July 2008 - Food Glorious Food - babies who lunch

[Isaidno]

New thread starts here!

what's with the new site? Took me ages to find you!!!

Pigley - you're brave with the paint We only paint outside - naked kids get dumped in the bath after and the rain clears up the patio!

Poledra - I've got a square eyed baby too! DD(2) loving cbeebies at the min and Isaac watches it all the time!

SK - know what you mean about B at night - Isaac gets really wound up if I keep going in to him - if I leave him to get on with it he moans for about 5 minutes then drops off to sleep, bless him.

We put Isaac into his big cot in his big sisters room last night, he's getting too big for the crib! No problem until 1230, then whinging on and off, so I'm in and out to settle him until 5.30am when he decided to have a proper cry and DD shouts 'mummy baby crying - NO!' I had to go and rescue her - Isaac ended up in our bed. Will persevere and hope it gets better! I feel like I've had NO sleep at all .

m2l - it's going to be difficult to cope at the min - bet the early pregnancy tiredness combined with dealing with L is a killer! If I were you I think I'd do whatever you need to do to cope, co sleep, whatever, until you get past the 3 month mark and the tiredness eases - then plan to tackle L's sleep in whatever way you want. We did shush pat type thing with DD, which worked well for her - Isaac HATED it and get's really wound up if you keep going in to him. He whinges himself to sleep in about 5-10 mins, we don't leave him to cry - he just moans a lot!

sorry for mammoth post . Must come on more often.

hi poledra sams doing ok thanks very constipated no matter what i do but still as beautiful and sweet,
we have his cat scan on 16th march get results next day,so everything crossed,i know its going to happen sometime its just the waiting thats hard

cass funnily enough i texted my dh last night as ive been quite off with his for ages saying its friday and does he want an early night of course he said yes

ive just got in ive had my baby grandaughter here today and shes so poorly the gp thinks it bronchilitis and to keep an eye one her shes only 8 weeks,and has huge gummy smiles for me,she knows im going to spoil her rotten.

wow..it took me 10 mins to work out where you all were
Sorry to hear your Grandaughter is poorly disneystar.....and i'll have everything crossed for you and little sam on the 16th March.
Meg has been in ds's room for 4 nights now...so far so good...although when I check on them ds has his head covered with the duvet...Meg can snore a bit

I am loving all the new look MN....its taking me a bit to work my way round.

hope your all good..off to have a nose around the site....

Hello everyone,

new MN... very posh! I did see the site was down last night..I was intrigued as it said For major work!

Poledra- hope DD2 gets better soon.
Abigail is another square eyes!

SK- I find Abigails sleep annoying too... what you try one day wont help but the next might be great. Abigail will be terrible for a while, then improve for about a week then for no reason go back to multiple wakings! We say we have peaks and trofs.... hoping for another peak soon!

Cass- Who else did DH think it was from?? Thought his luck was in!

Shortsafe- love DD telling you baby crying and NO!

Disney - be thinking of you in the 16th March... Its also my Dads birthday and DH's 30th!
Hope Jessica gets better soon

Pudding- at DS sheltering from the snoring!

Went and saw a lovely house last night that we both really liked. Just need to sell ours as the guy who offered before has disappeared off the face of the earth, so no chance of him upping his offer
Still we have another viewing here tomorrow so fingers crossed.

Got sad news this morning that our friends in Spain have split up they have a 4 yr old boy and its all ended nastily with him not seeing his son now
would love to help her out with childcare ect... such a shame they moved to spain last year.

What is with new site... Change scares me!!

P drank from her big girl cup all on her own last night & was the first time she had it with stuff (water) in! So proud it's one of those Tommee Tippie ones that they have to suck at, I think it's great!

Bumbo arrived today (present from granny), is brilliant coz her sitting up is wobbly so hoping this will help her gain some control!

Best go, DH is working (trying) downstairs & P is screaming, must go rescue him!!

bebe - wouldn't worry too much about the sitting, I have a theory some babies are sitters some aren't, B is not a sitter, she will sit for a minute but this means she has to be still and she doesn't do still, she tried to throw her head back and get onto her front. Just like some babies are crawlers and some bum shufflers. Saw this littlie at toddlers today crawling and being very fast at it thought OMG that will be B in a few months oh dear. Oh v-shaped pillows could for learning to sit as are a few cushions at their back as they don't get the throw head back it hurts, DD2 still doesn't get this.

