Active discussions

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Post-natal clubs

Join our Postnatal Clubs forum to find parenting advice for newborns.

Original poster

November 2012 - Starting weaning, what does your baby eat?

999 replies

StuntNun · 25/04/2013 07:35

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1736112-November-2012-Does-it-seem-like-half-a-year

Don't forget to give us a brief update on your baby: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1733466-November-2012-Please-come-back-and-give-us-an-update-on-your-November-baby

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
Clarella · 01/05/2013 17:36

yeah detective I'm thinking unachievable with this one impossible with next Grin

TheDetective · 01/05/2013 17:40

It would be pretty difficult with a second, unless the older one only watched at nap times! I've got DS1 an xbox in his room, and he has a TV but that only plays DVDs.

There is still arguing over the TV between him and DP. I give up. I watch so little anyway.

Sky rang me earlier asking me a load of questions about my new installation from them. I couldn't answer them because I don't bloody get to use it! Told them there was no point speaking to me, they would be better asking my 11 year old..... Hmm.

Clarella · 01/05/2013 19:09

bit of The Voice watched so mummy could eat her scrambled eggs

Clarella · 01/05/2013 19:18

well done on unswaddling too! Shock to o making room smelly! wow!

Clarella · 01/05/2013 19:21

ah quiet baby on boob - reread your post yw re meds. I don't think our reflux is as bad as other's and comes and goes so fx meds help

TheDetective · 01/05/2013 19:24

O just went ape shit over courgette. I think he likes it. Hmm

We did veg kebabs for tea, and he was after stealing any veg he could! The dog enjoyed the left overs dropped bits. Hmm

YellowWellies · 01/05/2013 19:27

Clarella I couldn't tell you what he was like with meds and eating dairy as I quit dairy at the same time he started meds.

With our family history I knew ultimately it was going to be CMPI so bit the bullet and just quit. Also he was so wee (7 weeks and under 8lb) and suffering so bad Sad - coughing up blood, choking, stopping breathing - I just did EVERYTHING that I knew might help asap. His symptoms were too bad to try to phase in diet changes then medication to see if he could cope with only one course of treatment.

You need 6 weeks to be dairy free as it takes that long to leave your and their body. We saw an immediate improvement as soon as he'd started meds and a gradual improvement as dairy and soy left our systems. After six weeks he was a different child. We've never had any nappy symptoms so don't view that as definitive.

Today symptoms return if we miss a dose or if I accidentally eat dairy (usually courtesy of ignorant waiting staff who assume you're just being faddy and assure you something is dairy free when actually they don't know) so I know J at least still needs both diet exclusion and meds. Our doc advised that reflux meds wouldn't work for CMPI without elimination from my diet.

BigPigLittlePig · 01/05/2013 19:36

Evening fuckers.

Kyz that sounds awful, hope she's doing ok.
Det can't believe O is trying to crawl - beyond scary.
Chasing I must have the female version of O. She lasts less than 10 seconds in anyone elses arms before the bottom lip wobbles and she starts to sob. No solution. I just take her back as soon as the lip goes and make a light-hearted comment about preserving their ear drums.

Lovely day here, I went for a picnic in the park with a good friend, who then helped me finish sewing the wigwam I started last week. The lovely sunshine has made me realise I have very few outfits, if any, for the hotter weather.

ChasingDaisy · 01/05/2013 19:51

pig O and F sound very similar. I am glad to hear it isnt just him though as I am made to feel like it is my fault for 'being too protective' by the in-laws obvs

I think he is just a sensitive soul. All the more reason to be protective.

Watching a feature about chimps on The One Show - I have always suspected that O is part monkey and now I am convinced of it.

Edit: The chimp is actually called Oscar Grin Shock

Titsalinabumsquash · 01/05/2013 19:54

So I vanished to fold some washing and DP gave J a bottle and put him in the cot... Straight asleep. So it seems it is only me that can't get him settled in there

BigPigLittlePig · 01/05/2013 19:56

Chasing my MIL, as you may recall, believes F is timid Angry. I suspect she will be shy, as I was, when I was younger, and she craves physical touch, and closeness. She could never sleep sprawled out as O does, but prefers to curl up on her side, with her face buried in her cot/arm. It makes me cross when people think they need to try to change them, and make them into social butterflies.

