February 2017 Babies Club

smaoifs

tangobelle2010 wrote:

We finally had our developmental check today. All good. She weighs 17lb6oz and ticked all the boxes. The phn suggested we quit sterilising the bottles so I think we will to give ourselves one less task to do!

We have ours on the 21st. To be honest, I'm not as stringent with the sterilising since she started travelling the floor. I still sterilise all her bottles but I used religiously change the sterile water every 24 hours, now if it still smells bleachy, I'll keep using it.

fits

Our sterilizer was put away months ago! ( I don’t give bottles at all).

We have a walker here today. Twin 1 took his first steps 😀 he’s not eleven months old yet.

tangobelle2010

fits wrote:

We have a walker here today. Twin 1 took his first steps 😀 he’s not eleven months old yet.

Wow! That's fantastic. Great milestone for you all! Enjoy the ensuing madness!

smaoifs

fits wrote:

We have a walker here today. Twin 1 took his first steps 😀 he’s not eleven months old yet.

Fantastic! That's great going!

greenttc

Congratulations fits baby 1! Thats a huge milestone! Must be so exciting to see!!!

We had developmental check too my lad is 20lbs!!! Chunk compared to yours but boys are different!

Oh god tango I am with you on babies wanting stuff they cant have, he has mini tantrums when I take things off him!

Huh, maybe I should think about my ssterilizing, I still do it religiously despite my babies love if licking the floor! But I think I read somewhere that it is sterilizing things that held milk is important incase washing wasnt meticulous. I does seem funny that I will just stop once he reaches a year.

Where would I store my bottles though!!!???

Anne_cordelia

Sterilising is because formula powder isn’t sterile so it should be done as long as using formula. Not necessary when using cows milk.

tangobelle2010

greenttc wrote:

Where would I store my bottles though!!!???

That's a good point! It does keep the bottles tidy and out of sight!

Anne_cordelia wrote:

Sterilising is because formula powder isn’t sterile so it should be done as long as using formula. Not necessary when using cows milk.

I think point phn was making is that the baby is crawling around so her hands are on the floor our feet are walking. She's putting everything she finds into her mouth to chew on. So she's exposed to plenty of non sterile items and germs already. I thought that using water that was boiled 30 minutes before to make bottles killed any bacteria in the formula? I know plenty of people who put their formula into cooled boiled water when their baby needs a feed. I thought sterilising bottles was to ensure any bacteria from the water used to clean the bottles was destroyed

catrionanic

Pretty sure sterilising is about sterilising the formula, not the bottles. That’s why you don’t need to sterilise if it’s breastmilk in the bottle, as breastmilk has antimicrobial properties - I just wash bottles and pump parts in hot soapy water. So long as baby was full-term and healthy, this is sufficient from birth.

Can’t believe you have a walker, fits!!!! Exciting but also a bit terrifying lol

smaoifs

tangobelle2010 wrote:

I think point phn was making is that the baby is crawling around so her hands are on the floor our feet are walking. She's putting everything she finds into her mouth to chew on. So she's exposed to plenty of non sterile items and germs already. I thought that using water that was boiled 30 minutes before to make bottles killed any bacteria in the formula? I know plenty of people who put their formula into cooled boiled water when their baby needs a feed. I thought sterilising bottles was to ensure any bacteria from the water used to clean the bottles was destroyed

Correct, the water cooled for 30 mins is hot enough to destroy any bacteria in the formula but cool enough not to destroy the nutrients in the formula.

Anne_cordelia

catrionanic wrote: »

Pretty sure sterilising is about sterilising the formula, not the bottles. That’s why you don’t need to sterilise if it’s breastmilk in the bottle, as breastmilk has antimicrobial properties - I just wash bottles and pump parts in hot soapy water. So long as baby was full-term and healthy, this is sufficient from birth.

Yup exactly!

smaoifs

Celebrating my first birthday as a mama today. So lovely having my little dolly come into my room in her daddy's arms with a card for me this morning

greenttc

smaoifs wrote: »

Celebrating my first birthday as a mama today. So lovely having my little dolly come into my room in her daddy's arms with a card for me this morning

Ahhhh happy birthday smaoifs! It really is lovely isn't it? Kinda makes your birthday a bit more complete doesnt it? Even though it didn't feel incomplete before!

Hope your having a great day celebrating!

smaoifs

greenttc wrote:

Ahhhh happy birthday smaoifs! It really is lovely isn't it? Kinda makes your birthday a bit more complete doesnt it? Even though it didn't feel incomplete before!

