Feb 2010 They're all walking and talking....and some are even sleeping. The babies are doing okay too.

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Pull up a comfy chair, grab a cuppa and a piece of cake, switch the monitors on low and let's PARTY.....!!!

You have my sympathy Mous - I worry a bit about protein as well. DD will eat egg in some forms and she adores cheese, so she gets a certain amount from those. And of course, the yoghurt. Have you tried your DD2 with nut butters on bread? Or quinoa?

It's not easy is it?

Get well soon PA x

DH is home so I've sneaked into bed, think I did too much today.

Oats have a high amount of protein and DD has peanut butter for lunch everyday.

I would complain about how cold it is outside but think I might get stared down by mous

I forgot about oats!

I get seeded bread for us now as that's another way of ramping up the protein (or at least the roughage and lowering the GI value of bread!)

mous so sorry to hear you're having difficulties with your DD2 eating. Is it meat 'texture' she doesn't like or the taste?

PA good that you managed to rest

DS dinner was carrot sticks and hummus (his choice - my lunch tomorrow ). He eats animal proteins at lunchtimes (meat or fish).

My mum is arriving tomorrow in order to be with us for DS's birthday. She woke up this moring with 15 cm of snow but motorways were cleared.

Sorry for ranting! But it is a shock as DD1 just stopped fussing too much about food (she will even find soup good ). I don't think I will have the patience to wait till DD2 is 7.
DD2 won't have oat (at least porridge) or quinoa, she won't eat any kind of bread either (baguette or white slices only), sometime I sneak granary baguette but it cost a fortune. She used to eat humus but last 2 times she just ate the veg and left the humus. She can eat bretzel with poppy or sezame seeds but as far as I can tell the seeds pass right through, IYSWIM. I am scared that peanut butter will fatten her too much. It is really expensive too. I might try if it goes on too long.
I would guess it is the taste SB she is fine with any texture and was fine with any taste as well until last spring.

Have fun in the snow I heard it is coming to you all !

PA get back into bed straight away and rest!

Belated birthday to mous's DD! Work pretty busy last week as was last weekend so hadn't been able to lurk. Hope you're feeling better after your rest PA. Relations with DH improving, thanks for asking, though not yet perfect.

Found a good book to help everyone relax about toddlers....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Children-Dont-Throw-Food/dp/0385617615 French children don't throw food quite a different perspective....

French children don't throw food. Trying again....

Tehehe, maybe you should read the article to your dd2 mous... Honestly though, I heard an interview on the radio about this book and it's basically nonsense. All children are so very different and it does not help to stereotype by nationality. My two embarrass me greatly by always always asking for seconds (esp of vegetables) . Now, would that be their German/Hungarian/Welsh/Spanish side then?

. Either way having gone down the attachment parenting route in a big way, should we be blessed with #2 we'll be trying "the Pause" to ensure sleeping through by 4 months, and will definitely be getting DD to at least taste all the food on offer to get her accustomed to the taste.

actually he is not as bad as DD was but not near sleeping through

Having had 2 TOTALLY different sleepers all I can do is scratch my head in bewilderment, send up a prayer of thanks for DD2 and conclude that it's not what you do, it's the child's temperament.

Phone playing up. Not that I'm saying not to give it a try rainbow - I was all for using the 'core night' method with DD2 until I realised a) I'm way to tired to try anything and b) she just slept through of her own accord anyway

Mous no advice, hard enough dealing with my own picky eater but sympathies. That doesn't sound like a balanced diet

BG I would be overjoyed if DD1 asked for seconds!

funny you should say that scones my 'rest' last night involved laying in bed with DD watching INTG. She can just about sit through one episode. Then got to hold crying DS but he went off at 9 so not too bad.

We have seeded bread as well, plus she likes eating seeds and dried fruit. Also flapjacks. I wouldn't say DDs diet is balanced as day to day it's the same, but maybe I would worry more if she didn't have milk (oat milk is fortified so makes up for non fortified breakfast - most cereals are, bar weetabix and oats). She eats marmite which is also pretty good on the vitamin front. Plus breads normally have extra stuff in. I gave her peanut butter to help fatten her up . On the whole I'm relaxed about trusting her but I do have random moments, mainly when she doesn't even try things.

dd2 has gone the other extreme from refusing a nap to sleeping for hours. Yesterday she asked to go to bed at 12.30 and slept until I woke her at 3 to collect dd1. Today she has gone to bed just after 1 and is still sleeping now. Hasn't affected her night time sleep either so I guess she's still a bit under the weather and needs the extra sleep.
Wish I could sleep as much as her... . Feeling permanently tired - I think I should be hibernating in winter and only wake up when it gets warmer! Minus 3 here right now.

know how you feel, hoping tonight (after a week) will be the night I get to sleep before 12.

