Oct 2007 - This little piggy had pureed butternut squash and a slice of pear...

[alicet]

Well thought I should start a new thread in time to link it on the old one!!!

Muppet I am loving the image of Ollie in his rocket, eating. Never mind Henry eating broccoli!

Dal, been wanting to say this for ages: please don't be too sad about bf. You bf Dylan for 5 months, that's five months longer than a lot of people, AND you went through hell and high water to do that. And now as you say the whole feeding scheme has changed and what matters is solid food now, and all your homemade food will be giving him so much goodness.

Newmama, welcome and hello! All you need to know about me is that DD was born in November, though due in October, is delightful but a total sleep resister. After one good night last week where she went for several hours we are back with the every 45 minutes waking up all night. Boo hiss!

Longlost Apricott, like the new name! Hope Huw's nappies are a bit nicer as he gets used to solid food. You asked about Designerbaby - I saw her on a weaning thread recently. I lurk in weaning and bf/bottlefeeding areas cos I like the controversial fighting and also cos I'm picking up ideas!

Ejt, good luck!

LLL, glad the carpet was good. How's the diet this week?

Ejb, welcome back to you and Joel!

Floria, I wonder if your DH knew you wouldnt want to leave Alex and had just assumed it would be best to postpone the gift for now. Hope he's not reading us! Mind you, someone I know in RL who has no kids asked me recently 'do you go on Mumsnet?' and I answered vaguely 'there are loads of internet parenting forums' and she said 'I've been spying on my neighbour who told me she posted on there. She tells everyone everything in so much detail on there, it's fascinating'. Um....

Anyasmum, Anya is indeed whirling... not sure what a dirvish is really but it seemed to fit...

Hello to everyone else!

Age: 5 months
Height: dunno
Weight: 14 pounds or thereabouts
Sitting: can sit for about three seconds and falls down!!
Rolling: Yes, but only does it when absolutely has to to get the desired toy (sometimes cries instead!)
Crawling: lies on tummy and lifts bottom in air and scrapes knees on floor, doesnt go anywhere!!!
Standing: loves it!
Teeth: none.
Talking: chatters non stop, doesnt make much sense but is a real chatterbox
Sleeping: oh dear - goes to bed at 7 30 but tends to wake up every 45 minutes. Gets up at 6.
Fave Food: only had mummy milk so far! seems to like it...
Fave Toy: Jumperoo, kissy bear, Octopus
Meals per day: 5 bfs a day

alicet/LES - I am also dubious about many of these things that people try to flog you for babies, but I have been v impressed by the feeder (bought on the recommendation of my sis who is doing BLW with her third DC at the mo).
I only use the feeder for banana and melon, and other slippery fruit. It says you can use it for chicken, but DS can grab that quite easily himself. He was getting quite frustrated with the fruit slipping through his fingers, and it was just ending up everywhere except in his mouth - now its a lot less messy.
Plus, he's going to a creche a couple of hours a week, and he can use the feeder to eat the banana with a minimum of supervision - puts my mind at rest, and the creche workers were very impressed by it.
One word of warning, although it says you can wash it in a dishwasher, you need to get all the old bits of fruit out first!

Strawberry, where did you get that feeder - was it in Toysrus? It looks like a good idea.

Dal reading Choc's post reminded me to say the same thing - I had thought that when I read your post about stopping bf too but baby brain deleted that bit of info when I came to post myself! You managed 3 and a half months longer than me for starters!

Muppet pmsl at man in bunny suit being chased by a whole horde of marauding children demanding lollies!!!!!

Oh shit - yet again I can't remember anything else! I really must sort my brain out before I go back to work and it's fast approaching... Speaking of which Adam had his first nursery visit today. Actually dreading going back to work and feeling a bit crap about it at the mo. Sure it will be better than I'm expecting but Adam seems so little to be going to nursery and it's hitting me harder than last time. Sure we will be OK and thinking about it is worse than it is. And I don't really have any choice now! PLus I couldn't be a SAHM longterm but would dearly love to do it for a little longer. Just feeling a bit sorry for myself....

Alicet - many sympathies about the going back to work thing. I am also not looking forward to it, but I know its something i have to do, and I'm sure it will work out ok for me and DS in the long run. Are you going back full or part time?

