November 2014 - The one where they won't stay still.

[MrsAukerman]

New thread, new moves, new poo!

ooops!!

excited dd still loves all her lamaze toys but current faves are tomy eggs, jumperoo, stacking cups, linkies & the vtech walker Anna mentioned.

Anna we sometimes leave the activity panel on the walker & lay dd in front of it with her feet nearest to it. She loves to kick the piano keys & will spend ages doing it!

forgot food! breakfast was banana, lunch was cheesy leek, sweet potato & cauliflower puree which she loved & for tea she had rice cakes, broccoli (loved) & cauliflower florets (not keen).

Her cheeks are bright red today so think we are starting the next round of teething too.

First day that DD seemed hungry for food, so she had a yoghurt, cheese, sucked on half a rusk (probably bad I know, full of sugar) and had some potato, leek and pea puree that I made today, which only went down with lots of drinks of water! Hope she does like it as I now have loads in the ice cube trays in the freezer. I think I can get into baby food cooking, it's about my level (DH is the cook in our house) as I can boil it to death and its still ok!

Thanks will have to get her one of those walkies will be handy in next month's aswell as she pulled herself up today and stood holding on. I didn't no wether to be delighted or sit her back down and tell her she's only a baby MY wee baby and rock her like the newborn I still can't believe she's not!

Caz Dd had half a Rusk today when dp was having a rich tea (or 10) with a cuppa it's her "biscuit" for all she ate of it I think the high chair tray got more of it squished on than went in her mouth!

excited, DD did exactly the same. She still had a bit suck to her ear which I've just washed off in the bath!

Caz the rusk was THE reason for her extra bath, ears, hair, eyerows and squished between her little fingers! so cute!

We had a hospital appointment today about DD's CMPI. I was all for giving up on dairy-free and am not at all sure I believe she is CMPI, but the Dr said to keep her dairy-free, wean her off breastfeeding (I don't plan on doing that) and she will be seen again when she is 12 months. We are getting a dietician referral too. I think the weaning off breastfeeding was because I am not currently dairy-free myself as she did seem ok with my eating dairy after the initial 6 weeks last year. Dr said that it would be ok to give her soya milk as her main drink rather than any formula, which I am not sure is right. I am using Alpro soya like I would have used cow's milk, so on cereal and to cook with, and assumed she would need a formula at least until 12 months.

Neither DD would go to sleep tonight. DD2 just kept crying so I gave her cal pol in case it was her teeth. DD1 was complaining that invisible insects were stinging her!

Have put the recommended book in my Amazon basket for further consideration along with dairy-free 'cheese' sauce mix.

happy I don't know much about it but perplexed as to why you are recommended to stop Bfing if its causing no problems?

Also don't know about the formula thing, sounds a bit odd, tbh.

I haven't even bothered getting a referral to a dietician. Firstly, it'd take months and months to get an appt, and secondly I'm not sure he could tell me anything I haven't figured out already.

I'm basically going to follow this: www.ruh.nhs.uk/patients/patients_leaflets/paediatrics/PAE028_Milk_reintroduction.pdf

I'm going to wait till he's about a year old then start trialling things.

We're still managing to sleep through the night here, had a bottle at 11am then not a peep which was amazing.

BUT the consequence of it is that he wakes up at 5.45 exactly STARVING and then is up for the day. I fed him and tried to get him back down again this morning but he was looking at me as if you say "You're having a laugh, aren't you?"

I'm also trying to give him more at last feed but he refuses after 5oz so I'm not sure what I can do about it, tbh. I guess just be thankful for the stretch I do get and hope it gets longer.

Teeeeerrible night here. Struggled to get her down for 4pm nap, finally down at 4.30 but then she slept until nearly 7 (normally its 45 mins) then wouldn't go back down until 10 and that was sprawled in the middle of my bed. Woke at 2 and then every hour until 7 when I made her dad take her for an hour.

Thankfully down for this nap no probs. Once she's up I'm going to attempt an allotmwent visit with her in the playpen. Gorgeous day here!!!

