July 2008 - Food Glorious Food - babies who lunch

[Isaidno]

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Red - v the break sounds lovely! Could really do with one here!

Have had to put P into 6-9months sleepsuits & vests for the length! Poor thing is swamped they are so huge. She had loads of belly room left in the 3-6months stuff but her poor legs & feet were all squished! According to the weight guide she still had a couple of lbs worth left in them...she is just so long! Trousers are a nightmare too all bar m&s stuff (which I find v generous size wise) things are just getting too short even though she has masses of room in the waist/chest

Seeing SIL's LO has made me even more broody for number 2. Am trying not to let my heart rule my head! Finacially having a second right now would just be too much, & I want to try & let P have some only child time so she can have lots of our attention & having 2 under 2 would be really hard for me! But I really want another one .........stupid hormones! We have agreed to wait til P is 2 but it's really hard, I am so impatient!!!

ahhh il av 2 under 13 months-yikes....
hope all good ,jus lurkin

how are you M2L i often think of you and how you are.

sams in 9-12 mths clothes now hes weighs 17lb and is really podgy though
latest thing now when you say bye bye to samuel he waves like mad is very cute
and if you pass him a toy we get a very exagerated ahhh its suposed to be Ta
off to do the dinner now and one of the boys wants my laptop

Hello,

Kaz- at the Arson.. Have your neighbours upset anyone lately!

DoThis- Abigail has become a right little wriggler too lately.. usually when trying to get her dressed in the morning.

Bebe- at the playdough. Abigail is the same clothes wise. Its her arms too that I have trouble with.. nothings long enough!
Def with you on the massive round the chest/tummy. Shes mostly in 3-6 size clothes.

Poledra- I swear men really do believe in the washing up/housework fairies that come overnight and do everything!

Jodie- Yay for your friends DD. There was a 5week old boy at baby club today and I too was getting rather broody

SK- glad your feeling better Phew, thats a relief about DH's job then!

Ponto- Glad the christening went well
Did you manage to kill off half your friends and family??

Red- Poor DS1. That must be rather painfull. Have a fab break away!

M2L- Hope the pregnancy is going well.

Disney- Abigail has started the waving lately too.. its sooo cute.

Abigail did really well last night. Went to bed at 8pm with 8ozs down her ( which is quite alot for her) didnt wake till 2.40am! Had 6ozs then off again till 7am! And the best bit is DH got up to feed her during the night so I didnt even have to get out off bed once last night!- Heaven
Only took 5 ozs at bedtime today so not holding out much hope for the same but hey ho!

Fingers crossed- Our solicitor is hoping that we will be able to Exchange contracts on our new house by the end of this week We may be in by the end of the month!!

hi all

B was up loads last night, just looking for quick Mummy boob and back to sleep. She was really cute today I took her upstairs for her afternoon nap and as soon as I put her on the bed she turned on her side and closed her eyes as if she knew it was nap time. Still gave her a little feed though, tonight as well I put her on the bed before getting in beside her and she was looking like she was ready for bed.

M2L - 2 under 2 you will be fine, change one nappy change two I would say first year will be tough but then it gets a lot easier when number 2 starts to walk and play with number 1, they will be so close

pigley - looks like Abigail is going in the right direction, great news about the house you have been so lucky there.

disney - Bethany weighs 17lbs as well, she is really filling out now she was quite dainty and didn't have chubby cheeks but she is definitely getting chubbier, she is quite long though won't be in 6-9 month clothes for that much longer

red - great news about the holiday, we are so looking forward to Centerparcs in May although B will be crawling by then
poor DS1 too hope he feels better soon

thx minimummy xx

good morning all....

