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?

We were just wondering why dd was do dribble today and assumed it was a cold because she's snotty too. Felt in her mouth, seems she has a molar.

I think that's the easiest molar cut I've known, no symptoms whatsoever until today when it's through, and then only dribbling. She's fine in herself. Good job since its the extended family Christmas party later today.

I recall others saying they already had molars.

Btw, hello holls, nice to see you posting again

Oh my I fell off this thread!

Happy Christmas everybody, hope you all had a good time :)

Not much to report here. All chugging along as best as we can. Boy I am tired though!!

Can't remember the poster, but the person who had a screamer for shoes how are they now?

Gah Jessica just deleted my long message I wrote. Grrr! Can't be bothered to re-type in full but suffice to say:

1. Jessica likes lift the flap books right now.
2. Jessica is cutting molars all over the place and her sleep has gone to crap again.
3. Jessica doesn't drink very much compared to some of your babies at all.
4. Me and Dh are going to start trying again in 2016 (we must be bloody mad)!

Hope you all had a good Christmas and wishing you a happy 2016! x

Happy new year everyone

It was my DD who was the shoe screamer. When she finally really "got" walking the objections totally stopped! She's still not too keen on wellies, but fine with her shoes now.

Happy New Year

team glad she is better now :) E has been walking since he was 11 months and he still isn't a fan of wellies! He only really wears them at nursery though.

E went through a phase of really bad illnesses one after the other. It affected his eating which affected his sleeping and I re introduced bottles at night (fool) so I have just had to wean him off them. I did that a week before Christmas. He treated us to sleep through and laying in till 8 30-9.00. He is now waking at 5-6

He now has 11 teeth and I think one more is about to pop through, he is dribbling like crazy!

Oh he has 3 bottles of 7oz at waking then 2pm and before bed. He drinks out of a whole host of different cups he only has water and probably had 2 cups worth in a day. He has no dry nappies lol.

I also need to get him weighed. I love knowing how much he weighs but haven't been since he was 13 months. He is almost 17 months

Oh cookie, your post made me think that we haven't compared routines for a while, and I always find that mega interesting. Anyone else fancy sharing?

Normal home routine...

• up between 4.50-6.00
• about 7oz of milk when she wakes
• 8.00 breakfast. Usually a little yeo yogurt, half slice of toast and some fruit (satsuma this morning)
• 9.30ish nap for 1-1.5 hours
• 11.30 lunch. Usually something like a Phili sandwich, eggy toast, cheesy crumpet, some olives and sweet corn. Fruit to finish (today a kiwi fruit and a few strawberries)
• 1.30 a snack, usually a banana
• 2.30ish nap for 45-60 minutes
• 4.30 dinner. If we have something suitable for dinner, I save some for her. She loves risotto and salmon satay stir fry best! Otherwise, fish fingers are wolfed down, or on a really lazy day a jar of hipp pasta. More fruit to finish (blueberries and grapes later!)
• 6.15 bath, followed by a bottle of around 6oz of milk watching in the night garden
• 6.45 bed.
• At night she often wakes and has about 2-5 oz of milk. Very occasionally she sleeps through.

Sometimes I swap lunch and snack, but nursery do lunch at 11.30, so I try to keep to that. But there are times when we go out that a later lunch is better.

At nursery she has just one nap!

She drinks water through the day, but knows my squash is nicer Probably has about 6-8 oz of water and squash.

She's certainly a fruit bat, but I worry she doesn't drink enough.

4-5 poos a day - way too many!

4 teeth - bottom front two and two top molars. Strange child!

Walking around quite confidently now.

Loves books, playing with teddies and dollies and the play kitchen we got her for Christmas.

She's a real chatterbox and shocks me with how many words she can say. Other people probably couldn't understand her, but I can!

Think that's everything

We have a very similar routine TeamEponine but DS doesnt seem to eat quite the range that you manage!

Ive started offering very dilute squash as FATE talked about in a previous post and he is drinking more. He has 8oz formula when we get up but only about 3-4 before bed.

Tooth brushing is a nightmare. He still only has 8 that I know of, not brave enough to stick my finger in but had lots of bouts of teething (snotty nose, flushed cheeks, dribbling, mouthing, awful nappies and grumpiness).

