June mummies '05 thread 13 - the one where they they get to enjoy Christmas - well the wrapping paper!

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one brand new spanking thread ready to go!

Glad the biopsy result was good, Bubbs.
More good news here too. dsis had her next scan - she'd had an abnormality on her 20w scan and they'd told her the bowel had perforated, the baby might be stillborn, or need major surgery immediately after birth . Today (28w) they said the perforation looks to have healed with only some scarring left!!! Baby growing normally and very active. So relieved for them, it's better news than any of us dared hope for. Hopefully they can relax now and dsis can enjoy the rest of her pg. Not so very long left now either, only 12w - doesn't sound like a long time, does it Bubbs

That's really fantastic news 2happy-I'm so pleased for them.
I do remember reading about her 20 week scan when I was posting on the April thread,but it is sooooo fast moving with far too many posts to keep up with.I haven't posted on there for ages.

Yes,you're quite right-12 weeks sounds absolutely frightening.Must admit I am starting to panic as I feel so unorganised.Did buy a lovely swinging crib last week though which I can't wait to use.

Fab news for both of you Bubb and 2happy. Great to hear.
I have just finished cleaning the house while dd2 has her nap and really should be getting her up now, but thought I would jump on here first.
DD2 is so funny about her nap. Some days she doesn't even go to sleep even though I put her in her cot and leave her. I can hear her singing to herself (and practicing taking her clothes off) and playing with her Peter Rabbit for over an hour sometimes. She doesn't cry though so I don't get her up. I am wondering if I am being a mean Mummy but I think she must benefit from the rest and time out even if she doesn't sleep. I definately benefit .
Do your Junies eat vegetables?
DD1 always did (unless she was having a phase of not eating at all ) and so I keep putting them on dd2's plate in the hope she will come round to the idea but to no avail yet. I actually think it is a texture thing but don't know for sure. She gets plenty of fruit and wolfs down bolognaise sauce with veggies in it but it is annoying to serve up a 'normal' dinner (meat and veggies) and know that she won't eat it. Sigh. I am going to keep serving it up I think but it is new ground for me as dd1 has a good appetite really and isn't overly fussy (apart from her current tantrums where she doesn't like anything as I serve it up and it is pushed away in disgust only to be polished off 20 mins later. Why we have to have a fight/cajoling/promises of yoghurt etc first is beyond me and by that time I am too tired to cope very well . DH and I disagree on our strategies as well. He is v strict and black and white and I am not so much. Neither methods get anywhere though.
Anyway enough random ramblings from me (this is my therapy I am afraid).
Take care all.

Gosh sorry for that last post. I was off on a multitude of tangents lol.

great news bubba&2happy fingers crossed for SIL

skyler dd likes broccoli, sprouts, aubergine and peas but she does not eat much more like picking at food and she likes beans any sort of beans will do.

question - are any of you still bf? here day feeds have gone to zero or just one most days but at night she still wakes up twice on average which is getting me tired, would like to reverse that any experiences? (sorry long)

hope all are well

Skyler-Oscar is the same sometimes with his naps.He also doesn't cry,so I have been known to leave him for upto an hour "chatting" to himself.
He has also started waking up much earier in the mornings now and is normally awake around 6am.Again,I leave him to have a chat with himself and finally get up around 7am.If he was crying it would be completely different as he doesn't cry very often.
He is also getting a bit picky with his food and although he'll eat any fruit(except raspberry),he doesn't eat as much veg.I do tend to do him lots of casseroles with various veg thrown in and although it's not mashed,it is still fairly chopped up small,so he does tend to eat it.

On the subject of food...are all the Junies now feeding themselves with a spoon/fork?
Ds has no interest whatsoever in using cutlery yet,so wondered if he was the only one!

Sfx-No advice on bf as ds was bottle fed,but I'm sure someone will come up with some good advice,shortly.

