********** December 2006 PART 2 **************

[castlesintheair]

Will this do?

I love the lists of food!

After being retrieved from his cot having spent an hour gurgling and watching his mobile ds has done nothing but sleep..........

Currently dead to the world, well he has 15 mins to wake up himself or mummy will b doing it fo rhim to dunk him in the bath!

Very odd though, normally spends the hour before bathtime feeding like crazy!

Don't worry I am lurking....

What is it with my son and projectile vomit huh? I just put him to bed but he's kind of wide awake having brought up another ocean of vomit that was his nice big long bedtime feed that usually keeps him going til around 11! At least I'm getting good at reading the signs these days, not a drop on me, him or the sofa it all went on muslin and the floor (laminate so asy to wipe clean)

hellooooo. i am stunned. dd1 who has been up at 6am for the last 3 days told us she was tired at 6.30 and asked to have an early bath & bed!!! she was asleep by 7.15 - normally goes to bed at 8.15 so no need for a painful transition with clocks changing.

ps. today dd1 ate 2 cocopops straws and toast & honey for breakfast, a gingerbread man, pasta in tomato sauce for lunch, 2 homemade biscuits, melon & banana for tea, and 1/2 pint milk split between morning and night.

Glassy, ds1 was in bed by 6.15pm tonight - he went all pale and interesting over dinner and just looked shattered, poor love. He had his first proper nightmare last night and was up for a couple of hours afterwards so he's been tired (and therefore whingy!) all day.

Food diary for ds1 today:
2 pieces toast & jam, cup of strawberry nesquik for breakfast, then went entirely downhill as went to a party so he had: several custard creams, lots of wotsits, quite a few monster munch, rice crispy cake, too much lemonade, more wotsits, some pringles (can you see he's a crisp fiend?!) and a chocolate biscuit. Then pasta with tomato and marscapone sauce and a plum for tea. I'd be lynched in the MN public arena for that little lot!!

Ds2 seems to have got over his nap phobia - he's gone from being the catnap king to being napper extraordinaire in the last couple of days. Hasn't changed his night time patterns unfortunately, don't think co sleeping improves the chanes of him sleeping htrough, he just seems to snack all night.

Oh, meant to say, I lurve those cocopop straws. Can eat them in their hundreds without milk - yummy.

Indith, I did LOL at you merrily chatting to yourself earlier, loved the mental image of you knitting tumbleweed too!

Indith, bet you could make a wicked nappy liner from tumbleweed ...

DD2 has refused to settle all day today. Tried a long walk this afternoon, but she just grinned up at me and gurgled. Hopefully she'll settle soon.

We're still co-sleeping, but I'm trying to get her into her cot. It's just sooooo easy when she's beside me, and I feel like I get a good night's sleep. Managed a few hours in the cot last night, though.

Indith, what does your DS wear in his grobag?

Today, DD1 ate:-

-pitta bread for breakfast with a glass of chocolate milk (she won't go near the plain stuff!)
-a box of raisins

• a bowl of home made veg soup with granary bread

-a choc digestive biscuit -2 oatcakes with peanut butter -a frube -chicken and peppers, cucumber and tomato salad with lime juice -glass of orange juice -tiny bit of Haagen Daz vanilla with homemade G&B choc sauce (how spoiled is she?!)

So all in all a better food day today. Bet she eats nothing tomorrow, and I've just prepped grapefruit put some cinnamon buns in the fridge to rise for breakfast!

...and she had a bowl of cornflakes sans lait as her after-dance class snack this morning.

I, on the other hand, had a bowl of porridge, a bowl of soup and 2 chicken fajitas. Might just go and have some of that ice-cream now!

Well guys,just to say that Ambi(4 months today) started eating some food 2 weeks ago.. She is loving it. Hoping it helps with her weight gain(not that there is really any concern..she looks gorgeous)She was watching everything we were eating and licking her lips..my cue with DD1 too.

She is having organix cereal(apple and raspberry) and the little organix pots of apple and blueberry(1 tsp) mixed in with the cereal. She only has 1/2 to 3/4 of the stipulated portion, but seems to like it.

Anyone else started weaning??

