiredness
If I put him to nap he goes either for half an hour or an hour but it is then difficult to put him in bed cause he is not tired enough.
On top of it he wakes between 6:30 to 7:30 every morning; I could do with an hour more sleep...
How do others handle this?

good qu Nazly....b needs a nap at about 5; today he slept 2.20-4 so didn't have his 5pm nap. come 6.15 he was tired again but didn't take much milk and fell asleep.on me. wasn't surprised when he woke up an hour later and downed another bottle! he has not settled as easily tonight. perhaps I need to give him a longer nap at 2. or encourage a 30 min.one at 5 as he clearly isn't ready to drop that yet.

as for calpol I try to not use it too often but the poor kid seemed in agony - he has been teething for ages and has days which are worse than others - so I thought it was called for. sorted his wind, anyway...

apples I think of Toby and Sam as big brothers. and I would like jed bartlett to be b's godfather. ....

fate same here, the development stuff is so interesting. we are still getting stuck at left shoulder but it doesn't stop him trying all day (unless he has just eaten when.tummy time is banned!!!)

Hi Holls. Exactly the same. She's been doing a contorted twist thing where her whole body turns but is caught at the shoulder. What she got today was my swinging her legs over fast, rather than just wiggling them about, she gets enough momentum to roll over the shoulder all the way onto her belly.

I currently pin her down with a tight blanket in bed, to keep her still (she spins on the spot otherwise). Now she's rolling, I doubt she'll let me get away with that much longer.

I posted on this thread that was getting no replies:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weaning/2302125-Gas-pain-with-first-foods-5-5mth-old

I know we have some ladies on here who are weaning early due to reflux and/or prematurity (like the OP on that thread) so maybe one of you can offer better help and support than I can to this Mum?

Holls DS's nap pattern seems to be in the process of changing at the moment. It looks like he's dropping one. But he's having an extended one at some point later in the day. I'm just letting him get on with what he wants to do.

Naps are a bit all over the place here this week too when they're normally pretty set, 40 minutes in the morning, 2 hours at lunch & then an hour late afternoon. Yesterday he had 20 minutes in the morning, 2.5 hours at lunch before my mum had to wake him & feed him before going out & then no afternoon nap. Today 2 hours this morning, 40 minutes at lunch & 10 minute snooze in the car on the way home this afternoon. I did read that they start dropping the late afternoon nap around 20 weeks which is next week for us.

We have a golden rule, no napping after 5pm so he's up for 2 hours before his 7pm bedtime & is therefore ready to sleep. it works great for us & if he's not in bed by 7 he's soon getting overtired.

DD usually goes to bed at 7, but has a meltdown every night at about 6. I thought it was tiredness, but I think it might actually be over stimulation and that she finds it difficult to shift into calming down for bed time mode. The past few nights I've taken her into her room and cuddled her in the dark with her star lights on for a few minutes. That seems to shift her into winding down. She then has cuddles with daddy whilst watching In The Night Garden for a little bit before bath time.

She is regularly waking at 5.45, which is killing me. I'm hoping when the clocks go forward I can keep her body clock the same so that bedtime shifts from 7.00-5.45 to 8.00-6.45.

I have a horrid cold, and I think DD is coming down with it too

Dropping naps?! I have only just started getting Molly to take regular naps!

DP got Molly up and dressed today. First time probably in at least 3 months. Why do I feel guilty about it?! She's his child too! I stropped off last night for an hour to myself because she's been quite hard work this week, and actually the only time I have had away from her since she's been born is to visit my mum in the hospital and then to go to her funeral. Not exactly relaxing times.

He didn't give her a wash and her clothes don't match. But I'm not saying a thing.

Lilone same here, we've only just really got into having semi regular ones! I've just accepted that DP can't dress Ds in matching clothes, he genuinely doesn't see it which is odd as he dresses fine himself!

We have no nap routine here either. I don't think its possible, we do different things every day. I can however out put DS in his cot when he is tired and we are at home, I put him in awake with his light projector and he is asleep within two to three mins usually. No idea how it happened, perseverance I guess.

I find non matching clothes really endearing. Both when DPs dress baby and don't know what top is supposed to go with what bottoms - but also when they get to an age where they dress themselves.

I used to love my DDs concoctions of, say, red party dress, green and white polka dot tights, peach cardi and pink trainers.

Having said that though, I love the 'style' that my 10 year old DD is developing. She is very good at 'putting together' an outfit from things she has, rather than things bought together.

Our daytime naps are not routined. But having said that they are developing to be quite regular as a natural evolution.

Ds in his little super baby outfit today he looks super cute.

I have to say I am getting worried about his breathing he is so blocked up. He really struggled to stay asleep last night. I feel so sad for him. My poor boy! If no improvement I will be getting a Dr appointment for him :(

Just me and the boy tonight, dh is off out to the cinema!

DH is away for the weekend. Went yesterday. Back Monday night. DS and I did the in-laws alone. He showed off terribly. I'm now shattered.

Just seen this on yahoo news. That newborn is the same weight as DS at nearly 23 weeks! Poor woman.

Red a few weeks ago a 40 pounds baby was born in Australia. The mum was morbidly obese . It was in the news.

Hon what is a light projector? Could you send a link please?

I wonder how strong these jumperoos are, ds goes mad in them recently banging the seat to the legs, he pushes it to the limits really; has learnt if he jumps high twice quickly another music is played and since then goes crazy in it.

I wasn't sure how the milk supply works when introducing solids and whether you feel painful full breasts because baby is not having as much but the change is so natural and gradual I don't even feel it; first days just a couple of spoons and gradually increases to more. It is the second week Of weaning here and for the first time ds did not want milk after his lunch.

That is one big baby! Bit of an odd story though - didn't know she was pregnant til 35 weeks but then she first thought she was having twins?! Hope you have a restful night Red, it's hard work when the other half is away! I would not have been doing the in-laws if it were me!

DP is out for his mum's birthday dinner tonight. It's not a baby friendly place and there isn't really anyone else to watch Molly so here I am. We are out for a family birthday lunch for her all together tomorrow though.

Got the jumperoo today - it is massive isn't it?! Has been well received though!

red re show off - b currently sits in jumperoo bounces like a mad thing, looks at me for congratulations and then does it again to make sure I have REALLY seen just how clever he is!! re being knackered tho.

in other news have accepted offer on house and had offer accepted. now about moving!!!!!