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purplepatch

Had quite a sweet moment tonight. I was cooking dinner so DH put them to bed. I thought it would be fun to page them over the monitor and say "Night night, sweet dreams" from the kitchen. Apparently Izzy's little face dissolved into tears when she heard my voice and she started crying for Mummy Mummy Mummy!!! So much so I couldn't resist going up to give her another little cuddle. She settled immediately and dried her tears.

First time I've really had any indication of her attachment to me. She's usually little Miss Cool, probably as I'm there at her beck and call 24/7 so she never experiences separation anxiety. Anyway, I was very touched!

Snaggles

:eek: Natasha rang the police!!! :rotfl:

She had picked up the phone without me noticing, and had dialled 999. Oh my goodness I was so embarrassed.....I was just apologising over and over to the operator at the other end (who was really nice and just said 'it happens all the time' - maybe so but I still felt awful ).

Little monkey!

She's just started walking (suddenly took a few steps just before her 11 month 'birthday'), and is soooo impressed with her new skill. I thought she would do it early, because she's been cruising round the furniture for months, but I find it quite difficult to see her toddling around because she's not really a baby any more now, and I'll probably never have another baby, so I find it quite sad.

I know it's irrational, but has anyone else felt like that?

daphne_descends

Agutka wrote: »

Lol, yes, same one. She gave him cake again but backed off when I growled at her.
Anyway, my lil monkey isn't putting on weight :eek:. Nothing at all in the last fortnight, not that I'm worried or anything :rolleyes::o. Was advised to give him meat and larger portions. Just as he has started to be too busy to eat. Breakfast he wolfs down, but lunch and dinner he's picky now and wants to play with it. Two days now both OH and I fight to get anything down him. I am finding this too hard.
But noticed something odd. After refusing lovely veg, then a yoghurt, he was sat on my lap as it was my turn to eat - we had hummus and chicken, which I let him try. And he was happy enough to lick the hummus off the carrot stick, eat tiny chicken pieces (only one gag) and chew the pitta bread. Like a proper big baby . Should I have let him have these, or is he just fed up of purees already . He wasn't thriving on the milk, but maybe we should go back to milk and BLW with proper big food. Is there a degree in baby feeding I forgot to get?

MDW - I hope your LO feels better soon. Hope you all get some sleep.

tsstss7 - I have four clinics available to me, all miles away, all once a week, at least I get to pick a day though... I think the clinics rely on parents not bothering to minimise their workloads :rolleyes:

Was he weighed on the same scales, at the same time of day? Were the scales non-moving ones ie they don't carry them around? If not then who really knows if he has or hasn't gained...

To be honest with you I don't trust the clinics or the health visitors scales to be accurate.

I took Elliot to be weighed this week as he turned 26 weeks and the numbers kept jumping about all over the place so she just said 'we'll call it 19 3' - but it could be 19 1 or 19 5, and if I took him again I could think he hasn't gained, or even lost with their logic.

I won't be going again until he's 9 or 12 months, unless I have anything to worry about.

If he is otherwise fine, no gain in a fortnight isn't a big deal especially at this age when their growth is slowing anyway.

daphne_descends

Snaggles :eek: I can't believe that! I'd be mortified! I bet she is very pleased with herself

I am ridiculously sentimental about Elliot already I don't think we will be having another baby, although I do daydream about it a bit - so with every milestone I am sad that my little baby is growing up and I'll never hold a teeny tiny one of my own again I think it's why I'm a bit soft when it comes to routine and sleep, I like having my little puppy sleeping on me because soon he'll be too big

Well now I've put myself on a downer for the weekend :rotfl:

In other news I am having my first driving lesson today :eek: hope the baby/post-pregnancy brain can cope

Becles

Agutka wrote: »

Everyone tells me 'you just wait till he starts moving about' and I am soooo scared of it. How do you cope with constant danger like that?
I hope you take it in your stride...:D

You just need eyes in the back of your head

I take her everywhere with me now. When she wasn't really moving I'd leave her in the baby gym or on a blanket on the floor and pop up to the loo. Now I don't trust leaving her for a second, so I have to take her to the loo with me.

