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September 2014 - Babies turn 1!

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lilone1234 · 12/08/2015 16:56

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

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PipersOrange · 11/09/2015 18:20

We've moved on to the toddler milk at bedtimes (with teeth brushing afterwards) and cows milk in the morning and that it for the day! Just started nursery and I think it's completely tiring him out as he comes home and then just screams for 20 minutes before he falls asleep.

Cruising here, he's pretty round so I just don't think he has the balance to walk any time soon! He can stand for a couple of seconds though, but normally falls over pretty quick. No real words, just mumumumumumumuma whenever he wants something (to me, to OH, when he's at nursery apparently!)

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lilone1234 · 11/09/2015 21:00

Haha Apples! I'm sure she was cute!

That reminds me of one of my favourite things DD does now, crouching down and putting her face on the floor so that she can look under the TV stand and sofa (for the toys she's put under there...)

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KitKat1985 · 12/09/2015 08:50

Jessica's 1st birthday today! Cake We're having close family over later for a small party. She's currently got a helium balloon and loving it! Grin

Lots of changes here too. She's walking lots now. She also started her nursery induction sessions this week and starts properly on Monday when I'm back to work. The induction sessions went okay but they were only for 2 hours, not sure how she is going to find whole days with sleep etc. We're going to stop sterilising soon and make the move to cows milk once she's settled at nursery so we don't change too much at once (for those who remember, Jessica will only drink ready made milk which is costing us a small fortune, so we can't wait to make the switch)! I suppose we'll have to make the move soon from bottles to beakers. Lots of changes!

CumbrianExile · 12/09/2015 08:58

Happy Birthday Jessica Cake

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lilone1234 · 12/09/2015 16:19

Happy birthday to Jessica! Hope you all have a lovely day!

It certainly is a lot of changes now...they're definitely all growing up. I'll really miss having cuddles while giving her bottles, but she fidgets so much now I don't think she will!

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MissMoo22 · 13/09/2015 00:17

Hope Jessica had a lovely day KitKat.

It's M's birthday tomorrow (well today now) but she and her brothers have been hit with a viral infection the past 3 days so I think the farm will have to be put on the back burner for now :( She was fine today so we will do something tomorrow but I just think having her outside for so long would be a little too much for her so maybe the soft play centre or something. Will decide in the morning when I see how DP (who is also sick) is feeling.

Acorncat · 13/09/2015 07:32

Cruising here, he doesn't seem that bothered about walking really - crawling is faster! He can stand well but only when he doesn't realise he's doing it. Very chatty but not actually sure of his words apart from hiya.

Back at work now, which in itself has been fine but having nursery issues despite being happy there before. Hoping it's just the adjustment to full days and me going back to work but it's awful when they're upset Sad

TeamEponine · 13/09/2015 07:46

Happy birthday to all the birthday babies!

Acorn, I'm sure he will adjust to the full days soon. Whenever DD does a full day she is totally shattered, which usually leads to being more tearful! Have you started introducing dairy yet?

KitKat1985 · 13/09/2015 09:32

Happy birthday to M MissMoo. I hope she (and the rest of your family) feel better soon.

Acorn I hope your DS settles in to his full nursery days soon. Jessica has her first one tomorrow soon and I'm a bit anxious about it. Also anxious about how going back to work is going to be. Fingers crossed. x

Acorncat · 13/09/2015 09:40

team I've started the milk biscuits a couple of times and he seems fine apart from disturbed sleep. I think I just need to persevere but I'll wait until he's settled at nursery. How's yours doing with it now?

The nursery situation is frustrating as I started him 6 weeks before going back to work so he'd be settled, and he was. But now I'm having to worry and phone for updates and had to collect him early as well. I don't think it's the nursery's fault though they obviously have different ways of settling him which just don't work. They must be fed up of me cos I end up giving them step by step instructions for simple things.

polkadotdelight · 13/09/2015 19:31

I keep trying to post but if its more than a few lines mumsnet crashes on me.

polkadotdelight · 13/09/2015 19:33

DS is staying on formula for now as its fortified and we stopped sterilising last weekend (it broke!). Superfast crawling and cruising here but no independent walking yet.

polkadotdelight · 13/09/2015 19:34

Excuse multiple posts! I startes back at work last week, DS with grandparents so is being spoiled but I would so rather be at home. The first few days were a novelty but reality has hit now - I have to be there!

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lilone1234 · 13/09/2015 20:07

Happy birthday to M! Hope you all feel better soon!

