may babies get sevenny

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Nice here eh? Seven is a lovely magic number.

DD has horrible cough off DH. They are both hacking away like nanny goats so our house is rather noisy and I s'pose I'll have to get it too, sooner or later. A real workout for the immune system at 6 months anyway.

Think maybe my purees were a little bit lumpy for DD. She really went for the bought stuff I gave her today, and I was quite reassured. Anyone actually tried the Hipp apple and blueberry? So tasty I could have it on toast , no probs.

Georgina hope your hands, feet and mouths are OK.

Twiglett you are a rascal... sleeping through eh? what on earth is she thinking of?

Think I would rather miss my little overnight fixes of DD if she didn't remind me of her presence every 3 hours or so.

Hello everyone, this will be a novel .

Yes I am still here, went back to work on the 13th and have just been so busy ever since. the first week back I was so tired but this week has been better. I still had some things to get for christmas so I've been trying to get them in the few short hours when I'm not at work. It's just been hectic. But I think it's all finished.

Also dd1 has been ill, got sent home from school last week and had to miss her brownie trip to the pantomime and she's never been right since. She's been very tired and grumpy and last night was sick again in the middle of the night School finished on Wednesday so I'm hoping that once she's had a chance to rest she'll get back to normal. Dd2 miraculously hasn't come down with any of the bugs that we've had, although she has been a bit more sicky than usual but doesn't seem to be ill with it.

Solids are coming along well, she's getting jars because I've not had the time to be organised enough to make meals in advance. After christmas is out of the way and things get back to normal I'll get it all organised. I did make my own chicken stock the other week though, have never done that before. It's all been frozen into cubes and is waiting in the freezer for me. dd2 gets a yogurt after lunch and dinner and we give her half a rusk to chomp on at some point during the day, she never manages to eat it all likes to chuck it on the floor, it's more fun you see. She loves Ready Brek for breakfast. Oh and she's on Aptimil first milk, has been since we moved her onto bottles. My granny keeps asking when I'm going to give her chocolate, what is this facination people have with giving babies chocolate?

Took her to get weighed on Wednesday first time in ages and she's 18lbs 3oz so she's not wasting away. She rolls over onto her tummy and can now swivel round to get to whatever she wants. Hasn't mastered getting up on her knees yet but she's not far off it. Sometimes she scoots backwards when she wants to go forwards and then gets really cross. She's getting a Highchair from Santa which arrived the other day and we tried her out in it, she looked so small sitting in this big highchair but so grown up at the same time. and she talks non stop all the time especially when she's being fed. Dh's dad was visitng last weekend and we went out for dinner. I fed her before our meal arrived and she talked the whole time, dadadadada, that's all she says all the time. Was hoping that she might have said mama before dada but she seems to like saying dadadada the best. oh and she says eeeaaa which we think is dd1, hey who knows what it actually is but that's what it sounds like.

Well, I'm going to go just now. got to get up early tomorrow to dash into town and pick up the food from markies. and probably all the other things I'll remember I don't have when I wake in a cold sweat at 3am.

So if I don't see you all tomorrow night I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and I hope santa is good to you all and your babies.

Linnet
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lovely to hear from you linnet. my you were up late!

hells, my dd never looks satisfied after a bf either. she never has actually! often pulls off and cries. you should know in yourself i guess whether your milk is going down or not. maybe thats where i'm going wrong with dd. no, she has never slept through!

cat, thanks for advice on msn yesterday. i will do my best to try it today, but thing is, we're already an hour behind schedule as she woke at 8! its mainly helpful for the feeds/solids actually as i was all over the place with milk feeds. you said your dd slept later with the afternoon nap. what time? i know dd will have to too, as the one on the routine isn't even 2 hours after the last one.
(yes, i may try a gina routine for a bit, see if it helps!)

Sorry I've been crap at updating recently - have a very Merry Christmas everybody! Hope the May Babies have a magical first Christmas...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL THE MAY BABIES!!!!!!

I won't be around for the next coupke of days, cooking christmas dinner for real- eek. Then everyone is coming round again on boxing day (isn't 1 bout of food poisening enough? )

Lots of love to you all, have a lovely, lovely day.

Cat and Kiera
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Happy Christmas to the May mums and babies

All I've got time to do is wish you all a lovely Christmas and will post again some time next week. xxxx

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE........LOVELY PICCIES GEORGINA

Merry Christmas you luvly lot!

