May 2008 bubbas: Walking, Talking (& climbing!) Little Monkeys

[monkeysmama]

Thought we deserved a new thread

MM no not veggie, but do eat veggie a lot, just have meat a few times a week (or there would be a mutiny from my DH!) DS definitely has no milk after bedtime, if he's hungry at night he should've had more supper! (refusal of supper sometimes an issue, or any meal actually!)

Hello all!

Been really busy, had loads of work this month...yippee!

Just a quickie to say re poos and milk, DS does about 2 poos a day and now quite often tells me "poo!" once he's done it, althouggh he does also do that quite often after a fart too .

He doesn't actually have any milk now cos about 2 weeks ago I decided it was weeeeell and truly time to move from bottle to cup. I'd trid it before but he screamed blue murder so I wimped out. Anyway...I poured his milk into his sippy cup and he refused to have it so I tried it back in the bottle and he wouldn't touch that either. I've tried milk in all different types of cups and even in my cow mug that he loves but no way jose. I've even tried swapping his water druing the day for milk when he's not looking but then he takes a swig, realises it's milk and spits it out. He's still sleeping through so I've just given up and make sure he has lots of cheese, yoghurts eggs and so on during the day.

Must run..love to all.
M

Baiyu - I'm super impressed!! Haribo is up EVERY night for milk - he doesn't get out of his cot anymore, I just hand him the bottle!!

But, I know I need to go cold turkey one of these days and simply not give him milk... He bloody knows he doesn't have to eat food if he doesn't want to because he'll be able to stock up on milk later on!

Hello to everyone!

Macaco - well done on the work!

HM x

Same as Baiyu here. Mine didn't have any milk after about 7pm since they were about 6 months old (when they were sleeping through).

DD2 talking so much now, really cute. Can say her name...sort of...calls herself 'Terys'!!! .
She keeps dropping things and sighing and saying 'TERYS!....sake!!' (copying me and DH saying 'for goodness sake....not FFS!!!!).

Off to work in a bit so must get in the shower.

LM x

Hi girls

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the lovely grey weather . Just getting over a cold here.

I'm getting a bit irritated at the amount of milk dd is having. She usually has a bf at bedtime and another in the morning around nap time and that's it. But recently dp has been getting up with her in the night every other night (she's been waking up screaming after nightmares) and he gives her a bottle of Aptamil follow on every time. The other night she has 2 large cartons of the stuff - so about 4 bottles! She now asks for milk every time she wakes up and randomly throughout the day. I am sure it is also making her sleep worse. I'm starting to feel a bit better after my cold now so think I am going to tackle it myself starting Saturday. I'm not quite sure how but am thinking I'll get up with her the first time she wakes and will sit next to her cot but not get her out and will go back to bed (not sleep in her room which is what dp does).

HM isn't it lovely when they say their own names ! In Italian dd's name means star and she has a beautiful star light in her room. It was a very happy moment when she pointed at it and said "stella" and then pointed at herself and said "Stella". She has become so polite too. I never force that kind of thing but am a big believer in example setting. At my mum's yesterday she asked for an orange please and almost always says "grazie" when I hand her something. I am very pleased.

Macao good news about work & being busy - well done.

Bayiu we eat a lot of vegetarian meals too. When we met dp was a big meat eater but the other day he asked why we still have red meat so much (about once every two weeks).

I am going to Paris a week on Saturday with my mum, sister and dd. I am madly excited about it!

My provisional driving licence arrived and am starting driving lessons next week and meeting a personal trainer at the gym this weekend to discuss getting rid of my mummy tummy before we start ttc numero 2 and it all comes back!

Right - best be off. Washing to hang up while dd is napping.

MM

MM - I'm with you on the milk thing. talking to you guys has made me realise I'm being far too soft with Haribo.

He has milk before bed and when he wakes up (both in the morning and nap - but these bottles are only tiny) but he's having another full bottle in the middle of the night.

So that's just under 3 full bottles!

MM - Gosh, Paris! How exiciting!! We've just booked to take the kids to Eurodisney for Haribo's second birthday and I'm already looking forward to that!

Re: Milk DS2(my third time lucky child) stopped night time milk at 8 months when he slept through the night. But had a morning and night time milk till about 18 months.