Wherever I am busy in the house, I take her with me. So if I'm ironing in the utility room, or busy in the kitchen then she's on the kitchen floor, and so on.

I'm laughing at Natasha ringing the Police. What have you been doing to her? :rotfl: I'd be horrified too! Charlotte likes the phones but she hasn't managed to ring anyone yet.

Good luck with the driving lesson fac73. Hope it goes well.

I'm not too fussed about weight either. With my first I took him religiously every fortnight to the clinic. With the second and third, I only take them at "milestones" like I'll take Charlotte next month as she'll be 1. As long as baby is healthy and looks like they are doing ok, I don't see the need to be weighed all the time.

Has anyone had bother giving milk in a cup? Charlotte has dropped all her during the day milk feeds so she's only having milk first thing in a morning and before bedtime. That was her choice and I was sick of wasting milk so I stopped making it during the day. She happily drinks juice or water out of a cup, but she point blank refuses to drink milk out of it and will only drink it from a bottle.

Dormouse

Snaggles wrote: »

:eek: Natasha rang the police!!! :rotfl:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: That's so funny!

Got to watch her now, before she starts making international calls to Japanese chat lines or something! :eek: :rotfl:

Snaggles wrote: »

She's just started walking (suddenly took a few steps just before her 11 month 'birthday'), and is soooo impressed with her new skill. I thought she would do it early, because she's been cruising round the furniture for months, but I find it quite difficult to see her toddling around because she's not really a baby any more now, and I'll probably never have another baby, so I find it quite sad.

I know it's irrational, but has anyone else felt like that?

Yes.

I feel like that too, I think it really hits you when the babies start being upright most of the time so don't look like little babies anymore. I'm not sure if we'll ever have another baby, so I totally see where you're coming from.

Alex's latest thing is wanting to be held up straight all the time - he just refuses to bend! :rotfl: In some ways, I'm desperate for him to stand up by himself, but in other ways, NOOOOOO!!! :eek:

Well done on walking, Natasha, clever little thing! So she's mastered the phone and the walking malarkey, just like that! :T :cool:

Dormouse

Becles wrote: »

I'm not too fussed about weight either. With my first I took him religiously every fortnight to the clinic. With the second and third, I only take them at "milestones" like I'll take Charlotte next month as she'll be 1. As long as baby is healthy and looks like they are doing ok, I don't see the need to be weighed all the time.

I agree, and I'm exactly the same - took DS1 to the clinic every couple of weeks, and with this one, I've only taken him once in 8 months, oops! :rotfl: (He did get weighed every time he got his jabs, plus I sometimes weight him on my scales! )

Good luck with the driving, Fac. It's probably nerve-wracking the first time, but you'll be fine. I started driving again (after a 10-year break :eek: ) after having DS1, and even despite the mushy baby brain I muddled through.

Hope your little girl is better, MDW

Purple - that's so cute! It is lovely to be appreciated every once in a while, isn't it? :T

purplepatch

Snaggles, Olivia rang 999 twice when she was little! The second time I didn't even know as she managed to end the call. However, they are able to trace the call and then rang me back to tell me off :o:o:o

They were very nice about it and said it happens a lot, but I still ended up feeling like a naughty school kid.

Becles

and so the frazzled nerves continue......

Husband was out in the garden this morning and Charlotte crawled over to the back door. She was sitting on the doormat with me close behind. She was waving and shouting at Daddy, and I was encouraging her. All of a sudden she dived out the door head first with no warning she was going to move so I didn't have time to grab her. She landed on her forehead on a paving slab.

She's got a massive egg on her head, but she only cried for about 5 minutes, then she was off again!

I felt sick for ages as if it was my fault but there was nothing I could have done to stop her.

All the children are at my parents now as I'm going out tonight. Bit worried about her but Mam said I should still go out as we don't get out much. She knows the symptoms of concussion and will keep an eye on her, but I'm sure she's fine.

Off out with a group of another website I use to a St Georges day party night :beer:

Pink_Princess_1

Ruby is 1 month old today and I'm still b/feeding but she has been having a bottle of formula at 8pm.. the past couple of days she has been feeding from me non stop for couple of hours and I have then given her a bottle which she has drained... she only seems to be full from formula- any tips would be great:p