July 2006 - Happy 1st birthdays to our little darlings

[Ceebee74]

In honour of Sophie's impending birthday this week, I thought I would start a new thread....

Lovely photos of the meetup - am very .

We've now found somewhere to live!! And no I won't be describing it to all and sundry on the internet like I did a few days ago . House on the market, 5 viewings so far - and how difficult is it to keep it looking nice with a 1 year old?!

Aidan's coughing away in his cot poor thing. Yet another cold . And when we move he'll catch a whole new set of bugs no doubt

I'm afraid I haven't been keeping up with all your posts so sorry for being incredibly rude. It's just been manic here and likely to be for the next couple of weeks.

Hope everyone is well (and nice to see you back MaeWest).

HC- get you with your double garage! Your house looks lovely(I hope it is yours now) I have a friend whose DD has been dancing for 4 years and the only holiday they get is to go to the dancing competitions, the costumes cost £50 each and even at the age of 9 they are so bitchy along with the parents. Cant say I blame you for dropping out, you could always find another class and do it just for fun.

I love the meet up pics, no one looks like I pictured them though.

I wish DS would say more words we get aiya, mam, dad, nan and then erg at everything else. I found him today with DD?s hairclip and he was actually trying to put it in his hair bless. His temper is growing now and he has right hissy fits, even DD has now started saying ?oh stroppy bum is off again having a paddy?

kbaby, at the hairclip. Leo has just been through a really whingy stage, but is back to is cheerful self.

Hi Bloss - you're probably up too. These bl&&dy babies!

twinkle - ooh let me know where! Is it same one? Good luck with selling, it is impossible to keep it tidy with a one year old, Leo is a one man destruction squad!

Ladies

FIL has only gone and told us that we don't have to pay him back for the car! Did cry buckets when he told us.

Back later.

HC
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Yep, another 5 o'clocker here . He has bf and then goes back into his cot until 6.30/7ish. Quite often I can hear him prancing around and singing in there before he drops off again. Unfortuntately he also usually has one other night waking. At the moment it seems to be 2.30am. But for the last week he hasn't had bf between bedtime and 5am. In the early hours this morning I went in to settle him and he just wanted a cuddle and a bit of reassurance. And I know I will probably curse it in years to come, but thumbsucking looks so cute!

Hi Twink - hope your house moving plans go well

kbaby - Dom has started getting into 'brushing' his hair and chatting on the phone.

aaaaaah HC that's so lovely!!! i'm not surprised you bawled - I would have surely done the same thing.

I am so behind as well, so i will keep this short so i don't miss too many people out.

wish i could have come to the meet up - the photos look really fab!

jacob went through a phase of 5.20am, for about 2 weeks, but now if he wakes up then he has some milk (around 6 oz) and then goes back to sleep til laround 730, which is a god send! 520 was killing me!

can you all tell me what you do re eating routines as i'm not sure jacob is getting enough?

ours is as follows:

530 milk
wake up 730
breakfast 830ish - normally 1.5 weetbix with milk and a yoghurt or fruit
late morning snack around 1130 of fruit
lunch 130ish normally around 200g savoury and fruit on top of that. he will normall have some bread too
330/4ish milk or fruit
615/630 dinner - again around 200g savoury followed by fruit or rice pudding or some other such dessert.
bath around 730 then 9oz milk before going straight to sleep.

is this enough? he has dinner but then only has milk after that, no supper???

and he won't touch bananas, and the only thing he'll feed himself is an oreganic gingerbread man or bread... eats lots and lots of varied home made grub with lots of veg in though!!!

Apart from timings that looks about what DS has in a day (I'm not sure about grammes tho, he just tends to have a bowlful of something, but the portions seem to have got larger of late!). He doesn't have supper as he is tucked up in bed by 7pm mostly, don't know how I would fit another meal in!

Aw HC

lysette - think it is fine to have no "supper". Well what you call dinner, we call supper IYSWIM, but he has nothing later.

Our routine (do we have one):

wake sometime between 5 and 8, has a breastfeed if it is early and I am trying to get him back to sleep.

Breakfats - porridge, weetabix or toast

snack or breastfeed (if woke early and I am trying to get him too nap) midmorning
lunch 12ish - sandwich/bakedbeans on toast/fruit/stuff like that
snack mid afternoon - breadsyticks, maybe a beaker of milk
supper 5 or 5:30 ish what we are having. Some eaten, some thrown on floor

7ish bedtime feed.

Feeds in the night too. last night he actually slept til 3:15 then fed, but only slept until 4:15 fed again, then up at 5 The other night he only woke once, but usually at least 2 or 3 breastfeeds in night.

hc - how lovely, no wonder you cried

lysette - charlottes routine is fairly similar

wakes 7ish - 9oz cows milk
Breakfast - fruit, toast and drink
mid morning - snack of banana, raisins or rice cake with drink
Lunch - usually sandwich or pasta followed by fruit and drink
mid afternoon - snack similar to morning one
Tea - something like leftover casserole, chicken & veg, homemade mini burgers and beans followed by fruit with drink
after bath - 9oz cows milk before bed

I used to worry charlotte wasnt getting enough as she feeds herself, mostly with her hands but she stops when she wants so must be full

Went to the gym today, was fab. its just the thought of going but once im there i actually enjoy it, almost 2 hours of exercise proud of myself, just got to keep it up now

HC - what a lovely gesture from your FIL - you can really enjoy Troy now can't you?

