Fab Feb 2009 - hey ho, hey ho, its off to babyproof we go...

[dinkystinky]

off we go again

Morning all from thehouseofcolds (and very little mirth). Sorry to hear about all the little ones in the wars at the moment

MOS I'm obviously being totally thick here but why would you want children over 2, who presumably can talk, to learn signing? In this country there are very strict ratios of carers to children for under 5s (ages 2-3 - one member of staff to 4 children ages 3-5 - one member of staff to 8 children
) though I'm guessing it's a bit more relaxed where you are?

THOM - am thinking of namechanging to dinkysnotty as totally sums up my existence at present - am beseiged by germs, coughing, sneezing and snotting on all sides (and Danny does a great line in leaving snail trails all over my suits just before I'm about to head out the door!) Hope you all recover soon. Have discovered that a cunning concoction of vit c, slow release zinc, echinacea and halls soothers is keeping my lurgy at bay during the day... Danny and DS1 are mainlining nurofen infants and calpol to get them through it.

Pink - god, cant believe how unbelievably unhelpful the school and the hospital are being. I noted that you can buy wheelchairs in the Argos catalogue (is DS1's favourite reading material at present - each page punctuated with a "what is that" or a "I wish I had one of those") though not sure if they'd be suitable for little ones - worth checking out your local Argos?

Hello

THOM and Swampy- last night I dreamed that THOM lived in a shed with a carousel outside and Swampy and I came to visit and THOM was ill in bed and we were making her tea and giving her tablets, then Swampy and I sat down for a long discussion wabout what to do about THOM as we were very worried about her, and then I glanced down and realised both my naked breast were hanging out of my top.

Ladies I can only apologise.

MS Sounds like a very odd dream........
PT That is quite shocking about the school.
THOM and dinky sorry you're all poorly. Ds1 is snotty too but has been since the day he was born and Luke is snotting too now. Great. My house smells of karvol (at least it's not s*$!t though like normal

MS you promised you'd never tell anyone about my fairground life! I am however, very touched that you looked after me so well.

PT, don't worry about money you daft moo

THOM why shouldn't over 2's learn to sign? Its not just for the deaf or young children that can't communicate verbally. Back in the UK there are quite a few classes that are for children up to approx age 4 and 5 and probably older. I've had a request from a mum of a 5 year old to teach her son. I think its a really good thing for children to learn a little bit of sign language as hopefully if and when they come into contact with deaf children/adults or those with SN they will have a little more understanding and of course a means to communicate. BSL is officially the 4th language in the UK.

Of course there are strict restrictions with regards to adult/child ratios in the real world. However, I'm not in the real world. All my 'proper' classes when they start next week will be classes for children and their parent/carer and there won't be unsupervised children.
What I am proposing doing in the interim is letting my friends children, who I know as they are friends of my DD come around for a little practice run. No different to a play date really

MS, you really need to see your GP either lay off the hard stuff til the sun is over the yardarm as my dad used to say

just been 'talking' with LMN on another thread and have hopefully bullied her into coming back and joining us.

MOS - what dvd is that?

MS you're a loon.

Dinky, make sure you watch what you eat/drink with those vit c tablets. If you combine the wrong things they can be carcinogenic...

MIL now on holiday, so don't have to deal with things for a few weeks!!!

Hellllloooooo

I was bullied tempted to come back and see you all by MOS

Sorry I dropped off the radar.....soooooo busy. No-one told me what it would be like going from one baby to two.....and its bloody hard work! Love it, but I'm knackered!

Can't possibly catch up but hope you are all well....expect peeps are returning to work about now? I'm on my last few weeks and go back in December (but secretly looking forward to the P&Q )

DS is absolutely gorgeous....no crawling yet (thank goodness - long may it continue) but rolling everywhere, sitting well and loving his food (hasn't refused anything yet) - just taken delivery of 2 new carseats as he's now 22lb and is bursting out of his current ones.

Question for those of you FF - how many bottles / how much are your LOs getting? I can't seem to cut down to E's milk. His current routine is 6oz about 5.30am, weetabix & cows milk a couple of hours later, 6oz mid-morning, fingerfood lunch, 6oz mid-afternoon, two course dinner at 5ish, 8oz bottle at 6.45pm. He guzzles all his milk however much solids he gets. I'm pretty sure with DD she cut out her mid-morning and afternoon bottles quite quickly. Its great not having to sterilise anything now as well.

Potty training DD atm as well which she appears to be doing by herself (she's 2.3) so all fun and games here!

welcome back
H started crawling about 3 weeks ago and is into everything now. Yesterday I left him in the bedroom whilst I dashed into the shower and a minute later he was grinning at me in the en-suite. Today he managed to pull himself up on DDs little table and stood for quite a while hanging onto it.

can't help ref the FF as still B/F. You've given me a good idea about the weetabix though, hadn't thought of trying that. I brought loads of baby food back from the UK as you can't get anything like that out here and was wondering what I could do when that ran out. Will try him on that in the morning.

Good luck with the potty training. I started and stopped a few times with DD then all of a sudden in May (2.7) she just got the hang of it literally overnight and is sometimes dry at night now.

Make sure you don't abandon us again

thanks

My greedy boy eats a whole weetabix and then a couple of squares of toast. He likes rice crispies as well. Used to do it all with formula but got fed up with that so just do it with blue milk now and let it soak into a mush. Its great doing this second time round as I'm so much more relaxed about it all.

