July 2010: Weaning's in full swing, the kitchen floor's covered in ming

[CakeandRoses]

And voila: our 6th postnatal thread... which neatly works out roughly one a month [maths genius emoticon]

tsc how's frankles? any job news? what's the plan re madame gossip?

viksam you can't really screw up weaning, especially blw - they'll eat when they're good and ready. stop beating yourself up about it, decide on a method (a combo of puree and blw is fine) and then just offer food and don't worry what 'sticks'. See it as time for a bit of a break, put food in front of them and then have a cup of tea/your lunch/some cake and let them get on with it.

my best tip for getting stuff down them blw-wise is a ton of humous dipped onto a breadstick (and then keep redipping) - they seem to love it, it's v nutritious and is easy for you to make and for them to manage.

def sounds like its worth a trip to your GPs.

any good classes/groups near you? just one new friend to have a cup of tea and chat with might feel like a good start.

ps ladies - my friend's dd (same age as A) won't eat AT ALL yet.

when i say 'make' - i don;t mean you have to make the humous btw, opening a pot and dipping a breadstick in it is fine

cakes L loves humous, he shudders at 1st taste of everything but not that his eyebrows went off the top of his head in delight!!
L is finally asleep, should do cleaning but im so sleepy, i bet my eyes shut and he wakes up

tsc im not saying im glad Frankie isnt eating but its good to hear that its the same story with u. He will eat yogurt and that particular pouch and has no fear with finger food, even when he choaked badly on a cherry tomatoe he put it back in! so thats good but i just dont think much is going down and im not buying those pouches at 98p a time!
I have a child minder for the three days im going back, i might give her a ring and see if she will have him once a week starting soon! Im also going to make a list of stresses and see what i can do about them.........feeling more positive already thanks to u guys! I never did rehome my cats, or at least one of them, i know it sounds mean but i might look into that, the dog is quite enough.
Is anyne else BLW? if so what have u had success with so far?

Vik J is always up and down with his food, and we do BLW. Someday he'll eat loads and then other he wont. He wont even contemplate puree now, in fact even putting it on a spoon and trying to give him the spoon seems to offend him. The only runny things he will eat is fruit pots and baby rice/ porridge.

I'm begining to worry about the amount of protein he's getting as he cant chew meat up, wont eat eggs, wont eat stuff thats got other stuff on it and wont eat mashed up stuff. Yesterday I got so stressed out I was nearly in tears at the dinner table. DH is saying, just leave him, you can't make him eat, if he was hungry he'd eat it. And I'm thinking, thats all well and good but it's me who has to get up in the night a feed him.

Consequently, he was only up at 11, 4, 6.30 (due to DH stupid alarm going off).

viksam we're hardcore blw, man

hotg Chill! if you look at best and worst sleepers, there's rarely a correlation to how much protein or anything else their parents are managing to get down them. There are a few naturally great eaters and sleepers such as spirael's dd but most just aren't like that. My friend's blw dd ate like a machine but still woke up tons.

hotg i only gave L his 1st bit of protein 2 days ago, dont worry about food groups at the mo, they only start weaning at 6 months and when you read the weaning guides at 7 months they are only getting one food eg sweet potato 6 spoons, L was on that at 4 months, they still get what they need from the milk, if my dh had his way L will be on slop with no lumps in until he is 15!!

also hotg will he eat humous? plenty of fat, protein and carbs in it! it's the solution to world peace too probably

right, need to get some chores done - catch you guys later

well said memph

I know, I know. I just get carried away with things in my head. Like a couple of weeks ago when the HV said to keep an eye of J hearing, I spoke to him constantly for a week, calling his name, ringing bells at him etc, and then got even more stressed at the fact that he still wasn't responding. I've since decided that he doesn't care if you talk to him all the time or not, as long as you talk to him when doing stuff together.

I like to call them 'stress-fads'

yy, with you on those hotg

tis called 'being a mother' i think

cakes he wont eat mash, on its own or spread on things... I think he doesn't trust it, like all flavours and textures seperate.

Just had bethan weighed and she is 14lb 15 or 6.80kg

HG i think im having a major stress-fad about everything at the moment. Who was it that said chant manicaly 'its only a phase!' im off to put babyboo to bed for a nap and i may just go myself too.
Hope u get ur chores done cake i might go to the supermarket for hummus later!
HG I hope ur not too stressed, i imediatly feel less alone today hearing from u guys.
memphis yep ur absolutly right, i never looked at it from that point. Thanks for the words of advice.

blimey they are leaving it late tsc when are u due back? my work have messed about a bit but have now offered me another position, a better position, which is great but im a bit worried.........stress fading about wether i can do it well, it will involve presenting to groups, not my strong point, i may just stand up, giggle, wee myself and run away! Thats loads for Frankie to eat! whats wrong with him? Devon has a giant cold but just refused calpol, bummer!

So ur saying, dont say 'juknowwhatimean', at the end of every sentance??!!
Whats the job u applied for?
And whats the deal on the gossip thing, i saw on FB but didnt actually see what happened.
I have now washed my pits and put some clothes on, thats a start to making myself feel less like a snotty ball of filth! gona go over the shop in a bit for cold remedie and hummus.....and food for tea! Gota put on a brave face for when DH comes home!

Can I join in flag waving in support of hummus? :) M adores it, we went to Nandos at lunchtime and she loved sucking the hummus off the pitta breads. I might have to start getting in some for home!

She also likes Philly cheese. Particularly on toast or bagels. So that might help for protein? For a more solid version, she loves sucking on sticks of harder cheese too. Crumbly cheese also works quite well too, it disintegrates in her mouth and she has to swallow it.

In fact, all cheese is good really.

spirael i cant believe how much you love cheese, M's 1st word will be cheese!!
L has napped on and off most of the day, i have done nothing but a bit of laundry and a bit of cleaning, oh and i have a stew in the slow cooker for tomorrow so i dont have to cook!! so lazy i usually do nothing while dh is away as there is nothing much to clean as i clean after myself unlike dh!!
its his birthday in a couple of weeks im thinking of taking him camping as he loves it then going to go ape, i dont know what to actually buy him though, he doesnt need clothes or anything for his bikes any ideas of something nice to get him from L?