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TeamEponine · 13/09/2015 21:37

Acorn, it's going ok so far. She seems to react badly the first time she tries something, but I give her a couple of days dairy free, try her again and she's fine! Very strange, but I've become used to it now. We also had to skip a couple of the steps. How are you supposed to give a baby with no teeth pizza?!? We have just started on cheese, which she is loving Grin

I'm really hoping we can get her onto cows milk and that she gets on on with it and likes it. I'm really ready to stop making up bottles and sterilising.

DD suddenly seems to really want to talk and is trying to copy everything we say! She scoots around the furniture at lightening speed, but won't walk holding our hands. Not sure why, but she just sits down! She has also started clapping as a sign of appreciation, which is so cute.

Birthday this week!!! Cake

Good luck tomorrow kitkat.

cookielove · 15/09/2015 10:14

We stopped sterilising about 2 months ago, and he had the last of his formula last week. Not a baby anymore!

ApplesTheHare · 15/09/2015 18:27

Cookie they're just not babies now are they. Babyhood goes so fast!

Two (possibly stupid) questions:

1: are you warming your cow's milk up and if so how?
2: how many naps are you on nowadays?

cookielove · 15/09/2015 19:50

apples I warm E's cows milk up in the microwave for 25 secs and a good shake, this just takes the chill off it, he takes it no problem!

He also still has two naps a day usually a couple hrs each, trying to get him down to one but he doesn't usually make it! Although the last couple days he is averaging about an hr each nap!

ApplesTheHare · 16/09/2015 08:24

Cookie thanks for sharing, I feared microwave might be the answer. We don't have one but I guess jug of hot water will achieve the same thing.

DD's trying to drop down to 1 nap per day but I thought they were meant to have 1 for a while yet?

FATEdestiny · 16/09/2015 12:35

Apples you don't have to do warm milk. My cousin never heated her child's milk up at all right from birth, so she easily took to fridge-cold milk (formula and cows milk). No reason why you can't work on teaching your LO to have her milk fridge cold. Ultimately by the time she is at school she'll be having cold milk, probably a lot sooner.

I microwave ours, then a good shake.

DD usually has two naps - one short (half hour) and one long (2-3 hours). If she wakes up especially late one morning she may miss her early catnap and just have one nap. But she doesn't usually sleep in late so naps on the morning school run.

Team - can't your LO suck a pizza slice? I am pretty sure my DD doesn't 'bite' pizza when she eats it, she sucks and rips it up to swallow it. This doesn't need teeth.

DD managed to eat an entire pizza at Frankie & Bennys the other day. They are not small pizzas, probably about 8 inch. We were amazed she finished it all.

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lilone1234 · 16/09/2015 16:26

Yum Frankie & Bennys.

It was my lovely DD's birthday yesterday. We had a great day - she enjoyed all her presents, the biggest hit being the ball pit we got her. We really don't have the room for it but I knew she loved them! We went out for the day to the London Aquarium which was great, she was really taking everything in and was interested in everything. We did accidentally soak the pram when we went out for lunch though by parking it by a drippy wall!

Can't believe it's been a year already! She really is the best thing that's ever happened to me and being her mum is definitely what I was meant to be doing!

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MissMoo22 · 16/09/2015 17:16

*She really is the best thing that's ever happened to me and being her mum is definitely what I was meant to be doing!

That's so lovely lil.

When DD goes onto cows milk we will microwave but I remember when my nephews were little we'd heat the milk in a saucepan on the stove but holy crap the amount of times we'd scorch the pot!

KitKat1985 · 16/09/2015 19:45

Thanks guys. Jessica had a lovely birthday. Glad your DD did too Lilone. Smile

Fate I'm impressed your DD managed a whole pizza! I'm not sure Jessica would even finish a whole slice, but then she's not a big eater.

Going back to work is going okay. I'm quite enjoying adult conversation to be honest! Jessica has been a bit tearful at nursery though but the staff say she is starting to settle a bit better so fingers crossed.

cookielove · 16/09/2015 20:21

E won't eat pizza, his finger food diet is really limited! Of course if I left pizza on the floor he may very well eat it (sigh)

I am also struggling to get him to eat home made dinners but I will persist!

He had his injections yesterday and the nurse had to give him one of the jabs twice as he flinched to much and she didn't get it in all in one go!

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lilone1234 · 16/09/2015 22:46

Haha cookie you're so right about food on the floor being so much more appealing!!

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