Babies Born September 2007 #22

[Artechim]

Fianne and Aglinra, I think we are going to try the baby led weaning approach because DS will happily snatch food off us and start chewing on it but clamps his mouth shut if I try to shovel in puree. Twice at restaurants he has made a grab for the garlic bread and loves to suck on a piece of it. I would have thought the garlic taste would be too strong for him but I guess not.

Noni, good luck for the house. My DH would love his ironing done but I refuse to do it. I don't iron my clothing and don't see why it should be up to me to iron his. Then he gets in a big sulky and tries to do it himself but it is a pitiful attempt aimed at making me feel guilty (which I don't lol)

Aglinra, I have tried getting him to hold the new nappy/a wipe for me but his doodle is more interesting lol I am worried I will have the kid at kindy that is always standing with his hands down his pants

Fianne, yay for getting to show off Max to your family! So exciting. We are going to see DH's family over easter who haven't seen Will since he was 6 weeks old so I am quite excited about that.

Haley, hope Maddie is feeling better now

After having a great saturday we had a really dumb sunday. We left the house at 8am, got an hour down the road and remembered something we had to go home to get, Will woke up and didn't want to be in the car seat so we had to keep stopping to settle him. DH got a speeding ticket. A 2.5 hour trip took us 5 hours. Then we couldn't find the disc in storage to set up my mums new computer so the whole trip was pointless. Then we had yet another fight on the way home (in the first 10 minutes and spent the rest of the trip in silence).

[*noni*e*]

have mothers group today.. its the last one at the community centre so we will be going out to lunch afterwards.. yum cha apparantly, never had it, dnt know how ww friendly it is but after kfc TWICE this week i spose it dosnt really matter lol oops..
Asha is getting better at manovering herself around the floor, what age are they supposed to crawl though? like up on hands and knees? idk how close she is to that...
arte - i think dp genuinly believes he cant iron lol but i cant be sure.. ive heard him try when he had to get up really early for an interview thatwas far away and it was too early to wake me to do it and there was alot of swearing and stomping lol he tends to iron more creases into the shirt then there was when he started and then he gets really frustrated and upset so now i am doing it for him (he actually said once he should take it to his mums to iron which was when i said for gods sake i will do it lol like she dosnt have better things to do than iron his sons clothes lol) but still one night off would be nice ut when i say i dnt wanna do it he is all like "but you said u would thats not fair" and gets all sulky and angry thats whats annoying lol..
agnes - maybe W just isnt ready for solids yet.. and dont worry if hes not as interested as some of the other bubs alot of bubs take ages to get used to food, its a completely new sensation just take it slow and steady.. and like some other ppl have sugested maybe let him suck or chew on a piece of fruit??
fianne - did she say what age it was ok to give them a big bit of something? asha loves to chew on the mesh bag i got her filled up with apple but i am worried if i give her a whole piece of something she will just shove it right down her throat lol..

[~mamaspice~]

Morning everyone I'm at work for the next 3 days
I am very lucky that my mum looks after Charli though so at least I know that she's at home getting spoilt by her nanny

Hayley, I hope little Maddy is starting to feel better! Poor bubba!

Marydean, good on little E for saving her poopoo's for daddy!

Have a great Monday everyone

Tamara

[Isadora]

Hi everyone, woo hoo no work for me today! Keeping Maddie home, she is definately getting better but I just want to give her an extra day or two to put the final kick on this horrible thing. Besides cant take them to daycare sick, its not fair on the other bubbas.

Jazmum - I finally got a vapouriser for Maddie, and it works so well. We needed one anyway with winter approaching and being in daycare.

Cmumma - You are definately very lucky to have nanna to spoil Charli while you work. My mum is so desperate to chuck in her work so she can do the same, but my dad isnt ready to retire ( they work together)

Noni - Have a great time at mums group. Yum cha is good. I saw a little movie on FB of a bubba crawling at 6 1/2 months so watch out, but generally I think its 7-8 months? Actually dont go by what I say because I dont have a clue lol. Good luck with the house, how exciting!!! Big tip with the ironing, I hate ironing, I just throw everything into the dryer with the wrinkle guard on lol.

Arte - Oh no sorry to hear about your dumb Sunday! Hope you have made up now. Wow a bubba with garlic breath hehehe.

Agnes - I have been having a bit of trouble lately with Maddie shutting her mouth at certain foods too. I thought she'd love pumpkin but no she doesnt want it. All she wants is rice ceral, boring!

Fianne - Have a great time and an excellent easter with your fam!

Cally - Thats good that Katie is actually taking some water, I have problems with getting Maddie to take some.

MD - Woo hoo for your ebay bargains! I also got a bargain on ebay over the w/end, a baby monitor for $20 incl postage! Its just a plain one with no special features, but its only for when we are outdoors as its a pain running up to the back door every 5 mins to listen for crying. Love ebay.

Sherie - Hope you & your family are doing well.

