November 2012 - Weaning is (messy) fun, what does your baby eat?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1756625-November-2012-When-are-they-going-to-sleep-through-again

Please give your baby's favourite foods so we can get some ideas from each other.

P has a cupboard full of that dairy milk. I don't eat it. Shall I steal some and save it for when you have finished bf YW and pig?

O likes to 'help' me change his nappy. First, he checks that the clean nappy is suitable by trying to eat it. Then he pulls at it when I attempt to put it on him. And wriggles like a slippery fish to make sure the fit is secure.

He has only very recently been able to sit up well and he is desperately trying to crawl. To be honest detective your O sounds particularly advanced already so I don't think you have anything to worry about!

O usually sleeps like a starfish but I have just come to bed to find him curled up on his side, hugging his muslin. Cutest thing ever. He has been extra cuddly all day. Must be his teeth.

6 months ago I was falling in love with my anaesthetist as my second epidural actually worked.

Don't worry, only 3 hours to go and my real-time labour flashbacks will finish as he was born just after midnight

Bigpig my mum says awkward cuss, I've never heard anyone else say it.
H is sick again, not sure what's going on. He's been sick by varying degrees for the past 5 or 6 weeks. The only things that have changed are solids and him going into his own room. He had an ear infection last week and has the most awful cough now. Think we are going back to the doctors tomorrow.

It is not looking good. DP came back down. O cried 2 minutes later.

So I went up. Unswaddled him. He burped then puked, then 4 failed transfers later, he's finally asleep. For now.

Fuck. Maybe it was the food. Not that he got much actually in him.

I have just had to use a wetwipe to wipe shit off the cats tail. FFS. I have the worlds most expensive cat, who is now faecally incontinent to boot

I still love him though

Hope he goes to sleep detective! O sounds pretty advanced I bet one morning you'll just get up to him doing it like a pro. I get nervous sweats giving e toast because it often makes him gag but I guess I should keep trying.

E sat yesterday for 30 mins and today for about 40 without falling. But then he eventually falls so I dont know if it counts as sitting!

sorry about j's reaction izzy perhaps try stuff on its own to see what he is reacting to like others have said.

Forgot what fucking else I had to say.

e had weetabix this morning. Either he isnt keen or it is more filling than usual baby cereals because he didnt eat alot. Mind you he didn't eat as much as yesterday but I am not worrying :)

bugger knows what to do for him tomorroe. How would one give a sandwhich? I have cheese spread, worried bread is a bit sticky maybe.
Breakfast is covered and I am hoping he goes for roasted butternut squash and parsnip puree and ric3 cakes for lunch!

Evening ladygent,

Aw pikz I so hear you with the whinge on. P has spent all day doing this awful "nyang nyang nyang" noise while gurning. It seems like she is in discomfort but I have no full idea why. Could be teeth. I tried her with baby cereal today with 1/3 soy milk so could have been that although she was doing it before that. She could have a sore throat. No fecking idea. I actually shouted at the poor kitten earlier! I felt, still feel absolutely awful. She jumped and then sat very quietly. I don't shout at children at school so why shout at my own. I burst into tears and have her a massive cuddle. I suspect it won't be the last time in her childhood that I do this but still.

Had my fanjo-physio. Nothing appears wrong with my fanjo at all but while I was standing there chatting to her I could feel the ache so back on the bed. Turns out it is more like groin strain. Possibly caused during or just after labour. Have to do lots of stretches.

Watching the Hebrides program on telly. DH is looking up islands for sale. We are actually looking at them and weighing up the pros and cons of the various islands.

First wake up already. Crying and pulling his ear 3oz and some teething gel later, I'm hoping for a decent stretch now and a fucking tooth to show for all of this soon

Oh, got a reply from women's aid. Basically a link to their website. Lots of info on there to trawl through but I reckon I might need to seek legal advice re tenancy and access to O. Have just agreed to renew tenancy for another 6 months.

kyz personally, I find it difficult to sit for 30 minutes without falling over! I would say that E is all over that shiz.

det I bought P a doughnut to practice sitting in as she just doesn't have the patience and kept face-planting. I bought it less than a week ago and I really think it has made a massive difference. I can plop her in it sitting and she either falls or doesn't. She can push herself back up from falling over as well if she feels like it. It just gives her and me some security. She does now like to escape it and I often find her lying outside it.

