CBFM (thread/statistics) graduates TTC,BUMPS & BABIES 2011/2012

[LilMissCheer]

Hi everyone - good to know everyone is ok. I don't post much but I do silently stalk

Just to let you know, we went for a private gender scan at 17+3 and were told we are defo Team Yey!!

Included the money shot for you all

 

[trixie79]

ah congrats lilmisscheer.....wee boys are so cute! im hoping mine will be a mummys boy!!!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Congrats lilmisscheer!!!!! How exciting! How are you feeling? Any names picked out yet?

LOL trixie! DTD is a present for MEN, not us!!! Especially right after we had a baby LOL!!! They just don't get it sometimes. Sorry this is late but Happy Birthday to you!!!! I do hope you get a nice meal, and so glad Conor was so good to you!! I bet he will be every year

So glad to hear everyone is doing well. Baby2310, can't beleive callum is getting 4 teeth already! That's amazing! Giada doesn't have any yet, even though she has been drooling and chewing everything for months now.

We left giada over night for the first time as we had to go out of town for a wedding this weekend. I was worried as she was going through a very very fussy time late last week. Does anyone else have this problem? About every 2-4 weeks she has a few days where she is very very unhappy. She screams and screams, like colic, and barely anything calms her down, including holding her. The only way to calm her is taking her in the car or in her stroller. She will also wake up during the night to eat sometimes during that time. I'm wondering if it is when she is growing? Anyway, I guess it had passed by saturday as she was a total angel for my parents...no problems going to bed etc. DH and I were happy but a little sad at the same time as she didn't even seem to realize we were gone Oh well, at least she wasn't unhappy, which was my biggest concern.

Claire- I didn't even know it was possible to relactate? Does it actually work. I still wish I could breast feed but I couldn't even lactate the first time so I'm sure it would be a waste of my time to try and relactate!

Hope all is well! Oh-trixie, giada is in size 4 diapers. She goes the to the dr this week so I am wondering what she weighs now. She is a total chunk!

 

[trixie79]

well we went out on sat nite and i was as drunk as a skunk!!!!! i mean i could hardly walk.....just dance!!!!hee hee.....had a great nite.

we got our meal but it ended up a chinese takeaway as we wer so hung over....not worth it when you have to get up for the baby and OH lies on.....wats wit that??!!!but the chinese was lovely!

dont know if i said but conor now 9.51kgs(21 pounds!) and 71 cms (2ft, 4 in)he is continuing between the 91st and 98th centile for both!

 

[StranjeGirl]

SO glad you had fun trixie! DH and I drank to much the past 2 weekends from a couple of events, and I swear I am never drinking again. I used to be able to drink and wake up feeling fine, now I wake up feeling like crap and have a human alarm clock with no snooze button!!

I'm starting to freak out about autism. DH thinks I am crazy, but I am worried as giada is not meeting some of her milestones. She just started rolling back to front, but cant go the other way even though she did it a few times at 4 months. It's like she forgot how to do it. ANd she was doing back to front all the time the past few days and today she really didn't do it...like maybe she forgot again? She doesn't babble consonants, only vowel sounds and humming, and she doesn't engage in conversation with me or mimic me. She talks to herself plenty with vowel sounds but when I try to give her a sound or expression to mimic she just smiles and grabs my face. The only thing she seems to mimic is a smile, but I feel like she would smile no matter what face I made. I tried sticking my tongue out and she did not imitate it. I'm starting to freak out! I see the pediatrician tomorrow and will bring up some stuff but I don't want ot tell him i'm thinking autism because he has already told me a couple times to get off google. What do you guys think? She's starting to sit on her own but still as a tripod, so it's not like she's super advanced there either!
Hope everyone is well!

 

[trixie79]

stranje dont worry thats all normal....otherwise conor has autism too!
he cant roll front to back even though he did it weeks ago....the only thing he mimics is a smile or laugh....and he just babbles away to himself!
all totally normal....the signs of autism start usually around 15 months to 2 years and its things like lining shoes up and not playing normally and not talking and the most common signs

you need to get off google.....babies develop at their own speed....thats why noone panics if one baby walks at 10 months and the other at 15 months!

