Jan/Feb/Mrch 2012 Momies to Be

Morning Ladies,

Jamie had a fanstatic day at school yesterday. They had a party from 11 till 1, which included a waterslide, now if you know Jamie, you would know this is his best thing every, WATER! So needless to say he played the most and was the wettest! When the teacher wanted to turn the water off after 1 after all the kids left, Jamie walks up to her at the tap, put his hands on his hips and says "nee moenie"! He is cute! Comes home with new words every day.

See my son is a bit behind, so yes, he doesn't speak that many words, but you can understand him. He is well behaved, but has no routine, or well a semi routine in anyway. But now I need advice. So you all know that I have moved Jamie to his big bed, and first night went well. He fell a sleep late because of the sugar overdose he had yesterday, woke up at 1am, didn't get out the bed just called for me, which made me so proud and happy. I got into bed with him, then only noticed it wasn't because he wanted me but because his tummy was sore. So gave him something and in about a hour he fell a sleep again. And slept through, so I would say not a bad night at all!

Now the advice I need. Jamie loves his milk, but also loves his food. I have been trying to wean him off his milk. But he has about 3 a day of 250 ml, this is soya milk. But he still drinks out of a bottle and refuses the sippy cup. He will drink water out of a normal bottle but messes like crazy. SO now, how many bottles a day of milk? Then how do I move him off the milk during the night. He has a half a bottle before bedtime, then during the night the rest, then a half a bottle in the morning, and before nap time in the afternoon another bottle. AND how do I get him off the bottle? I mean what age is right for this, and how do I get him to take the sippy cup? I have tried the nuk sippy cups, the avent ones, and even one with a straw?! He doesn't like the nuk because you have to suck really hard, the avent is easier and the one with straw he hasn't mastered yet.

Please help! I feel like an idiot.

Carlene such a nice pic a baby.

@ Carlene wow thats is so cute i cant wait to see my lil pumpkin its been long i have an appointment next week we will be 21 weeks pregnant i cant wait

I'm such a FB junkie and was looking for a "like" button on the 'photo of nunu' and I saw a ♥ Thank You button which I clicked. I'm not sure what it is for but I meant it as a "like", so thanks for sharing

A photo of Nunu...

Amanda, it is the October issue. Jamie is in a playgroup, so he sleeps on a mattress in anyway. They seem to have no problem with just putting him down, he takes his bottle and she says he is out about 10 minutes later, but when I try this at home, all hell breaks loose.

It is difficult for us to keep a routine, my company is not very relaxed. If there is work to be done they keep me all hours of the night, so one week everything is fine and the next week it is horror!

Is it the October 2011 issue of Living and Loving with the toddler sleep article?

I want to move my son to his own bed too before baby comes. The toddler bed is in his room and he can climb on by himself and he plays there and sometimes 'read' there. I want to start with his day time naps in there next month (when he'll be 18 months).

I also have a firm(ish) routine - 5pm supper, 6pm bath and wind down to bed by latest 7pm but he's on the boob for not even 10 minutes and he's out, shame .

He still doesn't sleep through but only a few months back he woke 2 hourly (horror times!) he now only wakes once or twice where I give him water and he sleeps further. But he is a VERY early waker: some times 3:30am, 4am, 4:30am and latest 5am. Mostly it's 4:30am. But I think that stems from when I was working and pregs with him - I started work at 6am (got to leave work 3pm - yay).

I'm still not sure how to drop the morning and evening boob feeds. My tummy gets in the way and I don't think I want to tandem feed!?! I just feel guilty as he loves it so much and it is super convenient

Enjoy your get together ladies, take photos.

Congrats on the little girl!

Smooth pregnancies everyone x