August 2009 Welcome to the world all of the little princes and princesses!

[OonaghBhuna]

I would like to say congratulations to everyone that joins us on this thread and I am looking forward to hearing lots of birth stories and interesting developments of about our beautiful babies

Hi all,

Haven't been on in a while but wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas.

How is everyone doing? DS seems to be able to rollover in his sleep onto his front but can't do it during the day! Still only sleeping up to 4hours at a time (on a good night) but most nights i seem to be up three times. Hopefully this will end soon as he was 4months on Sunday just gone.

Well have a good one, and enjoy your first christmas with your little one.

Merry Christmas Everybody,

Hope you all have a fabulous one!!

Merry Christmas All!
Cannot believe how fast the time is going, Christmas is SO much more fun with a baby in the house.

Happy new year all, hope you all had a lovely festive season. We have snow and ice here . DS 21 weeks today and have got the high chair out the loft and cleaned - hoping I can keep going with BF for another 3 weeks. Ordered a book on baby led weaing - anyone else planning giving it a go or already doing it? He had his jabs today so may have a more unsettled night ahead alhough he is still wakening 2 -3 times for a feed - this too will pass.

Hi all - how's it going if this thread is still going at all?? Is everyone snowed in?? DS is now 21 weeks and think at last has cut a first tooth...he is an attached baby still. Loves sling and sleeping next to me.

im still here... aaishah now 23 weeks...still feeds all the time, no rolling nothing yet. my friend lo is 2 weeks older and crawling

where are you all?

Happy new year!!

I hadn't found this thread until just now, glad to see you all again!

Mekhi is now 5 months and one week and is HUGE! Very busy and engaged, but a terrible sleeper which is a bit grinding, especially as it's just the two of us.

Hope all your gorgeous growing babies are well x

Happy New Year - no snow where I am, plenty of ice though. DD is now 21 weeks, sleeping slightly better but refusing to go to bed - at least an hour of screams before we get her down. Really hoping it is just a phase. Moving to Tokyo in 6 weeks - ARGH !
Hope everyone is well

Happy New Year all!

It looks like it has been quiet on here recently but I have only just been able to catch up too.

B is 5 months now, still smiley and attempting to roll , well what his huge size will allow him too anyway. He is starting to get v frustrated with toys now that dangle over him and he can't 'get' . Sleep now a problem again, he was sleeping thru for a couple of weeks but now I think we have the case of 4 month sleep regression as since just prior to Xmas he has been waking at least 3 times a night and annoyingly bewteen 4 and 5 am thinks it us funny to stat awake chatting and coughing for attention. He is still in with us but I need to sort his room out before moving him.

Need to start thinking about weaning too soon, omg how time flies. I will hold out for the full 6 mths as he is contented on milk still but is watching us eat which is funny.

My hair is still falling out in spades, I definately have lost a lot more than last time so hoping it will stop soon.

Ds1 is being great with ds2 he is very protective which is lovely to see and has just started nursery school fir a couple of mornings a week which has been great soon.

How us everyone else doing, I love Reading the updates.

Hi All

baby m is 6 months old today, although she is not yet huge, quite a skinny baby.

She is well on solids now, her initation into solids was MIL feeding her pavlova on boxing day. ds came running out to tell me 'mummy someone's feeding monae pavlova' grrr

on some healthy home cooked meals now, also does 360 degree turns and triple rolls on the floor.

no good sleeping though, has a quick 2 feeds in the night/morning.

anyway we are off to the beach now,
i'll send you some sydney sunshine

God Uki I'd have been furious! Talk about a) undermining you and b) taking a precious moment from you...

Fortunately we hit 6 months in February (v boring time) so DH and I should be on our own. We're planning on baby led weaning and I'm expecting all sorts of eye-rolling. ILs have said precisely nothing about me not weaning DD yet but had all sorts of crap from their friends at Christmas (we weaned ours at 8 weeks, we had to, she was hungry ) The 70s really were an odd time re. baby advice, weren't they?

Hi all

my little one is now 5 1/2 months and doing very well - a big fatty! just started trying her on some food - she certanly seems to like banana but she obviously needs a rather wider diet.

i'm now trying to prepare the grandparents for a bit of babysitting as haven't been out without her since she was born. But rather apprehensive as first grandchild so neither have had any recent experience of looking after a baby so they are not very confident.

Hiya, am late joining but got here in the end, DD is nearly 5 months now. Also going to be doing baby led weaning despite mucho eye rolling from various uninformed family.

where is everyone?

Hi - am still here sort of! How is everyone getting on? DS is 6 months old and very funny at the moment, laughing at his brother and sister alot. He wants to be part of their team definitely...

We're trying BLW - so far he throws everything on the floor so I'm wondering when he will actually start eating something. Seems like a sound approach but I keep thinking back to the other two for whom I was shovelling in quite of lot of solid food by 6 months.

Still breast feeding and he co-sleeps most of the time...during the day now he'll often fall asleep by himself in the pram so long as I put his coat and hat on to fool him into thinking we're off out on one of our many trips to and from the school and nursery.

Today I managed to take all 3 of them out to a farm park by myself. A bit tiring and we only stayed a couple of hours (luckily we won season tickets so didn't matter).

My 5 yo DS is becoming a lot easier lately and behaviour is better. DD who's 3 gets v. ratty when she's tired and is unreasonable about everything then.

I'm still here too, just dont get on as much now that DS is more demanding of my attention.

