June 2008 babies: rolling, sitting, crawling, babbling, teething, laughing, sleeping (not yet!)

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New home!

Hi All, feeling much better today! Luke however has had the worst botty ever today and the nursery used up 3 sets of clothes. Was half tempted to chuck away the used ones as they were saturated but I have tried the biological powder on 40 - bad mummy emoticon! Let's see how they get on.

I love the name spongelet!

Essie - yes it's normal for the breastfeeding to decrease. Now Ethan feeds when he wakes ( any time between 5/6 ish), then again at about 9 ish, then 2 ish (but that's usually very quick snack feed iyswim), then bedtime - long feed.That's obviously a good day, last night he also sneaked another at 3.am

Five - how are dd and ds?

Paro - carnival here next week, give me some ideas (or anyone else) don't think Ethan will be a pink piglet though, I'm trying to think of what I could do with a blue babygro!! No chance of buying anything before Sunday so I have very limited resources.

Viva - Ethan seems to tolerate eggs OK - loves eggy bread, haven't seen eggs go straight through though. With ds2 eggs made him sick very quickly after eating them but he's fine with them now.

Hope Luke's better tomorrow Amber.

Busy here, ds2's birthday on Friday, dh's next week, and carnival too.

Hahaha, love spongelet too!

Anyone seen Hedgehog recently? (Well, 'seen', you know what I mean.) HH you're not avoiding us because I upset you? I need you anyway, I want to know how much ebm Isaac is taking.

Onto my big news Iestyn now takes a bottle! Wahey! He's finally cracked! I know it's not conceiving against the odds, but believe me, it's big here. I've been so depressed about it for such a long time - four months in fact - and although it was quite a trivial thing it was getting me down so much it was unbelievable.

To all of you without mums, I wish I could lend you mine. She keeps the show on the road here. (The show being...mainly me!) Now, we were never best friend type mum and daughter, but since Iestyn was born, she's helped so much. I have to be careful not to compare her with my totally inadequate MIL, but mum knows exactly what's needed when - laundry, sleep, take Iestyn out of my sight, tea, floor mopping, whatever. Whereas MIL likes to swan in, criticize in a subtle but extra-mean way, have cups of tea made for her, hand Iestyn back when he needs his nappy changing, and refuse to share him with anyone else who is around. But the main issue I think is that I'm not hers, whereas I'm still my mum's little girl, and MIL may think I'm bearable but she doesn't want to move mountains to make sure I'm ok. So this is me saying that all of you who have lost your mums or don't have them nearby - you're amazing women, much better than me.
Rolf - naval gazing made me LOL. Ahoy sailor? Didn't Amber do a bit of that at new year?

Oh, on the MIL front, I've been invited to a very lovely wedding in Greenwich (Naval College no less!) but it's no children. Now, I have a home in London, but no childcare - MIL isn't an option for the reasons above. Anybody know if you can get a 1 day nanny or CM? Like you can with cleaners? (!)

Will start the new thread later on. [Proud that brain works enough to think up a title emoticon]

Deb thanks! Iestyn was with me all day yesterday, and had his usual 4-5 bfs, but they were so short! And he really didn't want it at bedtime - more interested in babbling.

Oh, finally - what's up with my monster posts these days?! - does anyone have a babydan room divider/play pen? Is it good? We're thinking of getting one as a room divider but before we make ourselves poor, anybody keen on it? Any downsides?

Essie I live in Greenwich - leave him with me if you like?

Deb - how about a smurf? Blue babygro - perfect!

Amber, that is so kind! Will be in touch shortly.
At least he takes a bottle now - otherwise you'd have a real mare...

Essie - YIPPEE, well done Iestyn, I can imagine how pleased you are, Tristan never took a bottle and it was hard work.

We have just won this on Ebay for about 70 Euros including postage. Haven't received it yet, I'll let you know what it's like, they deliver to UK.

I remember Amber naval gazing

I didn't get the naval gazing thing so didn't comment but I've just remembered HMS Illustrious - ha ha!!

Essie if he didn't take a bottle I would never have volunteered!

