June 2008: weaning with every flavour baby rice . . . . and loving it!

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new home!

It's very quiet on here today. I have just got out of the shower after having my second baby poo bath. Had about 20 toys in there too which all needed to be disinfected. Revolting stuff!! Not sure if I should say this but Mark's just won a load of money on a £10 bet on the arsenal game. Going towards the mini break of course! Why don't I ever win anything?

Hope all is well for everyone had a better sleep last night but the baby was sparko at 6.30 today so he'll probably wake up at 5am. Hey Ho.

Amber - great news about the win, mini break sounds good!!I've just won something - an Ebay auction - Roman playmobil ship for Stefan for Christmas - half price. I am relieved as that's the last big present bought now.

oh..that sounds really good deb

and when are you off amber -nice to have a little bit extra to spend when you're off -where are you going btw?

managed to sneak in first and get strictly come dancing on before dh started watching top gear

Evening all. It has just taken us 2 hours to eat dinner and wash the dishes. S just wont settle. He's had calpol, not fussed about extra milk and will only be quiet and sleep when I'm holding him. The minute I put him down he starts screaming...

It's going to be a long night...

Great news on the mini break Amber! Where do you fancy going?

I'm off to Cyprus on Wednesday (my birthday on Thursday). It's the same place as I was meant to go before it got cancelled in September. Won't be as hot or as long but will still be nice and a well earned break for us all. Scary though - Luke's first trip on a plane - eek!

I don't really watch Strictly but I thought the one with all the teeth (Irish no idea who she is) looked like she'd had a few ales before her dance - she was all over the place!

Is a mini break as we go on Wednesday and come back on Saturday!!

bdq we;ve got same thing here- given up and put her in her bouncing chair in front of i'm a celeb.

amberc that'll be fab.. oh dear timmy mallett not happy at being kicked off

bdq and Poppy - sorry to hear you've both got unsettled babies tonight, hope they want to sleep when you do!

Amber - I'm sure Luke will be fine on the plane, I fed Ethan on take off and landing, had a few small toys to amuse him but I didn't really need them, just give him the in-flight magazine to crumple!!Hope you have a great time.

\just finished making Ethan's Christmas sack, Stefan and Tristan both have one I made and I bought the material for this one last January when pregnant - it was the 1st thing I bought for the baby!!Mind you there won't be much in Ethan's this year!!

I haven't started doing anything for Christmas yet and you are all beginning to scare me. However our Christmas shopping is always fairly easy (a benefit of both being only children) so we always leave it till the last minute. Why should one 6 month old baby change things?

Just heard the headlines and an armed man has been shot dead today in the grounds of Guildford cathedral. It's about half a mile from my house! I even took Peter for a walk round there last Monday. Feel a bit foolish having recommended guildford to a mnetter wanting to move to Surrey so it's safe for her teenagers! Did anyone just watch Louis Theroux? It's still not exactly like Philadelphia here though.

I was pleased with the responses on my sleep thread, thanks for the replies folks.

We had a nice day visiting friends who have a 10 week old. She is so so small. When I held her she weighed nothing. I think she weighs now what Peter was at birth.

Better try and get some sleep. We has an especially bad night last night...

Morning all. I was right in my last post. Baby was awake at 4.30 this morning. He went back to bed at 6.45. I'm out this morning so no point in me going back to bed for a nap. I would love to say that his early wakenings mean that he is ready for solids (he is nearly 6 months now anyway) but he doesn't like them! Got Mark to try and feed him yesterday and most of it went down his front and the tiniest bit went in his mouth (the baby not Mark!). That was butternut squash. I tried to give him some pieces of plum and mectarine a la BLW but he didn't like that at all! They were a bit slippery for him too.

Morning all, as predicted, S had a terrible night. I gave up and brought him into our bed in the early hours but he was really unsettled so none of us got much sleep. Needless to say, we're all a bit exhausted in our house this morning.

Wondering if any other babies suddenly had problems sleeping around 4 1/2 month - 5 month age? Please tell me its just a phase .

DH off today, so I think we're going to have a family nap shortly.

bdq I'm so sleep-deprived that I initially read your post about S sleeping and thought you were complaining about him waking because he had been sleeping through. On careful reading I see that he was always waking for his dummy. I don't hate you then and hope S slept better last night.

Fraser really likes his glow worm when falling asleep - here. Does S have anything like this?

