MSE Parents Club Part 16

pigpen

Mines likes whizzing endless wipes out of the pack.. and tearing pages out of catalogues.. she loves OH's keyboard too.. she has her own, but wants his! She likes balls of wool too..

gizmodo_2

*BigBird* wrote: »

Blimey, PP, I don't think I eat that much in a day!

I was going to say the same

I've had about 4 peaceful(ish) days and nights and sadly this afternoon has gone back again to poor DD crying a lot. Again I think it's teething.

DD is coming on in her development the last few days She's rolling over lots (although I'm getting fed up of having to roll her back). She can roll herself back if she's not fully flat on her face, but when she is fully face down, she's not freaking anymore, she just gets frustrated that she can't roll back. She's learned how to caterpillar move backwards on her back She looks so pleased with herself when she does it. And finally I think she's ready for the highchair - she sat in it nicely today with a bit of cushion for extra support.

Oops, it's morning and I found I forgot to send this last night! DD must have interrupted me with screaming She woke twice after putting her to bed at 7pm, but after 9pm she slept through till 6:30. I'm a happy bunny having got a full night's sleep.

Becles

That's loads of food PP! If she's still a reasonable weight, I would just let her get on with it. Josh always ate loads, but he never put any weight on and he's always been skinny. I think he just eats and burns it straight off.

CL - don't beat yourself up about it. They all have accidents and it gets worse as they get more mobile. Charlotte has loads of bruises at the moment. Yesterday she fell in the garden and cut and bruised her leg, tripped over twice on the way home from school, stubbed her toe while running round the garden with no shoes on and fell off a stool step when she was helping me cook last night!

Sounds like she is doing well Giz :j

Taking Charlotte to the shops this morning. Got a couple of jobs to do for work and she's helping me pick presents for some birthdays that are coming up (my Dad and my niece). I promised her a cake in a cafe if she is good, so she's mega excited about that

rach

hi all

haven't managed to get on here in ages, what with house buying, job searching and freelance work i never seem to have a second...plus my mum was visiting earlier in the week which was good.

L is also suffering with his teeth i think, it is 2 months since the bottom 2 came through but the top ones have still not cut. What's the betting it will be when we go on hols!

We also had his 8-12 month check yesterday, she said he was doing really well, he's 20lb9oz which is between 50-75th centiles and just under 75th for length. she is referring him to the eye people as he may have a slight squint.

He's down for a nap now but is still squeaking. yesterday he missed his morning one because of everything and i was worried he'd wake in the night therefore, he did cry out a couple of times around midnight but barely for 30 seconds.

delain

DD1 will quite happily eat three big bowls of cereal, even when one of those is ready brek, toast and a banana at breakfast time and want a snack at 11 and be on about lunch at 12 on the dot, she has always been like this and is still skinny at nearly 9! I don't usually let her eat three breakfasts though, cereal isn't cheap

My squeak has toast with marmite or mini shredded wheats in the morning (she seems to have gone off weetabix) followed by strawberries or sliced kiwi or nectarine or sometimes a mix of the two.

She often has a mid morning snack, just whatever I've got to hand. Can sometimes be rice cakes/breadsticks/that sort of thing.

After this is normally her sleep.

For lunch she usually has a sandwich, she likes soft cheese, or I'll make cheese on toast and she has that with tomato slices, cucumber slices, tried beetroot once but had to throw her top away after followed by more fruit and usually a yogurt or two.

She sometimes has an afternoon snack but not that often.

For dinner yesterday she had cooked pasta and broccoli/carrots with grated cheese sprinkled on. Usually there woukd be a sausage or something with that but everyone else had BBQ yesterday and I don't feel too confident giving her BBQ food yet

Oh and she had an extra sleep yesterday, woke up quite late and was up with Daddy when I went to the shop and he was feeding her chocolate ice cream :eek: I try to keep her away from Daddy when he has treats because he just shares them unquestioningly

Ha ha looking at that I can see she eats too much cheese :rotfl:

ETA: Squeak fell down the steps into my garden last month. Fortunately they are really soft (pretty much disintegrating) wooden steps, not steep and not far. I thought OH was in the room with her and he wasn't, I heard her cry and was running about thinking 'omg where is she' and then I saw her laying on the ground all muddy and grumbling up at me. I think it was just the shock that made her cry, she didn't appear to be hurt. Hasn't put her off, she still heads for the garden. Has reached the point where I have to shut the door if I make a loo dash, usually the patio door (even though there is just steps and mud outside and no patio lol) is always open for fresh air.

rach

pigpen that does seem like a lot, must cost you a fortune! you're experienced enough to know if she's ok though lol. how much boob does she now have?

