Jan 2010 babies and mummies here.....can't think of funny thread title!

[crumpette]

... sorry couldn't think of a title that didn't mention how to get orange poo out of a white vest, or how to get jiggy post partum!!!

Morning all!!

Well done ctfn and olivia. My little man was up all night - the heat defo didnt help. I regressed to 3 feeds again. Oh well, maybe he'll sleep better by the time he's 18!

Ali - so lovely to hear that Jacob is enjoying his food! What a relief for you.

Sock - Nico defo didnt enjoy the heat. Neither did DS1, was so close here. Both were asleep by 6.20! a first here! Re the crying of the toys, Nico did this and do you know what? He was bored with me giving him the same old thing! He is loving the larger more interactive toys already.

WMDO - what a cutey!

Lottie - how were your two last night?

Party - still envious and scared of another pregnancy at the same time!

Happy Sundays all!

Argh my child who is usually cute and smiley and laughs a lot, well, he decided to SCREAM all of yesterday when friend was around

like literally scream, and he wouldn't let me feed him all day.. I kept trying to BF and he kept pulling off screeching, thus flashing my boobs to the world. I was sitting on a tourist attraction at one point surrounded by people with cameras taking pics. My right breast will be famous world wide

Poor friend is wondering why she came so far to visit and is never repeating the experience!

and to make matters worse he was up at 5am this morning screaming too

and I have run out of coffee

oh yeah and a really good friend of mine died I got a text from her phone, I thought it was her.. looked at it and it said she had died she was in her 40s, I had known her for 8 years and she was so supportive and lovely. I feel like I am the grim reaper!!

And I still can't click on profiiiiles! waaaaaaah!!!

Am still trying to round up some of you for the 2011 thread, come on ali you know you want to. Crump has declined my offer by refusing to comment i think.

I'll too will pass thanks Party! The aches and pains of the last pregnancy/ delivery are still too fresh in my mind!

crumpette - sorry to hear about your friend Fingers crossed that J has stopped screaming and let you have some rest and you've at least managed to get some more coffee

ctfn - i second lottie with being but i also am at everyone elses babies that sleep through the night. Did you enjoy your day?

party - even though i am doing that thing where i look at pregnant women and miss being pregnant i'm missing a vital ingredient to make a baby so unfortunately i wont be on the 2011 thread.

lottie - i forgot to say, good luck with your HV. As others have said, they are there for advice and you don't have to see them if you dont want to but i appreciate it can be good to have someone there for advice. Also, you know the girls better than anyone else.

wmdo - i'm so glad that it isn't just me that is lost with the whole weaning thing. I feel like i'm a brand new mum again I'm doing purees with Jack but i just dont know how much he should be having and whether its just after 1 feed a day or after 3 so its like his 3 meals a day or if its after all of his feeds in the day????

On the plus side though, Jack saw his dad today who tried to give him chocolate, well actually a kit kat chunky to be precise so if all else fails i can just leave his father to wean him. I'm sure Jack would love a hearty diet of happy meals and KFC washed down with JD and coke

party your on your own. Your far too energetic and enthusiastic for us lot!

crump sorry to hear about your friend, so young that's awful.

Kids always know when you need them to be calm/well behaved etc, and screw you over!

The heat is a definite no no for Olivia. Very grumpy with it.

sock Olivia has got the most unbeleivable temper on a 6 month old ever.
I can't believe how annoyed she gets.
She clenches her fists and growl/screams. She is a mad mad baby.
She is either killing herself laughing like a loon or having a mini baby tantrum - God help me when she is a toddler!
DS just stares in alarm.
I think he is scared of her. If he leans towards her she grabs his hair or top and pulls him in screaming a laughing with excitement.

Had a lovely day today, they were both so enjoyable.
I get all hormonal and panic about them growing up to quick - is this just me?

What's it like mums of older kids like ctfn and ali, are they just as enjoyable now or are all those miserable bastards right, you know the....

"oh enjoy them now because they don't stay like that" ?

Always leaves newish parents a bit nervous that one!

Evening all. I have had the most gorgeous lovely day .