well i was a bit stupid last night i ran out of my meds 3 days ago and thought its ok i can manage,was i wrong,and got a telling off from gp
i have to take about 18 tablets a day different ones.
the ones i didnt have are for chronic pain and as i wasnt taking them regular i didnt have any pain barrier there and im supposed to take them whether i have pain or not.now i know why......now

well samuel is going from 10 pm -7am now with 3 or 4 wake ups but maybe for 2 mins or so reasurrance i think,but if he wakes and sees dh he smiles and goes back to sleep im so much a softie and he knows it.
were now having a cry whenever i leave the room and hes getting frightened of things,
at tesco someone spoke to him he cried and quickly looked at me as if to say
mum is this safe??
i look at him and he can just make my heart melt in an instance,dh thinks i should learn to toughen up but i just cant
my little boy has got to go through so much this year,and we dont know if hes going to survive it,how on earth can i care if he wakes me in the night or not.
everything seems trivial to me in comparison IYSWIM
someone asked if anyones still using the sling
well im still using the close sling i use it everday.
i have it on during the school run and when i get out the car i pop him in
my ms over the years have caused my arms to be my problem area and are very weak
a mum said boy he must kill your back but it doesnt it,he still sleeps front facing or back on me.and tbh i love it him snuggled in to me,love the fact he feels safe and content to do that.
off to the market today well farmers market.
due to finances ive had to cancel all organic deliveries so having to meal plan and utilise,soon it will be mend and make do.

Morning-

Disney- Abigail is far to heavy for the sling now. Its hurts my back but then ive always had a dodgy back.

Your little Sam is such a hero and you should cherish every minute

Well had a shitty evening her. I was talking to my mum on MSN and it broke out in abit of an arguement (its been brewing for ages).
To cut a long story short she doesnt agree with how im bring up Abigail and thinks im doing a bad job! -- Thanks Mum!

I havent left her with them (or anyone) yet and she now thinks im damaging Abigail as she looks for me for reassurance when they pick her up. Plus the BLW is neglecting her as shes not eating enough food and having "proper" food.. ie Jars! Ive tried giving her websites to read about it but she just wont have it.

Really upset me last night. You try your best to do whats right for your child and for your own mum to say your doing a bad job of it makes you feel really crap!

Abigail sees her maybe once every 2 months so doesnt really know them well enough for me to leave her with them. Ive suggested them coming to see us more reguarly so that shes more used to them first but its always us that go to visit them and they never come to our house. We are always the ones making the journey. Im not happy to just leave her with them as I know she will cry and mum cant cope with crying babies.
It was kinda left that I will go to them and stay overnight one day. They will put her to bed and see to her during the night and I'll pretend im not there. But ill be there if things go belly up IYKWIM. They have no idea about her routine ect and im sure the moment my back turned mum will be shovelling jars into her!

oh what a nightmare!!!

My sister left her DD with them at 4 weeks overnight so of course we should of done the same and mum has her 2 days aweek + overnight so my sister can work and get a good nights sleep in between. She also feed her solids at 3mnths- including chocolate and ice cream and gives her rum to " shut her up".. My sister is the childcare expert and whatever she says in gospel! Can you tell who the fav daughter is??

Anyway!! Im stuck indoors today as the car is having its annual MOT and service. Got LOADS of housework to do and have started packing so plenty to be getting on with.

Sorry for the mammouth post ladies

Quick post for some moral support. 1st day back at work today. Can hear Max crying in the babyroom and its breaking my heart. It will get easier won't it?

Ahh mummywannabe It will be alright I promise, DS1 was a bugger for this right up until christmas, now he doesn't give me a second glance as he skips off! [strokes hand and offers a virtual cup of hot chocolate]

pigley at your mum! Your not a crap mum. and don't believe her for a second! Why don't you suggest she stays with you for a weekend so she can see for herself Abigails routine and how good she is at eating etc! She's being very unreasonable if she's tut tutting your way of weaning without even reading up about it, or listening to your reasons for doing it! I didn't like leaving my boys with my mum and dad until DS1 got older as they had no concept of timing, and would give him his lunch at 3 'coz he was happy playing' (despite me calling them to remind him that he needs his lunch!) then of course he wouldn't eat tea and then woke up in the night starving!!!

oh Mummywannabee poor you, IT WILL BE FINE repeat repeat repeat

pigley - poor you too re your Mum will psot more later

must go unpack shopping

pigley; ignore your mum's comments, you know best. I have only ever left ds1 once overnight (with my mum - she is fine!) and the other 2 never been left. Just because I don't want that. They're my dc and I want to look after them. The mil has stopped banging on about her having the dc for a weekend because I have politely refused so often.

