March 09 - there is no snooze button on a baby that needs milk.....!

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over here ladies

Sorry you didn't get the news you wanted Emma.

We're going through lots of nappies here too. Was having one pooey one every one or two days, and now it's 5 or 6 a day!

Thank goodness for washing machines...

Dh is in the doghouse. I had to wake A and go to pick him up at midnight. I was driving along the A1 and a fox ran out in front of me - I clipped it's backside and then 200 feet further down the road a deer ran out in front of me! Luckily it was one of those small ones and I missed it.

Didn't do much for my heart I can tell you!

hello

meep are things any better today? Been going on some time now, poor you.

mdavza have any teeth come through yet? I always forget to account for teething when lo is grizzly, and am always taken by surprise to see little gleaming white teeth there.

boobz any news on the scan yet? also how is the weaning to solids going? hooray for a good nights sleep.

corgi, sorry to hear about R's cold. once they start the rounds of playgroups and nurseries, it is part and parcel of his little life. it will build up his immunities though.

laumiere what devoted parents!

wheely, how was school run this morning....sometimes they look in horror at you, what you mean i have to go again TODAY????

grinning, i would love to have more help at home during the day. i can accept not going out, but i can't get everything done that i need to. always someone needs something every few minutes. i am not complaining as it is my job to do it, but it would be good to have another adult around sometimes. if i was in your situation with dh going out, i'd expect him to get a cab home! i guess he'd not want me to get 5 kids out of bed either, and we are in a built up area of London. what with foxes and deer it sounds like you live in the country.

sorry emma about your news as you are so keen to have another, keep chilled and fingers crossed it will happen for you.

this morning i had dd2 checked weighed etc by HV and GP and she is 14lbs now, at 5 months, so all good there. not sleeping through yet, and i am not to settle her with water as she still needs all the milk she can get.

also took ds2 along as he has been a bit wheezy lately, and he is being treated with inhalers. feeling a bit down about it actually.

Hi everyone! Have finally got 5 mins without children, dh or fil!

My big news is - Rosie has her first tooth!!! Am so excited - it took ages for dd1 to get teeth so it wasn't a big event by that point as she was doing so many other things! But this really is Rosie's first milestone! But poor thing - she has had vomit, a cold and also a tooth all at one. No wonder she was a miserable baby! (she's a lot better now - thanks everyone for asking).

But hand in hand with teh tooth is a habit of waking at 8.30pm then at 10pm each night - Calpol normally works to get her back to sleep, but it is horrid to see them so obviously in pain

kanga I have no idea how heavy Rosie is - may need to step on teh scales with he just to check. I'm still carting her around in teh sling so she can't be that heavy!

Sorry to hear about your ds2. My dh has bad asthma and it really scares me. I dread one of the dds getting it. I know dh's gets worse when his hayfever gets bad - and I saw on another thread that there is something around at the moment - so maybe it is that? Hope he is okay - keep him wrapped up warm.

grinning, drunk dh's are rubbish. Mine hasn't been for a while - but I make him sleep in teh spare room if I know he'll be a nuisance and annoying - means I have no diea when he gets home and he can't annoy me (spare room is downstairs)! Scary about your near misses though - make him get a taxi/bus/walk/stay at home next time!

corgi you are getting away without Rhys - lucky you - enjoy some big sleeps while you can.

jolly well done on surviving your first day back at work - hope they sort out your role soon.

lizzie I also love bedtime - everything is normally quiet in teh Meep house by 7.30pm. Not so for the last couple of weeks and it has really drained me. I feel on edge in the evening as I just know one or both of them will wake up. But it will pass..........

wheely I still haven't been out for a run yet - you put me to shame!

lau at your ds1's poo antics - ugh - and what lovely parents you have!

emma sorry to hear your news- but at least it has made you realise what you want - and that is another suggly wee baby - awwwwww!

