November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

Moggle do keep an eye out for spots when nappy changing - that's where DD first got spots when she had it a couple of months ago although I thought it was nappy rash for a couple of days and so took her swimming If it is chicken pox, can thoroughly recommend Virasoothe cooling gel: relatively expensive, but well worth it

I totally second virasoothe amazing stuff

Back from france trip and a great wedding yesterday. My mum did bedtime which was 1st time someone other than us has done it and it not only went fine but she slept until nearly 7 this morning! She's just this week suddenly sleeping through and eating all her dinner with no fuss or mess. Best. Leap. Ever.

Still not sleeping through here but getting better. Nightmare bedtimes were being caused by 2 hr nap 1-3. Yesterday we experimented with nap after elevenses so ended up being 1200-1330. He was nice and tired for bed which helped. Doing similar today and he went down at 1130. Got a beer fete to go to this afternoon so I don't really mind when he wakes. I'll just chuck a cheese sandwich down him then head out! Longer afternoon is good.

Hope it isn't chicken pox moggle!
How much are your little ones eating at the moment? Ds keeps waking for milk once in the night (last night it was 11.30), but he seems to eat pretty well, typical day;
7 am Breakfast: 1.5 wetabix + fruit (blueberries or satsuma), with milk
12, Lunch: toast, dippy egg, cucumber, cheese, fruit
5, Tea: equivalent of one of those 230g ready meals, huge amount of yoghurt, fruit
6.30, Supper: milk (doesn't have much), flapjack made with banana
Drinks water throughout the day.
He naps from 9-10.30 and from 2-3.30,, bed at 7, so not much chance to fill him up with much else... Does this seem like a good diet? I'd love to stop the bottle overnight as I'm worried about tooth decay.

Porsmork at home ds2 eats all day long but typical day esp for nursery is

6/6.30am up and has breakfast usually crumpet or toast with df choc spread and a fruit pot

8.30- at nursery second breakfast porridge (@home its scrambled or boiled eggs)

10am - snack of his biscuit or fruit

11.30/12- cooked lunch

1.30/2- snack at nursery its custard

3.30- tea

4.30/5 another snack or dinner at weekend

On nursery day he has dinner with us as well at 5.30/6

He has breast feed on waking and to go to sleep we have cut night feeds unless last resort

posmork DS is basically exactly the same except no supper.

I have been thinking we may have to introduce one now though as he's just stopped having any milk at bedtime (for the teeth). We just give him warm water instead and he doesn't seem to notice. He hasn't been having any in the morning for a couple of weeks either to make him eat more breakfast.

So now he doesn't eat anything from 5 pm to breakfast so may have to start having a slice of toast or something during Night Garden.

porsmork basically the same as eastmids here - I try and keep to the same feeding pattern regardless of whether it's a nursery day or a home day. So, this is what she goes through in a 24hr period - it's a LOT!:
7am - breakfast: porridge with fruit / yoghurt with fruit / cereal and always a slice of toast
9.30am - snack - fruit / oat bar
11.45am - hot lunch: meat / fish and veg and yoghurt / fruit for pudding
3.30pm - sandwich / crackers / fruit / raw veg sticks
5.30pm - hot dinner: basically a fairly sizeable portion of whatever we're eating + pudding

She doesn't drink any milk (of any sort), but will drink plenty of water. Also, she's been 91st centile + since birth......

Since DD has been moved to 18+ room she has been eating a lot, nursery says shes been clearing off seconds of everything. The other days they had salmon and beetroot dish no kid ate apart from her. There have been evenings I picked her up and she was screaming all the way home (20 min walk) for food although she had had a cooked meal 2 hrs before.
Last week I was told that she was crawling up the slide making all staff terrified. I guess activities like this explains amount of food she demolishes. And she goes through litre of milk from bedtime till morning, about 15oz before bed. And she isnt even that fat, she could be in 9-12 months clothes if not for length.

Someone seems to have taken my baby and replaced her with one that sleeps! I'm reeeeally hoping this isn't a phase. (a really amazing phase). 7 - 6.30 last night, that's a record.

Foodwise I do lots of pots and she grazes through the day.

6.30 5oz milk sometimes followed by brioche or similar if she's up early
8.30 Ready Brek
Through the day she grazes on her pack up
Typical pack up (which I do also for weekends) includes 1 satsuma, 1 portion of berries, 2 slice sandwich of salmon/houmous/cream cheese, pot of plain popcorn or olives, pot of crudites, pot of organix crisps.
5.30/6 Dinner with us such as pasta, roast dinner, stew, curry etc followed by grapes and a heinz biscotti
6.30 Banana right before her bath (or sometimes in the bath)

Hmmm, that seems like a lot!! At the moment she finishes her dinner and asks for more, this evening was like feeding a baby bird as me an dp ran back and forth to the kitchen for more fruit and cheese after dinner!

Wow, olives!! It never crossed my mind to try!

Babydolly LOVES them! I have to buy those giant jars in tesco to keep up with her demand.

Interesting about popcorn, thought ds would choke on it, might have to give that a go. I love it and have a popcorn maker! Tried olives here, ds not a fan! Sounds like all the diets are pretty similar, so will try to wear ds out a bit more in the day (might cut afternoon nap...) to help sleep.

Came down with a migraine yesterday afternoon that made me sick. Luckily Pil could pick ds up, and they have him until this afternoon. In pjs on the sofa with codis swizzing round my system. I get them every time of the month, so must be hormone related, never got them when pregnant!

posmork I was worried too but I watched her closely the first few times and doesn't seem to be a problem. Although I guess it doesn't have a ton of nutritional value at least its not full of additives.

