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Lovely piccies, NDG :-)I remember giving my children crawling lessons, by example.
I gave a friend's toddlers lessons in doing roly-polies (forward rolls) :-) Must have looked a right plonked in her dining room!!HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »In case anyone hasn't seen it, live lightning radar is here.....
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en
Useful for tracking the progress of thunderstorms through or towards an area. If you zoom in it will also show you the expanding radius of the thunderclap.
Really cool technology.....
For all the techy nerds, this site http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en has a different visualisation where you can also select the detection network on the left hand side menu and it shows how far away the lightning is picked up by detectors.
It's all run by amateurs, with a network of $200 detectors all over the world linked to central servers. Pretty amazing really, and completely unthinkable 20 years ago.
Have seen the first site but didn't realise it did the sound echo too. Looks really fun.Here are my flowers, bit of a random assortment, but not bad for £3 (flower man at the market was bundling up flowers to get rid of them so he could go:
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Well done on this. I was useless at breast feeding:(
I had imagined I would be some kind of earth mother. intervention free birth, minimal pain relief, breast feed for at least six months.
Failed at everything. Hooked up to mechanical cow to drag milk out of me whilst in hopsital and continual manual breast pump when home as DD was not very sucky. At two weeks the midwife suggested I tried supplementing the breast milk with formula as DD was losing weight.
The little beast drank a 3.5 oz bottle :mad: We continued with both until only six weeks as by then I had virtually no milk at all.
I really wanted to breastfeed James but it didn't quite go to plan...where James had a forceps delivery, he would scream every time he got in the position to breastfeed as it was causing him pain but unfortunately, because I had said I wanted to breastfeed, they wouldn't let me give up on it. The poor little thing was absolutely starving, losing weight at a horrendous rate, they wouldn't give me formula to give to him and as I was getting so stressed, my milk wasn't coming in properly anyway.
In the end, I 'stole' some formula milk from the trolley outside our ward to give to him in the middle of the night....James was as happy as anything after that. For the first 6 weeks of life, James had a combination of expressed milk and formula.
With Josh, I had decided I was going to give it a go again but not tell them this time and start after we got home on a quick release discharge. As it turned out, due to complications, we were released after 2 days, back in again 4 hours later and all that time, he was bottle fed. When we finally got home for good, I decided to try to breast feed him and he took to it like a duck to water....and continued to do so for the next 7 months.
Youngest was breastfed right from the start, this time I told them I was going to give it a go but laid down the law that if it appeared it wasn't going well, then I would bottle feed and they were not to interfere. He was breastfed for the first year of life.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Kermit already shows the curiosity and interest of his older brother.
I think you are going to be kept on your toes for a long time! What a wonderful challenge to have NDG!
He certainly doesn't look skinny, just lovely.
Are baby weights etc done on centiles? On current averages? Aren't babies getting bigger because of percentage of overweight mothers?
Youngest had his very own centile, at first it worried the health visitor but after a while they realised he was following the right pattern just on his own line under all the other centiles.
They discovered he had a growth disorder when he was 18 months old which answered the question of why he had his own personalised centile.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »In case anyone hasn't seen it, live lightning radar is here.....
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en
Useful for tracking the progress of thunderstorms through or towards an area. If you zoom in it will also show you the expanding radius of the thunderclap.
Really cool technology.....
For all the techy nerds, this site http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en has a different visualisation where you can also select the detection network on the left hand side menu and it shows how far away the lightning is picked up by detectors.
It's all run by amateurs, with a network of $200 detectors all over the world linked to central servers. Pretty amazing really, and completely unthinkable 20 years ago.
I've been hooked on that site for the last 48 hours!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Kermit already shows the curiosity and interest of his older brother.
I think you are going to be kept on your toes for a long time! What a wonderful challenge to have NDG!
He certainly doesn't look skinny, just lovely.
Are baby weights etc done on centiles? On current averages? Aren't babies getting bigger because of percentage of overweight mothers?
Centiles*. The charts are the same as they have been for ages - they come from 1970s measurements, I think.
The health visitors like babies to track their centiles. So if they're born on 91st centile for weight (for example) they want that to carry on, and get all struck of a heap if they baby doesn't conform.
They also don't like it if the baby's height and weight centiles are different. Isaac was on 91st centile for height, but only 50th for weight at birth, and slid off the centile a bit over a few months. That is no surprise, because I'm 5 ft 7, OH is 6 f t 1, both our Dads were 6 ft, both our mothers 5 ft 8. OH is tall and slim (I'm not slim, sadly, but you can't have it all) so having a tall, skinny male baby didn't come as any massive shock, to me.
Kermie is stockier than Isaac was - he was born a bit shorter (3 cm shorter) and a bit heavier (100 g / 3 ounces heavier) and he's still like that. He's slid from a centile in weight, but not length.
My mother managed to breastfeed all 4 of us for ages, so she is great at encouraging me and pointing out the obvious about these charts - they are a good servant and a rubbish master.