 

[LadyL]

Hey Ladies!! How are you all? Ugh, I hate I don't seem to have the time to get on here and reply as often. I read updates most days, but can hardly find the time to post without getting interrupted!!
Anyways,

Happy belated birthday Trixie!! Sounds like you had a good day, and glad your wee man was good to you even if your OH maybe wasn't so much!! Men just don't get it sometimes!!

lilmisscheer!! Congrats on the baby boy!! You will love that little man so much!! And that is most definitely a BOY! Looks just like Jack's money shot!! Haha! Hope your pregnancy has been going well for you and keep us all updated on your progress!

Good to hear from you baby2310!! Wow! Callum has 4 teeth already!! That's amazing! Glad to know things are going well for you and you are enjoying him.

Stranje, I def wouldn't worry too much about Giada not meeting her milestones. (this coming from the lady who was freaking out last week about her kid not rolling yet....hehe). But really, I'm sure everything's fine. And I agree with Trixie, stay off Google....it's the devil!! How did her dr appt go today?

So, Jack FINALLY rolled over today!! Yay!! And I caught the first roll on video!! He went from tummy to back. And he did it several times! I am one proud mama!!

What's everyone's plans for the weekend? We have what's called the Neshoba County Fair coming up starting Friday and it lasts till the next Friday. It's called Mississippi's Giant House Party. It's like the biggest thing that happens where I live. It's hard to explain, but it's not like your ordinary fair or carnival. There's like 500-600 fair cabins around the whole fairgrounds where people come stay for the whole week. There's music and horse racing and politics. And it's like one big, huge party that lasts a whole week. Everybody we know goes to it and most everyone we know has a fair cabin. And we eat, and drink, and drink some more and visit with people that we don't see very often. It's so much fun!! I can't wait to take Jack to his first fair!! Here's a link to the Fair's website if y'all feel like checking it out to get a better idea of what I'm talking about.
https://www.neshobacountyfair.org

I will def post some pics of little man in his fair shirts I had made afterwards so you all can see!!

Hope you all have a great rest of the week and weekend!!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Thanks trixie and ladyl! I know I need to get off google. You can find anything that says something is great or terrible, just depends on what you read. I saw the dr today for giada's shots. I told him my concerns and he isn't concerned at all. He said "I bet she has said ba ba or da da" and I said, "no she really hasn't, i've been listening" and he said it is fine but my concern is valid. He said it's still early and since she is very engaged (was making good eye contact with him and facial expressions) he isn't worried at all and to remember that milestones are really plus or minus three months. He said he has diagnosed autism but it is usually after a year, and there is usually lack of eye contact and engagement in general, and he isn't seeing anything out of the ordinary with giada. It made me feel a bit better. He said she would be delayed in her motor skills because she is so big for her age (29 inches and 26.4 pounds, yikes!!) He's not worried at all about her weight either and said both her weight and length shot up in the same pattern so no need to worry, she seems very healthy. I feel she is doing rather well in her motor skills considering how big she is. She is rolling back to tummy consistently now and was able to sit without using her hands as support today! Of course she toppled after a minute but it was the best she has done so far. She is working so hard trying to sit, roll and crawl (still no crawling, just pushes herself backwards) but she tries and tries and huffs and puffs lol. SO I wonder if her energy is going toward that right now than pronouncing consonants. I'll keep an eye on it but I'm not as worried anymore. She's not showing any other signs of delay so I need to just get off google and let it be for a couple months lol!
Ladyl the fair looks so fun! I wish we had something like that! I bet it's hot there huh?? Are you going for the whole week? I'm jealous you live in mississippi. I love the south!! I hope you have a great time! And congrats on jack rolling!!! I know we stress about something one day and the next day they surprise us!
Hope everyone is well!!

 

[LadyL]

Glad to know the dr visit made you feel better. It does sound like Giada is doing just fine and she will eventually get there. I bet her size does hinder her some.
And yes!! The Fair is so much fun!! And it is super hot!! It was 101 degrees here yesterday. It always the hottest during the fair. You can bet it will be boiling hot or raining. And there's tons of mud everywhere!! I do like living here. I've never lived anywhere else, so have nothing to compare it to. But I feel like I'm really lucky. I love the "small town" feel where everyone knows everyone and you feel safe everywhere you go. Plus, people really do have better manners in the south too. Lots of "yes ma'am's", "no sirs", and "thank you's" and "please". It's so nice. Plus I live in central MS, so only a 3 hr drive to Memphis and New Orleans, and we have friends that live in both places that we stay with when we go.

