Babies born~January 1st-15th 2010 #2

[helle]

z, oh jacksons loves milk arrorroot bickies!! that's about the only thing you can bet he'll eat!!

jennie, jackson's been sleeping on his stomach since he was 4 months old. from birth he'd always have his naps on his belly during the day (when I could keep an eye on him) but i made him sleep on his back during the night until one night he cracked it and completely refused. I think the first week I barely slept for worrying about him. but, he won't sleep any other way. now she has control of her whole body i think it's fine! you cant keeping flipping her over for ever
re: jacksons food issues, yeah tried everything! he doesn't mind eating a bit of cucumber, but he doesn't really ingest a great deal of it, and if it's got cheese in it he'll give it a go... aah well, patience is the key. i made him some tuna mornay the other night... didn't like that either!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

z, oh jacksons loves milk arrorroot bickies!! that's about the only thing you can bet he'll eat!!

jennie, jackson's been sleeping on his stomach since he was 4 months old. from birth he'd always have his naps on his belly during the day (when I could keep an eye on him) but i made him sleep on his back during the night until one night he cracked it and completely refused. I think the first week I barely slept for worrying about him. but, he won't sleep any other way. now she has control of her whole body i think it's fine! you cant keeping flipping her over for ever
re: jacksons food issues, yeah tried everything! he doesn't mind eating a bit of cucumber, but he doesn't really ingest a great deal of it, and if it's got cheese in it he'll give it a go... aah well, patience is the key. i made him some tuna mornay the other night... didn't like that either!

What about a cruskit and cream cheese? or cruskit with avocado spread on it?
The cruskit is good as it goes soft as they eat it, Z loves them.. not a lot of sugar in them either.

[helle]

i'll have to try one. i've tried avo and banana and he wasn't keen on that... i haven't given him an arrowroot just by itself tho.. i usually mush it up with some water
is it just normal crusket? or is there a baby version?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I just buy the normal light one, i am normally really fussy about the amount of sugar and sodium in foods for the girls.. the sodium is higher in a cruskit but is very low in sugar.
Z is lucky to have 1 cruskit a day or every 2nd/3rd day so i am not overly fussed.. she can't eat much else at the moment so gotta keep her happy.

IE.
Milk Arrowroot 24.3g serve: Sugar:5.4g Sodium: 66mg
Cruskit 11.4g serve: Sugar: 0.4g Sodium: 101mg

[tracehb]

gggrrr just wrote a post and then hit something by accident and lost the lot, will have to come back later and rewrite it as the little munchkin is up now.

Hope everyone is having a great day.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Hello everyone, how are we all, how are those gorgeous LO's going?

It's been a while so a quick update:

1. We got Z's allergy testing done - DAIRY ALLERGY confirmed and was borderline for eggs & nuts , but atleast we know now and we have been avoiding anything with dairy, no milk solids or anything in pre-cooked foods or biscuits etc.
She has also since had a reaction to banana so added that to the NO GO list.
She has to go back in a couple of months for re-testing, we carry an epi-pen with us everywhere we go and i have just bought stickers for her when we go to public parties etc that say I AM ALLERGIC PLEASE DO NOT FEED ME in bright red with a NO DAIRY symbol.
I am so glad i have BB to call no for recipes etc as i think she is wanting to start eating a lot more.

2. A turned 2 this month, she had a great party and she has been sharing all her new things with Z, she pushes her around in the car and plays blocks with her.. it's so cute.

3. Was meant to get Z weighed last wk but had to miss the appt, get her done on the 28th now but a couple of weeks back she wore a dress that Ava wore for her 2nd x-mas at 14mths old
She's still not crawling but is pulling herself up on things and just wants to stand at all the toys, she has gotten from sitting to on her knees and rocks so hopefully she's not far off. I am going to put her behind A's old walker bike and see how she goes, she might just get up and walk .. A didn't crawl til 10mths old so i'm not worried.

She loves her food, at the moment chicken, mince, veg she loves pears she eats half a pear (not cooked) for breakfast with some toast, today she had a crumpet and she thought that was great, she loves rice cakes and i found dairy free little teddy bear biscuits for her.
I am going to try avocado again soon so she can have avocado on her rice cakes.

So how is everyone else going, all growing well i'm sure...