And crawling. P managed to move herself about a foot maybe in a sort of creeping movement. There was much noise and wailing but she made it. That was on the carpet in her room so I wonder if that it easier. The living room is wood with a wool rug. At nappy change time she managed to turn, lie on her front and lift her arse and shoulders. Sadly it was perfect crawl position apart from her big bonce resting on the floor.

Det hope he's asleep!!

Bplp and pr this is why I can't do pets!!

Pass that's exactly it... That noise and I have no idea what it means... I would have snapped had my mum not been around today to take him at points as the noise was doing my nut. He is beyond sound asleep worn out by all his cousins under 5!!

Kyz l think bread is quite hard for Los. Maybe spread it on toast instead?

Pass it is harder to keep calm with your own dcs because you are there 24/7 and it is much more intense. The fact you feel bad for shouting shows you are a lovely mum, so don?t beat yourself up. It happens to every parent.

Some of dh?s family have just moved to an island (Arran) and their pics on FB are making me jealous!

Pass soy milk = brave! I'm too scared! Is that the best way to test whether LO is sensitive to soya? Just suck it and see (literally)? Glad fanjo is ok, muscle strain is much easier to fix!

Chasing you know if you need any help with trawling, I have about 2 hours every afternoon

Kyz sounds like weanings going brilliantly. How's Elyza doing now? Much better I hope?

I am so glad I do not have a dog.

I am so in admiration of the dairy free mummies.

gt in the baby aisle I think, but if not with the oxo cubes Heinz do baby stock cubes that haven't salt. I use those. For the lovely DD1 I made stock. After that couldn't Be bothered with faff.

Lovely day with girlies and O at the Saville Garden. Idyllic English late spring day. I am trying to savour them.

Chasing remember there is CAB for free legal advice. Also, a lot of solicitors do a free initial chat.

Chasing remember there is CAB for free legal advice. Also, a lot of solicitors do a free initial chat.

Thank you daisy and pikz. I never normally give P her dummy unless she is very distressed or tired. I usually enjoy her noise. Not today! Dummy was stuffed many times. Like you say pikz I think if I knew what was wrong then I would feel calmer about it.

I don't actually think I could live on an island. I grew up on a farm and while a do get strange pangs for the proper countryside I am not sure I could cope with the full on isolation.

chasing do you have two seperate contracts or one joint one?

pass we have a joint tenancy.

3 transfer fails I'm tired O, please go to sleep.

I'm going slowly insane. DD playing up a few is still awake. 2hrs and 15minutes past her bedtime. J is joining in the fun!

BPLP if BF its better to try soy in your own diet first as a gentle introduction. I'm trying soy traces next month, then full on soy and then can offer it in his diet if there are no screaming fits. Fingers crossed.... I have a yaki udon at wagamamas with my name on it.

As for island life. I loved it but my god living on a remote rock made me into a materialistic compulsive internet shopper. I'm still a hippy but much more pragmatic after a couple of years of wild, windswept, wood fired heating / fecking freezing cottage living. Glad we did it - especially just a year or so after I lived in Hong Kong (the contrast was delicious!) but the reality at times of bad weather (long long stormy winters stuck in the house) and socialising in a very elderly society was at times dull. Nature was amazing but culturally it wasn't. I adored getting off the boat in Aberdeen / plane in Edinburgh after we'd been on Craggy Island for too long without a break

Poor boy is screaming in pain despite calpol and teething gel. Will only settle laying cuddled up on me. Co-sleeping tonight it is then

I loved that Castaway programme. And Ben Fogle. Still love him actually. I love the romantic idea of living on an island but suspect the reality would be different.

chasing others with better knowledge will probably put you right but in Scotland what you are likely to have is a short assured tenancy. This means that after the initial block which is a minimum of six months, the tenancy works month on month. You are certainly well within your rights to ask for a month on month. However, I understand that this is not likely to be an easy discussion. As you are joint tenants the most likely that the letting agency would simply require your P to be responsible for the whole rent. Theoretically they could chase you for rent but they would need to find you first. This is a lot of effort when you have one tenant left who can pay the rent.

Ok they both appear to be asleep. For how long is anybodys guess. I'm heading to bed now too.

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sigh

DH just asked me if I really expect him to 'circumnavigate the bed to put J's dummy back in at night?' (The cot is on my side of the room.) No it's much easier for me to get up ten times a night to do it even if it means I wake up in more pain than when I went to bed. Jeez what was I thinking, expecting him to get up and walk round the bed once a night. It's a good thing J doesn't have his own room, we'd never be able to make it that far.