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Measured and weighed my boys yesterday as they both had a shoot up.

My 8 year old, who was 3 months premature, is 1 inch away from being 5 foot! And he weighs 43kg :) he's done so well to not only catch up, but overtake and become an absolute beast :)
 
Anyone used Philips advent natural response bottles for feeds with newborns?

Struggling with them atm and taking absolutely forever to finish as little as 20mm (probably close to an hour)

I’ve lined up the air vent hole with the notch on the bottle.
 
trentlad said:
Then the hell on earth starts:
- the fighting
- the mood swings
- talking over each other and causing both to explode
- then the one who is allowed to talk stretches it out so the other can't talk
- the fight to prevent constant snacking before dinner
- during dinner just walking off half way through
- the begging to not finish the bowl of dinner which is already tiny since I know it's a fight to finish
- then the immediate snacking after dinner cos they only had four bites
- the fight when getting them to clear up their own mess
- the mood swings
- the mood swings
- the mood swings
- the anger when told it's bed time, even after the 20 minute early heads up with reminders every 5 minutes leading up to it
- not being able to focus on anything or complete a thought due to the constant begging for attention despite giving them plenty already
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And thats just the wife.
 
Assume plenty of you are getting the last minute calls from nursery to come and collect your kids in the middle of the day because its too hot.
 
fez said:
Assume plenty of you are getting the last minute calls from nursery to come and collect your kids in the middle of the day because its too hot.
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I was a bit worried school would call me as was baking hot. would have sucked if they had as I was 20 miles away in a beer garden. thankfully our teachers are made of sterner stuff and chose to not wuss out and go home :D
 
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fez said:
Assume plenty of you are getting the last minute calls from nursery to come and collect your kids in the middle of the day because its too hot.
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Ours haven't been too bad considering how quick they can be to send them home at other times. They've messaged around 2/2.30 the last couple of days to say come and get them if you can so by the time I could actually get there it's not been far off normal time.
 
NVP said:
My 8 year old, who was 3 months premature, is 1 inch away from being 5 foot! And he weighs 43kg :) he's done so well to not only catch up, but overtake and become an absolute beast :)
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Nice! Hoping our 6 year old does some catching up soon, he's only 16kg, bought him some new clothes yesterday and he's still in age 3 bottoms* and age 4 tops :(





* Well, shorts are easy, but trousers are a bit of a struggle as he's getting tall, so they're either 2 inches up around his ankles or 3 sizes too big round his waist
 
Aww bless haha yeh my youngest was/is like that. He is 7 now and shot up recently but he had a size 3 waist for years and still fits into 5-6 clothes around the waist no problem but length is a completely different story :D
 
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Love hearing these stories, reminds me of when my two were younger.

Just wait. One day you'll wake up and discover time has fast forwarded. You're daughter is just about to start her final year at uni and your son is 6ft and benching 120kg and is starting uni in a couple of months.

Then it'll be just my wife and me. Planning a holiday for October to cushion the blow. It's going to be so strange not having either of them around.
 
Hodders said:
Love hearing these stories, reminds me of when my two were younger.

Just wait. One day you'll wake up and discover time has fast forwarded. You're daughter is just about to start her final year at uni and your son is 6ft and benching 120kg and is starting uni in a couple of months.

Then it'll be just my wife and me. Planning a holiday for October to cushion the blow. It's going to be so strange not having either of them around.
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Just wait. You'll have grandkids that you love but test your patience when they stay over.
You'll then become the defacto baby sitter / tradesman for anything diy related, then you suddenly realise you have over 3000 photos of the grandkids on your phone and you need more storage.
On the plus side you don't have to get dressed on the weekends/ after work if you don't won't to:D:eek:
 
m4rmite said:
Just wait. You'll have grandkids that you love but test your patience when they stay over.
You'll then become the defacto baby sitter / tradesman for anything diy related, then you suddenly realise you have over 3000 photos of the grandkids on your phone and you need more storage.
On the plus side you don't have to get dressed on the weekends/ after work if you don't won't to:D:eek:
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I still remember my grandad saying that sometimes he looked in the mirror and was shocked to see an old man looking back.
 
Craterloads said:
Anyone used Philips advent natural response bottles for feeds with newborns?

Struggling with them atm and taking absolutely forever to finish as little as 20mm (probably close to an hour)

I’ve lined up the air vent hole with the notch on the bottle.
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I've not used them to give you any guidance on that specific bottle, but our son didn't get on with Tommee Tippie bottles but did get on well with both MAM and Lanisoh bottles.

Does the Philips bottles have different flow rate teets available? Perhaps you little one is struggling to suck milk out of a smaller teeth opening and going one larger as a test may help? We had to use 0 sized teets with our new born because he would inhale milk.
 
Mekrel said:
I've not used them to give you any guidance on that specific bottle, but our son didn't get on with Tommee Tippie bottles but did get on well with both MAM and Lanisoh bottles.

Does the Philips bottles have different flow rate teets available? Perhaps you little one is struggling to suck milk out of a smaller teeth opening and going one larger as a test may help? We had to use 0 sized teets with our new born because he would inhale milk.
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Switched to mam bottles which she likes and so do I for cleaning / sterilizing. Bought 8, 4 for upstairs nighttime feeds and 4 for downstairs.

Philips teat size was number 2 I believe with 1 being the slowest so not sure why it was so bad. Maybe just not suited to babies mouth.

Also tried the tommee bottles, which seemed really fast.

A 60ml feed on the Mam bottles last about 20 mins with a couple of burping breaks which sounds about right. 1 week old.
 
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