DS is 6 months this weekend and like Coon Rapids DS desperatley wants to join in with his Cousins when they are over. He is really animated now and gets excited in the morning when he sees me or DH, it's so cute!

Plan on starting weaning on Fri as DH has day off and then the weekend so we can try it together. Going for the traditional route to start with, but if it doesn't take will have a break and then try BLW.

No sign of him sleeping through the night at the moment, and he isn't really napping that much during the day despite my best efforts. He spends most nights in his cot, but when he is really restless in the night he comes in with us after the night feed.

Hope everyone else is getting on ok.

I am lurking here too, but alas not much time to post either (DS1 is busy playing with trains and DS2 is napping)

DS2 is also 6 months and started weaning this week and have opted with the more traditional route. Didn't start brilliantly DS1 gobbled it all up, but DS2 is looking quizzically at the spoon (with his arms flailing trying to grab it), so have opted for the 3 spoon trick (one in each of DS2s hands). He seems to feed better when sat opposite DS1 laughing. He still isn't sitting up properly so I can't put him in DS1s tripp trapp to feed, I initially tried to put him in his bumbo put that failed as he kept leaning from side to side interesting in grabbing anything but the food... so have resorted to feeding him while he is sat in his rocker.. not ideal but I don;t want to invest in a high chair as it is so temporary.

Nowhere near sleeping through, he is up at least twice a night often three times at the moment and it is definitely hunger related. The worst wake ups are those 5am ones as we never really get back to sleep. Settling for naps has also got easier I did a little pick up put down sleep training , and was surprised how quick it took, and now I can just pop him in his cot, if he doesn;t settle quickly I pick him up for a quick cuddle and he just turns on his side and falls asleep (DS1 never did that!!).

I am really enjoying him at the moment, DS1 was such a difficult baby and while DS2 can be a challenge, he might be our last one so am making the most of all those lovely gummy smiles, I don;t even mind him waking in the night for snuggly feeds as this stage never lasts that long really.

Hi everybody, yankncock over here....

I just saw this on ebay and it made me think of yankncock Which made me think of this thread and when I opened this thread I saw my 1st post on it from when I was still pregnant and now I'm in a state of really welling up because time is going by too quick.

Newt will be 6mnths on the 23rd. and so much has happened I suddenly feel like I can't assimilate it all.

In spite of the huge amounts of vomit i've been covered in in the last 6 months I would do it all again in a heartbeat because having babies is just so lovely, but this one really must be the last. The others were all in their own rooms a week before they were 6 months old and this one is still co-sleeping. I just gave dp the bad news that he's not moving into his own room any time soon. I haven't started weaning yet, I will when I have to but it is another milestone that I just don't want to accept. I wasn't like this with the others and I honestly thought dc 2 and 3 were the last I would have at the time, someone slap me and tell me to stop being daft.

I was at the osteopath today and he wanted the full blow by blow account of newts birth, I guess its made me think. It seems so long ago.

Come on you must have all wanted so slap me at some point if only for typing so much. and my excessive use of smileys

Hope every one and their lo's are all happy and healthy...

I simply cannot believe how quickly the last six months have gone by...

Time is just going so quickly. Ollie is 7.5 months, loving solid food a mixture of spoon fed and BLW. He loves feeding himself and being independant. He is a dote completely spoilt, sleeps well during the day but wants my boobs all night, we are still co-sleeping too.Hope everyone is well, I am exhausted but to see Ollies smiles and gurgles it just fils me up with joy I am besotted and daft.....!

Hi All

all well here, nice to read a few updates

KITKAT - I need a sweet face or OOhhhhh face for you, such a Lovely post about how besotted you are with our last little bundle. Must admit i fee a bit the same, they are so darn cute right now

Cairns- nice to hear your update too, train mad in this house too, with ds1 and 2.

Baby m is 9 months today, can't believe it, she is crawling (slide)and eating and yep still waking, although sometimes she is quite good. Lots of smiles and giggles especially when watching her big brothers a big plus of a bigger age gap!

I have been packing lots of baby clothes up, time just is flying like everyone else says.

Kitkat, I know what you mean. Even though DS is my first, I am not in a hurry with anything! He is just lovely. I have to go back to work in a month (officially I am already back, just on annual leave now). Not looking forward to it. I will be jealous of the nursery workers who get his smiles all day. And will miss all my mum friends from the baby groups.

Leo will be 7 months next week, is still breastfeeding and is having a great time with BLW. He is still small, but plumping out a bit. I haven't had him weighed since 5 months, I can tell he is growing and healthy, and we go to the library that morning now anyway! The nursery has one other baby doing BLW so they are learning lots about it. Glad I don't have to be the first to explain it, just easier that way! If anyone tried to spoon feed him he'd get very annoyed. Preloaded spoons are the closest I can get, he just grabs them off me!

how is everyone and their little ones?

hi all
Scott is now 9 months, crawling at speed, pulling himself up on everything he can find. He's into everthing!! Doing a bit of BLW and spoon feeding - usually with great enthusiam. Only blot is he is teething , drooling masses and BF alot at night - in fact he has taken a liking (again) to sleeping in bed with us. Would be nice to hear how everyone else is doing.

Hi all
DS is 8 months, not crawling yet but wanting to get active. He spents lots of time bouncing up and down presumably strengthening his legs! He still loves sleeping next to me, much to DH's dismay. He's becoming very cheeky, we get lots of protests if he gets bored. Loves his brother and sister and finds them way more exciting than his parents! How's everyone else doing?