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

[MrsAukerman]

New thread, new moves, new poo!

After some really crap nights last weekend, we've now had a couple of good nights. Tues night she went from 10pm to 6am, and last night she did 9pm to 5.15, she probably woke up early because it was hot so I had the windows open and it lets more light in around the blackout blind. She refused to nap this morning though, I was hoping she would sleep a bit more so I could, but she wasn't having it and didn't sleep until we went in the car to go swimming at 10.45.

dd wouldn't nap this afternoon but seemed happy enough and went down tonight in minutes at 7pm. She woke after about 20 minutes but I left her and she went back to sleep after a few minutes (if only dp had done that yesterday bless him).

Weetabix and peach for brekkie. Toast, sweet potato and swede chunks for lunch. For dinner I made veggie patties (mashed swede, grated pepper, carrots and cheese, shredded greens) which tasted amazing but the greens weren't shredded enough and boy did she let me know it. I had to pull apart my lovely little patties to get all the greens out!

Anna don't worry re crawling/clapping/waving etc. Its still quite early for all of that. I'd say 9/10 months is more like your average for those so plenty of time yet. They all do it in their own time

Porridge for brekkie, avocado, cucumber, melon & pitta bread strips for lunch, dinner was cottage pie with melon & strawberries for pud. She tried chicory yest too - wasn't keen on that!

DD seems to really want to sleep on her front, she keeps rolling over in the night & tonight settled to sleep on her belly, but then she is waking up repeatedly getting really upset as she can't turn back over. Its gonna be a long night!

I think I'm the one with the sleep problem in our house - been wide awake since 2.40...and now no chance of getting back to sleep as dd just started to "sing"...

I keep on forgetting wake ups! I put him in the cot then wake up with him in the bed. After a crap bedtime finally going down at 9 and a wake up after an hour, he slept til nearly 6 but he must have woken at least once cos he moved bed!

Fed him back to sleep just now and he's in the middle of our bed (fenced in with cushions etc) while dh and I sit downstairs having a brew!!!! Weird.

Bloody teeth causing poor baby so much discomfort doesn't want to bf and eating smaller amounts of food even refusing fruit pots.

Breakfast was weetabix, lunch chicken potatoes n cauliflower and dinner spag bol and we had a roast so he had loads soft veggies on highchair which he ate a good,amount of he has roast dinner mashed ready for lunch tomorrow and one for freezer.

We have also had less food eaten today and more crying at meals. Wish at least one tooth would hurry up and grow.
She had her usual weetabix for breakfast, then we were at in-laws' today. For lunch she had cucumber, pepper, tomato, breadsticks and organix sweet corn rings, but hardly ate any. For dinner she had fish finger and cauliflower. The dog was pleased at the food dropped on the floor instead of eaten. Then she had melon pieces, which she usually loves, but was putting them in her mouth and crying.
My house is a huge tip and I have to sort out packing for our holiday which is on Monday.

Evening all!

my hasn't time flown. Its been an age since i posted do have been trying to read and catch up with your updates and news!

dd2 is now over 7 months. She is great fun and i am enjoying it alot more 2nd time round so that is probably why she is quite chilled. She still is bf and we get about 2/7 nights sleeping through but cant complain as she'll,wake once for a feed and go back to sleep.

she is crawling after a couple of weeks up on her knees and rocking. The fun has started! Its a while different experience baby proofing everywhere with 2 kids.

we are BLW and she eats what we do. I am too lazy to cook anything seperate and luckily she is a real chomper and as yet seems to,give everything a go but spag bol and lentil curry are favs. I haven't avoided any foods (apart from honey) and it all seems good.

life is pretty good - enjoying mat leave, going to groups, getting to,spend more time with dd1.
all we need is some summer sun!!!

Good to hear from you weeonion! Sounds like life is treating you well
We're off on a week's holiday today with the in-laws (parents and brother's family. ...) - wish me luck
Dd was a super star yesterday - quite happy to play on her own whilst we packed up for the holiday - walker is a new favourite toy...she's developed the ability to bomb around in it!

Hi all, nice catching up with all the news!

Am at those with sleepy babies. DD still up at least twice every night and has had a couple of hideous ones this week again where she was up about every hour. Thought she might be too hot as very stuffy and humid here so she's slept in just a short sleeved vest with a blanket over just her legs the last couple of nights and does seem happier.

