November 2012 - The weaning adventure continues

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

lilly

Chasing, i would judge. Ffs, mum knows best doesn't apply to basic biology and child development!

R ate a weetabix with pear for breakfast then was still hungry so had some scrambled egg. He ate a pouch (90g) for lunch (was out) then a baby yoghurt (50g) then had a go at my mum's crusts and some cucumber. For dinner he had chicken curry with basmati rice, then yoghurt with mango (ate about half a bowl). He went straight down at 6:45 and is still there what happened to my 2 hour battles?! I predict 1st wake up around 11 and 2 hourly thereafter

Just looked at the thread, doh, he did have banana [banana] thanks BP

It's great to hear you've had a productive day chasing
Evil

Thanks all.

O is super sweaty. It's 35 degrees outside and 26 inside. Went to sleep with a nappy and a thin sleeping bag on, fan switched on; my brother is sending me one of those Adan and anais one tmrw for the summer. Thank you for recommending it, not sure who put it here. If anyone interested it's £15 on amazon now. I'm a bit vary letting her sleep in a nappy only, however hot is here I always have a thin blanket on me.

Can you give salmon at this age? I know cod/haddock is fine but not sure about salmon. O had peach and cherries today, she loved them.

One of my friends just asked me if she could come and see us on Thursday, she is flying from London en route to Warsaw. I feel blessed for having great friends, just what I need now. My mum offered to have O overnight but I'm not sure I want a night off just yet, I need her to see me first thing she wakes up. I might just book a babysitter and we go and have a drink next to the river.

I gave salmon today. I hope it is ok

'twas me lily, I have just ordered a 2nd as they are so good and LO appears a lot better in them.

Am knackered, gym and baby in one day hard work!

Brill eatting PP! So it rice ok for lo? As I'm going to try that soon. Did you use a lot of curry to make rice wet/ kinda soup ish? Or give the rice quite dry?

Hope lo gets his appetite back soon. I have a fridge full of cubes I want to use up half before trying new things.

Lily would you consider leaving lo with your mum. And you stay there the night. The first night my sister had lo for the night I slept next door, just in case. Made me feel a lot better when I left him alone next time.
This way you get a break get to enjoy your night but no worry about lo over night?

He has baby rice with it normally - i figure it's the same stuff just lumpy! He had rice and peas (aduki beans) fork mashed with cooked milk at SIL's yesterday and loved it so figured i could ditch the baby stuff :o he also likes the heinz pasta stars although doesn't like the bigger AK shells much.

The curry was a MN recipe, i made loads and we had 4 portions in chunks, R got 6 pureed. I thinned it with a tbsp or so of bm because of the water lost in defrosting, then added 1/2 tbsp well cooked rice. He ate over three quarters, then a tbsp or so of yoghurt/fruit

Thanks pikz, can't wait till I get it.

I've given tinned salmon too - its one of the best ways to get calcium into a dairy free baby. Jonas adores it - and gets disappointed when I open a tin that isn't salmon!

Thanks for raising the black worms issue - given our love of bananas its only a matter of time til we see them and I'd have had chickens!

Today we had an underwater photo shoot at swim class. Afterwards I decided it was a good idea to buy half a shrubbery in B&Q and then transport it home in the pushchair on the train .

Oh and the bear whilst assuming the crawl pose finally managed to lift his ass off the ground today and wriggled backwards. He also finally rolled back to front - given he rolled front to back at 12 weeks its taken him some time! So a big day!

O went out like a light tonight. Please keep it that way. And he went down at 7.30 so I get a bit of evening, and an early fingers fucking crossed night.

Thank you MrIbuprofen.

I can't work it out - but he just doesn't seem himself. I'm wondering if he is just a slow teether .

Interesting about salmon and rice. DS had a lentil/cabbage combo that DH put together so I wasn't altogether surprised when DS launched himself at the Thai green curry we had for supper. I spent this evening making DS mac cheese with leek and onion and a mango/apple/custard dessert. 6 pots of each, hope he likes it. Was delighted when out the other day and tried a jar - DS was having none of it!

in other news I have just had a superb row with not-so-D-H. Nothing spectacular, just the same old shit. I loathe repeating myself and yet I have to say the same shit all the fucking time

Oh and chasing not unreasonable... I can lend her L he moans every second he does not get exactly what he wants... Be it the remote, iPad, hot tea, his high chair at the right angle...