Penelope's heart is fine - scan came back all normal so all good - thanks for asking Kanga. And the weaning is going fab -- we've started with the baby-led-weaning ethos, and so far she's had apple and oatmeal cereal, buttered toast, mashed sweet potato and whole carrots, bits of banana and nectarines to suck on - ooo loads of stuff! I also have a dog that hoovers everything that goes on the floor (see pics on profile) so that's a big help in the cleaning up!

Sorry to hear about the wheezing - I've got inhalers too, and hay-fever - am hoping it doesn't get passed on to Pen.

Yay Rosie! How exciting. No sign of any tooth pegs here yet, although she's constantly sucking her 4 fingers so she must be teething..

So glad all is okay Boobz

Love the pics - Pen makes weaning look like a lot of fun (and you went for the Antilope - good choice )

Boobz Interesting to see your high chair choice. I'm having a nightmare with my LO at the moment. He hates being strapped into or contained in anything - car seat, buggy, baby carrier, Bumbo and I can now add to the list...our brand new high chair. It's getting me down a bit now. I'd happily trade some of my meagre allocation of sleep for a baby who doesn't mind all these things. As you can imagine, it means that many normal aspects of our day involve tears, back arching and general Houdini manouveres.

I don't suppose anyone else has the same problem or any advice?

We're not quite ready to wean yet, he's only just started to watch me eat and drink, but I'm seriously worried that I am going to have to wean him on my lap!

A friend of mine bought some egg shaped star trek like high chair for £275! I think the £10 jobby from Ikea does the trick nicely - but then Pen doesn't mind sitting in it - sorry to hear your LO doesn't quite take to it yet Yarnie!

Pen just had a marathon 2.5 hour morning nap which allowed me to get all my paperwork done - well done Penelope!

Boobz I love the way your dog is just waiting for Pen to wave her food in front of its nose. Also good news on the heart scan

I've just bought the Antilop highchair too. Dh went for the red one, and was then disappointed that the trays are white, lol.

Kanga We're only a short way from Grantham so not hugely countrified. I think the animal population had lost the will to live that night! If I had 5 children then dh would have had to have sorted himself out for getting home. I've told him that in future, I either pick him up by a certain time, or he stays with one of his mates. As the pub is 30 odd miles away walking home is not an option

Meep Yay on the tooth! Bet she feels alot better now that it's through.

Right. Time for my first cuppa of the day!

£275 for a highchair that is going to become covered in goo????

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

boobz lovely pics of Pen enjoying her food, and dog thinking this is GOOD that baby is eating, maybe if i just hang about????? you can practically hear him/her saying please just a little taste, please...

if i had seen that ikea high chair 8 years ago i would have got it too. it is so compact and easy to clean. i still have my mothercare one, but is so hard to keep clean.

yarnie, hopefully if you persevere with giving food in the chair he will associate chair with food and will begin to accept that he has to be strapped in. if he is strong enough to be sitting up he can be given toys to play with on the tray. not sure what sort of high chair you have though.

he just loves trying his independence already doesn't he!

Hi All !

Great pics of Pen Boobz. I'm being really nervous about giving finger food for some reason. I wasn't like it with dd1 and I think L would be ok as she is eating mashed (not pureed) food ok but I'm scared she'll choke (I very much seem to have Precious Second Born issues). She's desperate for grabbing food though - I moved her high chair so its up against the table so her and dd1 could sit together and she was pulling at the table cloth to try and get dd1's bagel.

I wish Ikea had done that high chair 4 years ago (or that I'd known about it if they did). I didn't spend a fortune on ours and it works and is good but the antilop is great. Keep wondering whether to get one anyway but realise its a waste even though its so cheap !

School run going ok still thanks Kanga - although we were almost late yesterday on our second day thanks to DD1 needing a poo, taking ages over breakfast and then mummy deciding she needed pics of her in her summer uniform (had worn winter day 1). Made it in plenty of time today thankfully.