Better day sleep wise today, 30 mins in pram this morning, then this afternoon she was grumpy at toddlers, out her in car seat and she fell asleep, carried her inside in car seat and she slept for 1h35m am taking her pram in next week she like sleeping in it.

Hope she is better tonight, poor DP he comes in from work and she is mega grumpy.

lol @ big girl cup everything is big girl now - big girl shoes, big girl bed, big girl pants etc

DD2 has taken to saying "I go upstairs as I is a big 3 girl now and you aren't DD1" DD1 replies "but I am big 4 thats bigger than 3 I was the first baby in Mummy's tummy" DD2 never to be beaten in an argument ever "no you are not DD1" and so on and so forth.

Hi Everyone - I'm back DD keeps saying "I'm gone" leaving the room - few seconds pause "I'm back" re-entering LOL.

Just skimmed the thread as sooo much to catch up on - belated HBs to you.
Had lovely (but sleepless time) up at parents. Was snowy and DD loved feeding the animals, playing snowball fights, feeding the cows - Teddy, Tiesel and Zsara off her hands (she has no fear of animals) and helping Grandpa drive the tractor and quad - LOL.

DH had 4 uni assignments due so when I got home the pace was a tip - non-stop cleaning/washing etc eve since. HUMUNGOUS pile of ironing to tackle over the weekend.

Only 1 person and bubba turned up for my first 'official' meet-up - - I suppose it will take time to get it up and running so people feel confident.

Had a lovely day today - 1 od the girls I met on NM came over with her 3 DDs - age 4, 3 and 5 months (SK - like you) and DD had a whale of a time playing (it was really nice as I never get to see her play with other kids) and we had a good chat (I've only met her once but we just hit it off staright away.)

Also back at bellydancing last night (CASS?) and am sooo rubbish my mucles have just gone. We were practising camels and boy could I feel it!

Calvin is stuffing the food in now - 3 meals a day, plus finger foods plus a pudding at night! he is so lovely now - the last 3 nights he has slept right through - WHOOPEE!!!! I just need to retrain my brain now -sleep FFS!!!

MINKUS - sending you and GILLY - sleepy vibesxxx

His hair is coming in thick and fast and gorgeous - red- but no teeth yet. He isn't sitting yet either and still hates being on his tum but is really good at standing and taking his own weight.

Am currently doing up his room - 1 wall planets and stars, 1 wall a sea scene.

Must go and chill for a while - hope you and yours are all well. Cuddles to bubbas and sleepy vibes to all
xxxxxx

Hi guys. Not been on for ages, did you miss me?

Well how about this new site then? Posh hey? Obviously trying to impress someone? Anything to do with the book launch?

Sorry I haven't caught up properly, there is so much going on!

Sam is now crawling, ahhh, it's a flipping nightmare! I now have to have eyes and ears everywhere and DS1 is acting quite negatively to it as he's getting less attention and he's been a naughty bugger!

As for food, Sam's new routine is
6.30 Bottle
8.00 Porridge and toast
9.30 Bottle
9.30 - 11 Nap
11.30 Lunch
1-2 bottles somwhere between lunch and dinner
4.00 Dinner
5.30 Has finger food with us while we eat
6.30 Bottle and Bed

That's actually quite boring for you I bet! Who was worried about routine? Was is M2L? Well Sam had NO routine until I started weaning, but when I did I started a strict time table for food (8 is breakfast. 11.30 Lunch and 4 Dinner, same as nursery) and everything else fell into place.

bebe You sound just like me with DS1, I REALLY didn't want to go back to work, and didn't want to leave him with anyone, so I didn't, I worked evening shifts at Waitrose and pubs to make ends meet, but eventually I got so tired from running about with DS1 all day and not getting in til midnight that when he was 12 months I returned to work, and it quite honestly saved my sanity, (and his, truth be told, he is quite sociable and loves nursery!)