Hope you're feeling better now?

Took dd to work today since it was my day off but I had to pop in for a leaving lunch. She was quite happy exploring the tat on people's desks and chatting with my team. I don't think she looked for me once. I'm happy she's confident but it would be nice to be needed now and again.

She sat down for a book for the first time ever today, she normally can't still, I am/was a total bookworm so I've been gutted she didn't seem to be following in my footsteps.

So, I buy a generic version of ready brek for dd to have at the cm's but today cm told me dd prefers actual ready brek (which I know she's had there before). She's 16 months old and I see her lick windows and try to eat stones.... is it possible she's really that discerning?

DS obligingly got up on the weighing scales yesterday to reach something and I was able to see he's 14kg!!!!

It's obvious he's a big lad, he's gotten suprisingly tall lately and everyone thinks he's about two and a half until he babbles incoherently but I was still

Anyone else have any idea what weight theirs is?

Somewhere between 11 and 12 kg, depending whether its before or after the regular virus thingy. She is quite tall but skinny, just the opposite the parents

Wow 14kg! He must look so grown up. Dd is 23lbs (10.5kg) which seeing as she was 10.03lbs at birth is kind of mad, she didn't double her birth weight until she was well over 1 year (I think they're 'supposed' to double by 6months)

Ds is about 11kg. Think he's going to be quite small, as both me and his dad are short (and dh is super skinny...grrrrr). He's still in a lot of 9-12 month clothes, though just growing out of them this week, where he's had a little spurt.
Any more language Anna? I think I'm getting 'no' and 'dog' now, but only when I ask him. He's learnt to nod and shake his head which is cute!

Wow Anna ds1 was 14kg starting school at just 4!! Think ds2 is about 11kg

Anna - you've got a good healthy-sized DS there! Got DD weighed about 2 weeks ago and she weighed in at 11.55kgs (bang on 91st centile).

We've had 2 lovely evenings here: once I've got her back from nursery she's been straight out in the garden finding stones; clambering into the veg beds; and soaking herself by splashing her hands the bird bath - at least I got her a pair of wellies last weekend (stripy rainbow ones which she absolutely LOVES) so saved her shoes from getting filthy and wet!

PS ladydolly 10.03lbs at birth?!?!? Blimey, I thought my DD was a big baby at 9lbs

No idea what he weighs bad mother
He's not skinny per se but can look a bit potbellied after too much pasta!
We have "poo poo" when he poos and "bye bye" pretty much all the rest of the time!

MrsA, I only know his weight because I weighed myself the other night and he climbed on to the scale! Haven't taken him to be weighed since his 10 month check...

Haven't that sounds like such a lovely evening! Love these long days.

Lots of sun here today. We were out and about and I popped sun hat on ds,and he had long sleeves on, but it got me thinking when to start applying sun cream again, do any of you know of any guidelines? We're all quite fair, and ds already has a few moles (I'm moley, ds was born with one on his forehead, now covered by hair), so I'm aware we should protect, but I also want him to get vitamin d.

It'll probably rain for the next three weeks now I've begun this chain of thought!

Oh god, food! Bane of my life. A typical menu when she's at home is
breakfast: 1 weetabix, sometimes 1.5, with milk to wet it, a banana, handful of blueberries, plain yoghurt.
lunch: a slice of wafer thin ham, few cubes of cheese, more blueberries or maybe a satsuma (yes you read that right - no bread)
dinner: If I'm lucky she will taste the dinner before rejecting it utterly. Unless it is macaroni cheese then she will eat the whole thing (a ramekin full). :-( More fruit, more yoghurt. Chunks of the hair I'm tearing out.
Snacks over the day would be a babybel, an oaty bar, yet more fruit, a tuc biscuit,
Then she has about 9oz of milk at bedtime.
As you can see it starts well at breakfast and gets worse. (note no vegetables - that was not a typo. I can hide some in mac n cheese but if she isn't eating anything, I can't hide veg in it!!). She does not eat much :-( I am trying to be chilled out about it as she seems well and is growing and sleeping through the night.

Had a good day today - I cycled to work for the first time since before I got pregnant with DD! She sat in her little seat on the handlebars for the first 10 mins before I dropped her at nursery. She absolutely LOVES it! Pointing out absolutely everything. And better yet I made the whole journey, 10km there and same back, and didn't die. Woo!

I really want to get DD out in the garden more but at the moment she makes a beeline for the shingle gravel down the side of the house and shoves some straight in her mouth, then stands there looking at me as if to say "hey, look what I'm doing... mmm.... what do you think of THIS then?!". If i ignore her (hard, as they are totally the right size to be choked on) she comes and stands in front of me with her mouth open so I can see all the stones in there. I take them out, say NO, she puts more in immediately so we just have to go inside, such a shame. Can't wait til she gets over this phase.

RIght time for a well earned bath. How did it get to this time and I'm still up? Why can I not go to bed early, ever?!

posmork not a word here. And worse, he doesn't shake or nod his head.

He doesn't wave at people and he only started pointing at things last week! Thank god he hasn't had any assessments!

I really don't see much change. He's definitely not deaf and he can definitely understand "get your water" etc so I think he's just going to be really late. He seems to be pretty with it so I guess all of his energy has just gone into being a giant baby, lol.

People are starting to ask me about it now and I'm starting to feel a bit awkward because he's basically at the same level as a 9 month old & he's 17 months now so......

But this summer may bring great things! Hopefully!