October 08 - Teeth n stuff

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Hadn't even noticed that we were close to filling the old thread!

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz - Fast and furious hospital birth.
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz - Em C-Sec due to raised BP and high ALTs from liver.
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz - Homebirth with paramedics due to meconium.
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept Oct) - CherryChoc - Boy - Ryan - 6lbs 11oz - 3 day labour with natural birth in hospital
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz - 4 day induction with 1 hour established labour!
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.
13th Oct (Due 15th Oct) - mum2jakeyroo/jrsqueak - Boy - Joshua - 7lbs 2oz - Delivered in car by dh!
16th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - rowanmac - Girl - Anna Ruth - 7lbs 2oz - 2 hours ARM to placenta delivery.
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz -
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz -
28th Oct - RachieW - boy
1st Nov (Due 22nd Oct) - SmudgeyDoodle - Girl - - 8lbs 2oz - Hospital water birth.
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz -
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz - Em C-Sec. Back to back and knotted cord around neck. 24 hours of labour first though, and don't you forget it!

I thought so, HMM. Especially considering an Annabel Karmel Mess Mat is £9.99 in Mothercare.

quite quiet here today, alex has got carpet burn on his tummy from crawling on the carpet it's too warm to put a vest on him, i've no idea what do.

i have the chicco chair as well but ds is happier in the bumbo with the tray on as the high chair tray is a little to high for him.

aubergine - i lurve the itti bittis his bum is sooooo fluffy in them, they are a bit gappy at the legs but no leakage so it's ok. i may splash out on a couple more, but tots bots have a new nappy out that i fancy trying, oh dilemas!

those of you with older kids, i need your help (oh i sound like dora!) when i put ds down for a nap dd follows me upstairs and inevitably wakes him up with her chattering and 'is alex awake?' questions and the jumping on the bed. i need ideas on how to occupy her for the 10-15 minutes it takes for him to go down. she wont stay downstairs on her own, i've told her not to get on the bed but she always does, argggg alex is sooo grumpy when he's tired and today he was desparate for a sleep that in the end i let him fall asleep on me.

Hi all,

Jenwa - well done with the star chart - does it suggest you remove stars for 'naughtiness' once you have given them, never heard of that before?? Glad its working though....

I think there's definitely something in the air, ds1 has been a nightmare today since returning form nursery. He didn't eat his lunch as they had a huge 'snack' of rice and stir fry and cake at 11am - so he was starving after later on but refused to eat anything - he cried, whinged and screamed all pm partly due to hunger and also still being tired. Both boys were up early and i refuse to let ds1 sleep all pm to make up for it. Whilst DS1 was tantruming, Joe just happily played away (it worries me that he gets bit neglected when ds1 is creating havoc). DS1 still needs a sleep in the day but if he stays all day at nursery they don't put him down as they think he's too old for a sleep and none of the other children do (he's 3.4 yo). Toddlers aaaaaaahhhhhhh....

All is quiet at the moment but Joe has taken to waking earlier and earlier each day - 5.30 this morning so who knows what time tomorrow....

I don't know how to manage to stay sane csws with so little sleep...must go to bed - i can't believe i am still up past 10pm, unheard of!!

Am off to bed now- good talking to you all today.

Wishing you all some good blocks of sleep

I am off to Mothercare tomorrow to check out the weaning products so you've probably just saved me a tenner! Has anyone else got any tips on what to buy and not to buy re weaning?? I'm just planning at the moment to get a new hand held blender, new sieve, couple of ice cube trays and some spoons. However, once I get in there, I'll probably end up buying lots of useless crap more.

Plus the Mothercare is next to Pizza Hut and a Mr Whippy ice cream van. If I'm having dairy tomorrow I'm doing it properly

I hope you get a good sleep Rachie!

Right I'm off too. I've decided that when I write 3 posts in a row myself that it's time to go to bed

Night - um - all?

I am really going to be now...well when I've typed this...

I brought a mouli for a tenner from amazon, it purees food but not so liquidy. According to my weaning guru, Annabel Karmel, it's better to mouli potato as they go a bit starchy when blended. Our High St is full of £1 shops and I found a floor mat, small lidded pots and Mam first feeding spoons all in there.

Right bed now..Night night.

hmm - i bought a stick blender, spoons and bowls for dd. ds is blw and he uses teaspoons and no bowls. and i use an pld piece of lino under the high chair and bumbo.
spuds are really horrid blended, like wallpaper paste, but you can just mash them.

i found these useful for storing food.

why new hand blender and sieve? Do you have a blender currently? I did purees for first 6 weeks with dd and never once needed a sieve. Get spoons, bowls, and those via pots that heather linked. ice cube thing with lid will be great for about a week, and then you'll want bigger pots. Don't buy colour change spoons or suction bowls, as neither work.

Ds up 4.30 - 6.00 and dd's first tantrum of the day at 5.50. Goody.

HMM - Are you on freecycle? I got one of those stick blenders from there ages ago as it's the kind of thing that people buy and never use. Definitely worth putting a Wanted ad on it, I'd say.

Also, what do you BLWers give your LOs for breakfast? I just tried ds with some porridge, made quite thick and sweetened with some fruit but it never made it anywhere near his mouth, which is unlike him. He didn't seem to like the texture on his hands - it was really sticky - and kept trying to wipe them on his bib. Not sure whether to make it even thicker next time, so it makes a kind of cake, or to try something else.