 

[trixie79]

That's great news from the docs Stranje, Conor sat up in his little paddling pool for ages today! The first time ever but still falls over on solid ground!! He rolls back to tummy but can't get back yet and is now getting frustrated!! He moves in circles but no sign of a crawl yet mind you it's still early days!

I live in the countryside of a city and know very few people, therefore the social life is limited but OH comes from a small village and they do lots of small fairs ESP in the summer.... Nothing in that scale but it looks like so much fun!!! I'm jealous!

Conor was soooo constipated today he cried sore when having a poo this after noon poor mite.... I felt sooo sorry for him! So I gave him lactalose as well as the prune juice and pear mashed up and thankfully he had 2 softer poos before bed!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Thank's ladyl and trixie! Trixie, giada is the same. She can't get back over from her tummy and it totally frustrates her. Sounds like conor will be sitting up on solid ground any day now. I am totally amazed how one day giada couldn't sit and the next she could. Last week I would sit her and she would put her hands out in front of her and slowly move her head toward the ground lol, and then all of a sudden a few days ago she was able to it. I noticed her saying a booo sounds, kinda a mix between a b and a p. I hope it's the start of babbling. I still can't get her to stick her tongue out though. I keep trying and a couple times she put her tongue to her lips. At first she thought it was funny and now she seems totally bored with me trying and doesn't smile when I do it anymore. Oh well.
Ladyl I hope you survive the heat! I would love ot live in a small town! I am in santa barbara, california which is known to be on the smaller side, but it's not a small town where you know everyone. Just small enough to where you run into the people you really dont want to see lol! I'm really not a big city person. It's ok to visit for a few days but that is all I can handle. And how cool you are so close to new orleans! DH and i love it there! I am not a fan of Bourbon st and all the drunk obnoxious people, but I love the history, music and food...and all the ghost stories! We also love savannah, ga. It doesnt have as much to do as new orleans, but you also dont have the party scene, strip clubs, etc there either. I feel like I could live in savannah, but I don't think I could handle the tourists in the french quarter in new orleans for too long. The residents there must go insane sometimes! Well I hope you have a great time at the fair. You must post some pics!!
Trixie where are you again in Ireland? I thought you said you were in northern ireland? We loved visiting there and can't wait to go back, but didn't see northern ireland at all. I bet it's beautiful!

 

[_dreamer_]

Congrats on your blue bump lilmisscheer!!!

The fair sounds fab ladyl, hope you have a great time! And congrats to Jack for rolling over!!

Stranj, Erin sounds very similar to Giada in what you were concerned about. And glad the doctor was able to put your mind at ease. Erin is sitting up pretty well now which is good. But although she was rolling loads for 2 days she bearly does it now and can't go tummy to back (apart from those 2 times early on). Like the others she gets very frustrated on her tummy. I also haven't heard any constonant sounds yet but I keep saying mamamama to her lol. And she doesn't stick her tongue out at me no matter how hard i try.

Going to start weaning next week! Baby rice to begin with then onto some purees.

Hope everyones ok. Erin's started crying so best go to her. Have a good weekend all

 

[trixie79]

