MSE Parents Club Part 9

ladybirdintheuk

Oh my you lot talk a lot! I've only been gone a few hours, and have had PAGES to catch up on, so I've only been skimming, and I expect I've missed lots, and there are things that have been aswered already and whatnot.

Well done for clapping babies

We have a fourth tooth here - we are on a roll! Oh, and Izzy went to sleep realy easily without feeding to sleep either. From tomorrow I'm going to feed her before turning the lights out, and see if we can do a nursery rhyme or something in between to separate milk and sleep, so someone else can put her to bed easier - I've told DH he is having a go next weekend at the latest

feelinggood wrote: »

Hope the trip out is okay!

I'm doing BLW and LO will eat anything, just not in great quanities. Favourite things are casseroles and stews, apple, carrot, sandwiches, cheese wraps, baby biscuits, rice cakes, rice, curry. He seems to enjoy it, he loves biting and chewing, and does swallow, but just doesn't each much. He never refuses anything, but just loses interest or gets full. He just really, really loves milk! He is clever though, OH gave him a cup with water in and he drank from it! He didn't spill any, tipped it up and had some, put it down and repeated it until he'd drank it all!

Clever boy Maybe he just needs to eat more little and often for the moment?

feelinggood wrote: »

Not yet, but h e just loves to run off (well crawl fast then stand up) when he has a clean, naked bum. I often have to do the nappy up while he is standing.

Izzy does that all the time - when I take her to the clinic I have to move the scales and changing mat etc onto the floor, and I always end up with a naked baby on the other side of the room with me crawling after her trying to get her dressed!

Weezl - I love the name Kester too.

sparkle03

Just popping in to say hello, hope everyone is well. Have read back a little but what I was going to say has gone from my head, also there are so many new people I doubt anyone remembers me and thinks Im a tad crazy LoL.:rotfl:

Thanks for missing me feelie, hope you and Toby are ok

The pictures I have seen over the last few pages are gorgeous!

tiamai_d

I'm off for a cold bath because my boiler is struggling to heat the water in this temperature -9 here

Pink_Princess_1

scruffy96uk wrote: »

I just rip them open, do you know what the sticky tab on the bum is for???

The tab is to fold the back over the front and fasten it together IYSWIM sort of tape it into a parcel.

Feelie Iv used nappy pants since LO was 11 months old and walking and have had no problems - shes in a size 4 and is now 21 months. Huggies ones have velcro at the side but pampers just rip apart - be careful not to confuse them with the pull up training pants which can only really hold an accident and are not so absorbant;) I tend to buy which ever is on offer - tesco has had them on BOGOF not sure if its still on

searching_me

oooo tia -9 you must be freezing x

elle_gee

tiamai_d wrote: »

.. Elle, its cow print! And £39, but totally worth it Uhm, no sorry! Elle, do not look, remember we are being good (and I've totally not spent £5 on sweets from the shop after I dug my car out (took 20mins) to go get bread and there was none):A

aw !!!!, I forgot juice.

Thankfully it looks bigger than we have room for tho.. see, lack of space is winning reason yet again!

OH went to Tesco.. he came back with toilet roll (the major essential!), mince, juice and biscuits.. lots and lots of biscuits - two big packs of custard creams, same again of Rich Tea, big pack of digestives and three packs of shortbread fingers. I think I might just survive the Big Freeze

MFD, :T:T for clapping hands!

Does everyone else's babies have a day/week where they can suddenly do lots of new things, then it all goes a bit quiet again? I'm sure Rhys has done about six new things (only once or twice so I'm not counting my chickens just yet!) in the last three days! :eek:

jillie1974

i chatted for ages this afternoon oops!!

hi sparkle!!

emlou2009

My nan has just rung me to ask me to pick up her blood pressure prescription for her tomorrow, as she only has enough to do her til tomorrow afternoon
I am scared to go out after the ice day just before xmas when I got stuck halfway down a slope in the ice, with the buggy wedged in the road!! And then I have to get to her house as well after that!
Of course I dont begrudge doing it at all and I would rather I fell over than she did, but I am going to feel awful if I cant do it! Its losing grip of Seth that I worry about, as if I fell and lost grip and he went in the road.... _pale_

scruffy96uk

Yeah it's cold here 2 -10 by the cars temp thingie

My_Fathers_Daughter

Well done on your second night ladybird. I read your diary with interest.

FWIW, our 'routine' goes like this:

Get changed into clean vest & sleepsuit downstairs, bottle with daddy and cuddles.

Kiss for daddy and upstairs with mummy, into fleecy sleepsuit or sleeping bag and lay down on mummy's bed.

(usually)
Feed and cuddle for 5-10 minutes, long enough for a good feed, not long enough for comfort sucking (you probably know the point).

Cuddles for 5 mins with heads on same level (I scoot down the bed, thereby moving my boobs away and moving in for better cuddles and kisses!)

Pick up baby and walk calmly to Benjamins room (having made sure earlier that all lights are dimmed) and pop him in his cot with a kiss and his elephant.

I kneel next to his cot and sing twinkle twinkle for a few verses. Getting slower, quieter, leaving gaps between verses as I go along (so he is not dependent on the rhythm and my voice). I also try to stand up at some point whilst still singing, my old bones creak too much!!

Try to sneak out of room!!
Or
Say night-night baby boy and walk out, hoping that he settles without crying.

As soon as he cries for more than say 20 seconds I go back in and reassure him, lay him down and sing another verse of twinkle twinkle.

I try to make sure I leave the room before he goes to sleep because I think that this is the best thing for him, and I don't want to be standing there for hours just to stand on a noisy toy (how I feel for you last night!!)


Most nights it works, some nights it is tough, but at least this way I feel I am helping him to build a skill, rather than just desperately trying to get him to sleep IYSWIM.

I am certainly much less frustrated than I was when I fed to sleep each night.


Although we may be removing the feeding from our routine soon...my baby is growing up! At least I am glad I started this routine before he started refusing booby!!