Wow! It's been beautiful weather down here today (sunny south coast) - hope you got to your allotment ladydolly . Only drawback is that DD bedroom is absolutely baking - monitor currently says 25 degrees (although think this reads a couple of degrees hotter than it actually is)...I find it really hard to know what to dress her in as it will cool down a lot during the night. I have her in a long sleeved vest (no legs) and a 2 tog sleeping bag....she seems to be asleep, so hopefully she'll be ok through the night .

Meals today: breakfast - baby porridge with apple puree and piece of banana. Lunch - cauliflower and broccoli puree with a little cheese grated into it; couple of frozen sticks of cucumber which I think really help her gums (and also pretty sure she ate some as by the time she'd finished the sticks were very much flatter!)

Last night baby was difficult to settle down eventually at 8 and woke at 2 had a feed and woke again at 4 and fed then buggered about put in cot and he cried and just got louder husband tried to settle him I eventually fed again and he went back down at 5 for couple hrs. Come back sleeping through pleeeassseeee.

Breakfast today was an oat n fruit pot, lunch was lamb stew + fruit pot for pud plus he pinched some of my wrap, dinner was roast dinner then when we ate he had breadsticks, green beans and pasta. He gets really cross now if I have my lunch and pop him on playmat he likes to sit next to me and share!

I plan to make a rice pudding using breast milk need to pump enough in next couple days to make a batch n freeze some as feel he has fruit all time for pudding.

Can't remember who saw consultant about cmpi sounds like the doc needs some 're training, def don't stop bf, do not give any other milk as a drink before 1 other than formula or bm, other milk can be used in food.

Just bought a Jumperoo on EBay! Mostly due to all your comments on here.

Breakfast was scrambled egg with a bit of grated cheese which was much more successful than the previous attempt at plain scrambled egg, followed by weetabix. Dinner was an Ella's Kitchen Spaghetti Bol pouch which he LOVED and mango and banana purée for pudding. He ate loads tonight, much more than usual. I am desperately hoping it'll help him sleep longer, but he's already woken up screaming...pretty sure it's his teeth...so we may be on a loser on that front already.

On the up side the weather here (South Coast a bit further East I think) has been fantastic. DS discovered the delights of pulling up handfuls of grass today

Made it to the allotment, have the sunburn to prove it! Missed the back of my neck with the lotion. Doh!

The jumperoo is brilliant buy - enjoy!!

dd clapped for the first time today, so proud :)

Meals today, rhubarb and peach muffins (she loves them but very frustrated when they fall apart on the way to her mouth), lunch was fish pie, green beans and apple slices (green beans went down a storm!), dinner was sweet potato and more green beans.

No clapping here yet, but lots of "DADADADADADAAAAA!" much to DHs joy.

........Not that DS has a clue what he's saying, lol.

No clapping or talking here but lots of very high pitched squeaking!

Good night last night, didn't get in from family do until 11, she woke up on transfer to cot so fed, woke again at 12 then slept until 6:30! 6.5 hours straight! Bliss. Food intake yesterday: toast for breakfast, apple and pear purée with yoghurt for lunch followed by a carrot puff thing, banana wafer, a bit of broccoli and some bread for tea as we were out.

we had a fair few wakeups last night, but not surprised due to heat. We're in a loft bedroom & its boiling up here! last night it was 27 when I put dd to bed & dropped to about 23/24 overnight.

cant remember who asked sorry, but in the heat we have her in a sleeveless vest & a 1 tog bag. tbh she could do to be naked but she scratches herself silly so I have to keep a layer on.

DD missed her nap this morning as had to take ds to the docs. she finally crashed for 20 mins at 11am & is now absolutely beside herself with tiredness but refusing to give in.

Do you know, I think I would swap the whole sleeping better thing for more wake ups if we could get past 5.20am!

Its definately hunger waking him. What do you ladies advise? He won't take more than 5oz at a time so I can't load him up more at bedtime. Doubt even 8oz would last him anyway, tbh.

