Dec 09 - We've found our fingers, we've found our toes, what happens next nobody knows

[Claire236]

Starting new thread before we run out of room. Now to link from the old one. Could be interesting

I sure did

I think we've got about 2 weeks until the next weigh in. She's back to just 1 feed a night most nights now so there's no need to rush I don't think.

Had a lovely day today. It's DH's birthday and so he took the day off. We've been to soft play (his choice), had lunch there together and then he took Alex to his swimming lesson. It's been really nice.

ahh lovely.
dh working lates til sat and then back to work sunday but had whole weekend off just gone which waas nice

feel really quite ill tonight got a banging headache and feel rough in general...

dd2 has been complaining of tum pains and keeps waking up so think shes poorly too

I bought the cheapo mothercare stroller and an accessories pack to go with it with came with a liner for it. Might just use the smaller, more comfortable one off the 3 wheeler for added support.

I still dont think Elizabeth is ready for solids just yet. Im pretty sure when Jake was this age I tried him on pureed carrot and it didnt go down to well!

Glad you had a nice day Snitch.

Kings, glad that little P is sleeping through. hopefully her reflux will settle soon.

Just watching the leaders questions thing on TV. Just makes me even more confused on who to vote for!!

i have no idea so undecided

GS - glad to hear that Catherine is back to one feed a night (is that between 7 and 7 btw or between 11 and 7?).

Sleeping and feeding has gone completely tits up here it seems. I'm hoping it's maybe a growth spurt (again - I seem to say that at least once a week!). We've gone back to feeding every 3 hours, sometimes it's a battle to last that long and 2.5 hours prompts hunger cries and this is day and night with the exception of one night in the last 5 days I'd say.

It was suggested to me to try baby rice, just a little bit once a day to see if that helped at all. I have tried a little tonight, but made it weak with twice the amount of ebf - she seemed to poke most of it back out with her tongue in the bumbo so but managed to take most of it in the bouncer chair. Every time I took the spoon away she waved both arms frantically until I gave her some more. I think I'm going to try it for a 5 days and if it doesn't make any difference then I'm going to stop!

She's 5 months on Saturday, but I feel a bit guilty that I've given in more for me (in the hope I won't have to get up every 3 hours each night) rather than because it is what is best for her...

brodie was the same and is so much more settled now we are weaning

The feed is about midnight hendo. I feed her and put her dwn about 7.30 then she gets up around midnight for another and then awake again at about 5am. She generally awake after the 5am feed but I just lay her on the bed and snooze next to her. Usually she goes back to sleep after a while and we both get up around 7am when Alex gets up.

Wow this thread is dead busy all of a sudden. It's good catching up with everyone. I can't believe the difference in weight between all our los.

ds1 had a friend over after school & they were great. Played really nicely, no arguments or anything. Was feeling a bit nervous after what happened to ds on Sunday. Irrational I know as this was a different child for a start. The other mum from that incident is still pointedly ignoring me at the school gates so I'm pointedly saying hello to her. It's ridiculous.

Claire, that comment just made me giggle as that would be me also pointedly saying hello to her as well in your position! Glad the playdate went well for you today.

Noooo, my lovely day is ending badly. The sore throat I had this morning has gotten worse and I now have a runny nose, sinus pain and a cough too.

What's the betting I wake Catherine up at some point tonight with my coughing?

Ooh, it's nice to hear how everyone's getting on .

Pleased that P's op went ok and her hips are improving but sorry that you're going to take so long to recover from your own injury, Kings.

Hendo, I know it sounds awful but I'm pleased that someone else is having to wake up in the night so often, makes me feel better somehow.

Ds s 12lbs 2oz almost two weeks ago. Dd was 10lb 10oz at the same age but she was 8 weeks early.

Dd and ds are both snotty with colds at the moment, though hopefully getting better, and dd is having a birthday tea on Friday as she will be 4 on Saturday! Can't believe it and was crying to dp last night about how big and grown up she is. Have sent a card in to cbeebies and hoping that it will be shown (her name is Laura in case it is shown and anyone is watching). Making choc cake tomorrow for birthday tea, have wrapped four parcels several times over and am ready for pin the tail on the donkey, practiced musical statues on Sat am with the curtains open and me in my pjs, who knows what the neighbours thought !

