about slow breakfasters on busy mornings?

[MrsBadger]

Workday mornings chez badger are a clockwork routine of well-honed efficiency - I get up, shower and dress, get 14m dd up, do breakfast and laundry and leave the house exactly an hour after my alarm went off.
There's even time built in for one emergency (extra bf, poo, refusal to get dressed etc).

Well, that was the story up when dd, who was a slow starter when it came to solids, wasn't especially interested in breakfast. Now she polishes off a bowl of mini shredded wheats and moves on to toast and hummus or cheese, then yoghurt and maybe some fruit... or at least she does at the weekend.
On weekday mornings the poor scrap barely has time to finish her cereal before she's bundled into the car.

They eat little-and-often at nursery, (morning milk, elevenses, lunch, afternoon milk, tea), and she has supper when we get home (and unlimited milk all night ) and she's a sturdy little thing with a podgy tum, so I know she's not actually going without...

but AIBU to not want to get up at 6am in order to serve my pfb a long, leisurely breakfast? [bleary]

Can't she have toast or a banana in the car? Do nursery offer breakfast?

no you are clearly not bu. Does she need sleep or food more? Does she need a grumpy mother who has to prop her eyes open or a mother that has the emotional energy to talk to her over breakfast and in the car?

Toast in the car might have legs once she has the hang of biting a bit off - atm she crams in a whole piece and wonders why her mouth is so full she can't chew.

I have passed bite-sized bits to her piece by piece on a particularly bad morning but I shudder to think how badly I must have been driving.

oh and she Does Not Do Bananas.

Awww, but she is so cute!

No YANBU, just give her porridge or something and some apple slices in the car.

Sympathy. I have the same problem, only my pfb is 3 and still hasn't got any faster. Now I give her a peanut butter sandwich cut into squares in a little pot so she can top up in the car.

Mine doesn't do bananas either.

Mini rice cakes in the car? Or bite sized cubes of toast in a little pot?

And do nursery definitely not provide breakfast? Ours used to provide cereal (eg readybrek, weetabix etc), toast and milk to the under 2s and just toast and milk to the over 2s.

How about a little pot with her bite sized toast in or even dry cereal (will mentioning Cheerios get me flamed ??)

I'm not a huge fan of eating on the go.
Can't you take her second course of toast, cheese, yoghurt, etc. in to nursery and she can have it there?

thing is when she gets to nursery everyone else is getting stuck into the books and the musical instruments etc and dd would be sat at the table by herself with her toast...

Well, then, am I being unreasonable to suggest you get up a bit earlier>

[sets alarm]

[cries]

YANBU. It sounds as though she's eating plenty throughout the day, she'll hardly be deprived if she has to be content with only one course for breakfast. You need your sleep.

LOL! Sorry but it may be your only option. Actually you are doing well to be up and out in an hour. What time do you have to leave?

toast is portable,

i have often kicked my kids out whilst screaming " get a bleedin' move on" fish wife stylee. as they run with toast in hand.

marvelous invention toast.

7.30 [yawn]
means my work day finishes early though

Ds used to have breakfast at home and then go in and have a second breakfast taken into nursery, followed by toast - then all the snacks, lunch and 2nds etc... But lots of children went in with breakfast to eat. We have done the pot with bite sized pieces in and they can get really good with this, although you do have to be prepared for crumbs everywhere (we now have a cover for the backseat which is really good at preventing crumbs being rubbed into the upholstery (and preventing dog hair too)). Museli bars are another option (again, these are best done into small pieces) - but beware of the high sugar and fat content in some of them - you might be able to do low-sugar oat based cookies that you could make at the weekend which would do the car journey all week?

I got a withering stare from headmistress today as my three children walked through school gates carrying toast in one hand and apple in the other. BUT - I really, really needed that extra 10 minutes in bed today. I agree with witchandchips - my children needed a rested mummy today more than a leisurely breakfast ( I get so grumpy when I am tired!)