Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

Incidentally, my friend Gavin's wife gave birth to their lovely son, Jack. I don't have any pics (because I only just heard about it!), but I do have The Fall's "Fiery Jack" playing in my head.

Accidentally setting your nightshirt on fire at about baby-level because your tummy was sticking out over the stove eye is somehow more memorable for me.

meg, you're a week and a half ahead of me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf77-ZlgxlU

He still doesn't really have any words but he can do this!

The reason I couldn't pass on any of my maternity togs is that they were all indelibly stained on the belly from bonking into the kitchen counter.

My wife's sister ironed a nice big triangle onto her bump.

I read that as "bonking on the kitchen counter" and was getting all TMI!

Lytton is 6 weeks now and is settling into a sleeping pattern - he seems to need about 10-11 hours a day, and is sleeping for stretches of 6 or 7 at night. On the one hand I'm pretty delighted by this, on the other, 7 hours uninterrupted sleep for a 6-week-old can't be normal, can it? We've been feeding on demand and not waking for feeds since about the first week. He's not been weighed for a while but was putting it on at a fair clip last time he was, and during the day he feeds a lot, every couple of hours or so.

If he's piling on the pounds and consistently following a growth curve and everything else seems normal, I would just thank your lucky stars and not worry about it. Ava was a great sleeper from around 10 days old and happily hugged that 25th-percentile for months; Tallulah has been the very opposite but even she is sleeping from 11pm to around 4:30am on a regular basis now.

As if on cue, TG stirs at the sound of Alice Coltrane and it's time to level off six scoops of Cow & Gate into 180ml of water...

Don't worry about it! Especially if you formula feed (or a combination), it's normal for babies to sleep longer. You fed on demand from the first week? You learned faster than I did!
And if you're *lucky* Lytton might go for four hours at a time from tomorrow. It's not uncommon for a baby to *fool* the 'rents. ;-)

TOMORROW OPHELIA IS ONE YEAR OLD. HURRAH! :-)

There should be an unsubmit panic button.

http://www.cafepress.com/schwantz.101126388

we are seriously trying to ferberize the kid now, it is a bitch

At around 7, we feed them a big bottle of breast milk each (twins). Then, at 8:30, we bathe them (and blow-dry them - they love that!). Finally, one more feeding, swaddling (this is key - you may THINK they don't like to be swaddles, but they probably do), and some holding until they start to drift off. They usually sleep 6 hours after all that.

http://www.kiddopotamus.com/p_swad.php

Alice is in a fairly predictable routine now - unfortunately it's a routine that involves sleeping all day (waking briefly for feeds every 4 to 5 hours), screaming incessantly for no discernable reason between about 7pm and 9pm, then feeding every 2 to 3 hours at night without always going back to sleep properly in between. Any tips for reversing this pattern so the long sleeps are at night? (Oh and ideally for losing the evening screams altogether, of course).

At 1 month:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/359488580_4588011fcd.jpg?v=0

More, of course, at sterlingwolk dot com.

http://www.douglasandlisa.com/sterling/s132.jpg

he started crawling (and standing up) in the past two weeks:

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/356265761_f3e181c6b9.jpg

Ava and Edith browse hat catalogues:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/356276740_c663cb3d97.jpg

Alice was up at 3 and 6, unfortunately.

Tallulah has got so big and bonny considering how little she was to start with. Amazing!

Still, it's a good sign that the little one is ready to go through the night at 11 weeks.

Oh no, this is perfectly normal: Babies often cry at the end of the day because of the tiring day they had. :-)

The year just flew by. I can still remember putting her in the crib next to us, worrying and stroking her bald head. Now she sits beside me taking all the ribbons out of the box (in the shop) saying "dadada." She's been such an easy baby. This and a crap memory - so I can't remember that well how I walked around like a zombie - make you long for a second one. :-)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/359277623_a788cccf35.jpg?v=0

opening up her presents. not all because the real party is on sunday.

Happy birthday, Ophelia. It looks like her present was a dog's bottom.