Merry Christmas everybody! Sure there won't be anybody around, but just wanted to share 2 things:-

1. Its snowing here in Manchester!
2. Fell downstairs last night and now cannot walk . Completely and utterly my own fault - I didn't switch the light on. DD is being gorgeous and keeps kissing my foot better. Oh well, lots of presents to open and lots of relatives to wait on me !

Well, that came and went!

Sorry to hear about your foot Judd. Sounds like your day was still good.It snowed here too last night! (little bit further down from you).
Hope you all had lovely days with the May babies. Dd2 had a baby leappad which she has been banging endlessly because it makes noises on touch. She has a streaming cold so didn't eat much at all yesterday (so have I). Supposed to be going to family today but we're not going because we have colds and DS is recovering from a nasty stomach bug.

Lovely pics georgina.

Merry xmas everyone hope you all had a brill day yesterday. My xmas present was DD saying dad and cat. Not quite sure what happened to mum. I suppose it shows how low down the pecking order I am that even the bloody cat comes first

Sorry egypt I forgot to answer you.

No Im not bf anymore. I stopped feeding during the day after 4 weeks of being back in work but carried on at night, but then 1 week after that she started getting really fussy when I tried to feed her. She would turn her head away and not open her mouth. It became such a struggle to get her to feed that I took it as a hint that it was time to stop and started bottles. I still feed her when she wakes about 4ish but if she doesnt wake then I dont bf her at all. I was gutted to stop but made it to 24 weeks of full bf which was further than I ever thought I would get. My boobs seem to have disappered though lack of breast milk and the weight ive lost means all my ribs show through. Very attractive not.
Maybe ill cancel the wedding and get a boob job instead

What are you doing now?

hope you all had great christmasses. we are shattered as stayed at mil's last night and dd was awake from 1-4am crying. never happened b4. spent night walking her in the frost.

hi kbaby, am bf still, but wanting dd to take to a bottle. sometimes does, sometimes not and only boobs will do. dh is trying to feed her right now, unsuccessfully by the sounds of it

just a quick quick hello from warm austria!!!
flight was brill (besides having to wait for 1hr to finally start) - very very busy so far!!! visiting 100s of relatives but lucas takes it really well!!! had a few late nights but he still sleeps as usual next few days won´t be any less stressfull! but hohum, how often do i get to see all my family
lucas learnt so many new things since we are here! clapping hangs, waving, standing while holding on to something, and he got 4 new teeth poor little mite! well, poor little parents!
hope you all had a wonderful xmas!!!! and some restfull days.
hugsssssssssssssssssss

wow susi, he certainly is growing up fast. still no teeth here!! and worse nights! cc tonight me thinks.

on the worse side of things, dad is back in hospital with pains again. says he has damaged his heart muscle with the virus he had and only pain killers and time will make things better. they were due to come to us tomorrow. havent seen my parents this christmas so far . if they cant make it i guess we'll go to them....and prague looms.

I have barely passed this way recently but here we are now. Glad all your Chistmasses went well, DS's routine has gone a little squiffy and it is suddenly nap-a-rama here. Thankfully he is still sleeping through, I need to shake off some of my bad habits though . . . we are attempting the cot this week - it is shocking to think that we left it so late! but he has been sleeping so well our bad habits are obviously working. Still it is now time to pass on to the next phase and over the holidays seems like the best time.

I have to buy a toothbrush for DS, he has his two bottom ones and at the table on Christmas Day I let him try some sloppy stuff and I felt the top ones making their debut. He has also learnt to sprint across the floor in his walker and make a beeline for anything coloured/shiny/interesting (this included the scart plugs going into the TV yesterday, that made me jump a little!) Blimey! where have the little babies gone? there are mini toddlers forming . . .

The only downer has been that my Grandad decided to follow my Grandmother who left us the other week, he died on the 23rd and so it was a little sombre (but only when the two babies, DS and my niece (18 months) would allow it!). They were married 67 odd years and so we all had a feeling it would happen that way, you don't just get on with life after that sort of lifetime. At least they are together now. They were most inspirational.

Anyway, good thoughts and vibes! Hope you are all looking forward to the New Year and all the new adventures that are still to come! xxxx

(do you think some of you might try for number 2? I doubt we will but it is a nice fuzzy thought . . . )

So sorry to hear about your Grandad Libb, but as you said he is back with your Grandma now.

