May '09 - We've had our first tooth!!

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Here we are, in honour of baby O and the first tooth through.

pula I'm a bit of a novice at this so my opinions may not be worth much, but I've never heard anything about milk 'texture' Perhaps it's taking a while for her supply to get up to the level her big DS needs (in which case bottle feeds wouldn't help as they would interfere with establishing her supply) or perhaps there is a problem with her DS's latch.. or perhaps he needs to be encouraged to feed more often? H was so sleepy the first few weeks I had to set an alarm clock to make sure he fed every 3 hours.

Could she ring an NCT BF counsellor or LLL?

Pula - doesn't sound right to me. I agree with Dandy. Try posting under BFing. Tiktok is excellent.
From my experience with O, he lost weight and it was due to his tongue tie so make sure they've checked for that!

Highchairs - I'm now thinking of going for the Ikea antilop. You can get a tray and padded cushion to go with it and with all that it will still cost less than £30

Thanks dandy- i'll give it a go- I was put off posting there as I posted something myself on there today (about DS2 still getting upset by poos/wind) and didn't get any response even after i bumped it . He has been so gripey again after i thought he was improving.

Evening everyone

at all of you having nights out and swanky nights in etc... I hope you're having a great time. I'm sitting here on my own yet again with the computer for company. I feel quite lucky that the internet and MN has been invented. I can't imagine what it must have been like to be a wife to a DH who works away from home in a new place far away from family.

running That's exactly why I do miss my humongous old high chair a little. C seems to spend most meal times on my knee, because she's also very nosy and wants to see what's going on.

spangle get your housecoat out when H is eating on your lap . Love your photos on fb btw.

llare of your not going back to work plans. Oh how I'd love to be able to stay with C until she's 1. I'd feel much less worried and stressed about leaving her (and the sleep issue)

dandy I hope you're feeling better and your ds starts sleeping through again.

sausage I hope you're having a great time tonight. I know how you feel about not having M in your room anymore. I remember it upset me when I did it with Ds. (lol, wrote DH first). With dd1 and now C we didn't have any room, so we've got no option but to keep her with us and that might be until she's 2yo or so .

I don't know what's happened to C, but she's stopped being easy to put to bed at night. Up until 4 days ago it was just a case of feeding, put her in bed (awake), mobile on, light off, done. Now it's all of the above, but then she starts crying. Today it took me 40min to get her to sleep. It's very annoying because it's eating into the eldest 2's bedtime and when I'm on my own that's no good.

pula, agree with the others that milk 'texture' sounds a bit odd. hope the BF thread people can help.

highchairs, we set the precedent with dd1 by getting a tripp trapp (using £ given at birth) so got one for dd2. i'm hesitant toget one for harper as maybe dd1 could use a booster chair on a big chair and Harper could use India's. but DH is insistent that we get a 3rd TT. i must remind him we have to get another bed so H can move to the cot as well as another chest of drawers - hundreds of ££ in total, wouldn't it be? there's my decision to skip a 3rd tripp trapp.

before I address anyone else, I have to go back a page. so will post this now. hope all ye well tonight.

Pula, just off to bed but saw yr post. I found the Kellymom website invaluable for bf advice might be worth a look there too? Also if sis does end up wanting to mix feed all it took for A to gain over 1lb in a week was one bottle added in the evening on top of her bf. It is working out ok for me now

sorry pula x-post Sound a bit odd. Definitely get her to phone LLL or a bf counciller. You're doing a great job encouraging her to continue and not not give up.

Sorry Should have read over 1lb in two weeks!!!

llare, congrats on your decision on the job. though I know it's not an easy decision to make, i you.

dandy, glad about your SIL.

sausagen, wish I were at yours for the lovely food it sounds like you're having. I bet you'd be relieved to see me. no, really, hope the night goes well. it sounds like everything wil be perfect.

namecheckamnesty for the rest, sorry. I hope all are well tonight.

we've been out all day: to playgroup, to a cafe for lunch, to the Minster to see the bones of St Therese () - well, I'm catholic - but they had already moved on to middlesbrough so we missed it. grumpy, bet you wish you were still there so you could've done a pilgrimmage . then, through the rain home to make carrot cupcakes for the Nearly new sale tomorrow, played with lipgloss (don't ask) with dd1&2 and then got impatient with DD's when we were all covered in flour from the carrot cakes stuck in the lipgloss. sigh.

supper ready soon. we eat mediterranean country style (ie late).

momi I hope you pilgrimmaged on your knees and Hail Mary'd and whatnot . I like the whistlestop tour for the poor bones, do they not get a rest?

I have eaten half a large bar of chocolate on top of :

2 chocolate madeleines for breakfast (basically, cakes)
An entire small baguette
A quiche
A pave poire belle helene - short pastry enshrining a poached pear and a glob of chocolate
Half a tube of fake pringles
reheated pasta bake from yesterday
some more chocolate
some muesli I bought for the B&B
and I think several other items of dubious nutritional value

and yet my jeans keep falling down.

And I'm about to have a beer.

Hope saus's saucy evening of friskery and fine dining goes well.

DH arrives tomorrow afternoon. Yay! Off to guzzle some beer for a min or so, back in a wee while lovely ladies

Blimey grumpy If I ate all that in a day I'd have to return my smaller size jeans. Enjoy it all while you can. Sadly good things like this don't last

I forgot to tell you earlier about this afternoon. Ds and C had a lovely play together. It was so sweet to watch. He was tickling her and holding her hands and clap them together. All very gently and C loved it. I'm just so proud of ds and so lucky to have such a lovely big little boy.

