Babies Born August 2007 #5

[Mollygirl]

Hi Everyone

Congrats to everyone else hitting the 6 month mark!

Rhianon, Happy 25th!
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I almost want to send my daughter to daycare instead of having MIL come to my house when I go back to work on May 1. She does the same thing! Why can't they remember that we are the mother and it is our call??? And in my case, it is also my house that she is in and just because she is there it doesn't give her the right to rearrange the linen cupboard!! Sorry, I had to rant too - not looking forward to going back to work. Seeing my boss on Thursday this week to find out if I can go back part time - keep your fingers crossed for me please girls.

By the way Eleanor is only 7.3kg and still in 00 and the other two kids at mothers group 2 months younger are bigger than her - one girl is 7.5 and the boy is 9kg.

Kimnastics - try not to listen to everyone about Hayden's size, the main thing is that he is happy and healthy. Wait till he starts moving around, he will even out.

I don't think Eleanor is teething - she wants everything in her mouth but doesn't seem clingy or grizzly. I can see the lumps at the bottom but that is about all.

Nothing else much to report, other than the Thomas trains are getting slobbered over now that she is moving better and Myles is not happy Eleanor wants to share his toys.

[Mollygirl]

Lisa - I forgot in my previous post to say that I think it was in BabyLove that I read you don't have to sterilize the bottles after 6 months, but in another book I read that you should sterilize until 12 months. I guess it is your call (sorry, I don't use bottles).

The thing is that I don't sterilize Eleanor's drinking cup or her spoon or the bowls I feed her out of, so I think that is the reasoning behind not sterilizing after 6 months, because the other things we are using aren't sterilized.

[LisaL]

MOllygirl - thanks - I think I will either google it or go to the bottle fed bubs thread, yes it seems most of you gals are BF! Lucky thangs

Ah the good ol MIL issues - my one seems to think more food is best, but Ive now drummed it into her head that what I say goes as far as feeding goes, I left DD with her last week for a couple of hours and only gave her enough solids for one feed. She said 'oh I think she could have had more', and I just said 'no, thats enough'. My biggest issue with MIL is her covering the baby with thick blankets, she seems to think that even in 30 degree temps that Alexandra will get cold when she takes a nap. Grrrr. I guess that sometimes you just have to be the bad DIL and put them in their place - and make sure your partners are on the same page and they drum it into their mothers that this time we are the mothers and what we say goes, and what we say is final. How easy this could turn into an anti MIL thread

All bubs are different, Alexandra is in size O and can still wear some of her OO clothes, my BF's bub is 2wks older and she is in O and 1 already.

Alexandra is on all fours rockinng back and forth - how long til we get a proper crawl???

Hope your all having a great day...

Lisa

[Tanya]

Hey Lisa, my mum wanted me feeding DD#1 at only a couple of weeks of age!! It was so hard I cracked 'em and gave up! She was still fed very early tho, can't remember how old but very young! Poor little thing!

Bonnie has had her first meal last night! She wasn't too fussed tho!! LOL. Still loves her mummy's milk best.

I have decided I would like to sew a mop head to her shirts!! She gets so filthy scooting around the house!!

[alioops]

lisa, read this thread Midwife told me I dont need to sterilise bottles?

[Liz185]

Oh the PIL's!!

When my DS was around 4-5 months, I told them I wasn't ready to put him on solids yet, and that I'd start around 6 months. Once when I came home from work, my DP came home with DS and he said that DS ate some a tiny little bit of food and he really liked it!

I was SOOOOO mad! They knew that I wanted to wait a little bit longer, and that I actually wanted to be there to experience it with him. My DP didn't really care but it was an important issue for me! I think they got the idea after my SIL told them off in Spanish that they had no right to feed him. She beat me to it.. which is probably a good thing hehe..

My DS is their 9th grandchild, so I know they knew what they were doing however it wasn't their place. It was just the principle With my DD I'm not so picky because she's always been keen to eat from 4 months old.. and it is MY choice to give her food WHEN I like!