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madgirl · 04/08/2004 12:04

Hello everyone. My DS2 was born on July 4th and I have been waiting for a "Babies born in July" thread since then, but none has appeared! (at least I don't think it has). So I thought I should start one, I didn't have Mumsnet for DS1 and I wish I had. I thought it should be July/August since almost all of the July babies were/are late! How is it going for you all?

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Sponge · 07/01/2005 10:08

Could be she's ready for solids and getting hungrier earlier Littlepik. Could just be a cold or a bit of teething or growiong pain or something else putting her out of sorts for a bit.
Give her a bit of baby rice at one meal, after she's had her milk so she's not starving, for a week. Then start introducing some vegetable and/or fruit purees at a second meal but one thing at a time, dom't mix them at first, so you can see what she does and doesn't like and can spot and adverse reactions easily.
Spacecadet could you try disguising protein and veg amongst things she does like - chicken and apricot used to go down well with dd I seem to remember.
I'm going to start introducing some fruit and veg for Harry this weekend as he's been on one rice meal for over a week now and seems to like it but is still waking up in the night so I'm keen to get more grub into him during the day .

littlepik · 07/01/2005 10:29

I did wonder wether she might have started teething, no signs of anything coming thru, but I guess there will be pain before the teeth start to break thru, I'll try her on the baby rice, and see how she goes, thanks for your advice.

Spacecadet · 07/01/2005 16:52

Thanks sponge, going to try that this evening, I will disguise it in her usual fruity meal.

Sponge · 08/01/2005 15:22

Tried Harry on carrot at lunchtime. He spat it out.

moondog · 08/01/2005 15:26

What can I do for constipation d'you reckon?
Ds is 6 months, has a bit of food, chews on bread crusts and the like but his turds are really hard and he cries when he goes.
Can't understand it-has apple and banana quite often. Tried him with a bit of fresh oj in a bottle but he just messes with it.
Any ideas??

dinosaur · 08/01/2005 16:26

Hello everybody, sorry not to have been around much recently.

Blake will be 23 weeks old on Monday. Gave him his first bit of baby rice today and he ate 5 spoonfuls quite happily.

Still a nightmare sleeper though

Back to work on 21 Feb

Spacecadet · 08/01/2005 16:34

Moondog, try cutting down on the banana as it actually makes constipation worse, try pear, blackcurrant desserts, for a one off treatment for constipation, dissolve one teaspoon of pure brown sugar in 4 mls of cooled, boiled water, the hvs aprove this and it does work but dont do it a lot.Keep persisting with the juice, em didnt used to take it but does now.

sweetkitty · 08/01/2005 16:48

hi all

was so funny last night gave Abbie potato, carrot, cauliflower and broccoli and she refused to open her mouth, was funny she just pursed up her lips, she ate the banana I gave her afterwards though

never knew about the banana Abbie has definately gone less since solids started

dinosaur · 08/01/2005 16:57

ripe banana shouldn't cause constipation

sweetkitty · 08/01/2005 17:06

I always make sure they are really ripe before I mush them.

Spacecadet · 08/01/2005 17:10

Well I have got 4 kids and all of them had constipation at some point and I was always told that It actually aggrivates constiapation, its quite binding...honest!!!! dont stop giving them just cut them down a bit and give other fruit instead.

tangerinecath · 08/01/2005 22:46

my dd loves banana but for some reason it seems to make her sick sometimes. She doesn't get constipated, but she sometimes has to "push" a bit to get it out iyswim (sorry!).

Feeling a bit sad atm as dd started nursery last week, and I'm back at work on Monday .. She's settled in well though which make it a bit easier.

She's sitting up really well now and is taking more notice of other babies - she even tries to take toys off them if she can reach I hope she doesn't turn out to be a bully!

melbob · 09/01/2005 01:02

Hi

Can I be a very late joiner? I'm feeling a bit blue

DS was born on 25th July. Have gone back to work and have been bf morning and night and bottles in day. Come to decisision today that have to stop bf. DS has had bad cough and cold and prefers position of bottle feeding. Know its the right thing to do but just fell a bit sentimental.

They are such fun at this age.DS already developing sense of humour, pushing bottle to my mouth to drink and then snatching abck and laughing. Bless

moondog · 09/01/2005 10:36

Hi Melbob

Hope you cheer up soon. Back to work and the foul weather. Bit grim isn't it?
Out of interest why do you have to stop b/feeding?
With dd I carried on for 2 1/2 yrs even though i went back to work f/t at 7 months. It was a lovely way to reconnect after a day apart and brilliant when she was unwell and wouldn't eat.

She contracted chicken pox once, literally as we were catching a v long flight and was really unwell but I b'fed her all the way and noone heard a peep. Was congratulated on having such a 'good' baby.

Not criticising your choice, just curious

Springchicken · 10/01/2005 14:19

Evie said dad on Saturday and hsan't stopped saying it since !

She's so clever
Wish she'd say mum now though - everytime i say mum she just laughs at me!!!

MrsEvs · 10/01/2005 15:55

Took Phoebe swimming for the first time yesterday, and she loved it Looked so cute in her little cosie (as oppose to me, who ran past mirrors so as not to see what I looked like in mine)

Has also just started with the dadadada - no sign of mama yet though . Really good with the sitting up now too, even sits up in the bath - she looks so grown up in there!