[illeyena]

Zarava - good you have the allergy testing all behind you for now. dairy free is easier to manage these days with lots of alternatives! bummer re; the bananas! sob sob

C is crawling around everywhere and pulls herself up. She started off slow, a bit like a Sunday driver hehe but is now super fast (especiallyl when I catch her near something she shouldn't, she speeds up to get to it before I get to her giggling away ).

I offered her some weetbix this morning (the kids one) but she was not interested at all so vegemite on toast it was. I've been giving her her meat/veges for lunch and fruit/yoghurt for dinner because she's usually SO tired by late afternoon that she takes that much easier so that's working well. She has her two bottom teeth and one top tooth that's broken through but taking forever to come through entirely. She seems to cope well though with it all so that's good

She's SO vocal and NOISY, no words really (it does sound like she says UP though, she has said Mum and Dadada in the past but stopped those awhile ago so possibly were flukes!) she waves bye bye now so that's cute.

times flying - before long we'll be having first birthdays!!!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

HOw are we all, what are those little ones up to?

Z is pulling herself up on things and was 'bath surfing' last night, holding the edge and walking around, she will also walk with me holding her hands.. maybe she's going to skip crawling?
She goes from sitting to on her knees and is somehow getting around by shuffling everywhere but it's not at pace and she's still very frustrated... i wish she'd just crawl already...
A didn't crawl til 10mths so no idea why i'm so impatient this time round.. pmsl.

Hope everyone is well....

[jenjams]

Good morning everyone. It's been awhile since I have been in here....

Well DD2 is now finally doing her own way of getting around. It is a perculiar comando crawl. She sort of drags herself around the floor with one arm and leg. She is sort of getting onto her knees but at least she is not as frustrated by being mobile now. We still only have two teeth. I reckon in the last week she has had a developmental change. She now has a few more facial expressions and can wave etc. She is a chatterbox who will say bubba and dadda regularly and also has started to mimic our sounds too. I guess thats all here!

What's new with everyone else?

[helle]

Hey girls, we're going good! Still plodding along but a bit quicker. Jack is really crawling now, has been for awhile and looks like a little bulldog when he does. It's the cutest thing! He gets some speed up too. He is also walking along furniture and just started climbing, namely the dogs bed. He's also really into opening and closing anything in the house that can open and close! I've been shut in the pantry And my cupboard a few times now!
Jacks also clapping, he plays "where's Jackson" by covering his face with his hands/bib/shirt and then surprising us he will also use anything as a phone when you go "hello hello hello" ( been watching daddy to much) and my fave, when you say "Doh" he slaps his hand to his foreheAd! Gosh it's cute! He's got 7 teeth now too, and one that's still trying to make it's mind up.
We are finally getting solids down now... Especially dinner. He loves his tea and gets quite demanding with it! Still loving his booby too, especially the last few nights where he's been waking 2-3 hourly for it! Hopefully that settles again soon tho.
So, we're all cruising along quite well over here! Hope everyone else is too!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

jenjams - yay for getting around, it's brilliant isn't it.

Z is finally getting herself along the floor with this weird crawl (vid on FB) and is actually happy for me to leave her alone in a room now without screaming
At the moment she's saying Mum, Dad, Ahhhhh (when she's looking for Ava), jahhh or ack ( jack 1 of our dogs), PaPa and last night she started saying nan nan
She's having about 3-4 bf's a day and is LOVING solids, she would eat all day if i'd let her.
Allergy stuff seems to be going ok, am watching everything we give her, have had stickers made up for when we go out in public and she's enjoying lots of fresh fruit and home cooked meals
She's got 2 teeth with 1 top one cutting now aswell and about 4 other top ones clearly seen in the gum

Yay TEAGZ for the solids, little Jackson is such a cutie, i love the vids and pics of him

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

oops double post

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

everyone, how are we all?
It's been pretty quiet in here lately.

Zara cut 4 teeth in a week so now she has 6, she's still doing her weird lil butt shuffle everywhere but is pulling herself up on EVERYTHING and took a couple of steps behind A's old walker bike.
We have 4 stairs down into our lounge room, i have been putting a stroller at the top so she can't get down until we buy a gate and she's only been sitting on the floor sooking at me when she's in the lounge if i'm not... well lil miss smarty pants CAN CLIMB THE STAIRS
I was in the laundry and could hear her sooking, thought will finish this and go check on her, then i thought she sounds a bit closer, i walk out and she's in the hallway
So i have watched her do it, she's actually quite quick, might try and get it on vid and pop it on FB.