DS1 has also been diagnosed with being Long sighted, so it's been a battle and a half to get him to wear his glasses (although he looks so cute) we are getting there now though. He's not broken them this week (yet!)

Question about the full fat milk thing, why is it OK for them to 'eat' it, but not to drink it?

I can't quite believe that Sam is 7 months old this week! It will soon be time to celebrate birthdays!

Jodie I think the milk thing is because full fat milk doesn't have all the added vitamens and "stuff" that formula/breastmilk has in it therefore it's ok as part of food but the gov't don't want people thinking oh well it's cheaper than formula so we will give our babies that to drink instead IYSWIM?

Oh I get it now, thanks Libra So, in theory,ATM, it ould be OK to give it to them in a sippy cup as they don't drink much anyway, as long as Breast/Formula is still their main source of food? (Obviously Water is cheaper still and don't mind wastage while they are training to use the cup!)

I remember on Olivers 1st birthday, I through away the steriliser and stopped using formula. It was like a ritual!!!!

rumpel LOL at your DD, DS1 keeps getting in his car and declaring that he's going to work, he gives us all a kiss, leaves the room and seconds later comes back..... 'Oliver Home' It's so cute!

Libra is right - they can drink milk before 12 mths, but not as their main drink.

Poppy has slept through for 6 nights in a row now. Why am I so tired??? Crossing my fingers she will sleep through tonight making it a full week. Then I will be confident enough to say yes, she sleeps through the night when people ask.

Hi to everyone, gotta go, house is complete shit tip.

Hurrah it's the weekend and tomorrow we are going to Moonfleet manor for 2 nights, it has shit reviews but I don't care as we are going away and hopefully will get to go to Monkey World which is aces.

Alexander still isn't sleeping thru, but only wakes once which I suppose whilst not great isn't unbearable. He has been in nursery for 2 weeks now and seems to enjoy it (to be fair there are more toys there!) and I start work on Wednesday ARRGGGHHH! Needed to buy new work trousers as still can't get into my pre-pregnancy ones!

I quite like the new look but I think it is a shame they had to put it in place before all the bugs were ironed out. What I am not liking is the 1001 threads about the new site and how people hate it. FFS life moves on. I am tempted to ask mumsnet just to have one thread about the new site like Moldies and MM.

Rumpel - "practicing camels" now that just sounds dirty!

SK - During the day Alexander just sleeps in his pushchair, I tried for weeks to get him to nap in his cot and there were a lot of tears on both sides but I found if I put him in his pushchair he was asleep in 5 minutes and so I just use that now.

Got new faster pc & broadband...DH just set it up...it's amazing! Means he can work more from home if I am having a bad MS day!

SK, P desperately wants to sit up as she is so nosey and loves being able to see everything she just is very wobbly, we tried propping her up with cushions but everytime she tried to see what was going on she kept sliding down the sofa!! She loved watching DH do the pc this morning sat in her bumbo.

For the 4th w/end in a row our neighbours having been hammering/banging away, they are doing an extension, and have been doing most of it themselves...since June last year! Really getting fed up now, evertime we put P down for a nap the banging wakes her up as it is right next to her room! Everytime we see them they say they are nearly finished, so getting quite cross about it, DH and I keep arguing about it as he won't say anything coz he doesnt want to fall out with them. I do kinda of appreciate his point but they know we have a baby & it does take the piss. Last Sat he was banging from 9am til 8pm pretty constantly, poor P was exhausted by bed time as she hadnt so much as had a half hour power nap ALL day!! Really don't know what we can do, but it is getting a bit ridiculous!