Hope your having a great day celebrating!

Thanks! It's so sweet, the little hand holding onto the card and then I had to give her the envelope to tear to shreds!

Quiet night in with babs and Strictly cos hubby is working but we went out for dinner Thursday night.

tangobelle2010

smaoifs wrote:

Celebrating my first birthday as a mama today. So lovely having my little dolly come into my room in her daddy's arms with a card for me this morning

Happy birthday!

catrionanic

Happy birthday smaoifs! Hope the wee woman was on her best behaviour for you all day!

smaoifs

tangobelle2010 wrote:

Happy birthday!

catrionanic wrote:

Happy birthday smaoifs! Hope the wee woman was on her best behaviour for you all day!

Thanks ladies! She behaved very well bar spitting her lunch everywhere. This seems to be her new thing.

greenttc

Dya know what I haven't been doing but really need to start doing, brushing his three teeth!

Have kind of put it out of mind as it obviously hasnt been part of his bedtime routine so I think it will rock the boat a bit but sure it just has to be done. No point delaying it! Must start tonight!

Have any of the rest of you started, any tips? I have both a baby brush and the little thimble things and baby toothpaste but turns out I dont need that!

tangobelle2010

greenttc wrote:

Have any of the rest of you started, any tips? I have both a baby brush and the little thimble things and baby toothpaste but turns out I dont need that!

That came up in dev check last week...haven't been doing it but she only got teeth two weeks ago! The phn mentioned these baby dental wipes to try on teeth so must look into that. I goy 2 year old a toothbrush around her first birthday and we just sat in bathroom every day brushing our teeth together....its just to instill the habit at this young age I think

catrionanic

I just started brushing his teeth this week! I have one of those fingertip brushes and he mainly just bites it and plays with it so it seems a bit pointless. But I suppose it’s all about getting in the habit etc

greenttc

Yeah totally need to just get him in the habit and build it into the routine. Feeling a little less guilty about not doing it yet and feeling very glad our little group seem to be all a bit Normal and at a similar stage in what we do!

I have had nightmares about his wee little teeth rotting in his head though,some websites and tv programmes really put the fear into you!

Didnt end up brushing teeth tonight in the end, ugh! Maybe we will start off with morning brushing!

tangobelle2010

greenttc wrote:

Didnt end up brushing teeth tonight in the end, ugh! Maybe we will start off with morning brushing!

Mondays a better day to start something isn't it! Like my diet....every single Monday!

fits

Well I’m a bit further on but we are brushing every evening. The boys love it. twin 1 had vomiting bug this weekend. Miserable. No sign of it with twin 2 yet.

greenttc

tangobelle2010 wrote: »

Mondays a better day to start something isn't it! Like my diet....every single Monday!

Your absolutely right tango!!!!!!

Fits thats awful that your baba got that bug, were you feeling better to be able to deal with it? God, the fear with twins, there would be no protecting one twin from the other when it comes to illness!

Good to hear your two are good with the brushing, do you do it twice a day? Presume you let them hold the brush with you directing it or is it just all you and they let you work away at it?

catrionanic

How are all the babas sleeping lately?

We’ve seen a huge improvement since the start of this month. He usually wakes once a night, sometimes not at all. I feel like a new woman!

The newest sleep challenge tho is that is super hard to get him down and can sometimes take up to 90 minutes. He’s also a really light sleeper, so regularly wakes when we come upstairs. I’m currently feeding him to put him back down to sleep now, as he woke as I tiptoed upstairs to fold some laundry!

Anyone got plans for a younger brother or sister yet? Green I know you’re making tracks already! I keep thinking about it but honestly don’t know how I’ll deal with the sickness again.

fits

Yeah I have been 100% since Wednesday. He is fine again now. We just went through a lot of towels!

Husband does the brushing usually as he gets them ready for bed. Twin 1 does it himself. Twin 2 got teeth later so not at it as long and gets more help.

greenttc

We will be the same fits, my husband will be doing the night brushing too but maybe I will start during the day for a short while.

Caitriona, no second babas here yet, easier said than done and I did temperature recording last time which worked well but its very very hard to do now! Feel like we will be trying for months before we get there! Ah well we will keep at it! Ha! ( so tired all the time though, motivation is hard to come by if I am honest!)

