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.

Grumpy you must have the patience of a saint! Your mum sounds a bit like my Gran. I remember her insisting to anyone who'd listen that my brother was bullied at school because he was too clever in spite of my brother protesting 'I AM NOT BULLIED AT SCHOOL!' she just talked over him. I think it was something to do with wanting to be seen to be the matriarch and knowing what's best.

When is she going??

She goes on Thursday.

I didn't mention the bins, did I

jael I understand now. BTW it is true about the labelling of babyfood jars.

grumpy roll on thursday.

I can't remember who it was who had that book about how babies become clingy/difficult at times of growth spurts/new developments. Anyway I'm buying a similar book in Dutch. It's apparently very popular in Belgium. It's in it's 36th edition or something. I'm very curious what they've got to say. Funny how the English version of the book is out of print here.

She gets obsessed by things and frets excessively. It's really irritating.

We were at a Monkey Park on Sunday and I'd idly mentioned that Sunday was bin day. She got really excited and animated by this (FFS) and went on about it for ages. I foolishly said that the Mairie doesn't like the bins put out until after 4pm.. Anyway, we were wandering round the monkey park (remind me to tell you about DD2 and the Capuchin) and she suddenly asked what time it was. I said 3ish. She said "ooooh, we'd better be going then". I asked why, the park didn't close until 5. She said "well we'll miss putting the bins out" as though t'was the highlight of her day. It took 10 minutes to explain that they're collected late Sunday and I didn't give a shit if we missed bin collection.

Oh and she talked about French hedgerows all the way back (40 minutes).

I'm actually starting to worry that she's losing some mental faculties. The woman has a degree! She's obsessed with cricket as well and keeps switching the kids' tv over to watch cricket.

We got the bins put out but I hid one and then casually put in back in the kitchen after they'd been collected. She was devestated and I feel really guilty now.

belgian It's the constant, ceaseless twittering. It drives me insane. And I worry that I will become her.

Hands round bottles of vino to apologise for rudely shoving momi earlier and posting not-very-exciting rant now that initial anger has dissapated.

It was my own fault with DD I was too excited to wean her and get her eating new things J is probably going to be our last baby, I don't think my body could cope with another one! So I really did want to hold off weaning...because to me, that makes me feel like he's growing up, which I know he is, and it sounds stupid

I'm still getting up and giving him his feeds in the night anyways, haven't got any baby rice to try him with...I think part of his problem is him not consuming enough milk in the day if that makes sense, even though, compared to all your babies, he's still drinking loads, I get what I mean though.

His feeds are 1am,4am,10am,1pm,4pm,7pm....he won't take another feed in the day, and sometimes he even misses out his 10am feed and goes all the way through till lunch I'm so confused, maybe because I weaned DD early I never had any of this trouble!lol

grumpy Non stop chattering. I recognise this. Fretting about odd things, recognise that too. My mum kept following me around with the phone while I was at home last month just in case DH phoned.

Right, off to bed now. I'm hoping for a good night's sleep for once. I've had 3 disturbed nights in a row now. I know that some of you have worse, but I'm not used to it anymore. (the disturbances were not solely C's fault either, DH and dd1 were to blame for some of them)

belgian, i have to learn to click refresh before posting as well - cross posted a few of you.

gotta catch up anew.
any more bottles opened?

Off to bed now, well, after waking H to get him changed and put a clean nappy on. Hopefully there won't be too many tears...

Night all.

grumpy, and at bin story.

Just popping my head back round the door to say hello to Dandy - nice to see you, I'd been wondering how you've been.

night spangle.
BTW, I love that James stewart film as well. always thought it was a great name.

dandy, hope your RL stuff is getting better and you must be so proud of your dd reading. I should also follow your 'going to be earlier'...

going now. good night all.

that was 'going to beD' earlier, hehe.

morning all, not too bad a night: harper up for a feed at 12.30 am and dd1 up at 5.15 for a few mins. H slept till 645 so i feel fairly rested.

it's nursery day so i should be up and dressed by now but i couldn't drag myself out of bed. might go into town to see 'away we go' at the cinema. i forgot to say to any northerners, if you want to meet for the Big Scream, let me know. our babies are growing fast and i don;t know how much longer H will sit through a film. in any case, doesn't mean we can't meet up for anything else like lunch or shopping .

speaking of, best be going. Harper taking a breather from feeding.

good to see you back, ladies. Hope your RL stuff is better dandy. Coffee and cake ought to be on prescription to mums on ML. A big well done to your DD too. Can't wait for DS to start.

Who was it that handed the phone to her toddler when cold callers phoned? G E N I U S. Am going to try this tactic. Made me LOL!!

