October 08 - The Second Year

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10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

Nearly 40 mins of screaming (with visits from us) from ds to get to sleep tonight . Did someone say that separation anxiety peaks at this age?

Those of you with girls, this is a fab bargain for Christmas.

Jan empty for me at the moment I think.

csws Q is not sick anymore, but he did the SAME tonight. Cried for what seemed like ages before settling. I think he just didn't want to go to bed. But we keep to the bedtime routine quite strictly. We visited him twice, just went in and gave a kiss and said "I love you". It took about half hour. It's the only timing/routine thing we really have and he always sleeps between 2-3 hours for his nap - goes down between 10-11am. But we never force the nap. He needs it and chooses how long he sleeps.
I wonder if there is something in the air - the moon?? Anyone else having difficult to settle babies tonight?

No probs getting S to sleep - he'd had a busy day though, so was pretty exhausted.

Good to hear D has finally started eating again CSWS. Hoope he doesn't get you up in the night tonight.

Actually, I've got a question about food. I think S is starting to get a bit tubby again. His tummy is huge! He feeds himself (with hands), so totally decides how much he wants to eat but some things (like pasta, and to a lesser extent jacket potatoes, he just can't seem to stop scoffing! Do you think I should be limiting his portion size, or just letting him get on with it? His diet it pretty healthy.

We had spooky story night at our school this evening. The teacher arranging it had gone to a huge effort to decorate the school garden with lights and skeletons and stuff, including a smoke machine to make it really eerie (sp?). Lots of us dressed up and read stories while the children drank hot chocolate. Really good fun.

Congrats pistachio if it does happen!
My dh is good at settling Q to sleep, even when I was bf. BUT, it takes a lot of carrying around, singing, back patting...etc. He can be an ass, but he's good with Q.

Wow that's a big leap isn't it Pistachio. I hope it went well!

aubergenie that sounds so fun I think someone said that toddlers and babies can't overeat. Not sure how old they are when they can... Q has a belly, too . He's gone off pasta, though but eats toast like it's going out of style. And spinach and fruit. Whenever he's eaten a lot of food, his belly goes really hard. Then we know he's beyond "full" . I do wonder about limiting portion sizes, too, though and when to do it...

I tend to think about total food throughout the day, so if ds is being a pig at one meal (often also pasta) I'll weigh up what he's eaten in total before deciding whether to give more or not. Or I'll give fruit for pudding instead of more of the main course. They do still have growth spurts of course, where they will need more food, and you'll prob suddenly see that their tummies have disappeared and they've got taller instead.

Did dh succeed with bedtime pistachio?

X post pistachio. Yay dh!

He does sound like a hungry boy!

True. We have noticed that Q is getting "thinner". But still has a nice round belly that gets quite firm when full. He usually eats one good meal per day and then doesn't eat so much at others. But you wouldn't think he's missing any meals to look at him .
Q isn't drinking much milk these days. Is that normal? To they need a certain amount now? Or is that worry completely over now that they have nutrients from food? He only drinks milk and water but lately only has milk with meals and not as much as he used to. Water all other times. He drinks quite a bit of water...

When I was at myjob's house, N sat in her highchair at lunch time and just happily ate and ate.... and ate.... and ate lol
Q was running all around, on my lap, off my lap, to toys...etc. Would barely eat anything (was going through a not eating much phase) and definitely would not sit down in a chair like myjob, myself and N . I was so . I wish mealtimes with Q were that lovely. It's either trying to persuade him to eat or it's him wanting loads to eat but not wanting to sit in once place for more than 2 minutes. His highchair is used for only part of a meal now... and sometimes not at all. I have no control over my child

Pistachio - Wow that is an appetite!

Good luck with the sleeping. I was sad about it but definitely feel more rested now that S sleeps in his cot all night. I don't think I realised it at the time, but when he was in with us I was constantly aware of him and could never really get into a deep level of sleep. It's lovely to snuggle up with them, but I like the luxury of rolling over and pulling the covers up nice and high!

Theoretically it's a pint of milk a day now star, but plenty of kids don't have that much, and I think it's fine as long as they have a good diet with plenty of calcium rich foods.

I'm worried that my milk supply is suffering already and that that's partly why ds is distressed at night .

He's woken twice so far.

I am sooooo rubbish at keeping up lately! I have been testing DH on his studying this week so haven't had time to catch up.

Yay for going to bed without milk Pistachio. I have made the step to putting M down awake and this has worked for over a week now. I can't believe she will ever go to bed without milk. She gets really excited about putting on her pjs as she knows it's milk time then!

As for food, I am now worrying a bit about the amount M eats. She doesn't eat a very much at all. She has about 1/3 of a small bowl of cereal for breakfast followed by some fruit and some raisins (she sometimes has pancakes but only has about 3/4 of one small American style pancake) for lunch today she had 3/4 of a bowl of chicken & vegetable soup with a slice of bread and for dinner she had about five mouthfuls of mash & a couple of mouthfuls of beef stew (only the veg though). She also had a Humzinger & a couple of corn thins. She doesn't have milk in the day anymore either. she does tell us when she's hungry and if she raids the cupboard in the kitchen I offer her some food. She is pretty skinny these days (my friend's little boy looked huge compared to her) but she doesn't seem to be lacking in energy. I think I'll take her to be weighed on Friday just to check.... We always give her plenty of time to eat her food, but she very quickly gets to the point where she doesn't want anymore. We all eat dinner & breakfast together & I eat lunch with her.

My little girl is 10 today, technically not yet as she was born after 10pm, after 27 hours of induction, extreme agony and ventouse and episiotomy (that didnt work)and just complete misery. However she was and is beautiful so it was all worth it.
You may want to remember the 5 year gap between her and DD2 so the memory was a painful one.

Pistachio, sounds like DH had it all under control.

CSWS, poor little D. Sounds like you all need a lazy day indoors to regain some strength. Pistachio said it much better than I about the jabs.

Myjob. How are you feeling? Go to bed and sleep. Do you want to come to my house? Not too far for you and it is a direct train via Southampton I think.

50ft proud mummy

Aubergenie, something will come up for DP. Things always turn up just when you need them too.

Star. If it helps. W slaps, kicks me in the face, throws things, including himself, on the floor and can generally be a right little pickle. All in anger, so no they arent too young for anger. I said to DH the other night that I dont get paid enough for the daily assault I get given just to change his nappy!

HMM count me in for the secret santa. £5 is ok.
If you wont be TTC until next April then dont think about it until at least next March. Dont put yourself under more pressure when there is no need.

is that a pregnancy related thing CSWS?

Aubergenie - Oh it is a completely different night when they're in their cot isn't it? DH doesn't seem to understand that if M comes in with us, I don't actually sleep. M spends the whole time scratching and pinching me too (seems to be a comfort thing) which doesn't help.

CSWS - Is D still very reliant on milk during the day? Wouldn't dd tell you if it was dwindling? Poor D. He really doesn't sound very happy. So unlike him. Oh and Nana is getting that playset for M for Christmas. Bargain!

Star - M just screams when she's frustrated, it is sooooo loud. My friend's little boy does that huffing thing that Q does. He was getting fed up with M when he came to visit as she wouldn't let him have certain toys. In the end he slapped her round the face and pushed her over! She was not impressed but nowhere near as unimpressed as DS! He rain straight over to give her a cuddle and make sure she was alright. Bless him. Never mind that he's done far worse to her!

Ouch Ronshar, I inadvertantly crossed my legs reading your post. Happy Birthday to your beautiful dd.

And 50ft, I forgot to say congratulations. That is such a lovely picture.