I love my Antilope. grinning that is a bit rubbish that they don't do matching trays - I would have been disappointed too!

Yarnie - the Antilope is quite roomy and spike mught not feel that restricted in it. The seat is quite deep and it only has a lap belt so they don't realise it is done up - so might be worth spending £13 on?

wheely I am nervous about weaning! I think it is because dd1 mmakes every meal such a chore - I know that is just the way of a 2yo who is not that fussed about food, but my god it pushes my buttons!

I've seen the egg chair Boobz, it is like something out of Austin Powers!

Where has slick disappeared to?

Soooo... I told myself I would start weaning at 26 weeks.

Amy has just eaten 1/3 of a small banana! I couldn't help it Popped her in her highchair while I was eating the banana and she had a nibble and didn't want to stop, so I mashed a bit in a bowl for her. Every time I held the spoon up she opened her mouth like a baby bird

I may just give her the odd taste of things over the next three weeks...

Let's see how long that resolve lasts!

Still dieting here. Boo. But I've lost 8.5 pounds now so it's doing some good.

Rosie has been weaned on Calpol (and seems to quite like it) so pureed pear may just not cut it!

Well done on teh weight loss grinning - I have been eating and drinking a lot these last 2 weeks with fil here - back to teh grindstone on Monday

Boobz love the photos. I am too lazy to put Mae in her highchair most of the time she just sits on my knee and eats, she only uses the chair when we have visitors. But it can lead to both me and Mae getting a bit messy. Somehow today she even had sweet potato on her bottom.

Well work appears to be OK, it seems I can stay in my current job and may or may not be downgraded at some point in the future but for the first 3 years I could opt to keep my current t&cs. However, the new t&cs do have much better maternity pay conditions so I may have to think about it all a bit if me and DH do decide to have another LO.

Can't believe all this talk of running and dieting. I still need to shift the pounds (hopefully not too many anymore) but I just don't seem to be able to motivate myself. May be I need to set myself and goal and a target date like Xmas or something?

Grinning you sound like a very good wife I hope your husband is doing some big favours in return for his lift home.

Oh and I have also seen the egg highchair thing - someone was selling one on ebay for £100. Couldn't helping thinking it seemed ridiculous at the price!

Mols is being pre-weaned atm. I won't say it's really weaning because we have gone the BLW route and she is still a bit under 6 mths so she only has chopped up fruit and veg. Most of it she just sucks all the juice out, but give her a tomato and everything but the skin disappears, lol. I started not because she seemed hungry but because she was so utterly desperate to eat that I wasn't eating anything! She grabbed an apple in my hand last week and started chewing it so I figured hey, she knows whether she's ready or not, and at least this way I can let her play and not worry about how much she's getting in because I know she's getting plenty of milk from the boob.

Pen looks so cute boobz! I love watching her eat 'real' food, and I'm so pleased that I went with BLW (don't know anyone whose done it in RL) because it's working really well for us.

Yesterday she picked up a really bad fever from somewhere - we had to get off to find a doctor in the middle of the night and am shattered after a really disturbed night. Typically DP has a really important presentation today in front of all his senior managers etc and he was late to work today and forgot to take stuff with him etc... poor bloke!

Hi all, back from my dirty break with DH!

Came back to see Gabriel is getting 2 teeth on the bottom and another on the top! So we'll be trying the buttered toast soon I think Boobz. he seemed pretty happy to see us, DS1 just raised an eyebrow as if to say 'oh, so you're back are you?'

meep i was wondering where slick is too, maybe on a holiday?

law, hope she is better today?

i am not doing BLW, i think...not sure really what it is, as i must be so old fashioned by now, and just doing it the way i always have!!! the dcs eat pretty well so i don't think i will change much of what i do.

jolly, good news about work being ok for you.

it is very quiet on the thread lately, anyone there?

