January 08 Shiny New-Year Babies, not quite so shiny they are nearly one!!

[Lilyloo]

is this ok didn't want to loose everyone courtesy of Lucky!!

meant to say NOT great with finger food

Rubysmom/bluebell - Hi Can't believe you are 16wks already

My DD weighs around 18lbs too. Her eating on the whole is not too bad but she is not great at feeding herself either.She only takes about 10ozs of ff a day and that is with a lot of coaxing. I have found the best thing when spoon feeding is to distract her with something ie rattle/toy as I think she gets bored iyswim.

What would happen if you gave her a spoon too? Having said that Molly would just ram it in her mouth and probably make herself sick...so maybe not!!

Am also finding DD VERY hard work ATM. I have breathed a sigh of relief today as she is in bed already

Hi Simpson! I have tried everything... giving her a toy, giving her a spoon, giving her finger food and trying to slip some in, putting it on my plate and pretending its my food, feeding her with my spoon, singing, dancing and more recentlty banging my head on the kitchen table!!!!!!! Ruibys not a massive milk drinker either, she only takes about 9oz in the morning and 6-7oz at bed time.... its so strange she has gone from being a massive eater to refusing everything surely she must be starving

Dh just got hom and took Rubes off my hands he is currently screaming on the bed playing with her, nice and condusive at bedtime, he has just suggested we give her a chocolate out of her advent calandar, honestly what planet!

LOL at your DH!!Tell him to put her to bed

I do think that they stop eating so much though at this age as they are not growing so fast iyswim. They grow more in their first year than at any other time and that year is nearly up Where has my tiny baby gone!!

All DD has eaten today is blueberrys and some banana. These are her current favs. But I have to pop it in her mouth though. She does like pear too!!

Have you tried baked beans? As that is another big hit here.

Also if you put stuff on bread/toast would she suck that off but not eat the bread iyswim. DD is now also into homous.

Am just on my way out hope i don't spend too much!

Simpson sounds a tough day don't beat yourself up we have all been there! Poor little thing she is so sensitive isn't she would that have been the pizza dough ?

Ruby sorry nothing more to advise than what you have already tried but lo certainly won't starve herself so maybe she just not hungry.
If it helps dd1 nearly 4 goeas through phases all the time of eating lot's and then barely eats for a few weeks!
Martha hasn't been weighed but think she less than 20lb!

Gingeme sounds like a nice but hectic weekend!

MM how was work then ? Lol at dh it takes some getting used to getting into a morning routine. Today for the first time we were so late that i left dd's in their pj's to do the school run!

Oh well best shoot have a nice evening all!

Hope work was OK for you MM. It was odd for me only having an hour or so at the end of the day with DS but I'm used to it now. The hardest thing is work days after bad nights.

This week I am dropping to 2 and a half days. I would actually prefer to do 3 days a week as the maths is a bit scary. I only save £750 a year on childcare but lose over £2,500 for dropping half a day. Oh well maybe next year will look for a promotion or summat.

Hi Rubysmom! MrsMcJr is also PG!

DS was doing well with his finger foods but now he just flings them on the floor or feeds it to the dog. I sometimes have to give him some bread to hold to distact him while I spoon feed him. He definitely prefers home cooked food to jars. I did try the Globetrotters jars recently and he really likes those though - curry, chilli, paella etc. I think he likes stronger tastes now. Or, have you tried scrambled egg or macaroni cheese? My mum said I never ate as a baby, I only liked one variety of baby food so that was all she could get down me.

It must be hard work being PG and having a LO I think. I like to find as much to do as possible with Alek on days off and weekends now as if we don't get out anywhere we both get bored I think. I also find it hard if I've had a bad night (most nights ATM).

