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

Chasing big hugs and help here if you need it

Get well team crisps!

Kyz you are doing an ace job

Errrr wracking brains... MM good luck job hunting

Cat I have spaniels ears after 3 months!!!

Sophia thank you... Things are a lot better now as he is sleeping and far more cheerful and my tooth and car are fixed. However if you are ever in the mood for a coffee we are often about. I completely get you on the 5am thing... It's really hard yet you feel bad for those with night waking a but 14 hours of baby entertaining is hard work!

Every two hours again last night, but i know he can do better and will do eventually. I also have a 5 o'clock baby, but dp does that bit then brings him up for breakfast feed/nap. He has new curtains tonight though, my mum got some bargainous Liberty fabric and made them. So the nursery now looks like a child's room not a spare room containing a cot!

Got some very cute little fake leather soft soled shoes in Asda to protect his toes when he crawls, he's nearly there and dp and i were both early for it

Anyone for a Lambrini and beige food party?

If it's cherry, I'm there!

I hate the cherry stuff but I'll get a bottle in for you!

Ok, feeling surprisingly good. Literally feels like a weight has been lifted. My main concern is how O will settle in a new home. Any advice/tips etc?

chasing as long as you are with him, he will be fine. O settled at my parents' and now in our home just fine because I was there to settle her.

I brought some food

Hallo!

chasing I am there! Nothing would make me happier than DH and I getting to toast you and O's liberty with some lambrini!

Been quiet today. Does that mean that everyone has been in the sunshine?

Thank you for the well wishes for snotty p and me. We are getting there. Worst snot attack thus far.

I had about 50,0000000 things to say but my brain is mushy pea soup.

What did you do with your day evil? I was thinking you should have made a bunch of your own food and canned it in empty cow & gate jars.

When I went to my mums for the weekend N was better behaved and slept better. You will be fine.

Evil

Ooh perfect finger food for BLW

R was fine stuck with me at MILs at Christmas and we were opposite to you - desperately wanting dp to come back. Stay strong and calm for him, and make sure you schedule in regular breaks where you can fall apart - my usual one is in the bath.

Today pass I have cleaned all upstairs, including scrubbing the bathroom, changeing the sheets and done the all washing. I've also looked after N all on my own today, gone over my parents and had Sunday lunch and put him to bed all on my own.

Well done chasing
Evil

Chasing well done darling.

Pass get well soon. What's ailing thee?

MM are you thinking teaching? What's brought about the change in tack? Well done on the tooth.... I hope we get one soon the wee man is like a bear with a sore head (pun intended). He's snotty, clingy (unputdownable) and rejecting spoons / trying to gnaw anything hard (the remote controls if at all possible).

Quiche power lion-O call (remember thunder cats?) so I was making baby bolognaise AK stylee after adding Italian herbs I realised the fecking Schwartz blend has salt in it. One teaspoon in a saucepan full of lovingly crafted sauce before I realised my mistake. I have to chuck it don't I? Or would it be OK for him?

Oh pidj what a spread! After months and months of low gi and healthy sensible food I CRAVE BEIGE FOOD

WE TOO HAVE TOOTH!!!! Horrahhhhhh will the 5:00 wakings be gone.

Proabably not.

So I am off for a hot bath and bed.

Babies can have salt - just not added. I think it would be okay... I would probably still give it. I let O have a wee chomp of a slimming world chip tonight - given they are just potato and frylight. I remembered as he was sucking away, I put salt in the pan used to boil them in.

Babies under 12 months can have less than 1g a day. Do you think it was less than 1g per portion? I'd hazard a guess it probably was.

I think it should be okay.

It will be ok YW. Even bread has salt in it, don't worry too much.

YW I was about to say the same as Detective. Up to 1g of salt per day is fine. I would guess that it will be fine. Apparently a slice of bread has 0.5g

yw I would dilute like a mofo. I remember thunder cats. We used to play that at primary school - I used to be cheetara. Obvs.

P and I have a bastard cold. Proper green snot, aching everything, sore ears blah blah blah. P is being much more stoic than me.

DH took her out for a while this morning while I slept a bit. I came downstairs to find them in the kitchen preparing some delicious brekkie. DH announced "I fed her! I gave her a rice cake. I managed to give it to her then take it off her again before it got too messy!" It was a good start.

Ha! Pass that sounds like the sort of thing dh would do. Not sure how many calories can be gleaned from licking a food object? But a start as you say.

YW I would give it - if you were worried, could you make a separate non-salty batch of tomato sauce to mix with it?

I had a girl crush on Cheetara she was all kinds of awesome when I was six. Though my feminist older self thinks WTF was she the only sexualised thong up her ass thundercat? Double fecking standards.

Thanks for the fab advice I'll add more tomatoes and water. I know they can have some salt just with his bagel and bread stick habit I was worrying it might be too much....

YW I remember reading a tip years ago about how to get rid of salt from something you've made, if you had overdone it- apparently putting a peeled potato in with it while heating it up helps. Potatoes suck up salt from their surrounding liquid (think about salting water that you boil potatoes in and how it makes them taste better), then just fish it out and chuck it. Migt be less drastic than having to make up a tonne more sauce and diluting?

Was going to mention the potato trick but catbag beat me to it

No real reason oth3r than the sudden realisation that I have become so fucking financially dependant on him. I have broken my own rules on that front Something education related but with more sociable hours than ft primary teaching preferably.

Tooth bothered m has been very shouty all week.

That is genius catbag! Great idea.

Did cheetara also have leg warmers?

DH was very proud of his weaning achievement.
P looked happy as a happy thing so hay ho

shitting hell chasing hope you're ok. the below post was written before i got to your post....

Thanks guys, detective I know, she's an absolute pain in the arse and knows just how to word things to make it seem like she's being nice when she's being a patronising bitch. I actually thought me and e were both doing quite well these days. no he doesn't hoover up every drop of food but so what if he was that way? I can't force him to eat, well, you probably can but I certainly don't want to. It's just that she has this amazing ability to make me question everything I do and I feel like im cocking everything up. stunt I certainly know what you mean, I always expected babies to just, eat. far from it I've realised!

chasing I have made it, when is o trying it? hope it goes down well! really glad you're closer to leaving, honestly think it's the best thing for you and o

well done on the tooth mm yaaaaay!! good idea to set goals :) hope you get to where you want to be

I think it would be ok yw

pass bless your dh for feeding p a rice cake! e just smooshes them and sucks them to death

MM and Cat you two ladies get my ingenious / Martha Stewart homemaker prize. I had never heard of that trick! Mindst I had a misspent youth

MM you can only be financially dependent on your partner if you totally trust them and they don't do it begrudgingly. I find it hard but DH is amazing. My ex was a nightmare when for a brief period I was financially dependent on him (when we went to South Africa to adopt his daughter after her mum died) he missed all of our regular direct debits because he was too chaotic to cover them and by me being linked financially to him, fucked my credit rating for years. Oh and his promise to make sure I had enough cash in my account to cover my student loans for just two months - nah never managed it. Tosser.