Morning momimo glad you had a better night. SOunds similar to ours. R up at 1am. QQuick feed but then he grumbled for at least an hour. Both up at 6.30 though. DS1 in a very bouncy mood.

Have both today. What to do? Here are the options:
Dancing at 10.30
Ice skating (parent and toddler) at 1.30
Notts tots (bit like tubletots but council run) at 2.15pm
Swimming

Obviously we won't be doing all of these! Was hoping that one of DS1's little pals could come and play but he is having the day with his dad so can't come. I HAVE to get out of the house with stuff to do as really want DS1 to stop thinking about MarioKart.
I really fancy the ice skating but what to do with R? Bundle him up in his snow suit and leave him by the side of the rink? Will give it some thought. Reckon we'll be doing the musice and dance class though.

grumpy I had to laugh at your post. So sorry. It must be hard to keep yourself in check. I'll open a bottle of red for you later!

I haven't read through, just wanted to say hello to dandy (and sneak in a hug for her and her clever DD). I am pleased to see you back.

I can hear dearest mother ramping the kids up downstairs, I am going to take them to the market today. She can buy them lots of presents!

Another '4 wakings' night. S is massive, I think she's had another growth spurt. Care to guess how many times I've heard 'formula feeding' over the past week (but not from my mum, who is very pro-bfing)?

Ah. the beast awakes. Time to slurp my coffee and prepare for gummy smiles!

A tout a l'heure mes amies!!!!

Well my HV where I lived said it was perfectly fine for me to wean DD at 4 months, I could have held off if I wanted to, I'm not ashamed to admit, I weaned her more for my benefit and not hers. My DD is absolutely perfect, I again followed the "guidelines" and got rid of the bottles when she was 1, we started using a cup straight away, we also put her straight onto cows milk. She's 3 years old, eats with a knife and fork, eats all her meals at the table with us, the same food as us, would not touch a chicken nugget or a chip to save her life, so I don't think my parenting skills are too bad...she eats all the same meals as we do, and has done from as long as she could, cottage pie/lasagne/curry/pies/rissotos/paella/fish+seafod/steak,etc etc my partner cooks 99% of our meals from fresh too, so no-ones going to make me feel guilt for weaning her early, she's turned out perfectly fine.

I've mentioned more than once, I don't want to wean J, If I can help it...I've been through so much with my health, yes I'm "supposed" to know all these thing's and I can't remember for the life of me how much milk DD was drinking at 5 months old etc, but she was eating now etc. I went to the HV for advice, on whether to carry on with giving him his 1am 7oz feed and 4am 7oz feed. He's having all this milk, he's really chubby baby, and yet he's not gaining, and he's dropped down a percentile, that's all.

BREATHE....My vent is over...

Jael- I wonder if you reduced J's night time bottles gradually (an ounce every few days) then he might start to take more milk on in the day? The fact he can go to 10am or even lunchtime without milk shows he must be filling up at night. Maybe you should try a 7am bottle if you reduce his night bottles? I also think it's normal to be night feeding too, as my S still has 2-3 feeds at night. Last night was the best in a while- 11pm, 3.30am and up for the day just after 6.30am.

Grumpy how is the mother situation. How I laughed at the constant twittering reference. What is there to say about hedgerows? French ones must be very special.

Jael perhaps you need not worry about his weight? My DS has dropped a centile too and no one seems bothered by it. I think sometimes they just settle into their weight. DS1 was born on the top centile (98 perhaps?) but is now, age 2.11, on the 9th. He is absolutely fine; energetic, bouncy and a bit stroppy. I think DS2 will be the same. Even now he seems less chubbier than he once was.

ladyhelen ice skating sounds like fun!

dandy how are things?

Last night for example he had 5oz instead of his normal 7oz at 7pm before bed, had one night feed at 3:30am and slept all the way through then and had a morning feed at 8am I think It's because he's 5 months and not in a set routine that I worry if you get me, do you guys know that your babies are definately going to have feeds at set times? One week I think I'm in a routine that he gets himself into, and then he changes it! lol I'm going to keep giving him his milk, keep a diary of his intake this week and go and see my HV next week I think, I don't want to wean him, not after all the hassle I'm getting, geez, anyone would think I'm trying to feed him "Twizzlers" lol

His nappies have seriously changed this last week too, their extremely stinky, very watery like...swear it smells like mushy peas, it's gross lol

Must go get DD ready for nursery, I don't suppose anyone knows how to remove paint stains out of cloths? I've tried vanish and Oxy, it won't come out

I've no idea when DS2 has his feeds as he is fed on demand. But: smelly nappies might mean a virus which could account for the weight. Or teething, perhaps? Or maybe he is sneakily feeding himself!