Hello everyone and happy new year/new thread. I've quickly skim read, so sorry if I've missed anything major.
Hope everyone had a very merry happy festive time. We had a v quiet NYE, and actually went to bed before midnight as we were so knackered! It's been nice to catch up with friends and family over the hols, all back to normal now, and DP back in St Petersburg til the 15th .
Anyhoo, sorry to hear about the bad nights. B hasn't improved either - he goes down between 7-7.30 but wakes every hour or two. Sometimes it's just a quick wake up and shoving his dummy back in works straight away, but sometimes he screams and screams - and then just as suddenly stops and falls back asleep. I thought he might be having reflux problems again, but even making sure he's getting all the Gaviscon and Ranitidine doesn't help. He's well into his solids now as well, so I don't think it's hunger - not all the time anyway, I'm still feeding him three times a night.
I even tried wonder Medised one night in case it was teeth (nothing has appeared yet, but he is dribbling and often has red cheeks), but it didn't make much of a difference.
I have accepted that sleeping through is as much a developmental stage as crawling, walking, etc. DP persuaded me to leave him to cry when he was small, and it appeared to work, but it went against my instincts, and now I know that the poor little mite was probably crying in pain due to reflux. I may change my mind in a few months time - and I'm really impressed and pleased for those of you who have had success with CC.
I always search for discount vouchers before I buy anything, hotukdeals is a good site, and also lists, guess what, hot UK deals... It's how I found our sofa, reduced from £800 to £150, so often worth a peek.
DramaQ - I use Ella's Kitchen, Plum Baby and Organix for B when we're out and about, and sometimes at home. Much easier to carry than glass jars, and they go down well. I do use jars sometimes, if I'm at home I mix them with some puree from the freezer, I think the jars have a really spooky texture otherwise. Luckily B eats anything and everything, apart from peaches, weirdly. He's doing quite well with finger foods alongside mush - toast, rice cakes, fruit, veg, etc. And he's still eating Christmas dinner... I whizzed up turkey breast with sweet potato, leek and parsnips and the leftover greens and carrots - he's only got another few pots left in the freezer, but it's been a big hit!
Katyjo, sorry to hear your two haven't been very well, hope they're better soon, missed you at Waterbabies today. B didn't scream nearly as much today - still quite a lot though! He has been asleep since we left though (almost 2 hours!), which is a result. And has let me catch up on MN.
The Moldies debacle is horrid I think - reminds me of school! I think it's a bit sad that some folks have let an internet forum feature so largely in their lives. As someone said, it seems to be all the bitchy arsey sneery old timers who have gone, so yes, good riddance to them. I didn't see the appeal of many of them anyway!
Oh, over the hols I was looking in my copy of Nigella's first book, How To Eat, the first edition. Her weaning advice is shocking!!! She mentions trying weaning one of her kids at 3.5 months, they weren't 'interested' so she waited til 4 months! I wonder if it's been updated in later editions. She's not quite advocating pureed cupcakes and frou frou canapes, but not far off!!!
Phew, marathon post! And B has just woken up, so that's it for now.