Babies born July/August 04

[madgirl]

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?

How exactly do you take a small baby swimming? I never took DS1 or DS2. I have enough trouble holding onto DS3 in the bath! Do they have waterwings, or what?

I think you just cuddle them in the water more or less don't you? Mrs Evs, did you do armbands or anything?
We first took dd when she was about 9 months but she had one of those floaty seat numbers. But she was quite placid in the water. Ds is very struggly and splashy - fun but more slippery. Don't want to drop him .

DS now has tooth number two as well. Much like Chicca's DS, my DS had two come through in the space of a week after 3 months of off and on teething pain.
He is getting much better at sitting up but not without my BF cushion behind him. I had put it away because I've stopped BFing and am desperate to clear up the lounge a bit but got it back out again for him to sit against. Ideal!
This week he has started to scream. For no apparent reason of course. I'm trying not to react when he does it in the hope that he'll lose interest in it. Are any of your babies doing this?

Hi Eshay

Yes, DS has been screaming for a month or so now. I think I thought it was related to teething. It's drooped off a bit now but we did have one amusing episode in the (very quiet) bank. I think now he knows he can do it and get attention he's bored with it and is trying other things!

Yep, just cuddled her in the water basically and swooshed her round a bit. The water was shallow enough for me to sit down, so I sat her up on my knees for a bit too, jumped her up and down in the water, that sort of thing. You can sit them on your hip, anything you want really. Phoebe actually quite liked lying out in the water with my hands underneath her - but had to watch out when doing that as she kept trying to turn her face into the water

Did bring some baby armbands with me but she wanted to chew them not wear them, and any time I tried to take them off her, she screamed blue murder so I left it. You can use them though, the ones I have are from 3 months. I might try again next time.

Hello all. I recognise some of you from the antenatal thread for July 2004. I was so busy after Martha was born on her due date I didn't post for ages.

Note you are doing well SC with your first. I remember you are so young!! Hope you are enjoying it. Quacks - like me I remember you had mcs too so I'm very happy to see you and your dd are well.

I must be insane - I am expecting no.4 in August which should be interesting. Very early days so far but we shall see.

Martha has just very suddenly become very adept at sitting up but she seems like a v. long way off crawling.

Nice to catch up with you all

Thanks for that, sponge and MrsEvs. Just need to find a warm enough pool now, as the local one is definitely not warm enough for a baby (or me either, for that matter).

DS3 has had a little bowl of baby rice each day this week and loves it. He criedi yesterday when the bowl was empty!

Off (rather belatedly) for our second lot of jabs tomorrow morning.

I think he's getting eczema on his forehead, which is a shame. At least I know it's not because he had formula, so I don't have to beat myself up about it.

hi all

We tried yoghurt and fruit yesterday she loved it, can't believe she is 6 months next week where has the time gone? Only thing she hasn't eaten so far is broccoli (just like her Dad he won't eat anything green either).

My boss phoned me today they have had another restructure and my job is under review (second time in 18 months ) so he now knows I'm not coming back to July (ie doing my year) I will resign then or sooner once we've sorted out the move. Although its for the best all round part of me is sad to be giving it up I worked so hard and got promoted before I left.

Yes Dino, Harry is also getting a bit of eczema on one arm and his face does get very dry and red although does respond to cream. This despite my efforts to ward it off with breastfeeding. I guess you can't fight genetics and afetr dd I'm more clued up on how to deal with it so hoping his doesn't get as bad as hers did.

Managed to get him to eat some apple last night by mixing it with baby rice. He wasn't keen on its own.

chickpea I recognise you from the due in aug thread, this is my 5th dd was born on 20th july. Well this week she has got a chest infection and is now on the lovely amoxycillin(banana med)she also discovered that she can get round the room by rolling, so she rolls and rolls until she hits a solid object!Im worried about my fireplace, although its not active, its solid, im worried she will roll into it, at the mo I have put cushions on it, but I suppose I will have to go and buy a fireguard, I dread to think what would happen if she cracked her head on there.

chickpea great to hear from you!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!! What news, that has to be the first for this thread! Gosh and I was contemplating 3?????
We're fine thanks!
SC, can;t believe you got a daddy out of her!! Can;t wait for that! G is going a bit slower than DD1, all in her own time! She;s a treasure though. Love her loads!

Chickpea when are you due?? I am 24th Aug, dd will be 13 months!!