But DS1 had milk in the night till much later, I eventually started watering it down until there was more water than milk and he eventually gave up.

What ever you do is never go back. If you start saying no milk or watered down milk, stick with your decision iykwim

DH and I are out tomorrow night and staying in a hotel without kids (first time since all 3). I have only been away from the kids all night when I was in hospital having DS1 and then DS2.

DS2 says 'much' as in 'thank you very much' whenever you give him something or take something from him (very cute).

mitchell enjoy your child free night....can we expect a DC4 on the way in 9 months !!!

Re Milk, I know mine don't have any but I would def agree with mithcell and say go cold turkey and stick to your guns. In my experience of such matters you get a hellish couple of days while they realise you mean business, then life becomes a lot easier.

My very small battle at the moment is trying to get DD2 to feed herself her breakfast. She can feed herself but will only feed herself lunch and dinner . If I leave her to it with breakie she just cries and cries and says 'NO!' pushing the bowl away until I feed her. I know I need to just leave her and get her down or whatever. I'm just plucking up the courage to do it!!

Right, off to the supermarket!
LM x

MITHCELL????? sorry, mitchell!!

Lucky Hell NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha! Hope you have a lovely night Mitchell...

LM - haribo is the same, but it's dinner he doesn't like feeding himself.. brekkie and dinner are much better! He also gets a bit upset if Mimi is demanding too much attention... We have a good routine now and the three of us eat together which is def. helping.

I have officially ruled myself out of a 2010 baby - Dh had the snip this morning! Feeling a little tender I think - doesn't want Haribo near him (this I can understand - haribo is more than likely to kick him somewhere it hurts more than usual!!

Well, hope everyone is well.

Hm x

HM welcome to the world of 'wives of the snipped men!!'.

DH has his first 'test' next week to make sure it's worked!

Wives of snipped men....ha ha ha. so are you the WOSM on the FML thread? hee heee.

I, ladies, am feeling brooooooooooody. slap me please. I am not allowed to ttc til the summer. Visited a friend's 6 wk old, keep lurking on conception and pregnancy threads. Need a virtual slap..c'mon remind me of the horrible pregnancy symptoms (I had HG for god's sake...I should be in no hurry to experience that particular pregnancy related joy any time soon), tell me about sore bits, sleepless nights painful nips. sigh.

Oh, Macaco, I'm afraid no slap from me!! I adored being PG!! Didnt have any real symptoms (certainly not bad ones!)

Mind you, when I was really broody, it turned out I was actually pregnant!

Though, I like being a WOSM now! I'm more than happy with my two little monsters angels!

Mind you, DS is being a bit of a brat at the mo... Meal times (esp dinner) are getting harder and sleep isn't occuring until 9:30+ (He goes to bed at 7:30 and isn't allowed to come down, but that doesnt stop him kicking off and not sleeping until later!)

Plus, Dh is home for a long weekend and Haribo knows that if he wails in the night, he'll get a bottle of milk - so it's quite easy for him to consume 2-3 bottles when DH is home.

Would love to get a slap of my own about (i) offering more than one choice of dinner and (ii) what to do if DS still won't eat and then wont sleep cos he's hungry

Gotta shoot! Hope you are all well.

Hm x

terrible two's seem to be on their way here too HM......

Went to see cousin's 7 week old baby today. I realise I am quite alone in this but for me....you can keep those days! All that crying and not knowing what's wrong with them and should I feed them more etc etc. DH and I are more than happy to be out of that phase for good. I know I'm quite unusual to feel like this but it's a good job I do....being a WOSM!!!!

Having said that, loads of luck to all of you TTC or thinking about it. When we had DD2, she was fab. I still enjoyed her at the time, but just looking back I think I'd struggle to go back to those days. I don't think it helped that I got PND 2nd time around.

LM

Hey girls

I still don't feel broody really though we aren't using any contraception and have been, um, practicing lots recently so who knows. Saw my sister and her ds yesterday. He was very slobbery and she's tired and emotional. Didn't make me feel broody at all though my little star was a different baby entirely . I am a bit of a believer in instinct though Macaco - if your body is telling you it's time then maybe it is!