A mum/friend from DS/DD school and I went to an Open Day of the Dogs Trust in Uxbridge with our two DDs age 7 because she wanted to sponsor a dog for her DD.

DH looked after Olivia, cooked the dinner and by the time I got back, was a bottle of Rose down, so I had to play catch up. We drank a little, played in the garden, listening to music, he went on the trampoline with DD1 in a drunken haze (very very amusing and caught on video camera for posterity), then we played musical statues, again in a bit of a drunken haze, watched all the time by Olivia chuckling away and Percy, lolling patiently by our ever moving feet.

Followed by lush Sunday roast, me starting to panic and saying "oooooh, better sober up" and have just finished the evening with a family game of Trivial Pursuits.

We NEVER do family stuff like that - just get caught up in the whole run of the mill chaos that inevitably hits the house when kids are at home.

Have sobered up completely now and wondering whether last night was a one-off for Olivia sleeping through . Oooh, also, I noticed this morning that she has now mastered rolling onto the opposite side from her favoured one and she is really starting to push up on her knees when on her front. Also, she sat herself up completely from a semi-lying position - pure tummy muscle strength, which I could do with some of !

Now wondering if the next phase of proper sitting unaided and crawling will be fast upon us .

Right, now going to persuade DH to take Percy for walk and consider hitting the sack.

Night night.

sock I can't believe she winds up crying at the toy. Aidan drops his when he is done playing with it and screams or whines (his latest trick) at me for attention.

crumpette Sorry to hear about your friend. I wonder whether J just does not like being with someone else other than you. Do you both go out a lot during the week? Aidan was very good this past week with all our visitors but then again I attribute that to the fact that I had loads of family over at the beginning when he was only wee so he is used to being handed around. Just worried that the separation anxiety will set in later since that is no longer the case.

newbeg [rolls eye icon] at Jack's dad... bloody hell!

lottie Keep coming back with the stories of BLW... I need to know what the possibilities are. Am trying to make it a point of eating in front of Aidan now as previously I used to plonk him in his playnest to chow down my meal.

WMDO I am LOL at the image of DS being terrorised by DD! She sounds... urm... spirited!

CTFN We seem to have missed the rolling over milestone but DS can more or less sit up unaided now. He's not very stable at sitting up as if he tried to look left or right or tries to grab his feet, he will topple over. Think we got a roll today but tried to get him to do it again and nothing so wonder if it was a sheer fluke.

I wonder if Aidan will be one of those babies who misses the crawling stage and goes straight to standing/ walking. My friend and I noticed a few days ago that he tried to pull himself up to standing if you offer him your arm as support.

WMDO Forgot to say that she looks gorgeous! How did her hair fall out... on the pillow at night or just fell out naturally? Aidan is beginning to resemble a little old man with all the bald patches he is slowly developing...

Hi all, haven't had time to catch up on all posts since I last looked but congrats to party you mad woman .

It seems like most are starting weaning of some kind? Am bit confused this time around as DS only just 5m but is sitting unaided for short periods, putting everything in his mouth and is obsessed with anything/everything that goes in my mouth, grabs it and tries to eat it.

I gave him mashed up banana yesterday - he wolfed it down and tried him with baby porridge tonight - he ate two bowls grabbing the spoon off me and feeding himself!!!! Whats going on? The other 3 never did this. DS3 weaned straight onto lumpy food and finger food at 6m so a bit BLW I suppose which was the way I was going to go this time. So can I give him finger foods, do a bit BLW at this age? Surely the age is a guideline wrt development? He is def doing more than my others did at 5m, so is he developmentally ready for BLW? Though I know he should'nt have gluten before 6m, but veg/fruit to chew on??

Surely I should know all this by my 4th child....

Am at Jacks dad trying to give him a kitkat chunky new DS1's dad bought him a milky bar when he was 4 weeks old!!!!!!!! nob!

