August 2010 - new thread ladies!

[Chulita]

New thread cos we've nearly filled the last one!

Caz congratulations! Will keep everything crossed for you.

Figgy it is not mean. I find when F is crying in the night and we want him to sleep, i just keep repeating to myself "Sleep is a valuable lifeskill, he is learning to self settle, i am not doing him or myself any favours by getting up every hour" it does help keep the self doubt away.

I can't believe there are teeth and crawling already!

F did his first full night last night! 7pm til 6.30am!!!

Caz, thats great news, am really pleased for you and will keep all fingers and toes crossed it all es well for you

Caz - wonderful, wonderful (whisper) news. Thanks for coming to share it with us so quickly; it's an honour! Hope your DH has some kind of resolution to what's been happening, so you can put it out of your minds entirely or get it treated. Good luck for the fundraiser, and come back and keep us posted on how it's going and how you're feeling! xx

My hearts go out to everyone trying to get their nights in order. I'm just sticking my head in the sand at the moment. Still crappy nights here, but I'm so out of it with tiredness that I seem to do it all in a daze and go to sleep as I'm feeding, so don't notice what's going on, tbh. Not ideal in the long run, but coping for now!

Is anyone else doing baby led weaning? It's the most success I've had so far with E - he thinks it's hilarious! But I'm not sure that he's getting much. When do you start to worry about volume of food going in, or does it not matter much? We've been at it two weeks and I think the food is mostly getting plastered to E, the bumbo, the table, the floor, and ME! Heh.

Marzi you are a bloody saint for BFing for so long with the amount of mastitis you've had!

Chulita so exciting! Am a bit too, but we're planning on waiting another year and a half to try again, I think. I'm planning to go back to uni and we need to time it all right, with school, work, E going to nursery, blah blah blah.

Watching One Born Every Minute on 4OD and am not sure I can keep going as it's the 'worried' episode. Poor, poor girl who's had four pregnancies and only one baby :(

We're doing both here nat, and C is exactly the same!! He's 8mth old now but still doesn't actually eat much if he's feeding himself - he will however eat yoghurt and weetabix until it comes out of his ears!!! And carrots!

Have heard the mantra "food is fun until they're one" quite a few times on mn so I've been repeating that in my head when Corey is feeding the floor or his t-shirt (under his bib!)

xx

cherry I have given S yogurt yet, is there special baby stuff or do you mix plain greek yogurt with fruit or how are you doing it? S was 6 months on Sunday so I've introduced meat into her diet. She's had beef and chicken so far though I'm a veggie so can't share. However DH is a butcher so I'd never get away with not feeding her his finest!

I mean haven't given S yogurt yet....

I've given J greek yoghurt with stewed apple mixed in. I haven't looked much at other yoghurts but assume they all have sugar and other additives in, but depends how much that bothers you!
A veggie married to a butcher :)
nat we're doing blw too though he's not eating much yet. I think in theory you need never worry that they're having enough as they'll take what they need given the opportunity, but easier said than done i expect!

LCR don't worry I have iPhone fingers too!!
I have been giving C fromage frais in the little pots (little stars) but you could purée some fruit and mix it with natural yoghurt I think. Xx

IIRC you can buy powdered baby yoghurt too, by Heinz or Hipp. I personally haven't as I tend to feed Corey whatever I have in the cupboards rather than buying special baby stuff. This way I'm hoping to avoid food fussiness when he's a bit bigger :)

I used Rachels First Yoghurts these, as they are not only a bit thicker with some baby rice in but his sister likes the taste explorers ( otherwise would od on petit filous ) and they have been on special offer in Ocado so have stocked up. They have been most popular.

Cherry - I did it all by the book, menu plan the whole works with dd (3) home made everything with love and care according to Annabel Karmel/Gina etc etc. Dh and I are the unfussiest people you will meet (although we prefer quality daaarlink ) to the point my mum recalls a holiday abroad when I was 3 where I ate an entire seafood platter............
Well DD has a very limited diet, and after about 18 months of beating myself up about it, friends gloating that their children eat everything and how I must have done something wrong , I chilled out and thought stuff it. She still won't eat what we eat but will eat lots of what she likes, we every month introduce a new food to her and she will keep it on her plate now and eat around it rather than having a huge food related strop.

So this time round I am just doing what I want and shoving food at my ds regardless and what will be will be I think. However I think going down the what is on your plate route rather than the special baby one is the way forward.

Good night again here, E down at 7.30pm with less than 15mins of crying, then woke once at 2.30am and I was able to put her down awake again with no probs .