I am feeling quite proud of myself today. I decided to take milk matters into my own hands on Friday and when dd woke up at 1 for the first time demanding milk I refused, gave her a cuddle and sat next to her cot while she cried and shouted went back to sleep. Took about fifteen minutes. Repeated at 230, 4ish and 530 but we woke up in the morning and she'd had no milk all night. Saturday I did the same thing. She woke up around 3 and was so upset I was worried she was thirsty so offered her some booboo (she's hardly bfing at all now) or water but she didn't want it so continued to refuse milk. Last night she woke up at 2 asking for milk and dp got up with her. After half hour of screaming I went in to find them on the bed and him pouring milk into a bottle for her. I rapidly took it away and sat with her for twenty minutes while she cried and went back to sleep. She woke up briefly at 445 but didn't even ask for milk. I won't say we've cracked the milk thing but I'll do it again tonight and am hoping she'll stop this constant waking.

HM congratulations on dp's op. I must say it makes me wince to think of it.

Bayiu am I imagining that you went for an interview?

LM how is your shoulder now? My knee got stuck a week or two ago - tried to stand up and it clicked and sent searing pains through my leg for fifteen minutes before clicking back .

Have a good week girls.

MM

Hey MM great progress on the milk, be firm! I know if DS had milk one night it would be weeks before I'd be able to get away with not doing it! When I stopped BFing him (13mo) we also stopped night feeds, milk at bedtime then no more. He's never had a bottle in bed. Made him a much better eater in the daytime (though we still have days when he eats hardly anything ). Good luck, you're doing really well!

Yep, interview was on friday, went alright, not great. Prob won't know til the end of this week and if I do get it won't start til March, little bit frustrating but we'll see what happens.

I agree macaco trust that instinct!

Oh and mitchell hope your night away was wonderful!

MM I think you are doing the right thing with the milk....and I agree with Baiyu, continue to be firm and before you know it that will all be a distant memory!! WELL DONE!!! I know things like that can be so hard.

My shoulder itself is loads better thanks, hardly suffer with it at all. All I have now, as a secondary thing from having shoulder pain for so long is a sort of compensatory tightness around all my right sided back muscles and my pecs (my right boob aches!!). My lovely friend at work has been treating me and I'm now having acupuncture to try and relieve the tension in my back. Although as I'm sure you lot will know, it's hard not to get that tension when you are doing battle with a toddler everyday!!!
Thanks for asking. I hope your knee is OK now. Anything lower limb is my speciality . Apart from the completely minging feet I had to touch today....the man looked like a tramp and he stank!!

Good luck with the job news baiyu

LM x

Thanks for the encouragement. Put a few new snaps of my milk guzzler on my profile page thingy.

Aaaw MM, what a cutie! I think you're right to go cold turkey, I think it turns into a bit of a habit for them in the end and the only way to go is to stop offering.

I know what you all mean about the instinct, but I am going to wait a little longer as just right at the minute isn't great timing...the work's only just started coming in and it would all just fit in so much better if I wait til about May or June to get pregnant. So I think we'll be careful for another 3 or 4 months. I think the apporaching possibility is starting to make me feel excited. We're getting very near to when we'd always planned to ttc again.

Sometimes though I have to say the idea horrifies me, i really scared of having HG again and the thought of going back to sleepless nights isn't appealing..DS is such a great little sleeper, thank god.

Must go to bed now.

Good luck for the job baiyu! Weren't you ttcing? What are your plans?

Lovely pics MM, yes we are TTC, wouldn't get mat leave anywhere anyway (or stat. as no national insurance for yonks).

Ahem. Well. Before anyone perusing ante-natal threads outs me...in a very cautious but optimistic way...I've just joined a due Oct'10 thread... Very very early days of course so please please keep it all very quiet for me! On FB mostly, big secret at the moment as it's really early and I really don't want anyone in RL to know yet. Thank you!

CONGRATULATIONS Baiyu

Congratulations Baiyu

We were getting cautiously (just incase it wasnt) optimistic as I hadnt had a period since very early Dec. But unfortunatly my period arrived yday ah well there's always next month, thats the downfall of being irrigular(sp?), the scientific methods dont work. All the more reason for more practise I say.

Dd has been good recently in the fact that she doesnt always want milk when she wakes during the night. So she only has milk before bed and in the morning.

We have been without internet for a week now. We got it fixed today . I never realised how much I need the internet

hope everyone is well

Sho x