may babies get sevenny

[spots]

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.

Yes, but I thought (maybe wrongly) that if he gets used to the formula flavour in the porridge that he's more likely to accept a bottle of formula to drink if I did have to go out and leave him with dh or MIL for a bit. Probably one of those "great in theory" ideas though...

Well, we've worked out why ds2 has been SO grumpy the last few days... we have a SECOND TOOTH already! Poor mite.

Um, does this mean I now have to invest in a toothbrush for him?!

Um... just realised, do you mean cows milk, Twiglett, or have you been melting chocolate in your baby's food again

oh dear, am bit shaky and concerned. mum phoned from the hospital to tell me dad had been taken in. he's had chest pains for a few days which he put down to this hiatus hernia he has had for a while. today they got very bad so the doc sent an ambulance. they gave him an ecg and said that they think that it most prob is the hh, but of course i am rather concerned. his dad had many heart attacks from an early age. dad is 56. it;s times like these i wish i lived closer to home.

aaaaanyway, congrats on SECOND TOOTH G!! blimey. dd was q grumpy in the night again. she didnt keep me awake crying like the night before, but woke, 1130,1230,4,7,9. each time she wakes she has a really stuffy nose, which i dont hear in the day. teeth?

egypt: hope everything turns out fine! hugs
i know what you mean; my mum is quite ill and she just lives too far

G: hoooray on tooth nr.2

spots: you make perfect sense to me! i just said the same to dp yday! how amazing ds is; how observing; everything seems to be an adventure ; makes me teary sometimes

prufrock: same here!! ds keeps staring at my face lately

had a quite good night last night!
ds went down at 6.30 and woke briefly at 4.45 (dummy in) and slept till 8am!!! i again got up earlier than he did

Oh Egypt, what a lot of worry for you I hope it all turns out to be trivial.

hi
spots meant to say what a lovely post today. made me get goose pimples.

dad seems ok. waiting for mum to phone with results of ecg and blood tests, but all has come up clear or the heart front so far so that's good news.

thankfully dd did take her morning nap today. such a gorgeous clear crisp day so walked her and parked her in garden. managed to make ak's lovely lentils and more for our tea too. yum

Egypt so horrible to have news like that. Really feel for you. Hope he continues well... How far away are you from them ? Is your sister nearby?

Susi that's rough if your mum is ill and you're not even in the same country...

Twiglett I only express milk for mixing with food, even tho I know you can use some cows' milk. I still breastfeed about a zillion times every day.

thank you all for understanding my soppiness...

Spots, It was lovely what you said. I just love DD to bits at the moment. She is such a pleasure to be with. Her favorite trick at the moment is to follow me round the kitchen in her walker(One of the things I said I would never get, along with the dummy) and pull at my trouser leg and when I turn around she gives a huge grin. Shes also making progress on the crawling front. Today she has learnt how to go from sitting into a crawling position, She goes on her hands and knees but doesnt know what to do next. She does manage to get around the room quite well though by rolling over until shes where she wants to be.

I went to visit a friend today who has a 8 month old. When we got there he was still sleeping so dd was on his play mat with his toys. When he woke up and we sat him on the may infront of dd she just smiled and got very excited she kept trying to lunge for him while he sat there grinning back at her and clapping. It was lovely to see her interacting with other children.

Ok on the food front. Those who have moved on to meat/protein ie shepards pie. If I batch cook is it easier to still put it in ice cube trays or should I just freeze it in little pots?
Yesterday I cooked a few things as I cant give her what we eat. I did sheperds pie,fish pie,chicken and parsnip, chicken caserole, lentils and peppers, tuna pasta and veggy pasta.

I bet she wont like any of it.

kbaby - I've stopped using the little icecube trays now - I've switched to Avent Via pots (the reusable/disposable ones). They're just about right quantity-wise for what ds2 gets through.

Loads to catch up on. Been really busy because of DD's christening and also DD, DS and me all have colds/coughs so disturbed nights making me tired. DD has been up and down with her cold/cough but had a good day on Sunday. Really bright and full of it - pulling the minister's hair while she was trying to christen her and trying to eat the order of service. She managed to keep the dress on until about 6 pm which was amazing and hardly slept because she was getting so much attention.

I think she is just starting to get seperation anxiety although she is OK if I leave her with DS in the room but all of a sudden he zooms off somewhere and DD starts to cry. We stood her up propped against the settee last night and she managed to stay quite a while before slipping sideways. And Judd she's like your DS - she absolutely adores DS (despite his rough ways), her face lit up this morning when he came into the bedroom and he can make her laugh like no-one else. He was playing with a balloon on the hall while I was giving her her tea last night and she couldn't eat for spluttering.