I'm struggling today as F was up four times and has been for the last few nights instead of the usual 2 or 3. DH is away too so I'm having to do more in the nights, for one feed DH will normally get Fraser and bring him to me which means I don't really have to wake up. It's just a phase I know, Fraser's just learned how to roll, but I'm very happy DH is supposed to be home today!

bdq am hoping it is a phase.. will dig out that ref neenz has to particular development/growth spurts but they reckon 19/20 weeks is a key one so in the weeks around that babies are unsettled.

got some sleep but she was really unsettled (screaming which is most unlike her and calpol didn't seem to help). Seems ok so far today but I feel like living dead - between that and cold not much inclined to do much

bitofadramaqueen I could copy and paste your post. DS would not be put down yesterday, had a horrendus night and is not sleeping now either. He does have a slight temp aswell.

Peter also slept badly last night. Woke at 11.30, 1.30, 3.00, 5.00 and then would not go back to sleep again. If you search the archives for 4 month old waking more there are loads of old threads about exactly this. I don't know what the answer is. From my weaning question yesterday solids don't seem to help until they are on 3 proper meals a day, and then only some people saw an improvement.

Nevermind, the weather here is glorious today, so I am feeling knackered but upbeat having just got back from town where I had a coffee and a cake.

Sponge How very dare you! Can;t believe I started a ruck on here and then went away for a couple of days LOL. No I wasn't offended in the slightest, it is very difficult, babies v DH, I didn't just say it to get a reaction. I honestly can't say for sure because the love is different but I think DH is more important cos I need him to be happy for me to be happy for the kids to be happy and that means putting his needs first (but it is taken for granted that the kids' needs will always be met and the two are not mutually exclusive of course). In the end the DH v kids thing wasn't picked up on in the thread (which has got very long and heated in my absence)

I just know it always made me feel very secure growing up that my parents loved each other so much that they put each other and their relationship before us. Makes them sound like they neglected us, not at all! But I think it is a kind of a case by case thing, sometimes the kids will need you more than your DH, sometimes the other way round. But I like to make my DH feel special by telling him he is my priority (even if sometimes I don't think it!)

The burning building question is very interesting too - I would save the DTs because they are helpless and could not save themselves. And if DH could only save me or the DTs I'd want him to save them.

Hi Alli, just posted on your weaining thread. FWIW I think the BLW camp don't want to accept that solid food makes a difference (which is why loads of them jumped in straight away to say no) because then more people would wean when their babies start waking up more in the night and would use purees to get more calories down! IMO solid food HAS to make a difference when the baby is waking cos of hunger (of course, not all babies wake cos of hunger, tho I have always assumed it to be hunger and fed my DTs).

You have done brilliantly to wait till now to think about weaning - I think it is time to put a few sticks of steamed carrot in front of your LO to see how he does (be prepared for him to just ignore it tho!)

hiya - dh also is firmly of opinion that food did make a different with the older kids (esp dsd).

Amber, it's common for them to spit it all out at first. They need to learn to get it to the back of their throat to swallow (sorry, all my thoughts are in plural, keep forgetting you only normally have one baby!).

Keep persevering - baby rice is good cos it tastes like milk (if you make it up with milk) and is very creamy (I make mine up a bit thicker than it says on the packet - 1tbsp baby rice to 1oz milk)

We had BLW breakthrough on Thursday with Theo - he picked up some pitta and put it in his mouth. Then on Sat he sucked on some cucumber! He is so clever . Can't think the 10 calories he got helped him sleep though!

I have been away for two days so am just making up for it now with all my posts!

thanks neenz -think I'll give weaning ago soon but edie got slight tummy upset (dh and I had it -nothing major but more interesting nappies and is a bit grouchy) so want that to clear up first

Hi all - sorry haven't posted in a while.

Seems quite a few of us are having sleep issues. A is still waking 3 or 4 times a night for food. bdq his non-sleeping phase did start around 4 months, which I'd heard was common, but he's 5 months tomorrow and the sleep is still as bad!

HH really sorry to hear your flex working was turned down. I've read a few similar posts and it really seems that although we have a right to request it, it is very easy for them to turn it down and argue basically anything on business reasons. I'm making a request soon but I'm really nervous about it

amber at your hol!

re flexible working I'm wondering how easy it is to turn it down if others have already been allowed to do it (mind you I'm in better position than most as want to go back 4 days a week which most people think ok but jury is out on people in my job doing 3 days a week - plus they've let a bunch come back to do 3 days a week on same days which stirkes me as mental0