We are doing a mixture of BLW and purees. She has babyrice and fruit for breakfast, a selection of finger food to throw on the floor at lunchtime, then pureed veg for dinner. She had chicken for the first time this week, and I'm going to try and give her a bit of protein in all of her dinners (potatoes, spinach and a bit of cheese grated on top tonight is the plan). We use plain full-fat greek yogurt with fruit mixed in, it's possibly E's favourite thing. Although she does absolutely wolf down butternut squash and goes mad for broccoli florets (which is a VERY messy business).

Marzi, hope your LO is a bit better.

Figgy - sounds like a good plan to me :). With dd and ds1 I followed the puree weanin method and had problems getting them onto 'our' food when they were bigger. Since weaning C I've given him 2 jars, simply because I didn't have anything else to give him and couldn't be bothered to cook

Yaaaay belly :):)

Oh wow, congratulations Caz! Fingers and toes crossed for you!

marzipan you poor thing, can't imagine having mastitis that many times.

J loves yoghurt - I give him plain yoghurt, or greek yoghurt, either on its own or mixed with fruit eg mashed banana or stewed apple. I have remembered how yummy that is! I love Petit Filous so would like to have an excuse to buy them but they are very very sweet so would rather not give them to J too often. He has had sweetened yoghurt (plus greek yoghurt mixed with lemon curd at my mum's) but not every day. I also use plain yoghurt to mix into leftover chilli/curry etc for him so that it's not too spicy.

I do give J jars of food quite often, maybe 2-3 times a week, whenever I don't have anything suitable for him to eat as a 'main' meal. He eats anything so I'm not too bothered about it from the fussiness point of view.

Must go and wake him, it's 4pm. I really must try to get him to nap earlier (he went down at 1.45) as I always seem to have to wake him! He won't go down at 7.30 unless I get him up by 4.

We did BLW with L and she went through a horrendously fussy stage. At one point aged about 15 months she decided to only drink milk and absolutely nothing else. That lasted for over 2 months and then she went on to stupid things like 4 shreddies for breakfast and a mandarin for lunch...she's still picky but she will eat stuff. I think a lot of toddlers get fussy regardless of what way they were weaned. I'm a firm believer in shoving whatever we're eating on their plate along with something you know they like and sometimes they actually eat something new!

I'd love to give S yoghurt, it's a real "I have no idea what to give you so have some of this" lifesaver. As it is I rely on banana mashed on toast if I'm stuck

We're back to 3-4 feeds a night don't know why but I'm once again toying with the idea of sleep training. Can't really at the mo cos it's a really bad time but I'm sorely tempted.

Great to hear what everyone else is dishing out for dinner. I must confess (embarrassingly) I struggle to put together one meal for E a day as I feel there's so little time left in the day, with everything else we get up to. Do you guys have a Harry Potter time-stopping device or something?!

So how do you decide when you start giving three meals a day? Or is it just whenever you feel like it? Today I tried to give E a banana at 11ish and he was having none of it. But that might have had a lot to do with the fact that he has dropped his morning nap and was quite cross at the time. Then he had pear for tea - oops! Bad mum. Ran out of time. He demolished the pear, though. Am going to do sweet potato and broccoli tomorrow, I think!

Congrats on the good night Belly!

Chulita am in same boat :(

Sorry for those with multiple wakings, but I have some brill news from belly towers. Last night, E went to sleep with NO CRYING AT ALL. Down at 7.30pm, slept til midnight. I fed her at midnight and put her down awake ish, then she woke again at about 5am but I left her for a few minutes chatting to herself and next thing I knew I'd fallen back to sleep and it was morning! Yay! This was day 6 of the CC.

In other news, Elodie has suddenly started refusing her bottle. She has had a bottle of EBM pretty much every night since she was 4 weeks old and we've never had any problems, but for the last few days she would only take a couple of ounces, then nothing at all, just chewing on the teat instead. I'm not sure what to do - she took some milk from the cup I give her water in yesterday but it was hard work and she wasn't v happy about it. Not sure if it's connected with the sleep training or teething, or just general perverseness, any thoughts?

Belly that's great news about the sleep! The DTs started refusing their bottle of ebm at about 3.5mths - I think they just prefer the breast and start to realise the difference.

Nat 3 meals a day as soon as I could fit it in! Quick meals are sweet potato - bung in microwave for 5mins then scoop out flesh, add some frozen veg (cooked) and beans eg borlotti beans or tinned lentils (dead cheap from supermarket and good protein). Also apricots and prunes boiled for a few mins and then whizzed with veg/beans always goes down well. And then whenever you cook anything for yourself, if it is suitable for babs just put a bit to one side.