Anyway I am going to go do house stuff, we are having a big Spring clean, we are planning some decorating at Easter as DH has 2 weeks off (we still have loads of B&Q vouchers from when we got married), so we are getting tidy & organised now! Am actually quite excited...how sad am I?!?!

hi ladies
well you remember my little GD jessica wasnt well and i took her to the gp just yesterday
well she could see she was having breathing probs and couldnt drink and i was so cross she sent my daughter home with her Grrrr

last night at 3.30am jessica started making choking sounds and was going blue my daughter just rang for a an ambulance
jess is now in intensive care at 8 weeks old
and needing oxygen all the time right now,being tube fed my daughter is so upset
so am i though shes like my baby too iykwim

im going to go tonight to visit and to relieve for a while its so draining being there

had the boys passport pic done today as they nneed renewing and danny whos 4 could not stop laughing it took half an hour to do his aalone

samuel having a nap on the sofa at the moment i only put him upstairs at night so he kind of knows the difference that bed is for longer

bebe thats a bit inconsiderate of them to making that noice every weekend non stop in our house the weekend is the only time we spend it here together i,d be cross too if samuel couldnt sleep
surely a kind word explaing the problem to them wouldnt hurt
if you guys dont say they wont know there disturbing you

Disney, what a worry for you, I hope Jessica recovers very soon.

I am struggling so much with feeding here. Bryony is very fussy about food, she will eat fromage frais and fruit but resists savoury now, even things she previously liked. At mealtimes she gets very distressed and makes this horrible grunting sound, as if she wants something but I can't work out what. She will eat bread as a finger food but veggies just fall apart as she grips them so hard and she gets even more frustrated. On top of that, she is refusing to bf during the day, so is waking more at night for milk. Just last week I felt weaning was going really well but I'm getting stressed about it now.

Jodie, I can't believe Sam is crawling! I am not at all looking forward to Bryony being properly mobile, the dds don't pick their toys up no matter what I say so she's bound to get hold of unsuitable stuff.

Rumpel, nice to see you back too, hope your next meet-up is more successful. I've never met up with anyone I've met on the Internet IRL, but would be willing to give it a go if any of you are around Cardiff.

oh no, disney. hope little jessica feels better soon. so horrid being in the hospital.

i am knackered - went to Friday bar at my work yesterday and had cocktails. not home late but Sat is my dh day for a lie-in and i had a fuzzy head all morning until he woke up at 11.30! luckily tomorrow is my lie-in although we are going to brunch so won't be lying in til then (my boobs would hurt too much too).

it was fun to see my colleagues and made me kind of almost look forward to going back in some ways. still looking at childcare options though. i had a meeting with the leader of the big nursery/kindergarten place. Its nice and she is really nice but its very mixed up and all the older kids are running around - i wonder if Elodie will like it. She will be the youngest child in the whole building (178 kids in separate nurseries/kindergartens).
Its nothing like the sweet, cosy nursery that I actually chose for her.

Also, its so bad to judge but i didn't like the look of the pedagogue who will actually be looking after Elodie all day. she just seemed really trashy and smelt all faggy. And she ignored Elodie when I was looking around.
But who knows, maybe she does love kids - just didn't get that impression. i am going back on monday and will talk to more parents and then decide.
otherwise i think she can get into another place at the end of summer.

well, i've got freelance to do - fashion designers website. so knackered.

pigley - good luck with the next viewers of your place. you never know, the first guy may show up again too.

bebe - that is so aggravating! i absolutely hate confrontation but would have to say something. my upstairs neighbours are good friends but have a noisy kid who used to run and crash and bang just after i put E down. had to say something in the end but did it very nicely.

libra hope you had nice time at moonfleet

isaidno - have the same thing. elodie does sleep through - a waking before 6 is an exception. but i am still knackered all the time. need to do my pregnancy style - used to go to bed shortly after i got in from work - around 6ish! was so knackered then. different kind of fatigue - that first trimester. hope you are okay m2leah

just been to visit jessica and shes very ill they dont know whats wrong with her but she cant breathe without oxygen and her heart rate is over 200 and they dont know why,shes also nil by mouth
somethings going on and i just hate it when they dont tell us

my poor lil baby i stroked her foot and held her hand and was nearly in tears,and my daughter hannah looks so drained and tired.
and guess where her dp is at home doing nothin,god he annoys me at times but i cant interfere its not my place,but i really wish he would help her instead of sitting on his butt with his mates

i cant believe sams crawling what a clever little boy
busy mom too now chasing him cos when they learn dont they go fast.....lol

Evening all

Disney - so sorry to hear about little Jess hope she turns the corner soon

Tjuice - fuzzy heads and babies do not mix children have no respect for hangovers

ponto - I'm with you on the crawling thing dreading it I can just imagine the older two crying as B is chewing on Barbie's head or something, I think the rejecting the savoury stuff is just a phase they go through, keep giving her it, I bought all this fresh veg to make B some savoury stuff this weekend but my blender has broke will have to be finger foods and yoghurt for her now

bebe - nightmare about your neighbours, could you move B to the quietest place in the house in her pram for a rest?