As you know our lad has always been a great sleeper, very lucky, too lucky I think sometimes, there is no way we could be as lucky with a second one, will probably be a big shock!!!

tangobelle2010

catrionanic wrote:

Anyone got plans for a younger brother or sister yet? Green I know you’re making tracks already! I keep thinking about it but honestly don’t know how I’ll deal with the sickness again.

Nope, definitely not doing it again! I've a big birthday next year and want to enjoy it as much as I can with two toddlers without throwing pregnancy or a newborn into the mix! I'm happy with my three. Good luck to ye who are thinking of it. For what its worth caitriona, all three of my pregnancies were different from each other so you mightn't get sick the next time.

smaoifs

catrionanic wrote:

Anyone got plans for a younger brother or sister yet? Green I know you’re making tracks already! I keep thinking about it but honestly don’t know how I’ll deal with the sickness again.

Putting even trying for #2 until late next summer. On the pill and usually get my period on the 2nd day of the break week. Didn't come until the 4th day this time around and I was sweating bullets! I'd love another but the timing would be all wrong if I was pregnant right now.

greenttc wrote:

Have any of the rest of you started, any tips? I have both a baby brush and the little thimble things and baby toothpaste but turns out I dont need that!

Annalise now has 8 teeth!! I have a tooth brush for her and a toothpaste but we just use water for now. She chews on the brush and I try to make a game of moving it back and forth on her teeth. Best tip I can give, which I got from my sister is to have her in the bathroom as you're brushing your teeth so she sees it's nothing to be scared of and is normal.

fits

catrionanic wrote: »

Anyone got plans for a younger brother or sister yet? Green I know you’re making tracks already! I keep thinking about it but honestly don’t know how I’ll deal with the sickness again.

My insane broodiness has settled down in the last week or so and at the moment I think we will be content with the two. Im not even sure if I could have another anyway. Sometimes I think I missed out on focussing on one baby, but that is never going to happen now. The newborn stage was crazy with the twins!

catrionanic

fits wrote: »

My insane broodiness has settled down in the last week or so and at the moment I think we will be content with the two. Im not even sure if I could have another anyway. Sometimes I think I missed out on focussing on one baby, but that is never going to happen now. The newborn stage was crazy with the twins!

And you could hit the jackpot and get 2 for 1 again... it happens!

When do you start the new job? Is it full-time?

fits

December first and it’s 3 days a week

catrionanic

fits wrote: »

December first and it’s 3 days a week

Ah not long now! Are the boys going to a crèche?

I work 2-3 days a week. Great to have the money, but I’d love to be home full-time if I could!

fits

catrionanic wrote: »

Ah not long now! Are the boys going to a crèche?

I work 2-3 days a week. Great to have the money, but I’d love to be home full-time if I could!

I have very mixed feelings about it. One baby still feeds a lot. And the trust you need to put in the Childminder! I’d love to stay home too but I think I’d also find the toddler stage exhausting full time. Although who knows. We have managed pretty well so far. Job will be super flexible which is great. I can do whatever hours I want. Pay is terrible but can’t have it every way!

Off to Childminder now. Have yet to leave them longer than an hour!

deh983

Hi all hope all is going well for everyone.

I’m looking for some lunch ideas. She’s not a big lunch fan but I normally give her finger food toast etc and she doesn’t eat much of it. What are ye all giving?? She has 5/6oz bottle around this time too but I find she is hungry then around 4ish which is too close to dinner

greenttc

deh983 wrote: »

Hi all hope all is going well for everyone.

I’m looking for some lunch ideas. She’s not a big lunch fan but I normally give her finger food toast etc and she doesn’t eat much of it. What are ye all giving?? She has 5/6oz bottle around this time too but I find she is hungry then around 4ish which is too close to dinner

I always find that lunch is a meal that I am able to have prepared well in advance cause it is more hectic as in I might be out or something so its good to have stuff in the freezer.

So, I have made little egg muffins, just beat eggs add any veg you like and some cheese and bake in mini muffin tin then freeze them all.

Look up pea fritters on line, they are a big hit! Again freeze a big batch.

Mini cottage pie pies, roll out shortcrust pastry and cut to suit your mini muffin tray then fill with mince/veg mixture and top with mash then freeze.

Look up recipie for pin wheels online, more pastry with various fillings, loved buyy my wee man and easy to freeze.

Pasta muffins, macaroni, veg tomato paste cheese and egg mixture, into the.......mini muffin tin ( make alot in my tin as you can see!) And bake, they turn out like little pasta bites!