Yeah I'm in the north but OH is from Tipperary in the south... It's nice there and we will prob move there in the future but the north is home to me. Also I know we will move but my triplets are buried here and I hope I'm ok with moving away from them, sounds strange doesn't it!!! But I'm sure it will be a few years yet before we move and I defo would need a ring on my finger then!!!!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Oh I don't think it is strange at all trixie. I know some people can remain very detached in traumatic situations, but I can't and if I were in your shoes I would be having the same types of thoughts and feelings. Time does help up manage things though so hopefully in a few years time will have helped heal things a bit. And yes, definitely a ring by then!! Some men take so long with these things!!!
Glad Erin is doing well dreamer and that Giada's behaviors seem normal! I actually read a large article today on studies done on infants imitating. The person writing it had done his own studies and doesn't believe that young infants have the capability of imitating, and that there is a period of time early on where infants stick their tongues out when they get excited. He looked at their heart beats when a parent would stick his tongue out and saw that the infant's heart rate would increase. So he feels that the infants are sticking out their tongues due to arousal rather than imitation. He said once they don't use tongue protrusion when excited (usually after 2-3 months) they won't "imitate" the behavior anymore. He found similar results with studying infants "imitating" sounds and found that parents were actually the ones imitating the infants sounds. they would make the sounds that infants typically make and then when the infant would make that sound they looked at it as imitating, but it actually wasn't. There was more to it but you get the point. I don't know if it's true or not but it made me feel better lol!
Well Giada has had 2 bad nights in the past 3. Last night we actually called the dr because she had a big red circle at her injection site from her shots the day before, but she had been acting fine. Unforunately she had missed one of her naps and I think it messed her up. She woke up at 2:30 and was talking to herself and I thought falling back asleep, but I guess at 3:30 she decided she was hungry. THen she took forever to fall back asleep. Today her schedule got messed up again and when I was putting her to bed she spit up really badly and i had to change her and blow dry her sleep sack because she only has one, and I had to repeat this process FIVE times!! She kept spitting up every time I would get her clothes back on. Then she was overtired and wanted to eat more and I didn't want to feed her because she was spitting up, but she was probably hungry since it all came back up. I finally got so frustrated that dh had to take over. Needless to say she went to bed really late and I have a bad feeling about tonight Oh well. Maybe I'll get lucky.
Hope everyone is doing well! Oh, giada has kinda a rashy looking thing on her face, or maybe little pimples. Could this be from food getting all over he face while eating? Or could she be allergic to something she ate? Can't think of what that would be though...

 

[trixie79]

thanks stranje.....conor gets littles pimples too, but i think its from using the baby wipes after he eats rather than the food! i use diprobase and it clears right up!

hope you get a better nite tonite! oh and thats strange abt the mans article, conor hasnt stuck out his tongue since he was 2 months....he did it constantly for the first two!

didnt go out today as i want conors routine to be solid for when his has to go to the childminder in 2 weeks....yikes, i dont want to go back to work!!!!!!!!!

did i say i joined slimming world.....anyone want to slim with me???
im now 12 stone and i do 1/2 aerobic classes a week, mind you i missed 3 weeks and went on thursday andi still cant move!.....i go back to slimming world on tue morning.
i have a wedding to go to on the 14th sept and want a stone of at least for that...but my goal is 10 and a half stone

 

[Claire1]

Hello Ladies, how is everyone?
Congratulations lilmisscheer, so exciting you can go shopping now!
Good luck Dreamer on the weaning with Erin.
I started Darcey when she was 4 months on and off, mainly when she wasn't taking much milk and needed filling up. I now give her baby cereal everyday and she loves it. I plan to start "proper" weaning soon with different fruits and vegs. I'm keen to do more veg then fruit because I hear its good to encourage savory first because if they have too much sweet (fruit) they often dont eat the veg. Anyone have any experience on this? I also bought a sippy cup because its supposed to help with oral development and motor skills. Anyone elses LO'S using a sippy cup? We havent tried it yet.

Trixie, when did you start giving Conor more then one meal a day? I hope Giadas weaning is going well Stranje.

Lady- the fair looks like such good fun, its right up my street. I live in a small town in Devon and we had a fair come to us recently, nothing like that though! We have parties in the park and functions/events in our small local highstreet. It has a very nice community feels to it. I dont think I could ever live in a city.
I've never been to Ireland, my boss is from Dublin but I would love to visit there. I understand completely why you find it hard to move Trixie, but it might get easier with time.

Darcey babbles a lot, a mixture of things really- mainly ahhs and daa and her favorite seems to be agee ha ha. She ALWAYS has her tongue out, I hope that doesnt mean anything bad? My father inlaw even noticed it, its quite funny actually.

Stranje- Darcey had her 3rd lots of injections on friday-3 of them, 2 in one leg and 1 in the other. She has really hard lumps where they were and were a little red yesterday. Did your doctor say anything? She also had a really bad night on friday night, she was up from 2am-6:30am, but slept better last night. She has been a real grump today and yesterday poor mite. Hope it doesn't last too long.

