November 2012 - Adventurous eaters, food refusers and everything in between

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1767146-November-2012-Lots-of-mummies-going-back-to-work

Oh, it's all one word and spelt greenclaws, just googled it to make sure I wasn't making it up ha.

I've got Britain's got talent on record so I can fast forward the adverts bullshit dinner has been ordered, dp has been in from golf for 10 mins, long enough to tell me what he wanted ordered and is now snoring his head off on the settee. Great.

Waves! isn't the weather divine!!!????

Today we had 2 ton of topsoil delivered. J thought the delivery truck and crane about the most fascinating thing ever. My sister had stayed over for last night so waking up to his auntie made him v happy Then we had a big family BBQ round at my cousins with paddling pool, trampolines, ball pool and 3 toddlers and Jonas - was crackers but great.

And best of all my puree avoiding boy with sore teeth - loves eating puree off my fingers - just not off spoons (even TT fancy duper soft ones). Pass / chasing anyone worrying about puree avoiders try popping some on your finger. He ate a potful that way. And his first taste of white fish (poached and flaked and fed as finger food) was the first savoury food that's made him go 'mmmmmm om nom' .

Rentaghost :o

I have fed J with my finger today too YW. By accident, but it worked, with him holding the spoon He also spread a banana incredibly thinly over his entire body, and had toast at lunch. He enjoyed the toast so much he cried when I took it away. I had to sit on my hands or he would be raw from wiping. His little face is all bleeding anyway as he scratched his eczema

Have someone coming to look at the PnT tomorrow, all the way from Glasgow so they must be fairly keen.

Rent-a-ghost was shockingly bad.

Andy Pandy? (Old)

Since switching to ff at 5 months pennie M gets a dummy as a last resort to settle all those things I said I would never do . She used to bf to sleep so I think for her she needs the suckling comfort. Usually her thumb is enough.

Today, I finally think I got the hang of this baby thing. I am now properly enjoying it. This is a nice age. When they don't need feeding/changing every 2 minutes, and are fascinated by what is going on around them. Definitely more fun now!

We ended up going to Southport - to the pool and the fair. Just me DS1 and O! Had a lovely time! Took O on the teacups . I felt sick after though but O seemed fine!

I'm just watching him from the corner of my eye, he's doing press ups and grunting and groaning about it, while simultaneously rocking violently back and forth in his crawling attempts. Funny boy!

O also went from 9am til 5.30pm with no feed today. He had a full bottle and his breakfast this morning, and then just didn't want anything all day. I was going to offer him one at 4 but the bugger fell asleep on the way to a cafe and may as well have told me to piss off when I tried waking him!

Dobbin

Larry the Lamb

Oh gosh I am so far behind. So hard to keep up now I am back at work.

Hope everyone is doing well

Ah vq. I also have a dh that is near impossible to stir at night. Do you know he actually had the nerve the other day to say to g in front of r that boys need lots of sleep! I explained very firmly that everyone does. I have to make sure that if I need him to wake I wake him firmly. Then he is ok if sometimes a little grumpy.

Stunt - sounds really tough. How you are managing, with exams and trumpets thrown in to the mix too, I have no idea. Could you get a night away? (have a sinking feeling the answer to that is probably no).

Clarella - definitely don't blame yourself. It is really hard - especially when also worrying about weight gain. If it helps, when r was around 6 months our paediatrician was adamant she should be going 5 hrs between feeds as her longest sleep even though we were having a tough time with her weight and blood sugars. He suggested building to that gradually, offering water if needed.

Hope everyone enjoyed the sunshine today - g loved the paddling pool .

god I'm back on page 9 still!

vq I reckon going slow is good for j and it sounds like he likes his rusk and does well with them! hope he gets on well with his broccoli

chasing don't worry about me I do make sure I eat tea at least :)

lol bplp unfortunately shitting must be done as quick as humanly possible and usually once everyone has gone to bed! e seems fairly sociable atm so I try not to worry

hope you have a lovely holiday pr will miss you!!!

vq e is a hot baby rather than a cold one but my niece at 11 months is as you describe j and is alright with no underlying conditions we know of. if you are worried though do go to your gp

congrats on the arrival of your cousin pikz william is a lovely name

hope its just a development thing clarella and you get some sleep soon, bless you

glad you've had some success with night feeds izzy hope tonight is a good one too

sounds like really good weaning progress chasing o is doing brilliantly as are you. I have yet to try avocado, but I did buy one! I really need to cook the lovely lentils thing. The chicken nuggets were adored but I left them in too long so I'll try again

sounds like a lovely day yw

e has been pissy again today but ate well and could have been worse.

