Fruit - C 31/10
ursigurke - Paula 4/11
Scarlotti - Ioan - 8/11
SirBoob - 11/11
Babba - bear cub 28/11
Dontworrybaby - E 29/11
I've still got our original list of arrivals(have a shocking memory so kept it so I could refresh my memory from time to time) but it'll be interesting to see who is still with us.
Ethan can roll but I think he only does it because he doesn't like being on his tum. When on his back he just waves his legs and arms around so I don't think he's worked out that he's capable of moving independently yet.
DP had Ethan on his lap tonight while I was putting out pizza for dinner. I placed DP's plate on the coffee table and said "good luck eating that with a baby on your lap". He said "It'll be fine, watch this" and picked up his plate. I watched in horror as a little hand promptly crept around the edge of the plate and gripped the pizza. He definitely burned his fingers as he froze for a minute then screamed so we then had to endure the torture of holding his hand in ice cold water... awful. DP feels very guilty. We usually put Ethan in his high chair at mealtimes with finger food but we'd tried spoon fed mashed banana for dinner (don't know what possessed us, it was his first spoon fed meal!) so he was fed before we had our dinner. I think we'll save spoonfed meals for breakfast and finger foods for lunch and dinner so that he will be in his high chair eating instead of near our plates of hot food. Sigh...
sirboob for about two months now, if you hold Ethan's hands to pull him up to sitting from lying down he immediately plants his feet and stands up. He's quite stable on his feet but I've heard these stories about them not being strong enough for standing yet. Makes you doubt yourself, doesn't it? I'm sure at this stage it's absolutely fine.
Still having problems with dairy here, the introduction of formula this week hasn't gone particularly well although I tried 3oz of formula twice today and he coped fairly well with it. Maybe he just needs to be gradually introduced to it. Those of you doing combined feeding now, how much do you give in a bottle and when during the day?
Oh and does anyone's babies have eczema? We went to the GP a while ago after I'd spoken to the health visitor about Ethan's dry skin and a rash round his mouth which never goes away. The GP gave us emollient for the bath and a moisturising cream and said the rash on his face is probably an eczema-like reaction to saliva. He now has a couple of patches, one behind a knee and another at the back of his armpit, which go from being very dry to being bright red. Not sure whether it's ok to persevere with the emollient in the bath and the moisturising cream or should I go back to the GP? Can they do much else?