September 2014 - Babies turn 1!

[lilone1234]

First birthdays are starting to arrive and our babies are becoming toddlers! What will the next year have in store?

Was your DD dairy intolerant Team? Is the suggestion that she has grown out of it now, or that the diagnosis was wrong initially?

If it makes you feel better about formula, I am also struggling to get DD to drink it. We changed to Toddler Milk (stage 3 formula) last week and evidently DD doesn't like the taste, she wouldn't have any. But the really annoying thing now is that I have gone back to normal Stage 2 formula and now she has easily halved how much she will have compared to before we tried Toddler Milk.

DD now has her afternoon nap without any milk. Won't have any milk at bedtime (so I give her porridge supper instead) and has only about half her bottle in the morning. Upping her yoghurt and cheese intake as a result. I am hoping it's just a phase though, will keep on offering.

Yes, she had/has cmpi. Apparently most babies grow out of it between 6 months and three years. We've been slowly introducing dairy through the "milk ladder" over the past three months. It's been a slow process and a few times she's reacted badly, but I think her digestive system is slowly getting used to it. Once we've sorted out formula milk we are onto the final step of the ladder, which is plain old cows milk!

So far she's liked all the dairy foods, other than chocolate, which makes me wonder if she really is my child...

Hello all :)

E has finally learned how to stand up without using something, so he just pushes off the floor!! Yay!! I love how he toddles along now :) so frigging cute!!

He is starting to reduce down to one nap to :)

We will be off to the shops to get some dinner in :)

That is alot of smiley faces :)

One nap here most days for us which is fine. She'll have 2 if the first one wasn't long enough but I usually try to hold her out so she will go to bed a little earlier. Food here is ok, she will eat quite a good mix but her favourites are mashed potato and gravy. If she's had a day of not eating much proper food then I will make her a bowl of mash and she eats the lot. She isn't walking yet but happily walks around furniture or holds onto the walls and gets around like that.

Telling her NO quite loudly just gets us a big smile and the little hand will go towards the offending object while she stares at us with the big smile. She really thinks this will distract us from her naughtiness. It doesn't, so we move her away and she'll have a 2 second cry and then either try it again or move on to the next thing.

We're off on holiday on Monday, I'm a little worried about the flight as M likes to be down on the ground doing things but we're hoping she wants to nap for a little bit of it. Ha ha. Let's see how that goes!!

I really want to go in holiday but it scares me :)

I try and make sure E has a meat before bed as I think it helps him sleep I may just be hedging my bets though he has been sleeping 12 hours recently so I must be doing something right!!

Glad you're feeling smiley Cookie and that E is doing well!

Where are you going on holiday MissMoo? Hope you have a good time and the flight is ok...I guess it's all 5 of you going?

No plans for us to fly with DD until she is 21 months, which will probably be the worst age for it! But even now, she does not sit still and I know she would be a handful!

WE HAVE ANOTHER TOOTH - AT LAST

Cookie, I'm so jealous! DD is still a toothless wonder. Our current nickname for her is gummy bear

Am I the last one on her with a toothless toddler? I've never known a child to reach their first birthday without teeth. At what point should I start to worry?

Good news! DD had a follow up hip x ray due to her hip dysplasia and all is fine. I was tempted to ask them to x ray her head to see if there are actually any teeth in there!

team sorry it is his 7th! We haven't had one for 4 months though!

I knew a little girl who didn't have teeth till after she was one! Perfectly fine now :)

I know of a 15 month old who is only just starting to get the first two teeth through so while uncommon it's not unheard of!

My Mum tells me that my cousin was 19 months old when she got her first tooth. DD has had 7 teeth for ages. I always thought teeth came in pairs but the 8th tooth just isn't coming through.

DD has started nodding yes. She's been head shaking no for a while, but the yes is quite cute in context. So is the no really.

As soon as she gets hold of something she knows she isn't allowed (like the TV remote) she'll look at me and shake her head no - I'm evidently ver predictable as a parent.

Recently she's started on the nodding yes, which really means "I want". Tonight eldest made hot chocolate and marshmallows afterschool. DD wanders over to her, nodding her head the entire time until Big Sister shared with her. 'Twas dead sweet.

We've booked a couple of nights in London late November, to see the lights and do the tourist thing. It's an annual thing we do with the children but this will be the first time with youngest. I'm actually grateful for having a pushchair this year - somewhere to store all the stuff a family of six need on a day out. Rather than having to carry it all.

Just remembered about last years trip to London. We went late August, 3 children, Hubby, my Mum and I was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Massive, mostly exhausted all the time and very uncomfortable. It wasn't very much fun for me! Hoping for a better one this year.

fate that sounds so lovely. What a nice tradition to have. It's moments like those that make me want a big family. But I'm not sure I'm brave enough!

Lil, we're going to Portugal and yes all 5 of us plus a granny and cousin! We've never taken our boys away so young so this will be new for us but I think M will love it as she just loves sitting in the garden watching the birds fly and listening to the dogs barking. She's so nosey so will hopefully just be happy to see the sights. And she loves bath time so the pool should be handy.