Twinkle - good news about the house. Having spent all my childhood summer hols in that part of the country, I can't think of many nicer places to bring up children. What did work say when you handed your notice in?

Kbaby - so cute about the hairclip - maybe I should look at those to keep Josh's wild curls in place

Bloss/Mae - sympathies about the early starts. I am lucky in that the earliest Josh wakes is 6am and that tends to be on my working days when I am up then anyway. Usually it is about 7ish which is manageable.

Beadmum - well done with the gym. I am a complete gym addict (not that you can tell from my size!) and it is great once you get there.

Foodwise - Josh's routine is as follows:

7ish - 9oz of cows milk

8 - breakfast of porridge, baby cereal or weetabix (not sure of portion size for the rest but if weetabix, has about 1.5)

10.30 - snack (either slice of fruit toast, babybel and breadstick, couple of mini rice cakes, fruit, couple of melba toast with jam)

12 - lunch - small portion of something from the freezer or about half a stage 2 jar (sometimes has slice of garlic bread if food is pasta) then pudding (pot/jar of rice pudding/fuity custard, small yoghurt)

3 - snack (as morning snack but something different)

5 - tea - usually a round of sandwiches (philly, peanut butter, cheese and mayo) or slice of cheese on toast. Today he had a couple of crackers with cheese which he seemed to enjoy. (Doesnt eat that much - perhaps half to 3/4 of a round of sandwich) plus either a yoghurt or fruit pot

7 - 9oz cows milk

Josh really doesn't seem to eat a great deal tbh (or it seems that way to me) but he never seems to be hungry and he is starting to develop a cute little tum so he must be eating enough. Sorry Lysette - lot of detail there! Bet you wish you hadn't asked

Hope you are all having a good night. Am going to order Dominos pizza in a bit - yum! Diet starts again tomorrow

me too, had KFC for lunch today, yumble.

HC - faberoonie about the car and your PIL! Congrats!

Went to newphew's birthday party yesterday (couldn't give him his card as just in time I realised he was 6, so my Happy 5th Birthday card would have seemd a bit odd am crap aunt!) and stayed over, so Toby was in with us, bang on 5.09am again. Sigh. Luckily at weekends DH has not seemed to mind me going back to bed when Toby does at about 9ish so got some kip then, and H was being thoroughly entertained by his cousins. He didn't get to sleep till 11pm lastnight so a very tired little boy today. I always forget he is still only a baby himself, not quite 3, because he seems so big compared to Toby, but then when he is with his older cousins I realise how small he still is...bless.

Chunk Boy's Food Routine:

about 5.45 6 ozs SMA, doesn't seem to like cows milk much, you all seem to be giving 9 ozs, might up it a bit...

7.45ish brekkie, 1.5 weetabix, banana

10ish after sleep, 4 ozs milk

12 lunch, sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt, ham

various snacks in the afternoon, cracker here or there, fruit

5pm tea, hot meal usually leftovers from DH and I the night before.

6pm, bath and bed, 6 ozs milk, asleep by 6.30pm.

Might get more regimented about snacks, it's hard when you've got another one they seem to pick all day really on various things....

Aidan has almost no milk now - I'm a little worried about this looking at all your feeding routines. He has milk on his cereal and that's about it. He's not keen on cow's milk from a beaker and he's not having bottles any more so I'm a bit stuck. He has cheese and yoghurt every day though so I hope we're OK?

Should be fine twinkle

I forgot to add that Leo is a couple of ounces shy of 30lbs now.

Sophie's routine

Breakfast at 7-30am 1 weetabix or Ready Brek mixed with cows milk, 1/2 a slice of toast and butter and a Tommee Tippee cup full of cows milk.

Lunch at 12-00pm 1 round of bread with either ham or cheese, chopped apple and cucumber, a few crisps, 1 petit filous, box of raisins and a couple of animal biscuits and juice.

Tea at 4-30pm 1/2 a jar of HIPP food, 1/2 jar of desert or 1 petit filous and a couple of animal biscuits and juice.

Tommee Tippee cup full of cows milk before bed at 6-30pm.

Raining lots here. Hope you have all had a nice weekend. Good to hear from you lysette.

HC
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Cor Wallace . Aidan's just over 21 lb, but VERY active (was careful to stress this to the HV) . Will email you btw.

KZ - have to agree. Josh is about 22lbs (he was just under 21lbs at the last weigh-in a few weeks ago) so I am guessing - and I don't think Roshi looked bigger than him at all - and Emma didn't look smaller either. They did all look the same size - so I am confused aswell. Josh is still in 6-9 month clothes and has been for about 6 months now - I am SO bored of them but he is showing absolutely no signs of outgrowing them!

