July 2010: C'mon threadbabes: eat like MLIC's; drink like TSC's; smile like Memphis's; laugh like Cakes's; crawl like nearly all of them (except Cake's)... but mainly: sleep like Spireals

[CakeandRoses]

Here we be (phew!)

mlic don't know if you're interested but I was told that it's best not to give infants rice milk because it contains small doses of arsenic and if you're cutting out dairy you should cut out soya too because the proteins are very similar - if the baby's intolerant to dairy they'll react to soya too. Just what the dietician told me though...

Yea, that's why I said that's what I was told - every 'expert' differs ime. You do come up with a bit though if you google rice milk and infants or rice milk and arsenic. If he's not drinking it in bottles you're probably alright but my carton has sat unused just in case.

What a fucking day

try not to laugh at this but i actually managed to get a hairbrush stuck in my hair (one of those round barrel brushes that you make big hair with) ended up having to walk to my hairdresser with said evil brush hanging off hair. Hairdresser destroyed hair. Had to change parting.

Felix was up all evening last night with dh when i went out to chinese. Then woke up from nap early having pooed in his 'sleepy pants' - which i had to change one handed due to fucking brush.

Then he was hellish all afternoon due to being "tiiireeed" [no fucking shit sherlock]. Then A had something really upsetting her - not sure if it was teeth or because she and i ate a cranberry or two this morning and it gave her trapped wind.

Then bloody DH 'couldn't' call to let me know he wouldn't be in in time to help with bedtime until he was walking to Liverpool st at 6 bloody 45. (has since been hung, drawn and quartered).

It takes a lot to piss me off but today has well and truly done it. with bells on.

mlic how's things there? thought of you today when i had just one day of whining children and an unhelpful dh - i really don;t know how you do it.

memph your poor mouth . hope you get some help v quickly

tsc sounds shitty there too. not the easiest time to diet i'd have thought.

chul/mlic i thought rice milk is ok for using in recipes just not as a main drink. the natural arsenic content is so small that you'd have to have it in large quantities regularly to even potentially cause an issue. hence why (most?) rice milk cartons don;t even carry a warning.

re soya milk - it is relatively common for babies to be intolerant to both but it's not a given so if they seem ok on soya then they probably are, iyswim? I know several babies who have been intolerant to dairy but not soya but one who was intolerant to both.

oat milk is another option but check out calories and nutritional info as it can be lacking.

some babies are fine on goats milk depending on which component of cow's milk they're intolerant to. my friend's 10mo has been on goats milk since 5mo.

tbh, like anything to do with food, everyone (including HCP) has different views so i think you have to do your research and then make up your own mind about it all.

xposted like mad

i use a combo of everything as i prefer not to be reliant on one thing. i would do similar even if i gave dairy.

from 14 months F had soya to drink, pea-protein 'cheese' (and today he had new pea-protein yoghurts), and rice milk 'milk shakes'. He's had oat milk sometimes too but i wasn't sure if it was upsetting his tummy so i don't give it to him as a drink now. I use soya, coconut, rice and oat milk in cooking etc too depending on what i have in.

Why the mini-eggs, tsc, why the mini-eggs? . My AF returned yesterday for the first time in 19 months.

mlic you're a nicer person than me, I wouldn't have made tea and toast.

cake sorry you had a rubbish day, I'm really really trying not laughing at the hairbrush thing, honest....

cakes oh dear not a good day in your house! your poor lovely long hair!!! I have a fluffy mohawk on my parting where my exessive hair loss after L being born has grown back!!!
on the subject of hair does anyone use mousse? I do and my new 'friends' laughed and said they didnt think mousse was still available!!
chulita thats i knew when you cooked one the other week yours didnt say cream but couldnt find the post!
I give L soya! I dont want to give L cows milk at a year, I dont mind the dairy in formula but I hate milk and dont want him to have it, I asked my hv again what my options are and she said I HAVE to give him full fat cows milk, even the thought of pouring that into his bottle makes me gag, full fat milk bluuuuugh!!!!
mlic go to Holland and Barratts they have loads of different sorts of milks.
oh forgot to say at friends house today I tried a Doidy cup and L drank some grape juice and water from it!!!!! so she gave me her sons cup!! no one sells them here and i didnt want to get one via post as then i have to travel 3 miles to sorting office as im never in when post comes!
I feel so odd tonight, started feeling myself getting het up and argumentative with dh so I have just been quiet for a few hours now he is creeping around me being loving, I know im in a weird mood and am better keeping quiet but hes just asked if im ok as hes taken pup out and ive ended up in tears, i dont even bloody know why!!! ooooh im an idiot! sorry about the little rant had to get it out before i implode!!!

It was a rhetorical question really, I was referring back to the "why the creme egg" question on that obesity thread.

I nearly wet myself at your DP's shushpatshushpat tsc. Don't tell him, that'll be hours of fun for you.

Sorry about your shit day cake. Respect for going to the hairdressers with the brush. I would have cut my hair off myself for fear of being laughed at on the way.

sherry can be v tasty. i only drink it at christmas though (and then I am always a bit disappointed if it's not sweet Bristol Cream shit).

poor you cake, that sounds like a crappy day. snort about the hairbrush!

i spent the day with my mum, had my hair cut for the first time in 6 months! had quite a lot cut off, it feels so soft and nice now.

mlic I use oat milk as the least harmful of all of them but give him nutramigen in his porridge. Whether you believe the medical professionals or not is always a tricky one, I was told though that dairy intolerance can lead to soya intolerance so I'm just avoiding it anyway (plus some research that showed fertility problems linked to soya) but hey, everything leads to something so you can't dodge every bullet!

memphis I use mousse on occasion and well spotted on the mohawk, I was noticing one on me yesterday and was a bit but I see where it's from now!

tsc sherry keeps for ages and ages and you can stick it in all sorts of recipes, just google sherry in cooking and you'll come up with stuff. (Chinese cooking, trifles, sticky ribs)

cake ack! good thing you have someone to cut it out, I was assured by my last hairdresser that a big barrelled brush will never get stuck...she was obviously wrong and thanks for the warning.

Tsc that has properly made me laugh re shushpat - you have to be joking!