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purplepatch

I just let Izzy potter around with me whilst I'm doing chores etc and I certainly don't talk to her all the time or play with her continuously. We have a playroom downstairs and she will play in there quite happily too. I just let her do what she wants within reason.

With regard to weaning, I intended to start with Izzy around 4 months as I'd done with DD1, but she just wasn't interested. Even at 6 months I was having very little success. In the end we discovered that she simply didn't like pureed food and just went straight into finger food. So it was really more like 8 months before she really got going with eating.

Anyway, now at nearly 16 months she is a total gannet, eats absolutely anything, tons of it and whenever anyone else is eating anything she is there in an instant, begging and moaning to be given some. She's a total nightmare :rotfl:

Speaking of eating anything, while she was eating her lunch today, as I gave her the first spoonful, I noticed one of those horrible little metallic sequin things in her mouth (Olivia is always bring home collages from school with millions of the bloody things stuck on them!). Tried to get it out before she swallowed but she wasn't having any of it. So now I'm expecting a sparkly nappy in a day or two :rolleyes:

Dormouse

Snaggles wrote: »

I find this expression :rolleyes::rolleyes: is appropriate for a lot of the advice my Mum gives me

LOL, you must be my long-lost sister, Snaggles :rotfl:

But very good sensible advice there from everyone :T and I agree - there is no way you can play with /talk to a baby all the time.

Aesop

Hi, my 15 week old baby had a cold for 2 weeks and my midwife said this was normal, baby building immune system. Hope this helps.

sarahh112

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Aw, Sarah, your DS shares the same birthday as my DD!

Yes - I think Rowan beat Poppy by an hour. Hope the weaning is going ok. Ours has been hit and miss. We have discovered that he does not like leeks, but bananas are very popular.

I realised that I haven't posted a piccie of him yet. Is it easy as it is asking for a url when I try and upload one (I only have them stored on my hard drive)

Far too confusing for my post-pregnancy, just returned to work, completely mushy brain,

SeptemberBaby_2

I wonder how Bailey is today?

Thanks, Dormouse. I think she is enjoying the rice – well, she is not howling when I try and feed her! She looks so sweet in the highchair with her tiny legs dangling…

Oh, I remember now Sarah! Hope Rowan is well and I’m so glad that he weaning helped his reflux. We have only tried the baby rice so far and have only given her a few spoonfuls at lunchtime yesterday and today. I have a stack of baby pots I’m desperate to get my mittens on but I’m not sure about the pace I should be going at . I’m going to read the leaflets the weaning nurse left me a few weeks ago and get myself organised.

Re the photos, I download mine to photobucket.com and then copy the ‘IMG Code’ when I post here. That’s just about as technical as I get, sorry!

Ali, take no notice! I have learned to collect and gather all the good advice and just ignore the rest. I sing and talk to Poppy most of the time but obviously not when she is in her bouncer watching 'In the Night Garden' while I'm doing the dishes....:o

tsstss7

hi all

maybe bailey is having her baby!

On the subject of weaning my ds2 seems desperate to eat our food but is not yet 4 months old! I put him in his high chair today for a couple of minutes (he can sit propped up but not for too long) and gave him his tellytubby plate to play with while ds1 and I ate tea. Meanwhile ds2 tried to eat his plate. rofl.

Somehow I doubt we'll be getting to 6 months without weaning.

Agutka

We went out to celebrate brother's birthday on Sunday (restaurant). Poor Joseph refused to nap all morning, so not having slept since 7am he was not impressed that someone woke him up from his nap in the car at 1pm. Bit grizzly, pacified only by dummy and cuddle from yours truly.
But for two whole hours I sat through Mother and SIL nagging me to feed him "he must be hungry". When I refused they sat murmuring what I should be doing. When it was time for a bottle at 3pm he ate it to a chorus of 'I told you he was hungry'!!
Then they wondered why I was in a mood! Grrr.

My mum was horrified when she was holding Joseph and suddenly he started literally screaming. Turned out that when the waiters warned us about the plates being very hot they were not kidding :eek: . There were no marks on his little hand fortunately, but he did get a bowl of ice-cubes just in case.

Re playing with baby. Today my son was in a very sociable mood, so I practically spent the whole day by his side :rolleyes:. I got to hear lots of gooi gooi, wiggle wiggle (new sound he makes when he speaks with his dummy) and even a first, proper Ah-goo!!

Becles

Awww that's a lovely picture September Baby.

I don't play and talk to Charlotte all the time. At the moment she is quite happy sitting on the floor surrounded by toys.

If you are with them 24/7, then they get upset when you have to leave them to do things like go to the toilet, answer the phone/door etc. It's better to give them some alone time, so they learn to amuse themselves too.

purplepatch

tsstss7 wrote: »

maybe bailey is having her baby!

I wondered that too, but her profile says she was last online at 9.57pm last night, so would seem unlikely unless she's taken a laptop with her :rotfl:

Keeping everything crossed if you're lurking Bay

ab7167

thanks for all the reassurance! Eira is quite happy on her playmat, but we do read and sing a lot. I'm of the opinion that what we read at the moment is not as important as the sound of my voice - so we are reading todays newspaper and the Just So Stories at the moment, cos they are more interesting for me to read!

Off to Buggy Fit now, to try and get my body back in some sort of shape...