I was hoping to avoid toast as, like his mum, he's shocker for bread and I don't want him having too much.

ds has toast, mini wheatabix, crumpets or scrambled eggs.

Raisin wheats, fruit toast, crumpet, waffle, pancakes (made with rice milk obv), fruit. He did actually have a baby cereal for a while, but he went off being fed it just after I'd bought 2 more boxes .

Well since going back to sleep at 6 he hasn't stirred, and is currently sleeping through 2 breakers smashing up our concrete patio, and also slept through dd and I having a bath on the other side of his bedroom wall, and dd prancing about singing and shouting just outside his door. DD now gone to school, and I'm just hoping that ds wakes in time to go and be weighed! Clinic is only on til 10:15 or 10:30.

Thanks guys. I have a really old blender that never was much use and a food processor but i figure baby food will be too small a quantity for the FP. I have a sieve but would prefer to get a new one for her. Do the plastic ones push the food thro ok or do I need to get a stainless steel one?

I'm genuinely puzzled by the sieve thing hmm. I've never known anyone use one to prepare baby food before. Have you read somewhere that you need one?

Hello, just wanted to say that I have been reading your posts but I am too grumpy to join in at the moment. But I am here.....[wnik]

even.

Being grumpy doesn't stop me from posting .

I'm too grumpy to think of anything good to say! I am also feeling out of the loop, like on Total Wipeout when they've fallen off the spinny thing and have to time their jump back on. It's probably the fun free diet to be honest. God I want some bread and a lovely cup of tea. Wahhhhhhh!

Hey all - Ive scanned through but can't keep up!! I can't respond to all but I read enough to know that csws is still in the no sleep club! I'd like to join in!! Q was sleeping like a superstar and NOW he's down at 7pm and up at 9, 11, 1, 3, 4 and up at 5.30 for the day (5.30 is a good waking time by the way as it's an hour after I'm up to express milk for him and we leave the house at 6.30am, so not bothered by that... it's all the other wakes that make me CRAZY!!).
I was doing fine with little sleep before when I first came back to work but now I'm just not functioning all day. It's really hard. I'm forgetting things and really tired. I teach 5-7 year olds and YAWNED 4 times during a read aloud yesterday!!! of course, I put the book up and covered my face when i did it, showing them the picture!
Sorry to be selfish, but, HELP ME PLEASE!! Maybe he\s not eating properly?? He is eating about 4 meals a day. he eats (*Milk is breastmilk, either bf if I'm there or expressed breastmilk if he's with my friend and I'm at work):
a bit of pureed fruit on waking with a bf 5.30/6am
bf at 7 (both sides - about twenty minutes)
yogurt and fruit at 8
milk then a nap at around 8.30/9am (between 1-2.5 hours)
11/12 fruit and/or yogurt and milk
one more nap and feed in the afternoon. Afternoon feed is pureed veg with some apple or kiwi mixed in (for digestion) and a little yogurt and milk
Then he eats dinner at around 5.30/6pm - pureed veg and fruit and yogurt. Bath, then bf to sleep at 7pm. he used to sleep until 5.30 next morning with a few wakes, but was soothed back to sleep with pat on the back or flip to tummy/back. Now, he's up demanding feeds all the time!

I think I'm overfeeding him!!!! He IS growing. We've definitely seen it in his clothes getting smaller and how his head is higher when we stand him up in his cot..
But I don't know how to feed him less because if I do that, he'll just cry! I don't want to grow an obese baby, either. But why won't he sleep then!? Yes, he's teething a bit, but I put calgel on his gums and he has teething rings, he uses a dummy.

OH! And I just realized I'm supposed to start making his food more lumpy. Did I miss the boat on that one? When am I supposed to do taht? He'll be 7 months on the 2nd. I tried cooking hte annabel karmel pasta stars last night and he just swirled it around in his mouth and drooled it out every time... not sure what to do with that. The one time he got it in the back of his mouth he choked so much I had to put him tummy down on my arm and pat his back.

Sorry I'm having one of those days where I feel like I'm doing everything wrong

Star - Considering that the last two people who posted are CSWS and I, you're really asking the wrong people about sleep issues! Q is eating as much as he needs. BF babies are very good at regulating their intake & not tend to over-eat. This is another reason why bfing is best for babies as they learn to swtich off when they are full. From 7 months is a good time to start making it lumpier so don't stress! He is still learning and that is fine until he is 1, he still gets everything he needs from your milk. He won't get obese, unless you're feeding him McDonalds and pureed cake! He could be having a growth spurt they don't always stick to the usual timings or he could be gearing up for a developmental leap. You've said he is nearly crawling, well, he might be gearing up to get on the move. DS used to have terrible sleepless nights just before he started a new thing. How to get him to sleep, ?????? If you find out please let us know!

Thanks MM and myjob Myjob are you suggesting baby sleeping pills, then?

MM thanks for that. Glad I didn't miss the lump boat. Phew! Q won't be bringing pureed lunch to kindergarten - university! I'll start adding lumps - btw do you know how to do that? Do I just puree it for less time? And how do they break down the lumps? Just gum them down? so nervous about choking.