Very confident walker, runner, climber (he climbs anything) but not so good with speech. He points and can make himself known though.

He still loves books, balls and wheels but his grandad made him a (full size!) rocking horse for Christmas and once he is up there there is no getting him down! He is really into stacking/sorting these days too and had just started showing an interest in painting. We bought a little helper funpod as he always wants to be up in your arms seeing whats going on. Its made my life a bit easier!

He is starting to grow out of 12-18 month clothes but am hoping to keep him in them until spring as I dont want to buy bigger winter stuff!

He loves being outdoors, we have a big garden and he would be out there all day with the chickens and his wellies if he could!

Happy New Year! I wonder how many pregnancy announcements we'll get on the thread in 2016... ?

When I had my older daughter, she always had pretty but ultimately sensible shoes, I was a bit of a snob on what child's shoes should look like (patent and with a buckle... yawn). So just been to the January sales to get DD her second pair of shoes having grown out of her Clarks First Shoes.

Got measured in Clarkes then popped over to Sketches. Got her some Twinkle Toes - light up glittery, silver, purple sparkliness! I debated long and hard with myself as to if they were chavy and I'd be judged - decided that she's my Precious Last Born so I don't care if she's indulged in some girliness!

Anyway, our routine is the go-with-the-flow school holidays version at the moment. Very different to term-time when various aspects of our day are time-dependant. Here's our term-time routine:

7am - I was with older children
7.30am-8am - DD wakes. 7oz bottle of formula milk
9.00am - breakfast
9.30am - Nap
11.00am - Woken
12.00pm - Lunch
1.00pm - Nap
3.00pm - Woken if not awake already
4.00pm - Snack
5.30pm - Dinner
6.30pm-7.00pm - 7oz milk and PJs downstairs, whenever she starts getting crotchety
7.00pm-7.30pm - Teeth and bed. I aim for 7.30 will go from 7pm if needed.

It's rare for her to wake again until morning.

On non-school days her morning nap naturally falls later, especially if she sleeps in later in the morning. This also pushes the PM nap out of kilter. She has occasionally managed 11.30am-3pm single nap days, but usually still prefers 2 naps.

Storytime happens at 7.30pm with DS6, but DD usually isn't interested in it. We do most of our 'reading' in the daytime. Books are fun playthings at the moment and we like bedtime story to be less of playtime and more of listening to and engaging with the actual story. So she'll join in this probably at some point this coming year, when she's ready.

She drinks loads and eats everything. No babyfood though, she eats with us. I cook a meal everyday (hence the 5.30 dinner - that is the time we all sit together and eat). She uses her hands to eat - using cutlery is something we've talked about needing to tackle.

Here's a thing - don't know if I should be impressed or horrified, but DD can use DSs Kids Kindle. She can swipe to unlock, knows how to locate Peppa Pig and play a video. Then knows how to select the next episode when it's done. She does still uncontrollably swipe at the screen when it's playing (causing it to pause and unpause) so hasn't fully 'got it' yet, but she's not far off.

As well as DS6 getting a kindle for Christmas that has been accosted by his little sister, he also had a Kiddie Zoom Camera - which DD also loves using! It is very, very simple to use mind you. Got some interesting (I use the word loosely) pictures yesterday when I left the Kiddie Zoom with DD for an hour. She took hundreds of photos!

Hmmm I feel I should put down our full routine, of course I may repeat myself a bit.

5.00-6.00 (sometimes later) wakes up
bottle 7oz when he wakes
8.00 breakfast, always porridge with a fruit option after
9.30/10:30 nap (2hrs-3hrs)
On waking has lunch jar or home cooked meal can be anywhere from 12 - 1.30
2.00 milk (7oz)
If he has a short nap in the morning then he will go down for another nap.
He is woken at 3.30.
5.00-6.00 dinner, usually a pouch but slowly moving to home cooked food.
6.30 bottle
6.45-7.00 bath
7.15 stories and bed

He is really into cars, all toys are pushed along the ground and he makes the cutest car sounds. He can be quite imaginative too, he pretends to feed me and uses the remote controls as telephones.

