MSE Parents Club Part 4

Claire_Jones_3

hi everyone

as we're sharing pictures heres one of our families dog we had until a couple of yrs ago:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2028348&id=1000520445&saved#/photo.php?pid=30565950&id=1000520445

Sami_Bee

wow honey!! you're putting me to shame!! I don't do half of that mind you Ed is a wonderfully sleepy boy.
I wouldn't try to keep a baby awake for longer at night its not true that they sleep longer IMO. you just have a grumpy baby that doesn't settle because they're over tired.

your bubba was born on my birthday! :T

right I'm off gotta get lunch, dressed and out the house for physio

elle_gee

Ahhh, that's better - we've had en extra few hours kip

HV phoned to rearrange Friday and she asked me how I was, so I said alright, just miffed about missing the appointment on Monday, and she sounded really concerned and wanted to come round this morning to check on me - and probably to reassure me they're not all crap!

searching_me

honey sounds like your doing great have to agree with sami you're putting me to shame to :rotfl: x

redmel1621

Hi Honeypop

I think you are doing wonderfully as it is:) I had to run backwards and forwards to the school twice a day, and inbetween I would talk to him and giggle, smile, pull faces etc. while he was awake...apart from that it was just letting him sit in his swing or bouncy chair and take in the world or carrying him around the house while I did things in other rooms. I never bothered about a routine for naps, just let him fall asleep whenever he wanted to and he always fed every 3hrs...right up until I started to give him food!!!
You probably know this already, but try when he is crying with colic/windy pain, try carrying him round in the monkey carry...so he is face down with his his belly resting on your hand and his head supported on your arm:)

News from me

KAI ROLLED OVER:T

Mel x

feelinggood_2

Well done Kai, clever little thing!! Front-to-back, or Back-to-front? We need details!

searching_me

clever little kai x

searching_me

ive hurt philips head ... i asked him to choose out of 2 things for dinner but now he wants both so i said no :rotfl: x

SusanC_2

BrunoM wrote: »

Spent the morning so far being supportive of Elijah's cup usage, he is totally capable of picking up a normal non-sippy cup and drinking from it! However for reasons best known to himself he also likes to put objects into cups, therefore any food he is given gets dunked, and then puts his whole arms in there to try to get it back out again... usually end result is him tipping the cup upside down to get everything out!

Alice still does that now. (Although we do try to stop her from doing it generally.)

r.mac wrote: »

on the percentiles thing, my mother was always told that my sister was going to be very small and probably fall into 'dwarf' proportions. What rubbish - at 3 she had a late growth spurt and at 25 is now 5ft 2inches Mum now wishes she hadn't spent so long worrying about her

I was really short as a baby - on the third centile at one point (which is partly why I was seeing the consultant as a baby) but I ended up being 5'8" which is just above the 91st centile. I was always small up until about age 14/15 when everyone else stopped growing and I carried on for another 2/3 years. I was so obsessed with my height I used to get my mum to measure me every week (she wouldn't do it more often than that) and my brother bought me a tape measure for my birthday because I was always borrowing his.

MrsTine wrote: »

Yup - that was me whilst I was about uhmmm 7 1/2 months pregnant...
As was this...http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=8278655&l=6a75bc5fa6&id=740875462
Now I look a lot more tired and worn out! :rotfl:

It always amazes me when people look good when pregnant. I only have one picture of me more than five weeks pregnant and I look absolutely terrible. I'd even go so far as to say I looked better in my post-birth, greasy hair photos.

Pink_Princess_1 wrote: »

Susan what age did you use the seat from? I have one for Ruby and a helmet but she just tries to climb out when we have sat her in it. She is one of these children that can get herself out of any harness whatsoever?? so I was wondering about one of those seats that sit in front of you.

Since she was about ten months. Ours is so hard to open that I was more worried when we first used it that I wouldn't be able to get her out afterwards than that she would get out herself.

3onitsway wrote: »

Is it a back seat or front?

I was thinking only back ones were available, but then went to Amsterdam and there are people with children hanging off all corners of their bikes! :eek:
Been looking at the Bobike ones on ebay - they sit on the handlebars so are supposed to be more stable, but i'm not so sure!

Ours is a backseat - I've never seen any that aren't.

*googles bobike*

Don't think I'd fancy a front one - I think Alice would get in the way a bit. She'd probably try to pull on the brakes/gears and try to remove my hands so she could steer.

honeypop wrote: »

Hi ladies, just after a bit of info from you please... my boy is now 7 weeks old and I wondered what other peoples daily routine or activites consisted of around this time.

I took 5 weeks to recover from the birth during which time I couldn't pick him up, carry him round or even hold him for longer than about 5 minutes, due to getting an infection inside from the caesarian op and also the cut got infected and I lost a lot of blood during the op so I could barely move myself nevermind do anything for the baby. My husband had to take the 5 weeks off work and did literally everything for us, although handing him to me for breastfeeding as I was determined to be able to do that one thing for him.

So anyway, I feel I missed out a lot on the first few weeks of playing around with the baby, although we bonded well in spite of everything, and now it's just me and him all day for the past couple of weeks, I'm not sure I am doing enough with him. He only sleeps in the day for 30-45 mins at a time and does this 2-3 times so that is a lot of awake time.

Currently, he wakes around 5am (not for feeding, I think he's just had enough by then), we go downstairs so daddy can sleep a bit longer before work, we have cuddles and pull faces and smiles until feeding at approx 6-6.30am. Then he feeds every 3 hours or so for 30-40 mins a time. In the time in between I amuse him or he lays looking around on his playmat, baby gym or bouncy chair, I talk to him all the time (basically running commentary on what I'm doing - I know he doesn't understand yet!), or have snuggles with a few songs. I take him out for a walk for about an hour if it's not raining then he sits in his chair in the kitchen watching me prepare dinner and OH's lunch for the following day around late afternoon. OH comes home around 7pm, they have some time together before we eat dinner, then 8.30pm he gets bathed/washed, bottle of expressed milk fed by OH, then a cuddle and story by one of us before being put down and he's asleep at 9pm. He won't last any longer than this at
the moment, although I'd like him to go down later to try and go through the night or just wake up later in the morning, currently he wakes anywhere between 1.30-3.30am for a feed then goes back to sleep. Hopefully when he starts napping more during the day, he would stay up a little later at night.

He has colic and a lot of awake time is spent crying, I have very little family nearby and no-one really available in the daytime to take him for an hour or so as I'd love to nap if I could, or at least get a break from the crying although he does seem to be getting better.

Sounds okay to me - it's good that you do other things with him around rather than constantly directly entertaining him, I tried to make sure I did that with Alice too although she didn't have a lot of awake non feeding/changing/toilet time in which to entertain or not entertain her.

For napping, do you put him in a dark room for any of the naps because that might help him to take a longer nap? When Alice was having three naps a day I used to not make it totally dark on the first and last one (which were shorter) but the middle one which was longer (and is the one she still has) I always made the room dark. I don't mean totally pitch dark - it was still light enough that you could see to walk across the room but not broad daylight so you could read a book.

Other than that I'm not sure I have any ideas really.

redmel1621

feelinggood wrote: »

Well done Kai, clever little thing!! Front-to-back, or Back-to-front? We need details!

Back to front.....he was meant to be having a nap...but was playing instead, it took him a bit of effort to get his whole body over but did it in the end:)

Mel x