The boys schools were really great when I informed them of the term time holiday. DS1s year head actually rang me to say he had heard about my Mum and that he hoped the holiday would be a relaxing break for us. It's a relief to know that they are ok (well as ok as they can be) with it as I was feeling really guilty about taking them out. It also helps that there are a teacher training day and some other closure happening while we're away so that reduces the amount of days they'll miss. I am not even packed yet and still have to go shopping for quite a few bits and pieces. But where do I find the time to pack with M running around behind me pulling every piece of clothing she finds out onto the floor. It's her favourite game at the minute!

Ds now consistently walks everywhere after some time toddling , but he is not as stable as an adult yet and he is still faster in crawling so when he wants something which is across the room really, really fast, then he suddenly decides to crawl!! This has been happening fairly rarely and is getting less and less, a couple of times a day perhaps these days

Lake District trip has been wonderful... This is such a magical part of the world ... But I keep thinking I should have come here with dh before ds was born. Don't get me wrong, we had a wonderful time, but I can imagine the child free trip would have been something else... Perhaps that can be said about most other trips though. I am not yet used to adapting everything in our life to our new young family ... To be honest I still get surprised by how things have changed ...

Missmoo that's lovely, where in Portugal are you going if you don't mind me asking? Just because I was just looking at different warm destination in winter and randomly picked one in Portugal to explore further..

Fate, my difficulty with sugar is that I don't count sugar as part of a well balanced diet. I really wish I could prevent ds from liking sugary snacks and deserts all together , as I very strongly believe there is nothing good about it... But I just know whatever I do will not be enough & when he gets older he will be affected by his friends, media, ads, etc. Till now I have been successful as he doesn't really like sweet things much; nursery also confirms this. I believe the less somebody eats sugar the less they will get used to the taste and the less they like it- had the experience myself too. My mil and my dad both love sugary things and it is terrible how dependant they are on its taste to make them happy when eating snacks and deserts, etc... Sorry, long story short , I will try my best for ds to be Very Different with sugar- already struggling with cereals though bought something from a small supermarket here and it is so sweet I feel it is sugar coated with some fibre !!!! Anybody who knows of low/no sugar cereals pls can you let me know as my googling wasn't successful

nazly I don't know if these are low sugar enough for you (can't remember numbers) but I give mini shredded wheat, shreddies, sainsburys puffed wheat, low sugar Cheerios, ready break and weetabix. They were the lowest I could find. Check own brand as they can have less sugar. I give cereal every day as can't give eggs so more limited.

Mostly cheerios or ready brek here.

We have repeatedly tried Weetabix (hot or cold, dry or not, all manner of things mixed) and it consistently gets spat out so DD evidently just doesn't like it. I think you can get mini weetabix actually, I haven't tried that and might give it a go (thinking out loud).

Not sure what level of sugar you are prepared to accept Nazly? None of these are on a level of the cereals of several decades ago that were literally sugar coated.

DD will also eat my granola (someone upthread mentioned granola), which is just Tesco home brand. However I don't routinely give her this cos it's mine!

DS is currently hooked on raisin wheats (or raisin splitz as I remember them). Im ashamed to say that I obsessively check things for salt but never for sugar. Obviously things like biscuits are limited, MIL are heading for a bust up over that actually, despite telling her not to give stuff or at least to limit it he had ice cream after lunch last week and then I came in from work as she was about to give him apple crumble and custard. It was in the run up to the bedtime routine so he hadn't had his evening milk and she knows he is a devil for teeth brushing. There is no way DH and his sibling would have had that at this age. She also is obsessed with spoon feeding him, to the point where she bought pots of strawberry puree despite me having the real fruit in the house but did tell me that he had eaten (whole!!!!!) grapes for her. DH is going to have a word but I suspect it wont be enough.

Well, I feel a bit slack compared to you ladies. I think Jessica has a fairly balanced diet but I do let her have some sweet treats. Not all the time but probably once a day or maybe twice I am persisting with vegetables etc in meals though and I think her main meals are sensible and balanced. I'm a bit of a sugar fiend myself though which probably doesn't help had a snickers bar and a chocolate choux bun yesterday

Ah Polka, hope it gets sorted with MIL. I'd be furious if my instructions of what to feed DD was disregarded.

When I was relying on mil for childcare I had to make many compromises... It honestly wan't nice at all and I believe some of the sleep issues started then as she just took the easiest route for naps, hugging him to sleep, which ruined our sleep routine. Food was not better either. I will never again count on this sort of help if I have another baby... Polka but I understand you completely ; there is not much we can do when not using professional childcare and not paying, As everybody has their own method which they believe is best...

The problem is Nazly, she wants to look after him. My mum has him other days and she is brilliant with my wishes (again she wanted to look after him too, I had a nursery in mind) so it would be awkward to not let MIL have him on that day unless I went down the full time nursery route.

...if I have another baby...

Ohhhhh. Might you?