Should I introduce a dream feed? Is he a bit old for that?

Inthought I heard somewhere that you're supposed to wean them off dreamfeeds at 6 months, but I may be imagining it. We've never done them. But we never needed to as he fed so often!

Now I'm wondering if a dreamfeed at midnight might string him out till 6.30/7?

OR Option B, which is feed him upon waking, and then ignore him until 7am? And if I do that long enough it might "retrain" him to at least fall back asleep again?

At the moment DH immediately picks him up and brings him downstairs as he's the type of guy who finds it impossible to lie there listening to the very loud tuneless singing coming from the cot. So maybe DS is expecting to get up then.

Anna I feed dd if she gets up then and then leave her to it. 9 times out of 10 she will fall back to sleep till 7/8. I just let her chat to herself, she's quite happy! Obviously if she starts getting upset I go and get her

This probably won't help anna but when dd wakes up early I fees her in bed and she either falls asleep feedig or stays on the boob and sleeps. Either way I sleep. apart from this morning when she wanted to play

She's getting really fast at this commando crawling and has even mastered doing it sideways crab style. She's realised its quicker in the wood floor rather than the really expensive rug that we got especially for baby comfort.

Meals today, fruit porridge and peach slices for brekkie, sweet pot, carrot & swede pouch (I'm doing market research via mumsnet) which she liked, I thought it was gross. Dinner a piece of white fish and some bagel.

She sometimes seems to enjoy the food but then starts crying/screaming, is she biting her finger? Food lumps too big? Anyone else?

He doesn't go back to sleep thats the problem. But we've decided that we're going to feed & leave him to it. He'll drive us mad for a few days but maybe once he twigs he's not getting up he'll start going back to sleep. We'll try it for a week and see what happens.

lady we had one incident of screaming when eating and we were very confused. But then the next day we tried the same food and more screaming. Whereas everything else was eaten. It was a pouch with that teeny pasta in it. We suspect it was the lumps, so have reverted to giving wetter food.

Today he had Rusk & Banana for breakfast, half a yoghurt for lunch (just started lunches today), and then homemade sweetpotato, lentil and tinned tomato mush for tea. We just boiled it till mashable, then added a bit of water before serving to it wasn't too paste-y. It went down a treat. We've made enough to feed an army so have filled up the icecube trays and feel very smug

Also bought some frozen veggies to have in for him. A bag of cubed carrot 'n parsnip, and a bag of broccoli & cauliflower to do in the microwave. Also bought mushy peas!

And they can have baked beans, right?

By the way, for CMPI peeps, the Alpro peach and pear youghurt is amazeballs. Tastes a bit like icecream. Its going to be hard to keep them for DS!

no idea ladydolly. could she just be tired or something & it coincides with mealtime?

anna if we feed dd at 5 or even 6am ish we also try to resettle her. its less likely at 6, but if its earlier I can usually get her back down til at least 7, often 7.30.

I did however, experience similar to you with my ds & I learned a very valuable lesson about early morning waking & how it is linked to the morning nap. How early does your ds take his first nap of the day? I found with mine that because he woke early he needed an early nap, but by giving an early nap it didnt encourage him to sleep longer at night because he was able to make up for it at the first nap. So it just perpetuated the problem & his wakeup got even earlier. We got to the point where he was waking up at 3-4am wanting up but would then need his nap at 7am when everyone elses kids were getting up. We had it for a long time & it was bloody tiring so I spent a lot of time trying to sort it out. In the end what helped was to push his nap later.

Its kinda difficult with a little one as he will be tired due to the early start, but if he does nap before 9am I would suggest slowly pushing the morning nap later by 5mins every 3-5 days til it starts no earlier than 9 but possibly nearer 9.15-9.30. This should make a difference to his wakeup time within a few weeks if you stick at it.

Annarose dd got her second dinner containing baked beans today and loved them! Mixed with potatoes.... We used the 50% less sugar Heinz tin for her