March 2007 babies - a bottle of house white please

[kiwibella]

you choose - for you or for your bubba

I can't believe the May thread is so excited that their babies are arriving. That time in our lives seems like soooooo long ago .

Mossy - so glad you're still posting! You sound a little more upbeat and I'll add my name to the others with babies who feed for England!
Spent the w/e with my parents and if my mum commented once "that baby can't be hungry again" she said it a hundred times ... I'm still feeding 2 hourly and he's 14 weeks today! Now he screams until you sit him at the table with us at meal times and he tries to grab our food from our plates ... gave him a taste of some mushed pear from my fruit salad and he wouldn't let go of the spoon... how the hell am i supposed to wait another 3 months b4 weaning???

Wasn't you today again Kitty

Darn

Muppet, I would seriously go with what he's telling you. He's obviously interested and wants to included. i've never waited 6 months, but I know there are those who really believe in it. What I would say is that you should take your initial cues from your baby, not from a catch all text book/ government health policy etc....

foxcub and divastrop hi. yeah i go to the shops alot...always seem to be in tescos. lol. i dont know why but i always feel embarassed going out. always feel like other mums look better than me and there babies better than mine. silly aint it.
ds is 14 weeks now. hes bottle fed every 2-3 hours taking 8/9 ozs so ive stared giving him some mushed up rusks of a spoon. he loves it. had no reactions yet. hes gaining weight still. was 7 pond 7 when born. was 15 pound 4 2 weeks ago. dont think hes readty for anything else.

Need ideas ladies!

NewMum - I felt that with DS1 - felt as though everyone else knew what they were doing and I didn't - felt they had better baby clothes, nicer buggies etc. My baby was the best looking though! LOL!

Seriously though, it took me about 3 years before I felt confident about parenthood. In fact it was only when I had DD that I suddenly felt I knew what I was doing.

Hi everyone else - I can't keep up with you lot!!

I overslept by an hour this morning - having been up half the night fretting about work. I rang HR this morning and explained my greivance. HR went to see my boss and told him to call me before the end of today to avoid me putting in a formal grievance so we could resolve it. He hasn't called yet....

The grievance is written and will be sent at 6pm

How very fucking dare he?

The good thing is that my anger has made me get my act together and in the past four days I have done loads: booked hairdresser, got car sorted out, booked floor sanders, confirmed hols arrangements, booked DS1's party etc etc ...so there is always a silver lining

Also have been eating less as have felt so cross LOL!

newmum-my dp thought i was addicted to going to tesco when we first met!i dont think its sillt to think the way you are thinking,but did you do the PND test when you had your 6 week check?is just that i used to feel that way when i first had ds1,ie that other mums were all better than me etc.

kitty-apart from with ds1, i weaned mine when they started showing an interest etc.all babies are so different and develop at different rates.ive notices Elsie staring when im feeding dd2 yoghurts(i let her feed herself at teatime but its too messy during the day),and following the spoon with her eyes.

what is your dp doing thats making you?mine keeps saying i dont have a sense of humour as i dont find most of the things he says funny.

Hi everyone

Hope you are all coping in this humid heat. I'm hating it plus don't have any summery clothes that fit so feel hot and bothered

DD had her 8 week check and jabs today. All okay. She's 11 weeks now and 12lb 13oz or 5.8kg.
Sleep isn't too bad here, last feed is 7-9 ish and then she sleeps til 4-5 am
Afternoons are awful though as she wants to feed constantly

2 year old is driving me mad getting up at dawn so I have ordered another stairgate to keep him at bay!!

Newmum: I feel embarrassed when I go out without my baby. I want to say to complete strangers 'I've just had a baby: that's why I'm fat with bad clothes on and terrible hair'.

At least when DS is with me it's obvious why I look crap.

Fox: I hope the formal grievance kicks your boss's arse into gear. Go you!

I haven't even thought about weaning DS yet. I suppose I'd best do a bit of reading.

Quick question for the experienced Mums. My SIL is a nanny with a four-year-old daughter. She did controlled crying at nine months, and says that if she could go back she'd do it earlier. Am I bring naive thinking that I don't want to do it at all? TIA.

hola amigas! Sorry about my not coping post the other day. I think it is a lot to do with my hormones being shot to pieces and dh not really umnderstanding why I am a crazy lady. Bless him, he does try but he doesn't really get the hormonal /emotional part of me.

Foxy - am very sorry to hear of your work troubles. Hopethey have come back to you now with a satisfactory proposal.

Booboo - controlled crying is not for everyone. I cant let DD1 scream herself down as it is too painful for us both. I have frienfds who have had great success with it but I am too wimpy to go through with it, alas.

As for weaning, I am in the late camp as I am too idle to do it early. I didn't do DD1 til 6 1/2 months as it clashed with our hols and I wanted not to faff around with baby rice etc when we were abroad. I don't know about DD2 - I will try to hold out til 6 months but we'll see. Not sure if there is any correlation between weaning and sleep. DD1 ate like a horse and did not regulsly sleep through tril 18 months ! Just the luck of the draw. I am amazed we ever managed to conceive dd2.....

Hello everyone else - sorry for blanket reply but have a mountain of jobs that need doing. hope to get longer on here tom to reply properly xxxxxxx

Fox - did your boss call?