Investigated a really lovely nursery last week and was so keen until they mentioned cost. £51 a day!! I am on a shite wage for a graduate and would essentially be working for about £10 a day on the days she's at nursery, and they won't take babies for less than two days a week so they 'settle properly'. No way we can afford it! So am investigating child minders locally but no joy so far.

A bit of a failure on the food front recently, lots of the same. Saw HV yesterday when I dropped in to get DD weighed and she said she should be eating lumps by now. Is that right?! She is on a mix of purée and finger foods and will eat a thick paste with teeny lumps in but she's not having big lumps at all, they just come straight back out.

Going away at the end of the month with DM and DD. we are going up to a cottage in Pembrokeshire on the coast. I am very excited. I love DP, but I just need a bit of a break from everything at home.

After about 4 weeks of rubbish skeep DD gave as a decent night. Went down at 7.30pm, woke up for feed at 10.30pm when we went to bed, then another feed at 3pm, woke for the day at 7.30am! That's 12 hours with two short feeds. I'm over the moon! No silly 4am ready for day or anything. I know it's pretty rubbish compared to the sleeping through babies, but this is the best we have had for a while and I feel like a rested human again. I hope it's a start of something new and nice here...
DD is refusing purees and would rather eat thing I put in her mouth by hands or she can hold and eat herself. The weetabix so popular with other babies is absolute no no here. Huh!

Tbh even my supposedly sleeping through baby is very hit and miss. He's not waking up and barely ever feeds at night but he is groaning and whinging in his sleep at least two if not three times still which wakes me up. I pop the dummy back in and he's fine. Does that ever stop? Is this as good as it gets?

strawberry my baby will only eat breakfast that she can hold and isn't interested in toast. I break weetabix into hand-sized pieces and pour just a splash of milk on each side. With practice you can get it mushy enough to eat but still holdable.

Few days ago I got NHS email for parents and there is a mention of good night sleep milk. Never heard about it before, has anybody given a go to this one? Haven't seen it in any shop, but you can actually get it on Amazon, Ocado etc. So I am sat here thinking if that's something to try?

It's bit odd with holdable food and DD. She eats anything what I put in her hand to hold, but if I put bits and pieces on her tray, she doesn't pick them up herself. As if there is a missing link to understand that she has to pick them and then put into the mouth.

Crap nights persist here. Starting to wonder if it's low-level pain from second lot of teeth, it would be about on schedule.
Food today- breakfast of porridge fingers (smeared everywhere), toast crusts (devoured) and banana (ate some). Lunch was bits off my plate which was cheese and mushroom omelette, toast and baked beans. Dinner is bits from what will be our dinner so aubergine, brocolli, cauliflower, pasta, cheese and cherry tomatoes.

Strawberry I've seen it. It has melatonin in it or something. Haven't a clue if it works.

I totally recommend that Ellas Kitchen book. Its become our bible. We have soup mix bubbling away on the hob as we speak with frozen carrots & parsnips thrown in. We'll add sonething else to it and freeze it. He's eating mince now, which is fab.

When he's finished but wants something to play with we give him one of those ready to eat apricots. He noms happily on it for ages.

Hipp organic appear to do a good night milk which has cereals in it, no mention of melatonin but it does say NOT vegetarian.

Anna we like the book also, the only thing we don't do as they say - we don't sieve pips and bits. DD seems to deal with them just fine and a bit of fiber will make the tummy work better. Thought the avocado and kiwi combination was weird, but worked brilliant and we tried the grown-up version for salad dressing as well.

I just included the goodnight milk in the online grocery shop, will see what it's all about when it comes...

Goodnight milk is a thicker formula that sits in gut longer harder to digest and the barstard stuff clogs anything but a size 4 teat and you need a baby with a strong suck to manage 6oz before falling asleep knackered from the sucking - my few experiences of using as a,maternity night nanny! With last family we did make 2oz of night milk and mix with 4-5oz normal hipp organic which was better but was only to use up the tub made no difference and left greasy streaks on bottle so can imagine what it does to stomach.

