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delain

Sammie_03 wrote: »

Peanut - yay for sleep!! :j

Delain - I HAVE to be in bed by 10 most nights as I'm a grumpy so and so otherwise!!
What diet are you on? I'm doing weight watchers but I've stayed the same for a couple of weeks now so I'm losing interest!
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I'm not doing WW or anything, I just downloaded an app called calorie counter which was free and have been using it to log all the food and exercise.

Maybe I should do a proper plan, because on mine it shows as good if you're at or under your calorie allowance, regardless of whether I ate three healthy meals or just a whole packet of chocolate hobnobs :o

martafdz

Delain, that's the best way, as long as you keep within your weekly allowance, you'll lose weight. I did a calorie counter diet a couple of.years ago and lost a stone and a half.in 7-8 months. You have to persevere, but it does work and the fact that you can allow yourself a treat, or even go over for a day, as long as you balance it out during the week, helps a lot. I need to do it again, I put all that back and more during the pregnancy!!!

martafdz

Monitors : you can get an audio only.for around £20 at Argos, Amazon Mothercare... And a video one for £45 at Argos, that's the one I got, the Motorola MBP28 or something like that, it's half price. Not great quality, it activates sound only when she makes a noise, but it has given me back the living room, no more tiptoeing around and I can clean stuff with products without worry. I moved.the basket from room to room until she was 3-4weeks, it's a pain in the backside. Then I let her sleep on me in the carrier, but I could not do all the housework or have a shower whilst she slept. We bought a travel cot on offer for the living room and that.worked a bit, but light and noises kept waking her up before she felt rested. We live in a flat, so I could put her in her moses with the door open and I'd hear her no problem if she cried, but I couldn't have the tv volume up or go to the kitchen, because I would not hear her until she fully cried. I put the monitor this week and it's great I close both doors so I can be noisy and she can sleep. Have you look in freecycle? Put a wanted post, maybe someone has one to give.

martafdz

Monitors 2: I forgot to mention, some people just download an app and put either another phone or laptop with camera in the baby's room, then monitor him/her with the other phone. It might be worth looking at that if you have a smartphone and a webcam. There are apps for "baby monitor".

*Nutella*

Thanks so much for all your replies about food She's always been a big girl with a big appetite and has stayed just below the 91st centile since birth (following the curve perfectly), she's also very long, but I do worry that she's now becoming a bit overweight. We'll see what the weigh-in brings I replaced her afternoon bottle with a snack today and she didn't seem to mind, so will stick to that from now on I think.

turtlemoose

Whoever asked about naps, I was going to come on and say my boy was a half an hour at a time napper until about 7 months when he started doing one short (30-45min) andone long (45-90min) per day......except today where he slept for 3 hrs this morning, and an hour this afternoon!!!!

Peanut2013

Dizzi - yay for weight gain!

I remember LO losing for the first 2 weeks and me being scared senseless.

Off to research baby apps as both smart phone users!

By the way, why no cute easter pics?

He will kill me in a few years but I couldn't resist!!

dizziblonde

Jeans that were actually a bit too tight pre-pregnancy - go! (Not bad for just under a fortnight huh? But I do gain minimal weight and actually probably lose a bit while pregnant)

Erin's had a pretty rotten night with teeth - although I do get worried that she grins from ear to ear when the calpol comes out in a bit of a drug addled way... ended up with me having her in bed with me, and hubby on a mattress in the lounge watching Robyn - I got big girl snuggles and much more sleep!

Erin's in a 2 year old's skirt today which fits perfectly! In her defence though it's a continental label from TKMaxx so they always come up ridiculously small anyway at least.

dizziblonde

And Robyn now has orange bottles... after ONE FLIPPING WEEK because some PRAT (Daddy) put them in the dishwasher with tomato stuff - after I'd told him endlessly not to!

sunshine_1988

dizziblonde wrote: »

And Robyn now has orange bottles... after ONE FLIPPING WEEK because some PRAT (Daddy) put them in the dishwasher with tomato stuff - after I'd told him endlessly not to!

A set of our bottles did this, few others on here too. Im pretty sure it doesnt matter if theres anythibg tomatoey in there they will still turn. Sure someone had a brand new dishwasher and they turned! Its rubbish isnt it