He too is very physical, lots of climbing running around e.t.c. He can run on the spot and is trying to jump and has had some success

He is really interested in technology and can do the swipe motion on our phones. He of course thinks the TV is touch screen

He is just heading into 12 - 18 month stuff although most of it is too big. All arms are rolled up and trousers too. But loads of people comment on him looking tall.

He is starting to be quite co-operatibe when walking in public so maybe that's why people comment.

My friend who has the twins (triplets originally do you remember her) the boys were born quite small the bigger one J is almost the same height as E but a slimmer build so looks smaller when they are together. It's odd to see really. Where as H is just dinky.

Gosh they are really early mornings Cookie and Team. Zzzzz

I think E's naps cookie are exactly what DDs would be if I followed her lead. She much prefers her morning nap and would easily sleep for 2-3h in the morning, then have another 1-1.5h late afternoon. The school run means I have to 'manage' her naps to fit in, rather than going with the flow.

Happy new year lovely people!

Books - dear zoo, that's not my..., anything that makes a sound, my first gruffalo, we have loads of books and B will happily go and get one to be read...we rarely make it to then end, but still...

Routine - big change recently.

7am wake up, dressed, play,
7.45 breakfast
8-11 play/jobs/etc
10 - snack
11-1ish nap
1.15 lunch, then play/jobs etc
3- snack
5.30 - supper
6.30 - bath
7 - bed

It seems much easier since we have gone to one nap. Over Xmas whilst at my in laws, we learnt that we can bring him into bed with us and will sleep till 8 - one smacking day was initial wake up at 6.30, snuggled up to us and we all woke up at 9.30!!

Oh sorry, rest of it, 8 teeth, 4 top, 4 bottom
Walking now for 3 months, we got some reins and use them occasionally

Loves tablet - they have one at nursery!
Is on the go ALL THE TIME!!!!
Eats anything which is great - today we were out he had humous, smoked salmon, roast pork, brownie....it is ace. During the week after work he gets quick and easy dinners. I'm bringing the slow cooker back into action next week!
Eating (in a fashion) with a spoon and sometimes a fork.
Doesn't drink much milk, occasionally will have a hot chocolate as a treat!
Loves nursery, touch wood!

Very bad at responding to No, so I am trying praising and diversion unless dangerous or particularly stupid - which is at least 10 times a day!

Interesting to see still so much variation!

We are:
7am ish - wake up
8am - breakfast
8:30 - dressed
10:30 - half a cup cows milk (dropping this now though to try and help with fussy/lack of eating and help up water intake)
12/12:30 - lunch
12:30/1pm - nap 1-1.5 hours, usually wakes up grumpy before she's ready!
3:30 - half cup cows milk
5/5:30 - dinner (usually our least successful meal)
7pm- bath
7:30- 7oz bottle formula & bed!

She usually sleeps through but actually a bit less reliably than when she was a bit smaller.

Says "dog!" All day every day and loves our dog and any dog she comes across. Calls any animal dog but seems to think about it when you say it's not a dog. Has a few other words too.

Has 8 teeth and 9th (first molar) seems to popping through too. Has been walking a couple of weeks, and picking up speed! Likes to walk outside but still pretty wobbly!

On the downside, she's a big fan of tantrums, very easily frustrated and offering anything other than bread, cheese or fruit doesn't go down well! Or Cheerios, she knows where they are and is often found in the cupboard with her arm in the box!

Calls any animal dog

There's a lovely book called "Wobble Bear Says Yellow" that your post reminds me of. It's about a bear who has a yellow teddy. His Mum tells him the teddy is yellow so Wobbles starts calling everything yellow. It's a rhyming story, really nice, worth buying if you see it.

Your DD calling everything Dog reminded me of Wobble Bear lil

Gosh some of you have early wake ups! You poor things!

