September 2014 - 6 months already?!

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Jay I'm not surprised you didn't purée with your twins - I don't know how people with twins even survive, let alone find time to feed them!

Topsy and Honey if it helps, we've been weaning since dd was 22 weeks (specialist's advice due to reflux) and the first 4/5 weeks were boring and difficult trying to fit everything in with seemingly very little reward - I.e. dd eating much of anything. It was like weaning just clicked one day, and she finally got how to eat, and since then everything's been easier. Now she's down to 4 milk feeds and 3 meals it's not nearly as hard to fit everything in

Honey, I more often than not have to feed Jessica her savoury stuff with a bit of fruit pot also on the spoon. I don't mind though as I usually give her a little pudding anyway and this way it's all done at the same time. There are certain things she'll eat alone though, like the Ella's kitchen vegetable bake for some reason. She seems to like the spicy smelling ones!

Red, thanks so much for spending the time to write that very informative post about schools. It is certainly "for dummy style" which I needed and its very helpful. I didn't get how an August baby may be the oldest it the class though?

With regards to mobility and anxiety, I can hardly be helpful. Like you, I have been avoiding babies for a while and this experience is totally new for me; but mine seems to be a total opposite of yours despite having so close due dates- not very mobile at all here; he sits straight for as long as he wants, roles if he needs to, and movies very slightly; but it appears he is quite reserved about moving more, despite being really strong physically and relatively big. This doesn't worry me though. I know he will get there in time; although I would have liked a bit more mobility as I am told it helps with nursery and also I don't want him to be a very reserved child...

On the other hand he is doing too well with weaning, which causes me big problem because he has dropped all milk feeds during the day so I constantly have to think is he getting the right and balanced nutrition value; as milk is so important at this stage.

To be honest red, I would not worry about weaning so long as he is taking his milk...I know it is really difficult to try every day and fail as I have the experience with bottle; Also weaning was difficult here for 2-3 first weeks here... But he will get there in his own time. I find it that ds is twice more interested in food in the rare occasions that we sit at table and eat; he find eating more "interesting" then, looking at us. I think given your ds can do so much and as I remember has never been a really hungry boy, perhaps he does not find feeding interesting enough; and of course at first, they don't really understand "this is feeding", for them it is another play time or a new experience. He will get it that this is about feeding soon; my ds just does not accept milk as food anymore and if he is hungry he is after food; but this happened gradually - at first food was another toy to touch and mouth...
I let him play with food at 22 weeks (nothing in really); but started offering him food at 24 weeks (one meal a day) and he started eating better at 26 weeks (3 meals a day). So it takes time... A lot of time...

Fate I just remembered your post about weaning - this was exactly my experience; I want him to be a lot slower in weaning a lot more hands on; but when I try to give him finger food , if he is hungry, he just bring his mouth ahead as if saying 'what are you doing mummy, put it here not in my hand, I am hungry don't you understand?!'

No, after that massive post I am not finished yet!!! Sorry :/
About tastes,it is so interesting, while ds was more interested in sweet tastes like sweet potato in the beginning of weaning, he has now developed an adult taste and refuses anything baby like, he prefers to go hungry but not to eat sweet potato which means after a couple of more tries I will have to bin the frozen purees with sweet potato as base! He loves savoury now, but basically I came to conclusion anything that I like as an adult he is more likely to like; I don't like bland food, he doesn't either. I give him anything we are eating (less the salt)

E really struggled with food in the beginning really only wanting sweet stuff but he too has changed and prefers savoury now! He gets really cross if I don't feed him quick enough!

He is able to sit up in aided and loves standing but is too bouncy on his feet to stay up by himself lol!

Welcome back red. I totally get the anxiety, been there. Sending hugs

We are at a wedding. DH has b. They have a great morning. Then b rolls off bed. It's a huge bed in this hotel so he would have rolled twice - news ability. DH torally traumatised. B seems fine. Lots of smiling and giggling at people at wedding,p. One of guests who is a Dr checked his head at the church.

Please tell me we are not the only crap parents whose baby has rolled off the bed?!

Holls it happens honestly. I haven't yet had Jessica roll off the bed but she did nearly roll off the sofa once (managed to catch her just in time) and she has fallen forward and face planted the floor on more than one occasion when I've been trying to teach her how to sit. If B is smiling and giggling I'm sure he's fine. He probably forgot about the whole thing 5 minutes after it happened. Lol! Have a glass of vino and enjoy the rest of the wedding. xx

Been doing some catching up on these posts. Red I enjoy reading your posts so pleased to hear from you again and hope you continue to post here. I suffer with anxiety too at times (although it tends to manifest with me in OCD type behaviours) so I do understand. Although not the same, I also worry about Jessica and school, just because me and DH both were bullied at school and didn't enjoy our school days, and I hope the same doesn't happen to her. I guess we all want our kids to 'fit in' and it can be difficult if you know what it's like / how difficult it is when you don't. xx

holls dd rolled off a hospital bed while in dh's care and none of the doctors even batted an eyelid!! I was so traumatised but apparently it's very common and very unlikely to harm them

I bumped ds's head on a door frame this week if that helps Holls? There was an actual bump on his head with a teeny blue bruise and everything . DS screamed for all of two minutes before being immediately distracted by a giant fluffy teddy bear while I went and had a little tear to myself.

I love you all.

E has rolled off the foot stool and sofa, both on dh's watch, he has made several attempts to roll off the footstool on my watch however I am too quick for him Lol. We should probably stop changing him on the footstool :)

cookie I love that you change him on a foot stool! Hilarious. We used to use a 100% safe coffee table and the concerned comments from guests were always very funny.

I used to think the floor was safe, because you can't fall off the floor. That was until the sitting up started. Now, the laminate floor is no longer our friend. Quite a few topples that I haven't managed to catch in the last few weeks!

