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

Cake4brains

Gilly, so sorry to hear about your grandfather

Hello to the new mummies :hello:

After reading back about the BF I realise how much I miss it . I stopped altogether the day the girls turned 6 months. They had cut right down to 1 feed just before bed and weren't really needing it and certainly didn't miss it. I don't think they even noticed we stopped :rotfl:

I haven't been on in a while, I'm too exhausted on an evening! The girls are now starting to crawl and I cant take my eyes off them for a second. I say crawl but Mollie mostly makes like a caterpillar and slithers across the floor :rotfl:. They're also trying to pull themselves up on everyone and everything, including the dog!

They turned 9 months yesterday. I cant believe they will be 1 year old in 3 months, it has honestly passed in the blink of an eye :eek:

Oh yes and we got our photo shoot pics through. One word...... Stunning :T I'm such a proud Mama

*Nutella*

Morning ladies

Laundry done, bedsheets changed, hoovering finished... Coffee and chocolate currently being consumed LO is having a nap.

Cake, nice to 'see' you - can't believe your little ones are 9 months already! We had some caterpillar moves here too in the beginning

Katie, hope you're OK after yesterday's headbutting incident.

I've found a way of getting my LO to lie still during nappy change! :T She was playing with a hair elastic the other day (I always need to give her a spare when I do her hair, otherwise she'll remove them within seconds), and started putting it round her big toe. That's now become one of her 'things' - but it keeps her occupied and in the perfect nappy change position :rotfl:Clearly the novelty's going to wear off at some point soon, but I'm enjoying it as long as it lasts!

I spent last night researching typhoid vaccines - we're off to visit OH's family in sub-Saharan Africa later this year, and LO had her first two travel jabs on Thursday. Yellow fever jab to come in two weeks' time and then we have to go back again for malaria tablets three weeks before travelling as the dosage is based on weight in someone that small, so they need an up to date weight for her. The typhoid vaccine had been troubling me - 'not recommended for under-2s unless travelling to a high risk area'. Hmmm - we are going to a high risk area, but having researched further, I've decided she's not having the vaccine. Not only is it not categorically proven to be safe in under-2s, there are also questions about its effectiveness. So we're going to be super-duper careful with food and make sure she doesn't drink any bathwater, and I think we'll be OK So much to think about when travelling with a small child!

I've been rambling on for far too long - off to do the washing up. Hope everyone is having a good day x

delain

Hey everyone :hello:

Gilly sorry to hear about your grandad I lost both of mine in my teens, one of them lived a long way away and my other one after a very long battle with cancer and lived 15+ years longer than his original prognosis but by the end really was just a shell he hated being ill.

It's my grandma I'm worried about, she was always there for me and pretty much the only sane adult in my life when I was younger, I'll be devastated when she's not around anymore

Well, as the weather has been so hot, I've had Little miss in her pretty summer dresses. All good until she learnt how to take her nappy off :eek: so I don't know how long she'd been bare bottomed but I found a large (huge!) log on the living room carpet :eek: so now I am sitting her on the potty at her usual poo times because she keeps doing it in the bath too so obviously doesn't like the nappies

If she actually does use the potty she'll have overtaken her almost 3 yo sister!

katiechoc_2

Hey ladies

Thanks Nutella, I somehow escaped without a bruise so I don't look like I've been in a scrap!

We've just been out on failed shopping trip to the diy stores - everything we want is so much cheaper on amazon we're better off paying for amazon prime and getting it that way. But we stopped off at Morrisons and treated ourselves to dinner in the cafe - they're Victoria sponge is yummy!

On a separate note I just got an email from argos saying its 3for 2 on toys til Tuesday, including some that are already reduced. If anyone is getting organised for Christmas already might be worth a look.

Candlewax

Hi all. My 6 month old has grown out of his baby bouncer. But I am finding it hard to find an alternative. He can not yet sit without support so I need some sort of chair he can sit in in the living room which he can be strapped in to. He has a high chair in the kitchen but I want something more similar to his bouncer for the living room. Any suggestions for seats for 6 months plus? He plays on the floor and sits on the sofa when we are in the room but I want him to have a chair I know he is safe in if I pop out of the room. Thanks x

Bamama

Plonk him on the floor safest place. Good for rolling and back strengthening too. I rarely used a bouncer tbh.

Gillyx

Fisher Price do a toddler bouncer. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fisher-Price-Infant-to-Toddler-Rocker-and-Seat/dp/B00AXX7476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375559506&sr=8-1&keywords=fisher+price+toddler+rocker

This has come up before, I think at 6 months, it's expensive. The minute he can move, he won't want to be in it anymore, that could be anytime now. My LO was cruising the furniture at 6 months :eek: and wouldn't even go in his jumperoo after that. I'd be inclined to pull the highchair into the living room and sit him in that if you need to pop out but maybe I'm just tight

We have a mini arm chair for my LO which he got for his 1st birthday that he climbs on and off but even now he will seldom sit in it, it's more used for dive bombing the floor :eek:

Aimless

http://www.babybjorn.co.uk/products/bouncers/babysitter-balance/babysitter-balance/

These go up to age 2, but I've never tried one as they aren't cheap.

Mrshaworth2b

Yesterday we bought a snug from mamas and papas because we were just propping lo up on settee with a cushion, so decided this would help his neck muscles. It was £40 and you can take the coloured part out so I think it would do him for quite a bit, as long as he doesn't learn to get out of them lol! He's only 5 months, like I said we got it for his neck muscles to improve, he loves it!

Gillyx

We have a Snug too ( don't think there is anything baby related we haven't bought or tried :eek: not good ) I really liked it, but again as soon as he could move he didn't wanna be in it anymore and would just screech and arch until we got him out and then eventually he would just sort of flop himself out over the back :eek: They are very good though at what they do, and I much prefer the Snug to the Bumbos