MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

*Nutella*

This morning LO went from sitting to standing without holding onto something or someone!

Gillyx

Sorry just a quick one. MrsH, leaving a little is ok, they usually advise you to make up slightly more than they'l drink anyway so that it is there if they want it x

katiechoc_2

Yay Nutella! Wish George would learn that trick, if he falls over (which he does, alot!) he just crawls to the nearest thing he could push up off. Or if that's too far just sits and looks at you until you pick him up.

We've got a travel cot that we were given second hand, and don't have a playpen so not a huge amount of help with that. I would say though, for us at least, a playpen would be a nightmare - he absolutely hates being stuck in the cot if he's awake and screams blue murder while rattling and shaking the side of it. We've got safety gates to stop him getting in the kitchen and living room which leaves him with the hallway and his bedroom, both of which are baby proofed so if I'm cooking for example he has the run of that area. So I guess that's like a big playpen, but it doesn't stop him yelling and trying to shake the gate off the wall to get to where I am.

His birthday on Sunday! And typically, I've got a big job on that I have to get done so my plans for a relaxing week of baking and present wrapping are out the window.

martafdz

I have a Graco travel cot with basinette, which is smaller than a travel cot. They do another one exactly the same but travel cot size. We used it a lot when she was a newborn, just so we didn't have to move the moses from room to room. Ours has an umbrella fold, no need to assemble anything, open it, push sides down bring edges up and done. Tricky the first time but once you understand the instructions, easy peasy. Now we are using it to put toys in, my gym ball and bits and pieces. We put her down to sleep there if any of us is still sleeping in the bedroom. It can be a playpen, so I plan to use it that way once she's able to sit or push herself around. She's ok there for a while, so I can put her in the jumperoo, tire her out and then put her there to wind down a bit lol.



Little miss woke up every couple of hours last night, two feeds only,the rest grumbling and chatting! She's so cute chatting though!

fluffnutter

I really like my mothercare sleepwalker. Works fine as a playpen too, particularly as its base is right on the floor.

http://www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-Sleepwalker-Travel-Cot/450919,default,pd.html

martafdz

That's a great idea. The graco base is not on the floor, you have a foldable mattress (thin, moses like) on top, but once your baby knows that s/he can lift it, that might be the end of it

Gillyx

My child is a dustbin, 3 weetabix, a slice of toast, half of my slice of toast, 2 slices of melon all for breakfast. I'm gonna be £250 a week for food by the time he's a teenager :eek:

Lola888

Gillyx wrote: »

My child is a dustbin, 3 weetabix, a slice of toast, half of my slice of toast, 2 slices of melon all for breakfast. I'm gonna be £250 a week for food by the time he's a teenager :eek:

We have a human dustbin too, I do look at her and think where are you putting it. Your tummy is only the size of a small fist!

Then I change her bum and I think I really need to feed you less!! :rotfl:

Gillyx

Lola888 wrote: »

We have a human dustbin too, I do look at her and think where are you putting it. Your tummy is only the size of a small fist!

Then I change her bum and I think I really need to feed you less!! :rotfl:

I don't understand it, he's tiny still, barely grows so I don't know where he puts it at all. It's alarming.

creditcarddebt

Hi, I have not posted on this thread before, a little bit of backround about us first - I have DD who will be 11 this year and DS who will be 1 next week, so a big gap between them! And because of this gap I seem to have forgotten how to do it all and at the moment DS1 eating habits are beginning to drive me crazy. I can't remember if we really had any problems with DD eating when she was young, we certainly don't have any now! I think she eats more than me. However, with DS he just does not seem to really eat anything! Now I know this flucuates with teething, but it is getting to the point where I just don't know what to do. He is still on 3 bottles of milk a day, 1 at breakfast, 1 mid morning before his nap and 1 at bedtime. This will be changed to cows milk within the next week, and I will plan on breakfast bottle and mid morning bottle changing to milk out of a cup and maybe a snack too with mid morning. He won't really eat much for breakfast, this is possibly because he has his milk first, but he spits out his cereal, barely touches toast or pancakes so inevitably he ends up having fromage frais and some fruit. At the moment he has beans on toast for lunch and has not really touched any of it, he won't let me feed him so he has picked at it with his fingers and is now banging the fork on the plate instead of eating. He seems to prefer the finger food at the moment, he used to love his roast dinners but now won't eat that either. It seems all he is really eating is fromage frais and fruit!! Any one got any advice? Do I need to be concerned?? Am really worried he is going to end up a really fussy eater, which in all honesty will not be tolerated as food time in our house is the same for everyone. I appreciate I can deal with that when he understands more about how he should be eating, but am just really worried. Maybe I am doing something really wrong this time round!