A rough routine for Jessica:

7am: Wakes up.
7.15am: Bath (it suits us better to do baths first thing in the morning rather than the evening).
7.45am: Breakfast. Usually toast and yogurt.
10.30am: Nap. This can be anything from about 40 mins to 2 hours.
12pm: Lunch. Normally this is when I do her hot meal as that's what the nursery do. Either I give her some food that I've saved from our dinner the previous night, or if that's not suitable one off those Hipp toddler meals or similar (I know, I know, slovenly parenting).
3pm: Nap (maybe). She really needs a short afternoon nap or else she gets really ratty, but she really fights this so it doesn't always happen. She won't (very frustratingly) nap in her cot in the afternoon so normally I take her out for a walk in her buggy as this seems to help her fall asleep or go for a drive in the car if it's raining / I'm feeling lazy Usually she only has about 30-40 minutes as a nap, but she's so much happier for having it!
4.30pm: Teatime. I do a light meal at about now. Jessica has recently decided she won't eat sandwiches however so I'm having to be creative. Often I end up giving something like a piece of quiche or pizza therefore with some peas or sweetcorn (she's obsessed with peas and sweetcorn)!
6.30pm: Supper. Usually this is ready break and mashed banana with full-cream milk.
7pm: Bottle of cows milk downstairs. Usually she has about 8oz. Then taken up to her cot. Usually she's down in her cot by 7.30pm and asleep by 8pm.

Sometimes she will sleep through the night, other times not.

At nursery she will often only have half an hours nap all day!

I think I need to start work soon to drop her bottle. She's only on one bottle a day now so hoping this won't be too difficult.

She has 8 teeth at the front and (I think) 3 molars coming through, but she's not very co-operative at letting us look. She's not always very co-operative with teeth brushing.

We usually have about 3 poos a day.

On the note of our favourite subject (poo!) please reassure me none of you are toilet training yet? I know someone who insisted on starting to toilet train her DD shortly after her first birthday (!) and apparently she quite regularly poos in her potty now. I wasn't even really planning on thinking about it until Jessica was more like 2. Jessica is going to be in the toddler group at nursery from next week, (which takes children up to 3) so there will be some toilet-trained children there, so I'm hoping in a few months time she will want to copy the older kids (optimistic) and this will be how I know it might be the right time to start.

Certainly not potty training! However, I am trying to get her to tell me when she's done, or is doing, a poo. I think just getting that understanding is the first phase of training. She will sometimes say "poo poo" or will go to the bottom of the stairs and look at me expectantly. That's more than enough for me at the moment.

She has started to "tell" me when she's tired and wants her nap. She will pick up her bunny, go to the bottom of the stairs, wave at me and say "night night". The first time she did it I didn't believe her as she wasn't giving any of her usual sleepy signs, but I thought I'd give it a try, and she went off beautifully!

She's really starting to communicate, and I'm loving it

Early morning are a killer though

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you had a good festive period.

Our day looks like this:
6.30 / 7 wake up, has to have his breakfast of porridge straight away or he gets very grumpy! Likes to have some of ours too if we have ours later
8 - cup of cows milk, we've got a miracle cup & it's brilliant, he took to it straight away
8.30-11 - playing, go out somewhere if we've got things to do, banana / snack at some point during this time
11-1- nap
1 - lunch, normally a sandwich, tuna is the current favourite, or toast with cream cheese with cherry tomatoes & cucumber with fruit, usually orange, Apple or grapes after
1.30- 4.30 - more playing or jobs or going for a walk
4.30/5 - dinner, we try & eat together at the weekends as he has dinner at the childminder in the week. He will normally have what we have & he eats loads. He normally has a yoghurt to finish.
5-6.30 - more playing
6.30 - upstairs for cup of milk, story & ready for bed. He has a shower every other night, doesn't like the bath but loves having a shower & if you ask if he wants a shower he heads towards the stairs shouting wash

He's got 10 teeth now, we haven't had any for a while so I think we might be in for some soon. He's just started with a runny nose & dribbling so they could be on their way.

He's been properly walking for about 2 weeks. He's been taking a few steps since August but only just cracked proper walking & is now super confident & wants to be down & walking all the time.

He's still tall but has a long body & short legs. we're into 18-24 tops, vests etc. Trousers are still fine in 12-18 tho. I've given up on baby gros & gone for pyjamas now as they might last a bit longer & be a bit more comfortable for him.

