Babies born ~ March 1-15 2010 # 3

[roxxie]

cass - have you seen the book kidwrangling by kaz cooke? I'm about 2/3 of the way through it so far and its the most honest book I've read, with real advice! A great laugh too

Dee - Lacie is much the same, chokes on anything thats not completely smooth, has just mastered sitting up but no intentions of crawling just yet. They will get there whenever they are ready, that's what I figure! Plus it gives me longer to babyproof the house before she starts getting to mobile lol

xx

[CinderToriella]

They are not actaully choking its just gagging which is a normal reflex for them, they are learning all about food,hannah has gagged many times ,they have a reflex that does not allow food to go past a certain point on the tongue,they cough to remove any food that has gone past the 'point' ..It is very rare they will choke for real if they are sitting up in a high chair eating the right foods for BLS and are over 6 months old

[Cass72]

Awesome!! Way to go Chakotay!!

[LilsJula]

Hi all...sorry no personals...rushing for time!!!

Shell - can you tell me a bit more about your BLS - my son went easily through all the traditional mush stages...but Soph simply refuses to be fed with a spoon so I am giving her finger foods but she doesn't seem to consume that much really. My son was eating so so much more!!

She is having steamed carrot and apple pieces, pieces of avo, cheese sticks, mini sandwiches, toast fingers, biccies, pasta pieces...what else are people doing??

Soph is really quick with her commando crawling now - getting about the house well. She is still rocking back and forth on her knees with headplants!!! Lol!!

She has got the hang of moving about from rolling, to sitting, to crawling, back to sitting etc. Having so much fun exploring all the toys her brother leaves scattered all throughout the house!!! Had to go through all his toys and throw out anything small just so I didn't need to keep such a close eye on things. Back to childproofing in full!!!

Hope you are all well - get back when I have a bit more time...been organising finance as our car spacked out, bathroom floor ripped up due to water damage and termites found in a matter of a few weeks!!! ARGH!!!! Just in time for going on no pay in a fortnight...always the way!!!

[LilsJula]

Soph waved today!!! Yay!!

[CinderToriella]

YAH Soph,Hannah waved the other day as well its super cute She loves it when we wave to her

With the BLS, i am giving the same as you,this is what she has tried
Avo,rockmelon,peach,nectarine,pear,apple,banana,to ast,vegimite,chicken,pasta,carrot,peas,potato,swee t potato,mango,paw paw..I know there is more but i cant think atm

Don;t worry if she doesnt seem to be a=eating much,with BLS u need to trust your baby ,as they know what they need,she will eat what she needs,she will explore,learn to chew and see what she likes doesnt like etc..I love BLS,I love watching Hannah have a go at foods and her face if she tastes something she finds odd heheh
She will eat more when she is ready,what we do is offer on her high chair a few different foods at meal times, so for example put down a few steamed vegies ,meat if you want cheese,etc dinner or lunch and let her choose what she wants to try.

As long as she is still getting her milk feeds the solids is not important 'Food is fun untill im one' ..She will start eating more when she needs it ,I trust that they know what they need

Cass,with crawling, it was a few months back that Hannah started doing the bum pushing thing in the air,then she moved onto pulling hersef along the floor with her tummy and arms,now the last few weeks she is on the move in full crawl mode! ,and now pulling herself up on EVERYTHING , she tried to take a step yesterday she couldnt though to wobbly could only manae one hand not holding on...where is my baby?

[LilsJula]

Thanks Shell for the info on BLS - Soph loves baked beans too...had forgotten how much my son loved them!

Soph has been on a waving frenzy since she started in the week and says hello - well is sounds more like herow...and she says herow dad alot!!! So cute!!

She is just starting to point = got the finger action happening but not extending the arm - nearly there....as loves a high five....so cute when they start really interacting!!

However, the tanties - from a 7 mth old - when you take something off her or move her when she doesn't want to....unbelievable...my son didn't start that till he was around 15mths!!!!

[CinderToriella]

LJ we have the head fling back hahah and wow does she get upset when you take something off her she cant have etc hahah

[Deedles]

Oh gosh we have 4 teeth and 2 cutting through! One grumpy lil bub.

Lenny is army crawling now and goes round and round and backwards. Sitting up still isn't happening but he likes to be on the move more than sitting.

