Bloom- we use Tommee tippee closer to nature. Did with DS1 and they were great, used Aventi with DS2 and thought they were just okay and back to TT with DD. I like the shape of the bottles and the teats also dont get the drip-out-of-the-lid factor that we use to Aventi. The bottles are easy for the LOs to learn to hold too. Sophie is drinking 150-180mls most feeds now, how much is your son drinking? Its great that he has taken to solids so well. Interesting about the pumpkin- I was gonna try that. I've given Sophie alittle bit of egg yolk when its been around and she seems to manage that okay and alittle bit of avacado.
Has anybody else thought about avacado as a 1st food? or is it better to stick to the likes of pear, apple etc.
PZ- how are you going with Islas brace?
Great to hear most of the babes are rolling. Sophie doesnt get much "floor" time, she is mainly in her bouncer chair or in my arms. I must make more of an effort to play on the bed with her so she can try rolling herself. She giggles when I do it for her and loves tummy time, suspect its got to do with all the wind she releases when shes on her tummy- its a tad toxic for the 1st few mins
Bskilner- it awsome you managed to get out for a day or so and so good to know that babe is okay. Think we miss them more then they miss us He drank from a sippy cup! Thats cool.
Might get 1 for Sophie- she is always grabbing my cup and pulling it to her- gotta be so careful and cant hold her at all with any hot drinks.
Hopefully our jumper thingy will get here in the next few days. Sophie is really wanting to be up and moving. she'll be dynamite in the walker when she is old enough- look out big brothers she'll run you down ha ha
had a pretty busy week and weekend DD turned 2 so she was spoilt rotten and had a party saturday
ive had a really bad time with my back ive been put on strong pain killers which werent strong enough so i was in alot of pain and was depressed about it, but went back saturday and the dr tripled my dose and put me on long lasting so still got pain but dont have that horrid stoned feeling
We all had/s gastro over the weekend! im still sick from it
We went car shopping sunday found an awesome 7seater territory hopefully we get approved
DD has become even more a mini mummy now loves pushing bubba around in her dolls pram!
we had a bit of bad weekend Hudson started refusing the boob which had me in tears and i couldnt express very much! so i had to buy some soy formula which made me feel just CRAP but i soon realised he was rejecting the boob or i didnt have enough milk his throat was too sore to suck
so after offering the boob first he needed a small top-up (since saturday he only needed 2 formula bottles as i managed to save up enough EBM ) he now down to just one top-up of EBM a day.
PZ sorry for miss isla hips xoxo but good on you for persisting!
KT yay for belley! my boobs havent gotten bigger but they arent any smaller either
B- wow william on solids already! way to go william
Bloom- my eldest was EBM and loved avent bottles but as the younger 2 were/are BF they only like TT closer to nature bottles
DT she will love the jolly jumper, bubba loves the jumperoo (his still too small for it but loves being able to be upright
PZ I'm glad that Isla is coping ok with the brace. It'll be gone before you know it.
I'm glad everyone else is going pretty well.
We still have lots of wakeups over night and DS2 normally ends up in bed with us from about 1.30 on as I'm too tired to be bothered getting up to him constantly. Daytime sleeps are about an hour with the occasional 1.5hr sleep. Tried giving him a little bit of pumpkin yesterday. He mostly just kept sending it back out with his tounge. So he's not really ready yet. Just had some pumpkin so thought I'd give him a try . Avocado was one of DS1's first foods. He loved it Friend of mine used to mix it in with Ricotta and her bub loved that
Hey Mamas Very quiet in here! I thought I might have missed loads - I've been away from BB, fighting various battles and feeling like a complete and total failure
Bloom, I haven't used bottles but I've been meaning to get a pump so DH can feed DD if he needs to when I'm out getting my hair done or something (although I've only done that once since she was born lol). Have you found that he prefers some bottles over others? I have no idea what I should get, I'm considering just going straight to a sippy cup seeing as she's 5 months now and can sit pretty well.
Lol Bskilner, I can't justify a gym membership fee either. The prices here are ridiculous, it's like because you're in the country and don't have many options they up their prices because you either pay it or don't go. I choose don't go lol.
How cute is the spinning around thing? Annabelle tries to roll to a toy she wants, but when it's still too far in front of her she gets frustrated and tries to scoot forward, which leads to her spinning lol. Her legs stay up in the air at the back, so even though she's got the arms right she's gotta co-ordinate the legs still.
