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Hi girls :hello:
Well... mine and Harrison's breast feeding days have ended.... he rejects me so much now that he actually gags when my breast milk goes into his mouth :(
He has been having comp feeds of formula, and obviously prefers it. I have tried expressing for him, but he rejects that too... tried nipple shields again... same thing.
Oh well... we got 6 months, which was better than I expected.
Great news.... He has started to crawl!!! He is still in the developing stages, but he lifts himself up on both his hands and knees... and pushes his legs to make himself move... nothing is out of his reach now!!!
He eats anything and everything he can get his hands on!! Loves banana, pear and avocado together... loves potato and pumpkin with some corn and chicken... oh and he loves mushy peas.
We took him to the movies the other day to see Harry Potter... he sat there looking like an old man watching a movie... when the scenes were dark... he looked around for Rob and I... he was very well behaved which was great. We're taking him to see The Simpsons Movie this coming weekend.
I hope everyone is well.... I have been feeling a bit off over the last few days... I have a really sore throat... grrr.
Harry gets his needles tomorrow so I am hoping he doesn't get this bug that I have.
Hugs to all :grouphug:
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crawling is so scary... my house and ME are not ready for that at all.
chasing baby around the house sounds exhausting!
do they hide under beds and stuff?
omigosh i'm in for a shock.... (and i thought puppies and kittens were hard work)
Harry is so cute Lisa! does he have any teeth yet?
Did he do any rolling before he starting the crawling thing?
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Well done Lisa! Six months is great! But I'd be gutted too if Liebs rejected the breast already, you must be pretty upset. Daft babies, wish we could just ask them what the problem is! And well done Harrison on crawling! Must confess I'm dreading Lieby reaching that stage, he's mobile enough for me just turning in circles and slowly inching around. I have a nasty cough too, had it a while and just can't shake it. Not good because it can sometimes wake Liebling - other times he just rolls over and goes back to sleep. Wow at Harrison at the cinema; I wish I could take Lieby somewhere like that! He isn't too keen on sitting still yet.
Kel, with the drinking, I was toddling around and drinking everything that was put down at baby-height. It was hilarious to watch, then see me really stagger drunkenly around. As I said, I am NOT doing that to DS. I just don't want him on sprouts and red cabbage too, I'm thinking the taste may be too strong. Also, does meat have to be pureed at 10 months? Or can I just get away with small bites of turkey? I'm not introducing meat until I don't have to puree it - if I have to puree things then clearly DS isn't ready for them. I don't even mash his food, other than banana. He eats whole apricots, pears, apples and peaches. He eats cut-up melon, courgette and marrow. He hates readymade food! Well, I've tried it once and the apple puree was rather tart.
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Hey ryn
apparently - i havent tried it yet - they can suck on a piece of steak no problem.
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Kell - Harry is like Liebling... the teeth are there, causing him soooooo much grief, but they refuse to come out!!!
And yep... loads of rolling... he had it figured that he could roll and roll and roll all the way over to get what he wanted... he also has worn off a patch of hair of the back of his head from moving himself around so much on his back!!! I am glad that he has started to crawl... it is funny to watch too... he is very impatient and gets so frustrated if he can't get to something quick enough.
Thanks Ryn, I have been beating myself up lots about not being able to feed Harry anymore... I try every day... it has got to the point that he really really hurts me... he grabs handfuls of my breast and really squeezes hard... he pushes me away very hard also.
Has anyone else got a Bumbo for their bubba? Harrison has one and he loves it!! I will post some pics of him in it on his site asap.
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SiL wanted to give DS niece's old bumbo, we don't need more baby junk, but DS can sit up all by himself now so we really don't need it.
After a feed at night if DS is still awake he puts a hand on my nipple and does his squeezy/scratchy thing... so not happy! But then if I put the breast away he gets upset. There's no winning - unless he decides to start the day at ten past seven, like he did today. Then we're all happy!
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HI girls :hello:
Harrison had his needles today... he had a little cry when the injection was being done, but he was fine almost straight after and he has been great ever since... so many people have commented today that he is so good for a bubba who has just had injections done.
I tried him on my breast again today... nope, he pinched me hard and pushed me away crying... so I am most definitely giving up... my boobs are so sore... hopefully I don't have any problems while my milk is going.
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I keep forgetting more needles soon.... Jemima last time bled lots and had big lumps on all the needle spots with big bruises for at least 3 weeks!
I wish i had gotten a bumbo ages ago, I am not going to bother now as Jemima is so close to not toppling over every time....
To encourage crawling etc do you put bub on stomach or back? Jemima is real close to doing rolling and crawling and stuff but still very happy to play on her back and eat her feet.
