MSE Parents Club Part 11

3onitsway

chopsticks wrote: »

Did a lack of teeth until a bit later on impact on eating lumpy food? Caitlin is being a fussy miss with her food and I'm finding it really hard to get anything down her that contains lumps. Actually, at the moment I'm finding it hard to get anything down her that isn't cauli or brocolli cheese or bread sticks. But that's another story

No, not at all. V never really liked proper mushed food and always preferred lumps/finger foods.

Between October and February, she only had the one bottom tooth and absolutely amazed me with what she could eat! Garlic bread or apple with one tooth must be hard work. :rotfl:

I think it just depends on the childs likes/dislikes.
My best RL friends little girl is 10 weeks older than V, and had at least 6 teeth before she was one. At her first birthday she was eating mush while V had a sandwich. *confused smiley*. If her mum fed her anything other than mush she'd do a strange face/noise like she was being choked, and spit it straight back out. (She's ok now btw!)

Krystaltips

chopsticks wrote: »

I know, it's scary how quickly time goes. Caitlin was 9 months on Sunday. I love the stage she's at but I kind of feel sad that she's not a tiny newborn any more. The sleepless nights, BF issues, lots of crying (me and her) all seem a distance memory!!

You speak for yourself... Some of us still got woken at 2, 4 and 6 last night

Night Niddy!

Becles

Welcome back SS

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I also call going to bed a 'sleepy' I dunno why. I used to say 'did you have a nice sleepy?' and it kind of stuck!

My Dad always called going to sleep, peeps or peepy's. I've no idea why, but I always say it now. Charlotte has started correcting me, and I say "come on, time for peeps now" and she'll say "no Mam, I'm going to sleep" :rotfl:

Dolly Chicken Eyes was called Dolly Geoffrey yesterday, but this evening she's changed her name to Dolly Sugar Camembert.

I do wonder what goes on in my child's head someimes

got-it-spend-it

Welcome back SS! Sounds very eventful but I hope you had a rest too.


:rotfl: at Charlotte and Dolly Chicken Eyes.

I have a crying boy tonight...he's woken every hour so far in proper tears. Not sure why, maybe teeth:(

Buttonmoons

Keira's teeth grew in funny. I phoned the HV about it :rotfl:

She got 1 bottom, 1 top, then the fangs at either side, then they started filling in. Think she had about 8 teeth by 1!!!

Krystaltips

3onitsway wrote: »

Does anyone else suspect the receptionist in OBEM used to be a man?

Is it Emlou's Dad?



Hehe, Sorry Em, love ya

I'm just watching it now...

SugarSpun

Nomnomnom chocolates

Elaborating...

I get everything ready the night before we leave, whenever. So the plan was I'd get up, feed Molly, put me and her into our laid-out clothes and be ready to go. But OH didn't get his own stuff ready and we only made the train to the airport because it was six minutes late... so I was stressed in going.

We arrived at the airport 2.5hrs before the flight was due to leave, only to find a line at check in. So we lined up and got to the front 2hrs before departure. And then they told us that OH and I were booked, but Molly wasn't. So I camped out with the bags at checkin and OH went off to get her added to our booking. It took over an hour, and by the time we checked in they had to put priority tags on our bags to make sure they weren't left behind. Oh, and they gave us seats across an aisle, terribly useful.

Seats across an aisle again on the connecting flight and the woman in front put her seat allllll the way back and if I had had a sharp object I would have stabbed her in the head.

We arrived at Tenerife airport and while we were waiting for the bags I found the officials, explained that my small daughter is a German resident but travels on a US passport and could she have an entry stamp because they're cool? Apparently US citizens without EU residency need a visa to enter Spanish territories and since she didn't have one and nor did OH they were threatening to deport us all to the US. I helpfully pointed out that it would be quite awesome because Molly has never been there, but they'd be liable for all the warm winter clothes I'd need to buy her, and they looked into my eyes, saw € signs and decided it was better to let us in.