Into most stuff I try and put some kale sprinkles, this is basically kale whizzed up in the food processor until it is very finely chopped and it goes into everything, brilliant to get that iron that they need.

When I am not rushing around I sometimes make cheese toasties with different veg etc. French toast (really just eggy bread), omlettes with everything added in. Steamed veg like carott brocolli cauliflower, I always have bags of frozen veg that can be done. Salmon is a big hit with him so always have some.of the donegal catch fozen salmon darnes, they are individually packed and just need to go in oven for 20 mins.

Fruit, orange segments, pears, banana, blueberries squashed between your fingers....

Hope that gives you some ideas, sorry for the big waffle but sometimes you can pick ideas from other peoples ramblings!

I find the aileen Cox blundell baby led feeding book very good or Pinterest!

greenttc

Would definitely love to hear ideas from others too for all meals!

deh983

greenttc wrote: »

I always find that lunch is a meal that I am able to have prepared well in advance cause it is more hectic as in I might be out or something so its good to have stuff in the freezer.

So, I have made little egg muffins, just beat eggs add any veg you like and some cheese and bake in mini muffin tin then freeze them all.

Look up pea fritters on line, they are a big hit! Again freeze a big batch.

Mini cottage pie pies, roll out shortcrust pastry and cut to suit your mini muffin tray then fill with mince/veg mixture and top with mash then freeze.

Look up recipie for pin wheels online, more pastry with various fillings, loved buyy my wee man and easy to freeze.

Pasta muffins, macaroni, veg tomato paste cheese and egg mixture, into the.......mini muffin tin ( make alot in my tin as you can see!) And bake, they turn out like little pasta bites!

Into most stuff I try and put some kale sprinkles, this is basically kale whizzed up in the food processor until it is very finely chopped and it goes into everything, brilliant to get that iron that they need.

When I am not rushing around I sometimes make cheese toasties with different veg etc. French toast (really just eggy bread), omlettes with everything added in. Steamed veg like carott brocolli cauliflower, I always have bags of frozen veg that can be done. Salmon is a big hit with him so always have some.of the donegal catch fozen salmon darnes, they are individually packed and just need to go in oven for 20 mins.

Fruit, orange segments, pears, banana, blueberries squashed between your fingers....

Hope that gives you some ideas, sorry for the big waffle but sometimes you can pick ideas from other peoples ramblings!

I find the aileen Cox blundell baby led feeding book very good or Pinterest!

Wow!!! They all sound amazing. I’m lucky if I can manage to make her toast!! I’ve screenshot this so thanks a mill.
She just doesn’t seem hungry around this time but then it catches up on her in the late afternoon. Will definately have to up my game when I see what your doing!!!

catrionanic

Okay so lunches over here are nowhere near as impressive haha. We don’t have a freezer, just an ice box which is most full of breast milk. So our lunches are more simple as I don’t have time to cook a lunch every day!

We tend to do finger foods for lunch. Easy stuff like bits of cheese, cherry toms, cucumber, peppers. Rice cakes, bread, pasta. Yoghurt and bits of every type of fruit. Scrambled egg, wee strips of chicken or fish. I often throw in a few of those wee baby snack things you can buy - apple biscotti, sweet corn puffs, tomato crispy things.

Sometimes I do a spoonfeed from a pouch or of the previous night’s dinner.

I have no excuse not to put more effort in really, as I’m only in work 2 or 3 days.

greenttc

No need to up your game I honestly just think it makes my life easier to have a day of cooking and make loads of all this stuff and freeze them, then i just pull a few bits out and defrost them, a minute in the microwave for most things, quicker than toast! The beauty of it is you could just defrost one small thing maybe at four when she gets hungry again and it hopefully won’t spoil her dinner, maybe she is more of a smacker.

My son can be aaaaawful at eating sometimes, you make him some lovely dinner that took a while to prepare and he just isnt in the form to eat at all and other days he is ravenous and will eat anything, you just never know, so frustrating! So i find having little bite size things mean you can start with one and see how you get on cause it is so quick to prepare.

Also should have added to the list above, goats cheese spread on rice cakes or mini baby bel cheese are popular with us too andare quick and easy!

greenttc

Oh god caitriona i could not survive without my freezer!!!!!! As you can see!

We do raw veg like you too but my wee man just doesnt like it as much, would be alot easier though! He out right refuses to eat those pouch meals too, just shuts his mouth and turns his head!

