October '04 babies - anyone fancy a kip?!!

[beansprout]

I certainly do. Bean is becoming more and more unsettled in the night as the weeks go by and it is taking its toll. Florence, you have my utmost admiration for still being alive, let alone managing a trip to NZ!! Hope its going well.

Bean is 3 months tomorrow, and people are already asking me if I am going to start weaning him soon? I would like to keep bf until he is 6 months, but how do I know if he needs to start sooner? Or will I know that is a stupid question when I have a permanently hungry baby on my hands?!!
What is everyone else planning to do?

Btw, am reading a marvellous, marvellous book called "What Mothers Do (especially when it looks like nothing)" by Naomi Stadlen. It talks about what a shock it all is, what we provide for a our babies and crucially, what I find missing from so many other books, how we actually feel - exhausted, sometimes angry towards db, unsure of ourselves etc etc. It does not tell me what I "should" be doing - hurrah!!! Cannot recommend it highly enough. Is doing me the world of good and we like that.

[biglips]

oh frigging ell !!! im not typing all that out again !!!! oh well

[rickman]

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[biglips]

tonite i made lentil bake (lentils with vegs abd cheese on top) i pureed some for baba and she loves it (yum yum yum!!!) last nite she was on her fours and put one knee forward - oohhh exciting!! (well not for me but for her as she able to get everywhere), mum gave baba 5 baked beans - big mistake - as baba threw up big as in the baked beans is high in salt and sugar - oops!

Bean - all i need now to buy a mattress for babas cot and then she will go in her room properly (fingers cross!) as ive been busy painting and hadnt had a chance to get the mattress

rickman - glad your baba is getting the hang of the solids

maisie - i know what you mean about baba blowing raspberries as mine does it, more or less, permantly!! (ive told her that her tongue will roll off one day as she can go on and on and on!)

[Maisiemog]

Pog is now on hunger strike. He had a couple of spoons of porridge and banana yesterday. Today he has had a tiny bit of porridge and then I gave him pureed quinoa and peas. He thought it was very funny to spit it out and especially to blow raspberries so that it would fly all over me. Hee hee! No that's not funny Pog.
Oh well, I'll let him decide when he's hungry then?
He seems perfectly happy though - having consumed 4 calories for the whole day. Mind you, he seems a bit teethy at the moment, so maybe he doesn't feel like chewing (gumming) any food? Who knows?!?!?

[rickman]

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[florenceuk]

Bean - congrats on getting your space back. I'd like to move DD but nowhere to move her unless I shift the computer. I suspect she won't sleep through until we do though so it's a dilemma - maybe we need a laptop??? No good for working at home though - heard of somebody who gave themselves permanent spinal damage through bashing a laptop day in and day out.

Anyway big news is that DD managed to move forwards! She can basically drag herself along the ground - before she could only go backwards and would end up trapping herself under the couch - now she has direction!

No progress on food front - although some parsnip must have gone down no interest after a few spoonsfuls smeared everywhere...

[beansprout]

Bean moved into his own room today. Part of me feels happy to have some space back in our room and part of me has felt really sad. Still, he's sleeping, so hopefully he is ok. He will be six months tomorrow, or, as we keep saying, "half".

[cazzybabs]

How are we doing with any kind of meet up plans????

Gave Grace Banana today -she loved it. I can't bare tge stuff.

[Maisiemog]

Bibiboo that's what Pog used to do - he didn't appear to need more than 30 minutes during the day and he woke up at 3-4 am to paarrrty!!!
A good, but dodgy way of making her sleep longer is giving her medised at night (of course only if she has teething pains - or looks as if she might develop them . It knocks out Pog for ages. Poor old boy ends up looking half asleep for the next day though.
I ended up behaving as if I were on nightshift and going to bed at 9pm for a while. It was really difficult though because by the time you've had dinner tidied up, put on a wash blah blah, it's 11pm wah!
But I suppose it will pass, and eventually she will leave home and then she can stay up all night and you can sleep - so only eighteen more years to go. {shock)

[biglips]

ive been to Southport today zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - im knackered as we walked on the pier and i inhaled tons of fresh air which made me go all sleepy abit so we went to the Southport fun fair - went on the G-force rollercoaster - never again - as i didnt know whether to cry or throw up (i must be showing my age ) now gonna watch tv or may go to bed as im knackered !

[florenceuk]

bibiboo, do you mean that boo wakes at 4.30am and then doesn't sleep till 10am?! You poor thing. What is the rest of her day like? Mind you I guess DD not so different - awake at 4.30am, feeding/dozing until 6-6.30am and then wide awake. Collapses by 8.30am though and back to bed - she is still having 3 naps a day, can't really stay awake for more than 2hrs, probably because of her nocturnal shenanigans.

Biglips, congrats on your baba sleeping through! Enjoy your sleep

[bibiboo]

Awww, huppa sorry to hear about the carrot incident, it did make me though.
My dd's sleep is getting worse -she's virtually falling asleep sitting up by about 7:30 now, but is waking at 4:30 - for good She wo'nt have another sleep until about 10. I physically cannot keep her awake after 8:30pm anyway, and if I do that, she's so miserable and grizzly I feel awful. Oh dear.

