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Lizzie would not have a clue what I was doing if I did the naughty step! She has no concept of staying in the same place...or of time for that matter! Am I right in thinking you live with your mum? If so then you need to explain to her that it's too soon and show her what you'd prefer if you...

I stopped sterilising at 6 months but it's a personal preference thing I think. You don't need to go onto follow-on milk, but retailers are allowed to put offers on milk for 6 mths+ so you often get a better deal - plus you get points/can spend points on follow on milk in Boots. The earlier...

If your Mum's fairly confident then it'll probably all be absolutely fine and you'll wonder what you were ever worrying about :) He'll pick up on it if she's nervous too x

Little miss, posted at the same time as you and just read your post - did not know that! I would've really struggled without those ones early on....I still like them now for the 'no mess' factor!

Yep we were all fine with it! She was actually the first one to give Lizzie her beaker too as I was worried, but nothing to worry about! I found the type of beaker early on made a huge difference though - Lizzie could only use Morrisons own non-spill ones to begin with. They have a tube in the...

My siblings and I took a beaker from around 3 months as we wouldn't take a bottle and my mum wanted to start leaving us with other people by then or at least give her boobs some rest! Think Lou had a beaker from around 4 months for water but still had her milk from a bottle as that was her...

Eek, maybe I should be giving Lizzie a proper cup! I'm a bit scared though because although she can sip from a cup, she then tends to just fling it over her shoulder when she's done lol! It's hard enough with the mess when I let her feed herself with a spoon, let alone putting liquid into the...

I use shrinkpictures.com to resize mine quickly as my camera takes them at 12MB quality so waaay too big to put straight on here! You just upload them, click '25%' or whatever then it puts the smaller pic on the screen for you to download again :)

Thanks guys, I was just asking in case I was being over cautious with the resuables - I very rarely dare take her out wearing one because I don't trust them iykwim! I am using more now any way because I'm giving her time with them off every 2-3 hours (to give her practice sitting on potty) and...

*hugs* So sorry you've got such a crap HV! I went to a breastfeeding group that also talked a bit about weaning but I found it completely boring and it was just the same old stuff that I'd already read about/talked about with family/seen on here. I don't talk to my HV unless I have to, we...

Yep Lizzie went through the same phase, it was horrible! She's stopped now though, for the time being at least!

How long do your reusable nappies last your toddler before you change them? When Lizzie's in disposables they easily last 6 hours without irritating her or leaking so we only do a nappy change at lunchtime or an extra one if she does a poo. But I don't trust reusables as much so I change her...

When Lizzie was little we used a phil & teds carrycot instead of her moses basket. It has a firmer base and is also a LOT easier to carry about - I'm only little so found it difficult to lug a moses basket upstairs! This sort of thing...

Aww he is such a cutie!

I was on Microgynon for 6 years (and used it quite a lot back-to-back to avoid periods every few months) so it was well and truly in my system. Stopped taking it in February and conceived Lizzie mid March :) So it can happen!