Id say he would love those puff things though but i havent tried them yet

catrionanic

New tricks here are pointing to where he wants to go, making snorting noises when I ask him what the piggy says, and half-using his walker! I still need to grasp the back of his jumper and he’s not really steady enough to use it himself, but he flies along looking pure delighted with himself (but also slightly demented) as I run along behind him!

Decided on the joie spin 360 car seat, so that’s been ordered. Got a good deal in Black Friday sales. It was pricey but I figure there’ll be another baby along behind him to get use out of it too!

Sleep is amazing this last two weeks. He usually wakes up once a night. Takes a while to get him down as he’s playing me up a bit (but will go straight to sleep for his Daddy), and naps are still only 20-30 mins long, but I’ll take it in exchange for all the wonderful sleep we are getting! At long last!

fits

Where did you get the joie spin? We have our eye on it too.

Sleep terrible here. Twin 2 woke every hour last night and woke his brother every time so I had to tandem feed them back to sleep. I’d be looking at separating them if I could. Twin 2 having a growth spurt or something. He is ravenous.

greenttc

I have the joie spin 360 and have used it for a few months now as thw car seat from the travel system was just too heavy for me.

I LOVE the joie spin, mostly live the spin part cause it makes it so easy to use, no stretching! It is fairly comfy looking. It also reclines a bit which I like to use in the hopes of wee man sleeping on longer journeys. I also like the tiny feature of two little fabric loops either sode of the chaor which I hook the two parts of the buckle into, it means they are out of the way when you are putting your baby in and you are not searching underneath them. Such a simple feature yet brilliant!

The bad parts, I think there are two, the first is that I have read that despite it saying it will suit them up to 4yrs old I have since read tall babies may be out of it as early as 2 years old. And secondly I find that the straps get a bit twisted sometimes which is annoying but if you are careful and take your time this wont happen.

Overall I would buy it again if I was getting another chair. Even that it will save my back for about two years is worth it!

fits

We are going to keep our lads in the infant seats for another few months. I just don’t take the seats out of the car now. But thought it would be handy to have a second set of car seats hence the looking. Interesting about growing out for height. The lads are 9th and 25 th percentiles for weight but 50 th for height so that’s something to think about. Daddy is tall too and it was the only seat we tried which fitted behind the drivers seat with him in it.

catrionanic

fits wrote: »

Where did you get the joie spin? We have our eye on it too.

Sleep terrible here. Twin 2 woke every hour last night and woke his brother every time so I had to tandem feed them back to sleep. I’d be looking at separating them if I could. Twin 2 having a growth spurt or something. He is ravenous.

Very.co.uk. They have the pewter grey one for £199 including the base. Plus £3.99 delivery. Apparently they’re low in stock though.

Edit: I should say, delivery up north. Not sure whether they deliver to the south or not

catrionanic

So sorry to hear that sleep is awful. Every hour is TOUGH. Have you any plans to put them into separate rooms?

When we have baby number two, they’ll have to share a bedroom. Which may mean lots of wakeups!

greenttc

Oh, actualy, it ght be worth saying that when i got mine i wanted to get it in smyths as the had a 20% off sale but at the time i had a one for all voucher to use which smyths wouldnt take so i went to halfords and they said they price match so was able to get it there using my voucher. Point i am making is that they price match so may do that for you if delivery will be expensive or a problem, worth ringing amd asking anyway. Also they had it in black where as smyths only had red.

smaoifs

Developmental check today. She's 20lbs and is 73cm long. Delighted with everything!

tangobelle2010

smaoifs wrote:

Developmental check today. She's 20lbs and is 73cm long. Delighted with everything!

That's great. Always a relief to get that over with.

After two weeks of having a great sleeping, settled baby, another dose of cold arrives! Its such a winter of discontent and its only November! Bracing ourselves for a rough night ahead.

She's flying though. She's so fast now walking along with the furniture and is saying dadada when her dad around and gagaga when my dad around! Its just amazing to hear

catrionanic

Great to hear fhat all the babies are flying it! Hope sleep isn’t too awful tonight tango. We were down to just one wake up for a while, and then back to two (which is good, given his past record!), but has now increased to three unfortunately.

Are any babas in the group being raised bilingually? My husband speaks only welsh to the baby; no English at all. Just in the last couple of weeks, he’s starting to show real understanding of both languages, which is really cool!