OK. So my 9 month old daughter, who normally eats very well, has suddenly become very fussy at breakfast time.  She's fine at other mealtimes but it is refusing her weetabix (literally spitting it out).  If I give in, she'll happily eat a youghurt/fruit but I would rather she had something wholsesome.  I tried letting her sit it out this morning - didn't offer her any alternatives, and she just fell asleep in her highchair!  Breakfast needs to be a fairly quick affair for me as we go out most mornings so I don't really want a long drawn out process but I would prefer it if she ate what I gave her!  Any suggestions?

Don't push her, if she doesn't want weetabix just try something else. Did you try to give her regular baby cereal (rice, oatmeal or mixed)? My DD was eating this for quite some time, and you can add a friut or vegetable puree in it, or a grated yolk.  Baby's taste changes and one day they refuse the food they were happy to eat before. Just switch to something else and in a couple of weeks try weetabix again.

Congratulations ZaJa!!! Your son is amazing and you did a great job!!! And thank you so much for sharing. Videos like these are very inspiring. Karma to you for your hard work and for your baby brilliance 

My DD never crawled/creeped (neither did I as a baby). We didn't do anyhting special exept putting toys ahead of her and I put DD on the carpet, on the tile and on the wood floor (for a smooth glide if she wants to move) - nothing happened. After she started walking (at 13 months) she mastered creeping /crawling and now she is running around with no problem. So if your baby doesn't want to creep/crawl don't get frustrated about it, it will happen sooner or later.

If you are expecting your first baby, would you tell everyone (outside your parents and brothers) immediately or do you think it is better to wait some weeks because maybe something could go wrong and you loose your baby.

I was trying to wait as long as I could but my husband couldn't wait to share with the whole world (we live in the US). When I had my ultrasound done I let him spread the news. I was about 5-6 weeks. I think it's a cultural thing, they believe in black eye (evil eye) in my native country, so usually people are trying to wait with announcing as long as they can just in case if something goes wrong. My Mom didn't tell my father that I was pregnant untill 3-4 months, didn't tell her own sister untill 6 months!!! After my daughter was born my Mom was happy to tell everyone. Oh, and it considered a bad luck to buy things before the baby is born, so no baby showers there. Younger generation is probably taking everything easier I'm just talking about my Mom's point of view and the people around her.

What languages are those? ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Which are the father's and/or mother's NATIVE language?  father's ENGLISH, mother's RUSSIAN
- Maybe you only use other material like LR, powerpoints, videos etc but you do not speak that language? RUSSIAN CARTOONS, SONGS, POWER POINT
- What is your home language? I speak both languages to the child and my husband speaks only English.

Thank you, hypatia. It sure is inspiring. Karma to you for the link.

My dd loves playing with her cards & I often have a couple of sets in with her bag of toys to occupy her when we go out.  Mine are laminated, so it is not a problem if she is a little rough.  The biggest problem is her read & throw method.  It is not fun to have to pick up & sort dozens of cards into categories!

I used to take the flash cards with us in the car or when we were going to visit somebody. DD was occupied for some time. Oh, she is picking them up all by herself now. We have a rule: if you know how make a mess, you should know how to clean up    At 21 months she does a pretty good job with  putting her toys, cards and books away. I don't sort the cards, doesn't make sense if she will mix them up again next morning. I keep the cards for our matching game separate and don't give them together with all the rest cards for her to play just to avoid sorting.

Hi I am 34 years old and my husband is 40. We have been married for 18months and have been trying to fall pregnant. still no luck. How long did it take you to fall pregnant? any tips or advice?

Did you try an ovulation kit? I was 29 and my husband 43    After 3 months of useless efforts I got an ovulation kit. 2 months later I got pregnant. Don't get frustrated, I'm trying to get pregnant again and I asked my doctor for an advice, the only thing she said: get an ovulation kit and when your ovulation comes (48 hour period) do that as many times as you can. The more the better, assuming your husband has a normal sperm count. If after 4 (or 6, read the instructions that comes with the kit) months this doesn't work for you, then see the doctor.

Thx for sharing, jaluitgirl . After a couple of days playing with the cards she is not so excited about them anymore. But she is still happy to play a matching game. She knows all the words from the flash cards so I put 9 cards with the names of animals on the floor (she reads them while I'm doing that) and give her a bucket with 11 animals. She takes one animal, says its name and puts it on top of the right card. She says "no sheep" if she cannot find a card with the word sheep, puts that sheep aside and takes the next animal.
 

Neither for me 

Thank you for answering. We tried this program but looks like DD is too small for it. Need to wait, may be promotion like this will come up again.

Thank you for sharing, LilyAndOwensMom. I'm going to use more of Power Point now. She likes it and no problem with grabbing. I want to try to play a matching game tomorrow we'll see how this goes (with old cards only).

Has anybody tried to register recently? The code window is not showing up for me 

I have a couple of questions for you, Does your daughter wants the flashcards to ply with them or read them ??Do you usually hide the flashcards from her after you are done reading them?
If I know this answers I will probably have a better understanding of your daughter's behavior.

Thank you for replying PY, I really appreciate it.
I put the cards high up so that she can't reach but she knows where they are and goes around that place begging me. I used to show her a card and then give it to her, she just looked at it, turned it and put it aside. I gave her YBCR cards yesterday (she know them all already) and she just looked at some of them, named some of them, put them back together and gave them to me. In 5 minutes she started asking for those cards again. I want to start dot cards and with such an attitude I will not be able to do flashing. Looks like such behavior is not common for the kids because only PY answered 

My little one is going crazy about flash cards. She starts screaming as soon as she sees them and is trying to pull them out of my hands. This problem came around 18 months old. I didn't worry about it because by that time we were pretty much done with YBCR and she knew almost all of the words. We took a break from the flash cards for about 2 months and today I showed her flash cards in Russian for the first time. She was puzzled to see something new so the session went fine, as soon as I was done she started screaming: "Cards!" and trying to pull them out of my hands. Now whenever she sees the cards in my hands she is trying to get them  May be some of you have been through this already? Please share what you did in such situation.

We have a Delux set
5 DVD's
5 Wipe clean word cards +1 Erasable pen - didn't use it too much, got a doodle thing later
5 Lift a flap books - my daughter loves them (it has words, pictures and sentences)
50 Flash cards (I think they mean sliding cards here) - loved them
82 Double-sided word cards (I think they come in the basic set too) - loved them
1 Parents guide
3 Free gifts: loved the book that comes here, never really listen to those CDs.

All in all from the Delux set we loved sliding cards, lift a flap books and a book with sliding words.
The difference in price is huge and it's up to you to decide. I don't regret getting a delux variant, beacuse my daughter is still crazy about those lift a flap books and sliding cards (I guess she just likes the idea of playing peek-a-boo with the words).