Dolly - hope you are feeling a bit better now

Boo - not done controlled crying myself. There are quite a few threads on it though. I get the feeling it is much easier to do if it's not your child iyswim

On the weaning I am in the waiting camp. DS was weaned at 25 weeks I think and it was a huge faff as he wasn't really sitting up all that well.

No he didn't call. I now have a witnes from HR to the fact that she told him to call me urgently and he wouldn't what a bloody idiot!

booboo-i did CC for a time with ds1 but it didnt work as i ended up having to move.i didnt really get him into a routine till he was 3 and i split with xp.

i have been putting Elsie down in her moses basket awake since birth,as i did with ds and dd2.then when it was time for them to go into their cots i just had a couple of nights where i had to go up and settle them a couple of times till they got used to it.but its easier when there is already a set bed time in place in the household,the baby gets used to the older children going to bed and everything going quiet at a certain time,so it becomes normal for them fairly quickly.

Hello all

Fox - I cannot believe your boss didn't call - what a fool! HR are going to have his guts for garters (I love that expression )

I took a place I used to work to tribunal for constructive dismissal a few years' back - I really hated the fact that they effectively made me redundant as it knocked my confidence badly but the fact that we settled before it went to tribunal made me feel vindicated and really helped. Hopefully you can resolve it before it comes to that.

My do at the cabbage factory is just a work thing - an in-house awards ceremony. I'm just going for a chance to see people and get pissed! My mum's going to babysit with a load of expressed milk so I can have a whale of a time. I haven't had much to drink in so long though I'll probably be slumped at the table by the time they serve dessert! I did get a really pretty dress to wear from Debenhams which was only 40 quid so I was very pleased. Slightly less pleased that the size of my boobs meant I needed a size 16

Elliot has just cried for nearly 2 hours in his cot so I've been shushing and patting and singing and stuff till I'm nearly hoarse. He's totally overtired - my mum and dad are lovely with him but my mum was pushing him round in the chair today while I was trying on dresses. Instead of letting him go to sleep she plays and talks to him all the time. He's only slept for 2 hours since 9am and is absolutely shattered. And now he's crying again - better go. I think I'm going to have to have a word with my parents ...

New pics of Deanna

Theres new pics here

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and here

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Enjoy

Diva I admire your routine. Ours is a bit hap hazard but the kids are generally asleep by 8.30/9pm and I feed Monti and he'll go off once I turn the TV off LOL!! He will not sleep with it on though!

Sazzy - you going out! I bet you have a brill time being with grown ups all evening!

BTW I still have your fab container.

I don't want to have to quit my job as the job I do is quite unusual and there aren't many positions close to where I love. I thing I have them "bang to rights" though.

Ever seen garters made of guts?

shanks, went to have a look but it says both albums are invalid??????

Hello all, just a quick message as has DS woke up at 2.30 last night and stayed awake for two hours, then woke at 6, woke again and fed at 7, I woke at 8 again.... Then this eve instead of going to sleep he cried if put in moses basket for about two hours. It's the dreaded teething possibly combined with getting hungrier, not sure. I'm supposed to start weaning in a few weeks as Jordi will be six months then . Whoever asked before about weaning, yes you do do it on actual age with prems.

I realise some of you are being woken up more regularly than this usually, but I feel justified in complaining because I've been doing it for longer . Also, it's almost worse when you've had a few good nights and then they are snatched away from you, I find...!

okay lets try again

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and

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Still not working,yet it works everywhere else

shanks - you need to get rid of those rogue spaces, and use the old style links because the names don't end in .xxx - like this and this .

booboo - controlled crying didn't work with ds1 because he'd just work himself up into such a state that he'd throw up everywhere. After 5 nights he was still taking 8 hours to go down (no improvement at all from day 1) and he'd thrown up several times each night because he screamed so much. Gave up at that point - but in the long term it hasn't stopped him learning to go off to sleep by himself.

I have enough trouble with the uncontrolled crying here!
I have done pick up/ put down, (baby whisperer) which is meant to be good but I ended up doing that with ds2 when he was 8 months for 3 months and it was hell. He didn't want to settle and it used to take 2 hours every night from about 12/1 -2/3 am
In the end he won, because I brought him into my bed and we all slept fine that way for a year! I gave up before I ended up in the loony bin with lack of sleep.

This time I'm hanging loose, I think that eventually Hasan will probably want his own bed like the other children. And I've got used to getting up every night to settle someone or another.

Shanks the pictures are great, Deanna is adorable.

actually 'loony bin' isn't very politically correct of me is it!

Foxy what a silly own goal for your boss to score!!

Sazzy, Bertie takes forever and ever to settle, too. He just doesn't sleep in the daytime, not without a hell of a lot of help. And by the time I've managed to get him settled, he only sleeps half an hour at most... because it's then been three hours since his last feed! Grr!

Newmum if I take Bertie out in his pram, I feel a bit embarrassed because he screams! It's so loud... I feel like everyone's looking at me. Still... I tell myself he's prettier than all of their babies, even if he is screaming.

Shanks, Deanna is very cute, doesn't she have rosy cheeks?!

Gotta go... "laughing boy" strikes again (love that phrase Kitty it's so true!)

Oh more pics at my flickr site including a very rare smile!