My mil doesn't like blw because it is too messy.

I still use my close sling every day, although 2 hours is prob the max I could wear it.

Just finished mammoth pile of ironing as I was ill over the weekend was needing to catch up. Will have to go put it away in a bit if I can actually get in the DDs rooms the amount of toys they have pulled out.

pigley - I agree with Isaidno ignore your Mum, every generation has it's own ideas about raising children, your Mum probably had a few moments with her Mum too. Even if I got on with my Mum I wouldn't leave the DDs with her overnight, she has looked after DD1 a few times when she was younger and gave her lucozade to taste and salty porridge when she was 9 months old. Think she did it just to wind me up that's what got to me so now she will never look after them again. I think our parents generation are of the opinion that babies need food early and lots of it the more you can spoon in their mouths the better. I used to got mad as my Mum was always trying to shove food in DD1's mouth. You should give your Mum a jar to eat see if she likes it, they are yuck honestly all cornflour and they just taste plain weird, the desserts are quite nice though I remember my Mum being horrified that DD2 was eating garlic bread at 9 months. She also said BFing was wrong as you couldn't tell how much they were getting

Like everything else in parenting take the advice, smile, ignore and then do what YOU want

Thanks ladies, all in all not too bad a day! Max did ok in the end, few really bad crying spells but lots of smiles too.

Pigley - mothers! Please don't let her undermine you, you sound like a fab mum. I think parents are programmed to make stupid comments!

Mummywannabe, glad your day was ok. I'm going back to work in only 6 weeks now, am feeling torn between wanting some time when I am me, not just a mum, and not wanting to leave Bryony (and the other 2 of course!) I am lucky though, my mum will be doing the childcare on the 2 days I am at work, she lives 100 miles away but comes to stay so she can look after her granddaughters.

Pigley, sorry you had a row with your mum, I know it can be difficult sometimes, I think a lot of it is selective memory - they always think that whatever they did when you were young had fantastic results, and forget all the nights of crying, no sleep, etc. BLW is a hard concept for lots of people to grasp, despite being all the rage on MN, I think it is not at all well known in real life. My HV had never heard of it when I mentioned it, and I think that other MN mums have found the same.

I had my differences over food with both my mum and my MIL with dd1, they were all for giving her tastes of all sorts of, in my view, inappropriate things at a young age. But in the end, I decided that I was prepared to compromise on complete control over what dd1 ate, in order to benefit from the babysitting - I just could not bring myself to leave her with nursery or a childminder. I guess we all have our own particular areas where we won't compromise.

Pigley & at ur mum....how rude!!!! You are not a crap mum at all. Abigail is happy & healthy and that's what counts...she certainly doesn't think you are a bad mummy, you can tell from pics & videos that she adores you!

Tried P with some sticks of cucumber today...she sucked them then threw them at the cat BUT she did feed herself breakfast (porridge with fruit puree) & ate a rice cake & a fair bit of an Ella's kitchen pouch I had bought (am testing out flavours for when we go away so I know what to get!) so that was a good food day for her! Bought her some Hipp juice for her to try...I have never seen her pull such a face, she spat it out everywhere and I actually thought it was quite nice! Oh well no skin off my nose if she prefers water...just trying to broaden (sp? looks wrong to me) her horizons! Also trying to encourage use of the cup, she did not like her milk being in there at all!!

Going shopping tomorrow...cant wait even though it's just to buy stuff for P, will be lovely to get out & about. I'm still feeling a bit hesitant about going it alone after the MS episode as things are still a little tricky & I feel as if I am being judged....even though no one would know to look at me. Just takes me a while with fiddly stuff like her coat & pushchair straps & if she is kicking off it's really embarrassing that it takes me so long. Think I am just over thinking it TBH but I just can't shake the feeling! Oh well she has just dropped off so I'm gonna go enjoy the next hour before bed!!

Oh, btw pigley, I did not poison my family and friends at the christening, it turns out, but the guests we had staying with us and dh have all been infected with dd1's tummy bug from last week. I had it a bit for a day, but I am made of stern stuff .

