May babies.... build an extension!

[GeorginaA]

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"Dd2 sat in her buggy watching us " - how did you manage that Linnet. No way DD would have done that. She managed to climb a step tonight so it looks like we will have to get another stair gate (never needed one at bottom for DS). I'm hoping to spend lots of time in the garden like you too as well this year.

Has anyone had their baby's hair cut yet? Looked in DS's baby book and apparently he had his cut at this age for the first time. Obviously its not the same for DD but I just wondered. Hers all grows forwards and I tried to style it by brushing it to the side but she just looked like she had a wrapover. Just wondered because we are having another of the hairdressing parties tomorrow.

Also the last baby on my invite list has been born - in the main entrance to the hospital.

oh god, how embarrasing and lovely all at the same time!! tell more bozza

linnet, that is fantastic!! you'll be the first walker in maybabies.

miraculously dd did let me paint the fence yesterday whilst she sat in her pushchair, but that never ever usually happens. she gets frustrated so quickly. was persuaded with the help of apricots and breadsticks mind. might try and do the other side today. looks even nicer.

well, i am biting the bullet and letting mil have dd for the day tomorrow. am petrified. and i know that's stupid. mils are staying here tonight so at least dd will be used to them before they pile her in the car and take her home - 45 mins down the M1 . someone tell me i'm normal and not a neurotic mum. i just know she will be all confused where i am and wont eat or be happy. or will she? she doesnt like her company when i am around, but i think i give of bad vibes then. so maybe...... must stop fretting. or whittering as mil says. not that she knows i feel like this about her !

anyway, dh and i will either get to do the garden in peace or spend some quality time together for a change. either that or i'll be in bed all day after not sleeping tonight through worry!

the weather 'looks even nice' - not the fence. d'oh, sort it out egypt............

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you are normal Egypt!

thank you

she will be ok though.......won't she?

Of course she'll be okay and you're entirely normal

I think I must be on the hormonal side of my cycle because I have just watched someone getting married in Charmed (of all things) and it made me have a little cry.

So I turn to 11 month DS and say "ahh, that is really sweet isn't it?" whilst wiping a rogue tear away.

He looked me, looked at the TV, looked back at me and then shook his head so fast I thought it would drop off.

That told me!

Hi Libb, how are things? I have been thinking about you since you posted your thread in Lone Parents.

Linnet, that's lovely. DD would love to be walking! She is so funny as a crawler tho. If I leave her in one room and go into another I can just hear the slap, slap noise of the palms of her little hands on the floorboards and then her head appears beaming round the doorframe. She looks so chuffed to have found me! (Not that it's that difficult - usually I am in the kitchen.)

We had friends to stay last night. Or an old friend of dh's with his new Click. I had agreed to sit in with DD while they went out to the pub, looking rather saintly but actually really looking forward to getting the house entirely to myself. Unfortunately they never got round to leaving the kitchen table after the meal.

Luckily the Click turned out to be really nice!

when i think of your probs libb, i feel rather foolish and selfish to be stressing about dd. but mil has kept her for the night!! of course i agreed to it, but it was kind of assumed that it would happen on their part, so i felt guilty denying them it. now rather worried. we forgot to give her her food bag when they left here this morning, so dh and i zoomed to theirs on the motorbike. arrived to find dd on the lounge floor with a breadstick hanging out of her mouth and screaming blue murder the moment she saw me. wouldnt stop. at all. until she was sobbing her heart out with little hiccups and twitches of her head. i nearly burst into tears myself, but the worst thing was i had to leave her. dh calmed her down. then i left - secretly. then he did. she screamed. we drove away.

received a call an hour later saying she was absolutely fine 2 mins after we had left. not rec'd a call tonight saying she went to bed ok though. and darent ring incase the answer is not good.

sorry, cant rant to dh, think he's had enough of me already! xxx

Oh Egypt that's HARD. Actually I think you should def. ring. If she was upset going to bed, maybe you could go there in the morning so that she can have you there first thing? She's too young to be staying there for her own enjoyment, so it's mainly for your MIL and FIL's, and they can surely admit the benefit of making things as easy as possible for her?

