August/ September 2019 babies #2

[kyles101]

Thread number 2 for our August / September 2019 due date babies.

DS is having a regression on nighttime sleep since moving over to combi - seems to want to wale at 1am whereas before would always go through until 3am...

@happydays00 that's exactly how I feel. I can't squeeze much more into our days as it is, and clean up masticated food is not my favourite past time. Definitely waiting till 6m and only starting with dinner when I have back up!

And the mess! I weaned DD in the summer so just fed her naked and hosed down the highchair. Can't do that in February...

Also, stupidly, we are using a newborn attachment on top of a stokke highchair. Converting it to a proper highchair is just TOO much. Haven't converted the pram yet for the same reason.

Woot @Megan2018 re nursery! Exciting!! London here, v envious of your day rates...
Yay sleeep @Stroan and @Horehound !!!

Straight baby led weaning here with the first two-
DC1 had a perfect ripe peach, well photographed on his half birthday (followed by a chunk of my wild boar stew that night). DC2 grabbed and munched a pretzel from my hand at five and a half months rushing through a station and carried on from there. Presumably poor old DC 3 will wean herself on dusty haribo from under the sofa ...
The baby led weaning cookbook is really useful, as is the river cottage baby and toddler book, we still use both most weeks.
I'm looking forward too it, we are a bit of a foodie family. But yes, not the mess...

Hahahaha @DustyDoorframes that is hilarious. I'm sure there will be nothing poor about DC3 from what you talk about! I'm just not that enthusiastic about cooking so I think that's a large part of the problem. I love eating nice food.. if only we could afford that chef 😂

Ha @DustyDoorframes that's brilliant!

Ds is definitely interested in food, keeps grabbing for things and my water glass - put it to his mouth yesterday and he had a little sip. With the 360 cups etc do you sterilise them? And is water cooled boiled? Kind of seems excessive to me once we start weaning? (And ds shoves everything he can get his grubby little miss on into his mouth!)

@kyles101 no I'm not sterilising. I don't sterilise for breastmilk in bottles either because well, BM isn't sterile and neither is my boob and I read a leaflet in it saying it's not necessary but you may want to every so often anyway. As long as they are clean it's fine.
If you intend to give baby water I think it is supposed to be cool boiled until after six months then it doesn't need to be but please Google that!

@DustyDoorframes haha they're great weaning stories! Well,you say sleep but actually he only napped twice for 30 mins each. No where near enough but never mind. He's gone down thirty mins earlier than normal for his main sleep although I expect he will wake soonish for a feed
I can definitely see top teeth, about 3mm up from the gum line and I can also see teeth on the bottom, at the gum line but the gums aren't swollen.

@kyles101 I never sterilised mine but they can get a bit manky so need a good scrub every few days.

I don't know about cooled boiled water actually, we just gave tap water I think. I know that bottled water is a no-no.

@DustyDoorframes lovely stories! I'd be more excited if I didn't already need to cater for two fussy eaters. I find food so boring now as we're restricted to about 10 meals that the whole family eat. If DS decides to be fussy, I'm moving out.

So Arthur went down at 7pm. Tiny feed at 9.10pm and then he slept all through to 3.45am another bigger feed then slept until 7.45am
Got him dressed for the day and went downstairs to play. At 9am he was so cranky tried feeding but refused. Took him up to sleep and he was fussing so offered boob again and he had a huge feed, fell asleep on my bed so I slept with him and he woke at 11.45!

So...I'm happy cause I had a good sleep all night and in the morning. He must've been needing it!
No poops in nappy though now for a day and a half...that's not normal at all for him usually two or three dirty each day.
He was so cute when he woke up. All bed head and wobbly but all smiles :)

That's brilliant news @Horehound , you must feel much better! The biggest thing I took from DD was that none of this baby development is linear: there are so many ups and downs, it might feel a bit two steps forwards, one step back but none of these bad times are forever.

Yes I do! I really needed that sleep. What a star he is!
Yes definitely, I'm learning that fast lol

Yay @Horehound that's great!
@Stroan in this house s/he who cooks picks the menu and everyone else can like it or (politely) lump it. Nobody has to eat anything but there is no supper b. I was an INCREDIBLY picky child, but it's just that I wasn't that hungry. My mum always offered bread so I just ate that, but it took all of the joy out of cooking for her, and meant I had a rubbish diet. When I hit my teens I was suddenly starving and I stopped being picky. I'm now far too greedy to wait a decade to cook what I fancy, so I am ploughing through and trying to ignore the groans (not good at the ignoring... we get a fair bit of Very Grumpy Dinners).
Just had a major set-to over tidying up. I am this close to removing ALL THEIR TOYS bar two faves each. I reckon they'd actually have a better time! @Decaf (and everyone else!) how on earth do you cope with your lot's STUFF???

@horehound woohoo for sleep! We had a good night after a rough evening, now I've stopped feeding him everytime he grunts!

@DustyDoorframes believe me, that was my stance but DD would literally starve herself. I get unbelievably stressed out over it, especially as she has been labelled the fussy one at nursery. She is getting much better, she told me she would start trying things when she was 4 and actually has.