I heard on the news today that the Govt is introducing a 50% rebate on childcare in the new financial yr, currently it is 30%. That would be SO good, just hope they dont find a way to means test it. Also the baby bonus is apparently going up to $5000 too. Woo hoo! About time they gave us something, something has to give with all these rate rises.

[AnyDream]

Sorry everyone, I can feel a long one coming on!

Fianne, I was having a chat with an ABA counsellor this morning who had just seen Gill Rapley (the Baby Led Weaning Lady) give her talk at a conference last week. I've read all about it now, and think I will incorporate some but not all of it. The key messages are baby must be sitting upright and watched very carefully. I think I mentioned the other day about giving DD1 finger foods pretty early on and TBH she was hopeless at eating off a spoon but did the finger foods really well so I can see how it makes sense. The other thing is that this has really only been done with breastfed babies. Their jaws and tongues etc are better for this sort of eating than bottlefed babies. So what I'm going to do is introduce rice cereal, and low-food-chemical fruits/veges for the first month (only in small quantities, to get her gut used to dealing with food), and then start trying her on bits of family foods and see how she goes with it.

Hayley well done with your ebay monitor. BTW, don't fret if Hayley doesn't like certain foods, just keep offering them (maybe sandwiched between a mouthful of something she likes before and afterwards) and when she's ready she will take it. Also it can help if you just give them a bowl with some of the food in it and just let them squish it and play with it because some will get on her fingers and go in her mouth that way. Ummm I should have said that to Agnes the other day !

C'smumma - good to hear you've got a happy baby with her nanny! I wish I had someone like that, that's why we do FDC, it's the next best thing.

BTW Jazmum and Hayley, what sort of vaporisers did you get? We've got one out in the shed but it's this big grey scary looking thing and it's also quite noisy and it puts out too much steam...bought it in a panic after H had croup one time.

Noni you will have to tell us about the yum cha, I've never been but friends of mine rave about it and DH and I have always said we should go! Have the m's group made a plan to keep meeting?

BTW, I must be the odd one out here. DH does MY ironing (!) Well a lot of the time anyway. Did I tell you the moment i first met him, he opened the door and there he was standing, with his shirt off and broom in hand(!) Bom chicka wah wah! ROFL I knew then I'd met the wife I always wanted

Renee, funny you should mention teething, she's twice had a gush of clear snot (TMI but it screams 'teething') followed by a red behind, so I think it's on the cards. She was really unsettled at bedtime last night, I gave her panadol (and eleven million boob feeds) and two hours later she was asleep and was pretty settled for the rest of the night.

Cally - thanks for doing my maths for me! We must get together when it's tax time, you can do me a couple of spreadsheets LOL! Does your Heinz cup have handles?

Arte - LOL at garlic bread! E nearly had pink half-birthday cake frosting as her first food, DH wasn't watching her while I took a photo of her with her cake! Bummer about your rotten day.

I'm missing Sherie - darl where are you, what's happening at yours?

Agnes, would you consider trying W in care for a couple of weeks before you have to start, just to get him accustomed to it? That gives you an excuse to ask the FDC office to give you some names a bit earlier. Re the doodle holding - better that he gets it over and done with early, I reckon. There are some men who must've not been allowed to play when they were little (I won't mention any names but those cricketers seem to like the rub their crotches a lot on telly ROFL).

Well like I mentioned, I was at ABA this morning, starting to know some of the ladies a bit better . There were a few kids there which was good for E to get used to their noise and sudden movements...she didn't do any stranger danger crying at all (phew)...I've been a bit worried about how she'll tolerate groups of ppl cos we've pretty much stayed at home for six months. Wonder how that will go with the family gatherings next week...

[Artechim]

MD, that was a massive post, well done! I was worried about how Will would react to family because he hardly saw any one but DH and I for the first 5 months but he is a real crowd pleaser.

Sherie and JaZmum, hope all is going well and you get a bit of free time soon

Will turned into the Snotatron 5000 (delux model) overnight. I don't know how so much snot can come out of one baby. Hope it doesn't last long, we are going on holiday for easter and I hope it is gone by then

[Cally]

Well swimming was a huge success this morning - she loved it. And the best bit was she saved the poo for the car ride home!! But I must remember that once the swim nappy is on - straight into the water. I put her back in the capsule while I went to the loo and she weed in it.

MD - The Heinz cup doesn't have handles, but it's pretty small and she can handle it very well. My sister has heard the Ikea rumour too.

Arte - hope W gets better soon - lol at snotatron!

Noni - yum cha is yummy!! They come around with lots of little dishes and you pick what you want off the trolley and eat it.

My sister saw the ob today and her cervix wasn't favourable for inducement - so she's having a caesar tomorrow (which will be 9 days past EDD). Fingers crossed it drops and she goes into labour tonight. So we're heading up tomorrow after the MHCN visit. So looking forward to being an auntie!!

I'll try and get on while I'm away - but if not Happy Easter to everyone - don't overdose on the chocolate!!