Ladidadi - it doesn't sound awful, the other week I asked who else was still feeding regularly in the night for the same reason and then it reassures me its normal and I'm OK with it again for a few weeks! Birthday tea sounds like fun, and that you are VERY organised, especially on lack of sleep, hope it all goes well on Friday.

After posting earlier, she has now slept since 7.30 and is still asleep now (probably will wake up now the second I post this). So now I shall probably spend 30 minutes thinking about whether I should just pick her up and feed her now and then see what happens before I go to bed, or whether to just leave her be and see instead! Usually by the time I decide to leave her be and go to bed, she wakes up 5 minutes later.

GS - good luck with the trying not to cough, when I had a cold I had to really concentrate on not coughing or sneezing while feeding and of course as soon as you try not to you really, really want to cough!!!

I couldnt be arsed with doing Elizabeths 10pm feed so just left her and she slept (with a few whingy cries wanting her dummy) till 6.45!

She still hasnt rolled since that one time fluke. Im sure Jake was rolling by now!! He didnt have the rolls of flab round the legs that Elizabeth has though.

Wow - good sleeping ABF! I imagine Elizabeth isn't rolling as she's got too much that's interesting to watch eg Jake. My mum said my younger brother didn't do anything for ages as he just used to sit there watching what I was doing all day so there was no need!!!

We also had a much improved night from the night before - slept until 1 am in the end, big feed then slept until 6 am which was fantastic. I feel like a new woman today - if you'd told me how excited I'd be on that amount of sleep 6 months ago I'd have laughed in your face!!!! Been up, out on a family outing to the polling station and over to my brother's house before 8 am.

Bex - meant to say that we will be starting at same time with blw so it will be nice to have someone else doing it too!

Not feeling any better

I usually avoid pills but had to take some paracetamol as soon as I got out of bed this morning as even my teeth were hurting!! Can't take anything else because I'm feeding.

I'm glad Alex is at preschool this morning so I can have a bit of a break. His school isn't shut because the attached Community Center acts as the polling station. I dropped him off then went straight round and voted.

Anybody else voted yet?

Gah my polling station is up a big hill.
What annoys me is there is another polling station closer in the other direction which is much easier to get to.
But im under the impression you cant just go to some random polling station and vote there.
Jake is at nursery all day so thats a nice break for me.
Hope you feel betetr aas the day goes on snitch.
Glad you had some good sleep hendo.
(your name reminds me of nandos and makes me hungry... think Im over doing the healthy eating!)

Bah! Lee dont tell me that!!! lol
If Elizabeth can sit up soon then i'll do it. She takes calpol off a spoon quite well! and she quite acurately grabs things. the look of concentration on her face when she does it is hilarious, a bit similar to the look she has when filling her nappy.

Well i have had quite a productive morning. Normally i am not even properly dressed at this time, but have been to supermarket and docs and also voted! Yippeee for me! ha haha!

Have to set on now this aft and make food to take up to northumberland for our weekend away. Looks like the weather is going to be pretty bad up there, but hey ho, it will be a nice change anyway.

Enjoy your weekend Bex, I live in Newcastle and my parents and pils live in Northumberland so we are usually out and about. Where are you staying?

I've got half of dd's bday cake cooking, need to get it out, let it cool and then reuse the tine to bake the other half then decorate it all!

We are staying in a holiday cottage in a village called Lesbury, which is quite near Alnwick (I think.) Think we are off to Newcastle on saturday for a walk down memory lane, as most of us in the gang that are going up there, went to Newcastle Uni.

Love the noth east. It is fab!

Still not started to cooking. MN is too bloody addictive!

Just got tickets for Woburn safari park on the 20th - only £1 cause its the 40th anniversary!! Bargain.

Will pop over after pre school

hi has anyone watched baby einstein...ds has sat in front of it (bad mother i know) for 45 mins happily in his doughnut thing!!!! OMG!!!!!

as for weaning dd was under a paedatrician who said if they are going to get allergies they will get them whatever age and to do whatever i feel my baby needs.....that advice has stuck with me. ds would be miserable now if he wasnt having any food.... his personality has changed adn he is much more content..... i even shoved a rusk in his hand while i made tea last night and he sucked on that.....also have one of those net things that you put soft food in and they can hold it and suck and chomp on it so he is doing a bit himself.....however he get chewing the handle instead!!!!

food thing here but can get them in asda and sainsburys.....say from 6 months but ds enjoyed playing with it