Stranje, you also asked about the relactation. I looked into this alot and decided against it, alot of people have great success with it. It is best not to leave it too long after BF was stopped but Ive heard its possible for up to 6 months or so after. The longer its left the harder it is. I considered it when Darcey was around 3 months old because I could still get milk drops my breast- still can, but not as much. You can take a medication to help with the milk supply as well as regular pumping, but you cant BF whilst your taking the med. But,you dont have to take the med. You would always need to pump every 2-3 hrs to encourage the milk supply as well as offer the breast as often as possible to encourage sucking and latching. Lots of cuddles and skin to skin contact. It is a lot of hard work. I decided against it because I just wouldnt have had the time to pump so often as well as feed normally and look after LO. The skin to skin sounded lovely, but they suggested this to be for a couple of hours every day and again I just dont know where I would find the time. I wish I had tried harder to keep BF, but its so hard in the early days and I know I did what was best for us at the time. Never mind, maybe if we have another I might be luckier with the BF

Good luck with diet Trixie, slimming world is great. Maybe when OH has his job sorted and we're back to normal a bit, I might consider it

Does anyone know if your supposed to lo's age as calander months or do it by weeks like pregnacy? Im just worried because I first gave lo food at 17 weeks which is classed as 4 month by docs, but if I did it by calander months she would have been 3.5 months- or something like that. Does that make sense? Im just worried I might have started too early? x

 

[trixie79]

Don't worry I started at 17 weeks and only started counting in months when he got to 6 months exactly!! Peob because I lost track of the weeks!!!

I started with baby rice in the morning for 2 weeks then moved on to baby rice in the morning and fruit or veg for tea 5 pm. That moved on after another 2 weeks to adding fruit or veg at lunch and having a meat and veg at tea time at around 5 1/2 months and now he gets
Readybrek at 7 am
Bottle at 11am
Yoghurt at 12.30
Bottle at 2/3pm
Meat and veg at 5 pm
Readybrek at 7 and bottle at 8 pm

Sometimes I give soup and potato at 12.30 or something similar. Depends if I have anything made!!

Today he took abit of a bread roll with butter, kind of sucking it!! For the first time. I also give a rusk during the day at some point!

I also have given him a tommy tippee cup from abt 17 weeks with his juice in it! He is getting the hang if it now and holds it and tries his best to get it in his mouth!!!

 

[Claire1]

Thanks Trixie
Darcey is really enjoying her food. I gave her carrot and potatoe yesterday and she really enjoyed it. I tries her with her tommy tippee sippy cup as well and she kind of gets how it works
You have a great routine going, hopefully ours will end up in something similar.
I think she is ready for more food, she is showing little interest in milk and has gone back to feeding every 3-4 hrs which is 5 bottles a day instead of 4 which she should be on now.
Im not brave enough to try finger food yet, but your chap is a little older so probably knows what to do with it! Im looking forward to seeing her explore new foods.

How is Erin getting on Dreamer?

 

[_dreamer_]

We started on a small teaspoon of baby rice on Saturday, she didn't seem very impressed lol but did seem to swallow some of it. Daddy was holding her the first time but I put her in her highchair yesterday. She just pushed it out her mouth and did the gagging thing a couple of times. Know this is all normal. When you guys first gave baby rice did you give it cold or warm?

I might try what you didd Trix and give it to her in the morning as I've been doing it in the afternoon and shes usually happier in the mornings.

She had her first sleepover on Sat night. It was a friends hen do at her house so Erin came with and she was very good. Went down to bed at 9.30 and slept til 7. Shame mummy only got 4 hours sleep though lol, still recovering now from the tiredness!

Claire, on months I think the issue is that some people think 16 weeks is 4 months (4 weeks x 4), but 17 weeks is 4 months as each month has 30/31 days not 28. They say no solids younger than 17 weeks so you're fine.

I've given Erin her sippy cup a few times with a bit of water in it, it went straight in the mouth as everything does, then she started actually sucking from it after a couple of times, you can see the air bubbles so she is getting it in her mouth but most of it seems to end up on her as she drinks then dribbles it out lol.

Claire, you say Darcey always has her tongue out, Erin has her mouth open most of the time, especially when staring at things or if someone talks to her. A few people have commented. I might mention it to the health visitor just to make sure its ok lol.

Trix, i hope enjoy your time before you go back to work. i dont want to even think bout it but really need to get on the case to register at a nursery asap. hope all goes well with slimming world.

 

[_dreamer_]

Thought I'd share a few piccies.With her sippy cup and sitting up. And the one in the pink dress is her open mouth pose lol