Anyone who's finding their LO too heavy for the sling should try a back pack, they're ace, you can even carry baskets of laundry around easily - I get ridiculously excited about that sort of thing these days!

bebe i know how you mean about when you go out but just ask for help if you need it eg...
tesco they always ask can i pack for you i always say yes please as i cant manage it very well anymore and they pack the lot,if they dont ask,ask them.little things make your life much easier.
ahhh pushchair straps for me are a nightmare hence why i use the sling everywhere,my arms and hands are just useless really i dont have enough strength to open the clip to unstrap him i need help with this i just a passer by .lol,or someone walking by can you please pull this apart for me,i have been stranded before just because of this its quite funny really.
pigley please dont listen to your mum your doing a great job with abigail and its your way not your mums way,different generations do different things.
my dh father thinks im weird as i dont supermarket shop and get organic veg,meat etc...cook from scratch and he eats hearts livers (makes me shudder saying it) he says this is real food not rice cakes and hummous.
BUT he loves my cooking
we agree to disagree.

Morning all

Well, DH reckons that if I were a horse, he'd have me shot . Have now got what I think is some sort of post-viral symptoms, where first my wrists were sore to move, then my neck joined in and now it's my ankles, knees and fingers too. Having googled it (dangerous, I know) I think it's post-viral tendonitis so could last a few days or a few months - hopefully the former. If it hasn't gone in a few days, I'll go to the GP.

Pigley don't listen to your mum - you're doing just fine your way. Things have changed so much - my mum acknowledges that, and tries not to interfere with what we're doing. The upside for her is that, when she does suggest something (and it's always suggest, not tell), I'm more likely to listen.

Disney how funny you mentioning liver, I've just been discussing it on the way back from playgroup with some other mums. DH and I eat it, and Orlaith had some last night for her tea and loved it. Mind you, DDs 1 and 2 ate it when they were babies but won't touch it now. I think lots of people have been put off it by being made to eat over-cooked stringy liver at school. It's one of those love it or hate it things, like Marmite (and I hate Marmite ).

Anyway, have most of our clothes lying around the house either ironed and waiting to be put away, or needing ironed, so best get on with it. If anyone has any bright ideas about where DD1's red top might be (she wants it for Comic Relief at school tomorrow) would you might letting me know please? Ta!

it's be with all my kids odd socks and dd2's lost pjs and new cardigan. I wish my kids took more care over their things....

Hi guys, just a quicky...

Can I please have a Proud Mummy moment???

DS1 won the fancy dress for World Book Day at Pre-School!!!!!

He went as Oliver Twist, he's scruffy by nature, so I got some old clothes and cut them up and dirtied up his face.. I've never won anything before....

u mean he never won neting..hehe

congrats

oh poledra im a veggie im afraid, and the kids only eat meat (which is not my choice) when dh gives it to them.
we eat of lot of quorn,loads of veg,fruit and pulses,dairy products without rennet of course,i had to do work on a journalistic survey of animals many years ago and it led me to the slaughterhouses,omg i never touched it from thats day
weve been having a conversation today about whether to tell the boys if they ask about meat as little Al asked last week mum whats in sausages as he a bit of his dads i was going to tell him but dh says no
but why im all for children have freedom of choice but thats cos im very opinionated and i like my dc,s to know whats what.
what to do? any ideas ladies?

big proud wife moment now

dh passed today just rang and told me i cried im so pleased for him and it was such a big thing and we are so skint his jobs dodgy and now we will be ok.
i love that man so much and whenver he achieves something its like me doing it too
now that sound daft but its how i express myself, and im not shy of you lot by now.

jodie well done and a very proud mummy moment you had its lovely isnt it.well done to oliver twist

Well done,MrDisney (or should we call him Walt perhaps ?)!!

Re the meat question, I tell my DDs where meat comes from - we often go to a working farm on a National Trust estate near us, and we explain to the DDs (when they ask, of course) about the connection between animals and meat. I just don't think it's helpful to tell them anything but the truth (coz I'd forget what nonsense I'd spun anywaym and they'd catch me out). I am very careful about the meat we eat, and only from a local butcher where I know about the source of the meat.

And congratulations to Jodie and DS1 too

Aplogies for any mistakes, Orlaith is 'helping' me