Sorry I haven't written for a while.

Egypt - it's horrible leaving them like that, isn't it? Even when you know they're fine 2 minutes later. Although, do you find you're a bit like me in that (obviously) though upset that they're distressed are also secretly rather pleased that they miss you? That you are still their universe? Perhaps that just makes me very selfish

Libb - {{hugs}} Wish I had something more constructive to say, decent help to offer. Am keeping an eye on your thread to see how you're doing.

Well, the breastfeeding has ended. Once my boobs stopped aching and my hormone levels resettled then I decided here's as good a point as any to end it. He's started drinking cows milk too, so that's good. Still feel a bit sad about it at times, but I'm going to go bra shopping soon to make it feel a bit better. Only problem is our routines are all out now and ds2 seems to spend a lot of time screaming because he doesn't want to be cuddled while drinking his milk, but doesn't want to be put down on the floor either. Timing everyone to get breakfast without screams is virtually impossible making mornings very very stressful now.

Had a good day yesterday though, I finally went to get my colours & style done at Color Me Beautiful. Apparently I'm a Deep Autumn and can wear really quite strong colours near my face (I'm pale skinned and always assumed they would wash me out but they don't) and apparently I have the perfect neat hourglass figure and got told off for always going for baggy shapeless clothing . So that told me.

All I have to do now is go shopping for a complete new wardrobe. Won't dh be pleased

let us know what you get G...

How was DD's mini-break Egypt?

I am once again feeling antsy about DD's diet. Finger food has got her into very snacky behaviour, as she is much happier taking care of her own portions but actually doesn't end up eating that much. You can spoon feed her a couple of mouthfuls but then she spits it out. So I have just been letting her eat as and when she asks for something, as long as it's reasonably healthy. But this means it's really hard to work out how much she is eating, and at mealtimes she doesn't take much at all. Whether this is because she's not hungry, or because of the picky eating in the first place, I don't know.
worry bother worry bother.

By the way what are we going to call these threads when

(a) our babies are no longer babies

(b) May comes around again and there are a whole new lot of May babies demanding use of the name?

Egpyt, please don't feel awkward . . . . at least you have tried your darling with someone you are not sure about (ifyswim) - DS goes to the childminder every day during the week but he has never been put to bed by someone else so I feel the proverbial rod tightening between my shoulder blades already. If I am going to live alone then I need him to take on babysitters without grumbles. You are doing really well I think xxxx

Ds is getting very vocal - likes to shout as loud as possible then giggles like it is the funniest thing ever. I bought him a drum toy and he loves the racket - the little devil.

Re the wedding story I told yesterday, I have since told told him that he will be a pageboy when I meet the right person - he shook his head at me again! We are going to have words . . .

Hi,

DD is walking one handed, by that I mean that shell walk holding on to one hand not walking on one hand, oh shut up kbaby.. anyway im really chuffed so today we went for a little walk along the street.
I also lost her yesterday. We havent got around to buying a stair gate for the bottom yet and instead have a dining room chair in front, well yesterday I was getting her food and couldnt work out where she had gone. I found her in the bedroom upstairs eekk!! she has worked out how to get under the chair in order to climb the stairs. I now have a stair gate on order from kiddiecare.
She seems so grown up all of a sudden. She started to use her push along to get about now so she finds it in the living room, pulls herself up and wanders around the house, moving it if it bumps into anything. I was in the kitchen this afternoon and she walks in and bumps in the laundry basket, so with 1 hand she moves the basket to the side and carries on walking.
Nights are still a nightmare with me and DH sleeping in seperate rooms so that at least one of us can try and get a nights sleep. Shes waking at 10.30 and will go back to sleep with milk and then waking at 1ish and milk doesnt work so she comes into bed but then is so restless all night. Im really fed up and despondent that I have a 11 month old who has hardly ever slept through the night. We have to sort it out soon.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

oo kbaby, sounds like some sleep training needed soon. i dont envy you. i dont know if i could do it. dd still wakes once (at mo) or twice, or sometimes not, but i'm just kind of going with that whilst i'm feeling ok. but you must be so tired. xxx your dd is growing so fast though! i can't believe you walked down the street with her!

thanks spots, libb, dd was ok. mil rang an hour later to say that she was fine 2 mins after we had left. grandad took her for a walk to put the lottery on and then they went to the local pub! she liked it...apparently. she cried when being undressed to get in the bath (not like her) and being dressed after her bath (like her when I'M not doing it!) but went to bed without a murmur! i was amazed. woke once, awake for an hour i think but didnt want anything. was so glad to see her the next morning. not looking forward to it happening again though. and they will want it to, soon.