So far the allergy stuff isn't being too hard, just making sure others don't feed her is an issue, otherwise she's eating HEAPS and talking more, she now says NO.. it's so cute.

Hope everyone else is well, what are all the gorgeous LO's up to?

ZARA STAIR CLIMB VID

[Laranna]

Dammit, I had lost my subscription to this thread and was wondering the other day what was happening with everyone!

ZF, you certainly do have courageous babies there! I bet your heart is getting a good workout!

I can't believe that Amelia is 10 and a half months already! Where has the year gone??! I've started to think about her birthday. We'll do a birthday party at home on New Years Day. Would you believe I had a friend say to me yesterday why on earth would I do it on New Years Day?! Erm, because it's her birthday?!! Plus it's a public holiday and everyone is likely to be free! Der! So, anyway, I'm going to make her a toadstool fairy house cake (as in the Womens Weekly cake cookbook ) and just have a fairy garden type theme I think. Will do it late afternoon in case it's a hot day so may be cooler by the afternoon and gives people a chance to do whatever they want beforehand.

Amelia is always on the move. She's now cruising the furniture and pushes herself along on the pusher/walker toy thing that DS use to play with. She is a really big mummy's girl and is always hanging off my legs when I'm cooking or trying to clean. She's still little, I weighed her yesterday at 7.44kg which puts her on the 3rd %ile on those charts and she's still going along on that curve. I think the dietician was hoping she'd hop back up to the 25th line but I doubt that's gonna happen any time soon.

We're still feeding heaps - 4-5 breasfeeds during the day and 1-2 overnight, alot of comfort sucking during the night sometimes too. She has 3 solid meals a day plus snacks. I'm surprised she isn't a big boofa!

All in all, it's all good and I hope everyone and their bubbas are going well too! xox

[jenjams]

Hi everyone

We are plodding along here too. So DD2... Well she has now progressed to doing a weird style of commando crawl. We call it the wounded soldier crawl. It works for her I guess! She has been doing it for a few weeks and is starting to stand up too. She eats well. 3 Solid meals a day. We have 3 breastfeeds during the day and if she wakes at night she will have another one. She is a happy little girl too. Always has a smile. Oh and very very chatty at the moment. She waves and claps. She has had a big develpomental change in the last few weeks!
My god they are one so very soon.

[Lenny]

Eluned - your little darling sounds just like mine. Permanently attached to mummy. Either my leg or my breast!! I'm glad I'm not the only still doing at least one if not two night feeds. No wonder he's 9kgs!

I love that DS2 waves and claps if we do, and although his big brother is terribly mean to him sometimes, they do seem to adore each other and DS2 will crawl around the house loooking for DS1.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Eluned - yep hun i serisouly think i'm going to have a heart attack before i'm 27
Lil Amelia sounds so cute, isn't it great that they are exploring a bit more now, keep up the great work on the BFing.

Jenjams - awwww aren't the developmental milestones gorgeous.. i get so excited if Z does something new.. DP must think i'm nuts..

Lenny - DD1 has her days at the moment where she's being a bit funny with Z.. i think it's because she's on the move and is stalking her now.
They seem to really enjoy playing with the dora doll house together though and Z will follow A from room to room... but now A has figured out she can shut her own door and Z can't get in... lol

So glad to hear all the LO's are doing so well, has anyone started planning the first birthday parties?
I am thinking i might look at a dairy free cake for Z for the family dinner we normally do and getting a 'normal' cake for the day of her party and making her a little cupcake or something dairy free.

[Party-of-five]

Hi girls
its been awhile sorry.
Any other bubs not on the move yet? Milly isnt crawling or standing yet not that Im too worried at least I know where she is
She loves her food!! and books at the moment so santa is bringing her a few and a new trike

Milly slept thru the last week and I was just thinking woohoo but she must have been teasing me...she is back to waking 2-3 times a night again
I havent thought of her birthday party yet got DSs birthday then christmas then my 30th then DHs birthday before I tackle hers busy busy