December 2012: we need more chocolate and cake!!

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I think it's common for night time sleep to be better following decent naps.

Breakfast here is porridge but alternatively Cheerios (these are fine), shreddies, crumpets, toast, egg, malt loaf , yoghurt with fruit, oat cakes...

Bagels and english muffins are popular here so are the blueberry variety

R is rampaging round his toys, I've got a load of washing nearly ready to come in plus the nappies on a rinse, dinner is prepped (leftover roast chicken plus veggie burgers with homemade chips for us, leftover shepherd-less pie for R) the kitchen is clean as is the bathroom... I'm actually feeling in control for once

I would be most annoyed at ils thinking my dds were calling fil father. I used to get v teeth gritty when mil used to call them 'my girls'. They're not yours, they're mine. Petty I know!

T absolutely loves wraps, super quick and easy with Philly or peanut butter. Honestly, anything healthy ish is fine for breakfast, babies do not care about the usual order/timing of foods.

pidj its only fair that you come and help me take control of my house! Just about to start baking gingerbread skeletons!

Pidj you can help with mine too! I've got clean kitchen sides, a tidy DD's room, and a path from the playroom door to the window. Can't believe that took me 8 hours (washing of towels and bedding done in that time too).

Just waiting for DH to carve the pheasant for dinner! Then hopefully a good night's sleep after a steroid free day.

Taking MIL Christmas shopping tomorrow, with a trip to ikea included.

DD came home from MIL with a small sheet wrapped around her waist, clutching a doll blanket across her chest which she calls her bra. She felt very grown up!!

FoD how are you doing, lovely?

I realised tonight we're missing a few posters, come out and update us if you're lurking!

I'm worried about R's eating. He's a human dustbin, eats as much as a toddler 1 weetabix with cows milk and fruit puree for breakfast, 1/2 slice of toast for a snack, equivalent of a pouch plus a pear and 1/2 a banana for lunch, crumpet and a couple of oz of cows milk for afternoon snack, pouch equivalent plus yoghurt for tea. With rice cakes, bread sticks, organix crisps, raisins in between as needed. 2 x 15 minute breastfeeds a day (after breakfast and before bed) Is he going to be obese? He's gone from under the 0.4th to over the 25th in 5 months gaining steadily at about 1/2 oz a day

He's also very active compared to the other similar aged babies we know, always on his feet cruising around or making me hold his hand so he can walk. HV didn't seem bothered at his check, but they're fecking useless so that means nowt!

Sounds like a reasonable amount to me actually Pidj but maybe I've just got a human dustbin too. J's also super active so maybe they're burning it off.

If the weight gain is slow and steady and he's still only on the 25th centile I wouldn't worry about it. It'll all change when they become fussy toddlers anyway.

pidj sounds similar to baby lazza. But she also breastfeeds more in the day, 4 times usually (although not for as long as 15 mins at a time). I was a bit worried about her gaining weight too quickly, especially as she's already in some 12-18mth clothes. But I took her to clinic yesterday & she's doing fine. Between 50th & 75th line, which she settled into after being born on 91st. She doesn't stop all day either so
I think just needs constant energy boosts!

Have a good shop barbeasty. I've started Xmas shopping but being sidetracked now sorting dd1's bday at beginning Dec

My house is still a right state. It's my mission for today but I know I won't get very far with baby lazza following me around untidying as I go!

WL, I know what you mean. I remember my mum asking dd1 'whose little angel are you?', expecting her to say 'yours' but she said 'mummy's'. I had a little secret smile inside . that's mean isn't it?!

Pidj I wouldn't worry too much. As you say, he's active. So long as you aren't forcing him to finish everything you put in front if him then he should self regulate just like when he was ebf.

If he jumps another big line or 2 then you can check again but he may well just be finding his place. And if yoy watch there will probably be times he eats much less and it balances out over a week.

