Dec 06 - a new one for Indith and her rubbish dial up!

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New thread for our incessant chatter!

Weird: I posted something (thought I did anyway) and it's not here

Well, it was completely unthrilling but just wanted to 'share' (SIL speak which makes me cringe) that DD2 is throwing up and has runs too and after scratching my head have concluded she caught it cyberly from this thread

I use the tommy tipee easy flow cups. Changeable spouts. They are easy to use and the only ones DD2 doesn't manage to undo.

Gloria, I peel satsumas and give DD2 the sections. She usually spits out skin, as she does with grapes, berries etc.

Hi Spina!

Anyone else's LO looking as though they need to drop down to one nap a day?

Castles, hope we haven't spread cyber virus your way! Get well soon to your dd xx

I love eavesdropping on what you all give your babies! Tho I did feel inspired to give ds2 a completely blw tea, he did not look remotely impressed and quite frankly it took longer to prepare and him to eat (tho not much) than mush would have. Bits of ham, cheese, cucumber, peeled grapes and pita with humus. He ate 2 grapes and a wedge of cheese. Hmmm.
WB, if she's not (largely) throwing up I wouldn't worry remotely about what's she's eating, she's bound to be not keen as it never stays down very long!
Hope poorly lo's and mummies are better
Eli, good god no, don't let the morning nap go, how will I manage?!! He had 2 hours this morning and nearly 2 this afternoon, it's a godsend when ds1 in need of tlc. And then there was happy squawking when he awoke, so nice to have my happy boy back although I think he needs more ab's for the ear infection.

I don't know about anyone else in my family but my dog loves blw. She is there at the foot of the high chair waiting for all scraps of food which fall to the floor. I should have named my dog Dyson

I don't give dd2 finger food as often as I should.

Hello spina

Get well vibes to everyone!

Aaaarrrrrggggggggh! How the heck am i supposed to back-read this!

Margo, you genius, finally a way to persuade dh that we need a family dog

dd let me spoon home made bolognese sauce into her tonight, thats how much she looooves meat (hates spoons). She's so hungry atm that I'm tempted to try mush again for speed...bet she won't eat it though...

AWBS, dd had 1.5 hours this morning and NOTHING this afternoon managed to keep her up till 7pm in good mood

Actually, she had a few days with just one, 2.5 hour (max) lunchtime nap before she got ill. Not every day, but maybe every third day - otherwise she gets hard to put down, and wakes up too early in the morning. I think she's definitely going to drop one

Oh, yes, hello spina too!
Margo, lol at the dog, we were dogsitting last week and ds2 loved feeding the dog his scraps!
Eli, how can such a small person go for so many hours without a nap!! I know, because ds2's done it, but it amazes me. Course we know we managed because they get to the point of no naps at all which I never thought I would cope with but do. I always find he gets a second wind if I take him upstairs and strip him off. And put the giant monkey soft toy next to him Does anyone's else's LO just adore their daddy at present, I am definitely no.2 at the moment and dp is loving it!

Ds2 is doing just one nap some days but I thikn mostly it's b/c the afternoon school run interferes with it. I think he's getting ready for chunkier food. He's having more bits of table food. I loved the idea of blw but just couldn't stand the mess ( no dog at our house) and he really eats much more when it is pureed. His appetite is a bit off with this cold anyway so nothing is catching his fancy atm.

Oh, and very clingy with both of us but I do notice a tendency to go to daddy more these days.

I'm trying to start the pre-move cleansing process. Have given bags of stuff to the Goodwill and I'm sure there's more headed their way. I'm trying to be ruthless about it as there will be that much less to box up come May.

Hi everyone.

I do half blw and half yoghurts & fruit pots with spoons. I dont peel grapes but I quarter them. Seems to work for me. Dining room has wooden floor which helps although tbh DD2 doesnt like to drop anything as that would mean it wasnt in her mouth

We have 2 naps a day - normally a 30 min one and a 90 min one. She has started sleeping 12 hours at night and has brought her bedtime forward even earlier to about 7.15!! It's weird as DD1 always went to bed at about 9pm.

Hope all sicky people & children are better.

Eli our naps are a bit odd at the moment. Of course creche days balls things up and he very rarely sleeps in the pushchair or sling at all so if I'm out then it is tough luck but he has been having a really long nap soon after getting up in the morning then nothing or half an hour if I'm lucky in the afternoon. Trouble is though at the in between stage of naps is that he is shattered by dinner and we end up with a screaming baby who is desperately trying to shove a spoon in his mouth because he is hungry. The other day we ended up with dp and I both armed with 2 spoon as he screamed the second I went for a refill!

