FEB 2010 No longer newborns!!

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Three months and counting, everyone! Our babies are gradually getting the hang of the world...and we are gradually getting the hang of them...

Oh I really feel for you GF. I feel zombie-like most days myself (you can set your watch by my exchange with DP when he gets in: DP How are you? ME OK, very tired) but at least I don't have to work all day. Yes I'm looking after DD and the house, but it doesn't involve my brain to the same extent as working would/should (not that I have much of a brain these days. Will it ever return?)

raindrop that is very funny!

BG so your LO can sit unaided in her chair? She is LOVING that brocoli!

I had a shock this morning. DP and I have been together for just over a year and a half and in all that time he's been bearded. He walked downstairs this morning clean-shaven! Of course I've seen pictures, but.... It was so wierd to hear his voice coming from this stranger's face. I know he wanted to shave before the wedding to see which he prefers for the pics. I know which I prefer .

Broccoli

Hi all,

Thanks for the nice comments! It was fun.

I am utterly shattered. We went to DH's parents for a couple of days and didn't get home til 11.30 last night then baby woke every hour until 6.30 when he wanted to get up and play.

I am going to refuse some night feeds from now on. It got so easy co-sleeping and just rolling over in bed and sticking my boob in his mouth when he woke but it's made him wake and expect food every hour. As I said he's feeding less often in the daytime. Have to do something - I could function when he woke about 3 times a night but I am tired and tetchy and have no energy and I want to be able to play with him and enjoy it rather than it feeling like a duty...

I didn't expect him to sleep through but I also didn't expect hourly wakings.

BG Love the weaning pics.

Mamaloco Thanks for letting me know about strawberries.

IC Hope you are having a good time in the UK.

Stoof Sorry you didn't get the job - it is their loss + at least you have the temp work.

fizi my Dh did this just after DS was born and i didn't notice he was beardless for 2 days!!
His reatcion to Ds eatign the chips was priceless he said 'did anyone see?'

Love the BLW raindrop !!

Well, DD had a 05.30 poo fest today... filled her nappy then decimated no fewer than three changing mats - just what you need at that time of day! As you can imagine getting her back to sleep was a challenge, but we got there sometime after 06.00 (for another hour-ish, anyway).

Decided I could handle early waking if DD didn't also wake four or five times before that as well.... TTSP, TTSP etc...!

Other than that, it's a lot of fun hanging out with my niblings and DD getting loads of attention and admiration from her various rellies. Shame the weather couldn't have been a bit better. I know I was looking forward to a cooler climate after Spain, but...!!

IC you have been really unlucky with the weather. It has been so hot in my part of the uk for weeks. Got my cardigan on today though. I actually find it easier when it's cooler with a baby as you don't have to worry about sunburn and overheating. Bit warmer than this would be nice though.

fizi is your dp Brad Pitt? I have seen lots of pictures in the press today of him with his yucky beard shaved off!

Night wakings bad here too. I am lucky to get 2 hours out of ds at the moment. He doesn't even settle properly in the evenings and I am up and down the stairs to settle him. (Not easy when your quad muscles are sore from doing your new exercise dvd a little too enthusiastically). But in every other way he is an absolute dream so I don't mind at all. I am having to be careful about what is within arms reach as he is so fast at grabbing anything and everything. Can't see us having too much trouble with the BLW when the time comes.

Off to dd's sports day now. Hope the rain hold off.

DS has been sent home from nursery after vomiting all his lunch. Nursery has a 'vomit & diarrhea' bug and think that's what he has. Yes his poo is a bit runny and his lunch came back up but they feed him with sprout yesterday lunchtime and it was a mix of veg today. My guess is that he is reacting to some of the food, as he hasn't been sick since lunchtime, but he's sleeping more than usual. But he can't go to nursery tomorrow and needs to not have been sick for 48h before they will take him back. So Monday it'll be back to work for him and me!

I would have thought that he'll be too young to have sprouts?

Sorry rant over!

I complain about not sleeping enough and getting up often but after reading your experiences, I am not that bad after all.

My mission for tonight and tomorrow is to make a Mei Tai sling... Will see how it goes...

Have lurked only for a few days.. weaning sounds fun but DS2 disagrees - baby rice is yuk! Will try something more exciting in the next day or two.