* My spill chicken wants to change all these to lentil and lentils. Seems a bit im-pulse-ive......lostinrates wrote: »Sibling used to insist on shoes made to templates of the kids feet, Had to take templates of the feet to send of to the modish catalogue company and I always wondered how much those quick growing kids feet had changed by the time the shoes arrived. And definitely by the time they got new ones.
They were very sweet shoes.
Bet they weren't what you'd call cheap, either. The cost of keeping Isaac in normal shoes is eye-watering, and tap shoes :mad:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I agree. Ignore the chart. HVs get all worked up about weight charts, but it's not scientifically justifiable.
For one thing, breastfed babies have a lot more variability in how much they grow and when, but it all evens out by the end of the first year. The charts are (or certainly were when mine were babies) compiled from stats of bottle-fed babies.
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In fact, an intelligent and experienced mother like you will be aware of the presence or absence of signs of health problems regardless of the weight charts. Kermie is gaining weight in his own time and behaving in a way that gives every reason to suppose that he's healthy. Don't let the HV bully you into worrying about the chart.
I'm very lucky indeed in my darling Mama - having her to hand helped a lot with Isaac (especially with him, it's easier the second time around).
She had her children from 1978 to 1986, at times when health visitors and so forth were even more useless about breastfeeding than they are now, so she has no problem at all in helping me feed, and in encouraging me to go by the baby not the scales-as-religion. She tends to say things like, "is he gaining some weight, happy, developing, having lots of wet / dirty nappies, learning new skills? No problem, then, if he's put on 4 oz this week instead of 7 oz, is there?"
My Granny used to say, a lot, that " a mother's place is in the wrong", and my own mother reckons that far too many baby issues are blamed on the mother, rather than circumstances, other problems, or babies just being babies.
I had rather bad colic, and screamed a lot every evening until I was 3 months or so. My mother got told that she was probably transmitting her anxiety to the baby, because she wanted to get everything perfect for Dad coming home (her MIL.....) whereas she was dying for him to get home so she could wash, brush her hair, have something to eat, etc.
She also says comforting things, such as that he's probably just in a bad mood, or needs more cuddles, or whatever, and even more comforting things such as saying that with a small baby, getting everyone through the day is the only thing that matters, anything else (such as housework) is a bonus, not a necessity.You should have scoffed the grub yourself, and then Kermie could have had the benefit when you recycled it as milk.
Chance would be a fine thing - good thing it wasn't grub I fancied, much, as I'm more tied down holding Kermie than OH or Isaac are! Fortunately, I don't like chocolate all that much, and they left some of the yogurt-coated peanuts and raisins for me.Youngest had his very own centile, at first it worried the health visitor but after a while they realised he was following the right pattern just on his own line under all the other centiles.
They discovered he had a growth disorder when he was 18 months old which answered the question of why he had his own personalised centile.
Was he a low birthweight, too? So he started on his own line, and just kept going?ukmaggie45 wrote: »We plucked our first allotment courgette yesterday, we're going to fry it in a bit of butter with a sprinkle of grated cheese as a first course. Looks like first tomato might be ready soon. :j Must try and get some spring onions sown before we go away, and possibly some beetroot. Have more weeding to do there too, but we're having a day off it today as (a) it's wet, and (b) I'm knackered after pruning off the lower branches of the magnolia. I know it's the wrong time of year, but we couldn't get under it to mow the lawn.
NDG, Kermie is gorgeous!
I agree he is - but if your Mum doesn't think so, you're really in for it!
Hope you enjoyed your courgette - I love them, they totally rock as vegetables. They go well with spring onions and roasted beetroot, too, I think.I remember giving my children crawling lessons, by example.
Why keep a baby and crawl yourself?
OH's Mum used to bark when the doorbell rang, to try to encourage their weird dog to learn to bark. He never did, though....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »You looked very slim last Saturday morning; we both did. That All you can Eat breakfast was swarming with people larger than us
Took DS for a cooked brekky at the local version of the chain you mentioned. Not many of the customers would need to run around their shower to get wet, shall we say!There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I'm very lucky indeed in my darling Mama - having her to hand helped a lot with Isaac (especially with him, it's easier the second time around).
Your mother is, as we have already learnt from so much of what you say about her, amazing. I am not remotely surprised that she was equally wonderful about baby weight gain.
My mother was also fantastic with babies, although actually I did my own "breastfeeding despite the HV" journey on the basis of a book lent to me by a friend, rather than my mum's advice. She was a midwife in the 1950s, before BF went out of fashion, so was very much pro, but belonged to the "feed by the clock" generation, whereas I fed my babies whenever they were hungry/sad/scared/making more noise than I wanted them to.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »But are the mouse they bring in so poorly talented?
In the end I put it in Tupperware as it felt about as warm as DH and put it on top of the cupboard. Which is silly, its probably warmer up there.
Dead or seriously wounded mice are also rubbish at getting into cupboards. Particularly, the dead ones.
If your cat is bringing live mice into the house without keeping an eye on them, perhaps you should have a chat about it?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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