We have had a nightmare day screaming teeth issues refusing food and boob. Went to chemist and pharmacist said oh anbesol gel has lidocaine which dentinox doesn't I said am sure it does they didn't sell it so said would leave it and yep dentinox does have it in I wanted to know why anbesol was better than the other brands and that's what she said I have no faith in her though as she has given such terrible advice in the past to the point I told her if I followed her suggestions (she told me wasn't advice but a suggestion) and caused my child harm I would be struck off nursing register and prob investing by social care she doesn't like me and hates it when I go in, I tend to use a different pharmacy with a fab pharmacist but the crap one is walking distance.

So food wise has,actually had weetabix, chewed on some cold cucumber, refused lunch, dinner was mashed up roast dinner, we had a Chinese take away and he ate some egg fried rice and best part 2 prawn crackers and eventually had a good bedtime breast feed.

Lots of baby milks are (or used to be) not vegetarian. I think it's the fish oils.

Holiday nightmare: -
the roof rack now won't be delivered until Monday. We are leaving on Monday morning.
DH has dropped his phone and broken it. Satnav is on his phone. Getting there and getting about once at the cottage is going to be a problem.
It rained all day. I am trying to wash and dry all our clothes.
I forgot my cousin is visiting tomorrow morning early, probably 9-10ish as she ís staying at a nearby hotel. The house is still a tip.

However,
DD2 probably only woke up 3-4 times last night instead of every hour or 2, and then got up at 7.30 rather than 6.30. DD1 woke up first at DH got up with her! That extra hour made DD2 and I start the day mUch happier.

I hear you happy! My holiday clothes order is coming monday (we went on hols yesterday), new buggy arrived thursday and I had a coffee date with a friend booked for the afternoon before we left. We only ended up leaving 30 mins late though. Cottage is lovely but no phone signal and the wifi has some sort of restriction on it so no facebook or other social media going cold turkey on my instagram addiction.

Lovely mooch around town this morning, lunch out and now settled down for a movie (some bloke selling cinema release films on dvd at a church table top sale today!!!).

dd has been ok, she slept most of the way but SO confused when she woke up in a new house, she just kept looking around wide eyed. Sleep was same as normal last night, gro blind is fab. 2 hour nap in the buggy this afternoon - amazing!!

Fruit porridge for brekkie, lunch was broccoli florets and slices of my pizza (she screamed when I gave her a crunchy edge piece), dinner cheese chunks, pepper strips and more broccoli. I don't give her much meat, I'm just not sure how. Mince I could do but do you all puree meat or give chunks??

ladydolly re meat, we have given both small chunks and puréed with veggies. She seems to be fine with both unless the chunks are to big then they go from her mouth to the top.

Hope all the dads had a nice fathers day and thinking of anyone who is missing a dad/Grandad today.

We went to a hotel father's day bbq fun day which was good.

Teeth still bothering baby means not breast feeding in day and minimal food intake breakfast was weetabix and some toast fingers, lunch was a hipp fruity cereal breakfast pouch as he won't eat the dinner ones with some bbq bits later on cucumber probing popular on the gums and dinner was plaice with sweet potato and peas followed by a fruit pot, big breast feed before bed.

Can't believe he was 7mths old yesterday

Epic mother/gf fail this morning when I forgot fathers day!!! I mean I forgot for an hour or 2. I lovingly packed his pressies and then forgot to hand them over. I'll never live this down.

Gave dd some soft bits of my roast pork today for lunch and she wolfed it down along with some swede, carrot, parsnip, cucumber and some scampi (bread removed), toast and apricot for brekkie, dinner was omelette but she was still hungry so some bread and carrot.

Let's see how bedtime goes tonight. Last night I fed her to sleep as usual, put her in the cot, 5 minutes she was awake and screaming, she cried for 45 minutes until I gave her calpol. BUT then she slept until 1.30 when she woke with a dirty nappy, went back in the cot and only woke once more before 6.30, which was a great night compared to our usual.

Not ready for holiday. My cousin was visiting this morning, so I had this afternoon to pack mine and DDs' stuff, iron, clean house as in-laws are coming to feed cats while we are away, do dinner while looking after 2 children. It didn't all get done, and I can't do packing while DDs are asleep, and i'm pissed off at how unhelpful DH has been.

I made sweet potato and bean burgers for dinner. I'd never made them before and they were quite spicy. I wasn't sure what DD2 would think and she made a very funny face when she first it. She seemed to like it though and ate quite a bit.