Jodie - course we missed you, wow a crawler already, non the fun truly begins

Rumpel - can I come with you next time you visit your parents, I saw the pics too looks great for DC? B is the came now stuffing the food in, will start with breakfast in a week or so too. She gets really cross if she sees you eating something and she cannot have a bit. We also laugh as she has got this funny chewing face it's a look of surprise as she takes a bite as if it's her first bite then it's this great big effort to chew, shouldn't laugh she only has two teeth can't be easy.

Evening all

Disney, sorry to hear about your DGD, hope she gets better soon.

Jodie I was wondering where you were! Cannot believe Sam is crawling already! Not looking forward to reinstating the stairgates - as well as the obvious ones, we have to have one between our kitchen and livingroom, as there's two steps down and of course the kitchen floor's hard tiles. Not what you want a baby to plant their face on!

Can't type for very long - got an incredibly painful split on the end of my thumb and keep hitting the space bar with it - oooooow! Just been searching through the MN archives to see if there are any ideas there to sort it out, as this is not the first time this has happened recently. It seems to be that my skin goes haywire post-pregnancy - just after I had each of the girls, every time I washed my face the skin would go tight and red and blotchy. I've still got some of the cream left from that, so will give it a go. DH says he's noticed that sometimes when I'm dressing the children or giving him a cuddle, my hands are so dry they rasp over the clothes. Rumpel, d'you have any ideas for something that might help? TIA.

DD2 fully recovered now - she lifted herself from her sickbed to eat some toast and chocolate spread at lunchtime yesterday and drank some apple juice. As that got into her system, I could see her visibly perk up, then she ate solidly from 2pm till bedtime! Thank god, as I could not take any more CBeebies or kids' DVDs. I don't mind Pocoyo too much but anything gets wearing after a while

poledra - I have the same thing, you mean the skin at the end of your thumb is split and open and raw? Last week I had, ouch typing. Someone on here recommended Vaseline new skin, it nips like hell when you first put it on but forms a barrier so the skin can heal. I keep forgetting I have it them, then get cleaning stuff in them and ouch again.

poppy didn't quite manage 7 nights sleeping through - she woke for a feed at 930pm which was most unusual. She slept til 630am after that so mustn't grumble.

disney - hope you grand daughter gets well soon x

i feel miserable and grumpy today; housework getting me down, ds1 constantly nagging me for his nintendo, ds2 constantly nagging me for food.
dh is also p*ssing me off - I mentioned he was off sick again with orchitis? well, he is no better and I have little sympathy when he stays up til all hours drinking and smoking. I've told him he'll get better quicker if he looks after himself, but to no avail. He's still in bed now. Not much chance of him going to work next week by the look of it.

Libra - hope you're having a lovely romantic time at moonfleet manor x

Hi All,

DISNEY - healing vibes to Jessica and big hugs and love to you all ((( ))). Give your DD a big squeezy hug from me.x

POLEDRA and SK - take some omega 3, 6 and 9 essential fatty acid supplements or add flaxseeds/pimpkin seeds/sesame seeds to your cereal and eat avocados 3 x weekly and oily fish 3 x weekly - these will feed the skin form the inside out. The best habd cream I have tried is the Body Shop hemp seed hand cream - my Mum had it and I pinched it - it's fab. I put it on every night and it seems to have helped a lot. Also exfoliate your hands regularly - you can use a scrub or mix sea salt or sugar with some olive oil and rub them before rinsing off and WEAR RUBBER GLOVES

managed some pilates, bellydancing and ab work yesterday then spent 2 hours aeriating (with a fork) and raking the lawn today - am shattered. Must go Dc are squawking!!!!

xxxx

Sorry for kak spelling! Hi to everyonje else too [wave emoticon]