Choc - I got my feeders in mothercare, but i have also seen them in toys r us

Strawberry thanks for your sympathies! I am going back 3 days a week but will have to do on call shifts on evenings and weekends too so hours wise will not be too different from fulltime. Boo hiss!! When are you going back?

Alicet - on call shifts sound a nightmare! I have to do some on call as part of my job (press officer), but they are nothing like yours (ie, its rare that things happen, and when they do its something big like a major fire or bird flu, which is quite exciting in a sad way)
I am not going back till September so I am very lucky. I was going to go back June/July, but then a combination of not being able to find childcare that I wanted, and wondering why on earth I was giving up my only opportunity to have a whole summer off work, made me re-evaluate things.
How did you find going back to work after DS1? Is it feeling alot different this time?

Ooh am going to get one of those feeder thingies - ta for tip

Dal - completely agree with what yr saying re food and nutrition - felt exactly the same with dd (she wouldn't bf. I pumped for a month whilst she was in hospital - getting 2 - 4 oz a day from one hour on double pump every 3 hours (!) Lasted about a day once I got home and had to all the other life stuff)

re constipation - I find lying them on back and rubbing their tummy in a sideways U shape from just above the belly button. Then do a cycling motion thing with their legs, finishing off by holding both knees up over tummy. You can buy lactulose over the counter at pharmacist (dd has had loads of probs with constipation - if you want reviews / discussion of treatments I'm good for that! )

Floria - completely agree about making the most of yr time with them whilst they're small. I remind myself of this when I'm really knackered!

hi all

choc how awful no sleep!!! i think ur great ive have been curled up in a ball crying if the longest i got was 45 mins

alicet my dc are both in a nursey 2 afternoons a week and i havent gone back to work yet. i booked georges place then thought i,d have abit longer off. but have to go bck june boo hoo

and i havent bf george all day and does he care not at all!!! he has had the baby milk and not bothered at all. i did try expressing but got 2 oz after 45 mins so gave up

Morning all, am with dh as he said he was working from home today as we hadn't seen a lot of him as he's been working long hours for a few weeks (working then coming home and working till 11.30pm etc) He knows I hate it when he canceled and would rather he didn;t say anything. (He cancelled taking both boys for their jabs on me ) I even checked it was still happening Mon night and he said yes. I told Ollie Daddy could take him to school tomorrow (last night before bed) so he's all excited. This morning he hets up and comes down for breakfast in his suit and anounces there's been a 'change of plan' and he's going in. Why did he not tell me last night, oh yes, that's because he came in at 7.45pm and then went straight out agian to play tennis.
He siad that he's going to work from home tomorrow and take me out to buy some new underwear (I've been wanting to for a while but you need your dh/p with your with a lo don't you!) I was really cross as Thur morning is the only time all week I have something I can't move -the BSL tutoring. As usual he didn't ask me just re arranged in his head.

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choc - thanks for your kind words re bf, brought a tear to my eye .
muppet - sorry you dh is being inconsiderate, if it's any consolation my dh forgets to tell me things all the time, anything and everything, except in his case it's actually because he really has a very very bad memory. I read somewhere the other day at that at our age our memory is at it's peak so god knows what he's gonna be like as he gets older!
Off to make some veg stock for my puree's, back later x

I just ordered one of those feeder things from ebay. Toysrus are out of stock!

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Made me laugh!

Very funny muppet, I like that

haha, I like that Muppet

lol muppet thats great!

lol muppet thats great!

lol muppet sorry about dh, i usually take Shannon in with me when underwear shopping, if they've got a big enough changing room tht is!

Shannon fell out of bed this morning, luckily she only cried for a bit and didn't have any obvious injuries so i think shes ok, will be keeping an eye on her though.

Also, even though she is in a sleeping bag, she manages to get her legs jammed inbetween the bars of her cot because she is so wriggly, i have put a cot bumper and the top but don't really know what else to do, are the such things as all the way round bumpers? any ideas?

Alice, she seems to be better now(touch wood), i have only been getting up once or twice to stick her dummy back in the last couple of nights and unjam her legs!

Alice, when do you actually start back at work of your hols?

i have read through all the posts but can't remember anything else,m sorry!

I am on a hen weekend on Fri, woohoo!! no kids for 2 days and nights, but its taking a lot of preperaton work to pack for all 3 of us going to 3 different places, dd1 with her dad and Shannon with my mum, so i may not be on till after weekend, oh and i've booked an initial consultation for my teeth to be whitened on Mon, but its £300 at my usual dentist, am wondering if i should shop around or just go with who i know.