I imagine we are now at a point where bedtime could be pushed back with a longer afternoon nap as he sometimes looks like he might go down about 4. A little while ago I'd have tried but I'm rather enjoying being able to put him to bed and go out.

Someone asked about eggs the other day - I can't remember who it was I've just given DD2 french toast for lunch. Its one of our faves, and I use the whole egg. She loves hard boiled eggs in quarters as well, but isn't all that keen on scrambled.

She generally has 1 longish nap in the morning (45mins or so), followed by a shorter one after lunch.

Of course, we're having a trial hour at nursery at 2:00, which I picked specifically because she should have been napped and happy, and she's refusing to go to sleep. And in the past week she's started to scream anytime I put her down. Do you think she knows I'm about to abandon her to a nursery? More importantly, what has happened to my little bundle of sunshine???

Interesting nap talk, explains why dd is dropping one - 45 mins for her is short, she was doing two 1.5 hr naps per day! Managed to wake her after 45 mins this morning, and spent half an hour getting her to nap at around 2.15 (earlier than usual) so she'd be a bit rested before nurse apt at 3.10 for a flu jab. I hated taking her, knew she'd be really upset by smiley nurse betraying her with nasty needle, and she was. But given her history, they've advocated flu jab and I suppose it was for the best - has to have another one in four weeks, AND the 12 month booster thingy next week

dd1 is going to have her MMR booster at the same time, next week, and if only they did single vaccines at our surgery dh could have a mumps one - he's never had mumps

dd2 has been having all bits of egg for ages, just well cooked. Eggy bread, fried egg, scrambled egg. She's been waking up for TWO bottles of milk per night in her efforts to catch up lost weight, so I've spent the day stuffing her with snacks, putting cream in her mash (she only eats four spoonfuls though, before getting pissed off with spoon/full) and giving extra milk, in hope.

I wonder if some of our nap-wrecking babes are teething, as well as just being more aware and more sleep-resistant??

Hello, can I come back? I was on the pregnancy thread with you guys but haven't been near Mumsnet for ages, then I had a lecture from a stupid woman today and felt the need to tell people who would back me up! But before that, hello to all the names I remember from aaages ago, it's nice to try and catch up with a bit of your news (although you guys can TALK! It's taken me 20 minutes to get to this thread!)

OK, my DS is now 10 months old, like all your bundles of joy, and he isn't crawling. That isn't too late is it? I got told today that he should be by now, in no uncertain terms, and asked if I was worried. She isn't getting to me, don't worry, I am not at all concerned because he gets around by shuffling and reaching for things, and anyway it gives me a bit of an easier life so I can get on with working from home. But honestly, where do people get off telling you these things. Do they really think that babies know exactly when they are meant to do things? Do they have a little book in their cot?

My son is gorgeous, has a great sense of humour, picks up a book and turns it over if it's the wrong way up, turns pages, presses buttons, talks loads (obviously gobbledygook but still), gets a smile out of EVERYBODY he meets, plays well on his own or with me. What right does someone have to point the finger at me because he's not crawling!

Phew! Sorry, I haven't had a rant for AGES and that felt good!

xxx

Oh my word, remind me that having a break from MN is A Bad Thing. I can't keep up with everything I've missed, although my house is spotless and my washing/ironing pile is non-existent (hooray) .

It seems as though all the poorly babies/mummies/siblings are better - fingers crossed they stay that way for a bit .

Hello Spina and DG, nice to see you back.

Big news from the (exceptionally clean) Olihan house is that ds2 has finally cut his first tooth. I've had a couple of nips while bfing but nothing too serious yet.

I've also discovered that I prefer it when he doesn't sleep through . If he sleeps through he's up for the day at 5am, if he has a feed at 3/4am he goes back down until 6:45. Being up for 10 mins in the early hours v. losing 2 hours off my night's sleep is a no brainer, to me!

Erm....what else can I remember......oh, naps. Ds2 has a 2 hour nap in the morning if we're at home, otherwise it's a 20 min nap in the buggy, then another hour or so in the afternoon. If he has a long nap at lunchtime he will go until bedtime with just the one but usually hits meltdown about 4pm on a normal day.

Food - ds2 is now entirely blw except for yogurts. This week he's had lasagne, chicken korma and rice, shepherds pie, full roast beef dinner and toad in the hole - Margo, I could do with borrowing your dog at teatimes, I spend hours sweeping up his tea from the floor! He is a human dustbin at the moment and has the roly poly bits to show for it . His daily food is: BF when he wakes up, big bowl of shreddies for breakfast, banana or rice cakes mid morning, bf before nap, whole sandwich plus fruit & yogurt for lunch, more fruit/biscuit mid afternoon, short bf before nap, tea plus yogurt for pudding, bf before bed and usually 1 bf in the night. No wonder he's so chunky!