I'm the same wmdo with my two, they're so cute I keep looking at them trying to burn the memories of them as babies into my mind for when I'm an old lady!!
It's me coming the Chester flyingma! I don't think I'll have time to meet up though unfortunately, staying with friends in B'ham the night before to break the journey and will be getting there just in time for the wedding, and will need to leave early following day as doing the whole drive home in one go. Looks lovely there, v excited . Oh and 'about' 6 mths is meant to be from 'about' 26 weeks old. I hadn't heard of the funpod high chair! We have a funpod which DS still uses alot in the kitchen to 'help' with cooking! I love it!

Had a fab weekend here, I took DD and DS on a spontaneous day trip by train to London Friday to meet up with friends in Kew gardens. Planned to head back before rush hour but DS having such fun in the new kids playpark there we left really late, so had to negotiate london rush hour with toddler and babe. Eventually got a seat and ended the trip giving DD her bedtime BF whilst playing travel snakes and ladders with DS! There were a few scary bits where had to put one kid onto train and turn back for the other thinking omg imagine if train headed off with one of them on and one on platform !
Then we had mates and their DD to stay for rest of weekend, played and ate outside all day, lovely!

Loving the image of the twins tucking into tiger prawns LL!! I remember seeing a recipe for porridge pancakes on the BLW blog, maybe whip up some swiss millet ones to horrify impress your HV!!

Similar to swh here with quick frequent BFs, no idea how many a day or at what times though. I think it works out about the same really, if they go four hours after really long BF, you've spent about 40 mins feeding, so only have just over 3 hrs left till the next one, or they have a 5 min feed and can last around three hours. The quick ones fit in better for me this time with having a toddler, I can feed DD in the time it takes DS to put on his shoes, then we're out of the door and DD drops off to sleep on the way She does like a 40 min feed at bedtime though, but recently in the day she's become like a suction pump and is done in minutes so she can crack on with having fun!

Congrats Party!!!!!! Hope nausea not too bad.

A less fortunate development with DD is that has gone from poos 2-3 x per week to several per day, I'm really not impressed!

OOOPS, everyone's talking weaning and I've gone pack to 'poo talk'! Sorry

lol maygirl feeding like a suction pump is a great description of what Tobin does too. It' really quite funny.

new I'm the same with the whole weaning thing, I have no idea if I'm over feeding or underfeeding him atm, he gets plenty of boob, so I'm not to worried, but this whole thing of feed til they're full worries me as I don't think Tobin has that chemical that tells him he's full.

Ok so I have a question, are all your LO's sitting up on their own now? cos Tobin's nowhere near yet (hence not BLW yet, well until bumbo arrives anyway)

flyingma Her hair fell out quite dramatically. All over sheets, baby changer and sometimes stuck to my top . She did have alot.

She was proper bald for weeks with this this dark quiff of hair which sat like an elvis impression on her head!

The new hair is coming in fast and thick too but more brown/dark blonde. She has her dads thick hair - phew, im folically challanged.

DS had quite alot of dark hair but it gradually thinned out then came in dark blonde without noticing when it happened although he did have a bit of a mad scientist look at 6 months!

Don't worry about Aidens bald patches, it all sorts itself out within a few months.

Friend is due her second today - excited isn't the word! Im dying to find out who's been in there.

maygirl it's so hard eh. I can't bare the thought of them growing up too fast.

Experienced mums didn't answer what it's like when they are older? Do you feel sad they are not babies anymore or are you too busy enjoying them now?
Can anyone tell im broody?!

I really am P'd off that DD won't take puree.
I think puree was easier. Id just grab some cubes from the freezer when I was going out, heat and pop in my thermos tub.
Yesterday we all went out for lunch and all I could give her was cucumber, she was not impressed!
How the hell do I feed her? Every lunch time me and DS have a sandwich or soup, neither of which is appropriate for DD. What do I feed her?
Anyone who is up on BLW, what is a typical menu for a 6 month old?
Need ideas? HELP!

|Thanks london will have a look.

Morning all

Crumpette - sorry, I missed your post about your friend. Hope you are feeling ok.

New - hmmm about your DS's dad. Chunky kit kat indeed. Ok - re the basics on purees. This is all according to GF weaning book and advice on when weaning before 6 months.