Rant over.

ChasingDaisy · 01/05/2013 19:58

Amen to that sister Grin

BigPigLittlePig · 01/05/2013 19:58

Tits have a from the quiche haddock. More like, Js BEST EVER mother, who he doesn't want to be apart from. Why sleep in a cot when mummys right there? Hmm?

BigPigLittlePig · 01/05/2013 19:59
Titsalinabumsquash · 01/05/2013 19:59

DP just said that too Blush

Izzybuzzybuzzybees · 01/05/2013 20:01

DP is right tits!!

TheDetective · 01/05/2013 20:08

Another tits slap from me!!

ChasingDaisy · 01/05/2013 20:08

Tits slap Grin

Have another from me.

Evilwater · 01/05/2013 20:11

Well what a fucking horrible day!
Me and N both have stinking colds, n has had his for a week Sad ill take him up the drs as we both sound like heavy smokers, and we both have had temps. Sad

My sister is coming around, then I'm off to bed.
Adaisjnsskk
Evil

YellowWellies · 01/05/2013 20:22

Tits I wonder if you've got the same issue as us, Jonas will sleep 7-9 hour stretches providing he can't smell me / my boobs. Even in his cot in our room - if I'm sleeping in the same room he wants up 2 hourly for food and cuddles. When I sleep in the spare room he wakes once for a night feed. He's going in his own room as soon as the velux blinds for his (east facing) bedroom arrive.

At bedtime if he's struggling to be separated from the boobs DH shushes him off to sleep much more easily than I can. Its honestly not just you hon.

Random aside....As I was cooking tea he was really fractious so I took him out to the garden to hear the birds, watch the clouds and feel the grass under his toes - it totally chills him out. He just gawps open mouthed at the world. It's a lovely age isn't it?

Passmethecrisps · 01/05/2013 20:35

Hallo laydeez!

Glad you've been fish-slapped already tits. DH can get P to sleep in a fraction of the time I can and she dozed off in the arms of a man she never met before. I sometimes feel that p can't understand why I cannot just make it better? Why can't she just be asleep? Mums are the providers of all things so why not instant sleep. I remember being in Ikea with izzy and her lovely J and he was taking a rare nap. He woke with such a start and immediate big fat tears. My first thought was that he realised he wasn't with his mummy. I wonder if some of the babies fear the separation that they know sleep will bring?

clarella YW has already said lots of useful shiz but I wanted to add that P had no nappy symptoms either. In actual fact the only CMPI symptom she had was her dramatic refusal to eat. The lists of symptoms you can get online are really helpful but cannot give every instance possible. It is possible that your LO has something which comes and goes and medication will manage it wonderfully. Like YW we have no idea really as p was on meds for 24 hours and seemed much happier but still refused to eat so was put on CMP free formula. It must be hard at this stage as I remember things being quite clear at a few weeks old. We had a timeline of changes and impacts so things were quite evident when you knew when to look for. I hope the meds work for you.

Fuck, bastard, bugger, balls VQ. Sounds like discrimination to me. Call again. Bastards.

Passmethecrisps · 01/05/2013 20:39

Poor you and poor N evil. You haven't had it easy have you? I hope you have a good night.

PurplePidjin · 01/05/2013 20:39

Clarella keep practicing - maybe post a pic in the fsot fb group for advice? I haven't tried one but R is rocking the back carries!

Interview went well, hopefully find out tomorrow. Broke my heart walking away from hysterical teething baby and exhausted dp, he's struggling atm and i don't know how to help Sad

and all round Brew

PennieLane · 01/05/2013 20:40

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Passmethecrisps · 01/05/2013 20:43

Fingers well and truelly crossed PP. Banal I know but I saw a feature on the BBC news today about stroke aftercare and how poor it is in the UK. People made to feel like they should just 'get better' after they are discharged. I have no advice. . . Wish I did.