MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 3

*Nutella*

Katie, we have the Potette Plus - it's fab Happy potty training!

On our way home from Heathrow after a lovely ten days at my parents' - of course it's raining, it's a bank holiday....

fran-o

Hello, hope everyone enjoyed the bank holiday despite the great British weather! We went to my mums yesterday for her end of summer family get together. It's my bday this week so she holds a family party in the bank holiday most years. There were 3 kids and 14 adults, baby did really well being passed around the crowd for cuddles even if I was cringing a little some of the time!
We've been getting on a bit better with food, baby prefers blw with finger food over pur!es so we've done more of that side of things and over three weeks had a good variety. He's had lots if veg fruit and salad, some porridge oats, pitta bread, scrambled egg. Not yet tried any meat or fish. I prefer the blw as despite the mess I find it less stressful than trying to spoon feed my reluctant baby! However as he's very much tasting and playing with food rather than swallowing it does make it harder to get out and about.
We're also having some ups and downs with night time sleeping, a few nights within the last week where he's been up again for milk just a couple of hours after going to bed, or where he wakes in the night then won't settle for two hours plus. Feels like we've rewound five months back to early days! All this will pass though right?!
Best wishes to all x

katiechoc_2

Thanks Nutella, I'll have a look now .

Hope everyone has a nice day, it's grey here but not raining so hopefully will get out this afternoon. There's some building work on the playing fields we walk to dog so G is constantly asking to go and see the digger. Keeps him happy, and he gets the odd wave from the builders when they see him

delain

Well my youngest are now 2.5 and 4 and SOMEONE wakes up every night wanting the toilet or upset or has wet the bed. Every time I go out someone tells me I look tired!

continualdiamond

Hello everyone.....I'm back unfortunately (let me explain, lol)

All 3 of us got back from our holiday to Australia on Saturday and I've been pretty down since. I hadn't been back home in 7 years, so yes some of my family I hadn't seen for that long but in fact I hadn't seen my dads dad since 2002 :eek:

We had an amazing time of course. Considering it's winter the weather was just lovely, mostly in the 20's and it was only the last few days that it rained on/off. Everyone went over for my dads 60th and got to meet Scarlett for the 1st time and also my husband for the 1st time (we celebrated out 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday).

My husband had never been over to Australia and I've lived in the UK since 2003 so all my family finally got to meet him after all this time.

Scarlett is now crawling, she left it until the last night in Perth to be off and she also learnt to clap her hands. So it was lovely for my mum,dad and sister to see her crawl. She went on a swing for the 1st time and also came down a slide with me for the 1st time.

Took loads of photos of course, but my most treasured is a generation photo with my mum and nanna. Scarlett is the 1st great grandchild and my mum's mum/dad are in their early 80's so possibly might not get to see any other great grandchildren. My nanna got very upset when she had to say goodbye to Scarlett, she started crying and saying to my mum that she'd never see her again

I didn't wanna come back when it came time for us to fly back. Really wanna move back but haven't approached the subject with my husband yet. The closeness I have with my family is just too much to always miss out on, my inlaws are just pathetic and don't know Scarlett yet my mum/dad just got on with it when we stayed with them so she'd get to know them. They asked if they could give her tea etc when I was getting it ready, they got down on the floor with her to play with her, they picked her up and sang songs, just all sorts really.

It was lovely and very much appreciated when they looked after her a few times for us. They loved it on the last morning when hubby and I took ourselves off to the beach for breaky and they got Scarlett up, gave her breakfast, got her dressed and took her to the park. My inlaws would never ever do that, they've never looked after her, even if just for a few hours and she's 1 on the 6th Oct.

Hope everyone is well. I've had a quick scan of the pages but forgot most of it, lol. Welcome to the newbies and congrats.

Ps. shocked to return to find out about kiddicare, I visited my local store yesterday not knowing the news and just couldn't believe it. We'd only just got Scarlett's next stage car seat from them like a week before our holiday

fran-o

Hugs CD, it's hard having close family so far away. My sister moved out to NSW Australia in 2006. Lucky that we've been out there twice and she's been back three times, but it's only getting harder now we both have kids. My younger niece is coming up three and I've only met her once

Evidence in nappies that Baby is finally swallowing some food! It's taken over three weeks but hooray! Am pleased we're going down the blw route as Baby is enjoying it and I'm finding it easy to organise meals. My friends doing pur!es are hitting issues with lumps six weeks into weaning whereas our baby knows how to chew (even if swallowing is still rare!)

My birthday on Friday, am hoping hubby remembers to get me a card from baby... We're going on first night out since baby born (feb) with my parents doing bath and bedtime. I'm so tired at the mo but looking forward to it!

BeNiceToMySelf

fran-o well done on BLW. It certainly gave me more confidence that LO knew what to do when choking or when he had something in his mouth he didn't want.

I remembered this recipe for peanut butter squares from the TTC (trying to conceive) thread and decided to give it a go - yum yum! Very salty base and probably not that good for LOs but great for adults. I remember thinking that I was going to make them as a treat if I wasn't pregnant after the second month of trying. I got pregnant and I think I'm going to make them for LO's 1st birthday in just over 2 weeks! How time flies....

lazywife

Cooor BeNice, those squares look delish!!!

Gillyx

Hello all, I thought I'd check in since I've been AWOL for ages life is just getting in the way. Hope everyone is getting on ok.

We finally bought a car about a month ago and it has just changed our lives, so much to see and do now, never in with A. We went to a local farm this morning and A loved it, they sell feed so cheaply to feed the animals and he thought it was wonderful, and then when we came home we spent the afternoon crafting.

Sleep isn't going great here, waking up just a bit early, so means he can be very grumpy in the afternoon but we're working on it. Eating is ok at the ok, variety is ok, quantity not brilliant. Been in pants now since the start-ish of July and all going ok, no accidents outside the house at all so I'm guessing we've cracked it. It makes me sad a little as almost all of use baby things are now gone tantrums are off the scale though eeeesh, some days I'd like to chop my ears off, aren't they fun

Anyway I guess that's me updated. Thinking of sunshine, Nutella and Jannine *waves* hope you're all getting on ok and LO's are behaving themselves.

sunshine_1988

Gilly hi lovely.

Nice to see you on here. I sooo know what you mean about the car, sometimes I wonder what we would do without ours as both me and A hate staying in. Our A loves a farm too, we have one fairly local and a bigger one about 20mins drive away which is nice.

Sorry to hear you have an early riser. Aiden wakes about 6, but I am up for work at that time anyway so it isnt too bad. Occasionally he naps on a weekend though, especially if we are in the car. Have you found that now you have one?

We arent potty training yet. He goes on it every morning and night and generally will do something but on the occasions we have left him with no nappy on he wl just widdle on the floor or anywhere. I think we will try and move forward with it in the next few weeks as he has been telling me lately when he is doing something in his nappy.

I do know what you mean about them being babies now, makes me sad too. We are planning to try for no2 in about 4 months time, what about you?

Tantrums....oh yes. Not huge ones as yet, well not compared to friends at work who get hit/bit/spat at :eek: but the smallest thing and we have a melt down. Today it was because I wouldnt let him bring a rock inside. Crazy.

A has never ate a huge quantity really but he does really well atm. Loves meat, any type and he wolfs it down. Carrotts are his fave veg atm too. And yoghurts, gosh we get through them
Xxxx