• All new foods to be intro'd for lunch (so between 11-12 or nearest feed). You give half milk feed first, then food, then offer milk again. The reason for this is that milk is still more important. Secondly, if they have a negative reaction to the food, it is during the day and not at night.

- The foods to be give are fruit(non citrus), root veg, moving onto non root veg and then proteins (lentils, chicken stock etc) - Intro a new food every 3-4 days. Once a food has been given at 11am, move this food to the teatime feed and intro the new food at the morning feed. - You start with one teaspoon baby rice and one cube of puree, building the amounts up gradually over the next few weeks. The idea being if you give them too mnay solids and they cut back too much on theit milk feeds, they may start waking in the middle of the night for milk.

• For this reason also, she recommends avoiding avocado and banana until they are 6 months old as they are very hard foods for babies to digest.
• Once they have been on cooked fruits for a month or so, they can start having fruit mushed without cooking.

They are the basics I am following - very contrasting advice to BLW'ers. But I did this with DS1, it worked a treat so am just sticking to what I know. Plus DS2 is loving his food. Hth - obviously feel free to ignore! (I also have a weaning plan written up on excel from DS1 if you would like it on email, how sad am I?)

Lottie - how were the girls last night? Think the food is beginning to help here. Only a 1am waking for 10 mins for a feed. Then Nico settled himself back to sleep. The cold turkey dummy is also showing results after 10 days. Is able to settle self to sleep for daytime naps and nighttime - I put Nico in his cot wide awake and he has fallen asleep himself. Joy of joys! So it does work - but you need to grit your teeth for a week to ten days. But equally if it helps you, keep the dummies a while longer. DS1 had his for 10 months. Lunch sounds fab btw.

CTFN and May - sound like you both had lovely weekends/ days!

SWH - Nico is 5 months today! And is trying to sit/ does so for a little while, but then topples over. So nowhere near sitting without support here yet.

WMDO - I dont have 'older' children per se. But DS1 is 2.9 and soo much fun. I think if you are a baby person, then you will always look at babies and feel broody (i know I will), but equally DS1 is so funny and a joy to be with, that I think you willl always enjoy your children, irrespective of the age (she says with no knowledge of stroppy teens)

Are the monday morning weight ins abolished?

mistletoe I think the weigh ins just vanished!

Ive weighed 9 stone 8 lbs for ages and have given up until I get my thyroid meds right.

My DS is 3 and im loving his age too, it's so funny.

No I meant when they are not babies or toddlers. I think maybe im just very maternal just now and imagine if they were grown up a bit id be missing them as small children. Probably nonsense.

If I hear one more person telling me to
"enjoy it now, they dont stay like that"
as if when they grow up it's crap, im going to lamp them!
This has happened sooooo much. Is it a scottish old person thing or are you all getting it?

wmdo My MiL says crap like that all the time, I think it's the same peeps who say "school days are the best days of your life"...although Tobin's my first I can't see things getting better or worse, just different. The second point is why would you want them to stay a baby, aren't you then missing out on what toddlerhood-adulthood has to offer.

mistletoe that's a great help with the gf weaning guide, although Tobe's had porridge first, about 5 desert spoonsful then proceeded to scream cause he'd finished it.

As for weigh in, I have to say I abandomed it and all hope of ever getting back into my perpreggy jeans, I blame the boobs!

Well, for the weigh in In the last however long I have only managed to lose 1lb. Down to 10st8

I am loving that N doesn't do anything yet. (other than blow raspberries) Once they can roll over, crawl, walk, talk it gets much harder work. I like that I can plonk her and she stays. With DS1 I couldn't wait to get to the next milestone.
Every age is lovely though. DS1 is almost 7 now and is so clever and sociable and increasingly independent it's great.
DS2 is almost 5 and makes me laugh all the time, he is very imaginative and playful, and soaks up information like a sponge.

Honestly if I could keep the 3 of them in tupperware so they just stay as they are now it would be great.
I think DS1 is getting to the point where he doesn't want a big hug & kiss on his way into class I want him to still love me and not want to be cool.

Crumpette So very sorry about your friend, that really is so very young. Hope you are ok.