I'm still putting her food in ice-cube trays but think its a bit of a waste of time. Last night she had a rice cake, nine ice cubes (chicken, cauliflower and parnsip followed by apple, pear and kiwi with baby rice) plus a yoghurt plus quite a bit of DH's jacket potato. Hollow legs? So might have to reconsider my system.

Oh well.... maybe it wasn't the teeth. We're back to 4.30am waking I wouldn't mind but he has a MASSIVE feed so I don't get back to sleep until 5.30am, then there's only an hour until ds1 wakes up. Plus ds1 woke around 2am last night so I'm SHATTERED!

Do you think it'll sort itself out when he's on protein at lunch? Is he genuinely hungry at 4am?

Weary of Worcester.

good morning everybody!
had another good night. ds went down at 6.30, woke at 5am (dummy in) and slept till 6.30 when we finally got up

been to the doctor yday to get his ears checked. slightly infected but gp reckons we are over the worst bit of the infection - he assured me that he could have given me some antibiotics but it would have only fastend the process, not avoided; and when lo can do it without medicine even better! well, i still feel bad

aaaanyways, i had to change feeding again due to ds being ill. he hardly drank any milk and not much solids either. he did empty his bottle last night and also today morning - so hopefully back on track!!

cat hope u r ok!

sounds like your lo's eat much more than mine. am still using those weaning cubes from blooming marvellous. dd eats maybe 3 of those, so prob = to 6 icecubes, each meal. she does have a little desert if she feels like it too, but rarely wants a bf as well. i feel like i'm perhaps not getting the right amount of milk down her each day. i bf when she wakes and she has a bit between meals during the day, but not much. a good feed at bedtime - sometimes and loads in the night! well, 1020 and 415 last night, so thats not so bad. its so much easier to just feed than do cc. although did it when she went to bed last night and again at 9, although just a stroke was all she needed to get back to sleep, but at 10, she hollored (sp?) until i fed her, so maybe she was hungry?!?! its all soooo confusing.

been to baby group and one of the mums is taking her ds swimming on thurs and has asked me to go along, so shall. as dh cant put his golf as second priority on the weekends.

my dad is fine. as you can tell, or i would have already mentioned! the ecg, lung tests, came back fine. he has a very healthy heart. it was his hiatus hernia which he has medication for. bless him. he was in so much pain they put him on morphine. think hosps use that as a first resort now though, more and more. shall phone mum today to see how he is. despite our orders that he must stay off work, he will prob go in just to 'see how they are getting on!'

Egypt - glad your dad is on the mend and they know what it is. Hernia treatment is quite sophisticated now, isn't it? hugs to you all.

Ds2 just had a real try to crawl! He was watching older babies do it yesterday at Monkey Music, and just now he wanted to reach his fish toy. He was on his tummy, head stretched up with a determined look on his face and doing a sort of bow/see saw motion with his arms and legs outstretched!!!!

I tried tucking his knees under in a crawling position, but he just dived his nose into the carpet.... oops

gosh - all your growing babes. yours too kbaby. think dd is going to be a bum shuffler. shes not at all happy on tummy. does a skydiver impression then just gets cross. she has started to push up with her legs when shes sitting though, so does little jumps on her bum and ends up falling backwards when she lands most of the time. carpet burns here we come.

sorry georgina, yes its quite treatable. dont know if people know what a hiatus hernia is but its an acid reflux problem in the gut. lets up acids into the throat, i guess, and its very painful, alot like indigestion but worse. glad thats all it is.

LOL at your description Georgina. Can't see DD crawling at all - although she has had a few attempts at shuffling.

Egypt glad your worries over your Dad have been resolved. I think your DD is getting enough milk - but you've got a similar problem to me - she's getting it at the wrong time. DD had her mid morning and mid afternoon bottles - probably took 9 oz in total and then breast feeds at 7.15 pm, 1.50am and 4.45 am so enough milk but times all wrong eg not hungry when she woke up at 7am. Good thing because I was already showered and drying my hair by that point.

egypt, glad that your dad is ok!

ds is getting very active now! when on his tummy he does his skydiver impression for some time and when he wants a toy he first tries to reach out for it and streches like elasticboy; when he can't get it he shuffels backwards, turns on the spot, shuffels a bit more, turns, shuffels - until he's got what he wanted

oh and he's doing this weird shouting noise. in the back of his throat. and is delighted when i do it back to him. so he gets louder and then me ... nice shouting contest

to all you 2nd (or more) timers: when do they start with their seperation thingy???????????
today i just can't get a second out of his sight and he would start screaming
everytime i put him down for a nap he screams the whole neighbourhood together and it takes me some conviencing to get him to sleep!
any tips what i can do????

oh and tooth nr. 4 is out

Glad your Dad is Ok now Egypt.