GF hope he's better soon. I've had it myself today (though not actually sick) so know how he might be feeling. Looking after two DSs has been somewhat challenging but, for once, they have both been brilliant and the day has been remarkably smooth. Just waiting for them and DH to get it now - they are likely to vomit as the lady I got it from was and I'm the least prone to it in my house!

DSs both coughing in the night (leading to nighttime wanderings in the garden to stop DS1 - God knows why it works but it does). DH was holding him out the window at 1a.m. the other night (not too far removed from Michael Jackson me thinks?) but I preferred the 'let's go out and look for stars' option - he wanted to hold my hand and looked very tiny out there in the dark at 4a.m.

He has also been diagnosed with a bad UTI after 6 weeks of resembling Caspar the ghost. I can't believe I didn't pick it up before, but at least he is now on the mend and getting some colour back (and my motherly guilt is beginning to abait ).

8oz, yes you read right, 8oz in one week.
Pah, measly previous record of 3oz, you are no match for the new breast loving feeding machine that is LO.

catch up proper laters

Day off today so I'm up at 7am instead of 6am. and I have the feeling to have slept pretty well as DS only woke up at 3am for a fee. He hasn't vomiting since yesterday so I really think he was reacting to a veg in his nursery puree. I'll need to investigate this further.

He is already full of energy speaking to the animal on his playmat and trying to roll again. He did it yesterday while I was in the kitchen. Left him on his back, came back in the living room and his was on his front, but not able to roll back on his front again.

bethy hopefully you and DS1 are better.

Get well sooon bethylou, I have had one day of vomiting illness as a mother and thankfully DP had a day off work to look at wedding venues. We didn't get much looking done, but at least he was there to look after DD. I couln't have coped without him. It sounds as if you are made of stronger stuff than me .

GF glad your LO is ok! Sprouts in summer?! Who'd have thought? So do you have to take holiday or is there some parental leave you can take when he's ill?

IC how's the weather for you lately? It's got much better here (Sussex coast) and was lovely and warm and sunny yesterday afternoon and evening. Looks to be the same today so I'm gambling and hanging out the washing. [Did you mean niblings?]

I'm getting used to DP's clean-shaven face. Alas, he is not Brad Pitt . Far more good looking .

Sleeping.... DD is getting worse and worse and i'm getting all sorts of stick for it from mum/sisters and now DP too. I feed her to sleep most nights - every night really - not daytime naps though. For the past few nights she is fed to sleep, then wakes after one sleep cycle of 45 minutes (amazing, it's like clockwork) and won't self-settle (I leave her for a few minutes to see if she will). She won't be settled with dummy or stroking or shushing, I was feeding her but I don't want her to be totally reliant on me for her to sleep so I've taken to picking her up, patting and shushing her then putting her back down with dummy. A few of these and eventually, she settles again. It takes 40-45 minutes of cry, settle, cry, settle, cry before she finally sleeps again.

Sorry this is very long-winded. It's a new thing for us and I wondered if anyone had any hints of how to deal with it. She used to take a while to settle but then that was it until first waking 2ish. I'm not that bothered, it's not ideal as we used to get a bit of an evening and now we don't, but I rely on my mum a lot to look after her and she won't have this, so I'd like to nip it in the bud if I can.

Hmm should this be in a sleep forum?

funny that GF, here thay say not to give the cabbage familly before they are teens. Difficult to digest and lots of trap winds. They are over protective with their children, but I wouldn't give sprouts or cabbage to a baby. Actually anyting that can upset your stomac or giving you winds.
hopes your Lo is better now. If he has been sick only once it is doutful that it was a D&V bug.
good luck with making the mei tai.

Niblings, yes - nieces and nephews!

I'm in Cornwall - where I grew up - so I've learned not to expect good weather. It's been pretty rubbish here with wind and rain...

Sleep was strangely better last night - DD woke up after 45 mins (about 20.45) but instead of resettling her, DH got her up (claiming she looked too wide awake to go straight back to sleep) so I thought, what the hell and took her back downstairs to hang out with the grown-ups while we ate. My BIL was a huge hit, made DD laugh loads, which was very entertaining for the rest of us. Anyway, she eventually went back down when I went to bed shortly after 22.00 then only woke twice before she was up just before 07.00. She took a little longer to resettle after the 05.00 wake-up, but not too bad. Funnily enough, I feel more tired today, despite getting a little more sleep than recently!

