Recent content by kalia

DD takes 6oz bottles. We boil the kettle in the morning and make lots of 5oz bottles of water. When we need milk we boil a little water to top up to 6oz and that is the right temperature so we scoop in the powder and it's ready.

I am not for a second doubting you because you wouldn't have posted here unless you truly had completely run out of money. From your work's point of view though, it is extremely rare to genuinely be down to your last penny. I can understand why they are doubting you and you will not be...

I know you say she is grabbing at food but to be honest, having never eaten food from her point of view she is just grabbing stuff that looks interesting. Toys will also be grabbed and put in her mouth, it's not a sign of hunger. She gets all her nutrition from milk so giving food will be of no...

If he is pulling himself up to sitting you should be OK but never pick him up by the arms as that could cause damage. it's really easy to dislocates baby shoulders I've heard.

Personally I think it is more important to go by what your baby wants rather than the age guidelines. so if your baby wants to drink faster, go up a size. If you do and the milk flow is too fast go back down a size. After all, nipples stay the same so breastfed babies don't change teat size...

Aw bless!

I don't know what it was like 10 years ago but if there has been a change it will only be to give more choice rather than to change what there is - you can still buy terries, people do still use them and that's what I wore as a baby :) You haven't said what kind you have. We used shaped...

DD was in her own room from 4 or 5 weeks in a sleeping bag, on solids from 6 months, varied daytime naps but it wasn't until a week or so ago that she randomly started sleeping through from her 11pm feed to about 8am. No reason, it's just what she does now.

Personally I sometimes get colds for up to 3 months! Crazy but true. Not quite the same but DD used to be on antibiotics so that she didn't get a UTI as she had enlarged kidneys. I feel the last poster was suggesting you shouldn't give him antibiotics whereas your doctor wanted to take as a...

I googled this and found that he needs to apply for parental responsibility. If she won't agree to it then he'd have to apply for the parental responsibility through court.

I found DD was eating less food around 8 months but would still happily suck a tangerine to death :D I stopped giving tangerine or other fruit after every meal as although they are good for her I felt she was giving up on the rest of her food quickly so she could get the tangerine. Within a...

I think SMP goes up to £123 a week in April. And as the others have said, it is now 39 weeks paid maternity leave with an option to take an additional 13 unpaid weeks leave. Your employer can claim almost all of this money back from the government - over 90% of it - so there's no financial...

Oh no! You wouldn't be entitled to maternity pay from your new employer but you will be entitled to maternity allowance as long as you work for 26 weeks out of the 66 before baby is due.

Congratulations! DD was exclusively bottle fed expressed milk. If I am right, week one she had 30-60ml per feed but I can't remember how many feeds she had a day. Week 2 it went up to 60-90ml per feed, weeks 3 about 90-120ml per feed and by the end of week 4 she was on 6 feeds of 150ml. I...