December 06 - Light at the end of the tunnel

[weirdbird]

A new thread for us all

Thanks guys. I had very mild PND last time. Hit me at about 4 months. I keep feeling low but think it is more tiredness than anything but when I am fed up I think 'Oh No I'm going to be bad again' Then I feel fine and just get on with things.

I am doing too much tbh but then arent we all

GS, with two though, and dd1 still waking, it probably (hopefully) is just tiredness and a few good nights (sometime in the not too distant future!) should help? [hugs].
Good lord, I answer the milk feeding q and kick off a whole new discussion on weaning! Probably doing purees and finger foods is the best of both worlds but I don't have a blender type thing and tend to eat a lot of steamed veg anyway so blw seemed easiest to me. It got absolutely slated in 2 minutes flat on BBC Breakfast news yesterday - whatever happened to having information to make your own decisions on rather than 'lets all jump against it 'cos that's not how we weaned ours', grr!
FREEDOM OF (INFORMED) CHOICE TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN HOW WE WANT!
rant over

AQ, freudian slip?

Yes, freudian slip! Ds1 has already named his new baby sister (honestly how do they know?) Giero. No idea what that's about, but he's quite certain of it.

Dont worry DD1 has already named her baby brother Charlie and talks about where he will sleep and what she and Hannah will do with him when he is a baby and I could go no...

Hannah is sat on my lap and keeps trying to eat the keyboard

Its taken me forever to type this out....

AAAGH! Why is my LO attached to me today? My nipples haven't felt this sore for months! (I reckon she's punishing me for not starting to wean her today )

Hope today is better, Glassy.

I spent the morning at the nursery. DD1 only has 5 days left there, so I thought I'd better do the decent thing and show face. They do like mums to help out, and I've managed to use DD2 as an excuse up until now. Anyone debating having more children should really spend a morning with excitable 3, 4 and 5 year olds. If my mojo was coming back I've firmly shut it away again until I get contraception sorted out!

On that subject, apart from falling out, has anyone had any problems with Mirena? I have an appointment with the family planning consultant on Friday and would like to be armed with knowledge!

Thanks BP. and LOL. I was parent helper at pre-school today

I'm suddenly stricken with terror about the upcoming school hols. They break up next Thursday, and I don't have a clue about how to keep DD1 entertained all day for 7 weeks.

I'm not supposed to think like that, am I

Blimey, Glassy, today's helper, after lots of not sleeping well and a sick dd? You're a star. You're also entitled to be tired, and weepy, big hugs to you. I'm glad dd is better though, that must be a relief - if you have the energy left to feel relief

I'm also having days of feeling low, but am fairly sure its mostly tiredness (combined with hormones, as am tapering off the endless expressing now - down to less than 8oz per day and about it, madwoman that I am).

I'm of all you advanced weaners, BL or otherwise: advice please - dd did ok for a bit on runny babyrice and veggie purees. She choked and threw up on baby biscuits, banana, well cooked veggie sticks etc. A month later (she is seven months this week) she still can't hack the bits, and has gone off purees and cereals too. Will take a couple of spoonfulls with gusto, then yell as though in pain and clamp her mouth shut. Wind? Teeth? Something to do with her dodgy larynx/oesophagus??

I don't want to force the issue, it feels as though we're getting into dangerous territory where eating isn't fun anymore, but feel under pressure to keep trying, as she's so ancient.

Someone tell me its ok to give nearly nothing but milk to a seven month old, its SO the opposite of dd1, little piggy that she was, I'm baffled...wondering if I should take her to HV on Monday, or GP even, or just chill out...

Oh god BP, what a thought - I'm bound to have nightmares tonight now

Just read back a bit further - mojo, ha, you lot have me laughing at my keyboard (a tad hollowly)! Although actually, the last week or so, I can imagine such a thing existing again...maybe...one day...

Weirdbird...all sorted here now, are you ready for meeting up!?

Amberli seems to be quite constant with her eating and sleeping at the moment.
Bottle at

7am Bottle(5-6 oz)
9am-Breakfast
10am and bottle-sleep for1-2 hours!)
Lunch at 12/1PM
3-4PM-bottle(5-6oz)
5PM dinner
6PM-bath
6:45pm Bottle and bed!

I really try to get it all in in the evenings!