Our Xmas went off without a hitch. Only one very minor altercation between my Mum and MIL, and my Mum and sis (cos she was being a stroppy teenager) Which for our family was amazing. My Oxtail stew on Xmas Eve was spectacular (if I say so myself) and Lunch all got onto the table on time and hot, and we didn't run out of anything (in fact we didn't even start the second turkey).
On Boxing Day all the boys went off to the football, I went for bath whilst ds was asleep and came down to find the girls had all taken dd off to the park, so I had my house to myself for an hour - I sat in front of the fire with my dressing gown and face mask on sipping champagne. I am quite a solitary person so it was bissful to have some peace and quiet after two days of 11 extra house guests. They all left yesterday and I am just about cleaned up - 7th load of washing has just finished. The next lot (4 adults and 3 kids) don't arrive until Friday am, so I am giving myself tomorrow off before starting another cooking frenzy.

And no I wasn't in Cambridge

blimey prufrock, you have been busy. i too like to be by myself and imagine it must be a rarity with 2 babes.

sorry to hear about your grandad libb. i posted on your other thread too.

into the cc again. dd took an hour to go to sleep tonight and just woke again at 11. gave her 4 oz which in my book doesnt count as giving in, as she just wants boob! she's gone off again after only about 5-10 mins of crying so thats good. phew. got to be better than last night.

was rather peeved tohear that my friend's baby, who is now about 2 months old sleeps 14 hours a night. through! my friend stayed there last night and enjoyed telling me how i should have a baby like her. 'she went to bed at 7 and was still asleep when we left this morning at 930' grrr. this is my 'prague' friend. hmmm, maybe not for much longer.

mil asked me outright if we were taking dd so i had to bite the bullet and telll her that my mum was coming up IF we werent takingher. told her about difficulties with bf and sleeping probs. she enjoyed telling me 'that's the trouble with bf, you cant get them off it, and you cant pass them round to be fed and stay with family.....la la la'

aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SHUTUP

she fully expected me to stop bf at 6months. ha.

people like telling me what's what lately, i have found. including dh's aunty whom we visited yesterday. i gave dd a bath at her house as we left at 7pm. 'oh, sit her up she doesn't like that. that shocked her too much, she doesnt like water in her face. used soap on her...no not THAT towel.......' this was the 3rd time she had ever seen her and has no children of her own. but of course knows best.

i am becoming a push over. must get narky i think.

anyway, shall leave you to go to bed for ? number of minutes/hours xxxxxxxxx

merry christmas and happy new yeah!!!!!!xxxxxxxx

Libb, Sorry to hear about your grandad. The same thing happened to me last year. My granny died in Mrach and my grandad died in May. It does give some comfort to think that he missed her so much he joined her and now they are both looking down on us all. In fact DD quite often looks at the doorway and smiles and I like to think my granny is there pulling faces at her

Egypt weve started CC too. Oh my god its auwful. 1st night she woke at 4am and cried for 2hrs before falling asleep and last night woke at 4.30 and cried for 2hrs again. I thought the crying was supposed to get less each night. The only thing im prob not doing is waiting long enough. I have a habit for doing 5 then 10 mins but then once she starts crying real bad I go back to 5 mins. I hope tonight goes better for you.

Prufrock I cant believe youve had 11 people over. 5 Was quite enough for me.

Im fed up of visiting people. So far every day we have been out visiting relatives

That's whyI had my whole family here kbaby - it meant I got to stay in my own home, and more importantly ds in his own cot (albeit shoved into the corner of our room). I'd far rather cook for 15 than try to get ds to sleep in a strange, noisy house.

I hope all you cc'ing goes well - ds has started waking more often, but I figure he's teething, or got yet another cold, as he is quite capable of going for 13 hours. But thinking about it recently he has probably woken more than 1 night in 2. And for the last couple of nights he wouldn't settle so eneded up inbetween me and dh, poking alternate faces. Not sure how much lionger I'll bear it until I have to start getting tough - every time I decide that tonight is the night for leaving him to cry he proceeds to sleep through for a week!

Hello! We all survived then? We also stayed in our own home for Christmas, DS got to keep his cot in his room and DD had her Ready Bed in our bedroom. Tonight is the last night of guests (my mum for 2 nights, outlaws for 3) and then she is back in her own room - YIPPEE! Just couldn't face carting prezzies and all the baby gubbins from place to place.
Ds's sleep seems to be getting back on track after about 2 weeks of cold and phlegm. So nice not to be woken in the wee small hours.
Anyway, DH has cooked our tea so I think it would be rude not to go and eat loads of it !