Hope you feel better Melbob - your little one is 2 days older than Phoebe and I can't imagine leaving her for a day, so I can really sympathise with you. Hope it goes OK anyway - at least you know you'll have a lovely bundle of joy waiting for you at the end of a workday

Sponge · 10/01/2005 16:48

Hi and welcome Melbob. My ds was born August 5th and I'm back at work. It is hard leaving them the first few days ins't it but you do get used to it. He's the baby in his nursery so gets loads of cuddles so he's quite happy.
I gave up bf when I went back to work too. I couldn't really keep up a decent supply wth only two feeds a day and I was fed up with having leaky boobs anyway. I did miss the closeness at first but you can still cuddle them when feeding a bottle.

SK unfortunately dada comes long before mama . Nothing personal, just easier to say (you see, men are simpler in so many ways ).

I still haven't had Harry's 3rd lot of jabs and I worry about him getting cold at our local pool so I haven't tried swimming yet but I would like to start him quite soon as dd is still quite wary in the water and I'd like him to get more used to it.

Failue with carrot, but success with butternit squash. We're making progress .

sweetkitty · 10/01/2005 20:01

Apparently they all say da da at first and it's got nothing to do with them linking it to their dads - it's just dads like to think they do. It's because da da is easy to say. Abbie says hoi at the top of her voice as well. It's funny sometimes you think you can hear words in their babbling.

We've progressed to parsnip this week as well trying to get her to use a cup, she gets the idea but most of it ends up done her but I suppose shes got to learn sometime. I've taken the valve out of an Avent magic cup as you can get nothing out of it with the valve in. If she take to much water in she spits it out very grown up like bless her.

tangerinecath · 10/01/2005 21:58

First day back at work today . It wasn't too bad, but I missed dd terribly. I dropped her off at 8 this morning and didn't get home until 5.45, such a long time for her to be without her mummy. It didn't seem to bother her too much though, she was grinning like a loony when I left her at nursery and her key worker told dh that she'd been really settled and happy all day. She spent some time at nursery last week so that today wouldn't come as too much of a shock, for her and for me too.

Haven't taken her swimming yet but I think she'd enjoy it, she loves her bath and when you trickle water in from of her she tries to catch it, giggling all the time! Cute!

No dadadada's yet though, but her babbling seems more like talking all the time, she talks to her teddies and rattles, to me, to dh, the telly, anything really, gobby like her mum

dinosaur · 10/01/2005 22:08

God, I'm sooooo dreading going back to work

chicca · 10/01/2005 22:16

Just found this thread. It's great to compare progress (with no pressure!). DS was born on 10 July. I live abroad in Spain so Mumsnet is a great link with the "real" world.
Nightmare day, DS super teething, two teeth in the space of a week after months of build-up teething. Only 22 to go.
Trying to figure out this weaning thing. I totally sympathis e with you Sponge - am a bit leavy too and wondering how I will ever wind down bf without causing a volcanic explosion.
Really interested to read about talking as DS not saying much at all. Similarly not sitting without support yet. Likes sucking his toes though....

MrsEvs · 11/01/2005 00:50

Sponge - I was worried about Phoebe getting cold too, but found one of those kiddie pools that they keep really warm - it's like a bath!

Meant to ask some advice actually. Phoebe, who has always slept through since she was teeny, has woken at 12.30am for the last three nights. She's not hungry, or wet. I just cuddle her for 20 mins and she goes back to sleep. The first night she did it, she was wimpering for a while before she woke up, I put my head round the door but she was fast asleep tossing and turning - I was wondering, do babies have nightmares? Anyone else had this happen?

I used to be able to put her down in her cot awake and she would send herself to sleep by thumb sucking, but lately I've had to rock her off in my arms and sometimes have quite a few goes at putting her down. My sis said she started controlled crying with her kids at 3 months but I thought you were supposed to wait til they were more like 9 months, don't think I could do that just yet - she's too little!

I'm not too worried about it as she does then still go off for the night so it's not disturbing me, just wondered if anyone had had anything similar happen?

Sponge · 11/01/2005 12:24

Only 18 more to go Chicca - they only get 20 baby teeth.

I don't think they get nightmares this young Mrs Evs. I think that comes with imagination and scary stories. Could be various things disturbing her - does she have a bit of a cold? Also as they become more aware of you they also become more aware of being separated so maybe she just wants more cuddles and reassurance at the moment.
3 months is definitely too young for cc. I think the advice is not to try it until at least 6 months or maybe 8 as they don't learn and remember in the right way before that.
If it's not disturbing you I'd just go ahead and cuddle her. Harry also often wakes up and has a little cry after I've settled him down but he goes back to sleep easily if I go and hold his hand for a few minutes .

Sponge · 11/01/2005 12:27

Yes Mrs Evs we have a baby pool too. The actual water is very warm but the changing rooms etc are pretty chilly especially when you're wet.
I guess if I wrap him immediately in a towel he'd be OK. Just me freezing to death .

MrsEvs · 11/01/2005 15:20

Thanks for the advice Sponge

And you are right, the changing rooms were cold ,I got her dressed quick as I could, but I was indeed freezing my buns off