DS is nowher near crawling - he does roll and twizzle though, so can get pretty much anywhere he wants. He is another toddler worshipper, fortunately the feeling is mutual. Last night he was lying on dd's bed whilst she cleaned her teeth. When she finished she ran back into the bedroom ahead of me and jumped on the bed next to him. She tucked herself into a ball and forced his head into the pillow and said "Come on Babin, lets hide". They both roared with laughter (and so did dh and I)

I am still bf only Twigs. We tend to have 4 feeds a day. I do express, but only in advance of nights out (so very rarely )

Susi I think DD has just started with seperation anxiety - see my post at 9:06 am. Also spoke to DH and he said she cried when he left her at nursery this morning. She thought about it last week as well I noticed so I think we are getting to that point.

Before when I left she'd not cry until she got bored whereas now its straight away. So another several months of being unable to go to the loo on my own. Do tend to take her already as it is now.

imglad we arent the only ones still waking at night. i was hoping she would be sleeping through now.

When I was 18 months i developed a cold sore on my cheek, ever since every winter would get it again. its only been the past few years that i havent had it. i woke up today to find that dd has a cold sore on her cheek. In exactly the same place and same cheek as me. Its very strange as cold sores are viruses and not genetic so im not sure how shes got it, and even more strange is how its in the same place.

Shes been a little monkey today. Im off work this week but she just wouldnt sleep. In the end I just held her for 20 mins until she cried herself to sleep. It was horrible but she was so tired and no amount of cuddling or rocking would work. At one stage I just laid her on the floor as i couldnt do anything for her. Shes also started pulling my face and scraming my lips and cheeks, She pinches them so hard.

dd also is hungry at 7am feed bozza! cant get enough of those bedtime feeds whatever the time.

dad's been in hospital again. just when thought things were ok. pain is as bad even on medication and today doctor said he doesnt think its the hiatuss hernia but plurasy(sp)? had a chest xray today. god, its horrid, my poor dad - and mum.

done a bit of xmas shopping today. its takes forever and i must have spent most of the time in a disabled loo changing/feeding and changing dd again. much to the annoyance of someone trying to get in. snotty cow.

for us bf'ders.....i read that the babies need extra iron supplements once they reach 6 months as their own stores are running out. anyone doing/know anything about this?

Hi everyone

I've been feeling a tad on the downside over the weekend, but am feeling better now. I don't know why, Christmas is almost here, which i love, and Kiera is fine! Just a general Bleugh weekend I guess.

Susi and Bozza- Kiera is also getting speration anxiety, not for naps, but i now have to take her upstairs in her bouncy chair if i need to go to the loo!

Egypt- I've suffered with gastric reflux since i was 11 and it is miserable and soooo painfull. Medication really does help though, I was on Lansoprazol for yonks before Kiera (then back on gaviscon while pregnant) and am now back on it. I don't even notice it very much any more tbh! I'm very glad you dad is better now though, and that it wasn't anything more serious.

Georgina- Poor you, I hope nights gets better for you soon. Take it easy and relax, remember..."andthistooshallpass..."

It's lovely to hear all of you sibling/other children stories and Spots- yours bought a lump to my throat

Alas, Kiera still doesn't really look for me when she does something new...she just concentrates on doing it again Ahh well, she is enjoying "fantastic Mr Fox"

So, who's up for coffee/glass of wine/ pint of beer and a mince pie in Cambridge sometime in December then?

Anyone?

At all?

Take care everybody
xxxxx

Egypt- it's very true babies run out of iron after 6 months...but i'm weaning Kiera so can't give b fers advice on that. Sorry!

xx

Oh Egypt My mum had pneumonia & pleurisy once - it was really really painful - all my sympathies to your dad. From what I remember though, it can be successfully treated with agressive antibiotic treatment, but it is a slow recovery time. Thinking of you all.

Is anyone else's baby learning the "cough to get attention" trick?! Ds2 keeps giving this really hacking sounding cough, I go to investigate and he gives me this huge cheeky grin.

I also think I'm going to nickname him "doof" as that's his favourite noise at the moment. It's so cute!