Hi all of you. Sorry I didn't give you all an Xmas Smacker... I sort of forgot how impossible it is to get a moment to do anything over the crucial couple of days. My parents are divorced so we have an extra household to 'do' making 3 dinners in all. Burp. We did have a lovely time tho. On the 25th my sister, brother and dad were here and it was really relaxed; nobody expected anything to get done with any haste and we had no tablecloth, no starter, no hassle...DH cooked fantastically. My sister and brother are just lovely to have around. Dad rather revoltingly soaked up practically a whole bottle of Bailey's (it was from his ex girlfriend and perhaps it made her seem closer to him) and we played Scrabble. DD coped well with the odd routine and the pickled grandfather but I am glad she's the 8th grandchild on DH's side so that when we went up to his family she wasn't the centre of attention to quite the same extent. Games of peekaboo continued relentlessly... sometimes rather weird games of peekaboo with bits of string and you had to pretend not to be able to see her

Today she's been unusually grumpy and I'm wondering if there's a second tooth on the way. She always wakes at night to some extent and Egypt, I do just feed her and don't even do the water thing any more. I just feel that I might as well let myself in for the whole sleep training thing as and when it really seems unbearable. For now I can manage OK. My mum was saying she had had the same problem with all 3 of us when we were babies and you don't see me getting up for beans on toast in the middle of the night now I am a grownup.

Libb, sorry to hear about your grandpa. I hope they both got to meet your DS before they died. We had a panic of sorts thinking my Essex granny was on her way out on Xmas eve (she wasn't, tho she may not have long) and I was so glad we had taken DD down to meet her great grandmother.

What did you all get for your babies? We gave her a bedroom light shaped like a pigeon. My sister gave her a tambourine and maracas which I think get her the special favours prize.

hi all, sorry to hear about your gran spots. hope she is bearing up ok.

kbaby, i know the cc is hard. really hard. be glad you get to get some sleep until 4 though. dd woke at 11, cried, like when i posted, and then woke again at 1. i just couldnt be bothered to do the water/milk/cc thing and brought her into the spare bed with me where i think she woke and fed just about every hour. gawd. i wonder if she would have woken and cried every hour if she was in her own cot. she def wakes more often when i share a bed with her. i dont know how people do it. tonight, i must try and do some cc.

judd, i think i will go back to feeding during the night when we get back from prague. i just need to be sure she will take a bottle in the small hours for my peace of mind when we're not here. saying that she wouldnt take one at bedtime, never hardly does. anyone else have that prob? i might put out a post. she eats dinner at 5ish, so maybe at 630/7 she's just not hungry. i only give her water at tea though. she took a huge bf though. typical. so..... i am trying to build up a stock of ebm for 2 nights. at least for the bedtime feed as she takes formula in the night. weird.

my mum and dad were due to come tomorrow but dad is feeling very bad. he is in so much pain. the virus has attacked muscles in his shoulder and he is in agony. bless. it maybe that we go to see him instead. dh says i should just say the word and we'll go but i feel bad...its his hols too. not that he doesnt want to.

glad you are all having good christmases. dont know how you cope with households full of people mind! nearly time to relax!

Hi nice to catch up on all your Christmas's. We've slept at home every night but been getting the children ready for bed at whatever house and then they fall asleep in the car on the way home. So Sat bath was SILs, Sun bath, MILs, Mon bath here but with visitors "helping", Tues bath my sister's. So four different baths in four days.

We're snowed under with a ridiculous amount of presents and DD's favourite is the 90p stacking cups from Ikea. And just can't get the house tidy. DD has a cold although its not bothering her that much. She is also intermittantly constipated which is bothering her. Intermittant because I have been giving her small amounts of lactulose. She has turned into a human dustbin and started eating tons and I've started making her solids more lumpy plus she's started having more finger foods (ie whatever she can beg from people - bread, veg, cheese - loves wensleydale with cranberries etc) so she's getting less liquid in her food. But she will not drink water or juice. I've tried her with a cup, a bottle, a spoon and I can't get anything into her. Its really a big issue. So anyone got any ideas?

that was my issue with formula. does she drink milk from a bottle/cup? if so, give her that with her meals until she is used to always having/wanting it with food. then just substitute it one mealtime with water and i bet she doesnt even realise! she's so used to wanting a drink with meals she'll take it. thats what i did anyway but the other way round.

we can see the start of a tooth! whooooopeeeeee! just a little silvery line where it'll poke through any second now.

off for dd's photograph today, what to wear?

how was your night kbaby? we had an awake baby at 430-530. just chattering but then turned into crying. a bottle would not do. just boobs..should have done cc? teeth?