Lisa I think you are awesome for breastfeeding for so long, you had so many obsticles and hurdles but you and Harry got through them and he got what every mother and doctor wants for a child and that is six months of breast milk, he looks so happy and healthy you should be proud of yourself, MANY MANY others would have given up AGES ago. Benji just glanced at your site and asked me about Harrison's thumbs remembering he was going to be a champion thumb wrestler (that man of mine remembers everything! I so have to be careful what i say around him)
Going baby website shopping tonight, the photosite that i used to have shut down and i dont feel like a kodak site but i may not have a choice, I dont really want one that has a journal but maybe that is the easiest thing....
Did i tell you all about Jemima's swimming?? she went again today and loved it again so it was not a fluke last time!
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Kel - Harrison can sit up by himself, but he doesn't like to sit up unaided while he is having something to eat... and I like to sit him close to the floor... so the Bumbo was the best thing for us... and it is easy for us to pop into the car for when we visit friends etc.
Good on Jemima for swimming!!! I wish that there was a heated pool near me... I would love for Harrison to start swimming. Madeleine first went into a pool when she was 2 days old... she was swimming confidently by the time she was 2 (proper swim strokes) and she is most definitely a water baby. My sister often comments on how strange it looked to see such a little girl swimming so confidently... she used to do flips into the pool when she was around 2 also!!! Very very confident in the water, which is what I always wanted as it took James a while to become confident.
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Which needles were these? We have 2, 3 and 4m needles (except DS, he had 9w, 14w and 5m) over here. Then nothing more until just over a year.
I'm going to get DS one of those rolling blow up cylindrical things to encourage crawling... can't wait to see what he makes of it! He may like being on his front then.
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Over here, the immunisations are at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, and 24 months... then 4 yrs, 13 yrs etc.
Today, Harrison had;
Hepatitis B, Diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, HIB, Polio, Pneumococcal, and Rotavirus immunisations.
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Who here is going "back to work" and when?
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Oooh, swimming bubbas sound so cute! I have to take DS to a baby swim session once a week in September!
I think spacing out the immunisations over 4 months makes more sense - I hated the fact they were supposed to be so close together. Poor my little man!
I will be taking a break... I mean going back to work once Lieby is a year old. It will be part-time/job share I think, as the lady who is doing my work has had her job taken away so she can do it. Then I'll be leaving in September to start teacher training, which will be full-time. This is assuming DH is OK with this, he's still a bit annoyed I want to re-train but that was always my plan. I figure at 18m old DS will be OK with being looked after 1-2 days by Grandma (my MiL), half a day by Daddy and the rest of the time in childcare, especially if I get the holidays with him. I just DON'T want my mother to decide to come down and look after him for a week or so. But that is a long way away, I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
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hey hey
michelle can you email me? all my email addresses are on old computer! grrr
i have finally got new site for jemima.... went with a tootsie one after all
i hate technology
http://www.totsites.com/tot/jemimaalice
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I'm not going back to work for a while... I am soon starting an online medical admin course which should be great, but if we do decide to move to Newcastle, then I am going to look at going to Uni.
Right now though, I am starting Cohens diet (paid up, bloods done, now waiting on the diet) and trying to get myself better before planning another baby... we're looking to start trying again Jan 09.
The totsites are brilliant Kell.... My family love Harrys one... Jemimas site is done beautifully... well done :)
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Hello:
I'm hoping not to go back to work ever :) Of course I will get bored , but I have no immediate or mid term plans to go back to work.
I've had a sh*t of a week, I've been really down and feeling awful and overwhelmed...gues it's all part of just getting used to this whole mum thing.
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Oh Kirsten... I'm so sorry to hear you've had a bad week :hugs:
You're right though, it is all a part of being a Mum... and it happens to all of us unfortunately.
I do hope things start looking up for you soon.
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oh good (in a way) I thought it was just me totally over being brain fried at the moment due to 5 month old.... she is incredibly cute but exhausting and independence robbing etc etc totally overwhealmed at the moment, which is why i'm asking about who is going back to work... feel like those who do are getting the 'easy' way out... just get baby ready for daycare, drop off at daycare and then turn brain off and have a coffee go to work pick up baby get baby ready for bed (if daycare has not already done this for you) and then put baby to bed and continue with your own life......
harsh i know but not having any time at all to myself is so weird, but I love everymoment i'm with her....
at the moment i was thinking about stopping breastfeeding but then reading posts from lisa make me feel like because i can and are having no problems (except she has bitten me lightly but still painfully with these new teeth of hers) i should keep going as any reason i have to stop is purely selfish... (i want to lose weight and i want to get pregnant again and i want to wear clothes maybe that i dont have to access my boobs - but mainly i want to do optifast diet or tony ferguson which you cant do when breast feeding)
ho hum
hang in there kirsten, give yourself some lazy days at home and if that doesnt work do the opposite go out to lunch and make the most of the things you can do because you are not at proper 9 to 5 work.... both work for me.....
am so happy got the totsie site done finally..... photosite shutdown so i had to change, and am even happier about getting jemima onto youtube! her uncle been away for 6 months now and since we only just got broadband i have not been able to upload her video.... but now she is a star!!
