Hi all, hope all the poorly babies are recovering now and everyone is okay! DD has been poorly too, she too has had chicken pox and was a little trooper! Definitely a better age to get it than when my boys had it (4 & 6.5). She stopped being infectios Thursday and woke up as a snot-monster on Friday, poor little lady . She has been sleeping really badly since the chicken pox although managed to go through until 5 this morning and then back to sleep in my bed so hopefully she will be going back to her normal 8-7.30 sleeping pattern soon (touch wood).
She is now only BF in the morning and before bed but like many of you I no longer feel comfortable feeding her in public so her bedtime milk is always upstairs now, mind you, it is a nice special quiet time for us and I will miss it. Am going to start giving her milk from her cup in the mornings once her cold has cleared and see how that goes, am aiming to stop BFing before Christmas, never intended to do it beyond 6 months so I am pleased to have managed nearly 11! She still will not touch formula but she likes cow's milk (which she has in the afternoons) so I am hoping she will be happy to take it.
She is babbling away all the time and will have 'conversations' with us, she knows just what she is trying to say although we have no idea! She has also started taking quite a few steps in the last few days and can now walk around 10 steps unaided - she wants to walk all the time but has no patience with slow and steady so falls over an awful lot!
Other news in the Speckle household is that DS1 has been made a Superkid at school! It is an award they give out to children who consistently try hard and do their best - so proud! DS2 is taking a key role in his first Christmas play and DH is still (unfortunately) looking for work but we are doing okay, staying afloat and keeping fingers crossed for the New Year and all the opportunities it may bring!
Think it's a great idea to start the list up again, can't believe Rory will be 1 on Tuesday! Where has the year gone! There are quite a few people missed of the list on the old thread I think - me and Evie included! Although perhaps that is because she was so overdue and arrived in January! Is she the youngest on the thread (due 27th December - born 8th January)???
Insy CONGRATULATIONS!!! Am so pleased for you! I won't lie to you, it is hard work with 3 but so worth it! The 2 things I find hardest of all are keeping up with the ironing and the daily school run (terrible at mornings anyway though...).
Another sleeping BF baby here... Evie has nearly always slept at least 6 hours a night from birth and until recently she has been sleeping from around 8 until around 7.30 [beckle presents face for slapping...]
Melly, K is ever so cute! That dimple on her cheek is adorable!
Clairey, in response to your question (about a month ago) I did get a Wheelybug for DD, I found it on a website called www.babycurls.co.uk for £44 including P&P, also got a grobag on there for £23 and a buggysnuggle too! Not a bad site!
BT, sorry to hear you are having such a tough time at the moment, perhaps you could speak to your HV again? You said it helped before? I know when I was feeling really down, just talking to a 'professional' and hearing that what I was feeling was normal helped me loads and a couple of sessions with a link worker steered me back onto the straight(ish) path and kept me away from the ADs.
Hope everyone else is okay!
Oh, and on the subject of ITNG, I saw the episode with the Wottingers and got all excited too! Evie loves watching the Ninky Nonk drive around but not interested in the rest at all! And Makka Pakka definitely has a problem, all that arranging stones into 3s? Classic OCD! Mind you, my link worker said there is nothing wrong with a bit of OCD as long as you don't let it take over (although I suspect MP has) - who wants to be normal anyway!
And on that note I'll leave you to go catch some zzzzzzzzzz