Hello again girls - you can guess that Monty is napping as I have this spare time to write some posts on here! I sometimes wonder whether I expect far too much of my LO and that's why I get a bit upset sometimes. Maybe if I had lower expectations of him, I wouldn't end up being frustrated and upset. So I was just wondering - if say you put your LO in their bouncy chair in the kitchen as you cook or wash up or do the laundry, how long will your LO happily sit there playing with his toys and watching you? Would you expect it to be one minute or ten minutes? And after that time, will he whine or yell or what?
Same question for any other situation. If you are getting dressed for instance, how long would you expect LO to lie on the bed watching you?
And after LO has stopped being interested in toys, watching you, etc., what do you do next? Do you simply move him to a different environment, say from the bedroom floor to the kitchen bouncy chair? Or do you carry him in your arms for an hour? I just don't know whether all this carrying that I seem to do is good for him. Well, it IS good for him in that he likes it, but what about long term I wonder? I am just surprised that our LO seems so uninterested in his chair, mobile, nest, etc. He just really wants to be carried all the time, and generally if he ain't being carried he isn't too happy. But like I say, does this generally apply to ALL babies, or is mine different, or what? Gosh, this is when a bottle of wine would be soooo appreciated (well, not at midday! but you know what I mean). But BF means no to wine, apart from the odd small glass after his bedtime feed.
Same question for any other situation. If you are getting dressed for instance, how long would you expect LO to lie on the bed watching you?
And after LO has stopped being interested in toys, watching you, etc., what do you do next? Do you simply move him to a different environment, say from the bedroom floor to the kitchen bouncy chair? Or do you carry him in your arms for an hour? I just don't know whether all this carrying that I seem to do is good for him. Well, it IS good for him in that he likes it, but what about long term I wonder? I am just surprised that our LO seems so uninterested in his chair, mobile, nest, etc. He just really wants to be carried all the time, and generally if he ain't being carried he isn't too happy. But like I say, does this generally apply to ALL babies, or is mine different, or what? Gosh, this is when a bottle of wine would be soooo appreciated (well, not at midday! but you know what I mean). But BF means no to wine, apart from the odd small glass after his bedtime feed.
She doesn't last too long still but at first she would get grumpy really quickly whereas now she can last much longer and there aren't any tears, she just likes to look as high up as she can now too. The cusion is a Mamas and Papas play mat thing, we were lucky as it was given to us before she was born. I also use a inflatable ring that she loves, that was a gift too but I think it was from ELC as there are some animals that are velcroed (sp) to it with ELC tags on. I'll pop some pictures on so you can get a better look 
My Mum says Chloe has her own fairground with the amount of toys she has already! 
) in an attempt to fill him up. I really don't want to go down this route, as I had - still have? - beautiful notions of BF my baby until he is a year. But if BF is in a way stopping him from sleeping, then maybe it's not for the best. The stupid thing is how come he can go 8 to 12 hours at night without needing a feed sometimes?
I also noticed that his 3-6 month clothes say 'Up to 17lb' - he's got to be near 16lb!! We didn't manage to get to baby clinic...I'm going to be in trouble when I finally get there!! 
..... but I'll weigh him tomorrow on the fishing scales and see what we get! We got some 6-9 baby grows too and they don't look a million miles off! Next time I'm ordering a smaller model! 