Hello peeps still lurking although never seem to have time to post,

anyone else havin horrible hair loss? i remember it with DD1 but cant remember if there is anything i can do or take as still breast feeding, i have had hair knotted up for weeks now have been in tears in the sower it seems so bad

little monkey is full on crawling just as the extension work starts to affect the inside of the house! yep rubble and wood v inquisitive baby! i started trying her with a few flavours (food not rubble and wood!) etc but she hasn't wanted it for few days so just playing by ear seeing how it goes,

DD1 starts school on mon she is v excited so im trying to be strong and not say "but wont miss me a bit?"!

Breastfeeding while eating and trying to message does not work! sorry for errors in prev message!

Evening all.

We are going to do BLW but as we had already bought a load of puree jars have started off with a bit of rice at breakfast and half a jar at lunch.

DD started off really liking it all and wolfing down anything we gave her, but now she gets really fussy and it takes ages to get it down her. As soon as the jars are finished we're going back to finger foods - gave her some cucumber in France when she was grizzly and seemed to be teething and she loved it. Another time she was fussing while we were eating dinner in a pub so gave her some red onion (!!) and she liked that too so hoping finger foods are more her thing.

Get the arching back lots here too when we try to feed so you're not alone Yarnie.
We use the bumbo at the moment but don't have a table to sit at ourselves so it works ok. Might look into this Ikea one you're all fans of though for when we move.

We've been doing quite a lot of finger food here which has been a success. I didn't do much BLW with DD1 - partly because I weaned her at five months when she was less able to feed herself and partly because she seemed happy with being spoon fed.

Melissa, on the other hand, really wants to be in control of what goes in. I do give her purees but usually end up dipping a rice cake into it and giving it to her to get on with. She also likes batons of banana, toast and strawberries which I've squished a bit first so she doesn't choke. Broccoli, carrots and string beans also. The only thing she doesn't like is plain baby rice - again, the complete opposite of my firstborn

Mini - I'm an Ikea antilop fan too - they're great!

Livi - no hair loss here, although I didn't really gain any during pregnancy

Laweasel - hope Mols is better now

Laumiere - . 'Nuff said

Loving all the weaning stories!

G has decided that one tooth in 2 days is not enough and now has 2 little bottom teeth. This is coinciding with me coming to the end of BF, it feels right and G is moving from viewing BF as the be all and end all to a drink and occasional comfort - my parents look after him in the mornings in Spain to give me a break he's gone from needing a BF at 6am or else to one at 10 or so after his Weetabix.

Also, I'm more keen to get him off the boob, since I GOT THE JOB and am now a Project Manager . So will be back at work in 6 weeks or so.

Hey all.

James is pretty much fully on formula now (milk supply = kaput) and is just starting to cooperate insofar as eating without drinking first is concerned.

On a slightly (!!!) less positive note, he managed to catch nits from his 5-year-old third cousin when she was brought around for a visit. We've all done ourselves with Delacet (bankrupted ourselves in the process - my hair's down to my bum and it took nearly 3 bottles to do me alone - once!) but I've had to just go through James's hair lock by lock. He wasn't too badly infested but I'm keeping an eye just in case I've missed one or two of the little bastards.

I know I should really have just shaved off his hair but I couldn't bring myself to. It's really beautiful and long and thick - it's the hair of a small child, not a baby. It's his crowning glory - and it would've broken my heart, lamearse that I am.

SO stuck for names for these two. Things seem to have calmed down lately, less anaemic, fluid levels have evened out some more and the buttock aching has subsided a bit (although now my thighs are starting to ache). But now that I'm approaching 6 months I'm really panicing about what will happen when they get here. I had names sorted and everything but now I've had total freakout and have gone off all of them. Arghh.

Not read replies Hope everyone is doing ok/good.

I'm in Hell at the moment, everyone teethng here.

DS - Getting 1st teeth

DD2 - Getting last milk teeth.

DD1 - Losing her first milk tooth.

DH lost a fllling.

Oh joy, everyone is whinging about the 'pain'.