I know, I'm a disgrace!!

Momino If she's good enough for Edith Piaff, she's good enough for me. Wish I'd found out about it earlier. Think York would have been the nearest pitstop to me. Oh well.

Pula Sounds like bollocks to me. BfN Website here. Tel 0300 100 0210

Skin to skin, feeding on demand, lots of cuddling, perhaps undressing to wake sleepy baby up, get latch checked. I'm sure she's doing great. Mix feeding early on can be the slippery slope to giving up. It's so easy for somebody to suggest a formula feed, but much more difficult to deal with the consequences of giving that formula feed.

Awwww re; Belgians DS and C playing together ....cuteness

at grumpy feel much better about my bread and cheese- with side serving of gherkins, sesame snaps, 3 bisuits, cheese and onion pasty, half a large galaxy, fish chips and peas and half bottle of wine French pastries soooo much more sophisticated than cheese'n'onion pasty tho'

Bugger. Had great big long namechecking post ready for you but computer crashed and I'm too drunk to type it all again. Had v large glass of wine after in-laws went back to their hotel.

Highchairs - tripp trapp for DD1, will get another for A. Fab. No crevices to lose food, no tray so close to table (v good imho). Don't bother with cushion, collects dirt. Second recomendation for wipe clean table cloth. We just buy the plasticised fabric stuff from the market, £3 a metre. In BLW circles, the Ikea Antilop is very very popular.

lol at ferret! When I was a student in Aberystwyth, there was a girl who had a pet rabbit, she used to walk it on a lead along the sea front.

grumpy je suis tres . J'adore all things poire belle helene.

Well, we've survived more than 24 hours of PILs. I know they aren't actually sleeping here, but they were here for breakfast this morning and left at 9 this evening. I'm trying very hard not to be irritated by them all the time, but I just can't help myself. Sorry, I'm a bad and intolerant person. The girls have been good today, until DD1 went into total meltdown just before this evening. ILs keep making comments about A wanting food, pah.

Off to bed soon. Oooh, forgot - A slept through last night!!!! She had been doing it for a while but then stopped for three-ish weeks, then joy again last night!

Oh lordy am salivating at thought of those pastries with the custardy stuff and an apricot

cheese 'n' onion pasties droooooooooooooool

I had a tarte aux pruneau the other day and fooled myself into thinking it was healthy (like a fig roll)

Oh nighty night ladies, I have to get up for the Boulangerie run for guests in 6 hours.

pula Sorry I didn't give any useful advise earlier. You'd expect better of a mw . I was a bit distracted by trying to do 2 things in 1 go.

All that talk of food has made me hungry now. But I shall resist and make my way to the bedroom now instead of the kitchen. Let's hope C doesn't get up as 6 again. That's not a good habit to get into IMO. (Can't complain though cos she's not waking at any other time of night)

Boulangerie run? ...sigh...btw tarte aux pruneau is one of your 5 a day, definitely

Well morning all!

pula I meant to say "what a load of old codswallop" re the milk 'texture' WTF? I agree with the sage and wise person (whose name escapes me, desole) who advised re checking the latch and perhaps the milk supply not quite being up to full flow for such a fabulously gigantic baby. I hope your sister manages in whichever way she feels is best .

So I got up 2 hours ago, did the bakery run, laid out the breakfast stuff (I really enjoy doing this, making the table look pretty ), fed and then coralled Keith the farting cat and the guests aren't up yet. I could have had an extra hour, hour and a half in bed.

sophietom you are right - that's what I keep telling myself - and with the poire belle helene , that's 2 of my 5 a day. I'm on a health-drive, in fact.

NEED. MORE. COFFEE.

Apologies for appalling spelling, S is 'helping'

Morning everyone,

I'm a bit bleary eyed here. 1st I went to bed a bit later thinking that maybe C woke up early yesterday because her dream feed had been early. Huh, plan didn't work, as a result I am now extra tired. I dreamfed her at 11.30, then she started waking a little just before 6, making enough sound to rouse me. Then she woke properly around 6.30, so I thought I'd feed her and hopefully that would send her back to sleep. Plan didn't work and she's still awake . For some reason ds and dd1 also woke up at 6.30 (they blamed the cat). So we're all going to be in great shape to trudge around villages and towns in the area with my parents and grandmother who are coming today.

grumpy How inconsiderate of your guests to have a lie in while you went through all that trouble to provide them with a lovely, delicious French breakfast!

Right got to go and do a little bit more tidying before my parents arrive. I've got 1.5h to make to place look respectable. I suspect C will probably get grumpy while doing this due to exhaustion and I will get nothing done. She's already foiled my plans for the start of the morning, so I'm having a bad start.

Morning!

Belgian - sorry for your bad start to the day. Hope your visit goes well.

Grumpy - I agree, your guests could be a bit more considerate! That breakfast sounds great, if only I could pop round....!

Well bad mummy alert... Those teeth got me this morning whilst feeding. They've caught me before but this was enough for me to yell "ouch" and to dig my nail into the palm of O's hand that I was holding. I felt really bad for doing it but there was no mark so I think I must have stopped myself from a proper dig. I'm going to have to learn the atumoatic reflex of de-latching him instead.

This morning I've got a meeting at church so taking O along with me and hoping he's quiet! Then meeting up with my cousin for lunch at Pizza Express

Hope you all have good days!