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Danda08
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Posted: 10 May 2012 at 8:39pm |
My two have given up on stories at the moment, they just can't sit still! It's weird cos DH has been reading them stories before bed since they were 3 months old.
We're getting there on the potty training front too - and without me trying (cos I keep putting it off). Lexi told me she'd done poos the other morning (which is normal), I checked her nappy, nothing but she kept insisting so asked if she wanted the potty, she giggled. Sat her on it and ta da - poos!
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Hibiscus
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Posted: 10 May 2012 at 8:49pm |
July 2010 Bubs get a new sibling!
birdie - Emily is now a big sis to Spencer
rachamos - March 2 - will let her fill in the rest
ItchyFeet - February 15.....surely we have bubba now
Sally - July 4
Booski- July 5 (surprise)
HotMummy - August 7
Red - August 13
Baygirl - October 5
JaneS - October 7
Gypsynita - October 14
Raspberryjam - October 19
not updated, but I thought I bring this forward (no I am not on it)
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Posted: 10 May 2012 at 8:51pm |
Aww, thought you were updating cos you had some news to share!
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Hibiscus
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Posted: 10 May 2012 at 9:52pm |
lol, would love to. but we're going overseas for 3 months over the winter, and I so don't want to deal with MS then. Especially since I will be travelling by myself with my two girls with DP joining us in the middle of the trip (he can't stay away from for so long).
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hotmummy
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Posted: 11 May 2012 at 12:12pm |
James broke his little tea cup, that is the end of that. Only got it because it was in the charity shop for 50c!
Hibiscus, James also spills drinks on purpose. He has a nice drink bottle with big straw type thing but sometimes not keen for some reason.
Yay for success on potty those of you above. Still putting James on it but some days not so often, he is in nappies though again and take it off to put him on.
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Posted: 11 May 2012 at 1:55pm |
hotmummy, my girls have broken 4 tea cups (espresso cups) - all cheap as too. Since they have had real crockery from the start (except suction cup bowl) I am going to to carry on letting them have it, so they get the idea that it's fragile. They broke a plate the other day by banging it on the table and got a bit of a fright when the shards went everywhere. Had a tiny amount of blood too! Finally they have an inkling of an idea what it means when I say 'it can break'.
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Hibiscus
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Posted: 12 May 2012 at 7:44pm |
JaneS, I've looked at a book with them while they have their milk for rhe last two nights and it has improved things a bit! So thank you!
Chex, also meant to say a big Thank You to you for the advice about brushing their teeth first before letting them have a go by themselves. It took them a while to get used to it, but it has made a huge difference! It's still not 100% perfect but from not being able to brush their teeth at all we have now a success rate of perhaps 7 out of 10. They let us brush their teeth now, it's just the quality of the job that's not ideal.
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Posted: 13 May 2012 at 9:32pm |
Thats great Hibiscus glad to have helped :)
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Posted: 15 May 2012 at 11:45am |
I sometimes give James or he takes from dishwasher real cups, he also has broken a few. Is getting good at breaking things in general including ripping his books
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Posted: 15 May 2012 at 1:05pm |
Anyone have ideas for resolving constipation?
My girls have gone from 3+ sloppy poos/day to 1 hard one and Mia is so miserable trying to get it out. It's all she talks about, poor little thing.
They eat lots of fruit including kiwifruit and rasins. Can't get prunes or prune juice into her. She's drinking good amounts of water. I've tried brown sugar & boiled water (wasn't sure how much to give though?).
Any other thoughts or should I take her to the Dr?
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Posted: 17 May 2012 at 11:46am |
Danda have you tried something like weetbix? do they eat much bread?
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Posted: 18 May 2012 at 8:54pm |
They eat porridge every day for breakkie and 1-1.5 pieces of bread each day. i think it's happened cos they have now started refusing even the sachets of pureeed baby vege so aren't any ANY veges at all I
I ended up taking her to the Dr and getting something. Took two doses to get things moving but she now has a completely red raw bum from all the attempts. Poor little mite.
I've gotta get veges in to them somehow!!
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Posted: 18 May 2012 at 11:55pm |
Other than the things you already mentioned, Danda, my doctor recommended beetroot (I wonder whether that includes drinking the juice if you use those from the tin?). Dried fruit ( includes raisins) need an extra intake of water or they dry you out. So if constipation is a problem I wouldn't give raisins also because they contain a lot of sugar and sugar is a number one culprit for constipation. Banana is really bad for that reason too. I think prunes are ok because they are fibrous. You could also pre soak the prunes overnight and add them to the porridge. Poor wee poppet I hope it resolves itself soon.
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Posted: 19 May 2012 at 12:55pm |
Oh good idea re soaking the prunes and adding to the porridge! Will do that
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Posted: 20 May 2012 at 4:41pm |
Danda we have a complete anti-vege kid here too! we did BLW and everything, but still won't touch them. I'm hoping its just a phase, as he's quite fussy with a lot of things, they all get called 'hot' and he just won't even try things. He'll surprise us occasionally, the other night we had a creamy mushroom chicken dish and he ate the lot all by himself, which was good as it had onions in it, but thats a rarity at the moment. so hope its just a phase!
Hope your girls constipation improves!
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Posted: 20 May 2012 at 8:03pm |
Haha speaking of anti-vege kids, we had stew for dinner, and decided to take a bit of a tough-love approach this time, so he had to have a certain number of bites of stew before he was allowed to leave the table. We managed to get all the bites into him, after a lot of tears and protestations, but he then proceeded to vomit immediately after the last bite.... we can't decided if it was a parenting win that he even ate bites at all, or a parenting fail!
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Posted: 20 May 2012 at 8:42pm |
Jane, I hate the feeling when you Wonder whether you should have done things differently. I wonder whether my girl got stung by a wasp today as she started to scream and I saw a wasp flying away from her face. We couldn't detect a sting, but she was screaming in shock/pain? for half an hour. I felt so guilty because I had chased away the wasp from their food bowl, but then not thought about making sure the wasp doesn't go near my eating girls.
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Posted: 20 May 2012 at 8:47pm |
Max is the same here too and we use either prune juice or lactulose (sp) that the doctor gave us and it works too. Its horrible watching them trying to get it out.
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Posted: 20 May 2012 at 8:51pm |
My girls love feijoas, they are quite gritty and I would think that they loosen things up a it.
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Posted: 21 May 2012 at 11:34am |
My girls are pulling everything off the shelves at the moment and I got quite upset about it this morning which led to a very firm NO. Totally pointless though as they did it again two minutes later. So regretted yelling at them as it is not something I wanted to repeat, so when they did it again I just left them to it, which means I am inconsistent.
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