OH was sick for the first two days, eventually saw a doctor and is doing better now. But for the flight over he slept and I was in sole charge of whingey teething ear-popping baby, and for the first two days. Sole charge. I left her with him when she was asleep and got about an hour of sunbathing time altogether over the two days, but as soon as she started to stir he'd call me and I'd have to go back and be Mummy. Friday morning I pitched a fit and insisted he do something about it so he finally did, but I am furious that he wasted half our holiday. (He was also worse than useless on the flights home.)

We went to a couple of fab places, missed out on a lot more because he was too sick and we were pretty disorganised, Molly did some swimming and seemed to love it and ...

7:30 this morning Molly was sleeping, I was just out of the shower putting on my laid-out clothes and a bunch of bloody workmen turned up on our balcony :eek: and there's me in the nudey buff :eek: They woke Molly and our leisurely getting-ready flagrantly all went to hell because instead of packing his stuff OH went off to complain to the desk staff, who'd told us the work would start at 9am. I took the workmen's picture, once I'd put my clothes on.

We got to the airport and they let us through with a nail clipper (accident) and two bottles of water (wondered if they'd let us have them with the baby). Made it to Madrid for our connection but we had 40 minutes to get to the other side of the airport and they have EU-EU security in place and a line of people an hour long. The woman refused to allow us to cut in line so we just ducked under the barriers and the staff looked at us and decided to let it pass. (Slightly xenophobic note: the Spanish people might be the rudest in the world.) We arrived at the gate just in time for boarding the totally-full flight dripping sweat and looking manic. Molly was a nightmare the whole time, constantly yelling and making it worse and worse. So we hopped on board, settled her and we were just by Geneva when the guy across the aisle from us had a grand mal seizure and they did that awesome thing where they call for doctors. We thought they were going to divert us but he was fine.

Got back to the home airport, put Molly's warm winter shoes on her and she lost one between the gate and the train. Spent an hour hunting it down but to no avail. Home now after some Words with OH. I spent all but about half an hour of today on baby duty and lost the rag with him.

Anyway. I hope everything here is good?
(Sorry it took me so long to post this, I had to go comfort Screamy Whingeypants and her sore toothypegs again.)

SusanC_2

Becles wrote: »

Dolly Chicken Eyes was called Dolly Geoffrey yesterday, but this evening she's changed her name to Dolly Sugar Camembert.

Alice is constantly changing everybody's names in our house. We went to the library today and when they said, "Hello Alice" she said, "No it's Roo dear." After I'd explained that (and that I am apparently Kanga) she told them that "Tigger" had gone to work so I then had to explain that OH is Tigger.

chopsticks

Thank you girls.

Glamazon wrote: »

Choppy - Jack hasnt got any teeth and he can bite food. I can give him a banana and he breaks bits off with his gums and eats them. He will also chew chicken strips and I can see them breaking up in his mouth - need to work on the eating with his mouth open :cool:

Ah bless him.

Do you think she's just being fussy?

We haven't done BLW, but I've given her finger food right from the beginning. The only things she'll eat with her fingers are breadsticks and those Heinz biscotti biscuits. She used to eat Organix carrot sticks and rice cakes but won't entertain those any more. I want her to eat fruit and veg as finger food, but every time I give them to her, she looks at them, occasionally picks them up and licks them, then just casts them to one side.

I've tried grapes, strawberries, sticks of cheese, apple, banana and pear in the past few days.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

We have only just got a first top tooth and Benjamin eats chicken and pork!!!

He sometimes amazes me what he can eat.

Have you tried a sandwich with the crusts cut off?

MFD - We have home-made bread here and even though I've got a thingy to help me slice the bread more thinly, it's still not as thin as shop-bought bread, so if I make sandwiches, they're a bit thick for her mouth. I've made her things on bread (like tuna mayo) rather than a sandwich and she hasn't been interested. I've given her crusts (which she will eat a bit of actually). I also made her scrambled egg and toast at the weekend. I fed her the egg and gave her the toast. She took one "bite" by putting it in her mouth and pulling it but that was it.

Buttonmoons

Jesus SS!!! Have you got any hair left?! That sounds like a holiday from hell and do you not think it's scary in Spanish airports, because they stand there looking all mean with their big guns.