November 2012 - Lots of mummies going back to work

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1761048-November-2012-Weaning-is-messy-fun-what-does-your-baby-eat

Moulis are a pita to use and clean. I use food processor.

Pidj it sounds to me that you are doing it just right! The only things O will take from a spoon so far are mango puree, mango porridge and avocado. Going to get my AK hat on this weekend and try to whizz up a few bits.

fruit have you watched The Call Centre on BBC3? Actually made me miss work!

Detective I am too tight to buy baby porridge when it is the same stuff blended. It works exactly the same.

PP so long as you watch the salt content (i.e none!) then that is fine, and avoid honey.

I think I will do some chicken type meal tomorrow for J. Maybe he is like PRs LO and will eat more if there is chicken or meat in the mix.

Out of that lot the only dairy was added cheese to the pasta dishes. Ditto wheat (Heinz baby stars). All of it could have easily skipped common triggers.

The curry was great - 2 chicken breasts, tin of tomatoes, 1/2 tin of coconut milk, 1/2 pint weak stock, bunch of veg, 1tsp each coriander cumin cinnamon curry powder, clove of garlic. Slow cooker. Could have used more spice actually. We had normal rice, he had baby rice. 4 adult portions, 4 baby portions.

Parsnip has a similar texture to sweet potato, BP, R loves it. He'd live off weetabix with pear and sweet potato/parsnip if he had the choice :o

Anybody got any recipes that use half a tin of coconut milk?

P and I have just been talking about money and the future and it looks like we may soon be able to afford for me to stat at home full time with O. Which I really want to do. But I know I have no future with this man.

chasing

Pidj I have been making smoothies with coconut milk. Banana and apple currently, tis nice. And F loves them too.

We have been more adventurous than sweet potatoa and pear - tonights tea was broccoli & cauliflower with a bit of ebm for good measure. She seemed to enjoy it. I have noticed though, that with savoury stuff she really slows down after 1 cube. But is raring to go with her fruit puree pudding Wee madam.

How much would you get from the CSA plus tax credits? Www.entitdto.co.uk

Thanks pig. I heard somebody describe their DP as their rock today. This quiche is my rock.

'Night all.

Www.entitledto.co.uk ffs tablet overheating

Pidj I think CSA would be £200/month based on his current wage. I get £50/week TC now, but that obviously includes his income. My MA runs out next month. I looked into it before and I think I could receive enough to live on.

Gotta keep studying, aargh running out of time...

New thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1772925-November-2012-Adventurous-eaters-food-refusers-and-everything-in-between

In the Annual Quiche Awards, Stunt would surely be a shoo in for 'Dedication to creating new threads' with special commendation for having a sixth sense for detecting when a thread hits 900 posts, even at times of intense studying

Quick post in amongst sleeping and catching up chasing me thinks he knows your heart isn't in it and he's at risk of losing you which he deserves so he's trying to convince/bribe you in to staying put with the lure of being a SAHM?

Evening all, can't even remember half any of qhat I wanted to reply to but I have been reading and trying to keep up. I am finding with food AND bottles I barely have time to fart these days never mind post!

Qq, do I worry if e is dropping his milk or do I leave him to it providing he has more than 20oz a day?

He had fish today for the first time and loved it. I have noticed that bar breakfast, if you go to spoon feed him savoury stuff he moans and purses his lips. Once he tastes it he eats plenty if he likes it! If he sees a yoghurt pot he opens his trap. I am not giving yoghurt first though, call me old fashioned but its mains first! I've been trying to keep his diet varied and I don't puree it tea it is just mashed with a fork usually depending on what it is. He can manage lumps but prefers smooth stuff, so I don't know whether to puree again or not.

curry sounds lush pp e has never had curry, I worry about the spice

Hope your studying is going well stunt

Ermmmm is rubbish

Ah yes chasing don't do it lovely, you're worth so much more

Ds had one pot chicken tonight. Loved it.

Good job there's about 60 meals worth....

Good stuff horsey :) is it an ak recipe from the book?

Am going to do lovely lentils and the apple and cinnamon porridge hopefully tomorrow :)

Might as well clog the fred up some more, today is day 1 of operation drop df. Hopfully he'll pick up some lost oz from day feeds. 7oz offered tonight not 8

Sounds yum horsey... Recipe?

Right off to bed for a few hours and hoping now I have all the tools for teething he won't wake...

Well i assume chilli is a bad idea but don't think a little flavour will do him any harm?

Must dig out the AK book DSIL posted me but which is mislaid because our house is a half unpacked midden the house move. The bear is getting bored of purees.

He has been totally thrown having his daddy home this week. It's been amazing to have a week of someone else doing the cooking every day, feeding the bear his solids, giving him his meds, holding him, playing with him, changing him, popping him in his car seat - all so I can get my hands dirty in the garden which needs a lot of work (and I love doing it) BUT ......

....now is this me being weird or a great unspoken secret of motherhood - after five days of this I feel like my bond with J isn't as strong - I can't read / predict him as well because I've not been so physically close to him / intimately observing him. I actively missed him despite spending the day in the same house and car. When I laid him into the cot at bedtime I was because I felt dislocated from him and just wanted to cuddle him to somehow recharge the physical bond. I think he might have felt the same thing as he cried furiously at 10, which he never does and DH wonderfully tried to quell but only a mummy cuddle (not even boobs) would do..... how am I going to manage putting him daycare? (might wait til he's at toddler / little shit stage and drop him off and run away laughing)

Bloody hell quiche, I return to the fold only to get flippin distracted again and not post for 36 hours or something! Between tackling the jungle of the garden, shit hole of a house and DH's hopelessly matted dreadlocks (which have woven themselves together because I haven't done anything to them in a year), I have found myself quite busy!

First off, members of the quiche at my graduation? Humbled to the point of a feeling a little weepy I don't have a lot of RL friends (guess I am a bit of an antisocial loner at heart) and v little family since my mother stopped speaking to me six years ago, and I have to confess to being a little taken-aback by how the quichesters have inveigled their way into my affections and daily life You are all most superior and I salute you all

Herbs and spices are fine, O has had mixed herbs, cinnamon, a little chilli powder and some oregano in his foods one way or another. Also black pepper.

YW No, not weird at all. I feel like this because DP is around so much. It's great that O is bonding with him. But I feel a mix of relief for a break, but jealous that he might be happy with someone else. And that mummy just isn't as good as others :(

I always do the bedtime routine, so that I know, no matter what, I will get that one on one time with him every day. Even if the rest of the day has been busy and I feel like I've barely had any proper time with him. And I take O out as much as I can manage. So that I feel we get time alone. I leave DP at home to do the cleaning!!!

I admit to being very grateful now that O is not going to a CM. But he will be with MIL. I was happy with this until some recent events, now I am not so thrilled with it. But I don't have much choice. I hated DS1 coming home smelling of someone/somewhere else. It really made my ragey hormones, erm, rage. I had to strip him off and bath him.

It's the same when he comes back from his dads. Although now days, he doesn't get close enough to smell. So it's okay!

Sorry, I've got no answers! Only more questions really!

I get jealous too. Especially since F is such a cuddly baby that when dh is home entertaining her, I feel a bit naked, without her glued to me.