Hi Girls - sorry I?ve not been on for so long, I just seem to be rubbish at getting it together to compose posts at the moment. I always want to reply to everyone but it takes me too long to catch up so I end up leaving it until I?ve got more time which is useless! Work?s getting busier, and my ?days off? just seem to fly by in a ridiculous time warp - where does it go??!
Bloss - I always laugh when you call him Tony, was it a name you secretly fancied calling him ? Well done on the omelette success! And lovely pics (sorry that was weeks ago you posted them though, wasn?t it!)
Ceebee - poor Josh (and you), hope you can get to the doc?s and that they can do something, very stressful what with work as well . Well done on the baby-proofing, I haven?t done any yet, she has only just mastered sitting and STILL hates tummy time!
Twinkle - aaaaw re the blowing kisses, how clever!
Impy - hope the mastitis is getting better now, sounds horrible, did you get fluey symptoms with it as well?
Mae - maybe swilling his cup with Milton sterilising tablets will do the job instead of pool water, smells v similar!
Kayzed - hope Roshi is on the mend soon. V clever girl by the sound of it, she?s such a sweetie
HC - hope the lump has subsided now. Sorry ?bout the misunderstanding (salivary gland, wtf )! Well done on the shiny stone. Hope you?re feeling a bit better soon. Don?t know what your GP or HV?s are like (I know some are no help at all) but may be worth a go? I had quite a good HV who talked me through things when I was having a bad time a few weeks ago when I went back to work and had the worries about Emma?s weight etc. It was actually quite helpful although I wasn?t sure it would be at the time. Hugs anyway xx
Pretty - sorry about the driving test, it?s so annoying isn?t it. I took three tests myself, keep at it hun, you?ll get there
Us - how?s Zack now? Your HV doesn?t sound very supportive, she should be trying to help not tutting, surely. It?s horrible when they lose weight isn?t it
Got Emma weighed last week - two weeks before her graph had dipped right off the chart, it has now gone up a bit so the dot just touched the bottom centile line, so that?s a bit better. She?s 14lbs 4oz, (and about 67cm high according to my probably dodgy home measuring). Her height has stayed on the 25th height centile quite well since she was born, so at least she?s not shrinking lengthways
Have FINALLY got into some sort of vague routine, which is (very vaguely):
8am (ish) BF
10.30am breakfast (Ready Brek, bananacado)
11.00 BF or Rice Milk (or both)
11.30 nap (anything from 20 mins to 1.5 hours)
1.00 BF
3.30 tea - some sort of savoury solids, eg 3/4 small jar Hipp Turkey & Veg, followed by ½ banana
4.00 BF / bottle of expressed milk
4.30 nap (anything from 20 mins to 1.5 hours)
6.45 BF
7.15 dinner - savoury solids eg 3/4 jar Hipp Lanc Hotpot (or some sort of equivalent home-made mush)
7.30 bed
11.00 dream feed BF
She normally gets very tired about 5.30pm especially if she has been at nursery (where she does minimal napping), so sometimes she has a short nap then, otherwise I try to keep her up till bed-time. She is kind of sleeping through at the mo, lots of waking (and shouts through the baby monitor) but usually puts herself back to sleep, so is generally bliss compared to what she was like a few weeks ago when only milk would do.
She seems to be taking less milk, or at least my supply seems to be drying up a bit, I?m having real trouble expressing even an ounce at a time now, which is very tedious as I need to express at least 10oz a week for nursery. Which would be fine if she could have formula instead, but of course she can?t, at least until she has seen the paed which is a week on Monday and they can hopefully do some allergy testing.
Well better get on, hi to everyone else and sorry I?ve missed loads of people this time, but am thinking of you all xx