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

[Pandora]

Where abouts in Melbourne are they, do you know which suburb?
Maybe you can meet up with some BB girls, we're pretty nice here in Melb

Oh and here is the other thread

[Toomanytoomany]

Hey Sarah, lots of us down here in Melb if you wanted to come anyway! There are tons of family friendly places down here, and I'd be more than happy to show you around some fun ones.

On the larger issue though - I don't know how military families manage, it must be so hard. I can see your dh's POV but it is dreadful to say goodbye when your littlie is just so little, and a few months is a huge deal at this age, isn't it?

[sryan]

Hi girls,

Well I have done it!!! I have organised Lily's Christening.....

She will be Christened on 29 Nov 09.

Pastor and Church organised, invitations sent and I ordered her dress yesterday, it is so beautiful and I booked the local pub to have lunch afterwards.

Now I am looking forward to it.

Hope all you girls and bubs are well.

xxx Sue xxx

[Toomanytoomany]

Lovely, Sue!

Tom was baptised weekend before last - it was really lovely. We had a friend priest we've known for years come and do it so dh could just be "dad" for the day, and lots of the parish turned up as well. Tom wore the gown that my mum bought years ago for dd3 (my first two girls weren't baptised til they were quite grown) so that was really special, and I wore her wedding rings too. Tom is the only one of my children she never got to meet.

My MIL made the most beautiful Christening cake.

Here's a photo of my lovely family around the font: can't see much of Tom though!!

Jane Still's Photos | Facebook

Things are going really well here. Tom is on solid food, sort of. Some days he likes it other days he doesn't want it. He only has one meal a day, but it's great to have him eating up at the table with all of us! His sleep is just so much better. I am finally getting a good four or five straight hours sleep at night, and he's having good long day sleeps too. We basically concentrated really hard on making sure he settled in his own bed, and he's doing really well.

He's grabbing for everything now, people's faces especially! And he can sit up on his own for a few seconds now. He's charming the cotton socks off everyone and he is the most settled, happy baby I've ever had!

This is his latest favourite trick:
Jane Still's Photos | Facebook

[sryan]

TMTM - what a gorgeous photo of Tom's baptism. It sounds like a fabulous day and it was nice that your DH could be a dad for the baptism and not the priest......

I am not sure what happened to my Christening outfit. Maybe my mum borrowed it from my Aunty's or something.

Well I have started a new christening dress for the family now.....

Lily has also started solids. She is having 2 meals a day, one at lunch time of normally some pureed fruit or vegies and for dinner is normally another dose of fruit/vegies with rice cereal. We have tried carrot, pears, apple, potato and of course rice cereal.

Today we are trying pureed banana for the first time. So should be interesting. I also made a batch of pureed peas, but I will wait a couple of days before introducing them. I am reluctant to go to 3 meals at this stage as I still want my breastfeeding to be her main source of food.

Lily is also putting out her hand to grab things now, but she is lazy on the floor. I try and make her spend a lot of time on the floor, but she hardly moves now. We were going from rolling on her belly to her back and from her back to lifting up her legs to roll to the side, but she seems to have stopped this. I am trying to encourage it again.

Her favourite trick is to put her fingers in my mouth so I can suck them..... mmmm

But also she seems to be going through the "attachment" process and I can't leave her sight. Even in the house if I walk into the kitchen she is calling for me. It takes up so much time of the day!!!! Though I am loving it. She is such a good baby and I can't complain.

Lily is also getting close to wearing 0 clothes because of her length. She seems so tall. Must go and measure her.

Well wishing everyone a great day.

xxx Sue xxx

[tattoo_mama]

wow sue size 0! jade is still in 000 seperates and only just started wearing 00 jumpsuits!
also just from what ive read u shud only offer 1 meal a day until 6 months then introduce 2, otherwise they are having too much solids and will take less BM, atm u shud just be introducing tastes rather than volume IYKWIM?

[Pandora]

... We were going from rolling on her belly to her back and from her back to lifting up her legs to roll to the side, but she seems to have stopped this. I am trying to encourage it again......

But also she seems to be going through the "attachment" process and I can't leave her sight. Even in the house if I walk into the kitchen she is calling for me. It takes up so much time of the day!!!!

I cant get multiquote to work

It may be that she is concentrating on developing a new skill and thats why she doesnt seem to be practising the others so much now - shes mastered those and is focusing on something else.

I also have a velcro baby at the moment. He is OK in the mornings, but after about 1 o'clock, he has to be held pretty much constantly if he is awake, hatest he swing or the floor.

We are in size 0 for most things, except wondersuits which are in between - the 0s are too small, but the 1s are too big. The target/coles brand are a little better fit at the moment so he is in those at bedtime.

TMTM - Toms photos are gorgeous.

TM - solids - you will read different things in pretty much every book you find. Its so confusing. Stick to what is working for you as obviously its the right thing - its working

[Toomanytoomany]

Tom is in 1s now! He's quite long.