MSE Parents Club Part 6

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morning i currently love my little boy he went from about 10pmish til 7am ish (with a nappy change inbetween) i went to bed at 11pm so i got a good 8hrs :D:D:D ... i really need to tidy up but i cant be bothered at the mo gonna have a cuppa and a bubba cuddle x

Becles

tsstss7 wrote: »

Anyway I've adjusted back to his regime now and just catch up on sleep as and when. Luckely I'm not back at work yet!!!!

I haven't got time to catch up as and when

Typical day: get up and make Charlottes breakfast and supervise boys getting theirs, while making packed lunches.
Have my own breakfast and sort out paperwork etc., for day.
Go to work between 9am-lunchtime.
Have lunch.
Take the dog and Charlotte out for a walk.
Around 2.30pm - Charlotte goes to bed, so I study for uni.
When she gets up, housework and cooking tea.
Sit down for half an hour after tea (as I'm normally knackered by then!)
7pm - bath Charlotte and bedtime routine - into bed by 8pm.
Evening depends on how much work or uni work I have to do. If I've none I may watch TV.
10pm-ish - suft the net then ready for bed by 11pm.

Weekends are pretty much the same, except if I don't have work on a morning, I'll do housework.

keelykat

Hi everyone, just a quick hello

Elliot will be one next week! He still isn't walking yet, seems to be the last one to do it but I can't really do much about that. He's eating really well though, loves his food He keeps saying 'yeah' to everything, i say no and he says yeah!! lol.

Hope everyone's ok.

keely.

Lu_T

Keely - Imogen didn't walk until 15 months and we weren't really worried. When she did she just got up and walked across the living room! She'd been walking holding hands, first 2 hands, then 1, and obviously decided just to go for it. Even 15 months is still within the 'normal' range, albeit at the end. We just figured she didn't see enough incentive given that she could crawl everywhere she wanted to go.

Just rec'd one of these to test http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/detailfash.php?type=FASH&code=B6670&proddesc=Up+and+Down+Chair&supercategory=BRN00005&branch=&wcategory=CAT00094&catdesc=&super=0030BRN00005~0020BRN00015~0060CAT00094&treecode=TRE00009 Yippee!

ladybirdintheuk

Hugs for Weezy and Beccles. And ~poo~ vibes for Fergie too!

I've just found this daft toy. Izzy will be a film director who shops at Asda for her clothes, fortnum and mason for food and loves chocolate hobnobs. I will be a reality tv star who wears Boden (what is Boden? never heard of it!), I will shop at the organic farmers market and eat all the biccies in the world.

Now, must get on, or we won't be going away!

emlou2009

chopsticks wrote: »

Any poos from Fergie and Seth yet?

seth hasnt stopped pooping, he's just having rabbit poops in every nappy :eek: at least he isnt totally blocked, but still a concern - his diet is mostly milk after all, so it shouldnt be like that!!

i worked out why he doesnt keep water/juice down - its too runny, he has reflux :doh: going to put gaviscon in it today and see if that helps.

tsstss7 wrote: »

WEEZL - my cousin and aunt have children close together and I did envy it a bit - they keep each other company from a young age so entertaing them is sooooo much easier. Plus they learn skills from each other too so stuff like potty training can be easier.

i definitely agree with that - my auntie had my cousin 9th december one year and then the second 1st january the year after, so 13 months between them :eek: she then had her 3rd 7 years later and she said he was the hardest as she had much more work to do for him IYSWIM, with the two being so close she was able to let them entertain themselves a lot

SusanC_2

MadDogWoman wrote: »

DD was 9 months old when I returned to work full-time. I expressed mid-morning at work (another fan of the Medela Swing) - mum would then give her it the next day. I kept this up until she was 14 months old when she dropped the the feed. DD only dropped her mid-afternoon/mummy's home feed earlier this year, with a bit of gentle encouragement.

I'm used to the comments/looks my former work colleagues would give me when the found out I was bf a toddler and letting her sleep in our bed, which is why I keep it under my hat - my new colleagues don't have a clue about my secret life.

I've never had anybody act like it's weird. A couple of months ago, Alice was funny in the afternoon service at church so I asked her if she wanted some milk and she said yes so I took her out into the porch to feed. She fed for so long that the service finished and I ended up with loads of people (including an older lady who FF her children and some young couples who don't have children yet) in the porch chatting while I was feeding Alice and no one batted an eyelid. Although maybe people know me well enough to know that their opinions wouldn't make a blind bit of difference anyway. (And some of them probably didn't realise what I was doing.)