Phoebe finally rolled over! Was getting worried that she would just never do it, and then today she just flipped over no problem like she'd been doing it for ages

Well, we are back from USA, we were in California, supposed to be warm - hah! Torrential rain, howling winds, freezing cold, just like home!! That is until the day we are coming home and then it is sunny!!!!
But we had a fab time, at least there are no queues at Disney in the rain, and DD1 was soooo excited to meet the Disney princesses!! And loved Small World ride, as did I!!

Plane was ok, though choppy, both girls did brilliantly, couldn't have asked for more! DD1 barely suffered from jet lag, however DD2 and I did!!

We finally got to meet our nephew, born last May, the most gorgeous boy ever!!! So cute and lovely, he adored both DDs.

Well, Evie is rolling and rolling, and trying to sit up, still so tiny, no-one believed she was 5 months! (Where has the time gone?)

Everything is going so smoothly, seems impossibly good! Still not going through the night, but seem to be so used to it, it doesn't matter now!!!

My dd born 24/7 seems to be doing nothing compared to your lot! just lays there! on solids twice a day and no is still not sleeping thru the night... as per last message, dont really care! She will start to do stuff tho wont she????

course she will jessicasmummy, all babies do things in their own time, and some skip steps altogether! My nephew skipped rolling and crawling and just got straight to his feet at 10 months No point comparing them, all our little treasures are compeltely unique

I think the great thing about chatting to Mums with babies a similar age is you can compare notes on what the other babies enjoying doing/eating etc, get ideas and advice on entertaining them/feeding them/getting them to sleep etc, and reassurance if you are worried about something

Emily has decided that rolling is the way to get around at the mo, but she has stopped sleeping through the night again

thanks mrs evs... im a first time mum cant you tell and fairly new to mn! im sure jessica will get there in the end!!!!

Hi I'm new to Mumsnet - wish i'd found it ages ago
Have a little boy Stanley orn 23/08/04 ( oh dear, an august born boy ) as well as three older children aged 17, 15 and 13 and its strange doing the baby stage again - almost as scary as first time round. Going back to work in 3 weeks so trying to get him on a schedule. What sort of routine do you have with your babies. Worrying that he is not getting enough milk. He has three meals a day but not interested in his bottles and so thinking about giving bottles between feeds insted of at meal times.

I am absolutely exhausted, Emily is waking twice in the night and in the day whereby she used to be contented she now screams her head off if I dont sit with her on my lap all day long, I feel drained, I have 3 other children to look after and I cant give them any attention at the mo, if I leave em for one second she screams as if she is being strangled! I dont remem ber any of the others beiong like this.

Welcome lexyb! your ds has his birthday a day before mine! I have 3 others and my eldest 2 are 13 and 10, we dont seem to have any routine with dd2 ( see my previous post!!) she is ruling the household.....sigh!

Hi, welcome to mn!!
I have the same problem with DD2, she has never been interested in molk really! Or milk!!!! I give her a bottle with breakfast, then one mid morning and one mid afternoon, then one before I go to bed. We rae lucky if she has a pint a day though, but I can't force in into her!!

Jessica rolled over from back to front for the first time last night!!!! So proud of her, and just after i had said she wasnt doing anything.... silly me!
I cant jessica to take much milk either - 2-3 bottles a day if im lucky... still manages to guzzle one at 3am tho!!!!

hi all

welcome jessicasmum and lexy, mumsnet is great but very addictive!

well Abbie has cut her first tooth! Got very excited yesterday morning when I saw it cutting through her gum, bless her she's seems neither up nor down with it though. We've started on 3 meals a day as of this morning when she had her breakfast, I'm trying to space the day as follows:
6am breastfeed
8am breakfast
10am breastfeed
12.30 lunch
2pm breastfeed
5pm dinner
7pm breastfeed
9pm breastfeed before bed

getting her to bed at 9pm has been a major thing for us, she used to go to bed with us at 11 and her sleeping was erratic although she has slept through since about 6-8 weeks. At 6 she stirs has a feed and goes back to sleep. I don't know if my kind of routing is what I should be doing and the times are rough knowing her she'll sleep through her feeds anyway.

In the last week she suddenly has become moving baby, she rolls and shuffles all over the place. She loves kicking the supports of her playgym and has broken it once already. And she never shuts up it's all ba bas and da das!! Been trying to teach her ma ma!!

So what age is it for bread and pasta, also for meat? Is it 6 months or 24 weeks? I met my HV in town at the weekend, and she seemed to think that Evie is fine for these things, she is 23 weeks. Anyone else been told this?