Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Re feeding your second child

43 replies

tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 10/04/2011 21:50

DC1 = I was very much virgin gut, no sugar, no crap however as he has got older the chocolate biscuits, carton of apple juice etc all normal picnic treats etc have appeared on the menu. I don't see it as an issue as its all part of a balanced diet HOWEVER DS2 who is 15months is seeing all this and as we did BLW, helps himslef to it all. He is eating things which had DS1 eaten at that age I would have cried, nothing that bad but today he drunk a carton or pure apple juice in 10secs flat and I did think god this teeth, but major tantrum when offered his water cup instead.
WDYT??

OP posts:
StealthyKissBeartrayal · 10/04/2011 21:51

he's a second child :o

StealthyKissBeartrayal · 10/04/2011 21:52

I'm fairly sure DS fed DD a chocolate button when she was 4m - he had a half empty bag and she had chocolate round her mouth and looked pleased.
Whoever heard of a toddler who shares his sweets??
DS's first chocolate ever was on his birthday

Itberete · 10/04/2011 21:53

lots of children hate water, maybe water down the juice?? .. and like everything, just needs to be given in moderation ... firm rules.... all too easy for our children to dictate what they want and get...

Original poster
tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 10/04/2011 21:53

I blame BLW!! And as you say the first borns!

OP posts:
FriedEggyAndSlippery · 10/04/2011 21:54

Yep same here OP :)

I do feel a bit bad about it sometimes but then I think it'd be worse to restrict him and tell him "you can't have that but dc1 can"

Original poster
tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 10/04/2011 21:55

I think its really copying that DS2 likes not so much the juice as he loves water. What he likes is to hold a carton and drink through a straw....

Is apple juice terrible re teeth? I was kind of hoping the straw would help?!! I get so confussed about fresh juice verses squash etc.... He does love water though.

OP posts:
Original poster
tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 10/04/2011 21:56

Second borns just copy so much don't they!

OP posts:
headfairy · 10/04/2011 21:59

dd is also 15 months and has to pretty much have whatever ds haves or she goes in to total meltdown. That includes fruit juice in cartons. She sometimes has one a day, which is terrible I know, but she's the same, she wants the carton and the straw. I'm trying to address it, this week we went to the Disney store and bought them both hideous sparkly cups with straws. ds got a Toy story one and dd some hideous pink Disney princess one. It's got a straw built in to it, and I usually give her water in it, however, if she's really set on juice then I give her a splash with loads of water.

notnowbernardImBoilingTheBunny · 10/04/2011 21:59

i think juice/squash etc fine with meals but not inbetween

yes the subsequents get everything the poor-old first borns didn't Grin

JjandtheBeanlovesUnicorns · 10/04/2011 22:00

DC1- organic, home made, no chocolate until 2.

DC2- home made, first chocolate button at 7mo, and it wasnt a white one Blush

theyre now 2 and 3 and both eat brilliantly and accept only juice at breakfast

colditz · 10/04/2011 22:02

Ha

Ds1 didn't get peanut butter until he was 3 years and 9 months. Allergies in our family, donchaknow...

Ds2 promptly crawled over to Ds1's plate and filled his face with peanut butter. I didn't even think to stop him!

onepieceoflollipop · 10/04/2011 22:05

We used to give our dds those "baby crisps" (organix) when they were tiny.
One day when dd2 was 2 and dd1 was 6 dd2 looked like Shock when she saw us all with a bag of Walkers and she had a handful of baby crisps on her plate. Very Put Out with us.
She gave us a big sneer, put her hands on her hips and stalked to the kitchen cupboard "my have these" she said in a very assertive tone and helped herself to some Walkers beef flavour. Grin

ratspeaker · 10/04/2011 22:07

By the time we got to our third she was helping herself to everything anyone else was eating
This included a strong curry

eew -the nappy after...

EdwardorEricCantDecide · 10/04/2011 22:08

i'm currently pregnant with DC2 and thought this was my chance to fix everything thats wrong with DC1's diet... am i being really naive then?