Hi Deb thanks for asking. Alert for TMI S is on the mend, much happier, only threw up one bottle today and poos beginning to solidify slightly, Edie on the other hand has eatena quarter of a sandwich today lots of water, she is back in nappies because her poos are awful and she is sleeping lots.

Aw, sorry you were upset by my comments Rolf. It must be so hard to not have your mum around. SIL just really annoys me, she is always having a drama and taking MIL to her 8m check just seemed to me to be overkill as usual! My sister always tells me off and says I should give SIL a break because she is not fortunate like I am to have six nieces and nephews and to have been around babies all the time for years. So when there is yet another drama going on with her DS I should just be grateful that I have masses of support around me which makes being a mum so much easier. My mum is an hour away and that is too far for my liking so not having your mum around at all must be tough. Sorry for your loss and thanks for being honest and telling me I was a bit out of order!

Essie, well done Iestyn with the bottle! The amount of milk DTs drink each day goes up and down, I am still offering them 5 times though cos when I cut down they started waking in the night. We use a babydan room divider and it is brilliant. The only thing that could be better is if the gate shut without having to use the handle iykwim. My mum has a baby gate that slams shut and it is so much more convenient.

I got my room divider second hand on ebay - you can usually get them for around £45 (I think mine was £42)

Five I hope your kids get better soon - you've had a mare this week.

I am up to page 10 of the 'what you are too polite to say on MN' thread - blimey all getting a bit caustic now! Get this 'Stop kidding yourself that you can compensate for being a frumpy, fugly hausfrau by continually offering your DH shed loads of home baked scones. No man alive prefers an organic macaroon, to a blow-job. You'd better wise up real fast'. !!!

LOL! I am going to read that thread myself...

lol amber! some of them are strange i gave up reading in the end

Debs What about a smurf? Put a white par of pants on top of babygro and can you make him a little hat?
or a little blue dog, with a hat or ring of card round head and add some floppy ears?
or poss a caterpillar with a headband with some anntenae, rolled up tin foil balls usually work
or you could make him some wings too out of curtain hangers and paper!
Or superbaby! Print out superman logo and attach to baby gro, then use some red material or jumper etc round neck as a cape1
Sorry getting carried away now!

paro - like the Superbaby idea, ds2 has a red cape I could pinch and make smaller,

Crikey loads of chat today. On my iPod watching the Brits so won't post much. Like the thread title essie but will be a bit pedantic and ask are most babies on here really around 9 months already? That would mean they were all born in May I forget S is one of the youngest on here.

Anyone think duffy should have worn a nicer frock?

Oh, duffy has new frock on - much better!

Shiver me timbers, Deb and Essie, cheeky old bats

Well done Iestyn!

Thea can move around a room, kind of crawling, kind of commando moves. She gets herself wedged underneath chairs and thrilling things like that.

We had Waitrose coffee ice cream this evening. It's delicious. That's the most exciting thing that's happened to me all week, I think.

Hi all, am watching the Brits too. Anyone else think that both Bono and Chris Martin are nobs..? But Kings of Leon are fab!!! Agree about Duffy's frock DramaQ!

Deb - defo make Ethan into Superbaby! Pleeeeeeease!

Five - I really hope your two are on the mend now, sounds rotten. And Rolf how are yours too?

Being at my mum's this week I thought I might be a bit indulged, as I'm another one without any parents or PILs nearby - we've only got my mum, and she's usually nearly 200 miles away. But I have been a taxi service (she doesn't drive) ferrying her around, shopping service AND I cleaned the bathroom and have made dinner the past two nights. At least I can have a nice soak in the (super clean!) bath in peace as she will sort out B if he wakes up. And she gives B his brekkie in the morning while I get mine in peace.

Ohmigod, the Hoff is on the Brits now... times must be hard (for the Brits).

And meant to say that B is only just past 7 months as well!

Oh I missed a whole page. Things clearer now. Who on earth are elbow whinegums? Am watching on sky plus so wee bit behind.

hehe debs fab Ethan the superbaby!

its amazing really the ages on here!! Fleur is coming up to 9 months next week!!!

Amber was your bad mummy emoticon for using bio powder? Britain is one of the few places that actually has non bio fact fans. Bio is fine for most babies.