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

O would be eating what your babies eat Cat if I allowed him to! I haven't yet - but just because I am trying to go slowly. He'd be quite happy with 3 meals a day plus something after each one. But at the moment, we are doing breakfast, and tea with a pudding after tea (just fruit so far). I wasn't going to do a pudding, but he seems to want 2 portions of tea, and I thought it was a bit boring and succumbed to giving him fruit for after since he loves it so much!

I'm not looking forward to adding lunch. He's so messy as it is! I dread feeding him if we are out! Plus he is often asleep over lunch. So it would end up being too close to his tea? Gaaah. Feck knows!

Might just do little taster of things for lunch for now rather than a proper meal. I gave him some little tiny pieces of chicken yesterday and he managed those! Might do something like that! Save the mess for later!

Just as I think we're getting somewhere with F and food, she has a reflux attack, eats nothing for 2 days, and then we're back at square 1. It's so frustrating! I have a freezerful of purees though so ready and raring to go once her poor tummy is better.

Long day in London but I didn't get to stone roses because of teething meltdowns and screaming :(

Catbag how old are they now? L has been having 3 meals a day for a while too and doesn't eat as much as that but he comes close. He is quite lean just ridiculously tall.

Am sick of everyone exclaiming when I say he's only 6 months... Yes his father is huge!!!!!

I don't lie either about sleeping etc call a spade a spade.

I think I have developed a dairy allergy

Sick feeling flares up after eating food with dairy in it. Twigged this morning when I didnt feel sick after breakfast (had toast instead of muesli) - a first in weeks.

Fuck fuck fuck.

pikz I have the same problem, eric is a big lad but his daddy is big so there you have it. Sleepwise I guess I don't lie because he sleeps well, but I do say he eats well when people ask even though sometimes he doesn't seem to. He has 3 meals but still lots of formula. I am in the process of ditching this df though. Down to 6oz with 5 scoops tonight!

I bet mealtimes are a pleasure catbag I'd love that amount of enthusiasm all the while :)

detective I have trouble fitting it all in too :/

No idea what is a good amount of solids tbh but e is doing ok I think

Yep Catbag, Penfold would say Cripes Chief. I was in a band called Penfold in my pre-mummy life still not nearly as cool as VQ though.

O is eating teeny tiny amounts of food. The only reason I know that he has actually eaten some is that his poo has changed

Me and P are small and O has always had a small appetite so I guess it is to be expected. I'm just getting very stressed by it all. By everything actually. Should sleep.

Clarella - having said r's paed was trying to get us to aim at 5hrs... G mostly doesn't do that and like you I tend to just feed him still because it is easier.

Just read how much the catbaglets are eating.... Whoa! I'd be really happy if R would eat that much and she's nearly 3! They must be tardis babies! I am offering g 3 meals a day but he is eating much less. He definitely prefers finger food but is happy to smear anything anywhere.

Dh has just started watching a film. If he says he is tired tomorrow I will be very irritated indeed.

Oh BP, she'll get there in the end. It must be pretty stressful though :(

Pikz They will be 7 months next week. Their birthday suddenly seems really close!

det yea, these two get pretty messy. Have followed vq's example and have started keeping a flannel around for the end of mealtimes. Was going through a ridiculous baby wipes for a while there!

mm poor you :( Is it common for one to just spontaneously develop an allergy like that? Does M have a dairy allergy? Forgive me, I can't remember :(

kyz Mostly it's a pleasure. They have literally loved every last thing that they have tried, they haven't turned their nose up at anything. The flipside of that is if their meal is half an hour later than they are expecting then I get a full-on double melt down!

Oh no mm. That happened to a friend of mine in RL (tho drs could never understand why, esp as it was her 2nd pregnancy)

Belated congrats on your 2.1 catbag (that is how behind l am with reading). My experience in law is employees look for a 2.1 then they are far more interested in life experience and transferable skills than a first.

bry tardis babies Stealing that! Honestly, sometimes it feels like they eat more than I do

Lol, thanks daisy. It isn't confirmed yet- I don't get the results until mid-July. I just know that dissertation wasn't up to first standard. DH worked out that with my averages, I only needed 46% on the dissertation to get a 2:1. I am working on the assumption that, although not fab, my dissertation was not lower than 46% and therefore I am the slightly disgruntled owner of a 2:1. At least, I hope it wasn't!

daisy My DH has the flumps on DVD. Put one on the other day and god it was awul. I had such fond memories of it too...

I loved camberwick green and Trumpton as a kid. Really showing my age now! My DSIS is 9 yrs yonger so we had gummy bears (I used to watch this every sat am with her before my parents got up, still know the theme tune off by heart!) pidgeon street, button moon, Bertha and postman pat were the faves.

pikz Sorry you didn't make it to stone roses

cat Wow. E had 30ml one pot chicken ppuree tonight and an Ellas kitchen mago fromage frais. I thought that was bloody loads! Took forever for her to eat it too.

Rather annoyingly we missed DD1's swimming lesson. That was the only thing we had planned and didn't bloody make it. The police had blocked off a road and it would have taken too long to go to go another way (more to the point I didn't know another way) so I drove around for ages trying to figure out something else to do. In the end we went to a nice country park and ate ice cream in the sun. Then DH did us a BBQ when we got back so sat in the garden and ate that. A nice end to a frustrating afternoon.

