November '09 and the months are flying by, our 3 month plus troop, and us, the knitted boob group!

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New thread, we chat so much!

Ninja

4 eggs
8oz sf flour (sifted)
8 oz caster sugar
8oz melted butter
haf teaspoon vanilla essence/extract.

Sift flour, put it all into a bowl and whizz, makes 24 so fill either 24 or 2 lots of 12 cupcake cases, 180dc for 15 mins. (if you don't have a whizzer, mix melted butter and sugar together, add eggs and flour gradually. add vamilla extract)

Cover with icing as said by you, or melted chocolate, or just stuff your face while they are still hot and pretend you only made 12.

Afternoon. We had a bit of a night too. Isaac went to sleep ok at first next to me but then kept waking up thrashing his head and arms around. At about 2am he just started crying which turned to screaming. I was convinced it must be his teeth so calpolled him up and rubbed gel on his gums.The crying continued on and off till about 8am when he had a massive poo. The poor little man must've been constipated! I think I've worked out the cause as baby porridge. I feel rather stupid as I was worried the BLW might leave him feeling hungry so was trying to give him some gunk to fill him up. BLW all the way now I think!

mmmm

now how do I get myself a bunny?

is it typing easter? i want one!

chocolate eggs

easter egg hunt

i want a bunny!

Yummy easter eggs yes please!

I would like to do some painting at home with Pearl anyone got any recommendations of which make and where from for me?
At my nursery we got all ours from a big nursery stockist, thought id ask before spending my money!

happy easter? what on earth gets it? Unless MN are busy eating biscuits and not getting on with their job

Possibly an april fools??

the bunny has gone.

I saw no bunny but everything had a huge fried egg on it earlier.......

Just been watching old film of ds when he was just coming up to 2 and we went to Longleat. For over half of the filming either me or dh left the lenscap on!! It was lovely to watch though, although it did remind me how long it is before babies become 'kids'- ds1 is really still a baby in many ways in the film.

Can I have some of what your on Wook

Oh no the Bunny's have gone

What bunny? I haven't seen any bunnies

Happy Good Friday tomorrow everyone

Why do I always attract the bad comments about breastfeeding FFS? I got called a whore this afternoon sighs

SirBoob outrageous! Where are you going wrong? Do you sit and do it entirely topless with both boobs on display like a tribeswoman? Or in a rubber and chain nursing bra? Or on a pew in an evangelical church?
What a bizarre society we are in where breasts are in the papers every day yet no one can bear to see them being used for their biological purpose.
Having said that, I have one of those Elle McPherson la mere bras and when I forget to do the clips back up (as I constantly do) it does look a bit suggestive as there is a sort of lace outline left around the boob in a slightly ooer frontless bra sort of way (well anyway, it might have looked suggestive ten years ago when my boobs were small but perky!)
Oh dear Ninja you're right what am I on? I think it's the pta easter fairy cakes

I can't keep up but - DWP 12 hours' sleep?! James sleeps about 6 a night. I thought that was fairly normal, but obviously not. What am I doing wrong???

I am worn out. I have had 20 minutes child-free in the past 4 months - and that was spent shopping for my children's christmas presents! I need to force myself to have some free time as I'm used to thinking that it is just so much easier to bring James with me everywhere I go. My parents are up for the weekend so DH and I are going to a matinee at the cinema - I'm hoping James will be fine for a couple of hours mid-afternoon as my mum can push him around town. There's still no chance of leaving him in the evening. Any recommendations? I want to watch something entirely unsuitable for under-fives please!

SirBoob I can't believe all the comments you're getting. You must make it look like too much fun.

Ninja Would really like to read that, thanks.

Happy Easter everyone, in case I don't get back on

Meant to say, I have been reading James this book This Little Baby and he really enjoys it. DD loved it too. It's very simple black and white photos of babies' faces, then the last page is a mirror so they can look at themselves. Every time I've shown it to him he's been really interested for quite a long time, in the other babies as much as himself. It's a definite hit.

It's so nice seeing them become interested in things at last

Oh, just looked at that link on Amazon and it looks like some babies get it free from the Bookstart scheme. I think they get this at 9 months.

Laugs The sleep has gone backwards recently.

We do the bedtime routine and put him down half asleep in his cradle. Tonight he woke after 10 mins and if you pat or sing he just gets more and more upset. I think my first mistake is picking him up again. What do you guys think? I've heard that you shouldn't let a 4 month old cry, that it's better at this age to pick him up, settle him and put him straight down again. Even if you need to do this 100 times.

DP took a turn this evening and managed to put him to sleep in his carseat by swinging it. I know we shouldn't do this, we should persevere with sleeping in his cradle but this would mean we were stuck in the bedroom for about 3 hours solid each night. At least. Is this what we have to do to get him to stay asleep??

PS I love how you guys keep mistaking DWP for DWB... my abbreviation has become the Department for Work & Pensions!!

We have one farty girl on our hands too. She hasn't had a poo since last Friday and has been really windy all week. Last night after her dream feed (which always wakes her up and sets off the wind) she was unsettled for 40 minutes before 2 full minutes of farting settled her down. Tonight it has taken 2 or 3 hours of bicycle legs, massage, calming her down and putting her back down to get her back to sleep. I've been trying really hard today to try to get her to take a nap 2 hours after waking . This morning was fine because we were out in the sling. This afternoon she eventually went down but woke after 20 minutes with a really sore fart and wouldn't go down again. Before tea it took a few times to get her down. She eventually went off after I left her grinning mischievously at me from the cot. That one was a surprise. It's exhausting being an attentive mother.

I've just found a recipe for dairy and soy free chocolate made from coconut oil and it is ace. I so hope the chocolate theory about unsettled babies isn't true or else the wee thing might explode tomorrow

We've just worked out we'll have to leave at 6:30am to catch our boat on Saturday. Urgh

Laugs fb me your address and the book will be on its way

laugs i have that book, you hve reminded me, i must dig it out from DDs room.

DWB. leaving a baby crying to sleep at this age goes against all my instincts as a mother. But, some people work well with that way but I just cannot cannot do it while he is so young (i don't mean crying for a few minutes in the cot while you take a break, or have a wee or see if he settles if he is just grumping a bit) I have started to try to get Reuben to not go to sleep, after prompting from you (and your lovely long sleeps!) and I fed him at 8pm, both sides, and no more. But, i will not leave him to cry to sleep. I picked him up and rocked him and bounced him very gently up and down (to recreate the sensation he loves in the sling), and shh'd him, and hummed brahms lullaby. It took until 10pm, with a couple of breaks where I could put him down and he grimbled (happy to leave him grimbling) and when it turned into a cry, i picked him back up. I am taking his milk away, so for now he can have all the cuddles he wants to get him to sleep without crying. Once he has learnt not to need the milk, I can work on the next step if I need to, using the Baby Whisperer (shh-pat) which is the technique you are talking about (someone correct me if that is wrong) and I am sure this is an good technique to use at this age. I used this for DD when she was about 8 months old, and it worked very well. I found it very responsive to them and gentle, and will be happy to follow it again if i need to.

Talking of sleeping, a better night. Not great but much improved.
7:30pm, stories, with DD, nappy/clothes change, milk, (at 8pm)
Cue lots of rocking, and cuddling!
Sleep 10pm - 3am (so 5 hours straight), then fed
3:15am - 4:30am then more milk (i have no willpower, and did the going to be stint, that was enough for now!), but 5:30am, woke with a blocked nose which he could not clear, and by 6am we were up. He is very very happy though, watching baby tv and kicking his little legs and chatting away .