Does anyone have intel as to whether either or both of these clubs have good soft play for a wriggly crawling 9 month old? Edinburgh costorphine is really nice for it now but wanting to visit people further west!
I want to meet a family member at a club local to them just to use the restaurant and soft play for my child (a DL member, as I am). The DL I want to use has the option to have a social pass tho some days are greyed out, not sure if they are not ever bookable or are just full. Will this be free if I go ahead and book an available time slot? I just don’t want to suggest it to my family member without knowing the details of whether there is a cost attached.
My baby is approaching 9 months and so far we’ve been doing BLW and I’ve mostly been going for soft fingers of food as my happy place for her - some exceptions eg chewing on a spring onion, shepherds pie dolloped on a plate, squished blueberries.
The solid starts app now says at 9 months that most servings should be bite sized pieces. I thought part of the finger thing was to give them practice chewing their own bite size bits? Or is it more just practically for picking up with a palmer grasp so it’s better to move on to practising pincer grip?my baby passed the cheerio test so definitely can pick up small bits.
A theme that I have consistently found through pregnancy and birth is how much guidance is based on super basic, lowest common denominator studies. Eg risk of SIDS basically nothing if you have a healthy weight baby baby and are a non-smoking household with mum over 30 and 1 child, at 2 months goes from 3 deaths in 100,000 if you are in different rooms to 1 in 100,000 if you share rooms (www.sidscalculator.com). Or reading Expecting Better and hearing the lack of data on all sorts of things.
Hearing that the WHO recommends breastfeeding until 2 (assuming that you can), I had thought that I would likely do that. However, while I do love the snuggles of breastfeeding, I have friends who have felt way more like themselves and healed better after stopping breastfeeding… and tbh I didn’t enjoy this summer how limited my clothing selection was. I’m currently thinking that I would like to keep going with it until baby is about 15 months (so early spring) to get her through first few months of nursery and provide any extra immunity I can. I’m also influenced by still healing from my episiotomy and tears from birth. Baby at 8.5 months doesn’t have upper teeth yet and there is a chance I will stop when she does if she starts biting though.
I wondered what people’s thoughts are on this, especially from those who have successfully breastfed? Is the WHO guidance based on anything in particular, or given its worldwide remit I’m wondering if some of this is about where drinking water might not be the safest?
(Unfortunately necessary disclaimer that of course fed is best and nothing is wrong with formula where necessary or desired)
A theme that I have consistently found through pregnancy and birth is how much guidance is based on super basic, lowest common denominator studies. Eg risk of SIDS basically nothing if you have a healthy weight baby baby and are a non-smoking household with mum over 30 and 1 child, at 2 months goes from 3 deaths in 100,000 if you are in different rooms to 1 in 100,000 if you share rooms (www.sidscalculator.com). Or reading Expecting Better and hearing the lack of data on all sorts of things.
Hearing that the WHO recommends breastfeeding until 2 (assuming that you can), I had thought that I would likely do that. However, while I do love the snuggles of breastfeeding, I have friends who have felt way more like themselves and healed better after stopping breastfeeding… and tbh I didn’t enjoy this summer how limited my clothing selection was. I’m currently thinking that I would like to keep going with it until baby is about 15 months (so early spring) to get her through first few months of nursery and provide any extra immunity I can. I’m also influenced by still healing from my episiotomy and tears from birth. Baby at 8.5 months doesn’t have upper teeth yet and there is a chance I will stop when she does if she starts biting though.
I wondered what people’s thoughts are on this, especially from those who have successfully breastfed? Is the WHO guidance based on anything in particular, or given its worldwide remit I’m wondering if some of this is about where drinking water might not be the safest?
(Unfortunately necessary disclaimer that of course fed is best and nothing is wrong with formula where necessary or desired)
While I wanted to use cloth from birth, unfortunately my daughter’s skin reacted and we have to do a mix of disposable and cloth only if she’s having a good day. Now she’s crawling I find the diaper-pants so much easier to put on than the traditional diapers. Do any cloth brands do these? All I have found so far is transitional pull up pants, and we are doing EC so this works for some catches if we’re at home next to the loo, but I was hoping for something bulkier/more absorbent à la traditional cloth nappies.
ETA- uk based and 8.5 months old currently
I’ve just finished (as far as possible) this series and really appreciated the writing and story! Any other recommendations? I like AU stories mainly set before or during school time period without too much smut and without super OPd characters.
We have a 7 month old that we’ve been attempting fairly consistent EC with since birth- top hat potty then normal potty. She has a distinct poop face/sound and we’ve caught nearly all solids for a good few months as well as a fair amount of liquid by offering after feeds. Recently we’ve been tending to put her on the toilet with a seat reducer as it’s so much easier to flush away the waste. I may be answering my own question but is the ideal to move to potty when she’s more independent so she can take herself there? Does it matter too much?
J’habite à Édimbourg où il y a plusieurs ‘cafés pour bébés’ avec des activités et surtout de l’espace pour les -2ans. Beaucoup plus petit que par exemple Raptor Parc. On est juste dehors Lyon ce juillet et je me demande s’il y a des choses pareilles ici?
