BW - Wow! I hope your Mum is recovering well. My sister flew in yesterday from London, she hasn't seen Baxter since he was less than 2 weeks old, so yes, lots of fun!
Janine - if you go to the start of this thread, it will link you back to the previous thread.
Lisy - I saw Hunter's photo in yesterday's Sunday Times!! What a cutie you have.
Hi to Nettie, mgm , Nessa and everyone else.
As for us - Baxter has now fully weaned and drinks 4 x 180ml bottles a day. Other FF's, how much does your bubba drink? He has yoghurt for breakfast (full fat Jalna, I would be sooo fat if I ate this stuff!), veg for lunch and fruit (usually apple) for dinner. He's not so hot on meat and I'm not really pushing it either. Just getting ready for Christmas, going to my parents then a beach holiday for a week. Wish us luck, we are in a tent for 7 nights!!
Ci is feeding (milk) more at night than through the day, and I think it is because of teeth. I have seen several times now people saying that happens because it hurts to feed but at night they don't notice as much due to tiredness. Dunno. I do know, however, that he is teething very badly, those top two front teeth, and has been for a month now. I may have mentioned (too tired to check) but he bled a bit while the teeth at sides of the top two came through, blood on our shoulders and all over his bed. I don't recall my daughter teething this badly. He bats at his ears, which are covered in sores from him kind of scratching them, and is just so uncomfortable.
Well, I think he feeds more at night. Most feeds during the day are less than five minutes. He has always been fast, but he's getting faster. His night feeds are the same though cos he is so sleepy he just stays there until I remove him, or sometimes he just rolls away and goes back to sleep. So he slept through the night and since teething he wants night comfort again and it built up to four feeds a night! Oddly, I'm ok with it. I think cos we're so close to a year now, and that's when I'm going to start night weaning. At this stage that's the plan anyway. I'll put it off as long as I can, but at least at that age I'll be where I can night wean, if I choose to. Which is something to look forward to next year. My friend offered a cup of water when her son was a year old, and he gently night weaned like that, which sounds good. Ci loves his cups of water, too. Dr Jay Gordon has a "night weaning and the family bed" article that is kinda gospel for cosleepers, I'll have to look into it more closely also.
Why were you in the paper, Lisa? Cool! (well, if it's a good reason that is lol)
Wrapping pressies here and thinking about putting up the tree for my six year old. She doesn't seem to care much as nana downstairs has her tree up that she helped decorate. But we need somewhere for Santa to put her stuff, eh. Nana bought Ci some stuff, but we didn't get him a brass razoo. He won't know the difference and this may be the only year we can skip it before he'll notice.
I'm not sure if I'll get back here before the day so merry christmas to all those who celebrate it, happy solstice to those of that bent and happy Thursday to the rest of you!
Happy festive season to all of you - thanks Janine for remembering we Pagans! We only got Liam one tiny stuffed toy for him to open tomorrow (the rest of the family celebrate Xmas, so we must 'play the game' for the sake of consistency - but we had our special day on Sunday - Summer Solstice) - and that's it. He'll get so much other crap that if we joined in he'd get too much and be overwhelmed...
Good job on the crawling SG....we are still rolling around like a bowling ball in this house!
Nettie I know how you feel racing around....we are the same!
MS: Love the warning thanks!! I should have one of them flashing on my head for DH some months! (Im sure he'd be grateful for the heads up!)
Fire: Good luck when the time comes for weaning...we've been so lucky, Bj has done that himself. Even now, he's cutting his bottles down, a full one before bed (about 6pm), half - full one at 7am, and usually a little bit before his arvo sleep (could probably not give it to him and he wouldn't notice, he's only having between 30 and 80ml anyway).
He loves his water with meals though, got the straw thing down pat (has had for a while...apparently people find this very unusual..not sure why!), and loves his food!
In our world, we finally popped out tooth number 3, have been hectic as all get out, but things are slowing down now.
My sister heads back to England on tuesday very sad....and she won't be back for Benjamin's first birthday, being in only 16 weeks (give or take), she won't be able to get time off, plus, her boss is having a baby in feb/mar and has 2 other kids already (Deanne is a nanny) so theres no way.
My mum's leg still has no plaster (which is kinda good cause she would have needed a full cast) cause of the swelling in her sprained ankle, but she's doing ok with it.
We are going down tomorrow for my Dad's birthday, and I'm taking mum and my sister shopping first...we are hiring mum one of those electric scooter type things that they have in shopping centres, we're gonna put Bj in the baby bjorn on her front and away we go...(Im secretly hoping I can have a turn of the scooter!).
Anyways, thats all from me!
Hello to everyone else!!!
hi all (same post as in the other forum for those of you who "do" both!)
Just popping in to say g'day.
Life foe us has returned to normal.
DH is back at work now, so no more holiday time for him for a while.
Benjamin is commandoing all over the place now, but still reverts to rolling now and then.
Tooth number 3 is here and 4 and 5 are soooo close.
Though, in saying that, number 3 was sooo close for about a week and a half before it arrived, so I'm not holding my breath!
Hi. YAY on all the teeth and moving aboutness. Teeth suck, eh.
Lisa, what is your facebook name? I spend my little online time there usually.