Daniel still waking once in night but I have been trying to cut down the amount of milk he is drinking - I think last night he cut down loads I(fed for less time and settled back to sleep) so going to keep going on that track.

Hello all haven't posted in ages

Caz- Congrats to you both. Fingers firmly crossed for a uneventful pregnancy and happy healthy baby.

Still no sign of baby number 4 here.

Been off the pill since October and nothing.. Thought mightve been this month as nearly a week late but no.

I'm just spoilt really as the first two were first time and Tilly was second.

T is doing a lot better she is still wheezing though not nearly as much with the new medication
She also has a tooth

Lodger is on radiotherapy now which is tiring for him - going up to the hospital every day is tiring without the treatment.

Am really unimpressed with his family though. He's been off work since jan 2 nd and has not had one visit!!!

I asked his brother if he would go on the rota to drive him to an appointment and he offered one day at a specific time which didn't fit so he's not doing any..
Having established he can't do mornings or weekdays I said there's a Sunday avo appointment. He can't do that as he's watching the football!

Angry didn't even cover that one..

gya that's shocking re your lodger's family. I'd have been livid at his brother. Just can't understand stuff like that cos my family's very close and we'd do anything for each other.
Glad T's doing better, well done on her first tooth!

Mn has lost all my watched threads, threads I'm on etc and it's really irritating to have to go and look for them under the topic list [nothing better to worry about emoticon]

Hi all, sorry not posted in a while, had a family emergency oh DH's side, which meant upping sticks from Germany and going to Wales and lots of hospital visits, but thankfully all is well now.

I've read through the missed posts, so here goes:

Belly Glad your LO is sleeping better, my heart went out to you when you posted on the 25th of February about your LO crying, but hey look how far you've come in such a short time. You've also said you put full fat milk in your baby rice, how has that gone down? I want to do it, as I think my ebm is too precious to waste on the baby rice, so T has not had baby rice.

Chulita Wow crawlign already, that is great, your LO is certainly the go getter. Good luck on ttc.

Cherry, good luck on trying to convince DH about another baby, maybe a bit more time to let the thought sink in???

LCR A tooth, that is also great news.

CazandBelle It so great to hear from you again and huge congratulations to you, sending you lots of well wishes and I hope too that you have an uneventful pregnancy and a happy healthy baby, please keep us updated.

GYA, good luck on ttc, I hope the magic works soon for you.

I want to start ttc in August, DH goes away for 6 months in Septemeber, so I want to get preggers before he goes and then he will be back before the big day. Don't want to concieve too early or he will still be away and work would still keep him away no matter what. I am still bf and to date have not had any periods. Can I still conceive?? I know that sounds like a dumb question but I really have no idea and I don't want to give up bf just to get pregnant, so any tips/guidance will be gratefuuly received.

Hope everyone is well, take care xx

You most definitely can conceive while bfing. A friend of mine was 14 weeks gone before she realised cos she hadn't had a period after her first and was still bfing. I don't envy you being pg without your DH, I want to make the most of mine being around(ish) in this job and crack out all the babies before he has to go away again!

Hi all, got some news, my T has got his first tooth, found it about 6 o'clock last night.

Anyway this got me thinking about now introducing meat and fish into his diet as I haven't given him either yet (thought it might be hard to chew the meat without teeth) . Anyway, I am quite clueless on what I can give T, I have got the blw weaning book but it doesn't explain everything, anyway I asked on a thread on here and got a great link, so for anyone else who may need some guidance here is the government site

Where is everyone?!

We are doing OK here - Daniel is still waking once a night at about 3am but usually then sleeping till after 7am so not so bad. Although a few nights recently he has woken at about 5am and been wide awake, not interested in feeding or going back to sleep! I leave him and he just chats to himself (but very loudly so I can't get back to sleep!) then eventually he will work himself up to a cry so I try to feed him again and then leave him to cry and eventually he falls back to sleep - this took over an hour on Saturday night! Then we had the twins wake us at 7. The joys. I think it might be his teeth waking him - you can see two lumps coming through on the bottom.

Anyone else finding that clothes are getting filthy and impossible to get clean now we are weaning? I have to soak everything before I put it in the wash! (Bloody stupid non-bio powder - we have to use it for DH, you might as well not bother!)

hello, very quiet isn't it? We're both better now and getting back to normality. We're seeing some improvement with nights and naps. He's got a lot better at self-settling and we've decided not to feed him if he wakes less than 3 hours after last feed - we just give him a quick cuddle, offer him some water and put him down and leave to cry. So hopefully we'll see results soon - only 2 nights in so far.

Yes to mucky clothes - the washing machine doesn't seem to be good at removing food debris. Yuck!