I have 2 flannels cat messy bloody food!!

Need more coverall bibs. I don't wash enough!

My washing machine hates me. The dog loves me. Weaning - how to entertain your pets and send your household goods insane.

Must empty the filter now I mention it...

Glam I am not.

Wah MM check your bread is it milk free. Sounds like an intolerance rather than dairy allergy though unless it's affecting your breathing? Shout if you would like to borrow any freaky eaters recipe books. Not fun at all. I hope I don't get a reaction when I reintroduce dairy in November..... have decided to BF til my birthday when J will be 13 months - so I can give up and eat a Mars bar the day after my birthday

Eliza l loved Pigeon Street. Just remembered Willo the Wisp too (sp?!). I made the dcs watch that on YouTube. Also, very very minor claim to fame. l was on Wacaday once saying l liked spaghetti vos it looks like worms!

Catbag the wait is stressful, but l bet you?ll be fine

YW Do you have a plan for dropping the bf gradually? In my (extensive, ha ha!) bf experience, the little ones always seem less keen on giving up the breast than one would hope! My eldest took four months to convince that he didn't need to be bf anymore. I had planned to go to 10 months. He was 14 months by the time he finishec and was trying to get into my top frantically, mournfully saying 'boob'. The girls weren't quite as bad, but I was quite a bit stricter with them as I didn't want to go through that 4 month period again!

Omg, I have just worked out that I have spent 4.3 years of my life breastfeeding explains the spaniels' ears

Hate it when stuff like that cocks your day up Eliza. Took us double the time to get to where we were going today due to traffic. There is only one road to Southport! Ended up having less time than I would have liked in the pool. Given what I paid for it anyway...!

Also, should have mentioned earlier! DS1 had the locker key on his wrist for me today - as it was fiddly and I couldn't get it on my own wrist, and DS1 was flailing around trying to put it on mine. So I just put it on him as it was easier. Except it came off on one of the rides. I should have known it - they were crappy and I thought it seemed a bit weak to be honest. It was 20 minutes before closing, so DS approached a lifeguard when he got off the ride. He told him to go and find someone in the changing room to sort it.

So off DS1 trundles, and finds no one. So I get out with O, and can't find anyone either. I spoke to the lifeguard again, who said did I need it right now - well, I needed it pretty soon as we were ready to get out soon. He said he would sort it if I gave him 5 minutes.

20 minutes later, closing time came and we were chucked out. I stood there for another 5 minutes dripping wet with O in the changing room and still no one came. There was literally no staff around.

In desperation O was crying, of course! I ended up stomping down a slippery floor from the changing rooms right up to the fucking reception in my costume, with a screaming baby and demanded someone sort it out there and then. How fucking embarrassing . I can't believe I had to walk out in to the reception - complete with glass windows for the world to see soggy me in my costume. Nearly fell over several times too as obviously wet - and the floor was some kind of tile.

Was sorted quickly then. But still. I was cross!

Stupid locker key!

Still, didn't detract from a nice day. If you can ignore the man who followed me in to the same changing cubical and started stripping him and his 6 year old off among the dirty nappies and the wkd bottles all over the floor. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fucking communal changing room and him and his child would have been fine in a regular cubical - where as I needed somewhere to put O while I dried and dressed myself! And I was there first!!

No clue on how we're going to quit actually Catbag tips would be greatly appreciated. Its been so lovely I'd like to end our nursing relationship well. I've just been thinking about the chocolate the day after

Where's the night shift tonight? I skipped the df as J was late to bed (DH had him out for nine and a half hours so I was frantic by the time e got home) and he didn't wake for a feed until 4ish so that's 7 hours! He tried to tell me he was hungry at midnight but got through with a couple of dummy reinsertions. DH stayed up till 1 watching telly but I suppose he has three hotel nights to catch up on his sleep next week.

Hiya stunt. Here but sleepy. 7 hrs!!! Go J. Did you get some sleep too? Handing you the quiche fish to slap mr stunt with. If he's not careful I should think he's looking at more than 3 night's in that hotel...

I went down and told dh to go to bed in the end - he has to work most of tomorrow and if he spent the rest of it being tiered I would not be happy. G has been a pickle tonight. Think it might be earache.

My goodness catbag you put my 8 month old to shame. We are still on 2 meals with bf and nowhere near the quantity of your little ones. H just seems to get bored after eating for a certain while and I don't push the issue. Have tried to do 3 but because of naps and going to groups and stuff it always ends up at 2.

I always tell the truth about eating and sleeping. It is what it is, all babies are different!

Wow. Very quite night. Hope that means good things.

I can't believe I'm awake! The house is silent. Why am I awake? Sleep darn it!!!

Of to catch up on WWF

Tired. I know you nocturnal s will think "bah. She doesn't know what she is talking about" but every day he wakes at 5-5:30. I then have to go to work on three of those days. Yesterday I was in a fashion show at church. Ahem. But it was hard work, I was there most of yesterday, taking the big girls with me and coming home in between to feed everyone. Then today he is up at 5. And nw every other bugger is up. Except DH. I woudn't mind but he does 1 day and I do 6. And go to work. And cook, clean, wash and iron.

I love my life, it is fulfilled but today I AM TIRED.

I don't normally complain.