I'll get him weighed this week as I will be able to get to the baby clinic for the first time in ages. I'm guessing he will weigh at least 27lb .

hi all, i'm here

been at work today too - spent too long staring at a computer screen so have a headache now. mustn't spend too long on here...

ds2 still not having feeds at night, so that's good. and it's helped me lose weight, so that's good too.
he cried at 8 & 12 last night.
as 12 i stuck my finger in the calpol bottle then let him suck it for a sec and that worked + meant he had less calpol so will try that again!
ds1 woke at 2 & 5.15. yawn.

yesterday we went to a 1 year olds party, wore the boys out
and they both played with the tomy discovery dome which is fab as i've just bought it off ebay ('from' my parents) for ds2.

forgot to say dh had his mole off last week, they said to him at the time that is looked 'abnormal' so we are trying not to read too much into that...have to wait a few weeks for results.
my dad had his hip op too so he's on crutches for christmas - though he is felling quite good just in pain.

dh at home some of tomorrow so leaving him henry-sitting while i get bits for handyman for this weekend's jobs/get other jobs done.
then he's busy the rest of the week, i have my orchestra concert and we have another party this weekend. feel knackered just thinking about it!

rubysmom - sympathies re food. luckily my boys mostly eat everything but ds1 goes through phases too. just ride it out, keep offering and don't get stressed. if you can.

simpson - poor dd, she is soooo sensitive!

right, off here now, eyes tired.
speak tomorrow

Hi all,

Bad day here cos I've got a cold AGAIN and no energy so an already tireing aaliyah has completely worn me out - have headache and stuffed nose. Yet for some reason I dont feel sleepy.

I need some advice on how to deal with Aaliyah's wingeing. She's got to the point now where she crawls after me wingeing mamamama or just mmmmmmmmmmum. I can't cope -esp when i'm trying to cook or something.

Nice to hear from you Bluebell - can't believe your 16 weeks already.

Simpson - Dont worry about shouting. I've shouted at aaliyah a few times over the past few weeks cos she's just too much.

Madmouse - Hope today went well and your not too exhausted. Bless your DH - he's trying. lol

Lucky - DD rolls around the floor after me whinging too I hate it and it drives me MAD.

When I am cooking I tend to stick her in highchair with bread stick/rice cake then I might get 5mins peace!!

Hi Lucky- Ruby does this mummmmmmmmmmm thing or she just tries to climb up my leg which is equally irritating. She is worse when she has woken from a nap but after 30mins of cuddles I need to get on with things. I end up playing with her toys for a bit and she gets all jealous and takes them off me resulting in her being too caught up to notice I am not there anymore. Either that or I close my ears, although on Thurs I did ignore it and it resulted in a 45min melt down- my sympathies!

Hey ladies am loving some of your Christmas traditions and am jotting them down for the future here are some from my family:

• We get to open one present before bed on Christmas Eve. This sprung up from living in a country where the 24th is bigger than the 25th but as we got older, it became an opportunity to give someone a pressie that you were most excited about.
• We always left Santa a tin of San Miguel and a mince pie (the beer always disappeared and Santa always took a bite out of the mince pie).
• We kept our stockings on the end of our beds and when my sisters and I woke up in the wee smalls we?d go through them together in the dark guessing what things were and then pretended it was the first time we?d been through them when we were allowed into our parents? bed at 8 (yes 8 even when we were little kids Lucky!
• We then had breakfast and got dressed up and then the pressie opening began (it seemed to take ages to get to that part) Dad was Santa, one of us kids was a helper and we each got one present at a time and watched everyone open theirs in a circle.

Since DH and I got together we?ve made some improvements to this and we are hoping we?ll get to keep the ?new? traditions this year!

• Mulled wine and mince pies with Christmas DVD on Christmas Eve
• I dress up as Miss Santa ? maybe those days have gone!
• We then do the whole stocking opening (but DH is crap and never gets me one ) and have smoked salmon and scrambled egg for breakfast
• Around 1pm the family arrive and we start rounds of eating, drinking and present opening until all the food and pressies are gone ? normally about 10pm ? fab! I hate it when you are stuffed to the gills and all the pressies are gone at 5pm!

Anyway, that?s probably terribly boring but I thought I?d share (makes me feel festive!)

Oh Ruby - Yeh she climbs my leg while i'm trying to cook. I've tred the highchair thing and she just screams at me if I try to put the straps on or climbs around in the highchair if I dont - tiled floor so could be painful if she falls.

Hey Rubesmum , I haven't had nathan weighed for ages but I guestimate my skinny midget to be around 16lb, so I would not worry.

Sorry eating is such a struggle. I am sure it is just a phase.

Lucky supernanny suggests that you fill a drawe or cupboard in the kitchen with tupperware and plastics so that she can rumage through that.

also, where is your dp? Is he helping out at the moment?