I think hemp would be more absorbant, tumbleweed might be a bit itchy too

Ds wears a sleepsuit and has a blanket over the top, sod what they say on the instructions he gets cold without.

Sems to be sleeping well, is projectile vomit after a feed the key to better sleep? Clearly h does well on an empty stomach Not convinced.

Anyone who's introduced formula/gone totally over to ff from bf, did your lo start to smell different? I don't mean poo etc I mean actual smell.

I love it - how we've smuggled our older kids meals on this thread!!

DD1 Had
"Daddys cereal" (? Special K)
5 rich tea biscuits (bribery for when viewings were taking place)
3 cups milk
2 cups water
Banana bread pudding
Cheese and ham and cucumber sandwich
Hoummus with cucumber, crackerbread and baby sweetcorn
Apple
Organix bar

Last time I do this - I think I will bore all the others with just babies

BTW got asking price on our house today and have had 7 viewings since Tuesday, apparently there's nothing much on the market.

forgot to say - my dd also had a chocolote buttons choc pot thingy. yummy lots of naughty food but it is weekend and we've had visitors . i wouldnt admit this in the food threads either.

dd2 slept an hour then woke for a feed, up for an hour and back to sleep now.....

babypowder - my dd has a sleeping bag. she wears a vest and sleepsuit underneath. planin cotton one though, not the fleecey kind.

nooo.... can we keep up the food stuff - i love it and as i said i dare not talk about food anyweher else . (as long as the one baby mummies dont mind??). just once a day though!

calmriver - no weaning here. dd2 doesnt look remotely interested. i started dd1 at 4 1/2 months but she got a rash at the time so we held back to 5 1/2 i think.

congrats on the offer margo!

My dd has sleeping bag and she has vest and sleepsuit on. Sometimes I put a blanket over her too.

I stupidly purchased one of those egg thermometers which change colour - Our is very rarely yellow (the ideal temp colour) when it is, it's FREEZING! Usually orange coloured and sometimes red if the tumble dryer's been on

whenever our thermometer says 'just right' it seems really cold.

Amberli sleeps with:

1)long sleeved vest
2)Sleepsuit(sometimes fleecy type)
3)2 blankets(one cotton for swaddling) and a thicker fleecy one!

I did this too with DD1. I am bringing them up like they are South African too! I always feel the cold, so assume they do too. I

Looking so forward to the Summer!

Indith, sending cuddles for your vomit-monster {{{{{{{{{{hug}}}}}}}}}} He must be fed up, poor wee mite.

God, if I wrote everything ds ate today I'd get rsi...how can you remember it all? as for what I eat, I just shovel in something every time I go to the kitchen just to keep going. Up since 5 this morning, less than 4 hours sleep but had to prep tomorrow's bday lunch for my mum who looks after ds1 one day a week - I wanted to show my appreciation. Butternut squash & sweetcorn soup, followed by summer risotto mmmmmmmmm. And got pavlova & roulade for pudding from Waitrose this morning whilst ds2 grumped his way round & demanded to be carried the entire time. Must buy pouch sling!!

I am knackered and having another dizzy spell no. 9 of the day I think. I fell over in the bathroom, my legs gave way. Seeing the dr mon, have concluded it cannot possibly be dehydration as I have had 3 litres of water today. It's really getting to me, I just go into this semi-conscious state and can't talk or move. So worried I will drop my baby, luckily haven't yet as I can tell when one's coming on & get him to a safe place.

Indith, still confused re: night nappies, I think I have to buy another fleece wrap (haven't even used the lovely tots rainbow one I bought last month) so it's loose.

Indith, know exactly what you mean with the vomiting, it is driving me completely mad. I now spend half my day with a sick encrusted dressing gown over my clothes (sorry if tmi, I do wash it at the end of the day!). I've gone back to using nipple shields a bit more as he can't seem to cope with my milk flow otherwise. My washing basket is doubled lately what with the incredible vomiting infant and the amazing poo-ridden pre-schooler.

Margo, I have the same egg! It's only ever yellow in the middle of the night when the heatng has been off for ages! Our monitors have temp sensors too and they say house is too hot as well - perhaps they're not programmed for UK weather!?
I'm still bf apart from one formula bottle before bed but have definitely started to notice DS watching me eat, especially morning toast!