He's quite talkative, lots of babbling still but also lots of real words, he loves animals so we get cat, duck, woof, baa, quack, giraffe! He's very cute at waving good bye & blowing kisses, definitely helps soften the blow at drop off time. He's very happy and laid back but he has mastered the perfect frown & uses it quite regularly. We also get the tantrum, arched body, throwing his head back on the floor.

He's really struggling with poos. He goes once every 2-3 days & it's a real struggle for him & cause him lots of pain. He eats lots of fruit & veg & fibre. He's not great at drinking water but is getting better. We're trying lots if different cups & always having one where he can reach. Quite often it's sprinkled all over the floor! Anyone got any suggestions of other things we can try before we have to head to the Drs for help?

Happy New Year all!

We have quite a relaxed schedule to be honest, and it tends to change daily.

8am - Wake up and bottle (up at 7.15 if its a nursery day but I generally have to waken him)
9am - Breakfast
1pm - Lunch
5pm - Tea
7pm - Bath, milk, bed by 7.30/8.

He generally has one nap a day, usually for about 2 hours. Sometimes he goes down himself, sometimes I have to take him out in his pram/the car to force a nap, but there has been days at nursery where he hasn't slept all day. He is grumpy as anything on those days which is why I force a nap.

He drinks milk throughout the day, still having trouble moving him from the bottle, we really must get more strict with this. He doesn't really drink water but I do have a cup of water about the house, and have started taking away the milk at food times and just giving water. His appetite has improved since doing this. He will eat anything though! and usually has what we are having.

We have 8 teeth now, but I think more coming, he doesn't really let you in his mouth to check

Walking very confidently around the house, running and climbing on everything! He was a shoe screamer too, and still doesn't really like wearing shoes, but will walk short distances with them on now so we are getting there. I am trying to make him wear them now and again more to get used to them.

Still in 9-12 month clothes here, but his tops are starting to look short on him so I think 12-18 month tops will be coming out soon. However it may be a while before he gets into trousers without them falling straight off haha.

He also talks a lot but no real words yet. But he can get across what he wants.

Potty training - no not yet, although he has developed a frasination with my parents downstairs toilet while we are visiting . Topsy no advice on the poo (or lack off) I'm afraid, we have the other problem, he goes at least 3 times a day!

I think its good to look at the schedules/developments of others, it shows how different all the babies are

Nowhere near potty training, don't think that's on the cards for us until 2! I know that's the norm in this country but do know that in other countries they potty train much earlier (went without the convenience of disposable nappies for much longer!), around 1. I know of one lady (from
Russia) who has been putting her son on the potty since he was 6 months old.

My DH isn't British, and he was started potty training at about 9 months. Purely because they only had cloth nappies and no washing machine! Although, apparently he only pooed once a day at a very reliable time not much has changed! , so I think it may have been more luck and predictability than actual bowel control!

Seems like needless competitive parenting to be potty training so early.

There's a Canadian comedian, Kathryn Ryan, who often does panel shows like QI and Mock to Week. She was on Room 101 last year and I was appalled by her judgemental attitude. She apparently potty trained at 10 months old, which is fine if she wants to, each to their own. But then went on to declared toddlers who still wear nappies to have lazy parents and that nappies should be banned.

Really judgy woman, cant stand her since watching it.

There is a theory called elimination communication that involves babies not wearing nappies from birth more or less. The theory follows that like a mother learns the signs for baby being hungry or tired, that she can also notice signs for toileting in real-time.

DD is asleep on my lap at the moment. She very rarely sleeps on me now, so this is just bliss! Just watching her sleep. She's so beautiful.

Ive heard of elimination communication and all I can say is bugger that. I wasnt even going to think of potty training before 2.

Team Im envious that you get told when its bedtime! DS fights sleep to the very end, he would never admit to being tired!

Aw Team I love the rare occasions A falls asleep on me. He looks so sweet and innocent. Then he wakes haha.

I agree potty training can wait. I can't imagine trying it yet.

Thank God you all feel like that about potty training. I'm not even thinking about it until Jessica is two. I was quite shocked when this Mum I know announced she was potty training her one year old to be honest.