On the plus side I'm hoping all this sunshine has helped to warm our place up.

dd2 now sings 'Happy birthday to me... happy birthday.. mine!' (just to get her point across ) and is getting rather excited about it all. It will be a long birthday for her, too, with cake at nursery tomorrow, presents and cake on her actual birthday, and then a small tea party on Sunday with, yes, more cake . I hope she won't be disappointed when she then has to wait an entire year for another one.

The second course served with main course thing seems to be yielding results, so I'm feeling pretty pleased with the approach now. As well as DH and I being super chilled about the whole mealtime thing now (which must surely help!) DD is definitely getting more into eating more of her first course once she realises it's the only other thing on the menu.

Today after eating her yoghurt/fromage frais and fruit both and lunch and supper, she returned to her main course and ate a lot more of it. Including a couple of potato-ey things which she'd been turning up her nose at lately. At supper she experimentally put some veggie sausage in her mouth and touched some purple sprouting broccoli to her lips twice, so although she didn't actually eat them, that's a promising sign in my view. I hope it means she's starting to overcome her total refusal to countenance previously disliked or untried things and is taking an interest in them.

Ha ha. I reckon If I could ever be bothered to read back and collate the subject matter in my more detailed posts, you could chart my DD's "issues" by them.
Currently food, previously sleep....

PA I hope you're getting a chance to rest some more.

Anyone seen the thread in parenting on the different baby habits putting paid to parental smuggery? Your comment about sleeping being luck of the draw Scones is born out. As well as eating/behaviour etc.

DD's been sleeping better for her naps again too, BG. For which I am truly thankful!

now if you're the kind of person to buy something that doesn't quite fit right, but reckon it will be fine. Get talked into keeping it and throwing away the receipt as a commitment, then wear them thus taking off labels and decide after 30 mins that 'No' you do need the petite version. Then luckily NEXT is your friend . especially if you send DH because you're too chicken to go yourself

I offered DD a lovely selection: boiled potatoes, green lentil dal, roasted aubergine slices, courgette chips (roasted) and fried mushrooms (yum). Nothing She did lick a few things though.

Do people reckon the cough medicines help their LOs to relieve them? Trying to decide whether to get some more or not.

Feeling better today wasn't until this evening I felt like crap and DH got some doughnuts.

It took them a while to drop solidly down to one nap, I'm sure the final nap won't be dropped overnight either.

Children can take you by surprise, can't they. dd2's sleeping after lunch certainly has confused me after such clear refusal a week ago. dd1 did one better today though. Came home from school looking pale, went to bed straight away once home, refused dinner (unheard of!!) and went to sleep! Checked her at 6 and her temperature was up at 38.5. Checked again when dh came home at 6.30 and said she looked flushed and it was 39.9 . Panicked and gave her calpol and it's been steady at 39.1 for the past few hours. Poor little darling.
Of course dd2 took full advantage of having dh all to herself tonight but she's also been very sweet and loving with me today which I prefer to her giving me nasty looks and running off to find dh...

mous how are things with you? weather report sounds pretty... I was impressed by -3 here today in the daytime, which makes our house feel like a fridge because it is very old. I'm quite used to -15 in the day and -18ish at night at my parents, but their house is well insulated.

mous that should have read 'sounds pretty nasty' not just pretty, although I do find your fb pictures pretty

PA Cross posted Hope you all feel better soon. And I would have been very happy to have your dd's dinner . Might do something like that tomorrow...

Blimey, that lot sounds delish, PA!!

Doughnuts with custard, by any chance...?!

Sorry to hear your DD1 is poorly, BG
I hope whatever it is passes quickly and she bounces back fast.

BG I hope your DD1 gets better soon.

There's an epidemia of scarlet fever over here!

PA that dinner sounded great. DS didn't eat anything tonight but he wasn't bothered by it.

I'm trying to get him to drop his bedtime bottle as he now drinks it before been in bed and therefore want a 2nd one for when he's in bed! Also I think he doesn't eat dinner because he knows there's a bottle of milk coming anyway. So tonight he went to bed with a massive tantrum when he realised he wasn't getting a 2nd bottle. My mum who is over was shocked surprised I didn't give him one but didn't comment on him screaming for 5mn (which is shorter rebellion than I was expecting).

IC don't be silly...

that's for tomorrow with the left over ones

BG Hope DD1 isn't out of action for too long :(