But egypt that's great! Just think, the world's your oyster...

Kbaby I'm impressed too about the walking.

sorry, spots, meant to comment on your eating prob. my dd is often like this. she has basically snacked today too. i think perhaps we have to give them lunch, even if they eat practically nothing, then NOTHING until dinnertime, by which they should be hungry enough to eat more. or have you tried this? sounds naff, but i find if i give dd something to chew on - like a toy, whilst i spoon feed her, i can get more down her as she is distracted and doesnt really notice me feeding her. also, if she chomps on a breadstick dipped in houmous whilst i feed her, i can do much the same. failing everything, she will eat scrambled eat no matter what.

can you eat too much egg? dd has one a day at the mo.

LOL the houmous shock! She did eat a broccoli, sweetcorn and cheese souffle today so not so bad. but I had tried exactly as you describe. I am not so bothered really, am instituting an indifference offensive; anyway she was v. lovely today and we had what I think counts as our first ever 'conversation' (after having spent a little while talking about what snakes say earlier on):

me: And can you remember what a snake says, L.? What does the snake say?

her: 'woof, woof, woof, woof'

me: No L., the dog says woof woof, what does the snake say? Does the snake say 'sssss'?

her(quietly and looking at me intently): sssssssss

very sweet it was, she sort of blows to make the sound rather than actually hissing.

Our first conversation!am I boring?

Hello. Haven't been on here for a while.

Know how you feel Egypt,we took both dds to mum's on Saturday night and picked them up on Sunday evening(we were both working on Sunday). It was very hard to NOT ring up every five minutes. Mum surpassed herself in the "I know best" stakes by giving dd2 a bottle at 11pm - she hasn't had a late night bottle for about three months! Seems ok on it, though. She is trying to pull herself up and loves standing, but I think walking is a long way off. She seems to be sleeping through most nights now and the perpetual cold has dried up.
I will regret making those two statements in public, I just know it.

Are you all referring to home made houmous, or bought?

DD2 will eat three meals a day - almost all jars , weetabix/porridge for breakfast, and has bread and butter or yoghurt for snacks. She will have avocado and breadsticks at home, too.

When the May 2005 babies are born, these threads might have to be called "I can't believe they're not May babies" or "Maybe toddlers" - geddit?

awwwwww, melt.

we have got as far as me holding her wooden rabbit up when i change her nappy. who's this?

N: Rabbabbaba

and... where's the doggie (baby talk, ooops)

dd legs it (on fours) to the pic of dh's old german shepherd in the hall....

N: da da da

hmmmmmm

wow, helsy , how's that for synchronised posting..challenge anyone to beat it!

Egypt, isn't it just the new best thing???

Helsy, lovely to hear from you, genius titles!

I like the May Toddlers idea for thread titles (then we'll have to progress the following year to May Pre-schoolers?!)

I seem to have the opposite problem to all you lot. Ds2 just wolfed down FOUR PORTIONS WORTH of AK's semolina with pear Plus he loved cold chicken, peas and chips for his main course, bless him! He had his first roast dinner at the weekend too! Still refuses to chew pasta though, bizarrely - I have to puree that to an inch of its life...

Kinda worried now that I've been underfeeding him though after tonight's mammoth meal... either that or he's going to explode in the night. Will let dh change the morning nappy I think

DS is also eating like there's no tomorrow. AND, when he finishes what's on his tray, he is not averse to having a delve in his pelican bib and scooping up the bits that got away the first time round! Most attractive behaviour!
Poor DD was sitting quietly watching CBeebies today when DS crawled over to the sofa, pulled himself up and bit her toes. Little tike.