I also tell people he eats and sleeps fine as it saves hassle. I hate sundays as my sister visits with her nearly one year old that is of course amazing don't get me wrong I love her to bits a perfect sleeper, has always eaten everything given to her and hit every milestone 3 months prematurely. I am frequently told my son is fussy, clingy, miserable, sleeps too much (I kid you not) drinks too much, is slow at developing and is weaning really awfully. I always feel like shit on a sunday afternoon!

can't remember what else I meant to say

No Pikz today unless I blinked and missed it. Hope you are ok my dear x

I am in bed and hope to sleep. DH is drinking cider and watching TV. Sometimes I wish I could swap with him, but no actually, I love the vomit and nappies and night time wakings and bottles and snot, because all of that is time spent with my babies that he does not have. I am blessed with a tosser for a husband

Had a proper family day today even with DH being at work this afternoon. I coped, the kids were entertained, largely happy, fed, clean enough, and loved. DD2 ate her first mud, DD1 learned she needs to take her pants off when she wears a swimming costume (she did not go in the pool last year due to my broken leg so forgot) and J was outside watching them running around from his DJ booth. I kept him wrapped up today and he is back in his 2.5 Gro Bag tonight. And I wore a pair of cotton trousers I did not think I would fit in. Sadly my button popped off after tea. Oops.

Forgot the fucking broccoli! Oh well.

Sadly when people ask how J sleeps and eats I tell the truth. Must be the strict Baptist upbringing as I expect a bolt of lightening to strike me down. I often say 'if he slept well do you really think I would look this shit?'

Clarella what you?re going through with sleep sounds like H a couple of weeks ago. l found ncss really helpednd last week he managed a 5 hour stretch, which is unheard of for him! Hope you get more rest soon.

I am old. l remember The Flumps and Chorlton and thr Wheelies. Dh bought Ivor the Engine for the dcs recently.

Been stressed all week as realised phd funding runs out in 7 months and l am approx. 18 months behind with my work. Going to take dcs for a picnic tomorrow and try and take my mind off things.

I tell the truth too. I think I should lie, but you know when you drop the juggling balls - at least you have an excuse if you tell the truth?!

VQ Yes, I have a hot one . He hates being warm in the day, but likes to be boiled at night. Quite odd. He's in a 1 tog sleeping bag and a short sleeve vest, and despite opening blinds and window, his room didn't change from 26 degrees. He should be naked! But he won't have that!

I think babies are meant to be cooler. I know I find it odd that he is so hot. And people look at me like I am evil for having my baby so under dressed! I think it might be easier if he was the opposite.

Now then quiche :)

By way of an update on the twins, S is crawling (has been for about a week or so) and absolutely nothing is safe. Particularly laptops, phones, tablets etc. He gets really excited, puffs a lot, crawls to said item of technology and then turns around to check if he's being watched, before batting it with an open-hand slap and grinning like a naughty chimp. Pretty awesome. R is sitting like a master (for perhaps a month now) and is rock solid. Completely immoveable. She hates being on her front and is showing no interest in crawling at all. I think she is soo fat that it is uncomfortable lying on her front. Thing she will do as DD2 and bumshuffle for a week or so before moving swiftly to cruising around furniture.

Re food, having read some of what the other miniquichsters are eating, I was starting to get a bit worried that I had a pair of hippos on my hands. They have been eating three meals a day for about six weeks. I ditched the ice cube trays at about the same time as I was having to thaw out nine (big) cubes EACH for each meal and it was getting silly. I freeze their stuff in old 500g butter pots now. The AK lovely lentils go down well, as does a spinach and lentil dhal that I made for them. They are slowly moving towards just eating what we eat now. They love scrambled eggs and the AK pasta shells with homemade quorn bolgnese sauce. They eat three weetabix with half a pint of goats' milk for breakfast, usually with 1-2 slices of marmite on toast directly afterwards. Lunch is invariably either cheese on toast, scrambled eggs on toast, something like that, and they will have 4 slices at least between them. Dinner is usually an adapted version of what we are having and will again be similarly large. They are very hungry babies and absolutely do not subscribe to the 'food is fun until 1' philosophy. It's a very serious matter in this house and I would be lynched if I dared to not serve up enough grub. They also munch on breadsticks and hummus, fruit etc in between meals. Phew. That felt confessional. Never had such hungry nippers before. They are still breastfeeding too, 4-5 times in the day, 1-3 times at night. S moves around too much to put much weight on, but R does not and she is well porky

Anyway, having got that off my chest, I shall go catch up :)

Catbag Wow!!

BP It sounds a little ridiculous, doesn't it!

Wow catbag they're eating for all the quichelets bless them!!

I do tell the truth sometimes to understanding peeps

VQ my two are hot babies too. Been in nothing more than a vest at bedtime for weeks. I also tell the truth when people ask how they sleep, along the lines of what you say. They ALWAYS look surprised and tell me that I look very fresh, considering. This never fails to make me feel irrationally angry, for a reason that cannot as yet identify

My brother bought Mr Benn for DS1 and DS2. They love it. DS2 got Dangermouse for Christmas. Aah memories!

Yea, kyz, sounds like it, doesn't it?! Honestly, I just don't know where they put it. Well, I know where R puts it. She is like well porky But S pretty much keeps up mouthful for mouthful and he is like a racing snake.

Dangermouse! LOVED that. With Penfold, was it? Am I remembering that correctly?