Going to sit down tmw and catch up on here! Also got hooked on facebook!

Eli, it's definitely OK! I realized on this thread that ds1 most probably had reflux and I didn't know it at the time - guilty mom emoticon -

He didn't take well to solids for quite a while. Was probably at least 9 months before he got the hang of purees in the least, strong gag reflex and all that. He still gained weight just fine and was super healthy. Just go back to bm/formula if that's what makes her comfortable at this point.

eli - thanks for the sympathy! My DD loves strips of toast, She sucks it and as it is tougher than bred it doesnt break up too much. Perhaps try that?

calmriver - facebook is great isnt it.

DD2 up at 5 again for a feed and then sleep, feed, sleep until about 7 when we got up. Not sure what that was all about.

Thanks, GS and Jabber - will stick to milk and toast (good idea, she does seem to like sucking crusts until they dissolve then spits the bits out) for a while.

She's got a streaming cold this morning, might explain yesterdays cries of pain after couple of mouthfulls - sore throat??

Calm, on the predictability factor! Whats facebook? Do I want/need to know, given that I have absolutely NO spare time?

Oh dear, facebook is one slippery slope! Eli it is a networking ite, started out as just universities and colleges but now anyone can join.

BP- do a search on Health, there are many hundreds of Mirena threads.

Still don't know where we will be living after June 30th. Dp missed getting a 2.1 by 0.6%. Waiting to hear back from the desired job offer to see if they will still employ him or not. Fun fun

How v.stressful indith, June 30th very close! Hope it gets sorted soon - what were the job options again, was it Brid or one of the seaside towns?

Eli, I have the NCT book on weaning, which is the only one I've come across to start at 6 months (instead of 4). So by 7 months, all they're suggesting is 2 meals a day with a few teaspoons of babyrice with fruit or veg. I find it quite reassuring every time I think I ought to be speeding things up.

Eli, food is just for fun until they're one! Milk has everything they need - In Asia they don't wean until 1. In the 1920's here they didn't wean until 9 months or 1 year if it was summer (food going off)

Well said, Sacha, I think it's easy to get caught up in the weaning thing, but when I think that he's only had solids for 4 weeks now, it's amazing he's managing as much as he does.

Scunthorpe AQ, not quite my dream home having grown up in Hull

I'm confuzzled now, i just read the Times (well the T2 actually, news is depressing) and there is a BLW article. It isn't too bad but in a little summery of the BLW DVD is says NOT to wait until 6 months but start at 4 when milk stops satisfying the baby! Then they quote other people saying that the 6 month exclusive bf guideline is terrible advice and that by 6 months milk doesn't have enough iron in it.

I know that people won't ever agree but it does get very annoying. Personally, I know I'm doing best for us, I have a happy, healthy, growing baby. I'm going to do BLW because quite frankly I find it hard enough to decide what we are going to have for dinner let alone remembering to buy and puree baby stuff.

Anyway, the main thing from that is that I had though BLW a pretty sensible thing but actually, from that article and the one on BBC website the other day I find that its 'creator' speaks as much bull as the rest of them. So lets all go follow our own instincts/children/lifestyles and do what the hell we want

Oh, you lot are good for the morale, not to mention the weaning

Thanks. I do know food isn't nutritionally necessary until they are one, but the HV told dh (who took dd to babyclinic this week) that she should be encouraged to eat finger foods etc etc etc. Maybe she's just been on a BLW seminar I am SO in favour of each baby/mother being different, no rules, each following a bit of commonsense, a pinch of info, and a large dollop of what feels right but when push comes to shove I still need reassurance to put it into practise at times!

I suppose what worried me slightly was that dd was doing the NCT thang (two small meals a day, few spoons of rice etc) to start with, but has stopped. Am going to put it down to sore throat/teething and stop worrying for at least a week

As for facebook, think I'd better steer clear till I'm getting more sleep...same as flylady...all these fascinating things to get into, but I am sworn to MN-only until I at least have time to exercise

Indith, June 30th - you are one chilled mama, I'd be panicking! I once went to a football match in Scunthorpe, all the way from Oxford in the teeny non-back-seat of a Triumph Spitfire.

Which shows my age, and also my then youthful but still appalling willingness to please boyfriends

Anyway, Scunthorpe was much nicer than I expected, and West Ham won

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