Sfx, sorry also can't help as ds self-weaned when I got pg.
Bubbs - ds has only really recently started using cutlery (unlike his cousin who's been gaily feeding herself since she was weaned practically!). He's not desperately accurate so spends most of the meal using his fingers, but at least he's trying with the spoon finally.
Skyler - ds will eat carrots, I think he thinks that because they're not green they're not vegetables, lol! But as with all foods he has phases, sometimes he'll eat fruit/veg, sometimes he won't, sometimes he'll only eat them if they're on our plates - stolen food tastes much better apparently!
Thanks for the wishes for dsis, still overjoyed for her

it is precisely because i want to get pregnant that i worry most about night feeds the idea of doing that in early pregnancy just makes me tired.
but i did hear that DC go off bf when mum is expecting as the taste changes or something, maybe that will work

about fruit dd likes all fruit no probs there.

she hid from me yesterday giving me a terrible fright, it was in the flat but still, i had visions of her being unconscious somewhere but the little monkey was just playing

Sfx I think I remember reading at the time that 2/3 of children self-wean when you're pg. But although ds reduced and reduced what he was taking, the last feed was when I was about 20w so I had already got through the hideous 1st trimester.

Sorry, I should have said, he was only feeding am and pm when I got pg, no night time feeds by then.

Sorry sfx, stopped feeding at 13 months so can't help there. You must be tired.
Bubb - Aha, dd2 may not be eating veggies but she is insistent on her spoon and fork whenever possible and yells at me if I try to help at all. She uses her fingers alot too though. I gave her spag bol tonight and didn't cut the spaghetti up. She ate it all with her fingers sucking it up and used her spoon for the meat sauce at the end. It was really funny to watch

thanks for the replies ladies sometimes i think that this will only stop when she drops the daytime nap, this child takes after her parents on the sleep stakes none of us needs much sleep, but i do need to sleep more than 2-4hrs at stretch.
that hotel for a night idea is becoming quite appealing.

cutlery yes she uses them fine but still prefers fingers and thats ok by me.

we found that drugging our DD2 helps her to sleep!! no seriously DD2 is has now slept through everynight for the past week, thanks to her new antihistamines which must have stopped the itches! yeah!! i have no words of advice because sleep training is defineatly one area i do not excel at! DD1 didn't sleep through until she was 2 and DD2 its was last week.

I can't give any advice here I'm afraid (whispering now...) as my child sleeps through both his daytime nap and at night. Every day, without fail,I count my blessings and wait for my luck to run out. Which it inevitably will.

DS uses a spoon, but it's all a bit of a hit and miss affair. He also dives in, hands first. Just this week, he's really cracked the weetabix thing and can eat the bowl without much help (if you discount cleaning up his face, the table, the floor, the chair, us...etc). However, g-d help us if we don't understand what he wants. If we try and help when it's not wanted, that's it, full blown strop. If we don't help when it is required, tears start rolling. You really need to be a mind reader and I'm not very good at that. It must be very frustrating for them.

Hi Sfx,
I was just about to ask similar question... I am trying to drop the last feeding (the one right before to bed) myself, and was looking for suggestions....

In the evening, I managed to dropped them basically by not giving... I know it sound obvious... but I decided if I was there for him when he woke up, ready to give him hugs and kisses, etc, I couldn't be that bad of a mum just because I wasn't nursing him. YKWIM? I have to say that once he was convinced he was "only" going to get love, he wasn't interested in waking up anymore...

I agree though, going yourself to a hotel and leaving DH to provide love and deal with the complaints sound even better!

hi Lua
dd sometimes goes without the last feed mostly because i go out in the evening at least a couple of times a month and she goes to sleep fine with her dad. there have also bee a couple of times with me when she just cuddled and went to sleep.
the night time ones were very much disappearing before she was poorly and teething in November

Hi All

I had my 12 week scan, or really 11+5 and all well, so relieved i will stop panicking now. I said to dh in car "well i guess that means we are having another baby" and he said "ah yeah"
like he wasn't ever worried, but i know he was.

sfx, kvg and lua-re:feeding could you try giving water before or during night. Or maybe sending dad in to re/settle Lo's to sleep. We had to increase ds food intake during the day, so he wasn't hungry at night, but also think it was a comfort thing.

good luck

Fantastic news, Uki

Excellent news,Uki.

No news from you then 2Happy?.

Fantastic news Uki

yeah Uki!

thats great Uki

now where is 2happy?

Right here. Still.
Oh well, I'm booked for induction on Thursday, so at least I know it'll be this week!

Well at least you'll hopefully have the baby by the weekend.
My friend was induced last week,worked first time and 3 hours later had her little girl(also her 2nd baby).