[biglips]

hello everyone - at last ive finished painting the room and looking after baba at the same time. she was downstairs in her bouncer or playpen whilst i had the baby talker so i could hear her..

this is the 4th night she had slept thru - the first 2 nights i slept really heavy and baba was full of energy (for the past month she seems to be having less day naps usually just an hour per day!!! NOT FAIR as i need my break whilst shes asleep )... its all down to introducing her 3rd meal instead of 2.

Kath- well done (give yourself a pat on the back)

Rickman - the only powders (Cow & Gate) she is having is her brekkie and lunch but her main meal is proper foods.... 3 nights ago, i made chicken with mashed potato and vegs, it was too heavy and slighty lumpy, she threw it all back up, 2 days ago she had just vegs (i pureed it better), she wasnt that keen so she had half a bowlful of it, last night she had burger and vegs (pureed it alot better as im getting used to it) and she wolfed it down so getting there and you just carry on with the powders as no harm is done, its just alot easier to do and plus your DS likes it.

[Maisiemog]

Do you mean he will only eat powder? .
I'm sure you are a wonderful cook and he is just too small to realise that and appreciate your culinary genius.
There are some good recipes on babycentre.com. There's a page of 'first tastes' on the weaning part of the site.
DO you think it's the lumps he doesn't like in homemade stuff?

[rickman]

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[Bellie]

DD seems to be getting hungrier - she is on 3 meals a day - probably about 10 teaspoons each and 5 bottles and she is crying for her feeds now which for the first 6 months she has never done!
Congrats on the promotion KathH - Trisha will disappear from your thoughts soon

[Maisiemog]

Nope it's not just Smallmoles that don't sleep through the night - small Pogs (aka bumsticks - like poosticks) are also up, jiving around at 3am.
We are confusing our baby by having half a dozen names for him - so that by the time he goes to school he is not going answer when they call the register. He'll probably tell everyone his name is Bumbums or Poglington or something. There is some kind of developmental test surrounding the baby responding to his/her name - FAIL!

[KathH]

well, we dont have a problem in that babymole is a right piggy - 3 proper meals and 3 bottles a day but he's still puking aaaaagh! went for review at hospital on Monday and they're dead happy with weight, just under 18lb. Have increased his doses of medicine but apart from that it seems we have to just wait it out, still have managed almost 7 mths of sick so hopefully only another couple to go! Work is going well too, actually managed to get promoted but dont know whether i'm pleased or not as at the moment could have done with a job where i can just finish and forget about it till next day, also have managed to forget all things accounting while i've been off like tax and probate laws, cant believe that i did know these things once - obviously 6 mths of daytime tv has rotted my brain! Hope everyones really well and their babes are doing well too (and sleeping thru the nite or is it just mine that's still hit and miss, mainly miss!

[biglips]

as baba is not keen on vegs on it own as i had to play aeroplanes and pretending i was having a bit of it too

[biglips]

this is the third night that baba had slept thru as ive started to give 3 meals a day (6 teaspoons each) plus her bottles.

rickman - try porridge as your DS may like that

[huppa]

Haven´t been around for a while - computer problems -and haven´t had a chance to catch up yet.
Started weaning ds this week. Yesterday I was feeling very smug that I´d managed to get a few spoons of carrot into him without covering us in any when he promptly threw it all back up over the two of us.
Hope everyone´s o.k.

[Maisiemog]

So far so good Pog seems to really like food - wierd really as he showed NO interest at all before we gave him some. He's a bit slow on the uptake that boy, I don't think he had worked out what we were doing with the plates knives and forks :?
I changed his nappy today and there was no yellow bf poo, it was like compost or something. Uck! Is this the end of the nappy leaks and explosions or am I being lulled into a false sense of security?
He's having a nap - the little varmint - poor old thing woke up last after pulling the blanket over his head and getting too hot - then he was in a bad, tired mood and stayed up crying until about 3am, had a quick feed at 5:30am and then got up at 9. I'm knackered zzzzzzzzzzzzz!

[biglips]

last night - gave baba chicken, mashed potato and frozen vegs, all cooked and pureed, but i think i made it too heavy as she threw it all back up (whisper all green cos thats the colour it was in the bowlwheni gave it to baba!!) but the potato i used our mashed potato so wondering whether that made baba puke?

try again tonite

[biglips]

mine is not rolling yet as she go onto her back but cannot get back on her belly of where she started.... she is kneeling on her knees more steady - still wonky and its funny ...
Baba is a noisy baba as she like to talk LOUD!, took her for a walk yesterday and all you can hear is baba was gabbing (she is trying to talk now but with her tongue out at the same time) and people from over the road could hear baba gabbing, but im walking down the road all happy and proud of her !

bibi - about the 1 yr old - awwwwww!

[bibiboo]

Boo didn't roll over, but she did frighten a 1yo to tears! My step-SILs little girl was at MILs and she is very timid, and is brought up in a quiet, orderly house, by her quiet, orderly mum and sees very few other babies. She's a sweet little thing, but reserved. Carys on the other hand is used to people and noise (noisy dad and his noisy music) and can be quite loud, loves the sound of her own shouts etc! The 1yo came in, dd took one look at her and decided to shout in baby language "Wow! There's XXX, I like her, yay!" or something imilar, the poor mite jumped a mile, toddled to her mum and wouldn't go near her the rest of the aternoon! My daugher's a bully