We have started persisting on the finger foods now. He loves vegemite and avo on toast and banana. He still coughs and splutters on nearly everything.
I so don't remember DS1 ever having troubles eating foods at this age.Though he did start eating at 4 months with directions from the doctor as he was so under weight.
Do any of your bubs vomit if they are coughing on the food. Lenny seems to vomit all his food back up if he gets something stuck. He is getting better every day though!!

We have started giving him formula of a night time as I am at work 3 nights a week and my milk seems to have decreased quite a lot just from those 3 nights of no feeds.
Feeling a tad sad but we will make it to a year and maybe have to give up after that as I will need to work a bit more.

He is also waking a lot at night and crying and crying. I really hope he settles down soon. We were in a bit of a routine before that.
I tried for the first time to let him cry by himself and see if he settled (mind you no DH home and DS1 was vomiting and had a fever so I couldn't leave him) over an hour he cried for. Most stressful night of my life!!

Here's to a settled baby soon

[Jandals]

Hi everyone. Just popping in quickly - will try and get back later.

Re. the feeding thing - Toby has vomited a couple of times from food getting stuck. I personally don't feel like pushing foods that are making him vomit. That says to me he's not ready for it. It's horrible for him - I can see him panicking before he vomits and he ends up with watery eyes and a running nose So we're having a mixture of mush and finger foods, but most of what actually goes down is mush. I'm confident it's the right thing for him as he's always hanging out for his mush and he's eating quite a lot. He will usually have some finger food while I get his mush ready, and he has sandwiches and fruit for snacks during the day too.

I think all babies are different because my DD ate very little and was a real finger food girl (had never heard of Baby Led Solids then) and she was content with the small amount of food that got down. Sounds like Sophie, LJ! DD hated being spoon fed too.

Congratulations to all the babies that are learning new tricks It's amazing how quickly all these milestones are coming around!

Toby's got the waving thing happening. It's so cute!! He's still rocking on all fours but no crawling yet. He loves to stand up and I'm hoping he's not going to want to skip the crawling thing as it's so important for building pathways in the brain.

Ok, gotta go! Hope to make it back for personals later

[LilsJula]

Jandals - Maybe the eating thing is a boy and girl thing....My son loved mush and ate and ate and ate copious amounts of it!!! Sophie not interested at all so had no choice but jump to finger foods. However, she is a quick vomitter if something gags....she started on solids like this and will often do it while trying not to swallow medicine!! My son didn't do that at all!!!! So, I agree, they are all so different!!

Deedles - Poor Lenny and poor u!! What a shocker of a night all on your own...my sympathies to you....it can all go pear shaped so quickly!! My son did the teething all at once thing. He started at 16 weeks and had 6 teeth in 2 months. He had all the current teeth he has now by 9mths and he is now 30mths. On the other hand - Soph still has no teeth but she has just started to get those little indentations in her gum that appear just before the teeth cut through. She was moody last week!!

Shell - It must be a girl thing with the tanties!!! Soph is also very determined by nature...she should be a treat when she is 15!!!!

Soph has started pulling herself up onto her knees but then gets stuck and cranky!!!

It is a real challenge at the minute letting Soph move, keeping an eye on her and keeping an eye on 30mth old (who is a boy who tries to be gentle but doesn't always pull it off!). All I know is that Soph is going to be tough!!!

She has the cup worked out well now...so just starting on 1 formula feed a day now as a transition for work next year...she is still a prolific feeder so I need to start thinking about cutting her back a bit soon!

Soph is generally on three sleeps a day (still catnapping but sometimes having a longer middle of the day sleep). She is breastfeeding 6am, between 9 and ten, then 1pm and 4pm and then bedtime at 6.30. She is having one and sometimes two feeds overnight. So 6 or 7 feeds...What are you bubs doing and what does their day seem like now??

[Cass72]

LJ, Robert is having a BF at 7am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm then one or two overnight. Added to that he has breaky at 6.30, lunch around 12ish, dinner at 6.30pm. He was having daytime sleeps between 9 and 11am, then another one between 1 and 3pm. He also has a nap on the way home - which usually takes about 35 minutes.

