Babies Born~May 1st-15th 2009 #2

[*Dee*]

Yay Ray - hope it cuts through soon We are the same, I can feel Ethan's under his gum, it's raised but not cut through yet. My poor little baby has chicken pox and he seems worse everyday. I gave him a bath in this stuff from the chemist tonight (starts wit a P - cant remember) and it must have made the blisters sting, poor guy was whimpering the whole time. It said to bathe him for 5-10 mins, I took him out just before 5 mins coz I couldnt stand watching him like that, then we patted calamine lotion on his spots and cuddled him to sleep. We had 2 explosive nappies today and both times he was on my lap and both times it squirted out of the nappy and I was covered in gooey poo!! Nice! (we really do need sarcasm font dont we...) lol The things we do for love!

We started Ethan on some solids, the Dr in the end said we can just try. Trial and error since we cant get into the allergiest till Dec. He loves mashed potato and pumpkin that I make... not too keen on the heinz pears tho.. But no reaction thus far!!! Yay!

Anyway, I hope everyone is going well. xx

[Pandora]

We started Ethan on some solids, the Dr in the end said we can just try. Trial and error since we cant get into the allergiest till Dec.

Did the Dr say why to start solids so early?
We were told to wait til 6 months..hmm..

Anyway sounds like is is going well

Oscar has been down for the night this side of 8pm for the past 2 nights Im so impressed - Milo was still up til 9-10 until he was 6 months old.

[*Dee*]

I've always started them at 4 months. He is still feeding every 2 hours and still 3 feeds overnight, so we thought we'd try a bit of mash to see if he needs that little bit more. He's gaining weight fine, I'm just exhausted! I'd rather start solids now than have to switch to formula. And since having a teaspoon of mash once a day at lunch time he's only having 2 feeds overnight, tho this is only day 3, hope I havent jinxed myself... lol He's been showing an interest in our food since 3 mths, he would open his mouth as we ate our food... lol

That's great oscar has been sleeping early.

[Pandora]

well he sure sounds like he's doing well

Oscar gets weighed next week so I will find out just how big he is. I am so sick of people saying 'Oh wow hes so fat' and telling me I'm overfeeding him. Hes only having 5 feeds a day on average, sometimes 4.

Daytime sleep is still very much hit and miss. Sometimes he will settle himself, others he'll scream at me. I am sure we will get there but I do want to have something sorted before I go back to work in Nov as Im concerned DH will do controlled crying if I am not there and I dont want that.

[Toomanytoomany]

Rayray, let us know how big Oscar is! And how on earth can you overfeed a baby? Sigh, people are dumb sometimes. I'm sorry you are getting negative comments. Terrific that he's sleeping so well for you! I hope he keeps it up! How's his tooth going? I'm sure Tom's are just there under the surface, but I suspect he's going to be a bugger about getting them. Clare was so easy, she'd just wake up with a tooth and surprise us.

I hopped on the scales with Tom this week and they reckoned he was 7.9kg, which would put him in the 95th for weight. I've never had a fatty before. It's rather nice, I have to say (not so nice on the back, though!)

Dee, I hope things are coming good at your place, been thinking of you. We'll be putting Tom on solids in a few weeks. The wisdom til now has been to leave off til six months but I'm reading more and more research that suggests that the optimal window for introducing new things is between five and six months, and that the theory of leaving solids til later isn't actually based on evidence but suppositions about biology and allergies. Four of my five other kids have allergies so we'll be watching him like a hawk. I know he's massively interested in food and gets all antsy when he sits up at the table in his high chair while we're having dinner and he can't have any!!

Amazed, that's lovely your bubby wakes up so smiley and happy Isn't it gorgeous how much they love the world when they are babies? There are just no bad surprises for them, nothing they dread, it's just all cuddles and love and boosies and bottles and baths and lovely things.

Nelly how is Sophia doing in her cot? We're doing so much better since moving Tom into his own room although I miss him a lot. But he's definitely sleeping better and settling himself off to sleep much more. We're still having one or two overnight wakeups, but that is so much better than what it was.

He had a fever yesterday and has a cold today, but it's not too bad, I guess. He has sort of gone quiet on the development front. He was very chatty and then quietened down, and he isn't rolling or anything any more. He just likes to watch what's going on. His favourite thing is sitting in his highchair playing with his toys, and blowing raspberries.

[Pandora]

... I'm reading more and more research that suggests that the optimal window for introducing new things is between five and six months, and that the theory of leaving solids til later isn't actually based on evidence but suppositions about biology and allergies.

I would really love to read this as I am getting conflicting info - even the RCH website has one page that says 4 months, and another that says 6 months.

[Toomanytoomany]

I'll have to dig out the reference I was thinking of this morning.