to be intimidated by weaning because...

[marenmj]

I'll actually have to make DD healthy meals all day plus snacks?

I'll fully admit that I BF'd exclusively because I'm too lazy to bother with bottles and that we are now BLW at dinnertimes because I'm too lazy to puree , but I always swore BFing would end when DD aquired teeth.

I'm SO pround of DD, who is 6 months old, when she knocks back 5 pieces of a cucumber sushi roll at dinner, but my diet is utter rubbish. I barely manage more than tea before one pm! How am I going to manage multiple, healthy meals in one day? So much easier to just pop out a boob.

Crap, I'm going to end up one of those news stories about ladies BFing a five-year-old, aren't I?

Sorry x post, do you mean the raging thirst that overwhelms you when they latch on?
If so, I always found that very weird, apprently it's hormonal. DP got very quick at appearing with huge glasses of water as soon as I sat down to feed.
And yes it did get better for me

My problem with BLW is that DD2 (who wouldn't eat off a spoon hence the BLW) never (and I mean never, not once) ate a vegetable, no matter how hidden, spread, mashed, presented etc they were.

She is three and a half and has eaten her first veg ever a couple of months ago (3 peas).

No book/website on BLW has ever mentioned what to do if your child jsut refuses a whole food group.

Thanks, Montifer

Raging thirst, litres of water seemingly dissappearing , all of it.

DD has two bottom teeth and most definitely HAS bitten me, particularly during night feeds . She's learned that biting will only make me take away her milk, so now she only chews on my shoulder or neck to let me know she's bored and wants to play, but has left more than a couple hickeys that I had to explain to DH

staranise, my mother conned us into eating broccoli by smothering it in cheese sauce

I might have the opposite problem. DD will completely ignore her pasta in favour of gnawing on snap peas

Biting ouch! It does go away - I think they bite more when the teeth are still a novelty. My DDs self-weaned from bfing at 18m-ish and I don't remember them biting at all except when the teeth first came through.

Best of luck, have weaned three babies now and it doesn't get any more interesting...

marenmj - I think you might be married to my husband

I think he is a bit wheat intolerant, small quantities are fine but too much over a 24/48 hour period and he blows up like a balloon. It's always the fault of the bread though, never the beer!

Oh I hope the biting slows down. I'm the oldest child and my mother fully admits the one and only time she has laid hands on her babies was when she swatted me off her boob in surprise/pain the first time I bit her

Even with DD being very tender I'm beginning to feel like mince!

Sad to hear it doesn't get any more interesting. Perhaps I will start reading the future in flung mash instead of tea leaves

Alibabaandthe40nappie... his words from my DH's mouth.

"Wheat makes me gassy" [but guinness, basically liquid bread, is just fine]

So he eats his oaty bread and I eat my wholemeal and I will just wait until he has another birthday ending in zero to suggest that a veg or two might fix it

DD never bit when she had teeth, but bit me twice at about 5 months old with her gums - just clamped down for no apparent reason - ouch ouch ouch!

Food - she scoffs olives like sweeties, and loves most veggies (broccoli is her favourite and she eats it raw cos she can't wait for it to cook) but she doesn't like potatoes, carrots or parsnips. You would think they were the most appealing things, but heck no - give her cucumber and raw cauliflower instead! Funny creature...

I've just started weaning DS and he loves mashed banana. Although far from bunging him up, I have never een so much crap in one place before!

Maren I am so with you on this one - in fact DS is 9 months old now and I have to remind myself to make food at 3 times during the day, and not just a rice cake either. There is no way he will accept a spoon now and jar foods are too runny not to use one. I said this BLW lark would make me eat more! (Which would be good, I'm a stick)

I decided for his sake I need to make sure I offer him at least 1 or 2 kinds of fruit or veg a day and one source of protein (aside from milk obviously)

I also try to give him food at roughly the same time every day. I've never been one for routine but if I look at the clock and think it's 2 o'clock, we haven't had lunch yet, it makes me more likely to think to offer something.

I am still crap at it though

Jars are your friend. Someone bought me an Annabel Karmel cookbook and I started off by slaving away in the kitchen, but frankly it was just too boring and time consuming and ds never liked what I made anyway.

I know it's Mumsnet taboo but I don't care. Get down to the supermarket and stock up. Then you'll have more time for MN and wine

And when did everyone start believing that jars were the work of the devil anyway?

An added bonus was that my MIL considered me a lazy slattern so would bring round food she'd cooked to leave in my freezer.

I use Plum Baby stuff as sauces and chuck it into pasta with some veg. Really easy, nutrious and DD loves them.

I also regularly make a big batch of tomato sauce to serve with everything and freeze it in those little pots. You can do the same with mince mix which can be added to anything and also spread onto pita to make pizza.

I'm with you Vicky31. Jars are definitely my friend.

My problem is that I don't eat regularly, and I'm so not organised, much to my mothers dismay.

DD does a bit of BLW. She snacks during the day on lots of different types of things, including fruit, salad and raw veg. (She hates banana's though.) I don't think the amount of snacks she manages to eat are enough to fill her up though. Apart from the BLW, she isn't too great at chewing (still only 2 teeth) so I end up pureeing the 10 month jars (but at least it's already cooked )

I do wonder how I am going to get her from the puree stage to the eating a 'normal' dinner, although I don't eat that regular myself at the moment, and it seems pretty pointless to cook for one.