DH is a lost cause. Grew up on dry meat and potatoes, with a mother who declared everything else to be "rotten". He has also got a lot better, but there's nothing worse than cooking a meal that gets poked at.

@stroan is your DHs mum Irish? That sounds incredibly familiar to my mother in law too 😂😂😂

@happydays00 yes! Does yours still live in Ireland?

I love food, am just too idle to cook it!!
I was a super fussy, super skinny child. I had the same packed lunch for 8 years. Going to remember this later on

I’m quite excited about weaning, I really enjoyed it with DD1, after the initial panic that I’d never be organised for it, it wasn’t so bad. I loved the start with all the new tastes and just knowing it was all fun, got a bit more stressful after 1 when I knew food mattered much more. I’ve started DD2 this week on her first tastes with single vegetable purée once a day and she’s lapping them up, grabbing the spoon and shoving it into her mouth. She even yells if I’m a bit too slow to refill. I’ve lost count but I think we’re 23/24 weeks. We started DD1 at 5.5 months after she grabbed half a pitta bread and chomped on it.

@stroan yes! Still there! And still boiling meat to within an inch of its life 😂😂

I am looking forward to it too. We are foodies and love making fancy stuff. Guess that will have to wait initially but I'm looking forward to having fun with it. Arthur is really looking interested in everything going in our mouths now so I think we are going to start soon.

I'll be disappointed if he is a fussy eater because me and my husband aren't at all!

@happydays00 very familiar!

Gah, we have a house of conjunctivitis here. Both DD1 and baby Catherine :( DD1 has antibiotic eye drops which she is not a fan of, trying to wash Catherine's eyes regularly

So glad you got a good night sleep Horehound.

Cautiously looking forward to weaning. Hoping to BLW. Very nervous that some meals we eat might be unsuitable for Alice though. Plus I very rarely eat breakfast, so I'll eventually have to introduce a whole new meal...

Hopefully Alice'll wait until after 6 months until she's ready. Seems 6 months is the magic age for everything. Can have milk in food, eggs, tap water to drink, all sorts. Only 5 weeks to go until she's 26 weeks/6 months though.... Eep... Not even got a highchair yet.

At the moment, while she's got good head control, she doesn't sit great, and her tongue reflex is still in full force. So she's definitely not ready yet.

On the nursery front, we were supposed to go visit one on Friday, but they cancelled the appointment a few hours beforehand, citing staffing issues. Very worrying since we want to send her twice a week with Fridays being one of the days. No idea about how long their wait list is as well. It's £48 per full day though which is at the low end of fees for my area. Ah well. Viewing now booked for the 14th instead.

@Horehound great sleep! Glad you managed to rejuvenate a bit. Doesn't take much does it when you've been sleeping badly.

We finally had a better night and Nate slept till 5. But he woke up choking on phlegm which is the tail end of his cold (so gross). I sat him up for a while and then fed him for it to be promptly spewed up! Is so hard to catch liquid isn't it and it seemed like so much! Poor baby. Guessing it was a bit yucky in his tummy ☹️ so had to strip him off. He went back off ok on me and had a bit more of a feed and another small chuck and has fed again which so far is staying down. He handled it well though poor thing. Just hoping it was the phlegmy stuff in his belly and not another bug. Got another pile of washing to do now. He's napping on me with a strategically placed towel and muslin cloth. I can smell a lovely aroma of sour milk, mmm. Guessing this might happen again tomorrow night when he has his long (hopefully) sleep.

On another note, half looking forward to and half dreading weaning. He is definitely very interested in watching me eat now but will wait until the 6 months. Only another 4 weeks now.

Dd1 was the fussiest of children and was really hard to get to eat. She's great now and will eat anything at age 15.

Dd2 ate anything when weaned and is now super fussy at age 11. Many a night she has had cereal for tea after just touching what I've cooked with her tongue and declaring that she didn't like it!

My poor boy been sick again after feeding and is not himself ☹️ keeping a very close eye on him as paranoid he'll end up dehydrated. Will just take him to emergency if he gets any worse. Can't believe he is I'll again ☹️. He's asleep on me again and has no energy when awake. I thought breastfeeding is supposed to provide extra immunity, pft.

Fell off the thread!

Catching up

@Geegrl19 how was your night? It's awful when they're poorly, so worrying. Love dd2 touching food with her tongue! My dh is so fussy with food so I'm not sure I'm going to let him eat around ds. To be fair we usually eat quite late so I don't think we will all eat together, certainly not in the week.

Hello @THAT90sBITCH to welcome you back

@kyles101 it's been our daytime, only evening now. He brightened up and kept milk down since 2pm our time. It's 9 now and can't get him down in his cot though I usually give him a big bottle of expressed milk at bed but haven't tonight for dear of more spew. He's asleep on me but wakes when I put him down. Normally he's great going to bed (it's the staying asleep). Can't believe he's I'll again. I blame daycare! He's gonna be permanently sick if this is what's happened after only four short orientation sessions!