Ds eats loads too, often eats his and dd's left overs I haven't had him weighed for ages but he's only just out growing 3-6 month clothes. He also never, ever stays still always cruising around the house etc. I think it's normal for some babies

Both dc are still asleep! I'm having breakfast in peace

Oooh lazza that would have kept me warm for ages!
pidj as long as its all good stuff there's no problem. He will self regulate. Physical and mental development takes a lot of fuel.
Time for me to stop pussyfooting about with night weaning. I keep just nudging it til it gets to a manageable level but it soon slips back. Time to do it properly before DH and I slip out of consciousness.

pidj am iterested in how you got to just 2 feeds a day....did it just happen by itself or did you stop offering in the day?

Ds is still sparko after 13.5 hours but as I opened his bedroom door I could tell he'd done a poo I heard him about 6:15 so assume he woke up for that then went back to sleep!

DS had a really good night, he slept 7-2, 2-7. I went to bed at 10 but couldn't sleep until 12:50. When I was doing the night feed I kept dropping the bottle In the end DS gave up after 3 oz and we just fell asleep where we lay. DP came into the spare room at 5:45 to get ready for work and we decamped back to our bed.

I feel like we're just getting bedtime sorted again and another growth spurt/developmental leap/sleep regression will come along and set us back.

Thank you everyone for your breakfast suggestions, a wonderful help!! I'm going to get plain Cheerios ( he has choc ones as snacks as likes picking them up, oops), crumpets and cream cheese and peanut butter. Also I never would have thought about low sugar and salt beans so will try them too!

What butter/ spread does everyone use?!

Snacks wise we have rice cakes, sultanas, Cheerios, biscotti (god he loves these), satsuma, organix corn puff things..

Pidj r's diet sounds brilliant I don't think you should worry. As someone else said maybe if he jumped another centile or 2 but otherwise healthy weight gain :)

My DS has just started to get very very fussy and is refusing things he's usually loved. He was such a good eater before
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I wouldn't worry Maryland. He will probably continually go through phases of not eating then eating loads. Dd still does it, I just let her get on with it, if they're hungry they eat.

We have lurpack but ds only has butter if he's having marmite because that's what I do too! He likes cheese spread and cheese and pickle too.

Every time he "asked" for milk, i offered his drink and a rice cake then boob if those were rejected. He's now taking the drink, not wanting the rice cake so much. Sort of a variation on "don't offer don't refuse" iyswim.

Glad to know I'm not setting him up for a lifetime of wobbly bits unlike mummy

Ha I don't think so Pidj.. Unlike a LO I know that gets sausage chips and beans EVERY NIGHT because " they won't eat anything else..."

I tend to use his cream cheese as spread as I can't be arsed to buy a full fat option for DS.

DS isn't tired. The fact that he can't open his eyes or hold his head up is merely a coincidence. Unfortunately for him I've booked us onto a baby funday for Macmillan nurses this afternoon so he has to sleep now. Mummy's got tough!

Dropped off my nursery deposit today. Sob!

de-lurking as requested pidj.
hello [waves ]
I've been reading about feeding with interest. you lot have inspired me to at long last keep a record of ds's natural feeding routine - I've always fed on demand and have no idea if he has any patterns. he's not taken to meals well and has recently taken to grabbing at me furiously when he fancies a suckle. it's getting embarrassing .

also took on night weaning a couple of weeks back (after reading about it on this thread) after ds began to revert to feeding 6/7 times a night. after 2 nights of banishing dh to the spare room and wrestling ds to sleep he began to wake only once or twice a night , then he had another bout of teething, now a nasty cold and we're up the night through again .

oh and he still has no teeth despite plenty of gnashing, dribbling and upset on and off for months.

I'm not much of a poster but I do try to keep up, my apologies for lurking but knowing what you all are up to helps keep me going

R loves sausage chips and beans, but they're either proper ones from the butcher or veggie, the chips are homemade in the oven and it's more likely to be peas/sweetcorn/spinach...

Hi, Prunella jump in any time. (can't remember her mn name) Dash must be nearly 1 by now, it's less than 3 weeks till R's :)

H has a snotty nose still she seems fine in herself other than that. Except that everytime i have wiped her nose in the last 2 days there has been blood in her snot. Is this normal or something i should ring the Dr about? I don't want to come across paranoid to the Dr.

Hales why don't you ask a pharmacist? They really are very good and spend a lot of time working in hospitals/doctors surgeries as part of their training

Thanks Spotty i'll walk over when shes had her nap, i never thought of that.