Hi all,
I've been MIA for a long time, and I know I'll never catch up on news - but I'll try.
Murph - your darling girl is lucky to have such a strong and loving mum. Keep up the fight - I hope everyone sees sense soon.
BW - eeek, exciting!
I love all the recipes in those baby books, but to be honest I usually end up making everything up myself. I did use them to make lots of different fruit/vegetable mini muffins. DS1 still loves anything that comes in the shape of a mini muffin. And vegetable fritters/pikelets too. Picky eaters are a bit frustrating, but they force you to get creative!
DS2 is 3 months old now - wow, time flies. I can't believe he will be my last baby. Maybe just one more?!
oh my lenny i was just looking at everyone's signature and it's true! time is going too quick! 4 motnhs, 5mnths, 6mths!!! these babies aren't waiting for us are they! lol.
murph to your one handed post! i can't even play facebook scrabble with ash asleep on me! lol. i'm sad you are having such a battle. don't these people know you and jazzy have enough challenges ahead without them adding to your stress levels? and no don't cry -focus that frustration into determination. I agree.. women can do anything and i also agree they need to take one or two battles/challenges at a time! do you like KI?
kelly - i was just thinking about you and tara. Did her modelling shots come out good? any work ?? oh i can''t wait for the seat change. I find it so hard to get the little man out of his... he's sooo long and grabs onto the straps then mummy dongs his head on the seats or ceiling because she was negotiating legs and hands and forgot about the head. then she dongs hers.. and now the car roof material is falling down. DOH!
janie -that sucks about getting sick so much. poor little bubba! especially being BFed, i thought that was supposed to really help a lot but i suppose nothing is 100% against viruses. big hugs to you both!
oh neptune - i'm dreading solids! ash is a vomiter too.. technicolour vomit sounds just precious!
What do you girls with bubs on solids use to keep the mess contained? do you find one of those 'drop cloths/plastic sheets' helpful?
oh marcellus -that talk of sleep is like porn for a mother lol. congrats tho, do you find you are still waking up for him even if he's not? so cute putting himself to bed!
I agree with murph about the huge individual differnces. just got back from an ABA meet up. one of the mum's first child was a piggy on solids at 5mths and standing and climbing at 7months... her 2nd bub is nearly 8 mths and not interested in solids and only just starting to crawl! Horses for courses.
am sersiously considering talking dh into a camp trip this weekend... hmm.
smithy and bw - please post again soon on how you are doing with your bubs... and life in general.
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Still waiting to get Tara's shots back and for her to all be set up to do some work, they reckon it takes 4-6 weeks to get organised and it has just hit 4 weeks now.
As for the solids mess, I find that the following are essential for us:
1. Highchair
2. Normal Bib
3. Plastic Backed Bib
4. Spew Rag (or cloth nappy if you prefer... that's what I use)
5. Fast Reflexes...haha
I basically layer Tara up, normal bib then a plastic backed bib on top and then the spew rag draped over her. I have found the plastic backed bibs a godsend for solids (got mine from Big W pack of 10) as it collect all the spills, they do stain with most foods but I would rather have them stained than her clothes. The normal bib underneath is to catch all the saliva and dribble bits from her chin and the spew rag to clean up the mess around her face, hair, ears and wherever else food ends up... especially up the nose.
And trust me they are fast moving little creatures and if you are not fast enough to get that loaded spoon out of the way a little hand can swipe it before you know it and food is everywhere. Anyway that's what I do...
Grub - i had a very chucky baby - we didn't start solids til later (6 months) and started with normal food rather than purees. i found she rarely bought anything up at all after we started solids. i honestly can't remember her bringing up much in the way of her solids at all. she's been a bit sickly the last week or so, but is teething, and that seems to make it a bit worse - but with her normal everyday chucky habits, it's pretty much stopped altogether since we started on the solids. before solids, she would brining up milk every feed, up to 8 or 10 times. it was so frustrating! i now only have one puke rag in the nappy bag "just in case" as opposed to having to carry 4 if we went out anywhere!
kinda feel a little sorry for you guys starting solids in the coming months. i guess we got the messiest phase out of the way in the middle of summer - we'd strip E to her nappy and feed her like that!
Well... I've gone from being really excited about going again to absolutely crapping myself with breath-snatching fear. Yep, it's another opportunity to add to our family - but it's also another opportunity for my body to let me down again. I guess I've got a lot of things to work through in the next few months - I thought I was feeling ok with the chance of having another premmie bub, I think I'm ok with possibly not being able to breastfeed again... I'm definitely NOT ok with the chance of having another miscarriage.
When it came to starting solids - we didn't have that much in the way of mess issues, unless Sam was feeding himself. We do know, as he thinks it is fun to try to snatch the spoon off us but still isn't coordinated enough to cope with a spoon solo... We used a lot of bibs when he was younger, but rarely put one on him now. We do have a plastic mat on the floor under the high chair - but he can throw further than it reaches now! We also found that starting solids didn't really help with reducing Sam's chucking at all, but I do know that it has helped some. We just got apple-scented puke instead! The chucking didn't really stop until he had enough control to sit completely unsupported.
On another note - it appears that I can no longer deny the fact that Sam is well and truly due for his first hair cut. He's looking far too girly again!
Janie - really sorry to hear that Jasmine is sick again. I feel like we've been unbelievably luck with Sam's start to daycare. He's been sick once - and that turned out to be teething not a bug. He hasn't brought home any colds, viruses or anything else exciting to make life harder for his immune-suppressed mother. Counting my blessings every day there.
Marcellus - I hope A's start to daycare is better than his last. I know that one was tough on both of you.
I guess the whole daycare thing contributes to me feeling ok about Sam not being breastfed. His immunity is clearly not lacking in any way at this point in time. One thing that our paed suggested to help reduce daycare bugs - bath as soon as they get home after daycare. We don't always do it, but do make sure his face and hands are washed at least. The paed also suggested pentavite - but that's the one medicine that Sam doesn't open his mouth and beg for so we ditched it.
Here's my contribution to feeding mess - get naked (baby, not you, or you could I spose) and put down a plastic sheet (though that's less helpful if they aim their throws further away).
That is lucky BW. A must have gotten 2 flus, a vomiting virus, and a couple of viral/rash type things in the 12 weeks he was there last time. Washing up is good advice! I must remember to do that.
Hopefully you've gotten the 'mix' right with your last cycle, so it'll be smoother sailing next time round
Hope you're enjoying the porn Grub
It's so hard, isn't it Janie? Hope she's better soon. I think sometimes they get sick and never quite get the chance to recover properly with daycare so they just get sick again and again.
Wow Murph, you must be a super mum staying on top of all that!
Time to go pick up the little man....hope he's had a better day today.
to your one handed post! i can't even play facebook scrabble with ash asleep on me! lol. i'm sad you are having such a battle. don't these people know you and jazzy have enough challenges ahead without them adding to your stress levels? and no don't cry -focus that frustration into determination. I agree.. women can do anything and i also agree they need to take one or two battles/challenges at a time! do you like KI?
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