Det I have no advice... Capol it is!

Madam hope your ok.

Salmon sounds good... May have to get some

And well done mini yellow bear.

Ooh thanks yw for the calcium tip - salmon duly added to this weeks shopping list. It's obviously helping J, what with all the rolling and crawling shizzle.

Pennie she feeds to sleep at night probably half to a third of the time, which is fine, and the rest of the time I rock her to sleep or she nods off somewhere inappropriate - still not a chance of self settling, but at least the feeding/sleep association is waning. 30 minutes doesn't seem too bad though?

Mmmm salmon.

Just had a toasted muffin. With honey. And a nice cup of tea.

Pennie I was going to say 30 mins is bloody good. It takes us 40+ mins every night of cuddles and BF to get him to sleep. Mindst I do sit and MN whilst feeding him down. Probably could get him down quicker if I rocked him but I'm a bit too lazy on an evening....

For the dairy free crew, would coconut milk be any good in cooking? It's used a lot in the Caribbean - i need to find the solid stuff somewhere and make sweet potato pudding, yum which R likes too whoops - bet it would make awesome porridge!

I'm going to make you all jealous of what I just had. A muffin. Made from Smash. A Smuffin.

Boak right? Well, it had caburys caramel highlights in it. So it wasn't too bad. Need to get my kicks where I can these days .

Not sure Pidj I've never looked in to it!

Well j had paeds today. Went well. Consultant was lovely. J had some skin prick allergy testing and is allergic to milk, eggs and peanuts. More tests will be done later. He is being referred to dietician and community childcare nurses will come and help re weaning. We have a tub of neocate to try as we need an option for when I go in for surgery. DH currently attempting this just now....very unsuccessfully! We had two options to try. Me going dairy free first and then upping ranitidine if no better or vice versa. I've decided since he's clearly allergic to dairy that me cutting it is the best course of action rather than upping the dose. If neither works then omeprazole is next. We have the nurses arranging to come out next week and they will liaise with consultant and follow up with consultant in October.

Busy day!

DP is having his first night out since having M tonight. Him and our male neighbours either side have gone to the village pub . One of the wives is due any day and the other guy has to do the school run tomorrow. Rock and roll, eh?

I am sorting through M's baby clothes and moping. More going in the keep pile than the ebay pile

YW how was the photoshoot? I have a friend who is an underwater photographer who is keen to do M's for me. I also want an underwater housing for my camera.... I couldnt quite believe the prices wb were charging for prints

Glad you got some answers Izzy. I stopped eating soft cooked eggs (boiled/poached/fried) but I'm still eating things with egg in such as breaded fish, cake etc. After a couple of weeks J's skin has gone all lovely and soft instead of dry and scaly. So I think the egg was bothering him.

Sooo hoping for a better night tonight after five hellish ones otherwise he's going up for adoption tomorrow. His temperature is back down so FC it was just a tummy bug.

Just read the thread in most active about children on flights. Big mistake. I'm getting really nervous about the flight on Wednesday now, especially as DD1 has been an absolute tantrum queen the past couple of days and is a complete fidget arse at the best if times. I have episodes of peppa pig/disney film downloaded, crayons/stickers etc but I just don't hink this is going to keep her amused for 4 1/2 hours. Hopefully the adreniline of being on a plane will carry her through. And I haven't really thought about how it's going to be having E pinned to me for that long. Hoping that I can just shove a boob in her mouth whenever she gets upset. Hmmmm. I am looking forward to my holiday though honestly

lily your troubles are in no way small. I appreciate that you can do nothing to change your situation but that doesn't make it easier to deal with. I lost my Mum 18 months ago and I found it harder after a year than when it first happened - after the shock has worn off and you're realising what forever means. And like you say, everyone else has moved on by then. I cannot imagine how you must be feeling - you do come across as a very strong person. ((hugs))

pass I still rock N to sleep, and she too seems to have decided she's not so keen anymore but won't self settle either. She also seems to need to claw my face and neck to pieces whilst drifting off! Putting her down to sleep has been a doddle for a while but now we seem to be going backwards. Last night we were back to taking 5 or 6 goes to get her back to sleep in her cot after waking - Hopefully a one off bad night and not a regression
Just when you think you've cracked something they prove you wrong!

Glad it went well izzy Must take a while to get your head around what he can and can't have and how best to manage it but at least you have some answers now.

wishing you all a good night :)