Morning all - wow! I can't keep up with you guys!!
Can't remember everything that has been said, but
CSWS - sympathies for your lack of sleep - who was keeping you up at 3 am?
Heather (I think) I used to bribe DS1 to stay downstairs while I settled Ed to sleep, with a snack - he loves those Organix rice cakes, or grapes or a banana - and his favourite Thomas DVD. It's SO hard to settle a fractious baby to sleep with a toddler hanging off your leg! But then DS1 would get the last laugh by standing at the bottom of the stairs and shouting 'wee wee Mummy!' as he soon worked out that it made me come running grrrrr! Luckily Ed is pretty good at being swaddled then thrown into the cot to sort himself out now, but the early days were interesting.
Glad the weaning is going ok with everyone, but the choking thing is scary isn't it. I remember from weaning DS1 that the angle he sat at was really important. I stupidly gave him some cooked carrot to chew on when he was sitting in his bouncy chair once and he gagged quite badly and threw up his entire milk feed. I'm sure it was because he was leaning back too much, and he never had a problem when he was properly upright.Ed almost leans forward in his highchair and I feel much happier that way.
Ed was 6 months yesterday so I've decided to give him 2 'meals' of puree a day, and breakfast and tea time, with finger food at lunch. He quite likes porridge but pulled some comical faces when he tasted his butternut squash and courgette this morning. It tasted pretty grim to me though I have to admit
He sits up at the with us at every meal time and gets a bit of whatever were having to have a go at too, finger food style. Not a whole lot is going in, either purees or finger food, but he has fun trying.
I really hope he gets the hang of finger food fairly soon as I can't be doing withthis puree lark! I think I kept DS1 on pureees / mashed food for much longer than necessary and really don't want to do that with Ed.
We went out with some friends yesterday for a pub lunch and they had their 5 month old daughter there. Ed was his usual cranky self - he's RUBBISH away from home and hates not sleeping in his cot and being passed around from person to person. I spend half the meal trekking round the carpark trying to get him to sleep in the buggy, while their little girl was completely angelic
Ed never sits still for a moment, he's always wiggling and fidgeting, but holding their DD was like holding a doll, she just lay there all smiley and relaxed. DS1 was like that though, it's jsut the way it goes.
Ed did look very cute in his new green stripey dungarees though - I hate babies dressed like teenagers!!