DS is very fussy and doesn't really eat anything with sauce, won't eat any kind of potatoes (i even tried hideous smilies) wont eat any of them.

i thought since i'll be doing all the annabel karmel recipes for weaning then he can have same just not pureed and as i'll be off work i can police/persevere with it. (he's usually with GPs who give in to him everytime, MIL asked me if he should have MICRO CHIPS the other day Shock i let her give him them knowing he wouldn't eat them due to potatoe thing Grin

so you think this won't work then and ill end up with 2 kids with terrible diets? Sad

Lonnie · 10/04/2011 22:11

This thread has made me cry with laughter..

dd1 homemade organic no chocolate until she was 18 months and then only white..
at age 13 now a faddy eater with "interesting" tastes.

dd2 home made organic with some conveinence included had chocolate and whipped cream at 7 months old.
at age 11 will eat most things apart from egg and cheese sauce

ds BLW (cant be counted as had mutible intolerences as a baby but he did have mac D's chips about 10 months old as his sisters sharrred) now my best eater Will eat anything bar steak

dd3 BLW no clue when she had choclate first time i have no reccollection of it being a big deal.. she certainly had Mac D's before age 1 and Im sure chocolate before.. now at age 7 a fussy fussy eater wont touch food that touches each other (so caseroles are out) and will only eat a specific (bizarelly put together) range of foods..

FriggFRIGG · 10/04/2011 22:14

this week DS 7months,helped him self to peanut butter toast for breakfast,scrambled egg for lunch,and eton mess for pudding....

not all on one day,and not really large quantities but i would have been horrified if DD had done this,
she had nothing but breast milk until 6 months and only home grown and prepared organic veg and fruit until she was a year,nothing that even resembled a pudding until 18 months...

i am more ashamed of the PFB aspect than DS eating the odd bit of egg...

Original poster
tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 10/04/2011 22:14

With DC2 I have the convidence to know give him his menal and if he has a tantrum I don't offer anything else. So I guess that is a big improvement from DC1 EdwardorEricCantDecide

OP posts:
GreenEyesandHam · 10/04/2011 22:17

I remember the hours and days of pureeing and freezing for my eldest. I don't actually remember feeding my second child at all.

I must have done, she's 10 now, no rickets, no scurvy, nothing.

notnowbernardImBoilingTheBunny · 10/04/2011 22:24

DD1 got fresh fish cooked with a cheese sauce

DD2 (with pre-schooler DD1) got frozen shop-bought fish cooked with a cheese sauce

DS (with school-age DD1 and DD2) gets fishfingers with the batter picked off

headfairy · 10/04/2011 22:25

edwardoreric You might find you have a totally relaxed dc2.... my ds is really fussy, I fretted and fussed etc over his eating, cajoling and persuading him to eat just one more mouthful, I'm usually too busy to notice dd while she polishes off everything that's put in front of her. Today for her tea she had baked potato with cream cheese and spinach topping, then reached over and finished off ds's baked beans on toast!

FunnysInTheGarden · 10/04/2011 22:25

abandon hope all yea who have a DC2.

DC1 all home made food etc etc. Shit eater now at 5. No fruit etc

DC2 all plum baby food, nowt homemade, but will eat anything we give him. So much easier, perhaps because we are more relaxed?

BTW, never did the no chocolate thing. DS1 loves the stuff, DS2 hates it........kids eh?...........

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 10/04/2011 22:39

Arf at Greeneyes.
I think I was similar. DS was pfb. I spent HOURS pureeing vegetables of every shape, size and colour, to make exciting combinations of pureed gunk to excite his tiny tastebuds.
When it came to dd, I couldn't be arsed with that just plonked her in a highchair and gave her a baby-friendly version of whatever the rest of us were having.

chipmonkey · 10/04/2011 22:42

I am expecting dc5. It goes more and more downhill the more you have.

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 10/04/2011 22:44

When I think of all that precious time I wasted, scalding blenders in boiling water so I could blend vegetables without his pfb little tummy encountering any nasty germs despite him eating every bit of crap off the floor he could find

PumpkinBones · 10/04/2011 22:46

DS2 at 18 months has been eating things for months I would literally have wept if DS1 had eaten. I was quite pfb about food. I'm actually cringing now, the more I think about it.