Oh dear, the little darling's awake. Hope you all have a decent rest of the week and weekend, think of me in my pink wpc uniform on Sat with my several bottles of wine, vodka, and whatever else i can get hold of, and then i'll prob be hugging the toilet!!

xxx

Alice i meant when do you officially go back to work after your hols, or are you already on call because they messed up? xx

aw, muppet sorry dp is being an eejit. i'd hate to be on my own that much. men don;t sometmies realise that being at home with los is NOT like being at home without kids do they? - make him pay!!! i may moan about dh lacking work, and therefore, money of course, but at least he's here and we see him. still manages to piss me off though when i find him playing or the like on the pooter when i think he's working . he was away mon and tues this week and it was really nice - good ti have him back now though.

sorry about typos -bfing again

and, alice - sorry you're down about work.me too. some days it dioesn't seem so bad, others i just hate the thought.

huw has conjuntivitis, again. other than that we're all well

cd - good luck with the exam. or shiould i say pob lwc (or am i just making that up???)
i'll get back to ou re meeting up when i'm less encumbered with feeding infant.

laters x

have agood one j20!!!

glad S ok after bed thing

muppetgirl - ... not at your dh obviously - I call the place my dh inhabits when he doesn't think "Planet Jonathan" ...

YLLP - hiya - I can't bf and type - I have one of these stupid kneeler chairs - great for my posture, not so great for my ability to do other things whilst on puter!
Oh, and it is pob lwc! Da iawn, ti!

j20 - enjoy - glad S ok.

Dal - you deserve a bl00dy medal for all the effort you put into bf - stop beating yourself up about it!

choc, alice, ejb, stefka, newmama - hiya all!

Thanks for the tip on the feeder thingy - might get one - if only to help M out when she'e eating slippery food (mango, melon etc) - she gets very frustrated when she can't pick it up!

Want to make M a sunhat - should be revising, but can't be @rsed ....

muppet;dont blame you in the least for being with DH...hope you get your underwear shopping spree soon (with his wallet!...for my dh that would be kicking him where it really hurts!) and at the Nigella v RL..thanks I needed that laugh

Dal;ditto choc and crotchetdiva, no one and I mean noone has worked harder or been more dedicated to BF than you. Give yourself a big pat on the back for getting this far.

Newmamma; sympathy for you too at having to stop bf... I thought I was going to have to give up a couple of weeks ago when Alex "pinged" me so hard that it made me cry and I was devasatated at the thought of not being able to do it anymore, fortunately he hasn't done it again (and he hasnt got any teeth yet) ...but perhaps there is something positive in that George is not missing bf,because at least you dont have to feel guilty for denying him as well as feeling upset yourself...

Alice;sorry you are feeling so bad about returning to work ...not much more I can add, just sympathise...sorry

J20;glad Shannon is ok...hope you have a fab weekend.

Sorry I've not been around much..Dh away again..hols next week (truly dreading the 14 hr and 3 plane journey [worried emoticon])Mum staying to "help" but in truth just pointing out more things for me to do (I know the dog desperately needed a bath but he's going in kennels next week and is hardly likely to come out of there smelling of roses is he?)... and Alex gave me a couple of truly dreadful nights (every hour one night..still not as bad as Choc but crippling after you have got used to just one feed a night)but he's eating very well (makes me feel wonderful about my culinary skills he shows so much enthusiasm for my pasta sauce, my homemade soups and my veg stew )Dh home tonight, just taking Mum back to her house now so perhaps I'll manage some sort of normality again soon.
Hope everyone I havent mentioned is doing well...night night all.

FT hope you got a better nights sleep last night, and also hope your getting some sleep full stop choc!

i tried Shannon with weetabix this morning, she liked it but still prefers her bottle, she really isnt that bothered about food but i can'tjust keep her on milk after the 6 month mark. Oh and following FTs lead, she had a strawberry yesterday, which she liked but i didn't when she was sick and pick lumps came back up-nice.

sorry for those having to give up bf, I hated doing it and i only did it for the first 6 wks, but you've all done so well up to now!

s'pose i'd better clean up while madam is asleep, oh and can you all change your names back please, i don't know who's who!!