Ci is walking. He is very very wobbly, and is mostly just standing and bouncing, but he is taking the odd steps here and there, usually if we're on the grass where he knows he can count on a soft landing. I can't believe it. He started recently squatting and then just pushing up with his legs from that into standing without holding on to anything, and it kinda snowballed from there. He barely crawled! He was in a mad rush to walk though, it was all he focused on, it was driving him bananas that he couldn't just get up and walk.
One day when he was 8 months old, DD and I were playing on the floor and DS was playing nearby also and I turned to see where he was and gasped in shock. It actually gave me a real fright... he was standing just behind me, stock still with his legs apart like a cowboy, arms by his side, with this calm look on his face. I heard DD quietly say, "Oh my God..." I can't convey how spooky that moment was, and I don't even know why it was spooky; I think it was the calm look on his face to be honest, like for a moment it wasn't my son but this old soul looking through me. Plus the fact that an 8 month old was standing, that is spooky on its own. Something tells me he is on a mission, this young lad, and I'm in for some trouble. (like he hasn't already given me loads of that!) I'll either find three 6's on his scalp or he'll sprout a halo but I don't think he's neatly in the middle.
Today was really cute cos he figured out how to clap, so I'm sitting on the toilet, (heh, it's all in the details, eh?) and he's in the hall in front of me and stands and starts clapping himself. I cracked up and he kept looking at his hands like they were working on their own.
Nine months is a great age. I love it, it's so much fun. I HATED the first six months, boyoboy, so glad that's gone and I'm NEVER doing it again. Got the husband nutered anyway so it's rather impossible. Woot.
Has six teeth through, those top middle two were complete hell, but once they were through, he started sleeping again. They have been giving him grief for over two months! He has gotten restless again though, as those last two bottom ones are on their way. The second year of teething is much easier as I recall. It doesn't mess the sleep up as much.
He is really clingy at the moment, and makes me want to buy that book "the wonder weeks", to see if this stage is a wonder week with the three C's of crying, clingy and whatever the heck the last one is.
Is anyone else having screaming problems? Happy screams, but ear piercingingly horrific, and they go on and on. Can't wait until he moves past that little discovery.
Much love and happy new year... since I hadn't written since then.
Yay Janine... walking! I couldn't help but have a giggle at the 'old soul' moment. I could almost hear the 'high noon' music...
Liam's learning to stand also. He gets himself up holding onto something, then deliberately lets go to see how long he can stand without touching anything. It's funny to watch because it's obvious he's "trying" it... He hasn't learnt to clap yet - but I haven't been trying to teach him either.
As you can see from my latest ticker, his favourite sound is "GUG GUG GUG UG". Goes on and on all day. Very funny. Sounds like he's trying to carry a conversation. He's also pointing at everything. He's been pointing his finger for a while, but now he's using it to point to what he wants (the radio for music, the doorway that Dad just walked out of, his room to play in, etc) - usually accompanied by 'Gug gugug'.
He's had a growth spurt in the last few weeks (think it was while we're at Qld). Some of his size 0 clothes are getting hard to put over his big head! length is still ok (fits snugly, but ok) but his head's bigger! Noooooo - he's not ready for size 1 at 9 months!!!
Like you Janine - I'm loving this age. He's showing so much personality! Does anyone else's bubbas love being upside down??
Oh wow, reading Janine and Nettie's posts are like reading about my own boy!
Yes, 9 months is lots of fun, although I am lamenting the loss of my 'baby'. He is such a big boy now. Loves kisses still, but won't be cuddled unless he's upset or just woken from a nap. Too cool for school thanks very much Mum!!
Baxter is cruising the furniture and boy, does he love to climb, especially when one of us lays down on the floor with him or if he's in bed with us.
Nettie - Baxter's word is zizi, like gugug I guess!
Sorry for no more personals, Baxter as awake from 2.45am til 4.15am and we have no idea why, but I'm bloody tired!! Off to bed.
No way no how. Done with kids, time for travel again. DH and I are big travellers, having itchy feet regularly. We don't like being tied down, it isn't comfortable to us. We finally got to where DD was very portable and now we have a new one! So we won't do it again, cos once he is portable, we're off. I have a lot of things I want to achieve also, I was never going to have kids and DH certainly wasn't interested. It all kind of happened. They are both extraordinary people, and I wouldn't send them back if given the chance but it sure slows a person down. I'm just not a very domestic person. I'd like to finish my degree and then go into medical school, but I also want to be there for my kids full term in that ol' fashioned way. So med school is way off the list for many years because it is a major time suck. I hope to travel with a doctorate as we don't just visit places we stay for long stretches and immerse ourselves in the culture. We also have several volunteer programs lined up which only take kids from the age of 8. You can get an excemption so we'll try that also.
So all up, nope, no more. I had the male nutered anyway, so it can't happen.
Hey girls. Sorry been MIA. Sucked in to Facebook, like everyone said I would be.
Fire, look us up. Lisa Flockhart be happy to ad you to my friends list. I'm already on BW's list, as I think I remember you saying you were.
I don't think I'll be having any more either. hunter has been such a handfull. I honestly couldn't handle another. Sigh. I really wanted a big family. Well. At least we have Hunter.
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Nana bought Ci some stuff, but we didn't get him a brass razoo. He won't know the difference and this may be the only year we can skip it before he'll notice.
WARNING!! DANGER DANGER DANGER
*sigh*...
be happy to ad you to my friends list. I'm already on BW's list, as I think I remember you saying you were.
Well. At least we have Hunter.
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