The past few days though he's been sleeping later and I'm in two minds about whether to go with the flow (put it this way, its 4.10pm and he's still asleep!!) or to ask the childcare centre to make sure he naps at the times he was or to wait another few weeks then move onto the babybliss 9-12 month routine. I don't know!!! ARGH! There is just so much conflicting advice out there it does my head in!

[LilsJula]

Cass - I remember with Will that it was always an atrocious month or so as they drop a sleep - as you never quite know what a day will be a some days they have three sleeps and some days two....then they get into a great routine....then they drop from two to one sleeps and you go through the same process!! I guess you just have to go with the flow!! It's great he sleeps that much....poor Soph is still a catnapper!!! ARG!!!! Thanks for information re feeds - I really need to stretch Soph out a bit! Today she has fed at 6.30am, then 9.30 (pushed it earlier as we were going out), then when she woke up at 1pm, then I will probably feed her around 4pm, the when she goes to bed. She is impossible to feed on the go these days - as she wants to see what is going on and it makes it a very messy affair! So I try to feed her before I go somewhere. She is basically having another feed per day than Robert....have a think about it!!

[Cass72]

Well last night was just…..ARGH!!.... I think Robert is cutting another tooth (please let it be that!). He got himself so worked up that the only thing that I could do right was to shove a boob in his mouth. I tried walking, rocking, patting, singing – just leaving – but nothing was going to work. This morning he was off his food which was what he did last time. On the other hand when he was happy and playing on the floor this morning, we were practicing some more waving hello. He’s so cute, he just gets so excited, I said yay – clap your hands and he looks at his hands, puts them together, then smiles and wriggles his whole body like he’s just done the most clever thing in the world! Ah, too cute and makes you forget (temporarily) that you’ve been up and down all night.

[queen bee]

Hi everyone,

Sorry I have been so quiet, I missed the emails somehow. Sounds as though we have a few babies getting teeth at the same time. Tobi is getting two top teeth, touch wood he hasn't been too grumpy but the poos...stinkaroo! He hasn't developed the stranger awareness yet which makes my life easier cause I can pass him off to anyone.

He is a real joy, so happy and playful, loves to make people laugh. He sits but no for any length of time, rolls everywhere and is very close to crawling. Loves having weight on his feet but not pulling himself up to stand. I try and savour every moment as he is our last bubs.

He has a bottle and solids every 4 hours starting from 6.30am then goes to bed 8pm at the latest. Still has 3 sleeps but is almost ready to drop one. He is now 8.3kgs and 70.5cm. The Osteo and solids have really made a huge difference to his reflux, he is like any other baby now, big relief!

I have started doing meal replacement to lose weight and have lost about 6 kgs in just under 4 weeks. I want my kids to have a fit and healthy mum and with two boys and an energetic girl, I am going to need all the energy I can get! I still have a long way to go but this is the first time that I have felt it is acheivable.

Other than that, life has been quite busy, a few dramas, but that is almost "normal" for us, it seems. Sounds like everyone is doing a fantastic job looking after your little cherubs.

Hugs to all
QB

[Deedles]

Well Lenny has 5 teeth now and 3 on their way! Very grumpy at times but doing pretty well considering.
We started giving him a bottle a few weeks ago and he already can hold the bottle and feed himself, so a lot easier for me lol.
He is finally sitting up but will still fall on occasions. Crawling is very close. He has the army crawl and got up on his knees yesterday.
I went to the loo and when I got out he was about 3 meters from where I left him so he is on the move..ahhhh

I also have to watch out now for all the little bits of play doh, leggo bits, broken toy bits as Len loves to put them in his mouth!
I forgot about those days.

With the food, he loves the finger food now more than the mooshy food. Have a hard time getting him to eat anything now. I brought a couple of those baby foods in a pouch and he loves those as he can hold them and suck on it. I never really used them for DS1 but they are great if your stuck for time!

[Cass72]

Oh Commander Chakotay - you're a worry for your mummy!!! I hope you get your iron levels up and don't have to have a blood transfusion. Take care little man and God bless!!

Squid, I hope you're doing okay and not forgetting to look after yourself. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Cass
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[queen bee]

Oh Commander Chakotay - you're a worry for your mummy!!! I hope you get your iron levels up and don't have to have a blood transfusion. Take care little man and God bless!!

Squid, I hope you're doing okay and not forgetting to look after yourself. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Cass
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Ditto
Love QB