L is eating less at the moment, partly cos he's taken to dropping more and partly the heat combined with teething i think. He usually has
breakfast: strawberries & blueberries, 1 crumpet, shreddies/porridge/1 weetabix
lunch: something on toast with cherry toms (which he is off atm!)
afternoon snack: fruit and/or rice cakes or organix little crisp things
tea: something like pasta & cheese, veg, chicken, egg, potatoes etc. plus a fromage frais and few strawberries

we have no fridge at the moment as ours broke last week and we're waiting for the new one which should come on tues. sir m has lent me a mini one for milk etc but struggling a bit in this heat so L isn't getting as much variety as he was

MERFE

morning all

Delain when we had patio doors with the other two we used to open it about 2-3 inches and then put a wedge in the frame so they couldnt open it anymore and escape but we could get some fresh air.

Bob is so fussy he doesnt eat alot at all. I gave him califlower cheese for breakfast because he always eats breakfast - I figure he is really hungry then whereas he would normally turn his nose up at it. He has eggy bread or crumpets around lunch time, then snacks on strawberries, raspberries, cucumber slices. Still has the odd mashed banana or yoghurt. He normally has a taste of whatever we have so we had salad the other day and he had some new pots, red pepper, cucumber and tuna - he loves tuna which is odd but does not like boiled egg lol. We are having roast today so he'll have yorkshire pud, chicken which he likes, the insides of a roast potato, roast parsnip and roast carrots and veg. He still doesnt have any teeth but manages fine. He did cut a tooth but the next day it disappeared which can happen apparently so hopefully it wont be long before they are here.

pigpen

Rach.. she only has 1 or 2 boobs a day.. occasionally 3.. I am hoping she picks up again once the baby arrives and the supply is increased again. She does drink about 5 10oz beakers of juice though!!! She is currently working her way through a packet of apple and pear breadsticks... She got both top teeth onthe same day about 6 weeks after the bottom 2 came through.. they look like they are going to be fairly big baby teeth!

Delain.. DD2 has always eaten stacks too.. she got to about 11 and got porky.. she is about 5ft 1 and about 8.5 stone now so not 'overweight' but she looks well padded.. she has big cheeks and a big bum which don't help. (as a baby she would have 3 weetabix, toast, banana, yoghurts, anything else going followed by boob and bed) DD1 is the same height and the same weight and looks like a stick!

breadsticks gone.. off to do fatty some crumpets.. she is literally screaming at OH for more!!!

aless02

Hello all, sorry for always popping in and out.

Finn goes through weird patches of eating a lot and then relatively nothing! I think that's pretty normal, as if you think about it, adults do it too! He's kinda fussy, much to my dismay, but will fairly reliably eat quite a few things in repetition. I really wish he liked more vegetables, he used to eat loads when he first started weaning and now almost none at all!

If anyone needs a desk & stool for their LO, I HIGHLY recommend this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Play-Waybuloo-Basic-Stool/dp/B004BU3494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309606046&sr=8-1 . Finn's 18 months and fits it okay, so I'd go from that age range upwards. It's very sturdy and the photos are really lovely (and pretty easy to put together!). Now if only he had the attention span to use his crayons for more than 5 minutes!

madnessandmayhem

Well, DS 2 takes the biscuit for injuries this week I think! tuesday was a NIGHTMARE day! We had been in from getting DS1 about 15 mins, and they had gone straight out in the garden, and DS 2 fell off the chair he was sat on-luckily only on to the bark chips so he had a soft landing!

About 10 mins after that he fell and hit his mouth on the corner of a ladder that was folded up in the corner of the garden-and OMG the amount of blood!! He was hysterical-it was awful It was about 10 minutes before he would let me look in his mouth (I should point out, that for some reason I am no good when it comes to bloody mouths-dont know why-if he'd cut his leg or his head I would have been fine!) and he had sliced up his gum :eek: It was bleeding and looked very bruised and swollen-and there was a bit that had swollen down over the top half of one of the front top teeth-or so I thought. He just wanted to wipe the blood out of his mouth, and didnt want to rinse it with water and he grabbed the flannel (that I had use to wipe blood off his face and hands) and was wiping his teeth-well the bit of 'swollen' gum was moving and was a 'flap' that had dropped down_pale_ So off down the dr's we go- luckily he had calmed down by now, and was more himself, but obviously I wanted it looked at.

The Dr said he had skimmed the top of the surface of the gum- abit like if you sliced a top layer or 2 of skin- and that the gum would heal and the bit that was hanging down would just 'drop off' _pale_

By weds night it had gone-much to ds 2 's relief-i think it had been annoying him the gum looks a lot better now just a little bruised. How on earth he managed to not knock out his teeth i do not know!

Oh and when we got back from dr's he was getting a yoghurt out of the fridge and he decided he didnt want one that was on a shelf he could reach and while trying to reach up to get one, he must have held onto the shelf inside the door to give himself some 'leverage' and the shelf snapped and the only thing to fall and break on the floor???...........BEETROOT!!!!!!! :eek: Luckily it was easy enough to clean off the kitchen floor.....and fridge.......and wall, once i'd picked up the glass (which was obviously after i had removed ds 2 to safety) but the fridge is by the kitchen door and it also spread to the carpet in the hallway-i am just thankful that we have a dark carpet there so it doesn't really show!!!