I went on holiday and immediately have approx 30 bites which I am very allergic to. So far I have tried:
- beurer mini heat plate
- antiseptic cream
- hydrocortisone 2x per day
- cetirizine 1 x a day baseline, switch to piriton 1x 4 hours when I notice a bite
- lukewarm baths
I have also taken steps to protect my house eg temporary mosquito net in my bedroom, mosquito lamps and plug-in scent, but there is a limit to this as it’s not my house and I don’t want to buy stuff to throw out in 3 weeks as we won’t have room to take it home.
Any other suggestions to help deal with the bites? I’m so sore, hot and itchy, tho thankfully these steps seem to be avoiding the red patches spreading more than 1-2inches in diameter and I’ve only had a few welts come up…
I (7mo super cute smart cookie) have been tolerating something my mum (old) calls ‘elimination communication’ where she will put me on a large white chair with a hole in it and saying psss or grrrr or sometimes both. It seems to make her day and it saves me a heavy diaper so normally I oblige by making pee or poop. Today though I found out that the hole is big enough for me to put my hand in and I can feel the pee as it comes out of me! Now I think this is all natural and I love playing with water so I’m not sure why mum said ewww? But anyways she then took me to the sink to play with more water on my hand so I think it’s a double win!
We’re looking to break up a road trip from midlands to Scotland and thought we could stop off for a swim and dinner at DL. On the way down we went to Newcastle and while it was nice for a sauna for us, there wasn’t a kids pool and the kids restaurant area was small with eg no soft play. Is the one at Sunderland any better?
Bonjour, on sera à Champigny pendant 3 semaines en juin, mon mari va travailler et je vais m’occuper de notre bébé de 7mois. Chez nous j’ai l’habitude de la mettre dans une crèche pendant une ou deux heures par semaine pour que j’ai un petit moment à moi pour aller au gymnase ou me détendre un peu. Est ce qu’un tel possibilité existe à Reims? J’ai cherché sur Google mais ne trouvait que les ‘microcreches’ ou crèches qui envisagent un enfant inscrit pendant des mois.
In a few weeks time when my baby will be 7 months old, we will be going on a road trip, doing 4h on Thursday, 4h on Friday, staying put for the weekend travelling around London, then 4h on Monday. All places we are staying with friends who don't have kids.
I started weaning at about 5.5 months as she was sitting up independently, bringing stuff to her mouth, interested etc etc, and we wanted to tick off some allergens ASAP given the evidence about introducing egg and peanut before 6 months for eczema prone babies - all this to say that she will be about 6 weeks into weaning, and we've moved on from vegetable fingers to more of an adaptation of what we're eating, at the moment just once a day.
It is so messy! And I just wondered if people had any suggestions for anything that can be eaten less messily?
We're planning to break driving into 2h / 2h per day with a 2h gap in the middle for breastfeeding, walking, and potentially giving her some finger food given she normally eats late morning or early afternoon.
We've tried egg/peanut/oat/celery/fish allergens so far, we're currently dairy free to see if it helps her skin but may be back on by then, and will try wheat soon so thought pancake strips might be an idea?
Tried Indian but just couldn’t get into it…
I started weaning my 6 month old two weeks ago as she was super ready for solids in terms of interest, sitting up unsupported, and loss of tongue thrust reflex.
We’ve now been through about 12 different vegetables plus eggs and peanut butter and oats and I’m now wondering what the point is in keeping preparing stuff for her vs just giving her bits of what I’d make for us anyway? Like I’m happy if we eat fishcakes one day, and another day going to roast a chicken so will give her a drumstick with skin removed, and could do bean burgers. Surely as long as I don’t add salt, and it’s mashable (eg even if solid, mashes under pressure of an adult finger) then it’s all good for her to try?
On a un bébé de 6 mois et on essaie de lui parler en français et anglais (je suis écossaise mais bilingue). On a l’habitude avant des siestes et le sommeil de nuit de lire un livre; j’en ai trois en anglais qui a une bonne rime et cadence et qui se terminent avec les personnages qui vont au lit. Est ce qu’il y en a des livres semblables en français? On serait en France pendant l’été donc je vais pouvoir passer au fnac/vinted.fr!
Merci d’avance!
I’m looking ahead to mid June when we’ll be taking a long car journey (well several, planning to drive 4h/day over 3 days) with our baby who’ll be 7 months by then. She’s very alert and curious and doesn’t sleep much during the day ( we’ll try and make at least some of the journey coincide with her napping but she only naps for 2h15 currently across 3 naps). She used to hate the car but seems ok now, but wondering if anyone has any tips on things to keep her busy /calm. I have seen some busy board things online but not sure of the age range and also some of them seem just fairly plasticky.
Trialling going off milk to see if my wee one has CMPA. But breastfeeding munchies are strong! Chocolate digestives and buttery flapjacks were previously my easy snack… any good alternatives?
My 5 month old can roll just fine back and front and has for a month or so. Last night she rolled over and slept on her tummy for the first time- we’re not concerned about that as I know the guidance is it’s fine if they do it themselves- but the issue is that she’d been sleeping so well after sleep training, but this seems to have thrown her as she was crying on and off from about 4:15am until wake up at 6.30am - my husband went in to comfort her a couple of times, but it was more protest than anything else. She might also have been bored as we had to have a day at home yesterday rather than our normal going out and about so I’m wondering if her sleep need was lower as a result. Any similar experiences?