That's great that he's doing well on the solids I still haven't started yet. I think I'll just wait til we move next Wednesday, just too much going on til then. Annabelle's the same as William though, really interested in bottles and cups and things, it's very cute lol. I got my copy of Baby Led Weaning the other day, it's pretty interesting. So I reckon I might just wait til we've moved, and when she's 6 months I'll start putting a few things on her Bumbo tray to have a munch on.
MoT, sorry to hear you guys were all sick! Hope you're all feeling better now. And, good luck getting the Territory! Since Belley's come along I just don't know how anyone with kids ever got by with just a regular sedan or even a hatch lol. Our pram takes up half the space in the back of our Patrol (I don't put it all the way down, too lazy) and then when we go to Christmas we've got all our clothes, bedding, piles of stuff for Belley, and gotta keep a space free for the dog!
Tara, how's the sleeping going? Hopefully things have settled down for you lately. One of the reasons I was feeling so awful was sleep - Annabelle was barely doing two hour stretches overnight for a couple of nights. I realised she was doing her good long feeds overnight, then during the day she wouldn't take any at all - she once went 6 hours without feeding, she rejected me every time and just didn't seem to need it because she'd filled up so much overnight. And then she would nap either. So I slowly started trying to limit how much she had when she woke overnight, and now when she wakes she has a quick feed and goes back to sleep really quickly. If she needs more I don't stop her, but she's getting longer stretches overnight and feeding a bit better during the day at least.
AFM, not much to report I guess. Won't bore you with anymore details of our crappiness the last week or so. We are getting very excited though, moving day is next Wednesday! So we're busy with that, plus DH's birthday is this Wednesday, mine is the 26th, and our 2nd wedding anniversary is on the 28th. Dunno why we decided it'd be a good idea to put that with all the other 'dates' lol. Belley will be 5 months on Wednesday, so I'm going to get her measured and weighed on the way to mothers' group tomorrow. I'm guessing she'll at least be 68cm & 8kgs, she's reached the limit on her 00 clothes that have those measurements on them!
kaytee - the wriggling is cute, he is twisting and turning. dont think it will be long now before he rolls from back to front. goodluck with the move and the weaning. Hope it all goes well. William is doing well with a sippy cup when he feels like it, so it might be a better option for belley plus you wont have to wean her off a bottle.
ive got a lancer and dont have any issues, pram only fills half the boot, and still have two back seats in car.
glad you figured out a way to fix her feeding and sleeping issues, and that you are getting back on track. you are not a failure, quite the opposite. sounds like you are listening to your baby and doing whats in the best interests of you both.
happy birthday for the 26th if i forget later on and good luck with your busy month. william was 60cm and 8.08kg at 5 month appt.
Thanks Bskilner It was most likely just me being so tired, but it's a horrible feeling when it seems like you're doing nothing right. I just had the feeling that it was all my fault she won't nap properly during the day, and we'd got the feeding messed up, and then along comes DH on the weekend, having not spent every single hour with her and he's just so good, it made me feel worse. It was all pretty stupid stuff, but I'm feeling good now after a bit of rest
Only 60cm? Belley was 65cm at 4 months, and now she doesn't really fit in 00 clothes with feet anymore so I reckon she must be above the 68 they say on there. Thankfully she's still good in stuff with no feet
Thanks for the birthday wishes! My family are coming to help us finish moving on that day so there won't be any great celebrations, but I'm looking forward to going out to dinner with them
I had a friend who got by for 18 months with a two door lancer and a baby, I just don't know how she did it! Probably easy really, I've just gotten used to extra space so I'm lazy with how I use it lol.
Yeah I reckon the sippy cup might be the way to go. As you say, I don't want to then have to wean her off a bottle later. Now I've just gotta get a pump! I want to start up a decent stash for when I go back to work in March.
Are you going back to work soon Bskilner? Going in for those couple of days must have been reassuring, at least now you know William is ok for those hours. The longest I've been gone for so far is 3 hours and Belley handled it way better than me lol.
ive got a bit of a stash already in the freezer. and i'll be going back to work in jan, starting with one day a week when dh will be home with him then work up to 2 a week. same i thought he would be bad when i went in for my orientation days, but low and behold he handled it better than me.
He drank from a sippy cup! Thats cool.
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DD turned 2 so she was spoilt rotten and had a party saturday
Very quiet in here! I thought I might have missed loads - I've been away from BB, fighting various battles and feeling like a complete and total failure 
It was most likely just me being so tired, but it's a horrible feeling when it seems like you're doing nothing right. I just had the feeling that it was all my fault she won't nap properly during the day, and we'd got the feeding messed up, and then along comes DH on the weekend, having not spent every single hour with her and he's just so good, it made me feel worse. It was all pretty stupid stuff, but I'm feeling good now after a bit of rest 
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