Can't remember anything else.

Hello, Devongirl! How fab to see you Please rant away - that's what we're here for.

Your LO sounds just like my DD. She managed to get everywhere she needed to be without crawling. I wasn't worried either, until someone mentioned it. Anyway, she crawls like a mad thing now - she's been doing it for a few days. You're quite right not to worry. DD1 never crawled, just bum shuffled. Honestly, some people just can't seem to stop themselves winding Mums up.

DD2 was a bit of a star at the nursery. I just hope she can keep it up for a while so I don't have to suffer the guilt of dropping off a screaming child.

Are any of you really worried about salt in food? I find myself holding back feeding some things to DD2 in case she's gone over her salt limit - it's becoming an obsession,and I don't think it's healthy. For example, I worried about feeding her homemade soup made using some stock concentrate because she'd had homemade bread and cheese for lunch. It's really when I type it out, but I do worry.

BP - I'm a bit like you when it comes to salt, although I'm much less obsessed this time around

Hello DG!

Also, I'm now thinking of making a bit of money and offering my dog out to people to clean their floors.

@ margo's dog.

welcome back devongirl.

I worry a botu salt sometimes but mainly if I've given too much bread in one day (we have white sliced). Things is, I fed DD1 the same way and she is fine.

Thanks for the welcome back messages - I feel better already. And after saying that yesterday, this morning he's crawled 4 whole steps in a row! So now I feel the need to go and show this stupid woman that now not only can he do all the things he was doing before so well, he can also crawl SO THERE. he's perfect!

Now off to order a playpen!

And yes, I worry about salt. And sugar. and not having enough protein/ too many carbs. Oh dear. He's absolutely thriving so I don't know why I'm like this, just mumguilt which I am becoming a master at.

x

Welcome back DG! Where are all the other AWOLS I wonder ...

I don't worry about salt or anything much at all 3rd time round (make everything and don't use salt so no need to worry really). I guess you get more relaxed/too busy the more DCs you have. Or maybe it's just me

DD2 naps for about 30 minutes during the day in her pram and that's it. We have no routine as we are always out and about. She goes to bed at 7pm and wakes about 5.30am. She seems to be thriving on it, it's just me who is starting to think about botox ...

Hello DG! Sounds like you have a fab boy there, 10 months and turns a book the right way round! Mine has only just realised that they are for something other than chewing

Oli would you like to come and make my house spotless? You could even have MN breaks. Go on, I'll feed you....... I'm with you on the sleep front, ds wakes at around 5.30 for a feed then sleeps until 8 , though with uni stuff I can only take advantage of it at weekends, during the week it is a bit of a pain feeding and then going back to bed for all of 30/45 mins til the beeping alarm clock of doom starts up.

Also have random worries about salt, sugar etc (strangely the sugar one often comes after he has snaffled a rich tea biscuit off me )

Right, lecture has been gone to, elevenses has been eaten, ds is in creche until 5. I am going to now be a random whirlwind of uni work with the odd cleaning binge when my brain hits meltdown.

Honest

Oh and AQ look here

Welcome back, DG, and hurrah for ds - not only can he crawl, but a book lover, trust me, is a blessed thing. dd1 would sit and look at books for half an hour at a time, aged 12 months - her sister much prefers to tear around the house eating inappropriate objects and suchlike

In which light, salt is the least of my worries

Health in the Elibean house was shortlived: dd1 now has hacking cough, is wheezy, and going to be checked by GP this pm in case of yet another chest infection - probably just the current nursery virus, but she had a temp last night and is a bit asthmatic, and its the weekend (sods law) so worth checking. dd2 is pouring snot, but looking SO much fatter and more normal than last week, a joy to behold

And I was up late last night with grown up version of dd1's cough, worries about having booked holiday in panic and found dreadful hotel reviews, and burglar alarm doing odd beeps for no reason. Not surprisingly, have had migraine all day today and am feeling meaning green aroudn the gills, not envious!

But tis the weekend, so thats good. Margo, I'd like to borrow your dog to persuade dh that we need one...I sooo miss having a dog!

is this the last postable message? Should I start a new thread?

Someone do...can't think of title

dd1 and I both on ABs now, as GP heard me cough as we were leaving the room. So by this time tomorrow I should be all pink and happy, dd ditto: sorry for whingeing earlier, was just feeling cr*p.

This has been a great thread, look forward to next one!

here we go