Happy First Birthday April 2004 Babies!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Hi all,

Ds took his first steps today. Deep ambivalence - he was chuffed to bits with himself so I was pleased for him, but I guess that marks the transition to toddler rather than baby

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Yes, particularly when you are thinking it might be your last baby...

I'm thinking of waiting till ds is about 3 or 4 and then trying for another baby. Any older boys seem to love my ds and he loves them - so that age gap could be good. Tho I would be 41 by then - so may be too late!

Tracy my boss just had her first at 41.

We are on 4x 5oz formula per day. Just after breakfast, with afternoon tea and after bath in the evening.

Congrats on your ds HMC. I felt the same way it is sad going from baby to toddler in a funny sort of way. I can't imagine how hard it must be knowing it is probably your last.

Maybe I'm strange but I love all the developmental stuff! DD is nearly walking - I'm not necessarily encouraging her (as I'll have to run after her more!) but I think I shall be pleased when she manages it.

Each to her own and all that (I'm not unsympathetic to your response hmc!). Well done, anyway, to your ds for walking - and well done dolbear's ds for sleeping

dolbear what telly prog was that?

HD the developmental stuff is totally exciting, but it is also sad in a strange way in that babyhood is being left behind.
You're not weird in anyway for feeling like that in my opinion.

I think, because I found looking after my ds hardest when he was a baby, I'm not worried that dd is showing signs of leaving babyhood behind. She's not showing signs of going off breastfeeding though!

YG, did you see that the steriliser went in the end? Thanks for that.

am not about chuffed's pregnancy but definitely about the travelling plans! we could travel too but just can't face it with 3 little ones - maybe when they are all walking well, no buggies or needing carrying, and no tantrums.....

dd3 has cows milk (and 2 feeds of breastmilk too). i am never convinced they need formula after about 10 months, rather than cow's milk.

dd3 still not walking. she does a lot of "trolleying". she still seems pretty babyish, i think especially cos she's not walking.

DS is showing no sign he'll walk any time soon - if you put him near a trolley, he plays with the toys on the front of it He spends most of the day standing up or sometimes cruising.

Doesn't bother me at all - it's so funny to see other babies the same age who I've known since they were 8 weeks old or so walking though - and because DS isn't, they look too little to be doing it!

I was breastfeeding him earlier though and it occurred to me that I was now feeding a rather large baby

hunkermunker are you going to bf long term? do you have a set time you'll stop at? (I see you are very active on the bf board)

No, no set time - he doesn't seem ready to stop now, so as far as I'm concerned, he can keep doing it

When DS was born, getting to the next feed was hard enough to think about! So I decided that if I was still finding it hard at six weeks, I'd reevaluate it. I wasn't, it had all settled down (sore nipples, lumpy boobs, fretful cluster feeding, etc). Then I went through a rough patch again when he went through a massive growth spurt, but wasn't eating much in the way of solids when I went back to work part-time when he was just over six months old. I expressed for him, I gave myself another couple of weeks, and it all worked out fine.

Now, I'm increasing my hours at work so I do three ten-hour days. It may be he goes off breastfeeding - or he may not. If he does, so be it - if he doesn't, I'll keep feeding him.

I find that being laid-back produces the same, if not better, results as knickers-in-a-twist-ness does, hence my approach to all things parenting Except whole grapes. I'm very vigilant about whole grapes

I have to say dd is showing absolutely no sign of being in the least bit inteterested in walking, although she will support herself on her knees.
I have no doubt that it's because she can't, but she doesn't want to.
However, she does sleep. I put her down at 7 and she wakes at 7. She has been a very quiet baby, the nursery told me the other day they had been thinking she was deaf!! That has never occurred to me atall as she has always responded to the dog barking . Neither myself or the nursery can explain the changes in her recently, she is almost a different child altogether. Hence the fact the MMR has suddenly terrified me which is strange because I never expected it to be a problem for me. As a health professional I was quite happy to go along with the evidence and statistics that MMR is the way to go. Suddenly, we have an appointment fornext week and I'm a mummy....

er - whole grapes hunkermunker? (is there something wrong with them?)

MrsD, hope you get your head around the MMR thing.

I think HM means not to give a whole grape as they are easily choked on and to cut tthem up!! Mrs Doolittle - my ds isn't even cruising yet let alone walking!! He gets up on his knees but nothing else just yet!!

Thanks LucyJones! DD is like that!
HD - Horrible stories exist about kiddies choking on whole grapes, so it's good practice to cut them in half. I heard one, maybe on here, about a child taking them off the conveyor belt as it sat in mummy's shopping trolley, she was packing the shopping. The child choked to death. It could so easily happen, can't you imagine it?

Think I need to ask if I can hold off on the MMR, didn't someone else say that is what they are doing.
I brought it up in the office today - bad idea! A very emotive issue!!

A grape is exactly the same size as a baby windpipe, and slippery to boot. Hence babies and toddlers choking on them - they're easy to lodge and hard to get out.

There was a 17-month-old who choked to death on one in a Tesco a few months ago

I should've been clearer!

I'm holding off the MMR till DS is nearer 18 months (or possibly going for singles - have yet to decide). I'd heard it's more effective if they have it later - he may well have it at 14-16 months though.

me too - waiting till 18 mo-24mo before mmr.
i hate bloody grapes! ds absolutely loves them and I have to stand and cut them in half for him and he would eat millions of them if he could! He had a semi tantrum in M&S today going past the grape section - I would have had to get the pre wieghed/boxed ones for him and would have cost a fortune.

Know just what you mean - I have a grape-eating-machine too! He has them quartered so he thinks he's getting more And he only has ten at a time...although I did see how many he'd eat the other day and after 17, I figured I didn't want to be on the other end of that nappy, so I stopped giving them to him...!

I only learnt to cut up grapes with dd3, courtesy of mumsnet! my labour saving method is to get dd1 to bite them all in half (she enjoys it).

dd3 had her MMR on Wed. she was off form for the next day or so.

Hunkermunker - i am trying to encourage my dd3 to go off bf so I don't have to force the issue. i want her to stop but I want her to want to!

ds's fruit passion is bananas - he can't get enough of them - and strawberries, which he makes the most unbelievable mess with..! He's still on 3 bottles of milk away, which he loves - would probably have more if we let him. I can't bear to think about swapping over to cups yet for his milk - I love giving him his bottle - it's the closest he is to a baby when he's having it .

Does everyone use cot mobiles? The reason I ask is that ds has pulled his off so many times now it is broken. Atm it is still usable but I'm wondering if there is any point in buying him another as eventually once he's in a bed (I know that's ages away) he won't have one.