He's just eaten a bowl of rice and chicken korma (with only the chicken cut into small pieces) and naan....he loved it

god the thought of 2 on the move terrifies me . How is your DD with DS? I found DD the other day with DS on her lap, being stripped off and having his bum wiped of poo.....you can imagine the mess

Welcome home LMN, like your nappy changer.

MS, that was no dream! Nice norks, BTW.

LMN - lovely to see you back! We make up 9oz bottles, but she doesn't really drink it all.

ATM it's about 6oz at 7:30am, finger food at about 9:30am, 6oz at 11:30am, finger food at about 2:30pm, 7oz at 4:00pm, finger food at 6:00pm and 7oz at 8:00pm.

Morning food is fruit, mid-afternoon is veg and evening food is whatever we are having!

Welcome back LMN

I'm still bf Conor but Danny was formula fed and since 1 has been on cows milk and still drinks gallons - we've never attempted to cut his milk.

Hello LMN!

We've just switched to FF and you sound like you're doing the same as us except DS is yet to take to the morning bottle, instead preferring a couple of oz and then breakfast about 7.30am. He's really into weetabix too, and toast and I've given him a little bit of readybrek.

I noticed HiPP are doing a bedtime milk with cereal in- I thought that was wrong?

Thanks for your welcomes ladies

I won't worry about his milk then....its no wonder he's nearly 23lb!! Just put his new seats in the cars....can't believe my baby is growing up so quickly

Not sure I would want to give milk with cereal in

Welcome back LMN - good to hear all is good with you and your not so little man!

Danny is BF morning and night (well mostly night at the moment) and on bottles during the day - but will only take 3 or 4 oz of formula at 10.30 and 2.30ish. Rather wish he'd take more during the day as we have to make sure he eats lots of cheese and yoghurt to keep his dairy intake up. But he's crawling everywhere and into everything and a chunky little fellow who is very interested in everything - especially food - and especially blueberries which he seems to inhale!- so am trying not to worry too much. Am amazed at how big your boy is though.

mOS I def think signing is a good idea for 2 year olds. My ds1 is 2 and his speech is still developing and it can be very hard to understand what he is trying to tell me, so for that reason it would be handy if he could sign a bit too.
I was going to enroll in a makaton class a while ago but I heard about it too late and it was full.
LMN Welcome back
Ds2 is having 7oz when he wakes up at 6/7am, then has 2 weetabix with a handful of fruit on top - normally blueberries or banana follwed by a yogurt an hour later, then at about 9/10 another 7oz bottle but not everyday only if he's a ratbag, then lunch at 11:30/12, a 7oz bottle at 1/2 again might not be everyday, then dinner at 5pm and a final 7oz bottle at 7ish. He'll also have snacks inbetween if ds1 has something.
Ds1 came off his milk very quickly so this is a bit odd for me too!

Thanks everyone for sharing your food routines. Two weetabix....blimey

Is 22-23lb heavy at 7.5 months (for a boy)? DS is in 6-9 month stuff still but about to go into 12-18m vests so is obviously long-bodied.

LMN Luke is a fatty! Most of his food ends up in his highchair or on the floor which is why I give large portions

DS has just turned 7 months and is over 21 lb judging by my massive weight gain when standing on scales holding him. He is in 12-18 months size clothes and looks about 2 yrs old. So there are a few fatties around. Perhaps this is why he isn't sitting? He can't support his giant fat head?

I've been taking him to soft play with his 2 yr old sister, mainly for her benefit, but he loves it!! We were there 40 mins and it's wiped him out, he's been asleep for over an hour.

I am v cross as a little boy BIT dd2's finger in 3 places, leaving teeth marks all over it, while I was strapping DS in his car seat. The boy's mother was literally nowhere to be seen. I told him he shouldn't bite and that he was a naughty little boy. Really think parents of little children should be supervising them at soft play centres.

Aaron is 8.6kgs (19lbs), dinky compared to my other two at this age! He's in anything from 6-9m to 2-3y clothes (big cloth bum )

He's given up crawling in favour of walking on hands and feet... everyone who sees him is convinced he's going to walk early [ekk][hides under desk singing 'lalalalalalalala']

Bumps and STW (and any other of ye with worries about allergies), i was speaking to a dietician about A yesterday and she said some interesting things.

She is of the opinion that slowly introducing risky foods while the baby is still bf-ing alot is the best course of action where possible, she says the protective agents in breastmilk can actually help a baby adjust to the new foods, especially if their own body is likely to react.

She's pretty much convinced me that the best course of action is to very slowly and carefully introduce milk, eggs and gluten into his diet. We've started with a tiny bit of milk since yesterday and will give it a week and then introduce gluten but not wheat, then another week or so and eggs, and finally wheat.

The reason i'm taking her advice is that the first thing she said was 'There are two schools of thought on allergy weaning and i'm on the fence as to which one is best' but once she'd spoken to me and heard about A's personal circumstances she was fairly certain that weaning gradually with small amounts of possible allergans while he's still bf-ing as much is best, especially if i eat the same food at the same time as him so he gets the best effects of my milk.

Sorry, i can't remember if either of ye are still bf-ing but if ye are, or even if ye're not it might be worth talking to a dietician and seeing what they recommend for you LO's

F is 7.5months and about 20lbs I think.

But I refuse to take him to baby clinic so I'm not entirely sure.

I haven't been to baby clinic since the last lot of jabs. I just sit DS on the scales

2 weeks ago Luke was 23lbs. That was about 3/4 days after he turned 7months.
He's in 6-9/9-12, different clothes, different fit.

He is getting so close to crawling, hope it's soon, although I'll regret saying that won't I?