MrsTine wrote: »

I can sympathise as I usually end up curled in a ball when I'm on too - but since Alex arrived although heavy they haven't been anywhere near as painful! I still have to watch my iron levels though - they are extreemly heavy

My period pains have pretty much gone since Alice was born too. I was really hoping they would take a long time to come back because if they'd been as bad as previously I would have needed OH to stay at home to look after Alice for 1-3 days every month.

MrsTine wrote: »

I'm staying out of the "BFing till x age" debate because I will only end up upsetting people :lipsrseal

That's okay - we are culturally conditioned to think that breastfeeding beyond a certain age is weird/gross.

Personally I think it is fine if people choose not to breastfeed or to stop at a certain point because that is what they want but I wish that those who choose to do so for longer could do so without anyone putting pressure on them to stop. I have been very blessed that nobody has ever expressed any negativity about my breastfeeding Alice and even if they did I am the sort of person who wouldn't care and wouldn't be affected but I know that pressure from others can make breastfeeding very difficult for some people and this is what I would like to see change.

What I don't want is us to end up like Australia where my friend who just didn't produce any milk (after spending hours every day on a pump in hospital) has had people come up to her when she has been bottle feeding her baby in public and tell her that she shouldn't have had a baby if she didn't even care enough to breastfeed. She actually tries to avoid feeding her baby in public for the same reason that many breastfeeding mothers here do.

Fritha wrote: »

It would appear I'm officially a toddler feeding weirdo! Hooray! (She talks (well she says milk and book) and walks so I think that makes her a toddler!) tbh I used to think that bfing a toddler was really quite odd (so I completely understand other people being of the same opinion) but now, well she just seems too little to stop!

I think when you're actually doing it, they grow into a toddler so gradually that you hardly notice it. You start of breastfeeding a baby and then one day you realise that actually you're breastfeeding a toddler.

Becles wrote: »

Just wondering, do people go to bed at the same time as their OH?

When we first got married I used to go to bed first (and we both got up together) but gradually we ended up going to bed at the same time. Strangely it's usually him that gets tired rather than me even though he is the one who used to have less sleep.

weezl74

emlou2009 wrote: »

i worked out why he doesnt keep water/juice down - its too runny, he has reflux :doh: going to put gaviscon in it today and see if that helps.

:doh: oh of course! Athough, I wonder if the effects of the alginate in the gaviscon will undo the loosening effects of the water/juice. It's the same stuff that's in dental impression material (fascinating fact from DH's work!) the stuff that's all runny and you bite on it and then it becomes a firm rubber. That's the stuff that's in gaviscon. So not a great loosener for seth methinks emlou!

HTH,

Weezl x

Fritha_2

BrunoM wrote: »

much the same with us Fritha.

Elijah is so cute Bruno! Celia currently has a milk allergy so no cows milk for us, I think that's part of the reason she has so much bm!

keelykat wrote: »

Hi everyone, just a quick hello

Elliot will be one next week! He still isn't walking yet, seems to be the last one to do it but I can't really do much about that.

Hello Keely, I was wondering how you and Elliot were :-) Don't worry about the walking anywhere between about nine months and 18/24 months is normal! My friends little girl declined to walk until just before her second Birthday, my friend was actually starting to get a bit worried by then so Celia walking at 11 months seemed very early to both of us!

tss, my bfing fact was meant to be reassure people, well toddler feeders that you won't be bfing as you see the sprogling off to university! I think (Krystal?) that if left to their own devices most children self-wean between 2 and 4 (which is also the same ages a parented to sleep child will learn to self settle by themselves iyswim, it all seems terribly neat *looks suspicious*)

SusanC_2

keelykat wrote: »

Elliot will be one next week! He still isn't walking yet, seems to be the last one to do it but I can't really do much about that. He's eating really well though, loves his food He keeps saying 'yeah' to everything, i say no and he says yeah!! lol.

I believe the normal range for walking is 9-24 months. I think you're supposed to let the HV know if they're not walking by 18 months (I think it tells you in the NHS book) just so they can keep an eye and check other things to make sure there isn't a problem but that's just because it's an easy indicator of there is a problem - not that it usually is a sign of a problem.