Apples, was it your LO straining with hard poo's? Is it any better? DD had great trouble going yesterday, it was making her cry because it was painful and she was going bright red with the straining. She passed a couple of massive, solid stools! Is everyone having pretty solid ones now?!

I dropped a pot of lovingly baked, pureed and frozen butternut squash on the floor today. I'd defrosted it in the fridge for today, and it fell. I actually shouted "Nooooo!"

We went through a phase of "formed" poos. Not sure what word to use? Formed as in in a shape and not loose, but in no way rock hard like poo can be.

But that was in the very first week of weaning and I think to do with the Virgin Gut being desecrated (no one on here mentioned the Virgin Gut, it was a 'thing' when one of my others was a baby).

Now we are 10 days into weaning we are back to sloppy poos. I think this is because solids/milk proportions have stabilized.

I wonder if my DDs poos changing was to do with dehydration.

Re falling - this is nothing to the tumbles you'll get once walking and riding a bike etc. Babies bounce

We're still on baby poos here which isn't really surprising given that Jessica is still barely touching solids so still largely relying on milk. I reckon she has 1000-1200mls on average over 6-7 bottles per 24 hour period. To add insult to injury she has dropped one of her day feeds so that she can have it at night instead. Agggahhh! Just when I thought we were starting to get somewhere with nights we've gone backwards again!

In more positive news I left her yesterday in the care of DH for most of the day (11am-7.30pm) whilst I saw a friend for the day. I'd never left her for that long before but she and DH were both fine and did really well.

We were struggling with the really solid poos accompanied by lots of straining. I have since discovered DS loves satsuma and will eat pieces if I cut the segments up. Seems to have shifted his problem! I'm sure it was dehydration, we are making little to no progress with the sippy cup so I'm hoping all this juicy fruit will help for now.

one fall off the bed so far ;)

Fate Exactly the same here with poos ! Hardened up for the first week of weaning..now back sloppy.

J has taken really well to weaning and literally eats anything I give him so I am going to go for cutting back the milk to just morning and night, and three meals a day. I've also discovered that he loves water - but only out of a bottle. He's not keen on a cup yet. I've really been lucky with him weaning-wise, and I'm enjoying it. Sorry to hear about all of you with weaning troubles...my twins were a nightmare and it was completely unenjoyable, so you have my empathy. I can't remember how I turned it around or when it got better, but I think it just got better with perserverance.

And for those of you that have had rolling incidents...don't worry, they happen ! And I think as Fate said, they will have more accidents in time and you come to realise most the time they just bounce. My eldest son just had a serious accident falling headfirst from a zipwire and has walked away relatively unscathed - despite him being knocked unconscious, then staggering a mile home (he didn't want to ring me because I had told him prior to going to the park, that I couldn't pick him up as I wasn't feeling well - god, bad mother award). Amazingly, none of his friends thought to call an ambulance - but they checked he had a heart rate and played him his favourite music to wake him up ! My son doesn't remember this but I saw it on a film his mate put on Instagram ! So yes - could pull a phone out to film it, but didn't think to ring for help. All Grammar school boys too !

Sorry - went off on a tangent there. It's been one of those weeks with my elder two. J has been fine though. All my friends with older kids who say they could never go back to the baby days...well I would definitely trade them in for the nearly teen years !

Teens are me favourite age group jaykay, it's the age of children I teach. Starting to get a glimpse of the challenges from my 10 (going on 16) year old DD. It's the time I am most looking forward to with my children.

I've heard lots of others say about not wanting to go back to the nappy stage. But I can see myself really missing the baby years as time goes on. I am absolutely dreading the first time I start feeling broody. In all previous cases as soon as I started feeling broody, we had another baby. That's not going to happen again so I'm sure I'll find it tough.

I wonder who will be the first on this thread to get pregnant again..... ?

fate I think i hate the teen years because i remember all the things I used to do and it worries me ! I was stressing a few months ago because my son's girlfriend had a shisha pen ( then remembered I was smoking actual cigarettes when i was in the year above). Two of my daughter's friends are shoplifting , but thankfully they have dumped her because she wouldn't get involved, so I've had that set of drama plus the accident this week. Since they started in year 7, both have had boyfriend/girlfriend issues - which shocked me as thought that was at least a couple of years off...plus there is nonstop social media drama especially with the girls. However, as people, the twins are good company and I enjoy our conversations, so I enjoy that side.

I think I will be fine when the nappy days are over...I am enjoying them with J, but there is such a big gap between him and the elder kids, and he was a little surprise...so I already had acknowledged the baby days were over before. We can afford J without any sacrifice, and I think he's a perfect addition to our little blended family as he gives everybody something in common. However, I am happy to stop now, I have had two relatively easy pregnancies and three healthy children, so I'm not going to risk another one as I will be older. I also wonder who will be the first on this thread !

DH wants to start trying again in January which was always our plan. But now we have DS im not so sure. Does anyone else have plans?t

In my head I've always wanted two, but I have to admit there have been times where I've really struggled since Jessica has been born, and the concept of doing it all again terrifies me. Probably still will though. Probably start trying again early next year if we ever get the energy again to DTD.

I'd love to start trying now as it took us 2 years & 2 mc before DS came along so I'm thinking it might take us a while again this time. However if I did get pregnant straight away it would be extremely difficult financially so we're waiting until DS is at least 18 months before we start trying again. I don't want to leave it too long because of my age.

I am already missing the tiny baby stage, I sometimes don't think I took enough time to just enjoy DD when she was tiny. We are getting married next June though so won't start trying until after then. I'd like to be in a position to start trying more or less straight away then though.

Will be interesting to see who does it first though!