Twinkle - the only reason Josh takes so much milk is because I am still giving him it in a bottle. If you have stopped bottles with Aidan then he is unlikely to take as much through a beaker. Josh only really sips a few ounces of water throughout the day when left to his own devices and his beaker.

KZ - definitely - there is no way your DS looks anywhere near the top of the charts, let alone over them! He looks exactly the right size to me. Lets start a 'bin the charts' campaign

Aha - nothing like a ?routine? discussion to bring us out in force is there

So - Emma?s at the mo is:

8.00 ish wake up

8.30am BF (minimal amount from my dried up resources I?m sure)
9.30am Ready Brek or 1 Weetabix with ½ a mashed banana and rice milk
11.30am 5oz Milk (mix of soya formula, hydrolysed formula and rice milk)
11.45am - 1.45pm nap
2pm eg 1 x stage 2 jar Hipp, toast plus 1 soya yoghurt (or eg sausage beans on toast plus fruit)
4.30pm 5oz Milk (mix of soya formula, hydrolysed formula and rice milk)
7.15pm eg biggish bowl of lentil casserole (defrosted from made-up batch) with added bits, eg tuna / avocado / fresh salad / other leftovers plus dessert eg fruit / soya yoghurt
7.45 - 8.00pm bed

Milk-wise, I think she?s probably getting about 8oz a day of formula/breastmilk. She has her milk out of a bottle, she refused point blank to drink it out of a cup, though she happily swigs water out of her Tommee Tippee at meals. They probably don?t need too much actual milk at this stage if they are getting plenty of calcium and vitamin rich food otherwise?

She had her last HIB jab on Thursday (MMR next month) accompanied by BIG screams, dirty looks to nurse etc. After the usual distressed mum feelings I did find it hard not to laugh at her drama queen histrionics, felt a bit guilty though. Got her weighed at the same time, she is 20lbs, so back up to 25th centile hurrah. Agree that the babes don?t look all that different size wise now, and KZ, Chili isn?t at all chubby. Bin those charts, that?s what I say too

Beadmum - well done on the gym!

HC - enjoy Troy!

Annie - good news re your mum

Ceebee - happy belated anniversary Anglesey and surrounding area is nice, went there a few years back, stunning scenery.

Prettymum - how are you doing?

Twinkle - congrats on the job!! When will you move?

Kbaby - lol re the hairgrip too. Emma's not got many words, they are ta, hello (herrow), bye bye (ta ta), oh dear (this one enunciated perfectly, for some reason )

KZ - re flushed complexion, I was referring to myself, not the entire nation, though I?m sure there may be a few that qualify Fab pics btw!

Hi to everybody Have good nights all (fingers crossed for you Bloss. Mae, Wallace xxx)

Sophie was a strapping 19lb at her MMR jab on the 31st July. Never put her on bottles when she stopped BF as I know what a nightmare it was to wean Em off them. Stopped her at 2.5 but if Sophie hadn't come along she would most certainly be still using them.

Meant to say-FIL made me kiss him on the lips on Saturday.

Off to water my tomato plants.

Dry here at the mo-have a good day. Will catch up later.

HC
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Hi Girls!!

Kayley's routine:

2am: Milk
4am: Milk
6am: Milk
8am: a spoonful of weetabix or porridge
a bite of toast
10am: a grape

Various attempts at giving her food until dinner time

5.30pm: one piece of pasta
6.30pm: milk
7.30pm: milk
9.30pm: milk

She must be so sick of milk...

I know that's a bit vague really, I don't really pay full attention, DH does that.

We're going to stop the bottle soon
And get her to sleep properly
Any day now, as soon as we get round to it!

Better go and do some work, catch up later!!

Oh wow HC, that is fantastic. What a generous FIL you must have.

Our feeding goes like this;

7.30am- up and 7ozs milk in bottle
8.30- 1.5 weetabix
11am ish ? beaker of milk when he wakes after his nap
1pm- dinner which is big pot of homemade stuff or a 15 month jar of food, followed by a pot of fruit purree(organix)
3pm- some more milk from beaker and a biscuit/cheese or things stolen off DD ie crisps/sandwhich
5pm- dinner as above and a piece of fruit
7.30pm 7 ozs warm milk in bottle
Nightime ? no feeds

I tend to do bottle for morning and night milk and beaker for the day. BTW he weighed 21lb last week and was 74cm and still fits into 6-9 month tshirts and trousers.

I don?t think he eats that much either and he eats a lot more rubbish than DD ever did as he sees her eating things and creates until her gets it. Prob why he eats far more home made stuff than DD did as I feel guilty and at least want him to eat a proper meal (I can fully recommend ak baby korma)

Ceebee- I love josh?s curls.
Its pouring down here and my car is in for the mot and I have to bus it up to get DD from nursery. I don?t think I have ever been on a bus with DC. I hope the car passes its already cost my £250 to fix as the engine keeps cutting out and its still not fixed now the mot and my tax all this month.