JKS hello, hope you don't have a headache now. I am still night feeding Nathan, although it is now more like 12 or 1am, and then around 5. I struggle more with the waking in between he has been doing. I now have a firm plan: at 11.5 months I will start to introduce cows milk as a drink (he happily has it in cereals and cooking), then wan him of boob and start offering cows milk at night too until he decides that's just not worth it.

Wore breast pads today which I hate(I never normally ever leak, but have never not fed for a whole day) but boobies were fine, even cycling home from the station , Nathan clearly thought it was Christmas and his birthday rolled into one when he latched on though . Apparently he refused formula today but drank water, so fine.

Very happy to see/hear that he is happy with dh, when dh turned up at mums and toddlers (which is in his church) Nathan just wanted to be held by him and he was happy to be home with dh at the end of the day while I was on my way home. That is lovely as it means Nathan is home at 5pm, not waiting for me and moaning. Little man was totally exhausted though.

Am shocked that going out for the day was so much easier than expected. Only when I heard a little child cry did I feel funny for a few minutes thinking 'baby crying, who will comfort my baby'.

Will stop waffling about myself now

bad mummy warning: when I really need to cook I put Nathan in his bumbo in front of cbeebies, with the remote control so he can adjust the volume or flick channels (he does both)

MM - She's already going through the cupboards!! LMAO. DP is gonna put the things that stop her opening the cupboards on the "cleaning" cupboard but we dont care if she pulls all the pots and pans out!! lol.

I tried bringing in a load of toys in but she'd rather climb my leg or eat the cabbage (in the broken cupboard)

MM - Tried that too but when she sees I've left the room her fave toys (the remotes) are boring and she comes after me with her mmmmmm [sigh] lol

LOL at Nathan in bumbo with remote control

but Lucky, cabbage is good

Yeh I know - hence not getting shouted at and why I got on with dinner QUICK SHARPISH

Maybe it will be easier when they are walking [hopeful emoticon]

I hope so too Simpson - I really do but I've got visions of her following me around pulling at me even more.

To change the subject totally was there not talk of a massive meet up somewhere around the time the Los turned one??

Oh that would be nice. Faces to names - other babies for DD to play with!!

It's probably gonna be too far from me though.....

Mmmm might be, oh well nice idea

Have got my toddler group tomorrow DD LOVES it

Lucky ? my MIL always buys me pjs for Christmas, they are always the wrong size (massive) and totally unsuitable ? I know it?s the thought that counts though! When she found out I was pg I thought I?d get away with no pjs this year but she?d already bought them and sent them over, you guessed it, far too big and totally unsuitable ? soon to appear on eBay. Have you tried your local Mumsnet section or spoken to your local Tsarina about meeting like minded ladies? You never know! Aaliyah?s daily routine is similar to Xavier?s though he doesn?t sleep as much during the day I find the best time to go out is after the morning sleep, we leave as soon as he wakes up and I take his lunch with us. He often has his afternoon nap in the buggy still out to be honest.

Simpson ? glad you had a lovely time child-less but sorry to hear about your bad day today

JKS ? great news on the night feeds now if you can only get DS2 to sleep a while longer? well done on the weight loss, it?s so hard to do but that Bermuda holiday will be a great focus! All the best for good news on DH?s mole and a speedy recovery to your Dad.

Angechica ? hope Alex is feeling better

Madmouse ? was thinking about you hon so glad it seemed to go quite well though I bet your DH is shattered tonight LOL at Nathan with the controls for the TV!

Lily ? your traditions are lovely

Gingeme ? I?m impressed, it must be quite a feat taking all your boys swimming. Xavier can stand for longer and longer periods alone but the mindset to move his feet is just not there yet so think we are still some way off walking.

Rubysmom ? 16 weeks wow! I?m in my 15th it is definitely harder second time round I am finding. That said finally I am not being so sick so that?s a bonus. Suffering from rib flare at the mo, never had it with DS and boy it hurts. I?m having a girl this time by the way Xavier is being very picky with food at the moment too, he is teething like mad so I am sure that is why but it does worry me. If I can?t get anything else down him he?ll always eat cheerios, raisins, tangerines and petit Suisse yoghurt.