I'm afraid I mostly feed to sleep for naps and nights, despite my efforts to put her down sleepy-but-not-asleep. Works sometimes and a little bit of dummy usually gets her off to sleep. But a feed needs to be part of the equation unless DD's being carried in the sling or is in the car seat.

Commiserations on the D&V (if that's what it is) and the UTI...get well soon, LOs!

I've started something here... LO now expects to have a plate with chunks of food in front of her when we eat at luchtime. Today she munched/chewed her way through a piece of ricecake, and bits of carrot, swede, cauliflower and more broccoli. That was after her own food and bottle!

To those with D&V, apologies for talking about food, and hope you are all on the mend! Luckily dd1 is totally immune to tummy bugs, like her dad, whereas my prevailing memory of childhood is being sick....

Dh was in charge of the girls from 1pm to about 7.30 yesterday and looked a little ill when I got home. I think he found it harder than he expected! I had written instructions but did not want to sound patronising and did not go into every detail, eg, put baby in sleepsuit and new nappy for bed.... So he didn't! . dd2 had also gone on strike and refused to take her bedtime bottle from him, only drinking 1oz rather than 7oz. Apart from those minor problems all went well and I am trying not to feel a nice bit of 'Schadenfreude' that he realised it's a full time job looking after one, never mind two! He seemed genuinely surprised that he had no time to read a book/paper, or empty the dishwasher etc.

Ah yes, sprouts in summer, and for a baby... . Reminds me of being told by dd1's nursery on her first day that she refused to eat her tea... curry supernoodles!!! And this is the girl who would eat absolutely everything, but even at 11 months old she thought that was a bit of an insult!

fizi yes my LO has been in her highchair for a few weeks now. It's not unaided as such because it has a backrest... unless unaided means unaided by me, in which case yes. She also sits well on the floor with a nursing cushion behind her. Mind you, ideally she'd want to stand doing everything from drinking bottles to having her nappy changed... lying down is so yesterday
She's got two bottom teeth shining through the gum now, not through but getting there. So cute, I love those first baby teeth.

fizi sorry about your sleep problems. Have you tried getting your dp to settle her? She is a clever little thing and knows what you are for... Might be worth a try?

fizi I have to take annual leave or TOIL when this happen and DH is on day shift.

We went to the HV clinic this morning, DS weighs 7kg25 (15lb15 1/2) and measures 64cm. His weight gain has slowed down and we'll go back in 2 weeks to check that he is putting on weight (he was 7kg (15lb) a month ago)

BG lol at your husband not putting your DS in a sleepsuit or changing her nappy and at your LO wanting more food

I gave DS pureed carrot today and nothing came back up, so my guess is it's not D&V.

IC love the term niblings

fizi my DS is also in a highchair the same as BG's.

BG DS also want to stand up and when hold up look so proud. I'm using a door bouncer for him to stand up, he doesn't bounce but stand and move around

GF same here, if I pull up dd2 by her hands she absolutely beams. Wish we could use a door bouncer but our door frames are rubbish...

Hi, can someone explain to me the 24/26 week thing? My dd2 is 24 weeks next Wednesday which in my basic maths is 6 months... But then people talk about starting weaning at 26 weeks, that's, to me, 6 1/2 months. Is is a case of if in doubt, use calendar months?
Just wondering because I am looking forward to introducing bread, cheese, pasta to dd2, which can be after 6 months... She's already on three good meals a day, including red lentils, rice, quinoa, millet, but I don't want her to start on wheat too early.

BG I actually don't get it neither! Go for 25 weeks? Like this you're in between!

I think I'm going to go from his 6 months birthday (he will be 26 weeks! (I've just counted them) So maybe as most most don't have 4 weeks and February is shorter babies turn 6 months at 26 weeks. It's like a 9 months pregnancy is 40 weeks (10 months!))....

I've introduced quinoa but no other pulses, I will do in order to bulk the purees and hopefully lose the 3am feed

Here is DS helping me doing the mei tai. I've cut most of the fabric, I now need to get the sawing machine out and hope DS is not scared by it (alternatively, I'll wait he's in bed to do it)

GF Awwww sweet